Devastating and dreadful, cruel and unbalanced, unjust and judgmental...such is the world we find ourselves in today. So very brave is your Dr. Z, but we know the hell to where bravery leads too many of our heroes now. May I offer this gem of praise and hope, which many of your readers may have already been blessed to see? —written by Spanish biologist Fernando Lopez-Mirones...
HOMO SAPIENS INDOMITUS
“Even if I were fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I have ever seen, even from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors.
People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are undoubtedly the best of humanity. They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states and ideas. They are of a special kind; they are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks.
They are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies, they are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons.
They are there, next to you, they look normal, but they are superheroes.They did what others could not, they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone, and believed they were the only ones.
Banned from their families’ tables at Christmas, they never saw anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, had no more money … but they didn’t care. They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation … but they kept going.
Never before in humanity has there been such a “casting”, now we know who are the best on planet Earth. Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races or religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.
That’s you, you passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, Commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not withstand.
You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.”
Thank you so much for sharing that, Diane. Beautifully written. I think we have seen this "casting" many times in history throughout the world. Still even in some places. Probably always. I think, in the west, we've just been in a bubble of time, dulled and tamed by the seeming ease of our world and voila! Just like that the veil lifts and we start seeing bits of what was there all along. I think about my Slovak grandparents who escaped communism, segregated and exiled from the Czechs and her telling me what they endured. I guess we weren't going to get away with our little time on this planet thinking the illusion was real. We have bigger things to do. xo
Oddly, I seem to be part of a wave, albeit small for now, of Canadian refugees to Eastern Europe. It's a reversal of the trend you mentioned, that brought your grandparents to Canada to seek freedom.
I just left Canada five weeks ago, selling a homestead I built over the past eight years, for a new homestead in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains of Romania. When I first contacted a real estate agent in Romania early this year to search for a place, he said "What's with all the Canadians moving to Romania all of a sudden?!"
Anyway, hello Tara. I'm a new subscriber and I love the blog. I found you through Heather Heying but it turns out we have some mutual friends and we lived quite close to you. The dreamy homestead I just left was in the Tweed area.
Okay, Adam, I have a million questions for you if you would be so kind as to answer. I am so intrigued!
First, it's so cool that we know some of the same people and you were farming in Tweed! Can I ask my questions now? I want to know everything. Like why Romania? What was your breaking point? Was it Covid or had you planned to move before then? What is Romania like? Do you have family there? Speak the language? Did you have citizenship or were you able to get it?
I wonder, too, if you'd be willing to share what kind of mental/emotional type stuff your move brought up. I suspect that with a homestead that you built and, seemingly, loved (given the word, "dreamy") that the decision to move wasn't an easy one. Sometimes I look around here and see all we have done and how much I love this place and I think about how incredibly hard it would be to leave it. But, leave we would if it meant trading a life worth living just to stay.
Nice to have you here. :)
Sorry, too many questions, but I have the opportunity to apply for citizenship in Slovakia and I'm going to do it. What I will do with that, I don't know, but I want the option.
I’ll take this in chronological order (as in, the order the events happened to me).
I was born and raised in Alberta and studied in Ottawa, then left Canada at the age of 23 to work as a roving journalist. I lived in Central and South America, West Africa, Southeast Asia and throughout Europe. I ended up spending 12 years in the Balkans, mainly based in Romania, where I met my wife, a local. We had two boys here. We then decided to move to Canada, partly because I wanted to live out my life-long dream of homesteading and partly because we thought our boys would benefit from growing up in the gleaming First World. The place in Tweed was the most attractive option we found. I was 46 when I moved back.
Canada, in my mind, and the mind of people the world over, was something of a paradise. For the first several years back in Canada, we were too busy with the homestead to notice that the country had degraded. But it grew increasingly obvious.
The healthcare was our first clue. We had much better service in Romania. My wife took a first aid course, we bought several healthcare books, and we tried teaching ourselves some of the basics.
Then it was the education – besides the woke indoctrination, they simply weren’t teaching the ABCs and 123s. We then started homeschooling.
The pandemic, though, finished us. The final straw was Trudeau’s ban on travel for the unvaccinated. My wife grew up behind the Iron Curtain and could not fathom the idea that she came to, of all places, Canada and found herself restricted again.
OK. Trudeau’s actions may not have been the actual final straw. That straw was probably the complacency of such a large portion of Canadians. We felt that their attitude was guaranteeing a bleak future for Canada. The boisterous Romanians, by contrast, are basically ungovernable.
I struggled with the idea of patriotism, and I really wanted to stay and fight, but my wife and kids are just as Romanian as they are Canadian. Why should they suffer? And why should I sacrifice for a population that, by and large, seems to hate the likes of myself? The questions are rhetorical. I’m now comfortable with the decision we made.
Yes, we all dearly loved the farm we built. My wife and I intentionally made ourselves emotionally numb so we could leave it. Our kids still want to go back. But the more we stay here, the more confident I am in our decision.
I just today made a post on a website where I’m a paid member, reviewing the difference between homesteading in North America and homesteading in Eastern Europe. I’ll copy-paste it verbatim in another reply, as it's behind a paywall so a link won't work, Please feel free to delete it if it gets too off-topic or takes up too much space.
Thank you for taking the time to write this all out for us, Adam. It's so interesting to hear about how your life has unfolded and the decisions you have had to make along the way.
Over the last couple of years, our biggest disappointment has been in the Canadian people. We would look around at all of the complacency and dull response and wonder, "Where the hell have Canadians gone?!" Yes, there's the tales of "polite Canadians, nice Canadians", but I've never found us all that polite. Definitely not too friendly. And there were always the Canadians made of salt and icy winds that were scattered amongst us. Where did they go? The ones that had to get dirty and cold to make the gears turn?
I suppose that's why the convoy brought with it such joy! There was that gumption and that fortitude I remembered. So many times, in that time, I heard, "This is the Canada I know!" It was hopeful and then the smell of tyranny wafted in.
So many things in your story align with our approach and where we are. I have known a few people that have left Canada for tropical locales and that's not something we would ever do. I can't fathom going somewhere, like an island, and starting to farm and homestead again. I know people that moved to an island and when I ask them about getting food, it's usually local vegetables with imported meat at the grocery store. No.
You brought up so many things I would have never thought about. The scythe blades, as an example. Fascinating, but of course you would have more access to homesteading type supplies. Also, the land there and how it's used and divided is interesting. I suspect it's similar amongst many smaller countries there?
But mostly, it's the spirit of being ungovernable that I find most tantalizing. I wonder what it is that has wiped that from us here. Too much separation from the horrors of the past? Too much comfort for too long? Something in the water? The grit is gone. Or just harder to find, I suppose.
As we consider the idea of moving, language and familiarity of customs seems incredibly daunting. As you say, your wife and children were as much Romanian as they were Canadian. We would be walking into any new country totally blind. There's also the issue of having grown children that we can't bring with us and, soon, grandchildren that we want to share lives with.
Thank you for sharing this, Adam. Would it be okay with you if I posted it in another essay coming up? I think more people should read it and it would be a good conversation starter. All the best to you in Romania.
Hi Tara. Yeah, our main disappointment was precisely with the Canadian people. My impression of the nation changed so much in the past couple of years. Funnily enough, so did my impression of our "rugged, independent" Australian cousins, and the "proud, fierce warriors" of Scotland, my ancestral homeland. Those three nations were among the biggest pushovers for the budding tyrants, much to my surprise.
As for the spirit of ungovernability in Romania, within living memory for most, they lived under the tyrant Ceausescu. They're not putting up with that again!
And sure, go ahead and use my post however you see fit.
Tara. Here's the copy-paste from the other site. I hope the links work:
Late last year, I posted here that I was considering fleeing Canada, selling a fully-stocked, 100+ acre homestead/doomstead and moving to Eastern Europe.
Well, Trudeau’s rhetoric ramped up even more after that and, indeed, I did make the move. Just after the travel ban on the unvaccinated was lifted in July, my wife and kids moved, and I followed shortly after, arriving five weeks ago.
Now, after selling my home, land, livestock, farm equipment, gun collection and all other belongings in Canada, I have started over again – in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains in rural Romania.
