Southern Manitoba doctors encounter threatening, unsettling behaviour as mandatory vaccine deadlines loom
CBC
A southern Manitoba doctor filed a police report a couple weeks ago after finding a disconcerting hand-written letter dropped off at his home in the Winkler area.
Its author accused him of pushing the COVID-19 vaccine on patients.
Along with the letter was a kind of tabloid newspaper that contained misinformation suggesting the vaccination campaign was a plot by elites to depopulate the Earth, claiming the immunized were likely to die within a few years.
"It was just filled with ludicrous conspiracy theories," said the doctor, whom CBC News isn't naming because he fears he could become more of a target.
"They've chosen to drop this off, not at the hospital or the clinic, not mail it, but hand deliver it to my home, which they sought out somehow.… I think there was clearly a threat implied."
What the Winkler-based family physician and emergency room doctor experienced is part of an emerging pattern of privacy violations and forms of threatening behaviour amid looming mandatory vaccine deadlines this fall.
Some also have to contend with phony exemptions.