The Highwire with Del Bigtree - JESSICA SUTTA: A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS
Episode Date: July 31, 2023Singer, dancer, and former Pussycat Doll, Jessica Sutta, tells her harrowing story of injury after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, from struggling to get treatment to being shunned from Hollywood for ...simply speaking out about vaccine safety. Hear how the shot shattered her life, and how she is turning tragedy into life-saving advocacy through her work with React19.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.
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As many of you know, we have a legal team.
We do this show, and now we are a press company.
I Can Press is putting out its second book.
I think this one is sure to make waves.
I'm unvaccinated, and that's OK, a children's book.
The writer, Dr. Shannon Croner, had the opportunity to read this to a classroom of kids recently,
and we were able to send in some cameras to take part in that.
Take a look at this.
Hello, my name is Nicholas Novak.
You may be surprised to know that I have never been vaccinated and that's okay.
Today we are at Blue Planet, which is a STEM-inspired Open Play Child Development Center,
and I am giving the first open reading of my new book, I'm unvaccinated and that's okay.
When my sister was a baby, my parents followed the recommended childhood vaccine schedule.
Unfortunately, after a round of shots, she had a very bad reaction.
This is one of the many reasons why my parents won't vaccinate me and have stopped vaccinating my sister.
Does anyone know someone who has autism?
Yes.
Now look around and see all the hands.
There's a lot of people.
I've never seen a book that addressed this, especially a book that caters to children.
I think there's definitely a need for books out there that address.
this. Does anyone know someone who's been vaccine injured? It was very touching because my family
has experienced a vaccine injury. So it is a book that is needed. It helps break the ice to
people that might be scared or angry or confused as to why parents have chose not to vaccinate
their child. Both of my sisters were injured. It should be your decision of if you want to
get vaccinated, it shouldn't be like you're a bad person if you don't get it.
My own school won't allow me back unless I'm vaccinated. So my parents decided to homeschool me.
I was going to a school and I had a lot of friends there when they knew that we weren't vaccinated.
They didn't want to hang out with me. It got like very angry and rude. It happened to a lot of people.
So I'm glad it was in the book. Some of my friends are taller than me. Some of my friends are taller than me. Some of my
friends are smaller than me. Even though everyone is unique in their own special way, we are each
expected to get the same number of shots and the same exact dosage. Would you believe I'm expected
to get almost 100 doses of 17 vaccines by my 18th birthday? That's a lot. What stuck out to me
was the vaccine chart and how it only had a little and then as the years went on, it had more, a lot more.
plan to give it to friends and family.
The fact that she includes links and resources is huge
because it's from the CDC's own website.
Somebody really close to my mom.
She passed away recently from taking a vaccination.
Pretty sad to think about.
It's like an experiment.
It's like, who wants that to happen to them?
Does anyone think that vaccines should be a choice?
Yes!
So many of these children today that are unvaccinated
are being ostracized from society.
They're being unincluded from family gatherings, from Christmas dinners.
And so I have written this book to help open the line of communication between parent and child
and why it's important to protect the freedom of choice.
Whether someone chooses to get all the recommended vaccines, some vaccines, or none at all,
the choice should always remain their own.
I'm unvaccinated and that's okay.
It's my honor and pleasure to be joined now by Dr. Shannon Kroner.
Thanks so much for having me on.
It's great to have you in here.
I noticed you were getting emotional watching that.
Yeah.
That was just, you guys did a beautiful job filming that.
And that was a really important day.
First time reading this book.
I've really worked so hard on it.
I've spent the last year working out every single detail, every word, every illustrated picture.
It all came from my heart, came from, you know,
all the different experiences of people that I know that have shared their stories with me.
So watching that was just definitely touching.
But I definitely, I don't want to cry on your show.
Yeah, it's not what we brought to here.
Yes, please.
Please don't make me cry.
Because I think this book is absolutely genius.
I loved it when you first sent it to us.
We're so honored that you've involved us and allowed us to, you know, help put this out there and get it out to the world.
And there's really nothing like it.
So what made you think of writing a children's book?
And, you know, this journey of Nicholas Novax.
I mean, it's so brilliant.
It's brilliantly put together.
But why a children's book?
You know, there really is no literature out there for children.
