by Gerald Braude
April 14, 2023 Episode of An Informed Life Radio Notes and links
Guests: Kim Witczak, Michael Koss, Joni McGary
Michael Koss: OpenLetterToDartmouth.com
Washington BOH Meeting Sheds Light on Their Tunnel Vision
At the April 12 Washington Board of Health (BOH) meeting, instead of the board providing guidance to the public regarding the latest accurate data and science on COVID-19 shots, it was the public that informed the board.
Two of the public commenters went so far as to give the board homework reading assignments.
As the first in-person commenter of the meeting, Informed Choice Washington (ICWA) volunteer Sue Coffman suggested to the board that they read Turtles All the Way Down.
Be Brave Washington leader Natalie Chavez suggested that the board read Cause Unknown.
In the introduction to his book, Cause Unknown, the author, Edward Dowd, a former portfolio manager for Blackrock, best summarizes the phenomenon:
By 2017, around 2.8 million Americans died. 2018 was about the same again. 2019, about the same again. Not surprisingly, 2020 saw a spike, smaller than you might imagine, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective.
But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18-64) was 40% higher than it was before the pandemic. Significantly, the majority of the deaths were not attributed to COVID.
A 40% increase in deaths is literally earth-shaking, and not only for the devastated families and communities that directly experience the deaths. Even a 10% increase in excess deaths would have been a 1-in-200-year event. But this was 40%. And therein lies a story – a story that starts with obvious questions: What has caused this historic spike in deaths among younger people?
What has caused the shift from old people, who are expected to die, to younger people, who are expected to keep living? It isn’t COVID, of course, because we know that COVID is not a significant cause of death in young people.
Public health officials, notably Public Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry of Clallam County, attempt to blame the rise in all-cause mortality on COVID-19 after-effects, not the shots.
An Expose’ article posted in November 19, 2022, contradicts Berry’s assertions.
The article ends by making the following points and conclusion:
The following two charts show the monthly age-standardised mortality rates by vaccination status for non-Covid-19 deaths in England using figures extracted from the ONS dataset –
A more detailed breakdown of the above figures by individual age groups can be found here. But the following chart for 70 to 79-year-olds gives you a good idea of what the data reveals –
In January 2022, the partly vaccinated were 198% more likely to die than the unvaccinated, whilst the double vaccinated were a shocking 267% more likely to die than the unvaccinated.
The worst figures however come in May, which saw triple vaccinated 70-79-year-olds a disturbing 332% more likely to die than unvaccinated 70-79-year-olds, with a mortality rate of 9417.2 per 100k among the triple vaccinated and just 2181 per 100k among the unvaccinated.
And it’s a similar story for every other age group, including children.
All of the above is, therefore, indisputable evidence that Covid-19 vaccination increases a person’s risk of death, and is therefore causing more deaths than would have otherwise occurred if the Covid-19 vaccine has not been rolled-out.
So it looks like we’ve found the answer as to why the USA suffered 350,000 excess deaths as of 25th September 2022.
At the BOH meeting, two public commenters attending via Zoom told the board that to regain public trust, the Washington Department of Health (DOH), needed to be more forthcoming about its data for all-cause mortality for 2021, 2022, and 2023. So far, the DOH has yet to release any of this data to the public.
“This is why there is a growing distrust in public health,” a Zoom caller from Spokane added. “Instead of doing your own studies, you rely on studies that have been captured by conflicts of interest by outsourcing to the NIH, FDA, and CDC. Have you ever considered doing your own critical thinking?”
ICWA volunteer Mike Johnson told the board that Switzerland has removed its recommendation for the COVID-19 shots, and doctors that administer them are now responsible for any adverse reactions experienced. The following article from The Defender supports this:
In order to avoid the trap of tunnel vision, the second in-person commenter suggested to the board that they look at what other geographical locations are doing, notably in Florida.
On February 15, 2023, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, M.D., Ph.D, issued a health alert warning that the COVID-19 shots caused a “substantial increase” in reports of adverse events in Florida. To support his health alert warning, Dr. Ladapo cited the substantial increase in Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports in Florida after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, including for life-threatening conditions. The following graph of VAERS reports shows the huge increase for 2021, which was the first full year of the COVID-19 shot rollout.
Ladapo reported that in Florida, there was a 1,700% increase in VAERS reports after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to an increase of 400% in overall vaccine administration for the same time period.
The in-person commenter at the board meeting then referred to his own research in which the following graph for Washington shows a huge increase as well of VAERS reports in 2021, the first full year of the COVID-19 shot rollout.
