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"We knew we had to do a couple of things. First, we had to change the paradigm where people had to come to us… We decided we have to come to you." —HHS Secretary Becerra, April 2022 "I want my grandchildren to know I fought. I fought. I didn't stop fighting. I will pick this thing apart until somebody's behind bars… And we need to make sure this man [Xavier Becerra] doesn't become our governor." —Julie Threet https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/when-hhs-secretary-xavier-becerra Becerra's Stealth Visit to Butte County, CA, in March 2022 In this first part of our second interview, Julie Threet walked me through a chain of FOIA'd emails between a high HHS official, Bonnie Preston, and public health officials in Butte County. Seemingly out of the blue, on March 7, 2022, Preston, who then was HHS Director of US Region 9, contacted Butte County's former public health director Dr. Bernstein to discuss how to increase the Covid mRNA shot injection rate for children. Exactly one week later, Becerra paid a stealth visit to the county and met with a handful of carefully selected pediatricians and parents. Almost nobody knew about this secret meeting until it was over and Becerra had left. Why Butte County? Because at that time it had California's lowest Covid-19 mRNA injection rate for children between age 5 and 11: 16%. Julie said: "They wanted to keep it [the meeting] under wraps, they wanted to have a private conversation. They clearly excluded even our state elected officials. They didn't want them there, they wanted it to be a closed press and I was outraged… I wasn't getting any information out of them during the public session. So finally, I think it was 2023, I did a FOIA request to get all this information out of the county. "So I submitted a public records request and I got a data dump consisting of a ton of emails, PowerPoint presentation, PDF files and Word documents about exactly what happened in this meeting. And so it's a lot of information which I finally put together in a kind of story form so we can follow along and see what really happened in that private meeting. Why was he here? And we answered that question." Becerra, as the FOIA'd documents show, came to Butte County determined to figure out how to get more kids in Butte County as well as neighbouring counties injected with the mRNA Covid-19 shots. Why were pediatricians invited to the meeting? Becerra wanted to hear from them why so few parents brought their 5 to 11 year olds to Butte County's mass vaccination clinics and why pediatricians didn't inject the kids themselves right in their practices. HHS Used the "Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index" to Target Regions With Low Injection Rates Exactly one month after Becerra visited Butte County, he explained how HHS officials targeted specific regions during the Pandemic. Becerra made those revealing comments during what was called the "White House Convening on Equity" event on April 14, 2022: "We established a Minority Health Social Vulnerability Index. A vulnerability index which helps us collect data, good quality data with a better collection methodology so we could actually figure out where we needed to go rather than wait for you to come to us." 1 [https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/when-hhs-secretary-xavier-becerra#footnote-1] That's how HHS officials discovered that little Butte County, rural and conservative leaning, had California's lowest injection rate for children . What they also discovered was that among the overall low injection rate of kids in Butte County and surrounding counties, Hispanic and Native American kids had even lower injection rates than white kids. That's why HHS officials zeroed in on minority kids and invited mainly those pediatricians to the meeting who practiced in areas with high percentages of minority kids. They were singled out among the singled out ones under the disguise of "Health Equity." The whole story of the meeting and its sinister consequences unfolds in all its banal evil in the email chain below. There were many additional documents in the FOIA dump that Julie received and in the second part of the interview we'll go over some of those. CHAPTERS 02:08 Secret Visit Of HHS Secretary Becerra To Chico 06:08 Filing The FOIA Request About Becerra's Butte County Meeting 17:34 Butte County Flagged For Lowest Pediatric Covid Vaccination Rates 23:45 Targeting Children Through Schools And Pediatric Provider Enrollment Barriers 31:55 Public Health Language About "Targeting This Population" 33:20 Shifting Focus From Chico To Oroville As An "Equity Focused" Rural Target Area 35:41 Equity Framing, NAACP, Hmong Community, And Selecting Specific Parent Groups 39:13 Strategy Pivot: Secret Pediatric Roundtable In Chico And Excluding Broader Public 49:00 Scramble To Recruit Select Pediatricians And List Of Participating Clinics 52:09 Focus On Native American And Underserved Clinics As Key Vaccination Channels 1:00:04 Notifying California Health Chief Mark Ghaly And Framing Shots As "Vital Resource" 1:08:02 Last-Minute Sunday Email To Assemblyman Gallagher Offering Only A Readout 1:11:51 Post-Event Thank-You Email: Accepting Becerra's "Challenge" And Next-Step Plan 1:13:51 FEMA-Funded Follow-Up: Office Of Health Equity, Commander Matthew Johns
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