'Jesus was a healer': One man's rage at anti-vaccination pastors in local churches
CBC
You can see in his slow walk and his dull eyes that Joe Gee is exhausted.
He's exhausted physically from caring for several members of his family in the Perth-Andover area of western New Brunswick who are infected with COVID-19.
And he's exhausted emotionally because he believes he can trace those infections back to a local church with a pastor who, he's been told, "discouraged people from protecting themselves" with vaccinations, masks and social distancing.
"Different people who are connected with that church have explained, they have shared with me, that that pastor used this disease as a way to test people's faith in the Lord."
That also makes him angry.
"For people to say, 'Oh, you shouldn't get angry' … we all have a right to be scared, and we damn sure have a right to be angry.
"Vaccines are free. Vaccines are not 'poison.' … You need to go get vaccinated, because if you don't, you just might be living the nightmare that I'm living right now."
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