Today, YouTube, and its parent company Google, have been moved to the Red List of the Children’s Union’s traffic light system of child welfare, signalling that they pose a grave and immediate threat to the welfare of children.
Censorship The decision follows repeated censorship of content, posted on the platform, aimed at protecting children and saving lives. The Red-List is part of traffic light system to indicate to parents whether an organisation behaves in a responsible way with regards to children, or endangers them. In an open letter sent yesterday to Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, and to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, the Children’s Union details the site’s policy failings, as well as offering the opportunity to appeal against the decision.
The letter draws attention to the internal conflicts within YouTube’s own covid policies, and its arrogant and foolish censorship of genuine experts.
It reads: “What you are actually doing is no different to putting your hand over the mouth of medical experts – people who have spent their whole careers trying to save lives – gagging them just when they are raising the alarm on behalf of children’s safety.” “As YouTube has so risibly demonstrated, even an internet colossus with all its resources, is incapable of determining even an internally coherent ‘truth’. Its overt deference to authority is surely proof that it simply does not know.”
Among its recommendation, the Children’s Union proposes that YouTube “review and revise all [its] policies on the basis that [it] has no reliable mechanism for distinguishing fact from fiction.”
Commenting on the decision, Ross Butler said, “These Silicon Valley giants believe that any opinion, no matter how informed or evidence-based, that erodes trust in ‘the authorities’ is dangerous and must be censored. Such opinions are dangerous, but only to incompetent authorities. Of which, YouTube is one.”
“Between them, YouTube and Google have become the largest sources of misinformation in the world, cravenly upholding only authorised positions, no matter how internally inconsistent or empirically false.”
“When a technology company can decide whether a highly experienced paediatrician or professor of immunology is allowed to speak or not, that company is a threat to children everywhere. So today, YouTube is red-listed.”
The Children’s Union has also released a video of the letter being read, which is posted (for now) on YouTube and Odysee.
A panel of British professors, doctors and medical experts from the Children’s Covid Advisory Group (CCVAC) has presented new evidence about the unfavourable risk-benefit balance of the Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine for children.
At the official launch of the CCVAC at an event in London, the panel revealed:
An unexplained rise in deaths of teenage boys correlating with Pfizer vaccine roll-out.
Risk-benefit of Pfizer vaccination is many times worse for children.
Vaccinating the youth increases chances of vaccine-resistant variants, increasing the risk for elderly and vulnerable.
The evidence was presented at 4pm yesterday, after the JCVI refused to accept delivery from CCVAC chair Dr Ros Jones of the new evidence, compiled from official sources in the UK and internationally.
Health Security Agency locks down
Just prior to the press conference, four members of the Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council (CCVAC) visited the UKHSA headquarters of the JCVI in London, pre-agreed the day before by the UKHSA, to hand-deliver a letter written by 92 doctors, professors and scientists and co-signed by more than 700 healthcare professionals.
On arrival at the main entrance, the building that also houses the UK’s Health Security Agency, went into lockdown and the four doctors were denied access to the main reception for 40 minutes, along with all other visitors to the public building that spans 22 London postal addresses.
The letter was subsequently handed over to a security manager in the street outside the UKHSA by an intermediary.
The letter calls for a pause to the roll-out for children and an urgent investigation into new, concerning safety signals.
Dr Ros Jones, retired Consultant Paediatrician, said, “When assessing whether to give any medical intervention to children, it’s crucial to ensure that the benefit to the recipient clearly outweighs the risks. In this case, the latest evidence strongly suggests the risks for children may be greater than any possible benefit. On top of this, we do not yet know the long-term implications of the covid vaccinations for children’s immune function or their overall health.”
Professor David Livermore, Professor of Medical Microbiology at East Anglia University, said, “Having worked as Director of Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring for Public Health England for many years, the parallels with antibiotic resistance are clear. Using antibiotics when they are not needed increases the risk of antibiotic resistant strains spreading, for it gives them an advantage. The same risk applies with viruses and antibodies.
“Most of the young have been infected now. That is the best route to robust, lasting immunity for children, who have minimal risk of severe COVID. Vaccines give briefer, narrower, protection and are tailored to the Wuhan strain; they are leaky against omicron already. Using them where they aren’t needed is just encouraging the virus to evolve further, and unpredictably.”
Professor Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St George’s, University of London, said, “Whilst the vaccination for the initial variants clearly helped older and at risk patients, it is clear that young people have very effective T-cell responses (which wane in older patients), but which are very effective in protecting young people and children with the Omicron variant, giving minimum disease and very good immunity. The immunity is not only superior to any of the vaccines (with the majority of young people already exposed to natural infection) but there is clear evidence that vaccines in young adults and children are causing significant side effects with myocarditis occurring many more times than natural infection. It cannot therefore be justified to expose them to a vaccine that clearly gives unacceptable side effects in the short run and could be associated with significant long term harm.”
Dr Clare Craig, Diagnostic Pathologist said, “when there is no benefit to the children being vaccinated it is important to thoroughly investigate any signals of harm. There is a concerning signal of raised non-covid mortality in young men, of unknown cause, which needs investigating. Our experience of harm from Pandemrix vaccine after swine flu in 2009 should teach us that evidence of harm can take years to accumulate and apparently minor signals should not be ignored.”
Dr Elizabeth Evans, Director of the UK Medical Freedom Alliance discussed the ethics of giving Covid vaccines to children and highlighted the importance of the Hippocratic Oath to “First do no harm”. She said,
“The possibility of detrimental health effects coming to light after a few years is plausible and this is why the vaccine manufacturers requested – and were – granted full immunity from future side-effects.
