all departments. Training through the NHMA should be happening throughout City government, with a staff
member in each department responsible for handling requests for information. Each department should be
capable of determining what reports and documents are public and which may be restricted and why.
Hopefully, the lawyers would only have to get involved in complicated situations.
Graham, Donna
From: Laurie Ortolano <laurieortclano@gmail.com>
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To: Graham, Donna
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Donna,
Please allow this letter to be part of public comment.
Do we need A Right-To-Know Manager in the Legal Office?
Please take all the above under advisement as you consider your next moves with respect to
COVID-19. Start thinking about how you extricate yourselves from a situation that has spiraled
out of control and for which you currently have no end game in sight.
Rather, what people have done has largely followed along the lines of a deferral —I°]] not go to
the doctor because (a) I’m too scared to go because of what they say about COVID-19, or (b)I
refuse to be a party to this insanity and will therefore defer my scheduled appointment until the
world has returned to normal.
The exact same scenario is now playing itself out across the world. The above chart references
the juxtaposition of COVID-19 deaths against COVID-19 positive test cases in Spain. As is
clearly obvious, the number of positive cases over the 9-week period ending August 28 does not
show a corresponding increase in the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19. We can see the
same scenario play out in Ireland and the UK as shown in the chart below.
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Furthermore, the ongoing media frenzy with respect to COVID-19 has focused on the “positive
test result” metric, and not the historically accurate “Cases” metric, instead referring to the
former as the latter, further muddying and confusing things. A positive test is absolutely not a
medical case. All that doing this does is further the irrational panic gripping the nation and, in
fact, the world.
Interestingly, we have seen this before. The following chart shows the progression of the HIN1
New Deaths from COVID-19 per Day by US States/Territories, normalized by population
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When you examine the case of Italy, we see that it has a sharp increase in March, and then an
equally precipitous drop in April and May, very much in line with the seasonal variation in
frequency chart shown previously. However, something “interesting” seems to be happening
with Brazil and Peru. As an aside, note that Brazil did not implement a lockdown, while Peru did
~and as you can see, Brazil had a lower death count than Peru did.
Seasonality
https://emedicine. medscape.com/article/227820-overview
Demonstrating The Lack Of Efficacy Of Mask Ordinances
Starting with our own CDC references, Xiao J, Shiu E, Gao H, et al. Nonpharmaceutical
Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and
Environmental Measures. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2020;26(5):967-975.
doi:10.3201/eid2605.190994, we can see the following:
