Thor Hart Sworn: GM Ultimatum Ends Bodybuilding Career¶
Day 2 · 3:17:49 · Shawn Buckley · Thor Hart · Jasmeet Grewal
- 📜 Hart is sworn; counsel stresses he never had COVID and was a 55-year-old GM group leader, father of four and five-day-a-week bodybuilder.
- 💪 Weeks earlier he was incline-benching 150-lb dumbbells and training his sons; he also held senior kung-fu rank.
- 📄 A General Motors terminate-or-vaccinate letter forced his first Pfizer dose in November 2021.
Introduction of formerly elite-fit witness coerced by employer mandate.
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Transcript¶
Shawn Buckley · 3:17:49
Sorry, our next witness is Thor Hart. Um, Thor, will you take the— can somebody hand him the Bible? Thor, will you take the Bible in your right hand?
Thor Hart · 3:18:01
Uh, yes.
Shawn Buckley · 3:18:02
Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Okay, so Thor Hart, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Thor Hart · 3:18:10
Yes, I do.
Shawn Buckley · 3:18:13
Um, I interviewed you before and you made it clear to me that you didn't have COVID. So when you describe getting injured, I think that's important for people to know. Um, I just want to introduce you. So you're 55 years old. Yes. Um, you have four children. You were a group leader at General Motors.
Jasmeet Grewal · 3:18:34
Yes.
Shawn Buckley · 3:18:35
And prior to being vaccinated, you were a physically active bodybuilder. You shared you actually went to the gym 5 days a week. Yes. Like you were committed. You had done kung fu since you were 14 and you were still doing it weekly.
Jasmeet Grewal · 3:18:53
Yes.
Shawn Buckley · 3:18:53
Very senior in that discipline. You had no prior health issues. And in fact, you were training to be in a strongman competition.
Jasmeet Grewal · 3:19:02
Yes.
Shawn Buckley · 3:19:03
So I just share that so that everyone understands that you were an incredibly fit and active man before the vaccination.
Thor Hart · 3:19:12
Yes, actually, um, just a couple weeks before I was vaccinated, I was actually just starting to train both of my sons in the gym. And it was actually kind of funny because the gym I was in, I wasn't sure if they had heavy enough weights for me. Um, I was lifting 150-pound dumbbells, doing reps of 10 to 12 with them for incline bench press, like 4 or 5 plates aside for squatting. Um, yeah, my sons were impressed, people. And it was just, I was trying to get my sons— and this is the experience that I wanted to pass on to, to my family. And in fact, I have 2 daughters, and they were excited at the time, and they were thinking, okay, when can Dad come train us in the gym as well? And I was also training them in martial arts at home. Um, and then the vaccine happened, and what, what happened there was, um, I was hesitant to take it only because I was watching what was going on and everything just seemed to be so politicized, and you couldn't ask any questions about it.
Thor Hart · 3:20:15
So me being health conscious, I want to know whatever I'm putting in my body, whether it be nutrition, whatever, especially if I'm going to inject something, I just want to ask questions about it. The fact that everything was sort of, no, no, no, no, you can't talk about this, you can't ask questions about this, that actually made me hesitant to want to take it up until General Motors sent me a letter saying, take, get vaccinated or you will be terminated. At that point there, I had until December 12th 2021, that was the date they gave me to be vaccinated by. So I, in November, I had, I went for my first Pfizer vaccine and I had the usual reaction. It was an immediate reaction of a couple of days where I had body aches that I wasn't accustomed to, but they did go away. So I sort of counted myself lucky and thought, okay, well, maybe there was nothing to fear here. Have no issues.