The last thing posted here was written in March 2021. That is a long silence, and it deserves an explanation before anything else.

The short version: the pandemic took the Foundation’s momentum away at precisely the moment it should have given us wind. We had held one board meeting. We had a test, a plan, and a reason. Then everything that could absorb a person’s attention did, and the work that needed doing quietly stopped getting done.

I am picking it back up. This is the first of what will be regular posts, and I want to say plainly what has changed and what has not.

What has not changed

In February 2021 I posted a piece on this site called Demand Reliable Neutralizing Antibody Testing. The argument was that a test exists which measures whether a person actually has protective immunity, that it runs on equipment hospitals already own, and that almost nobody is offered it before being vaccinated.

Five years on, every word of that still holds. The test did not fail. It was not withdrawn. It received emergency authorization from the FDA during the pandemic, which means a regulator examined it and found it fit for use. And it has sat on a shelf ever since, because offering it to people before vaccination was never anybody’s job.

That is the gap this Foundation was built to close, and it has not narrowed. If anything it has widened, because the urgency that would have funded the work has drained away and the samples that would have answered the questions are being thrown out.

What has changed

Two things, and they are connected more closely than they look.

The first is that I have written the argument down properly. Hidden in Plain Sight is about why good research so often stops short of the people it was meant to help — the stretch between a thing that works in a laboratory and a thing a patient can actually get. Scientists call it the valley of death. Most useful research dies in it, quietly, because nobody’s job description included carrying it across.

The second is that I spent this year watching the same machinery operate on my own road.

Leavenworth County

In February I did not know what a county agenda packet was. I know now.

A data center and a gas-fired power plant are proposed near Tonganoxie, Kansas, in the township where I live. Since then I have filed open records requests, sat through a four-hour hearing, read every set of minutes, and learned a number of things the hard way.

I learned that the open meetings law in Kansas guarantees you the right to attend a public meeting. It does not guarantee you the right to speak at one. I learned that public comment on this project closed the night of the hearing, and that the regulations adopted in October were not the regulations anyone was heard on. I learned that five minutes of sworn testimony can be recorded in the minutes as three words, and that there is a procedure for correcting that, and that almost nobody knows the procedure exists.

I wrote a second book about it, The Battle for Tonganoxie. But the book is not the useful part.

The toolkit is free, and it is for you

Everything I learned is written up and sitting on this site at immunocure.org/toolkit. There is nothing to sign up for, no email address to hand over, and no money involved.

It contains an open records request you can edit and file. A letter asking for conditions, with thirty-one specific conditions to choose from. A request to correct the minutes when your testimony has been mangled. And a fact sheet you can print and carry into a meeting — water consumption, waste heat, noise, electromagnetic fields, the tax abatements — with a source next to every figure, so that when somebody tells you the number is wrong you can show them where it came from.

The templates are deliberately generic. This is not a Kansas document. Every state has an open records law and every county has a packet deadline, and the templates are built to be edited for wherever you are.

Why these two things belong on the same website

They look like different fights. A test that nobody offers, and a power plant nobody local asked for.

They are the same fight. Both come down to a decision being made about your body or your land by people who are not required to show you the evidence, and to the discovery that the evidence often does not exist because gathering it was nobody’s job and answering the question would not have profited anyone.

The remedy is the same in both cases, and it is unglamorous. Ask for the number. Ask again in writing. Keep the reply.

That is what this site is going to be about from here on, and there will be no five-year gap this time.