Akash Sama­roo

A group that claims to rep­re­sent the voic­es of “thou­sands of Chris­tians” is call­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter to not on­ly with­draw his pub­lic ser­vice vac­ci­na­tion pol­i­cy but to al­so de­sist from en­cour­ag­ing peo­ple to be­come vac­ci­nat­ed.

TT Re­sponse said dur­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s last press con­fer­ence on Jan­u­ary 15, he stat­ed that the re­li­gious bod­ies are in sup­port of his vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve.

“But I have a doc­u­ment here that con­tra­dicts that state­ment,” said Apos­tle Dr Vic­tor Gill, who added: “Be­cause the Evan­gel­i­cal Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go made it clear that they are not in sup­port of manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tions and the so-called safe zones.”

In fact, the group made up of Pas­tors used very strong lan­guage to de­scribe how they feel about the pol­i­cy, which they called a de­c­la­ra­tion of war on the work­ing class.

“This lat­est pro­posed ac­tion is evil, it is wicked, sa­tan­ic, dev­il­ish, harsh and op­pres­sive,” said Pas­tor Lennox Grant.

Grant said while the Prime Min­is­ter may feel as if he’s do­ing the right thing to save lives, his pub­lic ser­vice pol­i­cy will on­ly cre­ate pover­ty and hard­ship for those who refuse to take what he is call­ing the “killer in­jec­tions.”

“The Prime Min­is­ter is in­di­rect­ly threat­en­ing to throw pub­lic ser­vants and their fam­i­lies out in the streets where they are to be­come a new class of va­grants,” he said.

TT Re­sponse says it is not an­ti-vac­ci­na­tion but in the same press con­fer­ence de­scribed it as poi­son that does not work.

“When the vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve be­gan, we had just over 7 thou­sand COVID-19 cas­es, from that time to now with mass vac­ci­na­tion in less than one year we jumped from 7 thou­sand to 102,942 cas­es, this tells us two things, it is ei­ther the vac­cine is not work­ing or the vac­cine is the prob­lem and we need to stop mass vac­ci­na­tion now,” said Gill.

The group used Kenya as an ex­am­ple of a coun­try with a low vac­ci­na­tion rate that is al­so see­ing less deaths than this coun­try.

How­ev­er, when they were told by a mem­ber of the me­dia that sta­tis­tics in Trinidad and To­ba­go show that the un­vac­ci­nat­ed pop­u­la­tion make up the ma­jor­i­ty of COVID-19 deaths, the group said that was an anom­aly.

“Trinidad seems to be the on­ly coun­try where the pre­dom­i­nance of death seems to be in the un­vac­ci­nat­ed and not the vac­ci­nat­ed, in most oth­er na­tions the pre­dom­i­nance of deaths is with the vac­ci­nat­ed.”

How­ev­er, ac­cord­ing to re­search done by the Kaiser Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, it showed that in No­vem­ber 33,000 peo­ple died from COVID-19, 29,100 were un­vac­ci­nat­ed.