Democrats got pissy (by which I mean the Handmaiden media) when the Federal agency tasked with public health safety rejected a combo-vaccine because, based on their expert opinion, the way we’ve been doing it was safer. The MMRV combo is still acceptable for kids four years and older, but based on the available research, they deem it not safe enough or unnecessary for kids under four years of age. In that circumstance, they can still receive each of the same four vaccines individually, measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, which is the varicella vaccine.
To summarize, all the vaccines are approved and available, but if you’re under four, you can’t get the four-pack, one-shot combo version due to an increased risk of febrile seizures. When administered separately, no such risk manifests in the research to date.
The core argument against allowing MMRV vaccinations under the age of 4 appeared to be the slightly increased risk of febrile seizures linked to the injections. Febrile seizures are caused by fevers of all types.
Febrile seizures are common and generally don’t cause any long-lasting effects, though members of the panel noted they can be traumatic for families to experience. The risk is lower when vaccines are administered when a child is older.
Kulldorff argued the risk of seizures could scare parents away from getting the MMRV vaccination.
Other objections include parents not wanting to line their kids up for separate appointments for four separate injections, signaling to insurance companies not to cover the MMRV, and (get this) interfering with parents’ rights to vaccinate their children.
And finally, you are taking away the choice of parents to have informed consent and discussion with their physician on what they want to do for the health and benefit of their children,” Goldman told the committee during public comments.
Nobody in their right mind should believe that anyone in the public health industrial complex pushing vaccines wants parents to have conversations approving anything like informed consent. Nor are any post-COVID “informed parents” likely to believe it. The research is piling up, suggesting that vaccines can do good, but in the past forty years, the emphasis on inoculation has been about revenue, not healthy kids.
And let’s be honest, before the combo-shot, parents were still getting their kids “vaccinated.” States have begun to embrace the idea that they have the right to decide what shots shall be required or recommended, and no one has banned anything. And if there is a measurable risk, why would you subject children to that risk, knowing that most parents won’t say and that the public health industrial complex doesn’t want them to know?
As RFKJ proclaimed in recent hearings before Congress, kids are 76 percent sicker than they were a few decades ago, and I’ll add that everyone is sicker. The only thing government oversight has accomplished in that time is to make the American population more ill and in poorer health at exponentially more expensive prices.
Anyone defending this system is protecting an expensive failure in desperate need of reform, which they are also fighting to stop.
The same can be said of public education. As I observed here, there is both anecdotal and research showing that the more money we throw down the bottomless public education hole, the worse the academic outcomes. Kids learn less the more we spend.
Guess what: The greater the payroll growth, the more ground districts lost.
The report sums it up: “Schools may hope that increasing their payroll will help their students outperform other states,” but “there is little evidence” to support that; indeed, “the opposite seems to be true.”
In the six states that boosted payrolls the most — by 23% or more — three were among the top five biggest proficiency losers; another was loser No. 6.
The obvious culprits are non-productive staff and administrative overhead, but if you know anything about what happens in schools, you’ll know what needs doing. Much of the excess cost inside the actual learning environment is a result of mainstreaming kids whose presence disrupts the classroom, interferes with teaching, and delays progress through the curriculum, even if it’s a good one.
Every grade level has program paras, reading support, Physical therapists, and a long list of “professionals” on salary to address the needs of a handful of students in the population. The so-called stigma of separating these kids into special-ed-only programs or just telling parents that a Public school isn’t the place for them (rebating their education taxes and letting them take the kids elsewhere – and yes, proper services would arise to address the need), that expensive experiment has furthered the costly failure of public schools in general.
Government interference in other regulatory aspects of medicine and health care has been an expensive failure. Government intervention in everything results in costly failures. And if you are asking why I bothered to bring it up, elected Democrats and regulators at all levels of government are outraged that anyone would to try to repair the damage in an effort to restore the trust decades of indifference or mismanagement have produced. They don’t care about any of that. Not the expense, nor the failure, nor whether anyone can trust these institutions they erect and defend.
That says to me that their government is just, and we are meant to believe what it tells us and comply. We know how they respond if we dare to question or doubt—bullying, intimidation, fear, and force.
None of that is new, but the response to COVID impressed upon us how much force and failure are a part of the Democrats’ agenda, and they have not changed. They can’t. The form of government they want is impossible without that.
