JEFF CHILDERS

Following my glowing report last week on the brand-new ACIP Committee’s first, historic meeting, the sour grapes began piling into the winepress of dissatisfaction. Why didn’t they just cancel flu shots altogether, the unsatisfiable mob demanded. Well, if you won’t accept it from me, maybe you’ll listen to Dr. Sherri Tenpenny:

Sherri J. Tenpenny, D.O., is an Ohio-trained osteopathic physician, former emergency department director, and founder of the Tenpenny Integrative Medical Center, where she champions holistic and alternative treatments while warning against conventional vaccines. Over the past decade, Dr. Tenpenny has authored multiple books like Saying No to Vaccines, and runs a “Mastering Vaccine Info Boot Camp” to teach persuasion tactics aimed at undermining mainstream public health ‘guidance.’

She was a fierce warrior for freedom during the pandemic, which is where I first met her.

Dr. Tenpenny has always claimed vaccines cause autism, and is deeply skeptical of 5G and many other MAHA concerns. She holds significant sway in the health-freedom community— helping shape its narrative, influencing policy discussions (like Ohio’s anti-mandate hearings), and was even counted among Biden’s “Disinformation Dozen” of misinformation superspreaders— making her arguably one of the most influential players in the MAHA movement.

In the clip, Dr. Tenpenny obviously recognized that the new ACIP committee did everything politically possible to reverse decades of slavish vaccine adherence by our public health agencies. But there’s still a blackpilled vein of dissatisfaction running through MAHA, which snipes relentlessly at brave health freedom pioneers from the bushes.

Had the committee voted to altogether remove flu vaccines from the recommended schedule in its very first meeting, the blackpilled would still complain that it hadn’t removed all vaccines. Even had the committee removed all vaccines from the recommended schedule, the blackpill brigade would still have sneered and wondered why they didn’t make the shots illegal.

This is a mistake. The correct response to incremental victories is to celebrate them. Then double down on the next increment, using encouragement. But the blackpillers have already concluded that the new ACIP members are ‘fake’ sellouts to Big Pharma, and are demanding they all immediately resign.

I hope that it’s obvious to everybody that whoever is fueling the blackpilled response probably works for Big Pharma, and their job is to ensure MAHA blows up on the SpaceX launch pad. Please don’t take the bait. Any incremental win, however small, is a victory that builds momentum. If you want more of that, you should celebrate it, and encourage people to keep risking their professional careers to keep moving the jab needle in the right direction (toward the landfill).

For the rest of us, the best thing we can do is gracefully push back against blackpilling wherever it crops up on social media.

That’s just my $0.02. Thank you for your attention to this matter.