“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven...
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak…”
Ecclesiastes 3
What are the duties required in the sixth commandment?
“The duties required in the sixth commandment are, all careful studies, and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life of ourselves and others by...
protecting and defending the innocent.”
Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 13
Dear Friends,
I am very concerned about both the UK and Scottish Governments’ plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccinations to school children aged 12-15 years old and feel an obligation before God to raise these concerns with you - at the very least, as a matter for prayer.
Evidence has shown (and Governments around the world have frequently stated) that children are at very low (in fact, almost zero) risk from Covid-19. Indeed, a recent study in England concluded that there were 25 deaths from Covid-19 amongst the under-18 age group between March 2020 and February 2021. Of those who died, about 15 of them were said to be individuals with “underlying complex disability with high health-care needs, such as tube feeding or assistance with breathing.” In short, children have an approximately 2 in a million chance of dying from Covid. Moreover, just last week the UK Government’s own advisory board, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JVI), said that at the present time, it did not support this mass roll out to children, partly due to concerns over cases of myocarditis and the blood clotting side-effect of one of the vaccines. This raises the very serious subject of the potential dangers posed by the vaccinations themselves.
As you are no doubt aware, the drugs currently being administered are experimental and authorised for emergency use only. These have not completed their medical/safety trials [1] and, as such, there are many unknowns concerning the possibility of serious adverse reactions – particularly in the medium/longer term. Since all previous vaccines developed for coronaviruses have been halted on the basis that they lacked efficacy or were causing serious adverse reactions, there is no place here for complacency. Long-term sequelae remain unknown, but based on previous experience there is cause for caution: the Pandemrix vaccine for Swine Flu caused very serious life-long neurological damage to many children in 2009, yet these things came to light only many months after administration.
What is most alarming in the case of the drugs now being administered, is that there has already been a huge volume of potential short-term adverse reactions reported to medical databases throughout the world. In the USA, the VAERS database shows more adverse reactions to these novel inoculations in just a few months than to all other vaccines reported over the previous 30 years put together. Moreover, it is being reported these have possibly caused the deaths of thousands of people throughout the world: the CDC reports over 11,000 deaths in the USA; EudraVigilance reports just over 20,000 deaths in Europe and the UK’s Yellow Card system has reported over 1500 deaths along with hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions. Depending on which authority one listens to, actual figures may be between 10 and 100 times more than those reported. To put this in perspective, the vaccine for Swine Flu was withdrawn after just 25 deaths were reported.
It is not my role to tell people whether they should or should not receive a certain medicine, whether it be a “vaccine”, booster” or some other form of medical treatment (although nor is that the role of Government either!). We each have to make our own decisions according to our conscience before God on these matters. However, I do have a responsibility – as do you – to do whatever we can preserve the lives of others, particularly when it comes to those who cannot speak up for themselves. Were it the case that receiving these injections provided immunity from both catching and passing on Covid-19, then an argument could be made for their mass roll out, (although, serious moral questions would still need to be raised as to whether we want to be the kind of society that is willing to put our children at risk in order to protect adults). But that is simply not the case. The recent publication of technical briefing no. 20 by Public Health England showed that 65% of those who died from Covid-19 had been fully vaccinated. This corroborates with data from other highly vaccinated countries, such as Iceland and Israel. [2]
In consideration of these facts, I am persuaded that the decision to encourage – if not, coerce – young children into receiving these experimental medicines would, at best, constitute an act of gross negligence of a very serious kind. Indeed, a Dundee-based Christian Doctor recently stated: “Should our authorities continue the mass immunisation program and include children, then surely they will be guilty of crimes against humanity, breaching the Nuremburg Code of 1947 and therefore should be brought to justice.” [3]
At the very least, please bring all of this to the throne of grace in prayer. Pray that governments of the world would be brought to a fear of God and that they would make decisions on the basis of what is right, true and pleasing in His sight. Pray that the next generation would be afforded the same freedoms that we have enjoyed for so long and kept safe from potentially harmful medicines that they do not need in the first place. Above all, pray that the Lord would have mercy on our world, revive His bride, give discernment to His people and glorify His own name through the furtherance of the gospel.
With my love and concern in Christ,
Paul Gibson
I am very concerned about both the UK and Scottish Governments’ plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccinations to school children aged 12-15 years old and feel an obligation before God to raise these concerns with you - at the very least, as a matter for prayer.
