PUD “Slowly Moving” from Jab Mandates?
Not So Fast!

by Annette Huenke | Nov 11, 2022 | General

Jefferson County PUD leadership, including the General Manager, legal counsel and two-thirds of the elected commissioners (the Fab Four) have not gone so far as The Atlantic‘s Prof. Emily Oster in asking for “pandemic amnesty,” but they share her interest in ignoring a dark and still-open chapter from our Public Utility District’s recent history — just moving on, turning the page — pretending their mandate was not the crime that it was.  And still is.

At the November 1st PUD meeting, GM Kevin Streett dropped this lame stratagem at the very end of his manager’s report:

“Well, on our vaccination policy, we have come to agreement with the Laborers Union. We’re moving forward with non reps [non-represented employees] and contractors. I did talk to the IBEW late yesterday, and again this morning. We feel there is a pathway forward for us, so I will keep the board informed. But per the Governor’s resolution, that took some of what he had imposed, [it] went away. As of tomorrow, we will slowly be moving in a little bit different direction with our vaccination policy. And with that, we’re done.”

“A pathway forward.”  Moving “slowly,” in a “little bit different direction.” Weasel words for a weaselly policy shift. You’d think he was negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. No, simply reversing a year-long wrong-headed and deleterious decree.

Commissioners Jeff Randall and Ken Collins, General Manager Kevin Streett

My public comment followed immediately after.

“Good afternoon, Commissioners. Thank you. Ken. I hope that you’ve heard about the case in New York, where the court lifted the mandates for New York City employees. They have to have back pay, they get their jobs back, and the mandate was called arbitrary and capricious because of how they treated people differently, and other details. But the PUD has violated all the same things, and it is just, it’s beyond unconscionable that you’ve dragged your feet like this. The only PUD — twenty-six other PUDs did not do this. You did not need to do this, and you still manage to drag it out for a year. It is just unconscionable.

I don’t know — if this doesn’t make you feel ashamed, I don’t know what would. We knew a year ago that these products did not prevent transmission and infection. I will read to you from the Free Press article that went out last December, where Kurt Anderson is reminding you…”

I proceeded to read a paragraph from the Free Press Dec. 23rd, 2021 article wherein this courageous soon-to-be-fired lineman addressed the absurdity of the mandate. Counter-factual discrimination was the rule:

“One only has to look to the PUD roster to see this truth, after being fully vaccinated a PUD employee contracted covid. The fully vaccinated coworkers of this individual were allowed to continue working regular and overtime hours, the unvaccinated coworkers were sent home on unpaid time off for 10 days quarantine with the requirement to complete a covid test as directed by the county health department, option to use PTO [paid time off] allowed. Some online training classes were set up to help offset the unpaid time off.”

I returned to my own comment:

“These are exactly the sorts of things that were in that lawsuit in New York. And, frankly, you really deserve to be sued for this. It was so unjust, and the fact that the rest of the PUDs did not do that simply exposes you… it’s mendacious, is what it is.”

At that point, just over two minutes into my comment, board chair Ken Collins abruptly stopped me with “thank you for your comment,” moving on to ask if anyone else had a comment.  My audio still on, I responded “You’re not supposed to cut off the commenters, Commissioner…” I had intended to say more, but lost my train of thought with his autocratic interruption.

Arbitrary and Capricious

The New York Superior Court October 24th ruling laid the case bare, concluding that the mandate was “arbitrary and capricious” on numerous counts [see p. 13]. Here is an excerpt:

The vaccination mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance. If it was about safety and public health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued… we shouldn’t be penalizing people who showed up to work, at great risk to themselves and their families, while we were locked down. If it was about safety and public health, no one would be exempt. It’s time for the City of New York to do what is right and what is just… The terminated Petitioners are hereby reinstated to their full employment status, effective October 25, 2022, at 6:00AM.

And so should be the case with fired PUD employees (reinstate full employment with back pay) and with contractors. The National Law Review provided a Covid-19 litigation update in this Oct. 21st report, showing that legal efforts seeking redress for these injustices are nowhere near over:

Of late, the greatest source of new cases challenge the steps taken to stem the COVID-19 tide, in the form of vaccine mandates. The number of such lawsuits has surpassed 1,200. Many of these complaints opposed governmental mandates at all levels, Biden Administration efforts to implement mandatory vaccinations upon large swaths of the U.S. workforce often being the targets. Overall, however, approximately 70 percent of these lawsuits have been filed against individual employers that have adopted policies requiring vaccination as a condition of employment.

PUD Dishonest from the Outset in Union Contracts

For months now I’ve been Zooming in to PUD meetings to inquire about the timeline for dropping the bogus mandate. I was initially ignored, then GM Streett began blaming the holdup on the unions. A public records request did not confirm that to be true, but revealed that the IBEW business representative, Jonathan Finch, perceived the mandates to be an obstacle to enticing new hires in this communication with the PUD HR manager on July 22, 2022:

“Additionally, your team approached this office with a desire to roll back the vaccination mandate for work on the property. I have some ideas of what that might look like and would like to have further discussions. This too may have an impact on recruitment.”

The Zoom meeting where the incentives and jab mandates were covered happened on August 8th. The Open Records Act didn’t require recording of that internal meeting, so we are not privy to what happened there. We are also not privy to Finch’s singling out “work on the property” in the mandate “roll back.” What does this mean for those who work in the field? I also recently learned that legal counsel Paisner’s communications are not subject to the Open Records Act because he is not a PUD employee, he’s a consultant. Have strings been pulled behind the scenes since July to maintain the mandate proponents’ position until the clock runs out on Dec. 31st?

The preamble of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Laborers and International Brotherhood (IBEW) Unions presents the foundational lie:

“…The [Governor’s 21-14-COVID Vaccination Requirement] Proclamation prohibits state agencies from permitting contractors who engage in work for the agency if the personnel performing the contract (including subcontractor personnel) have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as set forth in the Proclamation. Jefferson County PUD has a contract with WSDOT and, as part of the performance of that contract our personnel are subject to the vaccination requirements set forth in the Proclamation.”

Fact Check: Misinformation!

Jefferson County was the only PUD out of 27 in Washington State to choose this route. The other 26 followed the Washington PUD Association’s (WAPUDA) guidance issued after consultation with the WSDOT, exempting PUD’s from the vax requirement. The drive to impose a mandate came from GM Streett, counsel Joel Paisner and Commissioners Collins and Randall.

Legal Counsel Joel Paisner – shielded from Public Records Requests?

The IBEW and Laborers’ Unions represent thousands of utility workers in Washington. JPUD employees appear to be the only ones in the state restricted by a mandate that was signed into effect on October 25th, 2021, strangely set to expire at the end of 2022. Why this artificial deadline so far out, when breakthrough infections were already occurring? Why is the Union official so tentative in his language, nearly as cautious as Streett, about dropping the mandate when the MOU says it can be ended at any time by mutual agreement?

Emergency Orders and No-Bid Contracts

There is suspicion that the molasses pace of rescinding the jab mandate has more to do with the bidding process than protecting public health. As we reported in February, the winter storm at the end of 2021 opened the door for a Declaration of Emergency, which opened the door for no-bid contracts. Miraculously, the outcome coincided with the Fab Four’s strident wish for a “fully vaccinated” PUD. The whole process was suspect. Our dock crew — the back-up electrical line crews that smaller PUDs rely on to get through emergencies like the one we just experienced — was FB Titan. They were essentially fired by the new JPUD policy, explained in our coverage at the time:

Streett said Titan left because of the mandates and “vaccinated crews were tough to come by.” He claimed that there were some locally, but they were busy. He admitted that Palouse “is a bit more expensive.” Commissioners Dan Toepper and Jeff Randall inquired further about bidding, with the latter asking if there will be a bid process. Streett replied, “For the next while Palouse will be our contractor… We’ve gone through our [RCW] obligations, it was difficult” referring to the challenge of finding vaxxed crews.

