Minneapolis vaccine passport & mandates violate the law & medical ethics
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[Mpls] Mayor Frey's vaccine passport and mandate
Sat, Jan 22, 2022 12:09 pm
by Doug Mann
In the face of a huge surge of infections with the Omicron Variant of SARS cov2, Mayor Frey recently announced a requirement to show identification and proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, bars and some other indoor venues where socialization happens, eg a "vaccine passport." The vaccine passport applies to the City of Minneapolis and is set to expire after 40 days or the end of the state of emergency, whichever comes first.
Executive Summary
The Delta Variant in the US is on the verge of extinction. The Omicron Variant does not qualify as a dangerous virus and is providing strong immunity against all variants of SARS cov2 that are far more deadly. Vaccines and masks are not effective in preventing transmission of the Omicron Variant and previous iterations of the dread coronavirus.
The legal basis for vaccine mandates is the social interest in preventing the spread of a deadly communicable virus. The coronavirus vaccine manufacturers never claimed that their vaccines are effective in preventing infection and onward transmission of Covid 19.
Prior to Covid 19 the Supreme Court of the US has ruled that mandates may not be enforced with coercive measures so extreme that consent to vaccination is not truly voluntary.
Efforts by the FDA and other government agencies to coerce doctors to not offer covid 19 treatment and limit the patient's options to vaccines and other emergency authorized products is a clear violation of provisions of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki by the World Medical Association
The CDC recently posted a report of studies in California and New York which showed immunity by infection against Delta was more than twice as protective against infection than vaccination alone. Vaccinating those who are covid recovered offers very little additional benefit. Yet the CDC continues to recommend that coercive vaccine mandates continue to apply to those who are covid recovered.
The CDC and FDA have been exaggerating the benefits and downplaying the burdens / risks of vaccination. Much of the mass media is collaborating in this effort to market the vaccines and to manufacture consent for coercive vaccine mandates. The Biden administration is labeling truthful as well as false information about the coronavirus vaccination program as misinformation while it promotes the misinforming of the population about the benefits and risks of vaccination in order to combat "vaccine hesitancy."
My full commentary will be published at https://dougmann.substack.com/
THE OMICRON VARIANT IS NOT DANGEROUS AND THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINES ARE OBSOLETE
The "Omicron Variant" of SARS cov2 would be appropriately renamed Mild Acute Respiratory Syndrome (MARS) Coronavirus.
The Omicron Variant primarily infects non-ciliated epithelial cells of the upper respiratory tract. It is poorly designed to infect ciliated epithelial cells in the airways of the lungs. Its cell entry strategy provokes a less intense immune response, less inflammation than the cell entry strategy of Delta and other Variants of SARS cov2 which cause an atypical Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. In the more severe cases, Omicron causes a Mild Acute Respiratory Syndrome and its name should be aligned with its clinical presentation, i.e., MARS coronavirus (Covid 21).
See footnote #1 for link to Drbeen Medical Lectures "Omicron Pathogenesis is Different: It Uses Two Ways To Enter A Cell (SARS-COV-3)"
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial argues that the Vaccines against SARS cov2 are rapidly becoming obsolete. Omicron is in the process of eradicating all other variants of the SARS coronavirus 2. Omicron is much more effectively immunizing the population against much more dangerous variants of SARS coronavirus 2 than vaccines. (See footnote 2) I only read the first paragraph of the editorial and am not quoting from it. I don't subscribe to the WSJ.
The legal basis for mandating a vaccine is a social interest in preventing the spread of a dangerous, communicable disease, according to pre-covid 19 decisions by the US Supreme Court, beginning with the precedent setting Jacobson case in 1905. The coronavirus vaccines do not prevent infection with and onward transmission of the Omicron Variant of SARS cov2. Omicron is not a dangerous pathogen to most people.
The coronavirus vaccines minimally reduce the risk of infection and onward transmission of the Delta Variant of SARS cov-2. According to the coronavirus vaccine package inserts, they are authorized for use to prevent infections of SARS cov2.
