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Collected Item: “Eve Poythress Oral History, 2023/04/16”

Title

Eve Poythress

Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.

Kit Heintzman

Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.

Eve Poythress

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?

#Atlanta, #COVID+, #Georgia, #injured, #Ivermectin, #longCOVID, #motherhood, #murder, #Pisces, #socialmedia, #supplements, #vaccination, #vaccinesyndrome, #VAERS, #vitamins, #weight

What is the format of your recording?

Video

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.

Atlanta, Georgia

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.*

she/her

What is the age of the interviewee?

45 to 54

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.*

Native American/African American/Filipino

Describe the oral history.

Some of the things we discussed included:

- Early pandemic fear and the possibility of supply chain disruption and resource scarcity.
- Making disinfectant when unable to buy it.
- Having a nephew murdered by a police officer during the pandemic.
- Having caught COVID in December 2020 at a funeral; a friend (Vicky Whitfield, a nurse) who caught it at the same event dying; long COVID.
- Treating COVID with NSAIDs, Tylenol, hydration, zinc, mullein, Vitamin D & C, and echinacea.
- Isolating from daughter while sick.
- Traveling to a military base in Albany to get vaccinated; having an adverse reaction, long term consequences, difficulty working; getting diagnosed with vaccine syndrome.
- Experimental treatments—plasma and stem cell injections—to manage vaccine syndrome; arguments with health insurance regarding treatment options; Orthovisc injections.
- Wanting greater transparency regarding vaccines.
- Joining support groups for people with vaccine syndrome and vaccine injuries; vetting vaccine injury experiences
- Filing a VAERS report.
- Different family members’ reactions to the vaccination injury.
- The difficulty of looking into one’s future when sick.
- No accountability from pharmaceutical industries.

Other cultural references: Clorox, Lysol

See also:
https://www.realnotrare.com/post/eve-poythress

On what date did you record this oral history?

2023-04-16T10:08
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