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Why Is Rempel Silent On Harmful Effects Of “Interim Authorized” Vaccines?

Rempel is tied the World Economic Forum, as are many “Conservatives”. Don’t worry, it won’t impact how she does her job. She’ll stand up for Canadians on making sure these “vaccines” are safe.

At least these are safe, right? At least these “vaccines” have gone through all the steps to become approved by Health Canada, correct? These aren’t allowed onto the market by some emergency authorization?

So, Michelle Rempel-Garner is a sell out to big pharma. But at least the Conservative Party of Canada is taking seriously the vast array of civil rights abuses going on in Canada.

Remember: voting works.
Vote next election.

WHO Paper On MANDATORY Vaccination April 13, 2021 (Original)
WHO Paper On MANDATORY Vaccination April 13, 2021 (Copy)
Section 30.1 Canada Food & Drug Act
September 2020 Interim Order From Patty Hajdu
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2020/12/government-of-canada-announces-pan-canadian-vaccine-injury-support-program.html
https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-pm-en.pdf
https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/janssen-covid-19-vaccine-pm-en.pdf
https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/covid-19-vaccine-moderna-pm-en.pdf
https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-pm1-en.pdf

Vaccines Supported For Pregnant Women, Despite No Testing
Vaccines Given “Interim Authorization”, Not Approval. Very Different
Call Centers Wrongly Telling People “Vaccines” Are Approved
Ontario Adds, Then Removes Protections Against “No Jab, No Job”
WHO April 13 Paper: Discussion On Mandatory “Experimental Vaxx”

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(Amended) Colin Furness And Sapphire Health

Update To Article
Recently, Sapphire Health listed Furness as an advisor. That page has since been changed, removing him. The before and after versions are available.

Since the original publication, Furness’ name has been removed from the Advisors list. He claims he was listed in error, and never a paid advisor, but merely an old friend of the owner.

About
I am an infection control epidemiologist with an industry focus on behaviour and infection risk. I am also the U of T Faculty of Information’s first teaching stream assistant professor.

My teaching is in the area of knowledge management, specifically the design of information systems to support effective information sharing and use. My research is focused on defining and measuring outcomes associated with work-integrated learning in a graduate professional training environment.

Furness was a consultant for nearly 15 years. This coincided with his time as a Sessional Lecturer and as a scientist. According to his biography, he has only been teaching in recent years.

University of Toronto Professor Colin Furness is another “expert” that is constantly on the news, spouting out his fear-porn predictions. He appears on television often, saying that civil rights should be watered down in the name of public safety. He’s also with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, just like many Medical Health Officers in Ontario.

Even more telling are the topics that’s aren’t discussed.

The Ontario Deputy Medical Officer, Barbara Yaffe openly admitted there can be a 50% false positive rates in PCR tests. Toronto Public Health and Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott admitted that deaths “with Covid” are conflated with deaths “from Covid”. Also, the death waves that been predicted never materialized, so that has been replaced with “case counts”. These are just a few problems the “experts” will not address.

Out in B.C., Bonnie Henry openly admits there is no science behind limiting group sizes. She has also flip flopped on the importance of masks, and backtracked on the reliability of PCR tests. In fact, the BCCDC admitted in April 2020 that PCR tests can’t actually determine infection. Again, no pushback or addressing these points by TV experts.

The experts also won’t discuss that these vaccines have interim authorization (not approval), testing goes on until 2023, and the manufacturers are indemnified. In spite of this, they all push hard for everyone to get it. Nor will the extensive lobbying by the pharmaceutical industry be mentioned.

What’s lacking in these TV interviews is differing opinions, or at least some hard questions about how these conclusions came to be. A specific follow-up would be to ask what is the scientific basis for the proposals being made. One would think that the media would want to ask someone else just for the appearance of viewpoint diversity, but apparently not. As for Sapphire itself:

OUR PURPOSE GREW OUT OF A RECOGNIZED NEED.
We are medical professionals with frontline experience treating acutely ill and injured intensive care unit patients. Many patients have complex, absent, or inaccessible medical histories when data is needed most. Without this precision information, safe and rapid care decisions are difficult and patients are at risk of error and poor outcomes.
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We believe in the power of data and know first-hand the positive impact that access to detailed personal health records makes in our patients’ lives. Our unique digital solutions facilitate connected care and precision medicine.
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Sapphire Digital Health Solutions Inc. is a privately held business based in Waterloo, Canada comprised of a team of medical experts with a passion for leveraging technology to improve patient health.

Sapphire offers a service for digitize health records. Now, the idea of digital records is nothing new, but this company claims it to be the secure cloud-based platform, it’s simple to access, and easy to use – anytime, anywhere. Designed by Sapphire Digital’s skilled team of physicians and artificial intelligence experts, LifeSTAT™ is the most detailed and comprehensive record of your health information, and a critical tool for safe, fast, and effective care decisions by your care providers “in secure cloud-based platform, designed by Sapphire Digital’s team of physicians and artificial intelligence experts, LifeSTAT™ is the most detailed and comprehensive record of your health information, and a critical tool for safe, fast, and effective care decisions by your care providers.”

