Posted on 02/17/2026 3:33:40 PM PST by Golden Eagle
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced legislation this week that would eliminate federal liability protections for vaccine manufacturers, which is a legal shield that has been in place for four decades.
The bill, cosponsored by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
If passed, the bill will make changes to the federal law to abolish the liability shield provided to vaccine manufacturers under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which largely protects vaccine manufacturers from product liability lawsuits and requires most injury claims to be directed to a federal compensation program.
According to Paul, the bill would make pharmaceutical companies more accountable by allowing people to sue them if they believe they have been injured by vaccines.
Vaccine safety monitoring data maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that there have been millions of adverse event reports filed.
In the past, a study done in collaboration with the US Department of Health and Human Services found that the nation’s main vaccine adverse event reporting system captures fewer than 1% of adverse events.
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These sociopaths don't look at The Deplorables as human.
Truly sorry to hear that tragic story.
I stand with Rand on this one.
This will kill-off the production of vaccines. Glad this didn’t happen when epidemics of polio, diptheria, smallpox, typhoid were common.
Children aren’t people? OK, if you say so.
What I’m merely pointing out is the fact you are calling for lawsuits, when it was lawsuits that precipitated this “immunity” in the first place.
Until the WuHan Lung Rot came along “anti-vaxxers” were found mostly among the left, at least in my experience. They didn’t mind LSD, but tried to avoid most chemicals and artificial ingredients.
In a population with strong herd immunity, natural or otherwise, they could get away with not immunizing their kids, and “hide” therein, because so many diseases had been effectively eradicated.
When Mr. Trump declared he was implementing a crash program to develop a vaccine for the Chinese Lung AIDS, all of the usual suspects on the left publicly stated they would refuse to take it. It was really bizarre to watch the whole thing unfold in real time. Children most of all, had no real need for the vaccine. It was interesting to watch the Boomers throw both the elderly and the toddlers under the bus, for a little perceived safety. Real Profiles In Courage on their part. Stay home and microwave their mail, and spray groceries down with bleach, draw a paycheck, and declare “we’re all in this together!”. Yeesh
Those were actual vaccines.
I sincerely hope it passes. It’s time to put the vaccine manufacturer on notice.
If I was younger and was raising newborns, I would not let the doctors give them any kind of vaccine. Period.
humm. idk. reading you comment, i think we are more agreed than disagreed on this. but you seem to be picking a fight with me for some reason.
you say i said: ‘Children aren’t people? OK, if you say so.’
didn’t say that. i was talking about children/kids as distinct from adults, which the “Childhood” Vaccination Act specifically addresses. the CDC/Pharma approved vaccination schedule is almost entirely untested vis-a-vis, true controlled, longitudinal trials of vaxxed vs. unvaxxed. in fact, approval was often just a rubber stamp, with no testing at all. this is the problem and the cause of the disaster for our kidsl
children are a proper subset of ‘people.’
adults are a proper subset of ‘people.’
ergo distinct from the superset of ‘people.’ i choose my words with care.
children are my specific concern here because they, in many cases during the last ‘pandemic,’ couldn’t go to public school, or get medical care or participate in sports, etc., etc., without vaccination and/or wearing a mask, and or distancing 6 ft, or whatever.
‘Lawsuits were how this debacle started.’
nope. in a nutshell, this debacle began when Rockefeller took over the medical industry and supplanted doctor/patient mutual consent with industrial medicine—including the advent of big pharma. ‘The love of money is the root of all evil.’ Rockefeller and his buds saw a big opportunity.
law suits are the only cure available at this point. the problem is that in addition to the immunity the act set up a kangaroo court.
in terms of Thank You Rush’s comment. yes adults are certainly at risk too, but not in the same ways as children and their parents are. it’s a nightmare for parents with maimed or killed children to go through the vaccine courts and try to prove your adverse event’s case there, when the presumption of a proven ‘safe and effective’ childhood vaccine is against you from the git go.
adults can better fend for themselves. for instance. our family refused the vaccines, even under threat of coercion because i just said ‘over my dead body.’ as a knowledgeable adult with experience in fighting big medicine and big public health, i made a decision to resist, knowing that we could threaten to take employers to court, or we could get exemptions. we took our kids out of school and homeschooled.
kids and young parents don’t have that experience, to know they have options. for good’s sake, some hospitals would even vaccinate infants without parent’s knowledge. the system is that evil. some pediatricians refused to treat kids whose parents didn’t do the vaccinations.
Sen. Paul finally does something useful.
Where were these guys when it mattered?
And typical of working with government, as the government wanted more and more shots for rarer and rarer conditions, instead of paying astronomical prices for each one, they bundled each new shot with existing requirements - hence children "requiring" dozens of shots.
“”eliminate federal liability protections for vaccine manufacturers,””
Don’t know HOW the topic got turned on its head for one Freeper but hope he felt better after that lecture. He changed the simple REASON for the bill to one paragraph after another paragraph losing sight of the SPECIFIC wording in the bill...which should have been simple to understand. I guess his knowledge was supposed to impress us...
Thank you - yes, by all means...EXCEPT GA has two democrat senators or something - LOL!!!
Hopefully that will change!
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