And man what a difference!
I have eight solid years of experience building a homestead from scratch in North America, so I have a clear idea of how much work and money it takes, what kind of equipment is available, how the general population views homesteading, how the regulations affect us, etc. I can say with confidence that almost everything in Romania is way easier when setting up a homestead or small farm (called “gospodarie” here).
For starters, people in Romania never abandoned the notion of small farms in the first place - they are all over the place. There’s a whole economy catering to homesteaders and their needs. And it’s cheap. For example, the nearest hardware store, equivalent to a Lowe’s in North America, has nine types of scythe blades (or whatever they’re called) displayed on the shelf at prices ranging from about USD 8 to USD 50. The range of small farming implements is broader and much cheaper than you find in North America. The canning section has items I can’t even recognize despite eight years of canning, the distilling section is an area of some 50’ by 50’ filled with stills for plum brandy, wine presses, etc. A similar area is filled with walk-behind tractors.
Here’s a link to the scythe section, for example. 1 USD = 50 Romanian lei:
Keep in mind that this is basically Lowe’s, not a specialty store. You also buy toilet fixtures, construction material and vacuum cleaners here. Specialty stores have a much broader range of goods - I believe I saw about 30 types of scythe blades at one store.
Another major boost I have received so far is from the land. Although the lots are much smaller here, you would be hard pressed to find ANY rural home for sale without a wealth of fruit trees, grape vines and other productive assets. My home lot is only one hectare (2.4 acres) but I have 50 productive fruit trees, quarters for pigs, chickens and a cow, a developed vineyard of about 60’ by 15’.
As I said, things are different here and you won’t find a 100 acre farm. Instead, people own land piecemeal. Beside the one-hectare home plot, I am preparing to buy the adjacent one-hectare lot, and I also own six hectares of forest about 2 kms away and maybe a hectare of actual farm field that I’m still trying to locate (as I said, things are different here, and people buy strips of nearby fields, not an entire field).
A major benefit, though, is the local cooperation and knowledge. The idea of homesteading is familiar at every level of society, and the knowledge and experience are considerable. Even executives in the major cities eat produce from their aunt’s garden in the countryside and drink the homemade plum brandy. (Actually, the only kind of plum brandy really available is homemade – the bottled stuff carries labels like Dracula’s Blood and is only for tourists.) The small homestead fits seamlessly into this society, and the retail, wholesale and even manufacturing sectors are geared for it.
All this means that it is easy to find and hire experienced help whenever you need it. And the wages are so low that I’m uncomfortable talking about it. In a few weeks, I will be hiring a very experienced homestead helper- full time. This is really the major boost to my preparations.
And the resilience aspect. I mentioned scythes here because people actually use them. And horse-drawn carriages. These people are going to get by under most any circumstance. That's worth a separate post on it's own.
Anyway, there are cons to the move too:
I gave up a serious gun collection (by Canadian standards) and it may be a year or two before I have the right to buy a shotgun or a handgun. It’s basically impossible for most people but I have some connections.
Petty theft is extremely common. Although violence is nearly unheard of, you have to constantly keep an eye on your possessions, or arrange for security, or they will be stolen.
Europe is likely facing economic trouble sooner than North America.
There are more downsides, for sure, but I’m overall too content with the move to remember them at the moment.
I certainly hope I’m wrong, but I fear we are in for a very wild ride, very soon. Perhaps, having been forged in the illusion, our metal will be strong enough to survive it’s demise. Only time will tell.
This is off topic, but I need to apologize to all the English majors here...my gut was telling me I had the wrong spelling for “mettle”, but I didn’t listen! What can I say, it was 3 a.m...😲
Great post here, thanks. Wherever we delve into what is happening here we find serial abusers in control. They play both ends against the middle, trapping us in an endless sick game of feeling the need to prove what is basic and obvious. Gender is no longer an obvious distinction. We must use a different language (pronouns) to identify in society. Our children are deliberately encouraged to question their own gender from an early age and to have surgery, drugs applied if they choose a gender opposite to the one they are born with. History and current events are turned upside down and inside out to confuse us. Medical tyranny is fully justified and those in opposition are crucified. Reality has become a massive psychological operations exercise.
The fact remains there is only one way out of a serially abusive relationship and that is OUT.
As always, thank you for the words you speak here, Tara! My battle with western medicine began many years ago when I was injured by the flu shot and then a "routine" polio shot. Bell's palsy at 23 years of age! I was a seemingly "healthy" young person but from that moment on I questioned everything. I never imagined the road it would bring me down as but if I were to do it over again, I would still choose to go the way I have gone. It's a hard, often lonely path that requires so much inner work and mental fortitude. For our family, our classroom is our home. Our medicine is food, herbs and holistic supplements and natural modalities. Our "doctors" are chiropractors, herbalists and naturopaths. I will be forever grateful to a family friend and chiropractor who has courageously spoken the truth about modern medicine. He is the reason my children have never been touched by a needle. He has faced the threat of losing his practice and license continually but he continues to fight the good fight.
When I read your posts, I don't feel so alone. I'm reminded once again of why I chose the things I have chosen. Not because they are easy or convenient. Nothing good worth having ever came easy. When I've raised my children, I may have some regrets but I know there are big things I will never regret such as their education, health and faith. Thank you for sharing your life and thoughts with us. Blessings.
The fundamentals of life you are providing your children with - education, health, and faith are profound and wildly rare in today's world. They are blessed by your conviction. I, too, would change some things - what parent wouldn't??, but not those. And it's in time and years that we learn that the hardship was necessary, a push in another direction, an offering of another way. It doesn't feel like it in the moment, at least not for a good while. But now, in my fifties, I can recognize it in the instant it appears. "Oh! We're changing course, I see. Big, new things are coming." Much respect to you, Sarah. It can be a very isolating and lonely road, but our spirits are never alone and we are all intricately connected to our God and to one another, despite the optics.
Thank you for this post. As an ER nurse, I see the things you write about here on a daily basis. In the small community I live, we have a similar provider who goes against the grain. The western medicine overlords have been after him fiercely the past three years as he has been doing much of the same: writing exemptions, prescribing ivermectin, concocting his own homeopathic remedies for those that are sick. How ironic that the NIH quietly updated their new cv protocol to include the use of ivermectin. I see so much self-implosion as I prepare to phase out of a career in the sick care system. How many passionate, selfless health care workers have these institutions destroyed? The more I learn, the more I understand it is by design. These past few years have been tough but I can’t help but be grateful for how much more it has opened my eyes to the blatant evil, destruction, and corruption woven into the foundation of the “health care” system.
I think that's the good many of us can take from the last couple of years - the whole awakening to the incredible power of corporations to influence, and in fact dictate, orders to our feeble governments. I'm glad you're getting out of there, but it's also sad that so many good people, with more nuanced thought and ideas, are being squeezed out. It seems like all that will be left in these institutions are those that did as they were told and remain quiet. That's worrisome to me.
Could you imagine having a facility filled with like minded people like yourself and Dr.Z’s. Coming together to keep people healthy and teach nutrition and exercise and prevention.
This made me cry. Because this whole scenario is playing out in Australia. I cannot understand how people can't see it or our members of parliament allow it to happen. It makes me frustrated and angry that a lot of people just can't be bothered to actually talk about it. It's like back in the day people said "no politics and no religion" talk, around the dinner table. I used wonder why? Growing up my parents always had heated political discussions with friends...i grew up the same but noticed many don't like to think aboutthe hard stuff that is more nuanced. I see now It was the beginning of division in society when we silenced debate about certain topics. 😔
You're so right, TeeCee. I can't understand what it is that makes this topic in anyway contentious other than the government and authorities telling people that discussion around such things is forbidden and that makes me so incredibly sad and disappointed. Why? Why would anyone allow these entities to curtail their words? Why can't we look for our common humanity even in the face of disparate details? That's the stuff required of a functioning society and we're just deciding that "not talking about it" is the solution. I truly believe we are in the age of cowards.
Yes cowardly behaviour hiding behind "ahhh let it go" . Don't get upset about it kinda thing? And if your persist in the conversation they don't like hearing real truth...so yes...cowards!
