You may have heard the heartbreaking telephone exchange that has been circulating the alt-media recently. A dad calls his local pharmacy. By the sound of the voices, it’s somewhere in Canada possibly Australia or New Zealand. He seems like a soft-spoken gentleman, but ends up losing his cool. He called to ask the pharmacist whether the person administering Covid vaccinations had provided his wife with the warning that the medicines can cause heart inflammation. He explained that she took their son to be vaccinated and now the child was in hospital with myocarditis.
By her voice, the pharmacist seems like a young woman. She didn’t react as you might think. Not a moment of kindness, a mention of sympathy. She retorted coldly, defensively, that his wife should have known about the risks associated with the vaccines because, “There’s plenty of information posted online.” I think it was the apparent indifference to human suffering that triggered his anger towards her. He raised his voice. It seemed to me like he was trying to knock some sense into her, “Did you know that it is your job to provide informed consent?.... Did you know that myocarditis patients might die in five-years’ time?” Nothing seemed to phase her. He was trying to get blood from a stone.
I am opposed to Senate Bill 866, pending in California, known as the, “Teens Choose Vaccines Act.” It was introduced by Senator Richard Pan and sponsored by Vaccine Work Group, a Democratic coalition. It seeks to override the requirement of parental permission to allow children 12 years of age to obtain medical care for sexually transmitted diseases and those 15 and older to undertake vaccination without obtaining parental consent.
An existential anger befell an American father when he learned that a hospital had violated his express orders to refrain from administering a medicine to his daughter. She had contracted SARS-Co-V-2 and was having difficulty breathing. She had the genetic disorder, Down Syndrome. The hospital forbade him to stay with her, skirted his medical directive and gave her the medicine. A ‘do not resuscitate’ protocol was issued without the family’s consultation. When the girl died, her dad was so aggrieved that he rented a billboard to announce to the community that she had been euthanized.
Here is a gripping account of a young German father, recorded from his car. He is forlorn for his son, for how adults have let COVID suck the joy out of childhood.
Nearly a year after it was issued, I came across the whistleblower account of Army combat veteran and registered nurse, Erin Marie Olszewski. At the start of the pandemic when New York City appeared under siege, she left her home in Florida to share her expertise as a trauma specialist and registered nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Elmhurst was called, ‘epicenter of the epicenter’. It had freezers outdoors in which to store corpses. The nurse was exasperated by her experience there and wrote an account of what she witnessed. I have not read her publication,1 but I watched an interview that she conducted, June 2020. It shares candid camera footage that she obtained. Her testimony described a perfect storm for disaster: bureaucracy, arrogance, ignorance, indifference, complacence, negligence, dysfunction, greed, fraud….
According to Olszewski, the majority of the patients visiting the Queens E.R. were poor, mostly from the following demographics: Black, Latino, and Asian. In her assessment, many suffered panic attacks (physiological expressions include elevated heart rate and inability to catch one’s breath). She alleged that people were admitted to COVID wards before testing positive for SARS, thereby exposing them to risk of infection. She said patients were denied advocates and put into jeopardy by residents practicing dangerous protocols including tracheotomies, intubation, and sedation. Olszewski acknowledged that there were physicians who objected to the standard of care, but alleged that the majority of doctors and staff followed hospital protocols, as did residents eager to complete their training with references.
A recent interview that I caught in passing featured a small-town pharmacist who began to suspect that her clients were getting injured by the vaccines that she was administering. She wasn’t sure what to do. She opened the data safety sheets that accompanied the vials. Because they were authorized for emergency use, the SDS were blank. She unfolded them and tacked them up like whitewashed posters at the drugstore. Before she injected people, she pointed to them and said she couldn’t warn of the risks. “Did they still want the shot?” she asked.
