As the push to vaccinate ever-younger children against COVID-19 continues, with the U.S. now even vaccinating infants as young as six months, new studies show why this is both unnecessary and risky, and why children and young people have very little to fear from Covid.
The large majority of children have now been infected with the virus. In the U.K., 82% of U.K. primary school children aged four to 11, almost none of whom are vaccinated, have detectable antibodies from a previous Covid infection, according to the ONS.
The ONS data do not directly tell us the proportion of children aged 12-18 who have antibodies from infection, as they do not distinguish between antibodies from infection and vaccination, and 65% of the age group are vaccinated. However, since 99.3% of secondary school children have detectable antibodies, there is no reason to suppose it will be less than 82%.
With almost all children now having been infected and so protected via natural immunity, there is little purpose to a vaccination or booster campaign.
But does protection from natural immunity last for children? According to a new study from Israel, it lasts very well. The pre-print study (not yet peer-reviewed) from the Delta period in Israel (July 1st to December 13th 2021) finds that children and adolescents previously infected “acquired durable protection against reinfection (symptomatic or not) with SARS-CoV-2 for at least 18 months”.
Protection of individuals aged five to 18 against symptomatic Covid was 93.6% in the first six months, declining gently to around 70% after 18 months (see below).
While the study doesn’t cover Omicron, which has greater immune evasion than earlier variants, a recent study from Qatar found that natural immunity in a young population persisted at over 50% for at least a year, whereas vaccine protection declined to zero or below (i.e., the vaccine made a person more likely to be infected) within six months.
With or without natural immunity, Covid is an extremely low risk to children. Notably, none of the 458,959 five to 18 year-olds in the Israeli study died with Covid, whether they had been previously infected or not.
A recent U.K. Government study by the UKHSA looked at all under-20s who had died with Covid up to the end of 2021. It found 185 deaths within 100 days of a positive PCR test, of which fewer than half – 81, 43.8% – were actually due to COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death. Of those, more than three quarters – 61, 75.3% – had an underlying condition, including 27 with severe neurodisability and 12 with compromised immunity. This left just 20 deaths in healthy under-20 year-olds in the first two years of the pandemic, comprising just 0.3% of all the 6,790 deaths in the age group.
The authors estimated the Covid infection fatality rate in under-20s to be 0.0007% – but this includes those with underlying conditions. For healthy under-20s it would be a quarter of that, or less than 0.0002%, which is two in a million.
By contrast, a recent study in France found that as many as 170 per million young people were hospitalised with severe heart inflammation following Covid vaccination. That rate is around two orders of magnitude (i.e., 100 times) higher than the IFR of COVID-19. It means that for every life the Covid vaccines save (assuming they prevent 100% of Covid deaths, which they don’t), up to 100 young people are hospitalised with severe myocarditis, the long-term prognosis of which is unknown. And that’s just one side-effect.
How can such a risk-benefit profile be worth it for children and young people?
What about Long Covid – do vaccines protect children and young people from having debilitating, ongoing Covid symptoms, as is sometimes claimed?
A number of studies have found that compared to a control group, and when Covid is identified by the presence of antibodies, there is little evidence that those who suffer from COVID-19 go on to suffer more long-term effects. But even if they do, there is also no evidence that vaccines prevent Long Covid, with one recent large U.S. study finding “no significant difference in the risk of… any long-Covid feature”.
There is also, of course, no evidence the vaccines prevent infection for very long at all.
Thus however you look at it, it’s hard to see how there can be any justification for vaccinating children and young people against COVID-19, which is unnecessary and risky, and brings no clear benefit whatsoever.
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A good finishing off clip, given that Snow supported the offence himself, a few years ago, under the recent panic!
And what’s happened to Dr Wolfgang Wodarg? He’s another one that’s dropped off the radar for quite some time now. Especially considering how vocal he was in opposing the scam in 2009, what’s been happening in Germany with excess deaths, restrictions and the court case of Dr Bhakdi, the death of Dr Arne Burkhardt, for example. It’s like he’s disappeared off the face of the earth but he was a strong ally at the beginning due to his knowledge and expertise.
I can update you on Dr Burkhardt. His colleague the lawyer Elmar Becker spoke to our meeting on Tuesday, until the results of the post mortem are published there is only speculation about Dr Burkhardt’s death. His son is unable to say what happened & there was no other witnesses.
Re Wolfgang Wodarg, I have no news.
Yes I was reading some rumours around his death possibly being suspicious on Telegram but there was nothing really factual, just vague with no details, so I didn’t pursue it. I just figured that he was 79yrs so we can expect people to die at that age, but one thing I read said something about him drowning, but really don’t know about the circumstances. As for W.W, last time I saw him was yonks ago on the Reiner Fuellmich videos, but nothing for best part of 2 years now. Lots been happening in Germany to speculate on too so bit surprised we’ve not heard any sort of comment from him on anything.
The last I heard from Dr Wodarg was in December last year. Link to meeting he spoke at if you’re interested in what he was up to then. I can’t remember what he was doing but he is working away below the radar – safest place to be if you’re doing important work & wish to complete it before going public.
https://rumble.com/v22vcbe-december-28-2022.html
Whatever happened to Reiner Fuellmich and the case he was putting together?
