@sistermoon, your post nearly brought me to tears. She may be introverted and shy, but your daughter is one courageous little girl. You are a loving, wise and supportive mom, and your sweet children are blessed to have you.
If you are comfortable doing so, please let us know when your children will be receiving their vaccines, so we can send them protective and healing light.
If my child was that age I'd have him first in line for the vaccine. I was just saying to my husband what a relief it must be for parents to finally be able to take this huge step towards making their children safe.
FYI no cases of myocarditis were seen in the trials for children 5-11.
Thank you for the reassurance of “it is the most studied vaccine in history,” and Iridium for the information regarding absence of myocarditis in the younger children.
My six year old granddaughter who I care for before and after school, will be one of the first in line however, she is small for her age and I am a bit concerned that she will have uncomfortable side effects. Still, I am excited to be able to take her places again (exciting places like the public library—woohoo!) but I agree with Lynn, we will be masked whenever we go into a public building and as well as outside if there are people close. We have a state mask mandate for public schools so I will be interested to see if/when that changes as younger children become vaccinated.
I noticed today that despite living in a relatively enlightened area, I am often in the minority wearing a mask. Nonetheless, I am undeterred. Breakthrough cases continue in our area and while most do not result in hospitalization, they remind one that there is still a pandemic.
@sistermoon, your post nearly brought me to tears. She may be introverted and shy, but your daughter is one courageous little girl. You are a loving, wise and supportive mom, and your sweet children are blessed to have you.
If you are comfortable doing so, please let us know when your children will be receiving their vaccines, so we can send them protective and healing light.
Thank you, I will! They go next Friday, so next week I will update in the Prayers/Energetic Healing thread.
Thank you for the reminder - thank you everyone for all of your kind words, I really do feel 1000% better ❤️
Read this article today and it suggests that people are believing the anti vax information because they don’t understand maths and can’t see the inaccuracies. An interesting idea.
“But they also demonstrate how the successful spread of that message depends on an unfortunate fact: an awful lot of people just don't do maths.
The message lands easily because of the general innumeracy – and specifically the ignorance of statistics – of the people consuming it.”
Could it be that simple?
Regards to all
Read this article today and it suggests that people are believing the anti vax information because they don’t understand maths and can’t see the inaccuracies. An interesting idea.
“But they also demonstrate how the successful spread of that message depends on an unfortunate fact: an awful lot of people just don't do maths.
The message lands easily because of the general innumeracy – and specifically the ignorance of statistics – of the people consuming it.”
Could it be that simple?
Regards to all
Yes, I think that is a major factor.
When people lack critical thinking skills in general, they can easily be misled.
And specifically, when people don't understand math or statistics, they do not have the mental tools to critically appraise numerical data. Thus they can easily be misled about the data.
@sistermoon So glad that our fellow forum folks here have reassured you and I hope that your kids did well with the vaccine! (I see I am about a week behind...)
Your post made me think of a great resource that I have found and wanted to share here, called "Your Local Epidemiologist." It is written by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina (MPH and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and she writes a blog (and is on Facebook) summarizing all of the current data/issues on COVID. I have found it to be really useful and easy-to-understand in the way she presents the information.
I saw that another user had posted about this in the forum on another thread, but I wanted to emphasize it here.
Her latest post is about How Vaccines Reduce Transmission:
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/how-vaccines-reduce-transmission
She has also posted about the younger kids and vaccines here (from Nov. 2):
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/vaccine-for-5-11-year-olds-acip-cliff