Please forward this to anyone with an interest in the Court Cases underway in Canada & the U.S.
regarding the legality of covid mandates. Thank-you. /Sandra
Date: December 19, 2021. With thanks to Ray for content.
Sent to: Brian Peckford (minor edits)
From the U.S., two things:
- Yesterday (Dec 18)
following on: Biden’s mandates, refusals of employees to get the jabs, employers backing down from implementation because they need the workers, Federal Court decisions go against Biden, but then a reversal and now . . .
Subject: More maneuvering in US re covid mandates .. referred to Supremes
(Enforcement is to start Jan 10).
a “lack of historical” precedent is often “the most telling indication” that Congress lacked the power to pass a law, or that an agency lacked the power to promulgate a regulation . . .
- The size (ramifications) of the employee refusal in the U.S., drawn from 3 articles (links below):
Amtrak . . . amid concerns about staff shortages . . . CEO William Flynn said the company would do away with the mandate
Florida’s AdventHealth announced the end of its vaccine requirement for some 83,000 workers
Tenet Healthcare, HCA Healthcare, and Cleveland Clinic recently announced they are pulling back as well, citing labor concerns. Along with AdventHealth, the three healthcare companies operate a combined 300 hospitals and have more than 500,000 workers.
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Unified School District board, for different reasons, voted overwhelmingly in favor of postponing its student vaccine requirement from January 2022 until the fall of 2022 after tens of thousands of students reportedly would not comply—meaning that they would not be able to attend in-person classes.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, the largest naval shipbuilder in the United States, announced it won’t enforce the Biden administration’s federal contractor mandate. . . . 44,000 workers
Boeing Has Suspended Its Vaccine Mandate (Dec 17)
The preceding are from 3 reports in these 2 postings
· 2021-12-17 Growing Number of Companies and Organizations Are Walking Back Vaccination Requirements. Plus Boeing Has Suspended Its Vaccine Mandate.
https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26282
· 2021-12-13 Prominent US hospitals drop vax mandates after massive shortage of key staff
https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26279
The Journal cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in reporting that as of September, unvaccinated employees accounted for a massive 30% of workers employed by over 2,000 U.S. hospitals.
Best wishes,
Sent: December 17, 2021 7:39 PM
To: ‘publichealth@islandhealth.ca’
Subject: TO: Dr. Richard Stanwick
TO: Chief Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Island
(With edits, mostly formating)
Dr. Richard Stanwick,
I think you have not been told the following, but most everyone in my networks has been told, or will soon know:
(1) 2021-12-14 BC Restaurant wins court case. Open to everyone, no vaccine passport needed.
(https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26304)
(2) The protest in Victoria on Dec 9th; 3,000 people.
A convoy of vehicles from up-island started in Campbell R, joined with others in Courtenay, towns along the way, down the way to Nanaimo . . . Victoria, big posters on their vehicles. One theme was: stay away from our kids. (They are well-informed people. It is hubristic to think otherwise, IMHO!)
An estimated 3,000 were in attendance in Victoria.
You can’t be expected to know about it: the lack of reporting is stunning. But almost irrelevant because people are reporting to each other.
I try to “get it right”: I’ve been doing this work for 20 years (all my life, actually). I can’t afford to lose my credibility. The people I work with through networks are competent, discerning, well-informed, and thoroughly dedicated to the public good.
(3) Maybe you do not know, but most people in the networks know: ivermectin has been used for at least 5 decades with very beneficial results. It’s sin? Ivermectin IS OFF-PATENT a long time ago. There are many generic production centres around the world. You know what that means.
Ivermectin was thoroughly propagandized and gotten rid of in western democracies in particular – – because Anthony Fauci and his cronies are intent on making billions of dollars on their vaccines and drugs (patented, of course). They’ve done no end of harm. I am grateful that the truth is getting out.
(4) In case you are unfamiliar with HOW the information is getting out, just one example, recent (from my blog):
BRIEF BACKGROUND
A group of scientists and doctors sued the FDA over the Pfizer covid vaccine.
The plaintiffs are Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency.
A part of the lawsuit is a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) on the FDA
for documents from Pfizer
that the FDA used to license the vaccine (e.g. test results).
