uTobian | 7 Mar 2022
Evidence suggests that the Cult of Vaccine has become a profound mental illness akin to schizophrenia or dissociative disorder
Berenson has already written about this. Ann Tomoko Rosen wrote a good piece about it too. But this NY Times Op Ed is so pathological that I wanted to spend some time examining its errors and the wider lessons that stem from its publication.
The title alone is a warning that this article is going to be a doozy!
I’m a Parent and a Statistician. There’s a Smarter Way to Think About the Under-5 Vaccine.
That sort of framing is exactly how paid Pharma trolls on Twitter construct their tweets. “I’m a mom of three kids and deeply skeptical of authority but I desperately want the FDA to approve more injections for kids or I’m going to pull my hair out.” And then you click on their profile and notice that they do not have a profile photo, only have 10 followers, and every tweet reads like a drug commercial. Anytime they lead with this sort of demographic virtue signaling, proceed with caution.
The purported author of this piece, Aubrey Clayton, claims to be a “mathematical statistics researcher” with three children under four years old. I’m not sure what to make of his squishy job title. But I will take him at his word that he has three children. He does not mention whether these children have any chronic illnesses but let’s assume that they are healthy. For some strange reason, Mr. Clayton desperately wants to inject them with genetically modified mRNA:
As a parent of three children under 4, I was hit hard by last month’s announcement that the Food and Drug Administration was delaying its review of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for children under 5.
Like that of many caregivers guarding young children against the coronavirus, my winter has been full of rapid tests, mask reorders and outdoor play dates in borderline frostbite conditions. I’m able to manage this because I believe it’s temporary; we just need to hold out a little longer until our children can get vaccinated.
So Mr. Clayton is Very Afraid(TM) and he wants us to know that the only cure for his fright is to inject toxic, experimental, genetically modified mRNA into his kids.
Already it’s clear that Mr. Clayton does not understand statistics nor risk. And there are hints that he may have Stockholm Syndrome + Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
At this point I think it’s important to lay out the facts before Mr. Clayton gets drunk on unicorn sauce and starts trying to smash the furniture.
➡️ According to the Lancet, the infection fatality rate (IFR) from coronavirus in all children age seven and younger is 0.0023%. Nearly all fatalities in this age group had one or more underlying health conditions. With the emergence of the Omicron variant, the IFR is even lower.
➡️ 58% of kids already have natural immunity,
➡️ PCR tests have a 90% false positive rate. Many rapid antigen tests were not very good at detecting the Omicron variant.
➡️ Masking kids is not supported by the scientific evidence.
➡️ The Pfizer vaccine has already failed TWO clinical trials in this age group. Pfizer and the FDA acknowledge that this shot provides no protection for children.
➡️ There are already 8,817 reports of injuries from the Pfizer shot in kids 5 to 11 in the four months since this shot was given Emergency Use Authorization. This is the most dangerous vaccine in the history of the U.S. vaccine program.
