To the editor:

I have been looking again at “COVID-19 and trust in our community,” an editorial/letter in the Journal in 2021 that was signed by 43 area doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. These signers invited our trust, but made claims that, from what I’ve seen, have turned out not to be correct, such as: “The vaccine’s mRNA is destroyed by your body within hours. It is gone.”

Perhaps we need another letter. It could do many things.

It could admit that elites and experts got things colossally and catastrophically wrong. It could heap the highest praises on those who courageously spoke the truth, exposed lies and fraud, did real science, practiced real medicine (such as early treatment), and resisted totalitarianism despite no end of intimidation and persecution.

It could call attention to the website of the Brownstone Institute, with its hundreds of thoughtful and informative articles, such as the recent 10-part series, “The COVID response after five years,” or Jeff Tucker’s “Reflections on the Bret Weinstein Interview.” It might also single out #419 of Del Bigtree’s Highwire (“Question Marks”) as well as “The Last Stand of the Lesser Magistrates” (Children’s Health Defense TV).

It could make people aware of whistleblower Brook Jackson, describe what Kevin McKernan found about contamination, celebrate the work of Leslie Manookian in getting the Idaho Medical Freedom Act passed, and encourage viewing of Matthew Guthrie’s new documentary, Follow the Silenced.

It could describe some of the books that champions of truth and freedom like Scott Atlas, Sharyl Attkisson, Clayton Baker, Steve Deace, Mattias Desmet, Ed Dowd, Justin Hart, Brian Hooker, Suzanne Humphries, Shaz Khan, Pierre Kory, Robert Malone, Mark McDonald, Peter McCullough, Ian Miller, Erin Olszewski, Harvey Risch, Naomi Wolf, and others have written. It could highlight the telling titles of the two books by Thomas Woods Jr.: Diary of a Psychosis – How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, and Collateral Damage: Victims of the Lockdown Regime Tell Their Stories.

There’s a lot more, but that would be a good start.

R.E. Wehrwein

New Ulm