I can’t even… I’ve researched food/nutrition and vaccines for two decades now—and I come to those subjects at almost 78 years and having lived through the growth of dangerous medical products now forced on citizens and the rise of all the fake foods. Myth and propaganda fuel all of it—and younger generations have been groomed to fall right into all of it—in the name of protecting themselves, their children, and, now, the cynical notion that one is protecting the community. What is happening across the world is so scary and so broken. Who would have ever thought that in this day and age people would act the way they are now acting—demonizing and censoring anyone who does not fall into the prevailing “health” and “safety” narratives. It’s Late Capitalism, of course, but it’s also a powerful and horrific “system of cultural power” with layers and layers of stakeholders, some of whom are just trying to keep their jobs by going along to get along. I don’t know where it will all end—but it has already destroyed time-honored ethics about the ability to control what goes in one’s body without coercion and many other former rights to freedom. Your story of your doctor is commonplace here in the US and especially in Maine. The new jab in the US has not been safety tested in humans: they only used EIGHT mice. (Canada chose a different version—one that is already outdated.) And know that a jab that momentarily produces antibodies does not mean that it works against disease—and that is the underlying problem with all vaccines. I could go on…
Wonderfully said, Louisa. I too share your horror that we are "demonizing and censoring anyone who does not fall into the prevailing 'health' and 'safety' narratives." In a world bent over backwards to be inclusive it seems a strange, and purposeful, oversight.
As always, Tara, a thought provoking article that stirs up our emotions. As a mom, I stood against the medical care system with my autistic daughter (soon to be 38). In her very early years, understanding of autism was just beginning. I remember reading the neurology report that stated I had no bond with my daughter and labeled it refrigerator mom syndrome. I was angry and devastated. I pulled her out of the medical circus ànd began teaching myself how to reach her and help her to learn to navigate this world. No drugs, no intense therapies, just time and patience and listening. Yes we had doctors that told us we would be better served somewhere else, but there were brave honest souls that agreed to walk with us. She went from nonverbal to a chatty, vibrant young lady.
I have never put much stock in modern medical treatments as I watched medications devastate the bodies of too many loved ones. I have also seen the devastating effects of Ritalin and antidepressants on kids and young adults. Sometimes ending in their own death.
It takes brave souls to stand against these systems of education, medicine and governmental control. There are very few that do and I fear there are not enough brave souls to turn the tide. I am so grateful to find like minds here for in my family, as for most of us, I am the outsider.
Oh, Bonnie! That brought tears to my eyes. I remember reading about these medical authorities blaming autism on mother's being cold and disconnected. How absolutely tragic! I just want to go back in time and give that Bonnie a huge hug and kick some moron doctor's ass!
I am in awe of you and your dedication to your daughter. You are the type of mother, and indeed human being, that demonstrates the type of steadfast resolve and courage that is so needed in this time.
And I admire your resolve, Tara. It takes determination to find answers to health issues that our healthcare system so often fail to fix. It also takes extreme willingness to try anything and everything to heal the body. People are so unaware of the immense healing potential our bodies have if we just give it the right ingredients and time.
We are absolutely at a crossroads. Our humanity and commitment to truth are being held to the flame.
My son and I went to seek medical help in California last week because of an earache that wouldn't subside. The doctor threatened me 9 different ways over our refusal to wear a mask while sitting in her presence. I informed her that it wasn't a law and that we were healthy, what was she afraid of. For a moment I thought about what we would do if she refused us service. How carelessly we used to walk in and meet with a doctor. Now their colors are surfacing for all to see. Fortunately that doctor chose to help us and hopefully we helped her. After all, the purpose of a medical professional is to assist isn't it?
Nutty, just nutty. I still don't understand it. And I actually did have a friend in California whose doctor wouldn't allow her to make an appointment because her 13 year old daughter wasn't vaccinated (neither was she).
It's also the case that upon hearing of our experience, many in our world would wonder- "what don't you understand by now? Just where the mask!" At least in commiefornia. So happy I left that insane place.
We moved to Idaho. The biggest blessing. We were visiting family in California when this occurred and I had forgotten the intensity/ insanity and stark contrast to what we currently experience.
Appalling lack of critical thinking out there. What a treasure Dr Z is! I was really fortunate once to have an NHS GP who was trained in TCM in addition to standard western medicine, what an extraordinary anomaly and gift he was! I am curious about your take on socialist medicine. Here in the Uk I grew up with the NHS which until recently has been pretty amazing and I have been very grateful that myself and my family have had access to good medical care. Right now it is in a shambles for standard care, underfunded, understaffed ( Brexit, arguably the other gift that keeps giving, many of our nurses came from the EU) and privatized by stealth. That said, my husband had a pulmonary embolism two weeks ago (slim, fit and well but it turns out that Covid is the gift that keeps giving….) and he received excellent care in resuss and the acm unit, absolutely five star. I am ok with paying a basic tax so that myself and others can receive this kind of care. I also believe absolutely that we have an utterly bonkers, horrific system whereby big business, big Agra and big pharma have a despicable circular economy designed to keep people sick and addicted. UK cardiologist Aseem Malhotra is trying to call this out I believe. One would hope that in our so called developed world that decent, affordable medical care when needed would be a fundamental human right. Obviously we would do away with all the “Bigs” and bring things back to local levels for starters. But, what else? I have thought about this a lot since my husband’s recent PE. Very curious to hear how you would change things if you could? Grateful for the conversation as always! :)
Thank you for your thoughtful comment and for sharing your experience, Tania. Looking merely at stats, Canada's healthcare system is in a worse state than almost any other socialised system in the world. We have such an enormous country, spread out over vast tracts of land with scatterings of populations along the way. It means that small hospitals and clinics have to cover that area. Low population, big country. A little secret in this country that most don't understand is that unless you're travelling to a big hospital in a big city, the doctor you are seeing in the rural hospital (one doctor per shift) is a family medicine doctor, often not trained in emergency medicine at all.
What would I like to see changed? Well, I would like to see private medicine come in. Everyone holds their pearls when that's mentioned, but as it is, elective surgeries can be years long waits. And what's an elective surgery? Well, we have a friend in her 70s who has had no knee cap for three years. She cannot get downstairs to do her laundry or go grocery shopping. Her surgeon is happy to do the surgery, but the hospitals give him limited operating hours (office hours). If private clinics want to pop open and give people who have the money to pay for their surgeries, let them do it. It will decrease the load on a system that is serving very few as it is.
Additionally, a small user fee for those that walk through the emergency room doors. We have a horribly understaffed medical care system, made worse by firings of those that didn't comply during covid. It's estimated that 6 million Canadians can't find a family doctor. Those that do have one, are often frustrated by the huge waits to see a specialist. So, the ER is increasingly being used as a walk in clinic. Add to that a growing population of young people, tragically fearful of whatever germ is out there and sadly so ignorant of their own bodies and a growing population of elderly people and you see ERs so overburdened now that many of ours are shutting down for weeks at a time due to staff burnout and, hence, shortages. Many of these hospitals are hanging on just barely, using private contractors to fill nursing spots.
So why not a small user fee? Like $25 even. Might give someone pause before entering the hospital at 3:30 in the morning with a big toe that was itchy for two weeks (true case, and not all that unusual I'm afraid). That one visit costs taxpayers hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Would they still go if there was a user fee? And could we just return user fees for legitimate cases that couldn't be seen at a walk in clinic? Where are the walk in clinics.
Additionally, what of the people that don't use the system? A tax break? A tax credit for using other licensed healers and practitioners maybe? Something as encouragement and recognition for not burdening the system further?
Emergency medicine is a marvel. Let's not confuse that with the chronic care. I am so truly happy for your husband that he had the care that he did. I hope I do too, should I ever need it. But now that the system has done what it's good at - acute care, they will have little for him. And that's when the deeper work begins that they will have no answers for. Why would he get that? What does he need to seriously change in his lifestyle, his diet, his exercise, his personal, spiritual connection etc... All that stuff that truly keeps us well and strong is not held in the hands of the pharma driven medical system. It is decidedly far, far away from that model.
Lastly, why not tiers of access just like private insurance? If I just want to have access to emergency medicine and not tap into the whole thing, what if I was taxed differently than those that want the whole shebang? Well, I know, it's because it's "socialised"! I think that's a lazy answer though and it's why we're in this mess.
