An Open Letter to PSC-CUNY Leadership: Investigate, don't Support, Covid Repression
Open Letter to PSC-CUNY President James Davis and the PSC leadership Concerning Support for Covid-19 mandates: A Critique, and a Proposal
Dear President Davis and Co.,
We are CUNY staff, faculty, students and community members deeply disturbed by your continued support over the past few years for CUNY management’s policies for dealing with Covid-19. Both of your organizations, like many other educational institutions and union leaderships, have fallen right in line with Federal and New York State’s mandates that we be injected with the experimental “Covid-19” mRNA/adenovirus vaccines, and for masking, social distancing, etc. We believe this lockstep support poses a serious threat to
our collective health and well-being,
the rapidly diminishing level of scientific and critical rationality in our society,
our legal rights under the Nuremberg Code
There is neither legal nor scientific basis for these coercive measures. And since there is a greater level of resistance of NYC’s communities of color to complying these shots, the policy is in fact supporting the very educational disenfranchisement that your union leadership has, time and time again, claimed to oppose.
We ask that you turn from supporting these mandates, to launch a pioneering effort to draw upon the intellectual resources of this union. We propose that you coordinate an investigation into these threats that this program of Covid repression have posed, and their political, economic, and social sources.
Our Critique:
The Lack of Scientific Evidence for Claims of the Necessity, Effectivity, or Safety of these C-19 Vaccines
There was never any evidence, in the first place, that the threat of Covid-19 posed a threat level deserving the label of “pandemic”--by the old definition which included “severity,” rather than the new definition, with which the WHO, in Orwellian fashion, disappeared this concept, probably at the behest of Big Pharma corporations. According to the CDC’s own data, the death rate for most of the age strata (under the age of 70) was under 1%.[i] This illness, as the expert authors of the Great Barrington Declaration have pointed out, would have much better been handled by a program of “focused protection”: protecting only those most vulnerable to the disease: with isolation and the use of proven effective early preventative remedies.[ii]
PSC leadership has recently announced their intention to file a grievance against CUNY management for the latter’s prohibition of faculty requesting students to wear a mask in their classrooms. Yet these mask mandates were completely unnecessary. They have also been proven not only ineffective, but harmful to our physical and mental health.[iii]
Just as with the masks, neither has there been any evidence that these “vaccines” prevent infection or spread of the disease: as you have claimed repeatedly over the last year or so. Even the pharmaceutical companies producing them have said only that they would mitigate symptom severity, not prevent infection or spread. Nor were these shots ever tested for their previously alleged capacity to prevent transmission, as a top Pfizer executive, Janine Small, recently admitted to the Parliament of the European Union.[iv] In fact, the CDC’s Deborah Birx has publicly admitted that this was known from the beginning and that the public was intentionally misled.[v] Claims that the shots prevent serious illness and death are rapidly falling apart. Current data, especially from countries that keep more reliable and honest records than the US, such as England, Scotland and Israel, are showing that not only are these injections not effective at protecting people from contracting Covid or being hospitalized or dying, they are showing negative effectiveness, that is, they are making people more likely to be infected, hospitalized and to die.[vi]
Neither does the scientific evidence support the claim, which you have repeatedly echoed, that these “vaccines” are safe. The truth is that the injection has produced widespread and serious adverse events. A study at Harvard, conducted by Lazarus, et al., published in 2011, comparing the VAERS numbers to Health Insurance reports, shows that adverse events and deaths are seriously underreported and may reflect less than 1% of actual adverse events[vii]. Even these underestimated numbers of serious events and deaths actually reported through VAERS are staggering. We are seeing an enormous number of neurological and circulatory problems reported in the VAERS, including strokes, seizures, heart attacks, myocarditis, etc. The incidence of myocarditis has jumped from about 0.53 per million, to 537.1 in males aged 18 - 24[viii]. A more recent study indicates that this dramatic increase also involves age ranges from 24 to 50--a range encompassing the ages of many of the CUNY faculty.[ix]
Illegality of these Mandates
The FDA authorized these shots for Emergency Use only, because they were still experimental. Even this authorization, however, was illegal. The regulation for EUA authorization stipulates that there exist at present, before authorization, “no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition.”[x] But such alternatives—ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin--have been used since the Covid-19 outbreak by medical professionals such as Drs. Peter McCullough, Paul Marik, and the late Vladimir (Zev) Zylenko, for early treatment to save thousands of their patients’ lives—in spite of the best efforts of government and media to delegitimize and suppress these remedies.[xi
The FDA, which has been completely captured by industry, tried to foist upon the public, via sleight of hand, the idea that these shots were approved for use. But what was approved—without experimental verification that they were safe and effective--were the Comirnaty shots, which are not being injected into anybody’s arms. The Biontech shots, which were not approved, are. But it has beethis false pretext that these shots have been mandated by federal, state, and city governments, and private firms.[xii]
Because these “vaccines” are still experimental, such mandates violate Federal law.[xiii]
The Nuremberg Code, which has been incorporated into US and NYS law, requires the voluntary, informed consent of subjects in a medical experiment (and these injections are part of an experiment that will not be completed until 2023 at the earliest), which requires they be fully informed to make an enlightened and informed decision, “without any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion”[xiv]
These officials have made these demands in the service of the medical pharmaceutical industrial complex. In thrall, and as an integral partner to this complex, governmental agencies and media have bombarded the public with an unending stream of unscrupulous propaganda. Instead of critiquing this propaganda, as we might have expected from New Caucus with its “progressive” political stance, you union leaders have merely parroted, categorically, without any evidence to support such claims, that these injections are “safe, effective” and the best way to protect the CUNY community from Covid-19.
