I propose 10 questions that the Supervisors should have asked but didn't.
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Posted on 02/09/2022 6:06:19 PM PST by ransomnote
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Here’s the video of yesterday’s Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors meeting (Feb 8, 2022) regarding COVID-19 (3:36 through at 5:29):
The meeting featured public health officer Dr. Sara Cody.
Public testimony came from the Santa Clara firefighters and others in the community who are all outraged about the draconian measures instituted in Santa Clara County by Dr. Cody.
The short story is that Dr. Cody doesn’t cite a single piece of evidence justifying why Santa Clara County has to have more restrictive measures than the State. She assures everyone she is studying whether we can align with California’s guidelines but has no timeline for providing an answer.
At no time does she identify a single intervention she has instituted that she credits for the amazing mortality numbers she shows in her mortality chart (@3:45:13 and shown below) which is not normalized and thus misleading. But it fools the Supervisors (especially Supervisor Simitian) who think she’s awesome.
It’s not clear that anything will change since the Supervisors only went as far as suggesting that she should look into aligning the County policies with the State policies to eliminate confusion.
This story is of special interest for those in Santa Clara County, but for those living in other areas, it helps to illustrate some of the techniques that your public health officials will use to keep you in a state of emergency. It ends by highlighting key questions your local government officials should be asking and probably aren’t.
This video is important because:
Santa Clara County has some of the most draconian COVID restrictions in the County
Prior to the meeting all the Supervisors were blindly supporting whatever Sara Cody said, regardless of what the science says
By the end of the nearly 2 hour segment (Feb 8 2022 meeting: Agenda item #8 starting at 3:36 and ending at 5:29:45), it was clear that some of the Supervisors had realized that the public is very upset, but they are still not asking the right questions to get the policy change that is needed.
In short, having members of the public speak up at City Council and Board of Supervisors meetings helps, but to actually create change, at least one of the Supervisors needs to step up to the plate and have a 1:1 meeting with Dr. Cody and ask some of the hard questions that I outline at the end.
Here is the video of the meeting, starting at 3:53 when the Supervisors stop talking and we hear from members of the public. Note that there was also a public comment section at the start of the meeting at 27:15 until 1:08:45.
The first public speaker (Collin Connors) was brilliant. He talked about the John Hopkins study showing the public interventions have virtually no effect on the pandemic, but had a huge negative effect on the public well being.
From the study:
“While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
In short, this study, which was extremely well done, makes it crystal clear that Sara Cody caused enormous amounts of harm for no benefit. I know a highly qualified Stanford Professor that would love to debate Dr. Cody on this, but I guarantee that Dr. Cody will never accept such a debate.
None of the Supervisors mentioned this in their remarks. That’s stunning. This is one of the most important points made at the entire meeting.
The second public speaker (3:54:30) is firefighter Barry Arata who points out that the rates of COVID are virtually identical for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated firemen and police. He also points out that there isn’t a single documented case of anyone getting COVID from a first responder. He’s out of work now because of Dr. Cody’s mandate. There is no public benefit for this. Zero.
The point he makes is pretty simple: if Dr. Cody is worried about infecting the public, she should just order if you are symptomatic, you stay home, regardless of vaccination status. Period. This is because, as Dr. Fauci has pointed out, the main driver of spread is symptomatic people. See my article on asymptomatic spread for details.
The fourth speaker (Alex Bruni @ 3:58:52) points out that subjecting the unvaccinated to mandatory testing has led to skewed data. Multiple medical journals show equal chances of infection and he refers to the FOIA request that Barry Arata did showing this was true in Santa Clara County that vaccination made no difference in infection rates. SJPD had 229 positives, but only 28 were in those who were unvaccinated. The fire department had 160 positives. Only 13 were unvaccinated. The vaccinated only get tested if symptomatic, but the unvaccinated get tested twice a week regardless of symptoms. If the testing regimen was the same, we’d be seeing higher numbers among the vaccinated.
Dan Kearnan @ 4:01:03 asks the Supervisors to trust the people to do the right thing and stop the mandate.
Mike Rogers @ 4:03:12 points out the asymmetric testing skews the data collected which is why the data and conclusions in Santa Clara doesn’t match up with other areas. Says there are no exemptions for people who have been previously infected; this makes absolutely no sense.
Dr. Henry Arnold @ 4:05:17 says making vaccines available is OK, but mandating them in Santa Clara County is not. Case counts have dropped 75% in the last 3 weeks. Why are you continuing to trample people’s lives?
At 4:06:30, the President realizes there are too many speakers so just the first 15 speakers will get 2 minutes and the rest will only get 1 minute to speak.
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Lydia (4:29:28) is a nurse who came out of medical leave to risk her life during the pandemic. She points out that because she’s had numerous religious exemptions granted in the past, her exemption for the COVID vaccine was not honored. That is ridiculous.
Fired Nurse (4:30:38) says most of the people she took care of for COVID were vaccinated. She risked her life at the start of the pandemic to save lives. Now the County is paying her back for that service by firing her because she wouldn’t take the vaccine.
Countyguy (4:32:36) commends Sara Cody for ruining thousands of lives. Worth a listen as he is saying things that I’m sure most people are thinking, but are too polite to verbalize.
At 4:38:24, the Board President asks Dr. Cody where she stands on masking given the state is revising their policy.
Dr. Cody says they are looking at the data and have no decision to share at this point.
This of course is ridiculous since the masks don’t do a damn thing to reduce spread of the virus (according to science), so she’s ostensibly admitting she’s incompetent to interpret any data.
The Board President is equally clueless so he doesn’t question her on this. He asks her for a statement that he can disseminate explaining why Santa Clara County will not comply with the State’s order.
Supervisor Cindy Chavez @4:43:06 says that she believes Dr. Cody is making decisions rooted in her (Cody’s) best thinking. She apologizes to Dr. Cody that the public doesn’t support her (which proves she was actually listening to the public comments). She asks Dr. Cody why the County isn’t following the State guidelines (masking), as well as the orders affecting the first responders.
@4:45:12 Dr. Cody sidesteps the question and talks about booster shots in order to reduce infection and hospitalization among healthcare workers which would lead to a staffing shortage (which of course is exacerbated by her order to fire those workers who are unvaccinated). Those were the principles behind the booster order, but she cites NO EVIDENCE that the boosters work against Omicron.
She claims her order was built around the State’s order, but she’s confusing the issues because the state didn’t demand that firefighters and police who were unvaccinated must be fired; that is a County of Santa Clara feature.
@4:47:39 Chavez says the County should align with the State and it is really confusing and unjustified to deviate.
@4:48:40 Cody says that “we do not take these [deviations] lightly” (then laughs… I’m serious!) “They are very difficult for all of us. So they are only implemented when there really is a need IN MY JUDGMENT.” So she’s looking at the trends and layers of protection and what things look like and doesn’t have a set timeline for the booster mandate.
@4:51:25 We learn that waivers weren’t granted if the waiver request form was incomplete. Could it be re-submitted? Not answered.
@4:51:30 Chavez re-iterates her desire to align our policies with the State.
@4:57:53 Chavez voices her very valid concern about forced overtime. I was impressed she knew that. I brought up forced overtime in Santa Clara County in an earlier substack article. She ends by reiterating her desire to see alignment with the State guidelines.
@4:59:50 Vice-President Ellenberg leads off by asking about the infection rate in the jail. Then she asks about outbreaks elsewhere. Wow. Did she even listen to the 45 minutes of public comments? I sure couldn’t tell from any of her questions.
@5:04:18 Supervisor Lee focuses on testing. He said the virus used to just affect a friend of a friend and now it is infecting his direct family members. But he doesn’t make the connection that this means the vaccines do not work. Then he talks about quarantine requirements. Then asks about omicron variants. Lastly, he wants to create a “Thank you video” for vaccination workers. There is no evidence he listened to any of the public comments.’
@5:11:26 Supervisor Simitian leads off with a question about pandemic vs. endemic, when is there “yet another round of vaccinations being necessary.” Cody says the future is uncertain. Nobody agrees on the definition of endemic. Simitian says it’s important we think about what’s next.
@5:18:45 Simitian is impressed by the death toll in the county which according to the chart presented @3:45:13 is very low. This is deaths per 100,000 population on the y-axis.
MUCH MORE AT THE LINK
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors hear an earful from the public (substack.com)
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We call it Child Abuse, when children have to put up with Covid protocol B$ in schools, on playgrounds and to and from school.
These dangerous and unhealthy restrictions are even worse for any child of any age.
So, the teachers union is what qualifies for science now... is that it???
#8 posted on 2/9/2022, 5:32:44 PM by Chode
hyprocisy. Handwriting is on the wall, y’all. Be smart and own up to your mistakes.
The Santa Clara supervisors who will face angry voters in their next election are far less protected that a bureaucrat like Dr. Cody. Most will go down in their next election.
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These morons should be forbidden to be anywhere near children.
Dr. Sara Cody who likes to spray Santa Clara County with poison.
Thanks for the ping. This is the first I’ve heard about this. Tomorrow I will be at a press event where the mayor will be. I’m wondering if I should bring that up...
These morons should be forbidden to be anywhere near children.”
I’m beginning to wonder if they should be in the same solar system!
Kevmo ask the Mayor why San Jose became the dirties city in America under his leadership.
If I knew this meeting was scheduled I would have got my voice in.
That said, I know most of these people for better than 20 years and I’m calling them tomorrow.
See post #9...
“Most will go down in their next election.”
You really think so? I doubt it. Most of the people in SCC seem to be perfectly happy with draconian measures forever.
This video is important because:
Santa Clara County has some of the most draconian COVID restrictions in the County.
Where and When?
I’ll be there...
I dunno when the mayor will be there, but press will be there from 11am to 2pm. Free BarBQ.
17th and Julian. If you ask for Kevin I should be there.
I think I’ll only get one question, if that. It should be respectful because he holds the levers of power over our ministry of giving out free food.
“Sir. Is there anyway we can combine your generosity with an immediate and vigorous plan to beautify our beloved city?”.
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