On 7 June 2022, the NSW Premier told Ben Fordham on 2GB that his Government was ending vaccine mandates in New South Wales.
Mr Perrottet said he had 'made it very clear that we are ending vaccine mandates' and had met with top bureaucrats to ask them to do so.
'They are working through those risk-based assessments and I expect them to come back to me shortly,' he said. 'I expect them to implement my direction.'
This was prompted, mind you, not by any great concern for NSW Government workers thrown out of work for not submitting to the unnecessary, unsafe and ineffective Covid 19 vaccines. Rather, it was because the embarrassment to the Government over vaccine mandates and directly related teacher shortages had become politically untenable. Even for a Government containing the Health Hazzard.
Just who is running New South Wales these days? There are a number of potential candidates that exclude our (current) Premier. And are we to take seriously the word of the Premier?
According to a NSW Government website:
Vaccine requirements update:
The Public Health (COVID-19 Vaccination of Health Care Workers) Order 2022, which required the mandatory vaccination of health care workers, ceased at the end of 19 June 2022.
For NSW Health staff, the requirement for health care workers to have at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine continues to apply beyond 19 June 2022 under a Determination and Direction made by the Secretary, NSW Health.
This is misinformation as of this week.
I wonder if Dominic Perrottet is aware that the CEO of at least one NSW Local Health District has required that staff “update” their vaccine status in order to maintain their employment. Category A health workers (see link below for definition of Category A workers) in this District have been informed that they have to get the third jab by 22 August, if already “due”, or within six weeks of becoming due (“due date” is defined as 13 weeks after the previous dose). This was announced to staff in an email from their CEO following a “policy release” of 28 July 2022. It has been confirmed in a recent staff memo. The justification for the new directive was “work health and safety”, and while the concerns of some staff about vaccination were noted, they were simply dismissed and overridden without justification other than that NSW Health had obligations under health and safety legislation (with no specific legislative reference provided) to protect its workers and patients and visitors at NSW Health facilities. Staff were informed of their obligation to comply with this directive.
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Documents/Occupational/existing_staff_kit.pdf)
The wording of the memo makes it clear that the instruction to staff is the result of a directive from head office. It isn’t simply one CEO going rogue. The Work Health and Safety legislation? That is a new one. Remember that the Premier did say that he expected “top bureaucrats” to implement his direction about ending vaccine mandates, if I understood him correctly.
Someone needs to update the web site, clearly. Perhaps the Health Hazzard might make a public statement on this. This has been done very, very quietly. Presumably Hazzard must know. Does he support his local CEO, or his Premier? One assumes the recently appointed Secretary of NSW Health, Susan Pearce, must also know and approve. We can also assume that the demand that staff receive a third shot will be replicated across the entire health system in New South Wales.
Apart from the medical apartheid and totalitarianism involved, there is also the likelihood that many NSW Health workers with due caution, common sense and consciences will simply walk away from their jobs, and leave the system. With chaos already across the economy and across NSW Government employment, this is the last thing that we need.
Of course, it (sadly) must be repeated that the international evidence is now beyond question. Vaccination does not stop transmission of Covid. Vaccination does not stop hospitalisation from Covid. Vaccination does not stop death from Covid. Period. Worse, there is evidence that the dangers from Covid actually increase with further boosters.
The latest in a long line of studies demonstrates that re-infection rates rise with the number of vaccine injections.
An earlier study was headlined as follows:
New Data From the Netherlands Reveals Link Between Higher Vaccine Uptake and Higher Mortality.
Then there was this study:
Serious Adverse Effects From Covid Vaccines “Very High, No Other Vaccine Comes Close”, Says Former CDC Vaccine Safety Committee Member.
There are dozens of similar studies. A veritable tsunami. All rigorous, many peer reviewed. From many jurisdictions. Then there is the ground truthing from insurance companies:
Large German Insurer Reports Staggering Rise in Adverse Effects from COVID-19 Vaccines.
