Homeschooling is being chosen by more and more parents both nationwide and locally since the beginning of the Covid lockdowns in 2020. Faced with shuttered schools and small businesses, many parents found both time and incentive to explore schooling their children at home.
This trend may be the silver lining in the dark cloud created by both the virus and the governmental overreach that followed.
Because of varying states’ laws and reporting, the exact number of homeschool students in the United States is difficult to obtain. However, estimates done by the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) show that, while in recent years homeschooling has seen a steady 2% to 8% annual growth in the number of students, 2020 saw even more dramatic growth.
According to estimates by Brian D. Ray, PhD of the NHERI, the number of homeschool students rose from 2.5 million in the spring of 2019 to 3.7 million in the 2020-2021 school year. Google Trends shows search interest peaking the topic of Homeschooling during March and July of 2020 and again in August 2021.
Local homeschool communities also saw dramatic growth in the months before the start of the 2021 school year, according to Danielle Galmukoff, a member of the Port Townsend Classical Conversations homeschooling community. The group plans to expand in Jefferson County with a new community in Quilcene starting in the fall of 2022.
The Port Townsend community is currently composed of approximately 40 families and 75 students. Galmukoff explained that the Classical Conversations non-profit focuses on a classical Christian education and provides curriculum guidance and support with programs for all grade levels.
In addition, each week the Classical Conversations homeschool group gets together for a community day. On these days children of the same age are taught the new curriculum and memory work for the week and have a chance to learn with their peers. Though Christian based, Galmukoff notes that the community is open to all, and many non-Christians have joined and benefited.
Galmukoff and her husband were both homeschooled, yet were reluctant to homeschool their daughter when she reached school age. “I just didn’t have my priorities straight,” Galmukoff said. “I didn’t need to work, but I felt a desire to work because it was the narrative that women should work and have a career of their own.”
After marriage she started her own hair salon business in Port Townsend and was successful. She didn’t want to give that up, but her view changed later as her daughter approached middle school and son approached school age. Both she and her husband decided to homeschool to give their children the biblical worldview they desired. They have now been homeschooling both their daughter and their son for four years.
Teaching and imparting a set of beliefs and values is one of the common reasons parents give for choosing to homeschool. According to the NHERI, other common reasons include wanting to:
customize or individualize the curriculum and learning environment for each child;
accomplish more academically than in schools;
use pedagogical approaches other than those typical in institutional schools;
enhance family relationships between children and parents and among siblings;
provide guided and reasoned social interactions with youthful peers and adults;
provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools;
find an alternative education approach when public or private institutional schools are closed due to acute health situations such as related to disease (e.g., Covid-19, Coronavirus);
protect minority children from racism in public schools or lower expectations of children of color (e.g., black) (e.g., Fields-Smith, 2020; Mazama & Lundy, 2012).
Even though the decision was made, Galmukoff had doubts about her ability to homeschool her children. She wasn’t confident in her education. She doubted her patience. And she didn’t think she was good at teaching things. To those considering homeschooling and having similar concerns she recommends making a list of your doubts and talking them over with a parent who has homeschooling experience.
She overcame her doubts by joining a homeschool community. The support and experience of the other mothers in the community gave her the confidence to start.
“Now I help other moms, where four years ago I felt completely inadequate,” Galmukoff states. As for patience, she says it is a skill that you develop by practice.
Galmukoff says some of the benefits of home schooling she has experienced include: “Better family relationships. Before, when I was working and my daughter was in school, we were seeing the worst of each other. Before school we were rushed, and after school we were both often tired and cranky. Now if a child is feeling ill in the morning, I can spend time with them and not have to worry about finding a babysitter or calling in sick to work.”
She enjoys watching her children learn and grow, and now that she experiences that daily, she regrets all that she missed while working. About the narrative she felt was telling her that she needed a career, she now laughs and says: “Who told me this?”
“Homeschooling is a tough decision because it demands a lot of self-sacrifice, but it can be very beautiful,” Galmukoff states. It allows more individualized instruction, adapting to each child’s learning style. It allows more flexible learning schedules, taking breaks and eating or exercising when energy is low. And it allows the parents to truly understand their child’s abilities.
The first few months of homeschooling is a transition time for students who have previously attended public or private schools, according to Galmukoff. Parents should allow some time for “unschooling”: unlearning the programming of the highly structured school day.
Homeschooling allows for more productive and less rigid days. She states that her son in second grade spends about 2 hours per day on his schoolwork and her daughter in 9th grade spends 5 to 6 hours per day. Chores, walks, and other activities are also included in the day.
Galmukoff says that she is often asked about the socialization of her children. She jokes that: “Socialization is something you do with puppies, not children. With children, you encourage healthy relationships with people around you in your community”.
Homeschooling is becoming increasingly popular in the United States, making more resources available to help parents reach their goals for their children’s education. As local homeschool communities and support groups develop, it becomes a much more feasible option for parents looking to remove their children from mainstream institutions for a wide variety of reasons.
Homeschooling is changing the narrative around family life and education.
A few additional resources to learn more about Homeschooling:
A good place to learn about homeschooling in Washington State is on the Washington Homeschool Organization website. This website explains the laws and regulations around homeschooling in Washington State. It also lists homeschool support groups and Co-ops in the state.
Let me relate a poignant personal awakening I experienced after delivering the following public comment to the Jefferson County Board of Health at its February 17 meeting:
My comment is about recent statements made by Health Officer Berry.