Amid the mad-dash of nearly three quarters of the American population to get vaccinated, a good number of U.S. pharmacists wound up refusing the shots. One who abstained explained, “Being in the medical industry, part of our job is discussing safety and efficacy about our products and our competitors’ products with doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. For there not to be safety and efficacy data with these COVID shots, many of us wanted to wait”2
A pharmacist’s dilemma from the era of what was called the AIDS epidemic, was conveyed by Dennis Kinnane, now retired. During the time, he was a member of the gay community in Los Angeles. He interpreted testing positive for antibodies to HIV as indication of natural immunity to the virus. The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, a division of National Institutes of Health, NIH)—then as now stewarded by Dr. Anthony Fauci—took the alternative view that the presence of HIV antibodies signaled active infection requiring medical intervention. The drug that NIAID sanctioned (and which patients sought prescription) was AZT. Like Remdesivir—the antiviral recommended by NIAID to treat COVID for all age groups including newborns—it was a DNA chain terminator, fundamentally toxic. [In genetics, a transcription terminator is a section of nucleic acid sequence that marks the end of a gene or operon in genomic DNA during transcription.]
AZT came with a skull-and-bones package insert that warned pharmacists not to open the bottles or touch the capsules for fear of poisoning. Kinnane recounted his frustration not having been able to convince his friends not to take the drug, “Usually, it took 2 to 3 months as it destroyed their bone marrow and vital organs.... I would watch them die with them believing they had AIDS instead of being poisoned to death!”3
A journalist, Liam Scheff shared Kinnane’s suspicion of HIV as not constituting the sole causal agent of AIDS. He wrote, “If we don’t know how HIV works, or if it makes anyone sick, then it’s unethical to treat any HIV–positive person with potentially fatal pharmaceuticals.”4 In 2005, Scheff alleged that Incarnation Children’s Center in New York had forced orphans to participate in drug clinical trials. The pharmaceutical companies Genentech, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and GlaxoSmithKline sponsored the trials which were conducted by reputable scientists and overseen by the NIH through the early 2000s. The heartbreaking saga is attended to with great sensitivity and intelligence by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in the chronicle, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” 2021. [Highly recommended reading.]
It must be uniquely unsettling to dispense investigational new drugs (INDs), especially in the midst of a health crisis and in the particular case of injecting them into people. A strange statement in this regard went viral during the COVID pandemic. The comment was extracted from a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) conference, (2015, Brussels) that discussed investment in Africa with respect to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. The Gates’s are stakeholders in Monsanto, a GMO chemical company that since 2016 has been part of the German pharmaceutical corporation, Bayer.
In the clip, Bill Gates—mastermind and benefactor behind Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)—addressed the ethics of vaccinating African children with experimental genetic drugs ahead of adequate safety testing5
Is there something to worry about with medicines? That is, might some of them have side effects? Do we need safety testing? I mean, we’re just taking things that are genetically modified organisms and we’re injecting them into little kids’ arms. We just shoot’em right into the vein. So, yeah, I think maybe we should have a safety system where we have trials and test things out.
In India there have been calls for the arrest of Bill Gates over longstanding allegations of violation of medical ethics and interference with land and water use in the interest of agricultural reform. The Gates’s funded a clinical trial that enlisted girls without first obtaining parental consent. The people were poor. Many fell ill and several died.6 Every year since 2017, Indian farmers have buried themselves neck-deep in the ground as a matter of protesting the agricultural reforms enacted by BMGF in concert with The Rockefeller Foundation.
An excellent new documentary, “Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda,” examines a World Health Organization (WHO) population control experiment that was conducted under the guise of a vaccination program. Millions of African women were tricked into sterilization without their consent. The film features Kenyan doctor Stephan Karanja who warned the world, “When they’re through with Africa, they’re coming for you.”
Some other must–see documentaries
James Corbett, The Corbett Report, 2020 (02:05.56)
Bioethics and the New Eugenics
James Corbett, The Corbett Report, 2021
Activists have done much in recent years to raise awareness of historical breeches of medical ethics in America, many harming Blacks and indigenous peoples. Among grotesque accounts is the extraction of cancerous tissue from a patient unawares. A human cell line, HeLa was obtained from Henrietta Lacks without consent and used for pharmaceutical research.
A notorious example of immoral medical research is exemplified by “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” (1932-72). This experiment was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It enrolled 600 men in what the agency said was to be a 6-month study. Instead, 400 men, their wives and children were subjected to syphilis for 40 years as scientists observed the disease progression, all the while the government tricked participants into thinking that their disease was being treated by administering placebos.
Account of the Tuskegee scandal has circulated in the media recently in regards to distrust of the CDC within the Black community, a demographic reportedly at heightened risk from COVID, yet hesitant to undertake vaccination.