Washington has had a 1,470% increase in VAERS reports after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to an increase of 280% in overall vaccine administration for the same time period.
He also told the board that much more alarming in Washington has been the huge increase in deaths in 2021 reported to VAERS in relation to previous years:
The above chart shows VAERS received a total of 44 Washington reports of deaths following vaccinations for the years 2005 through 2020 whereas, for just 2021, VAERS received 192 reports. The total reports for the first full two years of the COVID-19 rollout add up to 217. VAERS currently specifically lists 217 deaths of Washington residents following the COVID-19 shots.
The commenter also informed the BOH that since their last meeting on March 8, four more Washington deaths following the COVID-19 shots have been reported to VAERS, raising the total deaths in the state to 217. He also said that as of March 31, VAERS shows 35,048 reports of deaths in the United States and its territories.
When it came time for the DOH to speak, Michael Ellsworth used the following graph to show the decrease in COVID-19 cases in Washington:
Nevertheless, despite all the public comments made earlier about the hazards of the COVID-19 shots, Ellsworth recommended the COVID-19 bivalent boosters.
With the lifting of Governor Jay Inslee’s emergency mandate on the end of the day on May 11, 2023, Ellsworth then presented the following slide for a transitional roadmap:
Board member Stephen Kutz presented his concerns to Ellsworth about the availability of the COVID-19 PCR tests and shots, notably for those unable to pay for them. Ellsworth told Kutz that he would have to get back to him on the specifics for all that, but he did know for sure that the COVID-19 shots and tests were still covered under the PREP act until they get commercialized. Kutz then made the following observation:
“We are under capacity for the COVID-19 shots and PCR tests. In emergency rooms, the capacity is okay, but the urgent care clinics don’t have enough PCR tests. That’s why COVID-19 cases are underreported. For example, one patient was sick for two weeks but did not get tested for COVID-19 because the clinic had no PCR tests.”
For some reason, Kutz does not know that when Dr. Kary Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique, he made the point that the technique was not intended for diagnostic purposes.
Furthermore, in her book The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human, Naomi Wolf writes the following on page 168:
Kevin McKernan, who runs a PCR test lab in Beverly, Massachusetts, was starting to warn as well, from his own knowledge base, that there was something wrong with the PCR tests . . . He showed me that the PCR tests in use for COVID could pick up evidence of weeks-old cold or flu in the nasal passages and misidentify it as “COVID-19.” He explained that many colds are “coronaviruses,” so I realized that a news outlet saying that 70,000 people had died of “coronavirus,” without further identification, could imply more than just deaths from COVID-19. He showed me the missing data line that should have been present, if human COVID-19 was really being measured by the PCR tests now in use. He explained that if you run the PCR tests at high cycle thresholds, you often get false positives. Mr. McKernan’s colleague Bobby Malhotra, a data designer, dialing in from Vienna, confirmed what Mr. McKernan was saying.
At this meeting and the previous BOH meeting in March, when questioning the DOH about the availability of testing in Washington, Kutz never asked them about the cycle threshold being for the PCR tests.
The transitional roadmap was carried out further during the next presentation when, in line with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “build back better,” Victor Rodriguez of the Health Disparities Council said,
“Mutual aid during the pandemic shows how community power works. The pandemic shows that we need to work together in future response to a changing climate.”
Mutual aid? Community power?
How could we have had been doing mutual aid when loved ones were forced to die in isolation, kids were not allowed to attend classes, over six hundred businesses were forced to close, Department of Natural Resources lands were closed to the public, and we were forced to social distance and wear masks? Young children developed learning and social disorders from fear and mask-wearing, suicide rates rose, depression and anxiety rose, overall health suffered, families and friends were torn apart due to irreconcilable differences driven by false messaging by public health and the media . . .
But all the board did was nod in agreement, seeming oblivious to the mass casualties of the state’s response to COVID.
The Health Disparities Council seems intent on blaming injustice and inequities for the poor health of communities. How can we help them understand that health comes from the soil, our food, our medical choices? How can we help them shift away from superficial differences and focus instead on the true building blocks of health for all human beings of all races, creeds, colors, and status?
Imagine what would happen if all the time, effort, and money spent on talking about building trust and equity and inclusion were instead spent on building healthy rich soils, ensuring everyone had access to non-poisoned whole foods, clean un-flouridated water, and access to natural and functional medicine.
Imagine real health for all. And take steps to make it happen.