{"id":209567,"date":"2020-06-30T07:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209567"},"modified":"2020-07-03T06:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T06:59:52","slug":"children-have-0-00-chance-of-dying-from-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209567","title":{"rendered":"Children Have 0.00% Chance of Dying from COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">But are Harmed for Life by Social Distancing, Which has its Roots in CIA Torture Techniques<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boy-In-Protective-Mask-Isolated-at-Home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-209570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boy-In-Protective-Mask-Isolated-at-Home-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boy-In-Protective-Mask-Isolated-at-Home-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boy-In-Protective-Mask-Isolated-at-Home-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boy-In-Protective-Mask-Isolated-at-Home.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Comments by Brian Shilhavy &#8212; Editor, Health Impact New<\/strong>s<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">California Civil Rights Attorney Leigh Dundas published a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/leigh.dundas.9\/videos\/2763510123935429\/\">video on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/span> this week to show the devastating consequences of isolating children and forcing them to practice \u201csocial distancing\u201d at places like school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Here are some lesser known facts about social distancing and isolation:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It was developed 70 years ago by the CIA to break down enemies of state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day AND being an alcoholic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It doubles the risk of death, and destroys the part of the brain responsible for learning.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She pointed out that according to the statistics and the CDC:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A child\u2019s risk of dying from COVID is 0.0%, per the CDC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No child has passed on COVID to a family member or third party (they do not transmit).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She goes on to explain the historical origins of practicing Social Distancing, and how the technique was developed by the CIA to torture \u201cenemies of the state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Watch the video:<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/embed\/7MXC4ML5OvOT\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Here is a summary of her research designed to educate school administrators so that they abolish social distancing rules in schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sample Letter to School on Harms from Social Distancing<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Legal-Medical Opinion On Possible Changes to 2020-2021 School Year due to COVID<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by Attorney Leigh Dundas<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I write today to highlight certain factors that will hopefully serve to inform what are likely ongoing embryonic conversations at the District level, relating to COVID and the 2020-21 school year \u2013 and further \u2013 to urge a particular path of restraint during such conversations based on abundant scientific, medical, neuro-cognitive and legal considerations which have now emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the beginning of this letter, I want to acknowledge that it is quite obvious that there is a virus, which can be sometimes fatal, particularly to certain demographics. That said, there are also a federal and state constitution \u2013 which have been to some degree overlooked by certain states in their rush to contain the virus \u2013 as well as data in the form of hard math and hard science, which is now emerging in the context of COVID, and which bears review.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Math on COVID was Wrong<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The study that precipitated the lockdown of more than 95% of America\u2019s population (and indeed, the planet\u2019s population) was authored by Neil Ferguson, out of the UK. It predicted deaths in the millions. This alarming conclusion was taken into account by leaders of most nations, and acted on accordingly. America acted by quarantining \u2013 not the sick \u2013 but the approximately 311 million Americans who were not sick, and putting them under the functional equivalent of house arrest, for an indefinite period of time. Interestingly, after a mere one day of himself being under lockdown in the UK, the study\u2019s author walked back his math a shocking ninety-six percent (96%): his revision of deaths in his own country went from a predicted 500,000 down to 20,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At this juncture, allow me to point out the obvious, using an analogy involving my daughter:\u00a0 if my daughter Katya routinely said the answer to a math problem this year was 100, when it was indeed only 4 \u2013 and Katya continued to get her math problems wrong by 96% \u2013 she would receive a failing grade in math from Foothill High.\u00a0 And rightly so:\u00a0 with such incompetence in basic arithmetic reflected on her transcript, I would hope that she not be hired by anyone, anywhere, in any serious job that required basic math, as such degree of error \u2013 in engineering, statistics, or any job \u2013 would have fatal consequences (imagine if the degree of slope in a freeway overpass were 96% wrong).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Why Neil Ferguson\u2019s model was adopted in the first place is curious, as this was <u>not<\/u> his first such major error:\u00a0 witness Ferguson\u2019s 2001 model of mad cow disease \u2013 which predicted horrible fatalities including up to 150,000 deaths in England \u2013 which was subsequently deemed \u201cnot fit for purpose\u201d when in fact only 177 people died (and that\u2019s through 2020).[1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Indeed, what current actual data evinces is that the mortality rate is nowhere near the initial projections, as concluded by a study out of Stanford on Sunday, followed by one out of USC yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Stanford study, led by Professor Eran Bendavid, \u201cconcluded that the mortality rate in Santa Clara County is between 0.12% and 0.2%.\u201d Less than 1% fatal. And 50 to 85 times more people had been infected than originally thought in northern California (2.5%-4.2%), while in southern California \u2013 where most flights from Asia land into LAX \u2013 the infection rate was found to range from 2.8%-5.6% (which experts believe is due to earlier-than-thought exposure to COVID dating back to last Fall).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>ZERO Children Dying<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In addition to having a LESS THAN ONE PERCENT fatality rate overall, the fatality rate for children \u2013 who appear to be essentially immune (likely due to their contraction of endless common colds most of which are from Corona virus strains) \u2013 is ZERO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">You read that right: worldwide, ZERO children under 10 have died. And in the US? Zero individual under age 20 have died. [3]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yet further, the number of deaths for all people in the US to date is proving this virus to be no more deadly than a bad flu.