I commented on this piece before but I may have failed to convey how nauseating I found it. The science behind it – if there were any – is shoddy at best, but pushing the idea that children are “disease reservoirs” for adults, like ticks, fleas or cockroaches is just disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/ggTku2K4LQ
— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) October 18, 2021
“Infected children are potential “reservoirs” for the evolution of new variants as well as potential spreaders of current variants Kids with COVID-19, even if asymptomatic, are infectious and can harbor SARS-CoV-2 variants. Variants could potentially impact both the severity of the disease and the efficacy of vaccines, as we are seeing with the Delta variant. When we cultured the live virus, we found a wide variety of genetic variants. New variants have the potential to be more contagious and also make kids sicker.”
Lael Yonker, pediatric pulmonologist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital
Children could be dangerous carriers of virus (Harvard Gazette)
Ramping up the rhetoric to justify jabbing children soon
It’s like an entirely predictable playbook. Oddly though, it is those who have been wrong in their predictions of how events would unfold who are the ones going around claiming to be “following the science”, whilst those who have been correctly predicting the path of this pandemic are dismissed as conspiraloons.
what a load of Balloux.
Typical of the ‘Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children!’ hysterical nonsense beloved of Quanon.
So, should we take this to mean you would support the vaccination of all under 12s then? Is there an age you would cut off at, and if so, why?
True. They all do.
Not wishing to poke fun at the prof’s name; but for a moment I expected a spoof.
Well if you’re not willing to poke fun, I’m not willing to laugh.
Broadsheet used to be a dangerous carrier of infectious laughter, but it got better.
you fixed that Nig !
Well I’m glad I’ve been warned. My children are now safely vacuum wrapped in plastic bags until I can get them stuffed.
Phew!
filthy little hobbits
A plastic bag can also transmit Covid 19 for 72 hours if a Covid sufferer sneezes it or licks it
Beware of that toilet seat lads
…Prof Bollox…is he anything to Rev Todd Unction?