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The evening news featured a segment with a doctor skeptical of the Trump administration's new childhood vaccine recommendations. These changes affect children's vaccine requirements before going back to school, and show a reduction or spaced injections. The changes require the usual vaccines for measles, mumps, and other diseases as well as modern-day protections. I suspect he is following Robert Kennedy's format, who is a specialist in this field. His extensive background in childhood vaccines and other treatments goes back a long time. The reporter and doctor kept saying, "Let's look at the science."
However, Kennedy has been looking at the science for some time. In his long career he's looked to environmental and other causes for poor health and disease, advocating for change to improve these conditions, with children being his main concern. Many of his common-sense approaches are already mandatory in Europe, including a push for less toxicity in our food, air and water. Here is his site and work history: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/
Kennedy is not against any vaccination program. He began looking into the rise of not only autism in our country, but potential links to the many shots that are given to children and babies all at once. This, I believe, is why President Trump is recommending spacing out the vaccine program for children. The reporter and doctor's assessment that parents will have to make more than one doctor visit to complete the vaccines is ridiculous. The reasons for not loading a child's immune system with multiple vaxxes are much the same as those for separating flu, COVID, and other vaccines for adults.
If there is an allergic reaction to one vaccine, how do they determine which if a patient is injected with several in a one-stop shop vaccine? In my youth, the requirement consisted of a smallpox shot and one for polio. I had a scar on my arm for one, and had to drink a pink concoction from a small cup for another. Today, adolescents could receive as many as 72 vaccine doses from birth to age 18.
From AI Overview:
Yes, the number 72 refers to the total cumulative individual vaccine doses recommended historically or conditionally from birth through age 18 if a child receives an annual flu shot and COVID-19 vaccine every year. However, the actual number of physical needle injections is much lower because many vaccines are combined into single shots (like MMR).
As an adult, I always got the flu shot. In fact, one employer provided them for free. I got the flu right after receiving the freebie. At that job, my co-worker told me about mercury present in the flu shots. I remember they always said there would be a few mild symptoms of the flu after the shot. They never bothered me, a low-grade fever and an icky feeling for a day.
That was until 2007. At my job at a local real estate office, I went off to get the yearly shot at our local health clinic on my lunch break. I returned to work, and within a short time didn't feel right. I couldn't focus. The paperwork said if you have a reaction, go to the emergency room. Instead I told my employer I didn't feel well and headed home. From noon until after 5:00 pm, I lay on my pillow with my heart racing and felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. Something changed, either the shot or me.
What is weird is I have not had the flu since. I have had stomach bugs, sinus infections, and colds only. I am not against the flu shot, but I felt I could not risk that reaction again. I also freaked out when that bird flu scare came out. President George H.W. Bush took the shot on TV, declared it a crisis, and said that everyone should get vaccinated. And so I did.
But now they have so many shots for so many things. My doctors always ask whether I got my flu shot. How about pneumonia, shingles, COVID, and so forth? I can make up my mind, and I think that Trump and Kennedy are putting the decisions back on to the parents and individuals to decide.
I think this is a healthy and wise way to put the health and well-being of babies and children back on to parents where it belongs, rather than with the government and vaccine makers.
On another note, Kennedy's running mate when he was running for president, Nicole Shanahan, has an autistic child. She, a concerned mother, tried to innocently research how she could help her daughter because she could not get any answers from doctors. No one would help her. As she scanned the Internet, the doors slammed shut. She realized that information being shared or questions asked by other parents was being shut down and scrubbed. Her husband at the time, Google co-founder Sergei Brin, did not support her in the search, and life changed for her at that point.
She talks openly about her experience in Silicon Valley, as the information window and its access were rapidly changing. Here is her fascinating story:
The mainstream media, as usual, will paint both Trump and Kennedy as anti-vax. But they are not. I am not either. After COVID and the aftereffects of the shot that are still lingering for many, people want to be empowered to make their own personal health decisions, especially for their children, themselves, and family members.
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There is a lot to unpack here. Too much for the time I have available at the moment. The important thing is follow the money on both sides.
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Sharyl Attkisson responds to Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (her complete response for those not on X):
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Amen! I never liked the idea of giving a multifunction, super vaccine injection to infants. I mean, can't their systems be overwhelmed by adapting to all the bugs at once? Seems that way . . .
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It's very reasonable to review the pediatric vaccination schedule to assess out risks verses benefits which may have changed since some of the older vaccines were introduced. Also, some of the newer vaccines were imposed with opaque goals.
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RFK Jr is not only anti-vax, he profits by attacking them and even at this time profits by his attacks (for one year only his son will profit from it....shades of Hunter you-know-who). It is bad precedent when one defends RFK Jr's refusal to resolve his conflicts of interest by pointing to the examples of Joe Biden & Nancy Pelosi as your moral loadstones.....
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