One also shouldn’t forget the so-called bird flu of 2004. That was the time when influenza vaccines started to be marketed aggressively. Until then, I wasn’t even aware that vaccinating against something as benign as the flu was even being considered.
And then, all our pandemicists save some unsavoury but relatively unimportant figureheads are still hiding in plain sight, polishing their honours while enjoying their sinecures, smiling warmly when thinking of silvery rainfall into their well-filled coffers and refining their plans for the next rerun of The Great Pandemic[tm] which will then – lessons duly learnt – hopefully last forever or at least, for a much longer time.
The current plan as far as The Liar Institute for Global Change goes is to have an “always on” approach to “vaccines and other injectables”. They intend to have a constant pipeline of adult vaccinations to keep the motors running and the $$ running so that you don’t have to scale up in a pandemic, the factories are already there churning out injections every day for the masses anyway. They advocate pushing an adult vaccination schedule for every country as standard as well as “long lasting injectables” for high cholesterol and heart disease. They see “demand creation” as key, (through persuading governments) otherwise without demand they can’t supply all those completely essential jabs.
Wodarg was one of the sane voices from the outset of the pandemic. I remember in March 2020 listening to a 10-minute video in which he explained what the coronavirus was. On 23 March I naively tried to write to as many MPs as I could asking them to listen to the video and vote against lockdown. I gave them a synopsis:
“There are about 100 flu viruses. Virologists used not to be interested in having tests for them, because there were so many and they keep on evolving. Recently we have developed tests for 8-10 of them.
“Why did the virus break out in Wuhan? Because Wuhan has the biggest safety laboratory for viruses in the whole of China. They found a new type and announced it to the world. In Berlin, which keeps a global database, virologists devised a test for the new variant. A protocol for the test was submitted to the WHO, and because of the panic in China it was accepted without the usual validation procedures. The test (such as it is) does not tell you how dangerous the virus is. For that, you need to survey an entire population and determine ‘excess mortality’.
“In Germany 20,000-30,000 deaths are attributable to flu. Around 10% (7%-15%) of flu viruses are coronavirus. Had tests been done specifically for that virus in previous years, therefore 2000-3000 per year would probably have been attributable to coronavirus. (1) We are nowhere near those numbers at the moment. (2) The numbers being reported do not establish that death was from this specific virus rather than from the other c. 90% that cause respiratory illness.
“Medical researchers have a vested interest in talking such things up. They want to feel important and have political influence; they need funds for their projects. In my opinion, the idea that we are dealing with a virus that, without draconian action, will kill tens of milllions is unsubstantiated.”
Factcheckers stamped on his message only a month later and subsequently YouTube pulled the video.
These people should really be called Factf***ers (or maybe F***checkers).
Like we saw around Climategate (2008) one battlefield of information is Wikipedia, in which an army of editors ensure that the Wikipedia entry for any individual who dissents from the Official Narrative is suitably “corrected”, often with new smears and spin. Dr Wodarg’s entry is no exception. Just as a superficial scan of the edits to Dr Wordarg’s Wikipedia entry illustrates the point. Prior to March 2020, the entry was fairly quiet in terms of number of edits per month, and were largely technical or stylistic changes or reasonable updates. Then the attack begins. You can roughly gauge the nature of the “corrections” and the intentions of the editors simply by looking for words like “notoriety”, “far-right” and “misinformation” added after 2020.
For example (taken from Wikipedia edits, my annotation in italics),
See also “Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia” for the trial run of the army of self-appointed “fact-checkers”, before the term was invented but after schoolchildren took to using Wikipedia as the primary source for assignments!
The evidence is now there that they do seriously reduce fertility in males, with large amounts of spike protein being produced in the testes. Never believe a word of Wilipaedia, nearly all of the content is wrong in many ways.
The hysterical reporting at the time convinced my mum that our family were in grave danger at the time due to a planned trip to visit relatives in Australia, so we all got the swine flu shot. Thankfully the 2009 shot seemed to be mostly harmless along with useless, but that was my last encounter with a vaccinator. Funnily enough, when we got to Australia people were barely even aware of this “pandemic” that was meant to be ravaging the country. Coincidentally (or not), Daniel Andrews was health minister at the time and the state of Victoria rolled out the harshest restrictions and also performed the worst out of all Australian states. Just a practice run for the Dear Leader.
Just waiting for the WHO to declare the HSV-1 pandemic.
What a shame they didn’t have a Public Inquiry after the Swine Flu debacle. The Establishment/Government might have got some lessons that they could have learned.
Or perhaps they did hold a quiet inquiry, and learned the wrong lessons.
The swine flu ‘pandemic’ was definitely an attempt to bring in all the things they did for the Covid scamdemic….I think just not enough people died for them to keep it going!?
They obviously learned a lot of lessons…!?
I have posted this before but my friend, a nurse at the local surgery, told me that after the swine flu vax was known to cause narcolepsy..her surgery used it as that years winter flu jab, to get rid of the surplus..she told all her patients, even though she’d been advised not to…as it happens no one cared…the sheep just took it anyway…
…this article in Der Spiegel has been much quoted..and shows they did really try to get it going……
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reconstruction-of-a-mass-hysteria-the-swine-flu-panic-of-2009-a-682613.html