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This is my comment:
I am writing with concern to encourage you to reject the proposal to apply current infectious disease WAC codes to include COVID-19 for all WA State residents, and to reject making COVID-19 a requirement for school admissions.
COVID-19 is a coronavirus respiratory disease. Unlike many other diseases for which vaccinations are effective, corona viruses are similar to the flu in that they mutate quickly. The vaccine for one variant may have limited or no effect on other variants. There’s absolutely no point in mandating a vaccine for a disease that literally mutates out from under the protection of the vaccine faster than new vaccines can be introduced.
COVID-19 is no longer a pandemic. Pandemic is a word used to characterize the spread of a disease across national boundaries to previously uninfected populations and suggests that the spread can be mitigated and controlled through strict quarantine efforts. COVID-19 quit being a pandemic months ago, as it is now present in almost every part of the world. It exists at a baseline level among all populations without being infused through external means. COVID-19 is now endemic. Preventive treatments need to give way to palliative mitigation efforts.
The vaccines are experimental. They have been released using an Emergency Use Authorization. They have not, and cannot have been, adequately tested to normal FDA standards for safety and efficacy. The long-term effects of these treatments are unknown, but preliminary data is alarming.
The vaccines are not safe. These vaccines have been associated with thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myocarditis and pericarditis and more than 10,000 reports of death in otherwise healthy people, many of them young, according to the CDC(1). In a study by Columbia University, VAERS data used by the CDC may be undercounting adverse COVID-19 vaccination effects by a factor of 20. Columbia’s data showed that there were over 146,000 to 187,000 vaccine-related deaths in the U.S. alone between February to August 2021 (2).
The vaccines are demonstrably ineffective. They do not protect the vaccinated against infection. There are many reported cases of vaccinated individuals contracting COVID and even dying from COVID – to the point that one is hard pressed to show the vaccine has any effect at all, except for the reported adverse effects. The CDC itself admits that the vaccines don’t prevent the vaccinated from transmitting the disease.
The vaccines don’t lessen the severity of infection. Without the vaccines, symptoms range from, “Oh, was I sick?” (The majority) to death. There’s no way to predict the reaction of an individual to the disease, and no way to measure the reaction of an individual with and without vaccination. Group studies suffer from sampling bias, because a majority of unvaccinated infections without symptoms go unreported, and because the COVID-19 infections have become more virulent and less deadly as time goes on – as happens with all respiratory viruses. The measurement errors in these studies haven’t even been identified, much less quantified.
The deaths associated with COVID-19 have followed Farr’s Law(3) no matter where the analysis has been applied. States with vaccine, mask and social gathering mandates have shown no deviation from Farr’s Law compared to states with no such mandates. The vaccine and preventive measure mandates are ineffective with regards to COVID-19 outcomes and are deleterious to the physical and mental health of citizens in many other ways that have yet to be studied or quantified.
The vaccine should not be considered a primary treatment for COVID-19. COVID-19 has adequate and effective active and prophylactic treatments which negate the need for vaccines. The National Library of Medicine(4) reports that vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost nine of ten COVID-19 deaths. It has been known for decades that anyone living north of the 35th Parallel suffers from some level of vitamin D deficiency. This is most severe in winter months where there’s little sunlight, and among dark-skinned ethnic groups, who produce less vitamin D in response to light stimulus. Instead of enacting a dangerous and untested vaccine requirement for schoolchildren, it would be cheaper, safer, and more effective to ensure that each child was administered 10,000 units of Vitamin D orally at the beginning of each school day.
For the clinically ill COVID patient, safe and effective treatments are available. Many doctors have reported excellent outcomes with critical patients who have been administered Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin. The government and CDC propaganda discouraging these treatments borders on criminal, and is indicative that the pharmaceutical industry is spending huge amounts of money to push the vaccine narrative:
1) Hydroxychloroquine is a well-known and well-understood anti-malarial drug. It’s not dangerous when administered or prescribed under a doctor’s care. In countries where malaria is endemic, it’s been sold as an over-the-counter preventive medication for decades. Preliminary studies show it has been effective in reducing or eliminating COVID-19 symptoms, yet doctors risk losing their medical license for prescribing a safe and potentially effective drug.
2) Ivermectin won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015, hailed as a wonder drug, with many applications. It, too, is safe when administered or prescribed under a doctor’s care and has been shown to be effective when treating COVID-19 patients. To withhold this drug from a critically ill COVID-19 victim is medical malpractice forced on our doctors by a government that cares more about the profits of deep-pocket pharmaceuticals than about the health of Americans.
3) There is no medical precedent for prohibiting doctors from prescribing Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin. Off-label drug prescriptions are a common medical practice and may account for as much as 21% of overall use for 160 commonly prescribed drugs in the United States, and more than 99% of prescriptions for some drugs like quinine sulfate (99.5% of total prescriptions), followed by gabapentin (99.2%), and clonazepam (96.2%) (Radley DC, et al. Off-label prescribing among office-based physicians. Arch Intern Med 2006;166:1021-1026.). The prosecution – nay, persecution – of doctors for prescribing Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to COVID-19 patients borders on the criminal.
Authorizing the use of law enforcement to involuntarily enforce vaccination and quarantine mandates is totalitarian, prejudicial, and un-American. It specifically targets and makes second-class citizens of typically conservative and liberty-minded citizens who have a well-earned distrust of government and who are known to vote in opposition to the government in Olympia. This authorization will effectively criminalize the very American act of disagreeing with the government. This demographic has been pushed hard in recent years, and some may consider this to be a hill they’re willing to die on. Passing such an authorization may lead to violence and unnecessary criminal prosecutions for a made-up crime. It will certainly lead to an exodus of citizens from Washington State to states where tyranny is not the rule of the day.
The fact that such an action is even being considered is very disturbing. This is not the Washington I grew up in and love. These measures – and all the unnecessary measures taken by the Washington State government to date – have had and will have no effect on the progression of the disease among the population, will not save lives, and will continue to unnecessarily disrupt our society for years to come. The sad fact that all citizens need to come to terms with is that the government cannot and never could protect them, that it’s the individual’s responsibility to take whatever measures that person deems prudent to protect themselves.
Notes:
(1) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
(3) https://www.trillianthealth.com/insights/blog/farrs-law-its-happening
