Would you be happy for your children to receive covid-19 vaccine

In summary - you will believe what you want to believe and anyone who doesn’t share your opinion is stupid … that includes actual scientist.

As a general rule, it's a very good thing to inform your children that adults who tell them to keep secrets from their parents are bad people who mean to cause them harm.

The rest isn't really relevant to me. I'll be homeschooling if they make masks mandatory in primary.

For people who don't have that option there are single-layer cotton gauze masks available that allow near-unhindered air flow through the material.

I'm a vaccinated so i am not an antivaxxer,

Now how many 1-12 year-olds are takin up hospital beds due to covid, ???????

Ohhh wait what none , and vaccinated can still pass on the virus, so why in the name of god would we vaccinate children ,

Doing a great job putting forth the benefits of vaccinating the under-12s there, well done.

why wouldn't we vaccinate children?

Because the vast majority of adults in Africa have yet to get their first dose. There was consternation when the beacon hospital gave away 14 vaccines to people who were judged to be skipping the queue but now we're going to hand out vaccines to children and boosters to the healthy without a second thought to who is going without.

Scientist and father of a 6 month old. I've had 3 vaccines (2x astra, 1x pfizer) and if my child were allowed to get the vaccine, I would not hestitate. We can hope that there is protection transferred via breast milk but I'd rather not rely on that alone.

Nothing is 100% safe but the data coming from children from 5 being vaccinated in the USA indicates that whatever risks of vaccination are far lower than risk of infection. A vaccination would give me peace of mind when my family goes grocery shopping for example. Of course the baby is not wearing a mask and we minimise their exposure to strangers etc at the moment but if they were to be exposed, I'd be more comfortable if they were vaccinated.

I think I read that there have been ZERO cases of cardio reactions in the under-12s in the US.

We don't have any long-term data on the possible risks from COVID or vaccines.

Think the poster may be trying to see how many had underlying conditions that were aggravated by Covid vs how many are simply suffering from Covid itself.

True, there is no known "long vaccine" like there is "long covid". At least in the negative sense.

I've read hypotheses that long covid is caused by reservoirs of virus in the body, like the way that herpes hides away and can re-emerge later, which is why (ISTR) around half of long covid sufferers have reported improvements after vaccination (as those reservoirs can be cleared by the immune response to the vaccination).