Turning TechCamp Kyiv Into a Sustainable Movement

9.(U) TechCamp Kyiv was not just a two-day event. It was also an opportunity to bring together civil society
leaders from Ukraine and Belarus connecting them with each other while building bridges to U.S. technology
experts. Our follow-up mission will be to transform TechCamp into a sustainable movement that brings civil
society together with the technology that they need. Embassy Kyiv has already reached beyond the technology

and civil society sectors by inviting private corporations and philanthropic foundations to interact with
participants at TechCamp and share information about the resources that they have available for
NG0s. Representatives from Microsoft Ukraine, Intel Ukraine Microelectronics, Coca Cola, the Pinchuk
Foundation, Hot Source LLC, Softjourn Inc, Soft-Rating Consult, WorldAPP Inc, and MediaNext attended
parts of TechCamp Kyiv. Microsoft, in particular, was very generous in their support of civil society
organizations offering free software and interacting with TechCamp participants via social media platforms.

10. (U) Embassy Kyiv also conducted follow-on events in order to put the expertise of visiting U.S. technology
experts to use in order to expand our audience beyond the 100 civil society leaders that we were able to invite
to Kyiv. Thanks to IREX' Bibliomist program which offered free use of their technology training centers in the
cities of Donetsk and Kharkiv, TechCamp trainers were able to provide hands-on training for 40 additional
NGO activists and librarians the following weekend. Three TechCamp trainers joined us "on the road" to

share their ideas on using online games for social causes; made presentations on FrontlineSMS as a way to
conduct two-way communication without the use of an intemet connection; and discussed new advocacy
techniques for expanding the impact and reach of each participant's program and message.

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12. (U) Embassy Kyiv plans to use these new technologies and social media to further the development of
NGOs and promote sustainability. We also plan to host an event in Kyiv in three to six months where civil
society organizers can come together to share their best practices, success stories and progress working on the
proposals that they developed at TechCamp. We are also in contact with Microsoft Ukraine about this

proposed event and hope to involve other private sector partners. We also plan to bring in U.S. technology
experts in order to share their expertise, specifically pertaining to the funding and implementation of new
projects.

Vera Sharav is a public advocate for human rights is the founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP). As a Holocaust survivor she has previous first-hand experience of totalitarian regimes.

During her testimony given on Day 6 of the Grand Jury Proceedings her statement included::

“As we know, honesty is nowhere to be found within the corporate dominated government and public health agencies. So, for two years, we’ve all been subjected to the psychological weapons that the Nazis use to maintain a state of anxiety.

“The horrific scenes of police in black uniforms brutally attacking demonstrators in European cities, in Ottawa, in Australia, and in Israel. These scenes are absolute painful reminders of the Holocaust. The objective under the Nazis, and now, is actually exactly the same. It is to gain control over people’s lives by conditioning them to obey government directives no matter what.

“Eugenics was crafted and appeals to the elite segments of society. But it also appeals to the corporate oligarchs and selected government officials, and that’s more important.

“The British eugenicists provided the theoretical foundation which has then been used to justify social and economic inequality, to legitimise discrimination and apartheid, as well as violence against dissenters. But it was the American robber barons who provided the financial, the practical, means that set in motion public policies and population control legislation.

“In 1915, a joint eugenics venture was brokered by John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, and Mrs. E. H. Harriman, mother of the future statesman Avril Harriman.

“They funded a massive lobbying campaign for the enactment of laws to sterilise those whom they deemed unfit. Sterilisation laws were first enacted in 28 States. In the United States, their objective was to sterilise 10% of the American population. That was 15 million Americans. This was to be accomplished under the guise of improving public health and the human race.

“US sterilisation laws served as, you know, the model for the Nazi racial hygiene laws.”

Below is the video of Sharav’s testimony and the transcript.

