Mother describes unvaccinated life in Canada in emotional testimony

A mother has gone viral this week for her emotional testimony at the National Citizens Inquiry in which she described what life as an unvaccinated person was like in Canada, particularly for unvaccinated children.

The National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) is a citizen-led initiative investigating the appropriateness and efficacy of Canada's COVID-19 policies, and is currently holding hearings in various parts of Canada.

Last week’s hearing, held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, featured three days of presentations and testimonies from Canadians impacted by the country’s harsh response to COVID-19. Those who testified, which included people injured by the mandated vaccine, recited oaths of testimony.

One of the witnesses was Mandy Geml, a resident of Regina, Saskatchewan. Mandy described her life when COVID-19 began, as a wife and mother of a 13-year-old girl, three-year-old boy and a colic infant. She had just come out of a difficult pregnancy and was still dealing with postpartum depression when the vaccine frenzy came in swing.

Neither Mandy nor her children were vaccinated, but it was Mandy’s young teenage daughter who appeared to suffer the most.

“She started facing extreme hardship at school,” Mandy told the NCI commissioners last week. “She would sit in class and hear her teachers go on about ‘the unvaccinated are murderers’, ‘nobody with a brain would ever choose not to get vaccinated’.

“Her entire friend group dropped her. Her friends’ parents banned her from their houses once they found out that she was unvaccinated. Every time I called the school—I called the vice principal, the principal, the superintendent, to discuss calmly and politely these things that were being said in class, with no avail.”

If a student in the class tested positive, Mandy’s child would be banned from participating in activities for ten days, while the other children were allowed to participate freely.

When the school scheduled a ski trip for the students, for example, Mandy was told her daughter could not join due to her vaccinated status. When Mandy pushed back, they said the bus line would not allow the unvaccinated on their buses. Mandy called the bus line, which said this was untrue.

The school then told Mandy it was the ski lodge that was barring her daughter for being unvaccinated. Mandy called the ski lodge, and was told by staff that her daughter could ski but was not allowed in the chalet. Mandy’s daughter was made to eat her lunch away from the other children in a shack at the bottom of a hill.

“I said, well how does that make sense? My daughter not once came to school sick, not once. And she wasn’t allowed to participate in her activities because somebody else who was vaccinated tested positive–but they could all participate. Well every day, kids were testing positive, so she was basically kicked out of everything.”

At one point, the girl received an anonymous threat letter at the house.

“I asked the principal, ‘Where’s your line? Where do you say ‘no, we’re not going to segregate these kids? We’re not going to put hate between them and division between them?’ And she refused to answer. She told me that I was lucky that kids like mine were even allowed in school.”

The challenges that teenagers face are enormous enough without being subjected to such a level of hatred.

“Her teenagehood is so hard already, and now she’s coming home in tears, shaking, because her teacher’s calling her a murderer, her teachers are singling her out. None of her friends will talk to her. None of their parents will allow her over.

“She had so much anxiety. She was so scared when she met somebody knew that they’d find out she was unvaccinated.”

Mandy felt her daughter’s fear going to school every day, knowing she was hated.

She also told of a time when she went with her family to the supermarket, still wrestling with postpartum. Neither she nor her three-year-old toddler were wearing face masks. The police arrived to escort her and her child out of the store.

Her friends and family, she said, wanted her children to be taken away by the state, and wished illness and death on the family for not being injected with the COVID-19 serum. 

The video of Mandy's testimony can be seen here (beginning at 8:16:51).

Mandy’s daughter was one of many children who suffered similar experiences, though sometimes with heavier consequences.

In 2021, a student at the Latin School of Chicago started a rumor that 15-year-old Nate Bronstein was unvaccinated. There was no truth to the rumor, as Nate had taken the injections, but he was nevertheless harassed on a daily basis at the private college prep school.

Nate’s parents reached out to the other student’s parents, but the harassment worsened. A teacher told Nate that he was going “nowhere in life”, and he became the target of cyberbullying, with one student urging Nate to kill himself. Nate’s mother contacted the school more than 30 times regarding the harassment over her son’s perceived vaccination status, but the school did nothing.

On January 13, 2022, Nate’s father found his son hanging from a noose tied to the shower.

In October 2021, a teacher at Puyallup High School in Washington was placed on leave after she was filmed bullying unvaccinated students, saying they were “killing people” and not welcome at school. 

When a student’s mother approached Assistant Principal Cassie Ridenour about the incident, Ridenour — who lists her pronouns in her email signature as “she/her/they/them” — tried to have the video deleted. School administrators ultimately placed the teacher on leave after media began asking questions.