(Aside: the equivalent in Canada to a FOIA is an ATI, Access to Information)
The Plaintiffs are making the Pfizer documents they receive available through their website.
Canadian Dr. Nagase has analyzed Pfizer pages posted by the Plaintiffs. He explains them to Western Standard reporter Melanie Risdon.
The word “shocking” is appropriate.
From the posting
2021-12-09 Dr Daniel Nagase Shocking Stats from Pfizer Documents AND
We’ll all be dead before FDA releases full COVID vaccine record, plaintiffs say
(https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26260):
Pfizer documents from clinical trials
IMPORTANT INTERVIEW BY MELANIE RISDON
Dr Daniel Nagase Shocking Stats from Pfizer Documents
https://rumble.com/vqid0m-bc-doctor-reviews-shocking-stats-from-re
There has been a legal battle over the FOIA to get to this point. Aaron Siri (lawyer representing the plaintiffs) called it
“dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
(5) And the court cases underway in Canada: how many of them are you aware of? All that stuff that comes down to us from the Doctors’ trials, a subset of the Nuremberg Trials? You will be able to find information if you aren’t up-to-speed.
(6) The call for a Constitutional Reference?
I would welcome a conversation with you.
You may have questions – – there’s probably more of which you are unaware? – –
(7) “The Pandemic Papers” is a new publication, excellent. “First Edition December 9, 2021 on the 75th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial (December 9, 1946)”.
From outside North America, recent:
(8) 2021-12-13 Japan’s health ministry officially WARNS of myocarditis heart inflammation as a side-effect of Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines (as compared to Canada . . .)
https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26277
The relationship to myocarditis and related heart afflictions has, of course, been known for a long time now. The “as compared to Canada” bit only adds to the dilemma:
“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”
I was heartened by the legal decision on the Restaurant case.
I was heartened by the judge’s decision re the Fairy Creek Old Growth injunction.
There will be more than 2 enlightened judges in Canada! Which reminds me:
Jeff Rath, an Alberta lawyer who is representing a group of Alberta doctors, plaintiffs in a case against the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons over forced inoculation, has an exceptional amount of experience in successful argument of cases in the Supreme Court of Canada. He isn’t the only constitutional lawyer with a case on its way to the Supreme Court.
Brian Peckford, one-time Premier of Newfoundland-Labrador, as you may know, is the main voice teaching the Canadian tool of a Constitutional Reference to short-circuit lengthy court proceedings in divisive matters.
I am thinking that a difficult area for you will be the common sense question (among others): why would anyone confine people with a contagious case of covid in a long term care facility with people who do NOT have the disease?
Equally problematic will be, if the Courts do their job: I don’t think you have authority to do what you are doing. A “Section 1 Over-ride” which is what you are relying on, properly pursued (and there’s enough on the line to help ensure that it is properly pursued) requires that the criteria set out in the Oakes Test for an override of Constitutional Rights be argued in a Court of Law.
The Court will or will not grant the Over-ride based on the argument presented. The Oakes Test is brief and easy to understand; I mean, do YOU think you can satisfy the criteria?
I am happy to answer questions, if I can.
I offer because I have friends who are being severely and wrongly impacted by what you are doing.
Maybe it doesn’t have to be?
But maybe you will not want to speak with me?
Best wishes, (Sandra)
by Jack Phillips, Epoch Times
More and more businesses in recent days have walked back previous rules mandating COVID-19 vaccine sas a condition for employment in a bid to keep workers.
Earlier this week, Amtrak—a quasi-public corporation—became the latest to rescind its vaccine requirement amid concerns about staff shortages and cut service in January. In a memo sent to staff that was obtained by The Epoch Times, Amtrak CEO William Flynn said the company would do away with the mandate that would have given employees until Jan. 4 to get fully vaccinated or go on unpaid leave.
About 500 out of more than 17,000 Amtrak workers remain unvaccinated, according to the memo. Still, the sudden loss of that many workers would have caused service disruptions, Flynn suggested, while noting that Amtrak was acting in accordance with recent court orders handed down against President Joe Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandates.