Yes indeedy, Palouse is a bit more expensive than Titan. Roughly 100%, at last tally. I won’t be expecting an honest accounting from our PUD any time soon. Maybe ever. Then there’s the added expense to the customer/owners, aka ratepayers, of now needing hiring incentives like moving and housing expenses and guaranteed overtime.

The PUD will cry foul, and say that recruitment has been difficult for most utilities for years. Exactly. That’s probably why all the other PUDs, and the investor-owned utilities too, decided that a jab mandate was a terrible idea.

Did the delay in rescinding it have anything to do with state bidding requirements or retaining Palouse through next year?

They can’t say they weren’t warned.

Free Press editor Ana Wolpin’s coverage of the PUD’s October 4, 2021 meeting detailed employee and customer-owners’ realistic concerns. She reiterated what she had already put in writing to the board:

1) Given the well-documented viral spread by those fully vaccinated for Covid, why are the unvaxxed being singled out as potential health threats? On its face, these mandates are simply a way to stigmatize those who are refusing experimental shots. There is a growing body of evidence that the mandates are political, not valid health measures.

2) Our PUD cannot afford to lose more staff. Attracting qualified employees has been a challenge for Jefferson PUD without this added restriction. Loss of staff if a mandate were to be enacted could potentially cripple our utility’s ability to function.

After absorbing what took place at that same meeting, I wrote to the commissioners and GM on Oct. 7th, 2021 with my observations:

Gentlemen:

I listened to the recording from Monday night’s meeting. I wish to raise a few concerns.

Jeff — to suggest that “debate” in the chat box is somehow problematic for a Public Utility District indicates contempt for democracy and the first amendment. You basically said “we gave you your three minutes (which we are not obligated to respond to), shut up and move along now. We’ll take it from here.”

Some of us are not willing to move along now. The chat box is one of the few remaining community forums that we have a paid right to access. Our voices are censored from local media, and now it seems you would like them confined to three easily-ignorable minutes per agency. Perhaps you would like them removed from the public square entirely.

Most of us in this small town do know someone who works in the JH hospital system. I’m hearing a different story than “the hospitals are full of unvaccinated covid patients.” I’ve heard that half of the covid patients are at least partially jabbed. I hear that JH is internally in chaos.

Hospital administrators bear great responsibility for this meltdown. Twelve-hour shifts, requirements for cross-training, unpopular managers and mandated jabs have all contributed to staffing issues you readily blame on the unvaccinated. Shrinking staff results in shrinking beds. Our hospital is not “full.” It is understaffed, and according to many who have or continue to work there, poorly run.

Ken — your intimation that those of us who listen to the many renowned scientific/medical experts (now censored) who have no ties to industry/NGOs, or the agencies that lubricate their influence, are plagued by confirmation bias is patently offensive. That suggests you feel you are above confirmation bias. Please…

Local electeds’ continual alluding to resisters as partisan is pure projection. A lifelong independent voter, my party activism consists solely of caucusing for Dennis Kucinich. I’ve wanted nothing to do with aligning with either of the majority parties, which I view as toxic wastelands.

I don’t imagine that the unions or either of you would be in favor of these mandate policies if they came from Trump, or if our governor was a Republican. I recall the video of Kamala Harris stating defiantly that she absolutely would not take a vaccine that Trump mandated. Now the administration she is part of is simply playing through with the same Operation Warp Speed conceived during Trump’s admin. The Dems, including the rank and file, are blindly unaware of their own unbridled political partisanship.

The jabs are not preventing transmission or infection. Their purported benefits are grossly exaggerated while the serious risks are minimized. Many whistleblowers are saying the hospitals are not full of unvaccinated people, rather people who have had one or two jabs. They’re threatened with their jobs for speaking out about it.

If these mandates were truly necessary for population-wide public health, there would be no exemptions for anyone, including congress, the “vaccine” makers, USPS and all the rest of the uber-menchen I sent along earlier.

This is not about public health. If you don’t have the time or desire to dig deeper than NIH, CDC and FDA special interest-conflicted Newspeak and do your own research, don’t condemn those of us who make it a priority.

Annette Huenke
District 1

Commissioner Collins replied less than 2 hours later:

Annette,
There is absolutely no point in trying to have a dialogue with you on vaccine mandates.

Kindly do not copy me on future emails as you will not get a response.

Sincerely,
Ken Collins

Commissioner Collins’ rejection of dialogue around “vaccine” mandates a year ago persists today, as revealed in his cutting me off mid-comment at the November 1st meeting. All too common in government today, he views himself above having to defend his position.

I saw him walking across the street in downtown PT a couple of weeks ago on a nice fall afternoon, wearing one of those blue polyester masks that don’t prevent viral or bacterial spread, but do shed microplastics when you breathe. Not a soul anywhere near him.

It appears that our rights end where his fear begins.

Port Townsend’s Fentanyl Forest: In Photos

by Jim Scarantino | Nov 5, 2022 | General

The approach to Port Townsend’s gateway runs past the city’s Fentanyl Forest, where addicts survive night to night, fix to fix, saying they have no drug problems unless they don’t have enough to stay high. This is where campers rousted from Kah Tai Park go.

Those kicked out of the county’s Caswell-Brown encampment on Mill Road find refuge there. Colonies of addicts have been living in the dark woods for years, rotating in and out of campsites cleared in the forest, piling up unimaginable heaps of trash and debris.

There are always newcomers, more broken people finding their way into the woods and occupying an abandoned tent or making a new spot for themselves among the thorns and bracken. Fentanyl, those inexpensive, deadly blue pills mass manufactured in Mexico and China, now matches or surpasses the popularity of methamphetamine, the long-running scourge of our community. Heroin has dropped pretty much out of sight.

At least with addicts inhaling the fumes of burning Fentanyl off tin foil instead of injecting heroin there are fewer needles littering the ground. But don’t forget alcohol. There are still plenty of liquor bottles and beer cans around most campsites.

What about the county’s $2 million Caswell-Brown camp set up for the homeless?

Jefferson County’s Caswell-Brown homeless shelter marks the entry to the Fentanyl Forest. It houses fewer than twenty people remaining from those relocated from the chaotic, tragic Fairgrounds camp. Managed under long-term contract by OlyCap, the camp is a gated community in the Fentanyl Forest, but still part of its surroundings.

OlyCap’s Executive Director Cherish Cronmiller maintains that Caswell-Brown hosts 17-23 residents. In April 2022, Kathy Morgan, OlyCap’s Director of Housing and Community Development, told the County Commissioners they were hosting 19 adults and one child.

According to information from the Jefferson County Sheriff Office obtained through a public records request, since April, OlyCap has trespassed — ejected from the camp — at least eight of the residents. If so, only a dozen people may currently be living there.

Reports from the Sheriff’s office and my interviews with former residents reveal that the camp experiences drug use and trafficking on a significant scale. One resident told us that 60% of the residents in the Caswell-Brown camp continue to use drugs. As for dealing in order to pay for drug use, he said, “Everyone has their own gig.”

Cronmiller told us she cannot deny that the campers are using. Abstinence or participation in a recovery program are not required as a condition of living there.

Quite a few of the tents and RVs at the Caswell-Brown camp are empty. Cronmiller told the Free Press that OlyCap is allowed to admit only those people who previously lived in the cleared out Fairgrounds camp. That explains why it has been turning away people despite being less than half full.

