In this newsletter:
An Informed Life Radio Notes and Links
Whatcom County Council Fails To Muzzle Be Brave Washington
The Tale of Former BOH Member Dr. Bob Lutz
Washington Representative Requests More Information from the NIH
March to End Healthcare Mask Mandate, Saturday, December 17 at University Village in Seattle
December 9 Episode of An Informed Life Radio Notes and Links
Guest: Randy Lee
Guest: Ted Fogarty
AeroNautiX (aeronautixperformance.com)
Purple Powder (aka Fogarty’s Formula) https://www.thepurplepowder.com
The recipe for Fogarty’s Formula https://informedchoicewa.org/news/fogartys-formula/
Published papers by co-host Xavier Figueroa
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat lingering COVID-19 symptoms
Hyperbaric oxygen: B-level evidence in mild traumatic brain injury clinical trials
Clinical results in brain injury trials using HBO2 therapy: Another perspective
Whatcom County Council Fails To Muzzle Be Brave Washington
Ever since the start of the COVID-19 shot mandates, a key strategy for Be Brave Washington has been to flood county, city, and school board meetings with their public comments.
Their provided evidence and personal experiences were so overwhelming that the Bellingham City Council and the Bellingham School Board disallowed general public comments during their meetings. For the city council, public comments were allowed only for those items on the agenda.
On December 6, Whatcom County Council member Carol Frazey proposed reducing the allotted time from three minutes to two minutes for each public comment as well as allowing only thirty minutes for the public comments open session.
Council Member Tyler Byrd said, if asked, he would have brought Frazey’s proposal forward as well. Though Byrd did not mention Be Brave Washington, he complained that ever since the start of COVID-19, the same people were coming to their meetings and discussing the same topics.
Frazey then urged community members to e-mail their public comments. Council Member Ben Elenbaas replied that he hardly ever reads the public comment e-mails. “The people who come here to give public comment are passionate enough about what they’re doing that they’re not going to do it with a form e-mail,” Elenbaas said. “For this reason, I want to hear them. Three minutes is sometimes enough, but sometimes more is needed. So three minutes is a good compromise.”
Elenbaas and Byrd then agreed that there was too much down time between announcing the commenter’s name and the start of the accompanying comment. Elenbaas made a motion for reverting to using a sign-up list, as was done before COVID-19. From there, while one public comment is being given, the next speaker is lined up on deck. Those who do not sign up are allowed to speak afterward. The six members of the council present then voted unanimously to okay the proposal. In other words, the three-minute period for each public comment is still allowed.
The council members then all agreed that they needed to solve the problem of, as Tyler Byrd put it, clarifying to people “who we are,” for many residents had been attending the county council meetings with the intention of attending the Bellingham City Council meetings. None of the council members acknowledged that, because the Bellingham City Council does not allow public comment, this is the only way for Bellingham resident voices, including Be Brave Washington voices, to be heard.
More information about Be Brave Washington can be found on their website: Be Brave Washington
The Tale of Former BOH Member Dr. Bob Lutz
A public records request by Informed Choice Washington reveals a dozen complaints to the Washington Board of Health (BOH) in October 2020 about Spokane Regional Health District Administer Amelia Clark’s firing of Spokane Regional Health Officer Dr. Bob Lutz.
One such complaint begins as follows:
Dear Washington State Board of Health, Spokane Regional Health District Administrator Amelia Clark is unfit for her position. She has demonstrated a disregard for health district protocol and the well-being of her employees. Her illegal, unauthorized firing of Dr. Lutz is the pinnacle of her poor leadership in the health district during her employment since September 2019. Instead of working through professional disagreements or seeking joint counseling as suggested by Dr. Lutz in June 2020, she chose to instead punish the individual she disagreed with. She has shown a consistent demand for control and power that are incompatible with good leadership. Current and former employees describe Amelia Clark's leadership as "authoritarian," "power-hungry,” and "controlling."
The complaint then lists nine links to support Dr. Lutz, such as the one below about the Spokane Regional Health District union members releasing a vote of no confidence in Amelia Clark shortly after the Health Board voted to terminate him.
