Sandra Finley

Jun 272024
 

UPDATE pasted in at bottom.   Lost his license and fined $6,000.

(1)     Can we rely on Canadian data?

Patrick Phillips, an Emergency Department (ED) doctor practicing in a small town north of Sudbury, Ontario has been a vocal advocate speaking out against the harms that lockdowns have caused the residents of his community.

Having witnessed the stress and toll taken on people with his own eyes, he is now seeing vaccine reactions come through his department and has concerns that his reports are not making it to the Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System (CAEFISS).

He is seeing patients presenting with delirium, arm and one side of the body numbness (typically classified as a stroke), heart conditions such as palpitations, and debilitating vertigo.

Due to the arbitrary nature of vaccine reaction criteria, such as time cut-offs as short as 30 minutes post vaccination, there is concern that valid reactions are being filtered from the system.

All five of his reports have been rejected by his local Medical Officer of Health, which he claims threatens public safety by filtering out potentially valid reactions based on technicalities which apparently included missing documentation that he doesn’t necessarily have access to in the ED, such as vaccine lot numbers and time of administration.

Dr. Phillips states that he assumed it was the responsibility of the system collecting the data to locate missing information and scrutinize the input for potential safety concerns. It is up to Public Health to conduct a chart review and investigate.

After all, he says, we depend on these broad surveillance systems to determine post market safety and if the information is not being inputted then this could hinder informed consent.

We end on the discussion of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) Statement on Public Health Misinformation that basically shuts down any medical questioning or debate on the mainstream COVID-19 narrative.

As such, Patrick, along with hundreds of other concerned doctors, have joined forces and started the Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth.

Their mandate is to continue to put their patients, not the CPSO or any other authority, first and uphold the Hippocratic Oath of “First, Do No Harm.”

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(2)  2023-06-07   ‘Incompetent’ northern Ont. doctor loses his license to practise medicine, by Darren MacDonald, CTV Northern News.

Patrick Brian Phillips first gained attention in September 2021 when the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario barred him from issuing exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing. (File)Patrick Brian Phillips first gained attention in September 2021 when the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario barred him from issuing exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing. (File)
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A northern Ontario doctor has been stripped of his medical licence for conduct described as “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.”

Patrick Brian Phillips first gained attention in September 2021 when the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario(opens in a new tab) barred him from issuing exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing.

Phillips, who practised in Englehart, was also prohibited from prescribing ivermectin — an antiparasitic agent that Health Canada says should not be used for treating COVID-19 — as well as fluvoxamine and atorvastatin in connection with the virus.

On Feb. 9, 2022, the hospital in Kirkland Lake, Blanche River Health, suspended his hospital privileges.

A discipline tribunal heard his case June 6 and ruled he had engaged in dishonourable conduct, failed to respond to their inquiries and failed to maintain the standard of practice expected by physicians in Ontario.

In particular, the College ruled he provided “misleading, incorrect or inflammatory statements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and related issues.”

He also disclosed online a private letter received from an Associate Medical Officer of Health and interfered with the testing of an infant for COVID-19, even though it wasn’t his patient.

“The tribunal also found that Dr. Phillips is incompetent,” the College said.

Phillips has been ordered to appear before the panel to be reprimanded, and ordered to pay $6,000 in costs by July 6.

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On his Twitter, Phillips said he pleaded “no contest” and was now “filled with so much peace, forgiveness and even gratitude for this experience.”

Phillips, who has more than 53,700 followers, said he is a former “agnostic/atheist” and then cited a Gospel quotation about turning the other cheek.

Jun 272024
 

Apparently, Toronto Public Health doesn’t respond to questions from Rebel News. When no one responded when I asked ‘why, and on whose authority?’ I filed a Freedom of Information request to find out.

Back in October, I conducted an interview alongside Kelly Brown where we discussed the absolutely shocking data analysis he was conducting using raw government data being put out by Public Health Ontario and Toronto Public Health. In his analysis, he breaks down vaccine adverse reaction rates — primarily myocarditis post- second injection that seems to disproportionately affect young males.

Since youth are at statistically zero risk of death from COVID complications, but are being heavily affected by what appears to be post-injection induced myocarditis at a most recent rate (as of a November 12 analysis) of 1 in 5,000 and rising, it seems like a big public health concern to make these statistics mainstream.

