CHAPTER 28 My Message to the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Mary O’Connor Family physician
An excerpt from: Canary In a Covid World; How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World. A collection of essays from 34 contemporary thought leaders. Just released on Amazon here:
I graduated from the University of Toronto Medical school in 1971. I worked as a solo practitioner in family medicine for 44 years, and in the last 18 years I focused on mental health issues and substance use disorders. I had the most wonderful patients. I advocated for them to the best of my ability.
And then, COVID came; I didn’t know the truth for a couple of months. In truth, I was looking forward to a rest during that first 2 week lockdown. Then I began to understand the craziness of it all. I always tried to go to daily Mass; as I sat in the pew, all of a sudden the questions came... why didn’t the priests have to wear masks on the altar, but the parishioners had to wear them in the seats? How is this virus only going in one direction? I felt so confused at times. During lockdown I also had the chance to watch and listen to several American priests who knew and spoke the truth about the non-pandemic. The truth became clearer and clearer.
I began to realize and learn that masks were not needed, and are in fact harmful, but it still took me some weeks to finally take off my mask forever; I was afraid that people would be angry at me, and that I would be responsible for having the Church closed down.
And then the requests for exemptions started ...so many requests. Strange, looking back, that we believed we needed an exemption to prevent an illegal action from being perpetrated against us.
Then on April 30, 2021 Ontario’s physician licensing body, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) issued a statement forbidding physicians from questioning or debating any or all of the official measures imposed in response to Covid 19. The CPSO then went on to threaten us with punishment, investigation and disciplinary action.
This threat was hanging over our heads.
The first exemption requests were for masks, especially for children. I want to say that I am not blaming the parents who did mask their children at first; they didn’t know the truth; they were afraid and thought they were doing the right thing. But it was very distressing. A school principal called me to question an exemption I’d written for one child. This principal totally believed that all 400 children in her school should wear masks…..
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