Gail Alexan­der

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ad­vis­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to sue em­ploy­ers if they're suf­fer­ing health is­sues af­ter be­ing forced to take COVID- 19 vac­cines.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar made the call as she dou­bled down on her claims of "fake" COVID-19 vac­cines dur­ing the UNC's Mon­day Night meet­ing in Ch­agua­nas, say­ing any cit­i­zen ex­pe­ri­enc­ing poor health and side ef­fects from COVID-19 vac­cines which their em­ploy­ers forced them to take, may now have grounds for le­gal ac­tion.

"I'd say sue them! Seek re­dress for any ill that be­fell you be­cause of the forced vac­cine," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar was re­ply­ing to crit­i­cisms by Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh of her re­cent claims about "fake" vac­cines. Deyals­ingh had de­mand­ed a re­trac­tion. Es­tranged UNC MP Dr Rai Rag­bir al­so re­buked Per­sad-Bisses­sar's state­ment.

Dur­ing the meet­ing, Per­sad-Bisses­sar dis­closed that she'd tak­en the As­traZeneca vac­cine.

Say­ing Deyals­ingh was "fast and out of place," Per­sad- Bisses­sar said if any­body should apol­o­gise it was him. Ac­cus­ing Deyals­ingh of "buf­foon­ery" and be­ing the "Min­is­ter of Death," she showed his var­i­ous me­dia state­ments dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, ac­cus­ing him of "flip-flop­ping" on is­sues.

She said clin­i­cal tri­als are de­signed to an­swer im­por­tant ques­tions about drugs' ef­fec­tive­ness and safe­ty, in­clud­ing vac­cines.

She added, "Many phas­es of drug cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for COVID vac­cines were ac­cel­er­at­ed. A vac­cine that may have tak­en years to come to mar­ket through in­ten­sive test­ing and screen­ing was al­lowed to be pushed through by in­ter­na­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies.

"Many vac­cines in­ject­ed in­to peo­ple’s bod­ies should have nev­er been brought to mar­ket in their cur­rent for­mu­la­tion."

She de­tailed the health prob­lems - from blood clot com­pli­ca­tions to preg­nan­cy prob­lems and oth­er is­sues - which caused the with­draw­al in oth­er coun­tries of cer­tain vac­cines that had been used in T&T: among them John­son and John­son, As­traZeneca and Pfiz­er.

She not­ed that peo­ple in sev­er­al US states like Kansas were now su­ing be­cause the risks of the Pfiz­er vac­cine were hid­den. Not­ing the com­plaints about Pfiz­er, in­clud­ing in­flam­ma­tion in and around the heart, Per­sad- Bisses­sar said peo­ple had asked her why so many youths were dy­ing of heart is­sues.

"But the Gov­ern­ment said 'take the jab or lose your job'. None of these vac­cines should have been ap­proved in their cur­rent for­mu­la­tion. Med­ical reg­u­la­tors world­wide and in T&T should have red-flagged these side ef­fects, in­formed the pub­lic, and re­quest­ed man­u­fac­tur­ers re­turn to the lab and re­for­mu­late their of­fer­ings. ....time has shown our cit­i­zens were cor­rect to re­ject these fake vac­cines."

She said in­stead of in­form­ing the pub­lic about the risks of the "rushed vac­cines," the Gov­ern­ment, sup­port­ed by the me­dia and busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, sup­pressed free speech and at­tempt­ed to force a vac­cine man­date on the pop­u­la­tion.

"Any­one who spoke out against manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tions was at­tacked, in­clud­ing my­self ... that was ir­re­spon­si­ble and ig­no­rant ad­vice of the me­dia house ed­i­tors, busi­ness cham­bers, and Gov­ern­ment at that time," she said.

"How many cit­i­zens are now suf­fer­ing the ill ef­fects of these fake vac­cines that were forced on them be­cause they had to choose be­tween the vac­cine jab or los­ing their jobs? ... The UNC al­ways said con­sult your doc­tor and de­cide what's best for you, you shouldn't be forced to take the jab," Per­sad-Bisses­sar added.

"Any cit­i­zen ex­pe­ri­enc­ing poor health and side ef­fects of these vac­cines, where your em­ploy­ers forced you to take the vac­cine, you may now have grounds for le­gal ac­tion in the cour­t­house..."

She said busi­ness cham­bers now com­plain­ing about eco­nom­ic and so­cial de­struc­tion caused by the ex­tend­ed lock­downs were the same ones sup­port­ing it for two years shout­ing, “Fol­low the sci­ence.”

...hits Min­is­ter, CoP on "blighs"

Ques­tion­ing the "sci­ence," Per­sad-Bisses­sar not­ed (with a laugh), "A man get vac­ci­nat­ed mul­ti­ple times, then get COVID - mul­ti­ple times. He had the record: sev­er­al times with vac­cines but each time he get back COVID. So how that vac­cine not fake? Why you get back COVID?"

She said T&T's still await­ing the sci­ence that led to 5,000 COVID deaths.

"What was the sci­ence be­hind charg­ing fam­i­lies in their pri­vate cars for not wear­ing masks but al­low­ing a PNM eat a food fi­nancier to have a mas­sive wed­ding with hun­dreds of guests?"

"What was the sci­ence that stopped open-air cre­ma­tions, and why are dead bod­ies still now be­ing buried in COVID-des­ig­nat­ed ar­eas in ceme­ter­ies and not in fam­i­ly plots up to now?"

Com­par­ing pic­tures of biki­ni-clad peo­ple at a pool par­ty dur­ing the pan­dem­ic with pic­tures of peo­ple who were ar­rest­ed for bathing in the sea at Co­corite, she added, "If you were from wealthy Bay­side Tow­ers, Co­corite, hav­ing a pool par­ty, the sci­ence said COVID-19 wasn’t a risk, and the po­lice warned you. How­ev­er, if you were hav­ing a sea bath right near Bay­side Tow­ers in the same Co­corite, the sci­ence said you were spread­ing COVID-19, break­ing the law, and be­ing charged with no warn­ing.

"What was the sci­ence in this, Health Min­is­ter? What was the sci­ence in this, po­lice com­mis­sion­er? Maybe not enough more melanin in your skin?"