Grand Jury - Day 6 Part 5 0f 5 - Eugenics and Outlook - Vera Sharav - AHRP Founder, Holocaust surv.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EhVKshU15PK4/

https://events.in.gov/event/attorney_general_todd_rokita_fights_covid-19_misinformation?

Attorney General Todd Rokita is fighting to expose COVID-19 misinformation and calling on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other agencies to provide transparency for the data used to make public health decisions.

In response to HHS’s Request for Information (RFI) regarding COVID-19 misinformation, Attorney General Rokita partnered with esteemed epidemiologists Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Senior Research Fellow at the Brownstone Institute and former Professor at Harvard University School of Medicine to review the evidence and data behind COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines.

“The federal government must evaluate how misinformation from government agencies at all levels led to the adoption of extreme strategies that came at a high cost to life and liberty,” Attorney General Rokita said. “I believe in Hoosiers, and I believe they can be trusted with the facts to make informed decisions for themselves and their families. I truly appreciate Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Kulldorff for their expertise and leadership to expose the truth.”

“For two years, the government forced us to stay in our homes, cover our faces, and keep our kids home from school,” Attorney General Rokita said. “We were expected to blindly follow and obey these public health orders and not question the wisdom of unelected officials. Families across Indiana and across the nation demand the truth.”

The submitted response to HHS revealed misleading messages spread by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other non-elected health officials, including:

- Vaccines stop the spread.
- The eradication of COVID-19 is a feasible goal.
- There was no reasonable policy alternative to lockdowns.
- Mask mandates are effective in reducing the spread of viral infectious diseases.
- Mass testing of asymptomatic individuals and contact tracing of positive cases is effective in reducing disease spread.
- The reported number of COVID-19 deaths is accurate.

“The government spent close to $5 trillion fighting COVID-19, but still can’t provide Hoosiers with an accurate number of deaths or hospitalizations from COVID-19,” Attorney General Rokita said.


Attorney General Rokita has consistently defended liberty in the age of COVID-19 by leading the charge against President Biden’s unlawful mask and vaccine mandates. Now, he is determined to expose the facts surrounding inaccurate data on the numbers of deaths and hospitalizations related to COVID-19.

“We can’t improve our response to a future pandemic without an honest and accurate accounting of the number of deaths and hospitalizations inflicted by COVID-19,” Attorney General Rokita said.

The response to HHS’s Request for Information can be viewed below.

A headshot of Attorney General Rokita is available for download.

