My concern with vaccinating children for Covid with the current vaccines is thatJosh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:10 pmThat's not at all true of basically every other disease we vaccinate children for, like measles or polio.
Or maybe it should simply be accepted as normal that kids are going to have colds and spread them. Everybody knows this and has always accepted it. This disease should be no different.That is how you get things like hundreds and hundreds of kids catching and spreading covid at schools across the south when they started this past August. The danger is more that it generates uncontrolled community spread of the disease including to vulnerable elderly and others, not that kids are at particular risk of dying. For example, Tennessee alone had over 400 different schools forced to close between August and September this year due to uncontrolled Covid outbreaks amongst school children: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tenne ... l-closures By contrast, Oregon, which had much stricter mask requirements only had one school closure during the same time period and that was largely due to the incompetence of the school administration to do proper contact tracing than the size of the outbreak.
Giving children a vaccine which will kill them more than the disease they're being vaccinated for seems unethical and wrong.
(a) it would slow, not prevent the spread of Covid among the kids.
(b) ***the risk - and it is a huge one - is that that it might interfere with the children's natural sterilizing immunity and start a Marek's disease type of cycle among children whereby the most harmful variants are no longer selected against.***
We have been blessed so far in the pandemic that children have been relatively unaffected by the virus (except as collateral damage in the efforts of their elders to avoid it!). My fear is that a mass vaccination campaign among children would be followed a few months later by a wave of infections from a strain which is harmful to them.
This appears to be what is happening in Alberta right now among younger adults, with rapid spread among unvaccinated but healthy young Albertans following upon the vaccination of masses of their cohort a few months ago. In some it has taken a dangerous form. I have described what my son's family are going through; this is echoed in many other families, all beginning in the last few weeks.
Here is a letter from the church we have begun attending:
I am sorry to announce that for a second weekend in a row we feel compelled to restrict in-person attendance of our Sunday worship service. I hate to voluntarily restrict our meetings when for most of the last two years we have done all we could do to keep in-person meetings happening, believing that it is vital to the health of the church for the church to gather. However, in the past our congregation has always been healthy. But last Wednesday, when we became aware of 24 members of our church who were sick, (many with Covid) and the number was continuing to rise, we recognized that we are facing something new, and made the decision that for the physical well-being of the church we needed to cancel our Sunday service and give the church family a chance to get well.
Although ______ and I along with many others are slowly feeling better, many still continue to be sick this week, and we are hearing of still more new cases of sickness, though it seems to be slowing down, for which we thank the Lord. Therefore, this Sunday, we are going to greatly limit our in-person gathering to one small group, (it helps having a few faces to preach to), and encourage the church instead to meet in homes and watch the live stream. If you are feeling well, please gather with a home church group this Sunday, rather than meeting at PGF.
For many months we were daily reminded of all the Covid cases in our city, but with few exceptions, there was never anyone sick in the church. Now, in spite of an unprecedented vaccination campaign in our province, we suddenly have more people get sick than ever since the start of Covid, in just one week. Obviously, something unusual is going on and things are getting worse, which is exactly what the Bible has been warning us to expect. Let us trust the word of God.
Praise the Lord, we are unaware of anyone from the church having to be hospitalized. However, please be much in prayer for the well-being of our church family as a few of you have been very sick (i.e., ___ is still struggling with pneumonia). Please also be in prayer for wisdom to know the best way to respond to these circumstances. The enemy would delight in seeing us shut down and stay home every time there is the threat of danger, so obviously that cannot be our default response. We must learn to wisely and effectively resist the devil, for when we do, he, not us, will flee from the battle.
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.” 2Corinthians 10:4 NIV/NKJV. Therefore, please pray that as a church we become more proficient at understanding and using the weapons the Lord has given to the church. Most of us are not accustomed to living in perilous times—we have much to learn from God so that we can thrive in these days.
In Christ,
For this reason I would strenuously oppose the mass vaccination of children even though the logic of the pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated narrative leads toward it.