Ha! Okay, you asked. You might regret that now. :)
We have to bring in private health care, we are not able to get the quality of care needed and that’s how we can correct it.
I grew up in Texas and am very familiar with private health care, you pay but the doctors I came in contact with seemed concerned to find the issue and get a person in the right path.
When I was 18 I went to work at the chiropractic clinic that I had been a patient at since i was 12. One of the first things they had me do was read a large packet on vaccine and their ingredients. That would have been 1999, and I’m glad they had me do that because it showed me at that age how pharmaceutical companies operate and opened my eyes from that point on.
These 2 doctors were cut of the same cloth as Dr. Z. They were amazing and I was able to see them help so many people in so many different ways.
What a gift to have had that experience so early on. I had our first daughter vaccinated with the first round of vaccines. I thought I was being responsible and would have never questioned such a thing. Thankfully, it wasn't the whole shebang infants get now and she was already five months old because we had moved with the military and I couldn't find a family medicine doctor. Regardless, she had a severe reaction and never had another vaccine. That's the short story. She's fine now, twenty nine years old, but if I had known then what I know now...
I didn’t realize it threw but it was a gift to have my eyes opened at a young age. It’s funny but I have always questioned their narrative and happier for it.
My younger brother had an adverse reaction to the tetanus shot he received in about 1985 or so. Come to find out his body produces his own tetanus still to this day.
Haha, no, I don’t regret it at all. Genuinely curious and you present very good, rational arguments that seem pretty reasonable to me. These conversations are so important, especially now when everyone is afraid to challenge different opinions to their own or writes off a whole person because of one different opinion. I am not convinced about privatization because I have seen many privatized companies ultimately just focus on investors profits and bonuses whilst squeezing the actual service and service providers, but maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. I am open to that! Absolutely get your point on deterring itchy toers! True story, my husband is being triaged for his chest pain and a women with two children pushes in declaring a priority emergency as her children are both vomiting , with one starting approximately 12 hrs before the other and they must be seen immediately. Nothing to do with the fact that the kids have all just gone back to school and it’s the classic autumn term bug. She has bought them both into A&E covered in the remainders of norovirus!! You couldn’t make it up!
I applaud Dr. Z, + I applaud you, Tara, for both your courageous battle with Lyme + for writing this post. I didn't even know vaccine exemption letters existed, but it's just further confirmation to me that it's never been about health + safety, + more about control. Control of the narrative + control of the people.
To be under investigation for understanding your patients' health + doing what's best for them is....downright unjust. But Dr. Z gives me hope, as I know there are others out there like him, even if we gotta dig through the trash to find them.
Agreed, Eb! He gives me hope, too. And that he's willing to go all the way, fighting them to the bitter end, is proof that a principled human with conviction answers to powers much bigger than a board with a bunch of weenies sitting on it. :)
Tara, you are spot on with this. I'm so grateful for those like Dr Z who practice TRUTH. Modern mainstream "healthcare" is an epic fail. Thank you so much for sharing.
Tara, thank you for the beautiful writing. I love Dr. Z for what he’s done. I’ve read through all these comments and I am inspired and awed by all the stories of courage and bravery for standing up and going against the grain. Thank you! It is so encouraging to know that we are not alone in this mess, even if it is just in knowing others can also see the truth.❤️
I agree, Françoise. I also know that there's people here who did decide to vaccinate and that we can discuss issues of principles and what we want to see for our fellow man without degrading into shouting hysteria about who's right and who's inherently evil. It's how it should be and how we, as humans are at our best.
It makes the blood boil... the mind short circuit.
How?! How?! How?! Is all I can muster at times.
I scheduled an acupuncture appointment this week, my first in 3 or 4 years at least. I used to go for regular treatments when the stress and financial burdens of trying to make a living farming were literally eating me up. Those treatments and my visits to this wise practitioner helped me so much.. and so I thought, I’m gonna have a session with her again.
She was not there when I arrived a little early. I saw a small sign on the door to her office saying something about masks.. I walked past it with a little thought that it must be a remnant of last winter or something... when she arrived I found out that I was mistaken. If I wanted to stay for my appointment I would have to wear a mask, which she would happily provide. I was dumbfounded, you can’t be serious...
I told her... “I just don’t get it...”
It’s hard to explain how that made me feel, grief maybe... where was the wise woman who had helped me over those hurdles and spoke with such clarity and understanding of what I was going through years ago and how it impacted so much of my life? How could she be sitting in front of me in Sept of 2022 talking about viral loads and filtering out the virus to protect the next person in the door from catching COVId. How could her “being” (about as anti-allopathic as possible) get stuffed into this mind numbing narrative that defies all common sense and practical understandings of the body and natural systems.
It is sometimes too much to even acknowledge how so much still persists.... the hurt and fear and wounding is so so deep. You know this, of course.
Hurray for you and for Dr. Z. No doubt what he is going through is not easy, and I pray for all in Canada today. My mother was born and raised outside Windsor... family of 13 kids... I have so many beloved aunts and uncles and cousins in Canada and I think about them everyday. And of course, so many others.... like you.
As always, thanks for sharing your thoughts and your world Tara. ❤️🙏
Thank you for sharing this story, Joe. Wonderfully expressed. I felt grief alongside you. It's old hat by now, witnessing the reactions of some people, but when it comes to people like the acupuncturist you write of, it's almost mind boggling. No, it is mind boggling. HOW?! Exactly that.
It makes me question their whole world outlook. Like, weren't you someone that believed in the body's way of healing, of immunity? You were an outlier from the pharma medical paradigm! Don't you see?!
I guess they just don't see. I guess they're just a fallible human and the fear and messaging pervaded into the cracks between belief and experience. It makes me sad. If anything, this time has been such a raising of the veil. We have seen and we can't unsee.
Thank you for sharing this story, Joe. It's good for us all to hear from one another.
Thanks for sharing this, for being honest, and not quieting yourself.
I can very much relate to your experience ~ Lyme symptoms for years, finally finding a doctor that was willing to get curious and address me as a human, and after a near death experience and many experiments later, I am happy to say I don't often experience symptoms because I've learned to listen to my body, and that is not something I will ever give up again. And that holds true for all that's circulating these days. If my body says, "not uh," that's enough for me. Oh and yeah, all the countless quantitative and qualitative data that supports what my body inherently already knows. I'm sorry to hear about Dr. Z. Anything we can do to help? I appreciate his courageousness. We need those like him and you. If anything, I hope he knows, that he is supported by those who are seeing things clearly and really do care.
Thank you, Forrest. I am so glad to hear that you are doing well now. Me, too. The gift of chronic illness, I think, is the drawing close to our bodies and learning to listen to what works, and what doesn't.
I think I will share this post with him. Hopefully he will read it and be buoyed by the beautiful, generous comments here. Thank you.
I am very thankful that you found Dr Z and that there are Dr Zs out there. I am also disgusted that this is still dragging on when the CDC has even listed ivermectin as a treatment now and the Karen’s of the world need to shut the hell up. Our hockey association was quite bad as well and put up many restrictions before any were mandated. I am hoping this year will be different. People in these parts seem fed up and more awake to the lies and inconsistencies that they were fed. I will be sending him strength!
I hope that comes to pass, Jenelle. It seems like our experiences in the world are so dependant on where we're living. In some parts, it's like it's all behind them (I don't think that's the truth of it, but optics would temporarily suggest so). Here, our PM says, fall is coming and we need to be "80, 85, to 90% fully vaccinated" - that's three shots here now. Or what? Well, we know or what. I have a grandbaby being born in the US and I will be there by hook or by crook!
Devastating and dreadful, cruel and unbalanced, unjust and judgmental...such is the world we find ourselves in today. So very brave is your Dr. Z, but we know the hell to where bravery leads too many of our heroes now. May I offer this gem of praise and hope, which many of your readers may have already been blessed to see? —written by Spanish biologist Fernando Lopez-Mirones...
HOMO SAPIENS INDOMITUS
“Even if I were fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I have ever seen, even from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors.
People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are undoubtedly the best of humanity. They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states and ideas. They are of a special kind; they are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks.
