According to a study recently published in the Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the risk of COVID-19 to children is truly minuscule. The study tracks the outcomes for Icelandic children with a positive COVID-19 test, covering all the children who tested positive during the study period. It concludes that out of the 1,749 children tracked, none had severe symptoms and no child needed hospitalisation. A fifth of the children showed no symptoms.
It is curious, then, that when Icelandic health authorities decided to offer COVID-19 vaccination to 5-11 year-old children earlier this year, two of the four study authors were among the most vocal advocates of the policy.
At the time, the health risks related to COVID-19 vaccines were becoming increasingly clear, with the rate of reported serious adverse effects in Iceland 75-fold the rate for flu vaccines in 2019. The French Medical Academy had recommended against vaccinating healthy young children, Swedish authorities had decided not to offer them vaccination and the JCVI had recommended against it. But Icelandic authorities decided to go ahead with an organised campaign.
Earlier, the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Valtyr Thors, a prominent paediatrician, had said vaccination was not needed for young children, but in January 2022 he suddenly reversed his opinion and strongly recommended vaccination to “protect children against infection and serious illness”. At that time, the Omicron variant had already taken over in Iceland, and numbers showed vaccine protection against infection to be zero or negative.
Late December 2021, another author, paediatrician Dr. Asgeir Haraldsson, Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland, said five to 10 out of every thousand healthy children would need hospitalisation after COVID-19 infection and strongly recommended vaccination, claiming both Delta and Omicron variants posed a considerably higher threat to children than previous variants.
The study shows only 12% of infections among children occured in school. However, in late 2021 the importance of keeping schools open was repeatedly mentioned as an additional justification for the vaccination of children. In December 2021, Dr. Thors claimed infections in schools were a major problem and Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Thorolfur Gudnason suggested lifting quarantine requirements for vaccinated children under 16, while keeping them in place for the unvaccinated.
The new study was conducted between February 20th 2020 and August 31st 2021. It may thus be assumed that by December 2021, as they pushed for the vaccination of young children, the two authors already knew severe illness was extremely rare among children in this age-group and that the estimate of five to 10 hospitalisations per 1,000 children – up to 1% – was far off the mark. They should also have known by then how much milder the Omicron variant was in general, making the claim even further out. By early January it was clear also how little protection against the Omicron variant the vaccines provided, if any at all.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an economist who lives in Iceland. Find him on his Substack page.
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It beggars belief that these idiots seem to be in denial or in wilful ignorance of research like this :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
and a follow up:-
https://osf.io/bcsa6/
Clear biomolecular/genetic research showing the clear dangers the jabs have.
Are they actually wanting to kill/ruin lives?
Oh, and fao “John”, yes I am fully aware of the levels of expertise of the various authors/researchers.
“G-quadruplex structures can be computationally predicted from DNA or RNA sequence motifs,but their actual structures can be quite varied within and between the motifs, which can number over 100,000 per genome. Their activities in basic genetic processes are an active area of research in telomere, gene regulation, and functional genomics research.”
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-quadruplex)
My concern is that the G-quadruplex structures have been been predicted by software from the RNA sequences, which in itself is not an issue, but there appears to be an assumption that they will all be oncogenetic in everyone, rather than there’s a chance that they may be in someone or they may not. There’s no indication of the likelihood of that occurring. This is why I question the reasons for having a computer scientist as lead author with the cancer specialist only involved in the editing process.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909458/
Thank you for your informative responses which have given me a better understanding of your criticisms of the papers to which I referred.
I would though value your opinion on the following, (I have only had a chance to consider it briefly but it seems to me to be less based upon computational prediction?)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.03.21256520v1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
At this stage there are only really two possibilities. Either these doctors are so captured by the “Vaccines are all Good” mindset that they cannot use any critical reasoning and do not look at the research, or they are just plain evil. Neither possibility is encouraging.
Or they are just money whores, option 3.
Or very challenged??
example of the cognitively narrow intelligent. Like those who can play a piano concerto but don’t have essential basic skills but are in charge of the arts council. Which may make them more able to take the silver/money or just be incomplete in their cognition. ?
I was on a coastal golf course, sunny, windy, nobody around except three others, not a virus particle anywhere!! Just the odd golfer ha. The two golfers my husband was playing were from Geneva, very fit, sunny healthy, seemed intelligent and career high flyers.
On one of the greens next to the sea was a stone hut, with one toilet and a high widow open. Lots of fresh air swirling around in there. These supposed intelligent people put on their masks in the outdoors to go into an outdoor one toilet. Are these the types who would jab children and are quick to draconian rules for a moment of false safety.
My husband and I watched this strange spectacle with amazement it was like a a pilgrimage for the masked.
We waited until the 18th to tell them we were not jabbed
Well I counted that under the ‘evil’ heading. Putting money in front of children’s health is about the definition of it I think.
Yes It’s so difficult to believe that evil like this exists but it looks like it does.
The book “Dissolving Illusions” gives a pretty extensive account of the history of the small pox vaccine and how for most of the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th, was pushed very hard and in many instances mandated. The punishment for some people who refused was terrible. The side effects were often terrible. And the effectiveness was never proven, always assumed.
You read it and the parallels with the current COVID craziness are uncanny.
When the medical profession and the state get together to impose something on us, it’s pretty terrifying.
Or ‘just following orders’….
The only possible explanation at this point for those wishing to jab the young, is one that that starts with “follow the money”. Corona never was and still is not a risk for the young (well, not really for anyone who does not already have one foot in the grave).
