Sunday, November 21, 2021

I am a Victim of Medical Apartheid

I have become a victim of medical apartheid because I refuse to submit to forced medication. I did nothing. I do not have the disease. If I did, it would pass in short order. I might be freed in heaven or hell, but not on the planet earth. 

I am not alone.  I have many friends and family members in similar circumstances. Many innocent children are also being victimized. Sometimes I feel like an abused child.  I live in a country where I cannot legally go to a restaurant or cafe with my wife lest I am fined - and the cafe owner, whose staff stop me at the door, is also subject to fines and even closure. I have many friends in the arts, but I cannot legally attend their showings or performances. I cannot travel on public transportation. I cannot attend public sports events nor any indoor public celebration.

Although I am, at present, allowed to attend church services, even church leaders are required to enforce new, arbitrary rules on capacity and behavior, without regard for their specific religion. 

I did nothing to justify this. Nor did my friends, family members, or their children, all of whom are similarly affected.

I have many friends who have chosen to submit to round after round of non-curative, patented medical treatment at steadily shrinking intervals. Some have become so conditioned and confused that they are actively joining the oppressive forces that reject me. Many are viewing the drugs and the situation with joy even as our bodies, minds, spirits, souls, and communities are being oppressed and damaged. Even as they openly oppress others like me.  

Many of them have been physically damaged, with serious and in some cases even deadly consequences. Many innocents, who tried to escape by submission have faced similar negative consequences. Only time will tell the truth - and even then, I wonder if we will ever see the whole truth.

Others are beginning to recognize the nonsense and the danger. However, even of those, many are saying they will not submit and will not oppress even as they excuse those who oppress as "only doing their job."

There appears to be no escape. Country after country around the world is being victimized, and in turn is victimizing their citizens without hint of legal process. What started with a debate about the effectiveness, or not, of masks, has become a slowly tightening noose. 

There appear to be no leaders, as if this oppression has come down from the heavens. At the same time, all of the rules are made and enforced by humans. 

Joining forces against the oppression has been forbidden.  Resistance is ignored, suppressed and fact-checked into submission. All discussion in opposition is branded "conspiracy theorizing" and dismissed as unscientific. Notable authorities become pariahs, rejected by their communities, unable to form communities of like souls due to the oppression. 

I need help. We all need help.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

A Letter to my Vaccinated Friends

I have many vaccinated friends. Some have spoken quietly, “I got my second shot today.” Some have posted smiling pictures in the clinic or in a circle of flowers, happy, healthy images on Facebook and Instagram. When I see bragging, I fear they want me to join them. When I see the quiet ones, I fear some will get more than they signed up for. This pandemic is all about fear.

I do not fear COVID. I never did. My first “two week lockdown” came when I was in Arequipa, Peru. I was shocked, and afraid. Not of COVID, of the governments. I knew immediately that two weeks was just a taste of what was, and is, to come. Two weeks became four. Shortly afterwards, soldiers arrived from Lima. Los Arequipeños were never well behaved. The bureaucrats were not amused. A few weeks later, we left for the security and safety of Canada, our home country. I never felt any immediate fear, nor fear of COVID, only fear of what the future might bring. 

I have followed and at the same time tried to avoid listening to the news. The stories and statistics were impossible to comprehend. They still are.

I studied COVID, looking for cures. Most patients are cured, many before any diagnosis. Cures appeared in droves and were swatted down like flies. This continues today.

For months, we have walked forward, blindly, in a tunnel ranging from panic to fear to hysteria. A friend quoted the title of a Pink Floyd song: Comfortably Numb. That’s describes how I feel and what I am seeing.

Then the light appeared. Vaccines will save us. At first it was a faint hope, gradually growing as several were rushed through emergency approval. The light continues to grow. I fear it may blind our friendship. That’s why I write this letter.

I am not anti-vax.  I am not vaccine-hesitant. I have been vaccinated many times in the past. As a traveler, I carried a vaccine passport, proving yellow-fever vaccination, necessary to visit Brazil – although I only got as close as the middle of the river at Iguazu Falls. I am 68, at the age where I constantly need to consider shingles vaccination.

I also believe strongly in the basic medical right to refuse treatment. 

A patient may refuse treatment that the healthcare provider deems to be an act of beneficence out of the principle of autonomy. In the United States, the right to refuse treatment is protected by 42 CFR § 482.13. and A patient’s autonomy is violated when family members or members of a healthcare team pressure a patient...Patient Rights And Ethics

 A patient has the right to refuse or to halt a medical intervention. A DECLARATION ON THE PROMOTION OF PATIENTS’ RIGHTS IN EUROPE

 Patients must always be free to consent to or refuse treatment, and be free of any suggestion of duress or coercion. Consent: A guide for Canadian Physicians

I am consciously exercising my rights to refuse medical treatments. I do not have COVID. I am not even a patient. Maybe I’ve had an asymptomatic case, but probably not. I have been tested several times. If I do get COVID-19, a normal case will last a week or two and be over, leaving me be more immune than any vaccine.

I believe in basic medical science. Scientifically, the COVID vaccines are new technologies, largely untested. We will not experience “one year later effects” until at least December 2021. We might not understand the total effects for decades. As a result, fully informed consent is not possible at present.

Why am I writing this letter? 

Some of my friends and family have expressed concerns about meeting with me, if I am not vaccinated. 

I am not afraid of COVID.

If you are afraid, and afraid to be near me – let me know. Although I do not share it, I will respect your fear. 

I have my own fears, and I am always open to handshakes and hugs to alleviate them.

to your health, tracy