The newly formed Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) weighs in:
… since the advent of the Delta and Omicron variants, it is highly questionable whether the vaccines are preventing transmission or illness.
https://amps.redunion.com.au/covid19_evidence_based_information
So, the geniuses who run NSW Health bring in fresh new requirements for health staff getting vaxxed just as the world is finding out that more jabs cause more harm, and do no further good.
Further, the USA’s Centres for Disease Control (CDC) have just done a complete about-face on Covid 19 mandates, as Jeffrey Tucker of The Brownstone Institute notes. Here is the CDC’s gobbledygook (emphasis added), with Tucker’s pungent commentary following:
As SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to circulate globally, high levels of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant COVID-19 illness (severe acute illness and post–COVID-19 conditions) and associated hospitalization and death. These circumstances now allow public health efforts to minimize the individual and societal health impacts of COVID-19 by focusing on sustainable measures to further reduce medically significant illness as well as to minimize strain on the health care system, while reducing barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.“
In English: everyone can pretty much go back to normal. Focus on illness that is medically significant. Stop worrying about positive cases because nothing is going to stop them. Think about the bigger picture of overall social health. End the compulsion. Thank you. It’s only two and a half years late.
What about mass testing?
Forget it: “All persons should seek testing for active infection when they are symptomatic or if they have a known or suspected exposure to someone with COVID-19.”
Oh.
What about the magic of track and trace?
“CDC now recommends case investigation and contact tracing only in health care settings and certain high-risk congregate settings.”
Oh.
What about the unvaccinated who were so demonized throughout the last year?
“CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur, though they are generally mild, and persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/a-deeper-dive-into-the-cdc-reversal/
So, the United States’ chief health policy advisers are now saying, do not discriminate on the basis of vaccination status. This surely amounts to the biggest about-face in public health policy history.
On top of this, now one of Australia’s more prominent Chief Health Officers, Brett Sutton of Victoria, has done a complete backflip on vaccines, without even blushing:
Um, despite two, three, four doses of the vaccine, ah, it’s not so good at preventing infection in the first place. So we are getting infected, that’s why we’ve had tens of thousands of cases in this wave.
Brett Sutton admits vaccines don’t work - XYZ
This is simply unbelievable. Daniel Andrews’ right hand man says the vaccines don’t work. We were lied to, over and over again. People who protested this regime were shot in the back with rubber bullets and pepper-sprayed. Smashed to the ground. On Brett Sutton’s watch. But north of the Murray, health workers are still required to get the useless jab. Now, of course, Monash University will be hosting a Moderna vaccine factory! To say the messages are mixed is to understate the total policy paralysis and hopeless confusion in public health in Australia. The powers that be simply do not know what to say or do anymore. They never really did, of course. And we all suffered grievously.
There are three key points to be made about the NSW situation.
One, currently there are 71.5 per cent of Australians 16 and over that are reported by the Australian Government to have been triple-vaccinated. So nearly 30 per cent of Australians have not been boostered. A substantial minority which seems not to believe the vaccine propaganda any more.
Two, the NSW Premier is on record as saying that he believes, firstly, that governments do not create freedoms for people, and secondly, that we should not live in a two-tiered society based on vaccination status. Is his word to be trusted? If so, does he not know what is happening under his watch? Or is he the now-shown-to-be-devious Scott Morrison of Macquarie Street?
Three, the exodus of people from employment in the NSW government health system can be expected to continue as a result of the new third vaccination directive. I wonder if the Premier wants yet more labour shortages in a vital sector of the economy and a critical area of government service. On his watch.
Paul Collits
20 August 2022
Fantastic article; And those who remained calm (not overcome with fear), are finally reaping the reward of their caution. For those who received the vaccines, their task is to now rebuild and retrain their immune systems. The light is growing a little brighter.
What about Banducci at Woolies and others that are a law until themselves, who is going to stop them?