According to the U.S. government, for a variety of reasons members of particular racial and ethnic minority groups and people living in congregate settings such as nursing homes and prisons bore higher risk of suffering severe COVID. Special efforts were deployed in the service of protecting the vulnerable. In January 2021, The White House declared, “Americans of color are being infected and are dying from COVID-19 at greater rates because of lasting systemic racism in our health care system. And, older Americans continue to suffer at disproportionate rates.”7
In addition to race, the CDC prioritized vaccination for those with certain co-morbidities: Down’s Syndrome; Autism; Anxiety and Depression; Alzheimer’s; immune-suppressed conditions; diabetes; and respiratory disorders.
The government purchased media support to foster “vaccine equity for racial and minority groups”. It galvanized the military to help roll-out mass-vaccination. Metrics gauging the COVID vaccination rate in adults with data parsed by race/ethnicity indicate that the campaign succeeded in delivering a higher rate of COVID vaccination in all but Native American and White communities for the period April 22, 2021–July 30, 2022.8
Citing Kennedy’s tome and other sources, an earlier Parking Lot essay discussed how the government’s countermeasures decimated people in at-risk and disadvantaged communities. [Collateral Damage].
Earlier this summer, the White House Pandemic Office declared an emergency outbreak of Monkeypox. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) provided emergency authorization for a Smallpox/Monkeypox vaccine and promoted it to gay and bi-sexual men whom they identified as a high-risk demographic.9 The gay community has also previously been encouraged by marketing to take a pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP (Truvada), as a means of protection from HIV. Apart from the drug’s intrinsic risks, critics question whether PrEP might unravel protection from sexually transmitted diseases (a benefit conferred by the use of condoms, that risk seeming superfluous in light of protection by PrEP).10
As SARS-CoV-2 emerged from Wuhan in December 2019, a Chinese scientist was sentenced to prison for having secretly fostered three genetically modified humans. He Jiankui and scientists at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen used the genome-editing technology CRSPR to alter the DNA of twin embryos. They removed a gene, CCR5 in an attempt to confer genetic resistance to H.I.V. They then implanted the embryos in corpore and repeated the process on a third child.
The saga was exposed by journalists at MIT Technology Review. A follow-up report stated that He was released from prison this year after spending as few as three years locked up.11 For the crime of altering the genetic code of three people, his punishment essentially mirrored the lockdown and isolation experienced by law-abiding citizens. Apparently, before things went south at Southern U., He had hoped he would receive the Nobel Prize. He met with one of his former mentors (Michael Deem, a former professor at Rice University who participated in the experiment) and John Zhang (head of an IVF clinic in New York) to discuss the possibility of launching a designer baby business, an enterprise they described as, “genetic medical tourism.”12
While studying at UC Berkeley, I attended a lecture by the co-creator of CRSPR, the technology that He used to edit the genomes. Dr. Jennifer Doudna’s webpage explains the technology as, “An RNA-guided gene-editing platform that makes use of a bacterially derived protein (Cas9) and a synthetic guide RNA to introduce a double strand break at a specific location within the genome.” Doudna was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry during COVID-19.
Although Americans tend to associate eugenics with Nazis such as Josef Mengele (who—like He—was known for his experiments on twins), the sad state of affairs is that American and British eugenicists cast influence on the Germans. The Rockefeller Foundation was a benefactor of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the institute that displayed the Jewish body parts of Mengele’s ‘patients’ sent there by the perverted scientist to his mentor, Otmar von Vershuer.
A concise overview of American eugenics is provided by James Corbett in his 2020 documentary, “Who Is Bill Gates?” The multi-part series connects son-to-father, exploring the genealogy of philanthropist, Bill Gates, Sr. who served on the Board of Planned Parenthood.
Margaret Sanger, was a bioethicist. She founded The American Birth Control League (ABCL) and later, Planned Parenthood. Sanger was influenced by British eugenicists, such as H. G. Wells whose view of human supremacy was supposedly more class-based than racially orientated. Nevertheless, for her work bringing abortion to the Black community Sanger is regarded by some as a white supremacist. Here is a compelling clip from a 1957 interview of Sanger by Mike Wallace.