This makes no sense to the people in the woods who had hoped for a safe place to set up a tent. It makes no sense, period, but that is how the County Commissioners wrote their order establishing the camp as an emergency shelter.

The Fentanyl Forest stretches south to Mill Road where the multimillion-dollar Caswell-Brown camp is situated, west and north to Sims Way, and east to where Larry Scott Trail reaches the water.

2022 Google map aerial view of large wooded tract north of the mill. Dense tree cover camouflages the sprawling encampments scattered throughout the woods comprising the Fentanyl Forest.

It encompasses the city’s newly acquired Evans Vista parcel and land belonging to the Port Townsend Paper Company (“the mill”), claims the trees around the field with the state Department of Social and Health Services building (DSHS), and ends behind Les Schwab and the other businesses on that side of Sims Way at the first roundabout.

Community angels help dozens in the forest.

I tagged along with crews of volunteers who deliver sandwiches, hot meals and fresh water, but mostly love and encouragement to the forest dwellers. The teams are led by Michael McCutcheon who has been conducting his outreach for over ten years, including four years when he worked for Olympic Peninsula Health Services.

Those helping included an entire family with young children and a man just out of prison. A Marine vet who has overcome alcohol abuse and a woman who recently, tragically lost a child, were also among the volunteers.

McCutcheon knows something about addiction, desperation, withdrawal and recovery. He lost a large construction company — twice — and two wives to 38 years of opiate disorder. He recovered his life, he says, when he gave it to Jesus Christ. With invaluable support from the Food Bank, helping others find their pathway to freedom is what he does now, all the time, seven days a week, 24/7.

The photos I took on those outings tell more than I can convey in words. I have not photographed the inhabitants of the forest out of respect for them. None could be said to be at their best. As telling as the photos are, they don’t impart the sense of surrender and despair, the stench of feces and rotting food, of mildew and mold on everything.

Dishing out love and enchilada casserole

For each outing, the teams prepared food for forty people, the approximate population in the woods around the large grassy field to the east of the roundabout at the city’s entrance. This day’s meal was enchilada casserole. The week before it had been pastrami, ham and roast beef sandwiches. There’s always a side dish or salad, and always homemade cookies. The teams also distribute gallon jugs of water. McCutcheon started doing that after encountering a woman trying to wash her face with alcohol wipes.

Arriving at the field we parked by large cement blocks where the blacktop ended. The spot serves as a trailhead into the undergrowth. There we encountered a man who looked to be in his twenties, groggy and stumbling out of the bushes. He was soaked through after spending the night unconscious outdoors, oblivious to the rain. He gratefully accepted breakfast and McCutcheon asked his clothing sizes so he could return with something dry for the young man to wear.

Temporary home of former business owner.

The week before, we had encountered a man in a hole scooped out of a hillock at the edge of the forest. He shouted paranoid stuff at us when we asked if he needed water. McCutcheon and others in the team knew him. He had run a profitable pot shop but had been taken down by Fentanyl. He was gone a week later. All that was left was a kind of open grave.

Immediately behind the hillock is a derelict RV engulfed by blackberry bushes and mounds of refuse. It reeks of gasoline and solvents. On the first outing we pushed through branches arranged to create a barricade intended to keep out police. We learned that one of the young men in the trailer had OD’d the night before. He’d been saved when his roommate administered Narcan, a medication used to treat opioid overdoses. McCutcheon distributes Narcan and ensures that the camps remain stocked. It is needed far too often.

Four people live in the RV under the tarp.

On our second visit there were three men and a woman in the RV. One of the men had previously lived at the Mill Road Caswell-Brown camp. They were all using Fentanyl and meth. McCutcheon says that everyone out there who uses Fentanyl also uses meth, but not necessarily the other way around. We left water for them.

Several trails lead from here into the woods. Take any fork and you will almost certainly come across an inhabited camp and piles and piles of trash accumulated by current and past residents. How much of the stuff was stolen is hard to say.

There are appliances, welding equipment, expensive tools, rusted knives and axes, upholstered furniture and strollers, shopping carts, makeshift kitchens, small mountains of rotting clothing and bedding. Solar-powered lights and candelabra are nailed to trees along the pathways. There are hundreds of abandoned bicycles in the woods and thousands of bicycle parts.

Levi DuPuy, maintenance manager for the Port Townsend Paper Company says it costs the mill $8,000 to $10,000 to clean up each small to medium size camp. “As soon as we get a spot cleaned up, they’re back two weeks later,” according to DuPuy.

It is very, very grim, a human dumping ground for a county that pretends it doesn’t have a desperate addiction crisis with all its consequences: mental illness, environmental and health hazards, crime, violence and suicide.

But there are rare slivers of light.

We encountered a well-dressed woman walking a trail that would take her deeper into the woods. She had come to visit a friend living in a tent.

“Hi, Michael,” she said. Her eyes sparkled. Her clothes were color-coordinated from the stars on her Converse high tops to the scarf knotted at her neck.

She was the woman who had inspired McCutcheon to add jugs of water to his outreach. I recognized her from the Fairgrounds encampment. I had seen her pass out and crumple onto a muddy road. In the past year she had moved to Caswell-Brown, been trespassed from there, then found her “bottom” in a miserable existence in the woods.

Law enforcement intervened somehow and it turned her life around. She cried out for help and received the care and medications needed for her dual diagnosis of addiction and mental illness. She quoted the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous to McCutcheon and said, “You helped me a lot.”

“You look beautiful,” I told her. “Everyone says that now,” she replied. “Because it’s true,” McCutcheon and I said in unison. He was beaming with joy.

Pictures tell the rest of the story.

The following photos are but a small sampling of what’s under those trees. The featured photo (at the top of this article) shows a sprawling tent complex on city property. It is far too large to capture in one shot. The photo was taken in the approximate center of the complex, with debris and trash in every direction.

People in the photos below are all volunteers, part of the crew bringing food and supplies – not those who are dwelling in the forest.

Typical trash pile, on city property.

Elaborate camp behind Les Schwab.

Soggy tent and trash.

Two people and an undernourished large dog live here.

Choking, sobbing woman given help here.

Trail on city property.

Shelter hidden in the bushes.

Camp on city property.

Trash from large abandoned camp on mill property.

Camp on private property north of state DSHS building.

Camp on city property.

Camp and trail on city property.

Camp deep in woods.

Blue tents seem to be most popular, perhaps donated by some organization?

Huge tent complex on city or mill property.

Small tent at edge of larger campsite.

Kitchen and pantry. Pressurized tanks.

Another large tent complex.

Well established campsite, surrounded by debris. Several people live here.

Dozens of butane cannisters.

Trash just outside tent in lower right of photo.

A glimpse inside a tent.

People living under trash.

Delivering water to RV trapped by years of overgrowth.

Guitar in the trees at this compound.

Tidiest camp we found.

Soggy books, soggy camp.

Berry’s VAERS Conspiracy Theory:
Bloody Lies with a Hateful Twist
— Part Four —

by Stephen Schumacher | Nov 2, 2022 | General

Part One of this series addressed our health officer’s disinformation about the CDC’s cover-up of alarming safety signals from their v-safe database. While v-safe was developed specifically for the Covid roll-out — a digital app designed for registered vax recipients to easily report their side effects after the shots — there is another vaccine reporting system also in place: VAERS.

VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, has been the CDC’s primary tool for monitoring vaccine safety since 1990. It was established soon after the U.S. Congress removed all liability from the vaccine industry for their products. A system mostly used by health professionals, it was the public’s way to report injuries and deaths from vaccines for 30 years (until v-safe arrived with the Covid-19 injections).

