ICWA Weekly News
Whatcom County activists fighting for a better community, video documentation of discrimination against school employees, 'Long Vax' vaccine injuries, and Radio Show Links.
By Gerald Braude
July 7 Episode of An Informed Life Radio - show links
Guest hour 1: Dr. Janci Lindsay, Ph.D. and Carolyn Blakeman
We The People 50 – Recall the Shots
COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal Memory Project (chbmp.org, working with FormerFedsGroup)
Stand For Health Freedom (standforhealthfreedom.com)
Guest hour 2: CHD-WA state chapter leaders
WA Chapter of Children’s Health Defense (wa.childrenshealthdefense.org) – Launched on July 7th
Fighting Locally for Medical Freedom in Whatcom County
In his book Technocracy: The Hard Road To World Order, Patrick Wood makes the following recommendation for fighting global tyranny:
The Federal government is not in any position to clean up your community and neither is your state government. Thus, it is up to local citizens to take charge in their own communities if there is to be any effective resistance.
And in Whatcom County, that’s what Be Brave Washington has been doing. After the start of the COVID-19 restrictions and mandates three years ago, the group began meeting in a member’s living room. The group soon expanded to meeting at the VFW Hall in Lynden, changing to weekly meetings at the New Life Fellowship. Be Brave Washington is now back to meeting at the VFW Hall in Lynden for the first and third Wednesdays of the month. The third Wednesday is a potluck.
Last week’s meeting was all about following Patrick Wood’s advice of local citizens taking charge in their own communities. Be Brave member Hannah Ordos is running for the Whatcom County Council and Be Brave leader Misty Flowers is running for Whatcom County Executive Administrator. The theme reverberating throughout their speeches was that community voices were not being heard in Whatcom County.
“We have a lack of communication from the county and city council members,” said Misty Flowers. “People tell me all the time that they ask them questions but never get responses.”
Hannah Ordos said of the county council meetings, “The council members are missing community. They are not hearing the people’s voices.”
Flowers told the audience that Whatcom County lacks responsibility and accountability. She’ll make sure that the county corrects what was wrong with the election on Proposition 5 from which the increase in property taxes will be hard not only for homeowners, but also for renters who will feel the increase as landlords are forced to pass the cost through. Flowers also pointed to the county health department’s doubling of revenue while not being able to show any evidence of a healthier community. She also mentioned that the county was taking away our constitutional rights, such as the transit system not providing needed service when she had once tried boarding a county bus but was turned away because she refused to wear a mask.
Everyone agreed when she laid out the tough road ahead for them. Flowers mentioned the fear she’s encountered, such as when business owners took down her campaign signs for fear of a backlash from customers. Nevertheless, Flowers said, “We don’t have enough candidates with courage running for the county and city councils, and that’s why I’m running for office.”
Hannah Ordos is running for the one open seat on the seven-member Whatcom County Council. She told the audience that when she first started attending the Be Brave Washington meetings, she didn’t know any of the other members. “But I listened to everyone and our robust discussions, and I learned enough to want to run for the county council.” Ordos then stated why she decided to run for county council instead of her original intention running for the school board.
“I decided I wanted to look at the faces of the people in our community and authentically say that I care and that we can make a difference at the county, not at the state or federal level. That is why the nonpartisan part is important.”
Ordos also pointed out that the Whatcom County Council is not responding to e-mails.
“They tend to speak not to the people but the people running the people. They need to have the courage to stand up and say ‘We need to talk about this.’ If that means taking arrows, that’s part of the job.”
Be Brave Washington leader Natalie Chavez, who is also an ICWA volunteer, then encouraged everyone to attend the county council, city council, and local school board meetings and to give public comments. She gave a rundown of the upcoming public meetings as well as the following web sites for learning more about medical freedom and COVID-19 shot injuries.
Links to Be Brave resources:
The Be Brave Washington meeting schedule of the first and third Wednesdays of the month will continue through the end of August. The group will re-evaluate the schedule after that. Misty Flowers concluded the night by thanking everyone for having such an energetic meeting. “It’s your attendance that encourages us to keep going,” she said.
Video Illustrates Washington’s Totalitarian Form of Government
Dam Pham was born in Saigon, Vietnam. In September 1979, he was nineteen-and-a-half years old when he became one of the estimated million who left the country after the communist forces took over South Vietnam in 1975. He then spent eight months at a refugee camp in Thailand.
In 1980, with help from a pastor at the Victory Baptist Church in Bellingham, Dam’s mother was able to relocate the family to Washington, where they had the opportunity to regain the freedom they had lost in their old country. “We had a saying that even a light pole, if it knew how to walk, would want to escape from Vietnam, too,” Dam said in a film produced by Be Brave Washington called The Discarded: Discriminating Dismissal.
The Discarded | Discriminating Dismissal (rumble.com)
“The most difficult part was to leave my homeland behind,” Dam said. “When I arrived in the United States, what I felt the most was the air of freedom. It’s something you can’t touch, but you definitely can feel.” All along, he felt the United States was the leader of the free world until 2020.
