Why is NEA Pushing COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing for all Students?
By  Yesterday a 13 year old boy died three days after being forced to take a jab. Yet, thanks to Congress, neither the drug company nor the government can be sued. Over 1200 young men, after taking the jab now have life long heart problemsagain, they will be forced to pay for the corruption of the government. Now a union has decided that kids must take a risky experimental drug, or they will not be allowed to get an education. According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Stanford University, and director of Stanfords Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, the COVID vaccine does not benefit children. Speaking on a panel Wednesday, he added that the government cannot use the same argument to mandate the COVID vaccine as the Small Pox vaccine, which was deadly to most. What intent does the state have in mandating in older people? he asked. Health intervention, he said, but added that this vaccine needs a distinction from the MMR or Small Pox vaccines. As for mandating that children must be vaccinated in the fall before going back to school, Bhattacharya said this is deeply, deeply unethical. My calculation is that the vaccine is not that good for children. Theres almost no benefit to children. And everybody agrees with that, he added. In that context, youre just denying children the right to go to school, he said. Its much more harmful for them to skip school, like the last year and a half in California. This union extorted mandate will cause a generation of young people with the potential of early deaths and life long health issuesand the union can not be sued for blackmail, extortion and abuse of children. According to the NEA, COVID-19 has already killed over 600,000 people. Black and Latinx communities have suffered twice the deaths, and this inequality will deepen as variants spread. The pandemic respects no boundaries. We must fight for a policy that puts human life first.  Actually, the COVID pandemic does know boundaries  it stops in children. Children are not vectors for the spread of the COVID-19 virus according to Harvard Health and numerous other studies. According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Stanford University, and director of Stanfords Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, the COVID vaccine does not benefit children. Speaking on a panel Wednesday, he added that the government cannot use the same argument to mandate the COVID vaccine as the Small Pox vaccine, which was deadly to most. What intent does the state have in mandating in older people? he asked. Health intervention, he said, but added that this vaccine needs a distinction from the MMR or Small Pox vaccines. As for mandating that children must be vaccinated in the fall before going back to school, Bhattacharya said this is deeply, deeply unethical. My calculation is that the vaccine is not that good for children. Theres almost no benefit to children. And everybody agrees with that, he added. In that context, youre just denying children the right to go to school, he said. Its much more harmful for them to skip school, like the last year and a half in California.  Are we going to compound that with another year of missed school for kids whose parents say rationally my kids are not going to benefit from this [vaccine]. Why force them to take it? Bhattacharya asked. Its a deeply unethical thing to do, Bhattacharya said. Weve already undermined trust in public education in the country with the policies many of the states have adopted. This will just further that problem.  The mandate itself completely undermines trust in public health, Bhattacharya said. Like if the government is forcing me, then whats wrong with it?  Its perverse, Bhattacharya added. Tell them here are the benefits and risks, heres what it will do. That is the best way to get people to vaccinate when it makes sense.  Parents throughout the country are pushing back against such unnecessary mandates. In California, the California Teachers Association labor union has greatly resisted reopening schools saying, No school in a county where COVID-19 cases and transmission rates are in the Purple tier should be open for in-person instruction.  This turned out to be a shakedown for more funding. Most public schools, if they reopened at all, were only open for in-class instruction two days a week for three hours. Many parents felt that was a total waste and kept students home to finish the year. The CTA never did address that schools throughout the country opened safely to in-classroom learning months ahead of California. It wasnt the virus that kept Californias schools closed  it was politics.