Postcard from Commissioner Dean:
Misinformed or Misinformer?

by Annette Huenke | Dec 8, 2021 | General

A common feature at the weekly Monday morning Board of County Commissioner (BOCC) meetings in these Covid times is a number of public comments aimed at the disconnect between public health policies dictated by local authorities and the data coming from independently-funded, non-mainstream scientific and medical sources. Lately, mandated or coerced medical treatments have frequently been the target.

At the last meeting in November, I used my full three minutes to share part of the tragic story of near-fatal adverse events that befell a local resident who, against her instinct, took the jabs to get a job. This previously “healthy as can be” 27-year-old Port Townsend woman we called Laura suffered two heart attacks four days after her second Pfizer jab. She was diagnosed with acute myopericarditis, leaving her young heart functioning at 30% capacity. Six physicians, including one at Jefferson Healthcare, acknowledged the jabs were responsible.

None of the commissioners directly addressed that heartbreaking story, but District 1 Commissioner Kate Dean proffered this oblique reference to it, suggesting most of us should be willing to take one for the team:

“I’m resisting the desire to get defensive. I don’t think that’s helpful. I think we live with a lot of privilege in this community. Many of us come from a lot of privilege and being asked to make small sacrifices for the benefit of public health feels like a minor thing to do.”

Would Dean have been so blithe if the vax had nearly killed one of her own children, destroying their young, healthy heart in the process? Would that have been a “small sacrifice for the benefit of public health?”

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At the December 6th meeting Commissioner Dean zoomed in from her honeymoon destination in Portugal, seated before a picture window overlooking a hillside brimming with iconic red terracotta roofs vividly contrasted against the light sand-colored structures below them. As charming, inviting and elsewhere-looking as could be. I longed to be there, too.

Board of County Commissioners 12/6 Zoom meeting
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During the comment period, long-time resident Beth O’Neal read excerpts from RFK Jr’s national best-seller, The Real Anthony Fauci. Stephen Schumacher gave some specifics on the new legal complaint leveled against county health officer Allison Berry on behalf of six Clallam restaurateurs, seeking injunctive relief from her no-jab/no-entry edict sprung without warning on bars and restaurants on Sept. 2nd.

Schumacher followed with highlights of numerous recent successful legal challenges (here and here) that may bode badly for county officials over policies they’ve already endorsed, and if they choose to fire non-compliant employees in coming months.

I took the opportunity to remind the commission of the gut wrenching story of vaccine-induced heart failure I’d related to them at the Nov. 22nd meeting. I reminded Dean of her response, which intimated that this young woman’s sacrifice was “small” and for the public good. I voiced umbrage at her use of the woke trope “privileged,” pointing out that it doesn’t take privilege to think critically, to do one’s own research, to listen to the many thousands of experts who challenge the dominant paradigm, to conclude that the government, the pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies who oversee them are so thoroughly corrupt, they cannot be trusted. Certainly not with our health.

My appeal to the board to recognize the life-altering impact the jabs had on this young woman was lost on all but Heidi Eisenhour, who seemed sincerely sad about “these cases” of injury that she hears about. She followed with “It’s a choice to get vaccinated or not, despite the mandates. It’s a choice.” She has previously stated that mandates are a good thing. Greg Brotherton’s comments, in general, don’t bear repeating. You can listen to them if you’re willing.

Far from being stirred to compassion for this woman, Dean launched into full-blown totalitarian goose-step mode, gleeful to find herself in the land of the obedient.

“It is kind of shocking to be in a country that is over 90% vaccinated, and very compliant. Life is very normal here and the economy appears to be thriving as well. It’s just great to see. Everybody just masks up when they go inside a store, there’s no grumbling about it. They have extremely low rates of infection here. Of course they’re worried about Omicron, but you don’t really see that because it’s generally very safe. If you want to go to a bar you have to get tested within 24 hours and have a negative test result to show, and those are available—free—in every plaza in town.

They’ve decided to close down for a week right after New Year’s, just to avoid any potential spread that might come from the holidays, and folks are willing to do that, they’re planning for it, they’re saying, ‘Yeah, well, we’ll take our vacation then.’ It’s sacrifices that allow them to have normalcy the rest of the time. And it is such a relief [laughing] to be here!!! And Omicron is knocking at the door much more here than it is in America, and yet, the anxiety isn’t here because they have such a high rate of compliance and vaccination. And it’s just living proof. And people aren’t being irresponsible, they’re masking up when they go indoors. Don’t get me wrong, you definitely see that COVID is still a concern here, but it doesn’t change the way that people have to behave. It’s just really wonderful to be in a place that has got it under control, and it’s considered the first western country that will be able to respond to it as an endemic instead of a pandemic.”

It’s such a relief to be surrounded by so many other compliant people!  Everybody masking up without grumbling. Testing 24 hours in advance to get into a bar (that’s a long time if you’re thirsty), jabbed or not, but no worries—the tests are free!  (According to their consulate, US citizens have to pay for their tests. Elected officials may have diplomatic dispensation on that one.)  “Omicron is knocking at the door” but they’re not anxious because they’re compliant and jabbed up.

If all this conformity warms your cockles, do put China on your bucket-list.

