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Thank you for your indefatigable efforts over the last five years. You are among a small group of people whose goal was to use an inquiring mind and tell the truth. I am reading David Zweig's book and have to put it down often because the sorrow and anger at how American citizens were treated. The Public Health establishment, uncompassionate and unscientific, with the enabling unquestioning media drove the narrative everyday with fear and anxiety. Brian Kemp, Ron DeSantis and Sweden were without question the leaders in showing that Public Health's last concern was the health of the public. Even my own supposed red state of Alabama is still being lead by Scott Harris who has not lost power but has gained power. He assumed the position of President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials last fall proclaiming the importance of trust and transparency. He remains unrepentant and unaccountable because of our feckless legislature. Alabama public health, which is dismal, is entirely controlled by doctors with no political accountability. I am glad that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is head of NIH and Dr. Vinay Prasad will be at the FDA.

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Thank you for this and your other work. I reread your timelines on the experts claims about effectiveness of vaccines and post vaccination myocarditis. It’s great work. But as I read it it pulled me back to a time when I regularly followed the medical literature that drew different evidence based conclusions from the department of public health I was working in. Failure to block transmission was a hill I died on. No argument was winnable with the experts. That’s when I quit public health work. The damage done by withholding, lying, ignoring and enforcing is prevalent today with trust in health agencies in the toilet and vaccination rates for other infectious diseases below rates needed to prevent endemicity. I get a knot in my stomach whenever I think back to that time when evidence based decisions were ignored.

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