EZRA LEVANT | Even zombie apocalypses go woke in 2021
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What's scarier than a zombie apocalypse? Well, how about wokeism in the zombie apocalypse novel? Well, let's see if you can figure out what that's like, shall we? Let's find out on tonight's episode of The Ezra Levin Show.
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tonight what's scarier than a zombie apocalypse well how about
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wokeism in a zombie apocalypse novel it's monday november 8th 2021 and this is the ezra
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laven show why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know there's 8 500
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customers here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to the government
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you know folks prior to the pandemic my reading mix used to be about 70 percent non-fiction 30
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fiction but thanks to covid and all the misery and nonsense inherent to it those percentages
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reversed i estimate that these days 70 of my reading material is fiction hey the current
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reality is just way too harsh so i crave some escapism during my free time besides is george
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orwell's 1984 really a work of fiction anymore in 2021 in any event nothing screams escapism
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more than a good old zombie apocalypse novel so it was that i recently purchased a copy of
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the living dead now this novel was originally started by the late great george romero a visionary
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who practically invented the zombie genre with the release of night of the living dead back in 1968
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followed by countless sequels and remakes and of course endless imitators alas romero passed away
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in 2017 and his zombie masterpiece in progress had to be completed by a member of the still living
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unfortunately the relief writer who stumbled out of the literary bullpen was a sultan of soy
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daniel kraus to quote colonel kurtz the horror the horror now in fairness this novel makes for a great
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yarn for the first 400 or so pages maybe that was the work of romero for the most part but then
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thanks to kraus i assume the living dead takes a horrific departure from horror sinking itself into a
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quicksand of wokeness now that's really scary kids indeed the novel really begins to unravel by page 476
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when this thriller about the worldwide fight for survival i.e humans versus zombified humans and even
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zombified animals suddenly devolves into an uber preachy diatribe that owes less to the horror genre and more to
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critical race theory and no folks i swear i'm not kidding indeed once the book enters the home stretch
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it is set right here in toronto it's now some five years after the original zombie outbreak in october of
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2023 and apparently the world's human population is pretty much 99 snuffed out yet check out this piece of
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pithy prose that reeks worse than rotting flesh quote even before 1023 canada had tempted americans aching for
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a land where guns weren't handed out like candy end quote folks if humanity is facing its extinction event
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thanks to zombie people zombie dogs zombie dolphins zombie rats etc etc when the remaining bona fide living
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humans want access to copious quantities of guns and ammo in order to oh you know stay alive wouldn't even the
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biggest anti-gun zealot by this point fall to their knees thanking god for the second amendment but no because
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it seems that the way out of this horrific existence for the remaining living members of mankind is by
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embracing diversity check it out quote there were the elderly the middle-aged infants women men non-binary
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people gender fluid people intersex trans gay straight bisexual pansexual polyamorous neurotypical
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neurodiverse muslims christians hindus buddhists jews sikhs deists wiccans pagans plus lots of agnostics even
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more atheists and a single drag queen who like to be called lady decline people who were physically
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intellectually psychologically psychologically and or neurologically disabled or impaired
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was all this chance or necessity nishmura once told the face he wondered if this was why they'd all
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been driven to toronto sometimes called the most multicultural city end quote what the hell
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craus suggests that in order to keep the undead hordes at bay one needs simply embrace that beatles song
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you know all you need is love personally i disagree i think all one really needs is in that situation
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it's a glock a humvee and maybe even a little toxic masculinity to get the job done sorry folks but i just
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can't believe that the alpha male taking charge during a zombie apocalypse is someone who more or
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less resembles jonathan jessica yaniv simpson but then again what do i know kraus points out that when it
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comes to a leftist enclave wokeism is so contagious that even the zombies end up getting infected turning into
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peaceniks such as a character known as the chief a member of the undead who by this point is more
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into virtue signaling and less into eating the flesh of the remaining members of homo sapiens
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quote the chief loved bright plastic buttons and fancy enamel pins like deathless corsages they covered
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almost every inch of her coat most of them had a certain slant this was queen street toronto trans
