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The We Want Them Infected Movement Isn’t Just for COVID Anymore
Our medical establishment’s claim that they want to save “core vaccines” by attacking other vaccines is like an arsonist claiming he wants to save your house by removing smoke detectors because they interfere with fire extinguishers.
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United States drastically reduces number of recommended vaccines
The We Want Them Infected movement isn’t just for COVID anymore. As Dr. David Gorski predicted and Dr. Steven Novella discussed, our current medical establishment now wants unvaccinated children to remain vulnerable to multiple pathogens, including rotavirus, RSV, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, influenza, and meningococcal disease. Although the American vaccine schedule wasn’t an outlier previously, it is now.
This is very bad news for American children. According to one report:
Just three of the six immunizations the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will no longer routinely recommend — against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and rotavirus — have prevented nearly 2 million hospitalizations and more than 90,000 deaths in the past 30 years, according to the CDC’s own publications.
Defining a hierarchy of vaccines by importance can help increase childhood vaccination rates.
Our medical establishment justified these radical changes not with data, evidence, or open scientific discussion, but by unilaterally imposing a new EBM pyramid where “What Denmark Does” now sits atop. Treating children’s health like an international popularity contest is obviously ridiculous, but nothing new for anti-vaxxers. Previously, they encouraged HPV infections by claiming the top of the EBM pyramid should be “What Japan Does”.
However, recently our medical establishment has been floating an even more farcical justification for their vaccine vandalism. Incredibly, they expect us to believe their true goal is to “rebuild trust” in “core, essential vaccines” and to “increase vaccine uptake among children“. Though he didn’t provide a shred of evidence, Dr. Marty Makary said that “Defining a hierarchy of vaccines by importance can help increase childhood vaccination rates.” Below are examples of Dr. Makary, as well as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and even Kennedy himself, mindlessly repeating the same dronelike talking point that they seek to protect vaccines by attacking vaccines.
This is obviously disingenuous performance art from bad-faith actors who enjoy being on camera, and it too is a recycled technique. As I discussed previously, Drs. Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Hoeg argued in 2022 that COVID vaccines were in competition with routine vaccines. According to their “logic”, if pediatricians encouraged the COVID vaccine, then vaccination rates for polio and measles would drop either due to lack of time or parental confidence.
Drs. Prasad and Hoeg made this claim when SARS-CoV-2 was the most threatening virus children faced, and they provided no evidence for it. They just made it up. In fact, vaccine rates fell in places that actively discouraged the pediatric COVID vaccine, surprising no one who knows anything about what drives vaccine hesitancy.
It was clear that Drs. Prasad and Hoeg didn’t care at all about routine vaccines. Rather, they desperately wanted unvaccinated children to contract COVID, and to further their core pandemic mission they feigned a concern about routine vaccines for a couple of months several years ago. Neither of them ever simply advocated for routine vaccines. They only “promoted” them while dunking on COVID vaccines. It was all so fake and phony.
Indeed, they both now proudly serve in an administration that is attacking routine vaccines, and along with another pro-infection disinformation doctor Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Hoeg authored the memo laying out the decimation of the vaccine schedule. However, in the current iteration of their fantasized vaccine competition, it’s not just the COVID vaccine that is said to be battling the MMR and polio vaccines.
The idea that trimming the schedule will boost vaccination rates gets the problem backwards. Hesitancy comes from distrust and misinformation, not from schedule length.
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