Covid Vax Injury Issues on Aussie TV, By James Reed

 There was recently a program on 7News, "After Covid" spotlight special, which had a panel of experts commenting on Australia's Covid response. While much of this was predictable, the issue of vaccine safety and adverse effects came up occupying 17 minutes out of the total 53 minutes. During that time there were a number of moving personal tragedy stories told, giving the human face to the so-called "rare" events of vaccine injuries according to the Australian health authorities. Perhaps the most telling point was by medical insider, Dr. Kerryn Phelps, former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), who discussed her Pfizer injury. She said: "There is an incredible lack of medical curiosity about investigating [Covid vax injuries]." According to Dr Phelps, there are 140,000 injury reports on the national safety surveillance database (DAEN). But these are a "drop in the ocean compared to the number of actual adverse reactions that there are… because a lot of them aren't being reported, because certainly in the early days they weren't being recognised."

Dr Phelps' partner, Jackie Stricker-Phelps said the Pfizer mRNA jab "has ruined my life." "I wouldn't go near them with a 10-foot barge pole."

This is something of a breakthrough to get such comments out on national television.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/03/covid-vaccine-injuries-go-mainstream-in-australia/

"Propaganda narratives shift slowly over time to absorb aspects of undeniable reality, whilst minimising damage to the interests of those benefiting from the big lie.

First, the Covid vaccines were safe and effective, and we were set to experience a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Get vaccinated to protect your community!

Next, the shots were safe and effective, but with rare side-effects, mostly mild. Still, the benefits outweighed the risks. Get vaccinated to protect your healthcare system!

In the latest narrative update, experts say all the shots except AstraZeneca's are safe and effective, and they admit that vaccine injuries can be life-ruining, though still very rare. But Covid is worse. Get vaccinated to protect against Long Covid!

In an 'After Covid' Spotlight special on commercial media channel 7NEWS over the weekend, a panel of experts reflected on Australia's Covid response. Tellingly, vaccine safety (or rather, lack thereof) occupied 17 out of a total 53 minutes, more than a quarter of the airtime.

Highlights:

§The parents of 34-year-old Katie Lees, who died from the AstraZeneca shot, told Katie's story and said they've still received no acknowledgement or apology from anyone in charge.

§Dr. Kerryn Phelps, former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), discussed her Pfizer injury and said "There is an incredible lack of medical curiosity about investigating [Covid vaccine injuries]" and that the roughly 140,000 injury reports on the national safety surveillance database (the DAEN) are a "drop in the ocean compared to the number of actual adverse reactions that there are… because a lot of them aren't being reported, because certainly in the early days they weren't being recognised".

§Jackie Stricker-Phelps (Kerryn's wife) said the Pfizer shot "has ruined my life" and that even if she could take another vaccine, which she now can't, "I wouldn't go near them with a 10-foot barge pole". She added that "the compensation scheme is hopeless", only covering a narrow selection of injuries.

§An audience member said she "fundamentally got long haul Covid from the vaccine" which caused her to be "pretty much bed bound for two and a half years", and asked "when will there… be a proper acknowledgment by the Government as to actual vaccine injury?"

§Another audience member asked why there is no large scale study of the Australian population comparing immune responses of unvaccinated people against people who have had one, two, three and more doses. "We have a society that is chronically ill.. and it is not the unvaccinated," she said.

§Friend of the blog Alison Bevege criticised a panelist's assertion that data collection from the the mass worldwide rollout hasn't turned up any usual side-effects. "You're not collecting the data in a controlled manner, that's not a test, that's just giving it to everybody."

§After panelists told concerned audience members they were wrong, emphasising Covid vaccine safety and effectiveness, an audience member yelled out, "they're not safe and they're not effective".

§Host Michael Usher said "with vaccinations rushed through there was no time to properly test.. and that led to ongoing health problems for some people who got the jab", before revealing that of the roughly 140,000 adverse events reported to the national safety surveillance database in relation to Covid vaccines, 22,000 were classified as serious. He also said "we were all forced to get the jab".

§As an Australian, I cannot overstate the significance of this much airtime being dedicated to criticism of Covid vaccines on mainstream TV.

§In the first year of the Covid vaccine rollout, only a single media story was published on the vaccine injury experience of Australians, despite 117,147 adverse events and 777 deaths being reported to the national safety surveillance database during that time.

§News.com.au ran the first personal vaccine injury story in November 2021, but it wasn't until Dr. Phelps went public with her own Covid vaccine injury in December 2022 that the issue gained wider coverage.

§Dr. Phelps claimed that the medical regulator AHPRA had "censored public discussion about adverse events following immunisation, with threats to doctors not to make any public statements about anything that 'might undermine the Government's vaccine rollout' or risk suspension or loss of their regulation".

§Indeed, doctors and healthcare workers were investigated and even suspended for expressing concerns over Covid vaccine safety and for issuing medical exemptions, creating a culture of fear and silence in the medical profession.

§In the toxic silence around Covid vaccine injuries, many injured Australians found there was no help and no support available. I personally interviewed scores of Australians seriously injured by the Covid shots for archive project Jab Injuries Australia. Many of the injured reported being gaslit by doctors, socially shunned as 'anti-vaxxers' despite having rolled up their sleeves in the first place, and unable to access compensation to cover medical expenses and loss of income.

§Total media silence on the issue at first, and then the odd "sad but exceedingly rare" story two years too late exacerbated the sense of abandonment and betrayal felt by scores of Covid vaccine-injured Australians. (Not to mention that anyone who publicly expressed hesitation about the safety of the Covid vaccines was smeared in the media as an "anti-vaxxer".)

§Fast forward to mid-2024, and AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine has been withdrawn worldwide following the company's admission that the vaccine can cause fatal blood clots. There are now thousands of peer-reviewed studies documenting Covid vaccine harm. An article recently published in Australia's major journal for GPs suggested that Covid vaccinations may also be a secondary cause of Long Covid (known as "Long Vax").

§Though the average citizen may not read peer-reviewed journals, a good many no longer buy the safe and effective narrative. In Australia, fewer than 10% are 'up-to-date' with Covid vaccinations. In the US, a recent survey found that a quarter of those who had had the Covid shots regretted it. A fifth say they know someone who experienced a severe health problem after Covid vaccination, and over half of Americans believe the jabs may be causing unexplained deaths.

§And so the narrative shifts. Just as all the people who got the jabs "to protect the community" catching Covid multiple times necessitated a pivot to focus on protecting the healthcare system instead, the sheer number of people still suffering health problems after Covid vaccination necessitates that the 'safe and effective' narrative be updated.

§Now, a little bit of vaccine regret is allowed on the news. You're allowed to say the shots ruined your life and that you'd like an apology.

§But not without a side of gaslighting.

§On the 7NEWS special, the gaslighting was served by panelists: Professor Robert Booy, a vaccinology, epidemiology and infectious diseases specialist; Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake, a doctor and infectious diseases specialist; and former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

§Also on the panel was UNSW Economics Professor Gigi Foster, who publicly and consistently called for the panic to be dialled down and for governments to make rational decisions during the height of the Covid response.

§When she wasn't speaking, Foster's face said it all, such as this clip in which former Queensland (QLD) Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk justified trampling civil liberties over a virus with an IFR of 0.04%. Foster's cost-benefit analysis of Australia's Covid lockdowns found they cost at least 68 times more than the benefits delivered."