And I feel that children need the tools to, we're in a whole new world now,
especially after the pandemic, where there are so many children who are being ostracized
and pushed aside or left.
out or feeling unwanted, whether it's from their teachers and their classroom at school,
doctors' offices are kicking out unvaccinated kids. And I feel like children really need
the tools and the information so that they can also fight this fight. And for their own personal
bodily autonomy, they need to know the facts. And I think it's also really important to
have open up that line of communication between parent and child and give them, you know,
the information so that the parent can answer whatever questions a child may have regarding
his own his or her own vaccine status and why the parent is making those choices regarding not
vaccinating. And I think that this book is also really important for vaccinated children as well
because it helps them show more compassion to the unvaccinated. And so that's, you know,
I wrote this book for the children, but also for parents.
And also to share, it takes the vaccine issue and simplifies it so much and so well that it can be shared with family members, doctors, teachers,
anyone who's really kind of pushed that whole vaccine agenda that you must be vaccinated and that it's not okay.
Here's a book to say that, you know what, it is okay that I'm not vaccinated.
Yeah.
You know, when I was reading it and going through it, it makes me think about sort of Disney movies and, you know, all these animated movies where you realize there really, some of these things are very adult shows.
Like kids can laugh at it, but it's also a learning experience, and it's what makes those movies so successful.
What I loved what you did here is that, yes, it reads beautifully as a children's book.
My nine-year-old daughter will love it.
But also for parents, you have the whole.
education, you're citing things just the way that we do to CDC documents and peer-reviewed studies
and science. So it does both. And what I really think is important here is that one of the
things that I run into all the time as I'm traveling and speaking around the country is, you know,
parents will say to me, you know, I didn't vaccinate my kids, but now they're off to college
or whatever, especially during COVID. They're angry at me now that I did this. And they've decided,
to go and get all their vaccines, and I'm so worried about them and things like that, because,
you know, once they get out in the world, and I've said, we've got to be educating our children
on why we're making the choices we are, so they realize we care about them, so they have
knowledge about this, instead of just hiding it from them, but how do you do that?
And that's what I think is so beautiful about, about this book.
Yeah, and I agree, and I will say that my kids help me in the whole process along the way.
They were the most critical of each page and each illustration, and I would write a page and have it illustrated and give it to them and say, do you understand it?
Does, is there anything you think I could say better?
And so, you know, really, it's written by me, but they give their final stamp of approval on each page, so.
What brings you to this issue?
I mean, why?
I mean, just going back into you a little bit.
I mean, obviously you care about this issue.
Why?
What sort of got you involved?
So, I mean, I've been working with children with special needs since 2001.
I started off as a floor time therapist, which is kind of like a play therapist for children with autism or other disabilities.
And I had seen vaccine injury over and over again.
Every time I would do an intake with a family, it was always the same story of, you know, my child was born healthy, normal pregnancy.
And then after a round of shots, something changed in them.
usually around maybe the two-year mark.
And they would show me videos, pictures of like first birthday, second birthday,
and then the third birthday is like a different child where they're not communicating
and they're not making eye contact.
So, you know, the vaccine issue has always been important to me.
But then in 2009, when I was pregnant with my own first child,
I suffered a vaccine injury because it was during swine flu.
And I was pressured to get the swine flu shot and the flu shot.
And I, you know, knew enough about vaccine dangers to say no to the swine flu shot.
But then my doctor convinced me to get the flu shot because they had told me it was preservative-free.
And I thought preservative-free meant safe.
And so I got the preservative-free flu shot.
And within a few days, I started to profusely leak amniotic fluid and almost lost the baby.
And that's what really woke me up to the issue.
And then on top of that, I'm from California.
And as you know, we've had SB 277, which took away our religious exemptions.
And then SB 276, which took away our medical exemptions.
And so, you know, I've been fighting for vaccine freedom, vaccine choice for so long.
And so I felt that now is a time to really kind of focus on the children and give them something to get them involved.
because they are our future and they need to know,
they need to know about this issue.
Yeah.
The book just came out three days ago.
We're really excited about it.
It's already climbing the charts.
It's, I think, number one in the vaccine space.
Is that right?
It's number one in several different categories.
So in vaccines, it's number one on Amazon.
And then also I think the categories like special needs
because there's a child in the book
who has been vaccine injured.