Evidence has shown (and Governments around the world have frequently stated) that children are at very low (in fact, almost zero) risk from Covid-19. Indeed, a recent study in England concluded that there were 25 deaths from Covid-19 amongst the under-18 age group between March 2020 and February 2021. Of those who died, about 15 of them were said to be individuals with “underlying complex disability with high health-care needs, such as tube feeding or assistance with breathing.” In short, children have an approximately 2 in a million chance of dying from Covid. Moreover, just last week the UK Government’s own advisory board, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JVI), said that at the present time, it did not support this mass roll out to children, partly due to concerns over cases of myocarditis and the blood clotting side-effect of one of the vaccines. This raises the very serious subject of the potential dangers posed by the vaccinations themselves.
As you are no doubt aware, the drugs currently being administered are experimental and authorised for emergency use only. These have not completed their medical/safety trials [1] and, as such, there are many unknowns concerning the possibility of serious adverse reactions – particularly in the medium/longer term. Since all previous vaccines developed for coronaviruses have been halted on the basis that they lacked efficacy or were causing serious adverse reactions, there is no place here for complacency. Long-term sequelae remain unknown, but based on previous experience there is cause for caution: the Pandemrix vaccine for Swine Flu caused very serious life-long neurological damage to many children in 2009, yet these things came to light only many months after administration.
What is most alarming in the case of the drugs now being administered, is that there has already been a huge volume of potential short-term adverse reactions reported to medical databases throughout the world. In the USA, the VAERS database shows more adverse reactions to these novel inoculations in just a few months than to all other vaccines reported over the previous 30 years put together. Moreover, it is being reported these have possibly caused the deaths of thousands of people throughout the world: the CDC reports over 11,000 deaths in the USA; EudraVigilance reports just over 20,000 deaths in Europe and the UK’s Yellow Card system has reported over 1500 deaths along with hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions. Depending on which authority one listens to, actual figures may be between 10 and 100 times more than those reported. To put this in perspective, the vaccine for Swine Flu was withdrawn after just 25 deaths were reported.
It is not my role to tell people whether they should or should not receive a certain medicine, whether it be a “vaccine”, booster” or some other form of medical treatment (although nor is that the role of Government either!). We each have to make our own decisions according to our conscience before God on these matters. However, I do have a responsibility – as do you – to do whatever we can preserve the lives of others, particularly when it comes to those who cannot speak up for themselves. Were it the case that receiving these injections provided immunity from both catching and passing on Covid-19, then an argument could be made for their mass roll out, (although, serious moral questions would still need to be raised as to whether we want to be the kind of society that is willing to put our children at risk in order to protect adults). But that is simply not the case. The recent publication of technical briefing no. 20 by Public Health England showed that 65% of those who died from Covid-19 had been fully vaccinated. This corroborates with data from other highly vaccinated countries, such as Iceland and Israel. [2]
In consideration of these facts, I am persuaded that the decision to encourage – if not, coerce – young children into receiving these experimental medicines would, at best, constitute an act of gross negligence of a very serious kind. Indeed, a Dundee-based Christian Doctor recently stated: “Should our authorities continue the mass immunisation program and include children, then surely they will be guilty of crimes against humanity, breaching the Nuremburg Code of 1947 and therefore should be brought to justice.” [3]
At the very least, please bring all of this to the throne of grace in prayer. Pray that governments of the world would be brought to a fear of God and that they would make decisions on the basis of what is right, true and pleasing in His sight. Pray that the next generation would be afforded the same freedoms that we have enjoyed for so long and kept safe from potentially harmful medicines that they do not need in the first place. Above all, pray that the Lord would have mercy on our world, revive His bride, give discernment to His people and glorify His own name through the furtherance of the gospel.
With my love and concern in Christ,
Paul Gibson
[1] The end-date for the clinical trials are: Pfizer, January 31, 2023; Astra Zeneca, February 21, 2023.
[2] As reported by Dr. Pat Morrisey GP, video presentation sponsored by the Irish Council for Human Rights
[3] Dr Alistair Montgomery, in his letter to a major newspaper, 2021.
[2] As reported by Dr. Pat Morrisey GP, video presentation sponsored by the Irish Council for Human Rights
[3] Dr Alistair Montgomery, in his letter to a major newspaper, 2021.
