A common feature at the weekly Monday morning Board of County Commissioner (BOCC) meetings in these Covid times is a number of public comments aimed at the disconnect between public health policies dictated by local authorities and the data coming from independently-funded, non-mainstream scientific and medical sources. Lately, mandated or coerced medical treatments have frequently been the target.
At the last meeting in November, I used my full three minutes to share part of the tragic story of near-fatal adverse events that befell a local resident who, against her instinct, took the jabs to get a job. This previously “healthy as can be” 27-year-old Port Townsend woman we called Laura suffered two heart attacks four days after her second Pfizer jab. She was diagnosed with acute myopericarditis, leaving her young heart functioning at 30% capacity. Six physicians, including one at Jefferson Healthcare, acknowledged the jabs were responsible.
None of the commissioners directly addressed that heartbreaking story, but District 1 Commissioner Kate Dean proffered this oblique reference to it, suggesting most of us should be willing to take one for the team:
“I’m resisting the desire to get defensive. I don’t think that’s helpful. I think we live with a lot of privilege in this community. Many of us come from a lot of privilege and being asked to make small sacrifices for the benefit of public health feels like a minor thing to do.”
Would Dean have been so blithe if the vax had nearly killed one of her own children, destroying their young, healthy heart in the process? Would that have been a “small sacrifice for the benefit of public health?”
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At the December 6th meeting Commissioner Dean zoomed in from her honeymoon destination in Portugal, seated before a picture window overlooking a hillside brimming with iconic red terracotta roofs vividly contrasted against the light sand-colored structures below them. As charming, inviting and elsewhere-looking as could be. I longed to be there, too.
Board of County Commissioners 12/6 Zoom meeting
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During the comment period, long-time resident Beth O’Neal read excerpts from RFK Jr’s national best-seller, The Real Anthony Fauci. Stephen Schumacher gave some specifics on the new legal complaint leveled against county health officer Allison Berry on behalf of six Clallam restaurateurs, seeking injunctive relief from her no-jab/no-entry edict sprung without warning on bars and restaurants on Sept. 2nd.
Schumacher followed with highlights of numerous recent successful legal challenges (here and here) that may bode badly for county officials over policies they’ve already endorsed, and if they choose to fire non-compliant employees in coming months.
I took the opportunity to remind the commission of the gut wrenching story of vaccine-induced heart failure I’d related to them at the Nov. 22nd meeting. I reminded Dean of her response, which intimated that this young woman’s sacrifice was “small” and for the public good. I voiced umbrage at her use of the woke trope “privileged,” pointing out that it doesn’t take privilege to think critically, to do one’s own research, to listen to the many thousands of experts who challenge the dominant paradigm, to conclude that the government, the pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies who oversee them are so thoroughly corrupt, they cannot be trusted. Certainly not with our health.
My appeal to the board to recognize the life-altering impact the jabs had on this young woman was lost on all but Heidi Eisenhour, who seemed sincerely sad about “these cases” of injury that she hears about. She followed with “It’s a choice to get vaccinated or not, despite the mandates. It’s a choice.” She has previously stated that mandates are a good thing. Greg Brotherton’s comments, in general, don’t bear repeating. You can listen to them if you’re willing.
Far from being stirred to compassion for this woman, Dean launched into full-blown totalitarian goose-step mode, gleeful to find herself in the land of the obedient.
“It is kind of shocking to be in a country that is over 90% vaccinated, and very compliant. Life is very normal here and the economy appears to be thriving as well. It’s just great to see. Everybody just masks up when they go inside a store, there’s no grumbling about it. They have extremely low rates of infection here. Of course they’re worried about Omicron, but you don’t really see that because it’s generally very safe. If you want to go to a bar you have to get tested within 24 hours and have a negative test result to show, and those are available—free—in every plaza in town.
They’ve decided to close down for a week right after New Year’s, just to avoid any potential spread that might come from the holidays, and folks are willing to do that, they’re planning for it, they’re saying, ‘Yeah, well, we’ll take our vacation then.’ It’s sacrifices that allow them to have normalcy the rest of the time. And it is such a relief [laughing] to be here!!! And Omicron is knocking at the door much more here than it is in America, and yet, the anxiety isn’t here because they have such a high rate of compliance and vaccination. And it’s just living proof. And people aren’t being irresponsible, they’re masking up when they go indoors. Don’t get me wrong, you definitely see that COVID is still a concern here, but it doesn’t change the way that people have to behave. It’s just really wonderful to be in a place that has got it under control, and it’s considered the first western country that will be able to respond to it as an endemic instead of a pandemic.”
It’s such a relief to be surrounded by so many other compliant people! Everybody masking up without grumbling. Testing 24 hours in advance to get into a bar (that’s a long time if you’re thirsty), jabbed or not, but no worries—the tests are free! (According to their consulate, US citizens have to pay for their tests. Elected officials may have diplomatic dispensation on that one.) “Omicron is knocking at the door” but they’re not anxious because they’re compliant and jabbed up.
If all this conformity warms your cockles, do put China on your bucket-list.
Perhaps Dean’s assumptions of the coronavirus scene in her host city came from a 2020 summer tourism brochure, or maybe it was the language barrier. According to this Agence France-Presse news alert from November 18th, here was that nation’s reality a few short weeks ago:
“Portugal on Wednesday said it was considering imposing new coronavirus restrictions after an increase in cases and hospitalizations, despite having one of the world’s best vaccination rates. Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday recorded 2,527 new cases and more than 500 hospitalizations, the highest figures since early September. More than 86 percent of Portugal’s population have been fully vaccinated and authorities are urging the over-65’s to take a third COVID vaccine dose.”
