23 May

The reason given for not vaccinating young kids in Australia is that Covid is mostly mild in them. Two things to say about that. Firstly the *acute* infection with Covid may be mild, as it is for many adults i.e. the few weeks they feel sick. But long-term chronic effects can be crippling, or even lethal. Secondly if we'd used this same bullshit logic 70 years ago, we would never have vaccinated all children against polio. Polio was mild in the vast majority of kids who caught it, see the stats below. We vaccinated everybody, to protect everybody. Now we don't give a shit and it's each to their own.