Several hospitals and healthcare systems have similarly rescinded vaccine mandates for employees and cited labor issues that were triggered by the new requirements. In early December, Florida’s AdventHealth announced the end of its vaccine requirement for some 83,000 workers, also citing the several recent court injunctions against federal mandates.
“Due to recent decisions by the federal courts to block the [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] vaccine mandate, we are suspending all vaccination requirements of our COVID-19 vaccination policy,” AdventHealth Chief Clinical Officer Neil Finkler said in a letter to staff. The move came after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirmed to The Epoch Times that the agency suspended enforcement following two court orders several weeks ago.
Tenet Healthcare, HCA Healthcare, and Cleveland Clinic recently announced they are pulling back as well, citing labor concerns. Along with AdventHealth, the three healthcare companies operate a combined 300 hospitals and have more than 500,000 workers.
They cited recent court orders that blocked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from enforcing its mandate on Medicare- and Medicaid-funded medical facilities. The rule was announced by Biden on the same day that he confirmed that he would impose mandates on federal government employees, businesses who have contracts with the federal government, and, most controversially, businesses that have 100 or more workers.
The mandate for private businesses, slated to be enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), was paused by the agency last month following a scathing ruling that was issued by a panel of judges on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. At the time, OSHA said it remained confident that the federal government would ultimately prevail in court.
“We have seen some anecdotal reports of hospitals that have paused or rolled back their vaccine mandates in light of the legal process that is currently playing out,” the American Hospital Association said in a statement to The Washington Post about the recent hospital decisions on vaccine requirements.
But the organization said that it does “not think most hospitals are changing their mandates, but some may be choosing to mandate weekly testing or other mitigating strategies for unvaccinated workers instead,” while “some have also decided to no longer terminate unvaccinated staff.”
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Unified School District board, for different reasons, voted overwhelmingly in favor of postponing its student vaccine requirement from January 2022 until the fall of 2022 after tens of thousands of students reportedly would not comply—meaning that they would not be able to attend in-person classes.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, the largest naval shipbuilder in the United States, announced it won’t enforce the Biden administration’s federal contractor mandate. The company had told its 44,000 workers that it was not contractually obligated to comply, although a federal judge in Georgia later blocked the mandate.
The University of Iowa also recently pulled its vaccine directive for staff working on federal contracts from its website following a federal judge’s order last month. University of Iowa Faculty Senate President Teresa Marshall said on Dec. 7 that the requirement was placed on hold until federal lawsuits get sorted out.
With the deadline for all of Boeing’s U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 having already passed, the company said Friday that it has suspended its vaccination requirement.
In a statement to KIRO Newsradio, a Boeing spokesperson said the company does continue to encourage employees to get vaccinated and get a booster if they have not done so already.
Boeing says the decision to suspend the vaccination requirement comes after a federal court’s decision “prohibiting enforcement of the federal contractor executive order and a number of state laws.”
The full statement from the spokesperson is below:
“Boeing is committed to maintaining a safe working environment for our employees, and advancing the health and safety of our global workforce. As such, we continue to encourage our employees to get vaccinated and get a booster if they have not done so. Meanwhile, after careful review, Boeing has suspended its vaccination requirement in line with a federal court’s decision prohibiting enforcement of the federal contractor executive order and a number of state laws. As we have throughout the pandemic, we will continue to monitor and follow federal, state and local requirements.”
In October, Boeing had set the deadline of Dec. 8, 2021, as the day all employees in the United States must be fully vaccinated by or get an approved exemption they later extended it to Jan. 4 to match the federal mandate.
As we previously reported back in November Some 11,000 employees of the Boeing Co. — about 9% of the U.S. workforce — have sought religious or medical exemptions to a company and federal requirement that workers be vaccinated.
The number of exemptions sought was many times higher than executives expected. The requests have the company “scrambling for a strategy that keeps employees safe and complies with President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, but avoids an exodus of engineering and factory labor,” the news report said.