After Kelly revoked speaking time at a Toronto Board of Health hearing and instead went to Twitter to post his remarks, I wanted to confirm that the Toronto Board of Health, by way of Medical Officer of Health Eileen DeVilla, wasn’t basing policy or mandates on conjecture.

In order to confirm that they had, in fact, been made aware of Kelly’s work, and the concerning data being put out by Public Health Ontario, I reached out to them for comment and clarification on a few things which I list in the video interview above.

The response I received instead was shocking! Apparently, Toronto Public Health doesn’t respond to questions from Rebel News. When no one responded when I asked “why, and on whose authority?” I filed a Freedom of Information request to find out.

If you watch the clip, you’ll see who’s responsible for this decision — and just how much they earn of your hard-earned tax dollars to skirt questions and misrepresent concerning data to the public with zero transparency or accountability.

You can also read for yourself the documents we obtained through our FOI request here:

Jun 272024
 

A few postings on my blog contain the word “VISP”  (Vaccine INJURY and Support Program).   They form the CONTEXT for this June 26 VISP Report.       2023-03-22 Government Report #1 on Vaccine Injuries, deaths: $ Paid Out (Canada)

Journalist Tamara Ugolini is intrepid.  I do not know how she can contain the outrages –  what she knows.  Maybe it’s by writing about it, by “doing something”.

When I pieced things together, going back to 2021,  I stand in a kind of stupefied horror.  I did not know of the Toronto Board of Health role for example,  the EXTENT of the skulduggery.

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CONTENT  – –  VACCINE INJURY REPORTS

  • 5 reportings by Ugolini that need to be tied together.  They aren’t long.
  • the VISP Reports
  • Canada has more than one reporting system for covid injuries.  It took me a while to figure that out.

I don’t think anyone has illusions about the barriers to reporting vaccine injuries in Canada, especially during the covid years.  . . .

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FOUR REPORTINGS BY UGOLINI, chronological order

  1. 2021-11-29 Toronto Public Health misrepresenting COVID data and avoiding substantive questions. Tamara Ugolini

  2. 2022-01-26 Covid: Toronto Board of Health scrubs (very serious – death) vaccine reaction story from public archive. Tamara Ugolini

WHICH vaccine reaction story did the Toronto Board of Health scrub from the public record?  . . .  it’s the story of Dan Hartman’s 17 -year-old hockey player son.    Then came . . .

4.   2024-02-26 From loss to lawsuit: Ontario dad’s  (Hartman’s) emotional rollercoaster as government offers deal after son dies suddenly, Tamara Ugolini

Next,  this:

5.   2024-06-04   Supporters gather to fundraise grieving father’s lawsuit against Pfizer and Health Canada after his teenage son died suddenly, by Tamara Ugolini, Rebel News

And now today,  VISP REPORT #4   Feds compensate $14M to victims of the vaccine campaign.  Payment Average is  $77,000.

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THE VISP REPORTS

The VISP Reports are scheduled for every 6 months:

  1. 2023-03-22 Government Report #1 on Vaccine Injuries, deaths:    $ Paid Out (Canada)
  2. 2023-06 Covid VISP REPORT #2 (Vaccine Injuries, Deaths, and Dollars paid out. Canada) $6,695,716

Statistics up to June 1, 2023,  EXCERPT:

The Report is from our Health system.  This program is funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and administered by RCGT Consulting Inc

Today’s posting below says:

more than 60% of the budget allocation to this program goes to the consultants administering it. That means that the majority of the funds do not go . . . to Canadians who were victims of intense psychological propaganda campaigns and marketing schemes that required indiscriminate adherence to the safe and effective injection ritual.

careful (re Report #2) – – at first glance it looks like 103 injured people shared the $6,695,716  (a $65,000 settlement on average).  I have to ask if I understand correctly: some of these people are permanently, substantially maimed.  They contributed to their family’s income.  Not only is the income gone;  the bills for caring for the maimed person into the years ahead will break the family.  Their claim has been settled.  That’s all the financial help they will receive.)  . . .

