Actor hits Fauci with personal vaccine dare to prove safety

Comedian Rob Schneider has dared the infamous Dr. Anthony Fauci to take all of the government’s approved childhood vaccine doses at once.

Schneider issued the stunning dare while speaking last week on former ESPN host Sage Steele’s podcast.

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(Video Credit: The Sage Steele Show)

“So what they did is they just ramped up the [childhood vaccine] schedule from three shots when I was a kid — now we have 52 different doses,” Schneider began. “I think it’s 14 or 16, if you count COVID, of 16 different vaccines before the age of six. And there’s never been a safety study of the entire vaccine schedule.”

“And anyone who’s for pushing this vaccine schedule, whether it’s the old CDC rep or whether it’s Fauci or whomever, I’d like to see you show up, if you think it’s so safe, get the whole recommended childhood schedule and do it right there on stage. Do all the 52 doses right now, and see how safe it is. And they’ll never do it,” he added.

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Schneider was only slightly off with his numbers. According to the National Vaccine Information Center, children receive a total of 72 vaccine doses by the age of 18.

Schneider is a longtime critic of Fauci.

Steele responded by wondering if mothers like her were to blame for the large number of child vaccine doses.

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“[They’ll never take all vaccine doses at once] because they never had to,” she said. “So they got to this point that they were able to push that many [doses] because we never pushed, we never questioned. Mothers like me just trusted.”

“They did a brilliant job of gradually getting to this point where we just kept saying yes and yes and yes, and we didn’t question anything,” she added.

Schneider is also a longtime critic of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which a study published two years ago showed is a direct pipeline to the pharmaceutical industry, surprise, surprise.

Published in Health Affairs, the study found that “[m]ore than half of appointees at the CDC, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Office of the Deputy Secretary went straight to industry after completing their service.”

Regarding the CDC, “while 8% of CDC appointees came from industry, 54% left directly for industry jobs,” i.e., jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.

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“The sheer scale of the revolving door that we have identified … is troubling and merits further scrutiny,” the researchers explained.

“The risks posed to the functioning of and public trust in HHS warrant study into how these government-industry flows are affecting agency decision-making, especially in offices with the highest net exit rates,” they added.

The only saving grace was that, according to established federal rules, a CDC employee had to wait one year after leaving their job before they could join the pharmaceutical industry. The rule requiring the one-year wait was known as a “cooling-off” law.

But the researchers behind the study said this wasn’t enough.

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Prof. Genevieve Kanter of the University of Southern California, one of the study’s co-authors, said she was “really concerned” about “whether the personnel flow might lead to biases in government decision making.”

She added that current “cooling-off laws” don’t last long enough and are too narrow in scope.

“They do not broadly cover a lot of lobbying related to agency decision making, like regulations and drug authorizations, so they don’t necessarily deter that behavior. The direction one might go is to expand the cooling-off laws. But that’s a blunt instrument for a lot of subtle things that might be going on in terms of the effects of the revolving door,” she said.

Vivek Saxena

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