Beware, Dr. Berry… mentioning this fact got a reporter censored off Twitter on July 31
I appreciated her telling Commissioners on Monday about the original Pfizer trials showing 15 all-cause deaths from those getting vaccinated exceeding the 14 all-cause deaths from the control group.
She then went on to soft-peddle the number of deaths, saying “in those early trials … they were vaccinating very, very elderly people.”
That’s actually not true.In fact, there were only about 800 people 75 years and older (4.4%) in each of the two 18,000 size subject groups.
BMJ editor Peter Doshi noted that “frail elderly people … are not enrolled into vaccine trials in sufficient numbers,” and a JAMA study found older people have disproportionately been excluded from CV trials in general.
More importantly, Dr.Berry apparently doesn’t know about the July 28 FDA data update, which showed “Pfizer somehow miscounted – or publicly misreported, or both – the number of deaths in one of the most important clinical trials in the history of medicine.”In fact the FDA is now showing there were 21 all-cause deaths among the trial jabbed compared to 17 in the control group, which is 24% more deaths in 6 months.
The fact that significantly more people died in the vaccinated group than the control group should be raising major red flags.
I also wish to draw your attention to two troubling quotes from your Health Officer in the Feb. 10 Peninsula Daily News.The story noted that “Many parents have said their children experience mental health crises while wearing a mask, according to national reports.”Dr. Berry gaslighted and discounted the authentic experiences of these many parents by curtly claiming, “There is no data for this.”
She continued blaming parents by saying, “What is challenging for students is the position that they are put in when they see the misbehavior of their parents. When we see them put in a position where their parents are encouraging them not to wear masks and their teachers are saying they have to, that’s a really difficult position for kids.”
Yes, the whole situation is difficult for kids and everyone involved, but Berry sees the whole problem as one of parental misbehavior, guilty of the crime of having different deeply-held beliefs than the bureaucrats who created this situation.
Health Officer Berry did not directly respond to my public comment, but tangentially said the following:
As far as vaccine safety, I think the simplest explanation is we’ve over 500 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines delivered in the United States, with continuous monitoring of safety of the vaccines and of the trials around them.We have more data around the safety of these vaccines than any vaccine that has ever come before, and we do continue to see that they are safe and they are incredibly effective.The majority of the county has gotten fully vaccinated, and as we continue to see the same here, I really want to encourage as many of our citizens as possible to move forward and get vaccinated, especially as we move into this next phase of the pandemic, that’s going to be increasingly important.
Though we may have “more data around the safety of these vaccines than any vaccine that has ever come before,” that data disturbingly shows the novel mRNA injection is associated with more deaths and adverse events than ALL previous vaccines COMBINED throughout the monitoring system’s 32-year history.
The only other response touching my comment was from Commissioner Kate Dean:
From my perspective on the masking issue, between my husband and I, we have four kids.So we have a lot of kids around us often.And I will say from that experience with lots and lots of kids, the only kids I see having trouble with masking are kids whose parents have trouble with masking.And of course, kids are welcome to create their own opinions on things, but that is really consistently true.I certainly related to Dr. Berry’s comments that I see kids struggle when they’re told that they will struggle.
Thinking about this particular commenting experience afterwards, something seemed different than past ones, leaving me with a bittersweet feeling of culmination and completion.
The Board of Health has notoriously squeezed off public comment in the past, but I had no complaints about their commenting process this time: they allowed a full 3 minutes to each commentator, they offered extra time to the first commentator after a technical snafu, nobody was cut off, and chairman Greg Brotherton’s moderation was friendly and respectful.
In terms of my own performance, I felt my points were well-supported, understandable, and well-delivered for a change; I spoke fairly naturally from organized notes; I didn’t run out of time nor get lost in the weeds with points too hairy to understand; I didn’t say anything insulting nor personal nor push any buttons that could distract from my points.For who I am and what I was saying, I could hardly have done much better.
But what was the end result?Everybody there seemed to completely ignore everything I had to say, not even deigning to ridicule or take offense or contradict any point I had made.There wasn’t even a veiled reference to “misinformation” or “partisanship” or any other supposed sin blamed on commentators in the past.I didn’t get a rise out of anybody.Berry did not even pretend to respond to my specific criticisms of her.
I tried to provide them new information from authoritative sources about matters of life and death, demonstrate that their in-house Delphic Oracle was not always trustworthy, and make clear that her demonization of parents is not okay.
The Health Board was not having any of it.They simply did not care.Or maybe because I had not made any apparent mistakes they could puncture with a cheap shot, they had nothing to say.Or maybe they identified me as a misinformation super-spreader, so guarded themselves from catching my bug.Or maybe they had at last consciously adopted a strategy that their best course was to politely ignore me and not “feed the troll” nor provide ammunition for future Free Press articles.Who knows?
But what I do know is that Berry did not even bother to acknowledge or stand corrected or disagree or defend herself or attack back against any of my specific points. Instead she just trotted out her usual talking points and called it a day.
And everybody else there seemed to be totally okay with that, completely incurious and uninterested in anything I had to say.After all, they had a full agenda they needed to get on with.So they turned their attention to their next order of very important health business: namely, racial health equity work.
The Board of Health has succeeded in sealing themselves off from reality and new information. What else is there to say? The rest is silence.
