SATURDAY 4/1/23 - LEGISLATIVE UPDATE AND NEED YOUR TESTIMONY/STATEMENT
WEDNESDAY 1/25/23 - CONTACT HAYWOOD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THURSDAY 10/14/21 - EMAIL CAMPAIGN TO LEGISLATORS and GET SUMMIT TICKETS
- FRIDAY 5/28/21 - CALLS TO ACTION
- MONDAY 5/10/21 - H572 UPDATE
- SUNDAY 5/9/21 - ACTION UPDATE
- SATURDAY 5/8/21 - ACTION UPDATE
- THURSDAY 5/6/21 - CALL TO ACTION - MISSION CRITICAL
- MONDAY 5/3/21 - ROY COOPER'S VACCINE PASSPORTS
- FRIDAY 4/30/21 CALL TO ACTION
- THURSDAY 4/29/21 EMERGENCY UPDATE
- LEGISLATIVE ACTION DAY (LAD) DETAILS - MAY 4, 2021
- RSVP for LAD
- TALKING POINTS FOR CALL TO ACTION
JANUARY 2024 - DEPT OF LABOR MASK RULE
About the Rule:
The NC Department of Labor actually has two petitions for rules before them. One rule covers general industry, including construction employers. The other rule covers migrant housing facilities. We are concerned about both rules. However, we will focus on the first rule that covers every employer, employee and place of employment within the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health division of NC. (Click here to see the petitions, beginning on page 7: https://files.nc.gov/oah/documents/2024-01/Volume-38-Issue-13-January-2-2024.pdf.)
The rule would require every employer to have a written plan, with considerations being made for their specific industry, that goes into effect when a public health emergency is declared by the WHO, CDC, or the NC governor. This plan includes steps employers must take regarding employees masking, distancing, and testing, if the business requires. PPE will be purchased and supplied to the employees by the employer. Medical exemption for masking was not mentioned in the proposed rule.
If an employee tests positive, the business is required to also have a procedure for alerting other employees who may have been in contact with that employee. The rule also demands employers have a return-to-work criteria established for employees who test positive or who worked alongside an employee who did, and allow telework when applicable.
The plan also states that if an employer notices an employee exhibiting symptoms of the declared infectious disease, the employer must remove the employee from the workplace until they either test negative or meet the other return-to-work criteria already established. Employers will have to report to the Occupational Safety and Health division of North Carolina (OSHA) any work-confirmed cases of the infectious disease if their business falls under the mandatory reporting. Fatalities and hospitalizations will also have to be reported to OSHA.
Employers must also outline how they are mitigating the spread of any airborne infectious disease through sanitization measures, which can include things such as air filtration and physical barriers.
In addition to these onerous regulations, employers will be required to train all employees on how to wear, remove, clean, and store PPE properly while limiting what can be considered a “face covering.” Training will also have to include how the disease spreads, being sure to address the ways it could spread in their specific workplace.
Vaccination for this infectious disease scenario is already assumed, as the rule requires the employer to offer paid leave for an employee who wishes to receive the vaccine. The employer must not only allow time for this, but also for the side effects the employee may experience from the shot.
CALL TO ACTION:
We have organized our strategy into four phases which are based on the rulemaking process set forward by the Rule Review Commission:
Phase 1: Attend public hearings about the proposed rule – The Department of Labor will be hosting two public hearings on January 23:
10:00 am -- public comment about the migrant housing petition (https://call.lifesizecloud.com/20075131 or call +1 (312) 584-2401, 20075131#)
1:00 pm -- public comment about the petition that effects virtually all employers/employees (https://call.lifesizecloud.com/20086796 or call +1 (312) 584-2401, 20086796#)
There are fifteen spots available at both hearings for people to share public comment in person. People can also share public comment on the video conferences (links above). They will fit as many 2-minute comments as possible in the allotted two hours for each hearing. Email jill.cramer@labor.nc.gov and sophie.plott@labor.nc.gov to register to speak either in person or virtually.