Shutterstock(LifeSiteNews) — Facing serious staffing shortages, some of the largest and most prominent hospital systems in the United States, including HCA Healthcare Inc., Tenet Healthcare Corp., AdventHealth, and Cleveland Clinic have been forced to backpedal on their COVID-19 jab mandates in hopes of retaining crucial employees, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday
Townhall reported that University Hospitals in the Cleveland, Ohio area also recently announced the reversal of its jab mandate for hospital workers.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the major hospital systems have been forced to reevaluate their coercive COVID-19 jab policies after needed healthcare industry employees, especially nurses, chose to quit rather than get the experimental injections.
“Vaccine mandates have been a factor constraining the supply of healthcare workers, according to hospital executives, public-health authorities and nursing groups,” the report noted, adding that “thousands of nurses have left the industry or lost their jobs rather than get vaccinated” for COVID-19.
The Journal cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in reporting that as of September, unvaccinated employees accounted for a massive 30% of workers employed by over 2,000 U.S. hospitals.
Many people, including healthcare professionals, have been skeptical of the push toward mass immunization. The CDC reports an infection survival rate of greater than 99.95% for those under age 50. Meanwhile, the list of FDA-recognized adverse events has grown from severe anaphylactic reactions to include fatal thrombotic events, the inflammatory heart condition myocarditis, and neurologically disabling disease like Guillain Barré Syndrome, as well as thousands of recorded deaths and permanent disabilities.
The staggering percentage of healthcare workers who have refused to comply with the jab requirements imposed by their hospital systems — many of whom are vitally necessary nursing personnel — could have a crippling effect on America’s hospitals if the establishments move to fire all noncompliant workers.
Recognizing this dilemma, an employee-benefits lawyer has suggested that hospitals that don’t mandate the jabs could see an influx of interested applicants fleeing hospitals with more coercive policies.
“It’s been a mass exodus, and a lot of people in the healthcare industry are willing to go and shop around,” Wade Symons, head of the consulting firm Mercer’s U.S. regulatory practice, told the Journal.
“If you get certain healthcare facilities that don’t require it, those could be a magnet for those people who don’t want the vaccine. They’ll probably have an easier time attracting labor,” Symons said.
The judge’s late-November decision was in response to President Joe Biden’s September 9 announcement of a series of vaccine mandates for public and private sectors, including one with no testing option for millions of healthcare workers employed by medical facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has subsequently announced it will temporarily halt enforcement of its healthcare worker mandate pending appeal of a federal injunction blocking the measure.
“I don’t think the mandates were helpful and I think the court in Louisiana did everyone a service,” Alan Levine, chief executive officer of Ballad Health, told The Journal.
Levine, who told the newspaper his company employs about 14,000 people, of whom roughly 2,000 have opted not to get the shot, said firing “[t]hat many people … would have been devastating to our system.”
Before the Louisiana judge blocked the mandate, at least 22 states had joined a duo of joint lawsuits against the Biden administration over the rule.
States, companies, and private individuals have filed a raft of lawsuits taking issue not only with the mandate for healthcare workers but also the mandate for federal contractors and another for businesses with 100 or more employees.
In early November, a federal court blocked the mandate for large businesses, just two days after it was published. The mandate would have used the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to impose massive fines on noncompliant companies and individuals for failing to get the experimental shots.
By early December, all three of the Biden administration’s private sector jab mandates were stalled by federal judges.
The latest mandate to be blocked was halted December 7 by a federal judge who sided with South Carolina’s attorney general and Republican governor and stopped the Biden administration’s COVID-19 jab mandate for federal contractors, freezing the requirement nationwide and marking the third federal injection mandate to be blocked across all 50 states.
A shift in public policy toward the reversal of coercive jab mandates comes as many Americans remain concerned that the experimental drugs on the market have not been sufficiently studied for negative effects given their accelerated clinical trials. Many also harbor serious moral reservations about the use of cells from aborted babies in the development of the shots.
Still others simply consider the injections unnecessary given COVID-19’s high survivability among most groups, low risk of asymptomatic spread, and research indicating that post-infection natural immunity is either just as protective against reinfection or provides even greater protection.
