Quotes – Covid-19 Notes

Dr. Henry: “the government could fire me altogether”

Just like every other chief medical officer of health across the country. I had a mandate and the legal authority to speak to the public about the issues related to health. I was fully aware, however, that if I were wildly off side with what the provincial health minister and government believed, it could make my position challenging, and that if I was too far off the mark too often, the government could render me ineffective or fire me all together.

In Bonnie Henry’s book she admits her messaging was not in the publics interest but in the provincial governments interest first. Or she might lose her job - The Daily News

In Bonnie Henry’s book she admits her messaging was not in the publics interest but in the provincial governments interest first. Or she might lose her job

Fear has driven our division

Fear has driven our division: between those who primarily fear the virus and those who primarily fear western elites whose authoritarian instincts are coming to the fore as they confront imminent economic and environmental crises they have no answers for.

— Paul Gilbert

Our system of information dissemination is entirely captured by corporate interests

Our system of information dissemination is entirely captured by corporate interests. The wealth-elite that profits from rapacious, conscience-less, profit-driven, consumption-led capitalism is also the elite that buys our political class, owns our media, funds our regulatory authorities.

— Jonathan Cook

We do not have the clinical evidence to say that these activists are wrong

I know many think the vaccine-hesitant are dumb or just misinformed.

That’s not at all what I’ve seen.

In fact, independent of education level, the vaccine hesitant I’ve met in the ER are typically more familiar with vaccine studies and more aware of their own covid risks than vaccinated people are.

For example, many of my nurses have refused the vaccine despite having seen more covid-related death and devastation than most people.

I ask them, “Why refuse the vaccine?”

They tell me that, while they have seen the first-hand dangers of covid in the elderly, the obese and diabetics, they think their risk is low.

They’re not wrong.

One nurse showed me the Oxford risk calculator.

A 30 year-old female has about a 1 in 7000 chance of catching covid and being hospitalized over 90 days.

She asked me, can I assure her that studies have found that her risk of serious harm from the vaccine is lower than her risk of hospitalization?

The truth is, I can’t. Our trials weren’t big enough. They weren’t big enough to show that the vaccines cause myocarditis. Yet now we know they do.

A recent observational study suggests the risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis in young males is higher than their risk of hospitalization from covid.

Is this true? We don’t know! It is based on observational data. To KNOW it’s not true we need a large trial that proves the vaccines reduce hospitalization more than they cause myocarditis in that age group.

The former FDA commissioner said the original premise of the vaccine was to reduce death and hospitalization. And that was the data that came out of the initial clinical trials. Except, as you all know very well (and unfortunately so did my nurse), the initial clinical trials DID NOT find a reduction in death or hospitalization, likely because they were inadequately powered.

The former commissioner is correct that the initial clinical trials SHOULD have found a reduction in these metrics.

We need your help on the front lines to stop vaccine hesitancy.

Demand that the booster trials are large enough to at least find a reduction in hospitalization.

Without this data we, the medical establishment, cannot possibly call out anti-vaccine activists who publicly claim that the vaccines harm more than they save, especially in the young and the healthy.

The fact that we do not have the clinical evidence to say that these activists are wrong should terrify us all.

Dr. Joseph Fraiman
Emergency room physician
New Orleans, Louisiana

Speaking before the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee on September 17, 2021

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“Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it,
for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it.”

Kristin Ditzel’s adverse reaction FB post

The truth of the matter is I have been scared to talk about it. Scared to be vunerable. Scared to admit how much my life has changed. Scared to admit that that I have not been able to care for my children without the help of my family and friends. To admit that I have not been able to care for myself. I was a fiercely independant healthy 43 year old woman. I am scared to have unwanted attention by people that don’t understand. That people will attack me and my family on line. That this will effect the two businesses our modern family has established in this beautiful town (especially since I am no longer able to work and have no income). Vaccines are a divider. Covid is a divider. I do not want to draw any negative attention to my family particularily to my children. But in reality this town has ALWAYS BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF US. That is why we raised our children here. We grew rel-ish with the support of this community. This town got us throught this pandemic. I have spent 17 years in this community growing my practice. Working at Vitality has been one of the most honoured times of my career. I miss my colleagues. I miss my patients. Supporting eachother through the fear of this pandemic was one of the most powerful experiences of my life and now the fear of losing the work I love is greater than I can put into words. So for now I put that in a box of the unthinkable. I need to RECOGNIZE MY PRIVILEDGE in being surrounded by so many loved ones. That my reaction was within 25 minutes and I was supported by the nurses that administered my pfizer shot when I first lost all control of my limbs. That my son was home with me when I had my second severe reaction within 24 hours and could drive me to the hospital in time to administer another dose of epi while I was falling on the table again not being able to hold myself up. That my friends came to check on me and realized how sick I was when I was too sick to recognize what was happening. That my family was on a plane before I could admit I needed help. That my friends got together and paid 3 months of my bills knowing I would not be able to work. I do not qualify for disabilty being self employed. I have extreme priviledge in the fact that i have had medical colleauges that came to my house at 9 pm when my spasms were so bad I thougth my neck would break. Massage therapist friends show up when my body ached after spasms and what I can only describe as feeling like my spinal cord is dying and pulling all of its nerves away from the rest of my body. My Acupunturist friends that have done protocals that I believe saved my life and took down the swelling in my brain that makes me feel like all of my scull bones are being pried apart. The support of our local neurologist and Dr. Kirsten who without their acknowledgement I know I would have given up. Support of the friends and family that have paid for more accurate Mri’s so that I get more information. Paid for th 300 dollar nasal sprays and piles of medication that are allowing me to get throught the day without as much shaking and spasms. Pay for the medication that has allowed me to begin the retraining of my nervous system to know that when a car drives by I am not dying. The support from friends that have cooked for me knowing that the damage in my brain makes multitasking impossible. That have helped me get through tax season knowing that I can barely read more than a few lines at a time. That have filled out all my forms beause I can’t always hold a pen and miss letters in my name and struggle with writting. That speaking is difficult and they have had to speak for me when my brain can not find words. And hold me when I am scared I will never find them. That my friends and family have picked me up from the darkest hours when I would have left this world in one second if only I could escape the pain in my brain. BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS I NEED THIS SUPPORT FROM MY GOVERNMENT. The government in this country I love. I need their help to get me the care I deserve. To take interest in what has happened to me to try to investigate it and insure it doesn’t happen to others. To keep us safe. More support than a blanket compensation plan I may have to fight for just to get enought money to pay for my treatments. What about my house? How do I not lose my house when without a job? What about my career? What about my children? I need my government to not let me down. #JustinTrudeau Please share, let the truth get out.

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Smug liberal conceit

Bullying people to take the Covid vaccine – whether through incentives or punishments – is not social solidarity or social responsibility. It is a smug liberal conceit masquerading as those things.

—Jonathan Cook