Guest essay by Eric Worrall
If you live in Washington DC, and your child comes home a bit wobbly, there is a chance the school you entrust with their care just gave them a clandestine Covid jab. Without talking to you about it first, or even warning you afterwards to keep a close watch on your child for adverse vaccine reactions.
Parents Take Aim At D.C. Law That Lets Minors Get Vaccinated Without Permission
July 19, 2021
D.C. parents are suing city officials over a new law that allows children 11 and older to acquire vaccines without permission from parents.
Four parents of students at several public schools — both traditional and charter — said giving children the autonomy to get immunized on their own violates parents’ rights and religious freedom, according to a July 12 lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington.
“All parents have a right to be directly involved in medical decision-making about their children,” said James Mason, an attorney representing the parents.
It is the second lawsuit brought in recent weeks by parents who want the federal court to strike down the law, which went into effect in March.
The D.C. Council voted 10-3 in November to allow minors to give their own consent for vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even if a parent has filed a religious exemption.
It is unclear if or how the legal challenges will affect the city’s efforts to inoculate youth against the coronavirus before the next academic year starts.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/07/19/1017879942/parents-take-aim-at-d-c-law-that-lets-minors-get-vaccinated-without-permission
Just in case you think this story is too absurd to be true, you can read the bill granting 11yr olds explicit right to consent, “B23-0171 – Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2019“, on the District of Columbia Council Website.
What about my claim that the law authorises “clandestine” medical procedures? Councillor Vincent Gray attached the following amendment to the original law:
“The provider shall notify the insurer that the immunization has been provided under the authority of this section.”
Rationale: This amendment requires the provider to notify the insurer that the immunization has been provided under the authority of the “Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020”, so the insurer will know that they should not send an Explanation of Benefits (EOB) for the vaccination. Without this amendment, the insurer would not be on notice that they needed to refrain from sending the EOB.
Read more: https://lims.dccouncil.us/downloads/LIMS/42000/Other/B23-0171-Gray_Amendment_-_B23-171.pdf
I’m not a lawyer, but the above amendment appears to be an instruction to insurers to not send an Explanation of Benefits to the policy holders, in this case the parents. This appears to be an instruction not to inform the parents that a medical procedure has been performed on their child.
To say I am shocked is an understatement.
An 11 year old is not capable of giving informed consent. I remember what I was like at age 11 – I mostly did what the teacher told me to do. I was a kid, and that is what good kids do – they obey adult authority figures.
The idea that a school can administer a non-emergency medical treatment which could injure or in rare cases even kill a child, without talking to the parents about it, or providing any warning to watch for side effects or adverse reactions, in my opinion is a total breach of trust.
Update (EW): h/t Bob Tisdale – Fixed a typo in the first paragraph.
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These are the same people who in order to eliminate racism, want to teach kids that all minorities are victims and all whites are oppressors.
As a physician, if I did this I would expect to be disciplined by my college, possibly sued by parents, and would personally lose confidence in my own judgment and my commitment to the wellbeing and autonomy of my patients. CoVID vaccines may well be very effective at preventing infection, illness and death from the virus, though our understanding is still early days. They are not approved in the sense of having met every regulatory requirement for proof of efficacy and safety. They are being used under emergency approval only and should be considered experimental.
Everyone who receives the vaccine (I have had two shots myself) needs to be fully informed of the risks and benefits, made aware that they are not yet fully approved, and provide fully informed consent before receiving the shot. 11 year olds are not in a position to provide informed consent for a research procedure and their parents or guardians must be involved in the decision.
Yes, vaccines are part of a risk management protocol, and people should critically review the available facts, weight the benefits, and, whether it is a vaccine, a therapeutic treatment, or behavioral change, decide how to minimize their individual risk.
When you hear 99% of those who are hospitalized or die are not vaccinated, know this is one of the tricks they’re playing: not fully vaccinated (i.e., received 1st, but not 2nd ClotShot) = not vaccinated.
Thread…
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1418553854476627970
It’s worse then that. The fully vaccinated are getting the wuflu very rapidly. And many are suffering.
https://t.co/rKBfm91l3x?amp=1
Also, the CDC intentionally no longer tracks infection cases in “fully vaccinated”, thus 99% of all new cases are “unvaccinated.” New Speak at its perfection.
… and cut way down on testing of the vaccinated.
And.
There is no difference in this and in giving gender changing drug treatments to prepubescent kids who express confusion
Even worse some places trying to forced sex change operations on 5 year olds with no parental consent. If some crazy school psychologist decides that the sex change operation will take place then parents cannot stop it.
They cannot change an individual’s sex, but they can simulate the opposite gender: masculine, feminine (i.e. physical and mental sex-correlated attributes) through transgender (e.g. homosexual, neogender, quasigender) conversion therapy, including surgical, medical, psychiatric, popular corruption. It’s all very politically congruent (“=”).
The parents have a slam-dunk winning case in the courts. Not even a question. But then chalk it up to Democrats simply being Democrat authoritarians on the DC Council. They think they know what’s best for every one else, including their money and now their children.
Democrats are by religious (e.g. moral, ethical, quasi-legal) conviction prone to normalize wicked solutions to what they purport are hard problems. That said, the secular incentives are attractive. Consumer beware.
Beware of DC judges.
11 year olds are not getting vaccinated, because the schools are certainly following the rules to only give vaccines to children of ages that the vaccines are approved for, which is 12 years old and older. Also, I think that a 12 year old can give consent to a beneficial medical treatment that is being withheld by parents on basis of religion; there is past precedence in the courts for children to get medical treatments that parents deny their children on religious grounds.
The negative religious (e.g. “moral”, “ethical”) attribution is a pejorative in modern use and a straw clown that is commonly deployed in modern apologies. The issue is risk management; affordable,available, effect treatments; the lack of well-established risk profiles (i.e. commonly 10 years or more for vaccines), are associated with excess adverse events including progressive viability (i.e. death). People are understandably critical when the majority of the population is either immune or otherwise resistant to infection and disease progression, and the risk of emergency use treatments exceeds the risk of the disease. Also, there is evidence that the vaccines misdirect the immune system to reduce broad-based immunity acquired through conventional means. There are diverse reasons to avoid these vaccines in the general population, and people pushing them need to be recognized and held accountable.
Translation: I think kids should be allowed to ignore their parents wishes, so long as it increases state power.
You didn’t follow the links given in the article ?
What of the risk of anaphylaxis in administering a vaccine without medical history? What happens if the child refuses consent? I thought the vaccine was only authorized for use by ages 12+. This is absolutely abhorrent.
Here in Australia, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has just approved the Pfizer vaccine for children between 12 – 15 years of age. I am hoping parents refuse to allow their children to be “vaxed” without their permission, ie, when at school.
50 years from now the headline will read “OUTRAGE! Government secretly gave experimental vaccine to minority students in DC without parental consent” and then blame the white man.
Something else that is swept under the rug: miscarriages caused by the gene treatments. The number is huge.
I remember a report of a very high number of miscarriages in the first or second trimester. I Don’t know where it was from.
….when all is said and done, when as much of the truth that can be discovered arrives at humanity’s consciousness….when the real death toll is known….I don’t think the word “rare” will apply. In this context, I think the word “rare” is immoral to begin with, regardless of your mathematical rationalizations. If it was you, your child or loved one…rare wouldn’t cover it.
How so? 100 percent of us die. In life one must make choices, and knowing the chances of negative outcomes is necessary for wise discrimination.
Wuflu deaths or harms are very rare in children.
Vaccine deaths or harms may be very rare in children.
Choices required.