Excerpt from For Your Selection, July 12, 2023:

$6,695,716   This is the total amount of indemnities (compensation) paid out so far.   I recommend you acquaint yourself with the details.  The Report is an ADMINISTRATIVE report:  it reports on the status of the claims in the system,  a distinguishing feature of the Canadian reporting system.  But it doesn’t report on the HEALTH-related datathe efficacy of the vaccines, their contribution to our health full ness.  We paid billions.  We get reports on the ADMINISTRATION and not the efficacy?     (CORRECTION:  I discovered much, much later that there is at least one other report – – more below)

The posting on Report #2 includes:

THE LETHBRIDGE WOMAN.

To me the devastation of this woman, her family, and the family finances was almost complete.  But people are amazing.  The lady went from full health to  minimal capabilities.  But!  she knows something that not many know:  how to access what help is available through the Federal Govt  (Canada – – VISP).   She is determined to share that information, and to connect others like herself in whatever ways she is able to help.  (Keeping in mind that her ability to function has been permanently and severely compromised by the vaccinations.)  I wonder if I would do what she is doing, or would I cry in despair and isolation?)

3.   2024-  Covid VISP REPORT #3  – –  Oops!  I missed a Report.   (or  Maybe not all the Reports were issued?)

Every 6 months means

Report #1.  Dec 1/2022.

Report #2.  Data up to June 1, 2023.

Report #3.  Data up Dec 1/2023.

Report #4.  Data up to June 1, 2024.    I MAY HAVE SOMETHING WRONG:  REPORT #4  SAYS  that it is data “as of January 5, 2024″.  Maybe they are 5 months behind in the reporting?

TODAY:  Covid VISP REPORT #4   Feds compensate $14M to victims of the vaccine campaign.  Payment Average is  $77,000.

The Liberal government has paid out multi-millions to the victims of the COVID-19 safe and effective vaccine marketing ploy, representing a small fraction of total claimants who have suffered debilitating injury or death.

The Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) was born from the Canadian government’s 2020 decision to fast-track novel COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to market. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had already assured Canadians that a vaccine was necessary to get back to normal in April of that year.

In this month’s update that reflects reporting up until June 1 2024, the program has now paid out over $14 million to the victims of the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine marketing mantra.

Yet this $14 million has been paid to a fraction of all claimants.

A total of 2,628 people have filed claims, with a meagre 183 of them being officially approved by the VISP gatekeepers – the government’s medical review board.

That means that out of just over $14 million in compensation paid, each approved claimant would have received an average of $78,000.

The VISP program exclusively supports individuals who have “experienced a serious and permanent injury from a Health Canada-authorized vaccine, administered in Canada on or after December 8, 2020,” aiming to ensure “fair and timely access to financial support.”

A serious and permanent injury, as defined by the VISP FAQ webpage, is a severe, life-threatening or life-altering injury requiring in-person hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, resulting in persistent or significant disability, incapacity, congenital malformation, or death.

If you can no longer work and provide for yourself or your family, a payout of less than $80,000 is expected to cover a lifetime of incapacity, disability, and potentially even compensate for death.

While the Liberals quietly expanded the VISP program in Budget 2024, it was first reported by Rebel News that more than 60% of the budget allocation to this program goes to the consultants administering it. That means that the majority of the funds do not go into the pockets of Canadians who were victims of intense psychological propaganda campaigns and marketing schemes that required indiscriminate adherence to the safe and effective injection ritual.

This program, despite being touted as fair and timely, has seen those suffering injuries wait up to a year just to be assigned a VISP case manager.

According to the Government of Canada’s own COVID-19 vaccine special interest safety reporting, as of January 5, 2024, there have been a total of 488 reports with an outcome of death following vaccination.

Yet less than 200 total adverse events reports have been officially approved by VISP.

Could that be because Health Canada took two years to streamline COVID-19 adverse events reporting? Causing chaos and confusion as doctors attempted to submit documentation.

Or perhaps the bloated bureaucracy and mountains of paperwork required to navigate the program are too cumbersome for those suffering from debilitating neurological impairments.

That is if doctors’ adverse events reports ever make it through the multi-layered filtering system put in place by the gatekeepers at public health.

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THERE ARE AT LEAST 3 GOVT REPORTING SYSTEMS FOR VACCINE INJURIES IN CANADA.

  1. There’s VISP  (Vaccine Injury Support Program)
  2. Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System (CAEFISS).  (Started pre-covid.)
  3. Reported side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in Canada    The URL for this one is https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/#specialInterest.     If you have time, take a look around.