Perhaps Dean’s assumptions of the coronavirus scene in her host city came from a 2020 summer tourism brochure, or maybe it was the language barrier. According to this Agence France-Presse news alert from November 18th, here was that nation’s reality a few short weeks ago:

“Portugal on Wednesday said it was considering imposing new coronavirus restrictions after an increase in cases and hospitalizations, despite having one of the world’s best vaccination rates. Portuguese health authorities on Wednesday recorded 2,527 new cases and more than 500 hospitalizations, the highest figures since early September. More than 86 percent of Portugal’s population have been fully vaccinated and authorities are urging the over-65’s to take a third COVID vaccine dose.”

Then came the big news from the U.S. State Department on Monday afternoon—mere hours after Dean delivered her fanciful assessment of viral threat levels in Lisbon—announcing that the CDC had instituted a new Travel Advisory —

Case counts had breached the 500/100,000 bar. Far from being “living proof” of getting COVID under control, Portugal’s “high rate of compliance and vaccination” has led to higher case rates than ever.

Not far over the border, the “vaccinated” don’t appear to be having much more luck:

“On Dec. 1, 170 staff from a regional hospital in Malaga, Spain, attended a Christmas party held at a local eatery. Just six days later, 68 of the staff, which included intensive care nurses and physicians, all triple jabbed or recently tested for antigens, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2… This incident caught national attention, including prime minister Pedro Sanchez warning Spaniards to be careful. Now Andalucia health officials caution that other staff from hospitals avoid Christmas parties.”  [source]

So despite being triple-jabbed, the shots didn’t protect 68 of 170 people. For those who have been tracking the relationship of “vaccination” to case rates, all this comes as no surprise. Research that’s not funded by conflicted sources like pharma or captured government agencies has not shown a causal relationship between increasing vax rates and decreasing case rates.

As we attempt to wrap our minds around the depth of “mass formation” pervading society today, I frequently remind myself to be compassionate.

Months ago, Commissioner Dean admitted that one of her teenage children had an adverse reaction to their jab. Her lack of empathy for Laura is puzzling, if not troubling. Dare she turn to face the possibilities of potential long-term consequences that we’ve been waving our arms about for nearly a year? It may be too much to bear.

Young Heart Damaged by Pfizer Vax
– Health Department Lies and Disinformation –
Part Two

by Ana Wolpin | Dec 4, 2021 | General

“In the very rare occasions where myocarditis occurs as a result of the vaccine, it is most commonly mild and generally resolves without treatment.”
– Jefferson County Public Health

“The blood test for heart injury with the vaccine myocarditis elevations is ten to a hundred-fold HIGHER than the troponin we see with natural infection. Vaccine induced myocarditis is a big deal…”
– Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough

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Which statement above is true? How prevalent and how serious is myocarditis (heart inflammation) caused by mRNA injections? What poses a greater risk to your heart—the virus or the shot?

Following our publication of the story of a 27-year-old Port Townsend woman who suffered two heart attacks in the week following her second Pfizer injection, leaving her with acute myopericarditis, Jim Scarantino posed this question on Jefferson County Public Health’s (JCPH) Facebook page:

“What is the Department’s and Public Health Officer’s response to this report of a very severe, very tragic adverse reaction to the Pfizer vaccine? This happened here in Jefferson County. I am not pushing an anti-vax agenda. I have been vaccinated. But this is a true case and deserves a response from officials requiring people to run this sort of risk.”

As discussed in other Free Press articles—and in readers’ comments below them—health institutions, global to local, which the public has long relied upon to protect us are now in lockstep with Big Pharma’s propaganda designed to force experimental injections into every man, woman, and child on earth. The narrative, at all costs, is to keep people terrified by overstating the danger from Covid infections while downplaying risks from the shots.

Our own health department demonstrates this strategy perfectly in its response to Scarantino, a response riddled with deflection, denial and disinformation.

“Because of rules protecting private health information, we at Jefferson County Public Health cannot speak to the veracity of individual reports of possible vaccine associated outcomes for any individual patient. We can confirm that in the entirety of our vaccination effort, there has been one reported case of myocarditis after a COVID-19 vaccination in Jefferson County. There have been no cases of long term disability or death associated with a COVID-19 vaccination in our county. 48,600 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered in Jefferson County.

Myocarditis is a very rare possible side effect of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, occurring at a rate of approximately 40 cases/1 million doses delivered. Myocarditis is 11 times more likely to occur as a result of COVID-19 infection than after a vaccine, occurring at a rate of 450 cases/1 million diagnosed infections. In the very rare occasions where myocarditis occurs as a result of a vaccine, it is most commonly mild and generally resolves without any treatment. This stands in stark contrast to the myocarditis caused by the COVID-19 virus, which frequently leads to long term disability and even death. Jefferson County Public Health continues to work closely with our local healthcare partners to monitor the vaccine effort and assure the safety and effectiveness of all vaccinations delivered in Jefferson County. Read more about COVID-19 and myocarditis here: https://www.cdc.gov/…/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html”

Let’s take a look at these statements

JCPH: There has been one reported case of myocarditis after a COVID-19 vaccination in Jefferson County.

FACT: Not an overt falsehood, this is lying by omission. There is only one reported case of myocarditis here because these injuries are not being reported. Like all agencies under CDC auspices, Jefferson County Public Health’s mission is to promote the safe and effective mantra. Acknowledging damage from these shots undermines that mission. Was Laura’s recent case the one that was reported, or was it another? We are aware of multiple heart issues that were never reported, usually denied to be related to the shots. We know that the acute—not mild—myocarditis diagnosed following Laura’s heart attacks was not reported to VAERS by either Jefferson Healthcare or by the second hospital that she was sent to. Both medical facilities, in violation of CDC requirements, acknowledged her heart damage was caused by the shot but told Laura SHE could report it if she wanted to.

