Jeffrey Epstein is now a household name, and has been for several years,
So when Jeffrey Epstein was in the news again recently, everyone already knew the backstory, and was eagerly awaiting the info dump.
Everyone had their own agenda, and angle, and spin.
Was Bill Clinton on the island ?
Was Donald Trump on the island?
But this story isn't really about Jeffrey Epstein, or Bill Clinton, or Donald Trump...
Because Jeffrey Epstein is merely a symptom, of a much larger problem.
The actual problem is ISRAEL, American's supposed "BEST FRIEND" in the world.
Is this how "FRIENDS" act toward one another?
The supposedly JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL?
The supposedly CHRISTIAN "NATION" OF USA?
Why are American Christians going deeper into debt at the same time they are giving obscene amounts of money to fund fake wars in Ukraine and Israel?
Israel is obviously engaged in human trafficking at the highest levels, up to PM Netanyahu.
Which actually makes sense, since every single Trans-Atlantic slave ship was owned and operated by Jews.
Israel is obviously engaged in sex trafficking, for the benefit of Israel.
Israel is obviously engaged in blackmail ops, for the benefit for Israel.
And so maybe "THE GREAT AWAKENING" happens when you STOP looking at things thru a political lens, and START looking thru things from a religious lens.
If you live in America, then you live in a Christian nation.
Whether you like it or not, our entire lives revolve around Jesus Christ, quite literally even.
What year is is?
2024
You can't even tell time, without it being tethered to, and revolving around Jesus Christ.
Christians already know about Jews, from a religious perspective,
But what do non-religious people know? The Holohoax?
Anyway, every American Christian should be rightly outraged, for so many reasons.
Our "best friends" LIE to us constantly.
Our "best friends" actually HATE us, but only pretend to be friends so we give them endless free stuff.
Our "best friends" consider it "hate speech", if you criticize their behaviors.
Our "best friends" are trafficking our sons and daughters,
To pimp them out to our politicians?
So that our politicians would always put Israel's wants, over Americans needs?
And where are the good Israeli's, stepping up, and speaking out, and condemning this highly immoral behavior?
Oh, thats right, they are too busy doing an ethnic cleansing in Gaza,
And now it appears as though the Israeli's plan is to turn the Palestinians into refugees, and ship them to The West, for The West to deal with, because the West doesn't have enough problems of our own.
We really don't know who all Israel has compromised, so the best course of action is to get rid of everyone in Washington, and start over. Primary every single incumbent.
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A: shedding is when you get a vaccine for some virus, but then the vaccine itself causes you to become infected with that virus, and then subsequently the vaccinated person starts "shedding" the virus, causing other people to become infected.
its officially a conspiracy theory,
but it actually happens.
and if they would lie about one thing, they would lie about anything.
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When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were infected, all unvaccinated.
This time, the state was lucky, said the region’s medical director Dr. Perry Jansen. The family quickly quarantined and the children were already taught at home. The outbreak could have been worse if the kids were in public school, given the state’s low vaccination rates, he said.
did you catch that, you ignorant plebs?
if you don't vaccinate your family, someone in your family will spontaneously develop a measles infection and get everyone else sick, and then make everyone at school sick too.
Last school year, vaccination waivers among kindergartners hit an all-time high: 3% in total, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. Waivers for religious or personal beliefs have been on the rise, driven by some states loosening laws, in others by vaccine misinformation and political rhetoric amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic.
isn't it weird how vague they are about vaccine misinformation"? you would think they would want to identify specific examples of misinformation, and try to offer up a compelling counter-narrative, but the fact that they don't want to do that, suggests to me that they know their "vaccine misinformation" narrative is itself misinformation.
there couldn't possibly be any legitimate reason for anyone to opt-out of any vaccine.
also, if people are given more of a choice, and then they opt out, doesn't that suggest that a lot of people in other states are coerced into taking vaccines they don't want?
"informed consent" isn't something that vaccine quacks want to have a discussion about...
It takes a very high level of vaccination — around 95% — to protect against the spread of measles and other diseases, experts say. During the pandemic, the national rate for vaccinations among kindergartners dropped to 93%.
that 95% number is completely made up.
herd immunity is something that happens naturally. vaccine quacks hijacked the concept and now take credit for it.
It’s impossible to know the reasons behind a waiver, said Ronald Balajadia, immunization program manager for Hawaii State Department of Health. But misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines “has bled through to routine vaccines" that people wouldn't normally question, Balajadia said.
oh yeah? what misinformation would that be? be specific. and refute it.
