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Precautionary principle essential on jabs for kids

Stephen Andrew statement on jabs for kids

I have received numerous calls and messages from parents over the past few weeks, concerned by the Queensland Government’s evident rush to get ‘jabs’ into the arms of their vulnerable children before all proper safety trials on the new technology have been completed.
The Queensland Premier and Health Minister have said recently they want every child from year 6 and above fully or partially vaccinated against Covid before they will consider re-opening the State. The speed with which they are moving ahead with these plans is alarming, especially given so many infectious disease experts, here and overseas, are recommending caution on the roll-out of these injections to children. Many are advising we wait, at least until Phase III trials of the vaccine are all completed and more research has been done on any long-term effects this new mRNA technology could have on children’s still developing bodies.
Professor Robert Booy, who is the Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney and also head of Clinical Research at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, says that governments shouldn’t be rushing to vaccinate healthy children. “We shouldn’t be rushing something that for children is not a severe illness” he told the Herald Sun earlier this month. Martin Makary, a Professor at the John Hopkins School of Medicine wrote in the Wall Street Journal in July that the evidence behind the vaccination push for children was ‘flimsy’ at best. His team analysed about 48,000 cases of children under 18 diagnosed with Covid-19. “Our report found a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukaemia”. The findings, he said, had “significant implications for healthy kids and whether they need two vaccine doses”.
Earlier this month the UK’s vaccine advisory body, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation told the UK government there was still “insufficient evidence” on the long-term effect of these mRNA technologies on young, still developing bodies. The Committee said that given children were at such a low risk from the virus, any roll-out of ‘jabs’ would provide only “marginal gain”. The Committee’s advice was that it did NOT recommend vaccinating “healthy children” in the UK.
The Committee has previously complained about “the habit of government health officials sitting in on their meetings” and interfering in the decision-making process. So far the Committee has stood firm, with the Chairman saying recently that governments should be “taking a precautionary approach”: “The margin of benefit” he said, “is considered too small to support universal Covid-19 vaccination in this age group at this time.”
Clearly, there is sufficient doubt amongst experts as to the long-term effects of these vaccines, to justify excluding children from any government vaccination roll-out targets. If ever a situation called for adopting a ‘precautionary principle’ policy, surely this is it!
MUMS & DADS. Thoughts please?
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Freedom rallies a big success

Stephen Andrew statement on Freedom Rallies

Libertarians, democrats and, yes, ‘anti-vaxxers’, were joined yesterday by hundreds of nurses, ambos, construction workers and police, all facing job losses as a result of the draconian government health mandates. The rallies followed last week’s protest in Melbourne’s CBD by construction workers over the restrictions and mandates their industry is being hit with.
Meanwhile, the language coming out of the mouths of Australia’s mainstream media and political leaders has become increasingly ‘ugly’ and ‘menacing’. Jacquie Lambi, announced on Sky News recently, that she was coming for “you anti-vaxxers” “lock, stock and barrel”. This new sport of spewing state-sanctioned ‘hate speech’ at ordinary citizens and workers, has left many Australians horrified. She is far from alone in this, unfortunately.
The levels of vitriol we are seeing directed at Australians by their elected representatives and media, has been unedifying, to say the least. What Lambi and other elites like her, fail to realise, is that all this vilification is doing, is entrenching people’s resistance even further, and drawing increasing numbers of supporters to their side in sympathy.
In other words, it is completely counterproductive to the governments’ goal. Many who were not opposed to the ‘jab’ at first, and others who were merely cautious or hesitant, have told me they are now firmly and passionately opposed to it. For them, the vax-mandate issue has become a matter of political and moral principle, or what one old gentleman yesterday called, “common human decency”. Another said even if the ‘jab’ had nothing but saline in it, they wouldn’t take it now.
Let’s face it – Australians have never liked bullies. Imagine their shock on discovering Australia’s governing classes are infested with them.
What many elites seem to forget is that even where people have received their jabs, a lot of their friends, co-workers and family members may not have. Attempts to create a leper or pariah class out of their loved ones, therefore, is not going to sit well with them – not by a long shot.
The government and elites are trying to position the “unvaccinated” as ‘less than human’, and therefore not worthy of compassion or human rights. We all know where that sort of thing leads – widespread persecution, human rights abuses and a rapid descent into tyranny.
It’s sad to see that some of these people that were hailed as hero’s 18 months ago, are now facing job loss at the hands of “no-jab, no-job” mandates, along with many others who cannot finish their occupational study due to the same issue.
This can’t be allowed to happen in Australia.
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