Please let us know if you will be testifying so we have a sense of how many health freedom testimonies they will receive. See our guide for help with formulating your testimony.
Phase 2: Now until March 4 - maximize the number of written statements – We encourage our followers to write personal letters to the Department of Labor (emailed to jill.cramer@labor.nc.gov) opposing the ruling. See our guide for help with formulating your letter.
Phase 3: Get the Rule Diverted to the Legislature – Unless the rule is dropped, we will be following the process of formally objecting to the rule and having it sent to the legislature for review. The rule will be diverted if we submit at least 10 formal “objection letters.” We will let you know how to submit a formal objection once the window opens for objections.
Phase 4: Influencing the Legislature – Once the rule is sent to the legislature, we will have a limited time to persuade our legislators to reject the rule or at least remove the power of the WHO, CDC, and governor.
What you can do:
- Follow our emails, texts and newsletters closely for more information as our strategy unfolds.
- Participate in the formal rulemaking process:
- Attend one or both public hearings on Tuesday, January 23 (10:00 am and/or 1:00 pm, links above).
- Submit your comments formally to the Department of Labor by March 4. Email your written comment to jill.cramer@labor.nc.gov.
- In March or April we will let you know how to engage in our legislative outreach campaign.
- SPREAD the word:
- Share this article with everyone you know who is concerned about masking and social distancing mandates.
- Talk with business owners you know. Ask them to join our coalition of business owners by emailing us at info@healnc.net.
- Ask your friends to write to the Department of Labor. They can use our guide for help with writing their comment.
SEPTEMBER 2023 - TWO ONE-CLICK CAMPAIGNS
Adding Protection from Mask Mandates to H98 Medical Freedom Act – ACT NOW
With talk of mask mandates and the threat of vaccine mandates in the near future, there is hope of seeing improvements in HB98, The Medical Freedom Act. For example, the bill originally covered both masks and vaccines. However, our strong health freedom legislators had to negotiate out masks in order to garner the votes from moderate health freedom legislators needed to get it through.
Those moderate legislators now seem to understand the importance of including masks in the bill. But they need to hear your kind but urgent voices.
We are working with our friendly legislators to find a procedural method of making amendments at this stage in the legislative process where amendments are difficult but totally doable. When a way is found, we will ask for additional amendments. As currently written, the bill only protects public school/university students and government workers such as police, firemen, etc. We hope to add in masks, other vaccines, and coverage for private businesses and non-profits.
If you haven’t already participated in our campaign for mask choice, click the button to do so.
Once a procedure is found to amend for mask choice, we will campaign to expand the bill to other vaccines and coverage for private businesses and non-profit employees.
H586/S644 Yulia's Law (No CV19 Discrimination/Organ Transplantation)
Yulia’s Law, H586/S644 which prevents discrimination against organ transplant patients who are unvaccinated seems to be stuck in the Senate Rules committee. If you haven’t already participated in our campaign to move it through the Rules committee, click the button to do so.
Yulia Hicks, an adopted Ukrainian girl living in NC was denied a life-saving kidney transplant by Duke hospital nearly a year ago due to her parents' decision to decline the COVID shot despite natural immunity from previous infection.
Yulia's parents, Lee and Chrissy, were in the national news. Fortunately, Yulia received her kidney transplant from ECU in May and is doing phenomenally well!
In April, a bill was introduced in the House preventing discrimination based on COVID vaccine status for transplant patients. It easily passed with a bi-partisan super majority vote in early May- Yulia's Law-H586. Since then, it's been sitting in the NC Senate’s Rules Committee. After inquiring with our friendly Senators, it seems that the Rules committee is unlikely to move the bill forward this session. We speculate that this might be due in part to the Committee leader's connections and preference for big medicine/hospitals.
Let's let the Rules Leaders and Committee members know that this bill MUST be voted on in the Senate THIS session. If you haven’t already, please participate in this campaign to request NC citizens be protected from such life-threatening rules in many NC hospitals.
