Angela Tabak is a heartbroken mother who lost her brain injured son to suicide during COVID. The lack of accessible healthcare contributed to his distress as he tried to manage going to college. Angela comments on the state of her son’s mind at the time, “I knew how fragile he was and what had happened to him, how it had gotten even worse since COVID.”
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A family and integrative medicine physician Dr. Chong Wong, recounts some of his experiences dealing with patients who suffered from vaccine adverse events and mental illness due to stress and anxiety from vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Describing he interactions with family providers Dr. Wong said, “it’s so heart-wrenching to see full grown men in tears and so much stress because, as you know, men are the providers. And so proud of their work as providers. And here are these men that are just, like, broken. He also describes how these patient interactions affected his own health and wellbeing.
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Ms. Duke is an office manager. She was her father’s primary caregiver. At the first lockdown in March 2020, she was advised that she could no longer come in and provide this care nor could no longer bring in his dog. She was not permitted to see him again until October 2020.
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A very outgoing, energetic person before she received one shot of the Pfizer vaccine, Josephine Fillier still suffers from the adverse effects. Her doctor of 23 years disregards her symptoms saying they have nothing to do with the shot. Pleading with the doctor in his office Josephine told him, “I know something is wrong with me. I need help”.
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Dr. Tucker relates his observations of the deteriorating mental health of military members over the course of the pandemic. This was exacerbated during the pandemic because of the mandates and interprovincial travel restrictions which resulted in further limiting social contact.
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