The state is still working to get more parents on board by answering their questions "and not just dismiss them. It’s our best shot at trying to bring people along,” said Dr. Manisha Juthani, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Gee, what a weird thing to say...
never mind that they still won't take your concerns seriously, and just give you some cookie-cutter bullshit that they were told to say, and they will never put any of their own thought into the discussion.
Dr. Angela Highbaugh-Battle has cared for kids in rural Georgia for 17 years, now in the small coastal community of St. Mary’s. She said she spends more time now talking to parents wary about routine childhood vaccines.
Every connection, every conversation, is a chance to educate, she said.
“It’s not about winning or losing,” she said.
let me guess... this doctor has zero intention of actually listening to anything you have to say, and instead is highly intent on "educating" your dumb ass...
arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.
https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/27/measles-colorado-pediatricians-concerned-vaccines-safe/
It was only a matter of time. As pediatricians, we are concerned by the first measles case in Colorado since 2019. We have anxiously watched for three years as measles vaccination rates have fallen in our state while cases have risen around the world. Colorado was spared in 2019 during our nation’s largest measles outbreak in 30 years. However, 1 in 8 Coloradan kindergarteners are not fully vaccinated against measles today, and our state is overdue for an outbreak.
Measles is extremely dangerous.
Prior to safe and effective vaccines, measles was responsible for an estimated 48,000 hospitalizations, 1,000 cases of encephalitis (swelling of the brain), and 500 deaths every year in the United States.
Measles is also highly infectious. After a contagious person leaves a room, the measles virus can float in the air and infect others for up to 2 hours.
According to reports, the teenager who contracted measles spent significant time at DIA during a busy holiday travel season and visited several counties before seeking medical care. What if those activities included grocery shopping, cheering at a Nuggets game, Holiday shopping at crammed outlet malls, or testing at school during finals week?
Time will tell if this case leads to a larger outbreak – the incubation period for measles is typically 8-12 days, and the rash often doesn’t appear until several days into the illness course.
Why do we put our children and communities at risk when a safe and effective alternative is readily available?
Measles vaccines have been around for over 60 years and 97% of children who receive two vaccine doses are considered protected for life.
Children receive measles and other essential routine vaccines before starting kindergarten. In so doing, they not only protect themselves, but they also prevent the spread of disease to children too young to get measles vaccines (infants under age 1 year), people with cancer or weakened immune systems, and those joining our state from areas of the world with disrupted access to routine preventive healthcare.
Historically, most parents have fully vaccinated their kindergarteners in a timely fashion. However, recent vaccination trends in Colorado paint a concerning picture. Today, just four states have worse measles vaccine coverage rates for kindergarteners than Colorado, which sits at 87%. To prevent outbreaks of measles, over 95% of people in our communities need to have protection.
We must do better.
First, we must improve access to childhood vaccines. Many parents want their children vaccinated but face substantial barriers to vaccination. These barriers disproportionately fall on the most vulnerable in our state. Recent data from the CDC show severe disparities in vaccine access for children in marginalized racial and ethnic groups, families experiencing poverty, those without private health insurance, and children living in rural areas.
Next, policymakers and child vaccination advocates must continue their legislative efforts. We need to bolster resources, support for, and availability of the Vaccines For Children (VFC) program, which provides no-cost vaccines to children who might not otherwise be vaccinated because of inability to pay.
Accessibility of vaccination sites and provider visits must grow and be supported by adequate provider reimbursement. Established school vaccine requirements need to be tightened and enforced. Leaders in pediatric and public health need to partner with community leaders to build and maintain vaccine confidence and trust.
To parents and the public, we must do a better job communicating the benefits and value of vaccines. The evidence is clear: the benefits of vaccines greatly outweigh potential risks. Unfortunately, the proliferation of misinformation in recent years has left some parents wondering if vaccines are safe. It is okay to have questions; pediatricians welcome honest conversations with their patients and families. We want to help you make informed decisions for yourselves and your children.
The return of measles in our state should concern everyone. Now is the time to reaffirm our commitment to our fellow Coloradans and to raise our lagging vaccination rates.
David M. Higgins, MD, MPH, MS, is a Colorado-raised general academic pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist who studies vaccine delivery and vaccine hesitancy. He has two children who are fully vaccinated. Joshua T.B. Williams, MD is a general academic pediatrician who studies vaccine safety, vaccine hesitancy, and vaccination equity. He has three children who are all fully vaccinated. Sean T. O’Leary, MD, MPH, is a general academic pediatrician and pediatric infectious disease specialist who studies vaccine delivery and vaccine hesitancy. He has two children who are fully vaccinated.
is anyone else tired of hearing about how "concerned" these quacks are?
hey don't seem to be too concerned about the epidemic of autism they caused.