They are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies, they are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons.
They are there, next to you, they look normal, but they are superheroes.They did what others could not, they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone, and believed they were the only ones.
Banned from their families’ tables at Christmas, they never saw anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, had no more money … but they didn’t care. They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation … but they kept going.
Never before in humanity has there been such a “casting”, now we know who are the best on planet Earth. Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races or religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.
That’s you, you passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, Commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not withstand.
You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.”
Thank you so much for sharing that, Diane. Beautifully written. I think we have seen this "casting" many times in history throughout the world. Still even in some places. Probably always. I think, in the west, we've just been in a bubble of time, dulled and tamed by the seeming ease of our world and voila! Just like that the veil lifts and we start seeing bits of what was there all along. I think about my Slovak grandparents who escaped communism, segregated and exiled from the Czechs and her telling me what they endured. I guess we weren't going to get away with our little time on this planet thinking the illusion was real. We have bigger things to do. xo
Oddly, I seem to be part of a wave, albeit small for now, of Canadian refugees to Eastern Europe. It's a reversal of the trend you mentioned, that brought your grandparents to Canada to seek freedom.
I just left Canada five weeks ago, selling a homestead I built over the past eight years, for a new homestead in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains of Romania. When I first contacted a real estate agent in Romania early this year to search for a place, he said "What's with all the Canadians moving to Romania all of a sudden?!"
Anyway, hello Tara. I'm a new subscriber and I love the blog. I found you through Heather Heying but it turns out we have some mutual friends and we lived quite close to you. The dreamy homestead I just left was in the Tweed area.
Okay, Adam, I have a million questions for you if you would be so kind as to answer. I am so intrigued!
First, it's so cool that we know some of the same people and you were farming in Tweed! Can I ask my questions now? I want to know everything. Like why Romania? What was your breaking point? Was it Covid or had you planned to move before then? What is Romania like? Do you have family there? Speak the language? Did you have citizenship or were you able to get it?
I wonder, too, if you'd be willing to share what kind of mental/emotional type stuff your move brought up. I suspect that with a homestead that you built and, seemingly, loved (given the word, "dreamy") that the decision to move wasn't an easy one. Sometimes I look around here and see all we have done and how much I love this place and I think about how incredibly hard it would be to leave it. But, leave we would if it meant trading a life worth living just to stay.
Nice to have you here. :)
Sorry, too many questions, but I have the opportunity to apply for citizenship in Slovakia and I'm going to do it. What I will do with that, I don't know, but I want the option.
Thanks for the reply, and the interest.
I’ll take this in chronological order (as in, the order the events happened to me).
I was born and raised in Alberta and studied in Ottawa, then left Canada at the age of 23 to work as a roving journalist. I lived in Central and South America, West Africa, Southeast Asia and throughout Europe. I ended up spending 12 years in the Balkans, mainly based in Romania, where I met my wife, a local. We had two boys here. We then decided to move to Canada, partly because I wanted to live out my life-long dream of homesteading and partly because we thought our boys would benefit from growing up in the gleaming First World. The place in Tweed was the most attractive option we found. I was 46 when I moved back.
Canada, in my mind, and the mind of people the world over, was something of a paradise. For the first several years back in Canada, we were too busy with the homestead to notice that the country had degraded. But it grew increasingly obvious.
The healthcare was our first clue. We had much better service in Romania. My wife took a first aid course, we bought several healthcare books, and we tried teaching ourselves some of the basics.
Then it was the education – besides the woke indoctrination, they simply weren’t teaching the ABCs and 123s. We then started homeschooling.
The pandemic, though, finished us. The final straw was Trudeau’s ban on travel for the unvaccinated. My wife grew up behind the Iron Curtain and could not fathom the idea that she came to, of all places, Canada and found herself restricted again.
OK. Trudeau’s actions may not have been the actual final straw. That straw was probably the complacency of such a large portion of Canadians. We felt that their attitude was guaranteeing a bleak future for Canada. The boisterous Romanians, by contrast, are basically ungovernable.
I struggled with the idea of patriotism, and I really wanted to stay and fight, but my wife and kids are just as Romanian as they are Canadian. Why should they suffer? And why should I sacrifice for a population that, by and large, seems to hate the likes of myself? The questions are rhetorical. I’m now comfortable with the decision we made.
Yes, we all dearly loved the farm we built. My wife and I intentionally made ourselves emotionally numb so we could leave it. Our kids still want to go back. But the more we stay here, the more confident I am in our decision.
I just today made a post on a website where I’m a paid member, reviewing the difference between homesteading in North America and homesteading in Eastern Europe. I’ll copy-paste it verbatim in another reply, as it's behind a paywall so a link won't work, Please feel free to delete it if it gets too off-topic or takes up too much space.
Thank you for taking the time to write this all out for us, Adam. It's so interesting to hear about how your life has unfolded and the decisions you have had to make along the way.
Over the last couple of years, our biggest disappointment has been in the Canadian people. We would look around at all of the complacency and dull response and wonder, "Where the hell have Canadians gone?!" Yes, there's the tales of "polite Canadians, nice Canadians", but I've never found us all that polite. Definitely not too friendly. And there were always the Canadians made of salt and icy winds that were scattered amongst us. Where did they go? The ones that had to get dirty and cold to make the gears turn?
I suppose that's why the convoy brought with it such joy! There was that gumption and that fortitude I remembered. So many times, in that time, I heard, "This is the Canada I know!" It was hopeful and then the smell of tyranny wafted in.
So many things in your story align with our approach and where we are. I have known a few people that have left Canada for tropical locales and that's not something we would ever do. I can't fathom going somewhere, like an island, and starting to farm and homestead again. I know people that moved to an island and when I ask them about getting food, it's usually local vegetables with imported meat at the grocery store. No.
You brought up so many things I would have never thought about. The scythe blades, as an example. Fascinating, but of course you would have more access to homesteading type supplies. Also, the land there and how it's used and divided is interesting. I suspect it's similar amongst many smaller countries there?
But mostly, it's the spirit of being ungovernable that I find most tantalizing. I wonder what it is that has wiped that from us here. Too much separation from the horrors of the past? Too much comfort for too long? Something in the water? The grit is gone. Or just harder to find, I suppose.
As we consider the idea of moving, language and familiarity of customs seems incredibly daunting. As you say, your wife and children were as much Romanian as they were Canadian. We would be walking into any new country totally blind. There's also the issue of having grown children that we can't bring with us and, soon, grandchildren that we want to share lives with.
Thank you for sharing this, Adam. Would it be okay with you if I posted it in another essay coming up? I think more people should read it and it would be a good conversation starter. All the best to you in Romania.
Hi Tara. Yeah, our main disappointment was precisely with the Canadian people. My impression of the nation changed so much in the past couple of years. Funnily enough, so did my impression of our "rugged, independent" Australian cousins, and the "proud, fierce warriors" of Scotland, my ancestral homeland. Those three nations were among the biggest pushovers for the budding tyrants, much to my surprise.
As for the spirit of ungovernability in Romania, within living memory for most, they lived under the tyrant Ceausescu. They're not putting up with that again!
And sure, go ahead and use my post however you see fit.
Tara, America isn’t so bad! Depending on what area you’re in, there can be very little rules, regulations and government oversight.
Tara. Here's the copy-paste from the other site. I hope the links work:
Late last year, I posted here that I was considering fleeing Canada, selling a fully-stocked, 100+ acre homestead/doomstead and moving to Eastern Europe.
https://peakprosperity.com/community/general-discussion-and-questions/should-i-sell-a-homestead-in-canada-and-flee-to-eastern-europe/
Well, Trudeau’s rhetoric ramped up even more after that and, indeed, I did make the move. Just after the travel ban on the unvaccinated was lifted in July, my wife and kids moved, and I followed shortly after, arriving five weeks ago.
Now, after selling my home, land, livestock, farm equipment, gun collection and all other belongings in Canada, I have started over again – in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains in rural Romania.
And man what a difference!
I have eight solid years of experience building a homestead from scratch in North America, so I have a clear idea of how much work and money it takes, what kind of equipment is available, how the general population views homesteading, how the regulations affect us, etc. I can say with confidence that almost everything in Romania is way easier when setting up a homestead or small farm (called “gospodarie” here).
