Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people.
The book, called “Cause Unknown,” was co-published by an anti-vaccine group led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, who is now running for president. Kennedy wrote the foreword and promoted the book, tweeting that it details data showing “ COVID shots are a crime against humanity.”
The Faheys couldn’t understand how Braden’s face appeared on the book’s cover, or why his name appeared inside it.
Braden never received the vaccine. His death in August 2022 was due to a malformed blood vessel in his brain. No one ever contacted them to ask about their son’s death, or for permission to use the photo. No one asked to confirm the date of his death — which the book misdated by a year. When the Faheys and residents of their town in California tried to contact the publisher and author to get Braden and his picture taken out of the book, no one responded.
“We reached out in every way possible,” Gina Fahey told The Associated Press in an emotional interview. “We waited months and months to hear back, and nothing.”
My quality of life would be a lot better if I had not had the misfortune of being born to a mother who did not fully vaccinate me and my siblings because she fell for this nonsense. Anyone spreading antivax propaganda should be criminally charged because this bullshit is seriously damaging.
As I told my kids doctor, “I want them to have all the vaccines. I want them to be able to walk in a 3rd world sewage and like Moses parting the waves all the pathogens will flee in terror , creating a pathway. Can you do this for me?”
My personal philosophy is to treat vaccines like Pokemon: gotta catch 'em all (so that you don’t catch the disease instead). Any time someone offers me a vaccine, I take it.
If you get them all you are legally allowed to walk around Central Park with a sign that reads “touch me and be cleansed”
I want to work in emergency medicine when I’m done with medical school and emergency room patients will just cough straight into your face no matter what they have. Even without COVID, I’ll probably keep wearing an N95.