Too Little, Too Late and Still No Apology
Tue, July 30, 2024 | Author: Rod Taylor | Volume 31 Issue 31 | Share: Gab | Facebook | Twitter
On Friday, July 26, 2024, BC’s Public Health Officer, Bonnie Henry and BC’s Health Minister, Adrian Dix, announced that the province was lifting the public health emergency orders related to COVID-19 and inviting the 2500 health care workers who were fired for refusing to submit to the tyrannical vaccine mandates to re-apply for work. With a provincial election looming in September, this long-overdue move was no doubt intended to relieve the failing NDP government of some political pressure. A closer look at their clumsy attempt to save face should inform every BC voter—those who value a functional healthcare system, honest and transparent governance and personal freedom and privacy—that shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic does not solve any of BC’s deep problems of political corruption and government over-reach.
First and foremost, neither this announcement nor any communications from Bonnie Henry, Adrian Dix and Premier David Eby have included even a hint of apology or self-reflection regarding their draconian imposition of these mandates in the first place. In this announcement, Bonnie Henry continued to urge the public and all health care workers to get the experimental injections that have failed to prevent transmission and have damaged and killed more British Columbians than they have helped. Unlike Kazuhiro Karaguchi, Former Japanese Minister of the Interior, who apologized to his nation for the harms caused by the COVID-19 injections, Dix, Henry and Eby continue to pretend that the jabs saved lives and that the mandates were an appropriate public health response. Readers are once again invited to visit the OPEN VAERS site (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) to see one source of info on reported vaccine injuries for the US. Canada does not have a properly functioning VAERS as the government medical system has built in checks and balances to make reporting of vaccine injuries very difficult. It is widely known that adverse events are vastly underreported, even in the US VAERS system . . . possibly 1%-10% of actual injuries make it into the database.
In addition to the harms done to BC families and businesses by the mandates and lockdowns, critics of BC COVID-19 policies also point out the collapse of BC’s healthcare system, including the closing of emergency rooms and maternity rooms around the province. Of course, the province attempted to blame COVID for the closures, but the reality of 2500 terminated health care workers and a number of doctors—like Dr. Charles Hoffe—denied hospital privileges for refusing either to take the experimental injections or to disclose private medical information, certainly played a huge part in the disruption of medical services.
So shouldn’t we be jumping up and down about the province finally lifting the vaccine mandate for the workers they fired? Not so quick. Of course, it’s a positive step and one that’s long overdue. But the devil is in the details. Along with inviting fired health care workers back into the workforce, the government has slipped in a poison pill: in order to “re-apply,” workers are required to hand over their private vaccine information in regard to—not only COVID-19—but to influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, whooping cough and chickenpox. This is a new requirement and would actually allow the government to exclude and isolate healthcare workers in the future based on these self-declarations today. Of course, that fits neatly with the NDP’s wretched Bill 36, a bill that would place all BC healthcare practitioners directly under the government thumb, to be ordered about and disciplined at the whim of BC Government Ministers and bureaucrats.
Another obvious flaw in the announcement is that there was no mention of lost wages and benefits as a result of the workers being unjustly fired and denied even the dignity and support of EI. We have long called for the reinstatement of all BC healthcare workers who lost their jobs as a result of the mandates—with full compensation for their loss of income during their period of exile! There is no justice in this recent announcement; it is really an effort by the Dix-Henry-Eby cabal to try to repair the damage to the healthcare system before they face voters on October 19. Voters should not fall for it. Dr. Hoffe and others who were cruelly punished for simply asking questions or for successfully treating COVID patients with ivermectin are still battling their way back to reinstatement. The province is allowing the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons to do their dirty work for them. But now they want credit for dropping the mandates.
In addition to the 2500 or so healthcare workers who were fired, there are thousands (the total loss of nurses may be 4,762 or more) who refused to take the jab and, rather than be fired, took early retirement, changed professions or moved to Alberta. Many of them would not want to come back now, especially under these conditions. Some have said that they no longer want to work for employers who mistreated them so badly. For them, the imposition of mandates and denial of their Charter rights to privacy and informed consent were a wake-up call to the corrupt and dictatorial character of those setting public policy in this province.
CHP Canada and CHP-BC stand unequivocally in support of the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who have paid a price for their integrity and who refused to be intimidated by government edicts. Our hearts also go out to those who felt they had no choice and accepted the experimental injection. Some of them have suffered physical harm as a result, something for which Bonnie Henry has never apologized. It’s time for those responsible to be held accountable. Pretending that their actions over the past four years were justified simply does not cut it. It’s time to vote them out!
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