VAERS differs from v-safe in several important ways. VAERS reporting is far more complex and detailed — not a user-friendly app, but a lengthy undertaking that must be completed on-line or, for individuals daunted by the process, by phone with the help of CDC staff. It does not provide “near real time” reports as v-safe was designed to do.

But most significantly, VAERS is the system that captures deaths following vaccination. Since only a living person who got the shot submits feedback to v-safe, deaths after vaccination are not reported on that app.

Our final Halloween “Berry Dropping” takes a look at how VAERS not only has been providing evidence of damage from Covid-19 shots, but more importantly the unprecedented death count since this new mRNA technology first rolled out. And how Allison Berry (and the CDC) have misrepresented that data and tried to discredit VAERS reports submitted in an effort to deny vax injuries and deaths.

_______________________________

BERRY blaming anti-vaxxers for scary VAERS evidence:

“Unfortunately VAERS,
which was created by the CDC as a safety monitoring system,
has been largely hijacked by anti-vaccine groups,
who have gone in and actually started inputting false claims
into the database and then pointing back to the false claims
that they just put into the database as proof
for the lack of safety of the vaccines.”
(10-20-22 BOH meeting)

FACT CHECK:

Health Officer Allison Berry stated as fact this wild, baseless conspiracy theory slandering the same people she lawlessly banned from restaurants. It justifies further oppression by accusing them of being so evil that they’d collude to make up countless detailed death and injury reports, then laboriously enter each illegal false report into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, killing folks by ginning up hesitancy about the lifesaving experimental injections.

This isn’t just a big lie — it verges on blood libel.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so what is Berry’s evidence? Cue the crickets, for she provides none.

I’ve searched the Internet every way I can think of, and I couldn’t find any evidence of vaccine skeptics inputting false VAERS reports, much less the widescale conspiracy that Berry alleges. Here are some typical search results:

As can be seen from these results (and all others I’ve found), what’s alleged by anti-anti-vaxxers is that vaccine skeptics make false claims about the VAERS database, not that they input false claims into the VAERS database.

But it wasn’t momentary confusion on Berry’s part when she spun this tale for the Jeffco Board of Health on October 20, 2022, because she’s been harping on this canard at least since September 16, 2021 (two weeks after excluding the unjabbed from restaurants) when she told the Board of Health:

“There are groups that have started putting in false information into VAERS, and then going back around and saying, ‘I found it in a public database. See, you’re hiding it!’ And that’s a real thing that’s happening unfortunately by some members of the anti-vaccine contingent. And that is usually where that ‘data’, quote-unquote, is coming from.”

Contrary to Berry’s pipedream about vaccine skeptics blithely putting in false VAERS information, consider that everyone laboriously entering their personal documentation into VAERS gets warned by the CDC that “knowingly filing a false VAERS report is a violation of Federal law … punishable by fine and imprisonment.”

As one commentator observed, “It’s a federal crime to file a false VAERS report. VAERS verifies reports and vax-status including type/brand, date and location. You think ‘anti-vaxxers’ are getting vaxxes (they don’t want) so they can risk fed imprisonment by filing a false report?” 

Cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, who has filled out many VAERS reports (including for death following the Covid vax), underscores the threat of legal action for falsifying information. And the process of filing is challenging, he says, even for a medical professional:

“It takes a lot of effort [to fill out a VAERS report], it takes about a half an hour filling out multiple forms… falsification of a form is punishable by imprisonment or federal fines, very serious. These deaths that the CDC is telling us are happening after the vaccine, I can tell you, are real.”

Moreover, now that an unhinged Department of Homeland Security is classifying vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories (like Berry’s?) as a “Terrorism Threat”, DHS would hardly treat lightly any bonafide disinformation war against the VAERS system such as Berry imagines — each false report a self-documented felony.

Unlike most conspiracy theories, Berry’s would be an easy one to prove and prosecute if true, especially since it targets a demonized “terrorist” group, and pharma-funded media would have a field day with such a story — but I haven’t heard of even one lone nut accused of trying to do this, much less any widescale campaign large enough to move the needle on the millions of VAERS reports. 

To the contrary, a detailed University of London analysis of early VAERS death reports found:

“Contrary to claims that most of these reports are made by lay-people … or those with malign intent … and are hence clinically unreliable, we identified … 72% authored by health service employees.

“50% died in less than 48 hours after receiving their COVID-19 vaccination. This increases to 80% when we extend to the first week post-vaccination.

“All 250 people in this interim collection were reported as COVID-19 deaths. This means that all, even those who received one or more negative test results, are erroneously counted in the officially reported national COVID-19 death tally.

“The quantity and quality of data provided by the USA VAERS dataset is capable of supporting meaningful research.”

The Elephant in the Room vs. the Naked Emperor

Why in the world are Berry and her ilk so intent on cooking up absurd storylines to discredit and distract from the plain results coming out of the FDA & CDC’s own Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System? The latest picture revealed by OpenVAERS is worth a million wounds:

The elephant in the room is that:

• Just 3 covid vaccines have accounted for 1,447,520 adverse event reports in less than 2 years, massively more than the 39,000 reports for all vaccines in a typical year, and 62% higher than the grand total of all other vaccines combined throughout VAERS’ 32-year history.
• 31,696 deaths reported in just 23 months from mRNA covid shots alone is more than triple the 9,655 deaths reported in 32 years from a combined list of 112 other vaccines.
• There are 150-300 deaths reported to VAERS per year from all other vaccines combined; in 2021 alone, 21,382 death reports from just the covid shots were filed.
  

How can this be?  Either:

This rise represents a terribly-concerning unexplained safety signal that must be investigated and understood before injection roll-out can ethically continue;

— OR —

Don’t believe your lying eyes, because: “anti-vaxxers”, “correlation doesn’t equal causation”, “trust the science”, “safe & effective”, and other propaganda non-sequiturs.

The Hippocratic Oath for physicians to “do no harm”, the Nuremburg Code, and the Precautionary Principle all dictate that barely-tested experimental interventions must be considered guilty of possible harms until proven innocent, and experiments on live subjects (currently 71% of the world’s population) may not proceed without resolving potentially-deadly safety signals.

Beyond its role as a signal, the 48-hour time-to-onset in half the VAERS reports is a strong indicator of causality, confirmed by the many cases of “worsening of a side effect following repeated doses within the same individual” found by Israeli Health Ministry study of its own vaccine safety data.

Berry pretends to know that the unprecedented rise in VAERS reports is due to fraud and overcounting, but given hospital disregard and disincentives, it is far more likely that VAERS deaths are being underreported by an estimated 40 times, which matches the underreporting factor found when recently-released v-safe data was compared with VAERS.

This VAERS alarm unfortunately aligns with chilling insurance company statistics revealing “there has been a 40% increase in death rates for 18- to 64-year-old individuals across the U.S., when comparing Q3 2021 data to pre-pandemic data from the same period in 2019 … that cannot be explained simply by covid infections themselves.”

Beyond the numbers and for all to see, ever since injection roll-out there’s emerged an unending new drumbeat of athlete cardiac arrests on the playing field, boosted reporters collapsing on-camera, high-profile health failures post-injection, “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” victims, and PR efforts to normalize myocarditis in children.

Berry’s World of Make-Believe

In the face of all these signals and in full “see no evil” mode, Berry reported to the Board of Health on October 20 that:

“Severe side effects from these vaccines are incredibly incredibly rare, on the order of less than 10 per million doses delivered.”

Not “rare” nor even “incredibly rare”, Berry’s “incredibly incredibly rare” claim of near-zero severe effects is gaslighting the vaccine-injured by saying their experiences never happened, they are just making it up, and their million+ VAERS reports (72% by healthcare providers) were all fraudulent. Move along, nothing to see here.

