If they cannot silence you, they persecute you.

My speech today outside SCOTUS. Murthy v Missouri

Four years ago, the government decided they knew better than your doctor.  Doctors I had never heard of - Fauci, Birx, Jha, Collins, Walensky, Califf, Murthy - collectively, they decided your doctors - no matter how many years in practice, papers published, or lives saved - were not competent. These government doctors hi-jacked our exam rooms, hi-jacked your right to bodily autonomy and informed consent, and, without a vote, declared themselves the experts. They were the science, and they were in charge. Remarkable given their experience - or lack of it.  Despite their degrees, none of them practice medicine. How many COVID patients did they examine? How many histories did they take?  How many prescriptions did they write?  Zero!  None of them have cared for a single COVID patient, but because they had the full support of the Big Pharma, the government, and most importantly the media, they became the scientific authority on a novel disease they had zero first-hand experience in treating.  They dictated who would get treated and how - all from the safety of their homes, over Zoom calls, never risking their own lives to care for a single COVID patient. 

Reasonable scientists with good intentions would have remained open-minded to other opinions…would have welcomed any and all suggestions… would have collaborated with anyone able to contribute…. Would have engaged in debate with those they disagreed with… but there was far too much invested in a predetermined plan for that to happen.  Moving at the speed of science, the COVID shot agenda was too big to fail; nothing would stand in their way. 

Three years ago, on March 15, 2021, President Biden announced a $1.5 billion PR campaign to convince every American to get the COVID shot. Apparently some people thought this wasn’t enough, so ten days later, on March 25, 2021, he upped the ante, announcing another $10 billion would be spent on coercing those in “communities of color” to get the shots. The campaign was not a simple public awareness initiative; to the contrary, this was an orchestrated attack. Billions of dollars were divested to battalions of media influencers incentivized and rewarded with our tax dollars to censor, silence, and attack anyone with dissenting opinions.  Consequently, the voices of frontline nurses, physician assistants, and physicians like myself who were seeing and treating and researching and collaborating - doing everything they could to help - were not only buried, but many of us are now fighting to keep our licenses. This attack included innocent civilians, patients and concerned citizens, many of whom were injured by the protocols and shots they were coerced into taking.  Journalists who tried to give us a voice were punished - fired, demonetized, deplatformed.  Many of us today were at one point kicked off Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIN, and I can’t give an interview that will air on YouTube without risk of the journalist getting deplatformed.  I was banned from all of these social media platforms and even kicked off the American Academy of Otolaryngology’s professional ENT online forum.  My crime?  Another member complimented my efforts to publicly present an opinion different from the government experts.  

The 1st Amendment was ratified in 1791.  I was curious to learn what life was like prior to the 1st amendment and based on what I found, I’m pretty sure I would have burned at the stake.  Under colonial religious code, attendance of the Anglican church - referred to as the “established” church - was mandated. Anyone practicing a different form of Christianity was called a ‘dissenter’ and many were arrested, beaten, exiled and even hung for daring to speak out. It took about a hundred years until the first law was proposed to protect religious freedom and free speech when Thomas Jefferson drafted the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom in 1786. This bill became the driving force behind the 1st Amendment.  

Free Speech is the cornerstone of our democracy.  It prevents the majority from dominating the minority, allows divergent viewpoints to be heard, and discourages the government from operating in secrecy and controlling what the people see. Murthy v Missouri is a fight over free speech on social media.  The government argues social media is different than other types of speech, more prone to falsehoods and disinformation, and the government has a duty to protect the public in these situations.  I believe quite the opposite. Social media is the best opportunity our society has ever had for debate and discourse, giving every individual a megaphone and the right to be heard.

On April 1, 2021, Houston Methodist hospital - where I had privileges - announced it would become the first major employer and hospital in the country to mandate the COVID shots. On that same day, HSS announced the launch of its vaccine propaganda machine, COVID-19 Community Corps. A group called Public Private Strategies led the initiative, partnering with 275 other groups in all different sectors - not only healthcare groups, but faith leaders, business leaders, veterans, minority leaders, unions… all of their efforts were financially backed by FEMA, the CDC and HHS.  The web of influencers and the funds they received was so vast and complicated that they have become virtually untraceable. 

Five months later, on September 9, 2021, the government and its “experts” decided American citizens lacked enough intelligence to make decisions about what to put in their bodies and declared all employers with 100 or more employees must force their staff to get the shots.  In the wake of both the Houston Methodist and Biden mandates, I had many distraught patients coming to me debating whether to take an experimental shot with no long-term safety data or lose their jobs or opportunities for an education.  Because I was doing so much testing, I was seeing that the shots were not stopping transmission nor lowering severity - the vaccinated outnumbered the unvaccinated and were just as sick if not sicker. 

I reached out to Methodist hospital to ask if they were witnessing the same trends; my concerns were dismissed.  So I started to tell others, sending emails to my patients and posting on social media. On Nov 7, 2021, I tweeted the same message - “Vaccine mandates are wrong” - twenty-five times.  This was in the midst of the third surge of COVID, eight months after the shots were rolled out and five months after Houston Methodist became the first hospital in the country to mandate the shots.  Each of the 25 tweets included a different patient testimonial on how the mandates had affected them.  At the time, I had very few followers, and I didn’t expect much response. 

Five days later, on Nov 12, 2021, a reporter from the Houston Chronicle reached out to me after a source from Houston Methodist informed him the hospital was suspending my privileges based on comments I had made on social media. I was blindsided and asked the reporter to check his sources because I had no knowledge of that. Then I went to Twitter and was shocked to see the hospital had tweeted I was spreading dangerous misinformation that was harmful to the community.  

Houston is home to the largest medical center in the world - the Texas Medical Center - and with over $13 billion in assets, Methodist Hospital is King of that center.  The kingdom rejoiced at what their sovereign had done to me, and the story went global.  Following the global smear campaign, they reported me to the Texas Medical Board.  Two and half years later, I am still trying to fight to restore my reputation and clear my professional record.

The medical mafia intended to silence me, to make an example of me, and indeed, I know their actions dissuaded other physicians from speaking up - I have heard from many of them.  But not me.  As my dad likes to say, they stepped on the wrong hornet.  And I am thankful to be surrounded by other hornets today…. People who have done the hard thing, at great personal sacrifice, to speak up and fight back.  I am grateful to the independent journalists who have tirelessly worked - with very little compensation - to get our voices heard. I am grateful to the plaintiffs and the attorneys in this case who have invested the time and money to fight for all of us, so that we may speak freely without censorship and without fear of persecution.  And I am grateful to all of you who have supported me and other physicians who have paid the price for speaking the truth.  We need our voices now more than ever.  With your help, we will prevail.