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Trump should know better. When Trumpies began their anti covid
vaccination stupidity during his watch, the death rate was running over
10 times higher among unvaccinated than those who had been vaccinated.
Some estimates were that the death rate among unvaccinated was 50 times higher. Hundreds of thousands probably died because they were stupid
and would rather trust the stupid junk science like ivermectin. Even
after nearly everyone had been vaccinated or infected at least once,
people that were getting the booster covid shots had a 19 times lower
death rate than unvaccinated. Booster vaccination was likely better
than being infected and surviving because the boosters were multi-valent
and were designed to match the variants that had evolved and were
causing the most infections.

The US had maintained its measles-elimination status for 25 years before
2025, and now is not the time to stop vaccinating for it.

Things like mercury are being phased out of vaccines, but the reality is
that you could ingest more mercury by eating a tuna fish sandwich than
getting a flu shot. Things like that don't register with the rubes that
are easily deceived by basically scam artists. Andrew Wakefield was
found to have fabricated his research to claim that autism was linked to
the measles, mumps and Rubella vaccine. None of that seems to matter.

Google:
Andrew Wakefield, a former British gastroenterologist, was responsible
for the original, discredited 1998 research paper that falsely linked
the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism.

The Fraudulent Research

The Study: Published in the medical journal The Lancet, the paper only evaluated 12 children and claimed that the MMR vaccine caused a new
syndrome of "regressive autism" and bowel inflammation.

The Fabrications: An extensive investigation by journalist Brian Deer
revealed that Wakefield altered medical facts. Some of the children had developmental delays before receiving the vaccine, and others never
actually had autism.

Conflicts of Interest: Wakefield was secretly paid more than -u400,000 ($800,000) by a personal injury lawyer who was trying to build a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers. He had also filed a patent for his own
rival, single-disease measles vaccine

The Aftermath

Full Retraction: After his misconduct came to light, The Lancet fully retracted the study.

License Revocation: In 2010, Britain's General Medical Council found
Wakefield guilty of serious professional misconduct and stripped him of
his medical license.

Scientific Consensus: Innumerable global studies involving millions of children have thoroughly debunked the claim, confirming that vaccines do
not cause autism. Wakefield's fraudulent paper remains widely regarded
as one of the most damaging medical hoaxes in history.
END Google:

The guy did it for the money. Now, children are dying again. There
have been 3 deaths in the US, measles outbreak 2025-2026, all
unvaccinated (2 children and one adult).

Ron Okimoto

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