Gavin de Becker

Some parents don't want their kids to play football because they might have a head injury, right?

But if the government mandated that you play football, we'd all be pretty pissed off.

Parents decide.

whether their kids can take the bike out after sundown, whether they can sleep over at somebody's house.

They make all these decisions about safety, but they give over this vaccine decision as if it's not their business.

And, you know, something that Bobby Kennedy is pushing for and I think will accomplish is called joint decision making.

And that is that the parent and the pediatrician will decide together on whether or not vaccines, when to give them, how many, which type, et cetera.

Guess who opposes that?

The pediatricians.

Right.

Yes.

When I was a kid, I went to the pediatrician.

Well, first of all, I went to the doctor once.

I broke my foot.

If you didn't have vaccines and Bobby's wellness checks and little Jamie's wellness checks that are necessary that, you know, they bring you in to get the vaccines.

Pediatricians would have to have second jobs because most kids, particularly when they're younger and they're not yet affected by all the environmental toxins.

Most kids are pretty healthy.

Obviously, that's less true today than it was when.

When I was a kid.

But I want to share something that I'm itching to get out because most people just don't know much about vaccines.