re: "what we are dealing with" -- getting escorted out by security-- relatedly:
FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKER MARK BISHOFSKY: "WHAT I WITNESSED WAS MIND-BOGGLING"
From the censored and shadow-banned April 20, 2022 press conference in which Minnesota Representative Glenn Gruenhagen Introduces HF2348 - A resolution to create a COVID-19 vaccine bill of rights.
PATTI CARROLL*: Next up I'd like to introduce Mark Bishofsky. Mark was a talented and respected frontline care worker who witnessed workplace practices that ended up changing his life. Thanks for being here, Mark.
[clapping]
MARK BISHOFSKY: Thank you, Patti. So yeah I've written up some stuff to say but I do want to add also that I am myself vaccine injured. I was injured by a tetanus vaccine in 2014 and I deal with the symptoms of that daily, and long story short, I'm lucky to be alive. One of my children was injured by an MMR vaccine and we deal with that, my wife and I deal with that every single day.
And I think we need to also acknowledge that to just blindly trust these pharmaceutical companies is an exercise in some kind of craziness because you need not look any further than the drugs Bextra,* Vioxx** or Johnson & Johnson's baby powder.*** Pfizer was fined 2.3 billion dollars in 2007, it's the largest fine ever handed out by the Department of Justice, for lying, bribing, and manipulating data. And we also need to acknowledge that sometimes the FDA, the CDC and these big pharmaceutical companies can be seen as maybe one entity if not just a revolving door. So to just, to just trust them and their data is not something I am going to do.
So yeah again I've been a respiratory therapist for 23 years. I have an advanced skill set, I've worked with all age groups and all critical care settings, including medical transport. I loved my job. I loved taking care of patients and collaborating with doctors to figure out how to best take care of these patients.
But that all ended with the covid pandemic.
It used to be OK to ask questions in the hospital. But it is no longer OK to do that. I worked through the pandemic up until October of last year and what I witnessed was mind-boggling.
Early intubation, the use of remdesivir. Even after the World Health Organization recommended not using remdesivir, in the lack of effort to try anything other than the failed, deadly protocol made absolutely no sense to me. I tried to get Ivermectin for my patients that were asking for it as an alternative treatment, but it was never given. I asked for hydroxychloroquine. I tried to give to give my patients something as safe and effective and inexpensive as just Vitamin D, completely harmless to try, but they wouldn't give it.
I even presented research showing that these interventions were effective.
I pushed to get my patients noninvasive ventilation rather than having them be intubated. I held the hands and tried to advocate for patients who were not allowed to have family members by their side to advocate for them. I held some of those hands until those patients took their very last breath because I refused to let them die alone.
I worked through the pandemic before there was a vaccine, and I did that without proper protective equipment. And I did it because I wanted to help people.
Once there was a vaccine, I was no longer good enough. I could have submitted for a religious exemption but I decided I could no longer be a part of the system that was leaving its patients to die without proper care, without attempting anything other than the failed protocol.
Ivermectin is not horse paste. Ivermectin is a Nobel prize-winning human drug. And to ignore it, to ignore an inexpensive, potentially effective, low-risk medication, but to use a medication like remdesivir which is extremely expensive and probably dangerous, just blows my mind.
The doctors I used to work with, I had an impeccable relationship with them. But once I started to question anything, they would no longer talk to me. I was ostracized. The mood in the hospital became very dark, not just with me but with everyone.
The medical system is no longer what it used to be. I gave up a career that I loved. And I am not the only one. And if anybody is wondering why there is a shortage of healthcare workers, look no further than vaccine mandates. Hospitals are short-staffed during a pandemic because of a silly mandate for a vaccine that is proving to be much less effective than advertised.
The last point I want to bring up is something that I noticed in August of 2021. For the last 10 years working at the hospital I was working at, July and August were always very, very slow. This was the time of the year where you would kick back, take a vacation, take a deep breath after going through the busy season. But in 2021, July and August were extremely busy. In fact we were taking patients in a suburban hospital all the way from Bemidji** because every single hospital in the metro was full this past July and August. And it was not covid. There were almost zero cases of covid. What changed? What changed last year that made these hospitals full all the time now? What could it have possibly have been? To ask myself and to want to ask these doctors, could this be a vaccine injury? These clots, this bleeding? You could not do it. You absolutely could not debate science in these hospitals anymore. That is what I experienced. And if I would have asked those questions I would have been ostracized even worse.
And I will leave you with this. I resigned in September. In my last day of work I asked the doctor what his thoughts were, regarding giving young men the vaccine who are at a higher risk of getting myocarditis from the vaccine than they are for even being hospitalized from covid. And he said to me, I don't have the bandwidth. He would not engage me on that question. But within two hours, I was walked out of the hospital by my director and by security and they wouldn't even tell me why. In the end they told me I was going rogue.
So to ask a doctor what his thoughts are about the vaccine in these young men getting myocarditis is going rogue.
What is happening in this country and in this world is insane. And people, please, need to wake up.
