This is one of the many reasons why those who voted a certain way did so based on love, not hate. We did not vote from hate, and we did not vote for hate. Among many other good things, we voted for respect and justice for the millions of injured, and accountability for crimes against humanity, and the human decency of informed consent.
The narrative spinners who wanted these stories hidden forever, of dead babies and lifelong-broken children, hates and lies about the heroes who listen to these parents. That would be evil and distorted enough ... but they've convinced millions that these people are crazy.
No. They were right all along, and endured being treated like delusional scum while they were grieving their child's death, or managing care for their disabled kids.
And The Bad Man says a nasty word and we're supposed to vehemently despise him and be in terror of him. Plenty of space and time to pick apart and take out of context every word he says, yet no time to listen to these families, besides to ridicule them.
@OpenVAERS
"There is a whole community of mostly moms (and some dads) out there in the US today crying tears of joy. We have lived through years of being gaslit and ignored, fired from doctors offices, laughed at by relatives, apologized for, and unfriended. We knew that even the people too polite to negate us to our faces were thinking we were crazy when we told our stories.
One of the few people who took us seriously was .
@RobertKennedyJr
. He showed up. He read the studies. He wrote books. He formed
@ChildrensHD
and most of all he believed us.
We celebrated when he started his campaign because we knew that even if he didn't win, he started a national conversation.
We celebrated when he joined with
@realDonaldTrump
because again, our stories were finally being heard. And even if they didn't win, this was more than we hoped for.
We celebrate today even if he doesn't make it through the confirmation because we are heard. We had been so silenced we didn't think this was possible. We only had hope.
So celebrate my friends! This is a damn miracle. We are watching the beginning of the end of this nightmare.
Thank you
@realDonaldTrump
for keeping your word. Your administration is going to change the world."
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Nov 14
I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it . . ."
(And if you think these are anti-science fools, parents who didn't observe their children well enough to realize they had been disabled all along and are just connecting it to the "well child" visits because of conspiracy theories, if you really think Kennedy is an anti-science kook, please at least study the information he bases his assessments on .. Info that will finally be brought to light ... )
There are so many reasons for hope. Please, please, stop believing the media. They have lied for too long ..
"If you have been tempted to justify other people’s votes for Trump as motivated by any of the usual -isms, to think that the black and latino men who supported him are the colored faces of white supremacy, or motivated by misogyny, that women voted for Trump because they were cowed by their husbands, or that Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan or Elon Musk are evil people (even though you likely loved some or all of them a few years back), I would suggest that you, too, have been at least somewhat blinded by this whole-of-society propaganda and censorship operation—by the state-sponsored hatecraft. It is a gross subversion of your liberty to be fully-informed, about which you have every reason to be furious.
Let me reiterate: YOUR rights were violated by government censorship—even if you were not censored. This wide-ranging censorship has caused YOU harm. Not because your voice was not heard, but because you were robbed of the opportunity to hear the dissenting voices of others, and to better understand—and counter, if possible—their reasons. If you were blind-sided by the results of this election, it is this theft that is to blame." - https://emilyburns.substack.com/p/pissed-about-the-election-blame-censorship )
I don’t disagree with your assessment of Bobby, but I do disagree with your assessment of Trump. He does more than “say a few bad words here and there.” And no, there will not be “a lot of time to pick them apart.” Mass deportations, threats against one’s political enemies, using the military to enforce ones political views - those things, should they come to pass, represent far more than a problem of style
Do you know this Marianne and all of you who believe in vaccines? If not, you should. Directly from the CDC Data :
Data and Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder
About 1 in 36 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) according to estimates from CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network.
ADDM Network 2000-2020: Combining data from all sites
Surveillance Year Birth Year Number of ADDM Sites Reporting Combined Prevalence per 1,000 Children (Range Across ADDM Sites) This is about 1 in X children
Thank you.. This thread brought to mind Hobson's choice, which I just Googled to jog my memory, in which one must take something or have no choice at all.
Wow Democratic corrupt leaders. In terms of corrupt leaders, If this were a competition it would be like The Kansas City Chiefs playing the local high school football team
I voted for Jill Stein in part because her health care platform is substantive, informed, and serious .
Trump [and Harris] obviously had no experience training or commitment to health care reform. Their platforms were just empty rhetoric.
I think Trump picked RFK Jr. because he knows RFK , Jr [who has no qualifications for that job] has no skills or experience in health care and so RFK Jr wont threaten Trump's health care industry donors.
It's not enough to simply oppose the status quo; I want to hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s policies on healthcare, not just his rhetoric. The few statements he has made do not inspire hope. Does he have a plan to address affordability? How will he ensure access for everyone? Or, as some suspect, will he dilute ObamaCare and shift the financial burden onto consumers? How does he plan to fund alternative care? Will it receive the same support as traditional care? The details will tell the story, and right now, those details are non-existent.
The healthcare system, like many other sectors, is dominated by capitalism. While it's evident that we need change, it’s crucial that this change leads to real improvements—not just a platform of "I told you so."
Running a country is serious business. We must rise above petty disputes and demand thoughtful, responsible leadership to confront the challenges we face.
"Does he have a plan to address affordability? How will he ensure access for everyone? Or, as some suspect, will he dilute ObamaCare and shift the financial burden onto consumers? " Those questions are not within the purview of the Sec of HHS.
Good questions, Marianne. Unlike most of the statements about a Trump administration ("Nazi! Dictator! Will deport fully legal immigrants! ChristoFascist! Hates everyone not white and straight!"), you express rational fears that are tethered to reality.
I don't know the answers to those questions, but I think this administration may listen, and there may be enough gov't waste to cut without cutting healthcare, I hope.
Progressives often talk about England's NHS and Canada's healthcare system - yet covid showed us how terribly corrupt those systems are.
But I understand healthcare costs are astronomical, and a gov't that has money to kill people across the world should have money for quality healthcare (not sickcare, I remember when you said that at the debate - very true!), for its citizens, both citizens born here and citizens who went through a process of immigration.
As was said by a respected liberal feminist who called the unvaccinated "Typhoid Mary's" and insults and bans respectful voices of disagreement on her Facebook page, "I think of voting as a chess move, not a Valentine".
That phrase was said previously, but was going around after Biden's debate, when it was obvious to laypeople who see through the media's gaslighting that Biden was mentally incompetent beginning in 2021.
I think that sentiment applies well here, of voting as a chess move, not an agreement with everything about someone. And with Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard (please don't believe what the media says - they save the most scathing criticism and lies for the people with most integrity), there will finally be at least Some deep integrity in an administration, and a draining of at least some of the destructive blob.