SATURDAY 4/1 - LEGISLATIVE UPDATE AND NEED YOUR TESTIMONY/STATEMENT
We have four positive bills in the North Carolina General Assembly, and you can help advocate for those bills by submitting a testimony or statement about the impact that mandates have had on you or your family. Here are the details about the bills:
1. The Medical Freedom Act (House Bill 98, Senate Bill 121)
- This bill is far from perfect as it only protects employees of government entities from COVID vaccine mandates. Businesses are not included. It does, however, protect children in state schools and universities from the same mandates.
2. Parents’ Bill of Rights (Senate Bill 49, House version is in the works)
- This bill is excellent in many ways. Perhaps the most forward looking part is that the bill gives parents control over surveillance of our children by requiring a parent’s prior written permission before a child’s biometric identification (anything from finger printing to DNA) can be collected and stored.
- The media has labeled this bill the “Can’t say gay” bill, which is simply untrue. The senate bill simply says that sexuality and gender issues cannot be taught as part of the curriculum until the 5th grade. House sponsors of this bill plan to increase this to a higher grade level. If children ask a question about sexuality, the teachers are permitted to answer. The bill does not mention the words homosexuality or gay yet the media has created division around a bill that would otherwise be non-partisan.
- We have requested that the sponsor of the House version of the bill add a notification of the right to a religious or medical exemption along with vaccine requirements and require that a parent be present for all medical services except in the case of emergencies.
3. No CV19 Vaccine Mandates for NC Students (House Bill 222)
- If this bill passes, students will not be made to take the CV19 vaccine to attend school in NC, in spite of the fact that the CDC has added it to the childhood immunization schedule.
4. Health Care Freedom Act (Senate Bill 375)
- This bill prevents medical practitioners from refusing to care for patients who have not received ANY vaccine. (Given how much money in insurance incentives pediatricians get for having fully vaccinated patients, it will be interesting to see if they come out against it. We'll keep you posted if this happens.)
- A bill stating that NC is a sovereign state which does not answer to the CDC and WHO
- An all encompassing bill similar to Florida’s SB 222
Some of the highlights of this bill are:
- The bill prevents vaccine mandates by private businesses and schools as well as government entities.
- It makes the unvaccinated a protected class.
- It prevents citizens from being required to participate in a vaccine registry.
- Employers cannot discriminate against unvaccinated employees.
You can help get these bills passed by submitting a testimony/statement from you or a family member/friend about COVID vaccine injuries or hardships (e.g. job loss) caused by the vaccine mandates. We’re not only looking for personal impact but also the ripple effect of the mandates. For example, a teacher (police, firefighter, etc.) might be concerned about staffing shortages that would be exacerbated by mandates or a parent might plan to homeschool if mandates are put in place. Click HERE to submit your testimony/statement.
We’ll keep you posted about how things are progressing. We are getting excellent guidance from Stand For Health Freedom, and we will be in touch with you about strategic actions you can take at strategic times to help get these bills passed. Make sure you are signed up to get our emails. Thank you in advance for your testimony/statement if you have one.
WEDNESDAY 1/25 - CONTACT HAYWOOD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
kevin.ensley@haywoodcountync.gov
jennifer.best@haywoodcountync.gov
tommy.long@haywoodcountync.gov
terry.ramey@haywoodcountync.gov
WEDNESDAY 11/3 - WORLDWIDE WALKOUT AND NC WALK IN
- 10:00 a.m. – Fresh pressed juice at Raleigh Raw at 7 West Hargett in Raleigh
- 12:30 p.m. – BBQ lunch at Big Al’s BBQ at 2920 Forestville Rd in Raleigh
- 3:00 p.m. – Smoothies at Harmony Farms at 5653 Creedmoor Rd in Raleigh
THURSDAY 10/14 - EMAIL CAMPAIGN TO LEGISLATORS
It’s been nearly two years and not once have We The People had the opportunity to directly express our concerns and thoughts about the COVID measures to our representatives in the form of public hearings. NC advocates have asked our legislators to hold public hearings and, thus far, we have been ignored.
