ICWA Weekly News 12-5-23
How many still take the jabs in WA? Threat of 33% rural hospital closures; Looking for gift ideas? The Wuhan Cover-Up is now shipping; Radio Show Links; and our new Meme-of-the-Week
In this Issue:
Few in Washington are up-to-date on their jabs
33 Percent of rural hospitals in Washington at risk of closure
The Perfect Gift Idea: THE WUHAN COVER-UP, by RFK, Jr. starts shipping today
Radio Show Links: Zen Honeycutt on healthier foods and your ICWA hosts discuss legislative priorities set by lobby groups
New: Meme of the Week; send us your suggestions.
Few in Washington Are keeping up with COVID-19 Shot Recommendations
Last month, the noted national journalist Alex Berenson wrote about the decline in demand for COVID-19 jabs in Washington as well as Colorado and Massachusetts.
He wrote the following:
Here’s the reality. Weekly data from three large blue states - Colorado, Washington, and Massachusetts - shows that jab demand trails even the dismal launch of the “bivalent” mRNA vaccines last fall, which resulted in just 17 percent of Americans receiving jabs.
Colorado gave out 540,000 Covid jabs in September and October. That figure may sound like a lot, but it is under 10 percent of the state population - and it lags the figure over the same period in 2022 by about one-quarter.
Similarly, Washington state administered 840,000 jabs through early November, or 11 percent of its population - a decline of about 30 percent compared to 2022.
And Massachusetts, which is extraordinarily liberal and had near-complete adult vaccination in 2021, is at 12 percent - compared to about 27 percent for flu shots.
Further, the states all appear to have exhausted demand. Even though the jabs were rolled out slightly later in 2023 than 2022, administrations peaked at lower levels in October and are now declining faster.
Read the full Berenson article here.
The Washington Department of Health’s (DOH) slide at the November 8 Board of Health meeting showed a drop when it reported 7.4 percent.
As of December 5, the number of doses increased to 1.19 million and coverage was 13.5%. For those who were following the guidance since 2021, that means at least five doses – the two-dose original series, one of the original as a booster, the bivalent booster, and now the 2023-24 version. This count is difficult to find on either the CDC or WA DoH sites because…(you know).
Of all the places that the DOH could look to for assessing the downturn in COVID-19 shot administration, they turned to blaming the public for passing around dis- and misinformation, so much so that earlier in the year they pleaded to the state legislature for $35 million to combat this specific “problem” with a solution to Restore TRUST to Public Health.
After this budget request was discovered, ICWA Weekly News April 25 ran a story that began with:
In the Washington Department of Health (DOH) 2023-25 Biennial Budget Proposal submitted to the Office of Financial Management (OFM), the agency is asking for an “approximate” $35 million ($7 million per year) to implement and run a five-year campaign to focus on rebuilding Washington’s trust in public health and display the value that “public health provides the people we serve.
After a summary of the proposal, the DOH notably provided the following budget justification:
Over the past six years, misinformation/disinformation has spread rampant throughout the nation. Over the last two years in Washington, DOH saw firsthand the impact of these disinformation campaigns through audience research, ongoing polls, and community feedback. As a result, some people have become more likely to believe something false from a friend or family member than something true from the government, which in some cases, leads to decisions to not access lifesaving public health services.
The most telling and disturbing statement in the proposal section was the second paragraph’s opening sentence:
The effectiveness of any public health intervention depends on the ability to influence the specific audience’s behavior.
Luckily, this budget request was exposed and the attempt to hire three full-time staff to restore trust, an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’ by any other name, did not succeed. On May 16th, the legislature passed the 2023-25 budget (search term: Restore) without the requested $15M.
Yet, the request is chilling. With repeated attempts at establishing propaganda offices, such as through HB 1333 Domestic Violent Extremism Commission, and sole-source contracts by the Secretary of State, your Washington State government seems determined to suppress speech at will. The current federal administration seems willing to let that happen.
Besides attacking those they profess to be serving, the DOH also has taken a shot at the psychology of individuals.
Dr. Gretchen LaSalle, a family physician at the Multicare Rockwood Clinic and a member of the Washington Department of Health’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, points to ‘vaccine fatigue’ (wait, that’s a thing?) as the problem. Her 51-slide presentation is a genuine attempt to deflect blame away from the CDC and Department of Health itself, notable on slide 5.
The following slide shows Dr. LaSalle’s idea of overcoming vaccine fatigue for the COVID-19 shots:
Now, if only the DOH would be willing to look beyond the brick walls of its Tumwater offices, they would easily notice that the real reason why Washington residents are refraining from taking more of these shots is that word-of-mouth has spread that these shots are, plain and simple, deadly.
Last month, Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of some of the mRNA technology now used, published an article covering a Rasmussen report where nearly a quarter of United States citizens say they know someone personally who died from the side effects of the COVID-19 jab.
Furthermore, even more say they might be willing to become plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against vaccine makers.