Those seeking a comprehensive account of American–German eugenics networks may find interest in the Human Rights work of investigative author, Edmund Black. His publications include “IBM and the Holocaust,” (2001 and 2012); and “War Against the Weak: American Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Class,” (2003 and 2012).
Storied American institutes such as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have evolved from eugenics outfits funded by The Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations in the Victorian Age into contemporary biotech and life sciences research institutes.
Mindful of its dark past, David Micklos, executive director of Dolan DNA Learning Center at CSHL has explored “where genetic science went off the rails in the name of eugenics.”13 A 2017 episode of his blog, Base Pairs features a discussion with Doudna, exploring, “how to responsibly use the new powers over the human genome that she helped bring into the world.”14 The CSHL webpage links to several overviews on American eugenics, white supremacy, selective breeding, and sterilization.
I mentioned that Sanger was a bioethicist. Rationing or denying medical care on utilitarian bases is a complex subject, fraught with ethical disputes, as are the subjects of abortion and euthanasia. These topics are the purview of the field termed, “Bioethics”. Issues in the field pertain to harvesting and distribution of transplant organs; in vitro fertilization; surrogacy; convalescent care; end-of-life planning; euthanasia; birth control; and sterilization. In one regard, bioethics extends the legacy of eugenics insofar as it assesses quality of life in matters of life and death.
During the pandemic, President Biden appointed bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to the Coronavirus task force. (Dr. Emanuel is the brother of Ambassador to Japan and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel.)
The Center for American Progress; The Hastings Center; Nuffield Council on Bioethics; The Rockefeller Foundation; and The U.N. Commission on Population and Development are among non-governmental organizations dedicated to bioethics.
The suffering and death of the COVID unvaccinated in hospital was shockingly all but celebrated in the American press. Human suffering was leveraged as a means of psychological manipulation and held up as righteous punishment, just desserts. “Had these people done as they were told, this would not have happened to them. Serves them right,” some thought. I knew that we were in trouble when humiliation of the diseased and dying was normalized.
I was struck by a Washington Post article, “Doctors should be able to give priority to vaccinated patients when resources are scarce,” published September 2021. Opinion columnist, Ruth Marcus asserted:
The coronavirus pandemic, the development of a highly effective vaccine, and the emergence of a core of vaccine resisters along with an infectious new variant, have combined to change the ethical calculus.15
Although acknowledging, “Doctors are healers, not judges,” Marcus’s novel calculation argued forfeiting equal medical treatment to “vaccine resisters,” whom she characterized as spreaders of the delta variant, menaces to society. The crux of her argument lay not in personal responsibility but in, “duty to [the] community.” I personally regard this calculated opinion as betraying the lessons of dehumanization, collectivism, and stigmatization that led to the genocide of the Holocaust.
I do not understand the rationale to compel patients seeking organ transplants to undertake COVID vaccination. This is a universal requirement in the U.S. Presumably, vaccination stimulates the immune system. Transplant recipients need to undergo medical suppression of the immune system to prevent the organ from being attacked and rejected as a foreign substance.
The heart cannot repair itself. When it is severely damaged a transplant is necessary. There was an instance of a man who acquired myocarditis after first dose of COVID vaccination. As a result, he needed a new heart. The organ was denied to him unless he became fully vaccinated. That is the definition of a circular argument.
Around the time of Marcus’s article, the BioNTech–Fosun mRNA vaccine mass-manufactured and distributed by Pfizer obtained full FDA approval. Concurrently, FDA agents who had been stewarding review of the COVID vaccines announced their resignation. A week later, their supervisor, Dr. Collins—the scientist who had spearheaded the Human Genome Project—announced his resignation as Director of the NIH. Why would there be a mass-resignation of the scientists who stewarded the genetic technology vaccines at their triumphal moment? Another “mission accomplished” scenario?
Shortly after conferral of full-approval status to the BioNTech–Fosun product, President Biden issued Executive Orders mandating vaccine uptake by the military and federal and healthcare workers. Mandates had already been put into effect in the private sector by many universities, healthcare systems and businesses including airlines, all of which relied on federal funding to stay afloat. Requests for religious and medical exemption were denied. Claims by students who sought to waive vaccination citing natural immunity from prior infection or religious exemption were denied.
