A Letter to My Elected Representatives

Use Your Available Resources ! 

Today I sent this message to my Oregon Governor, state Senator and state Representative, and I'm glad I did. It's my growing sense that however much we may protest things we're concerned about among ourselves, no real or lasting change will come until we take up the tools actually available to us, and use them - skillfully and vigorously. I found contact information for my representatives with a tool in an old article of mine

Activism 101 : An Activists Toolbox

If you're a U.S. citizen, you can find contact information for your elected representatives there too.

Maybe you already do this with issues you're concerned about, but if cynicism or apathy have crept in for you, I hope you'll join a process begun by our Founders, that's actually brought a great deal of the progress these past few hundred years. It's empowering to state your thoughts and needs clearly, and stand up for them. On occasion in my life, I've seen this bear quite amazing fruits.

Here's my letter :

Vaccine Safety and Informed Consent

"I'm a retired RN, and besides what I was taught about vaccines in my nursing training and through hospital staff education my whole career, I've also followed vaccine safety and choice issues since 1982, including the ongoing history of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

There have been three life threatening events in my family in close proximity to a vaccine dose, and I also had a frightening systemic reaction myself, immediately following the TDap vaccine, the full body effects of which lasted several weeks.

I've witnessed blatant ridicule and censorship of dissenting medical and scientific evidence for decades, including the concerns of leading virologists, epidemiologists, immunologists, vaccine researchers, public health and preventive medicine experts. For at least the last ten years, I've also seen my own posts of articles like the one below deleted, more or less instantly and systematically on social media, on the stated basis of "community standards" and "misinformation".

https://x.com/AaronSiriSG/status/1811186363791966542

I request that you read this article, review the linked references at least for an overview, and assign staffers to review them more deeply and summarize them for you. Given what you'll discover, I request that you work to establish ironclad guarantees of informed consent law, to include - explicitly - information gathered by patients and their families themselves.
Please respond that you have received this request, and take every action within your means to ensure informed consent for patients or their legal gaurdians, without strings or exceptions.

It's my conviction that, under cover of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, vaccine makers have taken enormous and irresponsible liberties with vaccine safety ; that, even beyond reported vaccine injuries, this has caused enormous harm to public health ; and that full, public and bipartisan investigation is urgently needed. I include this in my requests to you, ask your response, and request to be kept informed what is done going forward.      

Thank you,

Jeff Smith
Jacksonville OR"

To fight for freedom is not just a matter of emotions or what we want, I'm coming to believe, but one of endurance, courage and skill. I think it's time to raise our game !  

​Next post : my first response.