The Omicron variant is a wickedly transmissible virus that is rapidly displacing the Delta Variant and other Variants of SARS cov2 that cause an atypical Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Omicron appears to be more easily transmitted than measles. As of 12 January 2022, Omicron likely accounted for over 95% of covid cases in the US. Emergency Departments are seeing 0.5% of Omicron cases compared to 1.3% for Delta. Proportionally, compared to Delta, Omicron infections produce about 1/6 as many hospital admissions, 70% shorter hospital stays, with few progressing to intensive care units. Source, John Campbell, "International Data Agrees" see footnote #3 for the hyperlink
Hospitals are struggling to meet demand for services. However, this is not because of people taking ill with the Omicron variant and presenting to hospital. The problem lies with doctors, nurses and other hospital employees calling in sick because of Omicron infections. The Hospitals are super-spreader venues. The mandated coronavirus vaccines and PPE / Source control (surgical masks) are not preventing infection and onward transmission of Omicron.
This is the end of pandemic. The Delta Variant and other SARS cov2 variants that cause a SARS-like illness are on the verge of extinction. Humanity has never vaccinated its way out of a pandemic caused by a respiratory virus. The plan to vaccinate our way out of covid 19 is a monumental failure. You cannot vaccinate your way out of a pandemic with leaky vaccines, i.e., vaccines that are not very effective in preventing infection and onward transmission. Who decided that high tech vaccines against respiratory RNA viruses could do what the old tech vaccines could not? Preventing infection was not the "end point" for the vaccine clinical trials. Preventing infections was not the yardstick against which effectiveness was measured. Yet politicians in white coats were making assertions about how the vaccines could get us to "herd immunity,” stop the spread, end the pandemic.
The decision to vaccinate our way out of the covid 19 pandemic was made prior to the pandemic. This final decision was made by president Donald J Trump in an executive order dated 19 Sept 2019 and published in the Federal Registry on 24 Sept 2019. Title "Modernizing Influenza Vaccines to promote national security and public health" See Footnote #4 for hyperlink.
The goals of Trump's executive order to modernize flu vaccines is 1) to replace the 70 year old egg based vaccine manufacturing process with new technologies, such as the mRNA platform. and a synthetic adenovirus vector, 2) to achieve 100% vaccination rate for the population and 3) to roll out a mass vaccination program during the next pandemic. Before anyone calls this a lie, read the executive order to modernize flu vaccines. I provided a hyperlink to this executive order in footnote #4
It is beyond my comprehension how so much of the population, especially those of the anti-capitalist and socialist persuasion lost their habitual skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry and its captured regulatory agencies. The CDC's mission is to promote vaccinations and gets much of its revenue from vaccine patents. The CDC is essentially a vaccine company. The CDC is in charge of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. That is an obvious conflict of interest. The proverbial fox is in charge of the hen house.
Following is the full text of Electronic Support for Public Health; Vaccine Adverse Reporting System, DIGITAL HEALTHCARE RESEARCH, the official website of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services. This report relates to a project carried out from 2007 to 2010 by the Harvard Pilgram Health Care System, which operates in 4 states
“Adverse events from vaccines are common but under-reported, with less than one percent reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Low reporting rates preclude or delay the identification of "problem" vaccines, potentially endangering the health of the public. New surveillance methods for drug and vaccine adverse effects are needed. Proactive, spontaneous, automated adverse event reporting embedded within electronic medical records (EMRs) and other information systems has the potential to speed the identification of problems with new vaccines and yield more careful quantification of the risks of older ones.
“The Electronic Support for Public Health - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP: VAERS) project sought to create a generalizable system to facilitate detection and clinician reporting of vaccine adverse events. EMRs available from all ambulatory care encounters in a large multi-specialty practice were used. Every patient receiving a vaccine was automatically identified and for the next 30 days their health care diagnostic codes, laboratory tests, and medication prescriptions were evaluated for values suggestive of an adverse event.“The main objectives of this project were to:
- Identify required data elements and develop systems to monitor ambulatory care EMRs for adverse events following vaccine administration.