With continuous lockdowns, lack of access to physical medical care, and the AI revolution, companies like Sapphire are in a position to profit from this. However, the best way to guarantee continued growth and demand is to ensure that there isn’t a proper reopening of society any time soon.

Again, Furness has been removed on the listings as an Advisor for Sapphire. The benefits companies like this get from the lockdowns must be just a coincidence.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r42HYDlfwOQ
(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38MqQPBWBRw
(3) https://ihpme.utoronto.ca/faculty/colin-d-furness/
(4) https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/1275888390060285967
(5) https://www.sapphirehealth.ca/
(6) https://www.sapphirehealth.ca/about/
(7) https://archive.is/YU4pP
(8) https://www.sapphirehealth.ca/faq/
(9) https://www.sapphirehealth.ca/features/
(10) https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-furness-a52736/

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Meet Kashif Pirzada: Shilling For More Lockdown Measures, While He Has Interests On The Side

Kashif Pirzada is frequently on the media circuit, telling people to be afraid. He openly calls for more restrictions, forced masks, forced testing and more. He openly admits that necessary preventative care is being put off, but he supports doing it anyway.

Kashif Pirzada is yet another “expert” making the rounds on the media circuit. He promotes vaccines, pharmaceuticals, masks, lockdowns, travel restrictions and other measures of medical tyranny. He’s an Associate Professor at McMcaster University, and a graduate of the University of Toronto, and former Lecturer and Governor there. Pirzada has many interesting connections that need looking into.

Let’s start off with his school, McMaster University, which is located in Hamilton. What can we find out there?

1. Pirzada A Professor At McMaster University

Link to search IRS charity tax records:
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/

Let’s clarify here: there are actually 2 separate entities. The Foundation is the group that distributes money to various organizations and institutions. The Foundation Trust, however, is concerned primarily about asset management.

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
EIN: 56-2618866
gates.foundation.taxes.2016
gates.foundation.taxes.2017
gates.foundation.taxes.2018

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION TRUST
EIN: 91-1663695
gates.foundation.trust.taxes.2018

McMaster University has been receiving large donations from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in recent years. According to the Foundation’s own records, the school got some $21 million from 2015 to 2019. This isn’t to say for sure that the people are compromised, but that is a lot from just one group.

McMaster publicly claims to have isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. That that sounds impressive, it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. The organization, Fluoride Free Peel, served McMaster with a freedom of information request to access those records. Apparently, they don’t actually exist.

2. Pirzada Part Of NGO: Masks4Canada

Pirzada is part of the group Masks4Canada, which openly calls for mandatory masks on people. All in the name of “science” of course. Several prominent names are also there, including professional speaker Abdu Sharkawy.

We are a grassroots volunteer group of physicians, media, data scientists, marketing specialists, technologists, lawyers, engineers, students, teachers, parents, and advocates. We provide expertise and time in advocating for our cause, and our initiative is based on scientific research.

Our mission is to inform and educate all levels of the Canadian government and the public about the critical role of masks and/or face coverings in reducing the transmission of COVID-19. Mandatory masking in high-risk settings, in addition to physical distancing and hand hygiene, will help save lives and the economy.

We do not sell masks or medical supplies. We do not endorse or partner with any for-profit companies or organizations, nor will we receive or ever receive any funding from a foundation, corporation, union, registered third party association, or political group.

It’s not bad enough that this group wants force masks on everyone, including children. They openly call for full blown tyranny. Consider this April 12, 2021 letter:

We need national standards, either as a condition of receiving federal money or, if necessary, imposed under an order or regulation under the various existing federal acts referenced above. In particular, we need national standards governing:

1. Metrics-driven restrictions. We need national standards that use critical metrics such as reproduction rate
(R), test positivity, and healthcare capacity to trigger the imposition or lifting of restrictions on the opening
of businesses, schools, and other publicly accessible spaces. These metrics should be made public and
trackable.

2. Consistent travel restrictions. International, interprovincial, and interregional travel should be permitted only between areas where there are similarly low levels of COVID-19 cases and these restrictions need to be consistently enforced so as to avoid constant re-introduction of new cases. Quarantine protocols for essential travel between provinces should be standardized

3. Consistent responses to exposures.
a. Isolation: We need national standards for the duration of self-isolation for patients who had an exposure or are diagnosed with COVID-19. These standards may need to change in response to variants.
b. Sick Days: We also need nationally mandated paid sick days for essential workers to support time off for vaccination or testing as well as self-isolation as needed, as these groups are driving infections in the third wave.