Thank you.
6:51
[END]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
*Patti Carroll is Executive Director of the Vaccine Safety Council, Minnesota.
*Bextra was a drug sold by Pfizer for which in 2009 the US Department of Justice imposed a 2.3 billion dollar fine, the largest settlement for healthcare fraud. The details are on the U.S. department of Justice website at this link:
**Vioxx was a painkiller that for many people resulted in fatal or serious heart damage. A thorough timeline of the Vioxx story can be found at this link:
***Johnson & Johnson's baby powder contained asbestos, a known carcinogen.
See also the US Department of Justice Press Release November 4, 2013, "Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations"
Video description: "Dr. Christopher Rake, MD, MPH has been an anesthesiologist at UCLA for 15 years with a stellar record. But he drew the line in the sand and said "No" to Dr. Tomas Aragon's arrogant vaccine mandate. His punishment for refusing this assault on his personal bodily autonomy and his freedoms?: he was escorted off the premises of UCLA Westwood Hospital and told not to return. Oct 4, 2021"
TRANSCRIPT
DR. CHRISTOPHER RAKE: OK I am being escorted out of 200
Medical Plaza at Westwood Santa Monica for standing up for freedom. We've got Edward Galvin here. Say hi, sir. What's your title, sir? And Andrea Eggins.
EDWARD GALVIN: Don't come near me.
DR. CHRIS RAKE: What's your title sir?
EDWARD GALVIN: Don't come near me.
DR. CHRIS RAKE: OK.
EDWARD GALVIN: Keep walking.
DR. CHRIS RAKE: And this is what happens when you stand up for freedom and you show up to work, willing to work, despite being unvaccinated. And this is the price you have to pay sometimes. What they don't realize is,
I'm willing to lose everything, job, paycheck, freedom, even my life for this cause. Be well. United we stand, divided we fall.
[Dr. Rake stops walking and turns the the camera on Edward Galvin]
EDWARD GALVIN: If you keep coming close to me, I'll take that as a threat. I'm telling you that right now. I want to be fair to you.
Wow. Just wow.
re: "what we are dealing with" -- getting escorted out by security-- relatedly:
FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKER MARK BISHOFSKY: "WHAT I WITNESSED WAS MIND-BOGGLING"
From the censored and shadow-banned April 20, 2022 press conference in which Minnesota Representative Glenn Gruenhagen Introduces HF2348 - A resolution to create a COVID-19 vaccine bill of rights.
https://rumble.com/v12uumm-hf2348-press-conference-4-20-22-mark-bishofsky.html
TRANSCRIPT
PATTI CARROLL*: Next up I'd like to introduce Mark Bishofsky. Mark was a talented and respected frontline care worker who witnessed workplace practices that ended up changing his life. Thanks for being here, Mark.
[clapping]
MARK BISHOFSKY: Thank you, Patti. So yeah I've written up some stuff to say but I do want to add also that I am myself vaccine injured. I was injured by a tetanus vaccine in 2014 and I deal with the symptoms of that daily, and long story short, I'm lucky to be alive. One of my children was injured by an MMR vaccine and we deal with that, my wife and I deal with that every single day.
And I think we need to also acknowledge that to just blindly trust these pharmaceutical companies is an exercise in some kind of craziness because you need not look any further than the drugs Bextra,* Vioxx** or Johnson & Johnson's baby powder.*** Pfizer was fined 2.3 billion dollars in 2007, it's the largest fine ever handed out by the Department of Justice, for lying, bribing, and manipulating data. And we also need to acknowledge that sometimes the FDA, the CDC and these big pharmaceutical companies can be seen as maybe one entity if not just a revolving door. So to just, to just trust them and their data is not something I am going to do.
So yeah again I've been a respiratory therapist for 23 years. I have an advanced skill set, I've worked with all age groups and all critical care settings, including medical transport. I loved my job. I loved taking care of patients and collaborating with doctors to figure out how to best take care of these patients.
But that all ended with the covid pandemic.
It used to be OK to ask questions in the hospital. But it is no longer OK to do that. I worked through the pandemic up until October of last year and what I witnessed was mind-boggling.
Early intubation, the use of remdesivir. Even after the World Health Organization recommended not using remdesivir, in the lack of effort to try anything other than the failed, deadly protocol made absolutely no sense to me. I tried to get Ivermectin for my patients that were asking for it as an alternative treatment, but it was never given. I asked for hydroxychloroquine. I tried to give to give my patients something as safe and effective and inexpensive as just Vitamin D, completely harmless to try, but they wouldn't give it.
I even presented research showing that these interventions were effective.
I pushed to get my patients noninvasive ventilation rather than having them be intubated. I held the hands and tried to advocate for patients who were not allowed to have family members by their side to advocate for them. I held some of those hands until those patients took their very last breath because I refused to let them die alone.
I worked through the pandemic before there was a vaccine, and I did that without proper protective equipment. And I did it because I wanted to help people.
