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War and Peace: Fake commenters flooding federal comment systems on proposed regs

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War and Peace: Fake commenters flooding federal comment systems on proposed regs

The Government Accountability Office released a review of online government commenting systems, which shows rampant use of stolen identities by those posting comments on proposed government regulations that are on federal websites.

Public comments are used by regulators when making final decisions that have the force of law. Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, and Fish and Wildlife Service are three such agencies that make rules that get many comments and that apply to Alaska.

The entire report, at this federal link, shows the difficulty in using online commenting systems for the basis of public policy.

The report reveals there has been no recourse for those who have had their identities stolen to post comments, and that more than 100,000 comments contained profanity and threats of violence. Other comments were designed to flood the systems, such as those containing entire movie scripts or the text of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, according to Sen. Rob Portman, who called for the review.

The main way people submit comments is through online commenting systems—either Regulations.gov or websites hosted by specific agencies, like the Federal Communications Commission’s Electronic Comment Filing System. 

Through an exhaustive survey of 10 agencies, the GAO discovered up to 30 percent of commenters who provided email addresses said they did not submit the comment associated with their identities. Commenters can enter any identity information when submitting a comment, whether it is theirs, someone else’s, or fabricated, the report said.

In recent years, some of the rule-making proposed by agencies have received an exceedingly large number of comments.

“For example, during the public comment period for an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2014 rulemaking on greenhouse gas emissions, the agency reported that it received more than 4 million total comments,” the report said.

Up to 25 percent of those surveyed about their received comments on EPA regulations said they had either not commented or were unsure if they had commented. Those surveyed were people who had given email addresses, an indication that EPA was receiving a significant number of comments from stolen identities that came from data breaches.

“In May 2021, the New York State Attorney General reported that one entity submitted comments to FCC using data that had been stolen in a data breach and posted online, related to approximately 1.4 million people,” the report added.

“We surveyed people whose email addresses were attached to public comments on proposed rules from 10 federal agencies. From 5% to 30% of the people (depending on the agency) said they did not make the comment. At 8 agencies, most of the comments did not have email addresses,” according to the GAO.

“Agencies aren’t required to collect information on or verify commenters’ identities. While almost all of the agencies we reviewed share comment data online, they didn’t always make limitations like this clear when they described the public comment data,” the GAO said.

The findings illustrate the need for ongoing efforts to ensure the validity of comments and commenter identities, said Portman. According to the GAO, agencies who participated in the survey are at least trying to let users know the limitations of the ability to determine the veracity of the comments.

Iditarod rules: Mushers, volunteers, staff, contractors, pilots and vets must be vaccinated for 50th anniversary race

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Iditarod rules: Mushers, volunteers, staff, contractors, pilots and vets must be vaccinated for 50th anniversary race

As the Iditarod Sled Dog Races prepares to return to the traditional Northern Route and Nome finish in March of 2022, the Iditarod Board of Directors has passed a resolution requiring Covid-19 vaccinations for all participants in the 2022 race.

The new rule applies to the entire Iditarod community, mushers, staff, contractors, volunteers, pilots, veterinarians, etc. 

“This decision was made in concert with feedback from rural Alaska and is reflective of the Iditarod’s broad community health consciousness,” the board wrote.

“With regard to a comprehensive Covid-19 plan for our 50th Anniversary event we are developing plans corresponding to COVID-19’s current and anticipated trajectory and will provide updates as the pandemic evolves,” the board said on its website.

Busted: Records show Dunbar trying to take power from mayor’s office on budget preparation

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Busted: Records show Dunbar trying to take power from mayor’s office on budget preparation

In a series of official emails obtained by Must Read Alaska, Anchorage Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar has made attempts to circumvent the Mayor’s Office and get advanced copies of deliberative budget documents by going directly to department heads in the Anchorage municipality. It appears to be a violation of the separation of powers between the executive branch and the legislative branch of the city.

After a series of attempts at getting deliberative budget documents, Dunbar was stopped in his tracks by the Bronson Administration, which asserted a separations of power right to not release its budget deliberations to someone who is clearly in another branch of the government. Dunbar ran for mayor during the past election and lost to Mayor Dave Bronson.

In a memo to department heads earlier this month, Municipal Manager Amy Demboski on Sept. 1 put an end to that practice:

“After evaluation of existing department workloads, projects, and services the Municipality of Anchorage provides, I have noticed numerous departments are strained with Assembly member inquiries and multiple requests for new projects, as well as requests from Assembly members to gain access to privileged deliberative process documents, which are being sent directly to departments from individual Assembly members,” Demboski wrote.

