Stand for Health Freedom<\/p>\n
On February 14, 2023, the Collier County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously (5-0) to reject a $1.2 million-dollar grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including refunding the $167,000 that has already been spent. Although the grant was promoted as being for \u201chealth education,\u201d the COVID-19 Extra Mile Migrant Farmworker grant appears to have been more focused on coercing those in poorer communities to get vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n
And worst of all, in classic side-stepping of informed consent, the information provided about the shot made no mention of side effects or the fact that the jab does not even prevent the injected from contracting COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Attorney Jeff Childers explained on his Substack, \u201cthe CDC\u2019s outdated \u2018education materials\u2019 were indistinguishable from pharma marketing materials. In fact, it\u2019s worse than that. Pharma is required by law to state their drugs\u2019 side effects in their drug ads. But now they\u2019ve found a way to get around that requirement: by having official U.S. government agencies do the marketing for them. It\u2019s so simple!\u201d<\/p>\n
But after a presentation by health freedom advocates, \u201cCollier\u2019s commissioners saw right through the scheme, and appear to consider the CDC\u2019s taxpayer-funded vaccine \u2018educational materials\u2019 are really just dressed-up pharmaceutical \u2018false advertising,\u2019\u201d wrote Childers.<\/p>\n
Naples Daily News reported that, \u201cMore than a dozen residents who support the Medical Freedom Sub-committee of the Collier County Republican Executive Committee attended the commission meeting. Many spoke of harms from the vaccine and deceptions by the federal government that the vaccines are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamie Ulmer, president and CEO of the HealthCare Network (which administered the grant) spoke prior to the vote in support of keeping the CDC money. In a letter on January 23, 2022, Ulmer had assured the commissioners that the $1.2 million in NIH funds and educational materials were for educational purposes only and \u201c\u2026at no time are community members advised to receive care or to follow CDC guidelines such as getting vaccinated or wearing a mask\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n
One of the health freedom advocates was Karen Kingston, a biotech analyst with over 20 years of experience. She wrote after the meeting, \u201cI was given an opportunity to present a regulatory med-legal analysis of some of the COVID-19 materials provided by the NIH CHW [Community Health Worker] program (advocated by Mr. Ulmer as non-promotional), as well as the harmful effects of the COVID-19 injections.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to providing details about the safety signals that have been seen with the shots, she also showed that Ulmer was mistaken (or perhaps untruthful) about the purpose of the \u201cvaccine education.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NIH-funded materials clearly promote mask wearing and COVID-19 \u2018vaccination\u2019 for adults and children as young as 6 years of age,\u201d stated Kingston.<\/p>\n
\u201cCommissioner Dan Kowal, a U.S. Army veteran and retired law enforcement officer, had noted that the CHW \u2018educational\u2019 materials only provided \u2018favorable\u2019 information and did not disclose the negative effects of the inoculations,\u201d Kingston continued. \u201cI emphasized that the CHW materials and objectives were in direct contradiction of the Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo\u2019s recommendations against COVID-19 \u2018vaccination\u2019 of healthy male adults and children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has recently stated that he does not recommend COVID shots for young, healthy men. He has also sent a letter to the CDC and the FDA demanding that they inform the American people about the dangers of the jab. Ladapo: \u201cProbably most every American would be surprised to hear the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines specifically are associated with an increased risk of appendicitis, Bell\u2019s palsy, shingles (which can be severe), change in sperm motility and sperm function and sperm count. And most recently, we are finding that they are present in breast milk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ulmer said his organization has been working with Boston-based Partners in Health on the grant\u2019s mission to educate migrant workers in Immokalee about a variety of medical issues.<\/p>\n
Some of the grant funding was used to hire and train six community health workers from the Immokalee area and send them to the migrant camps. Ulmer said the community workers speak the same languages as the migrant workers and can \u201cconnect with them on their health.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beth Sherman, who also attended the meeting and is part of the Medical Freedom Subcommittee, said Partners in Health has funding support from big tech companies and pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n
Another subcommittee member, Scott Kiley from Marco Island, explained that the group had learned that the Collier County Commissioners accepted a CDC grant to provide health education and health care services to the underprivileged farm workers in Immokalee. \u201cWhen we researched it,\u201d said Kiley, \u201cwe found out that the people that were providing the health care were kind of like the who\u2019s who of the globalists, funded by Big Pharma, funded by Bill Gates, funded by George Soros and \u2026 that it was a program to get injections into arms. That\u2019s really, at its core, what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sherman said the health care workers were testing the migrant farm workers and \u201cif they got a positive COVID case test back, they got between $400 and $1200. \u2026 It\u2019s incentive to drive up the case numbers, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Subcommittee member Jill Kiley added, \u201cWe felt that they were coercing people into getting vaccines instead of giving them treatments that have been out forever. They weren\u2019t handing out therapeutics in any way to help them, so we fought back.\u201d When asked why, she said, \u201cBecause these shots are killing people, they\u2019re injuring people. They were also targeting a specific population which happens to be the migrant farm workers that produce food for us. So that\u2019s a real concern, too, in terms of how they\u2019re affecting our food chain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we should be taking any money from the government,\u201d said Sherman, explaining that there were strings attached to the grant. The county would be forced to follow directives from the HHS and the CDC. \u201cYou would have to do isolation, quarantine, and [any] current or future directives from the HHS secretary,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cWe just wanted to cut all ties, wash the hands clean. We don\u2019t want any involvement from the government or the CDC. They\u2019re not an elected body and I don\u2019t think the citizens of the county should have to follow any directives that they request.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so, our group of activists came together,\u201d said Scott Kiley. \u201cWe fought hard and we educated the commissioners. The commissioners came around and they agreed to send the money back. All of it. It was amazing. Not only did they agree to send the amount of money they didn\u2019t spend back, but they agreed to even reimburse for the money they spent. It was a great victory and I believe that we woke up the commissioners to what\u2019s really going on with the COVID injections.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCommissioner Chris Hall made a motion to return the $1.2mm NIH grant,\u201d added Kingston, \u201cwhich was seconded by Commissioner William McDaniel. All five commissioners unanimously voted to support the motion and return the funds.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victory didn\u2019t happen overnight. It took many emails and phone calls over the course of a year. \u201cIt takes a lot of people voicing their opinions to make some traction,\u201d said Sherman. \u201cYou asked what changed in our strategy and I believe I said we put on more pressure and publicity, which is true. However, at the exact time, a group of us did a 21-day fast and prayer. Hours and hours of prayer dedicated to praying for our commissioners. This is 100% God\u2019s win!\u201d<\/p>\n