Continuing with the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices slides regarding Moderna and Pfizer vaccine studies for age 6 months to 5 years:
Moderna vaccine appears safer, but much less effective than the Pfizer vaccine to the extent that they can be compared (but see below).
Red flags: Vaccine side effects Grade 3 (interfere with daily activity) and Grade 4 (require ER visit or hospitalization) are reported together, not separately. The studies are not large enough to nail down these rates very well.
"Immunobridging": They deduce that if the Pfizer vaccine gives children similar antibody levels as in teenagers and young adults, then the vaccine will be as effective in children as in young adults. They admit this may not be the case.
One would also want to compare risks.
Also note that the children there got three lower Pfizer doses, versus two higher Pfizer doses in the teenagers and young adults.
Page 59: Myocarditis background rate for children: about 1 to 2 per 100,000. Causes: genetics; viruses.
Page 61: VAERS reports of myocarditis after vaccination, showing a big spike for teenage males.
Page 65 and 66: Estimates of number of children needed to be vaccinated to prevent one hospitalization. Again, the risk of hospitalization from COVID and the risk of hospitalization from side effects of the vaccine are roughly equal.
Page 67: "Vaccination in this age group may also provide parents with increased
confidence to return to pre-pandemic activities, improving social interactions in young children"
Page 69: Vaccine effectiveness was reduced because testing was conducted during the Omicron wave.
Page 70 and 71, Anticipated benefits and harms: It is important to understand that the actual benefits are likely to decrease over time, while the actual harms are likely to be greater than anticipated.
Page 74: Red flag: Ethnic breakdown of parental attitude survey is one-third white, one-third black, and one-third Hispanic, which is very different from the actual US demographics of young US children. Also skewed toward parents of girls, and towards college-educated parents.
Only about one-fifth of surveyed parents (skewed toward leftist) said they would seek vaccination for their child as soon as it was made available.
Page 93: Last bullet point, "will live"--they are thinking ahead to jabbing children who are not even born yet.
Page 94: It is actually the desirable effects that are in the short term, and there may be undesirable effects that are lurking in the future.
Page 107: Vaccination plans and demographics. Suburban and urban areas are disappointingly equal here in COVID vaccine acceptance; Hispanics and blacks are much lower than I would have expected, but they are heavily outnumbered by white liberals.
Pages 109 and 110: Findings from black and Hispanic parents in focus groups are reported separately, while findings from white parents are not.
Page 122, Summary: 99.9999% of COVID victims in this age range survive, but they still recommend vaccination.
In earlier pages, they recommended strong medical pressure, informative propaganda, ubiquity, and possibly coercion be applied to achieve that.
Page 123: 18.7 million children to start with.
They anticipate a need for boosters.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2022-06-17-18/03-COVID-Oliver-508.pdf
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
