In a pleasant surprise, the JCVI, the U.K.’s vaccine regulator, has decided not to recommend that healthy 12-15 year-olds get vaccinated due to the risk of side effects. The BBC has more.
The U.K.’s vaccine advisory body has refused to give the green light to vaccinating healthy children aged 12-15 years-old on health grounds alone.
But the JCVI said the Government should consider wider issues including disruption to schools.
Ministers across the U.K. have asked chief medical officers to look at whether that tips the balance.
Meanwhile, an extra 200,000 teens with underlying conditions will now be eligible for two doses.
Doctors identified that children with chronic heart, lung and liver conditions were at much higher risk of Covid than healthy children. A group of 150,000 children with conditions such as severe neurodisabilities, Down’s syndrome and severely weakened immune systems are already eligible.
This is out of a total of three million children in this age group across the U.K.
The decision on healthy children was based on concern over an extremely rare side effect of the Pfizer vaccine which causes heart inflammation.
But as children are at such low risk from the virus, they decided that vaccination would offer only “marginal gain” and, therefore, there was “insufficient” evidence to offer mass vaccination for this age group.
Stop Press: A journalist colleague passed on some information from a source inside the vaccination programme. Sounds grimly plausible. Below is a summary:
- An announcement to be made to the public this Sunday confirming that vaccination of healthy 12-15 year-olds WILL go ahead. Likely to be a decision made by Chris Whitty and the other CMOs, given the JCVI’s position and the fact that no senior politician wants to take responsibility for it.
- The start date for first jabs in arms has been delayed until September 13th, a week longer that originally planned. The end date by which time we are required to have offered a Pfizer jab to all healthy 12-15 year olds remains November 1st. Uptake of 75% is expected, although I think that’s a little high, particularly in light of today’s JCVI announcement. We have had to complete a planning return setting out numbers of schools and vaccinations planned for the week beginning Sept 13th – there’s going to be a big push to maximise the number of vaccinations given in schools during the first week, consent be damned.
- All relevant documents including those relating to consent forms, consent process, national protocols, etc. will only be released to NHS Trusts on Monday Sept 6th, the day after the Whitty announcement is expected. It will be interesting to see how they get around the Green Book consent protocols.
- There is some consternation within the programme that NHS trusts only found out from the BBC, not the national team leaders, that the top-up third dose (not the booster) for the immunologically suppressed will go ahead from Sept 6th. The booster programme is still planned to start on Sept 20th with priority for care homes and health and social care staff likely to be first.
Stop Press 2: MailOnline has more on this story – much more.
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To paraphrase a German politicians whose name I’ve thankfully fortgotten: Merit, hard work, rational thought, respect for authority and [..] punctuality¹ are secondary virtues of people who could as well command extermination camps.
Chicken coming home to roost, it seems. Have fun with it!
¹ It goes without saying that duty, honour, country would be sufficient grounds for an investigation by the German inland secret service if something warranting immediate imprisonment can perhaps be uncovered.
There is no such thing as “historical guilt”, “communal guilt”, “ancestral guilt”, nor “racial guilt”.
These are all variations of the Christian trope of the original sin, probably (if assuming propagandists know what they’re doing) intentionally so.
Rubbish!
No. The idea is always that everbody’s born in a state of irredeemable guilt and has to live a life of penance because of this. The woketurds have only modified this insofar as they don’t promise forgiveness and paradise at the end but so-called pallative care, ie, once you become a real nuisance to us, we’ll drug you to death.
Well, I must admit that you are actually right to say that most Christian denominations have been deceived into adopting the Augustinian concept of “irredeemable guilt”, or “Total Depravity” as mass-murderer Calvin called it, and that infant baptism was necessary because even babies were guilty of the sin of Adam.
That was NOT the belief of the early Christian fathers for the first three centuries AD, nor of the great British theologian Pelagius, a Greek form of the Welsh name “Morgan” (“sea-born”). He was vehemently denounced as a heretic by Augustine for denying original sin, stressing human choice in salvation, the freedom of human will in choosing whether or not to sin, and mankind’s essential good nature.
Pelagius accepted no excuses for sinful behaviour, but taught that it was unjust to punish one person for the sins of another, and that infant baptism was useless, as they are blameless. But adult baptism by full immersion, as John the Baptist taught, was essential for demonstrating true repentance for sins already committed, and beginning a new relationship with God, by doing your best to sin no more.
He taught that “humans were created in the image of God and had been granted conscience and reason to determine right from wrong, and the ability to carry out correct actions.”
“In Pelagius’ view, the doctrine of original sin placed too little emphasis on the human capacity for self-improvement, leading either to despair or to reliance on forgiveness without responsibility. He also argued that many young Christians were comforted with false security about their salvation leading them to relax their Christian practice.”
“Saint” Augustine was determined to wipe out these ideas, and called the Council of Carthage in AD 418, where Pelagius was condemned as a heretic, expelled from Jerusalem and driven into the Egyptian desert, whence he never returned.
Thanks for the information. It’s alway nice to learn something new. But that’s really immaterial to my statement: Original sin is concept everybody in Christian Europe (here including American colonies) will be familiar with. And the woke propagandists have repurposed this, either because it naturally came to them as they’ve also been taught about it. Or – that’s what I suspect – because they considered it a highly useful propaganda tactic.
This has also existed in Germany long before 2010. The so-called special responsibilty of Germany and all Germans is just another form of the concept of the original sin. A past German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, once dared to speak of the mercy of late birth, ie, that there would be some German who were free of nazi-guilt because they simply weren’t alive at that time. He was then pretty much crucified by the antifascist establishment for this. Blameless Germans is something which must not be.
I did say in another post that the concept of ancestral guilt or racial guilt had been used against the German people, Japanese people, American people, Australian people, etc. to justify the ridiculous demands for “Reparations”.
Some Third World ethnic groups also use the Hindu concept of “karma” to justify their demands for reparations from the West.
‘Values’ another useless component of the endless word salads.
What are values? Nothing but weather vanes and vain platitudes.
Virtues. Honour, Courage, Dignity, Reason, Faith, Family.
National flags were largely red, white and blue, usually bars, to denote, faith, family, country.
No longer. I guess along with rewriting what the Army’s mission is, we might as well redesign all the national flags into various rainbow patterns.
Ten to one Trump will have those reinstated.
Drumpf the AntiChrist has deceived American patriots into trusting him yet again as their “Saviour”.
May their eyes be opened soon.
Cannot be any worse than Obiden !!..
No government Military Academy in any country should have “External Stakeholders” dictating policy. That includes Japanese companies like Fujitsu controlling highly classified military information in the UK.
I believe the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst changed its motto some time ago so that it was more in tune with the careerism of its senior officers in peacetime Whitehall.
‘Serve to lead’ became ‘Swerve to lead’
What exactly are “Army Values”? Unless explicitly stated, which “Duty, Honour, Country” expressed very succinctly, they are nothing.
Cultural Marxism and entryism gone mad.