It Was Never About A Virus

Quite:

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health allegedly withheld evidence alluding to the possible dangers of mandating mask requirements for children, according to a new court application by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).

Deena Hinshaw, who has served as Alberta’s chief medical officer since 2019, allegedly received a memo in February 2022 from then-Premier Jason Kenney’s office stating a number of possible adverse health effects that children could suffer as a result of masking.

The Justice Centre, a legal advocacy organization, says Hinshaw withheld the memo’s evidence when she was cross-examined in an April court challenge questioning if her health orders violated Albertans’ Charter rights.

The government memo stated that masking children can “disrupt learning,” “interfere with children’s speech development,” and “impair verbal and non-verbal communication,” along with several other possible adverse health effects.

“During her cross-examination in April, Dr. Hinshaw was specifically asked whether she was aware of any evidence of harms to elementary school children from being compelled to wear masks,” reads a JCCF news release, to which Hinshaw “answered … in the negative.”

The Justice Centre further states that, based on knowledge obtained from the recently-released memo, Hinshaw’s “answers to this line of questions were false, and that she failed to disclose her knowledge of the harms to children from forced masking.”

Hinshaw admitted during her cross-examination that some of Alberta’s COVID-19 measures had “unintended consequences,” but “had to be weighed against the benefits of certain Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions,” according to the Justice Centre.

When questioned about the efficacy of masking and whether there was sufficient evidence supporting it, Hinshaw said it’s important to “look at the totality of that evidence,” and also said she believed masking to be a proven method of preventing the spread of COVID-19.

“Masks, when worn properly, are a valuable tool in reducing the transmission of [COVID-19],” she stated in a July 2021 affidavit, but then proceeded to say that “masking, on its own, is not sufficient to control the spread of COVID-19.”

The Alberta government memo also said that mandating masks for children can “interfere” with their social and emotional development and harm their “emotional signalling” and “facial recognition.”

But the parents agreed to this stunting, so ...

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Mothers on maternity leave who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 working in the BC Public Service are not only at risk of losing their jobs but repaying the entirety of their maternity leave top-up benefit as well.

Their stories all share similar key points:

• For these women, maternity leave started before October 2021, and before provincial vaccine mandates were announced for BC Public Service workers.
• They all decided to accept the government’s top-up benefit, which pays about 80% of the usual salary in a given position, expecting to go back to their job on their pre-determined return to work date. This is agreed to with the knowledge that if you quit, find another job, or otherwise miss your return to work date, you will be liable to pay back that amount. This return to work date cannot be postponed.
• The province instituted its vaccination policy for employees on November 8th, 2021, requiring employees to be vaccinated in order to be hired, or continue to work.
• If a mother on maternity leave is unvaccinated and is denied an exemption, they are in a position to miss their return to work date and be liable to have to pay back the entirety of the top-up benefit, from $20,000 all the way up to $50,000 in some cases. Or, they can prove vaccination and return to work without a problem.

When signing the contract agreeing to take this benefit, these mothers had no idea that the Government’s policies and terms of their employment could change while on leave.

A statement from the Provincial Government to My PG Now reads: “The vaccination policy stipulates that BC Public Service employees who do not receive two doses of vaccination against COVID-19, or refuse to disclose their vaccination status, and do not have an approved exemption request, are to be placed on a leave without pay for a period of at least three months, after which they may be terminated.”

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So the President of Western University, which instituted a mask and booster mandate for the University, Alan Shepard, is expecting a federal grant of more than $28 million from Canadian Institutes of Health Research and over $35 million from the federal government?

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— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) August 22, 2022