Kids & COVID

There's growing pressure from Dr. Anthony Fauci and the same bureaucrats at the CDC, who made all the mistakes during the early days of the pandemic, to force all children to be vaccinated for COVID-19.  Many universities are mandating vaccines for students to return to campus.

At the same time, more than 1,200 people, mostly young men, who have gotten the vaccine have been stricken with heart inflammation. 

Just as social media censored any suggestion that the virus came from the Wuhan lab, Big Tech is censoring scientists who say we need more information before children get these vaccines. 

I fully expect the same left-wing educational establishment that is teaching our children to hate America will use the vaccine issue to once again insist that the schools do not open in the fall. 

Dr. Fauci says there is no medical reason not to vaccinate kids. But he has also said that the bad advice he gave in the past was based on the bad information he had at the time. Well, if we're lacking information now and if he's wrong about the vaccine being safe for children, "Whoops" won't repair the damage.

The risk of children getting seriously ill from COVID-19 is similar to that of the seasonal flu. As David Leonhardt of the New York Times has noted, a child is at much greater risk from suicide or riding in a car than she is from COVID-19. 

Yet because of our fear of COVID-19, we deprived millions of kids of a year's education, and likely caused many more suicides and growing psychological problems.

The fact is no one in the scientific community can say with 100% certainty that a vaccine using new technology won't cause issues in children. Children and adults are different. 

To be clear: I'm not urging you to not vaccinate your children. To be accurate, the risk of heart inflammation from the COVID-19 vaccines is also very low, and is reportedly less than the risk of heart inflammation caused by a COVID-19 infection. 

But the COVID-19 vaccines are still authorized only on an emergency basis, and children are the least vulnerable group. Parents should have the right to make their own decisions without Big Brother punishing them or their children.