“Strong stuff!” said Dr. Malone.
Driving this point home here in Washington, the August 8, 2023 edition of ICWA Weekly News detailed Jay Bonner’s personal account of fifteen people he knew personally in the Seattle area who died suddenly after taking the COVID-19 shot.
33 Percent of Rural Hospitals in Washington at Risk of Closure
A Becker’s Hospital CFO Report shows that of the 631 hospitals in the United States at risk of closure, thirteen of them are in Washington state. The thirteen hospitals they found make up 33 percent of the rural hospitals in the state. Washington ranks fifteenth in the country for the highest percentage of risk. This report makes no mention of which hospitals are at risk.
More details on the threat of rural hospital closure come from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform and that one of the forty rural Washington hospitals has closed since 2005. Further, twenty-six hospitals have experienced a loss in service, and two are considered “Hospitals at immediate risk” of closure, or 5 percent of the hospitals in the state.
According to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, the one Washington hospital that closed since 2005 was Deer Park Hospital in Spokane. Its closure in 2007 was one of 191 rural hospital closures or conversions since 2005. According to the Spokesman Review, the Deer Park Hospital in Spokane was a fifty-year-old community hospital that held twenty-four beds and had nearly sixty employees. The hospital closed because of declining admissions, falling revenues, and a shortage of specialists willing to staff the hospital.
An Epoch Times documentary called “Flatline: America’s Hospital Crisis” detailed the reasons behind the past and possible future closings.
Film Director and investigative journalist Steve Gruber says the reasons for the potential closures are many and complex, but they all come back to two areas: Government insurance and healthcare providers.
Gruber goes over the following three factors:
Price of insurance
Government requiring treatment for people who cannot pay
While reducing their reimbursement rates year-after-year, the government has been raising the amount of paperwork that needs to be done in which larger hospitals now have entire departments just to figure out how to do reimbursements.
Paul Seegert of PCS Advisers said:
And when they get strung out for that, and this carries on for ten, twelve months, and so on to get reimbursed at all for dollars that won’t even cover the cost of care, some of them can’t wait that long. Then it comes time to negotiate with the commercial payers that then negotiate so ruthlessly with the rural hospitals that these hospitals end up accepting 95 percent of their reimbursements from Medicare. But it was either that or not having any coverage at their facility at all. And with so little money coming in from noncommercial payers, all the good providers, such as the surgeons left those hospitals.
Elizabeth Pruitt, an administrator of a closed hospital in Ohio added:
There are not that many people since COVID who are interested in working in the healthcare system. It’s considered to be a highly risky occupation, like other first responders.
Seegert says the problem is that people keep wanting more and more free healthcare.
There are states that will go to this universal model—California, New York, Massachusetts—and I can rattle on more, but when they get down to the math, such as California, as an example, it would be greater in cost than their entire budget to do universal healthcare. And when they do the math, they’re not doing it right. They say it would save money because look how much Medicare is as opposed to commercial insurance. But they leave out the whole fact that commercial insurance props up the entire system. If you want to have the same quality of care or anything close to that, then you have to do the math quite differently.
Brock Slabach, CFO of the National Rural Health Association, best sums up what lies ahead:
It is a crisis. I am talking with hospital administrators weekly and daily around the country, and I have not seen the level of concern that I do now. We do need to have some systematic changes that will help with the situation, and we need some innovation that is going to spin us out of the orbit that we are in right now. More and more people are getting less interested in doing the same things that we have been doing for the last ten or twenty years because it’s not getting better. So we need to look for some innovation and try to get us through these difficult times that hospitals are experiencing right now.
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December 1, 2023 Episode of Informed Life Radio – Notes and Links
Health Hour 1: Empowered Moms, Healthy Kids with Zen Honeycutt
Fast Food Restaurant Test Results - Pretty scary stuff
Liberty Hour 2: 2024 Legislative Agendas in Washington with your ICWA hosts
Legislative Overview from Large Lobby Groups in WA State by the Washington Standard
Read WAGOP's ethics complaint against Sec. of State Hobbs (wsrp.org) - Is this what the Bill HB 1333 Domestic Violent Extremism Commission trying to set up?
WA Department of Health Transformational Plan
WA American Academy of Pediatrics Legislative Prioritie$
Watch out for free school lunches (we thought there was no such thing…) and for mRNA vaccines to be included in school entry requirements after they change the definition of a vaccine.LEGISLATORS, START YOUR ENGINES, LET THE 2024 SESSION BEGIN
54 total bills and resolutions have been ‘prefiled’
Expect more analysis of these bills in an upcoming Weekly News issue.
Meme of the Week
We scoured Malone and Avacado-Wolf posts and decided to share this chestnut.
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Thank you so much for highlighting Gretchen Lasalle's coercive techniques which are directly opposed to informed consent. I also want to thank you so much for highlighting her place of work at MultiCare Rockwood Quail Run Clinic in Spokane, WA because I feel this is incredibly important based on her specialized training as a medical propagandist and how this has and can continue to effect patient's in Spokane, WA where she works with the public.
