As a front-line physician who felt the pandemic from boots on the ground by treating patients, pouring over data, losing a father-in-law who died with only me by his bedside because of unscientfic and inhumane hospital policies, serving on my children's Medical Advisory Team for their school, and being in leadership for my state’s organized medicine, I had a 360 degree and longitudinal view of these events. The tragedies and travesties abounded.
It is refreshing to see this put in such clear, concise, and well-referenced manner.
I appreciate all of you, your discipline, and your bravery.
Our world is better for it, and patients of the future will benefit from your sacrifice as long as we demand the adherence to the pillars of medical ethics and open discourse.
The UC system has always been a profiteering parasite. The way they treat their employees is reprehensible -- my mother was also a UC employee and I remember so many union battles and even strikes for even the most basic benefits.
Now they have a whole new union busting enterprise, where they have 'staff assemblies' that are pseudo-unions but controlled entirely by the UC Regents.
UC is not run like a public institution but is a racket, like so many other government enterprises, meant only to benefit elites. It sold out almost all of its Humanities over the past 20-30 years, and now it's going the direction of all other degree-granting, pay-to-play rackets. Why? Because the exact kind of questioning that you elaborate above is what occurs when you have a proper education in the Humanities, in any classical sense of the term.
Socrates, as reported in Plato's "Apology," said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Fast forward to the 21st Century when adverse event data and false claims for fake "vaccines" go unexamined and silenced. Philosophy Riddle: If a university in a forest suppresses debate on a question of medical science, is it worth a pile of bear shit?
There are a few more points to consider concerning UC's involvement with COVID.
First, UC Davis's Jonna Mazet worked with the Wuhan Institute and the Peter Daszack cabal in harvesting the wild bat coronavirus as the lead P.I. on the USAID-funded "PREDICT" collaborative research agreement; and, in her capacity as a member of UC Davis's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, signed off on the safety of Wuhan's animal handling procedures. One of Daszak's subordinates, Andrew Huff, accused USAID, Daszak, and PREDICT as fronting for the intelligence community.
Second, more than half of the NIH funding for emergency COVID research received by the entire UC system (~$350 million out of a total of $578 million) was directed by Anthony Fauci to a single P.I. at UCLA, long-time Fauci loyalist Judith Currier (see https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/NIH-UC-research ).
Third, a California Public Records Act request revealed that UC received hundreds of letters from students, parents, faculty, and staff in opposition to its initial proposed vax mandate. Internal emails among UC administrators showed zero consideration of any of the issues raised by the opponents. There was, however, one letter in support of toughening the proposed policy, specifically to mandate jabs even if a substance had only received Emergency Use Authorization for COVID (and not full FDA approval as contemplated in the initial policy draft). This letter was signed by all the Deans at one of the UC campuses--namely UCLA. It is no doubt just a pure coincidence that the UCLA administration urging this step collected about one-third of the NIAID research funding mentioned above for its own use as indirect cost reimbursements, and just a coincidence that the mandate was toughened as requested by UCLA.
Fourth, UC's systemwide employee databases (which transitioned from the "Corporate Personnel System" to "UCPath" over the course of the pandemic) include a field indicating the reason for each employee's separation from employment, making it possible to count how many UC employees died in each month and to stratify them by other demographic variables. There was no surge of all-cause mortality rates associated with the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, but there was a detectable increase in the all-cause mortality rate in particular age groups (not the oldest age groups, btw) after the vax mandate started to be implemented.
Vincent, I very much appreciate this detailed information in your comment. Do you have that data from UC Path you referenced in this last paragraph? Can you send it to me? I would like to publish your comment and this data. akheriaty@gmail.com
I have a summary of the mortality counts (and the SQL queries I used to generate them). I'll send that to you along with some other documents of interest.
This is a courageous and comprehensive statement - and of course, it took even more courage to say all this at the time. You and the other contributors retained your discernment and academic integrity at a time when many, many academics and college administrators lost theirs. I don't think a thing will happen as a result of this unless UCLA is sued successfully, but in CA this is presumably impossible. One good thing that has come out of this scandal is that many have woken up to the abuses of Big Pharma. This interview with Calley and Casey Means , for example, is a real eye opener; the story of this capable brother and sisters makes for compelling viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUH4Co2wE-I
Best of luck with your current lawsuit; it was encouraging to hear it had been given new life by the accession of RFKJr.
Thank you, Dr. Browner et.al.!