[4]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And that is even with the number of deaths being radically over-inflated due to the CDC\u2019s order that all deaths be counted as COVID deaths \u2013 including e.g., a man who dies by crashing his motorcycle or heart attack, if he tests positive for COVID (even though he was not SICK from COVID at the time of his death, and the actual proximal cause of his fatal injury was vehicular fatality or heart attack).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sweden is actually doing the math correctly:\u00a0 counting people who die <em>with<\/em> COVID separately from people who die <em>from <\/em>COVID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But the U.S. to date is refusing to do correct math, and thus it must be noted that even the math showing COVID to be no worse than the flu is likely still artificially north of where it should be \u2013 COVID may well be far <em>less fatal<\/em> than the flu (and we know it is less fatal than SARS or MERS).[5]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Finally, it should be noted that countries and states who\u2019ve gone into lockdown actually have no better outcomes, and in some cases, MORE fatalities than those who did not employ lockdown.[6]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Frankly, this is not shocking:\u00a0 in the 1918 flu pandemic, it was rapidly discovered that outdoor hospitals with no roofs \u2013 where patients were exposed to sunlight and fresh air \u2013 had lower death rates and better recovery rates (due to the incontrovertible science that shows better immune response with Vitamin D, and of course, the ability to breathe non-contaminated air that is not re-circulating with a heavy virus load).[7]<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Governors are not Kings<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Now that we have reviewed the math, I want to turn to a governmental analysis, followed by a review of legal points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Governors are not kings.\u00a0 While they can issue orders, those orders are not always constitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Courts \u2013 which are currently closed state-wide \u2013 are the final arbiter of whether any decree, order, or law is actually lawful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As educators, I doubt I have to point out here the rather obvious fact that we have <u>three<\/u> branches of government, precisely to avoid the end that is occurring right now:\u00a0 the three branches are to act as a system of checks and balances on each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Currently, in California and most states, only one branch of government is in session.\u00a0 This is a set-up for abuse, and something our forefathers took great pains to avoid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is a name for countries whose countries function with <u>only<\/u> one branch in session: \u00a0they are called dictatorships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Put simply:\u00a0 due to the current closure of the courts, many executive branches are accomplishing by fiat what would never be allowed in any other setting, and which decrees are likely exceedingly unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Constitutional Rights<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And turning to the legal analysis:\u00a0 governments may, in times of crises, curtail First Amendment rights, as well as other rights guaranteed by our Constitution.\u00a0 Phrased differently, our right to speech, to assemble, to pray, our freedom of movement (a derivative First Amendment right) may be encroached upon and are not absolute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That said, any order that burdens a First Amendment right must pass strict scrutiny:\u00a0 it must be \u201cnarrowly tailored\u201d to achieving a \u201ccompelling state interest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Applying this standard in reverse to the facts at hand, safeguarding public health is likely going to be considered a compelling state interest \u2013 although that prong is harder to meet with every passing day that yields a new study showing COVID to be no more fatal than the flu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But more to the point, an order that indefinitely prevents normal assembly or speech \u2013 as many governors\u2019 orders do \u2013 is never going to be able to be shown to be \u201cnarrowly tailored\u201d to addressing the problem of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An example of a \u201cnarrowly tailored\u201d solution designed to achieving virus containment and public health concerns would be confining sick people to home or hospital \u2013 which is a true quarantine \u2013 as opposed to locking down 95% of Americans who are neither sick nor carriers and putting us under house arrest for an indefinite period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moreover, what may \u2013 at one very discrete point in time \u2013 be a prudent action that errs on the side of caution (ordering people to stay home during the first 4-6 weeks of the virus) \u2013 and which many would concede appears narrowly <em>enough <\/em>tailored at the front side \u2013 will NOT continue to be deemed narrowly tailored if said solution is applied indefinitely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Stated differently:\u00a0 house arrest to control a pandemic spread for one month seems narrowly tailored and justified, but house arrest forever \u2013 particularly when the facts show that the virus is NOT a pandemic and is no more fatal than the annual flu \u2013 cannot be justified in a free society, and would never meet the legal standard.[8]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">California\u2019s recent order has major other issues which I won\u2019t belabor here, as they are not particularly relevant, other than to point out the rather obvious fact that if a person can be trusted to stand six feet apart from his neighbor while buying marijuana (pot stores are considered \u201cessential\u201d under California\u2019s current order), then it begs the question of why Ma and Pa Smith cannot be trusted to remain six feet apart from their neighbors while praying in the pews of their local church this Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While the governor has to my knowledge issued no official guidance to educational institutions of which I\u2019m aware (other than shutting everything down through the end of this particular school year), he has been loudly telegraphing in interviews that he believes there will be no mass gatherings and no sports for at least 18-24 months, and that schools should endeavor to engage in some costly and scientifically unsound re-arrangements prior to Fall 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Lawsuits Coming and the State will Lose<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On that front: the State is about to be hit with a deluge of lawsuits, as both the existing stay-at-home order is unconstitutional (not just from a First Amendment standpoint, but from a 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment\/slavery standpoint, and from a Takings Clause standpoint re small businesses), as are the verbalized but not-yet-written statements about California\u2019s future (should they be enacted).