4. Masking. Masking needs to be mandatory in public indoor spaces, including all schools and workplaces, regardless of distancing. This mask mandate should be supported by clear and consistent mask quality requirements (e.g. ASTM certification) and the distribution of N95 or equivalent masks to the Canadian population.

5. Testing. We need to expand and normalize the use of mass rapid testing as a screening tool in schools, workplaces, and health care facilities, and make rapid testing widely available to the general public. Such uses should be consistent across Canada.

6. Aerosol mitigation. ASHRAE and PHAC recognize that COVID-19 is primarily an airborne disease. We need national rules about minimum requirements for HVAC systems, air filtration, and indoor air purity, particularly for congregate settings such as LTCs, large workplaces, and our schools using guidelines such as those provided by the Harvard-Chan School of Public Health.

7. Vaccination. National standards are needed to support equitable and effective distribution. Now that elderly and Indigenous populations are largely vaccinated, it should be a national priority to vaccinate essential workers in congregate settings (e.g. school staff, workers in large workplaces), and postal codes with higher proportions of frontline workers.

8. Data. A national database with immunization information and strong privacy protections will be critical to support an effective and efficient rollout to the entire population, including those who do not have legal documentation or move between provinces or territories. Similarly, there needs to be a consistent approach to data collection across provinces, including uniform information classification and data gathering requirements to facilitate cross-jurisdictional data comparison and analysis. This will be of particular importance in following up and tracking outcomes with vaccine recipients.

How did this group go from simply calling for masks, to micromanaging every aspect of people’s lives? They openly call for travel restrictions, but don’t seem to have a problem with people in the country illegally.

3. Pirzada Founds Critical Drugs Coalition

Pirzada helped found the group Critical Drug Coalition. (Interesting that the acronym is CDC). This is supposedly a volunteer group that calls for more access to pharmaceuticals, and for more funding.

This group wants various Governments to: (a) ensure more transparency and clearer communication around essential drug supply. The drugshortages.ca website run by the Federal Government needs to be made more usable for front-line pharmacists managing drug shortages; (b) encourage domestic manufacturing capacity especially of vaccines and other critical care drugs; and (c) commit to an Critical Medications List which the government commits to ensure are always in stock through the National Emergency Stockpile.

While this may sound fine on the surface, all of the members have ties to the medical and/or pharmaceutical industries. Calling them “volunteers” is misleading, as they would stand to financially benefit from increased amounts of money from Ottawa and the Provinces.

4. Pirzada Owns EasyFit Online Exercise

Pirzada has another side business, EasyFit. It’s an online fitness business which will allow doctors to make prescriptions and monitor activity without physically visiting the office.

FOR USERS: a platform that allows them to access a virtual trainer marketplace, monitor their exercise and diet plans, compete with their friends during live group video workouts, high-quality free fitness content, and to receive personalized exercise programs prescribed by their doctors.
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FOR DOCTORS: a platform that allows them to prescribe and monitor evidence-based exercises to their patients using our intelligent exercise prescription algorithm, without resorting to opioids and other dangerous therapies.
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FOR COACHES: a platform that allows them to manage online clients and build their brand using industry-leading program builders, live video training capability, in-app messaging, auto billing and more tools to scale their business as virtual trainers.

On the surface, there is nothing wrong with such an application. After all, the vast majority of people would benefit from extra exercise. However, it’s quite the coincidence that this business would grow as a result of the same lockdowns and restrictions that Pirzada supports.

5. Pirzada And Conquer Covid

Part of this was addressed in an earlier piece, but Pirzada hadn’t been focused on. Although the website is now deleted, he was (is?) part of Conquer Covid NGO. This is a group selling merchandise. The sales of the merchandise were to be used to purchase PPE for health care workers. Of course, none of this would ever be skimmed or disappear.

The organization was promoted by Doug Ford, in one of his usual cringeworthy press conferences. But he has to at least look the part.

Conquer Covid seems to have dropped off the public radar. Party this is because the commercialization and mass production of PPE has taken off. Partly it’s because goodwill seems to have disappeared.

It’s unclear exactly how much Pirzada directly profits from these enterprises. However, it appears obvious that he enjoys the limelight, and being an “expert” that people turn to. Like so many other times, a nobody is vaulted into public prominence.

6. Other Bits Of Information

Pirzada also follows Bill Gates online, according to his LinkedIn page. That makes sense, considering how much he’s donated to McMaster University in recent years.

Pirzada is also part of Ontario’s Consent and Capacity Board. His job was reviewing cases of people involuntarily detained in the mental health system. Previously, he was a coroner with the Ministry of Corrections (prisons). What an interesting backround.

He’s also been a lecturer and former Governor at the University of Toronto. This isn’t just some doctor sharing his expertise. He is very, very well connected.

7. Pirzada On Council For CPS Ontario

Pirzada is also on the Council for the College of Physicians and Surgeons for Ontario, which licenses doctors in the Province. Recently, the CPSO threatened to pull the licenses of any doctors engaging in “misinformation”. After a lot of backlash, they claimed it wasn’t meant to stifle debate.