A rebuttal to the charge that vaccine mandates breached civil liberties was issued the day before the WaPo article on bioethics arguing for rationing of care. Writing in their publication, legal and freedom of religion directors at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asserted16
Vaccines are a justifiable intrusion on autonomy and bodily integrity. That may sound ominous, because we all have the fundamental right to bodily integrity and to make our own health care decisions. But these rights are not absolute.
Note to reader: This ACLU is not THE ACLU, once heralded for the likes of David Goldberger. It is an imposter outfit. It has gone rogue. [Goldberger was a Jewish–American lawyer who defended the First Amendment rights of Neo-Nazis to protest in Skokie, IL (home to hundreds of Holocaust survivors).]
Around St. Martin’s Day—Veteran’s Day in the U.S.—when the German father was forlorn for his son’s spoiled choir, New Zealand and Austria legalized euthanasia for the severely COVID-ill, while paradoxically maintaining bans on compassionate care treatments deemed unsafe for COVID treatment. Beyond circular, this policy was absolute nonsense.
This past weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the issue of the Nuremberg Code (Nüremberger Kodex), the ethics governing medical research and practice that were adopted internationally after World War II amidst a series of twelve tribunals, including “United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.” (1946-47) and “United States of America v. Carl Krauch et al.” (1947-48), held under U.S. Military Court in the zone of occupied Germany notorious for having implemented the race laws that facilitated persecution of the Jews. Brandt was Hitler’s personal physician. Krauch was head of the industrial conglomerate, IG Farben and chair of Göring’s Four-Year Plan.
Twenty of the twenty-three defendants were medical doctors, some were charged with inhuman medical experimentation and mass-murder. Seven doctors were hung; some served time (10-20 years); and some were acquitted. Krauch and other elites served as few as six years in prison before returning to high-level positions.
IG Farben played a central role in the Holocaust. It was a successful chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate of four companies: Agfa; Hoechst; BASF; and Bayer. It produced the nerve agent, Sarin and the poisonous gas, Zyklon B (a cyanide-based pesticide). The latter was deployed at extermination camps, including Auschwitz II–Birkenau where the company sent its slave laborers from Auschwitz III after having sucked the life blood out of them. Under the direction of physicians, Bayer scientists conducted clinical trials at Birkenau. The patients were mostly women. They tested anesthetics and held drug trials for typhoid, tuberculosis, diphtheria and other diseases.
Taking its form from the Old Testament, the Nuremberg Code consists of ten immutable commandments to uphold ethical standards in regards to medical treatments, procedures and research. It draws from the Declaration of Helsinki and the Hippocratic Oath, the vows required of entry into the physician’s profession that commence with the imperative of the precautionary principle, “First: do no harm.” The code intends to protect Human Rights adjudicated by the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The most imperative requirement is the first:
informed, voluntary, consent:
1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.
On August 20, 2022, World Council for Health and a German activist group, Action Alliance hosted an event in Nuremberg, “75 Years of the Nuremberg Code—Never Again Forced Medical Procedures.” In advance of the commemoration, Action Alliance issued an open letter. Among featured speakers, were doctors Tess Lawrie, Steering Committee Member of World Council for Health and Vera Sharav, founder of Alliance for Human Research Protection.
Vera Sharov’s speech at the rally merits consideration. Her father contracted a fatal case of typhus in a concentration camp. She claimed that Operation Paperclip allowed “the Nazi genocidal culture to metastasize in the United States.” Sharov identified the new face of fascism as the technocratic elites behind public–private partnerships such as the United Nations–World Economic Forum partnership whose agenda seeks to supersede sovereign nations and instate multipolar world governance.
She honed in on Klaus Schwab, the German founder of World Economic Forum (WEF) whose 2020 publication, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” explains how his outfit intends to leverage the medical–economic crisis to advantage and pave the way to revolutionary reforms with respect to sustainability, agriculture, health, energy, and more. She cited a statement that Schwab delivered in good spirits at the Davos conference last May:
Let’s be clear. The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, a powerful community, here in this room. We have the means to impose the state of the world.
