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vt90

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Kids, summer camps, and vaccines (Please don't take this political) ...


Anyone else dealing with this issue? My wife and I (both fully vaccinated) did our own analysis and decided we would not get our daughter vaccinated (15 years old) unless she requested it ... which she did not. Statistically there is almost zero danger in anything happening to her if she got COVID as she is completely healthy. Her brother had it and had a scratchy throat for about half a day. I don't necessarily believe the vaccines are dangerous for kids, but we decided it wasn't a risk worth taking since the virus itself shouldn't be an issue to her.

Early this spring we enrolled her in a summer camp that starts next week - all of her friends are going and she REALLY wants to go. The camp requires a negative test within 2 days of showing up for camp. The only ways we could really guarantee that were to make her quarantine for two weeks before the camp or get her vaccinated. After what she went through with closed schools and all of her other activities cancelled (dance team, etc) there is no way we were quarantining her for two weeks of her summer vacation. So we ended up getting her vaccinated because the downside of her potentially missing the camp would have far exceeded our concerns about the safety of the vaccine. What put it over the top is I think our school system may eventually require the vaccine anyway so might as well do it early.

Wondering if anyone else had to make this decision ... kind of frustrating when you consider the risk of the virus with that population. And I am sure that all of the counselors, etc have already been vaccinated.

Posted: 07/08/2021 at 12:40PM



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