WARMINGTON: It's hard to bury victims' tears at Allison vaccine injury inquiry

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OTTAWA – Apparently, some say there is no story here at the Allison Inquiry on Parliament Hill that is taking testimony from people who were impacted by Canada’s vaccination policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This is obvious horsesh…” posted CBC and The Globe and Mail pundit and columnist Andrew Coyne.

He was responding to my X post on Day One of the inquiry in which I typed, “I googled to read about the Allison Inquiry and check out the media coverage on it in Ottawa. There seems to be none. Seems odd when it’s right in Parliament buildings where the press gallery have offices.”

I meant no disrespect or for anyone to take offence. But, it seems, some did.

“Possibility 1. This is a serious and significant inquiry and every single reporter in Ottawa is conspiring to cover it up,” wrote Coyne. “Possibility 2. This is obvious horses***.”

No vaccine deniers here

I can’t imagine saying anything like this to the 1,400 people who participated in the inquiry and the 50 who are testifying over the four days of the inquiry from Sept. 8-11. There are no vaccine deniers here. Just people conveying how the jabs did not work for them or their families.

Top Global News Ottawa reporter David Akin chimed in on X by posting, “Joe works for Postmedia/Sun/National Post. The Post has lots of reporters on Parliament Hill. Maybe he should ask his colleagues why they didn’t cover it,” while adding “Global’s focus today was the most consequential story of the week/month/year: The Canada-US trade war.”

As he pointed out, every reporter or media outlet can make their own decisions what they feel is worthy of covering. While this subject did not interest everybody, I have, from the beginning, tried to cover all aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the latest news on the vaccines.

The scoldings were unexpected, since there had been no questioning or criticism of those respected journalists or any media outlet. I was simply looking for coverage from the start. When traditional media offered none, I expressed surprise — especially given that this probe is being led by Grimsby MP Dean Allison and prominent lawyer Shawn Buckley.

Vaccine victims still being victimized

I was considering coming up to Ottawa from the GTA to catch Dan Hartman’s testimony Friday about the loss of his 17-year-old son Sean, 33 days after taking the vaccine – something I have both written about before and followed closely.

The clap back reminded me so much of the pandemic, where there was no tolerance for any questions about the vaccine issue, and I realized if there is no mainstream presence at something so important, there would be no record of it.

But there will be a tremendous record of what transpires here thanks to all of the independent media voices that are here, live streaming and telling stories.

They have done an outstanding job.

Many stories here – and even more tears

Having now attended, the first thing I noticed when walking into the secure parliamentary setting was all of the people waiting to come in who were crying.

They have lost mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, husbands and wives.

Others were being added with walkers, canes, wheelchairs, or with the help of loved ones.

In the years since the pandemic, they said one of the biggest insults added to their injuries is that they were dismissed as not credible, not truthful and, in some cases, not even injured from the vaccine or from their loved one’s wounds or deaths. Allison said one of the reasons he called this inquiry is to give all of those people a chance to tell their story in a safe place with a view to learning from it all.

You learn nothing if you don’t acknowledge the people who are sharing their lived experience. This inquiry has heard that the Canadian government has paid out $18.1-million in compensation through a Vaccine Injury Support Program vaccine injury compensation program which is an acknowledgement that there are many cases that didn’t go well.

But the way all of this was handled back in 2021-2022 had its issues too.

Dr. Charles Hoffe, the only doctor in Lytton, B.C., testified under oath that when he started seeing vaccine injuries among his patients he had treated for 28 years, he reported the findings to senior health officials with a view to warning of the potential dangers he had noticed.

Instead of getting a hearing on this, he was put under investigation.

“I had never seen anything like this and was looking for some help on how to treat this,” he said.

Instead of getting help, he said, a supervising medical official told him, “Don’t tell them it is a vaccine injury.” This was something Hoffe said he found perplexing since the person saying this did not meet with his patients or look at their medical charts.

Dr. Hoffe was asked how he could arrange an appointment with specialists; he said the response he was given was, “Don’t tell them it is a vaccine injury.”

Ultimately, he was put through a disciplinary hearing, which was later dropped because he was told the government had gotten the result they wanted by sending out the message to others not to send out misinformation.

“I tried to alert them. Instead,” said Hoffe. “I was told to stay silent.”

While some media people say this is not a story worthy of covering, I take the view that it is something that absolutely should be.

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