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">These lawsuits the State will lose:\u00a0 it is not constitutional to continue house arrest indefinitely, nor to require masks on healthy people at all (let alone indefinitely), nor to prohibit adults or children from gathering normally at church, work, sports, or school for 1-2 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moreover, the Department of Justice has clearly and correctly indicated it will be intervening as a party of interest in such federal court lawsuits, and siding <em>with<\/em> the people and <em>against<\/em> the State.\u00a0 To wit, as reported by both NPR and Bloomberg[9] yesterday:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Attorney General Barr called some current stay-at-home orders \u201cburdens on civil liberties\u201d and said that if they continued and lawsuits were brought, his department would side against the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe idea that you have to stay in your house is disturbingly close to house arrest. I\u2019m not saying it wasn\u2019t justified. I\u2019m not saying in some places it might still be justified. But it\u2019s very onerous, as is shutting down your livelihood,\u201d Barr said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Barr was asked what he would do with any governors who are \u201cindifferent\u201d to easing restrictions in their states. \u201cWe\u2019re looking carefully at a number of these rules that are being put into place,\u201d\u00a0 Barr said. \u201cAnd if we think one goes too far, we initially try to jawbone the governors into rolling them back or adjusting them. And if they\u2019re not and people bring lawsuits, we file a statement of interest and side with the plaintiffs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThese are very, very burdensome impingements on liberty. And we adopted them, we have to remember, for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread, that is bending the curve. We didn\u2019t adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cYou can\u2019t just keep on feeding the patient chemotherapy and say \u2018Well, we\u2019re killing the cancer, because we were getting to the point where we\u2019re killing the patient,\u2019\u201d Barr said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cNow is the time that we have to start looking ahead and adjusting to more targeted therapies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Before I turn to the issue of schools in the time of COVID, a brief recap of the points in this letter thus far: the mathematical predictions on which 95% of the planet\u2019s population was placed under house arrest were flawed by 96%, the death rate from COVID is on par with a bad flu season, the mortality rate is way less than 1% for all people while the death rate for children under age 20 in the US is <em>zero<\/em> percent, some governors\u2019 actions in continuing the draconian restrictions and lockdowns are unconstitutional, lawsuits are commencing, the Department of Justice has indicated it will intervene and side <em>against<\/em> the state and <em>against <\/em>municipal authorities (translation: school districts) which are executing these unconstitutional orders, I have been approached by a cross-section of individuals who are committed to funding and commencing such legal challenges, I have the track record and skill and desire to succeed in this area, and school districts NOT in Orange County have as of yesterday begun releasing unscientific and unconstitutional proposed changes to their education programs for 2020-21 (bootstrapped to, or otherwise derivative of, State orders or insinuations which are themselves unconstitutional).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Social Distancing is a Euphemism that Hides a More Pernicious Truth<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the point of school alterations, let me preface the discussion with a scientific review of social distancing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Social distancing is a euphemism which is not only inaccurate, but like many euphemisms, hides a more pernicious truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Social distancing is, in fact, social isolation.\u00a0 One can argue that distance is not the same as isolation, and only becomes isolation after a certain yardstick of measurement has been reached between persons, but the reality is that such is not the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If you doubt this, take a walk down the aisle at Vons, and try to initiate a smile or simple \u201chello\u201d to someone six feet away.\u00a0 Though this is theoretically possible, as voices and visual cues carry across a distance of six feet, nine out of ten people will not respond (and yes, I conducted this little test just last week \u2013 I studied psych\/soc before becoming an attorney).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Medical journals agree:\u00a0 social distance <u>is<\/u> social isolation.\u00a0 And social isolation is thus the term I will use for the duration.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Social Isolation is a Human Rights Violation on par with Torture and Other War Crimes<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To lead with the conclusion:\u00a0 social isolation is a human rights violation \u2013 which is on par with torture and other war crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Indeed, social isolation is the <em>primary<\/em> protocol deployed against enemies in times of war, regardless of time period or country in question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is due in large part to the fact that it is so successful in psychologically destroying the individual, without need of more bloody and difficult physical interventions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The studies of social isolation against enemies of state began in the 1950\u2019s and 1960\u2019s by the CIA:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIn 1960, one of the agency\u2019s most active contractors, Lawrence Hinkle of Cornell, confirmed the significance of Hebb\u2019s research for the CIA mind-control effort. Through a comprehensive review \u2026 \u2018for the purposes of intelligence,\u2019 Hinkle found Hebb\u2019s work [on social isolation], in light of the neurological literature, the most promising of all known techniques.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To wit:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It has long been the custom of captors, police, and inquisitors, to isolate their prisoners.\u00a0 But which of these methods, Hinkle asked, is most effective? All the standard interrogation techniques have varying\u2026 impacts on the brain\u2019s functioning\u2026. [But] of all the possible techniques,<strong> isolation is the ideal way of \u201cbreaking down\u201d a prisoner\u2026.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hebb\u2019s work found that \u201cthe effect of isolation on the brain function of the prisoner is much like that which occurs if he is beaten, starved, or deprived of sleep.