Chomper Higgot

That things happen faster in the 21st century than they did in previous centuries is news to you? It’s certainly not an argument against progress, the Luddite’s lost that argument at the beginning of the 19th Century. The COVID vaccines are approved, safe and effective.

No, it start with the OP, who misinterpreted a statement that was not relevant to the vaccines in discussion. Correct compression of what’s written is not ‘word play’.

You start of by accusing me of lying and then move on to your presumption that I owe you some examples. As a brand new member you are perhaps not aware that it’s not acceptable to accuse others of lying without very good evidence.

Am I?

The vaccines are tested and approved. So back at you, why don’t you provide evidence that the vaccines are not safe and effective? Oh and a warm welcome to the forum.

I wish I had known that, I only recently renewed my passport. But it’s a good point that might be useful information to others.

Thanks for your prompt That’s a grim prospect, so I’ll stick with dates I have.

For various reasons I would prefer if my annual visa extension date were 6~8 weeks early than it actually is. Is it possible to change he renewal date? For example, if rather than applying for 365 days extension, would applying for 320 days, thereby bring the next renewal 45 days earlier, cause a problem?

Annual health policies from Aetna (sponsors to this sub forum) cover COVID and COVID related illness to the value of the policy. By example, an Aetna Platinum policy with ฿5million per health incident coves all health issues arising from a COVID infection up to ฿5million.

Well if this doesn’t bring the anti-vaxxers onboard, nothing will.

Absolutely right. But we all make decisions based on the information we receive. Sadly there are far too many pedaling dangerous misinformation and too sowing distrust in the medical professionals who provide reliable information.

This is true for many lung diseases. Again, the accuracy of your O2 meter cannot be relied on, keep an eye out for negative change.

Then take baseline readings, record them and watch for negative change.

The medical professionals advising vaccination disagree with you. But yes, please let’s have a vaccine against Dengue and other mosquito borne diseases, if only to put an end to your whataboutary.

I suspect most follow professional medical advice.

If you are going to use logic, start with reliable data. COVID is not a zero risk for children.

I use a pulse oxygen meter and muscle oxygen meter during cycle training. From my experience I recommend the following: Take regular readings at the same time every day. Take readings while seated ( for five minutes before taking your reading). Keep a diary of your results. The O2 meter will almost certainly have a zero error. This will mean your O2 saturation measurement will not be point accurate and cannot be reliably compared against the medically advised O2 levels. However, your O2 meter will almost certainly provide repeatable results. Therefore, use your O2 meter to monitor ‘changes’ in O2 saturation, if your readings decline seek medical advice.

I definitely agree with taking advice from medical professionals, the link I posted was definitely not advice to you or anyone else on what choices to make.

The vaccines being used for children are fully tested and fully approved, they are demonstrated safe and effective. Perhaps your confusion is not what it seems.

The OP’s inquiry relates to a seven year old. I said let’s go to a reputable source, I never claimed to be linking a peer reviewed study. You continually make reference to co-morbidities, without any back up (peer reviewed or not). COVID has caused serious illness, hospitalization and death amongst otherwise fit and healthy adults, why would it not do likewise to otherwise fit and healthy children. Yes, I agree, micro-risk is the wrong term.

When you make unqualified statements regarding ‘micro risk’ don’t be surprised if found so solicits emoji responses you don’t like. Let’s go to a reputable source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-omicron-is-putting-more-kids-in-the-hospital/

Again you missed the point. Reduced risk is reduced risk. I’m not sure on what basis you claim a tiny probability confined to children with underlying conditions. The long term impacts of COVID infection are revealing themselves but are not yet fully understood. Why take the risk?

In all vaccinated.

But vaccination does, regardless of any other health consideration, dramatically reduce the probability of serious illness, hospitalization and death.

There is no conflict between what the CDC statement says and the approval of the COVID vaccines. That testing ‘can’ take several years is not testing takes several years. The extract quoted by the OP is from a CDC page providing general vaccination information, specific COVID vaccination information is provided here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/children-teens.html Nevertheless, good luck with your choice.