Japan’s health ministry officially warns of myocarditis heart inflammation as a side-effect of Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines
The major U.S. media, including Fox News and the conservative blogosphere, are completely ignoring this news from Japan. Google and DuckDuckGo searches reveal only little-known websites, many with an ideological bent, picking up the news — which means that few will see it and many will disbelieve it. But NHK, the Japanese version of the BBC (full disclosure: where I long ago worked as an overseas news editor as well as on-air), has the story. You can count on it being true.
Japan’s health ministry has listed inflammation of the heart muscle and of the outer lining of the heart in younger males as possible serious side effects of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines. (snip)
The ministry held a panel of expert on Saturday and proposed warning of the risk by printing “serious side effects” on the documents attached to the vaccines.
It will also require hospitals to report in detail incidents involving people who developed the symptoms within 28 days after being vaccinated, according to the law.
The plan was approved by the panel, and the ministry will notify municipalities.
The contrast with many other advanced countries, where the populace is being bullied, even required, to receive vaccines is stark. And this is not some minor agency issuing the warning. The official name of the health ministry is the Koseirodosho, in English, The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. It is headquartered in this skyscraper in the Kasumigaseki district in Tokyo, where most national government offices are located.
To my knowledge, this is the first official warning of the heart risk associated with COVID vaccines, and it comes from a highly advanced country with a reputable medical regulatory bureaucracy. CORRECTION: the CDC did issue a notice on November 12:
CDC and its partners are actively monitoring reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination. Active monitoring includes reviewing data and medical records and evaluating the relationship to COVID-19 vaccination. (snip)
- Cases of myocarditis reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)external icon have occurred:
- After mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna), especially in male adolescents and young adults
- More often after the second dose
- Usually within a week of vaccination
But Japan’s health ministry has raised the level of concern and is gathering data for a controlled study, leaving the CDC far behind. (hat tip: Douglas Herrz)
What’s happening among young people?
RC The Rapper “JUST SAY NO” (Canadian)
(You have to un-mute. That’s Unity, SK you see. About 1/2 hour drive from where I grew up on the Sask prairie, small towns.)
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2.
Janet writes: My new anthem!
shared this & a bunch of other cool music on FB.
WE WILL NOT COMPLY / WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION
Hi-Rez and Jimmy Levy
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4. Link to Eric Clapton’s release, This Has Gotta to Stop
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1:05 / 2:21 with lyrics on the screen
Subject: Ode to Joy by Ana Rucner and a great cast
5. https://player.vimeo.com/video/58611141?autoplay=1
This will send the blood coursing through your veins!
Sandra
It always seems impossible until it is done. Nelson Mandela
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/14/julian_assanges_brother_the_biden_administration_has_criminalized_knowing_classified_information.html
Julian Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton joined ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight‘ on Monday as the WikiLeaks founder appears set to be extradited to the U.S. from the U.K..
The public has “been able to ignore this case for a while,” he said. “They’re making an example out of Julian.”
“The people who run our democracies now would like to rule them with impunity,” he also said. “They don’t want people to know what’s being done in their name. They want to keep secrets. They don’t want the public to be informed. They’re telling people: ‘If you tell the truth about our secrets about the security state, this is what’s going to happen to you. You’ll be locked in a prison for the rest of your life.'”
BRIEF BACKGROUND
A group of scientists and doctors sued the FDA over the Pfizer covid vaccine.
The plaintiffs are Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency.
A part of the lawsuit is a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act on the FDA for documents from Pfizer that the FDA used to license the vaccine (e.g. test results).
(Aside: the equivalent in Canada to a FOIA is an ATI, Access to Information)
The Plaintiffs are making what Pfizer documents they receive available through their website.
Canadian Dr. Nagase (item #1 below), has analyzed Pfizer pages posted by the Plaintiffs. He explains them to Western Standard reporter Melanie Risdon.
The word “shocking” is appropriate. If you have read RFK’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci” you might be less shocked.
