Exactly. We are on what BA.5 Or something like that and probably close to 100 Preceding variance that have popped up, yet you’re still bothering people get a vaccine for the original variant that was first discovered back in like February 2020 or so. Even back then, how well the vaccine worked and Covid is unknown and they never did proper testing and just vaccinated the entire group cleaned it work.
Precisely. Facts and reason are on the side of *not* requiring vaccination for these children:
1. The vaccines are no longer effective against the new variants (as proven by excellent studies, including that one in the Lancet*).
2. Children are far less likely to become seriously ill if infected, and now that Covid has mutated to become more contagious but less virulent (as viruses tend to do over time), the risk of serious illness is even lower.
3. Respected proper studies have shown there is elevated risk of myocarditis associated with the Covid vaccines, especially in young males.** The risk/benefit ratio argues against vaccinating children. Why take the risk for no benefit?
But let’s not let the facts get in the way of Browser’s power trip. (eye roll) DC is overrun with lawyers. True, they are mostly lib lawyers, but it’s a shame the few more conservative ones have not taken up a challenge to Browser’s insane and inane decree in court. If it’s true the decree also applies to private schools and affects their children, perhaps a few will. We’ll see.
*Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8816388/
**At least one version of the smallpox vaccine also carried an elevated risk for myocarditis and caused an outbreak of it in our military back in the early 2000’s. There are a number of studies available online about it. I don’t know whether the old inoculation we got as children also carried such a risk, but when smallpox was still floating around the globe, the risk/benefit ratio was in favor of inoculation (highly contagious disease with a 30% mortality rate).
“The incidence of confirmed myocarditis secondary to smallpox vaccination is estimated to be 16.1 per 100 000 service members, with a recent Department of Defense study estimating 12 per 100 000 in a review of 730 000 service members.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878341/
The smallpox vaccines currently being given to protect against monkeypox are not the same as the ones administered to our military back then, as I understand it. I have no idea whether these vaccines carry the same risk.