HomeMy WebLinkAbout20201119_A Huenke COVIDFrom:Annette Huenke
To:Board of Health
Subject:public comment, 11/19 meeting
Date:Thursday, November 19, 2020 2:05:05 PM
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Good afternoon.
I’d like to address recent comments made by Board of Health members as reported by the
Leader.
Dr. Locke says “we all know we're heading into a crisis in Washington State.” This sounds like the language that came out of the Imperial College this winter, which turned out to be
cataclysmically wrong. No, we don’t know we’re heading into a crisis, that is simply a prediction based on results of unreliable testing.
Commissioner Dean is ‘disturbed at so much distrust,’ as if a lack of confidence in a medical-
industrial complex largely funded by profit-driven pharmaceutical corporations and so-called ‘philanthropies’ who stand to benefit from every single aspect of this crisis, is unwarranted.
Over recent decades Merck, Pfizer, Glaxo and others have paid over thirty-five billion dollars in fines for criminal activity like manipulating and concealing data . Do you need reminding
that it was the US Public Health Service and the CDC who conducted the Tuskegee syphilis experiment between 1932 and 1975? I could go on. Who in their right mind assumes that
government and its agencies have only good intentions or always make the right choices? It is dangerously naive for policy-makers to navigate this realm denying the overwhelming
influence of money.
I find it ‘offensive' that legitimate peer-reviewed science is being willfully ignored by local authorities who now have unprecedented control over the populace with zero liability for
negative outcomes. Dismissing out-of-hand the considered opinions of credible physicians and scientists as ‘untrue rhetoric and conspiracy theories’ is offensive. This is a back-handed
call for the deplorable, undemocratic exercise of censorship.
One of those credible physicians was quoted on Tuesday — Cambridge and Royal College-educated pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson said
“There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians.
It’s outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting
public.
There is absolutely nothing to be done to contain this virus other than protecting
your more vulnerable people. It should be thought of as nothing more than a
bad flu season.
...positive tests, which do not accurately reflect whether you have the virus, are
driving “public hysteria,” adding "testing should stop unless you show up at a
hospital with respiratory problems." [source]
Dr. Locke might say that this man has no place in “the science group,” because his professional opinion is unwelcome. I consider the possibility that Dr. Hodkinson, along with scores of his colleagues, comprehends phenomenon that Dr. Locke does not.
sincerely,Annette Huenke5708 Jackman St.Port Townsend