The following complaint from Spokane resident Diane Codd provides a compelling summary of the events concerning the firing:
I write to you today as a citizen of both Spokane county and city to request that you open a preliminary investigation into Amelia Clark, who serves as Spokane Regional Health District administrator, and its board of directors; specifically Al French. I believe that pursuant to RCW 70.05.120 they are in violation of the law for their handling of Dr. Bob Lutz's termination. For instance, email communications obtained via a FOIA request show that Clark was to implement a mediation plan or some sort of structure to present to the board. Rather, what she did was act unilaterally without board approval or notification. During the most recent SRHD board meeting, she actively lied about the fact that she fired Lutz rather than go through the process. Prior to this board meeting, Clark called a press conference and openly lied to the public about the status of Dr. Lutz's employment. As citizens of this city and county, we are entitled to this information as it has a direct impact on our community's health. Amelia Clark in one conference disgraced the reputation of SRDH among its audience and severed the trust between Spokane and the SRDH.
Although Dr. Lutz was not reinstated, after a BOH investigation, Amelia Clark agreed not to serve as the administrative officer of the Spokane Regional Health’s (SRHD) local board health in the future.
According to SRHD, Clark was expected to appear in front of the Office of Administrative Hearings this past September to determine whether or not she broke the law when she fired Dr. Bob Lutz. But after Clark accepted a position outside of the state of Washington in June 2022, the investigation was dropped.
“From our perspective, this was political infighting between individuals we did not agree with on either side,” says Informed Choice Washington President Bernadette Pajer. “A lot of power plays were happening.”
In October 2021, the Spokane Regional Health Board voted unanimously for Dr. Francisco Velázquez to serve as the new Spokane County Health Officer. He had served as Interim Health Officer for eleven months after Dr. Bob Lutz was terminated.
A month after the firing, the Washington Department of Health hired Dr. Lutz as a member of the department’s COVID-19 response team.
Dr. Bob Lutz hired as part of Washington Department of Health's COVID-19 team | krem.com
Dr. Lutz served on the BOH when, facing huge public outcry and near empty classrooms, the board voted unanimously on April 13, 2022 to not add COVID-19 shots to daycare and school entry requirements at that time.
Nevertheless, during the BOH meeting, Lutz said the shots were “safe and effective” in what they were designed to do in all populations. At one point, he said, “The vaccine was not designed to prevent infection, and we’ve certainly seen this in the era of Omicron that it broke through.” A moment later, he contradicted himself, saying, “The vaccines have proved to be the most effective means by which we can prevent infection.”
Lutz is no longer serving on the BOH.
Pajer explains that ICWA and Dr. Lutz have conflicting views on the role vaccines have played in reducing disease mortality, in the safety of vaccine products, and in the public health’s approach to communicable infection. As importantly, ICWA and Dr. Lutz disagree about the importance of public health to respect individual rights.
In April of 2019, the Spokane-Review published an opinion article by Dr. Lutz, which now seems oddly filled with terms foreshadowing the response to COVID-19. Lutz mentioned “social distancing” and even used the word “communitarian”, a favored concept of Christine Grady, Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the NIH, who also happens to be Dr. Anthony Fauci’s wife. Read the article HERE.
Washington Representative Requests More Information from the NIH
Washington Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, along with Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Morgan Griffith (R-VA) have sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Senior Official Lawrence Tabak, following up on their twelve previous letters sent between March 12, 2021 and October 31, 2022.
(READ) Republicans want NIH to address unanswered questions re: Covid-19 origin | Sharyl Attkisson
The letters requested a myriad of information, which is public in nature, regarding Covid-19 origins and a controversial nonprofit that the United States agencies funneled taxpayer money through. That nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, was one of the funding sources and partners with the Communist Chinese on controversial gain of function research that many blame for creating the Covid-19 virus that ultimately is theorized to have escaped from China's Wuhan lab.
Rodgers was recently re-elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican in Washington’s fifth congressional district by defeating Democrat Natasha Hill with 59.65% of the vote. She was first elected to the House in 2004.