This may just be an odd way of thinking about it but If public health policy is to be based on science then there needs to be full transparency. Without it there is no distinction between basis health policy on science versus basing it on religious belief. If the US wants to continue to separate church and state then its 'science' based policies cannot rely on the faith of citizens. Without the data the madates/polcies and law are void.
Nov 15, 2023·edited Nov 15, 2023Liked by Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
Thank you for all you do. You are truly a rare type of clear-thinking and courageous clinician/researcher. My brief input: One big problem (as I see it) is that our 'so-called' health system in the USA is actually a "disease-management system". It is even evident in the the name of the CDC (i.e. center for "disease control' as opposed to center for health promotion) The primary goal in this so-called healthcare system is revenue of course. Profits are the greatest when there is just enough disease present in the society to maximize the need (perceived or actual) for various so-called health care services. That said, the most powerful players in this system don't want everyone in society to be too sick, because someone has to work and produce economic wealth so that the healthcare system can then extract and/or transfer this wealth to themselves via their ingenious multi-stream approach (testing, detection, pharmaceuticals, surgical interventions, etc.) IMHO, we need a massive paradigm shift to focus on health promotion as opposed to disease management. But this will never succeed unless/until we agree upon a clear and rational definition of the word "Health" (which has not happened yet, IMHO). Health should be our goal, health should be our destination, health should be what we aspire to. We should be striving for health individually and collectively. But you can not aspire to something if you do not clearly know what it is or if folks/institutions do not agree on the definition. I would love to see the state of Florida adopt the following definition: "Health- The presence of proper function from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level." If the state of Florida could somehow adopt this definition and declare a "first principle", then what would flow from that would be more of a true healthcare system, wherein health is the objective. Thank you for reading. :-)
The website originally said it would be published in early 2023 (data collection was completed well over a year ago). After I asked where the study was, they removed the completion date from the website. I have emailed the authors multiple times - they always say that they have lots of data to work through but are almost finished, or that they are finished but awaiting publication. Nothing so far.
The paper below provides evidence in support of your points regarding problems with the FDA, journal review of clinical trial results, and others. Please read and contact the authors for clarification.
Michels et al. 2023. Forensic Analysis of the 38 Subject Deaths in the 6-Month Interim Report of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trial. International Journal Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research 3(1): 973-1009. https://doi.org/10.56098/ijvtpr.v3i1.85
In all seriousness, why not take the next logical leap and question why we need an FDA or CDC? Just like airplanes wouldn’t start falling from the sky if we abolished the US FAA, because airlines would be forced to regulate themselves and prove to the public that their planes are safe, pharmaceutical “regulation” wouldn’t vanish, it would necessarily transform to better serve patients and the medical community.
Great article. I would add that we need rule of law in healthcare. Consumers should have access to prices for medical services up front. No more rampant price fixing and discrimination based on whether you have insurance or what plan you have. These illegal practices must be prosecuted immediately. Also, no more charging U.S. consumers massively inflated drug prices far beyond what consumers in other nations pay for the same drug. In other words, stop the criminal racket that is U.S. healthcare. This is very unlikely to happen since the healthcare industry has purchased our elected politicians who serve their owners and not the people. One can at least hope for a miracle though before the nation fiscally collapses due to massively inflated healthcare costs and borrowing massively to pay for it. Thank you.
Hi, first of all, I would like to thank you for everything you have done for the past 4 years to open people’s eyes and get them to critically think about the Covid narrative and the mandated vaccines. I opened a Twitter account in 2020. Your account was one of the first accounts I followed. Your posts really opened my eyes to main stream media, the lies I had willingly excepted for decades, and subsequently pushed me to do my own research and find alternative sources of the news.
We chose not to vaccinate for Covid, because I have had two heart surgeries in the past and knew that no one had researched my specific issue and how this vaccine would affect it.
This choice became very divisive. My family was not invited to a family wedding and not included in many gatherings.
