A BC Nurse Speaks Out
Firstly tell us a bit about yourself.
I’m an RN with decades of experience, I have a few specialty areas that I work in and I have worked around the world in different healthcare systems. I currently work in a large hospital in BC.
What’s your current situation regarding mandatory vaccination?
There’s no specific health order written up yet but we’ve been told we have to be fully vaccinated by a certain deadline. Beyond that there’s no details of consequences or employer actions. The BCNU is opposed to mandatory vaccination because they know, like the frontline nurses know, that we cannot afford to lose valuable experienced employees. The BCNU has the ability to object via legal means but it remains to be seen how strongly they will stand against this. It doesn’t seem like there’s been any consultation, as the employer is already setting out timelines for vaccination before a health order has even been issued. If that’s the case it reflects the total lack of respect for nurses and healthcare professionals. I hope the BCNU can lodge a legal stay against the BC government but I’m not optimistic. This government (the BC NDP) is now totalitarian in nature.
Isn’t the main argument about mandatory vaccination that it will keep everyone safe whether they’re a fellow employee or patient?
That’s the story line but the reality is different. Nurses use PPE and they are mostly very conscious and aware about their behaviour and exposure risk to infection. They’re aware of their own health and wellbeing, more so than most people. You’d have far less risk from an unvaccinated nurse than from most other exposures. Balancing the risk-benefit of this action really has to show that it’s worth risking the destruction and implosion of our healthcare system for a bigger gain. I just don’t see it. This seems to be purely political. Vaccinate at all costs. I don’t see that risk-reward benefit looking at the wider population other than high risk groups, so I don’t see it as far as healthcare is concerned. It’s arguable in long term health care. But even there we’re seeing that the BC government won’t disclose vaccination status of those deaths. So is the vaccine really doing anything at all? We’re now in a far worse state of affairs than we were 12 months ago, and 80% of the population have been vaccinated.
What impact do you think this will have on staffing levels and hospital capacity?
We’re talking maybe 5-10% employee loss overall. That’s from official statements and estimates. That includes all health employees so you have a wide range of positions and roles. I know personally that people with 10 to 25 years service will refuse. These aren’t rookies who just decided to quit. Some will be close to retirement and they’ll just decide it’s not worth the hassle, not worth being treated like this. But losing all the accumulated knowledge and experience, that’s irreplaceable. That’s thousands of combined years of skill and dedication. And these nurses (and doctors) are embedded in our healthcare system. They know our culture, they understand our needs. They ARE the healthcare system, not administrators and politicians in Victoria BC making politically driven ideological decisions about people’s lives.
In terms of hospital capacity, we’re seeing in Alberta that the ICU counts were recently adjusted, as they have overstated the occupancy levels (it miraculously dropped by over 10% once the error was reported). They are counting untested sick kids staying home as “cases”. Their PHO Deena Henshaw took vacation time instead of appearing in court to face a scheduled legal challenge. There are rural isolated remote communities across Canada relying on nurses and doctors who are well past retirement age. They can’t quit because nobody will take their place. Perhaps this will be the straw that breaks the camels’ back?
We were the heroes of the pandemic but people will just be jettisoned out of the system. Alberta is already collapsing quickly, as is Saskatchewan. I would suspect that morale, resignations, and some degree of sabotage of the system is at play. How much commitment and overtime would you put into a collapsing system? One that has been wilfully destroyed by politicians. When your colleagues, friends, family members, and community are being fired?
For some great insight into the healthcare system in Alberta, I recommend these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
What about other negative effects?
Dramatically reduced morale. Look at Royal Inland Hospital (Kamloops). Their morale has been at rock bottom due to poor leadership. The work cultures are rotten from the top down. Short staffing, low morale, lack of appreciation and recognitions. Endless promises. Management blamed the current situation on Covid and wildfires. Well we have no wildfires in the spring and we have none now. Covid has gone in cycles and waves, and some months we’ve had barely a patient in the ICU. So it’s a scapegoat, an excuse covering up for leadership and management incompetence. Losing a colleague not because they left or got a new job but because they were forced out will be tough to deal with. Who picks up the new shifts? Adrian Dix seems to have a solution to the staffing crisis but he hasn’t been able to fix the one we have now. How is he going to fix it moving forward when so many jurisdictions will be trying to hire foreign nurses or train new nurses. They’ll try to employ retired nurses, but without being disrespectful to them, skills need to be maintained and kept current. BC will be competing for talent with every other Canadian Province, the US, and the rest of the world. When the US offers a better package, we’ll get the scraps. If we’re lucky. Some US hospitals (in New York) have already stated that they’ll be hiring foreign nurses. Some are moving untrained student nurses into frontlinepatient care. So you can see where this is all going. It’s insane, and shows incompetence at the highest level. It’s actually dangerous, a threat to patients, and also an unethical operation of a healthcare system. I’ve seen reports from the US that patients with oxygen levels as low as 80 are being turned away from hospitals.
