The Vaccine Witches: Outlander Instructs

 Paul Offet posts on his "Beyond the Noise" substack/blog about RFKJR's plans to destroy vaccinations. 

It's a post worth reading, if only because it so succinctly describes just one of the maneuvers RFKJR and his MAGA  mob have used to cancel vaccinations.

Here is an excerpt:

"Despite his claim that anyone who wants vaccines can get them, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is on the verge of eliminating vaccines from the United States. He believes that vaccines have replaced infectious diseases with chronic diseases. By eliminating vaccines, he believes he can eliminate all manner of chronic diseases, including autism. Here is how he plans to do it. On June 18, 2025, RFK Jr. directed his newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which he recently stocked with members who have a history of anti-vaccine activity, to evaluate aluminum-containing adjuvants in vaccines. What are aluminum adjuvants and why are they in some vaccines? Aluminum adjuvants have been used in vaccines since 1926 to enhance the immune response, allowing for fewer doses and lesser quantities of vaccine components. Live, attenuated viral vaccines (such as the measles-mumps-rubella [MMR], varicella, and rotavirus vaccines) don’t require adjuvants. But some vaccines, which aren’t live (such as the DTaP, pneumococcal, meningococcal, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type b, and HPV vaccines) wouldn’t work well without an adjuvant. Are aluminum adjuvants dangerous? Aluminum is the third most abundant element on Earth. It’s in soil, water, air, plants, and food. Aluminum is literally everywhere, including in breast milk and infant formula. In the first 6 months of life, babies will be exposed to about 4.4 milligrams of aluminum from vaccines, 7 milligrams from breast milk, 38 milligrams from infant formula, and 117 milligrams from soy formula. Not surprisingly, researchers found that the level of aluminum contained in an infant’s hair and bloodstream didn’t correlate with receipt of vaccines. In other words, aluminum in vaccines is a trivial addition to what infants encounter and manage every day from the environment. Consistent with these findings, researchers in Denmark recently studied 1.2 million children between 1997 and 2020 who received different quantities of aluminum in vaccines. They found no evidence that aluminum adjuvants caused autoimmune, allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and asthma. For RFK Jr., however, none of these reassuring facts or studies about aluminum matter. Sometime in the next few months, he will hold up a poorly done study claiming that aluminum adjuvants cause autism or diabetes or multiple sclerosis or asthma or eczema. Then he will do something that could eliminate vaccine manufacture in the United States. And, if you don’t believe that, just look at what happened in the United States in the early 1980s. On April 19, 1982, a local NBC affiliate in Washington, DC aired a one-hour documentary titled DPT: Vaccine Roulette. The film featured children with withered arm and legs wearing bicycle helmets, seizing, drooling, and staring vacantly up at the ceiling. The cause of this apparent brain damage, according to the film, was the “P” in DPT: the pertussis or whooping cough vaccine. The film launched a flood of lawsuits against vaccine makers. In 1981, one year before Vaccine Roulette aired, three lawsuits were filed against vaccine makers. By the end of 1982, lawyers had filed 17 lawsuits; during the next four years, they filed 41, 73, 219, and 255. The amount of money requested by plaintiffs increased exponentially from $25 million in 1981 to $414 million in 1982, $655 million in 1983, $1.3 billion in 1984, and $3.2 billion in 1985. The cost of defending these lawsuits exceeded sales from the vaccine. Vaccine makers left the business. The number of companies making pertussis vaccine dropped from seven to one, measles vaccine makers from six to one and oral polio vaccine makers from three to one. Americans were on the verge of losing childhood vaccines. Then, in 1986, the Regan administration stepped in, creating the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act which included the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Now people could be compensated for vaccine injuries through this special vaccine court, which was funded by a federal excise tax on every dose of vaccine. The bleeding stopped. Nonetheless, whereas 18 companies made vaccines for American children in 1980, only four remained by the end of the decade. Subsequent studies found that the pertussis vaccine didn’t cause brain damage. But those studies came far too late to save vaccines. Ironically, 25 years later, Samuel Berkovic, an Australian researcher, found that the children featured in Vaccine Roulette had Dravet’s Syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by a sodium channel transport defect in brain cells. In other words, the pertussis vaccine was blameless."

So, this is a classic story of true witch hunt--foment a fear with horrifying images; point to an occult culprit; destroy your witch, burn her at the stake. 

Last night, Mad Dog happened across, on youtube, the wonderful scene from "Outlander" where Jamie points to Claire's smallpox vaccination scar and asks if this is the mark of a witch? Is Claire a witch? Jamie is living in 1718, (when people believed in witches)  and Claire was born in 1918 and received a small pox vaccination as a child. Of course, nobody in 1718 had ever seen a smallpox vaccination scar, had ever had a vaccine of any sort. That would not happen until 1796.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB49rx_VFXE

Had Claire been born in 1982, she would not have had that telltale vaccine scar, because smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 and vaccines for smallpox were discontinued. 

It was a canny choice to make Claire a nurse, then, later, a physician, because of all the accomplishments of humanity, the big leaps have nothing to do with empires, or even industrialization, but with medicine, and public health. The recognition of "germs" of micro organism, viruses, parasites and bacteria has led to an entirely different experience of life on Earth. Life today is vastly different, for every resident of advanced societies more owing to the freedom from devastating diseases and epidemics than because of railroads, airplanes or even steel plants. 

But RFKJR does not believe in the germ theory.

There is a chapter in an obscure novel Mad Dog recalls because it's called "Of Jonas Salk and the Real World," in which an old doctor tries to convince his younger colleague to forgo the wealth and affluent life style of a private practitioner in a wealthy suburb, and choose instead the life of a researcher in infectious disease at the dawn of the AIDS era. 

Dave Garroway

He tells the story of Dave Garroway, who was, in the 1960's a famous TV personality, who has to introduce Jonas Salk at some fancy dinner and Garroway says he could not think of what to say, but then his seven year old son, watching him put on his tuxedo, asks what's up, and Garroway says, 

"Well, tonight I'm going to introduce Dr. Salk, who cured polio," and the son asks, "But what's polio, Dad?" And Garroway looks out at the audience and says, "Can you imagine any seven year old of our generation or of any before ours, not knowing what polio is? That's the best introduction to Dr. Salk I can think of."

The old doctor says, 

"The history of man on this earth is, for the most part, pretty uninspiring. All those kings and dictators and strongmen: just a bunch of cavemen hitting each other over the head with clubs. I never could get very interested, you know? They were all doing pretty much the same thing, through the ages, for pretty much the same reasons, when you get right down to it. But there have been some men who've really made this world different. I'm not talking about changing some line on a map. I'm talking about guys who really changed life the way every little guy leads it. Jonas Salk was one of those men."

Dr. Salk

And RFKJR has decried the polio vaccine as doing more harm than good:

SV40 and Cancer: He has claimed that some polio vaccine batches between 1955 and 1963 were contaminated with Simian Virus 40 (SV40), which he alleges caused an increase in soft-tissue cancers that killed more people than polio itself.

--From Google AI

So now Mr. Kennedy has taken us on another time travel trip, back to the days before vaccines, when wards were filled with kids in iron lungs and limbs were withered and lives ruined.

Back to the time before vaccines.

Nobody has ever said vaccines are entirely without risk, but risk has to do with numbers and experience, and those are of no interest to the forces of darkness led by Mr. Kennedy.

He want's to take us back to times of superstition, before science.

Make America Great Again.