Because our BC Health Authorities chose to enforce a mandatory vaccination policy in response to Covid-19, we now face chronic staff shortages everywhere across the province. Nurses were already reporting in January 2022 that they were reaching the breaking point.[1] I cannot imagine what they must be going through. It’s inhuman for them to have to work under such conditions. Our ‘lamestream media’ likes to blame this on Omicron surges[2] while avoiding the elephant in the room—that 80 percent of Omicron cases are among the vaccinated, who are 21 times more likely to catch the variant than the unvaccinated.[3] Yet the vaccination mandates rolled on, heedless of the data or the carnage.
As I discovered in my research some years ago for our physician recruitment committee, well before the pandemic Canada was already suffering a chronic shortage of medical personnel. In part this was the result of bureaucratic mismanagement and in part reveals a protectionist attitude that resists licensing even the most qualified foreign-trained doctors and nurses. I have heard stories of immigrant nurses having to work as house cleaners because they cannot get certified to work in a Canadian hospital. Hearsay this may be, but just talk to any immigrant doctor or healthcare worker about the expensive, byzantine process they have to endure to work here. An American-trained physiotherapist I spoke to recently told me he had to take all his exams over again—at his own expense—in order to be licensed to work in Canada.
So whether due to staff being ill from some variant of coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated, or because of the estimated 2,500 staff fired or resigned for refusing the injections in BC, we’ve reached a stage where even keeping basic 24/7 emergency services is next to impossible. Thus we in our little mountain community enter Round 3 (at least) of our ongoing battle with Interior Health to keep our clinic, diagnostic lab and emergency department fully open. As mentioned in Part 1, we are down to a 12-hour day for our ER and diagnostic lab hours cut back by more than 50 percent—for now—or so IH bureaucrats assure us. With the dominant demographic in the community being of the 50-plus age group, this lab is kept extremely busy. Not having full access to diagnostic testing means hours-long waits on the few days they are open. In a letter I wrote on July 29, 2022 to Minister of Health Adrian Dix and Interior Health Board Chair Dr. Doug Cochrane, I noted:
“The recent reduction of our Emergency department and diagnostic lab hours in the New Denver Medical Clinic represents a potentially life-threatening measure on the part of the BC government. Particularly now, during our busiest season of the year, when the local population swells with hundreds of visitors and tourists. In addition, during the August 1st long weekend, we were informed that only one paramedic has been assigned to duty to cover both New Denver and Nakusp.”
“You plead “staff shortages,” a condition created by your own ill-advised—and illegal— policy of firing healthcare workers who refused the mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations. The coalition Hire Back Our Heroes estimates that 2,500 healthcare workers have been fired or laid off (or quit for conscientious reasons) by the various Health Authorities across the province.[4] No wonder hospitals and clinics are short-staffed! They are asking that these healthcare workers be reinstated to their former positions so that they may get back to their calling—saving lives.
“By now, data has accrued proving that the Covid-19 injections do not prevent infection or re-infection, do not prevent spread, and actually present a high risk of adverse reactions, permanent injuries, and deaths. Estimates from various independent immunologists and polling sources examining the adverse event databases state that these mRNA therapies have caused more injuries than all other vaccines combined over a 30-year period.[5] In Alberta, the health ministry has resorted to calling the sudden sharp uptick in unexplained deaths during 2021 as “mystery illnesses,” covering up the obvious.[6] These are not Covid-19 deaths, since as world-renowned epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis has found in his research, the Infection Fatality Rate of SARS-CoV2 is between 0.15–0.26%. (Dr. Ioannidis acknowledges that the IFR increases with age and provides a data table to quantify this differential.)[7] Covid-19 by itself cannot therefore be a major factor contributing to this surge of “unexplained” deaths.
“Thus, besides all the healthcare workers fired or laid off by the various Health Authorities in BC, you may add those who cannot work anymore or can no longer work full-time due to side effects or vaccine injuries. Data released by the Manitoba government reveals that vaccinated people are more likely to be hospitalized or die from Covid-19: “only 9 percent of Covid deaths and 14 percent of hospital admissions in Manitoba occurred among unvaccinated people…”[8]
“A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that boosted individuals are the slowest to recover from Covid-19.[9] Another recent study reveals that the mRNA injections actually damage the immune system and are thus implicated in the “unexplained” surge in neurological conditions, myocarditis, tumorigenesis, and other conditions.[10] A third study published in The Lancet came to similar conclusions, although there was a clear attempt to downplay these results by the editors or writers of the paper. This was corrected in the Journal of Virology by Dr. Kenji Yamamoto, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Okamura Memorial Hospital, Japan. “The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among unvaccinated individuals,” concludes Dr. Yamamoto in his letter to The Lancet’s editor.[11]
“Therefore, mandating vaccination as a condition of employment is in no way ensuring the protection of patients served by unvaccinated physicians or healthcare workers. It is not only irresponsible and dangerous, it breaches several codes of medical ethics, not least of which is the Nuremberg Code, which prohibits medical experimentation on live human subjects without the fully informed consent of the patient. This borders on criminal negligence. You must surely be aware of the various criminal actions being launched against Dr. Bonnie Henry (BC), Dr. Deena Hinshaw (Alberta), and other senior health officials across Canada. As Dr. Peter McCullough has pointed out in his recent book The Courage to Face Covid-19, it is also an abrogation of medical ethics not to seek any and all early treatment options, a therapeutic option that was abandoned by medical authorities around the world in favour of the novel, poorly tested mRNA treatments.