\u201d\u00a0 <u>A Question of Torture:\u00a0 CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror<\/u>, p. 41-42, by Alfred McCoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The power of social isolation in contexts of war and hostage-taking was reviewed in an earth-shaking expose released by the New Yorker some years back.\u00a0 In the article, the author reviewed journalist Terry Lyons\u2019 ordeal, who was held hostage back in the 1980\u2019s, in Lebanon, over a period of years:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Anderson was the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press when, on March 16, 1985, three bearded men forced him from his car in Beirut at gunpoint. He was pushed into a Mercedes sedan, covered head to toe with a heavy blanket, and made to crouch head down in the footwell behind the front seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A month into his confinement, he recalled in his memoir, \u201cThe mind is a blank. Jesus, I always thought I was smart. Where are all the things I learned, the books I read, the poems I memorized? There\u2019s nothing there, just a formless, gray-black misery. My mind\u2019s gone dead. God, help me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He dozed off and on constantly, sleeping twelve hours a day. He craved activity of almost any kind\u2026. He had a Bible and tried to read, but he often found that he lacked the concentration to do so. He observed himself becoming neurotically possessive\u2026. flying into a rage at guards\u2026. He brooded incessantly, thinking back on all the mistakes he\u2019d made in life, his regrets, his offenses against God and family.[10]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Anderson was given a reprieve from social isolation in the middle of 1986, but then made to return to full-time social isolation in September of that year.\u00a0 After a few weeks of isolation, he again felt his mind slipping away:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI find myself trembling sometimes for no reason,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019m afraid I\u2019m beginning to lose my mind, to lose control completely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One day, he snapped. <strong>He walked over to a wall and began beating his forehead against it, dozens of times. His head was smashed and bleeding before the guards were able to stop him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some hostages fared worse.\u00a0 Frank Reed was \u2013 like those reading my letter \u2013 an educator:\u00a0 a fifty-four-year-old American private-school director, who was taken hostage at the same time as journalist Anderson, and also socially isolated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He lay motionless for hours facing a wall, semi-catatonic. He could not follow the guards\u2019 simplest instructions. This invited abuse from them.\u00a0 Released after three and a half years, <strong>Reed ultimately required admission to a psychiatric hospital.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Before the New Yorker author went on to describe the experience of Senator John McCain, he took pains to describe both why and how social isolation is so devastatingly effective, noting that \u201chuman beings are social creatures\u201d and that we are social \u201cnot just in the trivial sense that we like\u00a0company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others [but that we] are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The author noted that \u201cchildren provide the clearest demonstration of this fact [that we are social creatures], although it was slow to be accepted\u201d as \u2013 well into the 1950\u2019s \u2013 psychologists were \u201cencouraging parents to give children <u>less<\/u> attention and affection, in order to encourage independence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That was before the discoveries made by Harry Harlow, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who produced a series of influential studies involving baby rhesus monkeys.\u00a0 Harlow was using monkeys for other research, but because Harlow<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">didn\u2019t know how to raise infant monkeys, he cared for them the way hospitals of the era cared for human infants\u2014in nurseries, with plenty of food, warm blankets, some toys, and in isolation from other infants to prevent the spread of infection. The monkeys grew up sturdy, disease-free, and larger than those from the wild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Yet they were also profoundly disturbed, given to staring blankly and rocking in place for long periods, circling their cages repetitively, and mutilating themselves.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Harlow and his graduate students could not at first discern what the problem was. They considered and eventually ruled out factors such as diet, patterns of light exposure, and even the antibiotics used. But then one of Harlow\u2019s researchers noticed how tightly the monkeys clung to their soft blankets. \u00a0Harlow wondered whether what the monkeys were missing in their Isolettes was a mother. So, in an odd experiment, he gave them an artificial mother:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the studies, one artificial mother was a doll made of terry cloth; the other was made of wire. He placed a warming device inside the dolls to make them seem more comforting. The babies, Harlow discovered, largely ignored the wire mother. But they became deeply attached to the cloth mother. They caressed it. They slept curled up on it. They ran to it when frightened. They refused replacements: they wanted only \u201ctheir\u201d mother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So starved for social interaction were these babies, that when <strong>\u201csharp spikes were made to randomly thrust out of the mother\u2019s body when the rhesus babies held it, <\/strong>they waited patiently for the spikes to recede<strong>, and returned to clutching it.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Such is the powerful \u2013 and indefatigable \u2013 need for social interaction and bonding.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But sadly, because cloth mothers are no substitute for the real thing \u2013 and even with the baby rhesus monkeys clinging wildly to the cloth surrogates \u2013 \u201cno matter how tightly they clung to the surrogate mothers, the monkeys <strong>remained psychologically abnormal\u201d:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a later study on the effect of total isolation from birth, the researchers found that the test monkeys, upon being released into a group of ordinary monkeys, \u201cusually go into a state of emotional shock, characterized by . . . autistic self-clutching and rocking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Social isolation was so devastating that some monkeys began refusing food, and even after release, <strong>\u201cdied five days later.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While any social isolation had profound consequences, a year of social isolation had irretrievable and abominable effects:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>\u201cTwelve months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>They became permanently withdrawn\u2026. <strong>They lived as outcasts<\/strong>\u2014regularly set upon, as if inviting abuse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I would pray that a review of such basic psychological effects by the reader would give pause to any educator considering adopting a program that socially distances children during their formative years.