Not Another Drop

After donating blood for 53 years, Peter's faith in the medical system has been shattered.

Part 1: Almost Born in the Cab of a Truck

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After more than half a century of being a blood donor, two donations short of 800 Peter's faith in Canada’s medical system shattered.

"When I heard about Sheila [Annette] Lewis," he says, referring to the 58-year-old Alberta woman who perished in August 2023, "they wouldn't give her an organ transplant."

Suffering from terminal pulmonary fibrosis, Ms Lewis needed two new lungs. According to a March 2023 analysis, she had likely survived COVID twice by then. Her blood contained "extremely high levels of antibodies." Since her own immune system was working well, she was understandably hesitant to take a vaccine whose side effects might harm her.

Prior to 2020, everyone in the medical field agreed that natural immunity is the gold standard. But COVID showed us that highly educated physicians are as susceptible to group think as anyone else. In the blink of an eye, an inoculation cooked-up-in-a-lab-on-short-notice became a prerequisite for organ transplants in Canada. Dogma triumphed over common sense. People died who might have been saved.

Watching what was going on, Peter says, "I knew there was a serious problem. The government and the medical experts weren't looking out for our best interest. They went about things the wrong way. If they hadn't been twisting our arms - you're gonna lose your job, your family's gonna be thrown out on the streets, you're gonna starve to death unless you take the jab. Right away the alarm bells are going off. I knew it was wrong."

Peter next mentions Garnet Harper. "He needed a kidney. He had five young children, man. His two brothers were both matches. The only thing the government had to produce was the operation." Peter's voice chokes with emotion, "That broke the camel's back."

Mr Harper, a social worker of Trinidadian descent, also perished in 2023, at the age of 35. Effectively, Ontario's transplant system sentenced him to death for the crime of declining COVID vaccines. During his final days, his about-to-be-widow was asked if his organs were available for harvesting.  

With respect to further blood donations, Peter is now adamant: "Not another drop. I said it to my daughter one day." A month afterward, after much soul-searching, he amended his position. I said, "Not another drop. But I'll give my last drop to an unvaxxed child or a parent who needs it. I'd give my last. I'm serious."

Like many other Canadians, Peter has now removed his name from the organ donor list. In his wallet he carries a newspaper clipping - a letter-to-the-editor published in October 2021 in the Toronto Star. The letter writer, Maurice Sacco, congratulates the CEO of a Toronto hospital network, Kevin Smith,

for once again displaying courage, humanity and intellect by introducing policy requiring transplant recipients to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19!

His initial direction for all [hospital] employees to be fully vaccinated or face dismissal led the way for other institutions to follow suit.

It's promising to see a true leader stand up over the noise, ignorance and selfishness and implement positive, sensible controls.

Livid, Peter says: "I'd like to see that CEO and the guy who sent that letter apologize." The clipping is a grim reminder: many people who commit horrendous crimes are often smugly certain they're the good guys.

In Mr Sacco's universe it's courageous to force medical interventions on other people. It's humane to deploy threats and coercion. It's intelligent to punish the non-compliant with job dismissal and death.

next installment: How You Doing, Peter?