Tubb & Lang, Email Subject RE Red Dawn Rolling, April 2020: Managers wanted the CDC to help them avoid liability for worker safety.
This email chain is an admission that employers recognized that they were likely negligent in not providing N95s to prevent aerosol transmission of covid in workplaces, and they wanted the CDC to give them cover.
Who is Bill Lang?
William L Lang MD, in 2020 was Chief Medical Officer for WorldClinic, where according to his Linkedin profile he was employed to lead a team of physicians for “an elite patient population” including providing “longitudinal virtual health care” — whatever that means. He’s a graduate of West Point, a veteran, worked as a White House physician in the 1990s and early 2000s, worked at the Department of Homeland Security in the late 2000s. And now he works for Crisis24 Global Medical Concierge Practice, “Crisis24 Private Strategic Group’s (PSG) exclusive Global Medical Concierge practice to the “who’s who” of the world.”[1] In October 2020, he appeared on the Dr. Oz Show to talk about the pandemic.[2]
Who is Dick Tubb?
Richard Tubb is a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general who served as a White House physician in the past, and at that time worked for a Danish company specializing in disinfection, and appeared on CNBC Squawkbox on Valentine’s Day in 2020 to talk about the damage to the cruise ship industry already underway because of the SARS-COV-2 outbreaks.[3]
In March 2020 Tubb was named to the board of directors of LexisNexis Special Services Inc.[4] (LexisNexis is a huge data brokerage company that does data analytics and offers paid access to various organized consolidated databases of information, and is used by companies, organizations, and government agencies.)
In April 2020, Tubb was named a commissioner for the Heritage Foundation National Coronavirus Recovery Commission.[5] The Heritage Foundation funds right-wing media, and is funded by billionaire families such as Koch and DeVos.
From 2013 to 2016 Tubb was on the board of British American Tobacco, and in 2018 Tubb was listed as a board member for a Canadian company promising to end cigarette smoking with a safer “pure” product.[6] (This is a long-time PR tactic, used by many industries, not just tobacco, to rebrand something bad as either “mild”[7] or to “Alter Product to Seem Healthier”[8] somehow.)
Richard Tubb said in 2018 that he hired and trained Ronny Jackson,[9] who is now member of Congress representing Texas, famous because he was the Physician to the President for Barack Obama, and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President for Donald Trump, and has been investigated by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (OIG) for inappropriate conduct, which is why his nomination to be the head of the VA was withdrawn, and in a recent probe of the White House pharmacy, they found “improper medical practices” going on in early 2020.[10] Ronny Jackson repeated Trump’s conspiracy theory claims about Obama involving Michael Flynn,[11] attended the January 6th insurrection pre-rally at the White House Ellipse, and objected to certifying the election[12] and is generally considered to have been part of the coup attempt.[13]
I have no idea if Richard Tubb has since distanced himself from Ronny Jackson, or how much of a connection they had or have now. I could not find a denunciation.
The “Red Dawn Emails” include subject lines like Red Dawn Rising, Red Dawn Rolling, Red Dawn Rhapsodizing, and Red Dawn whatever else…
We first heard about these emails pretty quickly in 2020, as reported by the New York Times.[14] They believed it was important “for the federal government to take the lead, providing cover for the local officials to kick off the so-called Nonpharmaceutical Interventions, such as school and business closures.” Back then, saving lives with NPIs (Nonpharmaceutical Interventions) was considered an important goal. And even now that we have vaccines, NPIs are still important layers of protection,[15] to protect and support a vaccine campaign.[16] And it’s bizarre how people have coalesced under the idea that it would’ve been better for more people to die and suffer and get long-term complications, in service to some kind of false god worship of The Economy — which doesn’t seem to be benefitted by disability and death anyway. But back in 2020, the participants wanted to be seen as heroes saving people from the viral threat.[17]
The William Lang email is part of FOIA requested emails currently hosted by a group who was looking for evidence that covid is a hoax or that someone might have admitted somewhere that they knew of evidence that it was lab manufactured,[18] which is a totally unsubstantiated fringe theory[19] promoted largely by covid contrarians with a constellation of claims that are often mutually exclusive or self-contradictory, and therefore are probably just part of a disinformation campaign aiming for confusion and demoralization.[20] Pity that more people aren’t looking through these emails for other types of evidence and historic lessons.
