The View lastly returned from its prolonged summer season hiatus on Monday (September 8) morning, and the primary merchandise on the complete “Sizzling Matters” day agenda was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s contentious congressional listening to over his anti-vaccine insurance policies because the secretary of Well being and Human Providers.
All six returning panelists have been incensed by RFK Jr.’s claims towards vaccine security, which have been condemned by members of each events throughout his testimony.
First, Whoopi Goldberg criticized Kennedy for claiming that extra folks died from the Covid-19 vaccine than the precise illness, although he had no statistics to again that up.
“He canceled 500 million in mRNA analysis. He falsely claimed that mRNA and Covid pictures are the deadliest vaccines ever made,” she mentioned. “He fired all 17 advisors on the CDC vaccine committee, and he’s hand-picked folks [to replace them]. He simply went and bought folks off the road… as a result of none of them appear to know something.”
Pleasure Behar additionally identified the hypocrisy that Kennedy himself vaccinated his personal youngsters.
Sara Haines tried to rationalize RFK Jr.’s stance that vaccines shouldn’t be obligatory however argued why that can be problematic. “For instance, [with] measles, you want 95%+ protection, or herd immunity doesn’t work. Occurs to be additionally essentially the most lethal illness to the school-aged children. It is going to be the quickest outbreak we see,” she predicted. “I don’t suppose folks perceive proper now that this isn’t about selecting for your self. That is defending children. The rationale there have been ever mandates is it was once such a standard a part of childhood to die from these ailments.”
Behar then revealed that she personally skilled the results of Kennedy’s insurance policies when she was refused a Covid shot throughout her trip till she might get a prescription.
Sunny Hostin additionally has a private connection to the matter, pointing to the truth that her in-laws each died of Covid. “That’s a horrible loss for our household that we nonetheless really feel as we speak. We really feel it. At Christmas. We really feel at Thanksgiving. There are empty seats at my desk. And so the notion that individuals can’t entry vaccines, I do know, will result in loss of life, I do know it,” she mentioned. “And this misinformation that he’s offering is such a disservice — such a disservice to youngsters, seniors, everybody.”
The dialog continued for the complete 15-minute phase, and Ana Navarro had a very fiery response because it continued. “This to me is especially alarming as a result of I stay in Florida, and we noticed the surgeon basic, the secretary of well being in Florida, Dr. Ladapo, come out and never solely echo what RFK mentioned, however go a step additional, they’re now making vaccines in faculties in Florida non-compulsory, and all of this noise that’s occurring round vaccines has such an impact,” she defined. “I used to be with a pal who’s a pediatric radiologist, and he was telling me that newborns are born with low vitamin Okay, they provide them a shot. It’s modus operandi. It’s ho hum, in order that they may as a result of vitamin Okay means that you can do blood clotting. Dad and mom at the moment are selecting to not give their newborns vitamin Okay. So he’s seeing youngsters with mind bleeds due to the selection, and it’s additionally due to the skepticism.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin then identified that oldsters in Florida already had the selection to not vaccinate their youngsters. “What’s attention-grabbing in Florida, they really have plenty of kind of outs for individuals who need their alternative. You may house faculty your children in order that they’re not put right into a public setting once they’re not vaccinated, the place they may hurt different children. There’s non secular exemptions,” she defined. “The thought of public well being, although, is you do it for the higher good. You do it to guard susceptible populations, the aged, pregnant ladies, youngsters. That was once one thing all of us simply kind of agreed to.”
She additionally identified the irony of Donald Trump permitting RFK to sentence vaccines when it was one among his shining accomplishments in his first time period. “Donald Trump, I’ll say this any day of the week, his single best accomplishment was Operation Warp Velocity and serving to get the Covid vaccine. And why he nonetheless runs away from that can by no means make sense.”
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