November 11, 2021
Sent to medicalboard@alaska.gov
Alaska State Medical Board
P.O. Box 110806
Juneau, Alaska 99811-0806
Re: Sound Medical Information and Ilona J. H. Farr, M.D.
Dear Board Members:
I am concerned about some accusations and aspersions being made against my friend Ilona Farr, M.D. Although we joke that our political leanings and religious inclinations are quite different, I support and celebrate her tireless and selfless efforts to prevent and treat Covid-19 in Alaska. My support is in a personal not a professional capacity.
I recently read the article by Mr. Pat Dougherty in the “Anchorage Daily News” titled “Alaska’s medical board needs to act on misinformation.” He does not provide any evidence of any training, background or experience to be opining on the issues in the article. He does not appear qualified to practice medicine or to determine how medicine should be practiced in Alaska. He does not appear to recognize the scope of the First Amendment. This public health issue is guided if not governed by many laws and regulations.
His allegation is troubling: “What does the Alaska State Medical Board, which licenses and governs the conduct of all doctors in Alaska, have to say about doctors who give clearly inaccurate and possibly life-threatening misinformation to the public in order to promote their personal political or institutional agendas?” Ask the wrong question and you invariably get the wrong answer.
The right question is compelling: “What does the Alaska State Medical Board, which licenses and governs the conduct of all doctors in Alaska, have to say about doctors who give clearly accurate and possibly life-saving information to the public in order to promote the public health and welfare at a tremendous personal and professional cost to themselves?” The Alaska State Medical Board should commend and encourage them to continue sacrificing and caring for the community.
Would you provide or make available for copying Mr. Dougherty’s written complaints and other correspondence with the Board? The Alaska Public Records Act (APRA) includes laws designed to guarantee that the public has access to records of government bodies at all levels in the State of Alaska. The law is available at Alaska Statutes 40.25.110 – 40.25.125.
The current experimental mRNA treatments and the more traditional adenovirus vaccine were subject to incomplete and abbreviated FDA “emergency use authorization” (EUA) review. Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the FDA was required to determine that there are no “adequate, approved, and available” alternatives. https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization Many health care professionals and informed citizens remain concerned that this review of alternative treatments was never adequately or honestly undertaken. The official “studies” were carefully and strategically titrated to avoid an honest evaluation of a proposed treatment protocol. The “studies” did not include the specific uses of the medicines and combinations of medicines prescribed by Dr. Farr and others. The FDA has redoubled its efforts to avoid and preclude honest testing of possible “adequate, approved, and available” alternatives to avoid jeopardizing the EUAs. In the face of government recalcitrance and indifference, courageous doctors and health care professionals must step in and take care of us.
In addition, after the sketchy EUA analysis, the actual tests to determine the “safety and efficacy” of the two treatments and the vaccine were limited in scope and duration before hasty emergency approvals. Something just does not seem right.
A senior bioethicist who heads a research team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is taking the lead at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the debate over the ethics of COVID vaccine mandates. Dr. Matthew Memoli, the director of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the NIH, will argue against vaccine mandates during a December 1 livestreamed roundtable session open to the public. “There’s a lot of debate within the NIH about whether [a vaccine mandate] is appropriate,” David Wendler, a senior NIH bioethicist in charge of planning the session, told the “Wall Street Journal” newspaper. “It’s an important, hot topic,” he noted. Dr. Memoli opposes mandates for the COVID vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States and has chosen not to be vaccinated.[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/vaccine-mandate-debate-makes-it-to-top-federal-research-agency-11636286400
Banishing citizens who test positive for Covid-19 back home to isolate and decline and inviting them to go to the hospital when it is usually too late to treat is inappropriate. The current failed plan not surprisingly successfully fills the hospitals with patients and fills the public with unnecessary fear and dread. You are indeed on your own.
The State must embark on a policy of prevention and early treatment. The State should review and follow as appropriate some of the recommendations set forth by the health care professionals with Front Line Critical Covid Care (FLCCC) and other authorities. https://covid19criticalcare.com/. Dr. Farr is among the few health care professionals trying to prevent and treat the Virus with something other than the current experimental creations.
The Right to Try Act is a federal law that allows patients to try treatment options. https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-expanded-access-and-other-treatment-options/right-try and https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s204/BILLS-115s204enr.pdf As a general proposition, federal law pre-empts conflicting state law; this federal law pre-empts conflicting Alaska state law. Federal law protects a citizen who seeks to access and use a generic equivalent of Stromectol. The patient’s access and use should not be and cannot legally be prevented by someone who wants to use Alaska law to deny access and use.
