ICWA Weekly News 10-16-24
Vote for Health Freedom; Fuming About Fluoride at the BOH; A Serious Guano Video
In this issue:
Vote for Health Freedom - resources for the general election
Water Fluoridation Marks Only Area of Contention at Washington Board of Health Meeting
🐓 Guano 💩 Report 🥚 – A Serious Video
October 11 Episode of Informed Life Radio - Notes and Links
Who Will Stand for Health Freedom in Washington State?
Ballots are mailed out his week.
Please visit the Vote for Health Freedom page for Washington State to read about candidates who declare they agree with the following statement:
IF ELECTED, I AGREE TO DEFEND AND PROTECT, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE, STAND FOR HEALTH FREEDOM’S CORE VALUES OF INFORMED CONSENT, PRIVACY, PARENTAL RIGHTS, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Water Fluoridation Marks Only Area of Contention at Washington State Board of Health Meeting
Personal Account by Gerald Braude
After twenty minutes of introductions and approvals for the October 8 Washington Board of Health meeting in Yakima (Meeting Materials), I started off the public comments period by taking a seat at the presenter’s table.
Public Comments start at 0:17:33 on TVW.org’s video recording.
Directly facing me to my right at the end of the U-shaped table was board member Dr. Tao Kwan-Gett, chief medical officer for the Department of Health (DOH). I stared right at him as I told him that in his department’s battles to stop misinformation, such as asking the legislature for $35 million, he was really missing the point. The real problem was not misinformation but the missing information.
I mentioned one of our recent Weekly News reports on a DOH article titled “A Chorus of COVID—Voices from the Frontlines.”
Kwan-Gett perked up his ears, as if amazed and pleased that someone outside of the DOH actually read this report. After I mentioned the cutesy graphs and artwork that illustrated examples of racial injustices, I told him that conspicuously missing from his report was the violation of human rights for any Washington resident who refused to take a COVID-19 shot - in which there is absolutely no evidence that this prevents transmission to your neighbor. Kwan-Gett immediately hung his head, seemingly in shame.
I went on to tell him about as soon as the COVID-19 shot rollout began in Montana, the legislature passed and the governor signed into law Bill 702 that, in the name of human rights, made it illegal to mandate the shots.
I also mentioned that Texas later passed a law that if you mandate the COVID-19 shots, you’ll get fined $50,000. I then stared at him even harder and said, “Here in our state, did we do any of this? No, in fact it was just the opposite.” I then read to him the following:
Natalie Chavez, who often gives public comments to you people, said it best to the Whatcom County Council when they were debating funding a Racial Equity Commission: She said, “I have black and brown friends in this community who were discriminated against and fired from their jobs over the last year because of the unethical COVID-19 shot mandates by Bellingham Mayor Seth Fleetwood and the Bellingham City Council. My friend’s spouse, who is black, got fired from the Bellingham Police Department and a number of his co-workers were fired too, and a number of them took an early retirement, resigned, or moved out of town.”
Here’s another public comment during that same debate: “I have never seen so much hypocrisy in my life. Equity should be the last thing coming out of your mouths, people of every color and race were fired from their jobs for not taking the COVID-19 jab.”
I concluded my comments by mentioning the Washington Medical Commission:
And what about the rights of those physicians and nurses who spoke out against the COVID-19 shots. Any of those who did so ran the risk of having the Washington Medical Commission strip them of their license. That’s why Dr. Renata Moon gave up her Washington license and is practicing now only in Florida. That why a nurse I knew in Jefferson County moved to Tennessee. Her name was Jodi Wilke.
When Kwan-Gett sat at the presenter’s table for his 3:00 PM Department of Health update, I was curious whether any of the other board members would ask him about this missing information in this DOH report. But all they did was courteously nod to his every statement as he told them about the (lack of) highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) activity in Washington, such as no human cases of H5N1 being reported in Washington and no detections of H5N1 in poultry in Washington since December 2023.
After he briefly discussed Mpox Clade I, Kwan-Gett again moved the goalposts for the DOH by saying that the new COVID-19 and flu shots would decrease risk of hospitalization and death.
At this point, fellow board member Stephen Kutz mentioned that an elderly friend of his with COVID-19 asked his doctor about taking Paxlovid for treatment but that the doctor discouraged him from doing so because of high-risk indicators that he was aware of. Kwan-Gett told him that the only side effect was the metallic taste, that the benefits far outweighed the side effects, and that his friend should look for another healthcare provider.
Kwan-Gett should do his homework, like reading Paxlovid’s FDA-required product insert. And listen to Mary Talley Bowden, MD on the dangers of Paxlovid.