There’s a great divide between Berry’s rose-colored world of 0.001% severe side effects versus the 33% actually found in the CDC v-safe data.

There’s a huge credibility gap between Berry telling County Commissioners on November 15, 2021 that “No one else has died from their COVID-19 vaccine. I believe it’s 11 nationwide” versus the 18,461 deaths underreported to VAERS at the time of her statement.

Berry is entitled to believe whatever she wants, but the problem is that Jefferson County Commissioners, Board of Health, and KPTZ Radio listeners take her fact-free pronouncements on faith, not realizing the many times she has been caught spinning outright fabrications and parroting big pharma propaganda.

Her VAERS conspiracy fantasy is just a particularly telling example, since her other statements about masking, covid deaths, case testing, vaccine trials, safety, and efficacy have likewise been exposed as vacuous misinformation throughout this series and earlier PTFP articles.

Berry is not an authority to be trusted. Her emergency powers arose out of fear, but the outsized authority she claims over our county, along with the dangerous injections she pushes, are what’s really scary.

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“The words of this wizard stand on their heads…
help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain.”
— Gimli in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

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Bats in the Berry Belfry:
Vax Efficacy Disinformation
— Part Three —

by Annette Huenke | Oct 31, 2022 | General

BERRY: nothing but hope for vaccine efficacy

“The biggest thing that we can do to protect ourselves
and our community as we move into the fall is to get vaccinated,
both with our Covid boosters and get our flu shot.
That’s how we protect ourselves, our neighbors
and our health care system as we move into the fall.”
(9-26-22 BOCC meeting)

FACT CHECK:

By now, it is an indisputable fact that the Covid jabs don’t prevent infection or transmission. Admit it — just about every jabbed person you know has had Covid, at least once. The “vaccines” don’t protect granny or the grandkids. On the contrary, latest research shows that they degrade the human immune system and lead to negative efficacy (more on that later). One can only wonder if our public health officer has caught whatever it is that President Biden has.

Delusion and speculation have been the bedrock of nearly all Allison Berry’s pronouncements, like this one from the June 7th, 2021 BOCC meeting wherein she performs the art of magical thinking on the survival of two patients who’d just been in ICU with severe cases of COVID-19:

“In both of those cases, we think the primary thing that has kept them alive was they were vaccinated. They were both incredibly ill prior to contracting COVID-19 and very likely would not have survived if they were not vaccinated.”

Two people with life-threatening comorbidities nearly died, officially from the virus, after their jabs.  But they were saved by the jabs.  Uh huh.

When the spectacular failure of the new mRNA therapies could no longer be bluffed, senior players got busy reworking the script. Had it not been so tragic, it would have been comical to witness pharma apologists’ gyrations to concoct a new narrative, eventually landing on the wobbly claim that the toxic brews lessened symptom severity and the chance of hospitalization and death. None of those outcomes were part of the trial endpoints, but never mind. The controllers turned up the spin machine to convince the public that the data supported those claims.

Associate Editor at the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dr. Peter Doshi had already revealed in an October 21, 2020 editorial that this was nonsense:

Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said, “Ideally, you want an antiviral vaccine to do two things . . . first, reduce the likelihood you will get severely ill and go to the hospital, and two, prevent infection and therefore interrupt disease transmission.”7

Yet the current phase III trials are not actually set up to prove either (table 1). None of the trials currently under way are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospital admissions, use of intensive care, or deaths. Nor are the vaccines being studied to determine whether they can interrupt transmission of the virus.

Five months later, US Congressman Thomas Massie publicly took the CDC to task for lying about the efficacy of the jabs, in order “to strengthen vaccine confidence.” Our public health officer spent years at university learning this stock in trade, and she does not divaricate.

The Medical School Incubation Process

Allison Berry Unthank graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2013. According to her LinkedIn account, Allison Berry is a Medical Doctor who also earned a Masters in Public Health with an epidemiology and biostatistics focus (2010-2011). Her bachelors degree was in biochemistry and music.

In 2018, while she was working for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in the addiction medicine department, she was appointed county health officer by the Clallam County Board of Health. In July of 2021, authority over Jefferson County citizens was added to her plate by our BOH.

Just eight years out of university, she assumed outsized medical authority over 109,000 residents of the north Olympic Peninsula.

Healthcare provider statistics aggregator Vitals.Com (where she gets very mixed reviews) cites Allison Berry’s specialty as family medicine.  They then list as proficiencies, one would imagine — weight loss, contraception, family planning, checkups, influenza and — immunization. Family medicine began revolving around “immunization” after the vaccine makers were absolved of liability for harm from their products in 1986 — just one year after our young medical marvel was born.

Note the color alert in the background:  Be Afraid, Be Berry Afraid!

Dr. Berry was anointed as our new public health officer by the BOH at the July 15, 2021 meeting. Oddly, she strove to convince that nest of pharma conformists that she would somehow deliver an element of neutrality to her new position:

“I take public service incredibly seriously and I take the role as an independent scientific advisor for this region very seriously.”

“I’m hopeful that I can bring a lot of strength to the position and that commitment to scientific independence.”

Berry does not have a degree in epidemiology, thus is not an epidemiologist, as some of our commissioners have claimed. She is not a scientist, as she herself intimated in the comments above. Above all, she is not independent. Education at the Johns Hopkins University system is akin to being cultured in a petri dish. Step outside the medium and you shall perish. Berry has brought years of medical-industrial complex indoctrination to her position, not strength.

Medical universities are largely funded by research grants from pharma and pharma-captured government agencies. Medical doctors are not educated about vaccines, nutrition or natural cures. They are taught that vaccines are safe and effective, and that deviating from the CDC schedule is verboten. They are taught to “persuade, not inform” to address vaccine hesitancy.  PTFP editor Ana Wolpin provided an incisive overview of the pharmaceutical industry’s grip on medical schools in the local Vaccine Study Group’s 2017 publication, Vacci•nation, for which she was graphic designer and primary author.

Johns Hopkins is only one of those bought medical schools, but it may be the apex in terms of worldwide influence, as they have teamed up with globalist vaccine pushers like the Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum to “war-game” pandemic readiness tabletop exercises since 2001, including Event 201.

Say it, say what you said, say it again

Many will recognize that maxim as a time-honored public speaking device used to hammer home a message. It’s effective. More than the mRNA jabs, by a long shot. (Sorry, that was irresistible.) Pharma mavens, including our own, have been deploying that tactic, shamelessly, throughout this charade and it’s been memorialized in various walk-it-back videos people like Fauci and Birx would prefer to forget.

Two years later, confessions reveal: “I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection.” – Dr. Deborah Birx, July 2022.

White House Covid response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx testified in a June 23, 2022 US Congressional hearing that she knew of Covid re-infections as early as December 2020.
Asked “When the government told us that the vaccine couldn’t transmit it, was that a lie or was that a guess?” Birx replied, “I think it was HOPE that the vaccine would work in that way.”

Now that the big foot has come off the “pandemic” accelerator, and federal and state funds are drying up, the county budget demands that Dr. Berry’s oversight of JeffCo be reduced to 12 hours a week. The Monday morning perpetual fear campaign euphemistically known as “updates” delivered at the weekly BOCC meetings for the last 2-1/2 years, broadcast to the most receptive audience one could hope for on local radio station KPTZ (it was their most popular “program”), will now happen monthly.

