Meanwhile, Big Pharma is racing to sell millions and millions of vaccines for the <5 year-olds while keeping EUA! They have such a very, very low risk that you have to ask why ($$). Yet, parents have been scared into thinking it's very critical to get their kids vaccinated. I had COVID over a year and a half ago, have traveled a bit, and I have not had it once. At work, double-vaccinated and boosted co-workers have had it once or twice. I am over 55, but not obese, or diabetic, and my COVID bout was like the flu or less. If I had to get vaccinated to support my family, or travel for work, I would try and get Novavax or J&J, if my doctor approved. It's a crime that countries have adopted mandatory policies on this issue, and don't compare it to chickenpox. If you have natural immunity, nobody says you need the chickenpox vaccine to enter the country. I am sorry, but 1-1/2 years of data is not long enough to convince me of the long-term safety of the mRNA vaccines no matter how many have been vaccinated in the short term. How the word 'safe' can be used so nonchalantly in such a short period of time compared with other vaccines approvals and safety studies is beyond me. Speeding up paperwork does not speed up studies done over the years.

the problem is forcing people into a medical treatment (injection of a vaccine) which obviously has risks. This is unethical and illegal.

The vax doesn't prevent infection.

Wouldn't this mean 0% efficacy? Does any study show that?

Depends on what you mean by efficacy. It's recently taken on the meaning of "Protection against death and hospitalization" which is not necessarily related to infections. But yeah, UK data going back into last fall consistently shows that vaccinated people over 18 even have a higher case rate (cases / 100000), sometimes as much as 100% more, than unvaccinated.

You are not guaranteed to get COVID.

None of my friends or family have gotten it. Not one.

How would you know that? You aren't guaranteed to get COVID-19 (the symptomatic disease) but you're almost guaranteed to get infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The majority of Americans already have been, and those that haven't yet will likely get it soon. Many infections are asymptomatic (particularly among the vaccinated) so patients don't necessarily even know whether they've been infected.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094817774/covid-19-infection...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646