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| UPDATE: 6 March 2021 State of VT Goes to Court on -Masks-to Secure Executive Authority for Emergency Health Orders This week the governors of Texas, Mississippi and Alabama joined Iowa and Montana in rolling back facial masking orders. This brings the total to 16 American stateswithout imposed facial masking. In stark contrast, the state of Vermont filed a lawsuit on 2/19/2021 against a small business owner for violations of Phil Scott’s July 2020 facial masking order. And in case you missed it, a few days later on 2/23/2021 Scott announced that only those vaccinated shall be free to travel in/to VT, without government restrictions. Watch the press conference video here, and read our preliminary response, here. Let’s huddle up and talk about this for a minute, politics aside. This is not about red vs. blue – me vs. you. These are health and medical decisions. America has a long history of health freedom. Whether you feel safer by choosing to “mask up” and vaccinate, there is a discussion that needs to take place – and it is about consent, and debate – without coercion and censorship of opposing views and beliefs. Who chooses for you?Does my body, my choice and consent still apply in medicine, and is public health now medicine?Are we no longer free to examine the evidence and freely decide, without government and corporate coercion and censorship? The answers depend entirely upon YOU. Now comes State of Vermont v. HNR Desautels, LLC et al., Case No. 21-CV-00332 which – contrary to media reports – is not just about masks. Through this suit, the State is seeking to affirm the Executive Authority of the Governor to enforce full compliance “with any and all COVID-19-related executive orders and addenda and guidance issued thereunder.” Let is sincerely hope that the State loses this case, because the implications are significant. Coincidentally, Amy Hornblas of Vermont Mask Survey sent an “open letter to Dr. Mark Levine and the Vermont Department of Health” on 2/15/2021, just days before the state’s mask lawsuit. To quote from her excellent letter: “One year after the COVID-19 restrictions began, data continues to emerge shedding light on the costs and benefits of public health policies such as lock-downs, masks, and distancing. “Public health officials should be continually re-evaluating these policies, in light of new and existing evidence. Conducting an ongoing cost/benefit analysis of public health measures is basic best-practice in the field. “It is especially important when implementing entirely new strategies that restrict the freedom of everybody in the community. “This summer our own University of Vermont Department of Medicine released a study called Risk Factors for COVID-19: Community Exposure and Mask Wearing, co-authored by Mark Levine. Among other things, this study found that mask wearing made no statistically significant difference between those who tested positive and those who did not. It also found that “wearing a facial mask outside of work increased probability of COVID-19 infection. “Mask mandates across the U.S. appear to have had no impact at all on the natural slope of infection rates, as demonstrated in research released this fall by Rational Ground. The graphs compare the infection rates to the implementation of mandates, which occurred at different times in each state. While correlation does not prove causation, there is a clear pattern: mandates made no difference in every case. “Lock-downs, social distancing, and masks are all justified by a perception that people without symptoms (a.k.a. “asymptomatic”) can be super-spreaders of the virus in community settings. However, the evidence for this is also lacking. A recently published large-scale study called Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China confirms that “asymptomatic positive cases detected in this study were unlikely to be infectious.” |
| SOME THINGS TO BEAR IN MIND Emergency orders, and all “health” measures, must respect the voluntary consent of the human being. This was affirmed after Nuremberg, and has been the global standard for human rights in medicine, ever since.Warnings and risks – especially with this experimental genetic technology, and our day-to-day changes in knowledge, must be taken into account. THE WEEKEND IS THE PERFECT TIME TO Email the Governor of VTTelephone your local Reps and SenatorsReasonably, calmly, briefly, voice your concerns |
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