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Healthy Gallatin From: Owen Giddings <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 3:30 PM To: BOHPublicComment Subject: Vaccination rates Categories: NonAgendaPC Could the Health Board please speak in concrete terms to why Gallatin County is lagging significantly behind all of Montana's other large cities in vaccination rates, per the Montana Covid dashboard? First shots administered: as of 2/3: Missoula Count (Missoula): 12.9% vaccinated Lewis and Clark County (Helena): 14.4% vaccinated Yellowstone County (Billings): 14.6% vaccinated Cascade County (Great falls): 12.8% vaccinated Gallatin County: 8.1% vaccinated Silver Bow County (Butte): 17.7% vaccinated 1 Healthy Gallatin From: Administrator <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 1:29 PM To: BOHPublicComment Subject: mask mandate Categories: NonAgendaPC BOH members and staff, I continue to be dismayed at the lack of enforcement of the mask order in commercial establishment in Bozeman. The BOH inclusion of an exemption for medical reasons provides an illogical loophole big enough for the Queen Mary. Nobody with an actual respiratory health issue is going to be maskless out in public and run the risk of encountering some asymptomatic anti‐masker. Responsible businesses include an option for curbside service for those who don’t want to comply with the mask requirement. The choice to enter a business includes the responsibility to adhere to the safety policies of that business. Smoking or going naked are not tolerated by businesses, going maskless shouldn’t be either. Employees maybe exposed to scores or hundreds of customers each day. Gallatin County’s positivity rate all but insures that the typical service industry employee will encounter people who are infected. The anti‐mask crowd present a particular risk. It is reasonable to expect that someone who chooses to ignore the science and won’t mask up probably associates with those with similar views and behaviors, encouraging group spread. Every business has the right to refuse service to anyone not complying with their safety policies. Anyone refusing to comply and who is asked to leave the premises but refuses to can be ticketed for criminal trespass. The Bozeman Chief of Police has made clear this enforcement option. Following the departure of the last somewhat activist sheriff, I hope county law enforcement will now follow suit. The self‐reporting medical mask exemption serves no purpose other than to undermine the efforts and health of the majority of responsible citizens in our community. A reasonable accommodation is curbside service. Thankyou, Brian Leland Bozeman 2 Healthy Gallatin From: Jay Moor <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 12:33 PM To: BOHPublicComment Cc: Bob Hawks; Diane Brawner Subject: Vaccine distribution optimizing models Categories: NonAgendaPC Dear Gallatin County BOH, The accompanying Forbes article introduces the potential for optimizing models to assist in the effective distribution of the Covid vaccine. Such models come out of research in the business world for operations management. They employ linear algebra, calculus, queueing theory and other mathematical and modeling concepts to solve very complex business problems. The manufacture, distribution and applicaton of the various Covid‐19 vaccines is one such problem, even though in terms of public health it is should not be considered strictly a business problem with private profit as the bottom line. It is obvious, just from my experience with our local vaccination websites, phone calls to shot providers, governors’ proclamations, manufacturers estimates, frustrated seniors in our neighborhood, barely relevant or even misleading national news and other sources of information and misinformation, that the whole country is spinning its wheels or “thrashing”. Where is our vaunted business acumen? What good are politicians from the business world if they are unable to tap their supply of knowledge or formulate a plan that is built on proven business techniques? In terms of supply chain problems, operations management is one of the most effective and efficient business tools in providing goods and services. It occurs to me that operations researchers, as individual scientists, or as a public service contribution of the business world, could come up with an optimizing model for Montana that is easy to download for local application. According to this article, one business software company has done this and says it will make it available fairly soon. I would encourage the Gallatin Board of Health to follow this development, ask questions of the principles, tap into the business schools in academia, determine how such models might work in Gallatin County and, if feasible and desirable, prepare to acquire and implement an optimizing model for our local Covid‐19 vaccination program. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/01/29/how‐mathematical‐optimization‐could‐help‐address‐the‐ covid‐19‐vaccine‐allocation‐problem/?sh=624d91344574 Respectfully yours, Jay Moor 2400 Durston Rd. #27 Bozeman MT 59718 (406) 586‐0097 PS If your staff is already pursuing this, I apologize for assuming otherwise. JM 3 Healthy Gallatin From: Dean Peterson <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 11:43 PM To: BOHPublicComment Subject: Shortfall between Gallatin County and other Montana Counties on Vaccine Allocations Categories: NonAgendaPC During an interview with KBZK on Tuesday, February 2nd - Matt Kelley stated that the Shortfall in the Gallatin County's vaccine allocation was due to the fact that those Counties had two hospitals and other political speak. If that is the case - then why was Missoula County vaccinating 70 years olds last Sunday, January 31st , while Bozeman Health is only starting on vaccinating 80 years olds and American Indians this week (February 3-5)? The Facts don't support Mr. Kelley's statements. 4 Healthy Gallatin From: Ken Milledge <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 11:08 PM To: BOHPublicComment Subject: Mask Efficacy Categories: NonAgendaPC Watch – Doctor Admits Masks Don’t Work: “All Viruses Can Get Through” https://twitter.com/vegsource/status/1355276143159517184 5 Healthy Gallatin From: Ken Milledge <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 9:56 PM To: BOHPublicComment Subject: Seniors Dying After COVID Vaccine Labeled as Natural Causes Categories: NonAgendaPC https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/02/02/covid-vaccine-death- seniors.aspx?ui=8e11696c2589b20b9689ab1f04c426b8cfb27cc0c74b425c155abf7799453f56&cid_source=dnl &cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210202_HL2&mid=DM792926&rid=1074061198 6 Healthy Gallatin From: Ken Milledge <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 7:38 PM To: BOHPublicComment Subject: BUSTED: CDC Inflated COVID Numbers, Accused of Violating Federal Law Categories: NonAgendaPC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands accused of violating federal law by inflating Coronavirus fatality numbers, according to stunning information obtained by NATIONAL FILE. CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent as the 2020 presidential election played out, according to a study published by the Public Health Initiative of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. The study, “COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective,” was authored by Henry Ealy, Michael McEvoy, Daniel Chong, John Nowicki , Monica Sava, Sandeep Gupta, David White, James Jordan , Daniel Simon, and Paul Anderson. (READ THE LANDMARK RESEARCH HERE) Read More The CDC is now legally requiring red-blooded Americans to wear face masks on all public transportation as globalists try to push the concept of “double-masking” on the populace. Since the election, the World Health Organization admits that PCR tests are not totally reliable on the first try and a second test might be needed. This corresponds with CDC’s quiet admission that it blended viral and antibody test results for its case numbers and that people can test positive on an antibody test if they have antibodies from a family of viruses that cause the common cold. Hospitals in Florida had so many accuracy complications that Orlando Health had to admit that its 9.4 percent positivity rate got recorded at 98 percent. (READ: The TRUTH About Fauci and Gates And NIH Owning A Stake in the Vaccine). “The groundbreaking peer-reviewed research…asserts that the CDC willfully violated multiple federal laws including the Information Quality Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, and Administrative Procedures Act at minimum. (Publishing Journal – Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge / Public Health Policy Initiative) Most notably, the CDC illegally enacted new rules for data collection and reporting exclusively for COVID-19 that resulted in a 1,600% inflation of current COVID-19 fatality totals,” the watchdog group All Concerned Citizens declared in a statement provided to NATIONAL FILE, referring to the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge study. “The research demonstrates that the CDC failed to apply for mandatory federal oversight and failed to open a mandatory period for public scientific comment in both instances as is required by federal law before enacting new rules for data collection and reporting. The CDC is required to be in full compliance with all federal laws even during emergency situations. The research asserts that CDC willfully compromised the accuracy and integrity of all COVID-19 case and
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