Dr. Matt Strauss, a former Canadian intensive care doctor, is suing Queen’s University, alleging he was pushed out of his job for publicly opposing COVID-19 lockdowns and mask mandates. The National Post has the story.
When the frightening, frantic first waves of COVID-19 hit Canada in March 2020, Dr. Matt Strauss worked in intensive care at a Kingston, Ontario hospital, and taught at Queen’s University medical school.
He volunteered for extra shifts at Kingston Health Sciences Centre to help with the crush of patients, but a much less dramatic development now anchors his public place in the pandemic: He started sharing his thoughts about pandemic response.
He wrote short posts on Twitter and long form essays published by a British news magazine and Canadian news sites. He argued against wide lockdowns and mask mandates and in support of interventions focussed on people most at risk. Many of his thoughts were counter to official responses and prevailing medical advice.
He wrote colourfully, forcefully. He once tweeted, “I would sooner give my children COVID-19 than a McDonald’s happy meal.”
He sparred in the media and with the media.
A Toronto Star columnist called him an “anti-public health doctor” after Strauss was appointed the acting Medical Officer of Health for Haldimand-Norfolk, in southwestern Ontario.
In retort, Strauss wrote a piece of his own, published in National Post, dismissing the criticism as an attack by “left-wing media”.
Strauss became seen as something of a flag bearer for a side of the increasingly divisive pandemic opinion that did not have many strong voices within Canada’s medical community. It pushed him onto the stage of a strident public debate.
“I was new to all of this,” Strauss said in an interview this week. “I hadn’t been in a firestorm like that before.”
He didn’t grasp the gravity of the pushback until he learned his belongings had been cleared out of his university office and placed in a cardboard box, he said. His sudden office reallocation had the look and feel of being fired when he went to collect the box from a departmental secretary, he said, although he hadn’t been.
“It was a very tangible moment,” Strauss said. “Up until that point, it seemed to be irresponsible, anonymous Twitter accounts and then, suddenly, the administration where I was working was listening to those anonymous accounts.”
His published tweets and articles continued, and more than anonymous Twitter accounts raised concern.
It wasn’t that he was an utter rogue.
“I was a real vaccine booster. I got the vaccine rate up,” he said. “I’ve never promoted fringe therapies. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m extremely skeptical of conspiracy theories… I’m also skeptical of vaccine mandates.”
At that peculiar time, at least, there was little room for debate.
“We seemed to have forgotten how to agree to disagree. That kind of live and let live feeling seemed to be lost in the darker days of the pandemic,” he said. “And a lot of that division was predicated on what has now been shown to be the inaccurate claim that by controlling other people’s lives you can control the spread of COVID-19.”
Strauss’s interest in debate, scepticism and personal freedom extends beyond pandemic response and medicine. It moves him to share on social media about politics and economics in a way that allows detractors to place him as a firm conservative partisan.
He has drawn positive attention in social media by figures such as Joe Rogan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jordan Peterson. He is deeply critical of Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden and supportive of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Alberta’s United Conservative Party.
For many of his detractors, those are confirmatory red flags. Strauss, though, said he sees mainstream public opinion shifting in his favour.
Meanwhile, Strauss has been working to settle another score induced by the pandemic, this time in a court of justice rather than the court of public opinion.
He is suing Queen’s University and the head of the school’s Department of Medicine, where he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine from July 2019 to November 2021. He claims he was pushed out of his job for voicing unpopular opinions about pandemic management.
He filed his statement of claim in October 2022. The school and its medical school head, Dr. Stephen Archer, filed their statement of defence this July, and Strauss, in turn, filed his reply soon after.
The lawsuit, through allegations and cross-allegations, highlights the depth of division and acrimony over pandemic responses, and raises issues of academic freedom and workplace behaviour.
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This information cannot be shared widely enough or republished enough. Different people read different substacks or other non-MSM articles, the greater the reach, the better.
The worst thing is, it obviously is not just Israel where this is playing out. The worse the data that is coming out, the greater the need to cover it up. All the people who trusted and those that still do trust the “authorities”, how many realise that the trials are still ongoing, how many realise that most AEs have never been investigated, that no one has taken responsibility for any of this? How many know that the “new” super-duper updated booster was tried out on 8 mice who were subsequently killed, so even in the animal trials there is no follow-up on long-term effects?
The German cover-up was bad enough, after the insurance executive whistle-blower, this is outright disgraceful.
As horrifying as the implications of this article are – not only knowledge of harm and cover-up, but continued pumping of the poison – I did have to laugh about pfisser claiming they had no knowledge of long-lasting side effects. Well, if you only have a 2-month trial before you start stabbing people and then categorically state that any claim of an AE is “anything but the vaxx” and refuse to investigate it, you wouldn’t have such knowledge would you?
As a non-believer, for people like those running pharma, the CDC, FDA, the Israeli MOH, etc. I’d be happy to be wrong and see them spend all eternity in hell.
Totally agree. Apparently Big Pharma are using the excuse that more clinical trials on humans are not deemed necessary for subsequent new flu jabs each year therefore they don’t need more for their mRNA injections. I’d argue a flu jab and novel mRNA jabs are totally different animals but there you go. If it involves cutting corners then they’re totally game. Yes its a fraction of the mRNA compared to the 2 initial doses but the same risks apply.
If my husband wants to go get himself jabbed after learning the latest with these bivalent jabs then I really will believe I’m married to an imposter!
And my wife thinks I’m selfish if I (75 years old) decline the ‘booster’ jab that might be offered to me when I have my flu jab.
“8 mice”.
The words,” three blind mice” spring to mind.
As for the corrupt Pfizer (and AZ) – see here.
