Tara Vreugdenhil
Tara Vreugdenhil is a speech-language pathologist who lives and works in the Hamilton area.
Bio last updated September 8th, 2021.
Articles by Tara Vreugdenhil
Pushing Back Against Vaccine Bullying
By Tara Vreugdenhil
September 8, 2021
In the second of two parts, Tara Vreugdenhil writes that regardless of pure intentions, many methods used in the pandemic response are classic harassment tactics.
Why does COVID get special status as the medical condition for which the government (or even private companies) get to dictate individual response? The question is particularly important when the response is not required to guarantee one’s health or ensure the health of others? What are the grounds for this infringement on the freedom to choose related to the shot when the spread of the illness is in no way related to whether you have it or not? But what evidence supports requiring others to take the shot if they don’t want it? Let each decide for himself and do not continue to restrict freedoms across the board on the excuse that some still need to get the shot To coerce people into getting the shot would be a major step and create precedent to even more substantial government interference on health-related decisions That being the case, why is there now a call to dictate to all people that they must get the shot as though there is imminent danger to society if they don’t get it? That danger was arguably here 6 and 12 months ago
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A COVID Shot in the Dark
Tara Vreugdenhil
September 7, 2021
In this first of two parts, Tara Vreugdenhil argues the pandemic response has unleashed a contagion of fuzzy language, shifting definitions, and logic that doesn’t follow.
There is a presumption that those without the shot put everyone else at risk, but where is the evidence for this? What is the effect on people with the shot if those without it are in their vicinity? Since both those with and without the shot can spread COVID, and the most effective means to prevent...
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HELP to Redefine MAiD
Tara Vreugdenhil
March 8, 2021
Speech-language pathologist Tara Vreugdenhil breaks down the definitions that make up medical assistance in dying and determines it’s really homicide masquerading as health care.
By these definitions, MAiD is meant to be a practice of medicine which provides medical treatment to help someone bring life to a close Investments in those programs would prevent much of the demand for MAiD requests by providing actual medical treatment which has the intention to end or reduce suff...
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Our COVID Reality Check
Tara Vreugdenhil
January 29, 2021
Western “realities” of freedom, prosperity and individualism have been shattered by the pandemic, clearing the way for a profound spiritual opening of hearts, Tara Vreugdenhil writes.
Regardless of the trials this broken world puts on us and the atrocities man will commit against each other, we believe God will reign and all repentant people can lift their eyes to Jesus in pleas for help and salvation ...