May 2, 2022
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General
Action: Request for Information (RFI)
Subject: Impact of Health Misinformation in the Digital Information Environment in the United States
Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic
Response: COVID-19 Misinformation from Official Sources During the Pandemic
Submitting parties: Todd Rokita, Indiana Attorney General; Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor at Stanford
University School of Medicine; and Dr. Kulldorff, Senior Research Fellow at the Brownstone Institute and
former Professor at Harvard University School of Medicine.
The Office of the Surgeon General requested information on the prevalence of health misinformation
during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of such misinformation on the U.S. public health system in
order to be better prepared to respond to a future public health crisis.
We agree that misinformation has been a major problem during the pandemic. The spread of inaccurate
scientific information has made it difficult for the public to make the right decisions to protect themselves,
their families, and their communities from COVID-19 and the collateral public health damage arising from
the pandemic countermeasures. As such, the disinformation has led to great harm in the lives and
livelihoods of Americans. We submit the following examples of disinformation from the CDC and other
health organizations that have shattered the public’s trust in science and public health and will take
decades to repair.
#1 Overcounting COVID-19: The official CDC numbers for COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations are
inaccurate. The official tallies include many people who have died with rather than from COVID-19. CDC
has not distinguished deaths where COVID-19 was the primary cause of death, where COVID-19 was a
contributing cause of death, or where the death was entirely unrelated to COVID-19, but they incidentally
tested positive.
There are three reasons for this problem. (i) The counting of COVID-19 cases and deaths is unlike the way
that public health counts the incidence and mortality caused by other diseases; physicians have been
advised to fill out death certificates to privilege COVID-19 as a proximal cause, even when the medical
facts suggest otherwise.1
(ii) The population-wide testing to identify asymptomatic individuals infected
with the SARS-CoV-2 virus is unprecedented in human history. (iii) Although it would have been easy, CDC
has not conducted random national surveys of medical charts to determine what proportion of reported
COVID-19 deaths were truly due to COVID-19. Ex-post audits of death certificates and medical records in
1
Jefferson T, Dietrich M, Brassey J, Heneghan C. CG Report 8: Understanding Definitions and Reporting of Deaths
Attributed to COVID-19-19 in the UK – Evidence from FOI Requests. Collateral Global. Version 1, 15 March
2022. https://collateralglobal.org/article/understanding-COVID-19-19-deaths-in-the-uk/
Santa Clara County2
and Alameda County3
, California, for instance, found that in ~25% of death certificates
in which COVID-19 was labeled as the primary cause of death, other causes of death were more likely.
The peer-reviewed literature confirms that COVID-19 is overcounted in other developed countries. Ex post
audits of death certificates should be conducted to establish an accurate death count from COVID-19.
#2 Questioning Natural Immunity: There has been consistent questioning and denying of natural
immunity after COVID-19 recovery. Using seriously flawed studies, CDC falsely claimed that natural
immunity is worse than vaccine acquired immunity.4
In October 2020, the CDC director published a
“memorandum” in The Lancet, questioning natural immunity.5 Most critically, by mandating vaccination
for people who have recovered from COVID-19, the government, corporations, and universities de facto
deny natural immunity.
For scientists, this has been the most surprising disinformation. We have known about natural immunity
since the Athenian Plague in 430 BC; other coronaviruses generate natural immunity; and throughout
the pandemic, we knew that the COVID-19 recovered have good natural immunity if and when they get
exposed the next time. That is, six months after the start of the pandemic, we had epidemiological
evidence that natural immunity lasts at least six months; a year into the pandemic, we knew that natural
immunity lasted at least one year, and so on. 6
#3 COVID-19 Vaccines Prevent Transmission: The CDC director and other health officials falsely claimed
that the COVID-19 vaccine prevents the transmission of COVID-19 to others.7 This was also the rationale
for vaccine mandates and passports -- to prevent the spread of the virus to others. At the time, we did
not know, and it turned out to be wrong.8 When the COVID-19 vaccines were approved for emergency