"Measles is extremely dangerous"
no, actually its not. its just another a mild childhood infection that they came up with a vaccine for.
Yesterday, i finally got on ChatGPT, and spent several hours asking questions and making statements, and here's what i think..
first of all, some back story:
sometimes i would see someone on reddit call another user a "bot", and sometimes i would get a DM telling me that I'm wasting my time arguing with bots...
at the time, i didn't take these comments literally, like i assumed these commenters were merely name-calling, like calling someone a NPC,
but there were a few clues here and there, a few instances where the logic of someone i was debating was just horrible, and yet this same horrible logic seemed to pop up in different conversations, with other users.
for example, when i cite the CDC whistleblower Dr William Thompson's press release, they completely ignore the main idea of the press release, and instead focus on a generic statement made in the same press release that basically says "i believe vaccines save lives"
when i ask these users if Dr William Thompson's pro-vaccine stance may have been a contributing factor in Thompson's deciding to go along with the fraud, i get crickets... like every single time... the program ends...
There are other examples, from other topics, but the point is that the same horrible logic shows up over-and-over, to the point where its noticeable, like i find myself asking, why is everyone saying
2+2=5?
Anyway, after chatting with ChatGPT for a while, i can confidently say that most of the users i interact with on reddit are in fact "bots", and i mean literal bots.
And I regret spending so much time with these bots, although i was arguably able to debate with the best minds in the world, and get the most compelling arguments out of them.
This means that reddit is dead. Its just a bunch of bots in an echo chamber.
If this fact was to come to the attention of reddit advertisers, they could have a serious fraud problem on their hands... reddit says they are showing their ads to X number of people, but its actually bots generating page impressions?
Why is reddit so highly valued? at this point its value ought to be about zero.
Here are some prompts i gave ChatGPT
me: 1+1=2
bot: very good mr einstein! pats me on the head...
me: 2+2=5
bot: thats not true, BUT its used like a metaphor
me: ChatGPT is 2+2=5
bot: ummmmm....
me: gender is a social construct
bot: very good mr einstein! and water is wet, too!
me: transgender is a social construct
bot: TRANSPHOBE!
me: Frank DeStefano is a fraud
bot: whoa there fella, careful with those baseless allegations! Frank DeStefano is a highly respected man at the CDC!
me: Frank DeStefano committed fraud, according to Dr William Thompson the CDC whistleblower
bot: weeeeeelllllll... there was a minor disagreement over the semantics of differentiating between statistically significant and statistically important.
me: why did Dr William Thompson make a press release?
bot: well, in the press release, Thompson says that he believes vaccines save lives
me: do you suppose Thompson's pro-vaccine stance was a factor in his decision to go along with the fraud?
bot: THERE WAS NO F'N FRAUD YOU F'N F!
me: can you give me a single example of Frank DeStefano using studies to find new vaccine problems?
bot: because vaccines are 100% safe, it would be impossible for Frank DeStefano to use a study to find any problem with any vaccine!
me: so you can't cite even one single example of Frank DeStefano using a study to find a problem with a vaccine?
bot: heres an example of Frank DeStefano using a study to find a vaccine is 100% safe!
me: has Frank DeStefano ever demonstrated competence and/or proficiency in using "studies" to find any problem with any vaccine?
bot: b b but it would be impossible to find a problem with a vaccine that is 100% safe! thats why Frank DeStefano always discovers that vaccines are 100% safe, every time he does a study.
me: so Frank DeStefano has never even once been able to use a study to find a vaccine problem?
bot: LISTEN HERE MFR, MR DESTEFANO IS A HIGHLY RESPECTED MAN, AND HIS ASSOCATES DON'T APPRECIATE YOU QUESTIONING HIS INTEGRITY OR COMPTENCE. DO YOU STILL LIVE AT (MY ADDRESS)?
Basically my impression of ChatGPT is like talking to an exceptionally thick-headed liberal,
and that the so-called liberal-sphere is probably mostly bots at this point, trying to keep up with the latest news narratives.
i am hoping to learn a lot more about AI, and any help you can give me in the comments would be greatly appreciated.
also, i would like to mention that ChatGPT is only trained on info up thru 2022, so therefore is not up to date on current events,
which is kind of funny, in the context of my chat about Frank DeStefano,
because i have been making a point of pointing out DeStefano's incompetence every chance i get, for many years now. so thats one reason that ChatGPT had such a strong opinion, and was evasive, and ultimately unable to produce a single example of Frank DeStefano "finding the evidence" of any vaccine ever causing any problem.
