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Will the old media report on it at all?

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Have you been watching?

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Saw this post from Tammy Adams, on FB, I dont know her but loved what she had to say

“I’ve watched some of the testimony and personal injury stories shared by those who came forward. Hearing people speak about experiences that have profoundly changed their lives has been heartbreaking.

But what has stayed with me most is not only the testimony itself; it is what I have seen in response to it.

I have seen people who have already endured so much being asked, once again, to prove that their pain is real.

I’ve seen their experiences questioned, their credibility challenged, and, in some cases, their stories reduced to something that simply cannot be true.

I can’t imagine how painful it must be to share something so deeply personal, only to be told that your experience isn’t credible, that what you know to be your own lived reality somehow isn’t your truth.

There were receipts.

There was testimony.

There were experts who spoke from different perspectives and across both sides of the border.

But beyond evidence, there is something I wish we could all agree on:

Compassion should never be controversial.

We do not have to agree on causation, science, policy, or even on the conclusions we draw from these stories to recognize that the people sharing them are human beings who deserve to be treated with dignity.

I do my very best to create that kind of space for my clients. They come to me with very different perspectives, beliefs, and experiences, including views that may differ greatly from my own or from one another’s.

My goal is to offer a safe place.

A place without judgment, criticism, or the expectation that someone must first convince me that their experience is worthy of being heard.

A place where people can speak about what they have lived through and to begin the steps of recovery.

I had hoped we could extend that same grace to those who travelled to Ottawa, often at their own expense, simply asking for the opportunity to be heard.

Whatever our personal beliefs may be, I don’t think anyone should have to defend their humanity before being met with compassion.

We can question.

We can debate.

We can disagree.

But surely we can still listen.

Surely we can make room for people whose lives have been changed so drastically to tell their stories without immediately attacking their character or integrity.

I am sad to witness how difficult compassion has become in this conversation.

Because compassion does not require agreement.

It simply requires us to remember that there is a person behind every story; and that their pain deserves, at the very least, to be heard with humanity.

Compassion should never be controversial.”

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The summary from the IMA : https://imahealth.org/vaccine-injured-canadians-got-a-hearing-health-canada-was-absent/