WEBVTT 00:00.620 --> 00:05.680 Last week we're obviously bathing in all the success that we've had in the conversations 00:05.680 --> 00:13.320 around freedom, mandates, vaccinations, but the pundits keep going and the news keeps going 00:13.320 --> 00:18.740 and they keep screaming and yelling about how dangerous it is that we should have 00:18.740 --> 00:26.040 choice over six of the vaccines that were just moved into shared decision making, meaning 00:26.040 --> 00:27.560 between me and my doctor. 00:27.560 --> 00:32.060 It's kind of amazing to watch it, but in case for some reason you've been under a rock, 00:32.200 --> 00:33.160 this is what that's looked like. 00:33.380 --> 00:36.400 Big new changes for the childhood immunization schedule. 00:36.560 --> 00:37.300 This dropped yesterday. 00:37.660 --> 00:42.220 The CDC is dropping the recommended 18 vaccinations down to 11 instead. 00:42.520 --> 00:45.300 This is a big change and I think it's going to potentially cause a lot of confusion. 00:45.800 --> 00:52.860 What they have done is shown a lot of uncertainty, doubt, fear, and so a lot of parents are 00:52.860 --> 00:53.600 going to be confused. 00:53.600 --> 00:59.160 This is going to decrease vaccine competence, more burden on providers, not what we need 00:59.160 --> 00:59.460 right now. 00:59.780 --> 01:03.640 The American Academy of Pediatrics calls today's recommendations dangerous and says 01:03.640 --> 01:06.660 it can continue to give their own recommendations. 01:07.080 --> 01:12.020 Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks 01:12.420 --> 01:18.060 and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors and will make 01:18.060 --> 01:19.080 American sicker. 01:19.080 --> 01:25.220 These sorts of things so distrust in vaccines and the minute that you have a question and 01:25.220 --> 01:27.380 somebody says to you, okay, you can go and think about it. 01:27.500 --> 01:31.120 You are going to take that opportunity to go and potentially think about it and never 01:31.120 --> 01:31.600 come back. 01:32.480 --> 01:37.160 What I find interesting about this, and it's something that I talk about rarely, which 01:37.160 --> 01:40.420 is why did I get so focused on the vaccine issue at all? 01:40.700 --> 01:46.320 I mean, I had a perfectly great job at CBS as a producer or an Emmy winning producer 01:46.320 --> 01:48.020 of the daytime talk show of the doctors. 01:48.580 --> 01:52.200 But as I looked into this vaccine issue and of course went on to make the documentary 01:52.200 --> 01:57.720 waxed, what was fascinating were all the issues around this and especially because I grew 01:57.720 --> 01:59.140 up a progressive liberal. 01:59.360 --> 02:05.500 My parents marched in the 1960s for freedom of choice to choose what university to have 02:05.500 --> 02:06.860 total freedom of speech. 02:07.420 --> 02:09.720 That's what it meant to me to be a liberal. 02:10.040 --> 02:14.620 So when I started looking at this issue and realizing this isn't really about health, 02:14.620 --> 02:19.980 this is about an authoritarian government having control over my body, the bodies of 02:19.980 --> 02:20.480 my children. 02:20.840 --> 02:25.300 Of course, we're in the middle of SB 277, a law that was going to take away anyone's 02:25.300 --> 02:26.320 right to an education. 02:26.860 --> 02:29.640 The taxpayer money that we were paying didn't matter. 02:30.060 --> 02:35.080 You had to be fully vaccinated based on what the pharmaceutical industry had sort of convinced 02:35.080 --> 02:37.220 the CDC was the best way forward. 02:37.720 --> 02:43.100 And that then separated us from what I think is the founding fathers declaration 02:43.520 --> 02:46.620 or mandate to have freedom in this nation. 02:46.740 --> 02:48.560 It flies in the face of that. 02:48.960 --> 02:56.280 And I often think back, this really comes down to do we trust the American public to make 02:56.280 --> 02:56.780 decisions? 02:57.200 --> 03:01.480 That whole news montage shows you this is going to cause fear. 03:01.660 --> 03:05.800 This is the one of the most dangerous things ever done, meaning it's dangerous to give 03:05.800 --> 03:11.160 American people the right to choose, to give them information and let them decide 03:11.160 --> 03:14.420 what they want to do with their children and their bodies. 