Experience with Scheduling a State Hearing on Covid-19, the Hearing, and the Aftermath. Part 100
A notebook of experience for those who wish to conduct state hearings on your state health department's management of Covid-19
I’ve been “out for a while” with respect to completing some projects I started earlier, such as a formal blood model with respect to the countermeasure, because we got about 2 month’s warning that the legislature was going to hold a joint hearing (Senate and House) on the management of the Covid-19 era by our state government. What I want to do is to provide an historical commentary on how the meeting came to be, what happened during the meeting, and what has and will happen afterward.
Note that I have started with Part 100. I have been busy: it’s been at least 50 hours a week for the past 2 months, pulling this all together with the help of other members of the ad hoc committee we formed. I have not been able to write about the period before the actual meeting, which was held on Sept 12, 2023. I’m hoping that starting with 100 will give me enough posts to provide insight into the effort it took to get the meeting to happen in our state, insight that might be of help to groups in other states, states where nothing has been done to address what we identify in our group as state government malfeasance and derelection of duty. If I can’t fit it in with 100 posts, well, I guess I’ll have to start numbering at 100.1.
This post shows the meeting notice for the joint legislative meeting. Note the careful wording: “Pandemic Preparedness Listening Session.” (PPLS).
This state’s legislature is super majority Republicans. All the state officers are nominal Republicans. It is my observation that the Republicans range in political philosophy from old fashioned southern Democrats to MAGA Republicans to perhaps Libertarians. We have an open primary in this state, so it is a well know practice that Democrats put candidates in the Republican primary and, that way, run in the election as Republicans. Once in, their in for a long time if they so desire.
In the case of this committee, all the members are Republicans.
The meeting announcement is attached below.
The video of the meeting can be found here: https://www.scstatehouse.gov/video/archives.php
Once on that page, look for the entry on the right (you might have to scroll):
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 10:00 am
Senate Medical Affairs Committee -- Senate Medical Affairs Committee