Ooh this is a good point and kind of applies to my situation. My daughter is massively needle-phobic. When the first covid vaccines were available, we had to physically hold her down (she’s almost 9 now). So I’ve made a deal with her that she has to get all of her scheduled vaccines but I won’t make her get the annual flu/covid vaccines because I just don’t want to have that fight with her. She’s a fighter generally. Meanwhile her brother sucks it up (as do I) and my husband says “Oh I need to get my annual flu vaccine” and then never does it, but I’m not going to parent him about it.
The flu ones in the past made a ton of sense to not bother with, bc they so often guessed wrong what strain might come, and the effects were not so bad. On the other hand, long COVID is no joke, and the H5 bird flu that is affecting egg prices might be deadly (I dunno really though).
Ooh this is a good point and kind of applies to my situation. My daughter is massively needle-phobic. When the first covid vaccines were available, we had to physically hold her down (she’s almost 9 now). So I’ve made a deal with her that she has to get all of her scheduled vaccines but I won’t make her get the annual flu/covid vaccines because I just don’t want to have that fight with her. She’s a fighter generally. Meanwhile her brother sucks it up (as do I) and my husband says “Oh I need to get my annual flu vaccine” and then never does it, but I’m not going to parent him about it.
The flu ones in the past made a ton of sense to not bother with, bc they so often guessed wrong what strain might come, and the effects were not so bad. On the other hand, long COVID is no joke, and the H5 bird flu that is affecting egg prices might be deadly (I dunno really though).