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Try to find out when the next school committee meeting is in your town and plan to attend and include that at the end of the letter. This well-crafted document gives you the talking points you need. Get as many people to show up with you as you can.

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Upcoming Schools and College/University mandates within Massachusetts still loom for this fall.  Where so many of you are understandably upset because your children or you are attending places of learning now being mandated to take the COVID vaccine, I wanted to share this.  

The approach to pushing back on mandates becomes more powerful when more than singular letters to our own child’s school or university are sent. We gain force as a voting block by consolidating numbers and sending a bulk form letter to ALL the schools mandating covid.  In that way we help ourselves as well as help many others – and they, in turn, help us by sending letters to our children’s schools/colleges.  It’s a win-win.  And even if your children aren’t attending this year but are in the not-to-distant future, it affects them, as well.  

Children’s Health Defense has helped by setting up tools for us to use to consolidate our voices:  

A LIST of  MANY MA COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES MANDATING the COVID-19 SHOT. If your daughter/son’s school isn’t here, you can add their ‘admissions office email’ to the bulk email listed towards the end of this.

Amherst College, Anna Maria College, Assumption University, Babson College, Bentley University, Berklee College of Music, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Bridgewater State University, Clark University, College of the Holy Cross, Curry College, Emerson College, Emmanuel College, Fitchburg State University, Framingham State University, Hampshire College, Harvard University, Lesley University, Massachusetts College of Art &Design, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, MIT, Massachusetts Maritime Academy,  Mount Holyoke University, New England Conservatory of Music, Northeastern University, Salem State University, Simmons University, Smith College, Springfield College, Stonehill College, Suffolk University, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Westfield State University, Wheaton College, William James College, Williams College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester State University

INSTRUCTIONS:

Go to the 7/10/21 Children’s Health Defense article “Tell Schools/ Universities No Vaccine Mandates for Children and Young Adults” where there are links to 2 letter templates.  You can use either letter as a boiler-plate and customize it, filling in your own information.  (FYI: The longer letter has strong points/links in case you decide you want to pull some of them to use for the shorter letter.) 

Short Version https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/shorter-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-letter-for-colleges-6.21.pdf

Long Version https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/take-action/tell-schools-universities-no-vaccine-mandates-for-children-young-adults/

 THE LETTER

I’d recommend figuring out which letter you want to use, customize it with your own personal information, and make a PDF to save/send. (if you can not create a pdf a word doc is fine too!) 

                    1) Center and put your personal information at the top, just as we did in the 

                        template testimonies for Vargas and Rausch: Full legal name, address, telephone

                        number, and email

                    2) Type the date

                    3) Type “Dear Head of Admissions, President, and Board of Governors:”

                    4) Then copy and paste the body of the letter you want… and customize it

                    5) When finished, type your full legal name at the bottom.

                    6) Title the PDF, “Letter to Withdraw the Student COVID- 19 Vaccine Requirement”

BULK EMAIL ADDRESSES to ADMISSIONS’ OFFICE
 1) For the email subject line: “Letter to Withdraw the Student COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement”

2) The email greeting: “Dear Head of Admissions, President, and Board of Governors”

3) Small polite explanation Something like: 

“Attached please find my letter supporting the withdrawal of your school’s pending policy to require the COVID-19 vaccine for student entry this September 2021.  

I appreciate your attention to this important matter. Thank you.

                                          Sincerely yours,

                                          Full Name

4) Then attach your PDF

5) When you send, list all the below email addresses in the BCC line so they go out

separately. (They may need commas or separations between them.) 

6) Under the “To” at the top, list your own personal email address.  (That way when you send, you’ll get back a confirmation to yourself that it  went out to everyone else.)

