Government vaccine advisory committee the JCVI has advised that a “non-urgent offer” of two weakened doses of the Pfizer vaccine be made to all children aged five to 11 years. In giving this advice, the committee is clear that the vaccines will not prevent infection or transmission and this is not the purpose of vaccinating children: “Protection against non-severe infection due to the Omicron variant is less good and is anticipated to be of relatively short-duration (weeks).” The purpose instead is “to increase the immunity of vaccinated individuals against severe COVID-19 in advance of a potential future wave of COVID-19”.
The committee says this is a “one-off pandemic response programme” and may not carry forward into normal times: “As the COVID-19 pandemic moves further towards endemicity in the U.K., JCVI will review whether, in the longer term, an offer of vaccination to this, and other paediatric age groups, continues to be advised.”
The JCVI acknowledges the prevalence and strength of natural immunity in the age group: “It is estimated that over 85% of all children aged five to 11 will have had prior SARS-CoV-2 infection by the end of January 2022, with roughly half of these infections due to the Omicron variant. Natural immunity arising from prior infection will contribute towards protection against future infection and severe disease.”
As to the benefit of vaccination, the committee admits to a “high level of uncertainty over a range of assumptions in relation to future estimates of disease in children aged five to 11”. Indeed, its estimates of the benefits amount to speculative modelling of future waves, with an acknowledgement there are many unknowns and the level of benefit (if any) depends on how severe future waves are, how soon they appear and how the associated variants interact with vaccine and natural immunity.
We have to ask then, given that children were already at very low risk from earlier, less mild variants and when they had less natural immunity, how can they be expected to derive any real benefit from being vaccinated now that almost all of them have been infected, and now that Omicron – a mild variant which substantially evades the vaccines – is dominant?
If the benefits are uncertain even to exist, the harms are clear. The JCVI notes that in America, 8-10% of the eight million five to 11 year-olds vaccinated reported at least one day absent from school following vaccination. You read that right: around one in 10 had a reaction to the vaccine so severe they had to have time off school.
In terms of serious side-effects, the JCVI statement links to a CDC study which it says shows fewer than two cases of vaccine-related myocarditis per million doses in this age group. However, another recent study found post-vaccination myocarditis adverse events were underestimated under the VAERS definition used in the CDC study. The JCVI also acknowledges that “the medium to long-term (months to years) prognosis remains less certain”. It’s worth noting in this regard that rates of post-vaccination myocarditis are much higher in older children. The JCVI rightly does not compare the frequency of vaccine-related myocarditis to that of Covid-related myocarditis, presumably because it accepts that the vaccines do not prevent infection so the comparison is invalid.
We should add there are also other serious side-effects besides heart inflammation reported to VAERS and the MHRA not considered in the JCVI advice.
Overall, it’s hard to see how the JCVI’s statement backs up its advice, as it shows very uncertain benefit (if any) but known levels of harm, plus it acknowledges the existence of unknown risks.
How much was this advice a political decision, responding to the prods of parents who are unduly fearful or want to go on holiday, of pharmaceutical companies with products to flog, and of politicians being leaned on by both? (See Dr. Zoë Harcombe’s revealing summary of the conflicts of interest of JCVI members.)
Whatever the motive, it is a deplorable decision that will live in infamy. From the tentative way it’s written you have to say that many of the JCVI members seem to know it. I imagine many of them will be very glad when the ‘pandemic’ is over and they can reverse this discreditable advice.
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Threaten each one of them (personally) with uncompromising and relentless legal action, both criminal and civil and attach their bank accounts and houses peremptorily. The damage their advice is going to cause is evident and imminent, so there is no reason a court would stop parents from doing so. There is nothing these monsters fear more than destitution and insolvency
A really blatant attempt to further diminish the control group of people who have not had Pfizer.
It’ll be 6 months -5 years next.
They are being conditioned and will be on the “vaccine” treadmill from birth.
“Give me the child to the age of 7 and I will give you the man.”
This has nothing to do with a virus. It’s about compliance, control and digital ID.
This will continue to happen until the fraud of virology is exposed for what it is. I have explained to you people straight – you are helping these criminals by NOT exposing the blatant fraud that is virology and its methods. You call yourself sceptics but remain entranced by these clearly criminal dishonest industries and branches of our clearly evil government. You will have blood on your hands for ignoring this and you will live to regret it if you do not play your role in exposing this scam. You are actively helping their agenda by hiding this vital information which has the power to destroy future scams.
the names of every person on that committee must be noted. A fund needs to be established to prosecute through the civil courts if necessary each ad every one of them if even one child is killed or harmed as a result of their wicked decision. After all they must have benefited from their decision they are presumably protected by wealthy backers and so they can well afford to pay out huge sums personally for the damage they have committed
There is no trial safety data on children with antibodies who are given these mRNA vaccines as they were specifically excluded from the trial so how can theJCIVI suggest it is a balance of risk? It is not the politicians to blame but these inept advisory bodies!
If parents still cannot see there is an extremely sinister programme of depopulation going on and control of the taxpayers earnings by the Globalists then perhaps its time for this modern civilisation to fall and new millennium to begin from those of us who will be left to pick up the pieces.
