What’s it like to be vaccine injured, two years in? To answer this, I am joined by Robert Fusaro and Shaun Barcavage from vaccine injury support and advocacy group, React 19.
Shaun Barcavage is a Research Nurse Practitioner who has dedicated his work to community health and research. Robert previously worked full-time managing regional sales and accounts for a gourmet food importer and distributor.
Before the Covid-19 shots, Robert and Shaun were each fit and well, with no medical issues. The impact of the shots on their health and lives has been catastrophic. These two inspiring, resilient human beings offer us a report on the state of this marginalised group: the immense challenges they face, how they are meeting those challenges and quite frankly, blazing a trail in advancing understanding of vaccine injury and how to treat it.
If you want to see what courage, heart and caring looks like, watch this interview.
Shaun defines the areas of need as the three Rs: research into their injuries, remedies to treat their injuries, and recourse for the losses they have incurred on every level. React 19 is working to address all three, while also providing financial and moral support to vaccine injured people – a group that grows by the day.
Please consider making a donation to support their invaluable work.
To Shaun’s three Rs, I would add a fourth area of need: recognition. Because as Shaun and Robert explain, governments, vaccine manufacturers and even certain medical research institutions are still reluctant to admit that vaccine injury is real and a very, very big problem.
One of the ways that we can help, besides making a donation, is to insist on talking about the fact of vaccine injury with everyone we know, including our government representatives.
Let’s make this important conversation go viral
Vaccine injury needs to become spoken about in the local pub/bar, school gate, workplace and town square, online and off. Because when it becomes part of the general conversation, the powers that be simply can’t ignore it anymore. And that’s when they really do have to take action.
So, can you spread the word and get these conversations going by sharing this video?
I realise that broaching this subject with people can be tricky. To help us with this, I asked the brilliant David Charalambous for some ideas. David is founder of Reaching People and throughout the pandemic, he has been educating people on how we can use behavioural science techniques – as used by a government near you – to inspire curiosity and not defensiveness when speaking with others.
He explains that trying to force someone to your point of view never works. What we can do is try to get people to see that there’s something to consider, to think about. It helps to start with a question, then show the data (in this case, the video) and then allow people to come to their own conclusion.
Here are just a few conversation starters you may like to try, as a way of inviting people to watch Robert and Shaun’s conversation.
“If it were really important to watch something that was uncomfortable, would you still do it?”
“Are you open-minded enough to see something so controversial, the news won’t show it to you?/the government’s been trying to hide it?”
“If there were a bunch of red flags showing up, would you investigate them?”
“You had a feeling something was wrong – turns out you were spot on. Would you like to find out what it was?”
(For more insight into the science behind these kinds of questions, you can watch this presentation from David.)
UPDATE: This video is now available on YouTube so it’s even easier to share with friends and family. Here’s the link.
Please share away. Robert and Shaun, and everyone they speak for, need our help. Let’s raise the roof on vaccine injury and call our governments, vaccine manufacturers and medical bodies to account.
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