REPORTED SIDE EFFECTS     Cherry-picking by me:

      • Overall, most adverse event reports were from females
      • Within the youngest age groups (<18 years of age) the reporting rate is similar in males and females
      • The higher proportion and rate of adverse event reports for females has been observed in the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, and other countries.
      • By age group,  the largest number of adverse events are in the 40 to 49 year-olds.  The second largest group – 50 to 59 year-olds; third largest age group is 30 to 39 year-olds.
      • Deaths from the vaccines – –  scroll way, way down.  Under heading  Safety signals identified and other safety updates,  just above Acknowledgements,  click on DEATHS:

                        Up to and including January 5, 2024, a total of 488 reports with an outcome of death were        reported following vaccination. Although these deaths occurred after being vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine, they are not necessarily related to the vaccine  (huh?).

        (you can read all the other qualifiers for yourself!  at  https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/#specialInterest.)

REPORTED SIDE EFFECTS FOLLOWING COVID-19 VACCINATIONS IN CANADA.   Govt of Canada Report.

This page was last updated on January 19, 2024 with data up to and including January 5, 2024.

Adverse events of special interest, safety signals, and deaths

Adverse events of special interest (AESI) are pre-specified medically significant events that have the potential to be causally associated with a vaccine product. They must be carefully monitored and confirmed by further special studies. AESI can be serious or non-serious and can include:

  • events of interest due to their association with COVID-19 infection.
  • events of interest for vaccines in general (e.g. to the specific vaccine type or adjuvants).

The list of AESIs below takes into consideration the lists of AESIs from these expert groups, manufacturers and regulatory authorities:

The AESI list changes based on the evolving safety profile of vaccines. Although adverse events may occur after being vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine, they are not necessarily related to the vaccine (INSERT:  ??). Health Canada and PHAC review the reports to determine whether the vaccine may have played a role.

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I believe that most of the Injuries and Deaths are not included in the data.  They weren’t and aren’t reported, mostly because the vested interest is in NON DISCLOSURE.   Keep ’em ignorant.   Collateral damage.

Jun 272024
 
Dan Hartman’s story about his teenaged son’s death after his first Pfizer injection has been removed from the January 17 livestream.

Toronto Board of Health scrubs vaccine reaction story clip from public archive

A mere day and a half after the interview that I conducted with unofficial COVID data analyst Kelly Brown, where we discussed the deputation that he delivered to the Toronto Board of Health on January 17, the board privatized, then removed one speakers delegation before re-publishing the video.

How do I know? Well, because I watched the livestreamed, public meeting.

When I went back to source further references from the livestreamed, public video, posted on Friday, January 21, I was shocked to find that it had been listed as private.

A short while later, the video was re-published under the Board of Health video archive, but with at least one deputation missing — the speech of Dan Hartman.

He runs a twitter page called Answers4Sean where he claims that his 17-year-old son died a mere few weeks after his first Pfizer injection.

His entire speech and the dialogue that he had with Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam is gone!

There was one clip that made it onto social media. While it’s not the complete account, it’s better than the absolute nothing left with from the Board of Health public archive.

Some of you may remember a few months ago when I pointed relevant and important questions to Toronto Public Health, only to have them come back to me that they don’t respond to inquiries from Rebel News.

And now that I have further questions for Dr. Eileen de Villa and Toronto Public Health, I knew that they would not respond to me. This means I have to file an Access to Information Request.

Please consider helping fund this kind of investigative journalism by visiting RebelInvestigates.com.

I want to know who made this decision and why. I want to know what else has been scrubbed from the public record since March 2020 and if it is commonplace for the Board of Health to tamper with the public record?

Ontarians, the Canadian public and people everywhere need to be made aware of the allegations of COVID-19 vaccine injury and cases need to be thoroughly investigated to determine accurate cause of death. Without that, true informed consent cannot be ascertained.

Jun 242024
 
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE
Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations.
This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.
After more than five years in a 2×3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars. WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people’s right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom. Julian’s freedom is our freedom.