JCPH: There have been no cases of long-term disability or death associated with a COVID-19 vaccination in our county.

FACT: Like injury reports, county deaths following the shots are being covered up, denied, and/or re-labeled. Earlier Free Press articles describe in detail one of these vaccine-induced deaths. A woman with no kidney issues before the Pfizer vax sent her on a death spiral, was labeled on her death certificate by a Jefferson Healthcare doctor as having died of renal failure. In another death following the vax that I was alerted to, “A med provider who lost a patient from injection, was dictated the response required to make.” [See “Death by Injection?” and “The Truth That Must Not Be Spoken.”] The majority of county deaths with COVID-19 have also been deaths with vaccination, at least one a “profoundly immunosuppressed” woman falling ill less than a week after being given an “ineffective” second vaccine.

JCPH: Myocarditis is a very rare possible side effect of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines occurring at a rate of approximately 40 cases/1 million doses. Myocarditis is 11 times more likely to occur as a result of COVID-19 infection than after a vaccine.

FACT: These numbers use data from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), acknowledged by a Harvard study to capture less than 1% of actual adverse reactions. Will we ever know what percentage of actual adverse events have been reported by our health department? 1%? 5%? 10%? As discussed above, none of the vaccine-induced deaths or heart injuries we are aware of were reported to VAERS by local health personnel. Our own hospital’s refusal to report adverse events exemplifies the reality of extreme under-reporting.

Numbers aside, how dangerous is heart injury from the vaccine? The health department would have you believe that it is the natural Covid infection you should fear, not the shots. Vaccine-induced myocarditis is “mild”, they say.

JCPH: In the very rare occasions where myocarditis occurs as a result of the vaccine, it is most commonly mild and generally resolves without treatment. This stands in stark contrast to the myocarditis caused by the COVID-19 virus, which frequently leads to long-tern disability and even death.

FACT: This statement goes beyond a misstatement, cover-up or just plain denial of reality. It is a total Orwellian inversion of the truth. Top cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, who has been seeing heart patients throughout this crisis, says there is indeed a stark contrast and it’s just the opposite of JCPH’s claim: damage from vaccine-induced myocarditis is often severe, while that from the virus is generally “inconsequential”:

Dr. Peter McCullough Explains How Myocarditis Differs When Caused by Natural Infection vs Vaccine.
Click image above for 1-minute video.

“The myocarditis that occurs with the natural infection is very different than the myocarditis we’re seeing from the vaccines. The myocarditis from Covid-19 is mild, is inconsequential, and is largely a troponin elevation.

“I don’t want anyone thinking that the myocarditis we’re seeing from the natural infections is anything like what we’re seeing from the vaccines. There are pre-clinical studies suggesting that the lipid nanoparticles [in the vaccines] actually go right into the heart. The heart expresses the spike protein, the body attacks the heart. There are dramatic EKG changes, the troponin—the blood test for heart injury—with the vaccine myocarditis elevations is ten to a hundred-fold HIGHER than the troponin we see with natural infection. It’s a totally different syndrome.

“When the kids get myocarditis after the vaccine, 90% have to be hospitalized. They have dramatic EKG changes, chest pain, early heart failure. They need echocardiograms, medications to prevent heart failure. Vaccine induced myocarditis is a big deal, and in children it is way more serious and more prominent than a post-Covid myocarditis.” (video clip above)

Vaccine-caused myocarditis certainly isn’t mild for young Laura, who now has an 80-year-old heart courtesy of Pfizer injections she was pressured to take against her better judgment. Jefferson County Public Health makes sweeping misstatements based on the false pharma/CDC narrative, with no transparency about actual local data.

As Dr. McCullough points out (and as described in my previous article), the vaccine has now been shown to travel directly to the heart where the billions of spike proteins it generates attack heart tissue. We invite any county residents who have myocarditis resulting from a Covid-19 infection to share their story. We would be most interested in comparing their heart damage following a bout with the virus to what Laura and others in Jefferson County have suffered from the shots.

My previous article closed with the recent report presented at the American Heart Association’s annual conference, MRNA COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning. This robust study showed that risk of heart attacks and other severe coronary heart problems more than doubled within the months after Pfizer and Moderna vaccination. British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra discusses this report and describes additional research confirming the same findings:

Report reveals increase in risk of heart attack following the mRNA COVID vaccine
Click image above for interview with UK cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra

“A few days ago, after this was published, somebody from a very prestigious British institution, a cardiology department researcher, contacted me to say that researchers in this department had found something similar, within the coronary arteries, linked to the vaccine—inflammation from imaging studies around the coronary arteries. They had a meeting and these researchers at the moment have decided that they’re not going to publish their findings because they are concerned about losing research money from the drug industry. This person was very upset about it….

“I have a lot of interaction with the cardiology community across the UK and anecdotally I have been getting told by my colleagues that they are seeing younger and younger people coming in with heart attacks.”

