Notes, references (including the video referenced), & transcript: https://chloehumbert.substack.com/p/fda-vrbpac-public-comments
WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE IS FRIDAY MAY 23 @ 1159pm EDT : https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001
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Public Comment to FDA for Updated COVID Vaccines May 22, 2025 public comment in support of universal updated COVID vaccine access, regardless of medical conditions; Written comments are still open through tomorrow, Friday 5/23 at 11:59pm EDT Kaitlin Sundling May 22, 2025 https://precaution.substack.com/p/public-comment-to-fda-for-updated
The problem of busy work activism. If you want to change something, you need to find out how the system works and the levers of power, get involved with activities that make sense, and not waste your time on busy work activism. Chloe Humbert Jul 30, 2024 And sometimes it’s hard to believe that it’s naivete when it comes to known operators with an easily discoverable history as being in advocacy and activist circles for years. But I guess who knows, some people never learn. Like people with an acting background using a stage name,3 and with a reputation for being a suspected saboteur4 for years. Others may just be successful influencers for many years,5 who say things that sound compelling that are historically inaccurate to the point of being somewhat racist,6 who say things that satisfy emotionally but are problematic like fighting ableism with ableism,7 to play to an audience for paid subscriptions or whatever, and who really shouldn’t be trusted for advice on activism - or social media hygiene for that matter.8
Making Novavax into a memestock is a threat to public health. All 3 vaccines approved in the U.S., from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax, are basically in the same ballpark with efficacy. Chloe Humbert · Nov 11, 2024 Many overly rosy posts about Novavax on social media include the stock symbol which is kind of a giveaway! There’s substantial money involved. Novavax is one of the most shorted stocks too. So there’s plenty of interest in manipulating online conversations and creating controversy about the product, in order to manipulate the perceptions, the automated systems monitoring social media for stock signals, and people trying to influence the stock market. I’m concerned some could be trying to orchestrate something akin to a pump & dump scheme. That would be really bad because it would mean that the volatility could harm the company. There may be people with some interest in just that, to see the company fail — the people shorting the stock. And what that would mean for patients is there would be one less viable vaccine available for people to choose.
Don't take public health prescriptions from repeatedly wrong Doctor Monica Gandhi. Don't Wait For Everybody - Episode 023 Chloe Humbert May 11, 2025 But bringing that failed political strategy to public health is a bridge too far. In an era when we have a renowned, prolific, and horrific anti-vax advocate in charge of the governance over vaccines, there are two doctors who want to seem like they're trying to split the difference between what should be a robust and protective public health plan that saves lives and a dark and gloomy world of rampant disease spread with eugenics schemes. No, I don't want to go halfway to hell.
Don't include poison pills in right to mask bills. Don't Wait For Everybody - Episode 021 Chloe Humbert Apr 28, 2025 There seems to be some, from when I've talked to people, is that perhaps some people who want this language included are doing the loser liberalism thing, the bad... political strategy of trying to appease the anti-maskers, like they're trying to appease law enforcement or appease the anti-maskers or try to, you know, in good grace, like try to offer something to the right wing so that they'll meet you halfway and whatever. that's called like compromising. I don't understand. It's just a bad strategy. You don't low ball yourself going into a haggle. And that's what, you know, compromising on legislation is. It's a, it's a haggling. You don't go in low balling yourself. If you can't afford to pay $200 for something, you don't go in offering $230. That's silly. Like that just doesn't make any sense.
NBC News - FDA moves to take prescription fluoride drops and tablets for kids off the market Despite decades of evidence that fluoride prevents cavities, the agency said the best way to keep kids' teeth strong is to stop eating so much sugar. May 13, 2025, 12:11 PM EDT By Erika Edwards Dr. Meg Lochary, a pediatric dentist in Union County, North Carolina, said she’s been prescribing more of the drops and tablets since county commissioners voted to stop adding fluoride to its water supply last year. “This is really going to hamper our goal of providing kids with fluoride,” Lochary said. “It’s ridiculous, and it takes away the choice of parents to allow their children to have better dental health. It doesn’t make scientific sense.”
MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy - Thinker-Fest: Session 1 - Fireside Chat - How to Fix the “Splinternet” Mar 3, 2023 They are really invested in gaining social capital and reputation for participating in these types of industries. And they also have economic models at play. You can buy flat earth sweatshirts, you can buy anti-vax stickers and notebooks, you can pay subscription fees, you can watch videos that are monetized on YouTube. And this is also very much a reputational economy. We also have a factor that I don't think is talked about a lot which are intentional antagonists otherwise known as trolls. What's interesting about them from a digital community perspective is that they too are chasing social currency but the reputation that they're cultivating within their own communities is one where the more chaos they create, the more reputation credibility that they have. And so these three forces are kind of at play when we look at what's happening from an individual and community's perspective. The issue is that if you broaden out, you start to see that all of these dynamics can take place because there are very clear revenue models and businesses. People are making money from this. For example I trace what's called direct benefits. So these are companies that are selling products and services directly related to the idea that's circulating. So if you are anti-vax, you are selling supplements right, if you are, you're selling essential oils, you're selling products that are directly benefiting from the disinformation or misinformation that is circulating.
