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Q&A: Why Do Parents Still Trust Public Health on Shots?

Day 1 · 3:30:08 · Dean Allison · Ron Johnson

  • 📊 CDC flu-shot effectiveness has hit 10%; serious adverse-event rates near 2.6–2.7% fail basic risk-benefit math.
  • 🧮 Parents must learn absolute versus relative risk instead of marketing slogans.
  • ☀️ Fauci took megadose vitamin D yet told the public nothing about simple immune support.

Misleading efficacy stats keep routine vaccination unexamined.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 3:30:08

When you were talking earlier about how the flu vaccine is now approved, an mRNA flu vaccine, and I think you said it was like 2.7% risk of a serious adverse event, including, you know, death or, you know, imminent death and serious disablement. And, you know, parents even hearing that might not think that that's a big risk, even though it's a huge risk. And I thought, you know, if you had 100 parents and their kids in a room and they all had to get vaccinated together and they were truthful and said, okay, only 97 kids are going to come out of this room, you're going to lose 3 to protect the 100 from the flu. And the parents know their kid's not going to die of the flu. It would probably stop that type of thing. Why do you think it is that— and I do appreciate because of COVID the vaccination rate has dropped— but why do you think parents are so trusting of public health?

Ron Johnson · 3:31:10

Because I think public health officials mislead them. You know, for one of our hearings, I had my staff print out the effectiveness— and this is reported by CDC— the effectiveness of the flu shot over many, many years. One year is as low as 10%. Now I think to get approval, a vaccine has to be shown at least, at least 50% effective. Again, that's, that's taking it from 0.1 down to 0.95, and yet you're subjecting yourself to potentially almost 3% risk of a serious adverse event? It just doesn't compute. But that's why I said, you know, I didn't answer one of the questions. I mean, familiarize yourself with absolute versus relative risk, you know, what that means, and, and know what the published risk of these things are versus what your risk is of getting that disease.

Ron Johnson · 3:32:10

And I mean, nobody wants to get the flu or a cold, but we've never developed a vaccine for cold or really even a cure. You just, you know, you keep your immune system firing on all cylinders. By the way, one, one of my knocks on Fauci, he started taking megadoses of vitamin D and, and like the Grinch who solved hunger, told no one. And he told no one. And Fauci knew enough, you know, do something to boost your immune system. Well, that's, that's things like vitamin D.