- Prepare and securely submit clinician approved, electronic reports to the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
- Comprehensively evaluate ESP: VAERS performance in a randomized trial and compare it with existing VAERS and Vaccine Safety Datalink data.
- Distribute documentation and application software developed and refined in 1 and 2 that are portable to other ambulatory care settings and to other EMR systems.
“Preliminary data were collected from June 2006 through October 2009 on 715,000 patients. A total of 1.4 million vaccine doses (of 45 different vaccines) were given to 376,452 individuals. Of these doses, 35,570 possible reactions (2.6 percent of vaccinations) were identified. This is an average of 1.3 events per clinician per month. The team concluded that it is possible to automatically detect adverse events in defined ways, and to electronically report them to VAERS. Decision support functions can be repurposed, so that in addition to detecting reportable diseases, they can detect events that are related to vaccination, as potential vaccine adverse events.”
See footnote #5 for the hyperlink to the above report at the official HHS website.
COERCION TO PREVENT EARLY TREATMENT VIOLATES THE 1964 DECLARATION OF HELSINKI BY THE WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
"32. In the treatment of a patient, where proven prophylactic,
diagnostic and therapeutic methods do not exist or
have been ineffective, the physician, with informed consent
from the patient, must be free to use unproven or new
prophylactic, diagnostic and therapeutic measures, if in the
physician’s judgement it offers hope of saving life, re-
establishing health or alleviating suffering. Where possible,
these measures should be made the object of research,
designed to evaluate their safety and efficacy. In all cases,
new information should be recorded and, where appropriate,
published. The other relevant guidelines of this Declaration
should be followed."
The right of patients to informed consent to medical treatment, especially experimental treatment is addressed in paragraph 22 and 23. For the full text of the Declaration of Helsinki, by the World Medical Association, adopted in 1964, see hyperlink in Footnote #6.
In late March 2029 the FDA issued an emergency use authorization that banned the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for outpatients and all but the more severely ill hospitlaized patients. HCQ together with zinc and azithromycin were gaining wide acceptance as a treatment protocol for Covid 19. HCQ by itself became standard of care expert consensus in South Korea in early February 2020 and in China during the first week of April 2020.
Using search terms "SARS coronavirus treatment" with a search engine in January 2020, most of the top ten entries were about HCQ, which was considered safe and effective in treating the original SARS coronavirus that was in circulation from 2002-2004. Mechanisms of actions of HCQ against SARS coronavirus were identified.
However, the FDA successfully enlisted support of the American Medical Association to coerce doctors to not prescribe anything to patients on an outpatient basis and restricted what can be prescribed in hospitals. Although surveys of American doctors indicated that about 25% or more were willing to take HCQ themselves and offer it to patients for treatment of Covid 19, all but a fraction of a percent of doctors refrained from prescribing FDA approved drugs repurposed for treatment of covid 19. The FDA also warns that the use of supplements such as Vitamin D to improve the immune response to covid 19 can be dangerous, which makes any recommendation to patients for supplements a risky behavior for doctors.
In France, HCQ had long been available over-the-counter. Despite HCQ's well established safety record, the French health ministry reclassified it as a class 2 poison and made it available by prescription only in January 2020. Then by April the prescribing of HCQ for treatment of covid 19 was outlawed.
