Sen. Ron Johnson:
Well, first of all, I don’t think those are particularly major concessions on the part of RFK Jr.
He wants to follow the science. He is not anti-vax. I’m certainly not anti-vax. We want to make sure that the vaccines that are on the childhood schedule are as safe as possible, recognizing that nothing is 100 percent safe, and that they’re effective.
Certainly, we want to prevent childhood disease to the extent we can, but we also have to have an open mind, I mean, that there are — the reality is, there are vaccine injuries. They acknowledge that fact when they passed the Childhood Vaccine Safety Act back in 1986. Injury, vaccine injuries are just unavoidable. It happens.
We need to take care of those individuals, which is why we set up a compensation fund. It’s completely indisputable that the COVID injection caused injuries. So, again, all these things have to be explored. People have to have an open mind on it, but nobody wants to take anybody’s vaccine away because we — vaccines are miracles if they can prevent disease without causing too much undue harm.
