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allvol123 said:
It is an ongoing experiment. There is no long term data. Parents arent keen on making their kids the early entrants in that, for a virus that has killed less than 400 of them in 20 months.
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It’s a balance of risks. No one knows the long term risks of both having COVID and taking the vaccine. But so far, many more people have died or been hospitalized from COVID than from taking the vax
 
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The Original Fade said:
It’s a balance of risks. No one knows the long term risks of both having COVID and taking the vaccine. But so far, many more people have died or been hospitalized from COVID than from taking the vax
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That is another subject once you go beyond kids. Heck I think there less than 25,000 deaths for 45 and under, if i am remembering correctly.

The 0-17 crowd is in a whole other stratosphere as mentioned.

It is easy to be 49 and say I will take this vaccine and eliminate my covid risk for the tradeoff of some far off potential issue from the vaccine decades away, when you would be near end of life anyway. Versus putting it in a child, where Covid risk is almost zero and they have 6 to 7 more decades to live out some effect from the vaccine.
 
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allvol123 said:
That is another subject once you go beyond kids. Heck I think there less than 25,000 deaths for 45 and under, if i am remembering correctly.

The 0-17 crowd is in a whole other stratosphere as mentioned.

It is easy to be 49 and say I will take this vaccine and eliminate my covid risk for the tradeoff of some far off potential issue from the vaccine decades away, when you would be near end of life anyway. Versus putting it in a child, where Covid risk is almost zero and they have 6 to 7 more decades to live out some effect from the vaccine.
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I think you’re stance is reasonable. It’s not as cut and dry as many think
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
Our CEO is asking supervisors to sit down with their unvaxed employees and listen to our concerns as well, with the instruction of walking us through our hesitancy and encouraging us to get it done. Mine has nothing to do with the efficacy or safety of the vaccine (I’m not worried about either); in my personal opinion it’s a slippery slope of what potentially can and can’t be mandated for conditions of employment down the road. I’ve steadfastly informed my supervisor, as well as my wife, that I would in all likelihood resign if a mandate came down.
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My wife is in roughly the same boat, they are mandating vaccines at work or a negative test and mask every time you come to work. You can apply for an exemption but they reserve the right to deny it for any reason. When the FDA approves it it'll be get the vax or you're fired. She is still nursing our daughter and is in the process of weaning her off and wants to do that before getting the shot. She told them she'd like to go ahead and resign and they got super pissed and basically said no. Magically they've decided that her job that has been remote for the last 16 months can still be done remotely for the time being. It mostly boils down to no one knows how to do her job and they don't have a quick way to replace her. Then there was entirely too many questions from the men at her job about how long she plans to nurse, how often she does it, etc. etc. Maybe ask her when her period is the worst or if her bowel movements have been regular lately. It's like people have decided this pandemic has suspended all the rules on what your employer, neighbor, store owner, etc. need to know about you.
 
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hog88 said:
Shoneys Sunday breakfast buffet was a major treat to us
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We got to eat the KFC meal deal like twice a year growing up...the other 363 days it was "run down to the basement and grab me 2 quarts of your aunt's green beans she gave us" We would have that with whatever dad caught...fish usually..sometimes rabbit, squirrel, frog legs, turtle..on rare occasions we would get ice cream and I remember dad eating it slow and savoring it almost like he didn't want it to end. He always said "we don't have much but we eat good" I had no idea until after he died that growing up it was "feed not food" for his family...Wish I could have told him thanks.. he loved it when he was able to give us treats like ice cream and Coke
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
My wife is in roughly the same boat, they are mandating vaccines at work or a negative test and mask every time you come to work. You can apply for an exemption but they reserve the right to deny it for any reason. When the FDA approves it it'll be get the vax or you're fired. She is still nursing our daughter and is in the process of weaning her off and wants to do that before getting the shot. She told them she'd like to go ahead and resign and they got super pissed and basically said no. Magically they've decided that her job that has been remote for the last 16 months can still be done remotely for the time being. It mostly boils down to no one knows how to do her job and they don't have a quick way to replace her. Then there was entirely too many questions from the men at her job about how long she plans to nurse, how often she does it, etc. etc. Maybe ask her when her period is the worst or if her bowel movements have been regular lately. It's like people have decided this pandemic has suspended all the rules on what your employer, neighbor, store owner, etc. need to know about you.
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Seems like LG should volunteer to make you all millionaires
 
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All this nostalgic talk of bygone years. . . . Honestly, I'm a little in the feelz, tonight.

Love the stories of appreciating meals as a kid that many of us would laugh at, now. I can't imagine how that would feel, as a dad like my own, who worked his ass off through whatever job necessary when life dealt him a raw hand, just to afford an occasional trip to Shoney's or (fam favorite) the Ryan's buffet. Heck, a bunch of Taco bell tacos or a 2-pack from Little Caesar's was a treat.

Maybe we should all take just a minute and reflect on how fortunate we are to even be able to be having this discussion on smartphones and computers that we could have never afforded, not so long ago.

Just a little perspective.
 
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