There is not a “flu season” and a “non-flu season” in Alaska; there is a “non-sun season” and a “sun season” every year. If each person achieved at least 50 ng/mL of 25(OH) D3, the NIH notes that the mortality rate from Covid-19 would be close to zero (0). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34684596/ To aid in the prevention of Covid-19, why are there not billboards, PSAs and planes towing banners promoting the regular use of Vitamin D3 (a critical fat-soluble secosteroid) and Zinc during the winter months in Alaska? The current Chief Medical Officer in Alaska does not mention Vitamin D3 to the public. Again the duty and the task fall on Dr. Farr and others[2] who encourage and promote the intake of Vitamin D3. Hippocrates of Kos himself noted that if your shadow is longer than you are tall during the peak of the day, the Sun is not providing bioavailable Vitamin D.
The Board should reassert the primacy of the physician-patient relationship in Alaska. A physician prescribes and a pharmacist provides. Pharmacists are not trained to and should not practice medicine without training and a proper license. When a patient presents a prescription from a physician to a pharmacist in Alaska, the pharmacist should confirm the identity of the individual and provide the medication without question. This time-honored policy and practice protects pharmacists by providing certainty and relieving them of some ineffable yearning to second-guess the settled decision of the physician and patient and thereby deny treatment without explanation or recourse. If a pharmacist assumes the role of a physician and refuses to fill a prescription, does the Alaska State Medical Board or the Alaska State Board of Pharmacy have jurisdiction?
The Board should carefully consider the sound legal and medical analysis by the Attorney General for the State of Nebraska in Opinion Number 21-017 titled the “Prescription of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine as Off-Label Medicines for the Prevention or Treatment of Covid-19” dated October 15, 2021. The conclusion in the forty seven (47) page analysis supported by three hundred and four (304) footnotes is as follows:
[W]e address only the off-label early treatment options discussed in this opinion and conclude that the available evidence suggests that they might work for some people. Allowing physicians to consider these early treatments will free them to evaluate additional tools that could save lives, keep patients out of hospitals, and provide relief for our already strained healthcare system.
https://ago.nebraska.gov/sites/ago.nebraska.gov/files/docs/opinions/21-017_0.pdf at page 47. The Board should make a formal request for an official legal opinion from the Attorney General for the State of Alaska before proceeding with any action.
Firing employees or forcing them to resign because of their principles or religious convictions at a time of chronic worker shortage is ill advised and counterproductive. Intentionally destroying an economy is devastating not only to the economy of the state but also to the health and welfare of the citizens. Covid-19 has done as much debilitating psychological harm to the populace as the physical damage.
There are some out there who assert if you do not accept all of their medical mandates and their one-size-fits-all treatment option, then they will take action so that you do not get any medical attention of any kind. They assert their unilateral right to apportion medical care. That is mad. That is insane. That is criminal. That is a sign that the fear has broken them. They need psychiatric medical care and must be prevented from denying medical care to others.
To promote some sense of emotional equilibrium, the Board should encourage citizens to read Rudyard Kipling’s “If” before bed at night and then get a restful night of sleep. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if— And, according to the FLCCC protocol, consider taking 6 mg of melatonin prophylactically. https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Alliance-I-MASKplus-Protocol-ENGLISH.pdf
Law students are blessed to take a sexy course in “Administrative Law” (“Bureaucracy Law”). The undersigned’s instructor – a world authority on the FDA – more than two score years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Merrill) might not agree with some or even any of these contentions, yet he always supported honest inquiry.
As a society, we need to transition from this Pandemic to a controlled Endemic as quickly and painlessly as possible. Dr. Farr is spreading clearly accurate and possibly life-saving information to the public. Dr. Farr is making heroic contributions to the prevention and treatment of Covid-19. Dr. Farr should and must be allowed and encouraged to continue practicing medicine in Alaska. Clio will look kindly on Ilona’s kindness.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Best wishes.
Keeping my head when all about me are losing theirs and blaming it on moi, I remain,
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CC: Ilona
“Men [and women] fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid … Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man [and women].” Bert Russell, Why Men Fight
. . .
[1] Dr. Memoli is a likely candidate for the next edition of Profiles In Courage.
[2] The undersigned made an effort to inform the public by sending a letter to the editor published on August 1:
Letter: Vitamin supplements
Vaccines are not enough. Take care of yourself. Vitamin D3 and zinc help sustain one’s immune system. Discuss with your health care provider taking, say, 5000 IUs of Vitamin D3 and 50 mg of zinc regularly, along with a balanced diet and vigorous exercise after a night of restful sleep. Take zinc with a hint of copper and an ionophore to get the zinc into your cells.