“It appears over the past few years the lines between the Assembly and Administration have been blurred, so it is now appropriate to highlight that the Municipality’s executive and administrative power is vested with the Mayor. The Municipality’s legislative power is vested in the Assembly. Constitutional principles of separation of powers – and checks and balances — enables the Mayor, as the chief executive, to receive candid advice, recommendations, and opinions from directors that are exempt from public records requests, at least during deliberations and discussion. The purpose of this privilege is to protect the mental processes of government decisionmakers from interference,” she continued.

Demboski instituted an internal process to ensure the “proper separation between the branches of government,” and so that she could evaluate Assembly members’ requests and determine how to best allocate her staff’s time “to ensure the allocation of staff time aligns with the core missions and services of each municipal department, and to ensure that the Administration is responsive to Assembly member requests for information,.”

Demboski said Assembly members, the Clerk, Assembly aides, and Assembly counsel may directly contact municipal department directors for inquiries regarding public, published information, and clarification on routine matters. All responses from municipal staff to the Assembly, the Clerk, an aide, and Assembly counsel must also include a summary of the communication to the Municipal Manager. Questions requiring extensive time to research and prepare responses will require approval of the Municipal Manager; when these requests are received by staff, they should be forwarded to the Municipal Manager for review and direction.

Demboski’s memo was obtained with a public records request.

Demboski, who was once an Assemblywoman representing Eagle River, further said that requests for information from unpublished policy, or policy interpretation (including policy regarding municipal budget development) must be submitted to the Mayor’s office for her to review.

The new rule comes after Dunbar began asking for draft documents from Police Chief Ken McCoy and from Director of Maintenance and Operations Saxton Shearer.

In a letter to McCoy on Aug. 20, also obtained by public records request, Dunbar wrote,

Chief,

I heard from a reporter yesterday that you had been asked by the mayor to submit proposals for a potential 5% cut to your budget. Could you please send to me what that proposal looks like? I am curious what a 5% cut would entail for the Police Department. 

Best,
Forrest

On Aug. 25, Dunbar had not gotten an answer, so he persisted, writing to Chief McCoy:

Just pinging this. If there was any presentation or proposal prepared for those cuts, I’d appreciate the chance to see it.

– Forrest Dunbar, Aug. 25, 2021

Police Chief McCoy responded the same day and directed Dunbar to check with the city manager:

Good afternoon Forrest,

I appreciate your interest and support of public safety.

As you are aware all municipal departments, including APD, were asked to submit a 5% budget reduction proposal to the administration. My team and I drafted the proposal and presented it to the administration last week. If you would like to receive a copy of the proposal that request must be submitted to Municipal Manager Demboski.

Again, thank you for your support.

Very Respectfully,

Ken

Dunbar continued to try to get the internal budget document, writing then to City Manager Demboski:

Thank you, Chief.

Ms. Demboski, I would like to request a copy of that proposal. I am including our budget analyst, Ms. Camacho, on this thread as well.

Best,

Forrest

Demboski was having none of it. On Aug. 30, she wrote to Dunbar and told him no:

Assembly Member Dunbar, 

The information you are requesting is deliberative and executive privilege applies in this situation. The Administration will not be waiving the privilege extended to the deliberative process.

Thank you for the question and for your understanding. 

Respectfully,

Amy Demboski

At the same time, Dunbar was trying to get internal documents on the municipal bonds, and asked Saxton Shearer, director of Maintenance and Operations, for his list of projects he did not plan to pursue in the coming budget cycle:

Mr. Shearer,

I noticed a very large drop in the proposed bond amount for Maintenance and Operations in 2022 in the 120 day memo the Assembly received last week. On the 2021 Capital Plan, no such drop was anticipated in 2022. Can you let me know which projects are no longer going to be funded by the bond, and why? Are they going to be deferred, or is there going to be another funding source (like federal funds, which are listed for PM&E projects)?

Best,

Forrest

That memo from Dunbar was responded to by Demboski, who told him the budget documents are still of a deliberative nature and were not something that he, as an Assemblyman, was going to be able to get.

