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For sure ... as I said in a previous post this is not a 'big deal' to me ..


was just curious if other on the Lounge have had the same discussions/dilemma. We asked her if she wanted the vaccine and she said didn't think she needed it. We tended to agree because the science and math say the odds are scientific notation level low that anything would happen to her ... so we didn't say 'you must get vaccinated'. If there was a 3% chance something bad could happen to her, we would have overruled her without question. But since it is closer to 0.0003% we were ok with her choice.

However, when it became clear she either needed to quarantine or get the vaccine in order to make sure she didn't miss her camp we discussed it and went the other way.

I am not an anti-vaccine but I do respect the choice of those who are. We simply weighed the risks involved when making that decision. But I also do not see it as 'my moral responsibility' (as many in this thread have said) to get a vaccine in order to save the lives of those who didn't. And since such a small percentage of the world is vaccinated and since we have no control of who comes into the Country and who doesn't my 15 year-old daughter getting a vaccine isn't going to help end the virus (as others have said).

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Posted: 07/08/2021 at 6:52PM



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