Honouring The Life Of Gillian Norman

Dani's Letter + Julie And Rachel's Interview | FreeNZ

She was an intelligent woman who put unbiased attention on extensive research before coming to rational conclusions. One was her opinion on vaccinations, though I will admit she didn’t have the time or access to researching the Covid-19 vaccinations. I mention this because her instinct to treat all vaccinations cautiously and individually was a belief system. This explains some of the extra stress placed on her in the later days of her illness.

As time went on, I personally felt the societal pressure build through each government announcement. Our family started to look into the vaccinations and, like mum before, we started to find information that troubled us and caused caution flags. That’s when the health system started offering her the vaccination. Of sound mind, my mother turned it down, as have I and my two sisters.

Mum’s condition worsened and we were admitted to hospital for a time to gain control over seizures due to cancer spreading to her brain. She would not be discharged again. Mum was struggling and didn’t want to return to her house. She wanted to go to a hospice service. Information given to us at first was hospices were not housing unvaccinated, forcing her to consider getting vaccinated against her researched belief system.

Once the stress of that was building, we were told the opposite. She could be admitted to hospice unvaccinated, but the catch was she would be restricted to only vaccinated visitors. On top of this, the hospital started the routine questioning when we when were we leaving. The unvaccinated list, not invited to the hospice, included her daughters, son in laws, grandchildren, and numerous other family and friends.

At that time, we were all giving her twenty-four hour care and comfort at her bedside. This suggestion was upsetting to all of us, but I don’t imagine — I can’t imagine — what that did to mum. Her final days stuck between a rock and a hard place, knowing her time was short, her control limited, trying to soothe her family’s pain while her beliefs and autonomy felt held ransom and comforts were denied.

This is when the vaccine mandates had the strongest emotional stress inducing moments for both my sisters and I caring for her and for mum herself. I can’t help but wonder what this did to us all health-wise.

My message to Jacinda is vaccine mandates of any kind are a form of discriminatory social division, a division that should not be encouraged by the government.

Medical decisions should be left to our local health professionals who know their community and the community itself deserves bodily autonomy. These blanket vaccine mandates are dangerous to people’s mental, emotional, and eventually physical health.

Threatening unity in communities, isolating large groups of the population, and causing stress levels higher than most humans can endure, pushing suicide rates through the roof.

Our cravings for hugs, love, acceptance, being heard and understood, have never been greater.

–Dani Norman

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