\u00a0 To the extent my point has not yet been well-made, let me drive it home further with the words of Senator John McCain:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s an awful thing,\u201d John McCain wrote<\/strong> of his five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam\u2014more than two years of it spent in social isolation\u2026. <strong>\u201cIt crushes your spirit more effectively than any other form of mistreatment.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mind you, this statement comes from a man who was beaten regularly, denied adequate medical treatment for two broken arms and a broken leg, who endured chronic dysentery, and who \u2013 in the final days \u2013 was further tortured by having more limbs broken.\u00a0 According to McCain, social isolation was worse than ALL of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A U.S. military study of almost 150 naval aviators returning from Vietnam where they had endured weeks or more of social deprivation and distancing \u2013 \u00a0\u201cmany of whom were treated even worse than McCain\u201d \u2013 reported <strong>that they too found social isolation \u201cto be as torturous and agonizing as any physical abuse they suffered.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Indeed, so barbaric is the simple act of social isolation that even our US Supreme Court has analogized it to a severe human rights violation \u2013 given its propensity to put prisoners who are socially isolated into a \u201ccondition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them\u201d and from which they often then become \u201cviolently insane\u201d or \u201ccommit[] suicide\u2026while [even] those who stood the ordeal better \u2026 did not recover sufficient mental activity to be of any subsequent service to the community.\u201d [11]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The always devastating and often fatal effects of social isolation \u2013 which bode well for its use as a war-time technique against enemies of State, but which poses grave concerns that invite thorough review before deploying on America\u2019s schoolchildren \u2013 are not simply subjective:\u00a0 social isolation affects organic brain development, and the human body, length of life, cardiovascular health, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Indeed, so bad is social isolation that it <strong>doubles the risk of death in Blacks while increasing the risk of early death in Caucasians by 60-84%, <\/strong>while other studies show that it is <strong>safer to smoke 15 cigarettes a day \u2013 or be an alcoholic \u2013 than to be socially isolated:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cMeta-analysis co-authored by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, [found that] <strong>lack of social connection heightens health risks as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or having alcohol use disorder.<\/strong> [Holt-Lunstandt] also found that <strong>social isolation is twice as harmful to physical and mental health as obesity\u2026. <\/strong>\u2018There is robust evidence that social isolation significantly increases risk for premature mortality, and the magnitude of the risk exceeds that of many leading health indicators.\u2019\u201d <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2019\/05\/ce-corner-isolation\">https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2019\/05\/ce-corner-isolation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAs demonstrated by a review of the effects of social isolation across the life span, [social isolation] \u2026 can wreak havoc on an individual\u2019s physical, mental and cognitive health. Hawkley points to evidence linking social isolation with adverse health consequences including <strong>depression, poor sleep quality, impaired executive function, accelerated cognitive decline, poor cardiovascular function and impaired immunity at every stage of life.\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><u>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B<\/u>, Vol. 370, No. 1669, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cA 2019 study led by Kassandra Alcaraz, PhD, MPH, a public health researcher with the American Cancer Society, analyzed data from more than 580,000 adults and found that social isolation increases the risk of premature death from every cause for every race. According to Alcaraz, among black participants, <strong>social isolation doubled the risk of early death, while it increased the risk among white participants by 60 to 84 percent<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u2018Our research really shows that the magnitude of risk presented by social isolation is very similar in magnitude to that of obesity, smoking, lack of access to care and physical inactivity,\u2019 she says.\u00a0 American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 188, No. 1, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">JAMA study finding poor cardiovascular, obesity and other health results among populations of youth who experienced social isolation: \u201cFirst, whereas clinical and research interest in the association between social isolation and poor health has been generated by studies of adults, the findings from this study provide, to our knowledge, the first evidence linking childhood social isolation to poor adult health. Our findings are consistent with a handful of retrospective studies.\u201d\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/205331\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/205331<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In addition to social isolation shortening life span and more than doubling the risk of early death, while also creating obesity, cardiovascular and other major physical impairments \u2013 which to point a very fine point on it, <strong>prove that TUSD would be better off feeding their school children <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>15 cigarettes a day or handing them a shot of vodka at the start of each period than attempting to keep them socially distanced <\/strong>\u2013 there are also profound, debilitating and often fatal psychological effects from attempting to keep developing children distant from each other.\u00a0 In terms of psychological effects:\u00a0 schoolchildren exposed to social isolation and distance learning as a result of severe health conditions such a e.g., a cancer diagnosis that requires such draconian restrictions, end up having such \u201csocial isolation\u2026 often correlate[] with mental disorders, including depressive disorders.\u201d[12]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yet worse, the psychological effects of isolation do not appear to wear off after the period of isolation ends, as studies with prisoners who underwent brief periods of solitary confinement elucidate.