[Sundaycommunity] [Scheerpost] Why I’m Not Rushing to Get My Six-Year-Old the COVID-19 Vaccine

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Moderator posted: " [Nenad Stojkovic / CC BY 2.0] By Len C. Goodman / 
Chicago Reader As a father of a young child, I am pressured to get my 
daughter vaccinated for COVID-19. And like many Americans, I have 
concerns about giving my six-year-old a new vaccine that was "


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By *Len C. Goodman* / Chicago Reader 
<https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/opinion/vaxxing-our-kids/>

As a father of a young child, I am pressured to get my daughter 
vaccinated for COVID-19. And like many Americans, I have concerns about 
giving my six-year-old a new vaccine that was not tested on humans until 
last year, and that has been approved only for “emergency use” in kids. 
The feverish hype by government officials, mainstream media outlets, and 
Big Pharma, and the systematic demonization and censorship of public 
figures who raise questions about the campaign, provide further cause 
for concern.

This year, Pfizer has banked on selling 115 million pediatric doses to 
the U.S. government and expects to earn $36 billion in vaccine revenue 
<https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-0d0f0da455d7da5cef47cf3fd9d4daa5>. 
Congress is so in the pocket of Big Pharma that it’s against the law for 
our government to negotiate bulk pricing for drugs, meaning taxpayers 
must pay retail. Corporate news and entertainment programs are routinely 
sponsored by Pfizer, which spent $55 million on social media advertising 
in 2020. Even late night comedians like Jimmy Kimmel, who has called for 
denying ICU beds to unvaccinated people, have been paid by Big Pharma to 
promote the COVID-19 vaccine 
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-drugmakers-take-on-your-favorite-tv-shows-to-tackle-vaccine-hesitancy-11621166403>.

It is thus not surprising that most of the information reported in the 
press about vaccine safety and efficacy appears to come directly from 
Pfizer press releases. This recent headline from NBC News is typical: 
“Pfizer says its Covid vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5 
to 11.” Moreover, by not advertising their vaccines by name, 
Pfizer-BioNTech and other drugmakers are not obliged, under current FDA 
regulations, to list the risks and side effects of the vaccine.

Most Americans are vaguely aware that COVID vaccines carry some 
potential risks, such as heart inflammation, known as myocarditis, seen 
most often in young males 
<https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html>. 
But no actual data from the vaccine trials has been provided to the 
public. After promising “full transparency” with regard to COVID-19 
vaccines, the FDA recently went to court to resist a FOIA request 
seeking the data it relied on to license the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, 
declaring that it would not release the data in full until the year 2076 
<https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/>—not 
exactly a confidence-building measure.

Also troubling is a recent report in the /British Medical Journal/ 
<https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635>, a peer-reviewed medical 
publication, which found that the research company used by Pfizer 
falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained 
vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in 
Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. The whistleblower, Brook Jackson, 
repeatedly notified her bosses of these problems, then e-mailed a 
complaint to the FDA and was fired that same day. If this scandal was 
ever mentioned in the corporate press, it was with a headline like this 
from CBS News: “Report questioning Pfizer trial shouldn’t undermine 
confidence in vaccines.”

On the other hand, the initial rollout of the vaccine appeared to be a 
home run. Reported numbers of new infections went down, and oppressive 
lockdown rules were lifted. Our bars, restaurants, and gyms opened up. 
Plus, my own experience getting the vaccine was positive, as I wrote 
about in an earlier column for the /Reader/ 
<https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/what-happened-to-the-squad/>. 
Is it possible that this time, the corporate media and government got it 
right? Is the mass vaccination of everyone, including kids, really the 
solution to our long COVID nightmare? I have tried my best to look 
objectively at the available evidence in order to make the best decision 
for my daughter. In this column, I share my findings.

The first thing I discovered is that the risk of COVID to healthy kids 
is extremely low. Or as the /New York Times/’s David Leonhardt recently 
put it 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/briefing/covid-age-risk-infection-vaccine.html>, 
unless your child has preexisting conditions or a compromised immune 
system, the danger of severe COVID is “so low as to be difficult to 
quantify.” This raises the question: If the risk for kids is so low, 
what is the emergency that justifies mass vaccination of children 
without waiting for proper testing trials of the vaccine?

