Media reports this week have warned of a spike in cases of measles among the country’s children, attributed by health officials to a slump in rates of MMR vaccination to its lowest level in more than a decade.
The fall in post-pandemic childhood vaccination rates is not in doubt, with uptake falling below 75% in some cities and as low as 50% in some London boroughs. Encouraged by ministers and health officials, however, media reports have so far majored on anti-vaccine beliefs, fuelled by concerted scaremongering, as the cause of parental hesitation. The official line seems to be that public health policy and vaccines themselves are beyond criticism, so hesitancy must be down to the misguided fears of parents.
Indeed, in a scathing opinion piece published in the Daily Mail in November last year, the veteran broadcaster John Humphrys appeared to suggest that parents who hesitate to vaccinate their children against measles, or who might question the safety or necessity of a vaccine, reveal their “woeful ignorance, blind prejudice and simple stupidity”.
Slinging insults at parents with legitimate concerns for the wellbeing of their children may not be a sensible strategy for any politician in an election year, but ministers and their shadows have nevertheless been similarly circumspect and diversionary in response to the expanding body of public, political and expert opinion calling for full transparency of the official data around Covid mRNA vaccine harms.
In a January 16th Westminster Hall debate on the U.K.’s excess deaths crisis, the junior Health Minister Maria Caulfield cautioned MPs that any discussion of mRNA vaccine harms should not be allowed to undermine the public’s trust in vaccination policy: “We must be careful with the language we use. … We should absolutely scrutinise the safety of vaccines, but we need to make sure that we are not deterring parents from coming forward,” she said. Abena Oppong-Asare MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Mental Health had earlier in that debate recorded the Official Opposition’s prejudged view that suggestions of a link between excess deaths and Covid mRNA vaccines “stokes fear and misinformation”.
Neither spokesperson seemed willing to contemplate the possibilities that it may be the U.K.’s vaccination policies which have undermined trust, or that parents should be allowed to make up their own minds on safety after seeing the official data on mRNA Covid vaccine dosage dates and deaths (data which reportedly have already been shared with the vaccine manufacturers but are otherwise being withheld even from vaccine experts).
For those already heavily invested in the official line that Covid mRNA vaccines have always been extremely safe and effective, it may be comforting to believe that a key driver of the apparent erosion of parental trust in public health, and particularly childhood immunisations, is a small handful of “moronic anti-vaxxers” (to borrow again from John Humphrys) somehow having successfully caused baseless theories to gain widespread traction among formerly rational parents. But this is flatly contradicted by exclusive polling carried out for UsForThem.
Having despaired in summer 2021 as the Government overrode the recommendations of its own expert vaccine advisory committee to roll out the novel mRNA Covid vaccine to healthy children at exceptionally low risk from Covid, and then exacerbated that cavalier decision by suggesting that the vaccine could be given to children without parental consent, our strong instinct was that this coercive and deceptive period of public health policymaking was likely to have undermined trust in public health, and especially in childhood immunisations. UsForThem decided to test that theory by carrying out independent polling to support research for ‘The Accountability Deficit: How ministers and officials evaded accountability, misled the public and violated democracy during the pandemic‘.
The results of that polling present a clear, evidence-based reason for the declining uptake rates for Government-recommended childhood vaccines. Our data, available in full online, reveal that:
- Only half the public (52%) and just 40% of 18-35 year olds think the Government was honest about the risks and benefits of Covid vaccination.
- Just 60% of parents of children under 18 say they would now be likely to give their child vaccines recommended by the Government (down from 84% having said that they would have done so prior to the pandemic).
- Fewer than one in three (30%) think ministers were honest about the necessity for Covid restrictions and 57% think Ministers were either dishonest or very dishonest. Overall 72% of people do not now trust Government briefings or other Government public health information.
In addition:
- Less than one in four (23%) say they were aware that the JCVI had declined to recommend the rollout of the Covid vaccine for 12-15 year olds before the U.K.’s Chief Medical Officers overrode that advice. 68% say they were unaware.
- Only one in three (32%) parents of children under 18 say they would still have wanted to get their child vaccinated had they known this, raising questions about whether consent to vaccination was properly informed consent. 42% say they would not have wanted their child to get the vaccine had they known this.
