Protecting public health requires a balanced, evidence-based approach that prioritizes safety, transparency, and individual rights. The COVID-19 pandemic response highlighted significant failures, ignoring natural immunity, and reliance on unethical and illegal mandates that eroded public trust. Federal vaccine mandates have exposed serious concerns about medical ethics, abuse of the fundamental right to informed consent and the ability to refuse treatment, a cornerstone of bioethics that respects bodily autonomy even when public health goals are at stake. Vaccine rollouts during the COVID scamdemic were immediately dangerous to life and health. Vaccine safety monitoring systems like VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) captured hundreds of thousands of reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination, but have yet to be opened for inspection and use and pharmaceuticals still have indemnity from harm due to vaccines. Personal stories from mandate victims, such as healthcare workers or military personnel who faced job loss, health complications, or coercion, underscore the human cost of one-size-fits-all policies. True health protection demands rigorous post-market surveillance, open discussion of risks versus benefits, avoidance of overreach in mandates, and unwavering commitment to ethical principles: do no harm, prioritize voluntary participation, and safeguard the right to refuse medical interventions. Informed choice, not compulsion, best serves both individual welfare and societal resilience.

The public school system was designed to serve families — not the other way around. Fred believes that parents, not administrators, curriculum boards, or state agencies, are the sovereign authority over their children's bodily autonomy, what they learn, read, and are exposed to in a school setting.

This means full transparency in records and curriculum, the right to opt children out of any program without penalty, and real parental representation in school governance.

Public-private partnerships sound like efficiency. Too often they are mechanisms for privatizing profit while socializing risk — for channeling public resources to well-connected developers and interests while insulating them from the accountability that genuine market competition would impose.

Fred will demand full transparency via GRAMA and public benefit analysis on any partnership arrangement that uses taxpayer money, eminent domain, or government-granted advantage. The public is not a silent investor to be used and ignored. Every PPP must be measured against a simple question: who actually benefits, and at whose expense?

The flood of fentanyl and other chemical weapons into American communities is not an accident of supply and demand. It is largely the work of foreign adversaries — principally by the Chinese Communist Party working through cartel networks — to hollow out American communities, demoralize the workforce, overwhelm public institutions, and destabilize civil society.

Utah is not immune. Fred believes that any legislator who fails to recognize this for what it is — an act of warfare by proxy — is unfit to protect the people. He will pursue state-level responses that treat this as the national security threat it is, and oppose any policy that normalizes or facilitates drug dependency.

The push for high-density housing development across Utah communities is being driven not by genuine housing need assessments, but by a pipeline of federal and state funds that flow — in ways that deserve scrutiny — toward politically connected developers and organizations. The pattern is consistent enough to warrant the word laundering.

Public money is allocated for "affordable housing" or "community development," passes through quasi-governmental and nonprofit intermediaries, and surfaces as profit for a narrow class of beneficiaries while existing neighborhoods are disrupted and property rights are eroded. Fred supports full accountability for housing funds.

A significant proportion of the social unrest visible across American cities is not spontaneous. It is organized — and the organizers have learned that individuals compromised by psychiatric medication, drug dependency, or deliberate psychological destabilization are readily recruited and manipulated into visible, disruptive roles.

Fred believes that understanding this infrastructure is not conspiracy — it is operational analysis. The questions worth asking are: who funds the organizations that recruit and deploy these individuals? What is the relationship between pharmaceutical over-prescription, institutional mental health policy, and the supply of people in crisis? And what legislative tools exist to disrupt this pipeline without punishing the vulnerable individuals who are themselves victims of it?

Under current Utah law, Public Infrastructure Districts allow private developers, 'stakeholders' per the current government jargon, to issue long-term municipal bonds — bonds that carry the tax-free status of public debt — to finance their own private buildings and developments. The interest rates on these instruments are allowed to be higher than ordinary property tax rates, meaning the public subsidy owing to their liberal tax-rate and the bonds' tax-exempt status is a personal benefit.

This is a wealth transfer dressed up in infrastructure manipulation that most municipal officers can't comprehend. Developers issuing PIDs get the financing advantages of government-backed debt while bearing none of the accountability that genuine public borrowing deserves. Taxpayers and neighboring property owners bear the risk; the developers pocket the margin. Fred believes PIDs as currently structured should be eliminated. Public bonding authority is a public trust — not a tool to be handed to private interests with a government seal.

Utah's budget has expanded far beyond the pace of population and inflation growth. Fred believes that every dollar spent by government is a dollar taken from the productive economy — from the family, the farm, the small business. He will vote against spending that lacks clear constitutional justification and push for sunset provisions on programs that have outlived their mandate.

Fred also knows that bloated government is not just a fiscal problem — it is a power problem. Dependency on government spending creates constituencies for expansion, not accountability.