The response of the public medical care system to Covid-19 was abysmal. Baseless knee-jerk reactions became standard, untested, and unscientific policies were commonplace, and so-called ‘healthcare’ authorities spent time copying the strategies of neighboring provinces instead of bothering to ask if the practices they were implementing made any sense at all.

Many rightfully bemoaned the trampling of charter rights that occurred over that time, but perhaps the most egregious and visceral examples of callous injustice were carried out by doctors, nurses and ‘chief medical officers’, too many of whom were all too happy to follow orders instead of asking questions.

Nurses took time to film choreographed TikTok dances while a room over grandma was dying alone in isolation, people were forced to share a final hug through grotesque shower curtain contraptions, people suffered in isolation and said their farewells through windows instead of face to face, and worst of all, some people were quite literally refused lifesaving transplants based solely, and void of any sound demonstrable rationality, on their vaccination status, in what can only be described as an unconscionable affront against basic human dignity.

There has been an effort to move on, to let bygones be bygones, to just forget about Covid (and to avoid legal accountability for some of the things that happened during Covid) but for families who lost loved ones forgetting isn’t quite so easy, and I for one plan to keep telling their stories until accountability and justice are restored.

To share one such story, Adam was honored to be joined by DeVaughn Harper, whose brother Garnet Harper died after being denied a transplant based on his vaccination status, to keep his memory right where it should be, in the hearts and minds of far more concerned Canadians right across this nation.

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