Goal: To document the experience and views on mandated vaccination of healthcare workers in British Columbia.
Methods: Between May and July of 2024, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of healthcare workers in British Columbia. We recruited participants through a snowball sampling approach, including professional contacts, social media, and word-of-mouth.
Results: Close to half of respondents, with 16 or more years of professional experience, were unvaccinated, and most had been terminated due to non-compliance with mandates. As well, and regardless of vaccination status, most respondents reported safety concerns with vaccination and felt unfree to make their own vaccination choices, yet did not request exemptions due to high rejection rates by employers. Most of them also reported experiencing anxiety or depression, with about one fourth considering suicide, as a result of mandates. Nevertheless, most unvaccinated workers reported satisfaction with their choices, although they also reported significant, negative impacts of the policy on their finances, their mental health, their social and personal relationships, and to a lesser degree, their physical health. In contrast, within the minority of vaccinated respondents, most reported being dissatisfied with their vaccination decisions, as well as having experienced mild to serious post vaccine adverse events, with over half within this group reporting having been coerced into taking further doses, under threat of termination, despite these events. Further, a large minority of all respondents reported having witnessed underreporting or dismissal by hospital management of adverse events post vaccination among patients, worse treatment of unvaccinated patients, and concerning changes in practice protocols. Nearly half also reported their intention to leave the healthcare industry.
Discussion: Our findings indicate that in British Columbia, mandated vaccination in the healthcare sector had an overall negative impact on the well-being of the labour force, on the sustainability of the health system, on patient care, and on ethical healthcare practice. Findings resemble those of a similar study in the province of Ontario, with perhaps the most salient difference being that in British Columbia the policy was implemented at the provincial, rather than the healthcare establishment, level, leaving no room for individual establishments to opt out.
One of the most shocking findings from this study is that employer vaccination mandates led to suicidal thoughts in 23.5% of healthcare workers and depression/anxiety in 81.4%. This is likely because 80.1% of the respondents were terminated from their job for refusing experimental injections and subsequently suffered negative impacts on their finances, mental health, social and personal relationships, and physical health. These results suggest that vaccine mandates are likely a major contributing factor to the record-high depression rates observed since 2021:
The findings of this study confirm that vaccine mandates should never be implemented again, anywhere in the world, under any circumstances. As the authors concluded, the policy of mandated vaccination “failed on several fronts - scientific, pragmatic, and ethical.” Compensation is highly warranted for all individuals who refused to comply with mandates and were unethically terminated.
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation
I had been working as a child and family therapist for a mental health center for five years after grad school when my employer forced me to resign because I refused to take the experimental mRNA injection. When I cited safety signals related to myocarditis in young men and brought up the ethics of informed consent, they ignored and gaslit me. I was incredulous that the medical leadership team could ignore the reality of natural immunity and the risk stratification data that was available at the time. My hubris was not applying for a religious exemption. At the time I didn't think I should have to cite God to justify the Constitutional reality of my Natural Rights to my innate/adaptive immunity and Rights of Conscious to refuse an experimental therapeutic with no long term safety data. It was beyond awful to have to terminate treatment with over thirty clients and walk away from a company that I cared about and had worked hard at for a total of ten years. To lose my job, my salary and have my career thrown down the drain as a young man has been devastating. My savings has been drained, relationships destroyed and cutoff, career in shambles. I was a good employee who always went above and beyond my benchmark, was loyal to the company and cared for my clients and coworkers. I don't believe that they have a mandate anymore but they won't call to have me back or reach out or anything. I want backpay. Having been cut off and ostracized is excruciating. I made a lot of sacrifices as a young man in his thirties to try and get ahead in life but the biomedical fascists and corrupt medical leadership teams have destroyed my career and wiped me out. I haven't had serious thoughts about suicide but I can't stop thinking about wanting to fight back against the injustice, the gaslighting, the corruption, the evil mass formation of the whole thing. It's hard having faith that there will be any sort of restitution and moving on has been difficult. As someone said below- "tyranny and deceit takes a heavy toll." The gaslighting and denial continues and I pray for accountability and justice. I won't stop fighting or having hope.
Besides the suicidal thoughts and depression/anxiety, how many died from the shots? How many are disabled for life? Probably in the thousands
I had been working as a child and family therapist for a mental health center for five years after grad school when my employer forced me to resign because I refused to take the experimental mRNA injection. When I cited safety signals related to myocarditis in young men and brought up the ethics of informed consent, they ignored and gaslit me. I was incredulous that the medical leadership team could ignore the reality of natural immunity and the risk stratification data that was available at the time. My hubris was not applying for a religious exemption. At the time I didn't think I should have to cite God to justify the Constitutional reality of my Natural Rights to my innate/adaptive immunity and Rights of Conscious to refuse an experimental therapeutic with no long term safety data. It was beyond awful to have to terminate treatment with over thirty clients and walk away from a company that I cared about and had worked hard at for a total of ten years. To lose my job, my salary and have my career thrown down the drain as a young man has been devastating. My savings has been drained, relationships destroyed and cutoff, career in shambles. I was a good employee who always went above and beyond my benchmark, was loyal to the company and cared for my clients and coworkers. I don't believe that they have a mandate anymore but they won't call to have me back or reach out or anything. I want backpay. Having been cut off and ostracized is excruciating. I made a lot of sacrifices as a young man in his thirties to try and get ahead in life but the biomedical fascists and corrupt medical leadership teams have destroyed my career and wiped me out. I haven't had serious thoughts about suicide but I can't stop thinking about wanting to fight back against the injustice, the gaslighting, the corruption, the evil mass formation of the whole thing. It's hard having faith that there will be any sort of restitution and moving on has been difficult. As someone said below- "tyranny and deceit takes a heavy toll." The gaslighting and denial continues and I pray for accountability and justice. I won't stop fighting or having hope.