8. Pirzada Just Tip Of The Iceberg

And no, this corruption isn’t limited to one person, or one institution. The entire system, including the Ontario Science Table, is rotten to the core.

Michael Warner is head of the Canadian Division of askthedoctor.com. Kumar Murty of OST runs a technology company called PerfectCloudIO, which stands to profit from lockdowns. Kwame McKenzie of OST led the research into the 2017 UBI project in Ontario. And on a related note: Trillium Health Partners got a $5 million gift from a company that makes face masks. Abdu Sharkawy makes a small fortune on the speaking circuit. Robert Steiner of OST, an LPC operative, claims to be the brains of PHAC, founded in 2004. Ryan Imgrund shills for lockdowns while his employer fundraises money. Isaac Bogoch is in the UofT club, is part of Ontario’s “Operation Warp Speed”, and pretends to be neutral.

(1) https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/pirzadak
(2) https://alumni.utoronto.ca/events-and-programs/awards/arbor-award/recipients/2019/kashif-pirzada
(3) https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/
(4) https://www.gatesfoundation.org/
(5) https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/home/2020/03/13/mcmaster-researcher-plays-key-role-in-isolating-covid-19-virus-for-use-in-urgent-research
(6) https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/university-of-toronto-sunnybrook-hsc-have-no-record-of-covid-19-virus-isolation/
(7) https://masks4canada.org/about/team/
(8) https://masks4canada.org/about/
(9) https://masks4canada.org/resources/open-letters/national-standards-letter-apr-2021/
(10) https://masks4canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/National-Standard-Letter-Apr-12-2021.pdf
(11) Masks4Canada National-Standard-Letter-Apr-12-2021
(12) https://twitter.com/KashPrime
(13) https://twitter.com/medscritical
(14) https://www.criticaldrugscoalition.ca/
(15) https://www.f6s.com/geteasy.fit
(16) https://www.f6s.com/kashifpirzada#!
(17) https://twitter.com/conquercovid19
(18) https://www.conquercovid19.ca/ (down?)
(19) https://archive.is/WSqCx
(20) https://www.conquercovid19.ca/meet-our-team/ (down?)
(21) https://archive.is/hF7Ud
(22) https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/gta-group-helping-conquer-covid-19-by-getting-supplies-to-medical-staff-1.4873404
(23) http://archive.is/jxkaP
(24) https://conquercovid19.entripyshirts.com/
(25) http://archive.is/UMpvr
(26) https://www.conquercovid19.ca/meet-our-team/
(27) http://archive.is/hF7Ud
(28) https://idrf.com/
(29) https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruby-alvi-86617347/
(30) http://archive.is/7pK30
(31) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yusuf-ahmed-119205137/
(32) http://archive.is/Rrll9
(33) https://www.linkedin.com/in/kcajee/”
(34) http://archive.is/STrLJ
(35) https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatema-dada-662b862/
(36) http://archive.is/iWdzY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhouston/
(37) http://archive.is/8fIfa
(38) https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-malik-58534b/
(39) http://archive.is/c8wLb
(40) https://www.linkedin.com/in/kashifpirzada/
(41) http://archive.is/1Duas
(42) https://twitter.com/theRavenApp
(43) https://www.cpso.on.ca/About/Council/Meet-the-College-Council
(44) https://www.cpso.on.ca/News/Key-Updates/Key-Updates/COVID-misinformation

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Meet Issac Bogoch: Another UofT “Expert” Pushing Experimental Vaccines On The Public

Issac Bogoch is a Professor at the University of Toronto. This just like countless of “officials” prolonging these medical martial law measures. Like many establishment mouthpieces, he never publicly questions the erasure of people’s rights. Nor does he raise any issues such as flawed testing methods, overwhelming recovery rate, or the long term costs of shutting down society.

Bogoch is an obedient — and presumably well paid — mouthpiece promoting the narrative that mass vaccination is necessary. He doesn’t question the fact that they are not approved, but given interim authorization, and he downplays the fact that testing is still ongoing.

This CTV interview is a good example. Pro-vaccination host Evan Solomon hosts professional speaker Abdu Sharkawy, and vaccine pusher Issac Bogoch. This is a common problem with the mainstream media in Canada. Any voices promoted are those which are completely on board with the agenda.

Then again, the family life leads to all kinds of questions. What kind of father has their children build such a snow figure, then uses it as a pinned tweet?

Now, even as Bogoch’s colleagues at the University of Toronto are pretending to manage the “Ontario Science Table”, he’s busy being part of the Ontario Vaccination Task Force. It stands to reason that there won’t be any opinions coming from the OST that will contradict the narrative that these experimental, unapproved “vaccines” are necessary.

It’s chilling and frustrating that nearly all of the “permitted” public speakers on such an important are limited to such a small area. Prevents real diversity of opinion from being heard.

