The Australian government and the medical authorities have not faced up to the hardships, misery and death caused by the totally ineffective Covid vax lockdowns. Below is but one tragic human-interest story, of a mum who lost her mind during the Victorian Covid lockdowns, the longest on the planet, and stabbed to death her three young children. Defenders of the lockdowns may argue that there must have been mental health issues here, preceding the lockdowns. Perhaps, but it was the lockdowns, totally unprecedented in Australian, if not world history, that pushed such psychologically vulnerable people over the edge. It occurred in China as well, with numerous suicides, as people could not stand being locked or welded into high-rise apartments.
The Covid mandate tyranny must not be allowed to disappear down the Orwellian memory hole. The government has blood on its hands.
"A mum who stabbed to death her three young children inside their home lost her mind during Victoria's hard lockdowns.
Katica 'Katie' Perinovic, 42, murdered her children Claire, 7, Anna, 5, and Matthew, 3 one by one before taking her own life inside their Tullamarine home, north-west of Melbourne, on January 14, 2021.
Their father Tom Perinovic, who had been out buying his family a new television set when the atrocity happened, has revealed how Dan Andrews' lockdowns turned his happy and healthy wife into a monster.
'There was a huge negative impact during the Covid lockdown on our family and particularly Katie. We were unable like others in Victoria to see our family and friends for so many months,' a gutted Mr Perinovic told Victorian Coroner Audrey Jamieson on Tuesday.
Until Victorians were locked down in what would become the longest in human history, Katie had been a successful physiotherapist.
LOCKDOWN NIGHTMARE
Trapped within the four walls of her Tullamarine house, Mr Perinovic pinpointed the lockdown as the event that drove his wife to madness.
'Katie had stopped working in March 2020 and was looking after her three children and trying to home school Claire at the same time,' Mr Perinovic said.
'It was incredibly stressful and hard on both of us, particularly Katie.'
Victorians spent a whopping 262 days under hard lockdown between March that year and the end of 2021.
Mr Perinovic told the coroner that by the time Mr Andrews eased restrictions, the damage appeared to have already been done.
'When restrictions eased, Katie had started withdrawing from friends, she would say "we can't meet". She kept reading media articles and listening to the news over and over,' he said.
'She started feeling worried and fear. Every day we would alternate going for walks, to get some fresh air and exercise. Just to get out of the house.'
Isolated from her family and friends, Katie's mental health rapidly declined.
'Katie's family members wanted to come over to visit, but due to the travel 5km permitted radius, this meant they couldn't come. We all abided by the law. Therefore, we didn't see her family for an extended amount of time,' Mr Perinovic said.
'It was many months. Katie's memory started to decline during the lockdown, and she even forgot the pin number on her mobile phone. She had to send it away to get it unlocked.'
While Katie found the strength to return to her beloved job in October 2020, she resigned just weeks later under a cloud of mystery.
She had worked at the very same clinic for the previous 16 years.
'A few days after she resigned, I got a phone call from her boss, saying "your wife needs help. Go see a doctor. I can't tell you what she's done." And that was it,' Mr Perinovic told the coroner.
'He said, 'you haven't been looking after your wife." I asked in what way? He was saying she needed mental help. I have no idea what happened at her work, and I have no idea what her boss was talking about.'
It would be a suggestion of responsibility for the crime Mr Perinovic would continue to carry until this very day.
MEDICAL FAILURES
Concerned over her own mental decline, Katie went to see her local doctor.
By then she had been feeling paranoid, exhausted and anxious.
She had earlier told her husband she believed she was being covertly watched by CCTV cameras within their own home.
The doctor prescribed her sleeping pills and sent her home, prompting Mr Perinovic to return with her the very next day in the hope of having her treated properly.
With her husband by her side, Katie was referred to the Royal Melbourne Hospital's mental health department, NorthWestern Mental Health.
But her mental health continued to spiral out of control as the lockdowns continued.
'Ultimately, Covid restrictions meant I was unable to come into most appointments with Katie and I would have to wait in the car or not attend. I was unaware of what was happening in Katie's appointments or her treatment plan, unless Katie told me what was happening,' Mr Perinovic told the coroner.
When Mr Perinovic eventually worked his way inside a consultation with his wife, she asked him to leave in what he would later learn had been the midst of a 'psychotic episode'.
Placed on medications after her second appointment, Katie asked her husband for some time apart, which he granted.
The separation was short lived and the family were back living under the same roof again in no time.
With less than a month before her murderous rampage, Katie overdosed on her medications.
She refused to go to hospital, telling her doctor the following day she had simply wanted to sleep.
'He was in an angry mood with us. I didn't know why. He said, "I want you to hide the medication, and give it to her every day." It was his idea for me to manage the medication. I listened, and I hid it in garage and locked it,' Mr Perinovic said.
Katie's mental health practitioner would only learn of the suicide attempt after she had already killed her family.
'There was no discussion, or anything mentioned explicitly about the kids being at risk of harm,' Mr Perinovic said.
'(Katie) was a great mum and a very good physiotherapist. She helped and treated many patients over her career and it's a huge shame that she was not provided with the same level of care she deserved in her most time of need.'