Who knew “Following the Science™” could be so much fun?
28 November 2022
Since former Prime Minister Scott Morrison first launched Australia’s emergency response plan to COVID-19 back in February 2020, we have been reassured that our public health officers are “Following the Science™” to formulate policies for our protection.
But with a patchwork of wildly diverging policies in place across our States and Territories, it’s fair to ask,
What science are they following?????
Let’s take COVID-19 “vaccine” mandates for healthcare workers as an example of the Byzantine complexity and thorough irrationality of these policies.
If you work in the healthcare, aged care or disability sector in the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory or Tasmania, you’re not mandated to have received a COVID-19 injection. The NT revoked its mandates for workers in all three sectors on 22 April 2022, and Tasmania on 1 July 2022. The ACT scrapped mandates for healthcare workers on 13 May 2022, and for disability and aged care workers on 30 September 2022.
If you’re a healthcare worker employed by NSW Health, you need to have had “at least two doses” of a COVID-19 injection, except if you’re a student or you provide health services in a disability or aged care setting, in which case you must have three doses. All disability and aged care workers are mandated to have three doses… except there’s an exemption in place for the third shot until 4 December 2022, if the worker is considered “essential to the operation of a residential aged care facility or the provision of services to people with a disability or people receiving in-home and community aged care services”.
In Queensland, all healthcare workers employed by Queensland Health (including administration and support staff, but not including paramedics), and all workers at residential aged care facilities and shared disability accommodation service facilities, are required to have had 3 doses of a COVID-19 injection.
In South Australia, all health workers employed in public and private hospitals and the ambulance service, and all aged care and disability support workers (including people who provide in-home aged care and disability services) are required to have 3 COVID-19 injections.
In Victoria, any worker employed in a public, denominational or private hospital, or a public sector residential aged care facility, day procedure centres or the ambulance service, is still mandated to be “up to date” with their COVID-19 shots… but not workers in private aged care facilities or those providing in-home aged care or disability support.
And likewise, in Western Australia, healthcare and health support workers in hospitals and primary health care settings, workers in residential aged care facilities, and disability support accommodation workers who are aged over 16 years must be triple-dosed, while workers providing support to individuals in a private residential (home) setting are not subject to the mandatory injection requirements.
If the Chief Health Officers who came up with these wildly disparate policies are all “Following The Science”, “The Science” clearly has multiple personality disorder.
Let’s follow the logic of these contradictory mandates to its twisted conclusion: Your risk of contracting COVID-19 from a healthcare, aged care or disability support worker depends not only on what State or Territory you live in, but also whether you’re being treated or cared for at home or in a public or private setting, and also on whether or not the facility has a staffing shortage.
As laughable as that is, the South Australian CHO’s justification for triple jab mandates across the entire sector is even more ludicrous. The stated purposes of these mandates include to “minimise the disruption to those services due to the spread of COVID-19 amongst healthcare setting workers” and to “reduce the risk of the spread of COVID-19 by healthcare setting workers to patients”.
Given the rapidly accumulating evidence that COVID-19 injections offer negligible (if any) protection against infection, and may even be increasing the risk of reinfection due to immune imprinting, and the recent public admission by Pfizer executive Janine Small that their COVID-19 shot was never tested to see if it reduced transmission…
… (and nor were any of the others), not to mention the fact that 35 per cent of healthcare workers had to take sick leave after getting a COVID jab, and that “both the absolute sick days and the rate of HCWs [healthcare workers] on sick leave significantly increased with each subsequent vaccination”, there is no longer any plausible justification for any mandates to remain in place – if there ever was.
And at long last, the courts are starting to rule in favour of workers who were dismissed because they did not want to take an experimental injection with no long-term safety data and no community benefit. State-employed train drivers and teachers are among the beneficiaries of these judicial decisions.
It’s been an enormous source of frustration for me, and my ex-lawyer husband, that so few Australian lawyers stood up against COVID tyranny from the outset (kudos to Serene Teffaha, Tony Nikolic, Peter Fam, Ray Broomhall and the other brave ones who did). I anticipate that many lawyer-sharks will jump into the water now that the first few drops of blood have been spilled, so if you’re a healthcare, aged care or disability worker who was affected by the COVID-19 injection mandates, you might want to think about getting legal advice and/or joining a union which supports your right to choose which medical treatments you accept.
And methinks the grubberment apparatchiks who imposed absurd and non-evidence-based mandates on Australia’s healthcare workers should be heeding The Cruel Sea’s sage advice:
For up-to-date information on workplace mandates in Australia, visit The Mandate Update Project.
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