“I’m going to continue to mask, I’m going to continue to distance. It’s just not safe out there.” Public Comment, 2-14-22 BOCC meeting
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What will it take to break the mass delusional psychosis perpetrated on the public? For thousands of years humans have known safety and comfort in sharing smiles and facial expressions, handshakes and hugs. We are wired to find pleasure in open faces and physical closeness, to depend on visual cues and nurturing touch for critical social and emotional development… and to be afraid of dehumanized faces that are masked and expressionless.
Two solid years of a relentless fear campaign has worked on rewiring those innate responses. A devastatingly effective crusade by pharma-captured regulatory agencies, legacy media, increasingly totalitarian government and the healthcare industry has stripped humanity of these basic human needs, substituting shock and awe in a new medical tyranny that has turned our world upside down. In its wake is a collective brainwashing that will not be easily undone.
Draconian measures are lifting around the world as increasing numbers of U.S. states and nations recognize that masks are useless, that social distancing made no difference in viral spread, that the vaxxed are actually more vulnerable to Omicron than the unvaxxed, and that Omicron poses less risk of death than the flu. However despite the Covid narrative continuing to crumble, what psychologists liken to a hypnotic spell keeps the traumatized masses still living in terror of a virus with a 99.8% survival rate. Fear of human contact, of the air we breathe, and of other life is normalized in this spell.
Jefferson County looks to be among the last holdouts for the mass delusion.
On Monday, February 14, a Port Townsend resident demonstrated this psychosis in a public comment to county commissioners at their weekly board meeting:
“We need to do more. We need to do better. We need to bring this thing under control and take stronger measures, not loosen restrictions that are gonna just make more people sick…
“I’m going to continue to mask, I’m going to continue to distance and stay away from any kind of gathering and concentrated groups. It’s just not safe out there, and anything you do that makes it less safe, is not okay.”
Our frightened neighbor might benefit from reading the January 2022 Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality published by Johns Hopkins University. “Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention,” like masking, physical distancing, bans on public gatherings, and school closures. In a systematic, thorough review of 18,590 studies looking at Covid restrictions across the globe over the last two years, 24 qualified as meeting stringent eligibility requirements for inclusion. An analysis of each of those 24 studies concluded that “lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.” The review confirms that all the measures inflicted on global populations have been for naught:
“Lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.”
A finding of 0.2% is statistically insignificant. And the many studies demonstrating the medical, psychological, social, and economic harms from these measures turn that minuscule fraction of a positive percentage point into a colossal negative. Not only have restrictions been for naught, they have caused far more harm than good. As the Johns Hopkins review notes:
“While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
Nonetheless, those under the spell may never feel safe again unless these damaging policies—even “stronger”—are continued in perpetuity.
Dr. Byram Bridle, PhD, a Canadian professor of viral immunology, recently spoke to this phenomenon at a press conference in Ottawa:
“Once you have everybody so scared—we’ve seen the fear of Omicron, which is no worse for the vast majority of people than a bad cold… adults here in Ottawa, they’re actually scared of the snow in Ottawa. Do you know why? Because there are so many unvaccinated people that surely we must be contaminating the snow with massive quantities of SARS-CoV-2 and the snow is going to kill them. And I’m serious, they are requesting that government officials start testing the snowbanks in Ottawa.”
Sound crazy? That same irrationality is evident in our community. A Port Townsend NextDoor post worried that deer are spreading Covid. Fifteen states had documented Omicron infections in whitetail deer. There is no evidence that the animals can spread it to humans. But the brainwashed fearful sound the watch-out-for-deer! alarm, much as they demonize healthy people as super-spreaders when all evidence shows asymptomatic transmission is a myth.
Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Alexander, PhD, also spoke at the Ottawa press conference. Former Covid pandemic advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO), Alexander and a team of global scientists have published over 500 scientific papers on these policies. The WHO conducted a focused study on asymptomatic transmission. Alexander called out the disinformation that healthy people spread the virus, used to justify lockdowns:
“This issue about asymptomatic transmission—that was rare. That was a lie. We studied it, we looked at it… We knew the study out of China published in Lancet very early in 2020 that showed us that out of a 10 million sample they found that of all of the [Covid] positive persons that moved around—and they looked at all of the contacts—that there was NO asymptomatic transmission. So we understood this virus very clearly, very early on… This asymptomatic transmission was bogus.”
Dr. Bridle agreed:
“We have drilled into peoples’ heads that somehow healthy people are carriers of these deadly pathogens, they’re going to kill other people. If that’s what you believe, we are never going to be able to de-mask or stop the physical distancing ever again for the rest of our lives. And I’m afraid people are actually wanting to take us there.”
Masking is perhaps the most overt example of the psychosis that has gripped so much of our populace. Not only is our fearful neighbor at the beginning of this article “going to continue to mask… continue to distance,” he admonishes the commissioners that if they allow masking and other restrictions to be lifted for the rest of us, that “is not okay,”
Epidemiology advisor Paul Alexander expounded on masks, referring back to his experience working for the WHO:
“We looked at masking… I am considered an expert on these Covid masks. Blue surgical masks and white masks, they are utter garbage. They have always been ineffective… they have never worked. Never. And they are actually very toxic; they have toxic particles in them. Toxic to our children… I looked at 150 studies that show the masks are ineffective. They just do not work. Period.”
Corroborating assertions by Alexander and other doctors and scientists that facemasks provide no benefit, a comprehensive examination of data has resulted in the just-published “UNMASKED: the Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates.”
From the book jacket: Since early 2020, masks have been promoted by experts and implemented as mandates by politicians in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19…but a thorough examination of the data shows they’ve failed.
