An alumnus of the University of British Columbia’s Department of English Language and Literatures, with a Ph.D., feels responsible for the university’s policies. He believes that as long as he benefits from his affiliation with UBC, he is complicit in supporting the institution. Therefore, he opposes any policy that he perceives as being unethical. He states that UBC’s COVID-19 genetic vaccine mandate was highly unethical and unacceptable. He believes that the university coerced its students, staff, and instructors into receiving an experimental treatment without any long-term safety data. Furthermore, he points out that there is no evidence to show that the vaccine prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection and reduces the severity of COVID-19 or prevents transmission.
He volunteers for the Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA), a not-for-profit organization of over 700 independent scientists, medical doctors, and other health-care professionals seeking to restore integrity to Canadian health care. He is assisting a team of researchers who are investigating the pervasive conflict of interest in Canada’s public health system. He feels that the problem of conflict of interest is particularly severe in B.C. – one of the only provinces in Canada that has maintained the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers. In his opinion, the university’s decision not to re-hire nurses who refused vaccination and to enforce vaccination on students without considering natural immunity is wrong.
He acknowledges that universities worldwide are vulnerable to corporate influence and capture, but administrative expediency has real human consequences. A friend of his who works at UBC was injured by both Pfizer shots, and conscientious researchers have established that the shots pose similar risks associated with the production of spike protein to those posed by SARS-CoV-2 infection. The author believes that the inoculations are not effective in stopping or slowing transmission, and there are reports of more adverse events from the COVID-19 vaccines than all other vaccines administered over the last 30 years.
The author is tired of UBC’s unethical policies related to COVID-19 and calls upon the university to take responsibility, apologize for coerced vaccinations, and reform its policies to prevent imposing them in the future. He calls upon the UBC community to restore the university’s ethical integrity and reputation as an institution of higher learning.