For starters, people in Romania never abandoned the notion of small farms in the first place - they are all over the place. There’s a whole economy catering to homesteaders and their needs. And it’s cheap. For example, the nearest hardware store, equivalent to a Lowe’s in North America, has nine types of scythe blades (or whatever they’re called) displayed on the shelf at prices ranging from about USD 8 to USD 50. The range of small farming implements is broader and much cheaper than you find in North America. The canning section has items I can’t even recognize despite eight years of canning, the distilling section is an area of some 50’ by 50’ filled with stills for plum brandy, wine presses, etc. A similar area is filled with walk-behind tractors.
Here’s a link to the scythe section, for example. 1 USD = 50 Romanian lei:
https://www.dedeman.ro/ro/catalogsearch/result/v2?q=coase&per_page=36&page=1&order=score&category=546
Keep in mind that this is basically Lowe’s, not a specialty store. You also buy toilet fixtures, construction material and vacuum cleaners here. Specialty stores have a much broader range of goods - I believe I saw about 30 types of scythe blades at one store.
Another major boost I have received so far is from the land. Although the lots are much smaller here, you would be hard pressed to find ANY rural home for sale without a wealth of fruit trees, grape vines and other productive assets. My home lot is only one hectare (2.4 acres) but I have 50 productive fruit trees, quarters for pigs, chickens and a cow, a developed vineyard of about 60’ by 15’.
As I said, things are different here and you won’t find a 100 acre farm. Instead, people own land piecemeal. Beside the one-hectare home plot, I am preparing to buy the adjacent one-hectare lot, and I also own six hectares of forest about 2 kms away and maybe a hectare of actual farm field that I’m still trying to locate (as I said, things are different here, and people buy strips of nearby fields, not an entire field).
A major benefit, though, is the local cooperation and knowledge. The idea of homesteading is familiar at every level of society, and the knowledge and experience are considerable. Even executives in the major cities eat produce from their aunt’s garden in the countryside and drink the homemade plum brandy. (Actually, the only kind of plum brandy really available is homemade – the bottled stuff carries labels like Dracula’s Blood and is only for tourists.) The small homestead fits seamlessly into this society, and the retail, wholesale and even manufacturing sectors are geared for it.
All this means that it is easy to find and hire experienced help whenever you need it. And the wages are so low that I’m uncomfortable talking about it. In a few weeks, I will be hiring a very experienced homestead helper- full time. This is really the major boost to my preparations.
And the resilience aspect. I mentioned scythes here because people actually use them. And horse-drawn carriages. These people are going to get by under most any circumstance. That's worth a separate post on it's own.
Anyway, there are cons to the move too:
I gave up a serious gun collection (by Canadian standards) and it may be a year or two before I have the right to buy a shotgun or a handgun. It’s basically impossible for most people but I have some connections.
Petty theft is extremely common. Although violence is nearly unheard of, you have to constantly keep an eye on your possessions, or arrange for security, or they will be stolen.
Europe is likely facing economic trouble sooner than North America.
There are more downsides, for sure, but I’m overall too content with the move to remember them at the moment.
I certainly hope I’m wrong, but I fear we are in for a very wild ride, very soon. Perhaps, having been forged in the illusion, our metal will be strong enough to survive it’s demise. Only time will tell.
This is off topic, but I need to apologize to all the English majors here...my gut was telling me I had the wrong spelling for “mettle”, but I didn’t listen! What can I say, it was 3 a.m...😲
Great post here, thanks. Wherever we delve into what is happening here we find serial abusers in control. They play both ends against the middle, trapping us in an endless sick game of feeling the need to prove what is basic and obvious. Gender is no longer an obvious distinction. We must use a different language (pronouns) to identify in society. Our children are deliberately encouraged to question their own gender from an early age and to have surgery, drugs applied if they choose a gender opposite to the one they are born with. History and current events are turned upside down and inside out to confuse us. Medical tyranny is fully justified and those in opposition are crucified. Reality has become a massive psychological operations exercise.
The fact remains there is only one way out of a serially abusive relationship and that is OUT.
I agree, OUT of an abusive relationship and IN to a deeper, more meaningful existence with truth. A whole world of connection and wonder to discover.
Yes, thanks.
As always, thank you for the words you speak here, Tara! My battle with western medicine began many years ago when I was injured by the flu shot and then a "routine" polio shot. Bell's palsy at 23 years of age! I was a seemingly "healthy" young person but from that moment on I questioned everything. I never imagined the road it would bring me down as but if I were to do it over again, I would still choose to go the way I have gone. It's a hard, often lonely path that requires so much inner work and mental fortitude. For our family, our classroom is our home. Our medicine is food, herbs and holistic supplements and natural modalities. Our "doctors" are chiropractors, herbalists and naturopaths. I will be forever grateful to a family friend and chiropractor who has courageously spoken the truth about modern medicine. He is the reason my children have never been touched by a needle. He has faced the threat of losing his practice and license continually but he continues to fight the good fight.
When I read your posts, I don't feel so alone. I'm reminded once again of why I chose the things I have chosen. Not because they are easy or convenient. Nothing good worth having ever came easy. When I've raised my children, I may have some regrets but I know there are big things I will never regret such as their education, health and faith. Thank you for sharing your life and thoughts with us. Blessings.
The fundamentals of life you are providing your children with - education, health, and faith are profound and wildly rare in today's world. They are blessed by your conviction. I, too, would change some things - what parent wouldn't??, but not those. And it's in time and years that we learn that the hardship was necessary, a push in another direction, an offering of another way. It doesn't feel like it in the moment, at least not for a good while. But now, in my fifties, I can recognize it in the instant it appears. "Oh! We're changing course, I see. Big, new things are coming." Much respect to you, Sarah. It can be a very isolating and lonely road, but our spirits are never alone and we are all intricately connected to our God and to one another, despite the optics.
Thank you for this post. As an ER nurse, I see the things you write about here on a daily basis. In the small community I live, we have a similar provider who goes against the grain. The western medicine overlords have been after him fiercely the past three years as he has been doing much of the same: writing exemptions, prescribing ivermectin, concocting his own homeopathic remedies for those that are sick. How ironic that the NIH quietly updated their new cv protocol to include the use of ivermectin. I see so much self-implosion as I prepare to phase out of a career in the sick care system. How many passionate, selfless health care workers have these institutions destroyed? The more I learn, the more I understand it is by design. These past few years have been tough but I can’t help but be grateful for how much more it has opened my eyes to the blatant evil, destruction, and corruption woven into the foundation of the “health care” system.
I think that's the good many of us can take from the last couple of years - the whole awakening to the incredible power of corporations to influence, and in fact dictate, orders to our feeble governments. I'm glad you're getting out of there, but it's also sad that so many good people, with more nuanced thought and ideas, are being squeezed out. It seems like all that will be left in these institutions are those that did as they were told and remain quiet. That's worrisome to me.
Could you imagine having a facility filled with like minded people like yourself and Dr.Z’s. Coming together to keep people healthy and teach nutrition and exercise and prevention.
What a world that would be . ❤️
What a wonderful place that would be! I hope someday more of those places can come to fruition.
This made me cry. Because this whole scenario is playing out in Australia. I cannot understand how people can't see it or our members of parliament allow it to happen. It makes me frustrated and angry that a lot of people just can't be bothered to actually talk about it. It's like back in the day people said "no politics and no religion" talk, around the dinner table. I used wonder why? Growing up my parents always had heated political discussions with friends...i grew up the same but noticed many don't like to think aboutthe hard stuff that is more nuanced. I see now It was the beginning of division in society when we silenced debate about certain topics. 😔
You're so right, TeeCee. I can't understand what it is that makes this topic in anyway contentious other than the government and authorities telling people that discussion around such things is forbidden and that makes me so incredibly sad and disappointed. Why? Why would anyone allow these entities to curtail their words? Why can't we look for our common humanity even in the face of disparate details? That's the stuff required of a functioning society and we're just deciding that "not talking about it" is the solution. I truly believe we are in the age of cowards.
We no longer have a functioning society. Sad.