I would not take lightly the possibility of risking Medicaid and/ or Medicare for anything less than a huge transformation - and that's what this is. Not necessarily of everything, but at least on the patterns of scientific fraud and regulatory capture poisoning us all - including children and setting them up for a life where they need frequent "sick care".
Also, integrative medicine, wholistic medicine, wise doctors, will be listened to more now. I And maybe - maybe - have an easier time being covered by gov't insurance, I don't know. But they will be listened to more. These doctors should have been listened to all along.
That treatment of the covid doctors was what showed me that the media is far more than "bias, doesn't tell the whole story, corporate-influenced", as I always thought they were. It really is worse than that. The treatment of the covid doctors was what pushed me (and many many others away from whatever the left has become, to not trust any candidate who doesn't understand, or at least want to understand, how wrong it is to design studies to fail / or succeed, and lie to the public about what they coerce us to put into our bodies.
( https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-a-false-hydroxychloroquine-narrative-87d?utm_source=publication-search - Marianne, please read this when you can. This is what happened at the beginning of covid, and - even coming from the same place that covid is very real, potentially serious, especially for vulnerable, contagious, and something we all should be aware of and try not to spread - the sabotage of early treatment is truly a crime against humanity. Dr Meryl Nass was smeared by the propaganda + censorship machine, which will finally have less power.
I hope that sane, rational discourse and challenging questions like what you asked will be continued to be asked, pressured - rationally, and I hope they will be listened to.
But if the left keeps coming from the place of taking every word out of context, like conflating what every peace activist has said in some way, "The Bravery of Being Out of Range", with a murder threat and flooding the news with it, and keeps worshipping whatever is deemed #TheScience, without ever really looking at evolving science, I fear it may dilute the credibility of our reasonable concerns, like this.
I hope we can stop believing the media - anyone who conflated ivermectin with "horse de-wormer" deserves no trust, and they are the loudest voices saying Trump is basically Hitler (and the accusations around Matt Gaetz seem to be baseless - but I do not know enough about him. I do know, that they have completely lied about the covid doctors, and about Kennedy).
And I hope the left can regroup after real self reflection, that also looks at the scientific fraud and mass poisoning (really - ) that happened with covid, and really has been happening for decades. And I hope that the mental brilliance in this administration is balanced with real compassion (as in Kennedy and Gabbard, and Nicole Shanahan, and probably many more).
I hope that the tragic reality - distortion of TDS can be healed, but I don't know if it can. The other side of Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a blind admiration with no challenging questions, it's an independence of thought and ability to criticize and challenge that is tethered to reality, like your valid statement about healthcare.
He will do his best to restore honesty to science, and end the corrupt revolving door. I don't know how much about healthcare access is under his control, but if it is, his caring heart and liberal background mean it's unlikely he will take healthcare away from people.
If anyone is thoughtful and responsible, it is RFK Jr. The media's smearing of him based on things from decades ago and statements they purposefully twist is obvious gaslighting.
This is truly good news for anyone who cares about honesty. And he is not just honest, he is more than capable. He prayed every day for 25 years to be in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic.
Would it have helped, Jerry, if I had written virtually nobody? Tell me somebody in Trump's sphere who is genuinely competent and sincerely benevolent toward democracy in society? The idea that you could defend anything that produces Matt Gaetz as attorney general And Pete hagseth as Secretary of defense is in defensible!
It's going to take a long time to dismantle corporate capture that is deeply embedded in our food and health systems. But we start to fix a problem with acknowledging that there is a problem. No leader in this country has acknowledged there is a problem in 5 elections as far as I know. Whenever there is monumental change it has to start at replacing leadership at the ideological level. We have the technology, the money, the knowledge to implement anything we want. But we need a leader with the right mindset to drive the ship towards a common horizon. Kennedy is someone that in 20 years, if our food and health drastically transform from the status quo we know of today, we will look back at this this moment and think right here is where we started doing the right thing, starting with him. At least, that's my hope.
To the extent your comments supported Bobby, bravo. To your points that criticized him, just speaks to the extent of your ignorance on the subjects involved
For instance, before he made the comment about Ashkenazi Jews, I had read the same SCIENTIFIC STUDIES that showed that different ethnic groups were effected differently by the vurus, and that Ashkenazi Jews had some higher level of protection from the ills of the virus. People should NOT be condemned fir INFORMING.
The big piece that you still seem to be missing is that the toxins are in our food water, air and environment to make us and keep us sick, to feed the sickness industrial complex. Not only that, but to destroy our pineal glands, to break up our families, to keep us in fear and to make us compliant.
If you want to know what the powers that be wanted, just look at what we have. God bless Bobby Kennedy!
Trump already got what he wanted from Mr. Kennedy, his supporters and name recognition. Even if he doesn't get booted right away, they aren't going to allow anything that isn't in their Project 2025. When the next pandemic occurs, the oligarchs will use his words to say vaccines are no good (of course they themselves will get inoculated, just like trump and his family did with COVID) but will sell whatever snake oil they have monetary interest in, to the rest of us. We can stop blaming the Democrats about everything and blame ourselves for everything that happens from here on out. We can hide and cry or use our power to tell them NO, we have the power not "daddy" which the maga cult call him.
With regard to your comment that you are not sure whether we should take flouride out of the water, please read the September 24, 2024, 80 page Federal Court decision from the US District Court for the Northern District of California at Food & Water Watch, Inc. v. US E.P. A. - Case #17-cv-02162. That case was filed in 2017 by citizens for the Court to consider whether flouride in our water possesses an unreasonable risk to public health. The Court specifically found that fluoridation of public drinking water at present levels “poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children .” The Court ordered the EPA “to engage with a regulatory response.” The Court noted that the “EPA’s own expert agrees that flouride is hazardous .” The EPA was able to have this case delayed for 7 years before the Court made its final decision. Who knows how long the EPA will now take “to engage in a regulatory response “ - another 7 years? Unfortunately, flouride also causes a number of health problems to adults too. I hope one of the first actions taken by the new administration is to order that flouride be removed from all public water systems.
Ms. Williamson, you reminded me of the book by Richard Hofstadter THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS which was required reading in the social sciences during my youth. It seems to me that we cannot have a sane talk regarding RFK Junior's claims about the danger to our health, which corporate America has created, because of this business-generated paranoia toward anyone who speaks against business in any way.
I appreciated this post, Ms. Williamson. I admire Mr. Kennedy but find him off base on some aspects. I believe he would ultimately be a good pick for HHS because things would actually be questioned and there would be an opportunity for meaningful reform.
