Stonehouse was a healthy widow raising a teenaged daughter. She got the AstraZeneca shot, the first shot offered to her, so that she and her daughter could travel together. The media messaging about “getting life back to normal” likely worked on her. She may have even fallen for the GenX media campaign to rally her generation to early AstraZeneca vaccination. Or did you think this, this, this and this “creative director” story were just a coincidence? Her death and her identity were made public by her daughter. Still, in online forums Canadians denounced the girl and the story as “irresponsible reporting”. It was said that knowing the identity of the deceased would only “discourage vaccination” and that all AstraZeneca deaths should remain hidden “for the public good”. That’s Canada. This level of “do as you’re told without question” societal inhumanity is as chilling as the casual way in which officials now dismiss these deaths as mere statistic. Healthy, productive and beloved women in no imminent danger of catching, let alone dying, of covid have now died – for nothing. And we should be seething with rage because it’s patently obvious that the media and public health officials targeted GenX to test this risk.
A short-term 67% protection from certain “covid complications” is simply not worth dying for, in the light of reality. It’s especially senseless when safer “preferable” (according to NACI) vaccines currently exist for women like this. She wasn’t packing meat or braving the pandemic in India. There should have been no urgency in her vaccination and she should have been offered a choice of vaccines. In one of the richest countries in the world, we all deserve this choice. Stonehouse experienced VIPIT symptoms after her vaccination and presented herself to a hospital that sent her home claiming it “can’t scan everyone”. That’s also Canada. Most of the medical system here is not qualified or ready to detect VIPIT, even if you take yourself to a hospital pleading for care. Covid-19, on the other hand, is still a preventable disease. With basic precautions Lisa Stonehouse could have avoided covid for the rest of her days and lived to see her grandchildren born. Francine Boyer could have lived to enjoy hers. An anonymous woman in New Brunswick would still be alive today. We’re losing all common sense and worst of all, we’re losing our humanity in the shadow of murky statistics.
