Last week we're obviously bathing in all the success that we've had in the conversations
around freedom, mandates, vaccinations, but the pundits keep going and the news keeps going
and they keep screaming and yelling about how dangerous it is that we should have
choice over six of the vaccines that were just moved into shared decision making, meaning
between me and my doctor.
It's kind of amazing to watch it, but in case for some reason you've been under a rock,
this is what that's looked like.
Big new changes for the childhood immunization schedule.
This dropped yesterday.
The CDC is dropping the recommended 18 vaccinations down to 11 instead.
This is a big change and I think it's going to potentially cause a lot of confusion.
What they have done is shown a lot of uncertainty, doubt, fear, and so a lot of parents are
going to be confused.
This is going to decrease vaccine competence, more burden on providers, not what we need
right now.
The American Academy of Pediatrics calls today's recommendations dangerous and says
it can continue to give their own recommendations.
Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks
and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors and will make
American sicker.
These sorts of things so distrust in vaccines and the minute that you have a question and
somebody says to you, okay, you can go and think about it.
You are going to take that opportunity to go and potentially think about it and never
come back.
What I find interesting about this, and it's something that I talk about rarely, which
is why did I get so focused on the vaccine issue at all?
I mean, I had a perfectly great job at CBS as a producer or an Emmy winning producer
of the daytime talk show of the doctors.
But as I looked into this vaccine issue and of course went on to make the documentary
waxed, what was fascinating were all the issues around this and especially because I grew
up a progressive liberal.
My parents marched in the 1960s for freedom of choice to choose what university to have
total freedom of speech.
That's what it meant to me to be a liberal.
So when I started looking at this issue and realizing this isn't really about health,
this is about an authoritarian government having control over my body, the bodies of
my children.
Of course, we're in the middle of SB 277, a law that was going to take away anyone's
right to an education.
The taxpayer money that we were paying didn't matter.
You had to be fully vaccinated based on what the pharmaceutical industry had sort of convinced
the CDC was the best way forward.
And that then separated us from what I think is the founding fathers declaration
or mandate to have freedom in this nation.
It flies in the face of that.
And I often think back, this really comes down to do we trust the American public to make
decisions?
That whole news montage shows you this is going to cause fear.
This is the one of the most dangerous things ever done, meaning it's dangerous to give
American people the right to choose, to give them information and let them decide
what they want to do with their children and their bodies.
And remember, you know, we are somewhat copying the Denmark schedule at a chicken pox.
But what we didn't copy is Denmark trusts its people to make the right decision and
they allow them the right to choose vaccinations.
So does Germany, these other nations.
So why is it that the one nation that yells the loudest is supposed to be the
beacon of freedom for the entire world is one of the few nations that forces
through authoritarian mandate this product in order to walk through life.
It's really shocking.
And I think about our founding fathers because certainly this was a question.
Are the American is our population too stupid to make decisions for themselves?
I mean, it really is the bedrock of freedom.
If we're to be free, we have to allow everyone to be free.
And certainly that was a hotly contested idea.
Our founding fathers thought, should we only allow landowners to be the ones that vote?
Because certainly that would mean they're probably better educated.
They're educated enough to know how to raise money and buy a farm and run a farm.
If we only have them vote for who's president, then we get an intelligent
electorate that decides the future of this nation.
But our founding fathers decided, you know what?
This is a nation of foreign by all the people.
We're going to trust those that maybe don't even have the high school education.
I mean, imagine, I mean, of all the times if we think, if we're worried
that the people, our constituents and our neighbors here in America,
you know, lack the ability to vote for a good president,
can you imagine what it was like back when a high school and college
education were rare?
Can you imagine what they were surrounded by there?
And even then they looked out at the peasants and said, they should vote too.
So at the heart of this, as I watch these news agencies fight for how dangerous
it is to give people the right to choose, I think what they're really fighting
for is the right to have an authoritarian government destroy our constitutional rights.
To watch all of mainstream news say we stand for authoritarianism
is what I think is happening here.
If you want to question me on that, let's just talk about this term anti-vaxxer.
If you look at anti-vaxxer in Webster's dictionary, it's a person
opposed to the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination.
That's actually a change that's been made over time.
But that's it.
If you simply want to delay one vaccine or skip one vaccine,
you are an anti-vaxxer.
You realize what I think that they're making a huge mistake here
because what they're doing is labeling millions and millions of Americans
that simply believe they had the right to choose a pejorative like anti-vaxxer.
Essentially, my understanding is somewhere between eight or nine out of ten people
that are currently eligible for the COVID vaccine in America aren't getting their booster.
That means that 80 to 90 percent of those that once believed
in the COVID vaccine program are now opting for their right to choose.
Are they anti-vaxxers?
If there's a mandate, should they have to take it?
Do they not want to live in a nation where they get the right to choose?
Whether they think a ninth or 10th booster shot makes any sense whatsoever.
Certainly, I believe you asked them and they're not getting that 10th booster.
They might say things like, Geez, if I'm not immune for this thing by now,
then make a better product, but I wouldn't be happy being mandated with this vaccine.
And I think more and more Americans are moving in that direction,
saying I should have the right to choose.
So in the end, this issue is to me only just partly about health.
This is the tip of the spear when we talk about freedom,
because if you do not control your own body,
if you do not control the bodies of your children as parents,
then you are not a free citizen.
There's no way to say that you are.
In fact, I've said over and over again,
you have about the same exact rights as a farm animal.
And that is apparently what most of mainstream news believes,
that that should be your way of being.
And let's be clear, what risk is it for you to delay a vaccine or not take a vaccine?
Are we going to mandate things for your own good?
Or is it for the good of people?
I mean, I think that most of the time we should only think about are we hurting someone else?
And in this case, now that so many vaccines are proving to not stop transmission,
the argument that you're protecting your neighbor is now dead.
In fact, the definition of a vaccine has changed.
It no longer protects your neighbor.
It just protects you, which means it should be my choice.
So as we watch this debate roll out, as we watch Robert Kennedy,
Jr. and the support of Donald Trump and all of the great doctors that are around
Robert Kennedy, Jr. fighting for your freedom,
you should ask yourself about the news agencies that are fighting for authoritarianism.
And remember, even if you're a liberal, one of the great liberal voices had this to say,
we are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values for a nation
that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market
as a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy, we've allowed a corporate infrastructure
to take control of decisions in our government and not only have they pushed
for a mandate that other nations do not have nations that we consider
to be even more authoritarian than our own on top of that.
Once they got us to be mandated to take these products,
then they said, and we don't want to have any liability whatsoever.
So if it injures you, sorry, you're out of luck.
You want to talk about the most ridiculous system ever built in a nation
that says it's supposed to be free?
That's it. And it's crumbling down and it's going to continue to crumble
because I believe human beings ultimately are intelligent
and we should trust our neighbors.
If we get back to that place, we'll get back to being the shining beacon
of light and freedom and hope and faith that makes this nation great.