When RFKJ fired the entire ACIP panel, all 17 so-called independent “experts,” the Left lost its mind. When RFKJ replaced them with different experts (the wrong kind), the hive mind didn’t like that either; they lost some more (what little they had to spare), found some lawyers, sued, and got a judge to say RFKJ couldn’t do what he did. Not to be outdone, and who doesn’t like listening to the gratifying sound of liberal twigs snapping, the CDC sidestepped Judge Murphy’s overstep with a great big bureaucratic middle-finger, and just rewrote ACIP’s charter.
The new charter removed the strict scientific expertise requirements that formed the basis of Judge Murphy’s ruling —replacing them with “geographical balance”— and, crucially, expanded the committee’s mandate to include vaccine safety surveillance and adverse event review. It also widened the qualification domains to include biostatistics, toxicology, immunology, family medicine, and nursing.
Liberal twigs, they’ve been-a-snapin’.
One might be inclined to shout, “How dare you?” thank you, Greta, for changing what that august institutionally systemic board has long done.
About that, and here’s your AI-free Cliff Notes response to anyone who happens to be so deranged as to ape the approved narrative (like Safe & Effective!). The seventeen de-cruited ACIP “experts” RFKJ let go approved COVID jabs despite all the known dangerous side-effects and complete lack of evidence supporting claims it was safe or effective.
They approved it for teens, children, and babies, some of whom died from a “vaccine” they never needed.
They approved it for nursing and pregnant mothers, some of whose babies died in the womb. Miscarriages rose to a level never before seen as “experts” pretended it couldn’t possibly have been a result of the “safe & effectiveTM” gene therapy for the thing you weren’t supposed to call the China Virus.
That’s just the short COVID list, no need to belabor the point because ACIP has rubber-stamped a lot of “vaccines” that are increasingly connected to chronic disease and the current mental health crisis in America (except the Amish, they don’t do vaccines, and they seem to be just fine) as well as massive profits for Big Pharma and high-paying gigs in that industry to any ACIP board member looking for a payday.
I don’t actually know if any have, but it seems awfully suspicious that so many vaccines have become required despite the complete lack of double-blind trials demonstrating either safety or effectiveness.
Heck, the frikkin’ flu vaccine has been proven to make people more likely to get flu, and those roll out every damn year.
Pre-RFKJ, ACIP looked like the PR arm of Big Pharma, providing the illusion of safety for decades, and whether you are a jabbernaught or someone more discerning (as in, what do you mean I can’t see the science), the objection to both the initial voiding of the Committee and the rewriting of the charter should be clearly understood as not much more than people hating the Trump Administration no matter what.
ACIP was industry captured. Period.
Not having it was just as effective as having it.
Reimagining it as something different was the best possible way to address problems old and new, one of which is that, outside the political narrative dungeons where public health is a way to control people, not to make them healthy, a large number of Americans no longer trust that system. The system is entirely to blame for that, and the best way to begin the healing is to do something democrats are actually quite fond of. Rename it. Remake it. Begin anew (cue sunrise, angelic chorus, and an increasingly discernible sound of twigs snapping in the background).
The difference here is that Kennedy is truly dedicated to fixing the system and how it is perceived, whereas liberals are looking for ways to avoid negative associations or to avoid legal complications while doing the exact same thing.
