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Extending the shot to babies

TGA “EVALUATING” MODERNA SHOTS FOR BABIES AND TODDLERS.  WHAT’S THE RUSH?

Despite conclusive evidence that young children are at virtually no risk at all of severe complications or death from the virus, the TGA announced last month it is evaluating an application from Moderna to inject its experimental mRNA shots into the arms of babies as young as six months.

Currently, Israel is the only country that has approved the shots for this age cohort, although the US Advisory Committee is voting on the issue this week.

I can’t find anything online about Moderna running any clinical trials for this age bracket, although there Moderna was reported as saying last year that they were hoping to carry out their baby and toddler trials here in Australia.

Pfizer’s baby trials are being run in the US and according to reports, these have not been completed yet and the clinical trial group was fairly small.

According to the TGA’s media release: “the authorisation (for Moderna shots) would be for a two-dose regimen, with the possibility of extending it to a third dose”.

Why is this even being considered here in Australia, given the risks involved?

It is well-known that the messenger RNA-based injections have been linked to heart conditions such as myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly in young men.

Some countries have even said they won’t even consider shots in this age group “after some studies showed it was tied to a higher risk of the heart inflammation”, according to a report in the West Australian yesterday:

The FDA itself said recently that myocarditis is a known risk and that the clinical trials for these age groups WERE NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO QUANTIFY THE FREQUENCY OF THE INFLAMMATION.”

Moreover, the FDA has revealed that early trial data for 2-5-year-olds showed an efficacy rate of just 36.8% using the CDC case definitions, and 50.6% for the 6-23 month group.

So again, what on earth is the rush here?

Historically, young children and pregnant women were always excluded from early human trials, irrespective of the drug.

As I mentioned, children are virtually at zero risk of dying from this virus. They may test positive and even develop symptoms, but they get through it the same way they get through any other cold or flu.

There is simply no justification for the TGA to even consider extending the shot to a group this young.

Especially when we are talking about a radically new treatment that has never been tested on animals and for which there is no long term safety data.

The risk of harm to these vulnerable babies is just too great.

(This is NOT medical advice – Just my opinion!!)

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Queensland Teachers Show Cause Letter

QUEENSLAND EDUCATION ISSUES ONE THOUSAND (1000) QLD TEACHERS WITH ‘SHOW CAUSE’ LETTER

An estimated 1000 Qld Teachers received an extremely harsh ‘show cause’ letter this evening from David Miller, the Education Department’s Executive Director of Early Learning and Development.

Some of you will recall that Miller, the Education Department’s so-called “integrity unit” boss, sent a string of “childish emails” from an employee’s computer in 2020 and escaped punishment despite a complaint against him being “substantiated” by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Miller was let off at the time, but he clearly has no intention of showing Queensland’s suspended teachers the same consideration, despite his own offences being worse than anything these long-suffering teachers ever did!

Miller’s “terse 10 page letter”, as the Courier Mail called it, contains multiple threats of “disciplinary findings” against the teachers for failing to comply with the State’s mandate.

It accuses them of breaching the government’s vaccine directive, and lists 17 points of so-called “evidence” against them.

“I am providing you with a period of 14 calendar days from the date of this letter to show cause why disciplinary findings should not be made against you,” Miller wrote.

The letter ends with a shocking instruction that forbids the teachers from discussing anything to do with the whole process with anyone, whether on social media or with “ANY OTHER PERSON apart from their legal representative or union!!

That instruction is a disgrace in a supposedly free country.

It ends with a fatuous statement acknowledging that all this may “impact your human rights”, particularly “your right to Take part in public life and Freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief.”

Miller says he has concluded ALL those inalienable human rights are “OUTWEIGHED”, by “the requirement to provide you with procedural fairness prior to determining whether you are liable to discipline, and there is no less restrictive way reasonably available to comply with the requirements of the Act and the Discipline Directive.”

Come again?  “Outweighed” by WHAT EXACTLY?!

If anyone can translate that load of gobbledy-gook, please let me know.

The teachers, who are still waiting to be shown the long-term safety data, associated risk assessment and evidence for why schools were reclassified as ‘high risk’ settings, must be devastated.

Many hoped the mandates would be dropped soon.

Even the NT and WA governments have announced the end of teacher mandates from 15 June.

New South Wales and the ACT dropped their mandates in May, and SA in March.

So why is Queensland, the only state doing this?

It is an incredibly cruel thing to do to a group of people who many, including myself, consider the best and bravest teachers in the world.

My thoughts and prayers are with every single one of them tonight.

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