In lieu of the public hearings that should have taken place at the General Assembly, PAVE and 2 Citizen Moms along with HEALNC are holding a Summit on Saturday, October 30, in Raleigh. Encourage your legislator to attend this important event by completing this Action Alert HERE. Get your own event tickets below.
- Disparate treatment of vaccinated and unvaccinated patients
- Doctors being threatened for “COVID misinformation” and for prescribing Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine
- Limiting doctors’ treatment options to only CDC protocols
- The damage being caused by Remdesivir and ventilators
- Vaccine injuries and deaths and the lack of reporting to VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting system)
- Censorship of information on effective treatment options and vaccine side effects
- The negative impact of masks on human health
- Disparate treatment of unvaccinated medical staff
- Refusal to honor medical and religious exemptions
The summit will also provide an opportunity for those injured by the COVID vaccine and hospital protocols to be heard.
It’s crucial for our legislators to attend this event! Please click HERE to invite your legislators to hear historic testimony and engage in an open discussion about ways to improve COVID outcomes and end the pandemic.
Thank you for everything you do to stand for health freedom.
In solidarity,
Stand for Health Freedom and HEALNC
FRIDAY 5/28 - CALLS TO ACTION
MAMM (Millions Against Medical Mandates) and CHD (Children's Health Defense) have created a Citizen Petition of the FDA to revoke the EUA (Emergency Authorization Act) and prevent the licensing of the COVID vaccines. They are asking for everyone to participate by submitting a respectful comment on their petition. CHD and MAMM urge parents, healthcare practitioners, military members and others to comment and to share the comment link with friends and colleagues. Click on the links for MAMM and CHD for details.
Participate in this Petition by Lt. Governor Mark Robinson to Governor Roy Cooper to take a firm stand against Vaccine Passports in North Carolina!
MONDAY 5/10 - H572 UPDATE
House Bill 572 passed the House today in a 75-28 vote. Representative Pittman's amendment to give liability protection to businesses was not included. The bill passed in time to cross over to the Senate. Our goal is to recruit one or more bill champions in the Senate who will push to amend the robust language of H558 into H572. The good news is that H572 will provide a vehicle for that, and that the immediate time pressure is off, thanks to beating the Crossover Deadline.
What should you do now? Educate your legislators on the reasons why we must retain the right to choose which medical interventions we are willing to take. Set up an appointment to meet with your NC Senator (not Tillis or Burr) either in person or virtually. Share what you know about H572 and find out whether your senator plans to vote for or against the bill. Ask what reasons he/she has for not supporting the bill, if that's the case. Please complete a Legislator and Aide Response Tracking form for each legislator you speak to (or from whom you get an email response). It's quick and easy.
Take the time to educate your neighbors. They need to hear how serious this issue is. We must not let our state slip into medical apartheid.
With more and more businesses stating that COVID-19 vaccines will be required to use their services or frequent their establishments — and nearly 20 vaccine passport models under development nationwide — it’s crucial that North Carolina passes comprehensive health freedom legislation to protect its citizens!
SUNDAY 5/9 - ACTION UPDATE
We will meet at 3:30 in the front right quadrant of the Legislative Building (16 W. Jones Street), the lobby to the right after you pass through security. If you cannot arrive early, you will need to go directly to the public gallery on the third floor. When you go in the front door, after you go through security, go up the stairs that have the red carpet in the center. (Stay to the far right; no one may walk on the carpet.) If you need help, ask the guards or the ladies at the front desk.
16 West Jones Street, Rm. 1206
Raleigh, NC 27601-1096
300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 303
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 307
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
1. add the private sector prohibition on vaccine mandate and passports from HB 558 to HB 572and2. add a section to HB 572 that imposes liability for all harm, damages, injury, illness, or death when an employee, customer, patron, visitor, guest, or other member of the public is mandated to take a COVID-19 vaccination or series of vaccinations.
MONDAY 5/3 - ROY COOPER'S VACCINE PASSPORTS
- What is the name of the private company under contract with the State of North Carolina to develop and roll out vaccine passports or vaccine IDs?