In Alberta and BC you’re already seeing cancellation of surgeries. Wait times will go through the roof. The effects won’t appear until we can see the long term health effects of these shortages, as the system crashes it will be a while before you see this hit the public. Covid has already had many hidden effects, such as mental health deterioration, delayed elective surgeries all negatively impacting health and quality of life, and life expectancy. This is just adding more fuel to the fire. It’ll be a slow burning decline. The damage being done now is willful, deliberate, vicious, malevolent, and will have significant consequences for years.
You’d have to think that if you wanted to destroy a healthcare system in the middle of a pandemic, you’d do this. You’d sabotage it. If you wanted to destroy a country’s infrastructure, you’d do this. Quebec has been falling apart for years with the same understaffing problems as we have.
The sentiment of feeling is well summarized by over 3,500 healthcare workers in Alberta:
A “deadly pandemic”?
The death rate has been no different than the previous decade. We had a spike in spring of 2020 but overall it was a normal year. There has been ongoing capacity issues in all hospitals for years, we’ve just dealt with it. Burned out nurses and doctors, exhausted from overtime and extra shifts, and now with the forced vaccination which will cut the workforce by 5-10%? You simply cannot convince me this is now a “deadly pandemic”. It’s now an endemic that will go in waves, and the long term fix for Canada’s healthcare systems has never been resolved. No government of any persuasion has ever fixed the root cause of it.
What are you seeing among colleagues as reasons for declining the vaccine?
Some will decline any sort of vaccine and have raised their children to be vaccine free. Some object, refusing to be involved in an experimental phase 3 trial of an as yet long term tested vaccine. Some simply don’t like the idea of mandatory vaccination. Some are scared of the side effects and have done their research. Colleagues have cried at having to go to get vaccinated and some hated the fact they had to do it. This isn’t unilateral support for it, even among those who took it.
What are your own personal reasons for declining the vaccine?
I’ve done my research and we’re seeing far too many serious life changing adverse reactions. The ratio of vaccine deaths to prevented deaths (in the US) is in the range of 2:1 up to 5:1. The jury is out on the exact number because of the difficulty tracking the exact number of deaths. The amount of life changing debilitating side effects are very concerning. I value my quality of life and any serious effect would not be worth the risk. I’m not old yet and I have a retirement to look forward to, hopefully healthy and active. You have to do a personal risk-benefit analysis. We’re seeing data from other countries (Israel, UK) that prove without a shadow of a doubt that the vaccines aren’t effective. There’s been some very concerning analysis of what’s in these vaccines. The public aren’t aware of the stated ingredients, and the unique proprietary ingredients aren’t publicly disclosed. Japan has found four different batches with very concerning contaminants. Under electron microscope, the vaccines have been found to contain some alarming things.
If you can’t tell me what will happen to me after five years. then I’m not interested. I value my life and my health far more than to take that risk. I did my informed consent, I dug deep into the medical and scientific research, and I said no. Even if I could sue someone, my life is worth more being healthy.
Can you provide some specifics?
PEG (polyethylene glycol). Why would I want that injected into my body? Or polysorbate-80, a carcinogen. Under lab analysis they’ve observed that the vaccine contains graphene oxide. It has no health benefits. It’s a “mechanism”, a carrier for the nanoparticles. It’s used in cancer treatments to deliver specific treatments to the brain. It can cross the blood-brain barrier which is why it’s used for targeting cancer. The spike protein that the mRNA creates, it’s been found in every organ of the body during autopsy. Spike protein is neurotoxic. Why would I want that substance floating around my body? In other vaccines the nanoparticle contains cationic fluids. They can attack cells and kill them or turn them cancerous. We just don’t know enough about what these vaccines will do to people. We’re taking serious potentially severe levels of long term debilitating, life altering effects.
I know people are busy with life and the information is confusing and often contrary. Some really good informed content resources can be found here:
https://www.stopworldcontrol.
So why aren’t we hearing this other side of the story?
Because there’s no debate or discussion. At work we are afraid of open debate. There’s one narrative, other views aren’t permitted. There was an expectation set by the employer that employees would support the Government’s position regardless of their own personal or professional opinion. As health professionals, as employees, as people, there should be an open forum to debate and discuss in a scientific manner. When you see in the media, in politics, in the health professional community, on social media complete censorship of discussion you can see that something is very wrong with this. There’s so much suppression of research, studies, information, coming from legitimate sources that it really forces people to be concerned about “the narrative”. It looks weak if you have to suppress every other alternative opinion. It frightens me to see the one sided narrative, the pure fear shown from any sort of challenge to the official narrative.
What we’re seeing in hospitals and in the overall attitude of the medical narrative can be summed up by this Alberta doctor’s experience:
https://peckford42.wordpress.
In BC this entire program is run by Adrian Dix and Bonnie Henry. Any thoughts about their performance?
