I disagree that COVID passes "essentially zero risk to children." In fact, there appear to be unique-to-children short and long term health risks.

We still vaccinate children for polio. Why? There's a just slightly non-zero risk that children in developed nations will ever encounter someone with polio. There were, I believe, fewer fatalities, fewer deaths, and even fewer long term disabilities from polio - yet here we are, still working to ensure that it is eradicated and never rears its ugly head again.

"Polio was once considered one of the most feared diseases in the United States. In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis each year in the United States. Following introduction of vaccines—specifically, trivalent inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) in 1955 and trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in 1963—the number of polio cases fell rapidly to less than 100 in the 1960s and fewer than 10 in the 1970s."

72% of people who contract polio would never experience any symptoms. Only a very few (I mean, STATISTICALLY) ended up paralyzed or in an "iron lung."

I wouldn't want to be one of the statistical minority, nor would I want my child to be, if medical science could help it.

There are plenty of highly qualified experts who have given evidence to counter Malone and I trust them. Now, if there weren't evidence we could see, with our own eyes, that children can be gravely ill with COVID or that vaccines WORK, I'd be all for having this debate. No, actually, I wouldn't. I was around for the start of the one that said "vaccines cause autism" and despite there being absolutely NO credible evidence in support of that bogus claim (since admitted to be a bogus claim) there are still people who will argue it till they turn purple. So no - the place for such "debates" is within the scientific community and maybe we're just NOT smart enough, educated enough, experienced enough, or possessed of enough common SENSE to "do our own research" and figure out what's a credible source and what's not. The misinformation and disinformation is killing people.