I joked in this column that, if it were possible to vaccinate unborn babies in the womb, the UK government would find a way. Now the joke does not seem so funny. While vaccinating unborn babies is—as far as I understand—not possible it does seem, as I predicted, that the drive is on to vaccinate the whole population. Despite early assurances that only the vulnerable and older people would be vaccinated, the mission creep towards extending the rollout to increasingly younger people continues. Now we have reached 12-year olds and I am not reassured by the government saying no decision has yet been taken. The best way to predict future actions is to study past behaviour and so far, the government’s ‘no decision yet’ mantra has always been a prelude to making precisely the decision they had not yet decided to take. Perhaps it is the fact that the NHS is on standby to implement the rollout that makes me even more suspicious.
Why should anyone be concerned about 12-year olds being vaccinated? Well, where to start is the problem. For a start they do not need it, not to protect themselves and not to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Even if they did need it for the latter reason, we should not be using our children to shield us adults. It is our role in the world to protect them. Neil Oliver—previously lauded in this column—put this eloquently recently in his GBNews show. The vaccines are of dubious efficacy. Vaccines are dangerous, even the most pro-vaccination person will not say that they are without risks, unless they are a bare-faced liar. Early assurances regarding safety now seem hollow in the face of the official facts about COVID-19 vaccine safety. Risks remain small and deaths even more so but young people have died after taking a COVID-19 vaccine. With some of the vaccines—notably the Pfizer vaccine—working by hi-jacking the final stage of the genetic process for making protein in the body, how happy are we that this is being administered to children who are still developing. How many are we prepared to kill in the process of using them to shield us?
As if all of the above is not of sufficient concern, if the government proceeds with its plans to vaccinate 12-year olds, it also plans—under cover of Gillick competence—to do this without the need for parental consent. I woke up to this news yesterday on the Ministry of Truth network (aka the BBC) on their flagship Today programme on Radio 4 (I do these things, so you don’t have to). My outrage at the very thought was almost outdone my outrage at the lack of outrage amongst the presenters and anyone they interviewed. If ever we had proof that the COVID-19 lunatics are now running the sanatorium this, surely, is it. I have no idea if this decision will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny but any member of parliament from any political party who votes to support this or does not try to stop it is not worthy of respect. If the vaccines are so popular, so effective and so safe then why the compulsion? How can our elected representatives, undoubtedly spurred on by a host of unelected public health ‘do gooders’, even consider altering what, until now, had seemed unalterable: the right of parents to make decisions for their children? After all, this is not a matter of life a death (not yet anyway) and the risk to children and to healthy adults who are not obese from COVID-19 is minimal.
Children aged 12 cannot provide informed consent; they cannot even be presented with the facts in a way that would make any sense to them. They will, without doubt, be coerced into taking the vaccine. Even for those unharmed by the vaccine, this is a gross violation of human rights and the rights and responsibilities of families to care for their children. Nothing should now surprise us about our ‘Conservative’ government which is anything but ‘conservative’. I often say that words fail me. At this point…they have.
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