What sparked this controversy, other than the obvious fact that the recommendations is batsh&t crazy, is a segment from the Tucker Carlson show in which the eponymous host said “The CDC is about to add the Covid vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”
Both the CDC and Reuters went crazy over this “misinformation.” The CDC correctly notes that they alone cannot mandate any particular vaccine standard for public schools because the final decision is made by the individual states. What they fail to include in their explanation is the fact that a significant number of states–12 or more–just cut and paste those recommendations into their requirements.
Hence the CDC–in these cases at least–is effectively mandating the COVID vaccine for students in those states. And it’s not like the CDC doesn’t like it that way. The whole point of the recommendations is to get everybody to adopt them. It’s not some passive academic exercise–these are recommendations in the same way all such recommendations are: if you don’t do this you are engaged in a dereliction of duty.
The effect of the CDC’s decision goes even further than that since most physicians take their guidance from the CDC and they, in turn, present that guidance to the parents as sound medical advice. By recommending the vaccine in this manner they are ensuring that vast numbers of children will be given this vaccine despite the fact that at least a plurality of the world’s public health advisors think that is a questionable, perhaps even harmful idea.
Denmark, to take just one example, isn’t even offering the COVID vaccine to people who are under 50 years old. Fifty. 5-0. Unless you have an affirmative reason to get the vaccine, you simply can’t.
Yet in the US we are going down to 5 years old. This is insane.
Even vaccine proponents think so, and many are speaking up.
