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Anthony Fauci is No Hero

Anthony Fauci, Anita Dance’s hero (Letters 12/14), helped fund the gain of function research at Wuhan, then blamed nature and a fsh market for Covid. He pushed for public masking after privately admitting it was not effective, and pushed for widespread lockdowns which devastated many. While the true heroes were scouring the internet and sharing information on what treatments seemed to work for their patients in early and mid 2020, Fauci was denigrating all early treatment options as dangerous and ineffective, despite evidence to the contrary. This led to a treatment protocol that may have killed more people than Covid. With alternative treatments black-balled, the FDA approved Covid vaccines under Emergency Use Authorization regulations, thus letting Fauci proft from his stake in Moderna. He ignored the fraud, destruction of control groups, and negative results in the vaccine trials, and never provided a formal Risk / Beneft analysis for the vaccines. Since then, he has hid the V-Safe data, ignored all safety signals in VAERS, refused any debate on medical facts and studies, and proclaimed any attacks on him are attacks on science. He is no hero. Safe and effective vaccines do not produce huge jumps in excess deaths, miscarriages, heart attacks and strokes, and vaccine-injured people. Given that Alameda County Health offcials, as well as Kaiser and other health organizations, have shown no interest in giving CV Forum readers accurate information on the risks of the vaccines, readers should do their own research. Wading into Substack and some of the “misinformation spreaders” such as Pierre Kory, Peter McCullough, Jessica Rose, “A Midwestern Doctor”, Steve Kirsch, and Alex Berenson, is a good start. Many authors post some of their pieces for free. The Brownstone Institute is another good resource.

–Bruce Barron, Castro Valley

Transgender Males Offensive to Women

I commend Stacy Spink’s defense of women’s rights (Bravo!). It is intolerable that the transgender male is trampling on women’s basic entitlements to protect their alter egos.

The transgender movement has nothing to do with women or women’s rights. It’s about males, unable to live a healthy, meaningful life in the expression of their natural gender, and fabricate some quasi “female” alter ego to soothe themselves. And it’s not enough, they demand validation, conscripting the public into addressing them in the feminine or the plural (she/her or they). This is mental illness wrapped in a cult following.

These males desire “gender equality” but the male is already bestowed entitlements that women have had to fght for—and still fghting. These males want WOMEN’S entitlements. The Movement is not about “inclusion”, it’s about encroachment and expropriation of women’s entitlements and protections to accommodate their alter ego.

Transgender males whine about persecution in the expression of their alter ego, but USE their alter ego to persecute women, bulling their way into our facilities and sport teams, with some males assaulting females.

Let me be clear to transgender males: We women do NOT serve as your emotional life raft, nor are our facilities your personal sanctuary. We women have the full right to use OUR communal toilets, showers, and locker rooms, and to manage OUR biology (menstruation) fully unencumbered by male intrusion. We don’t want you sauntering around with your genitals swinging from side to side. Your presence in our facilities and sports teams is inappropriate, dangerous and creepy. Your contrived, neurotic alter ego is not the burden of women to accommodate, get out.

The behavior of these transgender males is akin to white people made up in Black Face demanding entitlements afforded to people of color. The transgender movement is OFFENSIVE to women.

Mask Are Useful (for some)

Mr. Morales raises some valid questions regarding the continued use of masks. It’s hard to believe that many folks are immuno-compromised.

I see children riding their bikes to Creekside wearing a mask - and no helmet. The probability of suffering serious trauma from a head injury is many times greater than any Covid-related issue. Never mind the extreme unlikelihood of contracting a pathogen outdoors. We sure do sweat the small stuff...while ignoring the big stuff. Decisions based on fear do produce irrational behaviors.

Exposure to low-level pathogens is an essential part of developing the immune systems of children. After 2.5 years of masking, is it any wonder why there are record levels of fu and RSV this year?

There is at least one group who appreciates our perplexing post-pandemic perspective. The porch pirates (posted on nextdoor.com) who are presently purloining our packages - while being recorded - are completely impossible to identify because they presently have implicit permission in perpetuity to wear a mask.

The beneft to them is massive. Not sure about the rest of us. –Stacy Spink, Castro Valley

For many of us, presents are on the horizon this holiday season. Brand new stuff brought in to replace the older, more weathered and familiar things. It can be heart-wrenching. H.A.R.D. is changing. Sulphur Creek is changing. New plans, new admin, a new business model. At Sulphur Creek, the familiar faces (volunteers and staff) are essentially gone. Animal handlers and educators (paid and voluntary) have either been removed or left on their own. The animal hospital is closed, the education side sits almost empty, the animals are getting older and more isolated.

On paper, the new plan for Sulphur Creek boasts amazing things, including the hiring of two new staff. A huge move but one that is only the act of backflling positions left vacant by retirements and only a drop in the bucket for the hirings that still need to occur to bring the Center up to the standards advertised.

And if we look closer, Sulphur Creek is also leaning away from the beloved in-house volunteer program. One that supported traditional volunteers as well as folks with special needs and other marginalizing facets. Retired professionals, active career-people, students, often with deep family and community ties. All donate their hours tirelessly to keep the Center open, with extensive and deep community roots and generous donor-ship.

We all want our parks to survive, so we join with each other and with HARD, to make “new and improved,” not just a phrase. We will stay committed and connected to the leaders that can help our parks to make a difference. To support an ongoing commitment to supporting quality staffng and a continued dedication to the providing of experiences accessible to all. – A Tucker, Hayward

Let’s Improve Sulphur Creek

LEGAL NOTICES

FILED NOV 28, 2022 MELISSA WILK County Clerk ALAMEDA COUNTY By----------, Deputy FILE NO. 593612

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Pursuant to Business and Professions Code Sections 17900-17930 The name of the business(es): Take Me Back Travel, located at 17085 President Drive Castro Valley, CA 94546. in Alameda County, is hereby registered by the following owner(s): Robert Washington, 17085 President Drive Castro Valley, CA 94546. This business is conducted by an Individual. This business commenced N/A /s/ Robert Washington This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on date indicated by file stamp above. Expires NOV 27, 2027 FILED DEC 09, 2022 MELISSA WILK County Clerk ALAMEDA COUNTY By----------, Deputy FILE NO. 593890

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Pursuant to Business and Professions Code Sections 17900-17930 The name of the business(es): American River Framing, LLC, located at 21609-A Orange Avenue, Castro Valley, CA 94546. in Alameda County, is hereby registered by the following owner(s): American River Framing, LLC, 21609-A Orange Avenue, Castro Valley, CA 94546. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. This business commenced 10/01/2022 /s/ Kathryn Medina This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on date indicated by file stamp above. Expires DEC 08, 2027

Kudos to Gun Safety Course

Kudos to Kristina Marie (and this newspaper for publishing her story). While for a bunch of reasons I don’t advocate getting a gun for protection (particularly a handgun), education and some level of skill is required for those that have frearms. Introductory and beginner’s classes, which she cites, are all about safety! I believe that should be a requirement for all sexes. The actual shooting comes next, which is also safety focused. Knowledge and experience are Key words to avoid accidents. Hopefully more municipalities will realize this and not try to close ranges because of “gun phobia”. –Robert Harley, Castro Valley

Has Castro Valley become that crime ridden that we have to promote gun use for self defense? I don’t think so. Perhaps Ms. Marie’s time would be better spent promoting stricter gun laws, particularly a ban on assault rifes. –Robert Thomas, Castro Valley

Fewer Guns, Stricter Gun Laws

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