The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.
~ John Lewis
Canadians will elect federal representatives this month. I value the right to vote and do not take it lightly.
Waking me up at night are questions related to the current health care crisis. I have taken the time to submit them to aspiring members of parliament.
My circumstances:
I am willing to do what it takes to protect the vulnerable. If the treatment is evidence-based and the benefits outweigh the harm, sign me up. When there is doubt, I value the right to choose. Informed consent to medical intervention makes sense to me.
I have participated in many online webinars and committee hearings on current infection directives including: (as linked for replay) CARP (Canadian Association of Retired Professionals), CDC (Centres for Disease Control), the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration).
I have spent countless hours reviewing soon to be published research papers and peer-reviewed published studies on the novel virus.
I have had to resort to accessing independently funded journalism, to assess alternative opinion, because mainstream media, having agreed to avoid creating hesitancy for current public health measures, is not sharing openly and respectfully. Missing are stories about advocacy events such as this: Police officers, firefighters and paramedics have gathered at Queen's Park, Toronto for a silent protest...
Unlike many others, for the most part, I have been in the fortunate position to be able to choose my response in good faith, not be coerced into compliance. I have the option to abstain from travel, eat-in, and work from home when need be. I am concerned for those who do not have such a privilege.
Gratefully, I am healthy, require no medication, eat well, move well and live well.
Questions for aspiring members of parliament
Do you have a problem with the divisiveness caused by using fear and shame for compliance with public health measures?
Will there be independent research studying any collateral damage from current mandates?
Do you recognize that people become more vulnerable to infection when living in fear or with shame? On PubMed (a database of published peer-reviewed medical research), please type fear and infection in the search bar. Over 9300 peer-reviewed studies will show up for your assessment. Do the same for shame.
Do we still have the right to informed consent and are we being given an opportunity to exercise it?
Like the flu, is it possible to achieve lasting herd immunity to a cold type virus that varies annually, some years being much more virulent than others? If not, is this just about selling boosters?
Are you concerned that our public health organizations are refraining from advising that people use natural remedies and repurposed drugs that doctors believe will help prevent hospitalization?
Have we taken too much power away from doctors who used to treat the individual and given it to public health organizations who treat the average, dictating mandatory standards of care and willing to risk some for the greater good?
A growing body of evidence worldwide suggests that injections cannot stop the transmission of the virus and variants. Is there a chance we are giving up civil liberties for a false sense of safety?
Does it make sense to create population-wide dependence on lab-made chemistry to prevent disease?
Is there a chance (as many are speculating) that the enforcement for artificial immunization is more about stakeholder profits or population control than health?
Will you help change media funding such that investigative journalists have the freedom again to report both sides of a contentious issue?
Of course, the current health care crisis is but one issue, albeit of utmost relevance in the upcoming election. When leaders resort to threatening and bribing citizens to get compliance, I become concerned.
Party platforms and leader credibility and authenticity matter and must not be overlooked when exercising our right to vote.
Take care to make an informed decision. Never has there been a greater need to elect a government that represents all people, not just an elite few.
Closing remarks
I leave you with a quote by Theodore Roosevelt. It takes courage to stand up for what we believe is just. My heroes are the countless nurses, doctors, scientists and other first responders who are daring greatly, refusing to be silent and risking their jobs, reputations and livelihood to warn humanity about medical tyranny.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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