Australian media celebrity Kate Langbroek has caused a media storm by her criticism of bosses forcing staff to get the Covid jabs or be sacked. But she went beyond this to draw parallels between the mandates and its associated culture and the operation of cults. “If you have the right to go into your workplace and feel protected, doesn't someone else also not have the right to decide what they put in their body?'” it makes sense to me.
“Kate Langbroek has opened up about her stance on mandatory Covid vaccines after she slammed bosses forcing staff to get jabbed or face the sack.
The 56-year-old told Stellar magazine her strict upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness has had made critical of mandatory jabs.
'I'm confused that everyone is so militant and happy about it,' she said.
'I don't want to see people disfellowshipped [a religious practice of exclusion] from their lives. I witnessed it growing up, and it's a cruel and effective means of control.'
Kate went on to say she was 'raised in a cult and to see the emergence of other cults is unsettling'.
'The values and sense of community [within the Jehovah's Witnesses faith] is good until you decide to leave, and then you discover all the love they supposedly had for you was dependent on what you believe,' she said.
It comes after Kate said it's 'repugnant' for bosses to make their employees choose between getting the jab or getting the sack during a furious debate on The Project last month.
'I'm not for mandatory vaccines for work,' she said in the tense standoff.
'I'm not an anti-vaxxer but I'm just very uncomfortable prescribing to people mandatorily what they have to put in their bodies in order to work.'
She argued that excommunicating people from society who choose not to get the vaccine is comparable to the religious group's cruel tactic to make worshippers follow the rules.
'I find it repugnant that they will be disfellowed from their lives because they have hesitation or doubts about vaccination,' Kate said.
'If you have the right to go into your workplace and feel protected, doesn't someone else also not have the right to decide what they put in their body?'”