As a recent submission[1] points out:<p>> Let’s stop pretending that the vaccines are a no-brainer for adolescents and children.<p>> A rational parent — especially the parent of a healthy boy, given the far higher rates of myocarditis in boys with the mRNA vaccines — could decide against giving their child the Pfizer vaccine, especially given the utter lack of certainty as to how soon and how often boosters will be required. Sensibly, I think, the UK took this approach: optional for those over 15, recommended for those 12-15 only with immunocompromised health status or high-risk family members, and gathering evidence for future decisions. My home state of Hawaii is taking rather the opposite approach, in mandating vaccination for all student-athletes. This is the unfortunate playbook for how to maximize vaccination in the lowest risk population group (athletes) half of whom are at the highest risk for requiring hospitalization for vaccine-mediated myocarditis (high school boys).<p>As I have mentioned before to great flagging fests, there is no profit, bonus, lucrative post-civil "service" career etc to ignoring risks for which one has absolutely no liability. No matter what happens to those on the receiving end, a whole group of people will greatly benefit from mandating things.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28358407" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28358407</a>