Once there was a vaccine, I was no longer good enough. I could have submitted for a religious exemption but I decided I could no longer be a part of the system that was leaving its patients to die without proper care, without attempting anything other than the failed protocol.
Ivermectin is not horse paste. Ivermectin is a Nobel prize-winning human drug. And to ignore it, to ignore an inexpensive, potentially effective, low-risk medication, but to use a medication like remdesivir which is extremely expensive and probably dangerous, just blows my mind.
The doctors I used to work with, I had an impeccable relationship with them. But once I started to question anything, they would no longer talk to me. I was ostracized. The mood in the hospital became very dark, not just with me but with everyone.
The medical system is no longer what it used to be. I gave up a career that I loved. And I am not the only one. And if anybody is wondering why there is a shortage of healthcare workers, look no further than vaccine mandates. Hospitals are short-staffed during a pandemic because of a silly mandate for a vaccine that is proving to be much less effective than advertised.
The last point I want to bring up is something that I noticed in August of 2021. For the last 10 years working at the hospital I was working at, July and August were always very, very slow. This was the time of the year where you would kick back, take a vacation, take a deep breath after going through the busy season. But in 2021, July and August were extremely busy. In fact we were taking patients in a suburban hospital all the way from Bemidji** because every single hospital in the metro was full this past July and August. And it was not covid. There were almost zero cases of covid. What changed? What changed last year that made these hospitals full all the time now? What could it have possibly have been? To ask myself and to want to ask these doctors, could this be a vaccine injury? These clots, this bleeding? You could not do it. You absolutely could not debate science in these hospitals anymore. That is what I experienced. And if I would have asked those questions I would have been ostracized even worse.
And I will leave you with this. I resigned in September. In my last day of work I asked the doctor what his thoughts were, regarding giving young men the vaccine who are at a higher risk of getting myocarditis from the vaccine than they are for even being hospitalized from covid. And he said to me, I don't have the bandwidth. He would not engage me on that question. But within two hours, I was walked out of the hospital by my director and by security and they wouldn't even tell me why. In the end they told me I was going rogue.
So to ask a doctor what his thoughts are about the vaccine in these young men getting myocarditis is going rogue.
What is happening in this country and in this world is insane. And people, please, need to wake up.
Thank you.
6:51
[END]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
*Patti Carroll is Executive Director of the Vaccine Safety Council, Minnesota.
*Bextra was a drug sold by Pfizer for which in 2009 the US Department of Justice imposed a 2.3 billion dollar fine, the largest settlement for healthcare fraud. The details are on the U.S. department of Justice website at this link:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history
**Vioxx was a painkiller that for many people resulted in fatal or serious heart damage. A thorough timeline of the Vioxx story can be found at this link:
https://www.npr.org/2007/11/10/5470430/timeline-the-rise-and-fall-of-vioxx. Of note, in 2007 when Merck's 4.85 billion dollar settlement was the largest settlement ever.
***Johnson & Johnson's baby powder contained asbestos, a known carcinogen.
See also the US Department of Justice Press Release November 4, 2013, "Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations"
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/johnson-johnson-pay-more-22-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations
**Bemidji is a town in Minnesota approximately 220 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
A very good testimony from Mark.
Re "a vaccine that is proving to be much less effective than advertised."
It is effective at doing what vaccines always do, harm and kill.
One more.
Dr. Chris Rake removed from UCLA for being Unvaccinated
Posted October 5, 2021
https://rumble.com/vnc8nh-dr.-chris-rake-removed-from-ucla-for-being-unvaccinated.html
Video description: "Dr. Christopher Rake, MD, MPH has been an anesthesiologist at UCLA for 15 years with a stellar record. But he drew the line in the sand and said "No" to Dr. Tomas Aragon's arrogant vaccine mandate. His punishment for refusing this assault on his personal bodily autonomy and his freedoms?: he was escorted off the premises of UCLA Westwood Hospital and told not to return. Oct 4, 2021"
TRANSCRIPT
DR. CHRISTOPHER RAKE: OK I am being escorted out of 200
Medical Plaza at Westwood Santa Monica for standing up for freedom. We've got Edward Galvin here. Say hi, sir. What's your title, sir? And Andrea Eggins.
EDWARD GALVIN: Don't come near me.
DR. CHRIS RAKE: What's your title sir?
EDWARD GALVIN: Don't come near me.
DR. CHRIS RAKE: OK.
EDWARD GALVIN: Keep walking.
DR. CHRIS RAKE: And this is what happens when you stand up for freedom and you show up to work, willing to work, despite being unvaccinated. And this is the price you have to pay sometimes. What they don't realize is,
I'm willing to lose everything, job, paycheck, freedom, even my life for this cause. Be well. United we stand, divided we fall.
[Dr. Rake stops walking and turns the the camera on Edward Galvin]
EDWARD GALVIN: If you keep coming close to me, I'll take that as a threat. I'm telling you that right now. I want to be fair to you.
1:44
[END]
He knows. And he is afraid.