THE STATEMENT

(Post by: Michelle Hobbs)

It has been a difficult three weeks for us here in the Hobbs household. My employer has m@nd@ted the experimental Co v id va cc in e, and I will likely lose my job as a Hospice Nurse Practitioner. A job (more like a calling and a ministry) that I have done for over 20 years and love dearly. We have also had a dear friend go home to Heaven. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and our brothers and sisters in Christ are in grave danger. Mask m@nd@tes and va cc in es are threatening school children. The great aunt that we care for fell and was taken to the ER for stitches and had to be monitored for several days due to the concussion she sustained. A stray kitten has made its way to our home, and while it is very sweet, we cannot keep it. We have been trying to find it a good home.

Some of these things are definitely more significant than others, but my point is, we are all living in a stormy world right now. Many of you are facing va cc in e m@nd@tes and losing the jobs you love as well. Add in the everyday stresses of life and it is overwhelming. We are being tossed around and are feeling like we are going to sink! I want to remind you, friends, that when the hour seems darkest, Jesus will come to us and see us safely to shore just like He did for the disciples when the wind and waves threatened to overtake them in Mark 6.

We wanted to share with you the statement that I read to the leadership during a meeting at my place of employment. We wanted to offer it as a source of encouragement to those of you who are fighting this same battle. Let me assure you that you are not alone. Many thousands are joining forces across the country to stand up to this medic@l tyr@nny. I know it feels like a huge storm, and it feels like you will be overtaken by it. Oh friends, that is precisely where Jesus does His best work! When we can do nothing for ourselves, we must invite Him into the ship. We must also remember that He sees a bigger picture than we do. He sees well beyond this storm to what He intends the end result to be. He sees what the storm is supposed to accomplish in you and the world around you.

So, don’t lose heart! Stand for truth and speak that truth. Do not back down under the schemes of our enemy. Invite Jesus into the ship and be careful to keep your eyes focused on Him and His plan.

My Statement To Ohio’s Hospice Leadership… Note: Many Intentional Misspellings.

I sit writing this statement at 4:18 am on Saturday, July 31, 2021. I am awake at this hour because that is how concerned I am about your decision to m@nd@te the Experimental CO V ID – 1 9 Va cc in e. I am concerned for myself, but I am more concerned for my co-workers. You see, I will seek a Religious Exemption because, for me, the decision to not va cc ina te is a deeply spiritual issue. The Lord and I have wrestled with the question of va cc in at ion for over twelve years now. I am a member of a church, and my family is in ministry, so I have religious support for an exem ption. Some of my colleagues, on the other hand, have made their decision to not be va cc ina ted based on a personal, philosophical conviction (just as legitimate as my spiritual decision) and have shared with me that they are not members of a church that would provide documentation for a religious exem ption. What options do they have?

By m@nd@ting this va cc in e, you are putting us in a position in which we must choose to in ject ourselves with an experimental substance, that we have researched and deemed un safe for us, or lose our livelihood and the jobs that we dearly love.

Your email speaks of moral obligations to our patients, their families, and to each other. Please know that those of us who have chosen not to be va cc ina ted have not done so lightly. We realize our moral obligations and feel them quite keenly. Most of us have been in healthcare for twenty to thirty years. Some of us have spent most of those years in some type of Hospice or Palliative care. I have seen my co-workers go above and beyond their job descriptions by working extra hours, going to get a patient’s medicines and supplies when no one else would help them, using their own pick-up truck to move furniture for a patient, etc. We would never do anything to put our patients or co-workers in danger.

I would ask that you remember that your nurses and PCSs went straight into the thick of the CO V ID in fection last year, without a va cc in e, and at the beginning of the outbreak, without proper PPE. They lived up to those moral obligations, you speak of, in heroic fashion. But now, you force them to accept an experimental medical intervention, they have determined to be unsafe for them, against their will? Why do you not trust that we have done our research? We have studied the numbers. We have prayed. We have wrestled long and hard with this decision. We have not made it selfishly.

We have all seen the effects of CO V ID, some have suffered from the illness personally. We have also been seeing the devastation caused by side effects and ad ver se reactions to the va cc in e. That’s not such a popular topic in main stream media, but we have seen it firsthand in our patients, family members, friends, and co-workers. In fact, one of our co-workers is currently hos pitalized with possible transverse myelitis. When you look at the numbers published on the C D C’s and Ohio Dept. of Health’s very own websites, you will find the death rate from CO VI D, just yesterday (July 30, 2021), was 0.0175 and 0.0181 respectively. That is a death rate of less than 2%.