Assembly Member Dunbar, 

Thank you for the questions. The information in the 120 day report is a preliminary status of the budget proposal and decisions are still being finalized. Since this is still very much in the policy development phase, the additional information you are seeking is deliberative and executive privilege applies in this situation. The Administration will not be waiving the privilege extended to the deliberative process. Please direct policy questions to me in the future; that will give me the opportunity to determine if the information you are seeking is appropriate to be transmitted to the legislative branch of government at the time of the request, and I will be able to respond to you more quickly.

We truly appreciate your questions and look forward to having these conversations once the budget and bond proposals are finalized. Thank you for your understanding.

Respectfully,

Amy Demboski

Rep. David Eastman compares Biden’s ‘patience is wearing thin’ quote to Hitler, and the Left goes nuts and calls him a Nazi

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Rep. David Eastman compares Biden’s ‘patience is wearing thin’ quote to Hitler, and the Left goes nuts and calls him a Nazi

Rep. David Eastman posted a social media comment that compared Hitler’s statement “I’ve run out of patience,” with President Joe Biden’s statement, “Our patience is wearing thin.” The Left pounced, to make it appear that Eastman was endorsing Hitler.

Such is the peril for a Republican trying to show that the “patience is wearing thin” statement from Biden is, in fact, a threat against the people.

Most of the commentary on Twitter was from Leftists who said Eastman should be fired. Very few of his constituents in Wasilla, however, use Twitter and most are probably unaware of the kerfuffle.

None of the Twitterati spoke out against Rep. Sara Hannan of Juneau, who earlier this month appeared to defend Nazi medical experiments, because at least, according to her testimony on the record in the Alaska Legislature, they led to something good in terms of frostbite research. She described how Nazis froze the limbs of Jewish experiment subjects and then broke them off.

Rep. Sara Hannan: Nazi experiments on Jews led to important breakthroughs, so ‘follow the science’

Hannan apologized after Must Read Alaska wrote a story about her bizarre rationalization. The story of her apology went national. The Left remained mostly on mute.

Eastman, on the other hand, was defending the rights of Americans to not take the Covid-19 vaccine after President Biden had mandated vaccines for about 80 million Americans, to include all who work in the federal government, who have federal contracts, or for those who work in businesses where there are more than 100 people.

“That should be unmistakably clear,” Eastman said. Eastman, who was speaking from the lobby at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., said that in his last four public appearances, he has spoken against genocide. He spoke in Palmer, Kenai, and also on the House floor. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” he said, quoting the philosopher Santayana.

‘Show some respect!’ Angry Biden lashes out at anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and GOP governors

The Left and the mainstream media also went after Rep. Ben Carpenter, another Republican, who in May of 2020 talked about the dangers of shaming people over Covid.

He reminded his colleagues that the Jews were made to wear yellow star patches to indicate their Jewishness, and that health protocols that put stickers on people for having gone through Covid screening reminded him of that.

That became a national story, with the leftist media taking pleasure in criticizing Carpenter, who represents Nikiski.

As for Eastman, he is loathed by the Left, and Must Read Alaska predicts Alaska readers will soon be able to read all about him in the local mainstream media and, no doubt, the national media.

Reach the schools: Get involved with your school board and Covid policies with this new Alaska website

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Reach the schools: Get involved with your school board and Covid policies with this new Alaska website

Parents who are concerned about their school district’s policies relating to Covid-19 don’t always know how to make their opinions known.

A website launched by John Quick, Vice President of Must Read Alaska, shows Alaskans how to effectively interact, whether it is relating to masks, distancing, shutdowns, or even for unrelated school matters.

“It’s important for parents to get involved in their school district’s board policy conversations, and at the superintendent level, too, as the policies are administered from there. Oftentimes the parents go to the teacher and principal, and that can backfire. Nobody likes to have people show up and yell at them,” Quick said.

“When they find out that the school is going to be masking their children, they don’t know where to start,” Quick said. “The most important advice I can give is to be bold but be kind.”

The website, reachtheschools.com shows people in Kenai, Mat-Su, Fairbanks and Anchorage, who to contact on their school boards, with email addresses, and gives them some sample text that they can use to help frame their thoughts, he said.

“It’s something to empower parents to make a positive change, be part of the solution instead of yelling at a wall,” Quick said.

Reach the Schools can be found at this link.

Jab or no job: Medical workers talk about being terminated over Covid shot mandates

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Jab or no job: Medical workers talk about being terminated over Covid shot mandates

First in a series. Must Read Alaska is hearing from medical professionals who are losing their jobs at Alaska hospitals and clinics because of their refusal to take the Covid-19 vaccine. Their identities are being kept anonymous. Share your story by reaching [email protected].

