The federal, state, and local responses to COVID-19 have caused untold harm to businesses, children’s education, and people’s lives. It also harmed children’s health in ways that government officials may have anticipated.
The percentage of kindergarteners receiving vaccine exemptions is at an all-time high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number will increase from 3% to 3.3%, meaning an additional 80,000 unvaccinated children. Since the pandemic began, the percentage of kindergartners vaccinated has dropped from 95% to 92.7%. Vaccinations required in kindergartens in the United States include chickenpox, measles, mumps, polio, tetanus, and pertussis.
The CDC also found that for 2-year-olds, “coverage of nearly all vaccines is lower for children born in 2020 and 2021 than for children born in 2018 and 2019, with a decline of 1.3 They also found that 7.8 percentage points As a result, as of March 2024, the United States had already experienced more measles cases than in the previous four years, and the highest number since the 2019 global measles outbreak. In May 2024, the CDC warned that the pace in 2024 was nearly three times higher than in 2023. in a whooping cough epidemic. Chicago was experiencing a chickenpox epidemic due to a rapid increase in illegal immigration.
This comes as the American Academy of Pediatrics reported in January 2023 that measles, mumps, and rubella vaccinations had reached their lowest level in a decade, with a 2% decrease in fully vaccinated kindergarteners nationwide. This is a continuation of the trend that became apparent in January 2023.
The decline in vaccination and its impact can be directly attributed not only to the implementation of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, but also to the government’s “noble lies” about COVID-19 vaccines. The percentage of people who think it is “very” or “extremely” important for their children to be vaccinated has decreased from 84% in 2019 to 69% in 2024. Over the past four years, the share of parents who think children should be able to choose not to vaccinate has increased from 16% to 28%, and who say vaccinations should be mandatory for children to attend public school. The proportion of adults decreased from 82% to 70%.
This is an inevitable response to the misleading government rhetoric and anti-science government policies that people have been exposed to during the pandemic. People have been told by prominent government officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci that if they get vaccinated, they won’t get the coronavirus. In the words of President Joe Biden, “If you get these vaccines, you can’t get coronavirus.”
These words became a policy. After all, if there’s no chance that vaccinated people can get COVID-19, there’s no chance that vaccinated people can spread coronavirus. Thus, vaccine mandates are taken over from state and local authorities, and Biden is seeking to impose a mandate on the federal government as well. According to the New York Times, 12 million people were living under vaccination mandates as of December 2021, and tens of thousands have lost their jobs.
These restrictions were also imposed on children. High school athletes are now required to wear ankle monitors. California and Illinois have imposed vaccination requirements for children of certain ages who attend school. New York City requires vaccinations for children to be able to go to restaurants.
It was all in vain. By December 2021, it was clear that vaccinated people were spreading the coronavirus at the same rate as unvaccinated people. Dr. Deborah Birx admits that health officials oversold the vaccine and knew it did not prevent infection, government health officials manipulated the public, and unnecessary authoritarian policies were forced on the population. He showed that he was completely willing to use “science” as a means to justify his actions. people.
This was even worse for the children. Simply put, children were not at serious risk from the coronavirus. The CDC recorded 1,696 child deaths related to the coronavirus from March 2020 to September 2023. It is important to remember that all coronavirus-related deaths are not deaths caused by the coronavirus, but simply deaths among patients who had the virus. This equates to approximately 41 coronavirus-related deaths per month. Meanwhile, the CDC estimated that 480 children died during the 2018-2019 flu season over a seven-month period. This is an average of more than 68 influenza deaths per month.
Remember when kids were required to get a flu shot while playing soccer or eating chicken strips at a restaurant booth? That never happened, but the government’s Health officials and politicians have decided that the same children must be given the coronavirus vaccine, even though the risk is much lower.
In fact, anti-science policies have certainly hurt children more than they helped. The coronavirus lockdown has resulted in decreased academic performance, increased symptoms of depression, and decreased social activity. But just as importantly, mandating vaccinations for children actually puts them at risk from coronavirus in other ways. By barring children who have not received the coronavirus vaccine from participating in athletics, they are being forced into a lack of physical activity. Other than the elderly, the group most at risk from the coronavirus was the obese. The CDC found that 78% of people hospitalized with coronavirus were overweight or obese.
Ordinary everyday people who did not peruse this data were equally aware of the reality. They knew their children were not at serious risk from the virus. They knew that the COVID-19 vaccine would not prevent them from getting the virus, presumably after getting infected despite being vaccinated. Whether they know what the data shows or not, these people believe that government health officials are lying or wrong about exactly how the coronavirus vaccines work, and that government leaders are They knew they were imposing burdensome restrictions on themselves and their children based on accurate information.
Unsurprisingly, many of those who survived that “misinformation” have criticized the effectiveness of other vaccines, the vaccine People will begin to question the government’s policy of making vaccination mandatory. Encourage vaccinations for children to attend public schools. Confidence in vaccines, whose effectiveness has been built over decades, has been eroded in just a few years by public health officials and politicians who sought to manipulate vaccines “for their own benefit.” It was crushed in that part.
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Mr. Fauci, Mr. Biden, and others ignored all the data on the coronavirus, the flu, and children and cashed in that trust for short-term political gain. People’s lives have been ruined and jobs taken away, first by lockdowns and then by mandatory vaccinations. Children were excluded from school, sports, restaurants, and their lives were ruined. People have been told this is because they need vaccination to protect themselves and others from infection, but that turns out to be false.
The decisions made by this short-sighted “leadership” did not resolve the crisis they were supposed to resolve. On the contrary, people, especially children, are becoming less safe. If this decline in vaccinations continues and outbreaks of diseases previously thought to be under control continue, government health bureaucrats who abused their power and trust during the pandemic will have no one but themselves to blame. Probably not. No matter how embarrassed or excited they are about how they represent “science,” they will never undo the years of damage they have done to public health attitudes across the country. you can’t.