Bogoch’s Twitter feed is full of pro-vaccination content. His pinned tweet is a CV snowman that his family made, which is creepy. It’s unclear whether he is getting paid for all this tweeting, or if he lacks other interests worth posting.

While this man seems to revel in the shutdown of most group activities, he acts as a consultant to “safety” bring professional hockey back to Canada. But no cognitive dissonace here.

Bogoch is another who seems to never sleep. In addition to being a doctor, he’s a university professor, and is on this vaccine task force. He also spends an unhealthy amount of time on Twitter, and giving media appearances. Does he have any sort of real life?

There was also this grant in early 2020.

And no, it’s far from just one person. Scientists and “experts” across Ontario, and Canada as a whole, are compromised.

Michael Warner is head of the Canadian Division of askthedoctor.com. Kumar Murty of OST is an investor of a technology company called PerfectCloudIO, which stands to profit from lockdowns. Kwame McKenzie of OST led the research into the 2017 UBI project in Ontario. And on a related note: Trillium Health Partners got a $5 million gift from a company that makes face masks. Abdu Sharkawy makes a small fortune on the speaking circuit. Robert Steiner of OST, an LPC operative, claims to be the brains of PHAC, founded in 2004. Ryan Imgrund shills for lockdowns while his employer fundraises money.

(1) https://twitter.com/BogochIsaac
(2) https://twitter.com/BogochIsaac/status/1344339317032972288
(3) https://facdir.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/
(4) https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-bogoch-878130a7/
(5) https://www.si.com/hockey/news/nhls-summer-play-plan-has-real-traction-says-infectious-diseases-expert
(6) https://www.pas.gov.on.ca/Home/Agency/638
(7) https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-pm-en.pdf
(8) https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/janssen-covid-19-vaccine-pm-en.pdf
(9) https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/covid-19-vaccine-moderna-pm-en.pdf
(10) https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-pm1-en.pdf
(11) https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/
(12) https://search.open.canada.ca/en/gc/?sort=score%20desc&page=1&search_text=isaac%20bogoch

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Meet Ryan Imgrund: HS Science Teacher Whose Predictions Drive Donations For Other Interests

Ryan Imgrund is a high school science teacher, and has also been a “consultant” calling for more restrictions in Ontario. However, things aren’t quite what they seem to be. Like so many “experts” in the media, no real due diligence is done before bringing them on.

About
I am a biostatistician and corporate consultant working with a several Fortune 500 companies, Ontario public health units, and a private Ontario lab. My specialty is discovering, analyzing and interpreting scientific, mathematical, economic and retail trends.

This man has been a consultant since March 2020. Interesting time to start such a business, especially as he’s supposed to be a full time educator. Unfortunately, this is far from an isolated case.

Michael Warner is head of the Canadian Division of askthedoctor.com. Kumar Murty of OST is the Chief Technology Officer of a tech company called PerfectCloudIO, which stands to profit from lockdowns. Kwame McKenzie of OST led the research into the 2017 UBI project in Ontario. And on a related note: Trillium Health Partners got a $5 million gift from a company that makes face masks. Abdu Sharkawy makes a small fortune on the speaking circuit. Robert Steiner of OST, an LPC operative, claims to be the brains of PHAC, founded in 2004.

Even with that in mind, Imgrund is strange for a number of reasons. Let’s go through some of them.

Imgrund’s LinkedIn profile states that he has an undergraduate degree in science, and a bachelor’s degree in education. This essentially qualifies him to be a science teacher, which is how he makes his primary living. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t show that he has any sort of expertise. (see archive here).

It’s unclear why PHAC, the Public Health Agency of Canada, would hire him in 2000, especially since he was at university, starting his junior year at that time. Presumably, he would have been preoccupied with a heavy course load.

Even if there was a typo in the start date, it’s unclear what special skills he would have brought. A superstar student would have gone higher with his career, not be teaching high school science. His profile indicates he was hired as a teacher immediately out of university.

But there is someone else here that is worth attention. Look again at those dates.

Imgrund claims to have been with the Public Health Agency of Canada back in 2000. Problem is, it didn’t exist until 2004. It was created that year due to the instigation of the World Health Organization, to be an outpost for global health measures. It was covered in detail in this earlier piece.

Perhaps he should have talked with Robert Steiner, who claims to have advised Paul Martin on its creation, before putting it on his resume.

It takes a legend (or a moron) to be working at an institution a full 4 years before it was founded. Did none of Imgrund’s other clients check him out ahead of time?

Imgrund admits that modelling is heavily based on assumptions and predictions. However, he leaves out how grossly inaccurate it has been so far. Should algorithms and formulas determine how society is run? Imgrund’s skills are what exactly?

Imgrund was also involved with the Sick Kids Hospital recommendations report, on how to “safely” reopen Ontario schools for the Fall of 2020.

