it's always been about $$. the rest was bullshit.Uggg...didn't think I'd be here again....don't want to be...rumors abound that the CDC and ACIP are meeting and on the agenda is adding the COVID shot to the child immunization schedule. The way laws work in several states (mostly blue, some red and purple), it means it's an easy backdoor way to mandate the vaccine for kids (depends how they do it.....if they do it like flu maybe not....but the rumors say that's not what they are planning to do) and university students. The rumors are also flying that this is being pushed by Pfizer since the uptake in bivalent boosters generally, but particularly boosters among children, have been lagging and they need to push the stock pile to make numbers. Furthermore, with the emergency ending, it leads into question the "emergency use authorization" hence the need to move it into something more lasting. It's particularly infuriating given certain countries in Europe have expressly said because of the myocarditis risk the vaccines should NOT be pushed on children....some countries are expressly saying the mRNA vaccines are NOT recommended for the under 50. And this is despite the fact that long term testing hasn't been done and it took the chickenpox vaccine, for example, more than 11 years to get approval (this point particularly irks me since I was a young adult victim of chicken pox that led to a very serious case and hospitalization despite the fact that at the time the EU had approved the chicken pox vaccine).
I really hope this is a case of the rumor being overblown, but given Pfizers behavior in all this and their pressing financial needs, I'm not so sure about this. This would really be the last nail in the trust in public health coffin, and will spread vaccine skepticism to other needed vaccinations on the list. I also think they are vastly underestimating the blow back they are about to receive...the skepticism about the vaccines has really bled beyond just antilockdowner twitter given the number of people who got the vaccine and wound up getting bad cases of COVID (not the sniffles) anyways....in my medical family I've seen faith in public health really shaken among people who were angry at me for my mask-skepticism lockdown-skepticism during the pandemic (my younger brother is still collecting on bets including a $1000 bottle of champagne against my head of cardiology uncle who told him with a 3rd shot he'd never get COVID). We had made a lot of progress with the stupid vaccines cause autism argument....this will torch vaccines for generations to come if they do it.
Uggg...didn't think I'd be here again....don't want to be...rumors abound that the CDC and ACIP are meeting and on the agenda is adding the COVID shot to the child immunization schedule. The way laws work in several states (mostly blue, some red and purple), it means it's an easy backdoor way to mandate the vaccine for kids (depends how they do it.....if they do it like flu maybe not....but the rumors say that's not what they are planning to do) and university students. The rumors are also flying that this is being pushed by Pfizer since the uptake in bivalent boosters generally, but particularly boosters among children, have been lagging and they need to push the stock pile to make numbers. Furthermore, with the emergency ending, it leads into question the "emergency use authorization" hence the need to move it into something more lasting. It's particularly infuriating given certain countries in Europe have expressly said because of the myocarditis risk the vaccines should NOT be pushed on children....some countries are expressly saying the mRNA vaccines are NOT recommended for the under 50. And this is despite the fact that long term testing hasn't been done and it took the chickenpox vaccine, for example, more than 11 years to get approval (this point particularly irks me since I was a young adult victim of chicken pox that led to a very serious case and hospitalization despite the fact that at the time the EU had approved the chicken pox vaccine).
I really hope this is a case of the rumor being overblown, but given Pfizers behavior in all this and their pressing financial needs, I'm not so sure about this. This would really be the last nail in the trust in public health coffin, and will spread vaccine skepticism to other needed vaccinations on the list. I also think they are vastly underestimating the blow back they are about to receive...the skepticism about the vaccines has really bled beyond just antilockdowner twitter given the number of people who got the vaccine and wound up getting bad cases of COVID (not the sniffles) anyways....in my medical family I've seen faith in public health really shaken among people who were angry at me for my mask-skepticism lockdown-skepticism during the pandemic (my younger brother is still collecting on bets including a $1000 bottle of champagne against my head of cardiology uncle who told him with a 3rd shot he'd never get COVID). We had made a lot of progress with the stupid vaccines cause autism argument....this will torch vaccines for generations to come if they do it.
Really very amazing.Uggg...didn't think I'd be here again....don't want to be...rumors abound that the CDC and ACIP are meeting and on the agenda is adding the COVID shot to the child immunization schedule. The way laws work in several states (mostly blue, some red and purple), it means it's an easy backdoor way to mandate the vaccine for kids (depends how they do it.....if they do it like flu maybe not....but the rumors say that's not what they are planning to do) and university students. The rumors are also flying that this is being pushed by Pfizer since the uptake in bivalent boosters generally, but particularly boosters among children, have been lagging and they need to push the stock pile to make numbers. Furthermore, with the emergency ending, it leads into question the "emergency use authorization" hence the need to move it into something more lasting. It's particularly infuriating given certain countries in Europe have expressly said because of the myocarditis risk the vaccines should NOT be pushed on children....some countries are expressly saying the mRNA vaccines are NOT recommended for the under 50. And this is despite the fact that long term testing hasn't been done and it took the chickenpox vaccine, for example, more than 11 years to get approval (this point particularly irks me since I was a young adult victim of chicken pox that led to a very serious case and hospitalization despite the fact that at the time the EU had approved the chicken pox vaccine).
I really hope this is a case of the rumor being overblown, but given Pfizers behavior in all this and their pressing financial needs, I'm not so sure about this. This would really be the last nail in the trust in public health coffin, and will spread vaccine skepticism to other needed vaccinations on the list. I also think they are vastly underestimating the blow back they are about to receive...the skepticism about the vaccines has really bled beyond just antilockdowner twitter given the number of people who got the vaccine and wound up getting bad cases of COVID (not the sniffles) anyways....in my medical family I've seen faith in public health really shaken among people who were angry at me for my mask-skepticism lockdown-skepticism during the pandemic (my younger brother is still collecting on bets including a $1000 bottle of champagne against my head of cardiology uncle who told him with a 3rd shot he'd never get COVID). We had made a lot of progress with the stupid vaccines cause autism argument....this will torch vaccines for generations to come if they do it.