The pandemic revealed the most cowardly society of all time

The data made it clear: it would be necessary to vaccinate between 30,000 and 40,000 young people to prevent a single Covid hospitalization in this group. However, those vaccinations resulted in 18.5 serious adverse events - including myocarditis and pericarditis - which in turn caused between 1.5 and 4.6 hospitalizations. In other words, the number of hospitalizations caused by vaccine adverse events would exceed the number of Covid hospitalizations that would be prevented.

Children and young people as human shields

The elderly control power: governments, corporations, and the media. The elderly were the real at-risk group. The elderly ordered children and young people - who were at very low risk from the disease - to get vaccinated under the pretext of "protecting grandma." In other words, protecting themselves. All of it based on unproven propaganda, as the Pfizer executive and the EMA director openly admitted, that the vaccines would reduce transmission.

Only one government health authority ever came close to a disguised apology for once having recommended Covid-19 vaccines for children and adolescents. That was Denmark's Health Minister, Søren Brostrøm, in early 2022. He did it because he had once recommended the vaccine for children and adolescents aged 5 to 17. Even before Prasad's study, in a TV interview commenting on the Danish government's decision to end the program, Brostrøm said: "With the benefit of hindsight, we didn't gain much from expanding the vaccination program to children in terms of epidemic control. But that's with the benefit of hindsight."

Yet in many countries, where there was plenty of product available, they went the opposite way and started recommending Covid vaccines for babies from 6 months of age - as happened in the United States and Brazil.

A side note: Brazil went even further and, starting in 2023, made Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for babies - becoming the only country in the world to do so. In other words, Brazil turned itself into a dumping ground for pharmaceutical products rejected everywhere else. After all, in the US, even though it was recommended for babies from 6 months, fewer than 5% of parents complied.

Second side note: now, in 2025, the United States has withdrawn that recommendation, aligning itself with most European countries. But in Brazil, this insane mandate still remains in force.

My own experience

In early 2023, shocked by the absurdity of Brazil being the only country in the world to make Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for all babies from 6 months of age - on top of many schools and universities still requiring it for enrollment - I got into a discussion with a pediatrician who is also a pharmacist and professor of medicine at one of Brazil's most prestigious federal universities. I genuinely believed that simply showing the latest scientific evidence would be more than enough for every university in Brazil to take an official institutional stand against it, and that this governmental madness would collapse.

During the exchange, I sent him the link to an article in Science titled "Does Covid-19 vaccination still make sense to mandate?" Published in March 2023 and written by Science's Germany correspondent, it stated: "It has become clear that vaccine-induced immunity quickly loses its ability to prevent infection and onward transmission of the most recent variants," the author concluded.

The professor - who is over 60 - complained that the piece in Science was not a peer-reviewed research paper where he could check the methods, results, and discussion; it was merely a news/opinion article: "This is just a report by Gretchen Vogel pointing out the need to review certain vaccination criteria, but it does not invalidate the vaccines' importance in pandemic control," he replied.

Since the professor demanded a proper scientific paper with all the calculations and methods, I immediately sent him Prasad's study - the one showing that 30,000 to 40,000 young people would need to be vaccinated to prevent a single Covid hospitalization, while generating roughly 18 serious adverse events and causing between 1.5 and 5 hospitalizations due to cardiac problems in those same young people.

The professor did not deny the serious side effects or the heart problems. He simply thought of something else: "They did not discuss the risk of disease transmission to susceptible (vulnerable) contacts in that environment or in households. The paper did not question the vaccines' protective effect and their positive impact on the pandemic."

And the effectiveness drops quickly…and even turns negative

Just a few months later, in mid-2023, the Cleveland Clinic - one of the largest hospital systems in the United States - published a study examining vaccine effectiveness among its more than 50,000 employees. They compared unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals, and also compared the effect in those who had received few versus all recommended doses.