Best of luck helping each other to make your voices more powerful! 

admission@amherst.edu 

admiss@assumption.edu

ugradadmission@babson.edu

ugadmission@bentley.edu

admissions@berklee.edu

studentservices@bc.edu

admissions@bu.edu

admissions@brandeis.edu

admission@bridgew.edu

admissions@clarke.edu

admissions@holycross.edu

adm@curry.edu

admission@emerson.edu

admissions@emmanuel.edu

admissions@fitchburgstate.edu

admissions@framingham.edu

admissions@hampshire.edu

college@fas.harvard.edu

admissions@lesley.edu

admissions@massart.edu

admissions@mcla.edu

admissions@mit.edu

admissions@maritime.edu

admission@mtholyoke.edu

admission@necmusic.edu

admissions@northeastern.edu

admissions@salemstate.edu

ugadm@simmons.edu

admission@smith.edu

admissions@springfieldcollege.edu

admission@stonehill.edu

admission@suffolk.edu

undergraduate.admissions@tufts.edu

mail@admissions.umass.edu

undergrad.admissions@umb.edu

admissions@umassd.edu

admissions@uml.edu

admissions@westfield.ma.edu

admission@wheatoncollege.edu

admissions@williamjames.edu

admission@williams.edu

admissions@wpi.edu

admissions@worcester.edu

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My name is [NAME] I am [A PARENT/A CITIZEN ETC.] of Massachusetts. I am writing to OPPOSE H.2228 and S.1398 An Act relative to the immunization registry, H.2411 An Act relative to vaccines and preventing future outbreaks, S.1517 and H.2271 An Act promoting community immunity.

H.2411, would completely remove the religious exemption, denying education on the basis of religion. The bill is UNNECESSARY. Massachusetts has the highest rate of vaccination in the country and the lowest exemption rates. Wherever vaccination remains lower in the state, it is not because of exemptions but rather because of lack of access to vaccination or incomplete records given to the school.

S.1517 and H.2271 would greatly restrict both medical and religious exemptions. All exemptions would be approved or denied through MA DPH, taking decisions away from families and their doctors. It would only allow exemptions in narrow circumstances, like near-fatal anaphylaxis. Having doctors be tracked for exemptions will encourage patients to be left without medical care. These bills also allow private schools and programs to discriminate against those based on their religious beliefs. Lastly, these bills would allow minor consent to all medical care, without parental consent or knowledge at any age or cognition level. This is so medically dangerous to children and leaves them vulnerable to solicitation and harm! Please OPPOSE S.1517 and H.2271.

H.2228 and S.1398 would allow health insurance companies to be given access to the state vaccine tracking system. Insurance companies and private organizations could use this to discriminate against vulnerable families and individuals.

Please OPPOSE these bills

Thank you,

[NAME]
[TOWN, MA]

Add your own senator and rep to this list!

JointCommittee.PublicHealth@malegislature.gov

jo.comerford@masenate.gov susan.moran@masenate.gov Marjorie.decker@mahouse.gov brian.murray@mahouse.gov Harriette.chandler@masenate.gov Becca.rausch@masenate.gov Julian.cyr@masenate.gov Patrick.oconnor@masenate.gov paul.schmid@mahouse.gov jack.lewis@mahouse.gov andy.vargas@mahouse.gov jon.santiago@mahouse.gov brian.ashe@mahouse.gov kay.khan@mahouse.gov vanna.howard@mahouse.gov Hannah.kane@mahouse.gov shawn.dooley@mahouse.gov jason.lewis@masenate.gov

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Of the $2 Trillion Taxpayer dollars from the American Rescue Plan, Massachusetts will receive 1.8 BILLION PLUS additional funding to pay for testing.

This money, however, comes with strings attached. 

In order to qualify for funding, school districts MUST post a plan that includes information about “the extent to which the school system intends to address CDC Guidance” on… 

• UNIVERSAL and correct wearing of masks 
• physical distancing 
• improved ventilation 
• Testing  
• contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine 
• efforts to improve vaccinations to educators, other staff, and students 

It’s time to stop blindly following CDC guidelines. We need to start questioning the CDC which is NOT a government agency but a private entity and CDC members hold patents on over 50 vaccines.  

