On Monday, October 24th a debate on vaccine safety took place in Parliament. Three MPs, Danny Kruger, Sir Christopher Chope and Andrew Bridgen, discussed a number of issues the mainstream media have not been reporting on. The health concerns raised appear to be receiving very little, if any, serious recognition by the Government. It was the safety of children and young adults that concerned me most in this debate and in this article I want to explore whether the medical profession is being as cautious and conscientious as it should be in the administration of medication, including but not limited to Covid vaccines, to children. How well are children and young adults being monitored following medical interventions?
A few days ago it was reported that dozens of children between the ages of five and 11 were given higher doses of the Covid vaccine “by mistake”. Solent NHS Trust operated the ‘pop-up’ vaccine clinic (see later) and one mother was told that “she shouldn’t expect anything significant” to happen to her daughter following the mistake but that any reaction to the jab “would last longer”. The Chief Medical Officer for the Trust said that this was an isolated occurrence.
In other news, the Indonesian Health Ministry said on Thursday, October 20th that it had found traces of three hazardous chemicals in children with acute kidney injury, two of which are present in Indian-manufactured syrups suspected to be linked to dozens of deaths in Gambia. According to the Ministry, at least 70 cases of children under the age of five years with acute kidney failure are being detected every month with a mortality rate of about 50%.
This type of news is always disturbing to hear, not only because innocent young lives are involved but also because these children had little, if any, choice in the administration of a treatment that might not even have been necessary. It seems all too easy to reach out to the medicine cabinet for just about any ailment, no matter how mild or trivial these days. Likewise, it seems too easy for parents to be made to believe that Covid vaccinations offered to their child are essential for their health and wellbeing.
Errors in paediatric doses are not in fact uncommon. Research shows that potential adverse drug events occur three times more frequently among paediatric patients than among adults. Some of these differences in error rates are due to:
- larger volumes of stock solution for adults;
- greater variability in weight and body surface area of children;
- differences in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics;
- children’s kidneys, liver and immune systems are still developing;
- children not being able to communicate what they are feeling;
Monitoring of adverse events in children is also much more difficult than for adults and conducting and monitoring long term drug trials for children is even more problematic. The conclusion of a 2019 medical study was that: “Paediatric clinical trials designed to sufficiently investigate drug safety and efficacy to support approval are of relatively limited duration. Given the potential long-term exposure of patients to these drugs, the clinical community should consider whether new approaches are needed to better understand the safety of long-term use of these drugs.”
An example of a recent attempt to monitor the effect (and therefore safety) of Covid vaccines on children has been the reliance on testing for antibody production against the disease. A recent JAMA study suggests that these trials have been inadequate and inappropriate. It found that such antibody production provides children with little or no protection against infection. The main determinant is actually cellular immunity (i.e., T Cells). The study even found that having antibodies to Omicron increased the infection risk, which may help to explain the negative vaccine effectiveness seen in a number of studies where infection rates are higher in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
Whilst evidence of the adverse reactions and immediate harms of Covid vaccines on young people is building at an alarming rate, it is easy to overlook the possible unknown long term consequences. History has taught us that medical experts can fail to see harms in both pre-licensed and post-licensed pharmaceuticals and in non-licensed or non-prescription drugs for dangerously long periods. There are too many examples to list here, but in the early 1900s concern about smoking was considered alarmist. There was no definitive evidence that smoking was bad for you. By the 1930s, tobacco companies had an army of doctors ready to debunk you as a quack for even suggesting something as benign as a cigarette could give you cancer. By the 1960s, the evidence against smoking was more than damning. By then, the debate over smoking’s deadly impact had been raging around the world for more than a generation and medical experts were slowly reaching the same conclusion.
In July 1956, medical authorities in West Germany licensed a drug for sale without a prescription. Thalidomide had been developed as a sedative or tranquiliser, but people were soon taking it for a range of conditions, including pneumonia, colds and the flu, as well as to relieve nausea in early pregnancy. Six years later, more than 10,000 babies had been born with physical abnormalities caused by the drug. It wasn’t until 1962 that Thalidomide was banned in most countries in which it was sold – and this for a drug with such early and devastating side effects. In the U.K., the MHRA Yellow Card adverse event reporting system was introduced partly as a result of Thalidomide, but we know that average reporting rates are estimated to be around 10% of actual adverse events under this system.
