WATCH: Trump Says Youth Vaccine Mandate Rollback is a “Very Tough Position” – “They Just Pure and Simple Work… I Think Those Vaccines Should be Used”

President Trump on Friday expressed support for mandatory vaccines for school-aged children, amid Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.’s push to end unnecessary vaccination.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats sought to grill him about his personnel and vaccine guidance shake-up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Per the Hill, “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for those under 18. Kennedy, meanwhile, has fired all 17 sitting members of CDC’s vaccine advisory panel and also moved to oust the CDC head and other top HHS experts.”

During the Senate hearing, RFK revealed that in the early 2000s, a senior CDC scientist was ordered to destroy data from an internal study that showed a staggering link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism risk in young Black boys. The data showed that black boys, who got vaccinated before 24 months of age or 36 months of age, “had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited,” RFK said.

This also comes after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced earlier this week that the Florida Department of Health is planning to remove “every last” vaccine mandate from Florida law.

I’m good with most childhood vaccinations. Maybe not to the point of denying anything to someone until they get it, but hold the adult guardian responsible if the child does get something that could have been prevented by vaccination. Kennedy is, still , a Kennedy. He isn’t a doctor by a stretch, He is, however a political opportunist. Folks ought to remember that about him before they wholeheartedly trust him...IMHO..

While we have vaccines that work and have for generations --- polio, diphtheria, smallpox, chickenpox..... Many vaccines are newer. So, I think RFK's right that blanket mandates should be rare, not the norm. And, hopefully, we can end the emergency mode we've been in and return to the time when vaccines weren't made available, nevermind mandated, until years of trials were completed proving efficacy and safety.

I hope Kennedy tackles the sequencing and combinations of vaccines given to children. Our children today are being treated like trash cans --- overwhelming developing immune systems from birth. This has to stop. I think vaccines for children need to be unbundled with a flexible schedule under the direction of the parents and their pediatricians.

Lastly, I suggest a moritorium on mRNA technology. We badly need a thorough review of its efficacy as a vaccine, a full list of the side effects confirmed and the appropriate ages for use identified.

In any case, I sure wish "Bobby" good luck. ;)

What’s wild is that as one of FR’s most admittedly staunch Israel supporters and kind-of-a-Jew (see About page), I’m pretty sure my pro-Israel pro-Jewish postings steadily remain well under 50% of my reliably conservative postings.

So what does THAT tell you about how dense “Right_in_Virginia”’s 84% Plausibly Anti-Semitic posting history?

He care about Jews negatively more than I care about them positively. If I’m about as philo-Semitic as they come, he is vastly more anti-Semitic.

Wild

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