(Natural News)—This has gone beyond “vaccine skepticism” folks. The world is coming to the realization that vaccines, and we’re talking ALL of them, are much more of a risk than a benefit, if there’s any benefit at all. In fact, a growing number of pregnant women and young mothers in the U.S. are reconsidering routine childhood vaccinations, according to two nationwide surveys published in JAMA Network Open. The findings show that 60% of respondents are considering delaying or refusing vaccines for their children, a sharp shift from pre-COVID-19 trends when fewer than 25% of parents questioned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccination schedule.
- 60% of pregnant women and young mothers are hesitant or plan to delay routine childhood vaccines, according to two nationwide surveys published in JAMA Network Open—a sharp increase from pre-COVID vaccine skepticism levels.
- Mothers with previous birth experience showed the highest levels of vaccine skepticism, while 48% of first-time pregnant women said they were still undecided about childhood vaccinations, signaling a shift toward more individualized decision-making.
- Experts suggest growing hesitancy stems from increased access to information and past experiences with COVID-19 vaccines, leading parents to critically assess the risks, timing, and number of vaccines recommended for children.
- Healthcare providers and researchers are urging more early engagement on vaccination discussions, but many experts emphasize that trust is built through respectful dialogue—not pressure—highlighting a shift toward informed, collaborative decision-making between parents and providers.
‘An Encouraging Sign’: 60% of Pregnant Women and Young Mothers May Delay or Refuse Routine Vaccines for Kids
The surveys included responses from 174 pregnant women and 1,765 parents of young children, collected in April 2024. Vaccine hesitancy was most prominent among pregnant women who had already given birth and parents of young children. Notably, 25% of parents said they would refuse at least some vaccines for their children, while 33% expressed intent to skip all or part of the childhood immunization schedule. Nearly half of first-time pregnant women reported being undecided.
Experts believe this trend is a reflection of increased scrutiny and awareness surrounding vaccines, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Brian Hooker of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) attributes the shift to both the public’s experience with COVID-19 vaccines and advocacy from figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has called for comprehensive reviews of childhood health threats—including vaccines.
Dr. Christina Parks, a biologist, emphasized that many mothers are not inherently anti-vaccine but are instead motivated by a desire to understand medical choices more deeply. She notes that for many, the overwhelming number and timing of infant vaccinations can be surprising, prompting parents to conduct their own research—especially if they observe concerning reactions in their child.
Obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Kimberly Biss echoed this sentiment, saying most of her reproductive-age patients have not received any vaccinations since early 2022. Internal medicine physician Dr. Clayton Baker Jr. sees the trend as a form of critical thinking rather than rejection of medical science. “Parents are waking up,” he said, adding that more are choosing to judge what’s best for their children based on research and personal beliefs, rather than blindly following official recommendations.
Recent studies support this trend. A Vaccines journal article from May 2024 noted a 15.8 percentage point increase in pediatric COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy between 2021 and 2022. Another study showed a decline in vaccine adherence among toddlers in 2021. A Gallup survey also revealed a drop in public support for mandatory childhood vaccinations—from 94% in 2001 to just 69% in 2024.
While the CDC and Emory University researchers suggest more proactive education efforts during pregnancy, critics warn that pushing vaccines too aggressively could have the opposite effect—prompting more parents to question official guidance. Parks stresses that trust is built through open dialogue, not pressure. Many parents now seek partnerships with healthcare providers, not directives.
In short, today’s parents are becoming more engaged and informed about childhood vaccinations. This shift signals not just hesitancy, but a demand for transparency, autonomy, and trust in the healthcare system.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