A nurse a Providence Medical Center agrees with the Anchorage doctor who says that there is no rationing of care going on at the hospital, at least not in the way that people may think. Hospitals ultimately always make decisions about care due to the fact that they don’t have unlimited resources.

Read: Doctor says no crisis at Anchorage hospitals

Right now, the hospital is very busy, more so than usual. “It is slammed busy,” she said. “But it’s not a significant difference than in years past.”

The nurse is facing termination because she has not taken the Covid-19 vaccine. She has already had Covid-19, and has a family to feed, works with people she admires and respects, and doesn’t want this testimony to be seen as criticism of them.

“On the contrary, I really want to bring people closer together,” the nurse said.

She wants people to understand that the majority of people in the ICU are suffering the effects of Covid, and the vast majority of those had not been vaccinated. Most of those who are dying were unvaccinated.

But she is opposed to forcing people to make the choice between feeding their families and taking a shot they don’t want to take, for their own personal reasons.

The nurse has worked at Providence for many years and objected to the “medical theater” of the doctors and nurses who stood before the Anchorage Assembly in their lab coats and testified that the hospital is in crisis. She wanted her testimony heard, even if she cannot show up at the Anchorage Assembly. Here are her main points of testimony:

  • It would be helpful if the State of Alaska would report how many people are admitted to hospitals each day with Covid, not just how many are in the hospital.
  • It would be helpful if the State would break down how many are hospitalized who have been vaccinated, vs. those who are unvaccinated.
  • “Instead of having to use the phrase ‘vast majority,’ it would be better if they gave a number,” she said. “Such as, if there are X number people admitted today with Covid, that would give people an idea of how serious the spread is.”
  • Instead, the State is focused only on the number of positive tests.
  • Why are hospitals are terminating skilled nurses and bringing in people from out of state? “With the funds, we could have trained people or hired travel positions,” she said.
  • Mandates reinforce distrust of the health care system. This is starting to show up as people mistrusting their doctors and nurses. “If we are mandating the shot, then every ailment someone gets after a forced vaccine, for those people, that ailment is going to be attributed to vaccine. If you hadn’t wanted it but given no choice, and it’s between having your job and insurance or being impoverished, and then you have an ailment, that is where your mind is going to go,” the nurse said.
  • When people are told they are going to lose their job and insurance, they are not really being given a choice.
  • If 40 percent of people don’t want to get a vaccine, how is that going to affect the nursing shortage later on. That size of population is going to be excluded from becoming nurses. “We are going to lose a lot of people who would have come into the profession, and now they will say they don’t want to be part of the health care industry.”
  • Most nurses she has talked to support the vaccine but not the mandate, the nurse said.
  • The “shared governance” that is practiced by Providence is not being practiced in this instance because bedside staffs are not being brought into the discussion. Providence never took a poll of its nurses or staff, and this decision affects everyone.
  • The hospital said it would not mandate the vaccine, and repeated that, until all of a sudden it did mandate the shot. “They must have been working on the mandate, all the while that we were being told they were not going to mandate it,” she said.
  • Providence has a mission statement that says it is the expression of “God’s healing love, witnessed through the ministry of Jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.” What is more vulnerable than a pregnant employee who is losing her job because she refuses to take the shot?

“I know of a few cases like that, where they are are going to lose their job and insurance at their most vulnerable time. It just does not line up with mission statement. Mary was turned away from an inn. Now they are saying, ‘We are turning our back on our staff, there is no place for you. You are out.’ The irony of it is overwhelming. The worst of the worst is to do that to a pregnant woman. You are making people poor and vulnerable by doing this.”

The nurse closed her statement by saying she hoped people will get vaccinated if they are on the fence, “but I want to validate the right they have to choose.”

OSHA springs surprise inspection on city

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OSHA springs surprise inspection on city

State of Alaska Occupational, Safety and Health inspectors stopped by City Hall for a surprise inspection Thursday. Municipal Manager Amy Demboski told department heads in a memo that the inspectors came into her office this morning to announce the inspection.

Longtime workers said they have never seen this before and believe it must be complaint-driven from an aggrieved employee.

The two inspectors asked for the last three years of some of the municipality’s safety log. Based on their review of the logs, they’ll visit departments they choose to inspect without advance warning. They also showed up at the Port.

“We welcome them in with open arms. We care about our employees safety. If there are areas of improvement that are needed, our goal is to keep our employees safe,” Demboski.