What these data evidence is that manipulative vaccination policies and deceptive propaganda campaigns, unsurprisingly, have decimated trust in public health, and childhood immunisations in particular. To restore trust, the Government and the Opposition will need to acknowledge the vaccination policy errors of the pandemic, especially concerning children, and to engage openly and transparently with the public about mRNA vaccine harms.
It is equally critical that we now rule out or confirm a causal connection between those mRNA harms and the U.K.’s current excess deaths crisis (of which it seems cardiovascular conditions form a substantial core). Unfortunately, based on official responses in the Westminster Hall debate it appears that for now the Government (and, in a rare moment of solidarity, the official Opposition) is instead minded to double-down. In doing so, it will only further erode the public’s trust.
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With all due respect to Ms Kingsley, who has done fantastic work, there was no pandemic.
I think it’s actually a good thing that confidence has plummeted – an extended period of deep scepticism towards the state, “public health” and the medical industrial complex is necessary and wise.
That’s pretty much what I was going to say tof.
I am deeply sceptical now of the whole medical / pharma establishment.
I have no time for officialdom of any description.
Laws and guidance are only to be followed when I am satisfied they serve my best interests.
All politicians are crooks until they prove otherwise.
Basically, I am ANTI. That is my starting point.
100%. It’s the only way to stand half a chance of keeping the buggers honest.
As AB said, and with the blood, Post Office etc scandal, they will be ready to look into the jab harms in around 20 years, when the real culprits will be either dead or too old to be dragged to Court.
The jab and all the other harms related to the Covid scam
I trust modern Western medicine when it comes to traumatic injuries: now is clearly the best time ever to be stabbed or shot (providing you can quickly get an ambulance, of course).
The rest of it seems to be about a business model that requires the population to be chronically ill from as soon after birth as possible.
I don’t think that Big Pharma wants us dead, any more than those financing the Atlantic slave trade wanted slaves to die in transit – if you buy a slave and he dies before you sell him, you’ve made a loss on that purchase – but there’s clearly a revenue-maximising optimum which doesn’t involve zero deaths.
And tof and hp, I agree 100% especially the 5 points above. I was not always against vaccination having had yellow fever jabs to travel to certain countries for work. However since clue-ing myself up on the MMR jab and especially the mRNA injectibles I would defend my family’s right to bodily autonomy, to remain un-injected to the death. And I mean that literally not metaphorically and fully expect this to be tested after our traitorous politicians sell out to the WHO in May.
Instinctively I have never been trustful of authorit. I have wondered why is it the thick but arrogant control-freak kids at school with me ended up orgasm-ing over the power they were able to wield from local authority or police positions over the rest of us.
As hp says ” Basically, I am ANTI. That is my starting point” Those who are decent have to prove themselves and earn my respect and co-operation
Thanks Richard
In general it’s good that public confidence in government pronouncements has plummeted, but when it comes to childhood vaccination this could be a mixed blessing. I’m sure that the vaccines that have been in use for decades are ‘safe’, meaning that the risks to children of receiving the vaccines are much lower than the risks of not having them. IMO it’s only the covid and MMR jabs where the risks outweigh the benefits, if I had young children I’d allow them to have all the standard vaccines apart from these 2 and push for them to have separate measles and mumps vaccines.
I have no idea whatsoever whether they are safe or not. I would need to look into it, as should any parent. I don’t think having low confidence necessarily means that you decide not to get your kids vaccinated, just that you should do so having informed yourself to the best of your ability and not take it on trust.
Not safe. And getting worse as mRNA versions are replacing the old versions.
I think tetanus is the only one that is useful (and perhaps rabies post fact).
“and not take it on trust.”
Trust in officialdom is no longer a sane position to take, in fact it could kill you as we have seen these last four years. We owe it to ourselves at least to do our own research. Now more than ever.
If anything positive has come from lockdowns it is that they overreached so much that it woke a lot of people up.
Not enough, yet, but it’s a start.
In the US statistics show that now 1 in 10 children have a chronic disease such as asthma, diabetes, autism etc. This was not the case before the carte blanch increase in vaccine use. Children in US now receive over 90 injections. These chronic health conditions only exist in rich western countries where childhood vaccine uptake and use is high. My skepticism of public health and vaccines are a result of government policies during covid. Blind faith & trust in public health and Doctors in general will never be restored by half measures and apologies. The system is corrupt, self-serving & rotten to the core, like much of government.
