TICKED OFF: THE MYSTERY OF LYME DISEASE

On Thursday, October 10th, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki aired their episode on Lyme disease.

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/ticked-off-the-mystery-of-lyme-disease (only available for viewing inside Canada)

We have had many comments while others have offered comments at the above link.

The general consensus is that if any rational person watched Dr. Gary Wormser from the Infectious Disease Society of America slither his nonsense forward they quickly recognized this was a man with an agenda that has nothing to do with truth or the health care of people. Not one responder thought highly, even slightly, of Wormser.

For Robbin Lindsay of our National Microbiology Labs in Winnipeg to put our health care into Dr. Wormser and company’s hands (who Lindsay refers to as ‘experts south of the border’) is an insult to every thinking Canadian and it should behoove every public representative to question what is going on, directed by whom, and why?  Dr. Lindsay and Dr. Nick Ogden, also portrayed in the documentary, have been on the panels that have set the harmful policies for Lyme disease for years in Canada while denying CanLyme and our experts any voice at that policy making level to challenge their position. This door slam of outside input is not expected in a democratic nation and has certainly led us to this point of harm.

CanLyme, as a registered charitable organization is not allowed to call for a federal inquiry, so we won’t.  We will leave that up to others who may see this as a disgusting display of an agenda driven, intentional, harming of the public by manipulation of fact, outright misinformation (ie. Lyme disease carrying ticks did not only occur in Long Point Ontario… he completely ignored Dr. Banerjee’s published findings in the 1980’s and early 90’s, and ignored all of the tick submissions by people across the country including that of my brother from Port Mouton, Nova Scotia in 1991 that is on record along with many others showing that the Lyme disease ticks were everywhere). They mislead the public to believe that the Lyme disease matter has only just recently become an issue… not true… they simply chose to bury their head in the sand and bury data over the past three decades based upon the not so good advice of their ‘expert’s south of the border’.

CanLyme wants open discussion with all science on the table, our role in any guidelines or policy guaranteed, and a moratorium put on any current guidelines.  Researcher John Scott, of Ontario, who has published many papers of the spread and diversity of Lyme disease in Canada has written his response to the documentary’s producers.

Dr. Robbin Lindsay says, “the weight of current evidence does not support chronic infection.”  That is an embarrassing and dangerous position for a government employee to take in a democracy considering the volumes of research showing that clearly it is not only most plausible that chronic infection occurs after short term antibiotics, but that thousands of people are currently living proof of this if they chose to look.  This ‘don’t look, won’t find’ method is a long standing tactic of those driving the Lyme agenda in North America.  Dr. Lindsay and his ilk must be challenged but currently there is no mechanism for this in Canada so the carnage, including death, will continue until our legislators do something.

An upcoming federal private member’s bill, Bill C-442 is a beginning, and should be supported recognizing it is only the beginning of giving healthcare back to those who fund it, and who live or die by it’s openness. More than ever Bill C-442 is seen as as crucial in that it makes it imperative for government to bring patient’s and their experts into the process.