The more than 8,000 comments following Malhotra’s 4-minute interview affirm his perspective. How long will YouTube allow this video and its comments to be posted? These are the voices being censored by social media and mainstream news:

• A good friend of mine here in Australia 🇦🇺 has told me practically the same information. She also works in a hospital over here for 30 years. It’s affecting our young high school students. A cluster in South Australia, about 15 students from one school.
• From the moment I had the vaccine I have felt unwell with cardiac type symptoms. I am 30
• Four days after the second shot, my husband died of a sudden heart attack. He was 59.
• My sister has a leaky valve in her heart. Symptoms started as soon as she had her first vaccine and was first diagnosed with an inflamed heart. The doctor says it’s not related and she would of had it for years. She’s 45. Ok doctor 👌🏻
• The same things happened to heart. I used to be healthy sportsman. The problems started after second dose of vax. Heart arrhythmia
• Since I got this effing shot I have had palpations and an increase in my resting heart rate and a dramatic decrease in my exercise tolerance. WTF. Now this!!
• 10 times more cardiac arrest in the last 10 months than the last 10 years according to some A+E staff.
• Four weeks ago I had my first Pfizer vaccine, 6 days later I had a stroke. Previously in good health with no underlying health conditions.
• I’m a very fit late 40s male. Since my double Pfizer jab I’ve had issues with breathing and chest pains. Biggest regret of my life was taking this vaccine.
• After the first dose: My 40 year old friend had a heart attack and was resuscitated, my neighbour has now blood clots in the brain, my father went into anaphylaxis, another friend has severe palpitations, hypertension and now is being monitored by a cardiologist …I’m just saying, all fit and healthy

Obfuscation is the new standard of care

In response to our health department’s Facebook statements, Jim Scarantino posted this comment:

“Thank you for answering. It is not clear if the woman in the article is the case in your answer. Either way, the permanent damage she has suffered probably far outweighs the minimal risk she faced of a severe COVID infection that would produce the same heart damage. Somebody in her age group and as healthy as she was, emphasize was, never really faced much risk with COVID. At least recognize her sacrifice and loss, which was forced upon her by government coercion. What does she get out of this other than a lifetime, a shortened lifetime, of regret and poor health?”

Their response? Continue to avoid the hard questions, just reiterate misleading data to divert the focus. So Scarantino tried a third time to get a straight answer about Laura’s devastating heart injuries:

“At least acknowledge that forcing people to get vaccinated could result in serious, permanent harm to some. That woman’s injuries are not insignificant, and far worse than the COVID symptoms suffered by most people who were infected, particularly young people.”

JCPH’s response was yet another “clarification” that didn’t address the main issue he raised, completely ignoring concerns about the significant harm to some, “particularly young people,” for no benefit.

In the same Facebook thread, county resident Lea Falkenhagen quoted the conclusion of the report cited above, warning that the mRNA vaccines “dramatically increase inflammation… of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”  In light of all the heart risk being documented, she asked some questions we deserve answers to:

“I am curious how many heart attacks have occurred in Jefferson County since last spring and how many were post vaccination? Who is tracking this information and is it being reported to the public? If not, why? Are people getting handed this info before choosing to be vaccinated? If not, why? Are people with heart conditions being referred to their cardiologists before JCPH recommends they get a jab? If not, why?”

None of these questions have been answered.

How is our health department serving its public? Officials discount tragic local evidence of an experiment gone horribly wrong, refuse to acknowledge the severity of cardiac damage from these shots, and parrot the broken record that Covid vaccines are safe and effective when it is increasingly obvious that neither assertion is true.

Dr. Malhotra joins fellow cardiologist Dr. McCullough and the many thousands of other doctors and scientists worldwide warning about this dangerous push to force these shots on people around the globe.

“I think now it’s high time that policy makers around the world put an end to the mandates—because I think if this signal is strong, and if it’s correct, then history will not be on their side and the public will not forgive them for it.”

How many Lauras will it take before Jefferson County Public Health, Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry, our Board of Health, and our elected Board of County Commissioners heed this warning?

Christmas for Children Program Reaching More Kids Than Ever

by Jim Scarantino | Dec 2, 2021 | General

451 children. 213 families. 75 volunteers. 35 businesses. Originating with the efforts of a Chimacum schools bus driver broken-hearted for kids who received no Christmas gifts, Jefferson County’s Christmas for Children now brings joy to more kids and families than ever before.

In 1973 several children told Janice Schauer, a school bus aide, that they had not received any gifts for Christmas. The following Christmas, out of her own pocket, she bought socks and other modest gifts for the small children on her bus route she knew to be in need. This was the start of “Tri-Area Christmas for Children.”

Schauer’s daughter, Laurie Schauer Liske, and her husband Tony then took up the program. They were followed by their son Tony and his wife Kelly, the third generation of the Schauer/Liske family to spearhead this highly organized, very cost-effective, far-reaching and growing outpouring of Christmas spirit.

Assembly of gifts for children from an earlier year

A similar program to serve needy Port Townsend children folded in 2013 and the Tri-Area Christmas for Children group took up the call, nearly tripling in size the number of children reached. Known now as Christmas for Children, it serves families in Port Townsend, Nordland, Chimacum, Port Hadlock-Irondale-Chimacum (the “Tri-Cities”) and Port Ludlow. The numbers, so far: 451 children in 213 families getting loved on, by 75 volunteers and 35 businesses hosting Giving Trees. You can pick up a tag and fulfill some child’s Christmas wish at the businesses on this list.

Kelly Liske says that kids get more than just the gifts on their wish list. “They also receive toothpaste, floss and toothbrushes donated by local dentists, socks, hats and gloves, candy assembled by a local Girl Scout Troop, and stuffed animals. I would say that the community, together with our financial support, is likely spending over $50,000 each year on this project. Our organization works on a budget of less than $10,000 annually…. We could not do this without the support of the community and their generous giving!”

