Massachusetts ... (a fragment)
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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Here we are, the last stop … and I’ve saved the hardest nut for last.
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“Good Afternoon Mr. ,
PERAC has received your below public records request; however, we are unable to comply with a majority of your request. PERAC does not track the deaths of members or beneficiaries unless an accidental death benefit was awarded. For those who receive an accidental death benefit, we do not track whether the member was in service or retried. We are able to provide the total number of accidental death applications that we approved from 2018-2024, but cannot provide anything from 2015-2017 as we did not have a system in place to track. Below are the total awards for accidental death benefits in a calendar year:
2018 – 53
2019 – 66
2020 – 54
2021 – 51
2022 – 58
2023 – 47
2024 – 39
For detailed information regarding deaths of members and beneficiaries, you would need to contact each of the 104 retirement systems in the Commonwealth to obtain this information.
Please let me know if you have any further questions, “
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“Thank you. I appreciate the clarification on my request. I did not know there were that many different retirement organizations in Massachusetts. Is there not one umbrella entity that oversees the majority of them? I had assumed it might be PERAC.
I did come across some annual reports from the MSRB that do include death statistics. Would those numbers in the MSRB reports encompass several of the 104 retirement groups? I believe MSRB stands for Massachusetts State Retirement Board. That sounds like an umbrella agency.
I found those reports here:
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/publications-msrb
Those annual reports do give deaths for both active and retired members.
I am now assuming that PERAC and MSRB have no affiliation, and are completely separate entities. Is that correct?
There is one similarity though, in that those reports from the MSRB do not provide any useful mortality data prior to 2018. Is that because they also did not have a system in place, like PERAC didn’t?
Sorry to have so many follow up questions.
Any help you can give me to understand how to proceed in my research would be so appreciated.
best regards”
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“Hi Mr. ,
PERAC is the agency that oversees the pension system and helps ensure that each of the 104 retirement systems in the Commonwealth are following Chapter 32 (our retirement law) and PERAC regulations. However, while we oversee the systems, each system runs independently of the other. They all have different regulations, rules, polices, procedures, and are the ones that actually pay out the retirement allowances. This is why they would have the numbers regarding deaths of their members and beneficiaries. PERAC does not have access to member information, unless they are retired under a disability or termination, which is why I was able to provide numbers for accidental death benefits.
Here is a list of all 104 retirement boards where you can sort by alphabetical order: https://www.mass.gov/massachusetts-public-retirement-systems.
The MSRB is the State Retirement System, which is one of the 104 systems in the Commonwealth. They are not an umbrella agency and have no control over the other 103 systems. In their reports, they are providing data purely for the State Retirement System. They might have older reports that are just not published on the website, but you would have to contact them directly to confirm.”
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Well there you have it. Needless to say, I will not be contacting the 104 different retirement systems in Massachusetts individually.
As I stated in the above email exchange, I did already track down some mortality statistics from the Massachusetts State Retirement Board. It is going to be as close as we can get to what we are looking for.
The graph I produced of member deaths clearly shows an elevation above the norm once the pandemic event arrives. Also look closely at the screenshots for each fiscal year’s numbers. You may notice that the largest death total for active members is in the most recent FY2024 publication.
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Guess what? I was spot on with how I thought the vaccine mandates went down in Massachusetts … B I G.
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*the death statistics from the MSRB (Massachusetts State Retirement Board) only went back to FY2018. The earlier reports lacked the active and retired members itemized numbers. Because of that, I used a three year average (including 2020) to produce our graph.
The graph is a composite total of the active and retired categories.
Annual Reports
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08/19/2021
“WHEREAS, vaccination is the most effective tool for combating the 2019 novel Coronavirus ("COVID-19") and the executive department of the Commonwealth, as the largest employer in the State…
…NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles D. Baker, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution, Part 2, c. 2, § 1, Art. 1, do hereby order as follows:
It is the policy of the Commonwealth that all executive department employees shall be required to demonstrate that they have received COVID-19 vaccination and maintain full COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of continuing employment.”
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HPC Announces Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement for All Employees
09.30.2021
“Today, the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) announced that, to protect the health of safety of its workforce, all employees will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination on or before October 26, 2021. The requirement aligns with policies implemented by Governor Charlie Baker, Attorney General Maura Healey, and the city of Boston, as well as numerous businesses and health systems across the Commonwealth.”
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Baker Reverses Course, Orders State Employees To Get Vaccines
August 19, 2021
“Governor Charlie Baker is ordering the state’s 42,000 executive branch employees to be vaccinated, or face potential termination.
All employees will be required to provide proof of having been vaccinated by October 17. The new mandate applies to employees working remotely and those in-person.
Senate President Karen Spilka said she applauded the governor for "issuing a strong vaccination mandate," and said it "underscores the message that vaccination is our best tool for ending the disruption and suffering" caused by the pandemic.”
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More than 1,000 state workers were fired or quit over Gov. Charlie Baker’s COVID vaccine mandate
Feb. 11, 2022
“Throughout the disciplinary process — constituting 5-day and 10-day unpaid suspensions, plus disciplinary hearings — state workers have detailed to MassLive a sluggish, opaque process in which diversity officers have declined to grant vaccine waivers, even after informing state workers they managed to demonstrate their sincerely held religious beliefs. Nicole Coughlin, a former state worker at the Department of Developmental Services, was not approved for a medical waiver, despite three doctors arguing the vaccine could cause serious harm — or even death — based on an allergic reaction she suffered upon receiving the first Moderna dose last February.”
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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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Thanks for being with me until the end of the trip. There are a few loose ends to address before I put this project completely to rest. And as I have mentioned, there will shortly be a compendium shared with you of all the state’s reports in one place.
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Good to see! Looking forward to your next post!
Glad to see what you salvaged from a dauntingly difficult task, and curious to know how the compendium turns out, now that the project is complete.