Julian Assange boards flight at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th. This is for everyone who worked for his freedom: thank you. #FreedJulianAssange

“Throughout the years of Julian’s imprisonment and persecution, an incredible movement has been formed. People from all walks of life from around the world who support not just Julian… but what Julian stands for: truth and justice.” –

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A statement from Stella Assange and Kristinn Hrafnsson.
Jun 182024
 
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announces he is suing Pfizer during a June 17, 2024, news conference at the Statehouse in Topeka

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announces he is suing Pfizer during a June 17, 2024, news conference at the Statehouse in Topeka. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a civil lawsuit Monday against pharmaceutical company Pfizer, alleging that “Pfizer misled the public that it had a ‘safe and effective’ COVID-19 vaccine,” violating the state’s Consumer Protection Act.

The state seeks “civil monetary penalties, damages, and injunctive relief from misleading and deceptive statements made in marketing its COVID-19 vaccine,” Kobach said.

In the complaint, Kobach alleges that Pfizer willfully concealed, suppressed and omitted material facts relating to the COVID-19 vaccine, the “most egregious” ones regarding safety of the vaccine for pregnant people, in regard to heart conditions, its effectiveness against variants and its ability to stop transmission.

“Pfizer marketed its vaccine as safe for pregnant women,” Kobach said. “However, in February of 2021 (they) possessed reports of 458 pregnant women who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. More than half of the pregnant women reported an adverse event, and more than 10% reported a miscarriage.”

The percentage of “adverse events” — which is a term that means any negative reaction — was higher in pregnant women than the general population by roughly 17 percent, according to a study published in the journal Medicine in February 2022.

An earlier study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 2021 offered preliminary findings that did not show any significant safety concerns among pregnant individuals who received the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, indicating that observed miscarriages were not unusual and likely not a direct result of the vaccine.

Kobach says that Pfizer marketed the vaccine as safe in terms of heart conditions such as myocarditis and pericarditis. He referenced a question Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO was asked in January 2023 of if the vaccine caused severe myocarditis, to which Bourla responded “we have not seen a single signal, although we have distributed billions of doses.”

“However, as Pfizer knew, the United States Government, the United States Military foreign governments and others have found that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine caused myocarditis and pericarditis,” Kobach said.

According to the CDC, cases of myocarditis and pericarditis caused by the COVID-19 vaccine are rare, and most patients experienced resolution of symptoms by hospital discharge.

Kobach says Pfizer marketed its vaccine as effective against COVID-19 variants, “even though data available at the time showed Pfizer’s vaccine was effective less than half the time.”

His final allegation in the complaint was that the company falsely marketed the vaccine as preventing transmission.

“Pfizer urged Americans to get vaccinated in order to protect their loved ones, clearly indicating a claim that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccination stopped transmission,” Kobach said. “Pfizer later admitted that they’ve never even studied transmission after the recipients receive the vaccine.”

In a statement, Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine saved countless lives and that the company’s claims about the vaccine were accurate and based on science.

“The company believes that the state’s case has no merit and will respond to the suit in due course,” the statement said. “Pfizer is deeply committed to the well-being of the patients it serves and has no higher priority than ensuring the safety and effectiveness of its treatments and vaccines.”

Kansas is the first state to file such a lawsuit, though Kobach says five other states will be joining. They will make announcements independently. The only other confirmed state is Idaho.

“More suits may follow, depending on Pfizer’s reaction,” Kobach said.

In 2023, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer for “unlawfully misrepresenting the effectiveness of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine and attempting to censor public discussion of the product.” That suit was also based on the state’s Consumer Protection Act.

The case is filed in Thomas County. Kobach says this is because they wanted to go to a place with a lighter workload, to make sure they had the time to deal with it.

When asked if he’d received the Pfizer vaccine, Kobach declined to answer. “I think whether I’ve received the vaccination is irrelevant to the lawsuit, it’s not about me,” he said. “It’s about the statements that were made to the people of Kansas.”

Jun 162024
 
Your best bet is to click on:    https://rumble.com/v4zuntr-dr.-sabine-hazan-may-31-2024-regina-saskatchewan.html

I can’t make this display properly.

From NCI:

Dr. Hazan travelled to Regina from California to give this testimony in-person.  She is the founder and CEO of Progena Biome, a research genetic sequencing lab which analyzes the human microbiome,  . . . She has done hundreds of clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies, and is one of the leading research authorities on the microbiome. In terms of understanding what happened during the covid-19 era, her testimony is a must-watch.