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Linkedin Profile — William Lang Chief Medical OfficerChief Medical Officer WorldClinic · Full-timeWorldClinic · Full-time May 2019 — May 2023 · 4 yrs 1 moMay 2019 — May 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo Alexandria, Virginia, United States Led an integrated team of physicians and highly skilled patient services specialists in delivering 24/7 comprehensive, integrated, and longitudinal virtual health care to an elite patient population. Also provided “Medical Director on Demand” health and medical advisory services to multiple global corporations as they negotiated the most impactful epidemic of the past century.
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Dr. Richard Tubb Named to LexisNexis Board of Directors; Haywood Talcove Quoted by Sarah Sybert — March 11, 2020 LexisNexis Special Services Inc. has appointed Dr. Richard J. Tubb, former chief White House physician, to its board of directors, the company announced on Wednesday. “Dick’s experience as a physician, on health policies, and his leadership will be invaluable to LexisNexis Special Services and to the agencies we serve in this digital environment,” said Haywood Talcove, CEO and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, LexisNexis Special Services. Tubb is the longest-serving White House Physician in U.S. history. He was assigned to the White House Medical Unit for 14 years and served in three presidential administrations from 1995 until 2009.
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National Coronavirus Recovery Commission Launches to ‘Save Lives and Livelihoods’ Apr 6, 2020 The Heritage Foundation announced today the formation of the National Coronavirus Recovery Commission, which will examine the extraordinary public health crisis facing America and the steps needed to move prudently toward recovery.
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University of Bath — Tobacco Tactics — Richard Tubb — This page was last edited on 04 February 2020, at 6:43 pm. Tubb was on the Board of British American Tobacco (BAT) from January 2013 to April 2016. […] In 2018, Tubb was listed as a Board Member of a Canadian company called Parallax, whose mission is “to end the scourge of cigarette smoking with a safe and pure product”.67 It is unclear when the company was founded, but the company’s website has only been registered since February 2018.8 In June 2018, Parallax announced that it was going into partnership with Philip Morris International (PMI) to “accelerate our mission”.
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Manufacturing MILD. MILD: A longtime PR word to downplay threats, normalize harms, and manufacture consent by manufacturing doubt. CHLOE HUMBERT AUG 5, 2023 Perhaps not surprisingly, historically, this word “mild” was very much a favoured word of the tobacco industry in their PR and advertising. People suspected smoking was bad for you and so they would claim a brand was “less irritating” according to doctors.
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Rand Waltzman on Linkedin. Image text, Strategies for Manufacturing Doubt (7) • Impede Government Regulation Overwhelm governmental regulatory agencies to slow or stop their function — Alter Product to Seem Healthier — Make modifications to harmful product to reduce ostensible negative effects • Influence Government / Laws • Gain inappropriate proximity to regulatory bodies and encourage policy that supports narratives favorable to your industry. A cartoon shows 3 people in white lab coats lined up at a printer and the caption says “Heads up, new healthcare legislation coming in!” another cartoon shows a tangle of traffic lights and 2 people in hard hats looking up at them and the caption reads WHAT WE NEED HERE IS MORE RULES with emphasis on More.
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Trump White House — Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Dr. Ronny Jackson — Issued on: January 16, 2018 Dr. Tubb wrote, “I hired and trained Rear Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson. My patients, President and Mrs. Bush, knew and trusted him. I think it’s safe to assume that President and Mrs. Obama trusted him as well. After all, they personally selected him to be their physician. Today, Dr. Jackson will offer his professional assessment of the President’s medical fitness for duty. Friday, Dr. Jackson conducted and supervised Donald Trump’s first periodic physical exam as President of the United States. Having had the opportunity to review the tests, consult specialists, thoughtfully analyze the results and discuss them with his patient, he will provide us with his considered assessment of the President’s medical fitness for duty now and for the remainder of his term in office.