I remember when you made this point, MW. You were right. And look at how quickly the debate moderator cut you off. I wonder why? Could it be because Big Pharma funds his paycheck?
Thank you for your thoughtful and balanced response. YES it's an important issue, and YES you have been raising it for a LONG time!!!! Much love to you, Marianne...
The second thing: I am NOT a supporter of autocrats, yet I do have evangelical Christians in my family who have voted for him. Much as I disagree with T about almost everything, I want to say that my first cousins are deeply informed about alternative health care issues. I completely disagree with their politics, but I respect their views about health. So again, thank you for the nuance, Marianne...
Thanks for making these important points about our horrible health care system..... Corporate greed. Everything about the current administration is going to be regulatory capture by industry insiders and seems to be the omnipresent theme for harms and why our society isn't more functional for the 99%..
However,"The capture of our healthcare agencies a far greater threat to our health and safety than are any of the views he purports to hold now" Let's say his views on vaccines cause untold deaths and pain and suffering on families. The capture of the healthcare agencies don't represent a greater threat they represent an equal threat. Why do we have to have either!? This guy should be nowhere near the helm of our health care system. Surely we can find somebody with a working knowledge of public health and medicine who's not a corporate shill and can take a more holistic direction for the country. I hate the idea that we can't have an expert running the particular division. And don't give me any crap about experts all being in the pocket. They're being thousands of public health experts with proper training. Surely again there are those that are in line with a preventive care policy and not beholden to corporate interests. Sorry for any typos. Voice to text!
But can we? I ask that sincerely. The HHS secretary right now, by the way, has a background not in health but as a lawyer. I saw a woman on Bill Maher last night named Casey Means, Bobby said he would like to bring in as a consultant. She seems to absolutely like the kind of person whose voice needs to be at the table. Please check her out.
Bobby, Casey and her brother Calley Means and others like T. Colin Campbell, Phd. (author of the China Study) are important voices that can make America healthy again. I believe Bobby will succeed and shame on those that try to stop him by quoting him out of context or by using slander to deflect good arguments.
Calley Means is the person who spoke with RFK Jr. the day of the attempted assassination of Trump and is the one who arranged for the two of them to start their discussions about joining forces to Make America Healthy Again. He was a food adviser for both campaigns. Both Calley and Casey Means care deeply about the health of Americans.
How do you know that she approached him? And in what venue/space was she able to do that? Do you happen to know? (and no I didn't go Google it, apologies if this info is readily available, if it is, I wouldn't fault you if your response is "go Google it" 😉)
Calley Means is the brother to Dr. Casey Means. When RFK Jr. gave his speech to announce that he was joining the Trump team he told the story that after the assassination attempt on President Trump in July, Calley Means called RFK Jr. to say that President Trump wanted to speak with him. At the time Calley Means was an advisor to both the Trump and RFK Jr. campaigns regarding food. RFK Jr. said that he told Calley Means that he was willing to speak with President Trump and they spoke that day. They spoke several more times after that and they decided that they had three issues that they agreed on including:
1. Wanting to improve the health of our children;
2. Stopping censorship; and
3. Ending the war in Ukraine.
He said that he reached out to the Harris campaign and was told that they weren’t interested in speaking to him so he supported the Trump campaign because these three issues were important to him as they had been part of his campaign when running for president.
I agree with Marianne here. The corruption of the health care system is tied to other policies and systems and the relational 'systems' mapping demonstrates how this is a multisystem multifactorial fix. Be mindful of assumptions for what deems someone "qualified" to serve in a role. As a lawyer he has fought injustices in health care. He has fought injustices for indigenous tribes. If you can be effective in the legal system, and you're well versed in the political engine and how it works (I assume given his family history) then as long as he surrounds himself with the right people (and it seems like he's smart enough to do that) I say he's most qualified than anyone else. It's how effectively he can affect change given how the systems currently work and who else is selected into positions of power over the other systems. In the least, Bobby will be able to get some stellar people into roles that will trump the current inequalities in the systems, help root our corruption and potentially re-engineer mechanisms that enable the collosions. He will also be able to mass communicate messaging that can correctly educate people, which is probably even more so powerful - ensuring what he says is accurate is paramount. What he is capable of doing if done right is also shape who runs and can get elected for future elections (local and primary/2028).
What do doctors or you know about vaccines other than what Big Pharma has told all of us. And what happens to doctors who see and report vaccine related injuries? They are attacked. Bobby is more qualified than most doctors because he actually has read the research and questions the fraud.
I agree. It doesn’t take a medical degree to be able to read the science. Unfortunately most doctors rely on the FDA and the CDC for the advice they give and don’t have the time to read the science.
Its not one can learn on the job. A Sec of HHS candidate should have a medical degree and relevant, significant experience in the health care reform arena.
I would be willing to bet that RFK Jr. has read more medical studies than 90%of medical doctors in this country. When an attorney sues Federal Agencies they have to become experts on the subjects. He has filed many lawsuits against Federal agencies. He has a lot of experience in the health care reform arena and if there are specific areas with which he is not familiar he is willing to admit it and seek the assistance of others knowledgeable in the field and do the research himself.
if RFK's experience is only in certain areas of environmental litigation, why was he sent to HSS instead of EPA or Interior or maybe DOJ? I think the answer is Trump wanted him to push back on that agency.
The obsession with vaccine related injuries is disproportionate to the value most vaccines have to save lives and blunt illness.
I used to be one of those people who was too good to get a vaccine, especially a flu vaccine. I had come to distrust conventional medicine because it could not help me to address an autoimmune disease I carried in my body for almost 25 years. I discovered Marianne's work while trying to address that illness.
I changed my mind after a doctor told me that with all the time I spent digging in the soil of my backyard, where I host many kinds of wildlife, I was a great risk of tetanus if I didn't get a booster. She gave me the shot right there in her office.
Of course I was afraid of the shot but nothing happened. I just got better protection.
Later in my life, while cleaning out a friend's apartment in a sick building, I caught pneumonia which graduated to sepsis. After my hospital stay my new doctor, experienced with treating AIDS patients, told me it was essential for me to get both flu and pneumonia shots.
When COVID vaccines came out I got them right away. I've never had a moment's distress from any of these vaccines and I have a VERY sensitive immune system.
I believe the anecdotal reports of people who have had issues from taking vaccines. But the numbers of people who can take them safely far out distance those who have issues and the health benefits are clear.
I think Kennedy has done a great disservice to our children and our nation by convincing parents to keep their children unvaccinated. Terrible diseases once thought eradicated are coming back into our community. It's the direct result of his anti-vaccine propaganda.