03:14.680 --> 03:19.420 And remember, you know, we are somewhat copying the Denmark schedule at a chicken pox. 03:19.520 --> 03:25.100 But what we didn't copy is Denmark trusts its people to make the right decision and 03:25.100 --> 03:27.460 they allow them the right to choose vaccinations. 03:27.700 --> 03:29.280 So does Germany, these other nations. 03:29.520 --> 03:35.580 So why is it that the one nation that yells the loudest is supposed to be the 03:35.580 --> 03:41.020 beacon of freedom for the entire world is one of the few nations that forces 03:41.020 --> 03:46.040 through authoritarian mandate this product in order to walk through life. 03:46.460 --> 03:47.500 It's really shocking. 03:47.660 --> 03:52.000 And I think about our founding fathers because certainly this was a question. 03:52.160 --> 03:57.480 Are the American is our population too stupid to make decisions for themselves? 03:57.700 --> 04:00.360 I mean, it really is the bedrock of freedom. 04:00.540 --> 04:03.820 If we're to be free, we have to allow everyone to be free. 04:03.920 --> 04:06.980 And certainly that was a hotly contested idea. 04:06.980 --> 04:12.680 Our founding fathers thought, should we only allow landowners to be the ones that vote? 04:12.820 --> 04:15.220 Because certainly that would mean they're probably better educated. 04:15.680 --> 04:20.740 They're educated enough to know how to raise money and buy a farm and run a farm. 04:21.020 --> 04:24.960 If we only have them vote for who's president, then we get an intelligent 04:24.960 --> 04:27.840 electorate that decides the future of this nation. 04:28.300 --> 04:31.160 But our founding fathers decided, you know what? 04:31.260 --> 04:34.380 This is a nation of foreign by all the people. 04:34.380 --> 04:38.120 We're going to trust those that maybe don't even have the high school education. 04:38.340 --> 04:42.040 I mean, imagine, I mean, of all the times if we think, if we're worried 04:42.040 --> 04:45.880 that the people, our constituents and our neighbors here in America, 04:45.880 --> 04:49.580 you know, lack the ability to vote for a good president, 04:49.880 --> 04:53.060 can you imagine what it was like back when a high school and college 04:53.060 --> 04:54.320 education were rare? 04:54.560 --> 04:56.920 Can you imagine what they were surrounded by there? 04:57.000 --> 05:01.740 And even then they looked out at the peasants and said, they should vote too. 05:02.270 --> 05:07.180 So at the heart of this, as I watch these news agencies fight for how dangerous 05:07.180 --> 05:11.460 it is to give people the right to choose, I think what they're really fighting 05:11.460 --> 05:17.120 for is the right to have an authoritarian government destroy our constitutional rights. 05:17.520 --> 05:22.420 To watch all of mainstream news say we stand for authoritarianism 05:22.420 --> 05:24.380 is what I think is happening here. 05:24.400 --> 05:28.600 If you want to question me on that, let's just talk about this term anti-vaxxer. 05:28.600 --> 05:32.420 If you look at anti-vaxxer in Webster's dictionary, it's a person 05:32.420 --> 05:38.140 opposed to the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination. 05:38.580 --> 05:42.280 That's actually a change that's been made over time. 05:42.680 --> 05:43.620 But that's it. 05:43.920 --> 05:49.180 If you simply want to delay one vaccine or skip one vaccine, 05:49.460 --> 05:51.900 you are an anti-vaxxer. 05:52.240 --> 05:55.960 You realize what I think that they're making a huge mistake here 05:55.960 --> 06:00.240 because what they're doing is labeling millions and millions of Americans 06:00.240 --> 06:06.120 that simply believe they had the right to choose a pejorative like anti-vaxxer. 06:06.220 --> 06:11.800 Essentially, my understanding is somewhere between eight or nine out of ten people 06:11.800 --> 06:16.900 that are currently eligible for the COVID vaccine in America aren't getting their booster. 06:17.360 --> 06:22.100 That means that 80 to 90 percent of those that once believed 06:22.100 --> 06:26.520 in the COVID vaccine program are now opting for their right to choose. 06:27.080 --> 06:28.660 Are they anti-vaxxers? 