NPR Can't Help Falling In Love With A Vaccine: How Polio Campaign Beat Vaccine Hesitancy. May 3, 2021 By Susan Brink An army of volunteers for the March of Dimes, largely mothers, went door to door, distributing the latest information about polio and the effort to stop it; they also asked for donations. As little as a dime would help, they said. And the dimes and dollars poured in, Oshinsky says, handed to the volunteers, or inserted into cardboard displays at store checkout counters or placed in envelopes sent directly to the White House. Cases of polio may have peaked in the U.S. in 1952 with nearly 60,000 children infected. More than 3,000 died. (By comparison, roughly a year's worth of comparable statistics for the COVID-19 pandemic reveal more than 32 million reported cases in the U.S. so far and more than 573,000 deaths.) The years-long campaign of information and donations to the polio eradication effort made anxious Americans feel they were invested in a solution, Stewart says.
Slate - The Loneliest Anti-Vaxxer. Even the popular polio shot had its haters. By Nick Keppler, Nov 26, 2021 Under the banner of his organization, Polio Prevention Inc., Miller distributed hair-raising mailers with claims like “Thousands of little white coffins will be used to bury victims of Salk’s heinous and fraudulent vaccine.” A self-made shampoo magnate, he was one of the few malcontents who publicly campaigned against the polio vaccine. His crusade shows that even during a public embrace of the polio shot that many people frustrated at COVID anti-vaxxers have held up as the ideal reaction to a new lifesaving vaccine, there was dissent, some of it as vitriolic as that you find in the corners of Twitter that swap anti-Fauci memes and Bill Gates rants—and just as weird. To Miller, “polio” was not an infectious disease. It was a state of malnutrition caused by midcentury American diets, particularly soft drinks—his mortal enemy. “Disease and malfunction do not ‘strike’ us; we build them within ourselves,” he wrote in one of his two-sided handbills.
Studio Mythras @mythrasnola.bsky.social May 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM That's the problem with chasing the center. The Overton Window keeps shifting right. If the other side suddenly decides to mandate drinking mercury, the middle ground is not suggesting a smaller dose.
The Daily Show - Pizzagate: Are Democrats Harvesting Children’s Blood? - Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy Jul 10, 2023 Elise Wang: that's what really struck me about pizzagate it was the first time that i really saw this where you could see there was already this this theory about a pedophile ring being run by the clintons and it was kind of a theory in need of specifics and so they went out seeking specifics and they decided basically randomly that comet ping pong was going to be the place and then it started this sort of multimedia propaganda campaign where people they got people to call and harass as matt was saying um they got people to flood the the yelp reviews and the google reviews and people to go and harass the proprietor and then this sort of culminated in the guy who drove up from north carolina to self-investigate but that wasn't really the the story the story was that then people talked about it that then it was in the national media for like 48 hours like a whole week and it was not only in the media their theory was in the media and i went back to the message boards afterwards and they were just beside themselves with joy over this like it was not a it's not at all about oh our guy was arrested whoops or huh he didn't really seem to find anything um it was not about that it was about the media exposure and then there were sort of further suggestions well how can we get them to keep denying it so they keep saying it so people keep googling it and when i was seeing that i was like oh this is something else this is this is a kind of savvy media campaign that i think most of us at that point were not totally familiar with now we know if you mention something you have to be very careful what what sort of buzzwords you mentioned because it will sort of feed the conspiracy theory monster
RFKJr called chronic illness “injuries” to invoke what has become a conspiracy anti-vax right-wing buzzword term. May 18th, 2025 David Pakman played a clip of RFKJr making inappropriate statements as usual, and noted the word “injury” being used being odd, but didn’t spell out why he used that word, when it’s obvious to anyone paying attention anti-vax misinformation and the online milieu of anti-vax activists. “Vaccine injury” is a buzzword term used in these social media circles.
You're using VAERS wrong Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson Premiered Dec 21, 2021 Dr. Wilson: "This is a system that anybody can report adverse events to, and while doctors are required to report serious adverse events following vaccination to this system anybody can report anything to it. Even if the event clearly had nothing to do with the vaccine or didn't happen at all. For example, events reported to and documented by the VAERS database have in the past included things like getting a bald spot, getting a nosebleed, being turned homosexual, and even being turned into the Incredible Hulk."
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