While The CDC consistently publishes the disclaimer: they have no financial interests with the manufacturers of commercial products & services…The CDC accepts millions, through the CDC Foundation, from corporations directly impacted by the agency’s public health programs. This is massive conflict of interest. We need to set higher standards for Massachusetts than the CDC guidelines, we need to look at ALL the science not just the industry-funded science.  

Pool testing is seriously flawed in both concept and practice. Testing should not be done in the schools, period. Health decisions need to remain between doctors and patients. If my child is sick, they will stay home and if necessary, I will take them to the doctor as I always have.

If you listen to non-industry-funded doctors and scientists you will learn quickly masks can cause much more harm than good. This bill must be amended to make clear that PPE will be Voluntary for all teachers, students, and staff without COERCION, SEGREGATION or DISCRIMINATION. 

The coercion is already happening. If you don’t want the COVID vaccine for any reason – A vaccine, which the FDA just added a warning label to about heart inflammation especially in young people, you’ll have to mask and test.  There is NO valid reason since the vaccine, according to the manufacturer, does not stop someone from getting or spreading covid, it only lessens the symptoms. If you don’t want to mask and test you won’t be able to attend or you’ll be segregated. This is already happening in schools and workplaces across the country and it has to stop. 

Please do not allow the federal government’s offer of billions of dollars to cloud your judgment as you make these very important decisions that will affect the lives of all Massachusetts residents.  

Let’s spend some of this money educating people how to have a healthy immune system by eating healthy foods and getting enough sleep and let’s invest in more physical education programs. That would be money well spent towards a healthy Massachusetts.  

Let’s slow down and do ALL the research before we do something foolish, dangerous, and costly. Please strike sections 4 & 5 so there is for time for a thorough review of the policies, all the science, and more input from the community. 

Please review all the links and attached documents. 

Thank you, 

[NAME]
[TOWN, MA]

DANGER OF MASK WEARING

1. “This leads in turn to impairments attributable to hypercapnia. A recent review⁶ concluded that there was ample evidence for adverse effects of wearing such masks. We suggest that decision-makers weigh the hard evidence produced by these experimental measurements accordingly, which suggest that children should not be forced to wear face masks.”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2781743?fbclid=IwAR2c_CZnzphIg-EOf1ZQd3ab1m1IEpl4De9W7MgPFALhplDsc6bFU0Yo30M

2. The widespread use of cloth masks by healthcare workers may actually put them at increased risk of respiratory illness and viral infections and their global use should be discouraged, according to a UNSW study. The widespread use of cloth masks by healthcare workers may actually put them at increased risk of respiratory illness and viral infections and their global use should be discouraged, according to a UNSW study.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150422121724.htm

3. Mask with graphene are doing permanent lung damage!

The Quebec health department issued a ban on masks, sold widely around the world, which contain a material called graphene. Studies have shown these nano-materials can cause cellular lung damage, perhaps the most important organ to have healthy to do well against a bout of COVID. The brand withdrawn in Canada is from China, but the material they are made from is ubiquitous, and used by many different makers.

In a 2016 paper “Toxicology of Graphene-Based Nanomaterials,” researchers found:

“…studies indicate that the toxicity of graphene is dependent on the complex interplay of several physiochemical properties such as shape, size, oxidative state, functional groups, dispersion state, synthesis methods, route and dose of administration, and exposure times (emphasis added.)”

In a 2013 Brown University reported in the article “Jagged graphene can slice into cell membranes”:

“Researchers from Brown University have shown how tiny graphene microsheets — ultra-thin materials with a number of commercial applications — could be big trouble for human cells”

In that study, the researchers said:

“Schinwald et al. reported that graphene nanoplatelets induced granuloma formation and lung inflammation following pharyngeal aspiration in mice. .. Schinwald et al. provide evidence that graphene nanoplatelets are not readily cleared from the lungs and induce release of proinflammatory mediators from macrophages.”

In “Dose, time, and morphology dependent cytotoxicity,” the authors described the effects of exposures measured in days, not months or years:

“Vallabani et. al. investigated the toxicity of graphene oxide using normal human lung cells (BEAS-2B) after 24 and 48 hours of exposure at concentrations between 10–100 µg/ml.”