Good for you that you are not vaccine injured but many are, and your lack of compassion is unkind. Research shows that about 30% had serious reactions and 10% were very serious. And yet many have health problems that may be related to the vaccines years later. All I and Bobby and others are asking for is good and transparent research so you and others can make an informed choice. Bobby sued Fauci for the research Fauci claimed proved the shots were safe and effective. The courts just ruled in Bobby and the peoples favor.I personally do not care how many shots or drugs you choose to take, just don't mandate them for me and others. https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/vax-facts--resources-for-deciding---just-a-moms-perspective/
We don't have "transparent research" because vaccines and medications are big profit makers for the private pharmaceutical companies and any research is corporate property, not public so the public has to battle the companies for the information. The NIH is public but has been whittled down because it has been the mind set of the Republican Party for decades that everything must be privatized, so instead of us having a Dr.Jonas Salk who developed the polio vaccine, tested it on himself and family and didn't do it to make money but instead for the good of society, we have a corporate-profit driven system. Fauci was just a government employee, but that didn't stop Marjorie Taylor Green from spewing hateful disinformation for click bait during the hearings against Fauci and not doing her job in questioning the giant companies. So here we are, divided, you don't want mandates and maybe we wouldn't have had to have them if Trump would have just come out and addressed the nation in a caring public health fashion, instead he and his family bought stock in pharmaceutical supplies and vaccines and his daughter Ivanka gets awarded a Chinese patent for coffins. America owes Dr. Fauci an apology.
One of the points about vaccines that became clear during the pandemic that makes the wisdom of all vaccines questionable is this: At any given time, NONE of us know what our immune systems are fighting off, holding at bay. When we divert our immune systems with a vaccine, we may be allowing entry to another pathogen or ill that may be even worse. Witness the turbo cancers and diseases that we have been witnessing since the EUA shots were foisted upon society.
The pandemic provided me with an opportunity for me to understand what happened to me 35 years ago when I was forced to get the MMR to continue my MBA that i was pursuing parttime while working. Due to the MMR and my resulting illness. I had to drop out of school and I lost my career.
This is also an opportunity for us to come to understand the vulnerability of the human condition, whereby a population can become brainwashed into believing what corporate interests want us to believe, especially when also promoted by captured government agencies, where we improperly place our trust.
It has been interesting to see how everyone on the planet considers themselves to be an expert on vaccination, where their only pedigree is the warm fuzzies they fell from the trust in their parents and doctor, when they were taken to get their own vaccination as a child.
It's not about how crazy Kennedy is. It's about how crazy you should be to even entertain the idea that he will be allowed to go against the Big Pharma money machine in any serious way within the present system. Which Trump is part of...
Great to see you modeling going beyond black-and-white ‘ax to grind’ thinking, and considering the nuances. Like Jeffrey Sachs on the Ukraine war, you are an exemplar of astute analysis not warped by ego.
The vaccines on offer today are mainly unlike the vaccines we received as children, at least around the mid 20th century or a little later... There has been no discussion in pharmaceutical promotion about how and why this has happened. The fact is some vaccines are probably safer for some groups and some vaccines for others and there should be a choice. Calling everybody that looks the stuff up crank and mocking the word research is a strategy that used to direct people towards what they wanted, probably what would make them the most money. People who got very sick from vaccines would still have taken vaccines that would not have made them sick if they had been made available and the choice had been made clear. I for one should think that an immune therapy for a specific disease that does not contain an actual antigen should be called something other than a vaccine, since the other type has been called that since 1796. As for the people who said other vaccines would have meant being exposed to live covid, my answer is, I had no problem swallowing live polio when I was a kid so snorting live covid should not be a problem...
Ms. DiGusta, my mother was an RN and I well remember her volunteering to hand out the sugar cubes with polio microbes in it to the grateful public which saw far too many contemporaries live in the awful, old iron lungs which were in use before Dr. Jonas Salk came along. Back then the vaccine was considered, appropriately to be a blessing by all but the few religious groups who rejected all things modern.
No disagreement with you — he’s an awesome choice for HHS secretary. Those who have been following him know his positions well. He is not a kook. He’s going to help revolutionize our food and drug industries and make Americans healthy again.
I’ve been listening to Kennedy for some time now and I personally think he’s out of his freaking mind … However, if he can shine a light on the Corporate Systems that are … Poisoning and Killing Americans … then perhaps I can grit my teeth and see where it goes …….
This is one of the many reasons why those who voted a certain way did so based on love, not hate. We did not vote from hate, and we did not vote for hate. Among many other good things, we voted for respect and justice for the millions of injured, and accountability for crimes against humanity, and the human decency of informed consent.
The narrative spinners who wanted these stories hidden forever, of dead babies and lifelong-broken children, hates and lies about the heroes who listen to these parents. That would be evil and distorted enough ... but they've convinced millions that these people are crazy.
No. They were right all along, and endured being treated like delusional scum while they were grieving their child's death, or managing care for their disabled kids.
And The Bad Man says a nasty word and we're supposed to vehemently despise him and be in terror of him. Plenty of space and time to pick apart and take out of context every word he says, yet no time to listen to these families, besides to ridicule them.
@OpenVAERS
"There is a whole community of mostly moms (and some dads) out there in the US today crying tears of joy. We have lived through years of being gaslit and ignored, fired from doctors offices, laughed at by relatives, apologized for, and unfriended. We knew that even the people too polite to negate us to our faces were thinking we were crazy when we told our stories.
One of the few people who took us seriously was .
@RobertKennedyJr
. He showed up. He read the studies. He wrote books. He formed
@ChildrensHD
and most of all he believed us.
We celebrated when he started his campaign because we knew that even if he didn't win, he started a national conversation.
We celebrated when he joined with
@realDonaldTrump
because again, our stories were finally being heard. And even if they didn't win, this was more than we hoped for.
We celebrate today even if he doesn't make it through the confirmation because we are heard. We had been so silenced we didn't think this was possible. We only had hope.
So celebrate my friends! This is a damn miracle. We are watching the beginning of the end of this nightmare.
Thank you
@realDonaldTrump
for keeping your word. Your administration is going to change the world."
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@realDonaldTrump
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I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it . . ."
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/joy-and-jubilation-in-the-pharma
(And if you think these are anti-science fools, parents who didn't observe their children well enough to realize they had been disabled all along and are just connecting it to the "well child" visits because of conspiracy theories, if you really think Kennedy is an anti-science kook, please at least study the information he bases his assessments on .. Info that will finally be brought to light ... )
Much of it is here ~ https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/how-did-our-vaccine-oversight-system?utm_source=publication-search
https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/remember-this-when-experts-claim
https://icandecide.org/vaccine-safety-debate/
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/a-new-vision-of-transformative-medical - Possible vision for honest, wise, curious medicine
There are so many reasons for hope. Please, please, stop believing the media. They have lied for too long ..
