Hola, mis amigos 😎
I hope you are doing well!
Life in El Salvador is good…
We visited a beautiful waterfall near Apeneca with some friends recently. What an amazing place! The natural pool below the fall felt cold like the lakes back in Northern B.C, but it was so refreshing. We swam around and soaked in the cool water for about half an hour. It’s the first time I’ve had goosebumps in awhile!
Avocado season has now begun, with hundreds hanging from our huge tree—we are so grateful for all this incredibly heathy, organic food! Mangoes are still everywhere too, so it’s an amazing time of year. 💛
Rainy season is just beginning, and it rained all night Thursday and part of Friday. As soon as we hear the rain start, we race outside to grab all the laundry and towels. It’s literally a race against time!
Once the rain is more frequent, we’ll plant some other tropical plants and flowers on our land. Tom was at a nursery yesterday and loaded up on some beauties (see below). Right now it’s really humid here too, so we constantly feel sticky. But the rain brings cooler air, which is a bit of a reprieve. And we sure need it after 6 months of none!
The other day I was at the Bitcoin Farmers Market again, chatting with lots of interesting people. As we were on the topic of Covid and the mandates, I mentioned to a fellow Canadian,
“I was fired from my job as a nurse in B.C, over the vaccine mandates…”
Immediately he put his hand up for a high five, and said,
“Congratulations! You did the right thing!!”
I had to clarify that I was THIS CLOSE—thumb & index finger a millimetre apart—to taking it! Really, I’m no one’s role model in that respect.
I scratched the surface of this story once, but I’ve never told it to you, my readers…even though I’m sure I’ve told a few of you in person by now!
There was SO much fear around Covid in 2020. I remember going to work symptom-free, but still fearing I was bringing the dreaded virus to my elderly residents. We had to sanitize our hands constantly, wear a mask for the whole shift, and we had to PCR test any of our residents who had a fever or a cough.
The pressure in early 2021, especially for nurses, to take the newly-developed “vaccine” was palpable. And the safe and effective slogan was being chanted from every news outlet, on the street, by doctors and coworkers, and even by lots of friends and family.
It’s hard to believe now that people, even myself, were so easily convinced. The fear of Covid was pumped so hard in 2020 that our saviour was this hyped-up “vaccine.” Besides, since when should we question anything approved by scientists as safe…? Right…?!
Since I was 22, I’ve worked in long-term care, in nursing homes, caring for the elderly. I’d started off as a care aide for the first 5 years, helping to feed, bathe, dress, and care for little old ladies and men, most of whom had dementia. Then, at 27, I went back to school to become a licensed practical nurse, and began working as a nurse, once again in long-term elder care.
It proved to be a great job for me a few years later, as a mom of young kids. The job was usually not too stressful, and I got to know my residents fairly well, and felt quite comfortable in that environment. As a casual nurse, I could pick up shifts when I wanted, which worked well for our family, so I could be there for my girls as much as possible.
When Covid hit, I was working at a nursing home in Prince George, a city of 90,000 in northern B.C. I went from working just a couple shifts a week, to working long hours for most of 2020, often taking overtime shifts when other nurses couldn’t come in. Sick calls were more frequent in 2020, as we’d have to take a PCR test—I took two of those dreadful things—and then wait a few days for the results…EVERY time we had a sore throat or a sniffle.
Tom stayed home with the girls during that 7 months, as his new job kept postponing his start date, due to Covid restrictions. Then in late 2020, we heard that an mRNA vaccine was being rolled out. We wondered what to think of that, especially considering how quickly it had been developed and approved. And its testing was limited.
Soon we were being told that as care staff, it would be required, and we could be some of the first ones to receive it. I was hesitant at first, wondering about how mRNA worked, but I also felt that maybe the benefits outweighed the risks. After all, I would never want to be the cause of Covid coming into our nursing home!! Besides, since when could taking a vaccine be that risky..?! I’d always believed that vaccines were harmless and worked well.
This particular day, in late January or early February 2021, I was helping a coworker bring all (except for the 2 who had opted out) of our 58 residents down to the main activity room to receive their Covid-19 vaccines.
The nurse giving the injections had mentioned that there was one extra dose, and that I could have it if I wanted. I asked her a few questions about how mRNA works, and about how dangerous Covid could potentially be. She had me fairly convinced that I should get the “vaccine.”
I left the room to call Tom, and he didn’t support my decision, reminding me I’d been hesitant to take it up until now.
He also said,
“It’s your decision, but why don’t you just wait and learn more about it?”
But, being the independent and sometimes impulsive woman that I am, I said,
“Well, I need it for work, and it’s here now. Besides, I don’t want to spread Covid to my vulnerable residents, so I think I’m just going to get it today…”
As I returned to the room, the nurse saw me, and mentioned,
“Oh, while you were gone, one of the kitchen staff came and took that extra dose.”
Wait, what?!
In the 3-5 minutes that I was out of the room, my dose—the only extra dose—had been taken. I was speechless.
Coincidence???
Right away I thought,
“What are the chances?! What’s going on here? Was I NOT supposed to get it or something…?”
I began to wonder if I should wait and do some more research. That very evening, my dad sent me a video of a doctor talking about how no one who is under 70 and healthy should be taking this experimental treatment, which isn’t actually even a vaccine. But the CDC conveniently redefined the term vaccine later that year.
