https://ask.metafilter.com/356502/Consequences-of-lying-about-age-to-get-COVID-vaccine

My daughter is 11, will be 12 this fall. We're contemplating lying about her age to get her vaccinated before school begins. Good idea or not?

For background, we live in Massachusetts but in a city that is behind the state's vaccination rate. Local school board is likely to enact a mask mandate for schools, but hybrid or remote education is not likely unless things get significantly worse. All other household members are already vaccinated. Dosing size vs weight is not a concern; daughter is routinely mistaken as 2-3 years older and towers over her classmates. She does experience occasional exercise-induced asthma. Vaccine shots are plentiful in our area, so we're not preventing someone else from getting theirs.

There are family plans for the fall prior to her birthday including a wedding, a vacation and a relative's milestone birthday party. These would be skipped or masked up if she remained unvaccinated and things don't start turning around; attending these isn't a primary driver for getting her vaccinated but does weigh into the decision as a 'nice to have'.

Downsides we're contemplating: Obviously, her medical / vaccination records will be wonky. Insurance could get grumpy if something happened to her and they could trace it back to 'unauthorized vaccine use.'

Certainly there's an ethical concern, but the upside of not catching COVID and/or dying outweighs the ethical in my view.

Wow, these people are totally shameless, some of them are such extremists they don't even care about mainstream medical advice anymore. Vaccines are magical fetishes now! they are like a magic stone that keeps tigers away in Vermont. The stone must work because you don't see any tigers right? Make sure you keep a magical stone near you at all times or else children will get eaten by tigers. Don't you care about the children? Buy your Astrazenica magic stone today! Whatever brings Pfizer and Moderna more income though, that's what's important! \s

Many of the responders are urging that they lie and cheat the medical system for something potentially dangerous! At this point the site deserves to be shut down permanently for encouraging illegal activity.