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Dr. Dion Davidson, a vascular surgeon from Nova Scotia shares his experiences during the pandemic and his reasons for leaving the province.
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Facebook page: facebook.com/DrDionDavidson/
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Dr. Davidson joins the long list of witnesses who have grown disillusioned with the Public Health Agencies.
Davidson: "We're moving because of the Public Health response to the #covid pandemic."
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Dr. Davidson struggling to answer whether 'informed consent' applies in Canada.
Davidson: "Historically it would have applied, before the pandemic."
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The commissioner asks Dr. Davidson about the difference risks of covid outcome based on age.
Davidson: "If you're a healthy child, you're risk of a bad outcome from covid approaches zero. If you're 80 you're at 1000x risk."
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He then gets posed a question about his view on widespread lockdowns.
Davidson: "It was my first major crisis moment.
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Dr. Davidson touches on an often ignored point, which is the hyperfocus on this single virus.
Davidson: "This one virus, which was one more way among a thousand other ways that we could die in life, was the only thing that Public Health was concerned with."
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The commissioner then asks Dr. Davidson if there was any evidence to support the lockdowns.
Davidson: "Not on an ongoing basis."
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Dr. Davidson goes on to praise other states that did not lockdown, and then catches himself comparing Nova Scotia to one of the bad states.
Davidson: "States like #Florida or #Texas were not widely shutting down like #NewYork or #California...or Nova Scotia"
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The commissioner then asks Dr. Davidson whether there was any debate or discussion either in the hospital or with Public Health.
Davidson: "Not nearly enough, in my opinion."
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Dr. Davidson then talks about his hesitation over the speed at which the vaccines were released under Operation Warp Speed.
Davidson: "By definition, you don't have the long term data. Especially in terms of safety."
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Dr. Davidson continues on, conceding that he simply believed Public Health's endorsement of the vaccines as being 'safe & effective'.
Davidson: "I was naïve. I should have questioned things more. But I hoped that the powers that be knew what they were doing."
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Dr. Davidson shares his view on labeling the vaccines as 'safe & effective'.
Davidson: "I never just sit down with a patient and say 'this is safe & effective. Do it'. That's never how we talk about things."
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After having criticized the labeling of the vaccines as 'safe & effective', the commissioner asks Dr. Davidson how he felt about the mandates themselves.
Davidson: "It's one thing to heavily promote a vaccine. To then force people to take it is a whole new level."
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Dr. Davidson takes a moment to stress that he does not deny the severity of the virus.
Davidson: "It was serious. I'm not a covid denier."
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He then lays out the only situation where a mandate would be justified.
Davidson: "It would have to be a pathogen that is so serious, and the intervention is so safe & so effective that you can contravene informed consent."
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He then says that information was coming out that the vaccine was not effective, which undermined support for a mandate.
Davidson: "The whole argument for forcing vaccination on someone is null and void."
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The commissioner then asks Dr. Davidson about adverse effects.
Davidson: "It's not adverse effects DUE To vaccination, but FOLLOWING vaccination, because it's extremely difficult to prove."
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Continuing on, Dr. Davidson describes how there was a lack of reporting of adverse events.
Davidson: "We should have been encouraging people to report adverse events happening after."
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Dr. Davidson does proceed to answer the original question, as to whether he observed any adverse events.
Davidson: "I certainly had first hand experience of life threatening and minor events, shortly after vaccination."
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Dr. Davidson describes the cumbersome adverse events reporting system.
Davidson: "It took me 45 minutes to submit the report."
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The commissioner then asks a pointed question.
Commissioner: "The way that reporting system was set up, could it inhibit the reporting of adverse events?"
Davidson: "Yes".
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Dr. Davidson continues to criticize the Public Health Agency for undermining adverse events reporting.
Davidson: "We were relentlessly bombarded with how safe & effective the vaccines were. Safe & effective 1000x a day."
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Dr. Davidson further criticizes Public Health for their thinly veiled threats.
Davidson: "We were informed by the College that if we publicly voiced anything other than support of Public Health's statements, we would be disciplined."
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Finally, Dr. Davidson wraps the issue of adverse events reporting together.
Davidson: "Not only is reporting cumbersome, the overall messaging was not 'be sure to look out for these adverse events'."
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The commissioner asks another pointed question regarding adverse events reports.
Commissioner: "Is it your opinion that the messaging that you just described had a dissuasive effect on the reporting."
Davidson: "I don't know how it couldn't have".
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The commissioner asks another pointed question, this time about vaccine mandates.
Commissioner: "Is it your opinion that the implementation of vaccine mandates was a necessary measure?"
Davidson: "The vaccine mandates were an unnecessary measure".
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The commissioner asks one final pointed question.
Commissioner: "Is it your opinion that the implementation of vaccine mandates was a reasonable public safety measure."
Davidson: "No, they were not a reasonable public safety measure".
Crowd: Applause
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Dr. Davidson's response when asked of others leaving Nova Scotia.
Davidson: "Some of these are people that were fired for not getting vaccinated, Even now, two years later, they can't work as a health care worker unless they got those two vaccines, from two years ago."
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Dr. Davidson goes back and directly answers the question.
Davidson: "I know of dozens of doctors and nurses who aren't working. A few got vaccinated but, just like me, got sick of things and are in the process of moving away."
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Dr Davidson's sarcastically responds when the Commissioner said 'one would have thought there would have been an additional review process'.
Davidson: "One would have thought!".
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Dr. Davidson delivers a beautiful explanation for how everything went to hell.
Davidson: "A new Public Health elite emerged and they became obsessed with this virus. Then it became political. Then it became tribal."
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