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Helen's avatar

I was right all along. I've spent the last two years venting! The only silver lining from this is I was right and refused the jabs.

I spent last Christmas Eve and morning alone last year, missed all my youngest grandsons hockey games, missed my granddaughters high school Theatre productions, was unable to partake in a family restaurant celebration for my husband's 81st birthday.

My brother up until just recently refused to see me as did half of my husband's family until just last week.

I was unable to host several Easter and Thanksgiving celebrations in our home which used to be a family tradition.

My husband and I had to cancel a much anticipated 6 week visit to the United Kingdom in May of 2020. It was prepaid and we fought for months to get our money back.

I have omitted other occasions I have missed but at the risk of writing a way too long post I will stop.

I told my husband today that when I die I want to be remembered as someone who stood by my courage of convictions and my bodily autonomy.

Not too shabby for an epitaph!

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Natalie's avatar

When the vaccines became available I was initially eager to get into line with the others and get “safe”. But as a geneticist the assurances about the vaccine made no sense to me. How could a vaccine that does not stop transmission and infection stop a pandemic? How can introducing mRNA into our cells and having the cells begin expressing that mRNA's foreign protein be safe and effective? What about suppression of the immune system? What about accidentally triggering autoimmune disease? I decided to read the Pfizer Summary Application to the FDA to try to reassure myself that Pfizer and the government knew what they were doing. To my horror, I saw multiple red flags which my training in genetic epidemiology had taught me to look for. I concluded the vaccines were likely not safe and they certainly were not effective. I decided I would not get the vaccine. I told my grown children to not get the vaccine. I wrote to my member of Parliament, to my member of the Legislative Assembly, my premier and to Mr. Trudeau, as well as to various individuals at the federal and provincial level of public health, and to the media expressing my concerns as a credentialed and qualified expert. I was ignored. To my astonishment and dismay any other credentialed and qualified expert I knew of, many far more qualified and experienced than I was, who shared my views were actively banned from social media and many were fired from their jobs. Since I was retired there was not much the censorous authorities could do to punish me. I was just ignored.

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