“Perhaps if Interior Health is in need of reducing staff it could consider putting some of its executive staff on temporary or permanent leave, since their contribution to actual healthcare may be regarded as negligible or even reckless, particularly with decisions such as those affecting the New Denver Medical Clinic.”
In response I received a surprisingly swift reply from Interior Health Board Chair Dr. Doug Cochrane, dated August 2, 2022. After the usual conciliatory preamble, Dr. Cochrane states:
“The requirement to have completed a primary series of COVID-19 vaccination (sic) as a condition of working in health care in British Columbia is intended to ensure safety of vulnerable clients accessing health services as well as those providing care. This condition of employment was the result of an order of the Provincial Health Officer, an order that remains in effect. (My note: Sound familiar? “We’re just following orders.”) The rationale for this order is the evidence that COVID-19 immunizations are effective in preventing serious outcomes resulting form infection and limiting, though not entirely preventing, transmission. With millions of doses now administered worldwide, the evidence of safety is overwhelming with the benefits far outweighing the risks.”
In contrast to my letter of July 29, Dr. Cochrane provided no references to back up his assertions. I wasn’t surprised—this has been the modus operandi of our health ministry in BC from the beginning of the pandemic. Lots of soothing assurances from Reality TV star/Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry but no real evidence.
So on August 4, 2022, I wrote Dr. Cochrane this response:
“I thank you for your prompt response to my letter regarding the reduction of New Denver Medical Clinic ER and diagnostic lab hours. In contrast to my letter, for which I provided many references, I notice that you provide no citations of any scientific papers to verify your claims. This isn’t surprising given the fact that no one in the BC medical establishment during the entire course of the pandemic has ever offered the public any such scientific evidence. Instead, it has relied on vague, propagandistic slogans such as “the vaccines are safe and effective.” Indeed, you include one such unsubstantiated claim when you state that, “Covid-19 immunizations are effective in preventing serious outcomes resulting from infection,” though I appreciate that you at least admit that the inoculations do not “entirely” prevent infection. In fact, as more and more studies are showing, the highest incidence of re-infection is amongst the vaccinated. (I cited three such studies in my original letter to you.)
“The BC medical establishment and Ministry of Health have avoided telling the public the many gross violations of scientific protocol committed by the pharmaceutical corporations that developed these ‘vaccines’—in reality, not vaccines in the traditional sense at all but novel mRNA gene therapies. Independent American legal teams scrutinizing the court-ordered release of Pfizer documents have found that test groups were unblinded, sample sizes were so small as to be of no statistical significance, and placebo groups contaminated. Dr. Naomi Wolf, who is working with one such team, reports the following conclusion: “…that Pfizer (and thus the FDA) knew by December 2020 that the MRNA vaccines did not work—that they “waned in efficacy” and presented “vaccine failure.” One side effect of getting vaccinated, as they knew by one month after the mass 2020 rollout, was ‘Covid.’”[12] A Columbia University study concluded that, “…the risks of COVID vaccines and boosters outweigh the benefits in children, young adults, and older adults with low occupational risk or previous coronavirus exposure.”[13]
“Just today was released several papers revealing that there are now more than 1,300 peer-reviewed studies attesting to the multiple forms of serious adverse reactions caused by these experimental therapies.[14] These range from A to V, from anaphylaxis through to vasculitis, with by far the most common being myocarditis/pericarditis (336 research citations) and “vaccine induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia” (209 citations), with “arterial and venous thromboembolism” running a close third (160 citations).[15] I attach the document, “COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine,” with a complete listing of these citations. The authors conclude: “The mRNA vaccines were an unqualified disaster: they neither halted viral spread nor conferred herd immunity and, in their wake, spawned unacceptably high morbidity and mortality rates.”[16]
“As is widely recognized, passive reporting systems such as the American VAERS database—and worse, Canada’s equivalent—actually underreport these incidents by a minimum factor of 10 or even 20.[17] Thus, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Canadian doctors such as Dr. Charles Hoffe in BC and Dr. Patrick Phillips in Ontario have pointed out that the Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System (CAEFISS) uses a byzantine protocol that seems designed to fail, with forms so complex and time-consuming most physicians simply don’t bother. Also at issue are the questionable criteria for inclusion of adverse events.