Civilisations destroy themselves through neglect and complacency. If the children are no longer protected then that civilisation needs to fall. The children are the future and the future needs to be nurtured. If our children and the future of humans is so easily handed to evil forces then we do not deserve to survive. It must be let go and those few left must turn to each other and their spiritual strength to create a different world.
If any proof was needed that the the world has gone stark staring bonkers this is it.
The advice may be reversible, but the long term effects won’t be. JCVI members should hang their heads in shame.
I don’t think they can feel anything let alone shame.
My question is: Why do the JCVI now feel under so much pressure to tailor their advice to the whims of the pharmaceutical industry and the government? Very recently, their consensus was staunchly against the vaccination of an even older group (11-15 year olds). So why now do we see this watered-down, pressured, “new opinion” of the JCVI that they must compromise and pander to some of the pro-vaccine panjandrums? Are they worried about their credibility when vast swathes of the population have been converted to the religion of Pfizerism?
If ever there was an entity to pin itself as a false idol of worship, then it’s Pfizer: Take a look:Pfizer’s History of Fraud, Corruption, and Using Nigerian Children as ‘Human Guinea Pigs’ (substack.com)
Well, there’s a bigger picture which no one’s being honest about. That’s it really. This is a global program, there’s big money behind it, and everyone who values their lifestyle is going along with it. The ones that won’t are speaking out or resigning; most are compartmentalised and in denial. It’s how totalitarianism works. The JCVI are a captured agency, and have skin in the game. It really is as bad as it looks.
I haven’t been following discussion on DS for 24 hours so apologies if this has previously been posted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10520775/Familys-devastation-son-16-dies-collapsing-church-toilet-brain-bleed.html
The story of course doesn’t say if he had been vaccinated, but we can all make an educated guess.
I’m trying to follow this argument.
They say that they are vaccinating children in case there is another surge in a year or so?
And then they say that the vaccine only lasts a few weeks?
Something here doesn’t fit…
Various doctors say families of loved ones hospitalized with covid19 are resorting to desperate measures when approved treatments(slow death protocols) have failed. When it’s not too late, some have seen tremendous success by sneaking Ivermectin medication prohibited by hospitals to patients. It is really sad situation what has our country become. You can get your ivm by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
Manifest Evil is abroad.
Javid, Johnson, Whitty are all responsible for any consequences that affect the lives and deaths of our children.
Never forget.
Here’s a link to an amusing video which shows a woke comedian bragging about the numerous “vaccines” and boosters she’s had, and sneering at those that haven’t had them.
This comedian, Heather McDonald, hardly has the words out of her mouth before she collapses on the stage like a sack of manure. There’s also a German TV reporter demanding that the gene therapies be made mandatory, before she too goes cross-eyed and tumbles to the floor.
It was sweet lovely hubris for these two cretins. (I say this with the young Russian mother of three, Tamara, who was murdered soon after exposing AIDS “vaccine” corruption in Russia. Scuzzbag trash like McDonald and the idiot on German TV aid and abet Big Pharma to do things like this.)
If you look at this video what may surprise you is the clapping-seal mentality of Heather McDonald’s audience. When the crass, vulgar and loud-mounted McDonald ridicules and sneers at people that don’t accept the “vaccines”, the audience agrees with loud claps and punching their fists into the air.
McDonald and her audience gives a clue as to why the government feels it can go ahead and force the gene… Read more »
They do seem to be of a type. And one of the characteristics seems to be the disdain for alternative points of view. I suspect the sneering is the narcissistic act to hide the underlying anxiety, fear and sense of inadequacy that haunts them.
The maskless, uninjected lunatics like me have to be ridiculed lest they actually hear the reasons why I declined the experimental gene therapy. Naturally that is because I am a white supremacist homophobic meat-eating imperialist who’d recolonize India tomorrow given half a chance.
Other than being a splendid show of karma at work, or of God’s sense of humour, the other good thing about this, is that the lady went on Dr Drew after she got out of hospital and there they discussed the vaccines on US mainstream TV, and it wasn’t universally positive. Narrative definitely shifting.
Saw it on the Highwire last night.
Don’t worry the BBC would never facilitate Psychological warfare on there British public, they have a segment called ‘Random Acts Of Kindness’!
There are ways of attacking this narrative beyond personal expressions. This is a serious matter. Don’t let them soft soap you into a world whereby it might be a distraction. This is a wholesale attack on our entire population. Within the world I work in there are deficits appearing that were never there before. Just look at life insurance.
As predicted, the criminalization of crypto is one step away.
“WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team and announced on Thursday that the FBI is launching a “virtual asset exploitation” unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure.”
https://www.reuters.com/technology/fbi-form-new-digital-currency-unit-justice-dept-taps-new-crypto-czar-2022-02-17/
Just the fact that we all have people who we considered friends and basically morally reliable and yet they were nothing of the sort. This causes major upheaval and this is just the small change. But still it is better to know than not know.
Yes I fell out with a fellow Metalhead, people who like Metal are usually rebellious and individualistic. There he was outside his car with a mask selfie, what a wet lettuce!
this.