Jun 162024
 

RELATED:  

2024-06-10 covid, great! US Appeals Court rules COVID mRNA shots could be considered not ‘traditional’ vaccines, By Jen Hodgson, Western Standard.

Canadian version.  Western Standard does not have the same resources as CHD,  nor the advantage of knowing how their native U.S. court system works.   The CHD (American) report is below.

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In the reporting below, you can link to Aaron Siri‘s input on X (formerly Twitter).  I don’t know him – – but took a look (click on the box).  The discussion is well informed.  The ground under the covid battle has shifted dramatically, IMHO!

The School Division can still appeal the decision, of course, but the tactics they’ve used to date have left them with mud dripping off their faces.

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Too many courts have reflexively cited the Jacobson decision to kick people out of court, failing to recognize the ways in which constitutional law has evolved since Jacobson was decided in 1905, and the procedural and factual distinctions between that case and this one.

Employees Can Sue L.A. Schools Over COVID Vaccine Mandate Because Shots Don’t Prevent Transmission, Appeals Court Rules

An appeals court late Friday revived a lawsuit challenging the Los Angeles Unified School District’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The court said the school district misapplied the precedent-setting Jacobson v. Massachusetts ruling because unlike “traditional” vaccines, the COVID-19 shots don’t prevent infection and transmission.

los angeles unified school district bus and covid vaccine

A lawsuit challenging the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) COVID-19 vaccine mandate will proceed after an appeals court late Friday ruled the school district misapplied the precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court Jacobson v. Massachusetts ruling because unlike “traditional” vaccines, the COVID-19 shots don’t prevent infection and transmission.

In the Jacobson case, the court found that a state may require all residents to take a vaccine, without exemptions, if a rational basis exists to determine that such a step is necessary to mitigate a public health emergency.

In the 2-1 decision by a three-judge panel, Judge Ryan Douglas Nelson for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit stated:

“Jacobson, however, did not involve a claim in which the compelled vaccine was ‘designed to reduce symptoms in the infected vaccine recipient rather than to prevent transmission and infection.’ … The district court thus erred in holding that Jacobson extends beyond its public health rationale — government’s power to mandate prophylactic measures aimed at preventing the recipient from spreading disease to others — to also govern ‘forced medical treatment’ for the recipient’s benefit.”

The appeals court decision reverses a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Sept. 2, 2022, dismissing the case. The case will now go back to the U.S. District Court.

Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) called the appeal court’s decision “a triumph of common sense.” Holland told The Defender:

“This decision cuts the overshadowing Jacobson vaccine precedent case down to size. Plaintiffs successfully argued that ‘if it’s not a vaccine, Jacobson public health vaccine law doesn’t apply.’ They had ample evidence to show that the COVID shots were not vaccines in any traditional sense.

“The shots are medical treatments at best, and the law prohibiting unwanted medical treatment in most circumstances is clear.”

The ruling is a “huge legal victory” for the nonprofit Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF) and LAUSD employees with California Educators for Medical Freedom who sued the school district on Nov. 3, 2021.

Leslie Manookian, president and founder of HFDF, said in an X (formerly Twitter) post, “HUGE!!! WE WON our appeal against LAUSD. 9th Circuit Appeals Court vacated the district court decision. LAUSD’s C@v!d j@b$ mandate interfered with the ‘fundamental right to refuse medical treatment.’”

 

CDC changed definition of ‘vaccine’

In their suit, HFDF and the district employees alleged LAUSD’s vaccine mandate — which resulted in more than 1,000 employees losing their jobs prior to (the mandate) being lifted on Sept. 26, 2023 — violated the “rights of personal autonomy, self-determination, bodily integrity, and the right to reject medical treatment.”

The suit asked the court to declare the mandate unconstitutional. It also sought compensation for legal expenses and “other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.”

Defendants in the suit include top LAUSD officials and board members.

After a lower court dismissed the suit — reasoning that LAUSD had a rational basis for its COVID-19 vaccine policy — plaintiffs on Oct. 3, 2022, appealed.

However, the appeals court — which on Sept. 14, 2023, heard oral arguments — concluded there were important differences between the 1905 Jacobson case and the situation regarding COVID-19 vaccines.

