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Flashback: Marty Gottesfeld on COVID and More from 2020

Flashback: Marty Gottesfeld on COVID and More from 2020

Let's revisit another article which was rejected.

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May 09, 2022
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Below is another article which never got published.

In April 2020, I got in touch with Marty Gottesfeld; he was being held at the Communications Management Unit of the US Bureau of Prisons (USBOP) in Terre Haute, Indiana.

He described the counter measures the USBOP was taking to counteract COVID.

Gottesfeld described what CYA type measures which did little to help slow or stop the spread.

Remarkably, in statements provided to me, USBOP did not dispute his assessment.

April 2020 was also when Justina Pelletier and her family lost their civil suit against Boston Children’s Hospital.

Pelletier’s cases was one of the first- along with being one of the most well covered- cases of what is referred to as medical kidnapping.

She was snatched from her parent’s care because a doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital disagreed with her parent’s assessment of her care.

She was only released after enormous media attention. Gottesfeld engineered an attack on the hospital’s website, a stunt which landed him in jail until 2024.

The article was denied because the statement’s of a single prisoner were not enough.

The article is below. Note, the COVID measures reflect conditions from April 2020.

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