Looking “at data from all over the world, from the granular county level to entire countries,” author Ian Miller concludes: “Despite extraordinary worldwide compliance, the mask experiment resulted in an unequivocal failure.”
New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz writes: “Ian’s work has been essential throughout the pandemic. His charts have provided the kind of clarity sorely lacking in dissecting the COVID-19 data. Unmasked will elevate the conversation and hopefully, make sure we don’t make any of the same mistakes ever again.”
But at the February 14 BOCC meeting Commissioner Greg Brotherton demonstrated his brainwashing:
“Masks are effective… Are we going to incorporate them in the way that Asia has before this?… Masks are never completely going away, I don’t think.”
Brotherton parrots Jefferson/Clallam County Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry’s disinformation that masking is keeping us safe. In the Feb. 10 Peninsula Daily News (PDN) article “Region’s health officer warns of lifting mask mandates too soon,” Berry contends state mandates should not be lifted in early April: “If we revoke our mitigation measures too soon as a community and as a state, we will prolong this surge.” Her arbitrary pronouncements continue. We will be unsafe if we lift mandates over the next couple of months, but if we wait until her predicted time it will be “very safe:”
“If we kept masking through May for June, I think it would be very safe to revoke the mandate then.”
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The third medical expert at the table in Ottawa, Cambridge-trained pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson, MD, expanded on masking and the other measures imposed on a fearful public:
“Masks – to put it in the vernacular, you cannot stop a mosquito with a chain link fence. It’s absurd.
“Social distancing – this condition is spread by aerosols, not by droplets, so it can be in the aisle at Walmart that no one else is in and you’re still going to get it. Social distancing makes no sense whatsoever…
“But more than anything, lockdowns… it has created the most incredible carnage around the world… it’s physical, it’s mental, it’s psychological, and it’s also economic. It’s affected every single person on earth for a situation basically no worse than a bad seasonal flu. Yes, some variations, obviously. But if this problem had been handled in the usual way, as we’ve done with other viral pandemics, and simply done nothing but accommodate to it in practical ways, common sense… this would have all been over within six months….”
In addition to advising WHO during the early stages of the pandemic, epidemiologist Alexander was a senior advisor to the White House at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was an insider witness to horrifying data withheld from the public:
“I was in the administration… You saw Trump fighting daily with his own task force because he tried to open the society and open schools. Because we were getting the data to show that the lockdowns were killing people. The school closures were killing children, they were causing children to commit suicide. We saw the failures…. lockdowns have killed thousands of people beyond the virus.
“We were getting reports on a daily basis from the states and winding it up to the Oval [office]… that little children 8, 9, 10 years old were found hung in their bedrooms. They committed suicide because of the school closures and lockdowns… the legacy media decided that they would hide that information from the public.”
Viral immunologist Bridle worried that the fear narrative and brainwashing over the last two years has set us up for a short hop to accepting these destructive policies as necessary for other common viruses in our midst:
“The flu can actually kill our children in much greater numbers than SARS-CoV-2 ever will. I was using that argument to try and put SARS-CoV-2 into a relevant clinical context. I actually stopped that because I started getting quite scared that I could see what’s going to happen — they’re going to start flipping the narrative. They’re gonna start using the flu to institute all of this stuff. It’s a very small step to take in that direction… when you understand the depth of the fear that people have had drilled into their head about Omicron, it is a small step to start convincing them ‘You know what? Whoops. We never saw how deadly dangerous the flu actually was.’
“We lived with the flu. There was a certain quality of life that we accepted despite the fact that some people die with it. But now we’ve had this attitude that we can’t have any infectious disease that we don’t want to have deaths with. People can die from cancers and all kinds of other things that we’re not going to pay proper attention to right now. But all they have to do is start turning the focus on the flu…
Dr. Bridle offered a useful illustration of how we are being played:
“If we put the spotlight on the flu, it would begin to look very scary. Put on the ticker tape over the news all the time — Here’s another case. Here’s another case. Think about it. When your kids are in school, it starts out with one kid. Next day it’s three kids. Next day there’s ten. And then it’s infiltrated ten homes. And then it’s in the surrounding classrooms. It spreads like wildfire.
“Being contagious is not necessarily a problem. That’s what they’ve tried to scare us with. Omicron definitely is contagious. But it is not particularly dangerous. And this is typical of these kinds of viruses. If a virus wants to live with us for a long period of time, it doesn’t want to kill its host. It wants to infect as many of us as possible and keep us alive. Ideally the situation for a virus is that it causes no harm whatsoever; we happily co-exist. And Omicron is taking us in that direction.”
In a PDN poll, readers were asked “Will you feel safe enough to go indoors without a mask if/when the state removes its mandate?” At the time of this screen shot on February 15th, 934 readers had responded. If the poll results accurately reflect our communities, nearly half have bought into the madness, fearful that taking off the masks will be unsafe.
Will you feel safe enough to go indoors without a mask if/when the state removes its mandate?
Why do so many still buy into the narrative?
Crediting Belgian Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet and American medical doctor and psychiatrist Mark McDonald, renowned cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough describes the genesis of the mass psychosis that continues to persist:
“A mass psychosis is when there is a group think that develops that’s so strong that it leads to something horrific—examples are these mass suicides that occur in religious cults… Nazi Germany when people walked into gas chambers and were gassed…”
Four conditions must be met:
“There must be a period of prolonged isolation. Lockdowns.”
“There must be a withdrawal of things taken away from people that they used to enjoy. That’s happened.”
“There must be constant, free-floating anxiety.”