The only other person to sit at the presenter’s table for public comment was Dr. Bill Osmunson, who has been attending the board meetings for fourteen years to get them to move forward on removing fluoridated water here in our state. Osmunson began by telling the board how much money he made by providing fluoride treatment for his dental patients: $30 per patient at twice a year for fluoride treatment and that he has had over 4,000 patients in his clinics. He also said that the cost of fluoride to the dentist was negligible so that the profit margins for dentists were enormous.
Osmunson then referred to last month’s court decision in which a federal judge in California ruled that water fluoridation at current U.S. levels posed an “unreasonable risk” of reduced IQ in children.
The Defender reported, “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can no longer ignore that risk, and must take regulatory action, Judge Edward Chen of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California wrote in the long-awaited landmark decision.”
Dr. Osmunson then asked the board to at least take a stand against fluoridating the public water systems here in Washington.
He held up two plastic water bottles of two liters each and told the board the following:
Two liters of 0.7 milligrams per liter of fluoride is about the same as 1 liter of fluoride at 1.5 milligrams per liter. The Nautical Toxicology Program (NTP) was reasonably confident in their first part of the "State of the Science" that one liter of 1.5 milligrams per liter of fluoride was a developmental neurotoxicant. That is the same dosage as two liters of 0.7 milligrams per liter. The Court found that one liter of 0.7 milligrams per liter of fluoridated water, consumed by a pregnant mom, lowered IQ about 3 points in her offspring and 2 liters lowered IQ by about 6 to 7 points and 5 percent of them drink more than 2 liters with even greater damage.
The only other public comment on fluoride came over Zoom from a Longview resident Anne Bennett, and she strangely offered complete support for water fluoridation:
…Thank you for your continued support of Water Florida Nation in Washington. Your commitment is consistent with a focus on keeping our communities healthy…In my community, in Longview, the cost to add an effective and safe amount of fluoride and I emphasize a safe and effective amount of fluoride to the water is only 38 cents per person per year. Sadly, the Water Florida Nation program in Longview is being challenged, frankly by misleading information. This misleading information is being circulated largely by people who don't live in Longview. Our local dentist, physicians and community health agencies overwhelmingly support water fluoridation… Last week, the respected owner of our pediatric dental clinic, serving privately insured and Medicaid patients, shared that access to pediatric dental care is currently stretched then. If water fluoridation is halted, he strongly predicts that dental caries [cavities] will increase and access will be further limited. Furthermore, he worries that recruiting more dentists would be even harder as candidates would be alarmed that a community would actually end such a valuable cost effective program.
As soon as this public comment ended, Tao Kwan-Gett turned on his microphone and said the DOH would start studying this fluoride issue and would hope to issue a report, perhaps even at the next meeting.
Immediately after nearly two hours of discussion on the DOH’s request for providing water recreation variances, Osmunson walked up to Kwan-Gett during a short break, kneeled on one knee and began questioning him. In the meantime, I approached the Board of Health staff table and asked them, as I had done nearly a year before, for a county-by-county breakdown of the fluoride levels in the public water systems. They then gave me the contact information for Andy Schut, who is the Laboratory Liaison in the Office of Drinking Water for the Washington Department of Health. After I contacted him, he initially told me that I would have to submit a public records request for such information. Two days later, I learned that Schut was kind enough to do the public records request on my behalf. The DOH wrote to me the following on October 10:
The Department of Health received your public records request on October 08, 2024 for the following records:
“I am looking for a county-by-county breakdown of the specific levels of fluoride used in each Washington county or jurisdiction. So, I'd appreciate any and all information you can give me on this.”
The Department of Health is in the process of identifying, gathering, and reviewing the records responsive to your request. We anticipate providing records responsive to this request on or before 04/08/2025. Our estimated time is based on the number of requests in the queue prior to your request and the availability of staff to search for and produce records.
So, they said it could take as long as nearly seven months for me to get water fluoridation levels for each county from the DOH. Surprise, surprise: they delivered the raw data just before this Weekly News publication. Stay tuned for some analysis.
After finishing our individual discussions with the BOH representatives, Bill Osmunson and I headed into the hallway, where we could talk quietly about water fluoridation. At first, I asked him how his discussion went with Kwan-Gett. Bill said, “He knows nothing. He does not know whom to ask, and he does not know of any timeframe. He said he’ll send me an e-mail when he has any information.”
As for the public comment rebuttal that the fluoride levels in Longview’s drinking water are safe, Osmunson said that the EPA regulates fluoride as a "Contaminant, the National Toxicology Program reviewed fluoride's developmental neurotoxicity as a toxic substance, and the source of fluoride is generally the scrubbings of the phosphate fertilizer companies. This is all detailed in 2006 NTP review:
Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards | The National Academies Press
As for the comment from Longview that the fluoride in their drinking water is effective against tooth decay, Osmunson pointed to the following graph:
Furthermore, Osmunson told me that fluoride makes the tooth more brittle so that it can fracture more easily, which means more dental work leading to more dental profits that can add up to as high as $20,000 per patient.