Seeing the Overton window closing, Berry laid it on thick at the October 17th BOCC meeting, pitching the ever more urgent need to be up to date on your boosters because another two elderly, chronically ill jabbed souls needlessly passed away because they weren’t jabbed enough. Loath to miss an opportunity to condemn the unjabbed, she tossed out one of her baseless warnings that we’re only seeing severe disease in the “unvaccinated,” then went on to un-say that and press on with her Birxian fantasy that the heralded new jabs (same contents as the old jabs plus a big puff of hot air from an 8-mice “study”) might prevent transmission. If enough people take it.

“We are not seeing a rise in severe disease at this point. It is still too early to tell what the effect will be of the bivalent vaccine on transmission, but we are hopeful it will reduce transmission, but we haven’t seen enough uptake yet. We definitely encourage more folks to go out and get vaccinated. It is really important to reduce transmission as we move into the fall.”

The 8-mouse study, on which pharma pinned its argument for approval of the new bivalent booster, was a complete failure in stopping transmission. When the mice in the Moderna trial were challenged with the Ba.5 variant which the Ba.5 booster is supposed to protect against, all eight of them became infected with Covid. Every last mouse.

The first five jabs that we pinned our hopes on may have let us down, but this next one, jab number SIX — same technology, for which once again there is zero evidence of ability to reduce transmission, only a study that says it does not — this one really really really just might work if we only can get enough uptake… if we repeat our mantra to “encourage more folks to go out and get vaccinated” enough times. So says our hopeful spin doctor.

Negative ‘Vaccine’ Efficacy

Dr. Berry and her ilk continue to attribute to Covid — with singular diagnostic proof coming from the dubious PCR test — deaths which were imminent in the chronically ill, elderly and immunocompromised people (and were most likely hastened by the jabs). Since this population-wide phase III clinical trial began in December of 2020, evidence has mounted that the gene therapies are actually weakening immune systems, exacerbating and reactivating existing or latent conditions like herpes and cancer, and causing new disease. Vaccine spike proteins have been found in shingles blisters!

The more jabs you take, the more likely you are to get Covid. The jury has returned the verdict on negative efficacy. You would think that having their “expert” noses regularly rubbed in the colossal failure of these clot shots to prevent “break-through infections” in just about everyone who has taken them would give one pause to fall back and regroup.

Nope. That would be unwise. Even the New York Times counseled against that crazy critical thinking business. Instead, dig the heels in deeper to hedge your bets on keeping the scared silly scared silly. There’s great benefit to that tactic, as that team will bat for you till the end. It’s certainly working in much of Jefferson County.

Enough of Allison Berry’s evidence-free pronouncements. Show us the Science!

Our young, unseasoned public health officer instituted the first dine-in vaccine mandate in the country in September 2021.  Her power was given lift by her predecessor Tom Locke, license by our county commissioners, and full support from the communities’ population they’d already managed to frighten out of their wits.

That science-free, oppressive and likely illegal diktat descended with tremendous cost. Clallam and Jefferson County restaurateurs lost tens to hundreds of thousands in unrecoverable income, their employees lost wages and endured unrelenting stress, and the unjabbed — whose first amendment rights were fully crushed — lost trust and good will that may never be regained.

As the walls come tumbling down, we can only expect a mad scramble to retain the authority they’ve wielded over the last nearly three years.  We have been warned.

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Vax Trial Fraud Disinfo:
Another Berry Trick-or-Treat
— Part Two —

by Kincaid Gould | Oct 30, 2022 | General

BERRY on pharma fraud during vaccine trials:

“[I have been] asked if there have been any valid
concerns raised about Pfizer clinical trials,
about poor design or data falsification…
And the answer is no, actually.”
(2-14-22 BOCC meeting)

FACT CHECK:

Last February, Dr. Berry answered a question about whether or not there was the possibility of fraud in Pfizer’s (still ongoing) clinical trials. “[T]he answer is no, actually,” she said.

According to Dr. Berry, these “were very high quality trials,” and they have been “very heavily scrutinized.” She also pooh-poohed the suggestion that any degree of fraud could have occurred, proclaiming that no “valid concerns… about poor design or data falsification” had been documented.

Enter Brook Jackson

A Certified Clinical Research Professional with almost two decades of experience in a clinical trial setting, Brook Jackson joined Ventavia Research Group in 2020 as a Regional Director. Ventavia had been contracted to carry out clinical research on Pfizer’s vaccine before Jackson signed on, and she began noticing issues as soon as she started work there.

When she brought concerns such as “failure to preserve blinding,” “vaccine dilution errors,” “patient safety issues,” “enrollment and injection of ineligible trial participants,” and “falsification of data” to her supervisors, no actions were taken to remedy the situation. Jackson ultimately related the issues to the FDA, but not without repercussions: just hours after talking with the FDA under supposed confidentiality as a whistleblower, Ventavia contacted Jackson to inform her that she was “not a good fit” for the company and that she was fired.

Brook Jackson was fired from Pfizer contractor Ventavia after bringing safety concerns to the attention of her superiors and the FDA. Watch the BMJ’s 6-minute video of her story.

In its interview with Jackson, the BMJ included a photo Jackson took of a “plastic biohazard bag [that] contained used needles” which should have been disposed of in a sharps box.

(Meta’s fact checker Lead Stories quickly responded by decrying the coverage done by the “British Medical Association’s news blog.”  Citing as evidence to rebut the claims of fraud were spokespeople from both Ventavia and Pfizer, the former alleging that “no part of [Jackson’s] responsibilities concerned the clinical trials at issue.”)

Jackson’s case was sealed for more than a year, until early 2022 when the government elected not to intervene in the case. Pfizer filed a motion to dismiss the case in part on the grounds that “the complaint alleges FDA was the victim of ‘fraud’ even though the agency has known about [Jackson’s] allegations for years, has not withdrawn the [vaccine] approvals in question, and continues to express confidence in the data underlying those approvals.” Therefore, even if the court were to find that Pfizer had committed fraud, it wouldn’t matter because the government would have bought their product anyway.

On October 4, the federal government then made a curious move when it submitted a statement of interest supporting Pfizer’s motion to dismiss the case: “[Jackson]’s complaint lacks factual allegations that would support a plausible claim that Ventavia’s clinical trial violations masked problems with the vaccine that were so serious that FDA would have withheld or withdrawn its authorization of the vaccine had it known the truth, such that Pfizer’s subsequent claims for Government payment for the vaccine could be rendered ‘false or fraudulent’ under the FCA.”

Jackson’s attorneys responded on October 27, characterizing the government’s response as an “unusual pleading.” “[T]he government sought this court’s extraordinary seal powers over this case for a substantial time period because of how seriously they took the pleadings as fully legally sufficient as plead…. Had the government truly believed… that [Jackson]’s complaint was devoid of evidence, they would never have required such ample time to investigate.”

Jackson’s attorneys insinuate that if the government was aware of fraud by Pfizer, it could potentially abuse its power to seal the case in order to keep the case out of the public eye — something it succeeded in doing for almost a year before Jackson took her evidence to the BMJ. One can only wonder how many people would have chosen not to take the vaccine if they had known what Jackson knew when she knew it.

As of the publication of this Free Press article, the court has still not ruled on the motion to dismiss.

Jackson’s claims of wrongdoing have received a lot of press, but they aren’t the only reason to suspect fraudulent activity in Pfizer’s clinical trials.

Who is Maddie de Garay?

Earlier this month, Dr. Berry received a simple question: “Who is Maddie de Garay?” In a long-winded response where she not only failed to identify the young teenager by name, but also avoided describing any of the many problems de Garay suffered (and continues to suffer from) immediately after receiving her second Covid-19 shot as part of Pfizer’s clinical trials, Berry also managed to digress from the topic and harp on such things as “right wing talk radio.”