“JMC Partners’ clients include blue-chip drugs firms such as Novatis, Astro Zenica, Sanofi and Pfizer. It also represents a number of medical device manufacturers and biotech companies who sell their products to the NHS, including Roche Diagnostics, Cyberonics and Bausch & Lomb.
The company’s website makes bold claims about how it has been able to influence policy. In one case study it says it represented a medical device manufacturer who was worried about a planned cut in the amount the NHS paid for a treatment with which it was involved. JMC boasted that it organised a lobbying campaign targeting MPs and ministers as well as mobilising doctors to support its cause. It concludes: “The market for the technology was saved.” ” (Oliver Wright (now working for the Times muppets), for the Independent in 2014)
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
I wonder how those tens of thousands in the medical profession who have colluded with this appalling abuse, and jabbed people who are not vulnerable to Covid, can live with themselves.
I think you will find that they cried all the way to the bank.
The same way they live with a £20K p.a. pay rise while working part time. They’re unprincipled, venal bar stewards.
Excellent, insightful response as always. Many thanks for your analysis.
It’s very difficult now to say this is only about corruption and incompetence. The effective media silence on the vaccines, and in some cases a media that sees its primary function as defending the vaccines from criticism and scrutiny, really does suggest that something else is going on. Vaccines that must be taken even though their effectiveness is basically zero for a healthy adult or child. Net zero policies that will actually increase pollution while crushing lives and livelihoods. Misinformation policies that actually support the distribution of lies and propaganda. These are all indisputably occurring, and the average citizen of the west is either blissfully unaware or a foot soldier for the interests driving these narratives and policies.
Oh I agree. Its nefarious AF!
Media silence indeed, and not least by the Times muppets, who employ – but refuse to deploy – a journalist (Oliver Wright) who knows all about big pharma corruption. Something is indeed going on, and the Times muppets should explain themselves. Preferably in a court of law.
N.B. I just checked, and apparently Oliver Wright also previously worked for “Agenda (World Economic Forum)”. Do you think it is just possible that someone associated with said forum has had a word with Oliver?! (If anyone cares to post an imagined conversation, that would be most welcome!).
You are advancing along the right lines. The end point, which you will eventually arrive at, is depopulation.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/exclusive-proof-that-the-top-israeli?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F40661664-steve-kirsch&utm_medium=reader2
posted this BTL yesterday….
I was in London last night near a Shoreditch Hotel whose name Madonna had a song about ! It’s full of our inflatable raft loving chums ! They are young fit & very healthy looking which got me thinking ? WHY do TPTB want them here could it be that when all the current fully jabbed worker ants drop dead there will be a ready made supply of unsullied who don’t own much & have no rights as such .
Holiday Inn??
But how do you know the people to whom you’re referring haven’t been jabbed?
I don’t conclusively but I have read that it would infringe their special human rights
Yes Holiday
I know of a hotel in Chelmsford that is full of Afghani bigwigs who are now being kept safe in the U.K. It has been closed not the public for years and the UK are paying all the bills and three meals a day and presumably medical care and education for the kids
They moan about the food and demand Afghan chefs
My lasting impression of Afghani food is that they love to put currents in savoury food, and fruit where it does not belong is a deal-breaker for me. Trying to pick currents out of a curry while not causing offense is supremely difficult in my experience.
I rather suspect Bozo has been importing a Brownshirt army, under the guise of ‘persecuted migrants’ ready to be deployed if and when our population decides that some politicians need their neckties reconfiguring.
There were a number of reports in real media in the early days where brutalised protesters reported that their aggressors did not speak English and if they did it was in a foreign accent.
Not my experience (September and November 2020), I heard only English accents from the police. However, I was never on the receiving end of any violence. It looked to me as though they targeted the brave people with the megaphones, in particular the women.
Satanic
” The MOH also did not disclose the researchers’ results to the expert committee that decided on whether to recommend the Covid vaccine for 6-months-4-year-olds. ”
Hard to disagree. In biblical times, people sacrificed children to the false Canaanite god Molech, a name which will of course be familiar to many in Israel. More recently, people in Kenya following a “pagan” religion killed children who were born feet first. Now apparently the ancient tradition of child sacrifice is being carried on in Israel (among other places). Bring back the Birkenhead Drill!
Currents are satanic
Funny thing is, like just about everyone on here I guess, I’m not shocked nor even surprised. We knew full well this was happening. Good to see it out in the open though.
Cut and paste and the same article could be written about the MHRA.
Of course the MSM won’t report it. But does that really matter right now?The only people still taking the jabs are those who are wilfully blind anyhow. What matters is that sooner or later someone is going to use this as part of a vaccine injury damages claim. And then I guess a civil claim against individuals.
Slowly but inexorably, the net is closing in around these criminals.
Let’s hope so
“Of course the MSM won’t report it”
These days if MSM were to report stories such as these my first thought would be…aye, aye, what are they up to now and second thought…I don’t believe it.
Wishful thinking I’m afraid. We’ve had more than two years of zero consequences for the architects of societal and economic destruction. If the public does start to become too vocal about vaccines and lockdowns, another invented crisis will mysteriously emerge.
Monkey pox
Climate Crisis
Ukraine
Fuel Crisis
Take your pick.
The more you jab, the sicker you get
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Ultimately, if a normal manufacturer produced products which actually cause large scale injuries to whoever, they would end up in serious trouble, ranging from criminal action to bankruptcy. No doubt it’s easier to get away with it when there are lots of apparently independent victims, rather than the occasional industrial explosion or whatever, though. Oh, and if they’ve been granted immunity in advance by the Gov, they are quids in.
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