By Paul Bean
Children’s Health Defense President and CEO, Mary Holland, was expected to speak Thursday, April 10 to the House Committee on Health Care but was cut from the agenda with less than 24 hours notice.
Undeterred, she was the keynote speaker in an afternoon gathering organized by Vermont Stands Up.
Children’s Health Defense was founded by the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. The organization is focused on raising awareness about environmental toxins and their impact on children’s health. They advocate for eliminating harmful exposures, holding entities accountable, and promoting policies to protect public health, often emphasizing concerns about vaccine safety and chronic childhood illnesses.
Holland was there to provide information and education to the House Health Cae committee on the chronic disease epidemic in children and the work the Children’s Health Defence is doing to solve that. Holland was also there to host the discussion organized by Vermont Stands Up on that same topic.
“I came here for the morning and I understand that we had tried to put on the schedule of the Health Committee that I would meet with them this morning and be available to answer questions. On less than 24 hours notice I was deleted from the schedule,” said Holland who traveled from out of state to be there. “This is the cancellation that we all have experienced, those of us who’ve advocated about these issues for some time.”
“We sat in this morning on the hearing that they did have and it was a hearing about infertility and that Vermont does not include insurance coverage for people with infertility issues,” Holland continued. “They spoke for hours on this topic and there were some tragic stories of people who could not get pregnant who couldn’t get coverage. This was a terrible dilemma and they never asked the question, and nobody ever addressed the question–why are so many people infertile?”
Holland then went on to explain some of the potential causes of infertility amongst young people inducing vaccines, environmental toxins, pharmaceutical drugs, and a number of other contributing factors.
Holland mentioned a heartbreaking testimony from a young woman in her 20s who was brought to the emergency room with blood clots and how she nearly died. “There was no addressing, why would a healthy young woman in her 20s, have blood clots for which she nearly died? I think a discussion about environmental toxic exposures including vaccines and including the covid shots was terribly missing from the conversation this morning,” said Holland.
“I don’t think that those people know the vaccines that they got as children or maybe as adolescents, or covid shots that they got in the last few years, never tested for impact on fertility, never tested for mutagenicity, never tested for carcinogenicity, I don’t think those people know that and I think they need to know that.”
Following Holland’s remarks she opened up the room for questions.
I asked immediately “so how are the onesie sales doing?” in reference to Bernie Sander’s hilarious berating of RFK jr for the “anti-vax” onesies for babies sold by the Children’s Health Defense during his HHS appointment confirmation hearings in February. These onesies have slogans on them like “unvaxxed, unafraid.”
“If you use the code BERNIE,” said Holland, “You get a discount! Yes, we sold hundreds of onesies that day and we have many people that have committed to sending them to Bernie’s office…I was sitting in the confirmation hearing at that time and did everything I could do from holding myself back to burst out in laughter. It was the most ridiculous spectacle I’ve ever seen.”
In one exchange I also asked her about Bernie Sanders and the potential role he could play with the Make America Healthy Again movement.
Bean: “Bernie has been kind of seen as this anti-establishment anti- big pharma character for a really long time. I’’m sure many people in this room believed that he was, myself included. I was kind of a Bernie bro growing up. Is there conversations with anyone in RFK’s team and Bernie Sanders?…I think a lot of the stuff that I’ve seen Bernie talking about, he may appear as if he’s aligned with MAHA, I just wanted to give you maybe an opportunity to talk on that.”
Holland: “No I mean I was in the room for the confirmation hearing…all he seemed to want to talk about was universal healthcare for all. ‘It’s a federal right,’ not talking at all about what that means and what kind of health care might it be? And would that really serve health? Or just pharma, frankly?”
Holland also gave context on the type of healthcare Senator Sanders might be representing considering money his campaign has received over the years:
Holland: “When Bernie was attacking Bobby on the onesies thing, Bobby got a moment at the end where he did call out Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, saying ‘you know you’ve taken millions of dollars from pharma’ and Bernie was very defensive and said ‘well it was 2 million out of a hundred million,’ and we’re like okay does that make it better? Amusing actually. You kind of had to hold back laughter.
