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8. So, your theory is that you can perfectly identify a subgroup of babies which ought to be given protection? What . . .

Reply to TheRickles (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:31 AM

17 hrs ago

. . . gives you such confidence in that ability and what about the other "miniscule [sic]" numbers of transmission cases? Do you think that those are transmissions are fine?

Out of about 3,600,000 newborns per year in the US, how many constitute that minuscule number of transmissions that you would accept and tolerate as fine? What do you wish on them in lieu of a safe and effective vaccination against such an eminently avoidable disease?

RFK, Jr. is not correct and is wholly unqualified and is pathetically incompetent as the leader of HHS.

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Parents should demand their pediatricians follow the Illinois vaccination schedule. FarPoint 17 hrs ago #3

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And yet he might be right about this one. TheRickles 17 hrs ago #2

Agree on this one vaccine- totally unnecessary unless the mother was at risk as a drug abuser biophile 17 hrs ago #4

So, your theory is that you can perfectly identify a subgroup of babies which ought to be given protection? xocetaceans 17 hrs ago #10

No, it's not for me personally to decide biophile 16 hrs ago #12

To be clearer, my post indicates that the knowledge a person needs to have in order to carry out what you seem . . . xocetaceans 3 hrs ago #21

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So, your theory is that you can perfectly identify a subgroup of babies which ought to be given protection? What . . . xocetaceans 17 hrs ago #8

Utter hogwash. You don't know what you're talking about. PSPS 16 hrs ago #13

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