For instance, the judges noted that the plaintiffs pointed out that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had changed the definition of the word “vaccine” to accommodate the COVID-19 shots by removing the word “immunity” from it.

John Howard, one of the plaintiff’s attorneys, told The Defender the 9th Circuit’s decision will likely have ramifications beyond this one lawsuit because the ruling distinguishes between a medical treatment and a vaccine.

“One has a constitutional right to refuse medical treatment,” Howard said.

Jacobson — “which should, in my view, be more carefully limited, if not completely overruled,” Howard said — suggests that the government can require the injection of a foreign substance if the substance is a “vaccine” that prevents a disease and if there is a substantive public health emergency that the involuntary application of vaccines can help ameliorate.

Friday’s ruling “bodes well for American freedom,” Howard said, because it establishes that the COVID-19 vaccines were medical treatments, not vaccines as a vaccine was understood to be when the Supreme Court ruled on Jacobson.

 

Ruling ‘knocks bricks from the wall of Jacobson v. Massachusetts’

Scott Street, attorney for the plaintiffs, told The Defender he was “pleased” with the panel’s opinion.

“All our clients have ever asked for,” he said, “is a chance to gather evidence and to prove their claims in court.”

Street said, “Too many courts have reflexively cited the Jacobson decision to kick people out of court, failing to recognize the ways in which constitutional law has evolved since Jacobson was decided in 1905, and the procedural and factual distinctions between that case and this one.”

He added, “This opinion should serve as a reminder of those differences.”

Kim Mack Rosenberg, general counsel for CHD, said the appeals court’s decision “knocks bricks from the wall of Jacobson v. Massachusetts, with respect to the appropriate standard the state must meet before it can mandate an unwanted medical treatment, such as the COVID-19 shot.”

“We at CHD will be watching this case carefully to see what next steps LAUSD takes in light of the 9th Circuit’s important decision,” Mack Rosenberg added.

It is presently unknown what that next step will be. A LAUSD spokesperson on June 10 told The Defender that LAUSD “is reviewing the 9th Circuit ruling and assessing the District’s options.”

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Lifting the mandate doesn’t make the lawsuit ‘moot’

In their opinion, the panel majority — Judges Nelson and Daniel P. Collins — said LAUSD’s Sept. 26, 2023, rescission of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate policy does not render the lawsuit moot.

Dissenting judge Michael Daly Hawkins disagreed.

LAUSD waited until after the Sept. 14, 2023, oral arguments to lift the mandate — more than two years after it announced the mandate and after the CDC admitted COVID-19 vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission.

HFDF said in a press release, “The majority called out LAUSD’s gamesmanship for what it was — a bald-faced attempt at avoiding an adverse ruling by trying to create an issue of mootness.”

“The evidence shows,” the majority wrote in their opinion, “that LAUSD acted at least partially in bad faith to avoid litigation risk.”

Manookian said in the HFDF press release, “The court saw through LAUSD’s monkey business, and in so doing, it made clear that American’s cherished rights to self-determination, including the sacred right of bodily autonomy in matters of health, are not negotiable.”

“This is a great triumph for the truth, decency, and what is right,” she added.

Jun 152024
 

. . .   with the Crown alleging that the two conspired to murder police officers

The female RCMP undercover operator (UCO) testified in a courtroom inaccessible to the public and news media in order to protect her anonymity.

An undercover female RCMP officer seemingly cried while testifying as a Crown witness during Wednesday’s proceedings in the Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick trial in Lethbridge, AB.

Both defendants are charged with conspiracy to murder, with the Crown alleging that the two conspired to murder police officers during their participation in the 2022 Coutts blockade and demonstration. The two men are also charged with unlawful possession of firearms for a purpose dangerous to the public peace and mischief causing damage over $5,000. Olienick is uniquely charged with unlawful possession of an explosive device for a purpose dangerous to the public peace. Carbert and Olienick have pleaded not guilty to all charges against them.

The 2022 Coutts blockade and protest was a peaceful and civilly disobedient demonstration broadly opposed to governmental edicts, orders, and mandates issued as “public health” measures, ostensibly to reduce COVID-19 transmission. It ran concurrently to the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, ON.

