Singapore's Kerdang Kerbau Hospital is conducting a clinical on children age 5-11 using Pfizer/Moderna vaccines in lower dosage. Actually it is recruiting children for this trial and very likely the parents would be making the decision, ie, giving consent for the trial.
So far no one from the animal lovers community is protesting. They used to protest against the use of animals like guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, dogs and cats for clinical trials. Why are they reticent in this case? My guess, the guinea pigs and other animals did not give their consent and cannot protest on their own. So it is natural and good that they need the assistance of human beans to protest and object for them. Animal lovers also cannot protest as children are not animals, so not within their areas of interest and concern.
In this case if the children were recruited into the programme, they surely would have obtained the consent of their parents. At these tender age, the children would not be able to give their own consent and rightfully the wiser parents would have to consent on their behalf, knowing what is good or bad for them.
So, for those people protesting in the social media, they may be barking up the wrong tree. When the parents of these children are willing to give their consent for the use of this experimental vaccine, why should they be protesting? It is not their children that are undergoing the trial. And as they said, the benefits outweigh the risk. Everything is done legally.
I really cannot think of any good reason to protest when it is like a willing buyer willing seller case., like two consenting adults saying ok. The govt surely knows that this is done for a good cause. The parents too would know the risk and the goodness of this trial. They would surely exercise good judgement on behalf of their dear children.
Wondering why they did not choose to use the Chinese vaccines that are safer, using traditional method to produce and with inactivated virus. Just wondering.
God bless them. This is uniquely Singapore.
PS. With or without this trial, the govt is going to vaccinate all the school going children after the school holiday, in January 2022. Ong Ye Kung said early next year. Please correct me if I am wrong on this vaccination plan for children. Not sure if parental consent would be needed or the parents can opt their children out of it. Or is it compulsory or otherwise. Maybe not compulsory but there will be restrictions for those not vaccinated like the case of the adults. Let's wait for the official announcement.
Latest in the news, the children would be under observation for 15 months. Does this mean no compulsory vaccination until the trial is over? Also, the reporter said the vaccine is 96% effective in preventing infection. I hope I heard this clearly on CNA.
And good news, the silly boy PM of Canada approved the vaccination of children using mRNA vaccines. Now we can quote this silly boy PM and go ahead with the vaccination of children. If clever white men said ok, then must be ok. When they said 96% efficacy, then must be so.