“There must be a single solution, offered by an entity in authority.”
“For instance, a narrative is distributed which says there is a very dangerous virus and that we should go into lockdown. If these four conditions are met then there might be an extremely extraordinary willingness to participate in the strategy of the lockdowns even when the narrative in itself is absolutely absurd. When people start to participate all together in the strategy to deal with the object of anxiety, a new kind of social bond, and a new meaning-making emerges.”
Psychiatrist Mark McDonald, MD, author of United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis, explains further:
“The fuel is fear. We cannot become mass delusionally psychotic without first being scared. The fear has been the driver behind this pandemic from the very beginning. Without fear, it all falls apart… An entire group, an entire population which is the American people, all at the same time, losing their rational faculties. Being unable to think, acting as a herd…
“It’s been the fear driven by government, corporations and the media all colluding together to perpetuate the mass delusional psychosis… The endpoint of this is the same as for every totalitarian regime throughout the 20th century—dependency on government. Once people depend on government, then they don’t depend on their families, they don’t depend on their churches, they don’t depend on their communities.”
Dr. Hodkinson describes the techniques “by which you can break even the most hardened terrorist in Guantanamo Bay”:
“You drive fear. And you keep it on. Fear, driven by the morning graph in the paper. The PCR graph with so-called cases… the vast percentage, 97% or so, were false positives. And that’s what drove fear. That’s what drove contact tracing. That’s what destroyed restaurants…
“And then isolation, otherwise known as quarantine. Keep people separated. Don’t let them talk to each other.
“You break anyone with those methods.”
Now those in our midst who are driven by fear cannot let down their guard. For them, humanity has become the virus: “It’s just not safe out there.”
They will mask and distance and insist that we need more restrictions that do not make a whit of difference against these viruses.
Directives that only serve to make us afraid of human contact, of pets and wildlife—even snow. Policies designed to create anxiety, discord and alienation. Mandates that ultimately divide us into believers versus non-believers of a false narrative.
While the Empire’s police were busy confiscating fuel from Freedom Convoy truckers in Ottawa (photo above), last Saturday’s mini-convoy from Port Angeles to Port Townsend indeed came to pass. About 50 folks in 25 vehicles (plus more on overpasses and streets), joined the tens of millions across Canada and worldwide protesting vax mandates and lockdowns.
The Feb. 5th anti-mandate Port-to-Port Freedom Convoy drove between Port Angeles and Port Townsend, with supporters at overpasses along the way. Photos: Sue Coffman
The Port-to-Port event gave a taste of the recently announced nationwide Convoy to DC 2022, expected to start in California on March 4, driving cross-country to Washington, D.C.
Responding Monday to public comments about the trucker protests, Jefferson County Commissioner Kate Dean said:
“I think bringing up issues that are from another country and are largely politically and ideologically motivated is not especially helpful at this time, and I am frustrated by the ongoing chorus of voices saying their personal freedoms are being violated when what we see in fact is that everything is open, people are out, people are traveling, people are recreating, people are doing what they want to do. There is not a massive violation of personal liberties, people are living their lives, and the economy is strong. I don’t see the victims in this as those who are being asked to wear a mask.”
What planet is Dean living on?On our planet, Canada, Australia, New York, California, and much of the world has been locked down hard for most of the past two years, with the main victims being schoolchildren forced to mask and vax for no good reason.
As one Jefferson Healthcare social worker told the Free Press last year, local mask dictates and other lockdown measures had caused a skyrocketing of depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation among children in Jefferson County:
“We are in a mental health crisis. It’s incredibly stressful, a lot of suicidal youth. It’s a nightmare.”
A nightmare that our elected officials refuse to acknowledge or address, denying the harms that their directives have caused.
The trucker convoy is “largely politically and ideologically motivated”? The economy may feel strong to commissioners awarding themselves salary raises above $100,000/year along with $1,000 “premium pay” bonuses to all county employees using federal CARES relief funds. But for the majority of the county, the impact of jab-mandated firings, 40-year record inflation and general impoverishment of the middle class is crippling.
While Commissioner Dean is obviously familiar with political and ideological motivation, she clearly hasn’t seen any reporting from the ground in Ottawa. Far from an exercise in political ideology, these peaceful, courageous truckers are fighting for their livelihoods and the health and well-being of their families.
Amid Johns Hopkins findings that mask mandates and “lockdowns have had little or no effect on COVID-19 mortality” but “imposed enormous social and economic costs” (primarily on children and the most vulnerable), many places are beginning to shake off their mass delusional psychosis. Yet Washington State remains an outlier, one of the last three states not ending indoor mask mandates. And the final state requiring outdoor masks.
Likewise off-planet was Commissioner Greg Brotherton:
“I will say again about the protests, we locally have not created any vaccine mandates, so the things these protests are about really do not touch the policy we are engaging in at the local level, at all.”
Really, no local vax mandates?The restaurant/bar mandates spearheaded by his employee Health Officer Allison Berry were so onerous, a group of restaurateurs sued Berry over them, a challenge just settled out of court with an agreement to lift the mandates. Brotherton and his fellow commissioners were among only three counties in Washington state to enact these divisive restrictions. They remain in effect until Berry’s arbitrary date when it will suddenly be safe to allow unvaxxed diners to mix with those who obediently took experimental injections which do not prevent them from catching or transmitting the virus.
