How disagreements about COVID-19 have driven families, friends apart – CBC

‘I don’t get to talk to my baby brother anymore,’ says Sask. woman

Feb 13, 2022

As Kristin Quinney cradled the body of the son she had lost to a miscarriage, her pain was magnified by the knowledge that she couldn’t tell her family.

“I didn’t think I could take hearing that I killed my child by getting vaccinated, which is what I thought that they would say,” the 38-year-old from Martensville, Sask., said through tears.

By that time in September 2021, her relationships with her mother and especially her brother had already been estranged by the pandemic, particularly vaccination, Quinney said.

“I was really, really scared about their reactions and what they would say to me. I couldn’t handle [it]. I mean, you’re already feeling gutted.”

Quinney, who already has two daughters, doesn’t believe the COVID-19 vaccines had anything to do with her losing her son. She said miscarriages have been around throughout human history.

“But we don’t talk about it very much.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/relationships-covid-19-saskatchewan-1.6347569