Scandals are often associated with a failure to learn from history. In the early 50’s a Dr. Krugman wanted to create a vaccine for hepatitis. He deceptively coerced carers and parents into forcing 50 children from a home for developmentally challenged kids to be injected with the virus itself or by making them drink chocolate milk mixed with faeces from other infected children. Dr. Paul Offit, a paediatrician, said that “Krugman certainly did speed up the development of a hepatitis B vaccine but I don’t think you’re ever justified to inoculate a child with an infectious virus that might kill them”. In 1979 the Belmont Report was published in an effort to learn from this and provide a comprehensive guideline of basic ethical principles.
Augmenting the hoped for protections of the Belmont Report, a 2004 article described the main ways in which the risk of medication errors for children could be minimised. It said it is critical to have
- personnel trained in paediatrics to prescribe, prepare, dispense and administer medications;
- a quality review system in place to review drug use and medication errors, and;
- to implement computerised physician order entry with decision support and other tools in the next decade to improve pharmacologic therapy for paediatric patients.
It is concerning therefore, in relation to the above, that the ‘pop-up’ Covid vaccine clinics in the U.K. are often staffed by volunteers who may have had no prior medical, nursing or any type of clinical experience. The BMA paper on the recruitment of these Covid vaccination volunteers lists the minimal qualifications. The volunteer has to:
- be between the age of 18 and 69;
- have at least two or more A-levels or equivalent;
- be at low risk of COVID-19;
- be prepared to undergo a reference check.
How can we be sure that the Solent NHS Trust incident was an “isolated occurrence” and how can we be sure that nothing “significant” will happen to the children (estimated to have received three times the correct dose)?
Surely this cannot be right, 70 years on from the days of Krugman? Is it also acceptable for parents to have been pressured (in the case of Covid, through fear from Government, scientists and the media) into providing consent for a novel ‘vaccine’, without long term data, on behalf of their healthy offspring? This fear was instilled through overstating the risk of Covid to healthy children, misinforming the public that the vaccines prevented transmission and describing vaccine effectiveness in a misleading way by claiming up to 95% effectiveness (relative risk) instead of the actual or absolute reduction in risk which in the trial was less than 1% in adults and is now possibly less than nil for children (see above).
I try to put myself in the shoes of these children when, possibly some time later in their lives, they are told of their participation in the administration of a not yet fully licensed medication. Or not told. They were possibly too young to comprehend the personal risk and bodily infringement inflicted. Andrew Bridgen MP reported one study alone involving several thousand vaccinated children showing that one in 500 under five years of age who received a Pfizer Covid vaccine were hospitalised with a vaccine injury and one in 200 had symptoms ongoing for weeks or months afterwards.
Why has the Government, the medical profession and media not allowed the public to be informed that the Yellow Card reports, and those of the American equivalent, VAERS, show up more adverse Covid vaccine incidents in young people than all other known vaccinations combined? Around 6,000 doctors, scientists and professionals in more than 34 countries have declared an international medical crisis due to “diseases and death associated with the COVID-19 vaccines”. Their report highlights the large number of sudden deaths in previously healthy young people who were inoculated with these ‘vaccines’, and the high incidence of miscarriages and perinatal deaths which have not been investigated.
Danny Kruger MP said: “The MHRA is funded by the pharmaceutical companies that produce the drugs and vaccines that it regulates. There might be some universe in which that makes sense, but this is not it.”
In 1995, the comedienne Mrs Merton famously asked Debbie McGee (unfairly I thought): “So what attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?” Similar could be asked of Government and others involved in the rollout of experimental mRNA Covid vaccinations: “So why were healthy children and young adults coerced into receiving unnecessary multiple Covid vaccinations from a $1.4 trillion global pharmaceutical industry?”
Dr. Mark Shaw is a retired dentist.
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Couldnt give a rats arse old boy
I guess the downvoters are protesting the absence of correctly placed apostrophe?
I couldn’t give a rat’s arse either. Trying to buy success, they should have known better.
They bought the contacts. Or rather, not any more.
“It’s politics, man. If you’re hanging on to rising balloon, you’re presented with a difficult decision: let go before it’s too late, or hang on and keep getting higher… posing the question, how long can you keep a grip on the rope?”
Have an upvote Marcus
Thank you, prick. Was it the Withnail & I quote?
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ICL are in the University Challenge final on BBC2 next Monday. I earnestly hope that they’re trounced by their opponents, Reading University.
And I hope so too, for two reasons, as I’m a maths tutor, and the captain of Reading (Hutchinson) lives near me and teaches four of my Year 9s.
I did an engineering PhD at Imperial.
Great technical uni let down by medical knobs and snowflake admin.
I’m surprised they’re happy to be called ‘Imperial’ what with the association with the British Empire and slavery and all that.
I thought the same with Imperial Leather soap.