One of Sick Kids Hospital’s major donors is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but that’s no reason for concern. Nor is the pattern of this, or Walied Soliman being a Director, and Chief of Staff to Erin O’Toole.

Supposedly, after Southlake Regional Health Centre saw some of his modelling, they asked him to be a consultant for them. That being said, Southlake is always asking for money from the public, so Imgrund’s work is likely to generate many more donors.

Quite simply, crisis predictions are good for business. After all, no one wants to be seen as refusing much needed funding to a hospital in the middle of a “pandemic”. It would be nice if his other clients were listed, but searching them is proving tricky.

Imgrund himself seems to love his new celebrity status. He’s frequently on the media circuit drumming up fear and paranoia about Ontarians just going about their lives.

Additionally, is Imgrund getting paid or compensated in any way for his numerous media appearances? Keep in mind, he has only been a “corporate consultant” since March 2020, so it’s not like he has a long history of doing this.

He never addresses serious questions like the virus not being isolated, PCR tests being unsuitable, the high recovery rate, or the health problems from long term mask use. Nor will he cover the documented proof of premeditation in all this. Either he is oblivious, or chooses to ignore it.

While his Twitter feed is filled with “pandemic” postings, he also never mentions potential testing and safety issues with vaccines. He seems very partial and selective about what needs covered.

And it raises the possibility of a serious conflict of interest. Working in the education system, he is supposed to put the needs of students first. However, as a “consultant” and “expert”, he and his clients financially and professionally can profit from having longer and more severe restrictions. There’s no money to be made in a crisis if that crisis goes away.

Does this man work in the best interests of the public?

(1) https://twitter.com/imgrund
(2) https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-imgrund-aa944b85/
(3) https://archive.ph/OkkFr
(4) https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/corporate/mandate/about-agency/history.html
(5) https://www.raptorsrepublic.com/2020/10/06/the-interview-ryan-imgrund-biostatistician-imgrund/
(6) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/statistician-worried-back-to-school-plan-risky-1.5671012
(7) https://www.sickkids.ca/siteassets/about/about-sickkids/sickkids-annual-report-2019-2020.pdf
(8) Sick Kids Hospital Major Donors
(9) https://canucklaw.ca/cv-29-the-financial-ties-between-sick-kids-hospital-and-the-gates-foundation/
(10) https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/coronavirus-covid-19-local-news/how-a-newmarket-biostatistician-is-using-rt-to-track-the-impact-of-reopening-2515509 for them.
(11) https://southlake.ca/foundation/about/your-investment-in-southlake/

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CV #24(D): Heidi Larson; LSHTM; VCP; Vaxxing Pregnant Women; Financed By Big Pharma

Heidi Larson is a bit of a superstar for the pharmaceutical industry, and its allies. It’s well known that GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, is heavily funded by the Gates Foundation, and big pharama. GAVI has also been lobbying the Canadian Parliament for years, and getting hundreds of millions of dollars in grants.

A bit of background information here. The VCP, Vaccine Confidence Program, is part of the LSHTM, or London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Both receive extensive funding from pharmaceutical companies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, and Governments.

Who else is worth noting?

  • Board member, Carlos Alban (AbbVie)
  • Board member, Bill Anderson (Roche)
  • Board Member, Gabriel Baertschi (Grünenthal)
  • Board member, Anders Blanck (LIF)
  • Board Member, Olivier Charmeil (Sanofi)
  • Board Member, Alberto Chiesi (Chiesi)
  • Board member, Frank Clyburn (MSD)
  • Board Member, Eric Cornut (Menarini)
  • Board member, Richard Daniell (Teva Pharmaceutical Europe)
  • Board member, Johanna Friedl-Naderer (Biogen)
  • Board Member, Murdo Gordon (Amgen)
  • Board member, Peter Guenter (Merck)
  • Board member, Angela Hwang (Pfizer)
  • Board member, Enrica Giorgetti (Farmindustria)
  • Board member, Dirk Kosche (Astellas)
  • Board member, Jean-Luc Lowinski (Pierre Fabre)
  • Board member, Catherine Mazzacco (LEO Pharma)
  • Board member, Johanna Mercier (Gilead)
  • Board member, Luke Miels (GSK)
  • Board member, Gianfranco Nazzi (Almirall)
  • Board member, Oliver O’Connor (IPHA)
  • Board Member, Stefan Oelrich (Bayer)
  • Board member, Giles Platford (Takeda)
  • Board member, Antonio Portela (Bial)
  • Board member, Iskra Reic (AstraZeneca)
  • Board Member, Susanne Schaffert (Novartis)
  • Board member, Stefan Schulze (VIFOR PHARMA)
  • Board Member, Kris Sterkens (Johnson & Johnson)
  • Board member, Han Steutel (vfa)
  • Board member, Alfonso Zulueta (Eli Lilly)

One of the major donors of the Vaccine Confidence Project is the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). It’s Board is made of up members representing major big pharma companies.