4. In this study, researchers found that people have 3x the risk of developing a respiratory illness if they wear a mask. In the first randomized clinical trial on the effects of cloth masks, scientists reported that “the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection” https://bit.ly/MasksInceaseRiskofCOVID

5. Denis G. Rancourt PhD April 2020 _Masks Don’t Work_ A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy. See attached PDF.

Concerns About the Use of PCR Tests in Healthy People

Public health decision-makers who are encouraging policies that basically force healthy people to get tested are calling positive test results in symptom-free persons “cases” and claiming they are infectious. The public is being misled. Here is a summary of the facts:

1. A positive COVID-19 PCR test result does not mean a person is sick, or infectious, with a pandemic virus.

• This is because PCR tests detect a nucleic acid sequence. That is all. A PCR test cannot distinguish between dead-virus bits and “live” viruses capable of infection.

• “Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms”[[1]]

1. “Issues” with PCR tests are numerous. A partial list:

• “There can be large-scale test kit contamination[[2]], as both the US and the UK (and several African countries) discovered during the early phase of the pandemic.

• “There can be testing site or lab contamination, which has led to countless false positive results[[3]], school closures, nursing home quarantines, canceled sports events, and more.

• “The PCR test can react to other coronaviruses. According to lab examinations, this happens in about 1% to 3% of cases[[4]] if only one target gene is tested, as is the case in many (but not all) labs and as the WHO itself has recommended[[5]] to avoid ambiguous positive/negative test results.

• “The PCR test can detect non-infectious virus fragments weeks after an active infection, or from an infection of a contact person, as the US CDC confirmed[[6]].

• “The PCR test can detect viable virus in quantities too small to be infectious”[[7]]

In January 2021, the WHO fully confirmed the above analysis: “WHO guidance ‘Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2’ states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed. The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology. WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases.” Source: WHO Information Notice for IVD Users, updated 20 January 2021 – [ [8]]

(Above from: Swiss Policy Research, “The Trouble With PCR Tests“)

1. PCR positive results are very unreliable when prevalence is low.

This is well documented in the peer-reviewed, published literature and has been the direct experience of many infectious disease research and laboratory professionals.

“The high false discovery rate that results, when prevalence is low, from false positive rates typical of RT-PCR assays of RNA viruses raises questions about the usefulness of mass testing; and indicates that across a broad range of likely prevalences, positive test results are more likely to be wrong than are negative results, contrary to public health advice about SARS-CoV-2 testing… There are myriad clinical and case management implications. Failure to appreciate the potential frequency of false positives and the consequent unreliability of positive test results across a range of scenarios could unnecessarily remove critical workers from service, expose uninfected individuals to greater risk of infection, delay or impede appropriate medical treatment, lead to inappropriate treatment, degrade patient care, waste personal protective equipment, waste human resources in unnecessary contact tracing, hinder the development of clinical improvements, and weaken clinical trials. Measures to raise awareness of false positives, reduce their frequency, and mitigate their effects should be considered.”[[9]]

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/30/uks-attempt-ramp-coronavirus-testing-hindered-key-components/

[3] https://twitter.com/FrankfurtZack/status/1299762933073838082

[4] https://www.instand-ev.de/System/rv-files/340 DE SARS-CoV-2 Genom April 2020 20200502j.pdf – page=12

[5] https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/laboratory-testing-for-2019-novel-coronavirus-in-suspected-human-cases-20200117

[6] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html

[7] https://swprs.org/the-trouble-with-pcr-tests/

[8] https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05

[9] Cohen, Andrew & Kessel, Bruce (2020). False positives in reverse transcription PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2. Link to pre-print article at: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3.full.pdf

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1. Reach out to your legislators https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator Tell them you OPPOSE Sections 4 & 5 of Bill S250 and H3716. Tell them medical testing does not belong in schools! (plus pool testing is just dumb and waste of money and resources – more on that coming) All medical testing should be done at the doctors office with full parental consent. PPE must remain OPTIONAL for students and teachers WITHOUT COERCION OR DISCRIMINATION. Parents must retain their right to decline all medical interventions for their minor children. This needs to spelled out clearly in this bill so there is no confusion and the rights of the people are not trampled.
   
