TUCSON, Ariz.—More than 1,000 handwritten signatures filled nearly every inch of the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) tour bus on a scheduled visit in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 26.
On the passenger side of the black 43-foot bus was the number 622, written in white marker near a wheel well, with the name “Joey,” who died by “Covid hospital protocol.”
Beneath Joey’s brief epitaph, Dawn Sinsko (955) developed a “most rare cancer” after taking the “Moderna COVID-19” shot, the entry reads.
Linda Cain (339) suffered heart issues and then a heart attack on the same day after her second shot.
As the names continue to expand in number, the brief stories underlying them all have a familiar, tragic ring.
These people were injured or died following the COVID-19 vaccine or hospital intervention, according to the CHD.
On Aug. 25, 2023, the CHD launched the “Vax-Unvax: The People’s Study” bus tour in Olathe, Kansas. Its mission is to gather stories of those harmed by medical protocols for COVID-19, whether vaccinated or not.
“The tour aims to provide a platform for the injured and survivors of loved ones who died—from parents and family members of the elderly to U.S. service members and veterans to the unvaccinated and others,” according to the CHD website.
The bus tour coincides with the Aug. 29, 2023, release of the new CHD book, “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak.”
The book is a compilation of more than 100 studies of vaccinated and unvaccinated people comparing health outcomes in both populations.
Leading the tour crew is Polly Tommey, director of programming for the organization’s CHD-TV.
Mrs. Tommey estimates she’s heard and documented more than 700 stories from people since the bus tour began six months ago.
“I have faith, so I pray. That helps me enormously” in dealing with the emotional impact of doing interviews, Mrs. Tommey told The Epoch Times.
“I also have a wonderful family and husband who support what I do. My son is traveling with me as well. I’m just not afraid. I don’t need to decompress because it spurs me on.”
The CHD is a nonprofit organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2018. Its stated goal is to end childhood health epidemics by working to eliminate harmful exposures to them.
On Dec. 13, 2021, Cheryl Baker of Arizona said she lost her husband, Tim, to hospital protocols at the height of the pandemic after being admitted for seven days while experiencing severe respiratory issues.
Tim didn’t believe in vaccines, she said during her video interview with Mrs. Tommey. He thought the COVID-19 vaccine “wasn’t right from the very beginning.”
“We weren’t buying into all the propaganda,” Mrs. Baker said. “He barely took Tylenol. He didn’t like hospitals.”
Both had contracted COVID-19 at one point, she said, but when her husband’s heart rate skyrocketed to 180 beats per minute, he went into the hospital.
She said hospital protocol prevented her from seeing her husband at first. That was until Mrs. Baker “bribed” the nurses on staff with two dozen donuts so that she could visit him.
Eventually, and against her husband’s wishes, he went on a ventilator, and from that point on, his condition only grew worse.
“It was like he was in prison,” Mrs. Baker said through tears of grief. “They wouldn’t let me take him anything to drink.”
“We could see him through the window. It was like he was in a zoo or something, looking at him, watching us. There was no telling what he was thinking.”
The doctors rejected her suggestion to give her husband vitamin C and zinc to boost his immunity. A medical discharge was out of the question, she said.
Like so many other people had done during the pandemic, “We trusted what was going on at the hospital,” Mrs. Baker said.
In many ways, she believes the medical profession betrayed that trust throughout the pandemic. Many hospitals instituted medical protocols that included the use of ventilators and the drug remdesivir despite its known serious side effects.
“I don’t think we understand the amount of evil behind any of this,” she said. “If you’re a good person, you can’t comprehend what’s taking place—hell, I don’t even [understand it], and I went through this. It’s hard to wrap your brain around it.”
On a Sunday night, Mrs. Baker received a phone call from the hospital saying that her husband’s oxygen level was critically low and to come quickly.
She described her husband’s last moments as if he were “drowning,” wanting to stand up against the staff members’ efforts to restrain him.
