“LET THE MAN WORK”

JEFF CHILDERS

Right on cue, the conservative circular firing squad spent the week unloading all its ammo on newly confirmed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—calling him a ‘sell-out’ (and worse) for not immediately outlawing every vaccine in sight, or something equally incoherent. Large-following health freedom influencers—who I won’t name—labeled MAHA a ‘fake movement’ and a ‘psyop.’ It’s exhausting.

I think the trouble started during Kennedy’s contentious confirmation hearings. Over and over, senators from both parties pressed the new Secretary to promise, to swear, he wouldn’t delete the childhood vaccination schedule. Kennedy made no promises, but he equivocated like any good politician and generally made reassuring noises.

I get it. After decades of derision, after being mocked, ostracized, and exiled from polite society as kooky ‘anti-vaxxers,’ many in the MAHA movement believed this was their moment. Zero patience. Zero tolerance. No prisoners. The last thing they wanted to see was their champion, Kennedy, waffling under Senate pressure.

But yesterday, just days into newly confirmed Senator Kennedy’s term, the UK Daily Mail ran what should be a very encouraging article under the headline, “RFK Jr issues two bombshell orders on vaccines in move that has mainstream doctors terrified.” That’s not all, either. Details of Kennedy’s first decisions are beginning to emerge, and they should be reassuring to his MAHA critics.

The first bombshell exploded when the CDC canceled its moronic annual flu shot campaign. Boom number one. This year’s campaign was branded “wild to mild,” with dramatic images of lions next to kittens, suggesting that the shots “tame” a virus into a feline companion or something. Pulling the campaign was common sense— even corporate media reported the flu jab efficacy was languishing around placebo levels. What’s the use?

Second, Kennedy has directed the CDC to stop with the Orwellian “nudge” tactics, fearmongering, and manipulative psyops, and focus its vaccine communications instead on the science, meaning in this case informed consent. For Portland readers, that means telling people about the real risks and benefits— without terrifying tall tales or emotional manipulation, just the facts. More common sense.

It’s hilarious. He’s daring Democrats to oppose informed consent. Common sense, yes, but of course, “common” sense has become very scarce over the last five years.

Next, remember these perfidious clowns?

Third, and maybe best of all, the CDC indefinitely suspended its 19-member, tri-annual “panel” of vaccine advisors, the so-called Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which during the pandemic rubber-stamped every new covid shot, whether for infants, pregnant women, or people who don’t want shots. Behold yesterday’s Washington Post headline:

Not just postponed. Postponed indefinitely. While Kennedy’s “friends” in the MAHA movement are busy calling him a sell-out and a turncoat, corporate media is running stories with paragraphs like this one, from the WaPo article:

WaPo said that unnamed “experts” have unlocked a new fear. “Experts,” WaPo vaguely reported, “fear that Kennedy — who has asserted the panel fails to adequately test vaccines and be transparent about safety data — could use his authority to potentially steer vaccine skeptics to the advisory committee or to abolish the panel altogether.”

Not that! Not dastardly vaccine skeptics! Not on their precious committee!

I, for one, would be fine with abolishing the panel altogether. It’s obviously useless. The one time it did stand up to Biden’s CDC over infant covid jabs, the CDC approved the shots anyway, and the APIC subsequently re-voted in favor. Totally useless.

News of the canceled meeting drew swift fury. More than 50 “medical experts and organizations” dispatched a strongly-worded letter to Secretary Kennedy, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who’d pushed Kennedy to agree not to change the current vaccine system, and CDC’s acting director, Susan Monarez, demanding they keep the panel’s current meeting and agenda.

To the “experts,” this is catastrophic news. “Without the meeting,” WaPo advised darkly, “Americans will have to wait indefinitely for the recommendations for newly licensed vaccines.” Also, pharma and its legions of remora-like hangers-on will have to wait indefinitely for incredibly profitable new vaccines.

Kennedy’s been on the job for one week. Constant carping from MAHA critics isn’t just misguided—it’s feeding ammo into Big Pharma’s machine gun batteries. Let the man work. We didn’t get into this mess in one day, and it will take some time to unravel. But it is happening.

If these early tremors are any indication, we’re on the brink of a seismic shift in America’s health landscape. It’s time to Make America Healthy Again.