Torstar Karens call for forced vaccination of children

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Aug 21

RE: Back to school plan missing key ingredient.  Torstar editorial published in the Hamilton Spectator 5 Aug 21.

I’m glad to see that Torstar recognizes the efforts of Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce to improve air quality in schools.  You’d think Mr. Lecce read the M.I.T. paper of April, 2021  that modelled how airborne contagions were transmitted.  (Or maybe he read one of my letters!)  But the so-called missing ingredient – the forced vaccination of children – is a hobby horse that is unsupported by the data.

You can read the Ontario COVID page as easily as I can, and if you look at the demographics it shows all the deaths from COVID are in over 60 demographics.  There may be a few under 60, but the numbers are too small to appear in the chart.  The three demographics with the most COVID cases are, in order, 20-29, under 20, and 30-39, so it’s not due to lack of infections that those demographics show no deaths as a result of COVID.

There is simply no benefit in vaccinating these demographics generally, and the first rule of medicine is “First, do no harm.”  Even if we knew for certain that vaccinating under 20s was harmless, it’s still a waste a money – the Karens who want to feel better by the forced vaccination of you be damned.  (They can wear a mask!)  It’s not their body and it’s not their choice.

There is also a problem of breakthrough, that is, vaccinated people getting infected, and this is seen in Israel and the UK.  It is claimed that even vaccinated people can be carriers, so vaccination isn’t the pandemic-stopper it is claimed to be.  The key to not getting COVID remains not to breathe contaminated air.

The best practice is to go slow and stepwise.  Let’s upgrade school infrastructure first, and then see what happens.

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