Soon, I went down a very deep rabbit hole. And I quickly realized that despite what we were being told, studies were showing that the vaccine wasn’t actually stopping transmission. And also that 99.9% of healthy people my age were NOT dying of Covid. I became convinced that what had happened that day was for a reason. The more I learned and the more I read about women (and men) my age suffering with vax injuries, the more I realized that I could have easily been one of them too.
Ever heard of Divine Intervention? I’m convinced that God had something to do with what happened that day. I was ready to jump in with both feet, without truly making an informed decision, because lots of information was being hidden from us, and we were simply being told, “Trust the science!!”
One woman told me,
“Pray about it, and trust your heart. Do the right thing, and just take the vaccine. It’s the right thing to do.”
Others told me,
“You’re being selfish, and we don’t actually have personal choice in this situation—this is a pandemic where we have to do what’s best for the whole.”
But I was thinking about this decision daily. And I was trusting God, and my heart. It wasn’t an easy choice, going against what most people were saying.
I was doing lots of research, and learning that it was no longer a pandemic of the unvaccinated as we were being told. The “vaccine” wasn’t living up to its promise of being SO effective.
And it wasn’t as safe as they were saying either. Has anyone else noticed that heart attacks and strokes have even been normalized amongst young adults in the last few years? And so have a lot of neurological issues.
I was starting to be cynical about this whole thing, especially when I saw some of the stories online of people whose health had now been ruined by it. One story shook me to the core—a mom (Jessica Berg Wilson) about my age had taken it hesitantly, in order to be allowed to volunteer at her daughter’s preschool. She then died, just a few weeks later from a blood clot. She’d left behind her husband and two little girls.
When I read that story, a fire was ignited inside of me.
“I don’t care what this costs me. I’m going to stand my ground, even if I lose my job. My priority is my health and being here for my family.”
What happened on that day when I missed getting my dose also made me that much more compassionate towards people who later came to regret their decision. I am humbled that I had been so quick to make a decision about something I knew so little about.
You may completely disagree with me on all of this, and that’s OK.
Just for the record though, there are studies showing how many people have been negatively impacted in the last few years by this roll-out, including hundreds of athletes, and many children. The irony was that healthy children had a 0% chance of dying from Covid.
Also, why did the FDA say they’d publish the Pfizer vaccine data, but not for another 75 years..?! Isn’t that in itself just a little fishy? 🤔
I would never have imagined when I lost my job in late 2021, that things would turn out the way they have. At the time, I was stressed, incredibly sad, and ready for some big changes. And if that’s what this decision meant for me and my family, I was OK with that.
We’d been telling our little girls for the whole month of September why they couldn’t do all the normal, fun things they were used to doing…things like skating lessons, dance lessons, going to the swimming pool, eating out…
“We can’t do that…because Mommy and Daddy don’t want to take the vaccine…”
To be honest, for Tom and me, our life had been turned upside-down in 2021. We felt like we’d become outcasts from society. In just a few months, many people had stopped talking to us, based on our social media posts, in which we’d expressed concern about what was happening. One woman who’d been my friend at the girls’ school went as far as to stop greeting me, and would even turn away if she saw me coming.
But even worse, this was negatively impacting our girls. Our sweet little girls should be able to live in a place where we wouldn’t have to deprive them of the normalcy and excitement of being a child.
We knew we needed to do something to change that! And soon we’d no longer be allowed to leave Canada. So within 3 weeks, we sold our house, most of our stuff, and then left for Mexico on October 27, 2021. Beginning in December, our government would no longer allow the unvaccinated to leave Canada.
Fast forward almost 3 years. Since leaving for Mexico, big changes have definitely happened in our lives. Now we live in El Salvador, and we’ve made some amazing friends!
Living in a country where so many people have escaped their homelands to live, as you can imagine, almost all of our friends have similar stories—or even wilder ones! It is so refreshing to NOT have to censor our speech.
The other day at the market was definitely not the first time that Tom and I have had people high five us or tell us they didn’t take it either. I’d guess it’s been at least a few dozen times now. Even some local Salvadorans have told us they opted out, wondering about the potential health impacts, and the speed at which it was “developed and tested.” Many of them questioned what was happening too.
I was talking to a Salvadoran man here recently who works in Canada, but also has a house in the same gated community as us. He said,
“Well, I didn’t have a choice—I had to take it because of my job.”
Right away, I replied,
“Wait a minute…I was also told I’d be losing my job…we ALL had a choice…”
He had to agree.
Recently, a former coworker of Tom’s started posting on Facebook about his vaccine injury. He had been convinced that it was safe and effective like so many millions of Canadians. And now, he’s left with severe negative impacts on his health.
It makes me angry that so many lives have been negatively-impacted, and some have even been ruined because of this.
I know this is one of the most controversial topics of our time. But in the last few years, I started to question what was going on in Canada and around the world. Once you see it, you can’t un-see it.
I’m sure some of you have noticed many sports and media personalities collapsing live on-air since the vaccine rollout. Here’s one such video (one minute) that is particularly thought-provoking.
Thanks for letting me share more of my story with you. I’m grateful for each one of you 💚
And I’ll write about life in El Salvador again next time! 🥑🥭🌺🌴
Nos vemos, amigos 😊
“Once you see it, you can’t un-see it.”
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You dodged a bullet Emily.
Imagine for a moment being jabbed, boosted and possessing more than two functioning neurons in May of 2024. You'd either be in very deep denial or living in dread wondering when the other shoe is going to drop..
Irrevocable damage to trust in public institutions.