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Well katelyn you already helped me with a Medical Advisory Board tring to get a private school in South Carolina to require masks for their students. I emailed you and you helped tremendously. We did not get a mandate but we created an opt-out which required parents to read and sign that to not wear a mask was against medical advice. We had 90% of kids in masks (over the 80% threshold) so I feel we were successful. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP! Now imagine a stadium that holds a million people for a rock concert. They are all cheering you the rock star epidemiologist from Texas. You are on the stage with over a million fans cheering you on. Congratulations.

Best Wishes,

Phillip B. Flexon MD FACS

P.S. A million is conservative. I go to meetings where screen shots of your Newsletter goes up all the time. Doctors use it all over the place. You are huge.

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The survey gives me a "site cannot be reached" error. If you recall, I had suggested early on to consider two demographics, those with a science background, and members of the general public, assuming you could find the time. I don't know how you've managed not to pack your family in an RV and live off-grid in a remote hidden location for the remainder of your life. But I'm personally grateful for all your hard work and I would appreciate a platform to engage you (and maybe, perhaps your students) in mature discussion about your other epidemiological studies.

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Thanks for being a sold voice in a very shaky time. While I am dismayed by the utter lack of adherence to anything like good public health practices, I am encouraged that voices like your continue. They might not listen, but people are HEARING.

Please keep speaking truth to power.

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Bravo - now go outside and soak up some sun (or play in the rain), breathe, and read a book/watch a movie/listen to music/exercise - anything that has nothing to do with epidemiology. :-)

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Your stats are really impressive. My friend Betsy Brown at the Polyclinic in Seattle with her betsybrownmd Substack blog mentioned you and many of us signed up immediately. Yours and her blog, along with Heather Cox Richardson on Substack are all that anyone needs to understand the world, maybe along with Science News. Thank you for such great and careful reporting on the data!!!

I have started my own substack journals: laurentflutes which will document the revival of the important glass flutes by Claude Laurent. And everything else that I would otherwise post on Facebook such as this one on a new Seattle-based cure for Civid called "Ivar's-mectin". My other Substack journal will be called the Winter Nurse Journal and iit will be strictly woodwind making techniques. Siri autocorrects "woodturner" to "winter nurse". THis one will require a paid subscription for the content I am providing. Its based on 40 years of making Irish Flutes and other woodwinds.

See https://laurentflutes.substack.com/p/acres-of-cures

Ivar's Acres of Clams is a great seafood restaurant in downtown Seattle. Woody Guthrie sang about this in his song called Acres of Clams. There is more coming about this drug spoof and even the lawyer are involved. Ivar's-mectin is represented by the law firm Acres of Claims for instance.

I was just exposed to Covid last Monday by someone breathing down my neck - both of us unmasked. The root trace of this was his 9 year old grandson who caught this at face to face school, despite masking. We reopened the schools too early - it should have been after the kids got vaccinated. I will ge getting tested tomorrow and the following Monday. The vaccines apparently have increased the detection time with the usual clinical tests.

I am treating my exposure and possible succumbing to Covid with some humor. Best way to deal with it. Anyone who calls worried for me is subjected to about 15 seconds of severe coughing that is faked.

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I've done the survey. If you are checking that everyone who answers the survey is a subscriber, it won't show up because the email I'm subscribed with is not the email that I use for google things. A couple of additional thoughts, I wanted to add that I've found your work really useful in my writing about the pandemic. I mostly write for a New Zealand audience, but it's been useful to call on the US experience. That's why I've become a paying subscriber. I've also included some of your posts in resources I have compiled to help people in their conversations with people who are vaccine-hesitant.

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