Why I won’t consent to having my daughter covid vaccinated

Content Sections

• The unspoken dichotomy
• Towards the nitty gritty
• Finally, the bottom line
• Epilogue

By Rob Verkerk PhD
Founder, executive & scientific director

Before I get into the nitty-gritty of my rationale for not consenting to the administration of the latest crop of synthetic biology vaccines on behalf of my youngest daughter, to which I am still joint custodian with my wife, I need to give you some background. I hope you can bear with me, because this background is integral to the rationale. 

The unspoken dichotomy

It’s very easy to assume that the technological world that has delivered such rapid progress over recent decades has the capacity to resolve the current multiple crises we face. These include two pairs of interrelated problems that are firmly on the radar of the world’s governing authorities. They are articulated in the form of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. The first pair are: the incapacity for current health systems to cope with the double burden of non-communicable and now infectious diseases (in the industrialised world) (SDG 3), and the same again, with a greater emphasis on infectious diseases, but with the added burdens of poverty and hunger thrown in (in the less-industrialised world) (SDG 1, 2 and 3). The second interrelated crises relate to our environment and include human-generated (anthropogenic) climate change (SDG 13), and the spiralling loss of biodiversity that is increasingly being characterised as the Sixth Mass Extinction (SDG 15).