JMK Walkow

I welcome the decision to resume IMF dealings with Venezuela. This important step, guided by the views of our members, allows the Fund to re‑engage in a way that can ultimately benefit the Venezuelan people. imf.org/en/news/articl…

Trump's pick to head the CDC, Erica Schwartz, would likely be a disaster. Schwartz led nationwide Covid-19 vaccine deployment and her long track record of directly issuing rights-crushing civilian and military vaccine mandates, including mandating injection of smallpox, anthrax, and flu vaccines into U.S. Forces, and discipling those that refused, reflects she lacks the basic ethics and morals to lead the CDC. This agency does not need another cheerleader for industry; it needs a regulator over industry. Her prior promotion, let alone mandates, of nearly a dozen different vaccines leave little hope she will objectively oversee CDC’s vaccine program which has, between 1986 and the 2026, gone from 3 injections to 29 injections, including in utero, by an infant’s first birthday, while chronic childhood disease has gone from under 10% to over 40% of children, most related to immune system dysregulation. SOURCES: For examples of Schwartz mandating vaccines, see: media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/25/20… media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/19/20… dcms.uscg.mil/Portals/10/CG-… For increase in vaccine schedule, see: cdc.gov/vaccines/sched…; cdc.gov/vaccines-pregn… (perma.cc/DAX5-MKSW); cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/i… (perma.cc/TM2U-2HBQ). The 29 injections in 2026 only include routine vaccines and the Covid-19 vaccine. Also see table on page 37 of Vacines, Amen. For rise in chronic health, see: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3944229/ (perma.cc/NGA9-93KW)(“According to data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) [1979-1981] over two million children under 17 years (3.8%) are afflicted by chronic conditions that cause some limitation of activ-ity.”); pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC16… (perma.cc/KN4A-94TV) (“Data from the National Health Interview Survey indicate that the prevalence of activity-lim-iting chronic conditions among children under age 17 years doubled between 1960 and 1981, from 1.8 to 3.8 per cent.”); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9551003/ (perma.cc/JTZ5-JBNK) (Among “children younger than 18 years who were included in the 1992-1994 National Health Interview Survey … [a] significant proportion of children, estimated at 6.5% of all US children, experienced some degree of disability.”); cdc.gov/chronic-dis-ea… (perma.cc/N4GT-38L2) (“Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both.”); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21570014/ (perma.cc/62JZ-SRY4) (The 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health found that: “An estimated 43% of US children (32 million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions assessed, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays are included.”); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40058728/ (perma.cc/3VHC-L7H2) (Only considering a “condition that is typically pediatric-onset and expected to be persistent or severe” or a “functional/ activity limitation related to a condition that is typically pediatric-onset and expected to be persistent or severe” from the National Health Interview Survey data it found that children falling into this category “has risen from 22.57% in 1999/2000 to 30.21% in 2017/2018”); https://www.cdc. gov/school-health-conditions/chronic-conditions/index.html (perma.cc/298V-C59B) (“In the United States, more than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition”); See Part IV of Vaccines, Amen for additional sources. For relationship of chronic health issues to immune system dysregulation, see among other sources: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30741719/(http…; pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28849096/ (perma.cc/HZ8E-ETE5); pub-med.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39426507/ (perma.cc/BTM6-HFF8); pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC53… (perma.cc/KZS3-5ERS); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39481220/ (perma.cc/H9QN-U2E7); pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10… (perma.cc/LV9U-GQKE); pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39681901/ (perma.cc/LN7W-ZAX8). See Part IV of Vaccines, Amen for additional sources. cnn.com/2026/04/16/hea…