“If this risk is significant enough for the manufacturers to be unwilling to accept economic risk, then we cannot allow our children to take the same health risk with their long-term health, especially when, for children, the benefits of doing so appear to be highly speculative.”
About the CCVAC
The Children’s Covid Vaccine Advisory Council is a panel of British scientists, doctors and medical experts, including several of the country’s leading professors in medicine, microbiology and risk, as well as specialists in public health, emergency medicine, paediatrics, infectious disease and primary care.
CCAG invites government advisers to urgent meeting and review
Latest data shows Pfizer vaccine increases risk of omicron infection
New ONS data indicates 2-3 excess deaths per week of teenage boys, correlating with vaccine rollout
Roll-out to children is therefore all risk and no benefit
The Children’s Covid Advisory Group (CCAG) has written to the government’s advisory body on vaccination, the JCVI, and the UK’s Chief Medical Officers, to request an urgent meeting and an immediate pause to the roll-out of covid vaccines to children, pending the results of a public inquiry.
The request comes in light of new evidence of a safety signal in young males suggesting increasing fatalities that has not been investigated by regulators.
In the context of new evidence from the Health Security Agency that the covid vaccine recipients are at a greater risk of infection with omicron than the unvaccinated, the CCAG writes “the time has come to pause and acknowledge there is no emergency for children.”
Meanwhile, “on the risk side of the balance sheet,” the group reports a catalogue of new data from around the world that shows the risks of serious adverse reactions are shockingly high, particularly among boys. Data from Hong Kong showed 1 in 2680 boys aged 12-17 developing myocarditis after their second Pfizer shot, a potentially life-threatening inflammation of the heart muscle and they have moved to a single dose regime. Also “very worrying” report from the CDC on 5- to 11-year-olds, showed 100 children with “serious adverse events”, including myocarditis, seizures and death. “This in itself, is a reason to review,” wrote the group.
The group notes that members wrote to the government’s advisers and the regulator, the MHRA, in January, requesting an urgent investigation of the acknowledged increase in all-cause mortality in males aged 15-19 since the Pfizer covid vaccine rollout began for them in May 2021. “It is very disappointing not to have received any response”, they wrote.
The group requests that the government’s advisers conduct a review of “the risk/benefit analysis, without delay”; and to cease any further roll-out pending the results of that review.
Dr Ros Jones, retired paediatrician and convener of the CCAG, said: “In the context of a temporary use authorisation, the utmost care is required to identify any safety signals quickly, the precautionary principle must apply, and an immediate pause be implemented. In the face of omicron, this vaccine offers children all risk and no benefit.
“That means a single vaccine injury or death in a child would be inexcusable. And yet the possibility that there might already be a hidden number of adolescent deaths is unconscionable. The balance of evidence favours natural immunity. It’s time to pause the roll-out.”
She added: “If the current situation had existed six months ago, there would have been no case made for commencing routine rollout for healthy children. What we are witnessing is a form of medical apathy and political path dependency. Our children deserve better. Now, at a time when it is proposed that even those testing positive for omicron do not need to isolate, we are continuing to put children at risk with a vaccine they simply do not need.”
Professor Angus Dalgleish of St Georges Hospital, London said: “”It is vital that as the facts change, the advice does accordingly. Covid is no more a problem in children than other childhood respiratory diseases and yet the data continue to confirm that more young people are suffering serious cardiac damage than can ever be justified. I myself know of two such cases which used to be the definition of common”
This is the second letter the JCVI has received in recent days urging for the child covid vaccine roll-out to be paused. On Thursday 10 February, a separate group of 30 MPs, doctors and scientists, wrote that “we find it genuinely remarkable that, given the prior JCVI concerns, formal studies have not been put in place during the rollout in these age groups with acknowledged limited benefit and significant knowledge gaps regarding safety.”
About the CCAG
The Children’s Covid Advisory Group comprises a wide number of health professionals and scientists including several of the country’s leading professors in medicine, microbiology and risk, as well as specialists in public health, emergency medicine, paediatrics, infectious disease and primary care. They include:
Professor Keith Willison, PhD, Professor of Chemical Biology, Imperial, London
Professor David Livermore, BSc, PhD, Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of East Anglia
Professor Anthony J Brookes, Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science, University of Leicester
Professor Richard Ennos, MA, PhD. Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Professor Angus Dalgleish, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPath, FMed Sci, Professor of Oncology, St Georges Hospital, London
Professor John Fairclough FRCS FFSEM retired Honorary Consultant Surgeon
Professor Norman Fenton, CEng, CMath, PhD, FBCS, MIET, Professor of Risk Information Management, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Anthony Fryer, PhD FRCPath, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry
Lord Moonie, MBChB, MRCPsych, MFCM, MSc, House of Lords, former parliamentary under-secretary of state 2001-2003, former consultant in Public Health Medicine
Dr Theresa Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD, Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd, Bath
Dr John Flack, BPharm, PhD. Retired Director of Safety Evaluation, Beecham Pharmaceuticals
1980-1989 and Senior Vice-president for Drug Discovery 1990-92 SmithKline Beecham
Dr Roland Salmon, MB BS, MRCGP, FFPH, Former Director, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Wales
Dr Alan Mordue, MBChB, FFPH. Retired Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Epidemiology
Dr Gerry Quinn, PhD. Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology and immunology