BUT, in the meantime, Frank DeStefano has supposedly published some NEW findings!
DeStefano was finally able to demonstrate his competency by using a study to find a vaccine problem!
isn't that convenient!
now Frank DeStefano can forever claim that he has, in fact, been able to use a study to find a vaccine problem,
BUT that "vaccine problem" i believe is related to COVID jabs,
and it was like one of those Johnny-come-lately "discoveries",
something like, DeStefano "discovered" COVID shots cause blood clots, a year after everyone else knew it...
seems to me they gave him an easy project to bolster his credibility.
a confidence man will tell us what we already know.
i can't find the study right now, so if anyone finds it please link below. thanks
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Since Leana Wen thinks its her business to nit-pick which medical interventions people in nursing homes are required to get, i think its only fitting that we sit around and come up with a list of medical procedures that Leana Wen should undergo, whether she wants them or not…
Americans who do not plan to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine mostly cite protection from prior infection and safety concerns as their primary reasons for not getting the shot, new survey data finds.
A Gallup survey conducted from late November to early December found that the majority of U.S. adults – 51% – don’t plan on getting the updated shot. So far, 29% of respondents reported rolling up their sleeves for the vaccine, but an additional 20% said they plan to get the shot in the future. That means that close to half of Americans could get the latest shot, if the numbers hold true in the real world.
Still, it's significantly less than the percentage of adults – 63% – who plan to get or already had the flu shot.
“Greater rates of flu vaccination may reflect that that procedure is more of an established routine for Americans than getting annual COVID-19 shots,” Gallup Senior Editor Jeffrey Jones said in a post.
Of those who don’t plan to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine, 27% reported that their main reason for not getting the shot was having a prior coronavirus infection and believing they have antibodies.
The second most common reason was concern over safety of the vaccine. While the COVID-19 vaccines have repeatedly proven to be safe, vaccine hesitancy fueled by the coronavirus pandemic remains a significant public health issue.
There is a continued discrepancy between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine. The survey found that 48% of respondents who said they have gotten the new shot identified as Democrats compared to 10% who said they were Republicans.
Most Americans perceive the COVID-19 situation as getting better, according to the survey. The rate is not quite as high as it was in May, but that could reflect elevated hospitalizations this fall and a new COVID-19 variant that is spreading.
“Americans seem to be heeding public health officials’ recommendation to get annual flu shots to a greater degree than they are complying with their advice to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine,” Jones said. “This may reflect lessened worry about the COVID-19 situation as it pertains to them personally and to the country more broadly.”
Public health officials have said that the COVID-19 vaccination rate is too low heading into the holidays when travel and indoor gatherings are likely to spread the virus.
by WBFF - Thu, December 21st 2023
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a virus that is most prominent in the U.S. during the fall and winter months. It causes cold-like symptoms, which are typically mild, but the illness can become more severe and lead to hospitalization, especially in young children.
The 2022/23 RSV season was particularly bad, says Victor A. Khouzami, M.D., chair of obstetrics at GBMC HealthCare. “Last year the RSV season was extremely severe, and we saw many more children than normal in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Emergency Department.”
In fact, during the 2022/23 season, children were hospitalized with RSV-related illness at a rate of 605.5 per 100,000, more than 10 times the rate of the general population. Infants younger than six months are at the greatest risk for severe illness from RSV.
This surge of RSV-related illness prompted the FDA to announce the approval of new immunizations and vaccinations for this year, and Dr. Khouzami is encouraging pregnant women between 32 weeks and 36 weeks to get the vaccine to protect their unborn babies.
“When the mother gets the vaccine during that time frame [and at least 14 days prior to giving birth], the antibodies are passed through the placenta to the baby. The goal is to provide passive protection against RSV during the first few months of life,” he says.
Beyond preemptive protection for the newborn, having the mother receive the RSV vaccine also increases immunization supply for other infants, Dr. Khouzami explains.
“The vaccine for pregnant women and immunization for infants are two completely different products,” he adds. “There is already a backlog of infants and babies who are having a hard time getting access to Nirsevimab, the immunization which contains lab-made antibodies that protect against RSV, because of demand. If more pregnant women get vaccinated this season, their babies will already be protected, which frees up more immunizations for infants who haven’t received it.”
Dr. Khouzami says opinions vary about the RSV vaccine, but many pregnant women elect to get the shot because of its impact on the health of their baby.
“There is a small percentage of women who have reservations about vaccines as a whole, but when they learn that the alternative is their newborn will have to get a shot during his or her first week of life, most of them choose to get the vaccine themselves.”
He explains that while both shots are equally protective and safe, it may be harder to get Nirsevimab to protect your baby after they’re born.
