Skeptical about what’s presented

DEAR EDITOR:

Am I a conspiracy theorist? No, at least I don’t think so, but am I a skeptic — emphatically yes!

I’m a skeptic when I learn a friend’s father, taken to hospital with all the symptoms of a heart attack, had listed on the death certificate COVID.

I’m a skeptic when a six-year-old requiring urgent thyroid surgery is denied that surgery in Edmonton because the cross border agreements between Northern B.C. and Alberta Health have been halted. The date in Edmonton during the summer of 2020 was abruptly cancelled, and now he will need to travel to Vancouver, when they can get a surgery date.

I’m a skeptic when I learn from a surgeon that the delay in a cancer patient’s treatment and surgery dropped their survival rate from 80% to 40%.

I’m a skeptic when I read a hockey player tests four times with four different results. Does that give me any confidence that the PCR test they are using as the ‘gold standard’ is reliable?

I’m a skeptic when I’m told that even though you get the vaccine you will still have to wear a mask and social distance just because they “don’t know how effective the vaccine will be.” Shouldn’t they have determined that first?

I’m a skeptic when Klaus Schwab, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, stated that “jobs in which you have human contact will never reopen.” I am a skeptic when I hear Bill Gates claims that “the world is overpopulated and we need to reduce the population.”

Who are they to play God?

Who are they to determine what we should or shouldn’t do or how we should behave? Who are they to think of us as just here filling a space?

No one is a disposable item to be thrown into the garbage can of society because they are deemed to be without usefulness, we are not objects to be possessed and used.

So is the pandemic the catastrophic event that our world leaders are portraying it to be? The skeptic in me says I don’t think so, not with a 99% survival rate.

Are we being deceived?

D.H. Lawrence, not one of my favourite authors, once said, “Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.

Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools, and their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

Mary-Anne MacDonald

Summerland