New online campaign #CanWeTalkAboutIt launches to break the culture of silence around COVID-19 vaccine injuries

BY PAUL JUNOR

Revelations about COVID-19 vaccine injuries have sparked calls for investigations.

Details about a new global online campaign were reported in an article by Dr. Michael Nevradakis for The Defender and can be seen at: https://childrenshealthdefenswe.org/

The live online, “Let’s Talk” webcast, “ brings together the vaccine-injured with medical experts willing to speak out about the risks of COVID-19 vaccines. The campaign expects to bring awareness to the vaccine injured by asking those affected to:

• Submit a black-and-white photo, with their right sleeve rolled up, wearing a band-aid to symbolize they got the vaccine
• Share their posts, with a short description of the injuries they experienced, on their social media networks with the #CanWeTalkAboutIt hashtag

Agnieszka Wilson, one of the founders of the campaign, told The Defender that it was after taking the Tdap vaccine that she found out about issues related to vaccine injuries. She discovered a culture of silence pertaining to vaccine injuries. She states, “If you take a headache pill and you see that there’s a side effect that makes your skin blue, then you obviously might say ‘Okay, it might be from that, right? When it comes to vaccines you can’t really talk about these things.”

This silence triggered her to find out about vaccine injuries, and the silence pertaining to vaccine injuries led her to be an activist. She launched the New York Medical Freedom Coalition during her time in America, and after her return to Sweden, she initiated the “Aga Wilson Show,” which focused on interviewing doctors and scientists.

Subsequently, she discovered that there were increasing reports about the risk of injuries pertaining to the COVID-19 vaccines. She states further, “We all heard and knew that the rollout of COVID vaccines was starting, and we were going to see a lot of damage done by these vaccines. People were really scared, and especially scared of being associated with organizations that were stamped as anti-vax organizations.”

Her discovery that individuals were being silenced by the media prompted her to focus on bringing awareness to the effects of these vaccines. Her interactions with experts and conversations with individuals who experienced vaccine injuries made her realize how they were excluded. It was the perceived silence between doctors and scientists regarding the side effects, silence, and media’s non-involvement that catalysed her to initiate the #CanWeTalkAboutIt campaign. She states further, “I always work globally; I thought now we need to do something globally. We need to do a campaign that is going to start breaking the silence around this issue because people need to know. We don’t want any more people to take the shot, especially after what I’m seeing in all of these groups.”

The article mentioned the work of Brianne Dressen, who started the non-profit organization React 19 after being injured by the AstraZeneca vaccine. It offers financial, physical and emotional support for those suffering from long-term COVID-19 vaccine adverse events globally. Dressen is driven to help the injured by aligning with campaign and support groups. She is perturbed by the silencing on social media when keywords are used which results in censoring.

She carefully crafts her messaging in order to be sensitive. For Wilson, there are a couple of primary objectives which include: to provide the vaccine-injured with visibility and voice, and to give the public the ability to make an informed decision regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. The issue of informed consent is vital to Dressen. She states, “Informed consent is not being given in this situation, and the doctors are also not doing their job when it comes to swearing the oath ‘ do no harm.’ So we want people to be aware.”