“For four hours, we watched,” before Tim, 48, passed away, she said.
“Two years later, it’s still just as hard. After two years, it still doesn’t seem real. It’s just not right. I can’t believe we’re living in this. We’re the United States, not a third-world country,” Mrs. Baker said.
Sharon Lyden of Sun City, Arizona, told The Epoch Times that she lost a neighbor and friend following two COVID-19 vaccinations.
He was due for his third.
One day, she noticed her neighbor was spending less time in his garage than he usually would.
She told her husband to investigate and to see if he was alright. The man told her husband he was feeling short of breath.
The man died on Mother’s Day, the cause of death listed as cardiac related, Mrs. Lyden said.
John Pierard of Idaho said he was in Tucson to show his support for the CHD tour bus, having listened to so many similar tales of injury as an airport shuttle bus company owner and driver.
“I heard endless stories the last three years—people who were injured,” Mr. Pierard told The Epoch Times.
“One lady had a five-and-a-half hour heart surgery because [the vaccine] destroyed the valve in her heart. That’s what the doctors told her. They told her not to get any more; she had two. Her husband had two. They told him not to get any more.”
Another woman was “itching from head to toe” after taking the vaccine—“enough to drive you mad,” he said. “I heard dozens of stories. I drove probably 500 people a month.”
“Anything that brings awareness” to the dangers of mRNA injections and harmful medical protocols is a good thing, Mr. Pierard added.
“You have to be your advocate. You have to push back and ask questions,” said Kate of New Jersey during her interview with Mrs. Tommey on Feb. 26.
“It’s your body. You’re the one that’s going to suffer for the rest of your life if something goes wrong because you didn’t ask the right questions of your doctor.”
For Emily, a nurse practitioner and mother, asking questions is the key to informed medical consent and good public health.
She asked, “How do we know [mRNA] is safe? How were they made? How do they truly work in our bodies at the cellular level?”
Lisa von Geldern of Tucson said her double pneumonia became a diagnosis of “COVID lung” after two emergency rooms rejected her for being unvaccinated.
The third hospital admitted her. During her stay, she asked one doctor about taking Ivermectin as an alternative treatment.
“He told me no, it was not proven,” Mrs. Von Geldern said during her video interview with CHD. “I was too weak to argue with him.”
One nurse threatened to have her intubated if she kept removing her high-flow oxygen mask, Mrs. Von Geldern said.
“I woke up enough to say, ‘Do your job.”
Frustrated by hospital protocols, Mrs. Von Geldern, 59, said her husband snuck in Ivermectin wrapped in aluminum foil in a bag with her coffee.
She began taking the antiviral drug without her doctor’s knowledge and started feeling better almost immediately.
“After three days, the doctor, who wouldn’t give me Ivermectin, came in and said, ‘Young lady, you’re a miracle. If this keeps up, you’ll be able to go home.”
Two days later, the hospital sent her home. However, she now suffers from lingering aftereffects of what she believes were from the hospital’s protocols.
“Long Covid is what they’re calling it,” said Mrs. Von Geldern, who has difficulty forming new memories, shortness of breath, and just “keeping track of things.”
“It’s been over two years since I got out of the hospital [but] for the first eight months, it was like crawling through broken glass.”
She’s afraid to go on long walks alone.
“What if I can’t get back?” Mrs. Von Geldern said. “I am damaged.”
Mrs. Von Geldern believes she wouldn’t be alive today if she hadn’t taken Ivermectin.
Mrs. Tommey said some stories of injury are more challenging to hear than others.
“When you know the pain, when you’ve lived through it yourself, that helps you go on because you can feel the pain from the other human being,” she said.
Inside the tour bus, photographs of people who died following the vaccine or hospital interventions cover the walls.
Like the signatures on the sides of the bus, the number of pictures will continue to grow with each new story, she said.
“As I hear more stories, and the death pictures go up, I look at those pictures, and we’re going to continue. These people should not have died,” Mrs. Tommey said.
