The Real Obstacle to a New Normal? Anti-Vaxxer Parents.

[Celerity]

Vaccine skeptics have marred the rollout of safe and effective shots from the jump. Now things may get truly ugly.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-obstacle-to-a-new-normal-anti-vaxxer-parents



The U.S. government appears to be inching closer to green-lighting the first coronavirus vaccine for kids. According to The New York Times and other news organizations, the safe and effective two-shot vaccine from Pfizer could win FDA emergency-use authorization for children and teens aged 12 to 15 as soon as next week.

Opening up vaccinations to younger teens would add nearly 20 million people to the pool of Americans who are eligible for inoculation against the scourge that continues to ravage entire countries and has claimed well over half a million American lives. That, in turn, could juice the United States’ flagging vaccination campaign—and make the coming school year much safer for students, teachers, and school staff. But don’t count on those obvious benefits to convince potentially tens of millions of anti-vaxxer parents. In fact, experts say, resistance to America’s world-class vaccination campaign is stiffening among science-deniers and Fox News-bingeing right-wingers, and when kids are involved, it will get ugly.

The American anti-vaxxer movement has plagued public-health campaigns for years. And far-right skeptics who falsely suggested coronavirus shots were part of a mind-control plot or a scheme to alter DNA—among other outlandish claims—have tainted this vaccine rollout since before it even began. Epidemiologists expect even more ferocious pushback once America’s kids are up for jabs. “This is going to be a social and political battle,” Irwin Redlener, the founding director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, told The Daily Beast.

In early April, New York-based Pfizer submitted data to the FDA showing the company’s two-dose messenger-RNA vaccine is safe and effective for people aged 12 to 15. In contrast to the anxious situation of waiting for one’s age group to become eligible just weeks ago, there is now plenty of vaccine available for newcomers. Owing to a slow decline in the daily vaccination rate—from a peak of 3.3 million shots a day in mid-April to 2.3 million a day last week—U.S. states are sitting on nearly 70 million unused doses.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Get your vaccines and wish your anti-vax parents well.

Because they will be missing out on many future get togethers.

If they continue to not mask, Social distance , be with others not vaccinated, they then continue to spread this killer to new hosts. Do they want that on their consciences?

Glad we got ours.

[Bettie]

2. My 12 year old is super excited

exceptionally so for a kid who HATES needles. He's just ready to be able to go out and do stuff again.

[Moostache]

3. I am done with these people...

I heard that EATING is a liberal plot to make everyone fat...you do not really NEED food for energy, you are provided life by the creator and those damn libs are trying to convert you to sinner by showing you FOOD.

I also heard that GRAVITY is a liberal-hoax and that the only reason we believe it is that SOROS paid for the fake moon landing videos and HOLLYWOOD filmed them on a stage and fooled everyone who hasn't done the RESEARCH.

Finally, and most diabolically, I heard that BREATHING is causing OXYGEN to destroy cells in your body and that eventually it will KILL YOU...so the best thing to do to avoid that is to tie plastic bags to you OWN head and refuse to participate in these left-wing plots...***


*** - If anyone is confused or cannot tell sarcasm without emojis - Tie the bag only around your OWN HEAD.