Maddie’s mother, Stephanie de Garay, says that “[i]n less than 24 hours of her second dose, [her previously] healthy and vibrant 12-year-old had a severe systemic adverse reaction.” In her mother’s words, Maddie is now “in a wheelchair, receives all her nutrition and medicine through a feeding tube, cannot control her neck, has constant stomach, back, neck and body pain, vision problems, tinnitus, can’t feel from the waist down, allergic reactions, dysautonomia and… her condition is declining.”

Maddie’s parents have given numerous interviews and even testified on what happened to their daughter (see videos here and here).

Stephanie de Garay testifies on her daughter’s behalf in Washington: “She had severe chest pain. The way she described it, it felt like her ‘heart was being pulled out of her neck.’”

In Pfizer’s report on its trial, there was one participant listed with an ongoing adverse event at the trial cutoff date. Maddie’s adverse events were ongoing when the trial ended, meaning that either the description of that participant, who was “eventually diagnosed with functional abdominal pain,” referred to Maddie, or that Pfizer omitted Maddie from its report to the FDA altogether. Pfizer deemed the adverse event unrelated to the individual’s injections.

Berry sent warm thoughts Maddie’s way over the airwaves noting that she “hope[s] she gets well,” but only after hammering down that “[i]t’s very difficult to say whether or not this girl was even in the trial.” This is an easily contestable claim. Perhaps one of the most convincing pieces of supporting evidence is a recorded phone call between Maddie de Garay’s parents and Dr. Robert Frenck, lead author of the study on the safety of Pfizer’s vaccine in adolescents.

When Dr. Berry then attempted to quash Maddie’s story by suggesting that “it’s just really unclear that those concerns are related to the vaccine,” it became obvious why she had opted not to describe Maddie’s condition in any detail — her paltry ‘lack of causality’ argument is utterly unconvincing and talking about Maddie’s reactions could have potentially fueled local ‘vaccine hesitancy.’

Even if Maddie’s declining physical condition was not a result of vaccination, the situation still merits investigation. To date, this has not occurred, and the de Garay family has been left to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills out of pocket. Maddie was one of 1,131 participants in her trial who received the shot, meaning that her extremely severe adverse reaction occurred at a rate of around 884 per million.

Pfizer is accused of fraud not only in the US, but the EU, too.

These are two of the most notable instances of fraud allegations in the context of Pfizer’s Covid-19 shots, but not the only ones.

Concerns have surfaced following the court-ordered release of Pfizer’s clinical trial documents requested under FOIA by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT). A non-profit organization comprised of international scientists and medical experts, PHMPT advocates for data relied upon by the FDA to license Covid-19 vaccines to be publicly available for independent review and analysis. After the FDA attempted to keep the data sealed for 75 years, and Pfizer intervened to also delay its exposure, the court ordered release at a rate of 55,000 pages per month starting on March 1, 2022.

With so much data being released, many eyes have been necessary to pore over the many documents. The FDA has still not yet finished producing all of Pfizer’s data, so it can be difficult to draw certain conclusions until it has released all of its publications.

Just recently, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office announced an investigation into vaccine contracts signed by the EU and Pfizer, opening up the possibility of fraudulent financial activity.

And let’s not forget Pfizer’s track record of paying out multi-million dollar settlements for fraudulent practices (see here, there and everywhere), including what was the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the US DOJ.

Silencing the alarm and refusing to acknowledge that there even might be fraud going on in Pfizer’s clinical trials as Berry has attempted to do is disingenuous, although perhaps unsurprising given that her incessant exaltation of the vaccines over the past two years has married their two fates together.

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Disinformation Trick-or-Treats:
Be Afraid, Be Berry Afraid!
— Part One —

by Ana Wolpin | Oct 29, 2022 | General

“Jefferson doesn’t have the level of population
immunity that others do, because it did such a good job
controlling the virus before.”
— Dr. Allison Berry
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Public Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry has presided over a pandemic response that boasts the most draconian mandates in the state. Primary series vaccination uptake is reported to be 80% in Jefferson County, the third highest statewide. And at 32.1%, uptake of the bivalent booster is double the state average.

The result is that JeffCo is currently identified as one of the highest-risk counties in Washington, often with some of the worst case numbers and surely the greatest ongoing fear quotient.

Wrap your head around the bizarre non-sequitur (above) of why we have the worst level of immunity statewide. It is precisely because her destructive mandates and high vax uptake were so successful, she explains, that we are now the most vulnerable.

It is absurd pronouncements like this, delivered with impunity, that make it so difficult to narrow down Berry’s disinformation statements to a short list.

Despite her mantra that the shot will protect you, we need only look at all the double-vaxxed and boosted public figures championing these leaky injections who have succumbed to the virus.  Often more than once.  Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Biden top that list nationally, and locally are County Commissioners, Port Townsend’s City Manager, most of the City Council, and members of the Board of Health.

Nonetheless, embracing Einstein’s definition of insanity, Berry’s response is that more of the toxic mRNA spike protein brew will fix that. Even as the two-year fear narrative dissolves in admission after admission after admission of false information perpetrated on a traumatized public, Berry still continues to push for more dangerous shots in arms and for useless masking that destroys our human connections.

As with our year-end TOP TEN 2021 Spin Doctor Disinformation Statements, four of us have contributed to this series — the editorial team (Annette Huenke, Stephen Schumacher and Ana Wolpin), plus Free Press contributor Kincaid Gould.

Part One begins with a fact-check of Berry’s inconsistent claims about v-safe.

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BERRY on the CDC’s cover-up of v-safe data:

“V-safe [is] actually publicly available datasets.
Nobody had to be sued to release them because
they’re already publicly available.”
(10-20-22 BOH meeting)

FACT CHECK:

The above two assertions about v-safe are outright lies. Curiously, on October 10 Berry told the county commissioners a different story: “There is an anti-vaccine group that has been suing the CDC to get access to this raw data.”

Spinning the story one way for the commissioners, then doing a complete about-face for the Board of Health (BOH) ten days later, she lied that “nobody had to be sued.”

“I think it’s important to kind of review that for folks,” Berry riffed. At that Oct. 20 meeting she insisted that v-safe data had always been publicly available. “They are public access datasets,” she assured the BOH. “You can go in right now and track your side effects related to getting vaccines.”

What is v-safe and why has the CDC avoided transparency?

V-safe is a phone app developed to “tell CDC about any side effects after getting the COVID-19 vaccine.” It was designed to monitor adverse reactions, to capture problems following the experimental shots initially identified in pharma’s trials. The American public was told that v-safe would detect safety signals more rapidly and reliably than VAERS and that all v-safe data collected would be transparent.

Contrary to Berry’s assertion to the Board of Health that these are “are public access datasets,” the opposite has been true. Not only has the CDC hidden v-safe data for most of the past two years, the agency spent a year playing legal games — dodging FOIA requests and multiple lawsuits — to keep the data under wraps.

As reported in my March 2021 Free Press article, information from the v-safe Active Surveillance system was publicly disclosed for only the first five days of America’s Covid vaccine rollout, December 14-18, 2020:

“Over those five days, more than 5,000 “Health Impact Events” immediately following injections were identified. On December 18 alone, 2.79% of people who received first dose shots—3,150 out of 112,807—used this smartphone app to report reactions so severe that they were ‘unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work, [and/or] required care from a doctor or other health professional.’”

When initial v-safe reporting undermined pharma’s Safe and Effective narrative that the federal government had committed over a billion dollars to promote, the data went dark. Only one other snapshot from v-safe — titled “First Month of Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring” — can be found in CDC materials. In a 2021 “Safety Update” justifying the shots, the CDC included this table below. It showed high percentages of “local and systemic reactions” like headaches, fatigue, fever, myalgia and joint pain, the reactions health officials spin as “proof the vaccines are working.”