- Is the contract sole source? Or, was it open for bid?
- In what month did the contract begin?
- How much is the company paid under the contract?
- What day do Roy Cooper's vaccine passports/vaccine IDs roll out for use by North Carolina government and private sector?
Be direct. Be persistent. Do not take "no" for an answer.
TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR
VACCINE PASSPORTS!
Roy Cooper & Kristen Cooper
919-814-2000
https://www.facebook.com/NCgovernor/
https://www.facebook.com/KristinCooperFLONC/
Mandy Cohen
919-855-4800
Lisa Granberry Corbett, DHHS General Counsel
Elizabeth Tilson, State Health Director
919-855-4800
Sam Gibbs, Deputy Secretary for Technology and Operations
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT
GET A COPY OF THE CONTRACT AND ALL DOCUMENTS!
Source: NCC4CR (North Carolina Citizens 4 Constitutional Rights) https://ncc4cr.com/
The mission of NCC4CR is to challenge through litigation Governor Cooper's "Declaration of a Public Heath Emergency" and all subsequently issued Executive Orders and resulting actions. Please visit their website and support their efforts!
I DEMAND that the Health Committee hear HB558 in its entirety on May 4 and VOTE YES on HB558 its entirety.
I DEMAND that the Health Committee hear HB558 in its entirety on May 4 and VOTE YES on HB558 its entirety.
I DEMAND that the Health Committee hear HB558 in its entirety on May 4 and VOTE YES on HB558 its entirety.
I DEMAND that the Health Committee hear HB558 in its entirety on May 4 and VOTE YES on HB558 its entirety.
6 REPUBLICANS ARE HOLDING HOSTAGE MEDICAL FREEDOM AND PERSONAL LIBERTIES OF 10.7 MILLION NORTH CAROLINIANS!ONCE FREEDOM IS LOST, IT CANNOT BE REGAINED!Tim Moore (R) (Speaker) 919-733-3451Donna White (R) 919-733-5605Kristin Baker (R) 919-733-5861Donny Lambeth (R) 919-733-5747Larry Potts (R) 919-715-0873Wayne Sasser (R) 919-733-5908Emails: Kristin.Baker@ncleg.gov, Donny.Lambeth@ncleg.gov, Larry.Potts@ncleg.gov, Wayne.Sasser@ncleg.gov, Donna.White@ncleg.gov, Tim.Moore@ncleg.gov
THURSDAY 4/29 EMERGENCY UPDATE
Legislative Action Day Details
- We suggest arriving a little before 9 AM. We will greet you in front of the legislative building. Look for our HEAL NC logo.
- If the bill is heard by the health committee, we will need as many people as possible to go in to the gallery for the Health Committee meeting at 10 AM (posters not allowed inside - see below for additional info). We will let you know that morning.
- If the health committee gallery is full, we will gather in the outer areas.
- Legislators' offices can be found on these maps of either the Legislative Building or the Legislative Office Building: http://ncrtl.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/General-Assembly-Floor-Plans.pdf
- We strongly suggest that you make an appointment to speak with your local legislator during the day. If you are unable to acquire an appointment, you may still stop by their office and leave a message, note, or card with their assistant regarding your position. Find your own legislators: www.ncleg.gov/FindYourLegislators
Pictures, contact info for House members: https://ncc4cr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/NC-House-Representatives.pdf
Pictures, contact info for Senate members: https://ncc4cr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/NC-Senate-Representatives.pdf - Also plan to stop at the offices of the members of the health committee. You might consider printing out and bringing along educational materials to leave outside the door, if the representative is not in that day. Click here for a long list of articles you can select from and print for leaving with legislators.
- Masks are not required inside the legislative building, however we suggest you bring them as some legislators require them for entry into their office.
- There are restaurants nearby, or feel free to pack a lunch.
- There will be a stage set up outside and multiple speakers throughout the day, however the schedule is fluid at the moment.