Though not Brotherton’s direct responsibility, locally Jefferson PUD risked outages by heedlessly terminating linemen and half their contractors over vax mandates, while The Leader reported “hundreds leave WSF, State Patrol and other agencies as vaccination mandate takes effect.”
Deeply-felt concerns over such matters drove truckers from their own localities across Canada toward Ottawa for massive non-violent protests. Our northern neighbors are now inspiring parallel freedom convoys around the world, notably in Australia, Finland, France, and New Zealand‘s capital Wellington (as vividly depicted in the last minute of this video):
Up to this point, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has flailed helplessly against the popular alliance, but now his empire is striking back ruthlessly, stealing fuel from truckers needed to heat their rigs and keep them and their families from freezing to death in sub-zero temperatures. They are illegally threatening to arrest good samaritans bringing fuel or supplies. But canny Canadians have found creative ways to confound the criminals:
In a recent press conference, Trudeau characterized the millions of Canadians opposing the mandates as white supremacists and terrorists — “anti-vaxxer mobs” launching “racist, misogynistic attacks.” His smears are echoed in Canada’s state-funded media, broadcasting the message that the Freedom Convoy is “a nationwide insurrection driven by madness.” American mainstream press repeats the spin, verbatim, and reinforces it by calling the millions of protesters “a cult.”
The cult includes 50,000 or more truckers, the vast majority vaccinated (estimated 80-90%), and many of their families, pledged to living in their rigs for as long as it takes to get the mandates lifted.
They’ve been joined by hundreds of farmers who have blockaded an Alberta-Montana border crossing with their tractors…
… and thousands of cowboys who rode into Ottawa on horseback…
… with schoolchildren writing notes of love and appreciation to the truckers, thanking them for making a stand for freedom and their futures.
“This is absolutely amazing and why we’re doing it.” A tearful trucker describes how he “got punched in the heart” when he opened a bag with a cookie that had this handmade card attached. Inside was a handwritten note peppered with hearts: “Dear Mr or Mrs Trucker, It’s really awesome that you’re standing up for human rights. I’m only 11 so I don’t know much about it all but I believe what is happening is wrong and I know you can do it! Sincerely, Kate” Click on note for 2-minute video
So who are the real terrorists? Canada’s ruling class is responding to peaceful demonstrators from all walks of life by not only stealing truckers’ food, firewood, and fuel, but it is reported that when a court order ruled the seizures illegal and required police to return the confiscated petrol, the fuel they returned had been contaminated.
The Ottawa police chief has been talking tough and encouraging harassment, leading to two armed officers manhandling, bruising and arresting a 78-year-old great-grandfather for honking his horn in support of the truckers, disregarding the cameraman calling out their misconduct:
Trudeau’s forces pressured GoFundMe to misappropriate $10 million donated to the truckers, then grabbed $1.4 million already deposited in complicit TD Bank. After donors promptly raised another $8.6 million via GiveSendGo, tyrant Trudeau acted to freeze or seize these newly donated funds:
Now Trudeau is pretending that he’ll get the U.S. government to prosecute all Americans contributing to the fund. The Empire on our side of the border cannot stop the support, but it can continue the smears, lashing out with typical disinformation and censorship.
The planned American Convoy to DC 2022 set up a Facebook page for truckers, and when more than 140,000 joined within days, the page was deleted. When pressed for the reason, Facebook responded: “We have removed this group for repeatedly violating our policies around QAnon.” The organizers and multiple third parties counter that no such material appeared on these now memory-holed pages.
The Empire’s desperation is palpable. The U.S. mainstream press invoked QAnon as also being behind the Canadian movement. Who are that Freedom Convoy’s organizers? The video below is a press conference with Canada’s core team—truckers, scientists, doctors, ex-military, indigenous peoples, a global humanitarian, all joining in one unified voice, asking to meet with Trudeau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fBFdLGUZw
The Great Awakening is occurring right now, here and all around the world. Interviews with average working-class people on the frigid streets of Ottawa reveal a populace that is evermore aware of the true source of this tyranny. The global elites have been working on their plans for us for decades. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is no longer hiding in the shadows. In this 2017 video, WEF founder and executive director Klaus Schwab shamelessly brags about “penetrating the cabinets,” crowing, “So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more, are Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.”
These forces are now showing their true colors … as literal bank robbers stealing the funds of peaceful protestors on the false pretext that they are a violent insurrection… as authoritarian violators of free speech and assembly and all the rights guaranteed in the American and Canadian constitutions on the pretext of endless fake emergencies… as shameless liars using their deathgrip on monopoly media to falsify a popular liberation movement whose lively, loving reality is plain to see from the living history on display from Viva Frei and other livestreamers on the scene.
Clallam resident Sue Coffman, a regional Team Leader for Informed Choice Washington, describes why she participated in the recent Port-to-Port convoy:
“My husband and I are advocates for medical freedom, informed choice, and basic human rights. We joined Informed Choice Washington years before the pandemic hit, and continue to support this wonderful & informative organization. When we heard about the local convoy in support of Canada’s efforts to remove all medical mandates, we were very excited to join the movement. It was encouraging to see this fairly small rural community raise their voices strongly in opposition to our current medical tyranny.”
The tens of thousands of truckers in Canada are using their rigs to drive home reality. We’re being had by corporate interests that don’t care about humanity or any other living beings. The Empire takes no pains to conceal their plan to commodify every inch of this once-beautiful blue planet. We’ve got news for them. The jig is up. We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for, and we have finally arrived.
