Iris Koh Has Received $30K in Donation & Will Use the Extra Money to Sue Ong Ye Kung

2022-02-10 , 12:50 pm

Just one day after Iris Koh’s crowdfunding campaign began, she has already received one-third of the money she intends to raise for her legal fees.

If you thought that she was going to focus on her own criminal charges of abetting in making false representations to the Ministry of Health (MOH), obstructing the local authorities from carrying out their duties, or the investigation where she allegedly flooded COVID-19 public hotlines—

Well, you thought wrong.

Apparently, she’s pledging to use the money in the lawsuit against Health Minister Ong Ye Kung.

The Lawsuit Against Ong Ye Kung

Reader: Since when did she sue Ong Ye Kung, and why???

According to the Healing the Divide (HTD) website, her organisation is supporting the legal representative, a mother of a now 10-year-old boy, against Health Minister Ong’s judicial decision to administer Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to children aged between 5 to 11 years old.

Their main point of contention comes from the statements that Health Minister Ong made in his Facebook Post on 16 December 2021.

In Mr Ong’s statement, he wrote that “Some 300,000 children aged 5 to 11 can benefit from greater protection, after clinical trials have shown that vaccination is safe and effective….

“When children are also vaccinated, families can be better protected.”

All in all, the rationale behind wanting to protect the children and families make sense, and more information concerning child vaccinations can be found here.

Reasons for the Lawsuit

According to the mother who filed the lawsuit on behalf of her children, she said: “I am doing this for the sake of my children because I do not want them to be inoculated with this dangerous experimental vaccine.”

Similarly, she does not wish for other children to be injured by the vaccinations.

As of 14 January 2022, a Writ of Summons has been served to Ong Ye Kung in the Boy versus Ong Ye Kung case, which has apparently been approved by the court.

Colour me surprised?

While the mother’s doubts are understandable, the mRNA vaccine has gone through numerous clinical trials to ensure that they are safe for children.

To doubly ensure that it is safe for the younger age category, they will only be administered one-third of an adult’s dosage, hence why their vaccination drives are also being conducted at paediatrician centres, by medical professionals who have been trained to lower the risks as much as possible.

Debunking the Fears and Arguments

False Statement #1: “Some 300,00 children aged 5 to 11 years can benefit from greater protection.”

Opposition: “Firstly, the COVID-19 vaccines do not confer any lasting protection from infection. Various studies have shown that unvaccinated individuals do not face any higher risk of getting infected with COVID-19 compared to vaccinated individuals.”

For the first statement, it is true that the primary regimen of COVID-19 Vaccines doesn’t provide a lasting protection against the virus, but that does not render it completely useless.

Studies have shown that the vaccines’ effectiveness starts dropping after 3 months, and by 9 months—which is the limit of the vaccine validity—it would have dropped below 50%.

For the same reasons, the MOH has emphasised that we must take our booster shots within those 9 months, because they can bring up the vaccines to 75% effectiveness again.

But for the bolded point, it can’t be more wrong.

More studies have shown that unvaccinated individuals, due to their lack of immunity or antibodies provided by the vaccines, stand a higher risk of hospitalisation upon infection, and for the Delta variant especially, they face 11 times the risk of death compared to vaccinated individuals.

And owing to their lack of immunity, the virus is more likely to multiply within their respiratory systems, thereby giving the virus more opportunities to mutate and grow, which can then pass on to vaccinated individuals.

Fact or Myth: Children are less likely to get sick from COVID-19

Ever since the pandemic started spreading widely in 2020, statistics have shown that children have fared well against COVID-19, because of their lack of death and lesser hospitalisation rates compared to adults.

However, this does not mean that they’re not getting infected, because they are. It’s just that they have been suffering milder symptoms, which brought less attention to their age category.

Image: American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association

(Note: It was difficult to find statistics for Singapore, so it was substituted with statistics coming from the United States.)

There have been a few theories floating around as to why that is, like how children’s immunity system naturally produces more interferon-γ and interleukin-17—signalling proteins against invading pathogens—which makes their bodies more efficient in eliminating the threat.

Likewise, children have more T follicular helper cells, which are important for an early antibody response, compared to adults.

Another significant difference is that children have more innate lymphoid cells, that are one of the first cells to “detect tissue damage and secrete signalling proteins that help to regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses”.

This is supported by how older men tend to suffer from more severe diseases because they have reduced levels of these innate lymphoid cells that comes with growing age.

The Rise of Omicron Cases Among Children

However, as recent news has shown, the COVID-19 virus has been adapting and evolving, to the extent where children are now facing the highest rates of infections.