\u00a0 One researcher explains his work with such individuals:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some people make it out, and if they\u2019re fortunate enough to get into a warm and caring environment [with significant human interaction] they begin to regain their social skills. Even then I\u2019ve had conversations with people who take me aside and tell me, \u201cYou know, I\u00a0may look like I\u2019m doing OK but I\u2019m really not. I have problems all the time. I\u2019m anxious, I don\u2019t feel comfortable around people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I\u2019ve had more extreme cases. A couple years ago, a former prisoner\u2019s wife called me, she was crying, she said, \u201cMy husband just got out of prison and won\u2019t come out of the bathroom. Every day he gets up in the morning and locks himself in the bathroom. Sometimes he won\u2019t even sleep in the bed.\u201d So I went to see him \u2014 he doesn\u2019t live far from here \u2014 and he told me, \u201cI never told my wife this, but I\u2019m not just locked in the bathroom, <strong>I sit in the bathtub\u2026. It\u2019s the only place I feel comfortable.<\/strong> My wife wants me to sleep in the big bedroom we have, but [it\u2019s] \u2026 disorienting. So I go in the bathroom and it calms me down.\u201d[13]<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Effects of Social Isolation on Students<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Already, we are seeing the effect of just a few weeks of social isolation on students:\u00a0 teen suicides have risen, and last week, OC Sheriff\u2019s reported a 25% increase in domestic violence calls, a 24% increase in family disputes, and a 30% increase in child custody calls.[14]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So deleterious are these effects that in recent years the United Nations promulgated what have come to be called the Mandela rules.\u00a0 These rules prohibit social isolation for longer than 15 days, <strong>noting that any longer period of social isolation \u201cconstitutes cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment, or torture.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Other organizations, like the American Psychiatric Association, have held similarly.\u00a0 Id.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Perhaps most ironic, what cold hard science shows is that social isolation employed continuously \u2013 as California is suggesting doing \u2013 <em>will<\/em> <em>actually undermine the alleged health goals because such isolation depresses the immune system<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A 2015 study led by Steven Cole, M.D. and professor of medicine at UCLA, yielded hard data in the form of how social isolation harms overall health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cole and his colleagues examined gene expressions in leukocytes \u2013 which are the white blood cells that play a pivotal role in the immune system\u2019s response to infections. What they found was startling:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The leukocytes of socially isolated \u201cparticipants\u2014both humans and rhesus macaques\u2014showed an increased expression of genes involved in inflammation and a decreased expression of genes involved in antiviral responses\u2026. [Social isolation] leads to long-term \u2018fight-or-flight\u2019 stress signaling, which negatively affects immune system functioning. <strong>Simply put, people who feel lonely have less immunity and more inflammation than people who don\u2019t<\/strong>.\u201d [15]<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Brainwashing and Mental Health<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Historically speaking, social isolation as a protocol got its start in June of 1951, when a \u201cgroup of psychologists and doctors with ties to US, UK and Canadian military forces held a secret meeting at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Montreal.\u201d[16]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The minutes from the meeting revealed that the discussion centered on the question of \u201cbrainwashing\u201d and focused much on social deprivation and isolation as means to achieving that end, or otherwise \u201celicit[ing] false confession or manipulat[ing] behaviour.\u201d\u00a0 The doctors \u201cconsidered various artificial conditions that could be used to create states of helplessness and extreme suggestibility\u201d \u2013 of which social isolation and permutations thereof topped the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Researcher Hebb was given $30,000 \u2013 which was a tidy sum back in 1951 \u2013 to study \u201cisolation and solitary confinement, which can have acute and lasting effects on mental health, and has a long history as a form of punishment and as a mode of philosophical inquiry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Social isolation was found to be a quite promising technique for the military to deploy, regardless of the fact that it was torture \u2013 or perhaps because of the fact that it was torture \u2013 in terms of aiding brainwashing.\u00a0 The exact mechanics of which neuroscientist John Lilly explained thoroughly in a paper delivered to a group of military and intelligence officials in the late 1950s:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When a person is isolated for long enough, Lilly wrote, they tend to absorb signal data on demand. Under these conditions there can be an \u201cinjection of outside data\u201d into the \u201cinside generators,\u201d with re-programming developing.[17]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Put simply?\u00a0 <strong>One can turn human beings into brain-washed robots simply by socially isolating them for short periods of time.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The mechanics behind this are more well understood through today\u2019s world of functional magnetic resonance imaging.\u00a0 Recent studies using fMRI show that people who are shunted into social isolation have a less active part of the brain known as the ventral striatum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The ventral striatum part of the brain \u2013 which is hurt by social isolation \u2013 is <strong>absolutely \u201ccritical to learning\u201d<\/strong> and is a \u201ckey portion of the brain\u201d that is \u201cactivated through primary rewards such as food and secondary rewards\u2026. <strong>Social rewards and feelings of love also may activate the region.\u201d[18]\u00a0 <\/strong>The researchers in this study \u2013 like many above \u2013 concluded that social isolation is as detrimental as smoking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How Social Isolation Affects the Brain<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Not only does social distancing and social isolation \u2013 as visually proven by way of MRI \u2013 shut off the very part of the brain children need in order to learn while at school, another study shows that \u201csocial isolation causes the build-up of a particular chemical in the brain.\u201d\u00a0 While the study was conducted on mice, humans have the same have an analogous brain signaling structure.