2. DEADLINE FOR WRITTEN TESTIMONY IS 7/1.
   
3. EVERYONE. The hearing is 6/30. We need help! We need people to dig into the research and come up with compelling, arguments, links to qualified studies people can submit with testimony. We need more talking points so please if have some good arguments please share. And we need someone that can compile all this data!

TALKING POINTS

We need to drive home that we do not want DPH to have free rein to make any of our decisions, especially those that infringe on our Rights.  ex: rights to privacy, right to body autonomy. Please reach out to your legislators to request changes or oppose sections relevant to PPE and required weekly pooling testing.

1. It is extremely important to get our legislators to understand that we DO NOT want the department of public health making decisions for us without going through legislation- especially in regards to any procedures for medical devices.  They are there to give suggestions and to help guide but not to be given free reign in regards to items that impede on our constitutional rights.
2. Mandatory invasive testing weekly or more, imposed by law is government overreach.  Especially when performing these invasive procedures on asymptomatic children and or children who have already had Covid and have natural immunity.  Invasive procedures/testing should never be required.
3. The Department of Public Health is there to give suggestions to individuals to maintain their own safety,  not to have direct input with creating laws that impede on our fundamental rights including the rights to privacy and body autonomy.  It has already been determined that asymptomatic people do not spread covid nor do People who have natural immunity from prior covid infection.
4. Invasive face coverings must be OPTIONAL. PPE is fine to have available in schools for those who would like to use it, PPE of any type should not be made mandatory, this bill must be adjusted to ensure the PPE including masks will not be mandated at any point in time for any Teacher or Student at any school and those that choose not to will not be segregated or coerced. OSHA testing shows masks have caused more harm than good,  they do not prevent the spread of viruses and can harbor other dangerous viruses and bacterias that are more detrimental to children’s health.  Children have suffered fainting, facial fungus, facial yeast, oxygen deprivation, increased fatigue, face sores caused by friction.  

SECTION 4 & 5 

SECTION 4. Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the department of elementary and secondary education, in consultation with the department of public health, shall ensure the operation of COVID-19 pooled surveillance testing programs, consistent with public health best practices and relevant guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in all public school districts, for students and employees, on a weekly basis or more frequently. Said testing programs, including but not limited to service provider contracts, testing supplies, follow-up individual testing, personal protective equipment, and compensation for staff associated with testing, shall be operated at no cost to the public school districts and shall be paid for by available state funds or eligible federal funds committed to the commonwealth to provide financial assistance in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. The testing programs in each school district shall cover employees and students at the elementary, middle and high school levels and shall be operated in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 150E of the General Laws. Nothing in this section shall restrict or limit more protective or stringent school district or local government mandates, policies or guidance in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic.
SECTION 5. Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, and in accordance with guidance issued by the department of elementary and secondary education, the department of public health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the department of elementary and secondary education shall ensure that employees and students in all public school districts have access to face coverings, masks and other personal protective equipment to prevent exposure to COVID-19; provided, that the district shall provide any additional personal protective equipment necessary for conducting COVID-19 testing; and provided, that said face coverings, masks, personal protective equipment, and any additional personal protective equipment necessary for conducting COVID-19 testing shall be provided at no cost to the public school districts and shall be paid for by available state funds or eligible federal funds committed to the commonwealth to provide financial assistance in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Nothing in this section shall restrict or limit more protective or stringent school district or local government mandates, policies or guidance in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic.

We need help! We need people to dig into the research and come up with compelling, arguments, links to qualified studies people can submit with testimony. We nee more talking points so please if have some good arguments please share. And we need someone that can compile all this data! Show up tonight if you can at 8:30 in Mass Against Mandates.

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