Bloody hell you stole my thunder. I only had to read the next blog, never mind!
Dear Ms Kingsley…..there was NO PANDEMIC.
What a surprise. If there are any real problems for those who decline from various recommendations, they could be jotted down as “side effects” from the tactic used to market the C19 jabs, including altering the definition and dodgy marketing of the functionality of the product, Anns associated bureaucratic attempts.
Maybe the only good thing to come out of covid is that people realise just how criminal bigpharma has behaved for decades. Turtles all the way down.
Trust in modern medicine’s miracle, ie vaccines – which have saved millions of lives, lol, deserves to plummet. The world would be a healthier place without them –
http://vaccinepapers.org/
And the toxic effects of mRNA gene therapies, sorry, vaccines await
It is deeper than that this is just a sign. It isn’t a distrust of the scentific method because the method is largely sound when it acknowledges its limitations. It is the nascency of the reduction of everything to quantity, the tyranny of numbers. As if you can come up with a code on a computer and then inject it into a human body. There have been strict injunctions against this since the fall of Atlantis. The covenent of the rainbow after the flood which is also being subverted. That you don’t start tampering at the genetic level without serious consequences. People don’t conceptualise it yet but they feel it in their bones. Screen time is going down, less interest in information technology. Windows 11 was introduced on the assumption that most people would upgrade their hardware and very few did and so there is talk of ditching Windows 11.
Why so many capital letters in the title of this article?
Look a the sudden rise in sales of vinyl records. People want reality not a reduction of the trinary to the binary. Human beings are beginning to understand the loss of the trichotomy first codified in the fourth Council of Constantinople of 869-870 AD. That the human being was made up of just body and soul and that the realm of the spirit is not available to us. The realm of the spirit contains all the riches and people are finding it again despite the prohibition. Some of the young people have a remarkable facility for the spiritual world.
Some might also have read this book or similar and ones:
https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/foerdern-impfungen-allergien
In an ideal world a vaccine would be the perfect intervention. You take it early, your body learns to fight it on a small scale and Bob’s your uncle. It was perhaps too good to be true. I feel that the effort itself was a Christian endeavour and yet the desired outcome could never be allowed into the divine plan. These ideas of contagion are grossly limited. Look at how an outpost in Antarctica became infected with new strain despite being isloted for six months. This is the first stage of learning that there is more to our reality.
They sought to encourage vaccine uptake by, in bad faith, piggybacking off of the confidence people had had in vaccines (whether or not well placed).
Well, you reap what you sow; it is no surprise that the Covid ‘vaccines’ are taking the rest of them with them.
I don’t regret vaccinating my kids against polio etc., but won’t do flu vaccine, HPV etc.,
If only Johnson hadn’t been a coward.
When his moment came to tell the public to roll up their sleeves and to tough ‘Covid’ out he instead cleaved to the Nanny-state.
The Conservative Party are dust.
What is worse is that the majority of the public might consider a Labour government to be some form of change.
Voting is now guaranteed to change nothing. We need revolution.
Oh how I laughed. The government are corrupt toxic @$$#0£€$ and should all be strung up by the neck from the nearest tree. They hate us and everything British.
Herein lies the real problem. Half of the public, after all the evidence that clearly shows the state was dishonest/lying b*stards/incompetent/evil (delete as appropriate), still trust the government. These moronic automatons are what’s stopping the monumental changes that are required to renegotiate the relationship between society and state.
“Confidence in Government on Vaccines and Public Health Plummets Following Pandemic, New Polling Shows”
Not before time. Dangerous commercial gimmicks turning us and our kids into pin-cushion profit-centres and farming us for our health.
This excellent article puts it all into context – lots of graphs for many different diseases show the diseases had all but died out long before vaccines for them were created:
Vaccines Did Not Save Us! Two Centuries of Official Statistics
Google is censoring the website that article appears on. So you will not find any of its information by searching online.
So if you find the info helpful, the only way people will learn it is for you to tell them.
All of this big-money censorship has destroyed our democracies.
I agree with everything you say; However, there was no ‘Pandemic’.