As explained on the group’s website: “By October 1 of each year, applicants who are seeking gifts for their children fill out an application, which is then submitted to program volunteers to generate “tree tags” for the ‘want’ and ‘need’ for each child. Those tree tags are then distributed throughout Jefferson County to approximately 35 “Tree Hosts” to be placed on “Giving Trees”. The local businesses that accept the tags see that their customers or employees take the tags and then purchase the items requested. The purchased gifts are returned to the Tree Host site by a set date to be picked up by our teams.”

Liske encouraged Port Townsend Free Press to hurry up if we wanted photographs of the giving trees. “The tags go fast,” she said. She was right. The Giving Tree we found at Evergreen Fitness (shown in the feature photo with owner Michelle West) had been picked nearly clean, as members took up the children’s requests by plucking tags from the tree.

Christmas for Children depends on generous contributions from the local Rotary, Elks and Kiwanis groups, as well as financial support from local businesses. The Jefferson County Fair Board is a key partner, making its buildings available for storage, assembly and distribution of the Yuletide haul. Christmas for Children has developed a close relationship with the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program and makes deliveries for them. Says Liske, “Toys for Tots can’t supplement any clothing items or anything really other than toys per their mission and guidelines, so the cash donations that come into [Christmas 4 Children] are used to purchase the items that are considered needs rather than toys (socks, hats, gloves, coats, shoes, clothing, diapers, hygiene items, blankets, car seats, etc.).” Donations may be sent to Christmas for Children 1240 W. Sims Way #286, Port Townsend, WA 98368.

The organization doesn’t want any children overlooked. “Teens always get forgotten,” says Liske. “Most people like to buy toys for little kids, so we have an abundance of items typically for the 0-8 year-old group. The 9-16 year-old group are hard to buy for and we typically are short of donations in this area!”

Christmas for Children will be assembling the gifts and other supplies for needy children at the Fairgrounds on December 17 and 18. Families share the outpouring of the community’s generosity and Christmas spirit on December 19.  Christmas doesn’t end December 25. “There are often gift tags that are left over from the Giving Trees that our program must try to fill,” the group’s website states. “That is where it is vital that we receive cash donations throughout the year.”

Young Heart Damaged by Pfizer Vax
– PT woman, 27, now has heart of an 80-year-old –
Part One

by Ana Wolpin | Nov 21, 2021 | General

One day after Laura—a healthy, athletic 27-year-old Port Townsend woman—received her second Covid mRNA injection, she began having significant adverse reactions. Pressured to take the experimental injection for employment, within days of the shot her body aches and chest pain intensified to the point where she couldn’t get out of bed.

When Laura called the local pharmacy where she received the shot about her adverse reactions, the pharmacist told her that her reaction was “normal”. When her chest pain continued to escalate, she called a CDC vaccination hotline where she was advised that she should wait 24 hours before seeking medical attention. She nonetheless drove herself to Jefferson Healthcare’s ER in what turned out to be “heart attack mode.”

Not listening to “expert” advice assuring her that her intense chest pain and other troubling reactions were normal, telling her she should wait it out rather than seek medical care, likely saved her life. “The [ER] doctor said he didn’t know how I was still alive.”

Following Laura’s heart attack, Jefferson Healthcare (JHC) ran a battery of tests, identifying pericarditis resulting from vaccine damage. She was transferred later that day to a Silverdale hospital. There she had a second heart attack. Her ultimate diagnosis was “acute myopericarditis with elevated troponin.” She learned that her heart was now functioning at 30% capacity, told by the cardiologist it looked liked that of an 80 year old.

Myopericarditis is a combination of two types of heart damage: pericarditis, inflammation of the heart lining, and myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle. Doctors have been warning since 2020 that spike proteins produced by the mRNA shots are toxic pathogens and that the heart is especially vulnerable. Nearly a year ago, UCLA pediatric rheumatologist Dr. Patrick Whelan sent a letter to the FDA about this problem, with links to studies demonstrating that:

“it appears that the viral spike protein that is the target of the major SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is also one of the key agents causing the damage to distant organs that may include the brain, heart, lung, and kidney.”

This warning has since been confirmed through autopsies of those who died post-vaccination and by an unreleased Pfizer biodistribution study obtained by a Japanese freedom of information act request (see my previous article). In June JAMA Cardiology published two reports of “Myocarditis detailed in 30 patients after mRNA COVID vaccines;” in July PubMed posted “a cross-sectional study of 29 published cases of acute myopericarditis;” and in August the New England Journal of Medicine reported additional cases of “Myocarditis after Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination.”

Troponin, shown to be elevated in Laura’s cardiology notes, is a group of proteins found in the heart that regulate the function of cardiac muscle fibers. They can be found in the bloodstream when there is heart damage. Elevated levels are indicative of a heart attack. “They are released into the blood when the cells of the heart are injured and not getting enough oxygen and nutrients. The more severely damaged the muscles of the heart are, the more that is leaked into the blood.” (source)  Laura’s troponin was fifteen times safe levels.

None of the personnel at either hospital reported the vaccine injury to VAERS, the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. While at JHC, Laura had been pointed to the VAERS website and told that she could file a report if she wanted to. The medical team in Silverdale confirmed it was her “choice” to report her vaccine injury.

As described in my previous article, CDC guidelines require medical practitioners to report these adverse reactions to VAERS. The national data system established to collect and analyze vaccine damage is not intended to be a “choice” foisted on the injured. The CDC defines it as “an early warning system… that depends on healthcare professionals to report any health problems of clinical significance that may occur after vaccination.” But feedback from around the country indicates that hospitals avoid reporting injuries and deaths following the shots as the rule rather than the exception.