Another donor of VCP is the Innovative Medicine Institute. Salah-Dine Chibout is on the Governing Board of IMI, and also is the Global Head of Discovery and Investigational Safety at Novartis. Additionally, Paul Stoffels is the Chief Scientific Officer at Johnson & Johnson, Worldwide Chairman of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

The VCP also works closely with the World Health Organization, and is supportive of its mass vaccination agenda. The role with WHO is simply to market the programs to make them more effective.

The Gates Foundation has financial connections to WHO, GAVI, the CDC, and countless pharmaceutical companies. It is also connected to agencies that are involved in computer modelling, such as:
(a) Imperial College London, Neil Ferguson
(b) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
(c) Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium

While all of this is nefarious and creepy, where does Heidi Larson fit into this? What role does she play in the system?

Larson works for both VCP and LSHTM. Her job is mostly one of research and consulting into “increasing vaccine confidence”. In layman’s terms, she is looking into ways to convince segments of the population to get vaccines at higher rates. This doesn’t involve research into CREATING safer and more effective products. Instead, it’s done to CONVINCE people that they already are. Her financial connections to companies like GSK and Merck likely influence her work.

Larson and her cronies apparently see nothing wrong with targeting pregnant women, who are the focus of the following article. Yes, damn the consequences, let’s vaxx the preggers. This, and the following information should horrify and enrage normal people.

5. Conclusion
This literature review has shown that both pregnant women and HCW cite safety concerns as a main barrier to obtaining/providing influenza and pertussis vaccines during pregnancy. However responses differed depending on geographical area: inlow-income countries for example, pregnant women were more likely to cite access issues as a barrier to vaccination. There are alsowide gaps in knowledge regarding the attitudes of HCW to vaccination in pregnancy, which is significant considering the impact they have on a woman’s decision to vaccinate.
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From the supply side, regulatory agencies still do not have a licensing pathway for many vaccines for pregnant women, manufacturers remain concerned about liability and providers perceive that pregnant women are unwilling to accept vaccines [95].
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As the MDG era comes to an end, the development agenda beyond 2015 is widening to include other important health issues such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, neither still-births nor neonatal deaths are mentioned in post-2015 documents [96] risking that the current momentum for new-born health may be lost.
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Barriers to vaccination in pregnancy are complex and can differ from barriers and concerns affecting uptake of routine childhood vaccinations. Maternal vaccination is administered at a time when the patient is cautious about various behaviours, including taking medications and vaccinations, and feels responsible for not just her own life but of that foetus. Depending on the cultural context, different norms are also established around the time of pregnancy. Barriers also vary depending on context and target population.
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Taking these points into account, ‘quick-fix’ interventions which aim to increase vaccination uptake, such as health communication messages and training physicians in communication strategies [97], without understanding addressing the root cause of vaccine hesitancy in specific contexts, are likely to have little effect on patients’ decisions to vaccinate or on the provider’s own confidence in communicating with parents about vaccines.
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It is important to understand how cultural and gender dynamics in different settings can influence a woman’s decision to vaccinate. This can be done through in-depth local ethnographies, taking the views of all community members and influencers into account, complemented by in-depth individual interviews and focus groups. Research could also examine some of the complex socio-political reasons for under-vaccination in certain communities must to inform vaccination policies and delivery strategies. With more understanding of the perspectives of pregnant women, their providers and communities, maternal vaccine strategies will be more likely to reach and protect pregnant women and their newborns from preventable disease.

Rather than reading the entire paper, that’s the conclusion. First, it’s pointed out that vaccine manufacturers are concerned about liability. So they are fully aware of the damage and exposure their products can bring. Second, it’s acknowledged that women feel responsibility for not just themselves, but the baby as well. This can be manipulated and it ties into the third point, that specific messaging needs to be used on this group. Fourth, specific training to “sell” the vaccines will likely be needed. Fifth, it is higher vaccination rates, not overall safety, that is the focus.

The reference list is extensive.
Check out the actual paper.

That is interesting. Not only is Larson working for the LSHTM and Vaccine Confidence Program, but she has also been employed by pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.

Vaccine confidence concerns the belief that vaccination – and by extension the providers and range of private sector and political entities behind it – serves the best health interests of the public and its constituents. The Oxford English Dictionary defines confidence as “the mental attitude of trusting in or relying on a person or thing”. In light of that, we are not examining the well-studied domain of supply and access barriers to vaccination, but rather what is typically called the “demand” side of immunisation. However, our focus on confidence takes the “demand” rubric a step further than the more traditional notion of building demand through increasing knowledge and awareness of vaccines and immunisation to understanding what else drives confidence in vaccines, and the willingness to accept a vaccine, when supply, access and information are available. In other words, understanding vaccine confidence means understanding the more difficult belief-based, emotional, ideological and contextual factors whose influences often live outside an immunisation or even health programme but affect both confidence in and acceptance of vaccines.