The argument made most often is that we must vaccinate our kids to 
protect others. However, while most adults perceive children as little 
germ factories, the data suggests that kids are at low risk to spread 
COVID. Reports from Sweden, where schools and preschools were kept open, 
and kids and teachers went unmasked without social distancing, show a 
very low incidence of severe COVID-19 among schoolchildren or their 
teachers during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

I was also surprised to learn that there are reputable scientists 
opposed to mass vaccination, such as Dr. Robert Malone, an original 
inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology behind the COVID vaccines. As 
Malone explains, the mRNA vaccine contains a spike protein, similar to 
the virus, that stimulates your immune system to produce antibodies to 
fight COVID. He describes the vaccine as “leaky,” meaning it is only 
about 50 percent effective in preventing infection and spread.

Malone warns that overuse of a leaky vaccine during an outbreak risks 
generating mutant viruses that will overwhelm the vaccine, making it 
less effective for those who really need it. “The more people you 
vaccinate, the more vaccine-resistant mutations you get, and in the 
vaccine ‘arms race,’ the more need for ever more potent boosters.” Thus, 
Malone recommends vaccinating only the most vulnerable—primarily the 
elderly and individuals with significant comorbidities such as lung and 
heart disease or diabetes—and not healthy children.

If these views sound unfamiliar, it’s likely because Malone and other 
critics of mass vaccination have faced heavy suppression on social media 
and vicious attacks from corporate media outlets.

Meanwhile the U.S. mainstream press has ignored recent statements by 
Mexico’s health minister, Jorge Alcocer Varela, who recommends against 
vaccinating children, warning that COVID-19 vaccines could inhibit the 
development of children’s immune systems. “Children have a wonderful 
immune system compared to the later phases . . . of their life,” he 
explained, warning that “hindering” the “learning” of a child’s immune 
system—the “cells that defend us our whole lives”—with a “completely 
inorganic structure” such as a vaccine runs counter to public health.

A recent Harvard study 
<https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/19/youtube-videos/harvard-study-found-vaccinations-alone-arent-enoug/> provides 
further evidence that while vaccines protect us against serious COVID 
illness and deaths, they alone are not very good at stopping the spread 
of the disease. The study looked at COVID numbers in 68 countries and 
2,947 counties in the United States during late August and early 
September. It found that the countries and counties with the highest 
vaccination rates had higher rates of new COVID-19 cases per one million 
people. And suggested other measures, like mask wearing and social 
distancing, in addition to vaccination.

In place of mass vaccination, Malone recommends early intervention with 
therapeutics shown to be effective against COVID, including ivermectin. 
In contrast, the corporate press has shamelessly attacked early 
treatments, and especially ivermectin, which it calls a veterinary drug, 
in reference to the fact that it is used to treat both animals and 
humans, along with many other drugs, including antibiotics and pain pills.

In October, popular podcaster Joe Rogan announced on his program that he 
had contracted the virus and took ivermectin, prescribed by a doctor, 
along with other therapeutics including monoclonal antibodies, and that 
he only had “one bad day” with the virus. CNN ridiculed Rogan for taking 
“horse dewormer.” On his show, Rogan grilled CNN medical expert Sanjay 
Gupta 
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/13/health/sanjay-gupta-joe-rogan-experience/index.html>. 
“Why would they lie [at your network] and say that’s horse dewormer? I 
can afford people medicine.” Rogan pointed out that the developers of 
ivermectin won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for the drug’s use in human beings.

Why indeed is CNN and much of the mainstream press lying about 
ivermectin, a drug that has been used by literally billions of people to 
treat tropical diseases, and has been shown to be safe and effective in 
treating COVID in countries such as Mexico, India, Japan, and Peru? 
First, in order for there to be an emergency use authorization for the 
vaccines, there has to be no treatment for a disease. Thus, any 
potential treatments must be disparaged. That is, of course, until 
Pfizer releases its antiviral drug, PF-07321332.

Second, ivermectin is off patent, meaning Big Pharma can’t make a profit 
on it. It has been made available to poor people around the world at 
pennies a dose. In contrast, Pfizer’s COVID pill will be priced at more 
than $500 per course.

At this point, you can guess the end of the story. The final straw for 
me is the apparent lack of durability of the COVID vaccines. Recent data 
indicates that the limited protection from the vaccine lasts only four 
to six months. Since COVID is not going away, is it Pfizer’s plan to 
artificially boost my daughter’s immune system every four to six months 
for the rest of her life?

We have been kept in the dark about vaccine safety and efficacy by our 
government and its partners in Big Pharma, who tell us they have looked 
at the science and it supports vaccinating our children against a virus 
that presents them with only the most miniscule risk of serious illness. 
As a parent, I will demand more answers before simply taking their word.

/Leonard C. Goodman is a Chicago criminal defense attorney and co-owner 
of the for-profit arm of the /Reader/./

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