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JEFF CHILDERS REPORT ON THE BIG VSRF CONFERENCE THIS WEEKEND

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   March 26, 2023 - 3:11 pm at 3:11 pm

   MULTIPLIER UPDATE: Before I published yesterday’s post with the multiplier, I checked Dr. Littell’s GiveSendGo, and over the three days since it was set up it had raised just $958. As of today — a little over one day later — the total raised is above $170,000, in over 4,600 individual donations. If past experience is any guide, it will continue building through Monday.

   That is a heck of a message we all just sent to the medical licensing industry.

   ? Conference update: I’m not sure what I expected when we arrived for the conference Friday afternoon. Whatever that was, I underestimated it. This one feels different than previous meetups, more energetic, more … significant. If anyone thought we all were going to lose interest as the pandemic waned and other distractions suddenly popped up, the enthusiasm at the conference completely dispelled that notion.

   Many of the attending lawyers I spoke to agreed this was the best Continuing Legal Education we’d ever attended. There were several unscripted dramatic moments. Once of the main conference organizers, a young woman who was vaccine-injured, experienced a series of very serious seizures Friday night (in her room) and the other conference volunteers sprang into action to replace her.

   It was a sobering reminder of why everyone was there.

   Then, after news broke about Dr. Littell, the VSRF flew him up to Atlanta yesterday and tacked him on to an already-packed speaking agenda as a surprise speaker, and the doctor spoke eloquently and passionately about his often uplifting and sometimes heartbreaking stories of struggling to save covid patients in five hospitals during the pandemic.

   The outpouring of support for Dr. Littell and the other persecuted covid doctors was unbelievable.

   To remind you, the conference is intended to train MORE lawyers to take covid cases. I can’t imagine how much more I could have accomplished if I’d had a chance to attend something like this in 2020. You can attribute one more unintended benefit to the pandemic: it has mobilized a whole new generation of freedom fighters and the effects will be generational.

   Some highlights from the conference:

   — I met lawyers who’d traveled across the country to be here: California, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, and even Hawaii and Canada. (The unvaccinated Canadian lawyer had to fly to the border, drive across in a car, and then take another flight to Atlanta. The good news is she can fly directly home.)

   — During my Keynote, I asked by show of hands how many lawyers came from firms with fewer than ten attorneys. The vast majority of the large ballroom raised their hands. For a variety of reasons, the large law firms have been nearly useless when the rubber hit the road and it came to protecting Americans’ Constitutional rights. This is a generation of small lawyers and independent doctors who are literally saving the world.

   — Attorney Sujata Gibson sagely diagnosed that at this point, we are only “at the end of the beginning.”

   — Obviously, I ran into scads of Coffee & Covid fans. One lawyer from Colorado read about the Conference in C&C on Tuesday, and changed his weekend plans to attend. More than one lawyer told me about reading C&C during the pandemic and being encouraged to take local covid cases like exemption denials, and finding other ways to help push back against mandates in their cities.

   — Excellent covid lawyer and conference co-organizer Warner Mendenhall opined the event was “creating the Covid Litigation Bar.”

   — Pfizer clinical trials whistleblower Brook Jackson speaks this afternoon.

   There’s a lot more. I don’t think Steve Kirsch’s VSRF will have any trouble selling out again next year. They might need an even bigger conference room.