Forced Vaccination
Aircraft mechanic Rich and his wife were coerced into taking COVID vaccines associated with unprecedented, off-the-charts risk.
Part 1: We Felt Free
During their first few days in Ottawa, aircraft mechanics Rich and Dan prepared their own meals on a small BBQ they'd brought along. "It wasn’t anything fancy," Rich remembers. "Just burgers and hot dogs and sausages. The problem was, it being so cold, everything froze. Something stupid like ketchup, you leave it out at night and now you go to get ketchup and it's frozen."
As the days progressed, "we got more and more organized with tents and tables and BBQs. European ladies would come from Toronto and they would cook homemade soup right on site. Borscht was one. Every soup I had was just amazing. Especially when it was hot."
The stream of well-wishers on their section of Wellington was so persistent, he remembers, it could be difficult to find quiet time for telephone calls with their wives back home. "A half hour conversation probably took, you know, two hours because there’s always somebody knocking on the window bringing food, bringing cash, gift cards, just stopping by to say ‘Hi.’"
Many of these people, he believes, were Ottawa residents. "They'd offer to go shopping, and would ask what we needed." Inundated with thank you cards and children's artwork, Rich says "Those were really nice to read, especially from the kids. Made you tear up. By the end we had, I think, two shopping bags full of thank you cards and little mementos."
Supporters also donated full-sized, still-in-the-box BBQs to the Convoy. He laughs, remembering him and Dan assembling one of those:
Two aircraft mechanics putting a BBQ together. We had to take it apart I think two or three times because we couldn’t concentrate. We got maybe five minutes into it and you know, somebody stopped by and chatted. This went on. I think it took us four hours to put this damn thing together.
Why were these highly-skilled, middle-aged guys camping out in the nation's capital in subzero weather? Vaccine coercion. In Canada, aviation is federally regulated. In August 2021 the federal government announced that all employees in the air, rail, and marine sectors had to be vaccinated by the end of October.
In contrast to the rules in Europe, this applied even to individuals who’d already recovered from COVID and therefore already had antibodies. Canadian leaders - whether in politics, medicine, or business - had devolved into crude, one-size-fits-all thinkers.
Section 7 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees ‘security of the person.’ This means no one can be forced to take any medical treatment against their will. Yet suddenly, nearly all of Canadian society was behaving as though that longstanding, fundamental human right didn't exist.
COVID wasn't the Bubonic Plague. Half of the population was never at risk of dropping dead. Nor was a quarter of the population. Or even a tenth. During the first few months of 2020, when information was scarce, erring on the side of caution made sense.
But long before August 2021, it had become clear COVID wasn't much more deadly than the flu. The rushed-into-production COVID vaccines had no long term safety data. (Normally, 10+ years of testing takes place, which results in a 98% failure rate.) More people had already died after taking COVID vaccines than after taking all other vaccines combined over the past 30 years, including annual flu shots. Put simply: the risk profile for COVID vaccines was off-the-charts.
Under these circumstances, forcing people to take these injections couldn't be justified logically, legally, or morally. Rich remembers driving to work while
listening to CBC news radio, and that’s when they made the announcement. My job was in jeopardy. I’ve never been so mad and angry. I screamed. In the car. By myself. At the radio.
That was probably the worst day of my life. Well, actually, not really. A few weeks later the emails came out at work: ‘You’re gonna lose your job if you don’t get the jab.’ I held strong. I didn’t get the jab. And basically, I got let go. They call it a leave. Leave without pay.
We went through our own version of hell the day I found out I lost my job. And then, the very next day, my wife Kerri got her notice at work. Now we’re both unemployed.
Rich and Kerri weren't eligible for federal unemployment benefits, despite having paid into that program their entire working lives. By any reasonable definition, they were in an abusive relationship with their own government. Do as I say - or you’ll lose your job. Do as I say - or the social safety net that exists to assist the unemployed won’t apply. Do as I say - or risk total economic destruction. The bank will foreclose on your home and repossess your automobiles.
Why did they decline the vaccine? In Rich’s words:
I'd never been involved in politics, never had social media, any of that stuff. But I knew something wasn't right. So I started doing my own research and the whole COVID narrative just wasn't adding up. Nothing made sense.
When the vaccines started to roll out we put our critical thinking caps on and asked ourselves why the government was pushing these vaccines so hard? How can we know the vaccines are safe when they were developed in months and not tested clinically for years? Why are they pushing this on everyone when the survival rate is 99.6%?
Being out of work when you’ve spent your life fully employed isn’t easy. Rich says the situation was "just sickening" and "completely heartless. We considered starting over in our careers," he remembers. "But what would the government do next? We were afraid to start a business only to find out they could take that away from us, as well." In his words, the "level of stress, anxiety, and depression was unbearable. Tears from both my wife and I every day for weeks until we were finally coerced into taking the vaccines.”
After being out of work for a month, they both rolled up their sleeves under duress. Kerri was allowed to return to the office immediately, but he couldn’t do so until two weeks after his second dose - which meant he lost two full months of pay that year.
It was weird, he says, returning to his workplace under these circumstances,
I didn't know how I was gonna interact with people anymore. I thought I was gonna go in there and just be completely angry. Which I was for the first while. Just looking at certain people, knowing that they thought we should all lose our jobs. But after about the first six hours on my shift, it was like I'd never left.
A few months later, in April 2022, both Rich and Kerri caught COVID anyway.
next installment: Elderly Parents’ Bank Accounts Frozen
Forced to take an injection in order to work. If we let this happen again we are doomed cattle.