Focus on protecting the vulnerable and end arbitrary government edicts | Commentary

Two years ago we began the process of a “two weeks to bend the curve” viral health care emergency that has metastasized into a semi-permanent series of top down edicts coming from the public health “experts,” regardless of whether they are operating from federal or state capitals.

When the first reports about a new disease appeared out of Wuhan, China, in January 2020, the idea that our fundamental freedoms would become jeopardized by this new medical emergency seemed bizarre. Since then, the bizarre has become commonplace.

The confusing, often contradictory public health bureaucracy rules have now proliferated. The bizarre has become the new normal where many citizens are being forced to be vaccinated, and those refusing may lose their jobs, including many of the “hero” health providers justifiably praised for operating under difficult medical conditions in 2020.

This is occurring while a massively growing number of illegal and unidentified immigrants enter the U.S. without vaccinations, let alone “boosters.” They are then shipped around the country at federal taxpayer expense. This is “following the science?” This is pandemic cloud-cuckoo land.

However, this crazy environment is secondary to the primary question that a free people must always ask: who controls our bodies? Do I get to make my own decisions based upon the best advice I receive from my doctor or other health professionals?

Do the political rules issued by the public health bureaucracy in Washington/Atlanta CDC, World Health Organization, or the state’s licensing rules control over 330 million other American bodies? The Kansas Legislature is trying to resolve this state professional licensing issue in Topeka. I hope the front-line doctors and other medical providers defeat the bureaucracy.

Is my doctor, who has treated me for years and knows my health strengths and weaknesses, who is on the front line treating citizens daily, having his professional hands tied? Has he been transformed into another bureaucratically controlled entity? I hope not.

I served on the Sedgwick County health board and had experience with the medical challenges during Sedgwick County’s flu outbreaks during 2009-10 influenza seasons. We need our medical providers to be at the top of the medical organization chart, and not be constrained by a public health bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is inherently slow to absorb new information; struggles to respond to unique, individual conditions; is politicized; and tries to fit our diverse citizenry into a “one size fits all” treatment mandates.

The failures of the past two years: conflicting mask edicts, first no masks, then mandatory masks without efficacy evidence; vaccinations will end the virus followed by outbreaks after vaccination; lack of therapeutics and restricting treatment options; and arbitrary rules must stop .

That is why I am among the many citizens trusting a Dr. Robert Malone, patent holder for the mRNA technology, instead of the Fauci/Collins CDC bureaucracy and their one size fits all, economically restrictive edicts. I am among the almost 1 million people who have signed the Great Barrington Declaration (https://gbdeclaration.org). That is why hundreds of Wichitans came to hear Dr. Peter McCullough Feb. 4 for a frontline doctor’s perspective on our medical and treatment environment. Sadly, Wichita news coverage of this important forum was minimal.

In December, I drove my family for a Florida vacation. I told friends that Florida was like 2019. Kansas needs to return to 2019 medical environment where we are free to receive care that fits our conditions, natural immunity is considered, tests for antibodies become commonplace, and mask mandates removed. We should focus upon protecting vulnerable citizens and ending the arbitrary, politicized government edicts that are creating protests around the world from Canada to Canberra.

This story was originally published February 15, 2022 at 2:47 AM.