“Our freedom has been eroding so quickly and in such a short amount of time. It’s painful to watch. It’s been rough to see that roughly half the Americans don’t see what I’m seeing.”
After graduating from Western Washington University and working in the aviation industry, Dam moved back to Bellingham to be closer to his family. In the nearby Ferndale School District, he worked as a school bus driver for more than thirteen years and loved his job. But in November 2021, he was fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 shot.
In August of that year, Dam and eleven other co-workers filled out religious or personal exemption forms. All were approved but one. Dam then received a letter informing him that he needed to test for COVID-19 twice a week. Dam and the others rejected the testing mandate because it was not just the unvaccinated who could catch and pass on the virus to others. “The last summer (of 2021) was proof of that,” Dam said. “We had several administrators at the school district attend a meeting together, and they were wearing masks and all had the COVID-19 shots. Just a few days later, they found out they were infected. So when they applied the testing requirement only to the unvaccinated, that is a form of discrimination, segregation, and persecution. We strongly objected to that.”
In October 2021, Dam and his colleague Kent met with two Ferndale School District transportation supervisors to inquire about the mandates. Dam carried a digital recorder with him into the meeting to record the conversation. The following key moments from the conversation show the totalitarian form of government here in Washington that Dam thought he had left behind in Vietnam.
Kent: Is everybody in the school district being tested on the same schedule of twice a week?
Supervisor: No.
Kent: They’re not because they’re vaccinated?
Supervisor: Correct, however if somebody comes in, and they have symptoms or something, then they will get tested.
Kent: So, basically, it’s the people who are unvaccinated who are getting tested twice a week?
Supervisor: Correct.
Kent: Okay. So, here in the transportation department, we’ve had three positive tests?
Supervisor: Yes.
Kent: Two people were vaccinated, and one person was unvaccinated?
Supervisor: Correct.
Kent: So then, here’s my question. If we’re being singled out, so to speak, as a group and put over here and made to do things different from everybody else who have the same chance at catching it and the same chance of spreading it, isn’t that like the exact definition of discrimination? Those questions and answers basically lead me to that this is segregation, discrimination, and persecution.
Supervisor 2 who had just entered the room: It is not.
Kent: And how so?
Supervisor: Basically, what it is, is, um. So, vaccinated people have that bit of immunity. I know that they’re still getting COVID. You can still get COVID, right?
Kent: And spread it.
Supervisor: And spread it, yes.
Kent: Right.
Supervisor 2: And so the fact is, okay, here’s the system we’re in. When you made your decision on, rightfully so, your personal decision about whether you were going to get vaccinated or not, at the very beginning, it was said that if you make those choices, then the employer is going to have to decide if they can make accommodations for you to keep working for them in a safe environment.
Supervisor: And I’ll be honest with you; your fight isn’t with the district.
Kent: Mm hm …
Supervisor: Right, okay? They are not the ones who made the mandates. They have to follow the mandates. We don’t want to get shut down. We’re lucky we didn’t get shut down when we had three people, right, get COVID. We’re very lucky.
Kent: Well, there are school districts that refuse the governor’s mandate.
Supervisor: Okay, let me tell you what’s happening in those school districts. You look at OSPI. It’s a fact that they are not getting funded. They (state government) are holding their funds back. They have been flagged. And if they do not comply, they’re not going to get funded, and they cannot run their school districts without funds. So there are consequences for not complying.
Dam: What you just told me was evidence of coercive tactics in order to force all school districts in the state to comply.
Supervisor: That’s right.
Supervisor 2: We’re following what we’re being told to do.
Kent: Okay, so are we getting fired?
Supervisor 2: Above my pay grade.
Kent: Okay, so …
Supervisor 2: You guys can’t work today.
Supervisor: We’ll go cover your guys’ routes.
Kent: Sounds good.
Supervisor: Thank you.
Dam: Thank you for your time.
Supervisor: Yep, you bet.
“At that moment,” Dam said, “it felt like a boiling in my blood with the admitting that money is the most important part of the issue. And we were told that they would not change their policy. So, that was my last day that I showed up for work. It wasn’t until November 30 that my boss told me that the board had voted for the recommendation of my termination.”
Members of Informed Choice Washington are wondering if Dam’s issue is worthy of a lawsuit.
Autoimmune Disorders in Washington after COVID-19 Shots
On Thursday July 6th, The Defender published an article about autoimmune disorders following the COVID-19 shots.
The following first three paragraphs of the story reveal the need for recognition of these disorders:
Mainstream publications and regulatory agencies have buckled to public pressure to admit the COVID-19 vaccine can cause injuries such as myocarditis and pericarditis — but until recently, they’ve published little or nothing about the substantial number of people suffering from autoimmune disease after vaccination.