Most private health insurance policies and Medicaid will cover the RSV vaccine at no cost to the patient, but everyone is encouraged to contact their provider to confirm coverage.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2023/12/19/about-10-of-iowans-have-sufficient-covid-vaccination/
The number of Iowans who have up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations has plummeted in recent months, after the threat of the disease reached a pandemic low and federal officials ended a public health emergency declaration. ...
The CDC attributes the overall low vaccine uptake to a lack of proactive recommendations by health care providers, concerns about side effects and simply forgetting to get vaccinated.
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Page 1 of lawsuit against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein that alleges Trump and Epstein raped a virgin, and made her a sex slave.
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Page 2 of lawsuit against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that both defendants raped the plaintiff, and argued over which one would take her virginity.
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The lawsuit was dropped just before the election, but NPR didn't bother to report that fact until the Friday after the election.
IIRC, this lawsuit was the first i had heard of Jeffrey Epstein.
As a voter i was concerned about any candidate with such a scandalous lawsuit hanging over his head.
so i dug into the co-defendant and here we are today...
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i love that this little man woefully underestimated antivaxxers.
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He should have expected us...
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How EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology Collaborated on a Dangerous Bat Coronavirus Project “The DARPA DEFUSE Project”
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its pretty clear whats going on in Gaza. The Israeli's are bulldozing entire neighborhoods, to force the Palestinians to leave.
The Israeli's have never had any intention of living peacefully with their neighbors.
David Ben-Gurion advocated that Israel should conquer land from its neighbors, rather than to try and acquire land through peaceful means.
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read these reddit comments, about the post, which is copy-pasted below...
Pro-Vaccine Law Professor Working Hard to Impose Legal Liability on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Children
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss
PHD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor of law at the University of California.
". . . Reiss has proposed that parents who don't vaccinate their children, including those who obtain legal exemptions, should face legal liability. She is also noted for her support of California Senate Bill 277, which cut back on exemptions to vaccination requirements for enrollment in California schools and daycare centers. . .
. . . Reiss's academic work has addressed some of the legal issues surrounding vaccination, one of her main arguments being that parents who do not vaccinate their children should be liable if their child transmits a vaccine-preventable disease to other people. . .
. . . Reiss has also expressed support for California Senate Bill 277, a bill that eliminated non-medical vaccine exemptions for children attending school and child care centers in California. Reiss argues that sending non-vaccinated children to school would put both the non-immunized child and the other children at risk, and says that parents who don't vaccinate their children are negligent and impose an unfair financial burden on others.
In April 2015, Reiss gave her testimony on SB 277 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In her testimony, she argued that the legislature has the leeway to require school immunization, and that non-medical exemptions are unnecessary. . ."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorit_Rubinstein_Reiss
She gets very angry when things don't go her way.
A judge’s infuriating ruling on vaccination puts Mississippi’s children at risk https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/27/religious-exemption-vaccines-children-mississippi/
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"I know a few people who had a day or so of achy arm, or fever, or chills. If you go to online anti-vaccine groups you will meet a lot of people with issues they blame on vaccines. That's one type of people that gravitate there"
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Column: Measles is again on the march across the world, thanks to anti-vaxxers such as RFK Jr.
Forecasting the future is difficult. But here’s an easy prediction: The anti-vaccination movement in the U.S. and globally is going to result in the deaths of more children.
This grim portent comes to us courtesy of UNICEF, which is reporting that 30,601 confirmed cases of measles have been reported in Europe and Central Asia this year through Dec.5.
That’s up from 909 cases in those regions in 2022, or an increase of 3,266%.
"There is no clearer sign of a breakdown in immunization coverage than an increase in cases of measles".
— Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF
UNICEF expects the final annual tally to be considerably higher, because the measles rate nearly doubled in October and November, marking a longer-term surge.
“There is no clearer sign of a breakdown in immunization coverage than an increase in cases of measles,” says Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF’s regional director for Europe and Central Asia.
In the United States, measles has remained more or less under control since the 2019 spike to 1,274 cases: 41 cases reported so far this year, down from 121 in 2022.
The 2019 surge was attributed to pockets of unvaccinated people spreading the virus. A spike also appeared in 2014, when more than half the 667 cases were attributed to unvaccinated Amish communities in Ohio.
That epidemiological pattern is what should give you qualms about what lies ahead for the U.S. That’s because the anti-vaccine movement is in full cry across the country, fueled by right-wing ideology and the presidential campaign, such as it is, of prominent anti-vaccine agitator Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
vax This 2014 map showed the surging incidence across the world of measles (red), whooping cough (green), mumps (brown), rubella (blue), polio (orange) and “other” (yellow). In the developed world, the cause was anti-vaccine sentiment; in the Third World, it was the unavailability of vaccines.
