COVID-19: The Kids Are Alright
There is no scientific or moral reason to vaccinate your children against Covid. If you don't believe this, you haven't read this article yet.
“I’m terrified that my son/daughter will be infected with Covid-19! When will the FDA approve the vaccines for my kids? It will be such a relief to finally have them protected!”
If this sounds like you, you’re not alone. As a private tutor in Los Angeles, I’ve heard dozens of anxious parents express this sentiment. Unfortunately, your genuine desire to protect your child is actually putting them in more danger than the virus itself. No, this isn’t an opinion piece. I’m simply going to answer common questions I’ve heard and provide verifiable sources.
“I know everything I need to know and I’ll do what I want because it’s my child and I’m the parent and WHO ARE YOU to tell me what I should do??”
Relax. Of course it’s ultimately your decision. If you really care about your kid, and I presume that you do, then you should have a vested interest in learning as much as you can about these vaccines to ensure you make the best, most-informed, and thoughtfully-considered decision possible. We are talking about your child’s life here.
If you don’t find the information I’m presenting convincing, disregard it and carry on. Or you just might learn something you didn’t know before and this article could very well save your child from unnecessary harm. Either way, good parents will humbly continue reading. The ones arrogantly blinded by self-righteousness will not.
“I’m not an anti-vaxxer and I believe in science!!”
Me too! I also recognize the importance of evaluating each vaccine based on it’s own merit rather than presuming that every vaccine produced by for-profit pharmaceutical companies is an automatic winner fresh out of the gate. It’s called nuance.
But what if I don’t vaccinate my kid and he/she dies! How could I live with myself?
This is an understandable fear. But it doesn’t hold water in light of the data. Out of the total Covid-deaths in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, 542 fall in the age group of 0-17, with essentially 100% of them being kids already in severely poor health (ie, cancer patients). These 542 deaths account for just 0.07% of all American deaths from Covid-19. (proof)
I’m not familiar with Statista.com. I don’t trust it.
Fair enough. How about the California Department of Public Health? Is that official enough for you? It’s also a more detailed data set because it includes the number of cases. As of October 20, 2021, 37 children ages 0-17 have died in California from Covid-19 out of 70,741 total deaths, or 0.05% of all deaths. Being that we’re dealing with one-hundredths of one-percent, it’s essentially the same as Statista.
If we really want the most precise risk posed to children in California, take the total number of deaths for ages 0-17 (37) and divide it by the total number of cases for the same age group (680,267) and we get… 0.005%. Go ahead, punch the numbers into a calculator. Review the chart below. Go to the website yourself and verify it.
This means the survival rate for ages 0-17 in California, despite being 22.5% of all infections in the entire State, is so high that it’s statistically 100%.
And this is presuming your child even gets infected in the first place. Albeit this is highly likely at some point.
You wouldn’t know this information if you listened to the U.S. Surgeon General.
Or politically-biased doctors who don't disclose that they secretly work for the Biden Administration (HHS). PROOF: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeandersonmd/.
Or Dr. Fauci.
Or Governor Gavin Newsom.
And certainly not Joe Biden.
Okay, I get it. The numbers clearly show my kid has a 100% survival rate and Covid-vaccines aren’t necessary despite all these politicians and news networks lying about it, but… what would be the harm if my son/daughter got the jab anyway?
If medical intervention isn’t necessary then, by default, it shouldn’t be pursued. In this case this is especially a no-brainer being that Stage 3 safety trials for Covid-vaccines aren’t projected to complete until October 2022 for Moderna (proof) and May 2023 for Pfizer (proof). These vaccines remain, by definition, an experimental product with no long term studies to assess future harm.
This is why the vaccines normally undergo a decade worth of development and testing. This is also why healthy adults who have been vaccine hesitant have a very reasonable argument to wait.
What about the short-term harm?
The fact that your kid has a 100% chance of survival and the long-term risks are entirely unknown isn’t enough for you…? Okay, fine.
Here’s an excerpt from an article published by The Guardian citing this study:
“…analysis of medical data suggests that boys aged 12 to 15, with no underlying medical conditions, are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in hospital with Covid over a four-month period.
Most children who experienced the rare side-effect had symptoms within days of the second shot of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, though a similar side-effect is seen with the Moderna jab. About 86% of the boys affected required some hospital care, the authors said.”
Note that myocarditis is never “mild”, as the media will often suggest. It causes scarring on the heart, aka permanent heart damage. Do you really want to volunteer your child to be at risk of this happening? While it may be “rare”, it’s not as rare as a 0% risk of death from Covid. I’d take zero risk over mild risk, wouldn’t you?
The rebuttal would be that myocarditis can also occur if your kid is infected with Covid, but that’s hardly the same as intentionally subjecting your child to it. Then it’s entirely on you. Hey, maybe your conscience can handle it. Mine couldn’t.
I’ve heard that kids can be super-spreaders, so isn’t it a good idea to have them vaccinated at least so they can’t spread it to other people?
I’ll let Dr. Bret Weinstein speak for me on this one.
It is vital to tune out of the relentless media-driven fear mongering and reject any knee-jerk emotional impulses. Objectively examining the cost-benefit analysis makes it abundantly clear that vaccinating our kids is NOT necessary. This is well-evidenced, undeniable, and rational.
It’s your call, as a parent, whether or not you put your child at risk. I’m just here to emphasize that the vaccines DO wane after 5-6 months, do NOT block transmission, were NEVER designed to block transmission, even appear to increase the number of cases and those under 50 who do vaccinate have a higher risk of death if infected with delta.
Vaccinating your child does pose a greater risk of harm to your child than Covid-19.
Worst case scenario? If your kid remains unvaccinated and gets infected he/she will develop long-lasting immunity superior to the limited vaccine protections, and evolves to meet new variants. This makes it the broadest, most effective option available. I know this sounds counter-intuitive. It actually isn’t.
Considering the extremely low risk for kids who are infected, think of Covid-19 as chicken-pox in the sense that once you get it, it’s over. Since this virus is not going away for the foreseeable future, it’s important to consider the advantages of long-term natural immunity rather than rolling the dice on experimental, inferior, short-term vaccines.
The choice, again, is yours. I hope you make the right one.