Pebbled: Mining 101, how we get our metals

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By MARK HAMILTON / PEBBLED SERIES

Mining is actually a simple process made voluminous by the very low density of the sought-after minerals.  A mine with one gram of gold in every ton of earth would be sufficiently rich to take a look at.  Getting at that gram is the process I will describe.  Mining engineers might well wince at my description, but it is a way to understand for people like me who are not mining engineers.

First, you remove the overburden, the top layer of what we might call soil. In this overburden there is the layer in which plants grow so it is collected in an area to be redistributed upon closing the mine site.  The preparation for closure begins with the very first activity.  

With the overburden removed, the exposed rock will be blasted. The one blast per day is very carefully situated depending on the expected mineralization and the planned contours of the pit.  

Now you have some big rocks to deal with. These rocks are loaded onto trucks that bring them to the crusher. The crusher does what you might expect, it crushes the big rocks to rocks about the size of a brick, which are transported to the mill.  It’s called the SAG mill, which stands for semi-autonomous grinding.  Autonomous grinding would use the rocks themselves to grind.  Semi-autonomous grinding means you will put some steel balls in there to better control the size of the particles.  The various sizes and quantities of the steel balls determine the size of the end particle.  For the Pebble mine operation, the end particles would be about like sand.

This next part is quite surprising. The particles are poured into a huge vat of water, think of a large above ground swimming pool. Here they are essentially washed with a petroleum-based fluid whose primary utility is to attach long-carbon chains onto the minerals.  These chains make the minerals hydro-phobic (they don’t like water).  So, the process literally blows bubbles into the tank.  The minerals with their long carbon chains cling to the bubbles and float.  The process is called “flotation,” so that’s easy to remember. The froth at the top of the tank is swept off (think of a bar tender pouring a glass of draft beer and swiping the excess froth off the top).  

The surprise to me was the similarity to washing clothes. At your home you will fill a tub of water, add some type of petrochemical detergent that will attach a long-polymer chain to the dirt you want removed. In this case the process is somewhat reversed, in that it will make the dirt hydrophilic (mix with, dissolve in, or be wetted by water).  Wash away the water and the dirt goes with it.  In neither processes do the bubbles do any cleansing, they are simply a bridge to the mineral or the dirt.

All of the material that did not float (the overwhelming amount of the crushed material) constitutes the “tailings”.  These materials are not acidic (for the most part inert to slightly alkaline) and are deposited in the tailings-facility.  The description of the tailings facility will be presented later.  It is an important element in the understanding of the process and the discrediting of some of the most virulent false notions about the mining process.

Once the process has gathered the minerals attached to the bubbles, they are dried and ground further to a consistency about like talc. Then they go to a second flotation cycle. Here, most processes add cyanide to help with the extraction of gold.  This procedure is used by the overwhelming number of mining processes and is safe and reliable.  In the case of the Pebble project, the decision was made to not add cyanide because of all the misinformation campaigns about it.  People know that cyanide is a poison and that was quickly jumped on to bolster the false claims of a dangerous and toxic process.  Rather than fight the misinformation, Pebble decided to not use this technique and accepted foregoing the recovery of more than 10 percent of the gold.

That was a bold move, and not one that I would have chosen, since the practice is very common and has been used by mines all over the world and in Alaska for several decades with no incidences.  It demonstrates the power of misinformation.  The undeniable evidence of decades of demonstrated safety and reliability was overcome by scare tactics.  I don’t believe the choice paid any dividends, and certainly not enough to give up 10 percent of the gold recovery.

The tailings left from this stage are handled differently than the tailings from the first floatation.  These are called “PAG tailings” which stands for “Potentially Acid Generating.” These need special caution; and are stored separately from the bulk tailings of the first flotation process.  These, approximately 12% of the tailings, will be stored in a sealed and lined containment area covered with about five feet of water to ensure they have no access to oxygen, which could cause them over some time to be acidic. These tailings will be monitored throughout the mine life in a facility very close to the mine pit and ultimately discharged into the pit upon closure of the mine, eliminating the need to monitor them forever.

After the second flotation, the minerals will be dried and concentrated for shipment to the available smelters.  Sadly, there are no smelters available on American soil, so they will be sent overseas.  Although an issue for national security, currently the air quality issues associated with smelter operations make it extremely difficult to imagine the permitting of additional smelters in the United States.