Despite significant under-reporting, a search of the VAERS database brings up nearly 18,000 reports through November 12, 2021 for the cardiac issues from which Laura suffers following her shots. [As of this Dec. 2 update, 1200 new reports have been added since posting the original article.] The greatest percentage of reports is in Laura’s age cohort, although now that shots have been rolled out for the kids, those injury numbers are growing. It is recognized that heart damage is occurring disproportionately in children and teens.

We know this is a fraction of actual injuries, given that medical personnel who are seeing these patients generally deny that the shots are responsible. In my earlier article I described numerous heart injuries in Jefferson County directly following the shots, none of them reported. And as seen in Laura’s case, even when health practitioners do acknowledge the vaccine caused the damage, they avoid reporting to VAERS, passing their reporting requirements on to patients and their families who are typically daunted by the long, difficult and complicated process. It’s easy to see how the more than 19,000 cardiac injuries now in the VAERS database associated with Covid vaccines would represent just the tip of the iceberg.

Laura’s adverse reaction brings to mind the career-ending injuries and sudden deaths of young athletes all over the world following these shots. Alternative news sites have compiled lists of world class athletes, some of them publicly collapsing on playing fields and courts from vaccine-induced heart damage like Laura’s.

Click on this image to see a compilation of stories, including those listed below.
“A mere 18 months ago, multiple world-class athletes dropping dead on the field in front of fans and live TV audiences would be the top news story on every station across the entire world ­ yet now we face exactly that situation and the news media is silent.”

Athletes like these:

• 31-Year-Old Gold Medalist Speed Skater Diagnosed With Pericarditis After Receiving Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
• 27-Year-Old Professional Baseball Player Died 5 Weeks After COVID-19 Vaccination
• 29-Year-Old Professional Footballer Suffers Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccine
• 38-Year-Old Volleyball Player Developed Pericarditis After Her Second Pfizer Vaccine
• Professional Mountain Biker Suffers Several Health Problems After The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
• World Record Holder In Static Breath-Hold Freediving Developed Myocarditis and Pericarditis After Pfizer Vaccine
• 27-Year-Old Two-Time Olympic Archer Died 10 Days After Pfizer Vaccine

Athletes in these articles tell a story the mainstream media will not share:

“Yes, the vaccine ended my season. One thousand percent. I was fine up until I took the vaccine. I got sick and I never quite recovered from it.” – NBA player Brandon Goodwin was told: “not to say anything about it, not to tell anybody.”

“I am not anti-vax but I have never been convinced of taking this vaccine and now I understand why. I have had and still have post-vaccine pericarditis. Who pays the price for all this?” – Francesca Marton, volleyball player

“Since I had my vaccine (between the Olympics and the US Open), I have a problem. I am struggling. I can’t train, I can’t play. In my head, it’s difficult because I don’t know how long it will last. For now, my season is over and I don’t know when it will resume.” – Jeremy Chardy, tennis player

“Damaging healthy people to preserve the health of the weakest, a choice of backward logic. I would not get vaccinated if it had to be done again.” – Antoine Méchin, triathlete 

Professional mountain bike racer Kyle Warner describes a common response by medical personnel to vaccine damage. When he started having strange reactions in his heart following his second shot, he was told in the ER that it was just an “anxiety attack.” He was then referred to a psychiatrist for a “psychotic episode” by the ER doctor. Such is the medical system’s brainwashing that these shots are so safe, and injuries so rare, that adverse reactions are often dismissed as being mental delusions. Warner was ultimately diagnosed with pericarditis and a tachycardia syndrome. He, too, had to fill out his own report to VAERS because no doctor would do it for him. It took him 45 minutes to complete.

“People are being coerced into making a decision based on lack of information. Real lives are being affected by ‘not so rare’ consequences.”

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Laura’s story is becoming more common as younger age groups are receiving these shots. “Bad news about the dangers that mRNA vaccines may pose to the heart and blood vessels keeps coming.”

A report recently presented at the American Heart Association’s annual conference is described by journalist Alex Berenson:

“A new study of 566 patients who received either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines shows that signs of cardiovascular damage soared following the shots. The risk of heart attacks or other severe coronary problems more than doubled months after the vaccines were administered, based on changes in markers of inflammation and other cell damage…”[full article here.]

Part Two:

– Health Department Lies and Disinformation –

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This article was revised on December 2, 2021 to remove information that could compromise the anonymity of the woman we’re calling Laura. Laura had shared her harrowing medical crisis in detail in the hopes of saving others’ lives.

We don’t know when or if the full original article will be able to be re-posted. This abbreviated version nonetheless speaks to the increasingly prevalent heart damage she suffered within days of her second shot, without the earlier details of her personal story.

IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Covid Cancel Culture

by the Editors | Nov 17, 2021 | General

As the Covid crisis has unfolded in Jefferson County over the last two years, a slick, relentless, well-orchestrated fear narrative has created the greatest divide many of us have ever seen in our diverse, once-tolerant community. And with the arrival of experimental injections, vaxxed versus unvaxxed messaging has pushed that divide to a near-breaking point.

Friendships have broken, families split asunder; a two-tiered society is in the making.

