A formal recognition and acknowledgement of everything that went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for an ongoing response by the elected leaders of Arizona. The Novel COVID South Western Intergovernmental Committee’s (NCSWIC) purpose is to provide the venue for that recognition, acknowledgement and discussion for how to move forward.
[Text Wrapping Break]As more evidence on the origin of COVID-19 and the flawed response to COVID-19 continue to emerge, the citizens of Arizona can no longer tolerate lack of acknowledgement by their government. Furthermore, our governmental institutions will not survive if such institutions refuse to acknowledge the medical gaslighting and coercion that continues to take place within public health and the health care community-at-large. If this is not addressed, legitimacy of those institutions will corrode and ultimately collapse.
Draconian measures, executed through public health in individual counties, cities and political subdivisions of Arizona, were instituted without precedent or scientific support. Major experts in virology, epidemiology, infectious diseases and vaccinology continue to be accused of spreading misinformation. Scientific opinions have been discredited without proof and health care workers have been silenced with the threat of termination or have lost their licenses and certification to practice.
Mounting evidence on the origin of the COVID-19 virus from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has emerged from the Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19.” This Subcommittee is designed to gather facts about the origination of the virus that has claimed nearly seven million lives globally. At a recent hearing, several of the witnesses pointed to how the science, facts and evidence point to a lab leak in Wuhan. Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testified how science indicates COVID-19 infections were likely the result of an accidental lab leak in Wuhan.
Meanwhile, subcommittee Republicans have unearthed emails revealing that top virologists warned Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), that the virus appeared to be genetically engineered and pointed to a lab leak in Wuhan. However, these emails reveal that Dr. Fauci and former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins may have colluded with scientists to downplay the lab leak theory for their preferred narrative of natural origin. We have also learned about EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantee, that awarded taxpayer funds to the WIV to conduct gain of function research on bat coronaviruses – research that may have started the pandemic.
It is worth noting that on October 18, 2019 and just months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise. Event 201 was a war-game simulation in which a fictional coronavirus passed from an animal reservoir to humans, where organizers warned of a “similar pandemic in the future.”
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average combined survival rate across all age groups from COVID-19 remains at 99.9%.1 On August 23, 2021, President Joseph Biden addressed the nation in a press conference stating “if you’re one of the millions of Americans who said that they will not get the shot…until it has full and final approval of the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)], it has now happened”2 and emphasized that the FDA’s approval meets the “gold standard”3. However, COVID-19 vaccines available to consumers in the United States are in fact not approved and licensed by the FDA and currently only authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) pursuant to the same letter of which President Biden was referring to when he misled the American public into thinking the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine available to consumers in the U.S. was approved and fully licensed by the FDA456.
In 1976 the swine flu mass vaccination program vaccinated 55M people and led to 500 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (paralysis) and only 25 deaths before the program stopped due to safety concerns. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is the voluntary reporting system built in 1990 by the United States Health and Human Services (HHS) and co-sponsored by the CDC and the FDA. The United States annual influenza vaccination program in 2021 vaccinated 195M, and only 20-30 deaths were reported to the VAERS. The average deaths from all vaccines in the United States from 2011 to 2020 was 409.0 according to the VAERS. In stark contrast, according to the VAERS the COVID-19 mass vaccination program has vaccinated XXM in the United States thus far with XXXXX plus reported deaths. In Arizona the total number of deaths from all causes in 2020 was 75,700 of which 25.2% was reported as due to major cardiovascular disease, 16.7% was reported as due to cancer (malignant neoplasms) and 11.1% was reported as due to COVID-19 disease.7 The increase in the total number of deaths from 2019 to 2020 in Arizona was only .2%. The increase in total number of deaths from 2010 to 2020 was only .3% in Arizona while considering and adjusting for population changes.
The American Medical Association (AMA), American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) strongly oppose the ordering, prescribing or dispensing of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial8. The CDC and FDA have issued advisories indicating that ivermectin is not authorized or approved for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. The NIH, World Health Organization and Merck (the manufacturer of the drug) all state there is insufficient evidence to support the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Treatment and Management of Patients with COVID-19 also recommend against the use of ivermectin outside of a clinical trial9. According to the US FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization for Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19 Guidance for Industry, an EUA can only be approved if “[T]here is no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product for diagnosing, preventing or treating the disease or condition”10. COVID-19 is treatable with other alternative less intrusive medicines like Ivermectin, yet an EUA was approved in spite of this widely known fact; and New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Families of loved ones that died at the hands of the hospital systems in exchange for monetary gain; i.e., “hospital incentives” through CARES Act funding deserve to have their voices heard. While we work through the immense pain from the loss of our loved ones, our federal and state health care systems continue to medically gaslight and ignore the science. Our healthcare system at-large [i.e., NIAID, NIH, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CDC, American Medical Association (AMA), etc.] continues to demonstrate an astonishingly flippant attitude by refusing to acknowledge any early treatment protocol for COVID-19 which, we now know, could have reduced hospitalization of up to 85 percent. Hospital systems across America have abandoned clinical judgment, adopted unsound scientific reasoning and continue to prioritize expensive drugs like Remdesivir while banning more effective and less costly treatments.
These actions have demoralized and dehumanized the people and loved ones so many have lost. Elected officials now have a responsibility.
These actions and much more are part of the global COVID-19 pandemic narrative that must be discussed and explored despite reluctant opposition. Arizonans deserve answers and accountability.
The NCSWIC will: (1) accept, recognize, confirm, or admit the existence or truth of the aforementioned; (2) identify the identity of the actors who willingly and knowingly committed improprieties as recognized by the NCSWIC; (3) determine what, if anything, could have been done differently to guard against the harms Arizonans have endured during the pandemic; (4) prepare possible actions pursuant to the AZ. Const. Art. IV, part 2, § 8 against those who willingly and knowingly participated in the most egregious actions against the public; and (5) provide legislative recommendations to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and provide a copy of this report to the Secretary of State.
