The following report is from The Portsmouth Daily Times, Ohio:
On Lucy Roy’s 12th birthday, she found herself asking for something she never would have imagined a few years ago: She asked to get a shot.
Specifically, she wanted to get the COVID vaccine.
I was ready to turn 12 so I could get mine. I just want life to get back to normal and the only way to do that is for people to be vaccinated.
In the early stages of the pandemic, COVID-19 was a virus that’s impact seemed reserved for those who were older or had complicating health factors. With the spread of new variants, such as the Delta variant, that is no longer the case. It’s becoming more common for children to be infected — and sadly more are even ending up in the hospital.
According to the American Association of Pediatrics, children now comprise 15% of all COVID infections in the United States. Last month, the country hit a record high as 1,900 children were hospitalized with COVID.
Meanwhile, although breakthrough cases are possible the data suggests that being vaccinated does decrease your odds of infection. It also offers significant protection from being hospitalized or dying. That isn’t why Lucy wanted to be vaccinated on her birthday, though. She did it because she was worried about others.
I want to protect my family and friends from COVID. I want to visit my grandparents and hug them. I’m ready for COVID to end.
At just 12-years-old, Lucy feels like she’s watched her world stop as a result of the pandemic. Her fifth-grade graduation, a milestone celebrating her last year in elementary school, was canceled and her first year as a middle schooler was mostly virtual. She’s glad to be back in an actual classroom this year, especially after receiving her first dose of the vaccine.
COVID still looms over a lot of things in her life — for example, a recent volleyball game was canceled because her opponent was quarantined — but being vaccinated lets her breathe a little easier and offers a sense of normalcy.
Vaccinations probably weren’t at the top of many 12-year-old’s birthday lists a few years ago, but good health and peace of mind are worthy gifts at any age.
COVID vaccines are currently available for everyone 12 and older. SOMC offers vaccinations without an appointment at its community pharmacies in Portsmouth, Wheelersburg and West Union. For more information about the COVID-19 vaccine, please visit cdc.gov.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Just think how many young, fragile minds have been greatly scarred by this total sham? I did a report in the early days of The WinePress titled “The New Nazi Youth” – an updated version of a video I produced on my personal YouTube channel – depicting just some of the outrageous things that were being done to children, that hardly anyone was talking about.
A little over a month later a report surfaced from a high school that was making band students play in an encapsulated tent for social distancing.
Band Students Forced To Play Instruments In Tents. The New Nazi Youth Gets Worse
More recently (something The WP did not report on) was a high school was making its athletes wear ankle monitors to be tracked!
But these children are mentally scarred, and these types of scars take a LONG time to heal. But alas, the very unfortunate and infuriating reality is that the large majority of the newest generation (the tail-end of Gen-Z and the newest one, “Alpha” or “AA”) is ruined; as the evil schemes will get worse as the years go on. They will become the “new Nazi youth” of sorts for real.
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Titus 1:15
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I feel sorry for that girl.
for she was brainwashed by the media. Hopefully, people wake up quickly before its too late.
Come quickly Lord Jesus!
.\\itch – You say I am a nut for believing the KJ Bible, while simultaneously believing you are an ape evolved from bacteria, siting on a spaceship made from molten lava, orbiting around a gigantic fireball, that’s 93 million miles away, flying through the universe at infinite speeds? Accidentally?!