There has been a legal battle over the FOIA to get to this point. Aaron Siri (lawyer representing the plaintiffs) called it
“dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
- Pfizer documents from clinical trials
IMPORTANT INTERVIEW BY MELANIE RISDON
Dr Daniel Nagase, Shocking Stats from Pfizer Documents
https://rumble.com/vqid0m-bc-doctor-reviews-shocking-stats-from-re
2. December 13: Reuters
We’ll all be dead before FDA releases full COVID vaccine record, plaintiffs say
By Jenna Greene
(Reuters) – In advance of a court hearing before a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration has offered by the end of January to make public 12,000 pages of data that it relied on to license Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine.
At first glance, that sounds like a lot of material.
Except a group of scientists and doctors who’ve sued the agency under the Freedom of Information Act is seeking an estimated 400,000-plus additional pages of information about the vaccine’s approval. Under the FDA’s proposed schedule – the agency pledges to release “a minimum” of 500 pages a month after the initial dump – the full trove might not be made public until the year 2097.
Or as Aaron Siri of Siri & Glimstad, who represents the plaintiffs Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, put it in court papers, the rate is “so slow that the documents will not be fully produced until almost all of the scientists, attorneys, and most of the Americans that received Pfizer’s product, will have died of old age.”
The FDA, which is represented by lawyers from the Department of Justice, doesn’t dispute in legal filings that it’s obligated to make the vaccine data public. The only issue before U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, who was appointed to the bench in 2019 by former President Donald Trump, is timing.
The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment. In court papers filed Monday, it suggested that the judge could proceed by approving its 12,000-page offer and “then revisit the issue of a longer-term processing and production schedule with both parties in February 2022.”
I wrote last month about the brewing FOIA fight, when the FDA first revealed it could take 55 years to produce all the responsive documents.
It turns out that there’s even more information responsive to the FOIA request. The plaintiffs estimate that under the agency’s proposed timeline, it could actually take up to 76 years to process and release all of the documents and spreadsheet data they’re seeking.
(This is me banging my head on my desk.)
The plaintiffs want all the information in 108 days – the same amount of time they say it took the FDA to approve the vaccine.
That’s almost surely unrealistic, since the material must first be reviewed to make sure, for example, that no personal information about clinical trial participants or commercial trade secrets are inadvertently revealed.
“It is important for the FDA to perform a careful line-by-line, word-by-word review of all responsive records before producing them in response to a FOIA request,” said Suzann Burk, who heads the FDA’s Division of Disclosure and Oversight Management, in a declaration filed with the court.
She estimates that such a close review takes eight minutes per page. She also notes the FDA office that handles FOIA requests has just 10 employees and is swamped with other work, too.
So yes, it’s understandable that the FDA needs some time to produce all the vaccine-related documents. But 76 years?
Pointing to prior FOIA fights, the plaintiffs make a strong argument that the government is capable of moving at least 20 times faster than 500 pages a month.
For example, in Seife v. FDA, they say the agency in 2020 agreed to produce an average of 10,000 pages per month, for a total of 45,000 pages of material in about four months.
The plaintiffs in that case sought information about the testing and approval process for a drug that treats a rare neuromuscular disease – records that Siri writes are “substantially similar to those at issue in this case, many requiring redaction.”
Likewise, in Treatment Action Group v. FDA, which concerned the approval of two hepatitis C drugs, the agency produced 82,668 pages and 1,045 electronic files in about seven months, for an average production rate of 11,800 pages per month.
Why can’t the FDA at least match these rates for producing the COVID vaccine documents?
In court papers, the DOJ argues that the request doesn’t warrant expedited treatment, “particularly in light of the copious information that FDA and other federal agencies have already made public regarding the Pfizer vaccine.” Also, she argues that the FDA “must handle its substantial volume of FOIA requests equally and fairly.”
But Siri, in an emailed comment, called it “dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
To be clear, I’m not interested in casting aspersions on the vaccine. I trust the overwhelming consensus by federal, state and local public health officials that unvaccinated people are more likely to get infected, hospitalized and die of COVID. Personally, I’m relieved to be double-vaxxed and boosted.
But you don’t have to look far to find people who are far more uneasy about the jab.
Indeed, several of the plaintiffs – a group that now includes more than 200 doctors, scientists, professors, public health professionals and journalists from around the world – have publicly questioned the efficacy of lockdown policies, mask mandates and the vaccine itself.