- A limited number of signs and buttons will be available or you may bring your own.
- Please do not make politically oriented posters, as this is a non-partisan issue and event.
- Signs mounted on hand sticks are not permitted.
- Posters are not allowed at the Health Committee meeting. (We suggest rolling up your poster and securing with a rubber band during this portion of events.)
Talking points related to this CALL TO ACTION:
- H558 is not a partisan issue for North Carolina.
- North Carolinians from far right to far left and everywhere in between support the entirety of H558.
- The entirety of H558 protects all of us. Citizens who took only one shot because they experienced side effects. Citizens who took the shots and don't wish to take a "booster" in 6 months or a year or every year in perpetuity. They have the same status as everyone who chooses not to take a shot.
- A mandate, passport, verification, and any other requirement to prove that someone took a shot, by government and any private sector entity (grocery stores, universities, churches, concert halls, employers, etc), creates two classes of North Carolinians. Each class will have different rights from the other. One class will be discriminated against in every aspect of their lives.
- North Carolinians have suffered greatly over the last 16 months as a State, as communities, and families.
- We simply cannot be divided further on the basis of a shot, which is and must always be a personal, individual choice.
- North Carolinians are not "vaccine hesitant." Each made an informed choice not to take a shot.
- H558 in its entirety protects families throughout North Carolina whose family members made different choices about the shot.
- When government and private sector mandate a shot, passport, or other verification, the entire family will not be able to eat in a restaurant, attend a religious service, shop in a store, attend a sporting event, go to a graduation, wedding, or funeral, or do anything else together.
- The importance of H558 in its entirety cannot be understated. If it fails, what mandate will be next?
- Once freedom and choice are lost, we can never regain them.
Below are more talking points regarding the unconstitutional, unethical, and unnecessary realities of Vaccine Passports that can be used to make public statements at hearings, phone calls, or to act as a foundation to draft your own letters. Usually, when calling legislators, it's best to have a short statement ready to leave as a voicemail or as a message for their assistant to pass along to them.
Vaccine passports are:
1. Unconstitutional:
• Any general requirement of proof of “vaccines for travel” imposes unequal burdens on un-vaccinated travelers. Even if not an absolute requirement, imposing extra costs like quarantines for refusing the vaccine is obviously a way of coercing people into taking it.
• Every one of the current Covid-19 vaccine on the market is tainted somehow with abortion - an abhorrent practice to many with strongly held religious beliefs. Limiting participation in everyday activities for refusing to partake in the practice - even peripherally - is a violation of the religious freedom protected by the First Amendment.
• A “vaccines for travel” policy automatically creates a two-tier society, divided into the vaccinated, who could travel freely, & the un-vaccinated – whose travel privileges are revoked. Think about what that means for social and legal equality and the future and stability of an avowedly democratic society.
• Vaccine passports are not just about COVID-19: they are about introducing global health surveillance and coercive medical interventions, that fundamentally shift the traditional voluntary relationship that should exist between individuals and those in power.
• Privacy violations continue to pile up – with public announcements and tracking of one’s immune status, testing status, health, medical and religious beliefs.
• A world in which the government (no longer of the people, by the people, for the people) closely monitors citizens’ healthcare choices and effectively bans healthy citizens from full social participation because they weigh the risks of a vaccine differently or decline a proposed course of treatment is cruel, intolerant, unconstitutional and illegal.
• Any private medical information that could be used against citizens to incentivize, monetize or in any way prevent travel or movement does not belong in the hands of the government.
• Vaccination passports would discriminate based on physical condition, a violation of the right to Human Dignity.
• There is no liability for injury and death associated with Covid-19 vaccinations which infringes on Seventh Amendment rights right to a jury trial. Without liability, there are literally no consumer safeguards.
• Mandating a medical procedure with “death” as a known and listed possible side effect violates constitutionally protected right to life and due process.
2. Unethical:
• This coercive policy is unethical, not based in sound science and violates the medical ethical doctrine of informed consent, in which a patient has the right to accept or decline – without being coerced. There is a long history on this matter, beginning with the Nuremberg Trials.
