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Dear Editor:
I had the opportunity to speak with WGDR’s station manager Llu Mulvaney-Stanak a day or two ago looking for archives of Jim Hogue’s interviews from Goddard college days. Interviews like that of Daniel Ellsberg. To my dismay, not any of his work was archived. To my further dismay Llu informed me that she limits ‘dangerous misinformation’ on WGDR. Discussions that Covid was a hoax are not allowed she told me, and thus I surmised that Covid as a coup, Covid as a bioweapon are also not allowed, or Covid as a plan, Covid as the biggest transfer of wealth in human history, or Covid as a complete and total failure are also not allowed. Millions died ! Llu announced in defense of herself.
I understand that Vermonters were frightened of hurting other Vermonters, or worse being hurt themselves by a new virus, and were eager to comply with the protocols advanced by VT Government. Today, however, is the time to review and reflect on the extreme measures that were taken.
Did the protocols prevent death? People died in old age homes alone and sad. People died of overdose, and suicides doubled. Local businesses died, including mine. But the biggest corporations raked it in. Hospitals were financially rewarded for Covid deaths and diagnoses. Doctors were financially rewarded by the numbers of shots delivered. And we are not allowed to talk of it. We are not allowed to look at the 11% rise in all-cause mortality after these protocols! As if discussing reality as we experience it is wrong.
Once people are not free to try on different angles of the same events, and explore critical thinking skills, we are not a democracy. Ms. Mulvaney-Stanak is unwittingly out to destroy democracy. Our capacity to talk circles around important events from every angle to find out the truth, and discover better remedies, is how democracies function. Thus free speech is a right conferred by God, not government. The truth rises from the free and open discussion of events without censorship. The Amish did not follow any Covid protocols and did not die. I’d like to discuss why. Would WGDR censor successful protection from Covid ?
-Emily Peyton, Putney
To the Editor:
Vermont Daily Chronicle, thank you for your diligence in getting the word out through your programs you have built and maintained since day one. As you know only too well, the State is covered from end to end with the blather and drivel only the left knows how to craft. Your presence in the media world is very much welcome, and comforting when the other side hangs up their pens for the day. The Left gets things backwards in print, and also in Montpelier in those hallowed halls under the golden dome, which during the last biennium’s productions, seems to have caused many Republicans to step up and give it a shot. This is good news and if there were ever a year or years in which this should happen it is this year.
The D/P crowd has spent every nickel and dime and then some. There is no money, anywhere, which includes the wallets of many Vermonters. The State is broke, and had better pave the way for an accelerated payment plan for the pension benefit indebtedness because that could be the case, recession or not. Insolvency? If 4.5 billion $ hasn’t done it what will? Another 2-3 years of D-P insanity, we likely will find out.
The Republicans have made it real easy for the D-P hammer to swing. First they are divided and have been for way, way too long. The current RSC, Paul Dame couldn’t care less. Nothing ventured nothing gained, and he goes about being the number one Trump hater along with similar feelings towards Netanyahu. Go figure. Neil Johnson nailed it in simple terms, earlier in the week. Neil and I are on the same page, along with others, but Dame? That is another discussion.
On the DC scene, unity and cohesiveness have put the D’s in a quandary, to the point they do not know which way to turn. And then Harris shows up……. Oh my goodness!
-James Hall, Center Rutland