While some members may have their own agendas, the group as a whole has pledged to publish all the information it receives from the FDA on its website and says it “takes no position on the data other than that it should be made publicly available to allow independent experts to conduct their own review and analyses.”
To me, the key issue here is good government and transparency. By slow-walking document production, the FDA fuels suspicions that the vaccine review process was somehow flawed.
A better approach would be to release the information as quickly as possible and use it as an opportunity to assuage the concern of vaccine skeptics.
Opinions expressed here are those of the author. Reuters News, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence and freedom from bias.
I’m reading Kennedy’s book (just out), “The Real Anthony Fauci”.
An email arrived: “Mark Steyn on GBN with guest Robert Kennedy Jr on Fauci”
…. Robert K. is last part of the hour….. https://youtu.be/d-ORIbE2fx8
As I listened I started laughing:
The USA and Canada have been relentlessly, busily scrubbing RFK off every media platform they can.
Meanwhile RFK’s book has shot to the top of today’s Best Sellers, published by the major media.
They must hate having to publish the list: they refuse to interview the author, or review his book! Ha ha!
I just checked Amazon’s top selling books – – #2 The Real Anthony Fauci.
The book is very good. Kennedy – – on behalf of a large body of doctors and scientists I’d say – – explains the misplaced and highly damaging strategies directed by Fauci and Gates. Strategies that make no sense, and WHY they make no sense. But it comes down to the usual – – all that gold that’s pouring in (our tax dollars!). Corruption. All soundly documented and foot-noted.
I wonder if, in Canada, The Real Anthony Fauci will break through the grip that Pharma, Government, Big Tech and Big Media have on the public narrative. I certainly hope so.
I sent this short note to CBC (Dec 12):
Tony Fauci was heard on this morning’s CBC radio.
I could be wrong: Fauci is going down the drain with the rapid distribution of Robert Kennedy’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci”.
The people you choose to champion affect your credibility.
For your consideration, /S
NOTE: Chapter 12 of Robert F Kennedy’s book is “GERM GAMES“. Many of you know my attention to the Military-Industrial-Government-University complex because of Lockheed Martin Corp and my 5 years in-and-out-of-court.
You may recall the posting (Canada):
I was surprised, but very pleased to see “Germ Games”
addressed by Kennedy. The book is comprehensive.
ASIDE: That the Canadian military is using the pandemic as a “unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians” is not surprising. When you read “Germ Games” in the American context, read “North American context”.
The integration and harmonization of the Canadian military with the American has been documented on this blog. We mounted strong opposition to the purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth bombers (a real financial boondoggle) and stopped it. But always “stopped it” means “temporarily“. I see numerous news reports out now about the various countries that have bought the F-35’s.
The reports are to lull us. We will hear “Lockheed Martin” and “F-35” to the point where we don’t react to the words. They figure they’ve waited long enough for the loud-mouthed protestors to have grown old. We will buy the F-35’s; the screws tighten.
And here! Simon & Schuster! Good on them! (Janet’s Letter to MPP’s follows.)
#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Pharma-funded mainstream media has convinced millions of Americans that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a hero. He is anything but.
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JANET’S LETTER TO MPP’s, Dec 2nd
(Note: MPP is Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario) which to others is an MLA)
PREFACE BY JANET:
I mostly don’t deal w. politicians anymore. I find most of them terrifically irrelevant. (some of them are also actually as dumb as a bag of hammers. Not these 4, mind you.)
but I felt motivated to send them this letter. For my own personal reasons.
Sent to my own MPP. & 3 MPPs I have dealt with in the past. Used to know them when I was still doing env. activism. (3 are from Toronto. 1 is the MPP for the Oshawa riding)
Wanted them NOT to be able to truthfully say “Nobody told me about any of this shit!”
So. I told them!
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
December 2/21.
Hello Ms. Berns-McGown, Ms. Bell, Ms. French and Mr. Tabuns:
I’m going to number things here to lay it all out as clearly & concisely as possible.
- I’m writing to you four because you, Rima, are my MPP. Jess – we met around climate activism some years back now, before you were involved in provincial politics; you may or may not remember me. Jennifer – I met with you a number of times when I was working on nuclear issues in Durham Region, while working as the coordinator of DNA – Durham Nuclear Awareness (I’m now retired from that form of activism). Peter – I met with you a few times also, always around nuclear issues. I used to work closely with Angela Bischoff (Ontario Clean Air Alliance).
- So, I feel a more “personal” connection with each of you than I do with other politicians.
- I was a long-time NDP-er myself in the past! Migrated to the Greens. Now I’ve migrated right out of politics altogether. No longer interested in “left vs. right” distinctions. I consider myself a-political now.
- I’m writing to ask if you’re aware that a B.C. hospital was recently host to 13 stillbirths in a 24-hour period. All the mothers involved having had the Covid shots. Were you?
- I’ve been aware of injuries/deaths associated with the Covid injections for some time. In fact, I learned a year ago now what the FDA (U.S. federal drug “regulator;” I feel sure you’re aware of that agency) revealed in October 2020 (i.e. prior to vaccine rollout) regarding possible injuries/side effects to be expected from the coming injections. I’ll attach Slide 16 of their October 22/20 powerpoint presentation on that. Feel free to locate the full presentation yourself here: https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download (INSERT, Sandra: some links in the presentation have been de-activated.)
- So. It was understood (if not widely revealed!) ahead of time that risks were high, and that “pregnancy and birth outcomes” were involved in the dizzying, horrible mix.
- Now we have a B.C. MD recently going to an RCMP detachment to lay charges against various health/hospital/government officials after one hospital experienced 13 stillbirths in a 24-hour period. I learned about this from an article I will attach here in pdf format. Another source of information on this topic can be found here: Doctor Sounds Alarm: Stillbirths Explode in Canada (Video)
https://rairfoundation.com/doctor-sounds-alarm-stillbirths-explode-in-canada-video/
- If you were not aware of this, well … now you are! I wanted to ensure that you DO become aware of it. It might create some curiosity in your mind. It might strike you as a pretty unacceptable situation. I certainly hope so!
- I want to ask you a personal question. Each of you. It’s this: do you think you, and your party, are going to be found to have been on the right side of history vis-a-vis the whole Covid scene? This is a moral issue I suggest you may want to consider wrestling with.
- I think that’s it! I will attach those items, as promised. And ask you to consider doing some moral rassling … if I may be so bold as to offer advice. Less and less as I get older (I’m a 68-year old grandmother now) do I offer advice to anyone. But I’m offering some now.
Sincerely,
Janet McNeill
p.s. I’m aware of the personal bravery being demonstrated in the Ontario Legislature by Roman Baber, Randy Hillier, Belinda Karahalios and Rick Nicholls. I would never have expected to find “Conservative” politicians admirable! Nor would I likely agree with them on a wide swath of topics/issues, frankly. But these days? The world has really changed. Covid has changed everything.
p.p.s. if you’d like to learn more about deaths and injuries from the injections, you can check out the site called OpenVaers. https://www.openvaers.com/ https://openvaers.com/covid-data It’s very enlightening. You won’t hear about any of it from the mainstream media. If you believe anything you read in any of those … well, that’s something you may want to re-think.
p.p.p.s. there’s simply TONS of additional information/Web sites/resources available about vaccine injuries and deaths. On the reasons why vaccinating children is utterly unnecessary, dangerous and absurd. I’d be happy to provide good sources of information for you on these and other Covid-related topics. I am FAR from alone in being aware of all these things. Having dug very deep on ALL things Covid, the past 19 or 20 months. Doctors. Lawyers. Nurses. Scientists. Emergency responders. Police officers. Firefighters. I’m in plenty of good company, and it’s growing by the day!
p.s. # 4: What the heck – here are 3 items about kids & vaccines:
Why are we vaccinating children against COVID-19? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475002100161X
Evidence-based information for parents on the risk for children of COVID-19 vs. the risk of the vaccines
Or, for something a bit quicker to digest:
Top 10 Reasons Not to Let Your Child Get a Covid shot
Attachments:
- FDA powerpoint Slide 16
- Article: ‘Sudden Surge in Stillbirths and Menstrual Changes’