I will repost my response that I just left on a post by Silent Majority Foundation where they highlighted her coercive medical propaganda involvement just so other can see two examples of patient experiences where Gretchen Lasalle attempted to use gaslighting, coercion to encourage patient's to receive mRNA treatments, the COVID vaccine and the mRNA flu treatment when they were actually just significantly concerned about the efficacy, necessity and safety of these medical treatments.
'MultiCare Rockwood Quail Run Clinic in Spokane, WA should also be included when ICWA and Silent Majority Foundation highlights Gretchen LaSalle’s choice to be paid to train herself and other doctor’s in coercive techniques. Multicare Rockwood Quail Run Clinic is where Gretchen Lasalle takes local patients and this clinic specifically reschedules patient’s from their Primary Care Providers (without notifying them) with Gretchen Lasalle when they have stated they do not want mRNA medical treatments, COVID vaccines or flu vaccines. I had two people report this to me already.
One instance where someone’s mother (over 70 yrs old) stated that she ‘did not want the COVID vaccine’ when the senior citizen forgot to say that she actually did not want any mRNA treatments. The care provider then knowingly misled the elderly patient into receiving an mRNA based flu shot when the care provider knew that the elderly patient ‘did not want a COVID shot’ by ignoring that the patient did not want the COVID shot because it was an mRNA medical treatment. The elderly patient then received an mRNA based flu shot against her informed consent. Gretchen Lasalle was involved in this.
Gretchen Lasalle also was assigned to a patient at MultiCare Quail Run Clinic who was an RN. Apparently she stated that she was not yet ready to receive the COVID vaccine because of her concern due to there not being longterm studies at that time (beginning of COVID) with large enough sample sizes to show that it was safe for women attempting to become pregnant, during pregnancy, effect on fetus etc (this was right when COVID came out). Gretchen Lasalle definitively told the RN that ‘pregnant women were not safe unless they took the COVID shot and that the shot was safe for the fetus’. The RN said, ‘well I heard about one study that involved pregnant women but the length of the study was very short and the sample size was incredibly small making the study very unreliable, so what was the length of study, the sample sizes, was there a control in this study, what was the method of the study and also were there any conflicts of interest in the study and whom funded the study?’ Gretchen Lasalle was apparently speechless when asked these questions the RN had as a patient. She attempted to deflect by stating that the RN could look it up on the CDC website and the RN responded, ‘No, if you’re reassigned to me as a doctor when I made an appointment with my PCP and not you and you are going to tell me that a new vaccine based on experimental new medical technology is safe I completely expect you to know the fine details of the study you are using as an example of its safety. At the very least I expect you to be able to locate the study online, print it out for me and for us to review the reliability of the study together’. Gretchen Lasalle apparently did not say another word, she thanked the patient for their time and the appointment ended.
Again, MultiCare Rockwood Quail Run Clinic in Spokane, WA clearly has a policy of placing patients into an appointment with Gretchen Lasalle, instead of their Primary Care Provider when patient’s ‘display resistance to vaccines’ what they consider ‘vaccine hesitancy’, without requesting the patient’s permission and without notifying the patient.
Both this RN and the edlerly woman who was tricked into getting an mRNA flu shot against her wishes to receive any mRNA medical treatment, both had appointments that were scheduled with their Primary Care Providers, were scheduled instead Gretchen Lasalle, without notifying or requesting permission from the patient.
In my opinion that aspect alone should be investigated and an article on that subject alone with the highlight not just on Gretchen Lasalle but also on MultiCare Quail Run Clinic being complicit in medical coercion instead of informed consent should be written about and highlighted in a major way because I doubt its just MultCare doing this, its likely also Providence and their family of hospitals and since the ‘misinformation and disinformation’ propaganda coalition in general which includes medical is based in University of Washington, these medical systems also likely have specific doctors whom are trained and receive money to be scheduled with patient’s whom are worried about vaccine safety against their knowledge and without permission in order to isolate these people with a doctor whom these medical systems believe is better suited to propagandize them away from worrying about safety.'
Thank you again for highlighting the locations where Gretchen Lasalle and any other identified medical propagandist trained doctors are working as the public deserves to know where these doctors are receiving training, their tactics and the medical systems that are choosing to not only employ them but placing patient's with these doctors, when patient's were originally scheduled with their primary care provider, to place patient's into a setting where they can be coerced without the medical system, MultiCare in this instance, against their knowledge and wishes.
Each person that reported to me that Gretchen Lasalle showed up as the doctor to their scheduled appointment with their primary care doctor told me, 'if I had known I would be placed with her I would have refused and rescheduled'. This is exactly whey medical systems are doing it without notifying patients. It would be incredible to know if they have any established policies on the books to do this.
Great post, @ICWA! You share some levity even in our trying times. I love the new meme feature, too.