Then came the big news from the U.S. State Department on Monday afternoon—mere hours after Dean delivered her fanciful assessment of viral threat levels in Lisbon—announcing that the CDC had instituted a new Travel Advisory —
Case counts had breached the 500/100,000 bar. Far from being “living proof” of getting COVID under control, Portugal’s “high rate of compliance and vaccination” has led to higher case rates than ever.
Not far over the border, the “vaccinated” don’t appear to be having much more luck:
“On Dec. 1, 170 staff from a regional hospital in Malaga, Spain, attended a Christmas party held at a local eatery. Just six days later, 68 of the staff, which included intensive care nurses and physicians, all triple jabbed or recently tested for antigens, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2… This incident caught national attention, including prime minister Pedro Sanchez warning Spaniards to be careful. Now Andalucia health officials caution that other staff from hospitals avoid Christmas parties.” [source]
So despite being triple-jabbed, the shots didn’t protect 68 of 170 people. For those who have been tracking the relationship of “vaccination” to case rates, all this comes as no surprise. Research that’s not funded by conflicted sources like pharma or captured government agencies has not shown a causal relationship between increasing vax rates and decreasing case rates.
As we attempt to wrap our minds around the depth of “mass formation” pervading society today, I frequently remind myself to be compassionate.
Months ago, Commissioner Dean admitted that one of her teenage children had an adverse reaction to their jab. Her lack of empathy for Laura is puzzling, if not troubling. Dare she turn to face the possibilities of potential long-term consequences that we’ve been waving our arms about for nearly a year? It may be too much to bear.
Annette Huenke studied International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to heading west, she was a manager for an Auckland-based international publisher of peer-reviewed drug information journals. In 1992 she moved to Port Townsend, opening Ancestral Spirits Gallery in 1993. She is past vice president of the Jeff Co EDC and board member of The Boiler Room. She researches, writes and wanders the forests around PT.
Brava! Excellent article. Searing insight. Thank you! Dean et al show signs of mass hypnosis explained by Belgian Mattias Desmet.
It is very sad that some choose to look blindly through their rose-colored glasses.
It troubles me greatly to know that one of our commissioners (although not totally surprised) chose to travel outside the US at this time. If this pandemic is so bad – why take the risk? Or does she think she’s immune? And what will she bring home with her?
Bravo! “Privilege” is when you are an elitist on your honeymoon in Portugal, lecturing the little people back home about how they have to stay home and can’t even enter a bar or a restaurant without “papers please.”
For me, this well done article by Annette brings up a question…”what is the systemic relationship between an authority figure like Kate Dean and a compliant constituency like many in Port Townsend?” We know what the public gets, the illusion of security when you are riddled with fear. When you are frightened and fragmented, you can look for security in an official who says, “I know what to do and if you follow, I will guarantee all will be alright.” The other half of the relationship is what fascinates me. What does the bureaucrat in power get from the relationship?
The authority on the pedestal gets adulation and obedience which then gives them the ego support to feel righteous, important and powerful. Ms. Dean feels justified to denigrate, minimize and marginalize those who have a different view. Because of the compliant citizens who support her authority, she can look down on the minority who oppose her view with disdain rather than listening with an open mind.
Ms. Dean, like most who consider themselves an authority, needs those who project their power onto her just as much as those who are looking for security need an authority figure. This codependent relationship doesn’t, in the long run, benefit her, and it sure doesn’t benefit the frightened masses. Without those who put her on the pedestal, she loses the adoration that drove her to seek office. She needs them just as they need her. The conclusion is nobody really wins, both give up their true nature of critical, coherent thought, for the game of leader and follower. When the people lead the politicians follow, and when the politicians lead our freedom suffers. The “common good” is intimately tied to the individual’s good. Government is here to protect and serve all equally not just those who sustain our self image.
Brilliant observation, Ben. Kate Dean, her fellow commissioners, as well as Allison Berry, and Tom Locke before her, have been enabled by this community. It’s a classic co-dependent, abusive relationship but until more in this community decide to “leave” the relationship and question their abuse of authority, we’re all caught in the hamster wheel of lies, lockdowns, mandates and incessant gaslighting. Of course I hope she’s voted out of office, but would also like to see her, and her complicit, compliant comrades held accountable.
Kate Dean is certainly from a life of privilege. Most of us had to work hard for what we have. Privileged or not it is wrong to mandate that someone take a drug that they do not want. Many of those pushing the vaccination mandate likely just loved to experiment with drugs. So, their perspective is somewhat skewed. Unless they OD ‘ed or had their brain fried from experimenting they likely just think it is a good thing. You are free to experiment all you like, just not with me.
Craig, that’s a great thought. I’m from a period where alcohol was the big thing. The authorities gave us a chance to experiment, as long as we didn’t become a danger to anyone or ourselves. That’s how we learned. By being allowed, by making mistakes. And you know, most of us survived..
Excellent article, Annette. Kate Dean’s comments about “privilege” are notorious. Contrast that with comments about shutting down after New Year’s being a great opportunity to take a vacation. The irony stuns the conscience! I guess she doesn’t consider the hundreds of “little people” employees who will lose a week or more of income while the compliant overlords shut them down. Oh, THAT…. never thought of that. Dean is the privileged one projecting her white guilt on the rest of us. She can go back to her WOKE cave.
Jodi, I agree. Not to be vindictive or callous, perhaps she should lose her child to her feelings, what’s right and what’s wrong with the local population. Having lost a daughter after 17 hours alive, I know how it feels. But, sometimes people have to learn by hard lessons. If she does have it happen, I feel sorry for her loss, but wonder how sure she is of her motives concerning everyone else who agrees or disagrees with her.
Life is good on the gravy train