Kansas
Mortality trends for public employee retirees in the years 2015 to 2024.
I’m a former public employee that did not want to put an experimental drug into my body just to keep my job. That experience has probably scarred me for life. I am now looking at public institutions, state by state, to see if there is any potential (official) evidence of harm caused by those coerced covid vaccinations.
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“Nothin' lasts forever but the earth and sky”
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Well, there you go, I’ve outed myself as a prog rock nerd. You may know the song Dust in the Wind by the band named after this state. That line above is a less remembered part of the lyrics. It’s a great song, very bittersweet and ethereal … morose perhaps.
Anyway, it does capture my mood as I work on this one.
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The members removed numbers and graph again show the rise of the pandemic event. There is a strange blip before the pandemic in FY2018 - we have seen this before in other locations. I have gone off script in this post a bit to do an experiment with that.
This report has a good deal of death refund/benefit statistics. Much of the same information gets put into different tables throughout the sections. I have reproduced one table below that has all the relevant numbers. You can definitely see elevated figures for those compensations during the pandemic. The death refunds in particular are very noticeably increased in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
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Though Kansas was officially a state that did not go along with the federal push for mandates, the numbers do show that people were harmed nonetheless. Just because the governor and legislators did not put out a mandate, that does not mean that the citizens did not do it of their own accord.
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
A component unit of the State of Kansas
2024 ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT
For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2024
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*yet again we see the weird number for FY2018. I have made note of this anomaly on several of my past posts.
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*just for an experiment in comparison, I have “normalized” what the FY2018 number could be expected to show in the pre-pandemic trend. I have adjusted it down to match the largest number in the 2015 to 2019 range.
page 112 (RETIRANTS, BENEFICIARIES - CHANGES IN ROLLS – ALL SYSTEMS)
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page 117 (BENEFITS BY TYPE)
Kansas Health Care Personnel Vaccine Mandates
“In 2021, several Kansas hospitals mandated all staff receive vaccinations against COVID-19. The table below lists hospitals and hospital systems in the state that issued COVID-19 vaccine mandates, as well as the date by which staff were to complete the vaccine regimen. Some hospitals, such as AdventHealth, paused their mandates following court injunctions against federal vaccine mandates.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued technical guidance on the topic of vaccine requirements. According to the EEOC, employers can mandate employees receive vaccines subject to reasonable accommodation provisions in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The State of Kansas has not issued any COVID-19 vaccine mandates.”
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Kansas Governor Signs Bill Limiting Workplace Vaccine Mandates
December 3, 2021
“Seeking “compromise” and following in the footsteps of other governors, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed House Bill (HB) No. 2001 into law on November 23, 2021, broadening exemptions from employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates, permitting the imposition of civil penalties against noncomplying Kansas employers, and providing unemployment benefits to individuals who were discharged for failing to comply with an employer’s vaccine mandate and asserted that their employers violated HB 2001…
…Like the legislation enacted in other states, HB 2001 conflicts with current federal law, particularly related to HB 2001’s requirement that all religious exemption requests be granted without inquiry into the sincerity of the request.”
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Anti-vaccine politics return to Kansas Legislature.
This time, it's more than COVID-19
Jan. 17, 2023
“This week, GOP leadership unveiled a legislative agenda that included a commitment to "reject mandates, passports, and other restrictions that impose upon the liberty of Kansans."
Meanwhile in Kansas, most people have gotten vaccinated. CDC data show 76% of the state's entire population got at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, with 65% getting two doses.”
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*in case you have forgotten …
Pandemic Milestones:
January 20, 2020
-First covid case in the U.S.
December 11, 2020
-Pfizer Emergency Use Authorization
December 18, 2020
-Moderna Emergency Use Authorization
August 23, 2021
-Pfizer full FDA approval
January 31, 2022
-Moderna full FDA approval
April 10, 2023
-Biden declares the end of the pandemic
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csofand— good to see this. Sad though it is.
What do you suppose the blip in 2017-18 was all about?
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Re: "requirement that all religious exemption requests be granted without inquiry into the sincerity of the request.”
I find it outrageous that some bureaucrat can inquire into the sincerity of my or anyone else's stated beliefs. Our Bill of Rights does not grant religious freedoms only to members of an established church or temple, nor is there any authority granted to any one anywhere to determine what is or is not valid in the privacy of our own minds and hearts and souls.
This is our constitutional right, and it has been systematically violated. Unfortunately many people do not understand this. I know people who did not apply for a religious exemption because they thought they had to have a letter from their priest or their pastor or their rabbi, or what have you. But that is not the case. A sincerely stated religious belief is enough. If I say it is sincere, and I sign my name to it, then for all legal purposes it is. And where the religious exemption applications were not respected— I sincerely hope that those who violated others' rights in this respect will be held to account before the law, and harshly.
On this infelicitous subject, for anyone who might be interested in further reading, I would recommend Thomas Harrington's essay, "Clerical Abuse Redefined"
https://brownstone.org/articles/clerical-abuse-redefined/
The exceptional rise in FY2018, which as you say we've seen in some other states, is bizarre -- I wonder what caused it. I appreciate your sifting through all this information and presenting it to us & future researchers.