OMG both empire and animal skin in a single product – enough to make a woke he/she/them cease washing.
Ha! It’s only a matter of time and an article in the Guardian. Or … maybe they have protection?
It’s early days… Plenty of time for someone, somewhere to want to remove the “Imperial’ bit.
I covered a Q&A talk in their hall at the Sherfield Building once. Was promised certain lighting and seating arrangements. I learned a lot that day…
Please stay in touch with us in the forums oblong when the system crashes and we need kids, nieces and nephews to be taught practicals.
Academia. A bastion of covid nonsense. A consequence of funding, conformity of thought, effeminacy, all of the above?
The education system as a whole is essentially a process for selecting the high functioning conformists in society.
Well it damn well failed with me and many of the rest on here.
Yep. It’s not a perfect process. But it does a pretty good job, I would say.
Wasn’t always that way.
So you don’t think it has a function for the rest of the population who don’t get to boss anybody about and who mostly do the same thing at work every day?
Conformism, to use your terminology, is bashed into littl’uns when they’re five and nowadays younger too.
Once they’ve cashed your fees payment then you can just go and get lost.
Less whinge, more sue. “Loss of enjoyment” is an actionable thing.
Because Ed U Kay Shun
Seems the rot started a long time ago…
My uncle, a graduate of Chemistry from ICL over fifty years ago, is completely spell-bound by the COVID BS. He simply won’t engage in any discussion about it. Tells me I am “behaving terribly”.
As a graduate of chemistry he probably knows little about viruses.
What happens then is the scientist says ‘I’ll trust those that do know’ — in the case of covid this is a mistake, because he’s being denied access to the full spectrum of opinion.
What he should do is employ is ‘generic scientist skills’ to investigate the facts that he does have access to and can interpret, and compare the results with what he’s told.
But for some reason many scientists are unwilling to do this, and will instead just rely on the science-priests’ preachings.
Maybe because they’re not really scientists, but just people with degrees in science subjects.
People with bachelor, even master degrees, don’t really do much scientific enquiry. They just learn a bunch of stuff and show they’ve learned it.
In fact, I would say that intellectual curiosity is by no means a requirement to do well. It may even be a bit of a handicap.
^^^
Absolutely so. My last attempt at studying anything in earnest (at a German university) came to an aprupt end once I noticed that not even the lecturer was familiar with the content of the secondary literature we were supposed to read. Barring COVID, typical students life is (as far as I could determine) drunken partying for two months, memorizing stuff for one month, write it all down from memory in a few days, be off for three months[*] to forget it all again. Repeat.
[*] German academic year which is composed to two so-called semesters of three months with two three month long breaks in between.
I went to “Uni” along with all my peers after Sixth Form. Indebted to the eyeballs, my peers laughed at me when I refused to get a single credit card. The campus had its own branch of NatWest, FFS. They were handing them out like hot cakes.
They all borrowed thousands, handed it all to the “Student” Bar and then urinated or vomited their purchases down the toilet.
I lasted less than a year, it all felt a complete waste of time. Went and got a job. Never felt better.
Sounds like me except the get a job part. I decided to be a rock star instead. You could call that a failed career move. Seems you need talent and perseverance.
I decided to be a famous actor after two years of the job. That didn’t work out either, but I did learn a lot about life!
I think the push for all to have further education has made it a career choice rather than a calling of curiosity and excitement.
No, it’s a philosophy thing, not a scientific knowledge.
Though not a graduate in chemistry, I learned a lot of it as part of my degree but others on the same course as me, who got better qualifications from it, subscribed to the Branch Covidian cultism.
So what? I expect someone with a science degree to not only be expert in their own field but have a pretty impenetrable armour of scientific common sense which should immediately alert them to the slightest whiff of horse shit. There’s always a jolt when you encounter someone with an impressive degree who outside of their field, turns out to be a normie moron.
I expect the opposite — in general, the higher the qualification the less knowledge there is outside of the speciality.
It wasn’t always this way. In my youthful days the intellect at universities was ferocious. Not so much these days — the age of the polymath has pretty much gone.
This is the authoritarian cooperation: “I don’t question your expertise you will not question my expertise”
There seems to be a lot of bad scientists lacking curiosity and having too much trust.
Suggested reading: Carlo Cipolla on stupidity and Gustav Le Bon on crowd psychology.
Herds are always f***ing stupid – whether it’s a herd of lorry drivers, priests, scientists, highly skilled philosophical logicians, people who left formal education without qualifications, people who got PhDs, etc. etc.
Daily Sceptic’s Below The Line is the only crowd I have ever been part of. And it’s hard to be f***ing stupid along with them when your fingers are too big for the bloody touchscreen keyboard.