\u00a0 The build-up of the protein in the brains of mice exposed to social isolation was once again devastating:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Confirming and extending previous observations, the researchers showed that social isolation leads to a broad array of behavioral changes in mice. These include <strong>increased aggressiveness<\/strong> towards unfamiliar mice, <strong>persistent fear<\/strong>, and <strong>hypersensitivity to threatening stimuli<\/strong>. For example, when encountering a threatening stimulus, mice that have been socially isolated remain frozen in place long after the threat has passed, whereas normal mice stop freezing soon after the threat is removed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Unless we are looking to create paranoid children living in an adrenalized PTSD world that become prey for predators, or double their risk of death while giving them the functional equivalent of a 15-cigarette-a-day bad alky habit \u2013 we would do well to take heed of the vast amount of medical studies on this point \u2013 <em>before<\/em> implementing socially isolating or distancing protocols in the classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At this point, I\u2019d like to further examine the physical changes to the brain which occur with social isolation by turning back to the New Yorker article, and its examination of the physical reasons underlying why John McCain and other POW\u2019s subjectively experienced social isolation as identical to (or worse than) physical torture.\u00a0 The author of the New Yorker article aptly noted that \u201cwhat happened to them\u201d in terms of social isolation actually <strong>was \u201cphysical\u201d <\/strong>\u2013 as \u201cEEG studies going back to the nineteen-sixties have shown diffuse slowing of brain waves in prisoners\u201d who are socially isolated for more than a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Indeed, as recently as 1992, fifty-seven prisoners of war, released after an average of six months in detention camps in the former Yugoslavia, were examined using EEG-like tests.\u00a0 What those recordings revealed is \u201c<strong>brain abnormalities for months afterward<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 The article went on to note that the most severe EEG results were found in prisoners who had endured either head trauma sufficient to render them unconscious \u2026 or social isolation.\u00a0 It concluded:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Without sustained social interaction, the human brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To wrap up the harmful neurological, cognitive, physical, emotional and social fall-out from socially-isolating mechanisms, it is worth noting what one author determined after concluding all of his POW interviews:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Whether in Walpole or Beirut or Hanoi, <strong>all human beings experienced isolation as torture.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">We are Currently Undergoing the Single Largest Planetary-wide Social Experiment ever Conducted on Human Beings<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And now, to wrap this letter up:\u00a0 we are currently undergoing the single largest planetary-wide social experiment ever conducted on human beings.\u00a0 Social distancing <u>is<\/u> social isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is a well-documented war-time technique deployed for the better part of the last century by the CIA against our worst enemies.\u00a0 For the victims who have endured social isolation \u2013 to a man and to a woman \u2013 they experience it as torture:\u00a0 a torture so inhumane that they refuse to endorse its use against even their own enemies.\u00a0 Id; see also, New Yorker article which described a prisoner who was confined to solitary for 8 years who \u2013 upon his release and finding out his State Prison Director had been jailed \u2013 stated he would let the Prison Director \u201cout of solitary\u201d as he wouldn\u2019t wish that social isolation on anyone\u2026 \u201cnot even him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moreover, a plethora of studies show that social distancing and isolation can be fatal, and when not fatal, are yet still a fate from which people do not EVER fully recover.\u00a0 The brain is irretrievably structurally altered, and the part that is most vulnerable and necessary to learning \u2013 not only in children but in ourselves \u2013 is gutted beyond repair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I implore you to take heed of these studies.\u00a0 And as educators yourselves, who are not doubt familiar with genocides and atrocities of yesteryear, I also implore you to <u>not<\/u> simply accept suggestions \u2013 or even orders \u2013 which are unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I do much work in countries where War Crimes Tribunals are active, and with lawyers who prosecute crimes against humanity, and I tell you true:\u00a0 it is no defense to have taken part in even a minor human rights violation, and then attempt to justify one\u2019s actions later on down the line with the pablum that one was \u201crequired to do so\u201d by virtue of one\u2019s post, one\u2019s title, one\u2019s uniform, or one\u2019s orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I further implore you to reject \u2013 out of hand and without exception \u2013 any suggestions that would force TUSD children to have classrooms requiring large distances of physical space between students, to have schedules that would reduce attendance by 20% or 50% on a rotating basis, that would seek to carve up the student body so that only \u00bd or 1\/3 were present at any given time, that would enforce mask wearing (a separate issue, which medical studies I won\u2019t cite here), and I would ask you to reject as well any plans that would prohibit recess and outdoor breaks or sunlight, or physical education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Such plans are neither required nor even logically related to containment of a virus that is less fatal that SARS, MERS and the flu, and whose mortality rate for children is non-existent.\u00a0 Yet more striking, such plans will make children (or anyone) less physically healthy through immuno-suppression secondary to social isolation and lack of physical activity\/sunlight.\u00a0 Yet further, such plans infringe on <em>many<\/em> constitutional rights \u2013 not to mention literally tearing at the very fibers of the minds of the children whose future you hold in your hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I recognize that I have given you an abundance of legal, scientific, and medical information.\u00a0 I did this because I firmly believe that people make better decisions when they have the relevant facts at hand.\u00a0 And I did this because \u2013 at base \u2013 I know what the end of the road looks like, for those who embark on even the tiniest violations of civil liberties, with the best of intentions.\u00a0 I would not wish the things I have seen in Cambodia, in Africa, in speaking to survivors of social isolation, of war, of human rights atrocities \u2013 I would not wish these ends on my worst enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Because these people?\u00a0 These people \u2026 do not EVER recover: \u00a0it is a harm from which there is <strong>NO ROAD BACK.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">You are the guardians of our children\u2019s minds, their hearts, their very humanity.\u00a0 My child \u2013 and yours \u2013 they are not rhesus monkeys.\u00a0 They are not hostages in Lebanon.\u00a0 They are not POWs in Hanoi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But if we do <em>not<\/em> do the right thing here?\u00a0 They will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With more warmth, love and prayers than I could ever convey in words,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Leigh Dundas, Esq.