Several of the pieces we’ve published since resurrecting the Port Townsend Free Press have focused on the media-driven apartheid tearing apart our social fabric. One of the most striking results of publishing these articles is the feedback they’ve sparked in the Comment sections below them. Comments like:

• Over these months those who called themselves friends have cut off communications.
• I am worried about the future. This whole thing is like a horrible nightmare… the brainwashed people around here that are in lockstep with every little thing they are told when it comes to this virus and the outrageous measures that have just ravaged society for most likely generations.
• I’m a paid member of the American Legion… I’ve never been vaccinated… and can only go in for the two meetings a month. I can’t socialize in the club or drink there.
• I have lived in PT for 42 years. My old liberal and peace-loving friends are shocking me with their authoritarian and hateful rhetoric.

The Free Press is now the only media on the peninsula for open community dialog. Many thoughtful, articulate voices are joining the conversation to fill out our stories through their comments, helping to build an uncensored local forum for civil conversations.

How is the fear narrative impacting our relationships and quality of life? We find that many are questioning their political affiliations, mourning friendships abruptly severed, stunned to see how media brainwashing has created factions within their own families.

Personal stories tell the bigger tale. Below are a few of the extended comments readers have contributed that give a taste of how incessant fear messaging is devastating our community. We are struck by the heart, eloquence, and wisdom of contributors to the forum here.

We welcome your perspective on how this growing apartheid has affected you personally. If you haven’t already, please join the conversation!

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Thank you Brett, for your calm commentary on the escalating divisiveness in Port Townsend – City of Dreams…as long as your dream is the same as ours it seems. I was one of those giving you the thumbs up as I drove by. If I hadn’t been on my way out of town, I would have joined you.

I’m a relative newbie to Port Townsend – only 18 years under my belt, so will probably kick the bucket before I gain anything resembling ‘local’ status. I thought of my move here as a lateral one – PT in the early 2000s felt much like my native Marin did 30 years previous to my exit. Now, only 18 years later, I hardly recognize this place – it has become everything I left behind. Nearly gone is the visible coterie of colorful, quirky characters who kept the town alive with art, music and any excuse for a parade or celebration in the street. Certainly gone is that ambiance of easy acceptance, or at least tolerance, of everyone’s differences and opinions.

The level of fear engendered by a media-enhanced pandemic would never have happened here 18 years ago, or so I would like to believe. The community would have come together to find solutions – not bowed to the continued onslaught of fear-mongering, turning neighbor against neighbor because of differing ideas about a virus and vaccine of all things!

What has happened here?? How did we become so vicious that we’re calling each other names simply because some of us believe that what goes into our bodies is our business, not any government or medical officers’? Despite the growing rhetoric around vaxxing or not vaxxing, vaccine effectiveness vs. vaccine injury, don’t we owe it to ourselves and our community to listen to one another’s concerns without judgment? How can we possibly hope to survive as a community if we can’t even talk to each other without escalating to name calling and villifying ‘the other’ simply because our views are different? Where does it end?

Kristin E Mineah

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Thanks for publishing Brett’s letter. How refreshing to hear a fellow citizen speak honestly about his experiences! I wasn’t at the protest, but in my view, the street corner is no longer a safe place to hold a conversation—especially when most passersby are moving at 25 miles per hour. Unlike fast-food and commercials, meaningful dialogue happens when we give time and place, and respectful listening. Sadly, when we need it most, we’ve been denied our customary venues for public conversations—pubs, coffee shops, festivals and concerts. Social distancing is a recipe for inducing depression and fear. Once I realized this, I decided not to allow myself to be manipulated. Then, I did what I always do: I sought out the wisdom of trustworthy voices—people who aren’t getting rich off of this crisis.

I turned off corporate media long ago, disillusioned by the lobbyist-influenced, gridlocked government, and the fear-mongering narratives that justify endless war and an inhumane economics. But at least—so I thought—we had independent journalism, Public Radio, getting us the truth. This morning in my car, risking a brief few minutes to listen to NPR, I was appalled (but not surprised) to hear that Facebook—a veritable fount of disinformation and authoritarian squelcher of dissenting voices—is now a financial sponsor of National Public Radio! Yikes indeed!

These are strange times, indeed, when many our fellow citizens, effectively deranged by fear-inducing narratives, seem to have forgotten about our 1st Amendment rights—the right to express our feelings, thoughts, and beliefs.

I approach controversy humbly, seeking to broaden my understanding through reading, listening, and attempting to see other viewpoints. To ridicule or censor others if their views diverge from our own denies our fellow citizens the same fundamental freedoms we hold dear.

I strive to do my part to live in a community where slow conversations happen again. I want to understand, with compassion, what’s really going on for my fellow citizens. Perhaps listening, and being listened to, from the heart will allow us all some self-reflection, and needed insight.

Gary Eduardo Perless

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Enormous gratitude for speaking truth to power during this time of mass hysteria. Please know that many are reading, watching, and standing in solidarity with you. Some are afraid for their livelihoods and remain in the shadows, but this sanctimonious community would be shocked to know how many of us work, congregate and play alongside them as fellow liberals and progressives without paying dues to the Covid cult.

We are critical thinkers who read medical studies and seek out professional, credible sources who reject, through dogged, fact-checked and peer-reviewed documentation that is being censored by social and mainstream media, the dangerous misinformation promulgated by bureaucrats—from Fauci and Walensky to Inslee, all the way down to Locke and Berry. We recognize that this campaign is not about public health—not for a disease that has a 99%+ survival rate, holds a 1-5% chance of hospitalization, and laughably boasts an leaky injection that has not been proven either safe or effective. This is an obedience test and Port Townsend, you’ve passed with flying colors. Keep submitting to your every-six-months jabs, of which you have zero idea what the medium and long-term effects are and ignore the short-term effects, including permanent heart damage, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and death. Keep relinquishing your bodily autonomy and your Constitutional rights because you have become slaves to the fearful rhetoric.