However, on Tuesday, the journal Science published an article confirming that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to autoimmune disorders, such as small fiber neuropathy and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
“We’ve been screaming from the top of our lungs about these things happening,” Agnieszka Wilson, founder of #CanWeTalkAboutIt told The Defender. “And finally, slowly, it’s being acknowledged.”
In Washington, one only needs to look at the VAERS records to see how prevalent these conditions are following the COVID-19 shots.
In the United States and its territories, 331 cases of small fiber neuropathy have been reported to VAERS with seven of those cases occurring in Washington.
Those seven cases in Washington are as follows.
VAERS ID: 1344651
The onset of symptoms for this 54-year-old female began a day after taking the Moderna shot on April 10, 2021. Submitted write-up: Burning, temperature change, color change, fatigue. Predominately length-dependent but whole body involved at some point. Suspect small-fiber neuropathy. Steroid trial with probably no change.
VAERS ID: 1412452
The onset of symptoms for this 51-year-old female began the day after taking the first dose of Moderna on May 25, 2021. Her medical history included known allergies. The patient did not receive any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the COVID-19. The submitted write-up reads, “The patient’s concomitant medications received within 2 weeks of vaccination was fexofenadine.” The patient began suffering paresthesia within two days after the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. A neurologist has diagnosed her with an inflammatory immune response causing small fiber neuropathy and possible vasculitis.
VAERS ID: 1502428
The 23-year-old female’s onset began on the same day as receiving the second dose of Moderna on March 18, 2021. The submitted write-up says that the patient was “severely intellectually disabled at baseline” but could still walk. But then five to seven days later, her legs collapsed, and she could not walk. The end of the submitted write-up reads, “severe pain in legs/feet, tremors, myoclonus. Has feet swelling and is losing hair. Responding to time and GPN + Doxepin. My working diagnosis is auto-immune small-fiber PN. (Variant GBS)
VAERS ID: 2057792
The onset of symptoms of this 36-year-old female began one day after receiving a dose of Pfizer on April 13, 2021. Submitted write-up: Sore arm for two weeks. Muscle pain in back and shoulders. Advil, resolved 4 months post vaccine. Body aches and tiredness every few days for 7 months post vaccine. Neuropathy in hands and feet started at 6 weeks post vaccine, then moved to entire body (small fiber neuropathy). This is still persisting (taking nortriptyline).
VAERS ID: 2109034
The 58-year-old female’s onset of symptoms began forty days after the second dose of Pfizer on April 22, 2021. The submitted write-up of symptoms were as follows; Brief leg paralysis episodes; acute small fiber sensory neuropathy; lost ability to control legs for under a couple of minutes with fall to ground; neuropathy; The following information was reported to VAERS: NEUROPATHY PERIPHERAL (medically significant) with onset Jun2021, outcome "recovered", described as "neuropathy"; In Nov2021 diagnosed with acute small fiber sensory neuropathy. Symptoms have occurred in feet, legs, hands, arms including numbness, coldness, burning, tingling, pinching, brief shock sensations (all over body), displacement sensations in feet, as well as 3 very brief leg paralysis episodes (lost ability to control legs for under a couple of minutes with fall to ground). Symptoms started in Jun or Jul2021 with very minor burning in front of both thighs, symptoms seemed to peak in Sep2021 (with all of symptoms listed above). In Oct2021 symptoms seemed to diminish somewhat but still included burning in feet, pinching in side of right thigh, burning on front of both thighs. Started Gabapentin in Nov2021, symptoms seem to have diminished with Gabapentin but still have ongoing burning in feet and sometimes mild burning in legs and arms.
VAERS ID: 2201760
The dose for this Moderna shot on April 1, 2021 is listed as unknown for this 37-year-old male. The onset of symptoms began four months after the COVID-19 shot yet also only weeks after a tetanus vaccine. He developed sensory symptoms that fit with small fiber neuropathy.
VAERS ID: 2520467
Onset of symptoms for this 45-year-old female began after the third dose of Moderna on November 30, 2021. Submitted write-up: Acute onset Small Fiber Neuropathy, Disautonomia, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Gastroparesis (from SFN)
In the United States and its territories, 780 cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome have been reported to VAERS with nineteen of those cases occurring in Washington.
The youngest report to VAERS for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in Washington is of a 14-year-old male whose onset began the first day after a second dose of the Pfizer shot on May 14, 2021.
VAERS ID: 1446328
Submitted write-up to VAERS: symptomatic with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), chest pain, short of breath.
The youngest female report to VAERS for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in Washington is of a 21-year-old female whose onset began two days after taking the Moderna shot on March 6, 2021.
VAERS ID: 1997784
Submitted write-up: Dizziness, nausea, high heart rate, fainting. I have been diagnosed with Dysautonomia and POTS, I have been doing on going treatment since March and had multiple ER visits. IV hydration 2x a week. Now I have to take a Steriod (Fludrocortisone) everyday to keep my blood volume high. I never had any health conditions or problems before getting my vaccine, I had to quit my dream of being a nurse because I cant stay standing without fainting.