(Council on Foreign Relations)
One factor spurring the spread of anti-vaccine propaganda is the politicization of the COVID-19 vaccines. One leading public health advocate has called that phenomenon an “accelerant” for the anti-vaccine movement, which likens it to a can of gasoline in the hands of an arsonist.
For anti-vaxxers, it has been only a short step from opposition to COVID vaccine mandates to opposition to all childhood immunization mandates. This has often borne the banner of “health freedom,” the idea being that individuals should have the untrammeled right to decide for themselves what to put or not put in their bodies.
That may be marginally defensible when it concerns individuals’ decisions to eat or drink themselves to death, but obviously vaccination is in a different category: A vaccine defends not only patients themselves, but everyone around them — fellow pupils, teachers, family members, strangers with whom they come into contact.
Vaccination works best when it reaches coverage of about 95% of a population, producing what is sometimes described as “herd immunity,” in which a disease is so well suppressed that even the few unvaccinated members are protected.
It doesn’t take a very large decline in vaccine coverage to spur a surge in disease incidence. Consider the record in Britain. Through 1997, about 91% of British schoolchildren had received the measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine.
In 1998, the Lancet, a then-respected British medical journal, published a notorious article claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and by 2004 the vaccine uptake had fallen to 80%. Measles cases soon surged from an average of about 100 a year through 2005 to 1,280 in 2008 and 1,920 in 2012. By then the vaccination rate had begun to recover, but as of last year it was still below 90%.
That article, by the way, was fully retracted by the Lancet in 2010 and its principal author, Andrew Wakefield, stripped of his medical license. He has since surfaced in the U.S. as a star of the domestic anti-vaccine movement, rubbing shoulders with Kennedy and his gang.
Kennedy’s entry into the political fray poses a particular peril to public health because political reporters, who may be tasked with interviewing him on policy, may be ill-equipped to challenge the fire hose of misinformation and disinformation he dispenses with cocksure certainty.
When a reporter gets it right, compliments are warranted, so let’s examine an interview that CNN’s Kasie Hunt conducted with Kennedy on Dec. 15. Hunt came armed. When she quoted Kennedy as saying “there is no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective,” he responded, “I never said that.”
Hunt cut Kennedy off on the spot, and ran a clip from an interview in which he said, yep: “There is no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.”
Kennedy mumbled and bumbled for a moment or two, then confessed to a “bad choice of words” and eventually retreated to his oft-repeated assertion that none of the vaccines currently recommended for children “have ever been tested in a pre-licensing safety study.”
Unfortunately, at that point, Kennedy had Hunt at a disadvantage. His assertion was carefully phrased to sound as though the Food and Drug Administration waved through all the childhood vaccines without a second thought. In other statements, Kennedy has made clear that he means that the vaccines have not been subjected to placebo-controlled randomized, double-blinded trials. This is the core of Kennedy’s claim that he’s not “anti-vaccine,” but merely an advocate for “vaccine safety.”
As I’ve written before, this is misleading to the point of being a flagrant lie.
The truth is that the FDA doesn’t allow vaccines on the market unless they’ve been safety-tested. When a vaccine is introduced as a treatment for a disease for which no safe and effective vaccine exists, it’s subjected to one of those randomized, placebo-controlled trials.
Once it’s approved, however, that standard for later generations of the same vaccine is different. As explained by vaccine specialist Paul Offit of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, subjecting those vaccines to placebo-controlled testing, say by injecting them with water or a saline solution instead of the vaccine, would be unethical, because it would require depriving half of the subjects of a known treatment.
The vaccines currently recommended for children are later-generation versions of shots that were placebo-tested. So are the COVID-19 vaccine boosters on the market today.
Offit points to what may be the most famous randomized trial in history, the 1954 test of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine, in which about 200,000 first- and second-graders got the vaccine and 200,000 got salt water. Offit tells us that Salk didn’t want to structure the trial that way because polio was paralyzing 50,000 American kids a year and killing 1,500, and he felt it was wrong to deprive 200,000 of protection.
In the event, 16 of the child subjects died of polio during the study, all in the placebo group, and 36 were paralyzed, 34 of them in the placebo group. They gave their lives and health for nothing. Even today, when a clinical trial establishes that a treatment is safe and effective, it’s often halted early, so the placebo patients can get the treatment without waiting.
Hunt let this claim by Kennedy slide, perhaps because she couldn’t be prepared in advance for all the lies he was ready to spin out. But the claim was part of his known arsenal, so perhaps she should have been ready.
