I am writing about the upcoming COVID-19 vaccinations for children. I am and remain a vax-sceptic. My reasons are many, but hinge around the fact that we are still [within the time frame of] a provisionally approved medical product.
So, if for no other reason, that is good enough to say, ‘Let us adults, driving this experiment, take any consequences… but not our children!’
But I see two other driving imperatives. They are; first, that children are barely affected by covid, especially in terms of fatality. Around two per cent of children are infected, they are 20 per cent of the population see (www.health.gov.au) and to the covid deaths by age group. And then try to count the numbers… it’s impossible… the colour barely shows on the graph!
The second argument used to promote vaxxing them is so we can stop them transmitting to us… the adults. Okay, let’s get factual. What about transmission? In The Lancet (www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00258-1/fulltext), ‘transmission may be equal between the vaccinated and unvaccinated’.
Other studies reinforce this with a mitigating line which runs along the lines of; ‘but the vaccinated are less likely to contract the virus or get it in a lesser form’. Well, if they get it in a lesser form they… still are capable of transmission!
As I look at these reasons I am almost overcome by a grief… we want to vax our children, knowing it will be of little benefit to them as they are barely affected, it’s so that they don’t infect/harm us!’
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