"If you have been tempted to justify other people’s votes for Trump as motivated by any of the usual -isms, to think that the black and latino men who supported him are the colored faces of white supremacy, or motivated by misogyny, that women voted for Trump because they were cowed by their husbands, or that Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan or Elon Musk are evil people (even though you likely loved some or all of them a few years back), I would suggest that you, too, have been at least somewhat blinded by this whole-of-society propaganda and censorship operation—by the state-sponsored hatecraft. It is a gross subversion of your liberty to be fully-informed, about which you have every reason to be furious.
Let me reiterate: YOUR rights were violated by government censorship—even if you were not censored. This wide-ranging censorship has caused YOU harm. Not because your voice was not heard, but because you were robbed of the opportunity to hear the dissenting voices of others, and to better understand—and counter, if possible—their reasons. If you were blind-sided by the results of this election, it is this theft that is to blame." - https://emilyburns.substack.com/p/pissed-about-the-election-blame-censorship )
Meant with respect, and hope ...
I don’t disagree with your assessment of Bobby, but I do disagree with your assessment of Trump. He does more than “say a few bad words here and there.” And no, there will not be “a lot of time to pick them apart.” Mass deportations, threats against one’s political enemies, using the military to enforce ones political views - those things, should they come to pass, represent far more than a problem of style
Do you know this Marianne and all of you who believe in vaccines? If not, you should. Directly from the CDC Data :
Data and Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder
About 1 in 36 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) according to estimates from CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network.
ADDM Network 2000-2020: Combining data from all sites
Surveillance Year Birth Year Number of ADDM Sites Reporting Combined Prevalence per 1,000 Children (Range Across ADDM Sites) This is about 1 in X children
2020 2012 11 27.6 (23.1-44.9) 1 in 36
2018 2010 11 23.0 (16.5-38.9) 1 in 44
2016 2008 11 18.5 (18.0-19.1) 1 in 54
2014 2006 11 16.8 (13.1-29.3) 1 in 59
2012 2004 11 14.5 (8.2-24.6) 1 in 69
2010 2002 11 14.7 (5.7-21.9) 1 in 68
2008 2000 14 11.3 (4.8-21.2) 1 in 88
2006 1998 11 9.0 (4.2-12.1) 1 in 110
2004 1996 8 8.0 (4.6-9.8) 1 in 125
2002 1994 14 6.6 (3.3-10.6) 1 in 150
2000 1992 6 6.7 (4.5-9.9) 1 in 150
https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-research/index.html
The Vaccine Holocaust: Laura Hayes - “Why Is This Legal?”
"We cannot, and should not, defend that which is indefensible, and that includes the barbaric and reprehensible practice of vaccination. " Laura Hayes
https://catyoung.weebly.com/home/the-vaccine-holocaust-laura-hayes-why-is-this-legal
Laura Hayes - “Why Is This Legal?” 1:23:43 min
https://rumble.com/v4lotxx-laura-hayes-why-is-this-legal.html
World Council for Health Congratulates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his Appointment as HHS Secretary
WCH looks back on favourite videos from RFK JR's two appearances at Better Way Conferences in Bath... World Council for Health Nov 15, 2024
https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/world-council-for-health-congratulates
Thank you.. This thread brought to mind Hobson's choice, which I just Googled to jog my memory, in which one must take something or have no choice at all.
As in: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
Thank you, Ellen, for stating everything so clearly and beautifully.
Thanks Ellen. I’m another betrayed liberal too. I hope the Democratic Party comes to its senses and gets rid of its corrupt leaders.
Wow Democratic corrupt leaders. In terms of corrupt leaders, If this were a competition it would be like The Kansas City Chiefs playing the local high school football team
Laura Hayes NO ON SB277 speech Sacramento at The Capitol on April 8, 2015 14:20 min
https://rumble.com/v47llcx-laura-hayes-no-on-sb277-speech-sacramento-at-the-capitol-on-april-8-2015.html
I voted for Jill Stein in part because her health care platform is substantive, informed, and serious .
Trump [and Harris] obviously had no experience training or commitment to health care reform. Their platforms were just empty rhetoric.
I think Trump picked RFK Jr. because he knows RFK , Jr [who has no qualifications for that job] has no skills or experience in health care and so RFK Jr wont threaten Trump's health care industry donors.
It's not enough to simply oppose the status quo; I want to hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s policies on healthcare, not just his rhetoric. The few statements he has made do not inspire hope. Does he have a plan to address affordability? How will he ensure access for everyone? Or, as some suspect, will he dilute ObamaCare and shift the financial burden onto consumers? How does he plan to fund alternative care? Will it receive the same support as traditional care? The details will tell the story, and right now, those details are non-existent.
The healthcare system, like many other sectors, is dominated by capitalism. While it's evident that we need change, it’s crucial that this change leads to real improvements—not just a platform of "I told you so."
Running a country is serious business. We must rise above petty disputes and demand thoughtful, responsible leadership to confront the challenges we face.
"Does he have a plan to address affordability? How will he ensure access for everyone? Or, as some suspect, will he dilute ObamaCare and shift the financial burden onto consumers? " Those questions are not within the purview of the Sec of HHS.
Good questions, Marianne. Unlike most of the statements about a Trump administration ("Nazi! Dictator! Will deport fully legal immigrants! ChristoFascist! Hates everyone not white and straight!"), you express rational fears that are tethered to reality.
I don't know the answers to those questions, but I think this administration may listen, and there may be enough gov't waste to cut without cutting healthcare, I hope.
Progressives often talk about England's NHS and Canada's healthcare system - yet covid showed us how terribly corrupt those systems are.
But I understand healthcare costs are astronomical, and a gov't that has money to kill people across the world should have money for quality healthcare (not sickcare, I remember when you said that at the debate - very true!), for its citizens, both citizens born here and citizens who went through a process of immigration.
As was said by a respected liberal feminist who called the unvaccinated "Typhoid Mary's" and insults and bans respectful voices of disagreement on her Facebook page, "I think of voting as a chess move, not a Valentine".
That phrase was said previously, but was going around after Biden's debate, when it was obvious to laypeople who see through the media's gaslighting that Biden was mentally incompetent beginning in 2021.