use, the manufacturers presented randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that showed that the vaccines
reduced symptomatic disease. The trials were not designed to determine whether they could also limit
transmission or prevent death, even though they could have been designed to do so9
. As it turned out,
2 Reese M. Santa Clara County revises total COVID-19 deaths by over 20% . July 8, 2021.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-revises-total-COVID-19-deaths-by-over-20/
3 Krans B. Alameda County’s new COVID-19 death toll is 25% lower than thought. The Oaklandside. June 4, 2021.
https://oaklandside.org/2021/06/04/alameda-countys-new-COVID-19-death-toll-is-25-lower-than-thought/
4 Kulldorff M. A Review and Autopsy of Two COVID-19 Immunity Studies. November 2, 2021
https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-COVID-19-immunity-studies/
5 Alwan NA et al. Scientific consensus on the COVID-19-19 pandemic: we need to act now. The Lancet. October 15,
2020. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32153-X/fulltext
6 Kulldorff M. Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity. Brownstone Institute, October 1,
2021. https://brownstone.org/articles/hospitals-should-hire-not-fire-nurses-with-natural-immunity/
7 Rochelle Walensky. MSNBC March 2021. https://twitter.com/KyleMartinsen_/status/1509206752780238851
8 Chemaitelly H, Tang P, Hasan MR, AlMukdad S, Yassine HM, Benslimane FM, Al Khatib HA, Coyle P, Ayoub HH, Al
Kanaani Z, Al Kuwari E, Jeremijenko A, Kaleeckal AH, Latif AN, Shaik RM, Abdul Rahim HF, Nasrallah GK, Al Kuwari
MG, Al Romaihi HE, Butt AA, Al-Thani MH, Al Khal A, Bertollini R, Abu-Raddad LJ. Waning of BNT162b2 Vaccine
Protection against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Qatar. N Engl J Med. 2021 Oct 6:NEJMoa2114114. doi:
10.1056/NEJMoa2114114. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34614327; PMCID: PMC8522799.
9 Reynald Castañeda. COVID-19-19 vaccines’ capacity to reduce transmission has experts torn if infection event
decrease is an appropriate surrogate measure. Clinical Trials Arena. March 1, 2021.
vaccinated individuals spread the disease to others10. While it was unfortunate that the RCTs were not
designed to answer the disease transmission question, it is irresponsible for public health officials to
claim that they did when the RCTs did not even attempt to answer that question.
#4 School Closures Were Effective and Costless: In the United States, most schools were closed for inperson teaching for some time, and many schools were closed for over a year. This decision was based
on false claims that it would protect children, teachers, and the community at large. Already in the early
summer of 2020, we knew this was false. Sweden was the only major Western country to keep schools
open throughout spring 2020 without masks, social distancing, or testing. Among these 1.8 million
children ages 1 to 15, there were zero COVID-19 deaths, only a few hospitalizations, and teachers did
not have a higher COVID-19 risk than the average of other professions.11
Moreover, while older people living with a working-age adult had a higher COVID-19 risk, there was no
evidence that also living with a child increased that risk further. In a July 2020 New England Journal of
Medicine article evaluating school closures, they did not mention the Swedish data and evidence, which
is like evaluating a new drug without including data from the placebo comparison group.12 Despite clear
evidence on the safety of keeping schools open, misinformation led to many schools being closed for
over one year.
#5 Everyone is equally at risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 infection: Though public
health messaging has blunted this fact, there is more than a thousand-fold difference in the risk of
hospitalization and death for the old relative to the young.13 Though the risk of death is high for the old
and some other vulnerable populations with severe chronic illness, the risk posed to children from
COVID-19 infection is on par with the risk posed by a bad influenza season. Surveys indicate, however,
that both old and young overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 infection.14 This misperception
about risk is harmful because it leads to demand for policies – such as school closures and lockdowns –
that were themselves harmful.
https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/comment/COVID-19-19-vaccines-capacity-to-reduce-transmission-hasexperts-torn/
10 Riemersma, K. K., Grogan, B. E., Kita-Yarbro, A., Halfmann, P. J., Segaloff, H. E., Kocharian, A., Florek, K. R.,
Westergaard, R., Bateman, A., Jeppson, G. E., Kawaoka, Y., O’Connor, D. H., Friedrich, T. C., & Grande, K. M. (2021).
Shedding of infectious SARS-CoV-2 despite vaccination. medRxiv, Preprint. doi: 10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387
11 Public Health Sweden. COVID-19-19 in schoolchildren (folkhalsomyndigheten.se). July 2020