The Vaccine Confidence Program believes that vaccines are good for humanity. It’s a part of the LSHTM, which is one of the biggest modelers of CV-19, predicting death waves. It also receives funding from drug companies who have a product to sell. What we have is a situation where the manufacturers, sales agents, and marketers work together under some humanitarianism guise.

October 2020, Larson co-chaired a panel on combatting pandemic misinformation. It was hosted by LSHTM and Center for Strategic and International Studies.

December 2020, Larson tweeted out — but did not condemn or question — a JAMA Network article discussing mandatory vaccinations.

January 2021, LSHTM tweeted (and Larson retweeted) a Telegraph article on combatting misinformation

January 2021, Larson was at the Pulitzer Center for a talk on combatting misinformation around CV vaccination. A look at their donors reveals the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Facebook, Omidyar Network, Planned Parenthood, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

March 2021, Larson wrote a piece for the New York Times, in support of AstraZeneca. The basic premise was that the AZ vaccine was safe, and that only public perception and confidence were keeping it from being distributed. She also called for “training vaccinators” in such a way to boost the image among others. In short, train people to better sell the product.

Now, this may be a coincidence, but some of the same companies that are paying for Larson’s work “increasing vaccine confidence” are also lobbying Ottawa to buy their products.

Side note with GlaxoSmithKline: Larson has disclosed being a consultant for the company. Now, in 2009, Canada gave Interim Authorization (not approval), to 2 vaccines for H1N1, Arepanrix and Monovalent Vaccine. Lawsuits were filed because the injections harmed a lot of people, but:

[19] The federal Minister of Health authorized the sale of the Arepanrix vaccine pursuant to an interim order dated October 13, 2009. Human trials of the vaccine were still underway. The Minister of Health is empowered to make interim orders if immediate action is required because of a danger to health, safety or the environment. In issuing the interim order, Health Canada deemed the risk profile of Arepanrix to be favourable for an interim order. The authorization was based on the risk caused by the current pandemic threat and its danger to human health. As part of the interim order process, Health Canada agreed to indemnify GSK for any claims brought against it in relation to the administration of the Arepanrix vaccine.

That’s one way to have high confidence in your product: make any sale contingent on getting legal immunity in advance. It’s fair to assume this latest batch came with the same conditions.

Larson’s career appears to have taken off in 2000, then she went to work for UNICEF. No surprise, but she was pushing mass vaccination even then. The bulk of her career appears to be acting as a mouthpiece for big pharma.

Canada announced the launch of a vaccine injury compensation program in December 2020, but so far, so follow-ups have been mentioned.

An interesting side note with Larson’s Twitter profile: she claims that she “did this reluctantly”. That is a strange comment. Does she not believe in what she pushes on the global population?

Anyhow, if nothing else is taken away from here, remember this: the “vaccine confidence” movement is funded by big pharma. They want to convince you that their products are safe. Just ignore the testing issues, and the indemnification agreements.

(1) https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/
(2) https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/team
(3) https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/partners-funders
(4) https://archive.is/Ah9Pw
(5) https://www.efpia.eu/
(6) https://www.efpia.eu/about-us/who-we-are/
(7) https://www.imi.europa.eu/about-imi/governance/governing-board
(8) https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/communication/network/vaccineconfidenceproject/en/
(9) Vaccination During Pregnancy Propaganda Research
(10) Vaccine Acceptance During Pregnancy Research
(11) https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/vcp-mission
(12) https://twitter.com/ProfHeidiLarson
(13) https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-larson-07b535119/
(14) https://www.csis.org/analysis/call-action-csis-lshtm-high-level-panel-vaccine-confidence-and-misinformation
(15) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774712?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=122920#.X-uxuv4Z2-I.twitter
(16) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/meet-scientists-tackling-vaccine-misinformation-tiktok/
(17) https://pulitzercenter.org/event/covid-19-vaccines-combating-misinformation
(18) https://pulitzercenter.org/about/donors
(19) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/opinion/astrazeneca-vaccine-trust.html
(20) https://lobbycanada.gc.ca
(21) https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/drug-products/legislation-guidelines/interim-orders.html
(22) https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2019/2019onsc7066/2019onsc7066.html
(23) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Larson
(24) https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2020/12/government-of-canada-announces-pan-canadian-vaccine-injury-support-program.html

CANUCK LAW ON “VACCINE HESITANCY”
(A) Canada’s National Vaccination Strategy
(B) The Vaccine Confidence Project
(C) More Research Into Overcoming “Vaccine Hesitancy”
(D) Psychological Manipulation Over “Vaccine Hesitancy”
(E) World Economic Forum Promoting More Vaccinations
(F) CIHR/NSERC/SSHRC On Grants To Raise Vaccine Uptake
(G) $50,000 Available — Each — For Groups To Target Minorities
(H) Canada Vaccine Innovation Community Challenge