06:29.040 --> 06:32.260 If there's a mandate, should they have to take it? 06:32.320 --> 06:36.540 Do they not want to live in a nation where they get the right to choose? 06:36.760 --> 06:42.080 Whether they think a ninth or 10th booster shot makes any sense whatsoever. 06:42.700 --> 06:46.440 Certainly, I believe you asked them and they're not getting that 10th booster. 06:46.740 --> 06:50.500 They might say things like, Geez, if I'm not immune for this thing by now, 06:50.500 --> 06:55.100 then make a better product, but I wouldn't be happy being mandated with this vaccine. 06:55.600 --> 06:58.820 And I think more and more Americans are moving in that direction, 06:58.840 --> 07:01.620 saying I should have the right to choose. 07:02.220 --> 07:07.280 So in the end, this issue is to me only just partly about health. 07:07.520 --> 07:12.040 This is the tip of the spear when we talk about freedom, 07:12.040 --> 07:15.440 because if you do not control your own body, 07:15.720 --> 07:19.600 if you do not control the bodies of your children as parents, 07:20.080 --> 07:22.460 then you are not a free citizen. 07:22.640 --> 07:24.520 There's no way to say that you are. 07:24.980 --> 07:27.480 In fact, I've said over and over again, 07:27.740 --> 07:31.300 you have about the same exact rights as a farm animal. 07:31.720 --> 07:35.620 And that is apparently what most of mainstream news believes, 07:36.240 --> 07:39.840 that that should be your way of being. 07:39.980 --> 07:45.640 And let's be clear, what risk is it for you to delay a vaccine or not take a vaccine? 07:45.900 --> 07:48.480 Are we going to mandate things for your own good? 07:48.480 --> 07:50.260 Or is it for the good of people? 07:50.560 --> 07:55.420 I mean, I think that most of the time we should only think about are we hurting someone else? 07:55.880 --> 08:00.380 And in this case, now that so many vaccines are proving to not stop transmission, 08:00.740 --> 08:03.840 the argument that you're protecting your neighbor is now dead. 08:04.040 --> 08:06.340 In fact, the definition of a vaccine has changed. 08:06.700 --> 08:08.500 It no longer protects your neighbor. 08:08.720 --> 08:12.800 It just protects you, which means it should be my choice. 08:13.420 --> 08:17.140 So as we watch this debate roll out, as we watch Robert Kennedy, 08:17.140 --> 08:22.020 Jr. and the support of Donald Trump and all of the great doctors that are around 08:22.020 --> 08:24.640 Robert Kennedy, Jr. fighting for your freedom, 08:25.020 --> 08:29.640 you should ask yourself about the news agencies that are fighting for authoritarianism. 08:29.800 --> 08:35.260 And remember, even if you're a liberal, one of the great liberal voices had this to say, 08:35.800 --> 08:39.360 we are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, 08:39.760 --> 08:44.440 foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values for a nation 08:44.440 --> 08:50.480 that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market 08:50.480 --> 08:53.340 as a nation that is afraid of its people. 08:53.980 --> 08:58.760 John F. Kennedy, we've allowed a corporate infrastructure 08:58.760 --> 09:03.080 to take control of decisions in our government and not only have they pushed 09:03.080 --> 09:08.240 for a mandate that other nations do not have nations that we consider 09:08.240 --> 09:12.300 to be even more authoritarian than our own on top of that. 09:12.300 --> 09:16.140 Once they got us to be mandated to take these products, 09:16.320 --> 09:20.220 then they said, and we don't want to have any liability whatsoever. 09:20.980 --> 09:24.280 So if it injures you, sorry, you're out of luck. 09:25.020 --> 09:28.740 You want to talk about the most ridiculous system ever built in a nation 09:28.740 --> 09:30.880 that says it's supposed to be free? 09:31.320 --> 09:36.220 That's it. And it's crumbling down and it's going to continue to crumble 09:36.220 --> 09:41.100 because I believe human beings ultimately are intelligent 09:41.100 --> 09:43.520 and we should trust our neighbors. 09:43.800 --> 09:48.340 If we get back to that place, we'll get back to being the shining beacon 09:48.340 --> 09:54.380 of light and freedom and hope and faith that makes this nation great.