It’s odd how some seemingly intelligent people have just accepted the narrative (even when illogical) and won’t consider other points of view let alone check the data for themselves.
I guess it is that mass formation psychosis. But why did I do the exact opposite? I’ve never questioned the mainstream until now but covid set off alarm bells. No one was dropping dead around me, it seemed obviously wrong and I simply went and looked at data. Conclusion – no worse than a bad flu season. Then when they kept going I fell down the rabbit hole, well more jumped in looking at everything. Came to some horrible conclusions that simply fit the data and observations better. I still hope I’m wrong.
It’s quite similar to in the USSR, about which it was often observed both inside the country and by those looking at it from the outside that there was extremely strong discouragement of public criticism of ANY aspect of the reigning society, because that would be like pulling on a string and ALL of the lies would start to unravel.
That’s why “glasnost” (“openness”) was such a big thing, why there was even such a concept.
A typical Soviet joke was “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.”
The word “opposition” was extremely strong in that country, not just before Gorbachev but under his leadership too, right up until near the end of the regime.
There’s no glasnost in Britain. There’s no glasnost in any country in the world right now, on the specific issue of Covid or on anything else that’s important, such as children’s education, or the disgusting and utterly inhuman advance of technology that no decent person who is able to form an opinion about it for themselves would ever want, either for themselves or for future generations.
Nor is the huge social problem which is smartphone addiction – especially among young people – being seriously publicly addressed by any “respectable” group anywhere, as far as I am aware.
Nor is the sky-high level of personal indebtedness in countries where it exists, such as Britain. Even looked at through narrow “economist’s” spectacles, the (related) insane market value of houses isn’t being looked at either. That definitely won’t avoid ending in tears, just as every huge financial bubble does.
Tug on one string and… ?
Orwell was so astute when he wrote that freedom is the freedom to say two plus to makes four.
Two plus to?
Orwell is shaking and rolling, Star
Sorry to distract from your excellent comment about Glasnost. Have a tick from me.
I’m a graduate of IC (BSc Hons ARCS for what it’s worth). We used to do science and were expected to have questioning minds. Soothsaying was not on the curriculum. I’m honestly ashamed to admit to most people now that I was ever near the place.
In other news we’ve just received the following from the Royal Opera House about a performance this weekend. There’s plenty that just won’t let this go, either just plain evil or stupid. Luckily we won’t need to have the debate as we can’t afford those from row stalls seats anyway.
“Some seats in our auditorium are very close to our staff members and artists. Our staff welcome thousands of visitors every day, and we continue committed to the safety of everyone while in our building.
The front row of the Orchestra Stalls, as well as some seats near where our ushers and camera operators sit during the performance are clearly marked with a mask sign, and we ask those sitting in those seats to wear a face covering if you are able to. On behalf of our staff and artists, thank you.”
This obviously works both ways: Staff and artists are very close to members of the auditorium sitting there. Considering that they necessarily talk loudly and might even sing loudly, they should wear face coverings to protect the paying audience, many of which are probably even going to be members of vulnerable groups. Should this render the performance inaudible, staff and artists will – unfortunately – in the long run, need to find a job which doesn’t involve performing on a stage in front of a room full of people.
Judging the quality of output from their departments, I hope the degrees have been printed on something soft, strong, and thoroughly absorbant…
And non-reflective. Makes it easier to show the birthing parents over Zoom.
And featuring a QR code. Everything of any importance simply must have a QR code.
It is about time that people recognised that there’ll be cases of covid in the UK forever — it is not going to be eradicated.
Anyone that uses the excuse ‘there are still cases of covid around’ for whatever activity are being naive.
You’d think that Imperial College would recognise this — but I’m afraid that like establishments everywhere, the upper echelons are a bit thick and don’t get science. IC has it worse because they employ Ferguson who is now in too deep and can’t easily get out of the hole he’s dug by admitting that it was all a terrible over-reaction.
Ferguson is up to his neck in the reset – let’s at least be honest after all this time. The cock-up theory is well past its use by date.
I think it’s about time we realised that certain institutions are quite happy for covid to be around forever, available as a tool to further whatever they want furthered.
Even if the govt said covid was nothing to worry about now, millions would not believe them.
We’re going to be living with corona madness for the rest of our lives, millions in the UK will go to their graves being worried about covid.