I was angry for a long time and then chose to turn that anger into courage (after a visit to St Augustine Florida) and found a group in Minnesota, called Team Humanity that supports Minnesotans who have been injured by the Covid vaccine.
My volunteer job is to write stories on Substack of the vaccine injured. I have two stories that I think you would find interesting.
The first one is of Brandon. Brandon was mandated to take the vaccine by his work and then was injured. He turned his anger also into courage and ran for mayor of his small town in Minnesota and passed a healthcare freedom resolution.
Suzanna started Minnesota Team Humanity after suffering from a life altering vaccine injury She has spoke at many local and national political rallies. She believes that vaccine injury should not be a political issue and therefore Minnesota Team Humanity lives in the purple zone so to speak-not political, not blue or red-vaccine injury is a humanity issue.
I am including two links. The first is to the story I wrote about Suzanna and her injury and starting Team Humanity. The second is an essay that we published for her this week about the loneliness that happens when you are vaccine injured.
Thank you for reading their stories. Like your reporting MN Team Humanity is trying to inform people of the true stories of Americans, not the narrative.
Public Health should be educating public re dangers of chronic daily use of cannabis especially in youth. Many youth under age 25 are vaping high concentrate from waking until bedtime. This is currently normalized in our society. CDC has obligation to warn against this practice and specify exact risks including paranoia, delusions, psychotic episodes, worsening anxiety and depression, sleep disruption, ADHD type symptoms, tolerance and addiction. How many recent mass shooters were chronic daily users of cannabis? Many people do not know that cannabis use is absolute contraindication during pregnancy. Most health care providers and therapists do not even ask about much less quantify cannabis usage in their patients. They would likely be shocked! We desperately need a public health campaign regarding the dangers of cannabis.
The recent multi-year drop in US life expectancy has real causes that need to be understood.
Absolutely amazing write up Tracy. You continue to be a beacon.
That list of studies that the fda just refuses to comment on is so blatantly criminal, it baffles me how this is even possible.
Keep up the fantastic work.
This may just be an odd way of thinking about it but If public health policy is to be based on science then there needs to be full transparency. Without it there is no distinction between basis health policy on science versus basing it on religious belief. If the US wants to continue to separate church and state then its 'science' based policies cannot rely on the faith of citizens. Without the data the madates/polcies and law are void.
Thank you for all you do. You are truly a rare type of clear-thinking and courageous clinician/researcher. My brief input: One big problem (as I see it) is that our 'so-called' health system in the USA is actually a "disease-management system". It is even evident in the the name of the CDC (i.e. center for "disease control' as opposed to center for health promotion) The primary goal in this so-called healthcare system is revenue of course. Profits are the greatest when there is just enough disease present in the society to maximize the need (perceived or actual) for various so-called health care services. That said, the most powerful players in this system don't want everyone in society to be too sick, because someone has to work and produce economic wealth so that the healthcare system can then extract and/or transfer this wealth to themselves via their ingenious multi-stream approach (testing, detection, pharmaceuticals, surgical interventions, etc.) IMHO, we need a massive paradigm shift to focus on health promotion as opposed to disease management. But this will never succeed unless/until we agree upon a clear and rational definition of the word "Health" (which has not happened yet, IMHO). Health should be our goal, health should be our destination, health should be what we aspire to. We should be striving for health individually and collectively. But you can not aspire to something if you do not clearly know what it is or if folks/institutions do not agree on the definition. I would love to see the state of Florida adopt the following definition: "Health- The presence of proper function from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level." If the state of Florida could somehow adopt this definition and declare a "first principle", then what would flow from that would be more of a true healthcare system, wherein health is the objective. Thank you for reading. :-)
Studies not followed through must be a global thing. In NZ we were promised this study: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-and-reactions/covid-19-vaccine-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-study
The website originally said it would be published in early 2023 (data collection was completed well over a year ago). After I asked where the study was, they removed the completion date from the website. I have emailed the authors multiple times - they always say that they have lots of data to work through but are almost finished, or that they are finished but awaiting publication. Nothing so far.