https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/c1b78bffbfde4a7899eb0d8ffdb57b09/COVID-19-19-schoolaged-children.pdf
12 Levinson M, Cevik M, Lipsitch M. Reopening Primary Schools during the Pandemic. N Engl J Med. 2020 Sep
3;383(10):981-985. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2024920. Epub 2020 Jul 29. PMID: 32726550.
13 Kulldorff M. COVID-19-19 Counter Measures Should be Age Specific. LinkedIn. April 10, 2020.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/COVID-19-19-counter-measures-should-age-specific-martin-kulldorff/
14 Lee M. Public vastly overestimates risk of hospitalization from COVID-19-19: Study. Washington Examiner. March
21, 2021. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/americans-overestimate-hospitalization-COVID-19-study
#6 There was no reasonable policy alternative to lockdowns: Even from the beginning of the pandemic,
the sharp age-gradient in the risk of severe disease on COVID-19 infection has provided an alternative to
the lockdown-focused policies that many U.S. states adopted – focused protection of the aged and
otherwise vulnerable. In October 2020, along with Prof. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University, we wrote
the Great Barrington Declaration – a public petition that proposed heightened measures to protect the
vulnerable and a return to near-normal life for the less vulnerable (including the opening of schools).15
Tens of thousands of doctors and scientists signed the Declaration in opposition to lockdowns. In the
Declaration itself and in supporting documents, we offered many concrete policy suggestions for better
protecting the vulnerable, including reduced staff rotations in nursing homes, free home delivery of
groceries and other essentials offered to older people living in the community, paid sabbatical leave or
alternative work arrangements for older workers, and many other policy options. We also invited the
public health community to join in thinking creatively about other ideas to protect the vulnerable. As
subsequent research has confirmed, it was clear even at the time that lockdowns could not protect the
vulnerable (nearly 80% of COVID-19 deaths have occurred among the elderly in the U.S.
16). Meanwhile,
countries like Sweden, which did not implement lockdowns, have had near-zero overall excess death
over the last two years of the pandemic.17 Lockdowns are an aberration– a sharp deviation from
traditional public health management of respiratory epidemics – and a catastrophic failure of public
health policy.
#7 Mask mandates are effective in reducing the spread of viral infectious diseases: Contrary to
assertions by some public health officials, mask mandates have not been effective in protecting most
populations against COVID-19 risk.18 The SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads by aerosolization.19 Unlike larger viral
droplets, which are pulled by gravity to the ground shortly after emission, aerosols are tiny particles that
can persist in the air for extended periods. Aerosols escape through gaps of poorly fitted masks, greatly
reducing their ability to stop disease spread. Cloth masks, in particular, cannot stop aerosols, and even
well-fitted N95 masks have diminished capacity to stop viral transmission when they become moist from
breathing. It is thus unsurprising that the highest quality evidence available – randomized trials –
15 Bhattacharya J, Kuldorff M, & Gupta S. Great Barrington Declaration. https://gbdeclaration.org/
16 Kaiser Family Foundation. 8 in 10 People Who Have Died of COVID-19-19 Were Age 65 or Older – But the Share
Varies By State. July 2020. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-COVID-19-19/press-release/8-in-10-people-who-havedied-of-COVID-19-19-were-age-65-or-older-but-the-share-varies-by-state/
17 Brownlee S and Lenzer J, What Sweden Got Right About COVID-19. Washington Monthly. April 19, 2022.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/19/what-sweden-got-right-about-COVID-19/
18 Damian D.Guerra, Daniel J.Guerra. Mask mandate and use efficacy for COVID-19-19 containment in US
States.International Research Journal of Public Health, 2021; 5:55. DOI: 10.28933/irjph-2021-08-1005
19 Soucheray S. Experts push CDC, White House to address COVID-19-19 aerosol spread. CIDRAP. February 7, 2021.
News & Perspective | CIDRAP
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/02/experts-push-cdc-white-house-address-COVID-19-19-
aerosol-spread
conducted both before and during the pandemic find that masks are ineffective at stopping the spread
of respiratory viruses in most settings when worn by untrained people.20, 21, 22
#8 Mass testing of asymptomatic individuals and contact tracing of positive cases is effective in
reducing disease spread: Mass testing of asymptomatic individuals with contact tracing and
quarantining of people who test positive has failed to substantively slow the progress of the epidemic