A DeFacto Racist Policy
Finally, CUNY management prides itself and markets itself as an all inclusive academic institution, especially open and accommodative to communities of color. It procures both State, City but also federal dollars on that premise. And the New Caucus has always prided itself on its progressive animus toward racist disenfranchisement of people of color. Yet the latest nyc.gov data shows that communities of color are the most resistant to full compliance with CUNY management’s mandate of all students for the two primary shots plus one booster. This is no accident. These communities are well aware of the history of dangerous medical experimentation, without informed consent, performed mainly on Americans of color in the past--such as, to name just one example, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. While such resistance is manifest across the board--only Asians and Native Americans level of compliance is above the 50% mark currently, with Whites at only 41%.--Black and Latino compliance is at only a 28% and 30% respectively.[xv]
Thus by enforcing vaccine mandates CUNY de facto effectively endangers a reversal of the 1970 Open Admissions policy--with your support, so far!
Our Proposal: Launch an Investigation.
Two years of this capitulation is way too long. We propose, instead, that you use the resources of this union, enlisting our CUNY community’s collective intelligence:
Our physical and biological scientists’ healthy (and health-oriented) curiosity about the lack of testing for safety and effectivity of these shots
Our social and political scientists’, and our intellectual historians’, critical skepticism about the fact that the entire farce of Covid repression seems to have been initiated by power- and profit-hungry billionaires, many of whom subscribe to a strategy and ideology of eugenicist global population reduction and “trans-human”[xvi], biochemical-mechanical enslavement. At least one of the leading members of this club, Bill Gates, has no medical training, let alone even a college degree.
Our legal, and ethical philosophy faculty’s understanding that these mandates are illegal under the Nuremberg Code: As Canadian bioethicist Julie Ponesse (My Choice) has pointed out.
Please stop your fallacious support for these mandates. Lead an investigate of them instead. Stop betraying us to the billionaire class.
An injury to one, is an injury to all! Fight for our rights!
For the Committee to Stop All CUNY Mandates
Thomas Smith, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Sciences, various CUNY campuses
Kathleen Keane, Adjunct Lecturer, Health Science at LaGuardia Community College
Contact info: StopAllCUNYMandates@gmail.com
Notes
[i] (51) CDC says Covid-19 death rate is under 1% for everyone but people over 70 (cnn.com)
[ii] As of this writing (September 3, 2022 2:44 pm), this Declaration has been signed by 15,930 medical and public health scientists, 47,170 medical practitioners, and 869,421 concerned citizens. They include Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt, founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center David L. Katz, Stanford University Professor medical scholar John Ioannidis. Great Barrington Declaration (gbdeclaration.org)
[iii] 47 studies confirm ineffectiveness of masks for COVID and 32 more confirm their negative health effects - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com).
[iv] ‘Scandalous’: Pfizer Exec Tells EU Lawmaker COVID Jab Was Never Tested To Show It Blocked Transmission | The Daily Wire
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[vii] https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf
[viii] Risk of Myopericarditis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in a Large Integrated Health System: A Comparison of Completeness and Timeliness of Two Methods. Katie A Sharff, David M Dancoes, Jodi L Longueil, Eric S Johnson, Paul F Lewis medRxiv 2021.12.21.21268209; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268209 This age range of 18 – 24 just so happens to be the age range for most of our students, for which you in the PSC leadership have consistently advocated mandating these shots.
[ix] Jessica Rose PhD, MSc, BSc , Peter A. McCullough MD, MPH , A Report on Myocarditis Adverse Events in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in Association with COVID-19 Injectable Biological Products, Current Problems in Cardiology (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2021.101011. A Report on Myocarditis Adverse Events in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in Association with COVID-19 Injectable Biological Products (drtrozzi.org)
[x] Why Didn’t Pfizer, Moderna Have to Meet All FDA Criteria for EUA Products? • Children's Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
[xi] Frequentist and Bayesian analysis methods for case series data for the early outpatient treatment of COVID-19 (utrgv.edu); Dr. Pierre Kory US Senate hearing – Ivermectin is 100% cure for COVID-19 | America's Frontline Doctors (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
[xii] COVID Vaccine Injury Reports Jump by 27,000 in One Week, FDA Pulls ‘Bait and Switch’ With Pfizer Vaccine Approval • Children's Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
[xiii] Federal Law Prohibits Mandates of Emergency Use COVID Vaccines, Tests, Masks — 3 Resources You Can Use to Inform Your School or Employer • Children's Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
[xiv] Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code | NEJM
[xv] COVID-19: Data on Vaccines - NYC Health
[xvi] See Kees Van Der Pijl, States of Emergency: Keeping the Global Population in Check (Clarity Press, 2022).