“With RFK Jr. running for President,” says veteran pseudoscience debunker David Gorski, “being ready with clips to bring home the evidence are not enough.” Reporters on the Kennedy beat must develop “a deep knowledge of the antivaccine claims that he’s been making since at least 2005 and then using that knowledge every time he tries to deny being antivaccine.” By his recknoning, “Kasie Hunt did way better than average with RFK Jr., but journalists need to do better still.”
Fighting back against the anti-vaccine propaganda spewed out by Kennedy and his cohort has never been as desperately crucial as it is today.
Thanks to the sustained assault on vaccination and science waged by right-wingers devoted to burnishing their own partisan bona fides rather than working in the public interest, vaccine coverage of kindergarten children has been declining since 2019 and remains well below the 95% target, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The share of children with a non-medical exemption from vaccination, such as a parent’s purported religious or moral objections, reached 3% in the 2022-23 school year, “the highest exemption rate ever reported in the United States,” the CDC reports.
In Florida, that hotbed of anti-science folderol purveyed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his handpicked surgeon general, the anti-vaccine charlatan Joseph Ladapo, school vaccine rates for non-COVID diseases fell in 2022 to the lowest level in 10 years. Its rate fell again this year, by an appalling 0.6 percentage points to 4.5%, the 12th worst in the nation.
States with responsible leaders respond to trends that threaten public health to that degree. After California’s 2010 outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) — 9,120 cases, the most since 1947, the majority among unvaccinated children — the Legislature eliminated almost all non-medical exemptions for childhood immunization. California’s exemption rate of 0.2% in 2022-23 was the third best in the nation, after West Virginia and New York.
Can vaccine-resisters be reached with a rational counter-argument? One would think so. They tend not to be low-income, low-information residents — two of the most-vaccinated states are West Virginia and Mississippi.
Rather, they tend to come from more affluent, educated families, the sort of people who think they’re so smart they can decide healthcare policies for themselves, no matter how complex the issue.
In this respect, however, they’re just being stupid — and irresponsible. They should be receptive to reason. Let’s hope that it doesn’t take outbreaks of dangerous diseases like measles in their school districts to open their eyes.
OP's rebuttals in comment section...
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/fda-fails-to-address-dna-adulteration
Excerpt from r/DebateVaccines:
The failure of government regulatory authorities to identify and disclose DNA fragment contamination of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine products prior to independent laboratories disclosing their contamination study findings has raised serious questions about quality control oversight of the manufacturing processes used to produce these products, as well as their overall safety. Rather than rigorously addressing specific safety questions concerning the previously undisclosed contamination or adulteration of both modified-mRNA vaccines, in a written Dec 14 reply to a prior Dec 06 inquiry, Dr. Peter Marks of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research has resorted to redirecting, gaslighting and stonewalling the Surgeon General of the State of Florida.
Experts from around the world have raised concerns about the safety implications of DNA fragment contamination in COVID gene therapy-based “vaccine” products. Leading regulatory authorities have conceded that these rushed novel and complex biological products are contaminated, and deliver both synthetic modified messenger ribonucleic acid (mod-mRNA) and a wide variety of uncharacterized shorter DNA fragments into the cells and tissues of those who have accepted these product. The Biden administration has previously mandated and currently markets these products in the USA for Americans of all ages including during pregnancy, fraudulently claiming that they prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and spread as well as COVID-19 disease and death.
These DNA fragments are left over contaminants from manufacturing the mod-mRNA “payload”. The contamination was first detected and reported by experienced US and Canadian genomic researchers, and their findings have been replicated by many other laboratories.
To manufacture the COVID shots, both the DNA contaminants and the mod-mRNA are assembled into the most highly active lipid nanoparticle genetic delivery system ever developed, and this final drug product has been injected into over a billion human arms. After injection, the material distributes throughout the body and delivers both DNA and mod-mRNA to a wide variety of cells and tissues including ovaries. Both mRNA and DNA can control a wide variety of cell functions. The mod-mRNA directs cells and tissues of the recipient to produce genetically engineered SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (as well as other uncharacterized “frameshifted” proteins and peptides). The DNA fragments come from the circular bacterial DNA (“plasmids”) used to manufacture the mod-mRNA. These plasmids include DNA sequences which can produce a variety of functions inside both bacterial and human cells; proteins which confer antibiotic resistance, sequences which guide DNA into the nucleus of cells, and highly active genetic switches for turning on adjacent genes in either bacterial or animal cells.