‘I think he has this image that national health care like in the UK or in France is the answer. Sadly, now working really closely with people in the UK and France and other countries with national health systems, I wish that were the answer, It’s not. I’m not saying the people should be deprived of healthcare. Please don’t get me wrong. But just saying ‘okay let’s just give pharma more discretion, Let’s give them more resources,’ I think we have to be incredibly wary about that, given what we’ve seen so far.”
I also asked her if she thought there would be accountability enforced by HHS for elected officials and the draconian policies they enforced during the covid-19 pandemic.
Paul Bean: “I just want to read a quote just quickly of something Governor Scott said back in 2021, I would like to hear your response: ‘If you’re still unvaccinated let me be clear, You’ll be infected sooner or later It’s just a matter of time. The hundreds of thousands of people who did the right thing and therefore are not the problem should not be punished because of those who chose not to protect themselves.’ So therefore inferring that the 5% of Vermoners that did not choose to take the vaccination were the problem, I’d love to hear your response to that.”
Mary Holland: That’s outrageous. That’s an outrage. President Biden said the unvaccinated will die! It’s an outrage.
‘This was an attempt to divide people. This was polarizing and it was untrue. The unvaccinated absolutely were not the cause of the problem. There was all kinds of obfuscation at the hospital level to characterize people who had been vaccinated as unvaccinated for two weeks. Why? So that when they died within two weeks of getting vaccinated they would be considered unvaccinated. Literally that was one of the slights of hand that they did [because] hospitals were financially incentivized. It’s outrageous and we cannot possibly allow that ever to happen again…”
Paul Bean: “I just want to say I do respect the governor. I think he’s been a really great governor. He’s done some great work in the state and he’s helped Vermont a lot. But the point that I’m wondering is, for comments like this, and not just here in Vermont but around the country, is there going to be any kind of accountability?”
Mary Holland: “There has to be Paul. There is going to be a reckoning..It’s hard for people to deal with things that were deeply unsatisfying and terrifying and traumatic. And so there is this inhibition, but I do not believe that we can get through the next four years without some kind of truth.”
For the full exchange on “reckoning” click here.
Following the discussion at the State House I spoke with an 83 year old attendee that had supported Bernie Sanders her entire life:
“I started to open my eyes to Donald Trump because of RFK Jr.. I was a Kennedy Democrat and I was actually at JFK’s inauguration back in 1963,” she said. “I cannot believe that Bernie Sanders has been taking money from big pharma. That was shocking for me to find out.”
Later in the evening I was invited to Bent Nail’s Bistro for a celebration of Mary Holland’s visit, RFK jr’s confirmation, and the work being done by the Children’s Health Defense coalition. The event featured live music, dancing, and delicious/healthy food.
A number of guests spoke including John Klar, who said “I voted for Obama and he betrayed me on GMOs, vaccines, and a number of related issues that I supported him because of. In many ways I’ve been waiting for this my whole life,” speaking in reference to RFK Jr’s confirmation and the related implications.
“Here I feel like I can just go out and talk with everyone, and just find myself talking all night,” said Kevin, an attendee of the event. “I live in south Burlington. When I go out up there, I feel like I am invisible. Here, it’s completely different.”
As an attendee, I can tell you that there was definitely a human element at Bent Nails that was noticeable. As someone who spends a lot of time at the Vermont State House, it was refreshing.
One of the main topics at the evening event among speakers and attendees is our desire and right to remain 100% organic human beings, in a society that increasingly seems to be pushing us all towards transhumanism.
One speaker, Mellon Kennedy, referred to the group gathered as “the remnants” of humanity in a world that is increasingly becoming artificial.
At the end of the day, that is what Children’s Health Defense is all about. Defending our children’s right to health choice, freedom, and extending that freedom throughout all of our lives.
“We just want to be able to make the choice to ‘opt out,’ said Alison Despathy, an organizer of the event. “We just want to be able to ensure that our children will have the opportunity to remain human.”