The Clallam County lawsuit against Health Officer Allison Berry’s restaurant/bar vaccine mandate orders was settled February 2, but these unfounded and discriminatory mandates will “continue for at least several weeks.”
Berry inflicted her mandates back on September 2, 2021 with zero warning before a holiday weekend based on false pretexts, and they’ve chugged along endlessly for no good reason ever since. Jefferson and Clallam were the first counties in the state to be nailed with these onerous restrictions, the order ironically landing a month after CDC Director Walensky admitted that the jabs cannot prevent transmission.
The hearing date for the lawsuit (covered at length here) has been repeatedly kicked down the road by the defendants. Did Berry finally agree to lift the mandates to avoid facing legal discovery into the dark political processes and duplicity behind her evidence-free orders?
Like so many of the globe’s newly-minted medical emperors, she points her magic wand toward some — always arbitrary — date in the future when she can feel assured it could be “safe” to allow unjabbed citizens to enter the doors of our restaurants and pubs. We’re being asked to believe that we’re still in danger from unvaxxed diners today, but she has some special knowing that we won’t be in 3-4 weeks time.
While our localities remain lulled in la-la land limbo, the rest of the world is moving on, with Iowa’s Governor announcing yesterday, “We cannot continue to suspend duly enacted laws and treat COVID-19 as a public health emergency indefinitely,” joining “nearly half of U.S. states [that] have already discontinued their public health proclamations, and several more are set to expire in February if they aren’t renewed.”
Berry also failed to get the memo that data-sensitive nations around the world have been dropping restrictions like hot potatoes the past few days, with Denmark “reclassifying COVID as an endemic disease [that] circulates freely but is recognized as posing less of a threat”, and Israel significantly abolishing all its vaccine passports for restaurants because they “create false assurances” and “are not reducing infections in closed spaces.”
More exciting news: after nascent efforts in Australia and worldwide, the trucker freedom movement has firmly caught fire in Canada!Here’s a heartening report from the Ottawa convoy front lines, where even local police are pitching in to bring hot food to support the truckers:
Things got rolling Sunday, January 23, when the anti-vaccine mandate truck convoy started in northern British Columbia and ended with 500,000 people and 50,000+ trucks descending on the Canadian capital city Ottawa.
Millions of Canadians all across the country came out in sub-zero temperatures and even snowstorms, lining overpasses and highways with signs, flags and food in support of the convoy. As tens of thousands of trucks headed to Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left the capitol and went into hiding to nurse an Omicold that easily evaded his double jab plus booster shot.
Canadians come out in the snow to line highways and overpasses with signs supporting the truckers.
A new poll shows 54 percent of Canadians want an end to all mandates. It’s time to “remove restrictions and let Canadians manage their own level of risk,” say the majority of citizens. In Saskatchewan, 62 percent of citizens polled say they want mandates lifted. The premier of that province — acknowledging the failure of the shots to prevent transmission, saying the unvaccinated pose no greater risk than the vaccinated — has announced that proof of vaccination requirements will be scrapped by the end of the month.
But Trudeau, avoiding a requested meeting with representatives of the largest convoy in global history, instead released a video from his “undisclosed location” through controlled media, calling the massive groundswell a “small fringe minority.” He remains in hiding, while the mainswamp media in Canada and the U.S. try to either ignore the convoys or paint the millions participating as radical extremists.
By February, farmers in tractors were joining in. When the mayor of Ottawa tried to get semis towed off the streets, all the towing companies said they had COVID; when tow truck drivers did show up, they joined the protest.
Here’s a fun video of all these groups joining in the protest:
Not all truckers can get to Ottawa and the protests are too big to fit in a single city, so they are now sweeping throughout Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, and the rest of Canada:
But what about the U.S.? Yep, it’s happening here too, with big convoys planned from California to Washington, DC. But never fear, on Wednesday Facebook and their fellow social-media monopolies moved to deplatform American truckers from organizing their peaceful protests… “Censorship at its finest!”
…which coincided with Facebook stock losing 25% of its value:
And now there are rumblings that a small convoy may be rolling from Port Angeles to Port Townsend this Saturday, Feb. 5 at 11am, with a larger event maybe hitting Olympia in March:
As the wheels fall off the totalitarian cart in spectacular display for all to see, the rubber is hitting the road with authentic principled gusto from the working people who have had enough. WE ARE DONE.
Three months have passed in my efforts to make a change locally. As I mentioned in a previous article, I was concerned with Washington State mandating Covid-19 shots for any child attending public school. California had mandated this policy so Washington couldn’t be far behind. I brought these concerns to the Port Townsend School Board through public comment at their meetings and through email.
Have I made any progress? It’s hard to tell. The school board members are not required to answer questions during public comment periods.
At the first meeting I attended in October, I listed all the government actions taken against us during Covid that we had not said no to. I told the school board we needed to start saying no, and we needed to start with any Covid-19 shot being required for children to attend public schools.
At a second meeting in November, I mentioned an October 25th NBC News poll revealing that, of all parents with children under the age of twelve, only 27% will have their children get the shot as soon as it is available. I then asked the school board what they planned to do if 70% of Port Townsend families remove their children from the school system in the fall of 2022?
I was unable to attend in person in December, but sent an email to the school board listing the twenty-five states that have made masks optional in their schools without sacrificing the health of the students. Why isn’t Washington State on that list? I also let them know that in the Washington State Prison System, the Covid shot is not required for incarcerated individuals. I finally asked them to read the following short statement from Dr. Robert Malone MD., MS., Before You Inject Your Child:
Before you inject your child – a decision that is irreversible – I wanted to let you know the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine, which is based on the mRNA vaccine technology I created.