Those signals alone were significant enough to raise red flags. More important is what the CDC avoided disclosing. What this first-month report didn’t show were severe adverse events, emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and other serious outcomes which, as revealed below, were formidable. Following that incomplete cherry-picked snapshot, for nearly two years all v-safe information was then covered up.

In June 2021 Aaron Siri, lead counsel for the nonprofit Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for release of the CDC’s V-safe data.

6/24/21 FOIA request for “All de-identified data submitted to v-safe since January 1, 2020.”

“Mandating that millions of Americans inject a product for which they cannot hold the manufacturer liable if the product injures them demands complete transparency, especially when it comes to releasing the data underlying the product’s safety. FOIA exists precisely so that Americans can obtain transparency, and, in this case, obtain the data which supports the CDC’s claims to intensive safety monitoring.”

After a response from the CDC that the data requested “could not be located,” an appeal was filed in August 2021. A second, reworded FOIA request was submitted on behalf of ICAN in September.

When that request was also sidestepped, a lawsuit was filed in December.

Page 1 of first lawsuit from ICAN petitioning for release of the CDC’s v-safe data.

The CDC continued their attempts to hide the data. A third FOIA request was submitted in April 2022, and in May another lawsuit was filed. It had been almost one year since the first FOIA request was submitted.

The second lawsuit declared that ICAN “intends to make all v-safe data immediately available to the public so that independent scientists can immediately analyze that data.” It referenced the need “to address serious and ongoing issues with the vaccine program, including waning immunity [and] adverse reactions.” Preventing independent scientists from reviewing this data, the suit argued, was “at best, irresponsible and unethical.”

CDC Ordered to Release Data

While Berry lied to county commissioners that “nobody had to be sued” for v-safe data to be made public, the record shows that it took multiple FOIA requests and two lawsuits to force the CDC’s hand. Fifteen months from the initial FOIA request and twenty-one months after the vaccine rollout, a court order required the CDC to provide the v-safe data on or before September 30, 2022.

When forced to comply with the court order, the CDC said the v-safe files would be released to ICAN, but claimed they lacked the ability to post the information on their own website. After a year of maneuvering to hide this data, the agency disingenuously wrote that they had planned to post the data on their website, but had “not yet completed the technical and administrative processes required to post data.”

V-safe files were sent to ICAN just one month ago, at 6 pm on September 30. What the CDC claimed they lacked in “technical and administrative” proficiency to do for 21 months, ICAN’s modest staff accomplished over a weekend. On October 3, three days after the grassroots nonprofit obtained five digital files comprised of initial data from more than ten million users, ICAN launched a user-friendly web dashboard allowing the international science community and other members of the public to view the data themselves and perform interactive searches on that data.

ICAN, not the CDC, is responsible for making this information accessible, nearly all of it (86% as shown above) reported to v-safe in the first six months of the rollout. The multi-billion dollar public agency charged with safeguarding our health instead used its formidable resources to block release of v-safe reports.

What did the CDC not want us to see?

Unsurprisingly, signals of damage from these shots — which public health officials like local mouthpiece Dr. Allison Berry continue to deny — are alarming. The percentage of adverse health impacts following Covid vaccination reported to v-safe over 21 months is more than ten times the 2.79% seen in the December 18, 2020 snapshot, on day five of the rollout.

Of the 10 million+ individual users who participated in v-safe after their shots:

• 71.3 million symptoms were entered, an average of 7 symptoms per user
• 6.4 million adverse health impacts were reported
• 33% (3.35 million) were unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work, and/or required care from a doctor or other health professional
• 7.7% (782,913) had a health event so severe it required medical attention, emergency room intervention, and/or hospitalization, most of those events requiring multiple visits

Contrary to Berry’s lies, the CDC not only had to be sued for access to this critical data, they spent more than a year fighting to prevent its release. Had this data seen daylight, as fanfare leading up to the rollout had promised (“this information helps CDC monitor the safety of Covid-19 vaccines in near real time“), Emergency Use Authorization of the shots could never have remained justified.

The entire story can be seen, with all supporting documents, at Aaron Siri Breaks Down CDC’s V-safe Data.

V-safe data is still not available on the CDC’s website. It can only be accessed through ICAN’s interactive dashboard.

This is not the end of the story.

While incriminating enough on their own, the five files a court order forced the CDC to release one month ago were incomplete. ICAN discovered through further litigation that an important category of the reports was not included in the files they received. The agency continues to stonewall on disclosing all v-safe records. More lawsuits are pending.

The v-safe app provides simple checkboxes for symptoms experienced following vaccination, like the local and systemic reactions shown in the CDC’s first month Safety Update (12/14/20 – 1/13/21) — headaches, chills, joint pains and other symptoms that are said to be proof the shot is “working”.

The app also includes check-the-box fields for users to report if they required medical attention, emergency room intervention, and/or hospitalizations following the shots, as revealed on ICAN’s dashboard.

V-safe does not provide checkboxes for “Adverse Events of Special Interest,” issues the CDC knew from early trials were much more serious concerns. These “Prespecified Medical Conditions” are shown in the v-safe protocol attachment below, but omitted from the app.

The sometimes deadly medical issues we have been seeing in unprecedented numbers — like acute myocardial infarctions (heart attacks), anaphylaxis, seizures, Guillain-Barre syndrome (paralysis), strokes, pregnancy problems and myocarditis/pericarditis — were known to be caused by the mRNA injections when v-safe was developed. But the CDC avoided delineating them on the app.

Instead, the only way to capture reports of those issues was in “open fields” — empty boxes where users could type in additional details. Anything other than check-the-box local and systemic reactions which generally did not result in medical intervention had to be reported by the user as supplementary information.

Despite the extra effort it took, of the ten million registered users in the v-safe database, over six million open field entries were submitted. These open field reports were not included in the data the CDC turned over to ICAN and are yet to be revealed. The further lawsuits in progress expect to obtain that information.

Berry’s tangled web of disinformation

The CDC designed the v-safe app to make it easy to report symptoms people were told to expect from the shots, but obscure the devastating outcomes that would undermine the public’s confidence in their Safe and Effective narrative. This obfuscation has supported their lie about the incidence of severe adverse events, and provided cover for health officers like Berry to parrot that disinformation:

“Severe side effects from these vaccines are incredibly incredibly rare,” she told the Board of Health during her v-safe review, “on the order of less than 10 per million doses delivered.”

After falsely assuring the BOH that v-safe data has always been publicly available, and lying that no one had to sue to get it, Berry lamented that “unfortunately, anti-vaccine groups have now gotten access to those datasets and are now using them and twisting the numbers in them to spread misinformation about the vaccines to suggest or argue that they are less safe than they actually are.”

In her erratic, loquacious web of disinformation — yes, there was a lawsuit / no, no one had to sue — she insists that there wasn’t a lack of transparency, just that the data had fallen into the wrong hands. She provides no proof that numbers were “twisted”, just blithely makes unsubstantiated pronouncements that anti-vaxxers are spreading misinformation.

Anyone can now review and analyze the CDC data for themselves through ICAN’s online portal.

And Berry’s claim that severe side effects are less than ten per million — incredibly incredibly rare — is belied by 7.7% of v-safe users reporting they required medical attention, emergency room intervention, and/or hospitalization after their shots. That translates to 77,000 — not 10 — per million serious adverse reactions following the experimental injections.

It is the CDC and spin doctor Berry doing the number twisting. And with six million open field v-safe data entries still to come — information that shot recipients had to be motivated to report in their own words — our glib, dismissive health officer has a whole lotta twisting ahead to maintain her crumbling disinformation narrative.

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