I asked him about an article in the previous day’s issue of The Defender, which included the following:
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Dental Association (ADA) and other pro-fluoridation groups rushed to confirm their staunch support for community water fluoridation after a California federal judge last month ruled that fluoridation at current U.S. levels poses an “unreasonable risk” of reduced IQ in children.
Osmunson told me that because of all the profits stemming from the effects of fluoride, the ADA fears that if they don’t lobby for fluoride, they’ll lose tons of money from its membership as well as endorsements they get from manufacturers, such as Crest.
After I returned to the meeting, I learned that the only point of contention for the entire board meeting would be those two public comments concerning water fluoridation. A long series of compliments began after right after the break when Andre Fresco gave his Yakima Public Health report. He got off to a fine start with the board when he discussed his appreciation for the DOH’s Care-a-van for getting the COVID-19 shots to underserved communities, notably here in Yakima.
The following paragraph from a June 16, 2021, DOH news release best sums up the program:
“The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is launching a new mobile COVID-19 vaccination effort across Washington state. We will work closely with community partners and local health jurisdictions to increase access to vaccine for priority communities. To submit a request to have a DOH Care-a-Van at your event, please fill out the form below and someone will reach out to you within 5 business days from the date of submission.”
Not to be outdone, Board Chair Patty Hayes praised Fresco for the work that he had done for the DOH’s Foundational Public Health Services, and how honored she was to have worked with him on its steering committee.
The following sampling of further praises reflects the tone of the rest of the meeting:
Andre Fresco: “Partnerships with the Board of Health and Department of Health provide services like no other place to provide healthcare.”
“You did an astonishing job of analyzing this.”
“I’d like to express my extreme appreciation to the work done by the Department of Health.”
“I feel it is a big honor to be in this large project.”
“The TAC members are very dedicated.”
“I would like express my gratitude to Patty and to all of my team.”
“I would like to express how excited I am that I am part of doing all this work. So, thank you, thank you, thank you.”
Patty Hayes: “You can see how busy we all are around here.”
Michelle Davis: “This fall has been incredibly busy for our team.”
Kate Dean: “I would like to put in a big plug for the great job that Patty and Michelle did at the local board of health training.”
Stephen Kutz for the last statement at the meeting: “It’s amazing how you put your team together to get all this done.”
🐓 Guano 💩 Report 🥚
We’re suspending humor for this report to bring you a video from Dr. Peter McCullough (posted in June, but still highly relevant).
A Video Post Titled Bird Flu: Separating Fact from Fiction and True Danger from Fear-mongering
Description:
The current variant of Bird Flu appears to be a product of human agency, including mass vaccination of poultry with leaky vaccines and possible genetic manipulation in US and Chinese government funded laboratories. Thus, as was the case with the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, official narratives about origins, spread, testing, and risk mitigation should be subjected to rigorous examination. Independent investigation, ongoing research, and analysis are critical to understanding the reality of this pathogen and the purported threat it poses to animal and human health. To help us continue our investigation of this and other important matters pertaining to public health and constitutional protections, please consider making a donation to the McCullough Foundation: mcculloughfnd.org
October 11 Episode of Informed Life Radio – Notes and links
Health Hour: Lifelong Learning for Liberty
Guest: Brad Miller of the Military Chapter of Children’s Health Defense and IPAK-EDU discusses the upcoming Firelight Talk, why being a lifelong learner is essential to liberty, and his recent experience helping those impacted by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.
June 25, 2024 Brad is a panelist on: Refuse the Mandated Shots: Traitor or Patriot?
Oct. 12 Brad is a speaker on: Firelight Talk – Sparking a Learning Revolution (IPAK-EDU)
CHD’s Vaccine & Hospital Injury Story Project: The People’s Study
First wave of COVID-19 increased risk of heart attack, stroke up to three years later | NHLBI, NIH
Fraud, not error, is why two thirds of biomedical papers are withdrawn | The BMJ
Liberty Hour: VaxCalc = Informed Consent Tools
Guest: Chris Downey, founder and Director of VaxCalc Labs — “the informed consent technology company” — discusses how the tools available at VaxCalc help parents and individuals make scientifically and ethically sound fully-informed vaccination decisions.
Yes, Thank you for this report, and for the voting guide information and for speaking up for us. Looking forward to your county by county info on fluoride.
Thanks for the post and for boldly reminding the board of its inexcusable support for the discriminatory policies that scourged our state the last four years! I listened to the BOH meeting, but I missed much of the information you share here because you attended in person. Much is lost or missed over Zoom. I appreciate getting this inside perspective.