Apart from the obvious hypocrisy of pushing COVID-19 vaccination passports while pushing back even harder against voter IDs, mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports hit hard at the privacy and liberty interests of all Americans and warrant a robust national conversation. As part of that conversation, naysayers must be prepared to respond to the question of why people are reluctant to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations and vaccination passports, but willingly vaccinate their children for common childhood diseases and provide schools with the required documents?
The battery of vaccinations kids receive in order to attend school are targeted to those highest at risk (the children) -- not the entire population, as with COVID. The proof required is strictly for the purpose of going to school -- not for every activity in our lives, as with COVID.
COVID-19 kills less than 0.1% of children up to 17 years and .1% between 18 and 24. The survival rates are 99.997% for 0-19; 99.98% for 20-49; 99.5% for 50-69; and 94.6 % for those over 70. As of December 2020, COVID killed 654children and young adults, with 476 of these in the 18-24 age group. To date, there are no known long-lasting, debilitating side effects that can be linked to Covid-19.
In contrast, measles killed about 2.6 million annually; from 1964 to 1965, rubella caused 11,000 miscarriages, killed 2,100 newborns, and left 20,000 babies with Congenital Rubella Syndrome; before the vaccine, polio disabled more than 35,000 people annually; and the case fatality rate for respiratory diphtheria is 5-10% and up to 20% in children under five and adults over 40.
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