HomeMy WebLinkAbout20201011_Schumacher COVIDFrom:Stephen Schumacher
To:Board of Health
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Subject:Appeal from WHO to Gov. Inslee to stop lockdowns
Date:Sunday, October 11, 2020 4:17:37 PM
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Dear Jefferson County Board of Health,
Please consider lending support to WHO's appeal to world leaders likeGov. Inslee to stop their lockdowns that have proved to be a"terrible, ghastly global catastrophe" with worst impact on the poorand most vulnerable (see below).
Likewise note the Great Barrington Declaration spearheaded byHarvard, Stanford, and Oxford epidemiologists saying "currentlockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short andlong-term public health" and "those who are not vulnerable shouldimmediately be allowed to resume life as normal."
Yours truly,Stephen Schumacher2023 E. Sims Way #200Port Townsend, WA 98368
--- sent 10/11/20 to governor.wa.cov/contact ---
Dear Gov. Inslee,
You paused phased re-opening of your Washington State lockdown due tocases in Yakima, but 3 months later that's still on pause despitenegligible daily COVID deaths statewide, only a "casedemic" of whatHarvard College and New York Times reporting indicate are probably90% false positive test results:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
I see no justification for continued Washington lockdowns, except
misguided fears of future deaths stemming from an easily-debunkedIHME forecast:http://solmaker.com/public/Debunking_a_flawed_forecast.pdf
Now the World Health Organization itself is appealing to world
leaders like you to STOP LOCKDOWNS, calling them a "terrible, ghastlyglobal catastrophe ... making poor people an awful lot poorer" (see below).
I likewise appeal to you to reopen Washington State immediately! Atbare minimum, you need to retroactively fast-track counties into thephase they would have been if not for your 3 month phased-reopening pause.
Yours truly,Stephen SchumacherPort Townsend, WA
--- WHO appeals to world leaders to stop lockdowns ---
https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1314573157827858434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8oH7cBxgwE
"We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the
primary means of control of this virus. The only time we believe alockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup,rebalance your resources; protect your health workers who areexhausted. ... Look what's happening to poverty levels, it seems likewe may well have a doubling of world poverty next year. We may wellhave at least a doubling of child malnutrition because children arenot getting meals at school and their parents, in poor families, arenot able to afford it. This is a terrible, ghastly globalcatastrophe actually. And so we really do appeal to all worldleaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method. Developbetter systems to do it. Work together and learn from each other,but remember lockdowns just have one consequence that you must neverever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer."- Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's Special Envoy onCovid-19, October 8, 2020