(FYI This Substack, Midwestern Doctor, is one of most impeccably researched, and heart-centered, wise, places for honest medical info - https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-bidens-mandates-were-his-downfall )
I think that sentiment applies well here, of voting as a chess move, not an agreement with everything about someone. And with Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard (please don't believe what the media says - they save the most scathing criticism and lies for the people with most integrity), there will finally be at least Some deep integrity in an administration, and a draining of at least some of the destructive blob.
I would not take lightly the possibility of risking Medicaid and/ or Medicare for anything less than a huge transformation - and that's what this is. Not necessarily of everything, but at least on the patterns of scientific fraud and regulatory capture poisoning us all - including children and setting them up for a life where they need frequent "sick care".
Also, integrative medicine, wholistic medicine, wise doctors, will be listened to more now. I And maybe - maybe - have an easier time being covered by gov't insurance, I don't know. But they will be listened to more. These doctors should have been listened to all along.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/flccc-international-fellowship-program-global-impact-review/ - This is the wisdom in Kennedy's circle. This is the wisdom that the Democrats censored, mocked, and tried to de-license. With the help of Moveon.org, Daily Kos, all the media on the left, everyone who is now wanting us to believe them in their assessments of everyone in the new administration.
That treatment of the covid doctors was what showed me that the media is far more than "bias, doesn't tell the whole story, corporate-influenced", as I always thought they were. It really is worse than that. The treatment of the covid doctors was what pushed me (and many many others away from whatever the left has become, to not trust any candidate who doesn't understand, or at least want to understand, how wrong it is to design studies to fail / or succeed, and lie to the public about what they coerce us to put into our bodies.
( https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-a-false-hydroxychloroquine-narrative-87d?utm_source=publication-search - Marianne, please read this when you can. This is what happened at the beginning of covid, and - even coming from the same place that covid is very real, potentially serious, especially for vulnerable, contagious, and something we all should be aware of and try not to spread - the sabotage of early treatment is truly a crime against humanity. Dr Meryl Nass was smeared by the propaganda + censorship machine, which will finally have less power.
And this - https://merylnass.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-says-he-will-go-after-the - Is not "revenge", it is necessary accountability and making sure that honest doctors are never persecuted again for having been right all along)
I hope that sane, rational discourse and challenging questions like what you asked will be continued to be asked, pressured - rationally, and I hope they will be listened to.
But if the left keeps coming from the place of taking every word out of context, like conflating what every peace activist has said in some way, "The Bravery of Being Out of Range", with a murder threat and flooding the news with it, and keeps worshipping whatever is deemed #TheScience, without ever really looking at evolving science, I fear it may dilute the credibility of our reasonable concerns, like this.
I hope we can stop believing the media - anyone who conflated ivermectin with "horse de-wormer" deserves no trust, and they are the loudest voices saying Trump is basically Hitler (and the accusations around Matt Gaetz seem to be baseless - but I do not know enough about him. I do know, that they have completely lied about the covid doctors, and about Kennedy).
And I hope the left can regroup after real self reflection, that also looks at the scientific fraud and mass poisoning (really - ) that happened with covid, and really has been happening for decades. And I hope that the mental brilliance in this administration is balanced with real compassion (as in Kennedy and Gabbard, and Nicole Shanahan, and probably many more).
I hope that the tragic reality - distortion of TDS can be healed, but I don't know if it can. The other side of Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a blind admiration with no challenging questions, it's an independence of thought and ability to criticize and challenge that is tethered to reality, like your valid statement about healthcare.
Thank you for taking the time to reply!
Kennedy has brilliance, integrity, humility, and an amazing team of people around him. These doctors who were ridiculed, even persecuted during covid, will be listened to - they were right all along. https://covid19criticalcare.com/flccc-alliance-announces-new-senior-fellows/
He will do his best to restore honesty to science, and end the corrupt revolving door. I don't know how much about healthcare access is under his control, but if it is, his caring heart and liberal background mean it's unlikely he will take healthcare away from people.
Kennedy has been right about almost everything he has said. The medical system is full of lies and gaslighting. This is the data they don't want to be seen https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/how-did-our-vaccine-oversight-system?
utm_source=publication-search
Some potential plans, from an ethical scientist who is among those respected by Kennedy (and who also has been right all along)
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/a-new-vision-of-transformative-medical
If anyone is thoughtful and responsible, it is RFK Jr. The media's smearing of him based on things from decades ago and statements they purposefully twist is obvious gaslighting.
This is truly good news for anyone who cares about honesty. And he is not just honest, he is more than capable. He prayed every day for 25 years to be in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic.
Love your comment! Spot on. Nobody in the Trump sphere is a serious person. Seriously evil perhaps
"Nobody"? Your extremist bias is evident. Give health a chance!
Would it have helped, Jerry, if I had written virtually nobody? Tell me somebody in Trump's sphere who is genuinely competent and sincerely benevolent toward democracy in society? The idea that you could defend anything that produces Matt Gaetz as attorney general And Pete hagseth as Secretary of defense is in defensible!
It's going to take a long time to dismantle corporate capture that is deeply embedded in our food and health systems. But we start to fix a problem with acknowledging that there is a problem. No leader in this country has acknowledged there is a problem in 5 elections as far as I know. Whenever there is monumental change it has to start at replacing leadership at the ideological level. We have the technology, the money, the knowledge to implement anything we want. But we need a leader with the right mindset to drive the ship towards a common horizon. Kennedy is someone that in 20 years, if our food and health drastically transform from the status quo we know of today, we will look back at this this moment and think right here is where we started doing the right thing, starting with him. At least, that's my hope.
World Council for Health Congratulates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his Appointment as HHS Secretary
WCH looks back on favourite videos from RFK JR's two appearances at Better Way Conferences in Bath... World Council for Health Nov 15, 2024
https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/world-council-for-health-congratulates
To the extent your comments supported Bobby, bravo. To your points that criticized him, just speaks to the extent of your ignorance on the subjects involved
For instance, before he made the comment about Ashkenazi Jews, I had read the same SCIENTIFIC STUDIES that showed that different ethnic groups were effected differently by the vurus, and that Ashkenazi Jews had some higher level of protection from the ills of the virus. People should NOT be condemned fir INFORMING.
The big piece that you still seem to be missing is that the toxins are in our food water, air and environment to make us and keep us sick, to feed the sickness industrial complex. Not only that, but to destroy our pineal glands, to break up our families, to keep us in fear and to make us compliant.
If you want to know what the powers that be wanted, just look at what we have. God bless Bobby Kennedy!
