“ There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.” RFK Jr, Lex Fridman Podcast #388
"He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I'll take on the data and show that it's not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that's his point.” - Howard Lutnick, Trump transition team co-chair, CNN interview, October 30
“ There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.”
Safe does not mean 100% safe, nor does effective mean 100% effective. Take the flu vaccine fro example. While the risk is small, there are cases of GBS associated with it. And even with the flu vaccine, you can still get the flu even of the same strain.
So it always comes down to an individual assuming what risks they want to take.
“I’m not going to take away anybody’s vaccines,” Kennedy told NBC News when asked whether there were specific vaccines that Kennedy would want to remove from the market.
“If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. People ought to have [a] choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information,” he said.
“So I’m going to make sure scientific safety studies and efficacy are out there, and people can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them,” Kennedy added.
So who do we believe? When people say they’re not going to do a bad thing, but also lay out their exact plan for doing it, I’m going to put more weight behind the latter.
I do not think what they are doing is bad. Being more open with the data is something all of us should advocate for to promote safer vaccines and stop the conspiracy theories.
They want all vaccines taken off the market. They outright stated their plan for doing it. And you either don’t believe them, or you think that’s good?
Everyone is saying he is going to "take vaccines away" yet he can say he is not and you will believe a news media funded by the pharmaceutical companies because they are afraid that some of these vaccines might not be safe?
I do not need a hundred sources, I need only one, from the person himself, right?
“We’re not going to take vaccines away from anybody,” he told NPR in an interview this morning after Trump’s overnight victory. He repeated the message a few hours later in an interview with MSNBC.
Instead, Kennedy said he wants to improve the science of vaccine safety, which he said “has huge deficits in it,” so Americans can have all the right information to choose whether to get vaccinated.
“I’m going to make sure scientific safety studies and efficacy are out there, and people can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them,” he told MSNBC.