“Given all of the above, I find it shocking that you can actually state that, “With millions of vaccine doses now administered worldwide, the evidence of safety is overwhelming, with the benefits far outweighing the risks.” Yet, again, you provide zero scientific verification that might refute the 1,300 studies proving just the opposite. Taking the best-case scenario, this can only mean you are not up to date on the medical literature for post-vaccination studies. As you are in a position of trust, I submit to you that it is your obligation to get up to speed and adjust your policies accordingly so as to avoid any further unnecessary damages to public health.”
[1] Amir Ali, “At their breaking point: BC nurses sound the alarm over staff shortages,” DH News, January 12, 2022: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-nurses-staffing-shortages
[2] “Some communities across B.C. lose health-care services as Omicron cuts into staffing,” CBC News, January 20, 2022: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-small-town-health-care-concerns-1.6322480
[3] Natalie Winters, “Nearly 80% of Omicron Cases are in Vaccinated People,” The National Pulse, December 31, 2021: https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/12/31/vaccinated-21-times-more-likely-to-get-omicron/
[4] Hire Back Our Heroes (see video on homepage): https://www.freedomtochoose.ca/hire-back-our-heroes/
[5] “Surveys show that the COVID vaccines have killed more people in just 18 months than all 70+ vaccines combined have over 32 years,” Steve Kirsch, Substack, June 2, 2022:
[6] Dr. Jessica Rose, “What is the Leading Cause of Death in Alberta in 2021?” Substack, July 26, 2022:
[7] “The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data,” Dr. John Ioannidis, Departments of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University: http://biomechanics.stanford.edu/me233_20/reading/ioannidis20.pdf See also IFR table by age demographic, Dr. Paul Alexander, July 27, 2022: https://www.drpaulalexander.com/blogs/news/john-ioannidis-stanford-in-july-2020-published-infection-fatality-rates-ranged-from-0-03-to-0-50-and-corrected-values-ranged-from-0-02-to-0-40-age-mortality-graduated-chart-below-we-knew
[8] “Stunning official Canadian data show vaccines now RAISE the risk of death from Covid,” Alex Berenson, Substack, July 15, 2022:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/stunning-official-canadian-data-show/comments?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
[9] “Study: Boosted People Slowest to Clear COVID-19,” Igor Chudov, summary of NEJM study, Substack, June 30, 2022:
[10] “Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs,” Stephanie Seneff, Greg Nigh, Anthony M. Kyriakopoulos and Peter A. McCullough, US National Library of Medicine, PubMed database: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35436552/
[11] “Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them,” Dr. Kenji Yamamoto, Journal of Virology: https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12985-022-01831-0.pdf
[12] Dr. Naomi Wolf, “Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide,” Substack, May 29, 2022 (emphasis mine):
[13] Spiro P. Pantazatos and Hervé Seligmann, “COVID vaccination and age-stratified all-cause mortality risk,” Columbia University, October 2021, ResearchGate (emphasis mine): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355581860_COVID_vaccination_and_age-stratified_all-cause_mortality_risk
[14] Dr. Paul Alexander, “Over 1300+ COVID Vaccine Publications & Case Reports showing adverse effects, harms and deaths after COVID mRNA (Moderna & Pfizer) and adenoviral vector injections,” with links to studies, Substack, August 1, 2022:
[15] K.E. Thorp, James A. Thorp, Elise M. Thorp, “COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine - Part III, References for COVID-19 vaccine associated complications,” The Gazette of Medical Sciences, April 30, 2022: https://www.thegms.co/publichealth/pubheal-rw-22042302-references.pdf
[16] K.E. Thorp, James A. Thorp, Elise M. Thorp, “COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine - Part III,” Abstract, The Gazette of Medical Sciences, April 30, 2022 (emphasis mine): https://www.thegms.co/publichealth/pubheal-rw-22042302.pdf
[17] Spiro Pantazatos and Hervé Seligmann, “COVID vaccination and age-stratified all-cause mortality risk,” Columbia University, October 2021, ResearchGate, ibid.
Excellent part 2...... https://palexander.substack.com/p/earth-to-british-columbia-bc-earth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email