Trump already got what he wanted from Mr. Kennedy, his supporters and name recognition. Even if he doesn't get booted right away, they aren't going to allow anything that isn't in their Project 2025. When the next pandemic occurs, the oligarchs will use his words to say vaccines are no good (of course they themselves will get inoculated, just like trump and his family did with COVID) but will sell whatever snake oil they have monetary interest in, to the rest of us. We can stop blaming the Democrats about everything and blame ourselves for everything that happens from here on out. We can hide and cry or use our power to tell them NO, we have the power not "daddy" which the maga cult call him.
With regard to your comment that you are not sure whether we should take flouride out of the water, please read the September 24, 2024, 80 page Federal Court decision from the US District Court for the Northern District of California at Food & Water Watch, Inc. v. US E.P. A. - Case #17-cv-02162. That case was filed in 2017 by citizens for the Court to consider whether flouride in our water possesses an unreasonable risk to public health. The Court specifically found that fluoridation of public drinking water at present levels “poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children .” The Court ordered the EPA “to engage with a regulatory response.” The Court noted that the “EPA’s own expert agrees that flouride is hazardous .” The EPA was able to have this case delayed for 7 years before the Court made its final decision. Who knows how long the EPA will now take “to engage in a regulatory response “ - another 7 years? Unfortunately, flouride also causes a number of health problems to adults too. I hope one of the first actions taken by the new administration is to order that flouride be removed from all public water systems.
Ms. Williamson, you reminded me of the book by Richard Hofstadter THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS which was required reading in the social sciences during my youth. It seems to me that we cannot have a sane talk regarding RFK Junior's claims about the danger to our health, which corporate America has created, because of this business-generated paranoia toward anyone who speaks against business in any way.
I appreciated this post, Ms. Williamson. I admire Mr. Kennedy but find him off base on some aspects. I believe he would ultimately be a good pick for HHS because things would actually be questioned and there would be an opportunity for meaningful reform.
I remember when you made this point, MW. You were right. And look at how quickly the debate moderator cut you off. I wonder why? Could it be because Big Pharma funds his paycheck?
Thank you for your thoughtful and balanced response. YES it's an important issue, and YES you have been raising it for a LONG time!!!! Much love to you, Marianne...
P.S. Two things: Vaccines are a super hot-button issue.... the most balanced , informed, and big-picture view on vaccines that I've come across yet is Norman Doidge's "Needlepoints" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/needle-points-vaccinations-chapter-one.
The second thing: I am NOT a supporter of autocrats, yet I do have evangelical Christians in my family who have voted for him. Much as I disagree with T about almost everything, I want to say that my first cousins are deeply informed about alternative health care issues. I completely disagree with their politics, but I respect their views about health. So again, thank you for the nuance, Marianne...
Thanks for making these important points about our horrible health care system..... Corporate greed. Everything about the current administration is going to be regulatory capture by industry insiders and seems to be the omnipresent theme for harms and why our society isn't more functional for the 99%..
However,"The capture of our healthcare agencies a far greater threat to our health and safety than are any of the views he purports to hold now" Let's say his views on vaccines cause untold deaths and pain and suffering on families. The capture of the healthcare agencies don't represent a greater threat they represent an equal threat. Why do we have to have either!? This guy should be nowhere near the helm of our health care system. Surely we can find somebody with a working knowledge of public health and medicine who's not a corporate shill and can take a more holistic direction for the country. I hate the idea that we can't have an expert running the particular division. And don't give me any crap about experts all being in the pocket. They're being thousands of public health experts with proper training. Surely again there are those that are in line with a preventive care policy and not beholden to corporate interests. Sorry for any typos. Voice to text!
But can we? I ask that sincerely. The HHS secretary right now, by the way, has a background not in health but as a lawyer. I saw a woman on Bill Maher last night named Casey Means, Bobby said he would like to bring in as a consultant. She seems to absolutely like the kind of person whose voice needs to be at the table. Please check her out.
Bobby, Casey and her brother Calley Means and others like T. Colin Campbell, Phd. (author of the China Study) are important voices that can make America healthy again. I believe Bobby will succeed and shame on those that try to stop him by quoting him out of context or by using slander to deflect good arguments.
Calley Means is the person who spoke with RFK Jr. the day of the attempted assassination of Trump and is the one who arranged for the two of them to start their discussions about joining forces to Make America Healthy Again. He was a food adviser for both campaigns. Both Calley and Casey Means care deeply about the health of Americans.
How do you know that she approached him? And in what venue/space was she able to do that? Do you happen to know? (and no I didn't go Google it, apologies if this info is readily available, if it is, I wouldn't fault you if your response is "go Google it" 😉)
Calley Means is the brother to Dr. Casey Means. When RFK Jr. gave his speech to announce that he was joining the Trump team he told the story that after the assassination attempt on President Trump in July, Calley Means called RFK Jr. to say that President Trump wanted to speak with him. At the time Calley Means was an advisor to both the Trump and RFK Jr. campaigns regarding food. RFK Jr. said that he told Calley Means that he was willing to speak with President Trump and they spoke that day. They spoke several more times after that and they decided that they had three issues that they agreed on including:
1. Wanting to improve the health of our children;
2. Stopping censorship; and
3. Ending the war in Ukraine.
He said that he reached out to the Harris campaign and was told that they weren’t interested in speaking to him so he supported the Trump campaign because these three issues were important to him as they had been part of his campaign when running for president.
I agree with Marianne here. The corruption of the health care system is tied to other policies and systems and the relational 'systems' mapping demonstrates how this is a multisystem multifactorial fix. Be mindful of assumptions for what deems someone "qualified" to serve in a role. As a lawyer he has fought injustices in health care. He has fought injustices for indigenous tribes. If you can be effective in the legal system, and you're well versed in the political engine and how it works (I assume given his family history) then as long as he surrounds himself with the right people (and it seems like he's smart enough to do that) I say he's most qualified than anyone else. It's how effectively he can affect change given how the systems currently work and who else is selected into positions of power over the other systems. In the least, Bobby will be able to get some stellar people into roles that will trump the current inequalities in the systems, help root our corruption and potentially re-engineer mechanisms that enable the collosions. He will also be able to mass communicate messaging that can correctly educate people, which is probably even more so powerful - ensuring what he says is accurate is paramount. What he is capable of doing if done right is also shape who runs and can get elected for future elections (local and primary/2028).
Kennedy is the leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement. Anyone who aligns with him gravely misunderstands the threat he poses to public health.
He's not a doctor. He's NOT QUALIFIED for his role, and he can and WILL endanger the public good. Period.
What do doctors or you know about vaccines other than what Big Pharma has told all of us. And what happens to doctors who see and report vaccine related injuries? They are attacked. Bobby is more qualified than most doctors because he actually has read the research and questions the fraud.