• From December 14, 2020 through March 19, 2021 the US Government received 2,050 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. While these deaths may be considered completely coincidental and unrelated by those in charge of safety, no person should be coerced into undertaking even a perceived medical risk.
• Reported vaccine injuries must be taken seriously, and where there is medical risk, there must be voluntary consent without coercion.
• Removal of liability removes a necessary market indicator of safety: litigation. Litigation in open court with unimpeded discovery is necessary to ensure product safety.
• Government safety monitoring systems are woefully inadequate, relying on outdated and passive reporting systems. Medical professionals are ill-equipped in identifying and reporting vaccine injury - another impediment to safety monitoring. The true safety profile of these drugs will take years to determine through epidemiological study.
• A study commissioned by the CDC and conducted by Harvard Pilgrim HMO concluded that less than 1% of all vaccine injury and death are reported. The true safety profile of these drugs will take years to determine through epidemiological study.
• Passive reporting systems fail to account for deaths: the deceased do not report. The underreporting of injuries and and especially deaths assumes a safety profile. Mandating a medical procedure without an accurate safety profile is not only unethical but criminal.
• Current Covid-19 vaccines are issued under Emergency use Authorization - by law individuals can refuse their use. To withhold goods, services, and travel for not participating in a medical procedure is a human rights violation.
• Doctor/healer advice which must be based upon trust, becomes a doctor order and a command without trust or respect for each human’s sovereign rights. Natural health choices and alternatives (such as dietary supplementation, homeopathy, and religious practices) are being simultaneously threatened by regulations when there is nothing more personal or private than how one cares for their body. Your office would do well not to encourage such practices.
• If you have scientific grounds for placing your faith in these vaccines, you should be perfectly able to convince people – especially those most at risk – to take them through rational persuasion rather than by coercion and incentives.
• Emergency orders and all health measures must respect the voluntary consent of the human being. Powers should be of limited duration, for exceptional circumstances and use the least intrusive, least restrictive means.
• Warnings and risks – especially with experimental genetic technology – must be taken into account.
• How these vaccines will affect people in coming months or years is unknown. The risk of Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) is real, i.e. that vaccinated individuals exposed to new viral strains may be at increased risk compared to those who have not been vaccinated. This potentially lethal risk is well-known to vaccine experts and is one of the main reasons why vaccine manufacturers refuse to accept liability for future injuries and deaths.
• There are critical unknowns about COVID-19 vaccination efficacy on transmission, duration of protection against severe disease and asymptomatic infection, duration of immunity (following infection or vaccination), long-term protection after using different vaccination intervals, protection after a single dose, and vaccination regimes.
3. Unnecessary:
• To say that only those who are vaccinated may travel and congregate implies that those who are not vaccinated are somehow infectious which is not true. Covid-19 vaccines are being administered with Emergency Use Authorization.
• If the vaccine works as intended, the vaccinated should not be concerned with anyone else’s vaccination status.
• Studies have identified individuals who are at significant risk of adverse effects of Covid-19. The vast majority of the population are not at risk for severe outcomes of SARS-Cov-2 infection meaning vaccination for the general public is not necessary.
• A “vaccines for travel” policy is premised on the erroneous assumption that public health requires total vaccination of a population. Immunity is not even well understood with the virus, and not established yet for the vaccine. Under normal circumstances, so-called “herd immunity thresholds” can normally be reached through a mix of pre-existing, naturally acquired, & vaccine-based immunity. There is absolutely no need for universal vaccination – especially if many have already recovered.
• If you have scientific grounds for placing your faith in these vaccines, you should be perfectly able to convince people – especially those most at risk – to take them through rational persuasion rather than by coercion and incentives.
• Coerced vaccinations will only raise more heightened consumer concerns.
• The number one indicator of severe outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection is age, second is significant co-morbidities including obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. Vaccination outside these populations should be a choice. For the vast majority of individuals, infection is mild making vaccination unnecessary.
