Faith, Memory and Resistance: The CHD Bus Comes to Philadelphia
The CHD bus landed Wednesday morning at the Church on the Mall in Plymouth Meeting, just outside of Philadelphia. The day’s weather was perfect, and the location was very comfortable. However, it soon became apparent that the Plymouth Meeting Mall’s owner, PREIT was incredibly frightened by the CHD Bus and its shine of light on the unspeakable, the stories of people’s lives shattered by vaccine injury and death.
A representative of PREIT management told PA CHD that their company could not host anything political on their property. PA CHD had made calls to PREIT on several occasions prior to the event to discuss our plans, but the calls were never returned. A contract with the church, which PA CHD has booked on numerous occasions, okayed our plans and gave us clearance to park the CHD Bus.
When it was explained that Children’s Health Defense is a 501(c)3 registered organization that is prohibited from participating in politics, the representative then said “We can’t be associated with anything “anti-vax”. PA CHD corrected PREIT’s representative and told her that CHD is a public health advocacy organization devoted to promoting informed consent and acknowledging the harms that are present with any administration of medicine, particularly in children. Security was soon called.
While the futile negotiations were occurring, CHD supporters Sharon and Scott Rankin, who were on site to greet the arrival of the bus, generously offered their property as an alternate site. Just as the CHD Bus was about to depart for their home, about 6 miles away, Diane Soucy of PA CHD came through with booking a parking lot and conference room at a hotel across the street from the mall.
The amazing CHD Bus crew never broke a sweat or missed a stride throughout this confusing ordeal. They began interviewing the six members of the Gallingani family while still parked in front of the church on the mall.
At the new location, volunteer Jay Soucy made quick work of setting up the conference room with the audio/visual support he had provided PA CHD for our speakers’ presentations. Dr. Gordon Donaldson, a family practice specialist from Elverson, spoke first on a variety of topics related to COVID-19, the military countermeasures, and the subject of Ivermectin. A much-anticipated presentation by Dr. Nancy Tarlow had to be canceled due to a family emergency.
PA CHD’s Angela Walker spoke on the resilience of the human body and the use of homeopathic remedies to maintain balance in one’s health. The second session of speakers began with Dr. Irene Mavrakakis, who also gave an interview with Polly Tommey to discuss her struggles with anaphylaxis that developed after a flu shot. Dr. “Mav” discussed how she was given informed consent, which warned people with latex sensitivity, but it was just after the nurse administered the vaccine.
After this experience, she became not just very hyperallergic to latex but to every type of food, accepting a short list that reduced her diet to just twenty foods that she could eat without triggering a life threatening anaphylaxis. Dr. Mavrakakis works with a neurologist that specializes in vaccine injury.
Andre Cherry, a former college student at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, spoke next about his injury from the Moderna shots. After speaking briefly about how the devastating neurological injury rapidly spread throughout his body and the care he is receiving from Dr. Pierre Kory Andre, he said he wanted to speak more directly about how his faith had given him strength and perseverance. Andre recited several passages from scripture that so moved the audience that one person asked if he was considering becoming a pastor.
Andre’s story was profiled in the Defender last Spring.
Next to speak were Daniel Rodríguez and Bethzaida Garcia about the tragic hospitalization and death of their sister and mother of Isaiah Rivas, endured following the administration of the Pfizer shot. The intensely emotional testimony that recounted the illness that quickly ensued following her injection, the six weeks of decline, and ultimately her passing due to reckless hospital protocols, which included the use of Remdesivir, significantly moved the audience.
This family lost their cherished sister and Isaiah his mother, and it was recently discovered that the hospital made a windfall of $2 million in revenue from her so-called care.
This late afternoon testimony was incredibly motivational. These families are not content with just relaying their stories. Armed with the strength their faith has given them, they will not rest until justice is restored in the medical community and the government, which gives cover to these crimes. To view all the CHD Bus interviews made on Wednesday, go to this link.