I am grateful for Zoe’s list of conflicted JCVI members, any chance we might have their emails too.
It appears that the JCVI didn’t want to make this decision, but were strong-armed into it.
This is evident in their advice regarding this announcement — telling people that the vaccinations will have negligible impact on covid risk for children, that the announcement is based on a covid risk that doesn’t exist yet (some mysterious future wave) and that they’re definitely not urgent.
This appears to be a political decision and the JCVI are doing what they can to distance themselves from it (well, apart from members resigning, but they’ve already tried this and it only results in more pro-vaccine people being brought in).
JCVI telling people that the vaccinations will have negligible impact on covid risk for children, that the announcement is based on a covid risk that doesn’t exist yet (some mysterious future wave) and that they’re definitely not urgent.
and that any ‘protection’ will have waned prior to this mysterious hypothetical future wave anyway.
It’s the apex of absurdity.
We desperately need someone to save us from all this insanity and treachery (and not just the covid stuff either).
They could resign and go public, as brave doctors and nurses have already done.
They can’t because they’d have to admit it’s not safe, and that there are risks, and then those with vaccine damaged teens will want their blood.
The disease is of the sun and of the spirit. If you are aware of these matters you would’ve seen it as 2019 was drawing to a close. One of then was caught wearing a necklace of an upside down cross surrounded by small red rubies. And then the grand conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Yes we all feel saddened by everything and it is this sadness that means we an move forward.There aren’t enough mental health workers in the world to cope with just the problems of one small country. What does that tell you – that the only way out is real human connection.
Does the Yellow Card report have any pamphlets to give out, I mean, the parents have a right to know. many are ignorant or just have busy lives to look into this stuff.
I do remember a group did do some leaflets to hand around schools.
It did mention that there is no long term data and the big Pharma has no liability.
So the school smelt a Rat, the leaflet was honest and Dr Hillary from GMB threw it away.
I don’t buy the busy lives aspect. Not when it comes to injecting your own children with experimental concoctions.
I’d say those who’ll do it will be split between irrational fanatics and those who won’t let anything derail their fortnight in Mallorca.
So literally a shot in the dark. Or maybe a stab in the dark?
At Christmas they were talking about sending vaccinators to the homes of the unvaccinated. When are they coming, I’ve been adjusting my scope waiting in anticipation!
And I’ve been waiting too. I took it all out on a very surprised Labour Party canvasser the other day. She didn’t know what to say or do.
I’ve wondered about this too. In November and December there were rumblings about a “national conversation” about compulsory vaxxes. Then the turnaround.
I know Omicron happened. But facts haven’t kept any of this nonsense in check.
Something odd has happened in England. I can’t work it out. Unless they have seen the writing on the wall at what is coming.
‘Something odd has happened in England. I can’t work it out.’
Indeed. I’ve been pondering this very question for some time. Something has certainly gone wrong. By now we untermensche should have been cast out of society, I was fully expecting this. Now the momentum is lost; it’s hard to imagine a return to Covidsville. Maybe that was just phase one.
Yeah I’ve dug a pit filled with spikes around the house. Or something.
My brother in NZ insists it’s coming here, but I’m not sure. I don’t think Johnson is blackmailable like all the others, because we all know how awful he is already.
These people are child murderers.
• Unborn children have already been targeted and killed (Ref)
• UK & US CEO’s from Life Insurance companies are reported 40% rises in mortality for of working age 16-64 y/olds (Ref) and (Ref)
They are going for the last demographic to eek out sales as to cash out before their stock collapses.
Thanks, rtaylor. The second reference is particularly striking, and should be widely shared.
My God! They really ARE evil!
It was always inevitable. We can take some solace from the fact that all parties are clearly shamed by the decision, if they were singing it from the rooftops and carrying this out in schools, things would be much worse.
I’m thinking that their thinking goes like this “if we don’t approve it, the nutty scared parents will demand it, and we will have to explain why we didn’t approve it and admit that it is not safe, and then people will be angry and come after us with pitchforks….so lets approve it but sound distinctly unenthusiastic and don’t make it super easy for them to get hold of it, and then it’s on them if they want to poison their children”
I reckon, anyway.
If it’s the first jab, it’s already failing to deal with the latest v. in the adult population so can achieve nothing except create risk of harm. The little tots have survived for 2yrs without needing this. And yet the reason they gave was “…to increase their protection against serious illness in advance of a potential future wave…”
So, what does the spike look like in that potential future wave?
And if you want to encode a different spike, surely this needs to go through the whole regulatory process again?
I visualise the “mRNA tech” as a delivery mechanism, and the specific spike-goop as the payload. (or the tech as a gun but the spike as the bullet.)
Pfizer recently said they were working on an “Omicron” version of the goop which was said to be ready by the summer. But surely that’s too quick if the regulatory cycle is to be followed correctly.
This is a question I’ve had for a while, surely each distinct payload delivered by this technology is an entirely new ‘jab’, and therefore subject to new trials?
Or is mRNA tech being seen as a shortcut to approving new payloads with reduced regulatory scrutiny?