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STAT NEWS — The White House has a pharmacy — and it was a mess, a new investigation found. By Brittany Trang Jan. 23, 2024 One former pharmacy staff member told investigators that a doctor once asked if the staffer could “hook up” someone with a controlled substance “as a parting gift for leaving the White House.” The office dispensed controlled medications like Ambien and Provigil without verifying the patient’s identity. It let people grab over-the-counter medicines from open bins. And upwards of $640,000 in taxpayer funds were wasted in just three years, though that number is fuzzy, because so many records were poorly kept and even handwritten. The investigation, published this month, was conducted by the Department of Defense’s independent Office of the Inspector General; the White House pharmacy is run by the White House Military Office and its associated medical unit. The probe was prompted by complaints the Department of Defense received in 2018 about a senior military medical officer, who is not named, engaging in “improper medical practices.” It covers only activity in the office through early 2020 under the Trump administration, but investigators interviewed staffers who also worked there under former President Obama. The OIG report does not mention Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House Medical Unit director from 2010 to 2014 and the president’s physician from 2013 through 2018. He removed his name from consideration as former President Trump’s Veterans Affairs secretary amid allegations about his lax prescribing practices and a hostile work environment in the White House Medical Unit, some of which were confirmed in a separate 2021 inspector general investigation. Already, a Defense Department agency that coordinates health care for the military has agreed to establish oversight and pharmaceutical and eligibility policies for the White House Medical Unit and pharmacy. But pharmacists and other experts still expressed grave concerns about the findings.
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The Hill — Former White House doctor stands by comments about Obama. by Marty Johnson — 05/14/20 4:40 PM ET On Wednesday, acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell released a list of the names of former Obama administration officials who asked for documents that led to the identity of former national security adviser Michael Flynn being “unmasked” between the 2016 election and Trump’s inauguration. The copy of that list includes various well-known Obama aides as well as then-Vice President Joe Biden. In the past, Trump has argued that the Obama administration sought to hurt him politically by leaking selective bits of information to the media. Trump and his allies have pointed to Flynn’s “unmasking” as evidence of foul play. Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 and cautioned the Trump administration against hiring him as national security adviser. Recently, the Department of Justice dropped a case against Flynn where he was charged with lying to the FBI about calls he had with a Russian official following the 2016 election. Flynn originally pleaded guilty to lying about the calls. In April 2018, Trump nominated Jackson to be the head of Veterans Affairs, one of the largest Cabinet agencies. However, Trump quickly withdrew his nomination after accusations of misconduct by Jackson began to pile up.
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GovTrack — Rep. Ronny Jackson Representative for Texas’s 13th District Jackson was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Jackson voted to suppress Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
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Far-right Oath Keepers exchanged messages about GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson during Jan. 6 riot. By Scott MacFarlane, Robert Legare — April 19, 2022 Members of the far-right Oath Keepers group allegedly exchanged messages about the safety of Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson — who was also Donald Trump’s former White House doctor — during the chaos of the U.S. Capitol riot. The messages, one of which said Jackson must be protected because he has “critical data,” were part of a batch of newly released messages from members of the alleged Jan. 6, 2021 conspirators, according to a new court filing from one of the defendants.
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The New York Times — The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus. Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments. Eric Lipton By Eric Lipton April 11, 2020 Convincing governors and mayors to intentionally cause economic harm by ordering or promoting mitigation efforts — such as closing businesses — is always a difficult task. That is why it is so important, these medical experts said, for the federal government to take the lead, providing cover for the local officials to kick off the so-called Nonpharmaceutical Interventions, such as school and business closures. Again, this group of doctors and medical experts recognized from early on that this step was all but inevitable, even if the administration was slow to recognize the need.