Disgraceful. Some very poor decisions have been made. They’re running a political agenda rather than managing a pandemic, and Dr. Bonnie Henry admitted to that political pressure in her book.. At 80% vaccinated, with cases and hospitalizations so high compared to September 2020 when we weren’t vaccinated, something is very wrong. Their answer is to do more of the same thing that isn’t working. They’re unwilling to analyze the situation. I think they know it’s failing. It’s not possible and I’ve thought about this a lot, but it’s not possible that they don’t know what they’re doing. They cannot be unaware of everything I’m aware of. They have far more access to research and data than I have. They have access to the best advice and guidance in the world. And if I can see their total failure, then others can. I’d have more respect if they just stopped and regrouped and looked at the data both here and from other countries, but there’s no political willpower or confidence to do that. They’ve backed themselves into a corner and they won’t admit defeat. Now they’ll blow up healthcare and of course, blame the unvaccinated for the problems. We could be at 99.9% vaccinated and they’ll still be blaming the 0.1% unvaccinated. You can read the script. They’ve completely run out of ideas now.
What’s currently happening with the management of the pandemic can best be explained with this set of slides, showing that the effect of the vaccine is waning and it’s actually accelerating quickly:
https://www.humetrix.com/
Dr. Bonnie Henry is totally out of control. It’s as if she’s totally lost her mind, drunk with power. Adrian Dix has no medical qualifications or experience so you have to wonder what’s driving his agenda. This is what happens when politicians with social agendas are put in control of a healthcare system.
They’ve destroyed our society by lockdowns and terrible oppressive necessary health restrictions. They’ve divided society by implementing vaccine passports, creating a horrible two tier health apartheid society. People’s mental health is shot. This isn’t about health, it has nothing at all to do with healthcare. It can’t be, because as a nurse and healthcare professional there’s no way I would make those same decisions knowing the terrible damage it has done to people. I couldn’t consciously do such things to people.
Any message for the public?
You’re being lied to. Without a doubt. There’s a real genuine illness out there for sure, and some people are certainly getting sick and dying. But not to any greater degree than most years. But the refusal to use alternative treatments (ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, lysine) and lack of desire to at least test them raise concerns about the ethics around this entire thing. The PCR tests are unreliable and can be manipulated to suit. It will test positive for a microbe or a fungus at the right cycle threshold. We’re hearing reports from Ontario about different cycle settings for the tests depending whether the patient is vaccinated. People have asked for freedom of information about the PCR test in BC and it is always refused, they won’t release it publicly. And I’ve seen those responses myself. If there was nothing to hide, then it would be disclosed. This isn’t patient confidential data, it’s generic standards and guidance information. We’re seeing different screening and testing for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. People testing positive for a PCR test could have RSV, a flu, a common cold (a coronavirus) or a seasonal sniffle. The whole theatre around masks, about making people feel consciously vulnerable, the fear propaganda, the negative mental illness effect of 18 months of fear and stress, the use of media to promote fear, none of this is healthy or necessary nor does it reflect the actual risk of getting or dying from Covid. The latest case fatality rate data puts sars-cov2 at the same level as influenza. And we have never destroyed our country, our economy, and our freedom. We have never forced mandatory medical treatments and masks upon the public for a flu-level illness. The politicians are still ramping up fear levels as if it was March 2020 and the “casedemic” of inflated numbers to drive fear.
Fear will kill you. Don’t be sucked into becoming a hypochondriac. Get healthy, eat a good balanced diet. Stay positive. Don’t succumb to fear and propaganda. Take vitamin D, absolutely. It’s an essential element of building up a Covid immune system, proven through research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
And ask yourself why public health officers aren’t promoting a cheap and easily accessible solution.
Any last thoughts?
I’ve served the public for decades. Thousands of hours of experience. You banged pots and pans and honked and made Facebook memes about protecting healthcare workers. On the say-so of an unelected wannabe politician (Dr Bonnie Henry) you’ve been happy to toss us to the curb like garbage. I don’t think you really know the full impact of what’s coming but I would say for certainty that it’s not going to be a good time to be sick or need any medical services. You voted for more of the same in the 2021 Federal Election. You voted to re-elect John Horgan’s BC NDP. You support these people and you don’t speak up or support us. You speak up to support the narrative, the political agenda that is tearing Canada apart at the seams. You’re supporting manufactured social division and the politics of hate.
When nursing veterans quit and there’s nothing left to fill the gap and you are left with inexperience and a lack of empathy and poor care, when you’re just a bag of meat and bones to be processed however the government sees fit, ask yourself how this came to be. We were there for you, willing to serve you. But we’ve been jettisoned. From heroes of the pandemic to zeros of the politicians.
I just feel numb now.
“Naomi” (not her real name) must remain anonymous due to possible reprisals from her employer or local Health Authority, but has been verified as a current BC Registered Nurse by employee ID and payroll statement.
Excellent interview! Excellent!
Amazing!! Thank you to this brave nurse for your openness and honesty would be a real shame to lose someone like you