Alaska should create a contest to craft a catchy slogan like the “slip, slop, slap and wrap” campaign in Australia that encourages kids and adults to protect themselves against the sun and skin cancer. However, Alaskans need to address a lack of sun, and thus a lack of vitamin D3. For inspiration, think of the catchy first poem recited by some attentive seven-year-olds to their occasionally inattentive parents: “Click it or ticket.” How about: “Got D ‘n’ Z
[See the e-commentary on courage and truth at “On Courage and Truth (March 17, 2008)”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Try courage, because callow just seems so . . . shallow
e-commentary 
Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)
Posted in Academia, Banks and Banking System, Congress, Democrats, Federal Courts, Federal Reserve, Institutions, Jurisprudence Award, Kleptocracy, Law, Medicine, MIC, MICAC, Military, MSM, Noble Prize in Jurisprudence, Pushitzer, Pushitzer Prize In Commentary, Republicans, Supreme Court on December 9, 2019 by e-commentary.org. . .
J “I need one more day.”
. . .
K “You don’t have to name three, just nominate one.”
J “One institution after the other after the other after the other after the other after the other after the other has failed and continues to fail. And that is even after lowering the standards to the point that the bar is on the floor. One more day, I need.”
. . .
K “The legal system at every level is a fraud and a racket. We live in a country with many, many, many rules and many, many, many laws, but we do not live in a country that believes in or adheres to the rule of law. There is no law, there is only ideology.”
J “The medical and health care / sick careless system is a racket and a fraud. I drive by the health insurance company skyscraper and reflect that not one person in the monolith has ever applied a band aid to a patient. There is no care, there is only profitability.”
. . .
K “The economic system is rigged at every step and turn to loot every last dollar from the people for the benefit of the Kleptocrats. What is the end game for the expendable consumers who soon will have nothing left to bleed?”
J “The MSM media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kleptocrats. The message is tightly controlled by obedient droves of stenographers. As a first step, everyone should skip ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and jump over to ‘Wall Street On Parade’ produced by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.”
K “Academia is a substantially owned subsidiary of the Kleptocrats. The message on the critical issues is also controlled and shaped by the corporate sponsors. The campus buildings are all named for brigands; their kids and grandkids are admitted to skip the classes conducted in the namesake halls. The hallowed halls are hollow holes. The MIC is now expanded to include Congress and Academia in the MICAC.”
. . .
K “Every agency from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) – in the air and on the sea – is corrupt and incompetent. Regulatory capture exists at just about every regulatory agency.”
J “Furlough the ‘L’ out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (B“L”S). To determine the real rates of unemployment, a citizen must search in the shadows at “Shadow Government Statistics” prepared and analyzed by the dedicated and informed John Williams.”
K “And then there is the Federal Reserve. Probably no other institution, less one and perhaps two, has inflicted more grief and despair on the ordinary citizen with less publicity and notoriety than the Federal Reserve.”
J “And related agencies such as the Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are pernicious because they fool the citizen into believing that someone is watching out for him or her.”
K “And the Department of Defense (DoD) exists primarily to spend money, drop bombs, and kill people but not to provide for the common defense.”
. . .
J “The CIA and the FBI are a threat to every citizen at home and abroad and now may be affiliated with and advancing the interests of one political party.”
K “The police in every burg and borough are paramilitary forces occupying the city and the county and the country. Very few understand that the real Occupy movement in America grinds on.”
. . .
K “Even many of the vaunted NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) surreptitiously serve the government’s interests. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is a front for the MICAC and shielded by the MSM that advances the propaganda.”
. . .
J “Local EMTs and fire departments are generally contributing to the public good.”
. . .
J “The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is a credit worthy institution administering its duties dutifully.”
K “Despite unrelenting opposition from the White House, Republicans and industry, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing what it can to reduce the plundering and the pummeling of the Planet.”
. . .
K “The ACLU is fighting the good fight.”
J “Planned Parenthood is improving our plight.”
. . .
[See “Journalist: Newsweek Suppressed OPCW Scandal And Threatened Me With Legal Action” and other articles in “caitlinjohnstone.com” by Caitlin Johnstone, the 2019 recipient of the Pushitzer Prize In Commentary, dated December 8, 2019 and the discussion of e-con-omics in “Against Economics” in “The New York Review of Books” by David Graeber dated December 5, 2019.]
[See the e-commentary at “Here Comes Da Judge; Dere Goes Da Justice (August 31, 2015)”, “The FBI File: The American Imprimatur Of Success (January 18, 2016)”, “Suing Law Schools; Suing Gun Makers. Oh, And Happy Law Day! (April 30, 2018)” and “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer
America is a racket not a republic.
“If the misery of the poor not be caused by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” Charles Darwin
There is nothing you can do to make any material change of any kind in any way today.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
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