DEAR EDITOR:

I wish The Vindicator editorial staff chose to write an opinion piece about the naked 4- or 5-year-old boy found standing on the lawn of a home on the West Side in August but they didn’t. From a Vindicator article on the story:

“A child 4 to 5 years old was found standing in the front yard of a home on North Brockway Avenue on the West Side about 9 a.m. Tuesday wearing no clothing, a Youngstown police report states.

When an officer arrived, he found the boy and observed that he appeared to be nonverbal, the report states. Officers could not locate the child’s home, so they contacted Mahoning County Children Services.”

The police couldn’t locate the family for an extended period but evidently did. That story dropped right out of the news.

The Vindicator reliably runs syndicated columns bashing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. Then this week after Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo eliminated vaccine mandates for every adult and child alike in their state, The Vindicator writes an editorial about the importance of vaccines and some measles hysteria.

Today, children are expected to get 94 doses of 17 vaccines by the time they are 18 years old. In 1986, vaccine manufacturers were granted blanket liability protection for vaccines on the CDC childhood recommended vaccine schedule. Manufacturers were being sued and threatened to leave the market. So the government took away their liability. That extends to doctors and anyone who administers vaccines. They’re not responsible if someone is injured or killed.

The nonverbal 4- or 5-year-old who couldn’t tell authorities his name or where he lives and vaccines are related. As the

liability-free vaccine schedule grew and grew so did once rare autism. Some children lose the ability to speak like my son did. He’ll be THIRTY years old next year. There are a lot of adults like him. They will require 24/7 care and supervision for the rest of their lives.

Secretary Kennedy is planning this month on revealing what has driven the cataclysmic rise in once rare autism to occur today in 1 in every 31 children. And I’m here for it. I read Big Pharma is spending several million dollars on negative press on Kennedy in a last ditch effort to stop him.

Kennedy’s mission is to use gold-standard science and transparency and restore trust back into the CDC.

I fully support his objectives. Let the chips fall where they may. The autism epidemic is unsustainable. We must reverse the trend.

ANDREA KELLER

Canfi