I was unhappy to see NL decide to start jabbing the 5-11 group end of Jan/beginning of Feb. However, the week that the jabs for that group opened up the health ministry said that as omick-take was less serious for children (i.e. *even* less serious), it was not clear that they really needed the jab, so parents should think about whether their child needed to be vaxxed.
Very, very Dutch method of dealing with prickly issues. If they had said outright it will do more harm than good, we won’t do it, they know people would have started questioning, they would have started asking whether the age group 12-18 had needed it, etc. So don’t nix it outright, just slowly, silently, stealthily extract yourself.
I bet they did the same with murderna. Once all the Scandinavian countries, France and Germany said they would no longer use it on the under-30s, I expected NL to follow suit, but as I far as know they have not officially done so. But I have no doubt that if there are still any under-30s foolish enough to get stabbed again, they ain’t getting murderna.
I would not want to be one of the kiddie drug pushers when people realise just how toxic this garbage is and how long they knew that it was toxic. Even if people didn’t get their kids jabbed, they will be furious that it was ever suggested or allowed.
So weird, I keep getting these images of Sri Lanka and that beautiful, overrun presidential compound. But with a few pitchforks added for good measure.
This is why poisoning the well of scepticism with the term ‘anti-vaxxer’ in advance of the roll-out of the injections was so effective, effectively making us all self-censor to avoid being tarred with this brush. However, reality continues to encroach on the lie and a tipping point surely approaches.
I can understand the vaccine gangsters like fauci and billy gate$ pushing for the poisoning of children with their snake oils, but I would normally expect doctors to exercise common sense and discretion. Not any more it seems. it appears that health professionals and “scientists” are as much under the thumb of big pharma as politicians are.
Grifter doctors push hard to get more fees from vaccinating children now they are running out of adult victims.
Better, more accurate headline.
Surely the point is that not only are they unnecessary but especially harmful to children – as explained by Geert Vanden Bosche’s recent voiceforscienceandsolidarity substack video. In essence, these jabs are not “live-attenuated” and will hinder the process by which children’s immune systems learn to cope with viral infections. Another problem is we really don’t know what these “transfection agents” are doing in our bodies. See interesting recent discussion with Kevin McKernan on J J Couey’s website gigaohmbiological. It’s technical but worth the time for reminders of why those who’ve taken this injection have taken a great risk with their health.
All I am asking is that you look at the adverse effects of MMR, smallpox, Hepatitis B and influenza vaccinations, all of which are old style vaccines. Adverse events include myocarditis, transverse myelitis, death, thrombocytopenia and other clotting disorders.
The RNA vaccines do not and cannot change your DNA as they do not and cannot enter the nucleus of normal cells, they replicate in the cytoplasm and do not have access to a transcriptase. The paper reporting on cancerous liver cells is based on an abnormal cell line that produces a transcriptase that healthy cells do not, the concentrations of RNA were orders of magnitude greater than in either the Pfizer or Moderna preparations. They could have used readily available normal cell lines, but chose HuH instead, which is effectively an immortal cell line.
Both Pfizer and Moderna have positive sense single stranded RNA in them, the same as the full SARS-CoV-2 virus. An ss + RNA virus is its own mRNA. They are not and cannot be gene therapy as they do not modify your DNA, they use the same technology that is used in gene therapy, which, by the way is 20 years old.
What people should be concerned about is risk v benefits, if smallpox were as benign as SARS-CoV-2 then the risks of the smallpox vaccine would outweigh its benefits and should not be universally administered.
Should everyone be vaccinated- NO
Should children of any age be vaccinated-NO
If people want to be vaccinated then that is their choice the same as it is their right not to be. What should not be happening is this dichotomy between those who chose to and those who chose not to be vaccinated, both sides appearing to be self righteous.
The last couple of years have destroyed forever the fantasy “kindly altruistic doctor” as portrayed in Dr Finlay’s Casebook and every other UK TV hospital drama produced since.
There may well be a few: but the vast majority are just as open/vulnerable to propaganda, coercion, threats, bribes and group-think as the rest of the population.
And the Government knew it. Which is why they were caught so unprepared to deal with a revolt by Care Workers who refused to be experimented on which, in turn, gave confidence to many NHS employees that tyranny must be resisted.
Any confidence I ever had in the State Health System has been completely destroyed over the past 2 years.
Strongly agree. I am further down this line: I actively distrust any and all doctors (having visited my family doctor and discovering she knew less about the mRNA vaccines than I), the legacy media (but that has been the case since 1980), Big Pharma and their fellow travellers, Big Philanthropy, Big Corporations, the academic faux-expert class, the civil servants, the politicians and MPs, the police, the intelligence services, the NGO’s, the justice system and even traffic wardens.
To add to this article: let’s try to answer the question that is the elephant in the room namely “What could have caused this change of mind, this abandonment of one’s own scientific work?” Although it is speculative, I venture three possible explanations, all of which could be true as they don’t cancel each other out. One: they were let into the secret world by the panicky intelligence services who know exactly where the virus came from and how much it was engineered before being leaked in Wuhan (see the excellent article by Debbie Lerner on the Brownstone Institute’s site). Two: threat of dismissal from their institutions. Three: big bucks from Big Pharma.
Just follow the money.
These doctors should be ashamed of themselves
My 11 year old grandson had his 1st jab last month. His parents, two otherwise intelligent people, think they’re doing the right thing and I’m not in a position to change that – I have tried!
The nurse giving the jab “explained” (ie told a blatant lie) to the 11 year old that the jab was absolutely safe and that he was helping to save others and his family (all of whom have had at least one dose of covid) and protect himself.
Criminal