Yes cowardly behaviour hiding behind "ahhh let it go" . Don't get upset about it kinda thing? And if your persist in the conversation they don't like hearing real truth...so yes...cowards!
I can’t even… I’ve researched food/nutrition and vaccines for two decades now—and I come to those subjects at almost 78 years and having lived through the growth of dangerous medical products now forced on citizens and the rise of all the fake foods. Myth and propaganda fuel all of it—and younger generations have been groomed to fall right into all of it—in the name of protecting themselves, their children, and, now, the cynical notion that one is protecting the community. What is happening across the world is so scary and so broken. Who would have ever thought that in this day and age people would act the way they are now acting—demonizing and censoring anyone who does not fall into the prevailing “health” and “safety” narratives. It’s Late Capitalism, of course, but it’s also a powerful and horrific “system of cultural power” with layers and layers of stakeholders, some of whom are just trying to keep their jobs by going along to get along. I don’t know where it will all end—but it has already destroyed time-honored ethics about the ability to control what goes in one’s body without coercion and many other former rights to freedom. Your story of your doctor is commonplace here in the US and especially in Maine. The new jab in the US has not been safety tested in humans: they only used EIGHT mice. (Canada chose a different version—one that is already outdated.) And know that a jab that momentarily produces antibodies does not mean that it works against disease—and that is the underlying problem with all vaccines. I could go on…
Wonderfully said, Louisa. I too share your horror that we are "demonizing and censoring anyone who does not fall into the prevailing 'health' and 'safety' narratives." In a world bent over backwards to be inclusive it seems a strange, and purposeful, oversight.
As always, Tara, a thought provoking article that stirs up our emotions. As a mom, I stood against the medical care system with my autistic daughter (soon to be 38). In her very early years, understanding of autism was just beginning. I remember reading the neurology report that stated I had no bond with my daughter and labeled it refrigerator mom syndrome. I was angry and devastated. I pulled her out of the medical circus ànd began teaching myself how to reach her and help her to learn to navigate this world. No drugs, no intense therapies, just time and patience and listening. Yes we had doctors that told us we would be better served somewhere else, but there were brave honest souls that agreed to walk with us. She went from nonverbal to a chatty, vibrant young lady.
I have never put much stock in modern medical treatments as I watched medications devastate the bodies of too many loved ones. I have also seen the devastating effects of Ritalin and antidepressants on kids and young adults. Sometimes ending in their own death.
It takes brave souls to stand against these systems of education, medicine and governmental control. There are very few that do and I fear there are not enough brave souls to turn the tide. I am so grateful to find like minds here for in my family, as for most of us, I am the outsider.
Oh, Bonnie! That brought tears to my eyes. I remember reading about these medical authorities blaming autism on mother's being cold and disconnected. How absolutely tragic! I just want to go back in time and give that Bonnie a huge hug and kick some moron doctor's ass!
I am in awe of you and your dedication to your daughter. You are the type of mother, and indeed human being, that demonstrates the type of steadfast resolve and courage that is so needed in this time.
And I admire your resolve, Tara. It takes determination to find answers to health issues that our healthcare system so often fail to fix. It also takes extreme willingness to try anything and everything to heal the body. People are so unaware of the immense healing potential our bodies have if we just give it the right ingredients and time.
We are absolutely at a crossroads. Our humanity and commitment to truth are being held to the flame.
My son and I went to seek medical help in California last week because of an earache that wouldn't subside. The doctor threatened me 9 different ways over our refusal to wear a mask while sitting in her presence. I informed her that it wasn't a law and that we were healthy, what was she afraid of. For a moment I thought about what we would do if she refused us service. How carelessly we used to walk in and meet with a doctor. Now their colors are surfacing for all to see. Fortunately that doctor chose to help us and hopefully we helped her. After all, the purpose of a medical professional is to assist isn't it?
Nutty, just nutty. I still don't understand it. And I actually did have a friend in California whose doctor wouldn't allow her to make an appointment because her 13 year old daughter wasn't vaccinated (neither was she).
It's also the case that upon hearing of our experience, many in our world would wonder- "what don't you understand by now? Just where the mask!" At least in commiefornia. So happy I left that insane place.
Megan, where did you go and do you like it?
We moved to Idaho. The biggest blessing. We were visiting family in California when this occurred and I had forgotten the intensity/ insanity and stark contrast to what we currently experience.
Yes! We live in Idaho! Wonderful place. Welcome!
Thank you! It truly is a wonderful place.
Appalling lack of critical thinking out there. What a treasure Dr Z is! I was really fortunate once to have an NHS GP who was trained in TCM in addition to standard western medicine, what an extraordinary anomaly and gift he was! I am curious about your take on socialist medicine. Here in the Uk I grew up with the NHS which until recently has been pretty amazing and I have been very grateful that myself and my family have had access to good medical care. Right now it is in a shambles for standard care, underfunded, understaffed ( Brexit, arguably the other gift that keeps giving, many of our nurses came from the EU) and privatized by stealth. That said, my husband had a pulmonary embolism two weeks ago (slim, fit and well but it turns out that Covid is the gift that keeps giving….) and he received excellent care in resuss and the acm unit, absolutely five star. I am ok with paying a basic tax so that myself and others can receive this kind of care. I also believe absolutely that we have an utterly bonkers, horrific system whereby big business, big Agra and big pharma have a despicable circular economy designed to keep people sick and addicted. UK cardiologist Aseem Malhotra is trying to call this out I believe. One would hope that in our so called developed world that decent, affordable medical care when needed would be a fundamental human right. Obviously we would do away with all the “Bigs” and bring things back to local levels for starters. But, what else? I have thought about this a lot since my husband’s recent PE. Very curious to hear how you would change things if you could? Grateful for the conversation as always! :)
Thank you for your thoughtful comment and for sharing your experience, Tania. Looking merely at stats, Canada's healthcare system is in a worse state than almost any other socialised system in the world. We have such an enormous country, spread out over vast tracts of land with scatterings of populations along the way. It means that small hospitals and clinics have to cover that area. Low population, big country. A little secret in this country that most don't understand is that unless you're travelling to a big hospital in a big city, the doctor you are seeing in the rural hospital (one doctor per shift) is a family medicine doctor, often not trained in emergency medicine at all.
What would I like to see changed? Well, I would like to see private medicine come in. Everyone holds their pearls when that's mentioned, but as it is, elective surgeries can be years long waits. And what's an elective surgery? Well, we have a friend in her 70s who has had no knee cap for three years. She cannot get downstairs to do her laundry or go grocery shopping. Her surgeon is happy to do the surgery, but the hospitals give him limited operating hours (office hours). If private clinics want to pop open and give people who have the money to pay for their surgeries, let them do it. It will decrease the load on a system that is serving very few as it is.
Additionally, a small user fee for those that walk through the emergency room doors. We have a horribly understaffed medical care system, made worse by firings of those that didn't comply during covid. It's estimated that 6 million Canadians can't find a family doctor. Those that do have one, are often frustrated by the huge waits to see a specialist. So, the ER is increasingly being used as a walk in clinic. Add to that a growing population of young people, tragically fearful of whatever germ is out there and sadly so ignorant of their own bodies and a growing population of elderly people and you see ERs so overburdened now that many of ours are shutting down for weeks at a time due to staff burnout and, hence, shortages. Many of these hospitals are hanging on just barely, using private contractors to fill nursing spots.
So why not a small user fee? Like $25 even. Might give someone pause before entering the hospital at 3:30 in the morning with a big toe that was itchy for two weeks (true case, and not all that unusual I'm afraid). That one visit costs taxpayers hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Would they still go if there was a user fee? And could we just return user fees for legitimate cases that couldn't be seen at a walk in clinic? Where are the walk in clinics.
Additionally, what of the people that don't use the system? A tax break? A tax credit for using other licensed healers and practitioners maybe? Something as encouragement and recognition for not burdening the system further?
Emergency medicine is a marvel. Let's not confuse that with the chronic care. I am so truly happy for your husband that he had the care that he did. I hope I do too, should I ever need it. But now that the system has done what it's good at - acute care, they will have little for him. And that's when the deeper work begins that they will have no answers for. Why would he get that? What does he need to seriously change in his lifestyle, his diet, his exercise, his personal, spiritual connection etc... All that stuff that truly keeps us well and strong is not held in the hands of the pharma driven medical system. It is decidedly far, far away from that model.
