Former PPC candidate Mark Friesen posted to Ont. Hospital With COVID-19, Supporters Say | The Canadian News

Former Saskatoon PPC candidate and well-known critic of COVID-19 restrictions, Mark Friesen, is in a Toronto hospital with COVID-19, one of his supporters said in a video.

The video is titled “How Long Will Canada Remain Tame?” and was posted on the Rumble video platform. In it, supporter Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson shared details about Friesen’s condition.

“Many of you are following what is happening with Mark Friesen. I love this man, ”Tyler Thompson tells his viewers. “Many of you know, Mark has COVID, he’s actually intubated right now.”

Earlier this week it came to light that Friesen had pneumonia and was flown to Ontario, according to a different video posted by a supporter.

In that video posted on October 21, Tamara Lavoie says that she has been in the hospital for three weeks. He adds that he was in the ICU in Saskatoon and was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on October 20.

Lavoie and her guest, former PPC candidate Jody Craven, did not mention COVID-19 in the video.

On Friday, Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency Chairman Marlo Pritchard said the province’s current focus is moving COVID-19 patients to Ontario, rather than non-COVID-19 patients.

The provincial government covers the estimated cost of $ 20,000.

The Tyler Thompson video on October 23 features an interview with Sean Taylor, a former federal candidate for the BC PPC who claims to be with Friesen at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Friesen has not spoken publicly and is not seen in any Global News-reviewed video posted on social media referring to his illness. His family members have also not been seen or heard in the social media videos.

Taylor claims to be a former nurse who was fired, but does not specify why she was fired.

In the video, Taylor is dressed in PPE and mentioned that he is not “double vaccinated” and that he was not allowed to stay in an unidentified hotel.

Global News reached out to Mount Sinai Hospital to ask what their visiting rules are for people who are not fully vaccinated, but no response was provided prior to publication.

Global News has reached out to various members of Friesen’s family for weeks to get an update on his health, but no one has responded.

“Well, he’s sick, right?” He’s in a fight, but I’m hopeful, ”Taylor says of Friesen’s condition in the video.

Taylor also shared his views on Toronto, a city that has been kept under strict public health measures, such as the establishment of restrictions and masking mandates since the beginning of the pandemic.

“When I got off the plane yesterday and started traveling around Toronto, it’s a sci-fi horror movie here,” Taylor said.

“Just the virus of the mind here, as if everyone was masked and wearing face shields and eye protectors, and they are pretty intense with things here,” Taylor added.

Tyler Thompson and Taylor also discuss how they claim that Friesen was treated at the hospital.

“We had excellent care in Saskatoon, it was not everyone, but the meanness with a lot of the staff and just the total absence of empathy these days,” Taylor said.

Friesen has been a prominent critic of public health measures related to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. He has appeared and spoken at rallies across the province and posted his views on social media pages.

He attended a protest against the vaccination test policies in front of the City Hospital in Saskatoon before the federal election on September 20.

As of Sunday, a total of eight patients have been transferred to Ontario as Saskatchewan continues to fight the fourth wave of the pandemic.

The province currently has the second highest rate of active COVID-19 cases in the entire country.

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