I agree. It doesn’t take a medical degree to be able to read the science. Unfortunately most doctors rely on the FDA and the CDC for the advice they give and don’t have the time to read the science.
Its not one can learn on the job. A Sec of HHS candidate should have a medical degree and relevant, significant experience in the health care reform arena.
I would be willing to bet that RFK Jr. has read more medical studies than 90%of medical doctors in this country. When an attorney sues Federal Agencies they have to become experts on the subjects. He has filed many lawsuits against Federal agencies. He has a lot of experience in the health care reform arena and if there are specific areas with which he is not familiar he is willing to admit it and seek the assistance of others knowledgeable in the field and do the research himself.
chris
if RFK's experience is only in certain areas of environmental litigation, why was he sent to HSS instead of EPA or Interior or maybe DOJ? I think the answer is Trump wanted him to push back on that agency.
The obsession with vaccine related injuries is disproportionate to the value most vaccines have to save lives and blunt illness.
I used to be one of those people who was too good to get a vaccine, especially a flu vaccine. I had come to distrust conventional medicine because it could not help me to address an autoimmune disease I carried in my body for almost 25 years. I discovered Marianne's work while trying to address that illness.
I changed my mind after a doctor told me that with all the time I spent digging in the soil of my backyard, where I host many kinds of wildlife, I was a great risk of tetanus if I didn't get a booster. She gave me the shot right there in her office.
Of course I was afraid of the shot but nothing happened. I just got better protection.
Later in my life, while cleaning out a friend's apartment in a sick building, I caught pneumonia which graduated to sepsis. After my hospital stay my new doctor, experienced with treating AIDS patients, told me it was essential for me to get both flu and pneumonia shots.
When COVID vaccines came out I got them right away. I've never had a moment's distress from any of these vaccines and I have a VERY sensitive immune system.
I believe the anecdotal reports of people who have had issues from taking vaccines. But the numbers of people who can take them safely far out distance those who have issues and the health benefits are clear.
I think Kennedy has done a great disservice to our children and our nation by convincing parents to keep their children unvaccinated. Terrible diseases once thought eradicated are coming back into our community. It's the direct result of his anti-vaccine propaganda.
Good for you that you are not vaccine injured but many are, and your lack of compassion is unkind. Research shows that about 30% had serious reactions and 10% were very serious. And yet many have health problems that may be related to the vaccines years later. All I and Bobby and others are asking for is good and transparent research so you and others can make an informed choice. Bobby sued Fauci for the research Fauci claimed proved the shots were safe and effective. The courts just ruled in Bobby and the peoples favor.I personally do not care how many shots or drugs you choose to take, just don't mandate them for me and others. https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/vax-facts--resources-for-deciding---just-a-moms-perspective/
We don't have "transparent research" because vaccines and medications are big profit makers for the private pharmaceutical companies and any research is corporate property, not public so the public has to battle the companies for the information. The NIH is public but has been whittled down because it has been the mind set of the Republican Party for decades that everything must be privatized, so instead of us having a Dr.Jonas Salk who developed the polio vaccine, tested it on himself and family and didn't do it to make money but instead for the good of society, we have a corporate-profit driven system. Fauci was just a government employee, but that didn't stop Marjorie Taylor Green from spewing hateful disinformation for click bait during the hearings against Fauci and not doing her job in questioning the giant companies. So here we are, divided, you don't want mandates and maybe we wouldn't have had to have them if Trump would have just come out and addressed the nation in a caring public health fashion, instead he and his family bought stock in pharmaceutical supplies and vaccines and his daughter Ivanka gets awarded a Chinese patent for coffins. America owes Dr. Fauci an apology.
Dr Fauci is not who he is portrayed by mainstream media. Please read The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK Jr. for more accurate information on him.
One of the points about vaccines that became clear during the pandemic that makes the wisdom of all vaccines questionable is this: At any given time, NONE of us know what our immune systems are fighting off, holding at bay. When we divert our immune systems with a vaccine, we may be allowing entry to another pathogen or ill that may be even worse. Witness the turbo cancers and diseases that we have been witnessing since the EUA shots were foisted upon society.
The pandemic provided me with an opportunity for me to understand what happened to me 35 years ago when I was forced to get the MMR to continue my MBA that i was pursuing parttime while working. Due to the MMR and my resulting illness. I had to drop out of school and I lost my career.
This is also an opportunity for us to come to understand the vulnerability of the human condition, whereby a population can become brainwashed into believing what corporate interests want us to believe, especially when also promoted by captured government agencies, where we improperly place our trust.
It has been interesting to see how everyone on the planet considers themselves to be an expert on vaccination, where their only pedigree is the warm fuzzies they fell from the trust in their parents and doctor, when they were taken to get their own vaccination as a child.
It's not about how crazy Kennedy is. It's about how crazy you should be to even entertain the idea that he will be allowed to go against the Big Pharma money machine in any serious way within the present system. Which Trump is part of...
Great to see you modeling going beyond black-and-white ‘ax to grind’ thinking, and considering the nuances. Like Jeffrey Sachs on the Ukraine war, you are an exemplar of astute analysis not warped by ego.
The vaccines on offer today are mainly unlike the vaccines we received as children, at least around the mid 20th century or a little later... There has been no discussion in pharmaceutical promotion about how and why this has happened. The fact is some vaccines are probably safer for some groups and some vaccines for others and there should be a choice. Calling everybody that looks the stuff up crank and mocking the word research is a strategy that used to direct people towards what they wanted, probably what would make them the most money. People who got very sick from vaccines would still have taken vaccines that would not have made them sick if they had been made available and the choice had been made clear. I for one should think that an immune therapy for a specific disease that does not contain an actual antigen should be called something other than a vaccine, since the other type has been called that since 1796. As for the people who said other vaccines would have meant being exposed to live covid, my answer is, I had no problem swallowing live polio when I was a kid so snorting live covid should not be a problem...
Ms. DiGusta, my mother was an RN and I well remember her volunteering to hand out the sugar cubes with polio microbes in it to the grateful public which saw far too many contemporaries live in the awful, old iron lungs which were in use before Dr. Jonas Salk came along. Back then the vaccine was considered, appropriately to be a blessing by all but the few religious groups who rejected all things modern.
No disagreement with you — he’s an awesome choice for HHS secretary. Those who have been following him know his positions well. He is not a kook. He’s going to help revolutionize our food and drug industries and make Americans healthy again.
I’ve been listening to Kennedy for some time now and I personally think he’s out of his freaking mind … However, if he can shine a light on the Corporate Systems that are … Poisoning and Killing Americans … then perhaps I can grit my teeth and see where it goes …….