Would you be happy for your children to receive covid-19 vaccine

Boosters are irrelevant at this stage. Even if they are offered in future, nothing compels you to take them up.

Boosters are very relevant. The "at this stage" part is only a qualifier. Boosters were irrelevant for adults six months ago at that stage and now adults are being "compelled" to take them up as we speak. Oh it's not mandatory now, but look at the Austria thread hereabouts and how quite the number are nursing a semi over them compelling vaccinations in general. It may never be mandatory in Ireland, but there will be social pressures and consequences if you don't go with the programme. There are already such in place for adults(try taking a trip anywhere in Europe next year without one), I don't see why that'll be any different for kids.

It's going to be an increasingly hard sell for many people to both accept that vaccines will get us out of this, while at the same time only for a few months, while we see restrictions coming back in and many people's lives and livelihoods suffer.

I can't help it if a complex set of variables can't be reduced to a soundbite to make it easier for you to digest, or more to the point respond with current real world evidence to back up your case. I found it easy enough to defend mine, you appear to having some difficulty. Your hail mary civil disobedience line ample evidence of that.

But meh let's give it a go:

Initial doses and current and future regulations in adults, where the non boosted vaccinated are already being lumped in with the unvaccinated in practical terms with the same social and legal compulsions for both is in play today, not "unevidenced speculation", fact. Why would children be any different when they were in the same position as adults six months ago and for the same reasons given then for adults are now being given for children?

Apologies, that's two sentences.

Where are you getting your info on? Its common for many vaccines to have base doses followed by boosters. Only a week or two ago the Pfizer CEO said that the Covid vaccine will likely be annual like that flu, not bi-annual.

Only a few months ago boosters weren't in play to the degree they are today either and today they're around six months or less, depending on jurisdiction. The Austrians have shortened their booster requirement from nine to seven months. Unless boosters with the current vaccines turn out to lengthen the protection period by double they won't get to once a year any time soon.

The risk of kids not getting vaccinated for outweighs the risk of getting vaccinated and suffering a side effects.

The vaccines have only been in human use for 18 months and even shorter in children. The viralvector delivery tech has a little more time under its belt, but not that long, the mRNA delivery tech has never been in human use before 18 months ago. Moderna who are the poster boys for the tech after over a decade and milllions and trials thrown at what was seen as a new medical magic bullet have just one single commercial product after all that, their vaccine. Almost all the rest of their avenues of research had to be stopped at animal trials because of side effects. That's about the biggest reason they went into vaccine research. It's normally a low return on investement, but because the doses were lower and were seen as less likely to be repeated as often they were going to be safer. Neither the pro or for that matter anti vaccination types can claim longterm effects, or none. We can guess, but we simply don't know. If you're over forty, have chronic illness, or underlying conditions or are immunosuppressed then the risk is well worth it, regardless of age, but the risk/reward equation starts to look shaky in a demographic whose risk is tiny.

We vaccinate kids against meningitis even though their risk of catching it is miniscule. And it also impacts transmission, per the next point...

While yep viral meningitis is rarely dangerous, bacterial meningitis is far more potentially lethal than covid 19. Without treatment it's over 90% fatality rate, with treatment 2-3% fatality rate with a high risk of disability in survivors. So while the risk of catching it is low, if you do it's much more dangerous than covid 19 so it makes very good sense to vaccinate against it. The vaccines have been around for decades too.

Measles, like some other viruses, replicates internally before spreading therefore vaccination is very effective in stopping transmission. Upper respiratory viruses dont need to replicate internally as they replicate where they land, usually the nose, and hey presto they are building a home in your body with ease.

My turn to ask where you're getting your info from? Measles is a fully airborne virus that is spread by coughs and sneezes(and by touching contaminated surfaces) that get into the nose and throat where it starts to reproduce. It's found in large quantities in the mucus of the respiratory tract. As far as transmission is concerned it's an upper respiratory virus. It's also infectious before symptoms are obvious. It's the most infectious agent there is with a R0 number if memory serves of 13 or 14.

The Covid vaccine has proved to be incredibly effective at reducing serious illness and death. The global stats speak for themselves. Its a no brainer and to suggest otherwise is anti-science.

I never said it wasn't, nor wouldn't. It massively reduces hospitalisation and death. Hospitalisation and death is overwhelmingly seen in the over 40's and really ramps up in the over 60's. Again 90% of all deaths from Covid 19 were in those who were 65 plus and 40% of all deaths were in those over 85. The risk of death from confirmed covid 19 virus in the under 25's is 0.003%.

Regarding tranmission comparisons from vax vs unvaxxed, its not up in the air. Taking the Delta variant and to quote from a comprehensive peer reviewed study published in October of this year which studiest the highest risk environment, households:

"The SAR in household contacts exposed to the delta variant was 25% (95% CI 18–33) for fully vaccinated individuals compared with 38% (24–53) in unvaccinated individuals.

Yes there is a reduction, but it's not exactly a large one. The current vaccines are pretty leaky. Have we any studies on looking at infection transmission in children to adults? Genuine question. For a long time it was considered that children posed one of the lowest risks because their viral loads were lower. Hell, the Irish authorities went the full hog and claimed covid transmission was mostly community spread and not through schools, until it magically changed. Here are three earlier studies. Though the last one is from July of this year:

Studies indicate that children are not the major vector of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the community with most pediatric cases described in family clusters. The prevalent direction of virus transmission is adult-to-child rather than child-to-adult (24,66). In particular, only in 8% of households did a child develop symptoms before any other household member (25). In family clusters, the most common source of infection was a parent, considered the index case in 56% of cases, while in only 4% of cases the most probable index case was a sibling (17). Lastly, new SARS-CoV-2 variants emerged the past months, with higher (up to 90%) reproduction number and an increased impact on morbidity and deaths, based on model projections, compared with preexisting variants (67). The role of children in the transmission dynamics of these variants must be elucidated (67).

So did Delta increase the risk in children and has there been an uptick in children presenting with increased illness and potential mortality?