The paper below provides evidence in support of your points regarding problems with the FDA, journal review of clinical trial results, and others. Please read and contact the authors for clarification.
Michels et al. 2023. Forensic Analysis of the 38 Subject Deaths in the 6-Month Interim Report of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trial. International Journal Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research 3(1): 973-1009. https://doi.org/10.56098/ijvtpr.v3i1.85
Good work. Stick with it.
In all seriousness, why not take the next logical leap and question why we need an FDA or CDC? Just like airplanes wouldn’t start falling from the sky if we abolished the US FAA, because airlines would be forced to regulate themselves and prove to the public that their planes are safe, pharmaceutical “regulation” wouldn’t vanish, it would necessarily transform to better serve patients and the medical community.
Great article. I would add that we need rule of law in healthcare. Consumers should have access to prices for medical services up front. No more rampant price fixing and discrimination based on whether you have insurance or what plan you have. These illegal practices must be prosecuted immediately. Also, no more charging U.S. consumers massively inflated drug prices far beyond what consumers in other nations pay for the same drug. In other words, stop the criminal racket that is U.S. healthcare. This is very unlikely to happen since the healthcare industry has purchased our elected politicians who serve their owners and not the people. One can at least hope for a miracle though before the nation fiscally collapses due to massively inflated healthcare costs and borrowing massively to pay for it. Thank you.
Hi, first of all, I would like to thank you for everything you have done for the past 4 years to open people’s eyes and get them to critically think about the Covid narrative and the mandated vaccines. I opened a Twitter account in 2020. Your account was one of the first accounts I followed. Your posts really opened my eyes to main stream media, the lies I had willingly excepted for decades, and subsequently pushed me to do my own research and find alternative sources of the news.
We chose not to vaccinate for Covid, because I have had two heart surgeries in the past and knew that no one had researched my specific issue and how this vaccine would affect it.
This choice became very divisive. My family was not invited to a family wedding and not included in many gatherings.
I was angry for a long time and then chose to turn that anger into courage (after a visit to St Augustine Florida) and found a group in Minnesota, called Team Humanity that supports Minnesotans who have been injured by the Covid vaccine.
My volunteer job is to write stories on Substack of the vaccine injured. I have two stories that I think you would find interesting.
The first one is of Brandon. Brandon was mandated to take the vaccine by his work and then was injured. He turned his anger also into courage and ran for mayor of his small town in Minnesota and passed a healthcare freedom resolution.
Suzanna started Minnesota Team Humanity after suffering from a life altering vaccine injury She has spoke at many local and national political rallies. She believes that vaccine injury should not be a political issue and therefore Minnesota Team Humanity lives in the purple zone so to speak-not political, not blue or red-vaccine injury is a humanity issue.
I am including two links. The first is to the story I wrote about Suzanna and her injury and starting Team Humanity. The second is an essay that we published for her this week about the loneliness that happens when you are vaccine injured.
Thank you for reading their stories. Like your reporting MN Team Humanity is trying to inform people of the true stories of Americans, not the narrative.
Warmly, Lindsay
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Brandon
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Neighbors Helping Neighbors…
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A Cure for Loneliness=Team Humanity
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I find it strange he would not pull expert MDs etc from out state. I have second home in Fl, DeSantis is not always how he projects himself.
Public Health should be educating public re dangers of chronic daily use of cannabis especially in youth. Many youth under age 25 are vaping high concentrate from waking until bedtime. This is currently normalized in our society. CDC has obligation to warn against this practice and specify exact risks including paranoia, delusions, psychotic episodes, worsening anxiety and depression, sleep disruption, ADHD type symptoms, tolerance and addiction. How many recent mass shooters were chronic daily users of cannabis? Many people do not know that cannabis use is absolute contraindication during pregnancy. Most health care providers and therapists do not even ask about much less quantify cannabis usage in their patients. They would likely be shocked! We desperately need a public health campaign regarding the dangers of cannabis.