and has imposed great costs on people who were quarantined even though they posed no risk of
infecting others.23 Three facts are crucial to understanding why this policy has failed. First, even close
contacts of someone who tests positive for the SARS-Cov-2 virus are unlikely to pass the disease on. In a
large meta-analysis of household contacts of asymptomatic positive cases, only 3% of people living in
the same home got sick.24 Second, the PCR test that has been used to identify asymptomatic infections
often returns a positive result for people who have dead viral fragments, are not infectious, and pose no
risk of infecting others.25 And third, the contact tracing system becomes overwhelmed whenever cases
start to rise, leading to long delays in contacting new cases. At precisely the moment when contact
tracing might be needed, it cannot do its job. At the same time, quarantining people is costly – for
workers without adequate sick leave, absenteeism due to contact tracing means pay cuts, lost
opportunities, and perhaps even an inability to feed families. For children, it means more skipped
lessons and missed opportunities for academic and social growth at school, with long-run negative
consequences for their future prospects. In the U.K., an official government review determined that its
37 billion pound investment in contact tracing was a waste of resources.26 The same is undoubtedly true
in the United States.
#9 The eradication of COVID-19 is a feasible goal: Throughout the pandemic, from “two weeks to
flatten the curve” and onwards, the suppression of the spread of COVID-19 has been an explicit policy
goal. Implicitly, public health leaders have made the suppression of COVID-19 spread to near-zero levels
the endpoint of the pandemic. However, SARS-CoV-2 has none of the characteristics of a disease that
20 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Using face masks in the community: first update. 15
February 2021. ECDC: Stockholm; 2021.
21 Tom Jefferson, Carl Heneghan (2020) Masking Lack of Evidence with Politics. Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
working paper. Oxford University. https://www.cebm.net/COVID-19-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/
22 Jefferson T, Del Mar CB, Dooley L, Ferroni E, Al-Ansary LA, Bawazeer GA, van Driel ML, Jones MA, Thorning S,
Beller EM, Clark J, Hoffmann TC, Glasziou PP, Conly JM. Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of
respiratory viruses. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 11. Art. No.: CD006207. DOI:
10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub5.
23 Bhattacharya J and Packalen M. On the Futility of Contact Tracing. Inference. September 2020. https://inferencereview.com/article/on-the-futility-of-contact-tracing
24 Madewell ZJ, Yang Y, Longini IM Jr, Halloran ME, Dean NE. Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic
Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(12):e2031756. Published 2020 Dec 1.
doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.31756
25 Jefferson T, Spencer EA, Brassey J, Heneghan C. Viral Cultures for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infectivity
Assessment: A Systematic Review. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 6;73(11):e3884-e3899. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1764.
PMID: 33270107; PMCID: PMC7799320.
26 Triggle N. COVID-19-19: NHS Test and Trace 'no clear impact' despite £37bn budget. BBC. March 10, 2021.
Covid-19: NHS Test and Trace 'no clear impact' despite £37bn budget - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56340831
can be eradicated. First, we have no technology to reduce the spread of the disease or meaningfully
alter disease dynamics. Lockdowns and social restrictions fail because only people who can afford to
work from home without losing their job can comply over long periods. While we have vaccines that can
help prevent hospitalization or death resulting from COVID-19 infection, the vaccines wane in efficacy
against COVID-19 infection and cannot stop transmission. Second, there are many animal hosts for
SARS-CoV-2 and evidence of transmission between mammals and humans. One USDA study in late 2021
found that nearly 80% of white-tailed deer in the U.S. had evidence of COVID-19 antibodies.27 Dogs, cats,
bats, mink, and many other mammals can get COVID-19. So even if the disease were eradicated among
humans, zoonotic transmission would guarantee that it would come back. Finally, eradication takes a
global commitment from every country – an impossible goal since COVID-19 eradication is far from the
most pressing public health problem for many developing countries.
27 SciTechDaily. Over 80% of Deer in Study Test Positive for COVID-19 – They May Be a Reservoir for the Virus To
Continually Circulate. November 6, 2021. https://scitechdaily.com/over-80-of-deer-in-study-test-positive-forCOVID-19-they-may-be-a-reservoir-for-the-virus-to-continually-circulate/