Last week, I wrote an essay entitled “8 Reasons not to Vaccinate Your Children against Covid”. Despite what appeared to be a coordinated Twitter attack by a number of accounts with names like “Maskupfolks”, it was my most read essay and the majority of the responses were positive. The few criticisms were mostly ones nit-picking terminology and some of the finer details. Even if they were right (they weren’t), these details change nothing of substance in the overall debate.
Since publishing the essay, a 9th reason has manifested itself and it is quite compelling. Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, gave an interview to Yahoo! Finance.
Let us record his words here as Pfizer have already had multiple versions of this clip removed from social media.
“We know that the two dose(s) of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any.”
Now, despite one of the most embarrassing fact-checks I’ve ever read, these words are fairly unambiguous. Snopes try to point out that he’s talking about the Omicron variant and not Covid-19 in general as if that is a meaningful point or one that somehow undermines the enormity of what Bourla is admitting. Let’s be clear: Omicron is Covid-19. The variant is completely dominant in America, most of Europe, and Australia. Saying that two doses of the vaccine offers very limited protection, if any, against Omicron but not Covid-19 in general is like saying your anti-hangover pills offer very limited protection, if any, against Guinness but not alcohol in general while you’re locked in a Guinness factory in Ireland.
So, what does this have to do with kids? In Ireland and many other countries around the world, we are, right now, administering to children the very two-dose regime that Bourla clearly says is now effectively useless against the dominant strain of Covid (In fact the 5-11 year old vaccine is a lesser dose so potentially even less effective). As discussed in my full essay, the threat to healthy children from the previous strains of Covid was near zero. The risk of this milder strain is less again and yet we are still pursuing the mass inoculation of this age cohort with a vaccine the manufacturer openly tells us is ineffective. While the risks from the vaccines remain, the potential benefit, already meagre, has vanished completely.
Why countries would continue to push vaccinations for children under these circumstances is beyond me but, as we saw with Pandemrix in Ireland, when a country commits itself to a course of action in the form of millions of euro spent on paediatric vaccines, it is very unlikely that they will deviate from the path they are on - no matter the potential consequences.
Fortunately, parents still have the power to set their own course for their children.
I wonder if the reason they rowed back on the passports was because of the low uptake in the 5 - 11 year olds. It gave good insight into how far the voters were prepared to go with this. Have you seen in the U.K. the NHS are advertising for two permanent Covid vaccine passport developers? They also signed a contract with a tech company for their rollout.
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Good article, same crook who would not admit knowing pandermix was risky, has only got bigger ego now and will never admit mistake
I wonder if the reason they rowed back on the passports was because of the low uptake in the 5 - 11 year olds. It gave good insight into how far the voters were prepared to go with this. Have you seen in the U.K. the NHS are advertising for two permanent Covid vaccine passport developers? They also signed a contract with a tech company for their rollout.