Collected Item: “Steve Ramsey Oral History, 2022/07/16”
Title
Steve Ramsey
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Steve Ramsey
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#2Amendment, #Alberta, #AntiAsianracism, #Canada, #capitalism, #CERB, #China, #clinics, #colonialism, #communism, #diabetes, #fear, #God, #HIV, #immigration, #inflation, #Iran, #Iraq, #IraqiCanadian, #marriage, #media, #mixedrace, #Moderna, #race, #racism, #religion, #Trump, #vaccination, #work, #Zika
What is the format of your recording?
Audio
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Canada, Alberta, Grande Prairie
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
male
What is the age of the interviewee?
65 to 74
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
mixed race
Describe the oral history.
Some of the issues we discussed include:
Losing work in healthcare at the beginning of the pandemic; bars staying open when clinics were closed.
CERB not compensating for those with higher incomes pre-pandemic.
Breaking a mortgage, moving from Calgary to Grande Prairie during the pandemic.
Medical professionals respecting patients’ COVID-masking boundaries.
COVID-19 as a possible chemical/biological warfare retaliation against Trump tariffs on China.
Historical examples of chemical warfare and colonial diseases provoking distress and vaccine resistance.
Distrust of capitalist and communist governments; medical policies emerging before there is sufficient scientific data.
Trump protecting the American economy and dismissing science; Trudeau trusting science and abandoning the Canadian economy.
Reactionary anti-Asian racism, coming to terms with prejudice, and slowly mending friendships and earning back trust.
Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Health Officer in Canada.
Being manipulated by the media and fake news.
Comparisons between fear of COVID-19 transmission to healthcare workers and the fear of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s.
Having experienced severe respiratory illness in 2019; retrospective chest x-rays examinations.
Fear of COVID and adverse vaccination effects when living with cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes; deciding to get vaccinated.
Natural remedies for the immune system: turmeric and ginger.
Growing up in Iraq and the impact of the Iran-Iraq war; having family members killed by Iranians and enduring anger against Iranians; the American war in Iraq.
Worrying about family overseas, sending money and support back to people who have comparatively access to nothing.
Mixing science and religion; God protecting humanity.
Fire and disease occurring for a reason: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; fear of God’s wrath; plagues and diseases as the soldiers of God.
God and population control; capitalist benefiting from more laboring poor.
Studying histories’ losers.
Colonialism and a creation of fanatics: murders of Indigenous peoples in the Americas; Holland and Belgium and the maiming of Africans; France mining in Mali; England in India; Israel and Hamas; American made terrorists in the Middle East.
Biden’s July 2022 travels to Saudi Arabia.
Anxiety’s impact on the immune system.
Hate living in DNA.
Cultural references: UNICEF, Iran-Iraq War, King Faisal, BBC, CBC, Fox News, Quebec’s Bill 21 (banning wearing of the hijab in government employees)
See also:
https://www.moleopedia.com
Steve Ramsey requested that I include the following additions to the annotations: " We can add the losing of trust between most people with Who. UN. USA disease control.
Bidding agenda of population control and the idea of government trying to reduce population by using drugs. Viruses cigarettes alcohol sugar etc to kill more people No remedies gor those who lost business. File for bankruptcy. And lost money during China virus. And the issue of China paying billions to health science research as they are the one who brought the disease. Hover
Don’t should be liable. To pay all the money that we lost in a massive group law suit as they did not close the border on time The issue of increased. Stress. Anxiety depression and anger issue. That cause hard ship divorce and criminal activities that was due to the China virus. Snd the government incompetence to deal with the issue at the start and the issue of the new variants and it’s effect on our life with solid data."
Losing work in healthcare at the beginning of the pandemic; bars staying open when clinics were closed.
CERB not compensating for those with higher incomes pre-pandemic.
Breaking a mortgage, moving from Calgary to Grande Prairie during the pandemic.
Medical professionals respecting patients’ COVID-masking boundaries.
COVID-19 as a possible chemical/biological warfare retaliation against Trump tariffs on China.
Historical examples of chemical warfare and colonial diseases provoking distress and vaccine resistance.
Distrust of capitalist and communist governments; medical policies emerging before there is sufficient scientific data.
Trump protecting the American economy and dismissing science; Trudeau trusting science and abandoning the Canadian economy.
Reactionary anti-Asian racism, coming to terms with prejudice, and slowly mending friendships and earning back trust.
Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Health Officer in Canada.
Being manipulated by the media and fake news.
Comparisons between fear of COVID-19 transmission to healthcare workers and the fear of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s.
Having experienced severe respiratory illness in 2019; retrospective chest x-rays examinations.
Fear of COVID and adverse vaccination effects when living with cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes; deciding to get vaccinated.
Natural remedies for the immune system: turmeric and ginger.
Growing up in Iraq and the impact of the Iran-Iraq war; having family members killed by Iranians and enduring anger against Iranians; the American war in Iraq.
Worrying about family overseas, sending money and support back to people who have comparatively access to nothing.
Mixing science and religion; God protecting humanity.
Fire and disease occurring for a reason: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; fear of God’s wrath; plagues and diseases as the soldiers of God.
God and population control; capitalist benefiting from more laboring poor.
Studying histories’ losers.
Colonialism and a creation of fanatics: murders of Indigenous peoples in the Americas; Holland and Belgium and the maiming of Africans; France mining in Mali; England in India; Israel and Hamas; American made terrorists in the Middle East.
Biden’s July 2022 travels to Saudi Arabia.
Anxiety’s impact on the immune system.
Hate living in DNA.
Cultural references: UNICEF, Iran-Iraq War, King Faisal, BBC, CBC, Fox News, Quebec’s Bill 21 (banning wearing of the hijab in government employees)
See also:
https://www.moleopedia.com
Steve Ramsey requested that I include the following additions to the annotations: " We can add the losing of trust between most people with Who. UN. USA disease control.
Bidding agenda of population control and the idea of government trying to reduce population by using drugs. Viruses cigarettes alcohol sugar etc to kill more people No remedies gor those who lost business. File for bankruptcy. And lost money during China virus. And the issue of China paying billions to health science research as they are the one who brought the disease. Hover
Don’t should be liable. To pay all the money that we lost in a massive group law suit as they did not close the border on time The issue of increased. Stress. Anxiety depression and anger issue. That cause hard ship divorce and criminal activities that was due to the China virus. Snd the government incompetence to deal with the issue at the start and the issue of the new variants and it’s effect on our life with solid data."
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-07-16T04