COVID Misinformation and the Fight for School Safety

On October 6, 2022, Kim Monson examines the erosion of public trust in institutions, from COVID-19 misinformation spread by public health officials to the fight for safer schools. Award-winning journalist Cheryl Atkinson exposes how pharmaceutical interests corrupted the pandemic response, while John Castillo, father of STEM school shooting hero Kendrick Castillo, shares his family’s mission to protect America’s children.

Government Misinformation and the Erosion of Public Trust

Start listening at 33:26 – Hour 1

Cheryl Atkinson, host of Full Measure on the Sinclair Broadcast Group, delivers a damning assessment of federal health agencies’ handling of COVID-19. The veteran investigative journalist traces how pharmaceutical interests infiltrated public health institutions, creating a system where officials instinctively promote profitable treatments while controversializing inexpensive alternatives.

Atkinson highlights CDC Director Walensky’s false claim that vaccinated individuals cannot transmit COVID, Anthony Fauci’s contradictory statements about the virus’s lethality, and the systematic suppression of the lab-leak theory despite internal government scientists concluding COVID was a man-manipulated virus. She connects these failures to her ongoing lawsuit against the FBI for surveillance of journalists, warning that without accountability, such abuses will continue.

“I think this is probably the single most damaging event to the public confidence in our public health officials in our time. And I think we’re going to be seeing repercussions from this for many, many years to come.”

Cheryl Atkinson, Investigative Journalist and Host of Full Measure

Property Rights Under Assault

Start listening at 24:04 – Hour 1

Karen Levine, award-winning RE/MAX Alliance realtor, warns that Colorado’s Proposition 123, marketed as affordable housing legislation, actually represents government-controlled housing that will make homeownership harder for ordinary families. The measure redirects general fund money outside TABOR calculations while mandating municipalities increase subsidized housing 3% annually.

Levine explains how years of public policy have systematically created barriers to homeownership, from artificially low interest rates that inflated property values to the current rate increases that lock out first-time buyers. Despite these challenges, she encourages families to pursue the American dream of homeownership by finding creative solutions with experienced professionals.

“Public policy over the years has structured an environment that’s making it more and more difficult for people to become homeowners.”

Karen Levine, RE/MAX Alliance Realtor

Fighting ESG and Educational Indoctrination

Start listening at 63:41 – Hour 2

Marla Fernandez, candidate for Colorado House District 3, brings a unique perspective as the daughter of Cuban immigrants who understand communism’s destructive power. She warns that ESG social credit scoring threatens individual freedom by allowing banks and government to rate employees based on ideological conformity rather than merit.

Fernandez pledges to repeal Colorado’s controversial sex education bill that passed despite a thousand parents testifying against it, arguing the curriculum enables ideological indoctrination in public schools. Her firsthand observations of young people in her neighborhood wearing animal costumes confirms the cultural confusion spreading through educational institutions.

“We need to ban ESGs from Colorado and make legislation that bans any use of ESGs in our banking system to rate individuals and businesses.”

Marla Fernandez, Candidate for Colorado House District 3

A Father’s Mission for School Safety

Start listening at 73:20 – Hour 2

John Castillo shares the story of his son Kendrick, who charged armed attackers at the STEM school shooting in Highlands Ranch on May 7, 2019, saving classmates’ lives just three days before graduation. Rather than embracing victimhood, John and his wife Maria chose advocacy, developing a three-part framework for school safety focused on family strengthening, administrative accountability, and legislative reform.

Castillo identifies fatherlessness, lack of mentorship, and ideological indoctrination as root causes of youth violence, arguing that CRT and gender ideology create mental health crises in vulnerable children. He advocates for armed, trained school staff as an alternative to easily-identified uniformed officers, noting that soft targets invite attacks from those who specifically seek defenseless victims. His mission honors Kendrick’s memory by fighting for the safety of all American children.

“Kendrick had never given us one ounce of problems in any way. He had a great group of friends. I mean, he was an innocent bystander in an evil situation that took his life.”

John Castillo, Father of Kendrick Castillo and School Safety Advocate