Those of us who refuse forced vaccination will keep fighting and yes, it is your rights we are fighting for. You claim the shot, masks, and lockdowns are about what’s best for the community at large (psst, no, they are not, have not and will never be about or benefit public health—the evidence is right there, available to you if you can get past your fear and disbelief that everything you’ve absorbed and believed and practiced these past 20 months is wrong wrong wrong). Meanwhile you are succumbing to mandates that have done more harm to our children, our brothers and sisters of color, our poor, those without shelter, our small business owners, our economy, and our future than ten back-to-back Trump administrations. I was shattered when Trump won in 2016. I never imagined that far worse awaited, and it would be at the hands of those I had once considered my political tribe.

Local and far-flung liberals alike have bought into the mainstream media narrative that those speaking out against vaccine mandates and/or are questioning the safety and efficacy of the vaccines are Trump-loving, MAGA-hat wearing red state conservatives. Or hippy-dippy anti-vaxxers. Perhaps because they cannot handle the cognitive dissonance that there are multitudes like me, members of my family, and friends who are (were, now) lifelong Democrats, liberals in the true sense of the word. All caught up on our vaccinations, until this—this lie bigger than anything a gaggle of Deep State fantasists could conjure.

And we vote. Many of us have now become one issue voters: the preservation of our constitutional freedoms. And we will vote in any candidate, from county commissioner to state rep to governor to president, who vows to dismantle vaccine mandates at every level and restore our freedom of choice. We no longer care what letter follows a candidate’s name. We don’t care what their positions are on voting rights, taxation, abortion, gun control, climate change, social justice. There is one issue and one issue only: release from tyranny. We have never been more afraid for our and our country’s future than we are now—watching this country and the world cave from fear, lies, deception, corruption. Know, too, that many of us who have taken the jab to preserve our jobs are even angrier: vaccine mandates may work in the short term to boost the stats and make the vaccine cultists congratulate themselves with smug pats on the back. The blue afterglow will turn a nightmarish red in the midterms. Enjoy your hollow victories now. If the jab hasn’t turned your brains to jelly in a couple of years, your collective political heads will explode when you realize what you have unleashed. You’ve just destroyed your own party. A party we were once proud to call our own. Now we are politically homeless, but we will align ourselves with those who understand this is the greatest threat we have ever faced.

AJ

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I live in Southeast Florida (Palm Beach County which had stricter protocols than other parts of the state) for about 8 months of the year and PT in the summer. Masks are currently only required, as far as I can tell, in doctor’s offices and hospitals.

When the pandemic began and before we knew anything about what was going on and how to treat Covid, my husband and I were cautious for about 3 weeks. After research, we both went essentially back to normal life although I washed my hands more often after being out in public. When masking became required here in public spaces about spring of 2020, I went from not touching my face to constantly adjusting my mask, such that it was (a thin scarf that did not impede my ability to breathe).

I have made essentially no adjustments in my life except when in PT last summer. Your rules made me crazy and then you shut down the restaurants to unvaccinated me. Yes, I’ve researched whether or not I should be vaccinated, too. We both got one Moderna shot at Safeway and instantly regretted it. I was fine, but my husband was sick for a few days and then had lingering problems for a few weeks.

My son’s wife (they live here in Florida) felt so much pressure from her boss that she got vaccinated with the one shot J&J several months ago. She developed some health issues that her doctor told her were vaccine-related as they have seen a good deal of her particular reaction. My son and their two children, 9 and 11, are recently recovered from Covid. My son went right and got Gov. DeSantis’ Regereron which he has made available throughout the state. He was fairly sick for all of 12 hours and then described his subsequent symptoms as like a cold. My grandchildren had no symptoms whatsoever unless you count one who had a fever of 100 at one point but we only know this because his mom took his temperature. They all tested negative about a week to a week and a half after testing positive, the kids being quicker than my son to test negative.

I have many unvaccinated friends who do as I do and take the vitamin, mineral and Quercetin protocol for prevention. None wear masks except when required and never have, with one literally never wearing one unless specifically asked to. Some have gotten Covid and some haven’t. All have recovered with no issues. Some had it and didn’t know it until later when they discovered they had the antibodies!

To this point neither my husband nor I have had Covid and if we do get it we are prepared with the recommended protocol to avoid the hospital at all costs where treatment seems to be not much more than a ventilator when you get bad enough.

I have never seen a health issue so poorly handled by the government. I have lost all faith in the CDC, the NIH, and Dr. Fauci. When Rahm Emanuel said that we should never let a crisis go to waste, he was prescient regarding this “crisis.” Our feckless government and those of many states, Washington included, have taken the opportunity to exert as much control over people as they can get away with. We the people need to push back and resist. I for one, even if I were fully vaccinated, will refuse to show my vaccination status to anyone. (Strangely, I’m never asked by health care providers to whom I’d be glad to share my status.)

Will I return to PT next summer? Honestly, I’m not much inclined to although we have family there, many great friends, and a fine church. I will certainly truncate my stay unless Gov. Inslee and Jefferson County loosen up significantly. I am SO grateful to be a Florida resident.

dawnesn

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