OHS I: It's safe and effective for kids
Or something
I think it’s too easy to dismiss things like “epistaxis” or “myocarditis”. These are terms we are not familiar with and they are happening to someone else and they don’t last forever anyway. They get better all by themselves. And they are rare too. Very, very rare.
From the Australian Database of Adverse Event Notifications - medicines I give you a single adverse reaction report. Just one.
No indication is provided as to whether it was the first or second dose. No comorbidities or health conditions are listed.
To de-mystify the terminology, I did a quick look up and can add:
Epistaxis is nosebleed.
Haematemesis is vomiting blood.
Rectal haemorrhage is bleeding from there.
T wave inversion looks like it might be related to the pulmonary embolism (blocked artery) , as would the tachycardia (elevated heart rate).
Looking at the Australian COVID-19 deaths by age group and sex we see there have been 2 deaths in 10-19 age group. 1 male (ETA: died of pneumococcal meningitis with covid - thanks to Rich Seager for the info) and 1 female. There have been 12,112 male and 11,320 female cases recorded.
That’s a CFR for males 10-19 of 0.008% or a 99.992% survival rate.
[In Sweden, there have been 4 deaths in that age group, and 161,969 cases for a CFR of 0.002%].
So myocarditis meh. Epistaxis meh.
I want you to picture your 12 year old son, sitting in a chair receiving an injection he does not need, doing “the right thing” (according to the PR people of the day).
I now want you to picture him lying on a guerney, bleeding from his nose and his ass, whilst vomiting blood. Or maybe they happened one after the other. Does it matter? They will resolve themselves. And it’s rare. Very, very rare.
I wonder if this kid is now vaccine hesitant. I wonder if you, as his guardian, are, on his behalf.
How would you feel watching your son go through something like this?
Now consider: this 12 year old kid could potentially catch covid-19 without being vaccinated and therefor have a chance to develop some sort of illness. Chance of death is very small for his age group, and will continue to be so for the next 3 years.
Natural immunity would mean his immune system would learn to recognise the virus completely, not just the vaccine-focused spike protein.
His chances of death / severe disease then, go down over the ensuing 3 years as his immune system (potentially) gets new variant upgrades each year.
In contrast, his vaccine record is already bad, with a somewhat uncomfortable reaction to the vaccine. His chance of having the same reaction does not diminish. It remains the same for each booster (article coming soon), most likely twice a year, for the next 3 years (article coming soon).
That ramps up his chances of an adverse reaction 6x by the end of year 3, vs reducing the severity / chance of disease that natural immunity would impart.
The male death from COVID 19 had a comorbidity. It was meningitis, often fatal.
Not sure about the female death.