School children in Austria self-test for Covid
I think most people would benefit from being vaccinated against the coronavirus, because they'll be much less likely to wind up in the hospital or morgue if you catch it.
But this will do little to stop the spread of the virus because you can catch it from a vaccinated person just as you can from an unvaccinated person.
If I was the parent of a small schoolchild, I wouldn't care if the school staff was vaccinated.
What I'd want is for everyone who goes through the door of the school to have a temperature check, and for everyone who registered a fever to get a Covid test, and for everyone who tested positive for Covid to stay home for a week.
Ideally, people infected with the coronavirus should go into quarantine, but we in the USA don't have the capability for that.
I'd apply the same policies to high schools and colleges, and to hospitals (except, of course, I wouldn't send the patients home).
I think vaccine skeptics underrate the harm done by the coronavirus. It's true the virus kills a relatively small percentage of those infected, but that small percentage adds up to hundreds of thousands (in the USA) and millions (worldwide).
And this is not something where that which does not kill you does not make you stronger. I had a friend who was vaccinated, but nevertheless suffered what I am convinced was a "breakthrough" infection. She was in such severe pain, along with chills and fever, for a couple of days, that she was not able to function.
I know of a family—husband, wife, three children—who got it. The husband went to the hospital. The wife somehow was able to function at home. They're all well now, but they don't know what long-term organ damage the virus may have caused.
But I admit that we also don't know the long-term effects of the vaccines, especially with pregnant women and small children. If I was the husband of a pregnant woman or the father of small children, I'm not sure what I would advise.
Just as some of us are at greater risk for the virus, so others of us are at greater risk for the vaccines.
I do think that if businesses and other institutions require vaccinations, they should give the employee a day off with pay to get the vaccination, and also days off with pay to recover from side effects.
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