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JW Writes's avatar

I didn’t get a jab but my husband was pressured into one; fortunately the J&J was still available and he got just one. (He would have refused an mRNA.) My mom, on the other hand, was a big believer and has had 6 or maybe even 7 mRNA jabs. If I don’t hear from her every day I worry because of that. It was criminal what they did, and I’m thrilled with RFKjr’s work.

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Maia Duerr's avatar

There haven’t been vaccine mandates for years. And Kennedy‘s actions in the CDC have resulted in people in 16 states not being able to get the vaccine if they choose to, including New Mexico, where I live. So much for free choice.

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Mariana Hernandez's avatar

This narrative leaves out a lot. What’s being sold as “restoring freedom” is actually stripping away broad public access to vaccines. Requiring a prescription makes it harder for everyday people, especially those without consistent access to healthcare to get protected. That’s not empowerment, that’s a barrier.

The idea that EUA was just about “coercion” is misleading. The EUA process got vaccines out quickly during a global emergency and saved millions of lives. Those vaccines went through rigorous trials before rollout, and the data has been overwhelming in showing that they reduced severe illness and death.

Framing the resignations at the CDC as “necessary consequences” ignores the reality that career scientists are walking away because they don’t want to be part of an agenda that sidelines evidence in favor of ideology. That should worry anyone who actually cares about science.

If the goal was really transparency and rigor, we wouldn’t be seeing leadership purges, gutted advisory panels, or reports riddled with fake citations. That’s not restoring science, it’s politicizing it even further.

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