Many conservatives have had criticisms of Nancy Dahlstrom, who is running for Congress and simultaneously serving as lieutenant governor of Alaska.
One of the criticisms is that she hasn’t really done anything. Dahlstrom filed for Congress in November after serving as lieutenant governor for a year. Before that, she was the top official at the Alaska Department of Corrections.
But while she was commissioner of the Department of Corrections for Gov. Mike Dunleavy, she was in charge of a vast many lives during the Covid pandemic. Back then, she made sure prisoners were not allowed to see their families or lawyers for over a year.
When she finally eased up on what was a hard year of extraordinary confinement for many, Dalhstrom put in a condition: Prisoners could only see their families if the prisoners got the full series of Covid shots and waited two weeks.
This was a form of medical coercion.
Prisoners could not see their children. They could not see their wives or husbands. Not their mothers, fathers, sisters, or brothers. They could see no one from outside the prison unless they submitted to what was being marketed by the federal government and Big Pharma.
The coercion demanding they take the needle if they wanted to ever see their loved ones again is all laid out in the press release from April 19, 2021:
That means for over two years, some prisoners didn’t get to see anyone who cared about them unless they took the shot. Few of them would have had the information needed to make an informed choice.
Under the policy, even the inmates that were fully vaccinated were not allowed to hug their visitor or even touch them. Visitors had to undergo screening procedures and wear a mask at all times.
Dahlstrom also prevented prisoners from seeing their lawyers, saying that in order to see their attorney, they would have to get the full Covid shot series.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Una Grandbhir put an injunction on Dahlstrom’s no-lawyer order after a group of attorneys sought injunctive relief. After all, there are constitutional questions about being locked up and not being able to consult an attorney.
Back then, the public and public officials were frightened by the Covid pandemic, which came from Wuhan, China, and the information they were receiving from the federal government in 2020 and 2021 was dire.
Like the Biden Administration, some Republican officials made decisions based on the advice of health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. Some may have made decisions they later might have come to regret. They were scared, decided to play it safe, and thought they were doing the right thing, based on the information they had.
Dahlstrom was one of those who was tasked with making such life-altering decisions and these were the decisions she made. No announcement has ever been made by the department rescinding the Covid vaccine mandate.
