Sarah Smith
speaker
3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, and it's fascinating to think, isn't it, about the different constituencies that saying this will appeal to or or get their attention.
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So you've got the moms who are maybe more concerned about nutrition but are interested in vaccines.
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It'll pique their attention.
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But you've got a whole other section of Trump's base who um buy into deep state conspiracy theories and the idea that there are forces working against them that don't
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Donald Trump uniquely can confront.
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And of course by signing something like this he's also saying to them, I'm on your side, I'm not uh beholden to whether it's the corporate interests or the um scientific think that it's trying to dupe people into uh doing what they're told.
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Well that's very interesting, isn't it, that he is prepared to look into the camera and say that people should get vaccinated, although he's not directly recommending that they get an MMR vaccine there.
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I'm sure he would still say that they ought to be split up, but he's having to say that because the number of measles cases has significantly increased since all of the skepticism and since Donald Trump was re-elected and he was made the health secretary.
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Uh and it's really, really worried a lot of doctors.
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doctors and scientific community, the number of kids who are unvaccinated and who are now getting measles.
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And we should say, shouldn't we, what?
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They're no longer recommending children should get vaccinated for, as well as saying they want to split up the MMR vaccine.
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Taken off the list, if Donald Trump had his way, for mandatory vaccines would be rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, men and coccal disease and a couple of other things, including dengue fever.
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Uh and people are very worried, particularly about hepatitis B re being removed from that schedule.
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Although Anthony, you pointed out this has not become federal law because there was a court ruling a few months ago that stopped them from being able to do that.
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So this is a strong recommendation.
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But I mean, if there's ever a bully pit sitting in the Oval Office and telling people what they ought not to do, it's a pretty big one.
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Now Marianna, you said originally one of the reasons why vaccine skepticism has taken off again is because of um COVID nineteen and we all know that there was a lot of controversy around the vaccine there as well, uh which is back in the headlines again because the man most associated with that in the United States, Doctor Anthony Fauci, was up in front of the Senate.
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We've talked before about how um he refused to answer any of their questions and said he was taking the the
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The Fifth Amendment all the time, but they also released a whole series of text messages from him from twenty twenty one showing him and other um health officials discussing the risks and the benefits of the COVID vaccine.
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