The City of Chicago is offering to pay parents "up to $100" if they agree to let their young children get a COVID-19 jab | City of Chicago
The City of Chicago is offering to pay parents "up to $100" if they agree to let their young children get a COVID-19 jab | City of Chicago
The City of Chicago is offering parents of young children "up to $100" if they allow public officials to give their young children a COVID-19 jab.
The city is offering the bounty to attendees of a "Vaccines for Kids" event it is hosting Sat. Nov. 20 at Kennedy-King, a city community college at 6301 S. Halsted in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A city-produced advertisement promoting the event depicts a black child dressed as superhero, wearing a mask and sporting a cape.
"All Chicagoans age 5 and older are eligible to receive up to $100," the advertisement says. "One $50 gift card of each primary Pfizer dose. Two $50 gift cards for a primary J&J dose. Boosters do not qualify."
Pfizer is running advertisements calling kids "superheroes" for getting its COVID-19 jab.
On Oct. 26, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine under "emergency use authorization" for children ages 5-11. It conceded, however, that it isn't sure how theses COVID-19 vaccines will impact long-term.
"We're never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it," said one FDA board member.
In response, three doctors wrote in the Washington Times that these vaccines are five times as dangerous to children as COVID-19 itself, adding "we must be transparent that the real threat to children (of COVID-19 vaccines) is the unknown long-term complications."
"The potential consequences of (COVID-19) vaccines crossing the natural blood-brain barrier in children’s developing brains are of the utmost concern to all future humanity," wrote Doctors Larry Kwak, Steven Rosen and Idit Shachar. "Let us patiently wait for the completion of long-term safety studies before we rush ahead blindly with blanket public health solutions that may cause unintentional and irreparable harm."
Kennedy-King has an enrollment of 1,878 and a graduation rate of 19 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education. In 2019-20, 211 students from the school earned associate's degrees and the school spent $27,860,721 in taxpayer dollars, or $132,041 per graduate.
The school is run by Gregory Thomas.
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