What is the rate of va cc in e injury? We will never know because the healthcare system refuses to report it. The VA ER S system, our means of reporting va cc in e injuries, captures somewhere between 1% and 10% of the damage done. As of 07/07/21 VA ER S had received 438,411 reports of adverse effects and 9,048 reports of death following the CO V I D -1 9 va cc in e administration. These numbers, following the CO VI D va cc in e, are higher than the reports received following any other va cc in e since the inception of VA ER S in 1990! Injuries reported include allergic reactions, Bell’s Palsy, Transverse Myelitis, Guillain-Barre, blood clots, cardiac conditions, etc… We most certainly do not have an accurate picture of va cc in e injury numbers, but I suspect it is higher than 2%. (That death rate could be lower if treated appropriately)

What is even more alarming than the reported injuries and deaths that we have so far, is the potential for Pathogenic Priming. Despite trying for decades, scientists have never been able to create a successful cor on av ir us va cc in e due to Pathogenic Priming. Va cc in e s for SARS – CoV -1 (about 78% identical to SA RS -Co V-2 ) repeatedly failed animal studies. The va cc in e, given to mice, cats, and ferrets, initially looked like it worked well, but the animals got very ill and died when later exposed to the virus in the wild. They died of sudden severe cytokine storm.

Scientists have done over 50 years of active research to develop a Dengue v a cc in e, but the experimental vac c in es failed when children, in the Philippines, were later exposed to the vir us in the wild and 600 children died (Arkin, F. 2019). Criminal charges were actually brought against those decision makers.

Here in the US, however, va cc in e manu facturers are not held liable for the injuries their va cc ine s cause under the National Childhood Va cc in e Injury Act of 1986. This does not instill great confidence in the big phar ma companies who will make millions off their va cc in es but are not going to pay a cent if they injure someone.

The email informing us of the va cc in e man date stated that, “hospitalizations and deaths related to CO VID -1 9 are increasing PREDOMINATELY in those who are not vac cin at ed against CO V ID -1 9.” I have read 25 articles this week regarding breakthrough infections in fully va cc in at ed people. For example, the C D C reported that 74% of the outbreak in Massachusetts were fully vac cin at ed (Mishra, 2021). An article, published by CNN Health in April 2021, stated that the CDC reported 5,800 fully va cc ina ted people caught CO V ID anyway (Tinker & Fox, 2021). The Associated Press reported that “va cc ina ted people carry as much virus as others” (Tanner et al., 2021).

Va cc in e manufacturers state their va cc in es are effective in preventing symptomatic disease. They do not claim to prevent the transmission of the vir us. In fact, just this week, the Director of the C D C has stated that fully va cc in at ed people are now known to be spreading the vi rus and must now wear masks once again (Perrett, 2021). It makes absolutely no sense to mandate an experimental va cc ine that does not stop the spread of the vir us!

I assume, given the new C D C guidance, that protocols for va cc in ated and un vac cin ated employees should remain the same; masking, testing, handwashing, etc… What is the advantage of being va cc inat ed if it does not prevent me from spreading the vir us to patients or co-workers and it does not change my approach to patient care?

Finally, the current CO VID – 1 9 va cc in es are classified under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA. They are not yet fully approved. It is prohibited to man date a va cc ine that has not been fully approved. The statute granting the FDA the power to authorize a medical product for emergency use requires that the person being administered the unapproved product be advised of his and her right to refuse administration of the product. See 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(e)(1)(A) (“Section 360bbb-3”) (Liberty Counsel, 2021). This right to avoid the imposition of human experimentation is fundamental and has its roots in the Nuremberg Code of 1947 and has been ratified by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and further codified in the United States Code of Federal Regulations. The executive secretary of the CDC, Dr. Amanda Cohn, stated that under an EUA, va cc in es are not allowed to be mandatory (Liberty Counsel, 2021).

In healthcare, the guiding principle is “First, do no harm.” Man dat ing an experimental va cc in e that has not been adequately tested is potentially very harmful. We have no idea what the long-term side effects could be, and we have already discovered its failure in preventing transmission. Given these facts, I ask you, “What is your moral obligation to honor the choice of your employees who have deemed the Experimental CO VI D -1 9 va cc in es to be unsafe for them?”

In conclusion, I ask that you rescind this m@nd@te and recognize each employee’s right to choose for themselves whether or not to be va c cin at ed. A right granted to us by the statute cited above and in accordance with informed consent, the standard in healthcare.  

Thank you for meeting with us today and for hearing our concerns.

Sincerely,

Michelle Hobbs, RN, MS, APRN – CNP

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