Elite Swimmer Coerced Into Pfizer Shot Amid Job and Family Pressure

Day 4 · 2:48:13 · Glen Motz · Nicole Sedore

• 🏊 Nicole Sedore, 45, was an elite Masters swimmer and runner on no medications before the April 2021 Pfizer shot.
• 📧 Job-loss emails and Stollery doctors warning her ill son would die if unvaccinated made her feel like a horrible mother.
• 🏠 As sole breadwinner for two immunocompromised household members and young sons, she needed the Odyssey House job to keep a roof overhead.

Healthy elite athlete describes coercion into first Pfizer dose.

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Transcript

Glen Motz · 2:48:13

You were working as a community support worker. This was a time job. Health-wise, you were like an avid swimmer. I didn't pick the photo, but you sent me a photo which is really a trophy case of swimming trophies where you had won swimming competitions. You said, I was with the Masters Swimming Club. So you were an elite swimmer and you were still swimming and you were an avid runner. You're on no medications, no preexisting things. You're an extremely healthy young woman. At the time of age 45. And then on April 23rd, 2020, you took the Pfizer shot. Actually, 21. Sorry, we spoke earlier about that. Can you share with me what had happened after that?

Nicole Sedore · 2:49:01

Yeah.

Nicole Sedore · 2:49:01

So I'm just going to say my son's names because I want them on the record.

Glen Motz · 2:49:07

Oh, please.

Nicole Sedore · 2:49:08

Yeah. So my oldest boy at the time was 13, and he was also very ill at the time. Um, he had been left in the hospital with a ruptured appendix for almost 3 days, and he almost died. So he was very, very, very sick at the time. My partner, who was deceased a year and 2 days, um, he was very sick. And so I was working at the Odyssey House, so I had 2 children, 2 people in my home that were immune compromised, and then I had a little one Lincoln Speed, which I want him on the record as well. He was 6 at the time. So the emails started coming that I was going to lose my job if I did not take the vaccine. I also had my son's doctors from the Stollery Hospital in Edmonton calling me and basically telling me if I did not vaccinate my son, he would die if he got COVID. And I was made to feel like I was a horrible mother if I did not take this vaccine. So, and I needed my job.

Nicole Sedore · 2:50:09

I was the breadwinner, um, and I was barely keeping a roof over our head. And, you know, I've been working since I was 12. I love working. I love my job. So within a couple days after my first vaccine, my hand, this hand blew up.