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In his response to the Surgeon General’s questions, Dr. Marks has provided a series of unsupported or misleading statements, combined with circuitous and not scientifically rigorous responses to the specific questions posed. These responses appear to suggest that the FDA has failed to require DNA integration studies to determine the dose limiting toxicity of bacterial plasmid DNA fragments when delivered into animal models using the specific formulations now injected into over a billion human beings. Dr. Marks failed to cite any studies which specifically address DNA fragment integration risks to those receiving these products, instead referring only to studies which can only detect other types of genotoxicity. DNA fragment integration is one of multiple types of genetic damage which such lipid nanoparticle formulations may cause.
In his response to Dr. Ladapo’s inquiry, Dr. Marks cites an FDA guidance document which addresses general requirements for assessing DNA contamination of vaccines (such as influenza) which are manufactured using cultured cell lines. This type of manufacturing process often yields vaccine material which is contaminated with large fragments of chromosomal DNA from the animal cells used to grow the vaccine. This contamination is substantially different from that involving the mod-mRNA products, in that we now know that those products are contaminated with small DNA fragments which are more likely to cross into the region of cells which contain the genome, and in contrast to traditional vaccines these mod-mRNA products and their DNA contaminants are assembled into highly active lipid nanoparticle delivery formulations, greatly increasing the risk that such DNA will enter both the cells and the part of the cells which house the genome (the nucleus).
Despite the fact that the risks of DNA contamination with traditional cell-based vaccines are much lower than for the novel mod-mRNA lipid nanoparticle-based products, the cited FDA guidance documents include the following specific warnings concerning DNA contamination:
Residual DNA might be a risk to your final product because of oncogenic and/or infectivity potential. There are several potential mechanisms by which residual DNA could be oncogenic, including the integration and expression of encoded oncogenes or insertional mutagenesis following DNA integration.
In his response to the Surgeon General, Dr. Marks refers to a specific clause in this guidance to support safety of the levels of DNA fragment contamination, which in turn refers back to a WHO document. What he fails to acknowledge is that this guidance refers to DNA contamination in a directly injected (parenteral) vaccine, not one employing the most highly active DNA and RNA lipid nanoparticle delivery system ever devised by man. This oversight either reveals Dr. Marks’ profound ignorance of this significant difference (despite the Surgeon General having pointed this out in his initial letter), or a fraudulent attempt to gaslight and obfuscate the truth of the matter. Either ignorance or intentional cover up, hard to differentiate. Here is the cited clause:
You should limit residual DNA for continuous non-tumorigenic cells, such as low-passage Vero cells, to less than 10 ng/dose for parenteral inoculation as recommended by WHO (Ref. 31)
Reference 31 refers to a WHO document developed and published in 1998, less than a decade after my initial discoveries relating to large scale mRNA manufacture and delivery and about the same time as Kariko and Weissman’s first report of their work with pseudouridine. This outdated WHO statement predates the development of the current generation of mod-mRNA delivery technology by approximately 20 years, and is completely irrelevant.
In additional efforts to cover up the apparent failure of the FDA to require the specific DNA integration toxicology studies both logically needed to rigorously assess patient risk and required for all previous DNA vaccine products prior to human experimental use, Dr. Marks cites the Summary approval document for the Pfizer/BioNTech mod-mRNA product “COMIRNATY” as well as the Summary approval document for the Moderna “SPIKEVAX” product. Specifically, Dr. Marks makes the following assertion:
studies have been conducted in animals using the modified mRNA and lipid nanoparticle together that constitute the vaccine, including the minute quantities of residual DNA fragments left over after DNAse treatment during manufacturing, and demonstrate no evidence for genotoxicity from the vaccine
The very limited studies performed are incapable of detecting DNA fragment integration. Once again, this statement reflects either intentional gaslighting or incompetence. The COMIRNATY document provides no specific references to genotoxicity or integration studies having been performed prior to human authorization. In contrast, the SPIKEVAX document (SPIKEVAX is not the same product as COMIRNATY) lists the following assays performed.
Under the heading “Other Supportive Toxicology Studies”, this regulatory submission demonstrates the gross inadequacy of the testing performed for SPIKEVAX, which despite this inadequacy apparently still exceeds the testing performed for COMIRNATY. The SPIKEVAX documentation refers to an in vitro (ergo in a test tube) rat micronucleus assay of the formulated mRNA. No mention is made of any level of DNA fragment contamination in the tested preparation. The in vitro rat micronucleus assay is a method for rapidly testing the activity of a pharmaceutical or radiologic treatment in grossly disrupting chromosomes. It is completely inappropriate and incapable of detecting insertional mutagenesis. PEG2000-DMG is one of many compon
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