However, as of 14 October 2021, doctors in Nebraska can prescribe HCQ, Ivermectin and other FDA drugs repurposed to treat covid 19 without fear of disciplinary action by the Nebraska Board of Medicine because of an opinion by the Nebraska Attorney General's Office. In findings of facts, the Nebraska AG considered the 300 published studies supporting use of HCQ and over 60 studies supporting use of Ivermectin for covid 19 Footnote #7 Text of Nebraska AG's opinion on prescribing Hydroxychrolonquine, Ivermectin and other FDA drugs approved to treat Covid 19
Even with respect to drugs which the FDA has fully approved, the use of coercion to restrict the ability of doctors to practice medicine and to coerce patients to consent any medical procedure is not allowed by the Declaration of Helsinki, to which the US is a signatory. The FDA itself encourages doctors to prescribe drugs "off label," i.e. for indications for which the drug is not given approval. If a doctor has a reasonable belief that the use of a medication would be beneficial, especially in a case where there is no drug approved for a particular indication, the doctor has a duty to inform the patient and offer the medication. However, an exception to this rule has been made for all FDA approved drugs repurposed to treat Covid 19. Even as we enter the year 2022, there are no fully approved medications for covid 19, no fully approved vaccines.
"The FDA-approved COMIRNATY (Covid 19 Vaccine, mRNA) and the EUA-authorized Pfizer-BioNTech Covid 19 Vaccine for individuals 12 years of age and older when prepared according to their respective instructions for use can be used interchangeably."
FDA Fact Sheet for Health Care Providers Administering Vaccine / Updated January 2022See footnote 8 for full text of the fact sheet for health professionals administering Pfizer coronavirus vaccines.
Immunity from Covid 19 infection is being ignored by the CDC, and the recommendation for universal vaccination has not been withdrawn despite evidence that immunity from infection with covid 19 provided immunity far superior to the Delta Variant. See footnote 9 for links to a study from Israel and to studies from California and New York.
Minnesota Department of Health statistics show breakthrough infections from vaccination May through November 2021 ocurred at more than twice the rate than reinfections during the entire pandemic.
The FDA and CDC have been exaggerating benefits of the vaccines and downplaying the burdens / risks. See footnote 10 for link to Canadian Covid Care Alliance video which offers evidence that Pfizer inoculations for covid 19 in children doing more harm than good
Footnote #1 Omicron Pathogenesis is Different - It Uses Two Ways To Enter A Cell (SARS-COV-3) https://youtu.be/PDu-PHrgliQ
Footnote #2 https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-makes-bidens-vaccine-mandates-obsolete-covid-healthcare-osha-evidence-supreme-court-11641760009
Footnote #3 John Campbell."International data agrees" https://youtu.be/TrVGymR-jFU
Footnote #4 Modernizing Influenza Vaccines to promoite national security and public health https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/24/2019-20804/modernizing-influenza-vaccines-in-the-united-states-to-promote-national-security-and-public-health
Footnote #5 Electronic Support for Public Health: Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (source: Digital Healthcare Reseach, website of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services). Quoting the cited source in full: https://digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-support-public-health-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system
Footnote #6 Declaration of Helskinki Informed consent without coercion (paragraph 22, 23) The physicians duty to offer medical treatment with a licensed drug which in the opinion of the physician is likely to be beneficial in the treatment of an illness for which there is
https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/79(4)373.pdf
Footnote #7 Text of Nebraska AG's opinion on prescribing Hydroxychrolonquine, Ivermectin and other FDA drugs approved to treat Covid 19 https://ago.nebraska.gov/sites/ago.nebraska.gov/files/docs/opinions/21-017_0.pdf
Footnote 8 FDA Fact Sheet for Health Care Providers Administering Vaccine / Updated January 2022
https://www.fda.gov/media/153713/download
Footnote 9 Study: Covid Recovery gave Israelis longer lasting delta defense than vaccines
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-covid-recovery-gave-israelis-longer-lasting-delta-defense-than-vaccines/
The CDC website: Studies from New York and California from statewide data which show that prior infection with SARS cov2 provides much better immunity against the Delta Variant than vaccination alone
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm
Footnote 10 Canadian Covid Care Alliance video, Pfizer inoculations for covid 19 in children doing more harm than good
https://rumble.com/vrlftb-the-pfizer-inoculations-for-covid-19-more-harm-than-good.html
-Doug Mann, Folwell Neighborhood https://dougmann.substack.com/