I am a parent of a sweet, creative 9th grader at Metropolitan Learning Center, and his dad is a PPS teacher at a different school. I want to start off by saying that I completely understand and empathize with having fear of Sars Cov2; fear of sickness, fear of death, and fear of inadvertently harming others. The media has been busy instilling these fears in all of us the last 20 months, and for the first year of the pandemic I was careful to follow all the protocols and had planned on taking one of the Covid vaccines. When the rollout began, I started investigating the data for myself and became concerned that the mRNA vaccines, though they have been researched for many years, had never before been used in humans. Then I discovered that the vaccine makers are immune from liability, and that they either have a very checkered past or have never brought a vaccine to market (as is the case for Moderna, whose motto is “hacking the software of life.”) Not only that, I discovered that the vaccines don’t actually stop transmission or infection, but only lower symptoms. I was unable to find data supporting the 95% effective claims, but I did find some fishy data that left out an important variable, and I learned about the difference between absolute and relative risk reduction.
I want the pandemic to be over as much as you, but I do not believe mandating the vaccines is the answer. In my investigation I also found information that relieved me of much of my fear of the virus - the infection survival rate for people under 70 ranges from 99.41% to 99.9973% in the under 20 age group. There are safe treatments that are effective when used early after onset of covid symptoms, treatments that have been suppressed due to the agenda to vaccinate absolutely everyone. I know of health providers who have been threatened to have their licenses revoked for simply sharing information about Vitamin D and zinc. How many lives could have been saved by not suppressing and censoring info on the early treatment options?
My fully vaxxed husband contracted Covid, passed it to myself and my child, and had a more severe case than the two of us. We all used early treatment options and got through it within a week, though we quarantined for two. My child and I now have natural immunity, which has been shown by thirty scientific studies to be long-lasting and to be superior to the vaccines, even against the variants. These vaccines are also not as safe as corporate media tells us - at the time of this writing, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, or VAERS, shows 16,766 deaths after the Covid jabs in the US. There have been over 5,000 cases of myocarditis, heart inflammation causing permanent scarring, post vaccination in the 12 to 19 year-old age group. A large study in the UK and another that surveyed people internationally found that people with a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection experienced increased rates of side effects after vaccination, in fact we are roughly 56% more likely to experience a side effect that requires hospital care. Former Pfizer executive Dr. Michael Yeadon has done the math and determined that kids are 50 times more likely to die from the Covid vax than from Covid! Continuing to push the vaccines as a one-size-fits-all solution is unwise and harmful, and mandating the vaccines for kids is dangerous and irresponsible.
I really love this well-reasoned procedural walk-through of the issues at stake. You make it so clear why imposing such a mandate would be the wrong move on so many levels - and how on the other side of the equation, there is no benefit and no rational basis for doing so.
The only possible rationale for a vaccine mandate of any kind would be if the vaccine prevents infection and transmission of a disease. Since these vaccines don't have that effect, there is not even a rational basis for the proposed mandate.