Parents in Berkeley Say Their Kids Have Become Pariahs

A “tolerant” city pushes discrimination and intolerance

Dan McDunn, a father of three who owns a construction company in Berkeley, California, and his wife lost one of their best friends, to the covid vaccine on April 6, 2021.

She was 47 years old.

Their friend died just eight days after she was given what was likely a “hot lot” of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19. This lot, EN 6201, has been linked to at least 190 other deaths, according to data collected by the CDC.

After their friend’s death—she was found unresponsive in her bed—McDunn and his wife made the decision to not give the vaccine to their three teenage sons.

It was not a decision they took lightly. The pressure to get vaccinated in California is extreme and McDunn’s wife works in health care. But, after doing many hours of research, the McDunns decided that the risk of the vaccines outweighed the benefits, for them and for their children.

“My kids have suffered, socially and civically, for that decision,” McDunn recently wrote in a letter to a state senator, Nancy Skinner.

Their suffering did not come from Sars-CoV-2, however. After McDunn caught COVID-19 from a vaccinated customer, two of his teens tested positive. But, though McDunn had a mild case, the kids never had any symptoms. They did have sore wrists from playing videogames during their quarantine, McDunn jokes, but that doesn't really count.

Instead, their family—and thousands of other families in Berkeley, California—have suffered from social ostracization, ridicule, and unkindness due to their decision not to vaccinate.

No Entry at the YMCA

Despite the news from the CDC last week that unvaccinated and vaccinated Americans should be treated similarly, the Berkeley YMCA continues to discriminate against all Berkeley residents who are not vaccinated.

This morning, August 15, 2022, I spoke to a front desk clerk. She confirmed that no one who is not “fully vaccinated” is allowed in the building. The clerk also told me that there are no exceptions. Even with a valid medical exemption, you may not enter the Berkeley YMCA.

“Many Berkeley High School residents rely on the YMCA, for not only routine exercise but for their state-required Physical Education credits,” McDunn pointed out. “This happens to be affecting my kids, but also disproportionately impacts students of color.”

Indeed, the Berkeley vaccination rates among Hispanic and African-American students are much lower than among white children, as you can see from the city’s own data in the image below, which was obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request.

The Claremont Hotel Says Stay Out

The Claremont Hotel is a historic building in Berkeley, beloved by locals and tourists alike. For years a local Boy Scout Troop has used the pool at the Claremont Hotel for the swim test for their annual summer camp.

However, this year the Claremont refused to let unvaccinated children use any of their facilities, including their pool, even though children taking the test would have stayed outside the entire time.

So McDunn’s son was barred from the hotel for this swim test. And nearly half of all African American students in the Berkeley Unified School District would likewise have been forbidden entry to the Claremont hotel and pool.

Berkeley Data Confirms Vaccines Don’t Stop Spread

We now know that the COVID-19 vaccines do not work to stop the spread of Sars-CoV-2. In fact, there is a growing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vaccines have made the virus more transmissible.

Even the local Berkeley data suggests that the vaccine has little capacity to prevent infection and transmission. As evidenced by this Berkeley Health Department response to a Public Records Access request, the vast majority of COVID-19 cases in Berkeley have occurred in fully vaccinated people.

Total confirmed cases: 6,652
Unvaccinated cases: 1,394
Vaccinated cases: 5,258

A Troubling Safety Profile

We also know that the vaccine has a troubling safety profile, and is particularly dangerous for teenage boys and young men.

Just last week the editor of Medscape died suddenly. Bret Stetka was 43 years old. His wife is devastated, and has no idea what caused the seizure that led to his death. But just before his untimely and unexpected death, on July 21, he posted a photograph on Twitter of his one-year-old daughter getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

A post-doctoral fellow at the University of California also died. She had had three COVID-19 vaccines. Sara White was 37. She also leaves behind an infant daughter.

Brayden Fahey also died. A second-year student at Diablo View Middle School in Clayton, California, he had a severe and inexplicable medical emergency playing football. He died two days later.

There is no question that we are seeing an upsurge in unexpected deaths, the majority of which are connected to what has turned out to be an unsafe and likely unnecessary experimental medical technology.

These injections are so dangerous, in fact, that countries around the world, including Japan, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom, have quietly started compensating families of people who have died or been permanently injured. In Canada over 700 people are waiting for their vaccine injury claims to be processed.

At the same time, Denmark has announced that it will no longer be giving children COVID-19 vaccines.

“… it will no longer be possible for children and young people under the age of 18 to get the 1st jab, and from 1 September 2022 it will no longer be possible to get the 2nd jab,” the Danish government said in a statement released in June. 

Bigotry in Berkeley

Berkeley, California, a place where residents pride themselves on being tolerant and inclusive. One of the Berkeley Unified School District campaigns has boldly proclaimed that BERKELEY STANDS UNITED AGAINST HATE. Yet this supposedly unprejudiced, open-minded, liberal city has been blatantly discriminating against people who have chosen not to support a multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical agenda.

The big winners? Big Pharma. (If you have any doubts about this, Forbes has an eye-opening article I recommend you read: “Meet the 40 New Billionaires Who Got Rich Fighting Covid-19”)

The big losers? People of color; anyone living in America who had a prior infection and decided to trust their own natural immunity; people who cannot safely be vaccinated for medical reasons; and those who said, “No, thank you,” to the vaccines because of their religious or philosophical beliefs.

So what happened to kindness, inclusion, and tolerance in Berkeley, California?

I think I know. It was killed by a big-profit agenda that managed to dupe otherwise very smart, good, kind people. Pharma is laughing all the way to the bank while the double, triple, and quadruple vaccinated are paying the price.

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About the author: Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning science journalist and book author. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University, earned her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Emory. Her mother was one of the most important microbiologists of the 20th century, her father was an X-ray crystallographer, her uncle won a Nobel Prize in Physics, and her other uncle, former chair of the Math Department at MIT, is known for having solved several “unsolvable” math problems. Support independent journalism by subscribing to this Substack, Vibrant Life.