Carbert and Olienick are the two remaining defendants of a group of men dubbed the Coutts Four, which previously included Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin, who were also accused of conspiring to murder law enforcement officers. Lysak and Morin pled guilty to lesser weapons-related crimes in March and were sentenced to time served in remand.

The female RCMP undercover operator (UCO) testified in a courtroom inaccessible to the public and news media in order to protect her anonymity. With her in the courtroom were the judge, prosecutors, defence lawyers, defendants, jurors, and court staffers. Members of the public and media could listen to a live audio feed of her testimony in an adjacent courtroom. Her name was also withheld from the public record.

The female UCO sounded as if she was crying while reflecting on what she said were statements made to her by Olienick during a conversation. She stated that Olienick, during the Coutts blockade and protest, told her he was willing – and even expected – to die in a violent confrontation with police officers.

 

“[Anthony Olienick] said he thought he would die for this cause,” the female UCO stated. She continued, “He comes now to realize that this was his destiny, and this was the war he was meant to fight in. … [He said] the devil would make sure he didn’t survive.”

While sounding as if she was losing her composure, lead prosecutor Steven Johnston asked the female UCO if she needed a break from testifying to restore her poise. The female UCO acknowledged that she was upset and replied that she only needed a moment. She also testified that emotional control was a skillset she possessed as an undercover investigator with the RCMP.

According to the female UCO, Olienick claimed that “the devil” would use its “arms” to ensure he didn’t survive the Coutts blockade and protest. She interpreted Olienick’s remark as if “the devil” was a reference to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and “arms” was a metaphor for the RCMP.

 

 

Near the end of the day’s proceedings, the female UCO acknowledged that her notetaking documented very little of her own statements and behaviors as an undercover investigator. The vast majority of her notes were composed of statements and behaviours she claimed to observe on the part of her investigatory targets.

 

Justice David Labrenz, the judge overseeing the trial, said he expects the trial to conclude by mid-July.

Jun 142024
 

Previous was   For Your Selection May 2024

Most important is #1:

1.   2024-06-14  Breaking News: BC Centre for Disease Control Caught Lying and Withholding Important Public Health Data, Dr. Bryam Bridle

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2.   2024-06-13   Trial started. Fraser Valley churches challenge Dr. Bonnie Henry as dishonest and discriminatory in court. JCCF.

 

3.   2024-06-12   At trial,  Honey pot denial: Undercover female cop denies using ‘sexuality’ in Coutts investigation. Carbert & Olienick. By Robert Kraychik, Rebel News.

 

4.   2024-06-10 great!  US Appeals Court rules COVID mRNA shots could be considered not ‘traditional’ vaccines, By Jen Hodgson, Western Standard.

 

5.   2024-06-10 Carbon Capture is a racket, Letter to Editor Western Standard, by Roger Gagne

 

6.   2024-06-10 Conservatives predict failure of Online Harms bill (C-63) , by Jen Hodgson, Western Standard

 

7.   2024-05-27 Police Detective Penalized for Investigating Vaccine Status of 9 Sudden Infant Deaths (Helen Grus story continued)

 

8.   2024-06-05 Rand Paul Rips Fauci Testimony: NIH ‘More Secretive than the CIA’, by Michael Nevradakis, CHD

 

9.   2024-06-06 UPDATE: Court hears misconduct complaint against judge who imposed Covid vaccine mandate

Judge Brinton’s complaint raises issues about the proper functioning of the judiciary, both in Nova Scotia and across Canada. It engages the principles of individual judicial independence, judicial impartiality and, by extension, the rule of law itself. It concerns the working relationship between a chief judge and her fellow judges, and the proper scope of the chief judge’s authority within that relationship.

 

10.   2024-06-04 Supporters gather to fundraise grieving father’s lawsuit against Pfizer and Health Canada after his teenage son died suddenly, by Tamara Ugolini, Rebel News

Dan Hartman, father – – a man with a lesson for all of us – –  stalwart and determined in the face of tragedy.  To me he is a mature and whole person.

We were first introduced to this story back in February.

11.   2024-05-29 covid USA: Feds Paid Pharmacies to Reject Ivermectin Prescriptions, by Michael Nevradakis, CHD

 

12.   2024-06- 04 Most federal departments saw over 90% of executives and managers receive bonuses, Rebel News by way of MP Andrew Scheer. Response received to an order paper question.

 

/Sandra