According to the Ministry of Health (MOH) on 8 Feb, the infection rate for children aged between 5 to 11 is currently around 67 per100,000 population.

Those aged between 12 to 19 follow closely with nearly 55 per 100,000 population.

This is a marked difference from the Delta variant, which had the tendency to infect adults more than the children.

Even with these statistics in mind, it should also be noted that most of the adult population have been vaccinated compared to the younger age category, and the various vaccines have been proven to be more effective against the Omicron variant than the Delta Variant.

Therefore, whether or not children are less likely to be infected is not necessarily true, especially where the most recent Omicron variant is concerned.

Myth: mRNA Vaccines will Cause a Child to Develop Heart Diseases

From the statistics given in the slide above, the numbers seem terrifying, but please pay attention to the doses administered to the number of cases observed.

For 12- to 17-year-olds, when the numbers are calculated for female teenagers:

Only 0.000868% of the female teenagers bear the possibility of getting any form of heart disease.

Even after the for male teenagers,

The probability of them contracting severe side-effects like heart diseases is only 0.00627%. For older age category of those between 18 to 24, the possibility is only 0.00505%.

If you don’t believe the calculations, you can whip out a calculator and do it yourself!

Myocarditis (heart inflammation) and pericarditis (swelling of the tissue around the heart) are acknowledged but extremely rare side-effects of mRNA vaccines.

Even then, post-vaccine-related myocarditis is usually a lot milder than classic myocarditis and they are much more short-lived, and can be resolved with little to no medical treatment.

Recent data from Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shown that among 100,000 vaccinated adolescent males, only four to seven are expected to develop post-vaccine myocarditis.

But if the children are not vaccinated, more than 5,500 are more likely to be infected with COVID-119 over the period of three months, which would result in at least 50 hospitalisations, potential Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), myocarditis and even death.

When you’re weighing the benefits and risks, it’s quite obvious that getting vaccinated is far safer in terms of objective numbers and statistics.

Just for a double-confirmation, even CDC has stated that patients with myocarditis and pericarditis who “received care responded well to the medicine and rest and felt better very quickly”.

The patients are typically capable of returning to their normal lives at full functionality after their symptoms improve, even exercising and playing sports.

Debunking More Studies Listed

If you’re already reading this far (which surprises me too), then know that this is just a continuation of opposing the studies that Iris Koh has listed as valid pieces of evidence against child vaccinations.

Image: healingthedivide.cc

There is nothing particularly wrong with the study Viral Myocarditis by Michael Kang and Jason An, but an important fact to note about the research is that it is meant for classic myocarditis, not COVID-19-vaccine-related myocarditis, which has been proven to milder and easier to treat.

Additionally, before the Singaporean government decided to introduce the current vaccine programme for children, there were clinical trials conducted on 2,186 children—a large sample size—to guarantee the safety of the procedures before it was approved by the Health Sciences Authority.

Thus far, the clinical trials have been widely effective, showing 90.7% efficacy against symptomatic infection, and no serious adverse effects to the children.

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Image: healingthedivide.cc

Next, it’s difficult to confirm if 75% of adverse side-effects from vaccines are due to blood clots, but from general research, Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT) is extremely rare, and usually associated with the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, with little to no results showing that it happens for mRNA vaccines.

Moreover, Dr. Mike Yeadon is one of the most well-known anti-vaccine researchers in the media.

Just for a taster of his views, in October 2021, when Britain was in the middle of a pandemic wave, he wrote: “There is no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. I’ve never heard such nonsense talked about vaccines. You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a disease.”

Therefore, would you really think he’s a reliable source to refer to?

Thirdly, it should also be noted that in the list of sources provided on HTD, some of them like World Health Organisation (WHO) warning against vaccinating children, has been already been removed.

As for the second false statement that Healing the Divide wants to contend with:

Most of it has already been refuted, so the false statement will be left here to admire… how wrong the statement is.

Conclusions about the Lawsuit Against Ong Ye Kung

If it wasn’t for the COVID-19 restrictions and most lawsuit hearings happening on private Zoom call links, I would probably want the front-row seats for this particular showdown.

… Mostly because if this article has proven anything, it is the fervent belief that Healing the Divide can be acknowledged for their reasonable fears against vaccines, but when considering that the benefits greatly outweigh the risks, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Towards those that have donated to Iris Koh’s cause, perhaps it would be better to throw your money into the wishing well or donate it to SPCA.

There’s a higher probability of something good happening out of that.