The “Pebbled” series at Must Read Alaska is authored by Mark Hamilton. After 31 years of service to this nation, Hamilton retired as a Major General with the U. S. Army in July of 1998. He served for 12 years as President of University of Alaska, and is now President Emeritus. He worked for the Pebble Partnership for three years before retiring. 

Pebbled 1: Virtue signaling won out over science in project of the century

Pebbled 2: Environmental industry has fear-mongering down to an art

Pebbled 3: The secret history of ANWR and the hand that shaped it

Pebbled 4: When government dictates an advance prohibition

Pebbled 5: EPA ‘just didn’t have time’ to actually go to Bristol Bay

Pebbled 6: The narrative of fear

Pebbled 7: The environmentalists who cried wolf

Pebbled 8: Build your media filter based on science, not narrative

Pebbled 9: The history of hysteria

Brian Stanley: My doctor fired me because I won’t take the vaccine

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Brian Stanley: My doctor fired me because I won’t take the vaccine

By BRIAN STANLEY

On Sept. 8, 2021 I had a routine checkup with my general practitioner. After six years of having this person as my doctor, she turned into a medical tyrant.

She told me that unless I got vaccinated for Covid-19, she would no longer provide me with medical care. Unbelievable. 

I was offered no alternative to the Covid-19 vaccine, like therapeutics and prophylaxis such as Ivermectin, Regeneron, Remdesivir or Hydroxychloroquine, among other over the counter choices. This is absolutely unethical at best, and probably violates the Hippocratic oath, which in part reads:

  “I will use those dietary regimens that benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them….I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan…..in purity and according to divine law I will carry out my life and my art.” 

It all started a few visits back when I showed up for an appointment and the “you must wear a mask to be here” coercion started. As a doctor, she should know that masks are an obedience charade and there is zero scientific or medical evidence that they work for anything other than stopping a sneeze from spraying all over. 

I don’t need a medical degree to comprehend some basic facts, like the “surgical” masks that you see everywhere, have a gap between the fabric weave of between 30 and 40 microns. And the bandanas people have draped off their faces have even bigger gaps.  The virus is around one tenth of one micron in diameter. (300 to 400 times smaller than the holes in the face diaper).

Some mask questions to ponder: 

  • Tell me how the virus stays out of my eyes. 
  • If masks work, why did they let prisoners out of jail instead of giving them masks?
  • If masks work and you are wearing one, then you’re protected…right? 
  • Or why don’t my pants stop farts?
  • “Trust the science…..”

This mandatory masking stance by my doctor does not inspire my confidence in her ability to see plain logic.

Over the years, my doctor had asked me many times to get a flu shot, but I always declined. I’ve never had one and didn’t feel I needed it.

During the last visit she condescendingly said “I have to get something from my office, but when I get back, I would love to hear your reasons for not getting this vaccine” I have read quite a bit about the vax and have a laundry list of reasons.

I said to her that the pharmaceutical companies themselves have disclosed that the efficacy rate is only around 40 percent, and there will be a never-ending string of variants and “booster” shots. If I get the shot, I can still contract Covid and transmit it, and I would still have to wear the chin diaper. But at least they don’t contain eggs, preservatives or latex.

My doctor vehemently refuted every point I had. Although she was wearing a mask, I’m pretty sure she was foaming at the mouth under there.

The one thing that didn’t occur to me was to say “My body, my choice.” 

I asked her how much time I had to find a new doctor.

The vaccine rabbit hole is very deep. The main factors regarding the jab are personal choice and your health condition, it has never been about public “safety”. 

The CDC’s own numbers bear out the fact that most people (without severe comorbidities or advanced age) have a 99.7 percent chance of survival if the virus is ever contracted. Yet, you are being told that that you must get an emergency vaccine that is not fully tested, and the pharmaceutical companies are immune from all legal ramifications if the recipient is caused any harm or death. The CDC has listed at least 21 severe, possible side effects, including Kawasaki Disease. Oh, and Congress and their staff are exempt. 

You say: “Yeah, but the FDA approved some of them….” Sure, but that was political, in my opinion, since it takes nearly 12 years to get approval for a new vaccine or medicine with all the clinical trials and proper testing.

“Trust the science…..”

Remember, every medicine that has ever been recalled because it caused harm or death to a person was also once approved by the FDA.

I wonder how long it will be until we achieve herd intelligence.

Brian Stanley is an Anchorage resident. Have you been fired by your doctor? Contact Suzanne Downing at [email protected]

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