Imaginary scene from the first day at a Jewish summer camp in Canada.
Camp director (with no hint of irony): Papers, please.
10 year-old girl: Papers? For what?
Director: Covid vaccine.
Girl: I’m unvaccinated. There are no mandates for 5-11 year-olds anywhere. Just in Canada at some summer camps and maybe some private schools. Why do I need papers? I guess your science is different?
Director: You are unclean and a danger to society. You may not enter.
Girl: But I have had Covid and therefore have natural immunity that is 10 times stronger than vaccine immunity.
Director: Papers?
Girl: But I am less likely to get infected than a vaccinated person. Vaccinated people are getting Covid at higher rates than unvaccinated people.
Director: (silence)
Girl: Also, if I do happen to get Covid, I will have a similar peak viral load compared to a vaccinated person, not more.
Director: But other parents are scared that you, as an unvaccinated kid, present a risk to their vaccinated kid.
Girl: That’s absurd. If they think the vaxx provides protection, their kids are protected. My status doesn’t impact other kids. So you’re banning me because other parents are neurotic and irrationally scared?
Girl: Also, the vaccine isn’t even protective for 5-11 year olds. Its starts at 68% and drops to 12% effectiveness after a mere 6 weeks!
Director: Our doctors said if you get sick we don’t want to deal with you. You’ll get sicker than a vaccinated child.
Girl: But kids don’t get sick. I mean, some do but it’s a VERY small number. I had Covid and had a fever for a day. Kids have never been at risk from Covid. I’m more at risk from the flu or drowning than Covid. Are you also closing the waterfront to prevent drowning?
Director: Our Prime Minister said you’re a risky plague rat. He also said some other nasty things about you that I don’t care to repeat.
Girl: But I’ve shown you that’s just propaganda. There is no basis to think that. Do the right thing please.
Director: I’m just following orders. Just take the vaccine.
Girl: There is no long-term safety data. I don’t know what this will do to me in 5 years. And I’m not at risk from Covid in the first place!
Girl: Even FDA doctors were scared of longterm side effects and didn’t want their approval to be used for mandates — I watched this video of Dr. Meissner as he approved the vaxx for kids.
Girl: Also, Sweden and Florida recommend AGAINST taking it and the UK has never recommended it.
Director: Sweden messed up really badly and had so many deaths. Same with Florida.
Girl: But the data says otherwise: Florida had the 33rd highest age-adjusted death rate (out of 52 states); and Sweden’s “Covid gamble” paid off rather nicely as it “led to ‘much better’ outcomes than predicted and compared to most of Western Europe”.
Girl: (Looks at rest of the line of people for help. Some snarl, others look down at the ground.)
Director: Move along! Next!
Jason Jacobson is the father of a child who was banned from attending overnight summer camp at Camp Kadimah in Nova Scotia because she is unvaccinated. Unfortunately, she is not alone as various Canadian summer camps, Jewish or not, have implemented unscientific, discriminatory vaccination mandates, most notoriously the Tim Hortons Foundation Camps. Therefore, similarities of the above story with real-world events may not be entirely coincidental.