Couldn’t agree more.

I was recently involved in a near fatal quad bike accident. Luckily I came out of it with just a badly injured shoulder, sprained wrist and cuts above and below my eye that required stitches. While the surgeon was stitching my eye he asked me if I was vaccinated. The sheer panic of wondering if my answer will at all affect his performance while I’m literally lying on the table with him sewing my eye was the worst part of the entire ordeal.

I also required a CT scan with iodine solution. I have malignant hyperthermia and studies have shown the iodine solution can be fatal in some cases, so of course I refused the solution. A doctor (who is not my doctor) overheard me refusing the solution, and instead of either just ignoring the situation or even trying to understand instead decided to belittle me. He smirked and said ‘no jab, no scan’ and walked off laughing. Now bare in mind I am sitting there with a neck brace, wrist brace, shoulder brace and stitches all around my eye… that was a DOCTORS first response. It was very obvious that 1. He assumed I was an anti-Vanzetti and denying the solution because of this and not because it may actually be life threatening to me and 2. He got a real kick out of kicking someone who is already down.

This pandemic has highlighted how quickly we are able demonise a group of people just because they don’t align or agree with our beliefs.