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people matter sparkly gold feminist af matt pink stay green over a recycling symbol love is equal two
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smiley clouds linked by a rainbow sea world still sucks blue and fishbowl shaped end quote yeah you know
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folks i experienced my edition of the summer of love on toronto's queen street last september
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when i happened upon a homeless encampment at trinity bellwoods park that would not be out of place as
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the final setting for the living dead novel remember this delightful scene and whatever you do kids
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you know i still have the bite marks folks but yeah that is the reality of a homeless love fest on toronto's
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queen street harley a kumbaya moment wouldn't you agree by the way did kraus outsmart himself with
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the trans lives matter slogan look i'm not saying trans lives don't matter but isn't that whole lives
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matter jingle thingy exclusively reserved for the blm folks hey just ask len macaulay who posted a sign
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at his toronto home hardware store last year stating quote all lives matter be safe be kind end quote
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well you would have thought he had put a swastika on display such was the outrage from the woke mob
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the sign quickly came down and macaulay profusely apologized and then of course he resigned from the
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roncesvalles village business improvement area the virus that is cancel culture had struck yet again
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but i wonder if kraus will also apologize for his act of cultural appropriation for that matter i wonder
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if kraus who lives in chicago has actually even visited hogtown speaking of blm there is a black
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female character in the living dead who seems forever obsessed with getting away from white men but why is
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there still white privilege during a end of the world time you know i hearken back to that line from the
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first season of the walking dead tv series in which it is explained that in a zombie apocalypse there's
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really no such thing anymore as black people and white people because all we are to the zombies is
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dark meat and light meat by the way it should be pointed out that daniel kraus is a white single male
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the self-hating kind i should think for example on his website he actually notes that if you are
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reaching out to book him on a speaking panel if that panel happens to be made up exclusively of white
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men he will cancel his appearance now why would this loving tolerant progressive state something so
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profoundly racist you know i did reach out to mr kraus by the way but i never heard back from him
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maybe he was too busy shopping for soy or something which is too bad because one of the questions
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i had for him was this how does the living dead end i'm about 150 pages short of the finish line
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but i just can't go on anymore this story got infected not by a zombie virus but by a contagion
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that's far worse politically correct woke ism oh poor george romero he must be rolling in his grave
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right now wishing zombieism was actually a real thing so i don't know he could enact some vengeance
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against those who would desecrate this genre alas it should be noted that the woke media loves the tripe that
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is the living dead states the washington post the definitive account of the zombie apocalypse
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the new york times chimes in with panoramic and sweeping a smorgasbord of the undead a book that
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will give even the most ardent zombie lovers their fix not this ardent zombie lover i'll tell you but of
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course the washington compost and the new york slimes would state such claptrap because daniel kraus
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is preaching to the converted when it comes to mainstream media zombies now i know what some of
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you might be saying right now hey big deal the living dead is merely some goofy work of fiction
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that means squat in the final analysis but i respectfully disagree for this is bigger than just some
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random dumb zombie book that's because daniel kraus and his prose is indicative of what has happened to
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society at large in recent years when it comes to wokeness and progressiveness and critical race theory
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and even marxism infiltrating all aspects of our lives from education and politics to entertainment
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so it is we now live in a society where some lives matter and some lives do not so it is we exist in
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a bizarre biosphere in which racism is unacceptable except when it comes to vilifying certain races
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and hey seeking escape and fiction is no longer an option the ideology of the far left like a zombie apocalypse
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itself has taken root but the question arises is this movement unstoppable well no i think it isn't hope abounds
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in a measure of hope against loony left progressiveness came last week thanks to various u.s elections
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states side first and foremost republican candidate glenn youngkin stunned the democrat incumbent
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governor terry mcauliffe in virginia youngkin campaigned on the detriments of critical race theory
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meanwhile former governor mcauliffe stated that parents should have no say when it comes to their
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child's education yes he actually said that well guess what mama bear woke up and she wasn't
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pleased that the three r's were being jettisoned in virginia in favor of an approved form of racism
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and the gross ideology that promotes the radical transgender movement there were republican victories
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and near victories all across america last tuesday even in uber woke minneapolis where the defund the police
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agenda seemed like the police agenda seemed like a slam dunk proposition after the death of george floyd
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but voters rejected a ballot question in which a new public safety department whatever the hell that means
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would replace the minneapolis police force yeah so maybe defunding the police looks good on paper
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but the gut check reality is that when an armed thug is trying to break into your home in the wee hours of
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the morning who are you going to call the ghostbusters you know it was so pleasing to witness the events of
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last tuesday rattling democrats and of course their allies in the mainstream media and when analyzing
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what went wrong well democratic strategist james carvel nailed it i think when he stated quote
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what went wrong is stupid wokeness end quote indeed in the months ahead will the democrats regroup in time
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for next year's midterm elections will they move away from radical leftism or will they double down on american
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marxism to use that superb descriptor from the brilliant author and broadcaster mark levin
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oh and speaking of zombies closer to home will conservative leader erin o'toole ever you know
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wake up here's a guy who has just conducted three press events since the september election
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less than half of the press events prime minister justin trudeau has held now you'd think the man who
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wants to be pm would be doing everything possible to get his message out apparently not but why maybe
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it's because his unofficial slogan is don't be too conservative or is his catchphrase me too me too when
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it comes to liberal policies ranging from carbon taxes to gun bans personally i don't think erin o'toole
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or his wimpy war room learned anything from last tuesday or for that matter the last canadian federal
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election back on september 20th indeed don't forget o'toole actually claimed victory for the conservatives
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on election night given that the trudeau liberals were held to a minority you know erin o'toole strikes
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me as the kind of guy who does fist pumps when a game of chess ends in a stalemate and so it is that
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when the next election is called likely within the next two years mr o'toole will continue to plod along
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zombie-like moving his party yet further and further to the left in order to woo the laurentian
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elites while ignoring the his western canada base well we all know how that monster chiller horror
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theater movie ends talk about the living dead indeed
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well folks the covid 19 carnage continues no i do not speak about rising positive cases or the death toll
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rather i speak of the economic carnage i.e the thousands of canadians right across our great
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dominion who are losing their jobs for failure to for failure to getting the jabs or disclosing their
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vaccination status indeed in toronto's sun the first front page of today the headline reads hundreds of
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toronto district school board staff placed on unpaid leave after failing to disclose vax status and one
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of those employees just happens to be my guest right now she is laurie parrot she was with the hr
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department of the toronto district school board and is now well on unpaid leave laurie thank you so much
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for joining me today thank you for having me i really appreciate it so laurie um i think you bring a
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unique perspective given that you are from the hr department we have spoken to several teachers at
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various school boards what i want to get to right off the hopper is this whatever happened to that concept
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you know reasonable accommodation why does it have to be this draconian rule that we have to have 100
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percent vaccination or you must disclose your vac status or you're out of a job well i can't say or
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speak to that uh it's the trustees that basically make the decisions they've had two meetings in the
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past two weeks they've got another meeting coming up and it seems that there are only two trustees on
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the tdsc uh trustee uh list out of 24 that actually support uh choice and everybody else is voting for
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a mandated vaccine for all staff and you know i'm glad you raised the issue of choice because for decades
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now we've seen from the feminist movement when it comes to the abortion debate my body my choice
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um has that gone out of fashion that slogan or does that merely pertain to terminating a baby's life
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i believe that when it comes to covid uh there that does not apply i think uh for the most part
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overall it still applies to abortion although that seems to be with covid falling off the wayside as
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well that people have become either for or against something there is doesn't seem to be as much
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middle ground these days in my opinion and tell me um what does this mean for the toronto district
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school board lori to lose more than 800 staff i guess it can go either um to one of two ways one is
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that maybe uh there was so much um you know redundancy in terms of how many people were at the board that
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nobody will notice when those staff are gone or maybe these are crucial staff members and the end
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result is going to directly affect and impede the education that the kids are going to get
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oh it's absolutely going to impede i deal with one unit of collective agreements in my hr position we
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have different um hr groups for the different units and i can tell you in my unit and from the
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information i have from my colleagues in the other units we are very short staffed at this point and
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that's because people have gone on leaves they've resigned as a result of the vax mandate or for
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whatever their other reasons are and now by at this time uh there are only 800 that have been put on a
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leave um and i'd like to correct that i'm not currently on a leave but i will be placed on one effective
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november 21st because i am refusing to get the vaccination so what the people who are on leave
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at this time are the people who refuse to disclose their vaccination status and then by november 21st if
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they um the rest of us who have disclosed their vaccination status but are refusing to be vaccinated
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are going to be placed on leave at that time and the estimation by the board is about 4 800 additional
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employees to those 800 employees and we are already short staffed in schools it's going to make
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classroom sizes probably 40 to 50 students per class they're not going to have the support in place
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for the teachers they're not going to have enough teachers to run things they're not gonna have enough
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caretakers uh administrative staff and and it goes right across the board from my understanding even
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one of our senior team people are not vaccinated and is also facing uh being placed on leave effective
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november 21st as well wow lori so it's much worse than what's being reported then with this hard november
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21st deadline for so many uh more tds employees to make that decision and what is the um what is the mood
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of people in your camp lori that don't want to get the vaccination i mean i certainly respect your
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decision but by the same token this kind of coercion that you must get jabbed even against your will if
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you want to maintain your job and my heart goes out to all these people because hey listen at the end
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of the day you got to pay the mortgage you got to put groceries on the table i imagine there are so
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many people in your shoes that are in just a terrible situation because of this mandate
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that is absolutely correct we do collaborate together and share information and share our
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feelings some people do not have any other recourse to go to um for whatever their reasons are uh they
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they don't have other options um those that had options are exploring those and those include
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applying to different boards that do not have the vaccination mandate some have a backup businesses
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like myself i have my own business and some people are just financially okay to retire or resign at this
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point but the rest of them are scrambling in terms of what to do and struggling with this decision with
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their livelihood on the line they we are all very much against the vaccination because it's still in
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trials there's a lot of health issues that come from it people are dying people are getting long-term
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health problems as a result of getting the vaccination which are not always clear straight
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away once you have it sometimes it happens a few months later or a few weeks later or a few days later
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it's not always immediate and we don't know what's going to happen 10 15 years down the road from now so
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we are literally scared of getting this vaccine we do not trust that it is safe just based on the
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information that's coming out now and who's to say what's going to happen in the future so our mood
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is angry frustrated scared uh some of us cry on a regular basis wondering what we're going to do this
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is a career that we've put our you know heart and soul into especially teachers um and not just
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especially teachers but teachers are devoted to their children and the kids that they teach in the
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classroom and it saddens them to have to leave not because of a performance issue or because they've
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done wrong but just because they are not going to submit themselves to medical experimentation
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um and it's heart-wrenching and on top of that this is the way our employer is treating us and in
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the meantime for those of us who do have to work to november 21st and perhaps maybe onward if they're
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making the choice to get vaccinated when they're telling us nobody is held liable nobody's going to
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be responsible for any vaccine injuries that you incur and yeah okay if you incur it sure file for wsib
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that's the only recourse that you have and you know we're sitting here's like how can our employer treat
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us this way and how can we devote ourselves to our job and to doing a good job and show up to work every
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day in a good mood you know wanting to do a good job when we are so easily discarded in the trustees
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meeting that they had two weeks ago they they said tdsb employees are expendable and replaceable
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how do you come back from that and laurie i'm glad you raised the issue of uh health complications
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is there any accommodation whatsoever i i know uh religious exemptions have been shot down uh across
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the board but when it comes to one's health if you can prove from your doctor that you run the risk
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of an allergic reaction for example um is there any accommodation to those people when it comes to the
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toronto district school board the information that was released last night from the trustees
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was i think there's something like over 900 people who have applied for different medical and religious
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treats so far they have reviewed and approved two of them and they are medical exemptions and i believe
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that they they didn't give a lot of details but those are based on what you're just saying people who have
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pre-existing conditions or can prove to have allergic reactions to the ingredients that are in the
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vaccine pretty much everything else they've told us is going to be denied so those 900 people who are
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waiting for a verdict are basically going to be denied they say under pretty much no circumstances are
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they going to accept anything and from my understanding when the people i know who've gone to a doctor to
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request a medical exemption everybody's saying no all the doctors are saying no and i know that it's
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been put out in the news that the doctors are being threatened with losing their license if they do
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approve medical exemptions regardless of what the reasons are they're not even exploring that they
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could be valid reasons they're just being told that they will lose their license if they provide any
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exemption for anybody requiring it for work wow and laurie tell me um i don't know if you were unionized
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or not uh certainly the teachers uh are unionized has the union gone to bat uh for the rank and file
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at the toronto district school board no they haven't i'm not unionized because of my position
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and senior team and anybody uh in central in human resources uh also is not unionized teachers are
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unionized support staff are unionized um principals and vps are not unionized and caretaking
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is unionized and all of the unions are coming together and saying that nope this is valid you
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have to do it uh my understanding is that possibly i'm it's not 100 certain um there's a few unions
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who have actually put in uh while they're saying this to their members that this is valid and they can
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do this uh they have filed um grievances against the board for putting this mandate into place and
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whether that's true or not or whether anything comes of that or not is another issue as well
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but basically they're sticking together and laurie tell me uh because you weren't a unionized employee
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that puts you in at an advantage in terms of filing a wrongful dismissal lawsuit is that a consideration
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you have moving forward yes i have already consulted with a an employment lawyer um and i've been together
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with some uh other people in the tdsb who are trying to get rocco glotti um as well as we've been
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speaking with and going on um zoom meetings with roman babar who are trying to do stuff for us uh it's unclear
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at this time if they can help us because we're such a large organization uh which is a little bit outside
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of their scope so uh but individually we can go to employment lawyers and seek some help but it's not true that
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because i'm not unionized that i have an advantage i don't i'm in the same vote as everybody else
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whether we're unionized or not the employment law is the employment law as it is oh i i just meant in
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terms of when uh you are a unionized employee uh there are various complications about filing uh wrongful
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dismissal uh lawsuits i i understand that from labor lawyers but you know you're right you're losing a job
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is losing a job and and it seems unjust to me and and unjust to a lot of people tell me lori um november
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21st we'll be here before we know it that's that hard date uh in which it won't be just 800 and change uh
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employees uh without a a position right now at the tdsb it'll be several hundred more do you think that since in your
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estimation this is going to adversely affect the education of children so much so many staff members
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laid off or fired will the tdsb um you know reverse itself if it sees that it simply cannot go on with
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that many people out of the system well i can't say for certain but i do know at the last trustees
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meeting not yesterday but the week before they were saying that they've already started hiring
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since march of 2020 to predictably fill in spaces for people who will be placed on leave and that
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includes all sorts of different staff and i can say being in hr that in the unit that i deal with or
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handle or manage or assist we have been doing hirings are they mass hirings no and even with those
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hirings we are still short staffed i you know i'm not in the teaching i don't deal with the teachers
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hr i don't deal with caretaking uh or the psws and so forth there um but my understanding is everybody
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is short staff across the board regardless of this hiring but tdsb trustees in that meeting basically
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said oh we've been hiring we can replace everybody it's not a problem but from the numbers i'm looking
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at it's going to be a problem safety in the school for the children and the workload for the teachers
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and staff that are remaining is going to be insane and i don't think it's going to be manageable
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mental health is going to be an issue and safety for the students and the staff is going to be an
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issue as well you know and laurie since you are in a hr position i i'm just wondering what is the lay
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of the land like uh at the toronto district school board or even other school boards for that matter
00:32:53.360
i think one of the very unfortunate things of this pandemic now that there are vaccines available
00:32:58.480
is the demonization of those who won't reveal their vac status or simply state i'm not getting
00:33:06.480
the jabs it's turning employee against employee sometimes even family member against family member
00:33:13.440
do you see that kind of discord at toronto schools absolutely uh there's so many people who are
00:33:22.080
entirely for and entirely against the vaccinations and it is creating a divide with my own family
00:33:29.360
with other people's families and within the school board and with the colleagues um there's just no
00:33:35.760
understanding and i believe that the media and everything else that people are reading and watching
00:33:41.760
is just adding to it uh it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated the unvaccinated are the problem
00:33:48.160
even tdsb policies at this point in time are stating that if you are fully vaccinated number one you don't
00:33:55.520
have to submit yourself to testing regardless of the fact that the viral loads and the vaccinated and
00:34:00.640
the unvaccinated are equal and you can equally spread and transmit the virus themselves they are not
00:34:06.080
requiring vaccinated people to submit to test the rapid antigen testing only the unvaccinated to do that
00:34:13.040
and if there is an outbreak of a covid within a school which does happen especially with the spec ed
00:34:18.560
programs uh where the students are developmentally disabled they need a lot of help there's always
00:34:24.880
people around them there's been large outbreaks in those sorts of schools uh only the unvaccinated
00:34:31.760
need to quarantine in a situation like that the vaccinated are not supposed to quarantine or not
00:34:37.280
required to quarantine they can continue working as possible in my opinion and the opinion of the
00:34:42.640
people that i'm speaking with that are my colleagues who feel the same as i do that's putting everybody
00:34:47.120
in danger because they can still carry and they can still transmit and you are allowing people to
00:34:52.960
enter a building and to continue working with exposure to covid and you're not testing and you're
00:34:59.040
not checking to make sure that those people are clear it's only the unvaccinated so that's a
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discriminatory policy to begin with and it doesn't solve the problem and it's just going to perpetuate
00:35:09.200
the problem because at the end of the day come november 21st the only people that are going to
00:35:12.640
be in those schools are vaccinated staff yeah and what's going to happen when outbreaks begin at that
00:35:18.560
point and staff need to take leaves at that point because they are sick or they're in a hospital or
00:35:24.320
something happens to them and they have no backup at this point they have no backup now they're not
00:35:28.480
going to have backup november 21st when 4800 more employees go on leave or are placed on leave
00:35:34.160
no we'll certainly keep our eye on that and lori just to bring it back to your personal situation
00:35:39.600
i i don't know what your financial situation is but if you are terminated um does this mean dire
00:35:47.920
consequences for you or do you have another uh money earner in the household what does it mean for
00:35:54.800
you moving forward if there's no more future for you at the tdsb for myself i am a single mom of
00:36:03.040
uh three kids two of them are in university i'm paying university fees by myself um i do have resps
00:36:10.320
and you know some backup income not income i guess savings investments at this time i do run my own
00:36:17.120
business uh which you know i've been running as a side business while i'm doing my full-time job with tdsb
00:36:25.200
however um i've recently been putting into place my two-year plan into a tomorrow plan to get it sort of
00:36:32.800
catapulted and jump started into that area it will take me a little bit to get there i think that i
00:36:38.320
would be able to survive myself um it's just going to be a little bridging of some using some of my
00:36:44.800
savings in the meantime until i get to that point that's my situation wow i'm sorry to hear that you
00:36:51.600
know laurie uh we got to wrap it here but it's funny isn't it uh well perversely amusing might be the
00:36:56.960
better word decades ago in south africa we had apartheid uh a odious race-based system that made
00:37:04.960
south africa rightly so uh the pariah of the world and now here we are in 2021 in ontario canada and we
00:37:13.120
have basically medical apartheid um what i'm still trying to connect here is that even though hundreds
00:37:19.840
and hundreds of tdsb staff are going to be let go um the vast majority of the staff i assume are
00:37:27.840
double vac so what is the threat in having unvax co-workers because isn't that the point of the
00:37:36.080
vaccine that you're protected so last word goes to you my friend thank you uh well that's what we're
00:37:44.560
sitting here thinking it's like according to tdsb's trustee meeting last night they're claiming 95
00:37:50.240
of staff are double vaccinated 95 and yes that's spread across many different buildings but you know
00:37:56.800
i mean even ford has reversed his mandate for health care workers and education workers he's not forcing
00:38:02.960
it tdsb's continuing to force it and at 95 which originally when all of this happened and vaccines came
00:38:10.560
out ford was saying 80 is what we need to get to to open the economy well we're well past that
00:38:16.240
so what are we doing we don't have the answers nobody well the people who are affected don't
00:38:21.440
have the answers only the people in power have the answers and for us it's looking like it's a power grab
00:38:26.560
and it's a it's a it's it's just a power play there's no other explanation for it well larry lori
00:38:35.600
good luck in the days and months ahead i wish you the very best thank you for reaching out and
00:38:41.520
please stay in touch if anything regarding your situation changes in the meantime good luck to you
00:38:50.000
well folks you had plenty to say about ezra's monologue on microsoft wokeism and also his
00:39:08.880
interview with sheila gun reid about our billboard problems in alberta wild bill writes when they get
00:39:17.200
asked tough questions they fold like cheap card tables rebel news asks the tough questions why
00:39:25.440
don't they like rebel news well they probably don't like rebel news wild bill because they've never
00:39:31.040
watched our content paul lavelle writes thank you for those videos i no longer listen to ctv or cbc
00:39:40.160
they are an insult to my intelligence well thank you very much but sadly you're still being dinged
00:39:46.000
from your tax dollars to support those odious networks social distance justice warrior writes
00:39:54.240
you know a long time ago being crazy meant something nowadays everybody's crazy charles manson
00:40:03.520
hey and i guess we can just put that to the theme music of let's go crazy by prince he lives on
00:40:10.400
and folks as for our video of the day tamara's interview with former health canada pharmaceutical
00:40:18.080
advisor on regulatory issues with covid vaccines it's a must watch but in this case i was particularly
00:40:28.240
struck by this whistleblower who had had previous experience of 20 years who then showed up at the
00:40:34.880
site in texas to help run the the clinical trial within two weeks she was taking pictures and send of
00:40:42.400
the gross uh flagrant kind of problems that she saw which included stuff like the patients were
00:40:53.920
tamara ugolini here with rebel news and many of you have probably seen the recently published bmj that's
00:41:03.600
the british medical journal their whistleblower article regarding regulatory misconduct at the
00:41:10.960
lab in texas responsible for conducting one of pfizer's many clinical trials in this exclusive
00:41:17.920
interview i'm going to dissect that article with someone who has experience within the world of
00:41:23.440
pharmaceuticals regulatory standards and oversight and we're also going to discuss the potentially
00:41:29.360
deadly integrity issues and inconsistent manufacturing processes such as that which
00:41:35.360
had three lots of the moderna covid 19 vaccine suspended in japan due to contaminants which included
00:41:43.200
stainless steel yep try injecting that i mean at least japan did their due diligence and suspended it
00:41:50.080
but it makes you wonder if this is happening elsewhere in the world and what about canada
00:41:54.800
back in march health canada went ahead with nearly two-thirds of all total astrazeneca imports coming
00:42:01.280
from a lab accused by the fda to have quality control issues the u.s fda didn't release any of the
00:42:08.880
vaccines made at this lab to the u.s market but a spokeswoman for the department of health canada is
00:42:15.600
quoted as saying all products in canada met authorized specifications before they were released to the
00:42:22.160
market right so anyway back to my interview for privacy of reasons that we are very familiar with
00:42:30.320
as everyone who so much as questions the widely accepted covid narrative gets ridiculed has their
00:42:36.880
livelihoods threatened and is generally on the receiving end of a witch hunt smear campaign my guest
00:42:43.520
didn't feel comfortable coming forward with their full identity and so i have granted anonymity for
00:42:50.080
the purpose of getting this information out to the canadian public without fear of reprisal check it out
00:42:58.080
i um went to work for um a subsection of health canada in which i reviewed um new drug
00:43:07.920
as submissions and compared them in order for uh price review provided scientific and expert opinion
00:43:16.880
to my advisory committee and we made decisions regarding pricing on drugs based on that and spent a fair
00:43:25.200
amount of time doing that work which gave me a lot of insight particularly on how pharmaceutical companies
00:43:32.880
market market and price drugs and as well as the kinds of um clinical trials that are run and why
00:43:41.840
which was very enlightening and um i left that and did some work in community hospitals again i am
00:43:49.120
now retired due to a medical issue now let's get right into this bombshell that was posted in the bmj
00:43:57.360
the british medical journal on november 2nd it highlights regulatory misconduct at the pfizer lab
00:44:03.920
in texas what do you make of this whistleblower's claims well i think it's very credible number one
00:44:10.640
that these claims on data integrity issues on um from this clinical research organization how clinical
00:44:19.120
trials are run they're very expensive and very complicated so oftentimes the manufacturer will contract
00:44:26.960
out the actual running of the trials on the trial site uh by contract research organizations who know
00:44:36.080
the patients and know the system that they're working in and they have to follow certain rules and
00:44:42.080
regulations in accordance with what's required by fda or health canada or the european union
00:44:49.520
and um these people are are experienced at doing that now having said that many of these clinical
00:44:56.160
research organizations are known to cut corners in the past and um and that there have been data
00:45:02.560
integrity issues reported from these organizations but in this case i was particularly struck by this
00:45:11.280
whistleblower who had had previous experience of 20 years who then showed up at the site in texas to help
00:45:18.160
run the the clinical trial within two weeks she was taking pictures and send of the gross uh
00:45:25.520
flagrant kind of problems that she saw which included stuff like the patients were um put in a hallway after
00:45:34.320
getting the vaccination and nobody was monitoring them so that you may miss um adverse drug reactions if
00:45:41.040
that's the case or they didn't follow up on patients complaints in a very uh adequate manner and really
00:45:49.760
importantly protocol deviations were not being reported so the patients are not following the
00:45:55.280
checklists that are put forward and that of course tries to keep data integrity um there were issues with
00:46:02.320
vaccine storage and mislabeled um laboratory specimens um etc one of the most concerning things for me
00:46:11.120
that this data um that was actually reported by the BMJ
00:46:14.480
was that laboratory confirmed symptomatic covid was the trial's endpoint and they missed uh the trial
00:46:25.360
missed 477 patients with suspected systematic uh symptomatic covid if that's the case it is quite
00:46:34.880
possible that we don't even have a randomized controlled trial because there may have been a few cases in
00:46:41.200
cases in those 477 patients that were missed and that would mean that the whole intake date integrity of
00:46:49.280
the entire trial has been um is compromised i wanted to bring up another issue and that was the blinding of the
00:46:57.920
trial um and the whistleblower in this report does talk about um the fact that the people's vaccinations
00:47:08.960
that were with that were drawn up were open for anyone to see whether they were in the placebo group or
00:47:16.880
whether they were in the active group in addition and this was noted from the very beginning of the trial
00:47:23.920
in addition the side effects you know the uh localized side effects in the arm the fever the achiness the um
00:47:32.480
you know nausea vomiting and muscle aches and pain were much much higher in the clinical trial
00:47:39.120
and so i think it would be obvious to most of the nurses that were in the trial who got the vaccine and who
00:47:46.000
did not um and what's concerning to me is that whether that was addressed by the regulators
00:47:53.040
that the blinding was not as clear as it could have been so these things can be addressed afterwards
00:48:01.040
through statistical analysis or through other um other issues um because it's not the first time these
00:48:07.920
kinds of things happen but these uh this was not discussed at all that i can find talk to me a little
00:48:14.880
bit about uh the the incidences of fever and i think we discussed like there was multiple instances of
00:48:21.440
grade four fevers and then no follow-up yes so let's talk about the grades so grades one two and three
00:48:28.640
and four grade one is mild two is mild moderate three is moderate a grade four fever is 41 degrees and
00:48:35.920
above um i don't know if anyone's experienced a fever of like 40 41 degrees in an adult that's pretty severe
00:48:43.840
they didn't have too many of them but there's no way no how that that that series of a fever
00:48:50.560
is very concerning and it shows that the vaccine was highly immunogenic that's likely due to those
00:48:56.960
lipid nanoparticles that are in there and that would of course break the blinding because you don't have
00:49:03.120
fevers of 41 on a placebo you just don't now i'm glad you brought up the nanolipid particles because
00:49:09.120
um as early as march 2021 that the bmga also reported through leaked pfizer documents
00:49:15.840
that mrna instability was being documented by regulators with manufacturing and quality concerns
00:49:23.920
and the mrna is is essentially wrapped in these nanolipid particle bubbles so can you elaborate on
00:49:29.920
why this may be of concern and of course how it could lead to poor quality product one of the big
00:49:37.040
things this has been a big concern for me from the very beginning is that these are complicated
00:49:42.560
complicated products from it takes about 50 000 steps and one of the big things was um i read
00:49:51.920
submissions and i read the submission from the european union which was the lead regulator for all the
00:49:59.680
bigger um regulators including health canada and the fda it went to them first
00:50:05.040
and in their report that they published at the end of december update in february there were five
00:50:12.320
specific obligations that pfizer had to meet on the actual manufacturing processes of which as of
00:50:20.640
october only one has been met they included stuff like the mrna the characterization of the mrna we had
00:50:28.480
issues that the mrna was truncated or short it wasn't the entire strand that was found in the
00:50:34.800
lipid particles we don't know if that the fidelity of the mrna that was made is reproducible or the
00:50:44.320
same in addition the lipid nanoparticles at least 25 percent of them didn't have any mrna in them at
00:50:52.000
all and then there were additional issues with regarding of the um production of the lipid nanoparticles
00:50:59.760
that there were two of the fats used that are very highly they're called zwitteronic they're very
00:51:07.600
very ionic and um toxic in large amounts we're giving very small amounts though but these two lipid
00:51:16.400
products had never been used in humans before and so normally under normal conditions we'd like to make
00:51:22.560
sure that we would study those lipids separately before we put them into a vaccine part of the issue here
00:51:29.440
about all of these is that we had no standard uh tolerance limits is what i would call that
00:51:37.920
for these kind of products this is the first one so for uh um another vaccine or for a stay a drug
00:51:46.080
product you would say that each tablet would have to contain between 90 to 110 percent of the labeled
00:51:53.760
amount um we didn't have that kind of standard for these products when they when they were being made
00:52:02.000
and so it was what was what was tolerated or what was put forward by the um manufacturer
00:52:12.640
so that there were a lot of issues regarding what is acceptable or what is not
00:52:18.320
and so i think um so the european union or the this um report from the eu had specified specific
00:52:26.080
obligations that were to be met and that would be ideal they have not yet been met whether that makes
00:52:32.640
a difference clinically or not was the big question and i would submit that it's possible that they do in
00:52:39.920
in two particular or in a couple of cases i think one is that as the national advisory committee on
00:52:46.560
immunization has stated if you receive the vaccine and have an allergic reaction you can receive the
00:52:54.160
second dose because the chances of you having an allergic reaction on the second dose is minimal
00:53:00.320
if not zero and you would ask yourself why that would be the case that it's is it a vaccine ingredient or
00:53:07.200
is something nothing else no one really knows and i would submit and other people would that it's
00:53:12.400
quite possible if you had issues with the actual manufacturing of the product that in some cases
00:53:18.800
you would have much higher levels of a allergic substance such as the pegylated lipids and in another
00:53:25.920
batch you may not have that same quantity which may explain the difference in allergic reactions that
00:53:31.360
needs to be tested of course but that's a potential possibility of what of an outcome of the
00:53:37.120
variability on these batch to batches that were were actually identified now just in closing do you
00:53:43.520
have a message for these regulators or people developing policy around these these injections let's be
00:53:51.200
careful let's repeat everything let's take our time and let's demand expertise and excellence in these
00:54:02.240
products they are being given to everybody and are being mandated and in that case we need to ensure that
00:54:10.800
they're safe and effective so many doctors nurses health professionals researchers scientists psychologists
00:54:19.120
epidemiologists virologists all the ologists they have all been sounding alarm bells that we need to slow
00:54:25.840
down and make sure we get this right let's heed that warning and take a step back and ask us ask ourselves if
00:54:33.840
the proper processes and checks and balances have been put in place to prevent tragic outcomes especially
00:54:42.000
as we see this rolled out in our pride and joy the future of our country our children if you want to come
00:54:50.240
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00:54:57.600
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00:55:06.320
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00:55:12.320
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