Bed Bugs, Federal Government and Roaches

A repost of an article I wrote back in 2021. A little bit of humor mixed with frustration.

I remember one summer between my junior and senior year at college in Texas, I moved in with a roommate from my freshman year. He had rented a mobile home for the summer and needed someone else to help out with the rent and utilities. The monthly cost was cheap. And I would soon find out why.

Within 48 hours of moving in, clothes and some furniture, I found roaches at night buried in the framework of the mobile home and bed bugs all over the supposedly new mattress.

I moved out a few days later but I could not rid my clothing of the bed bugs and a few roaches. Had to throw out a chair.

For the last 18 months or so, we have seen more roaches and bed bugs disguised as our federal government and public health officials trying to bury themselves into our own framework, our daily lives.

The Secretary of HHS (Azar) in March 2020 declared The PREP Act would be the framework to help combat the public health emergency of the COVID virus.

The PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness) provides immunity from liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims:

• of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions

• determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency

• to entities and individuals involved in the development, manufacture, testing, distribution, administration, and use of such countermeasures

With this declaration that will retire in October 2024 (4 years + 6 month wind down period), the Secretary also amended the PREP Act 8 times in 2020 and 2021 to add more definition of “covered persons.”

Covered persons are those who are designated to administer countermeasures such as vaccines, medicines, therapeutics, medical equipment to help with the COVID pandemic.

But it is one amendment, the 3rd issued August 24, 2020 that has gone too far. In this amendment, The Secretary of HHS allows pharmacists to administer the childhood vaccine schedule to children ages 3 and up. What is the need for this declaration? Shouldn’t we be focused on COVID? It might be a trojan horse infected with roaches.

This is of grave concern. For the first time using The PREP Act as guidance and standing, the federal government has now issued policy to override what has been traditionally the right of each state to determine who can administer childhood vaccines and to which age group.

So now, The PREP Act is now being used as a vehicle for declaring and enforcing vaccination policy without the consent of Congress and circumventing state laws. This is a very dangerous policy shift. And it only gets worse. I wrote about this previously.

As I mentioned previously, The PREP Act expires in October 2024 or earlier by decree of the Secretary or executive order by the President.

So by logical reason, the declarations and amendments of The PREP Act will sundown or retire in October 2024. Except for one. The 3rd Amendment to allow pharmacists to admin the childhood vaccine schedule. Officials at HHS/HRSA will not respond to questions about this specific amendment. They will discuss the other declarations and amendment.

It took the federal government 6 months after the initial enactment of The PREP Act to infect our lives without a means to exterminate the roaches and bed bugs.

Maybe we should be like Al Pacino in his movie, “Scent of a Woman” where he states in the court room scene with anger and disgust, “I would take a flamethrower to this place.”

Keep learning, Keep challenging yourself, and always, always Question Authority.