Children have gotten sick with covid in significant numbers.
And I don’t know and you don’t know if there are long term effects of covid infection on children. The long term is not here yet. If I had young kids under age 10, personally I would not opt for covid vaccination. Mainly because the mortality rate is so low in healthy kids.
But getting back to your point, is it worth if a few kids suffer side effects from vaccination, my retort is yes IF the vaccine will be beneficial to overwhelming majority of kids in preventing elevated symptoms of covid. It is a big IF.
Nobody has long term data on covid side effects since covid arrived in early 2020. The long term is not here yet. By the same token nobody has long term data on side effects of vaccines.
Coronaviruses have been around for thousands of years and will continue for thousands more. That hasn't changed.
By the same token nobody has long term data on side effects of vaccines.
That long term data was due BEFORE injecting it into anyone, much less children. The lack of data is because it's a test and as such it violates the Nuremberg Code:
Forcing experimental treatment on individuals was specifically addressed in the permissible experiments section of the Nuremberg Code in 1947. (http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/)
"The great weight of the evidence before us to effect that certain types of medical experiments on human beings, when kept within reasonably well-defined bounds, conform to the ethics of the medical profession generally. The protagonists of the practice of human experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts:"
"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision."
"The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity."
"The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury."
"Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability or death."
"The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment."
"During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible."