You may have read that RFK Jr. says he doesn't want to take away access to vaccines for people who want them, he just wants to end vaccine mandates and he's "just asking questions" about vaccine safety. Sure. It turns out his lawyer has sued to revoke FDA approval for the polio vaccine. In case you don't know it, in the 1950s, Americans were terrified by an epidemic of poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, a viral disease which can be fatal, but more often causes partial paralysis and other long-term consequences. I had an elementary school classmate who wore braces on his legs and walked with crutches. My aunt had permanent weakness in her shoulders. President Franklin Roosevelt used a wheelchair. My mentor in my doctoral program, Irving Kenneth Zola, wore brace and walked with crutches, and often used a wheelchair. In other words people who were permanently harmed by polio were commonplace.
One of the nation’s most prominent charities in the 1950s was the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis, doing business as the March of Dimes, which funded vaccine research. In 1955 a vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh was found to be safe and effective, and Salk became a national hero. Today, polio has been eradicated from most of the world. It persists only in regions, largely remote, where civil conflict has hindered vaccination efforts. Now RFK wants us to go back to the good old days. From the NYT:
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death. That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.
Mr. Siri has also filed a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines; challenged, and in some cases quashed, Covid vaccine mandates around the country; sued federal agencies for the disclosure of records related to vaccine approvals; and subjected prominent vaccine scientists to grueling videotaped depositions. . . .
Much of Mr. Siri’s work — including the polio petition filed in 2022 — has been on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, a nonprofit whose founder is a close ally of Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Siri also represented Mr. Kennedy during his presidential campaign.
“I love Aaron Siri,” Mr. Kennedy said in a clip played on a recent episode of a podcast hosted by Del Bigtree, who is Mr. Kennedy’s former campaign communications director and the founder of the Informed Consent Action Network, which describes itself as a “medical freedom” nonprofit. “There’s nobody who’s been a greater asset to the medical freedom movement than him.”
Like Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Siri insists he does not want to take vaccines away from anyone who wants them. “You want to get the vaccine — it’s America, a free country.” he told Arizona legislators last year after laying out his concerns about the vaccines for polio and other illnesses.
He did not mention the petitions he has lodged on behalf of ICAN with the Food and Drug Administration, asking regulators to withdraw or suspend approval of vaccines not only for polio, but also for hepatitis B.
Now, this is completely, grade A, world class nuts. No, we can't have this brain damaged lunatic running HHS and overseeing the FDA. And oh yeah -- if you voted for Donald Trump, this is what you asked for. I know it will only enrich your life when your kid is paralyzed.
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The question for me here is: why does RFK Jr want to kill children? Is it some sort of bizarre, psychological projection for getting back at the world because he's a sick addict who overcompensates by bearing his chest and doing gymnastic tricks for the world to see, and his brothers were assassinated? He is obviously a sycophant as well. It should be obvious to anyone that someone who excoriates a man like Shitler, and then jumps on his bandwagon for personal gain has no principles in the first place.
Seems to me this is just one more narcissist willing to do and say anything, no matter how outrageous, for attention and personal power because, at his core, he is terrified of his own powerlessness.
I'm curious how they explain the massive drop in incidence of each disease after the vaccine went into general distribution. Inhaling the fumes of the antiseptic used at the injection site? The concurrent popularization of Waldorf salad? A huge increase in the number and sincerity of people praying?
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