In Defense of Vaccine Hesitancy
There are two things guaranteed to be said by those who do not think this topic should be debated at all: “polio” and some version of “science is science.”
Arguably the most dangerous topic to bring up in modern politics is vaccines. Think about that. Why has the act of injecting a substance into our own bodies become so verboten to talk about? Cleary, there are many powerful forces at play and potentially plenty of information that these powerful forces do not want the general public to know and discuss. Yet, what could be more fundamental and important than talking about our personal health and the health of our loved ones, including our children and babies?
I have learned there are two things guaranteed to be said by those who do not think this topic should be debated at all: “polio” and some version of “science is science.”
If someone were to say they support the concept of vaccines in general and are in favor of the polio vaccine, but question the long-term safety and process behind the rushed, brand-new technology behind the specific COVID vaccine, does that person deserve to be labeled the dreaded “anti-vax” or “anti-science?”
Hypocrites. According to just released data from the CDC, only 23.0% of adults received the updated 2024─25 COVID-19 vaccine. Even in Massachusetts the most heavily vaccinated state in the country, well below 50% of the population has been boosted.
https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/vaccination-trends.html
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/
Despite everything we have learned about COVID over the past five years—including the rapidly growing concerns over the safety of the vaccine—and the fact that there is widespread COVID vaccine hesitancy in the general population, the government in late 2024 updated the standard vaccine schedule for children, which recommends babies start receiving multiple COVID doses starting at six months!
https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/30746/CDC-releases-2025-immunization-schedules
The government’s actions forces the need to have a robust discussion of this issue because we know how sacrosanct the childhood vaccines schedule is. Few things in life are defended more vigorously by the establishment.
Does questioning the legitimacy of the COVID vaccine and arguing that parents should definitely think twice and research deeply before allowing their babies and children to get the experimental COVID shot make me anti-science and anti-vax? Whatever, so be it. Establishment actors can take their rote smears and shove it up you know where. This issue, as well as a whole host of other issues society is grappling with right now is much too important to fear speaking out and forcing an honest debate.
Promoters and constant defenders of our health care establishment and status quo want to pretend that our health care system is entirely based on hard science principals. Real hard science are things such as the laws of the universe. Think the law of gravity. Gravity is a true “science is science” topic. The idea that vaccines should be considered in the same category is laughable. Yes, there is hard science involved with our health care system, but there is also a lot of soft science and human nature sprinkled throughout. You add the stock market and profit motive and you’ve got plenty of areas and reasons why “the science” is constantly changing in this arena.
Meanwhile in Massachusetts locally, The Newburyport Board Health decision regarding fluoride was finally reported on by the local paper. I attended these meetings, as well as the Mayor’s Public Forum (where the Mayor didn’t event show up) and there is much more to the story than reported by the Newburyport Daily News.
Communities like Newburyport are now opening themselves up to litigation, as defenders of the status quo are openly ignoring the growing body of evidence of harm from fluoride. This is especially true now that the Trump administration, led by RFK Jr, have made it clear that removing fluoride from water is at the top of their Make America Health Again (MAHA) initiative. Plenty of additional information will be coming out shortly regarding the safety of this substance, I’m sure of it.
Reading between the lines of statements that have been made, I think Port officials subtly are arguing and hoping for a citizen-led referendum that successfully votes out fluoride because of the fear of increasingly looking out of touch and also because of what is coming with regard to potential litigation. Still, these same public officials are too cowardly to stand up to the medical establishment themselves. Only one brave official on the three-person Newburyport Board of Health has down so. It’s time for workers on the ground in the Public Works department to show spineless officials in City Hall how it is done by simply refusing to continue to forcibly put this substance into the public’s water. They are the ones who see the toxic material warnings on the bags of fluoride and who need to wear protective gear around them and the problem with trying to actually regulate the specific amount of it at any given time in the water system—not always dissolving properly etc. DPW workers with a conscience need to approach community leaders and say they refuse to take part in putting this stuff in the water any longer.
Massachusetts by some definitions is the center of the health care establishment in the entire world, given the concentration of powerful institutions at play here. It is especially difficult to break through with outside and alternative voices in this state, but it makes it all that more important that we do have people willing to speak out and state the obvious in many cases. Issues such as the safety of all vaccines or fluoride in our public drinking water are much too important and need to be vigorously debate, which is the hallmark of science. Our physical, spiritual, and mental well-being is at stake.