Briggs explains her view on why COVID damaged public trust

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Dear Editor:

Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as the 20th U.S. Surgeon General during the first Trump administration, asks the question, “It’s time for an honest assessment of how we arrived here.”

Dr. Adams is speaking to the issue of the vaccine changes scheduled for children. So far six vaccines have been taken off the required list for children. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates “framed the changes as a way to restore choice and flexibility.” Adams also states how these changes will affect parents, children, and the entire public health system. He admits that, “the erosion of trust in public health officials did not begin in 2025.”

I say the trust with the American Public Health system came to a demise when in 1986, Congress passed a law protecting the pharmaceutical companies with immunity by not allowing any lawsuits against them for vaccine injuries and deaths of individuals due to vaccines. I noticed the amount of vaccines ramped up in numbers and were added to the childhood required vaccine schedule. It’s no wonder our kids are sick.

Speaking of our youth, the percentages of heart injuries from the COVID vaccines showed a greater amount of vaccine injuries in males aged 16 to 24. Recall the many sporting athletes who collapsed while playing football and soccer. Facts from the Children’s Health Team state, “With the advent of COVID shots, cardiac adverse events – myocarditis, pericarditis and myopericarditis – have skyrocketed to an entirely new level, especially in young males and especially after the second dose.”

Our youth also suffered by not attending school, not seeing their friends and teachers, missing out on school activities, their proms, and graduations all because of the COVID Lie. I asked one male teenager how he survived the school day wearing his mask all day, and he said by wearing the mask, it created acne problems he never had before.

In my opinion, the three vaccine choices – Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J – morphed into a monster virus that made a lot of people very sick, especially the unvaccinated people. More than likely this new morphed virus was also spread by the unvaccinated. Many people I know who got those shots would later get sick again from the new Long COVID flu and it lasted several days to a week. This effected our economy.

Many people who declined the mRNA shots were mocked, ostracized, lost their jobs or career licenses, and blamed for spreading the flu to others just because they were unvaccinated. They had nothing in their bodies to spread to others but the people who took those shots spread the virus to everyone.

Everyone has their memories of the COVID pandemic and there is nothing positive about it. A lot of babies died or were born in stillbirth; people of all ages died too early in their lifetime. This is why the American people have no trust in the entire public health system because we were lied to.

My final note is: “I will always remember Former President Biden’s sneaky smile as he proclaimed every American will be forced to take the shots.”

Mari Briggs
Sheridan