As a front-line physician who felt the pandemic from boots on the ground by treating patients, pouring over data, losing a father-in-law who died with only me by his bedside because of unscientfic and inhumane hospital policies, serving on my children's Medical Advisory Team for their school, and being in leadership for my state’s organized medicine, I had a 360 degree and longitudinal view of these events. The tragedies and travesties abounded.
It is refreshing to see this put in such clear, concise, and well-referenced manner.
I appreciate all of you, your discipline, and your bravery.
Our world is better for it, and patients of the future will benefit from your sacrifice as long as we demand the adherence to the pillars of medical ethics and open discourse.
Beautiful.
The UC system has always been a profiteering parasite. The way they treat their employees is reprehensible -- my mother was also a UC employee and I remember so many union battles and even strikes for even the most basic benefits.
Now they have a whole new union busting enterprise, where they have 'staff assemblies' that are pseudo-unions but controlled entirely by the UC Regents.
UC is not run like a public institution but is a racket, like so many other government enterprises, meant only to benefit elites. It sold out almost all of its Humanities over the past 20-30 years, and now it's going the direction of all other degree-granting, pay-to-play rackets. Why? Because the exact kind of questioning that you elaborate above is what occurs when you have a proper education in the Humanities, in any classical sense of the term.
Socrates, as reported in Plato's "Apology," said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Fast forward to the 21st Century when adverse event data and false claims for fake "vaccines" go unexamined and silenced. Philosophy Riddle: If a university in a forest suppresses debate on a question of medical science, is it worth a pile of bear shit?
There are a few more points to consider concerning UC's involvement with COVID.
First, UC Davis's Jonna Mazet worked with the Wuhan Institute and the Peter Daszack cabal in harvesting the wild bat coronavirus as the lead P.I. on the USAID-funded "PREDICT" collaborative research agreement; and, in her capacity as a member of UC Davis's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, signed off on the safety of Wuhan's animal handling procedures. One of Daszak's subordinates, Andrew Huff, accused USAID, Daszak, and PREDICT as fronting for the intelligence community.
Second, more than half of the NIH funding for emergency COVID research received by the entire UC system (~$350 million out of a total of $578 million) was directed by Anthony Fauci to a single P.I. at UCLA, long-time Fauci loyalist Judith Currier (see https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/NIH-UC-research ).
Third, a California Public Records Act request revealed that UC received hundreds of letters from students, parents, faculty, and staff in opposition to its initial proposed vax mandate. Internal emails among UC administrators showed zero consideration of any of the issues raised by the opponents. There was, however, one letter in support of toughening the proposed policy, specifically to mandate jabs even if a substance had only received Emergency Use Authorization for COVID (and not full FDA approval as contemplated in the initial policy draft). This letter was signed by all the Deans at one of the UC campuses--namely UCLA. It is no doubt just a pure coincidence that the UCLA administration urging this step collected about one-third of the NIAID research funding mentioned above for its own use as indirect cost reimbursements, and just a coincidence that the mandate was toughened as requested by UCLA.
Fourth, UC's systemwide employee databases (which transitioned from the "Corporate Personnel System" to "UCPath" over the course of the pandemic) include a field indicating the reason for each employee's separation from employment, making it possible to count how many UC employees died in each month and to stratify them by other demographic variables. There was no surge of all-cause mortality rates associated with the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, but there was a detectable increase in the all-cause mortality rate in particular age groups (not the oldest age groups, btw) after the vax mandate started to be implemented.
Vincent, I very much appreciate this detailed information in your comment. Do you have that data from UC Path you referenced in this last paragraph? Can you send it to me? I would like to publish your comment and this data. akheriaty@gmail.com
I have a summary of the mortality counts (and the SQL queries I used to generate them). I'll send that to you along with some other documents of interest.
This is a courageous and comprehensive statement - and of course, it took even more courage to say all this at the time. You and the other contributors retained your discernment and academic integrity at a time when many, many academics and college administrators lost theirs. I don't think a thing will happen as a result of this unless UCLA is sued successfully, but in CA this is presumably impossible. One good thing that has come out of this scandal is that many have woken up to the abuses of Big Pharma. This interview with Calley and Casey Means , for example, is a real eye opener; the story of this capable brother and sisters makes for compelling viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUH4Co2wE-I
Best of luck with your current lawsuit; it was encouraging to hear it had been given new life by the accession of RFKJr.