And there's another category.
There's like three or four different categories
that it's number one.
And in all children's books,
I think it's somewhere in the teens.
I'm hearing like number 16 in all children's books.
That's amazing.
Are you getting any pushback?
I mean, you know, what's amazing about this book
is, you know, we see children's books
that try to talk about racism
or, as you said, you know,
individuals that maybe have learning disabilities
trying to accept them.
But we've just come
through a time where we watched our own news, you know,
and late night comedians talk about unvaccinated children
as being dirty, and that they're bad people,
something I never thought we'd see in America,
and I think it's so important for a book like this,
but is that energy, is any of that affecting the book release right now?
I'll tell you, so far, I'm getting a very positive response.
Like the message, personal messages that I'm getting
are just lots of gratitude.
People sharing their own vaccine injury stories with me,
telling me that the book made them cry,
telling me that the book is their own story.
Thank you for sharing our story, our family story.
The only real pushback that I'm getting,
which is a really kind of weird bizarre, is from Amazon.
When I first announced the book back on Mother's Day,
there were a series of fake books that came out
that were being sold on Amazon.
So someone or several people out there took screenshots of the cover
and then sold a fake book which only had blank pages on the inside.
So someone bought it and received it?
No, so this was back in May.
But I mean, how do you know it had fake pages?
Oh, because, yeah, so I had friends who bought it to find out what it was.
We have a picture here, so somebody bought it and opened it up and this is what it was.
And that's all it was.
And that was during the pre-sale of it.
So nobody could even get the real book.
And so they were marketing it as if it was the real book.
Wow.
Seems like that, I mean, there has to be illegal on some level.
I believe so.
It was, you know, when that happened, I started to, I had to fill out all this paperwork on Amazon, and then I started tweeting Jeff Bezos about like, look, you know, how can you allow this fake plagiarism or, you know, copyright infringement is what it was.
Yeah.
And so then, now that the book has actually come out and started to be delivered, someone contacted me with their, what they got in the mail, which was somebody had tampered with the book upon packaging.
So whoever packaged it at Amazon decided to put a sticker inside the book that says vaccines do not cause autism.
So can we get that on the camera right there?
Take a look at that stuck inside your, I mean, I've never heard of something like this.
I'm sure whoever is packing the book at Amazon has deep scientific knowledge on that statement.
Yeah, so, you know.
So you don't know how many are going out like that.
don't know. I don't know what's going out right now from Amazon. I just hope that everybody gets
the correct version and, you know, all the pages are intact. We could peel off a sticker, but...
So do you see this as a series? Is this going to be something? What are your thoughts now?
Yeah, so I've been asked to do a series, so I'm really excited about that. And there's several
characters in the book who I've already started writing their stories. And so I've been asked,
I'm really looking forward to doing a series, and I love that I can, is doing the imprint on this.
Thank you so much for that.
And, yeah, I'm, like, super excited about what the future holds with this book.
You've got some really notable names that have endorsed this book on the back.
You got this guy, Dr. Paul Thomas, this other guy I've heard of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
And then this man, Del Bigtree, who I here is big.
on these conversations. Look, I think this is going to be an absolute hit. For all of you out there,
this is how we make a difference, right? What a great gift for everyone you know. It's available
everywhere where you buy books, but if you don't want to get that little sticker in it that
tells you about, you know, vaccine knowledge written by the Packer, then maybe you want to go
straight to the ICANN store. We have it available for you there along with our other books,
the war on Ivermectin, of course, ICANN versus HHS, the great vaccine debate.
We're also going to ask all of you that video we made at the end of this.
That video will be available.
I want you to share that video as a way to sort of advertise this book across all social media platforms.
This is how we make a difference.
Obviously, you know, we're not going to be able to have ads on CNN, and they keep getting their way.
They may be wanting to have classes with, you know, transvestites reading in classrooms.
So we should be allowed to share the information that matters to us with kids.
I would really like your help doing that.
This is a very, very important book.
I like to see this in every classroom
and certainly every household in America and around the world.
You're going to help us make that happen.
This is how we do it.
This is how we make a difference.
Dr. Shannon, Cunner, thank you for taking the time
to join us and write this really beautiful book.
Thank you so much.
All right.
We look forward to see.
Climb up the charts.
