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The human cost of those who were forced

THOSE WHO WERE FORCED, SPEAK OUT ….

THE WRITTEN TESTIMONIES FROM TEACHERS WHO WERE ‘FORCED’, SHOULD DISQUALIFY ANY MEMBER OF THE QLD GOVERNMENT FROM EVER UTTERING THE WORDS ‘COERCIVE CONTROL’ AGAIN!!

Here are a few more excerpts, this time I have taken them from the accounts written by Queensland teachers who were forced into receiving the injections against their will.

As you can see, many of them have been left psychologically traumatised as a result.

In some ways their suffering has been even worse than those who were purged for non-compliance.

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“It was just gut-wrenching when I realised, I had no choice but to get the jab or be sacked after 22 years of teaching.  I don’t think I’ll EVER get over it”.

“My principal rang daily saying “just get the jab, just get the jab”. Finally, I felt I had no option.  I CRIED THE WHOLE WAY TO MY JAB APPOINTMENT, I CRIED WHEN I WALKED IN, I CRIED WHEN THEY JABBED ME AND I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTERWARDS.”

“The stress of being forced, when I was so strongly opposed, …and then contracting Covid TWICE, despite being double vaccinated, has been almost too much to bear.  My quality of life has been destroyed…”

“I was forced to get vaccinated to keep my job and pay the mortgage.  It has impacted my well-being in so many ways…I feel detached from my work now and alienated from my co-workers”.

“I have witnessed distressed colleagues, who have official medical exemptions, being subjected to the most inhumane treatment, just so they are allowed to keep working. They are completely segregated from the other teachers and forced to eat lunch alone.”

“I have not lost my job because I complied/was coerced, but dear friends and colleagues from my school have – they were shamed, lectured, belittled told not to believe “everything they read on the internet”, or “just go get it!”.  Or “I could hold you down and give it to you myself”. Now that they are gone, it’s like radio silence!  LIKE TEACHERS WHO HAVE TAUGHT AT OUR SCHOOL FOR OVER 10-30 YEARS JUST NEVER EXISTED, THEY ARE NOT SPOKEN ABOUT.”

“Our staff holes have been plugged with fresh graduates, our HOD and deputies are all acting in their roles … The whole culture of the place is altered and it’s uncomfortable working there.  I live in fear of the booster being mandated because I will not be coerced again, and I don’t want to lose my 20-year career that I love with all my heart.”

“I feel like I have betrayed my principles for money…  my life feels like it’s in tatters.  I feel disgust and shame (with myself) over this.”

“In the end I was coerced like so many others.  The complete loss of my own free choice still weighs heavily on me. I am not sure I will input the 110% I did in the past”.

“I feel totally powerless in my own country and my own home.  I feel powerless to protect myself and my family …I feel oppressed living in what I once thought was a free country.  I was forced to do this to keep a roof over my family’s head, put food on the table, and so that my children will NEVER have to go through this themselves and potentially have their own health affected.”

“Being coerced into doing something you don’t want to do is terrifying and humiliating.  After studying for four years and finally landing a contract job, I was forced to choose between my career and my morals/beliefs.  It has taken a huge toll on my mental health.”

“I was harassed daily and made to feel like a criminal by my principal/colleagues until I gave in.  I have lost ALL faith in the government and education profession”.

“I hope these people rot in hell for what they have done to me”.

“Doing it went against everything I believe in.  I am so upset I was forced like that”.

“They may as well have held me down and done it – IT FELT NO DIFFERENT”.

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Teachers speak out

CRIMES AGAINST TEACHERS: THE HUMAN COST OF MANDATES …

I am sitting here poring over the shocking personal testimonies of 700+  teachers who have lost everything as a result of the Qld Government’s ‘no jab, no job’ mandates.

Attempting to convey even a fraction of the enormous suffering these testimonies document, is incredibly daunting – particularly in a short Facebook Post like this.

However, I feel I owe it to every single one of these victims, to at least try.

The following quotes are taken at random.

If nothing else, I hope they give people a glimpse of the appalling ‘human cost’ these mandates have had on their fellow Queenslanders.

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“To lose the one thing that mattered to me, my role/job/passion … I felt so let down, kicked in the guts and excluded…”

“I’ve questioned why I dedicated a lifetime to this profession.  Why I worked evenings, holidays, weekends and missed out on being with my own family”.

“This has devastated me.  Both my husband and I have lost our incomes”.

“I am a single mother who is struggling to pay the rent.”

“I was a respected specialist teacher with exceptionally positive feedback from peers, parents and students.  And now I am treated like a second-class citizen.”

“I am a sole parent and have no idea how we will survive”.

“I feel like just a number, gone and forgotten after 17 years of working my arse off and working through every lunch when not on playground duty for my students”.

“After 40 years I ended my career by being kicked to the curb like a stray dog!!”

“Just being left behind, in cold silence, after 10 years of teaching”.

“After years of faithful service to the education department I feel like I don’t matter, just a piece of old used up newspaper being tossed into the bin”.

“Staff who I thought were close friends do not speak to me anymore.”

“Have been abused by staff I thought were my friends.  One yelled “you are killing people and my grandparents”.

“I was treated like a leper and isolated from other staff…put in a room by myself for nearly two semesters”.

“… co-workers showed glee that I would not be allowed to work alongside them anymore”.

“I was ridiculed and treated like a leper”.

“The discrimination and cruelty have been soul destroying”.

“My children who attend the school where I worked have been bullied and called “anti-vaxxers” … there was no support from the school or my former colleagues.  This has felt like a personal attack.”

“Knowing that I was not going to be recognised or farewelled after 26 years of service was extremely upsetting”.

“I think the hardest thing was the lack of acknowledgement.  After working at the school for 20+ years, there was no thank you, nothing, just termination and then silence”.

“Since the mandates …complete silence, even turning their backs on me to avoid conversation when I picked up my children.”

“Another staff member said publicly he was glad evil people like me would no longer be around to influence the next generation”.

“I was excluded from social gatherings long before the mandate … forced to eat alone.  I have suffered so much anxiety, loneliness and depression.”

“I worked really hard to become a teacher and put so much effort into teaching and the school.  I have had so much anxiety, stress and panic attacks …”.

“They made me feel like I wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out again.  The teacher’s union saying they wouldn’t help was heartbreaking”.

“People are ill, disabled and yet nobody, NOBODY cares if we live or die”.

“The whole experience has made me feel isolated, unsupported, shut down, invisible”.

“I just feel there was a complete lack of compassion.  We have just vanished.  No one talks about it.  No one reaches out to us.”

“It’s like we don’t exist anymore”.

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