Children, particularly ages 3 - 10 (with only a slight increase of risk each subsequent year per the NIH's own research), have been largely unaffected by this virus and should not be forced to be subjected to something that has 0 long term studies associated with it. There have been many instances of existing vaccines causing adverse reactions and needing to be altered because of that, DTaP being one of them. DTaP replaced the DTP vaccine due to the number of adverse reactions that were consistently happening and only detected after several years of being administered. Please see reference site below. If tried and tested vaccines can cause adverse reactions and need to be adjusted due to those issues what about ones that have not had time to be thoroughly evaluated? Are we truly willing to subject our children to something where the risks are unknown vs. something where the past 19 months has shown that children are barely impacted? If a child is immunocompromised it should be their choice, along with their parents, and medical professionals to decide what works best for them and which option poses the lowest risk. It is impossible to live a life completely without risk and it is not our responsibility to decide what is the least risky for other people. If the vaccines protect the vaccinated than it should not matter the decision an unvaccinated person makes. Not one country with extremely high vaccination rates has yet to see any success and they are instead pushing boosters; in fact it's the opposite. See the studies out of Israel below. Additionally, research has already shown that it is the vaccines that are causing mutations and that natural immunity is substantially better than any vaccine. It would be most prudent to allow our healthiest population to generate the herd immunity needed in order to limit this virus from further mutating. Finally, ask yourself this, if we can mandate new things like this so quickly under the guise of public health, what else can be done? Freedoms usually don't get taken in one fells swoop but rather by slowly taking things away over a period of time. We need to exercise judicious caution when we start enforcing what rights people can and cannot have and how far we can encroach into civil liberties. If we were truly concerned about the health of our youth we would be focused on the obesity epidemic that is plaguing them and not something they have thus far proved mostly impervious to.
Microsoft Word - Newsletter DPT 5-10.doc (reedschools.org)
Dr. Makary Says Natural Immunity Is More Effective Then Vaccine Immunity (msn.com)
Israel’s COVID outbreak is mostly fully vaccinated people. What’s going on? - Deseret News
Israel's Grim COVID Data Suggests Vaccines Alone Won't Stop Pandemic (msn.com)
COVID-19 mortality rate in children is U-shaped - PubMed (nih.gov)