Gavin de Becker

Yeah, please.

Would the patents run out?

It might be another reason, by the way.

You might be on something.

No, they would say, well, there isn't that much tuberculosis, but there's 9,000 cases a year.

Versus tetanus.

Versus tetanus with, you know, 13 cases every 10 years.

I don't think most people know that tetanus is a bacteria.

Yeah, it's not transmissible.

And many vaccines don't stop transmission anyway.

By the way, I'm not saying they all don't work.

I'm just saying you have to make a decision.

Like, imagine this.

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.