A nice current example of that would be
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/31/charging-covid-tests-england-infections
That’s a rundown of everything from start to finish again, with no evidence of having learnt anything about COVID since March 2020. A few key points:
Looking at the picture accomanying this load of venomous and socially (in its intent) extremely harmful tripe suggests that lady may want to get her stomach ulcer (or whatever else she’s suffering from) treated instead of lashing out at others in order to cause them some pain as well. I’d really like to have a personal talk with this female non-human being in order to tell her a little about how it feels to start to doubt if people like her will ever again allow me to meet my parents before they (or I) die because that’s just too unsafe for them.
He’s never had to before, why would he start now? The more wrong he gets it, the more gigs he’s guaranteed by the Profits of Doom.
They get it all right, but their primary motivation is funding streams and BMGF is one huge funding stream. They are official gauleiters of the UK Branch of BMGF propaganda.
Words, apart from FFS, fail me.
How much did Imperial make from this student, Mr Grace, over 3 years?
The headline photo looks like an indoctrination ceremony. A bit worrying Mr. Grace, a Civil Engineering graduate (we need more engineers), hasn’t worked out his age demographic hardly die from Covid-19, but group life insurance companies are paying out from deaths in this young working age group after vaccinations…
Controlled demolition folks.
I wonder how much they paid in tuition for the privilege of having their course delivered over a zoom conference call and then being dictated to about graduation attendance. It seems that authoritarianism as well as Covid is transmissible and virulent.
I have to note the front row, and point out that for many student visitors to these shores, it’s a pure financial transaction: pay money for a degree that gets more money.
The quality of education that they may or may not receive is simply irrelevant, because once you’re in the corporate door, you can fake it until you make it. Purchasing essays is simply costed in to the price.
Mail order degrees should really be the order of the day. Very profitable for those dishing them out, and much cheaper for “students”.
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If this is an example of one of the top universities in the UK,then I’m relieved that I left school aged 15 with no qualifications to my name.
ZOE R value has gone below one for the first time this ‘wave’
Has it? I thought it was 1.1 today.
Cut all Central UK Government funding immediately until they reverse this nonsense.
If Ferguson is the best of Imperial who would want to graduate from there anyway?
Lest we forget!
Make £££ by creating bullshit for the government with a computer program you wrote for this purpose and with no responsibility for the real-world effects of that whatsoever[*] is probably many a graduate’s wet dream. People don’t go to university to learn about stuff they’re interested in or to do stuff they care for, they go to uni because they’re from the social stratum where this expected (and can be financed) and ultimatively want to get a work little earn much job by doing that.
[*] for the typical prospective math/ physics/ computer-science graduate, it gets better: And get illegally laid while doing so. What’s not to like?
He studied at Oxford.
but teaches at Imperial
It was a truly great college once.
I can’t help but wonder if Imperial’s fall from sense and truth has been a result of its Chinese connections. I’m out on a limb as I don’t know the current situation but back in the day it had a lot of Chinese students and rumoured funding.
Anyone know its funding breakdown?
Does anyone else remember when there was talk of merging Imperial with UCL, with the LSE probably joining soon after? That was when all three were colleges of London University, before Imperial left.
The merged entity would have been the top research university in the world by some measures.
So you can imagine there’d be opposition from Oxford and Cambridge and probably from across the Atlantic too.
The reason I mention this is because there’s a theory that Glaxo was behind the merger plan.
There are various rumours too about less important aspects, such as that certain parties with strong connections with UCL tried to fool the bods at Imperial about the value of UCL properties in Bloomsbury but the Imperial people found out and got furious.
The 15 perfumed ponce’s
My son attended his graduation from Imperial in October.
The authoritarian communist regime led by the woke American woman in charge dictated that it was unsafe for parents to attend the Royal Albert Hall.
The very same venue that held capacity crowds to music events the day before and the day after.
My son’s experience, as a non-leftie, was one where he had to keep his opinions to himself – and so avoided the university where possible. Luckily his Computing degree is of very good standing and so he can out-earn all the woke left leaning morons!
We need to realise that the UK university system is there to educate foreign kids (many of whom do not have the qualifications they say they have) who pay the exorbitant fees that fuels the production of more left-wing thinking.
It’s time to very heavily regulate these establishments to ensure that British kids get a fair proportion of places.
The college should rebrand themselves as “LIMPerial” now they have completely sold out to the wokerati. Winkers!
It’s odd that Imperial College restrict numbers in the Albert Hall now when you could have crowded in during the Proms or pack yourself now into the Royal Opera House.
I also was baffled by their expression “largely under control”. Does it mean it’s “under control” or not? And what does “under control” mean? As many recover on any day as succumb to the virus? Numbers going down? Numbers going up but not quickly? Zero Covid? Under ten cases? Everyone masked? Everyone jabbed? Everyone masked, jabbed and boostered?