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The New York Times — The Swiss Cheese Model of Pandemic Defense. It’s not edible, but it can save lives. The virologist Ian Mackay explains how. By Siobhan Roberts — Published Dec. 5, 2020 — Updated Dec. 7, 2020 No one layer is perfect; each has holes, and when the holes align, the risk of infection increases. But several layers combined — social distancing, plus masks, plus hand-washing, plus testing and tracing, plus ventilation, plus government messaging — significantly reduce the overall risk. Vaccination will add one more protective layer. “Pretty soon you’ve created an impenetrable barrier, and you really can quench the transmission of the virus,” said Dr. Julie Gerberding, executive vice president and chief patient officer at Merck, who recently referenced the Swiss cheese model when speaking at a virtual gala fund-raiser for MoMath, the National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan.
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Statement on FDA’s proposal for once a year COVID vaccination Published January 25, 2023 Public Comment by Rob Wallace, PhD, submitted to the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee regarding the future vaccination regimens addressing COVID-19. Constraining vaccination to once a year would only further handcuff a public health response already limited by an abandonment of nonpharmaceutical interventions. At the clinical level, vaccination alone offers better protection but no guarantee against reinfection and Long COVID. At the evolutionary level, models by Okamoto et al. show losing NPI likely selects for changes in SARS-2’s reproductive strategy and the emergence of vaccine-resistant strains. In short, prevention, keeping people from getting infected in the first place, remains a critical contribution to preserving vaccine effectiveness. In the other direction, reducing the degrees of freedom we have in the types and scheduling of vaccine production only compounds the public health damage dropping NPI campaigns such as mask mandates and contact tracing produces.
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ABC News — As coronavirus threatened invasion, a new ‘Red Dawn’ team tried to save America. Pandemic experts on early email chain with gov. officials break their silence. By Matthew Mosk, Kaitlyn Folmer, and Josh Margolin — July 28, 2020, 4:05 AM The Red Dawn emailers have tried to maintain a low profile, but six of them agreed to speak with ABC News, most for the first time publicly. The detailed accounts paint a picture of a frantic, race-against-the-clock effort to raise alarms in hopes of prodding a faster, stronger federal response to COVID-19. Dr. David Marcozzi, who was the White House National Security Council director of medical preparedness policy in disasters during the Bush and Obama administrations, said the participants were driven by a single agenda. “We were generally concerned that this was going to be a threat to our nation,” Marcozzi, now a senior official at the University of Maryland’s medical school, told ABC News. The emailers, along with other public health experts, describe how the federal government missed opportunities to mount a more muscular defense and failed to brace the nation for the tidal wave of illness that was coming. “The president began to say [in March] that nobody could imagine that something like this could actually occur,” said Dr. Dan Hanfling, a biosecurity and disaster response expert from Virginia. “The truth is that there was a group of us that had been trying to raise the alarm.”
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Biosafety Now — OriginSearch.io originsearch.io
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Covid ‘lab leak theory’: What we’ve learned Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN — Updated 8:51 PM EST, Mon February 27, 2023 While the intelligence community remains very much split on what led to the virus, they were completely aligned on three key points when they first issued a two-page unclassified report in 2021: The virus was not developed as a biological weapon. Most of the agencies believe the virus was not genetically engineered. (Two agencies did not think there was sufficient evidence to make an assessment either way.) Chinese officials did not have “foreknowledge of the virus” before the initial outbreak.
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Psychology Today: Giving Up: Informational Learned Helplessness. It’s exhausting when it’s hard to figure out what is true and what is false. By Susan A. Nolan, Ph.D., and Michael Kimball, Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Posted December 23, 2021 If you feel helpless in the avalanche of input, there’s a name for that. It’s called informational learned helplessness and the concept “is based on psychology scholarship that shows that people who experience prolonged exposure to difficult, uncontrollable situations, which they can neither avoid nor alleviate, will ‘learn’ to accept the situation as a given” (Nisbet & Kamenchuk, 2021). This idea is typically discussed in relation to depression, but such helplessness might pervade our online lives, too. Once someone has “learned” to be helpless — whether in their actual or virtual lives — they may give up any attempts to avoid or escape the difficult situation because they feel that their efforts will fail.