There are three main issues parents need to understand before they take this irrevocable decision:
The first is that a viral gene will be injected into your children’s cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins. These proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs, including
Their brain and nervous system
Their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots
Their reproductive system, and
This vaccine can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system
The most alarming point about this is that once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable.
You can’t fix the lesions within their brain
You can’t repair heart tissue scarring
You can’t repair a genetically reset immune system, and
This vaccine can cause reproductive damage that could affect future generations of your family
The second thing you need to know about is the fact that this novel technology has not been adequately tested.
We need at least 5 years of testing/research before we can really understand the risks
Harms and risks from new medicines often become revealed many years later
Ask yourself if you want your own child to be part of the most radical medical experiment in human history.
One final point: the reason they’re giving you to vaccinate your child is a lie.
Your children represent no danger to their parents or grandparents
It’s actually the opposite. Their immunity, after getting COVID, is critical to save your family if not the world from this disease
In summary: there is no benefit for your children or your family to be vaccinating your children against the small risks of the virus, given the known health risks of the vaccine that as a parent, you and your children may have to live with for the rest of their lives.
Dr. Robert Malone is not the lone voice on this issue. The Global Covid Summit, convened by the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists has issued a declaration signed by 16,000 physicians and scientists stating in no uncertain terms that “Healthy Children Shall Not Be Subject To Forced Vaccinations.”
At the January 6th meeting I told the school board if there was a Covid shot requirement next year, I would be forced to pull my child out of the school system and I would be encouraging everyone one else I know to do the same. Parents should not be forced to choose between their child’s health or public school.
I told them that I came to these meetings knowing that what I ask is impossible because there is too much money involved, but I am still here asking because we are talking about our future, our children.
Since then I have learned that under just two programs, Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, (ESSER), and Governors Emergency Education Relief, (GEER), Washington State will eventually receive $2,604,821,223—that’s 2.6 billion with a B—dollars in taxpayer funds from the Federal Government.
The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is allowed to skim 10% off the top for three things: learning recovery, reserve, and administration of the program. Port Townsend High School alone will eventually receive over $5.2 million in taxpayer dollars to operate during government declared emergency conditions.
As you can imagine there are strings attached, and just in case you didn’t notice, the disbursement of the funds is scheduled to run through the year 2024. If schools do not follow the many Covid-related proclamations of the federal government and our governor, the funds will simply be withheld from their monthly apportionments (bureaucratic term for the money needed for school operations), until they do cooperate.
The legal authority for this comes from reporting requirements in the applications filled out by school districts in order to apply for the funds, and anewsection of Washington Administrative code conveniently added over the holidays without public notice or consent.
Checklist required for schools to receive U.S. Department of Education funds (see page 7)
No one has summed up what looks a lot like strong-arm tactics deployed by the Governor and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OPSI) better than Informed Choice Washington, an organization of parents, families, medical professionals, and educators who are trying to shine some light on this subject. Here is what they have to say:
“This new OSPI rule is intended to undermine the school boards and districts that read the full body of science on the DOH’s approach to COVID-19, listened to the concerns of parents, teachers, and staff, and decided to operate their schools in a manner that provided the overall best environment for everyone. The new rule is intended to silence dissenting actions and dissenting opinions. Health is not the motivation for OSPI— securing and retaining all of the federal money flooding to schools is the motivation. That federal money is tied with COVID-19 masking, testing, tracking, isolating, and vaccinating strings.”
Indeed, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal, has stated that he is all in on the jab mandate and that this will be a state level decision, not a district-by-district choice. Knowing all of this it is hard not to believe that school boards have been intentionally removed from the decision-making process by the state bureaucracy. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be asking our school board members to refuse this money rather than risk the health of even just one child in our community.
Back at the January 6th meeting I also told the school board I could try and reason with them that the shot clearly doesn’t stop the spread of Covid. Why would three shots be required in less than a year if this was effective?
I could give them the data showing that children suffer far more from the side effects of the shot than from the symptoms of the disease.
I could urge them to look up the list of young athletes that have been injured or died from heart attacks shortly after taking the shot.
Instead, I wanted to appeal to them as a parent who just knows that this is wrong and has to stop. I pointed out that if there was the slightest doubt in their minds that this specific shot might not be safe and effective, then they had the moral obligation to protect the children of this community and carry this message up the chain of command to State Superintendent Reykdal and say no. I have heard nothing from any of the board members. One of them waved to me from a coffee shop window as I walked by.
On Wednesday, January 12th the Washington State Board of Health held a public meeting where they began the first deliberations in the process of adding Covid shot mandates to the list of vaccines required for attending public schools in Washington State. Seventy-five hundred (7,500) individuals signed up to make a public comment before the list was closed. Due to time and technical difficulties, only a small fraction were able to speak. No one I heard supported the mandate. There are so many more of us than there are of them. Start saying no.
Speak up by contacting the Washington State Board of Health at wsboh@sboh.wa.gov to let them know how you feel. The next Port Townsend School Board meeting is Thursday, January 20th at 5:30 p.m. School board members can be reached at sboard@ptschools.org.
Galmukoff and her husband were both homeschooled, yet were reluctant to homeschool their daughter when she reached school age. “I just didn’t have my priorities straight,” Galmukoff said. “I didn’t need to work, but I felt a desire to work because it was the narrative that women should work and have a career of their own.”
