President and CEO Long,
On Tuesday, August 31st, the Hancock County Comissioners passed a resolution banning vaccine passports in the county and discouraging private businesses from mandating the Covid-19 vaccination. I am asking Hancock Health to honor this resolution and not mandate the Covid-19 vaccine for your employees. Vaccine mandates are an affront to the human rights of employees everywhere. Very simply, they contribute to a "show me your papers" society that no one, whether vaccinated or not, wants their children to inherit.
If you fire your employees for failing to get a fast-tracked pharmaceutical product or subject them to different treatment for not getting one, you will be contributing to a two-tier society of people who are considered clean and healthy versus those who are considered dirty and diseased. History has shown us that defining a class of people as "unclean" has disastrous effects that cannot be easily undone. To this point, I am also asking that you do not discriminate against your unvaccinated employees, and do not deny future care to unvaccinated people.
The idea that mandates are necessary is built on the incredibly ineffective COVID-19 vaccination campaign. If this campaign were truly effective, variant strains would not be proliferating and leading to deaths and hospitalizations in both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. In fact, public health authorities now admit that fully vaccinated individuals are capable of becoming infected with and transmitting COVID-19. So, mandating the vaccine to ensure the health and safety of your workforce makes no sense.
Know that severe adverse reactions to the COVID injections reported to the CDC's VAERS system are far higher than with any other vaccine in history. The swine flu vaccine was removed from the market after only 33 deaths. As of August 20, the CDC has received more than 623,000 reports of adverse reactions from the COVID vaccine and 13,627 death reports. To put that in perspective, the flu vaccine, received by approximately 150 million people per year (similar to the number of people who have received the COVID vaccine), receives only 100 to 200 death reports per year. This is what you would be mandating to your employees.
I respectfully request that you create an equitable work environment by recognizing the informed consent rights of all employees in your workplace. Forcing people to get vaccinated to keep their job is not an acceptable way to "return to normal." Asking people to show their papers after they've been vaccinated is not acceptable either. Nor is treating people differently due to their vaccine status. That, in a nutshell, is discrimination.
Lastly, I am urging you, as a representative of Hancock Health, to stop shaming the unvaccinated in Hancock County. The "Open Letter To The Community" written by Dr. Papandria and endorsed by Hancock Health compared unvaccinated people to being as reckless as "drunk drivers and smokers" and accused them of ultimately "making the most selfish choice possible" by not getting the vaccination. This messaging is unacceptable and further divides our community.
Personal choice, not coercion or intimidation tactics, must be the only factor in getting any medical intervention. Please do your part to uphold the human rights and civil rights of your employees and patients and do not mandate the Covid-19 vaccination at your organization.
On Tuesday, August 31st, the Hancock County Commissioners passed a resolution banning vaccine passports in the county and discouraging private businesses from mandating the Covid-19 vaccination. County Commissioners John Jessup and Marc Huber voted in favor of the resolution and Bill Spaulding voted against the resolution.
The last paragraph of the resolution reads:
“Lastly, the Board encourages businesses and schools in the County to avoid any measures or mandates that require employees, customers, patrons, students, or other persons, to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, or to produce health information on COVID-19 immunization status, otherwise known as COVID-19 immunization passports. Read full resolution HERE.
Will Hancock Health be the corporation that ushers tyranny into our county via mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for their employees, along with vaccination passports? By all indications, this seems to be the case. Hancock Health recently released an “Open Letter to the Community” that compared unvaccinated people to being as reckless as “drunk drivers and smokers” and ultimately “making the most selfish choice possible” by not getting the vaccination. This is why we need you to contact the Hancock Health Board of Directors NOW. If we can discourage Hancock Health from mandating the jab, we can discourage other businesses in Hancock County from doing the same.
Tens of thousands of Indiana health care workers and other employees have had their livelihoods threatened by recent vaccine mandates across our state. These mandates are an affront to the human rights of employees everywhere. Very simply, they contribute to a show-me-your-papers society that no one, whether vaccinated or not, wants their children to inherit.
Severe adverse reactions to the COVID-19 injections reported to the CDC’s VAERS system are far higher than with any other vaccine in history. The swine flu vaccine was removed from the market after only 33 deaths. As of July 23, 2021, the CDC has received 595,622 reports of adverse reactions from the COVID-19 vaccines and 13,068 death reports. To put that in perspective, the flu vaccine, received by approximately 150 million people per year (which is similar to the number of people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine), receives only 100 to 200 death reports per year. This is what many hospital systems are mandating for Indiana citizens.