Letter to the Philadelphia Board of Public Health
Dr. Bettigole and the Philadelphia Board of Public Health,
We deeply oppose the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s announced vaccine mandate for patrons and staff of all establishments that sell food or drink for on-site consumption. The measure is boldly undemocratic, as it was imposed by unelected officials, it was sprung without warning or end point, underwent no debate or committee review and was not accompanied by documentation or justification of it’s benefit for public health or explanation of its medical and scientific validity. As well as being undemocratic and unsound scientifically it is abhorrent to our constitutional rights and our identity as Americans.
Residents of Philadelphia and the State demand your office demonstrate the legal, medical and scientific justification for this order or cease this order immediately. An order to segregate, to divide our people into different classes and force their separation into privileged and unprivileged groups is immensely dangerous and will inevitably lead to physical and psychological damage and is being done without the presence of any actual emergency as Philadelphia hospitals are not beyond normal capacity for the season. All evidence from the country’s who have already experienced the wave of Omicron have shown this variant to be the weakest encountered and some South African doctors are suggesting we use Omicron as a vaccine candidate, one that would give long lasting immunity from infection. SA, which has only a quarter of its people vaccinated, has stopped track and trace and has seen hospitalizations fall as cases climbed. Additionally there is no evidence that the current vaccines offer any protection from the Omicron variant. Monoclonal antibody treatments are already being withdrawn as they target the original Sars-Cov2 strain and have been deemed useless against Omicron. You must ask the same question of the vaccine if you can find the courage to push against the Big Pharma/FDA cartel who’s immense exercise of power is a real and broad danger to all Americans.
This City’s creation of a government led category of “other” is profoundly disturbing and dehumanizing to people who see this as reminiscent of the worst periods in world history. Our city is already on the edge emotionally and psychologically and now this measure will allow people to become accustomed to the thought that somebody can be stigmatized and looked at as different, an untouchable, an unclean. Family and friends are being asked to divide their flock during the holiday season, a special time when our bonds are meant to be strengthened. Any mental health professional will attest to the fact that social exclusion is one of the most painful and threatening events a person can experience. Social exclusion has proven to cause higher mortality and morbidity, and we know isolation and social exclusion are predictors of self harm and suicide. Did your office conduct a cost benefit analysis with these facts in mind?
Why do this? We can find no discernable reason for this order as the vaccine products your office is vigorously promoting do not confer immunity or protection from infection from the Sars-CoV2 or its variants. Nor does this three shot protocol prevent transmission. To call them vaccines is a stretch. They were designed as a treatment to lessen symptoms if infected and there is no clear evidence that they can even achieve this when one is infected with the Delta and Omicron variants. Furthermore, observational evidence is showing that these shots, if working as designed, can mask symptoms which can lead to higher infection rates as the vaccinated have been shown to carry the same viral load as those free of shots but can often not be aware they are infected. Your office must demonstrate that this order is not just an abominable marketing tool to bully people into taking investigational medicines but an honest calculation formed from evidence of efficacy and need.
Please rescind this order before further harm is done.
Pennsylvania Chapter Children’s Health Defense
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Full resolution poster for retail and restaurant owners to place in your entrances.
Commercial business and their patrons must be reminded these orders are not legal or constitutional. Get ahead of the curve and stand up for your right to operate a business without discrimination of any kind. The time is now to not accept or comply or you may find your business responsible for enforcement in perpetuity and it will put the front of your business in the police business and at elevated risk of violent confrontations. Not complying from the very initiation of this order will make your defense of civil disobedient action or exemption more solid (hundreds of business owners never complied with arbitrary and capricious orders and suffered no damages even when given 10s of thousands of dollars in fines because they acknowledged these orders as a grave violation of the law). Learn from the experience and predicament of people that are now being told they must take a 3rd shot or leave their jobs or their place at college. Their power to enforce their liberties are now limited by their initial acquiescence.