Lastly, why not tiers of access just like private insurance? If I just want to have access to emergency medicine and not tap into the whole thing, what if I was taxed differently than those that want the whole shebang? Well, I know, it's because it's "socialised"! I think that's a lazy answer though and it's why we're in this mess.
Ha! Okay, you asked. You might regret that now. :)
Gosh I appreciate how you think..
We have to bring in private health care, we are not able to get the quality of care needed and that’s how we can correct it.
I grew up in Texas and am very familiar with private health care, you pay but the doctors I came in contact with seemed concerned to find the issue and get a person in the right path.
When I was 18 I went to work at the chiropractic clinic that I had been a patient at since i was 12. One of the first things they had me do was read a large packet on vaccine and their ingredients. That would have been 1999, and I’m glad they had me do that because it showed me at that age how pharmaceutical companies operate and opened my eyes from that point on.
These 2 doctors were cut of the same cloth as Dr. Z. They were amazing and I was able to see them help so many people in so many different ways.
What a gift to have had that experience so early on. I had our first daughter vaccinated with the first round of vaccines. I thought I was being responsible and would have never questioned such a thing. Thankfully, it wasn't the whole shebang infants get now and she was already five months old because we had moved with the military and I couldn't find a family medicine doctor. Regardless, she had a severe reaction and never had another vaccine. That's the short story. She's fine now, twenty nine years old, but if I had known then what I know now...
I didn’t realize it threw but it was a gift to have my eyes opened at a young age. It’s funny but I have always questioned their narrative and happier for it.
My younger brother had an adverse reaction to the tetanus shot he received in about 1985 or so. Come to find out his body produces his own tetanus still to this day.
Haha, no, I don’t regret it at all. Genuinely curious and you present very good, rational arguments that seem pretty reasonable to me. These conversations are so important, especially now when everyone is afraid to challenge different opinions to their own or writes off a whole person because of one different opinion. I am not convinced about privatization because I have seen many privatized companies ultimately just focus on investors profits and bonuses whilst squeezing the actual service and service providers, but maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. I am open to that! Absolutely get your point on deterring itchy toers! True story, my husband is being triaged for his chest pain and a women with two children pushes in declaring a priority emergency as her children are both vomiting , with one starting approximately 12 hrs before the other and they must be seen immediately. Nothing to do with the fact that the kids have all just gone back to school and it’s the classic autumn term bug. She has bought them both into A&E covered in the remainders of norovirus!! You couldn’t make it up!
Oh dear lord!
"Priority emergency! Priority emergency! Never mind the cardiac arrests and car accident victims, I got some barfing kids here!"
I applaud Dr. Z, + I applaud you, Tara, for both your courageous battle with Lyme + for writing this post. I didn't even know vaccine exemption letters existed, but it's just further confirmation to me that it's never been about health + safety, + more about control. Control of the narrative + control of the people.
To be under investigation for understanding your patients' health + doing what's best for them is....downright unjust. But Dr. Z gives me hope, as I know there are others out there like him, even if we gotta dig through the trash to find them.
Agreed, Eb! He gives me hope, too. And that he's willing to go all the way, fighting them to the bitter end, is proof that a principled human with conviction answers to powers much bigger than a board with a bunch of weenies sitting on it. :)
Tara, you are spot on with this. I'm so grateful for those like Dr Z who practice TRUTH. Modern mainstream "healthcare" is an epic fail. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you, Karen.
Tara, thank you for the beautiful writing. I love Dr. Z for what he’s done. I’ve read through all these comments and I am inspired and awed by all the stories of courage and bravery for standing up and going against the grain. Thank you! It is so encouraging to know that we are not alone in this mess, even if it is just in knowing others can also see the truth.❤️
I agree, Françoise. I also know that there's people here who did decide to vaccinate and that we can discuss issues of principles and what we want to see for our fellow man without degrading into shouting hysteria about who's right and who's inherently evil. It's how it should be and how we, as humans are at our best.
“And yet here we are”.
Indeed.
It makes the blood boil... the mind short circuit.
How?! How?! How?! Is all I can muster at times.
I scheduled an acupuncture appointment this week, my first in 3 or 4 years at least. I used to go for regular treatments when the stress and financial burdens of trying to make a living farming were literally eating me up. Those treatments and my visits to this wise practitioner helped me so much.. and so I thought, I’m gonna have a session with her again.
She was not there when I arrived a little early. I saw a small sign on the door to her office saying something about masks.. I walked past it with a little thought that it must be a remnant of last winter or something... when she arrived I found out that I was mistaken. If I wanted to stay for my appointment I would have to wear a mask, which she would happily provide. I was dumbfounded, you can’t be serious...
I told her... “I just don’t get it...”
It’s hard to explain how that made me feel, grief maybe... where was the wise woman who had helped me over those hurdles and spoke with such clarity and understanding of what I was going through years ago and how it impacted so much of my life? How could she be sitting in front of me in Sept of 2022 talking about viral loads and filtering out the virus to protect the next person in the door from catching COVId. How could her “being” (about as anti-allopathic as possible) get stuffed into this mind numbing narrative that defies all common sense and practical understandings of the body and natural systems.
It is sometimes too much to even acknowledge how so much still persists.... the hurt and fear and wounding is so so deep. You know this, of course.
Hurray for you and for Dr. Z. No doubt what he is going through is not easy, and I pray for all in Canada today. My mother was born and raised outside Windsor... family of 13 kids... I have so many beloved aunts and uncles and cousins in Canada and I think about them everyday. And of course, so many others.... like you.
As always, thanks for sharing your thoughts and your world Tara. ❤️🙏
Thank you for sharing this story, Joe. Wonderfully expressed. I felt grief alongside you. It's old hat by now, witnessing the reactions of some people, but when it comes to people like the acupuncturist you write of, it's almost mind boggling. No, it is mind boggling. HOW?! Exactly that.
It makes me question their whole world outlook. Like, weren't you someone that believed in the body's way of healing, of immunity? You were an outlier from the pharma medical paradigm! Don't you see?!
I guess they just don't see. I guess they're just a fallible human and the fear and messaging pervaded into the cracks between belief and experience. It makes me sad. If anything, this time has been such a raising of the veil. We have seen and we can't unsee.
Thank you for sharing this story, Joe. It's good for us all to hear from one another.
Thanks for sharing this, for being honest, and not quieting yourself.
I can very much relate to your experience ~ Lyme symptoms for years, finally finding a doctor that was willing to get curious and address me as a human, and after a near death experience and many experiments later, I am happy to say I don't often experience symptoms because I've learned to listen to my body, and that is not something I will ever give up again. And that holds true for all that's circulating these days. If my body says, "not uh," that's enough for me. Oh and yeah, all the countless quantitative and qualitative data that supports what my body inherently already knows. I'm sorry to hear about Dr. Z. Anything we can do to help? I appreciate his courageousness. We need those like him and you. If anything, I hope he knows, that he is supported by those who are seeing things clearly and really do care.
Thank you, Forrest. I am so glad to hear that you are doing well now. Me, too. The gift of chronic illness, I think, is the drawing close to our bodies and learning to listen to what works, and what doesn't.
I think I will share this post with him. Hopefully he will read it and be buoyed by the beautiful, generous comments here. Thank you.
I am very thankful that you found Dr Z and that there are Dr Zs out there. I am also disgusted that this is still dragging on when the CDC has even listed ivermectin as a treatment now and the Karen’s of the world need to shut the hell up. Our hockey association was quite bad as well and put up many restrictions before any were mandated. I am hoping this year will be different. People in these parts seem fed up and more awake to the lies and inconsistencies that they were fed. I will be sending him strength!
I hope that comes to pass, Jenelle. It seems like our experiences in the world are so dependant on where we're living. In some parts, it's like it's all behind them (I don't think that's the truth of it, but optics would temporarily suggest so). Here, our PM says, fall is coming and we need to be "80, 85, to 90% fully vaccinated" - that's three shots here now. Or what? Well, we know or what. I have a grandbaby being born in the US and I will be there by hook or by crook!
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