—Klaus Schwab
Sharov warned, “The ultimate goal of these megalomaniacs is to gain total control of the natural resources, financial resources and to replace humans with transhuman robots.” With particular disdain for Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari who is a WEF associate, she explained, “These people deny the existence of God,” they deny human dignity.
Harari has been warning people about digital surveillance, while proclaiming that the genetic COVID vaccines have “hacked human-beings,” an admonishment that he delivers with perverse amazement.
Sharav focused on Harari’s dehumanization of average people whom he deems the “useless class,” because they are unable or unwilling to embrace artificial intelligence and thrive in the re-imagined transhuman world. To Sharav, his words echo Nazi eugenics that characterized the elderly and disabled as, “useless eaters”.
To my father, Joseph S. Pecora, counselor at law who died on this day 16 years ago. May he rest in peace. A true gentleman who not only showed a shy little girl the moon, but encouraged her to develop as an independent thinker able to summon the strength to say, “No, thank you.” Dad, your genealogy is being extended by your namesake, a wonderful person and gentleman lawyer in his own right. He and his wife are raising two beautiful human beings who are helping out in their communities.
When the wolves are out, we will be the sheepdogs.
Thanks for reading!
Peace and love,
Poppy
Erin Marie Olszewski, J.B. Handley, “Undercover Epicenter Nurse,” Simon & Schuster, 2020
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Undercover-Epicenter-Nurse/Erin-Marie-Olszewski/9781510763661
Beth Brelje, “Fired Pharmaceutical Workers Explain Why They Didn’t Get COVID-19 Shots,” Epoch Times, Feb 3, 2022
Jascha Hoffman, New York City foster home accused of unethical AIDS drug trials, Nature, Jan 1, 2005
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, “Our Big Bet for the Future,” moderated by Matthew Bishop, Globalisation Editor for The Economist, Brussels, January 22, 2015
Akshay Tarfe, “Why Are Indians So Angry at Bill Gates? The latest backlash against the Gates Foundation in India is the result of years’ worth of concerns raised by human rights activists and civil society,” The Diplomat, June 15, 2021
https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/why-are-indians-so-angry-at-bill-gates/
The White House, “President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan,” January 20, 2021
C.D.C., “Estimated percent of people 18 years and older in each race/ethnicity group reporting Covid-19 vaccination,” (Data collected April 22, 2021–July 30, 2022)
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demographics-trends
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration’s Monkeypox Outbreak Response, June 28, 2022
Josh Barro, “AIDS Group Wages Lonely Fight Against Pill to Prevent H.I.V.,” New York Times, Nov 16, 2014
Antonio Regalado, “The Creator of the CRSPR babies has been released from a Chinese prison,” MIT Technology Review, April 4, 2022
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/04/1048829/he-jiankui-prison-free-crispr-babies/
Antonio Regalado, “Disgraced CRSPR scientist had plans to start a designer baby business: He Jiankui met with US investors and entrepreneurs to explore CRISPR-baby tourism,” MIT Technology Review, August 1, 2019
Base Pairs podcast, “Good genes, bad science,” October 15, 2017
Ibid.
Ruth Marcus, “Doctors should be able to give priority to vaccinated patients when resources are scarce,” Washington Post, Sept 3, 2021
David Cole, Daniel Mach, “Civil Liberties and Vaccine Mandates: Here’s Our Take,” ACLU, Sept 2, 2021
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/civil-liberties-and-vaccine-mandates-heres-our-take
This morning it was announced that in response to a lawsuit filed by the Washington D.C. Police Union and other groups that opposed Mayor Muriel Bowser’s vaccine mandate, Judge Maurice A. Ross ruled in favor of the plaintiffs explaining, “A vaccine mandate is not an everyday exercise of power. It is instead a significant encroachment into the life—and health—of an employee. It is strikingly unlike any other workplace regulations typically imposed, as it cannot be undone at the end of the workday.”
Also announced today by lawyer, Bobbie Anne Flower Cox: a New York Supreme Court Judge has struck down Governor Kathy Hochul’s forced quarantine regulation. On July 8, 2022, Judge Ronald Ploetz ruled that the “Isolation and Quarantine Procedures” regulation is unconstitutional and “violative of New York State law as promulgated and enacted, and therefore null, void and unenforceable as a matter of law.”