Helping the children of anti-vaxxers get their covid shot: Could this work?

Question

The Pfizer vaccine is currently approved for ages 16 and up. You just have to have your parents with you to get it if you are under 18.

Well I just found out my neighbors are idiot anti-vaxxers, and they have a 16 year old son who wants to get the covid vaccine. But can't without his parents approval.

He's a good kid, I've known him since he was knee high to a grass hopper, and he understands the vaccine is not just for his safety but for the safety of everyone he encounters. Unlike his parents.

Well I'm a 38 year old guy, old enough to be his parent, as I'm 22 years older than him.

Suppose that we make an appointment at a pharmacy that stocks the Pfizer vaccine, and I just tell him to meet me there, at that place, at that time. He has a car and a drivers license.

Then we go inside together, head to the pharmacy where I sign for my "son" to get the shot. No insurance records need to exist, the shot is free, no one even asked for my health insurance card when I got my shots.

Then three weeks later we return for the second dose.

I care more about his safety than anything the law says on the matter, so could this work?

After all, we'd be getting the shot from a retail pharmacy, so how does some guy at Walmart know I'm not his dad?

Slickterp · Answer

You'd probably need to show some ID to show you are actually the parent.

Anonymous · Answer

if you kinda look like his actual parent and the kid can lend you his parent's ID, it may work. with different addresses, it will look suspicious.

dress yourselves up as homeless, say neither of you have ID...and see if it works.

Lone Cat · Answer

Could you please ask this question again?  Because I really want to read it over and over and over again.

? · Answer

It's long past time to stop coddling idiots.

Anonymous · Answer

In my State, in order for a 16 or 17 year old to get the Pfizer vaccine outside of a school program, both the teen and the adult have to show their IDs.

If the pharmacist sees that your last names do not match, then they will require additional documentation.

Either a matching birth certificate listing your name as a parent, or official court documents naming you as the legal guardian of the child.

If you are unable to produce any of that, then they simply will not administer the shot.

Don't bother trying to fake these documents. People submit all kinds of forgeries to pharmacies trying to get medications they aren't supposed to, and the pharmacist is on the hook if one gets by them.

They are very experienced at knowing the real from the fake and they aren't going to be slackers about it.

When the vaccine becomes approved for younger children, who don't have IDs yet, the pharmacist is still going to need to see the parent or guardians ID, with one of those records matching the approximate age of the child.

That's how "some guy at Walmart knows you're not his dad."

It will not work, so you'd be risking criminal charges for no gain.

skeptik · Answer

It would probably work.

It's technically illegal, but would likely work anyway.
Even simpler (but also illegal) would be to just sign the consent form as their guardian.  I don't know of any requirement for the adult to actually accompany the minor, just to give consent.

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Check the actual wording of your state's requirement.  I know in some states it says "parent or guardian."  In others, it just says "adult."

It's even possible that a state where the age of consent is 16 wouldn't require parental approval at all.

Mismatched Tube Socks · Answer

7/10. Pretty well done.

checkout any time you like but you may never leave · Answer

I'm not into feeding oligarchs . The vaccine shot, is annual. I pay enough annual govt. Mandated fees as it is, just like O'I-care is unconstitutional, so is the vaccine shot .

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Ω · Answer

Enjoy your prison time.

Helping the children of anti-vaxxers get their covid shot: Could this work?

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