(LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian ethics professor who was recently fired for opposing her university’s COVID jab mandate has said that since the start of the coronavirus crisis “fear has settled into society in a mass hysterical way.”
In an exclusive with LifeSiteNews Dr. Julie Ponesse, who was fired from her teaching position at Huron University College of Western University in September, said that in her opinion without the “immovable moral compass” provided by faith, or another deep conviction, people now look to government leaders to tell them what to think and what to do.
Ponesse referenced an event that took place when a plane full of passengers became convinced that they had all contracted a strange respiratory virus from the Middle East. This happened after a couple of passengers showed flu-like symptoms, and the hysteria surrounding the illness gripped the minds of almost everyone on board. Upon further investigation and after a mandated quarantine, only a few passengers were ill with flu-like symptoms, and no novel virus was detected.
“So I think we’re seeing something a bit like that,” she said.
Earlier this year, in a video that was viewed millions of views across multiple platforms, Ponesse explained the reasons why, in her opinion as a trained ethicist, that the mandatory COVID vaccination policies are unethical.
With a background in ancient philosophy and having worked in the medical field for some time, Ponesse said the casting aside of ethical and normative procedures on behalf of the medical field has caused her to consider the impetus for such behavior.
Life has taken a dramatic turn for the seasoned professor since then. Currently, she works with the Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA) and also with The Democracy Fund. She has a book about her experience and the fight for freedom in Canada coming out soon.
Dr. Ponesse told LifeSiteNews that she did not know her video would cause such a stir, and that at the time of making the video, she “didn’t really know what was going to happen.” “Nobody had any idea,” she said, “the university didn’t communicate what the penalties for noncompliance would be.”
Asked why it seems that government officials are so quick to flip-flop on promises and change their messaging surround the declared pandemic despite their previous claims, she said there is not “any evidence” that politicians expect themselves to act honestly. “I think if you look back historically, not just at our own government but other governments or elite structures of leadership throughout the world, there’s very little evidence to support that.”
The professor added that it is “troubling … that there is that implicit belief” that government officials act in our best interests.
Because of her background in medical ethics, she was concerned about the lockdowns “very early” and her concern grew steadily as proposed vaccines were quickly becoming mandated.
Dr. Ponesse said that she finds it “deeply troubling” that “concerns about masking and lockdowns and the vaccine rollout” have been “dismissed” by public health officials.
“That is not only deeply troubling to me, but very anomalous in terms of how health policy is normally made in terms of how policies in health care are normally evaluated from a legal and ethical point of view,” the ethics professor stressed.
She is in touch with a number of “vaccinologists, immunologists, virologists, [and] physiologists at top Canadian universities” from her time spent on medical ethics boards throughout her career. Ponesse said that “all of them were saying at that … [it was] not possible” to develop a successful vaccine so quickly. “We have never successfully developed a vaccine against a respiratory virus, and it’s very unlikely they’ve done it now.”
The thought of a mass vaccination campaign with an experimental drug has kept her up many nights, especially as children are now targeted for the abortion-tainted jab.
“This past Sunday night … the planes rolled in with the vaccines for the kids into the London airport,” she said.
Dr. Ponesse had stern words for parents who do not do their due diligence in investigating what the jabs might do to their children. “I think for all parents out there who have school aged children, if you aren’t worried about this, if you aren’t doing your due diligence to look at what all of the scientists are saying and not just what [Dr.] Tam and [Dr.] Moore are telling us, you’re failing in your job as a parent.”
She is particularly concerned about what effects the jab might have on fertility, especially as the children now being vaccinated “haven’t even reached puberty yet, so we don’t know what the effects on their fertility will be, or if they are able to conceive and have children.”