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Comment on this article at <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2020\/children-have-0-00-chance-of-dying-from-covid-but-are-harmed-for-life-by-social-distancing-which-has-its-roots-in-cia-torture-techniques\/\">HealthImpactNews.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>References<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[1] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/principia-scientific.org\/shock-israeli-study-reveals-covid19-lockdown-was-pointless\/\">https:\/\/principia-scientific.org\/shock-israeli-study-reveals-covid19-lockdown-was-pointless\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[2] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/paloaltoonline.com\/news\/2020\/04\/21\/los-angeles-study-backs-stanford-researchers-conclusion-about-high-prevalence-of-covid-19\">https:\/\/paloaltoonline.com\/news\/2020\/04\/21\/los-angeles-study-backs-stanford-researchers-conclusion-about-high-prevalence-of-covid-19<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[3] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/3\/23\/21190033\/coronavirus-covid-19-deaths-by-age\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/3\/23\/21190033\/coronavirus-covid-19-deaths-by-age<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[4] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/04\/17\/covid-19-lethality-not-much-different-than-flu-says-new-study\/\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/04\/17\/covid-19-lethality-not-much-different-than-flu-says-new-study\/<\/a>. \u00a0See also CDC website numbers comparing 61,000 flu deaths two years ago to current number of deaths for COVID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[5] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/coronavirus-diseases-comparing-covid-19-sars-mers-numbers-n1150321\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/coronavirus-diseases-comparing-covid-19-sars-mers-numbers-n1150321<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[6] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/israeli-study-suggests-lockdown-has-no-effect-on-coronavirus-timeline-say-israeli-space-agency-chair\">https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/israeli-study-suggests-lockdown-has-no-effect-on-coronavirus-timeline-say-israeli-space-agency-chair<\/a>.\u00a0 See also Mark Meuser, Esq. analysis of five states with lockdown compared to five states of comparable size with NO lockdown and concluding locked down states have substantially worse mortality rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[7] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ra.hobday\/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@ra.hobday\/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065<\/a>\u00a0 (noting that \u201cput simply, medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff.[1] There is scientific support for this. Research shows that outdoor air is a natural disinfectant. Fresh air can kill the flu virus and other harmful germs. Equally, sunlight is germicidal and there is now evidence it can kill the flu virus).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[8] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2020-03-25\/gavin-newsom-stay-at-home-order-quarantine-coronavirus-covid-19\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2020-03-25\/gavin-newsom-stay-at-home-order-quarantine-coronavirus-covid-19<\/a>.\u00a0 See also <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/04\/15\/barr-even-in-times-of-emergency-federal-law-prohibits-religious-discrimination\/?fbclid=IwAR2IROhCBP3gyBCpYYRAQkRagpPY7m3Fc1d3nv4Bz4CO08FbfPZq2jsliWI\">https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/04\/15\/barr-even-in-times-of-emergency-federal-law-prohibits-religious-discrimination\/<\/a>.\u00a0 See also <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/ablc\/2016\/04\/01\/boom-lawyered-levels-judicial-scrutiny-edition\/?fbclid=IwAR3lokkgXPVqAj0fe5Gp6-jJ8lYWdUYGZcxyFfH-Qw82_aIbitXxxleiyrc\">https:\/\/rewire.news\/ablc\/2016\/04\/01\/boom-lawyered-levels-judicial-scrutiny-edition\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[9] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/04\/21\/840262570\/barr-open-to-legal-action-if-governors-restrictions-go-too-far\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/04\/21\/840262570\/barr-open-to-legal-action-if-governors-restrictions-go-too-far<\/a>\u00a0 and see also <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-21\/barr-says-doj-may-act-against-governors-with-strict-virus-limits\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-21\/barr-says-doj-may-act-against-governors-with-strict-virus-limits<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[10] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2009\/03\/30\/hellhole\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2009\/03\/30\/hellhole<\/a>.\u00a0 Note all subsequent references are from this citation, unless otherwise noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[11]\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2009\/03\/30\/hellhole\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2009\/03\/30\/hellhole<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[12] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noisolation.com\/global\/research\/consequences-of-social-isolation-for-children-and-adolescents\/\">https:\/\/www.noisolation.com\/global\/research\/consequences-of-social-isolation-for-children-and-adolescents\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[13] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.knowablemagazine.org\/article\/society\/2018\/hidden-damage-solitary-confinement\">https:\/\/www.knowablemagazine.org\/article\/society\/2018\/hidden-damage-solitary-confinement<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[14]\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/12\/teen-commits-suicide-likely-over-stress-from-coronavirus-lockdown\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/12\/teen-commits-suicide-likely-over-stress-from-coronavirus-lockdown<\/a>, and see also OC Register.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[15] (PNAS, Vol. 112, No. 49, 2015).<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2019\/05\/ce-corner-isolation\">https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2019\/05\/ce-corner-isolation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[16] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/articles\/W1bwkyYAACUAqy10\">https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/articles\/W1bwkyYAACUAqy10<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[17] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/articles\/W1bwkyYAACUAqy10\">https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/articles\/W1bwkyYAACUAqy10<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[18] <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/02\/090215151800.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/02\/090215151800.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vaccineimpact.com\/2020\/children-have-0-00-chance-of-dying-from-covid-but-are-harmed-for-life-by-social-distancing-which-has-its-roots-in-cia-torture-techniques\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But they are harmed for life by social distancing, which has its roots in CIA torture techniques. 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