Those who have been injured by the Covid vaxxes, both in the US and Australia, have faced a grim reality, with some vaccine injured people seeking assisted suicide because of their plight, with physical and/or financial ruin. Australia established its national Covid-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme in 2021, to supposedly deal with helping the Covid vaxxed injured. The scheme will end this month, September 2024, but to date only 10 claims were approved.
TrialSite's founder Daniel O'Connor has said:
"We should understand this present situation in the context of the Australian government as reported in the spring of this year continuing to seek hundreds of millions for more COVID-19 vaccine purchases, despite huge waste of unused product and the complete lack of interest in helping the thousands of people in that nation coping with various injuries."
In short, the government had heaps of money to give to Big pHARMa, but thousands of injured people have been left out in the dark. It is a national tragedy that must not be forgotten, and at some point, justice must be served.
"For individuals injured by COVID-19 vaccines, life becomes ever more complicated, and harsh. Not only can various life-changing, debilitating adverse reactions degrade human health, but the financial loss can be devastating, especially in countries like the U.S. with little social safety nets. Making matters worse are red-tape, bureaucratic processes imposed by government schemes supposedly there for compensation. At least in the English-speaking world while COVID-19 countermeasures were rushed to market with little to limited to liability in places like America and Australia, these same governments failed to establish adequate programs to care for the inevitable vaccine injuries. TrialSite has estimated for example, that in the United States anywhere from 400,000 to 2+ million people are struggling with some form of life changing condition as a result of the mass deployment of COVID-19 countermeasures. The American government under both Trump and Biden have been absolutely pathetic when it comes to even a basic, rudimentary handling of compensation consideration. But life for persons injured by COVID-19 vaccines is not much better in parts of the English speaking world, and Australia is no exception.
As reported yesterday by News Corp. Australia, a dad in the southern city of Melbourne literally had to "learn to walk again" after the AstraZeneca jab changed his life forever.
TrialSite has warned of vaccine injured persons seeking assisted suicide due to the abject position, in some cases the financial ruin faced by some of the more extreme cases. That message was mirrored in the mainstream, but conservative-leaning News Corp Australia, an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp.
Frank Chung reports yesterday on the plight of Chris Nemeth, following the government's directives and his old life-- "taken away". But was there support for persons injured by the COVID countermeasures? Actually, quite the opposite---as the compensation program cited by Australian media is classified as "cruel."
The 51-year old Nemeth was left permanently disabled with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIPD) after taking his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in July 2021.
CIPD is the chronic version of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a rare auto-immune condition affecting the nerves leading to numbness and pain in the hands and feet and can lead to paralysis.
A father-of-two, Chris was hospitalized three times between July and November 2021, and due to his COVID-19 vaccine-induced injuries, Nemeth was forced to abandon his 30-year career in freight logistics and likely may never go back to work.
His troubles are at least now chronicled by mainstream media, hopefully leading to some call for action to support him and others like him in Australia.
The article was prompted by a recent study investigating the Australia COVID-19 vaccine compensation scheme along with vaccine injured advocacy group COVERSE. More on that below.
A Pathetic Compensation ProgramWhile Australia established its national Covid-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme in 2021, the program will end next month (September 30) despite approving less than 10 claims, with feedback that the program is completely inadequate.
This should sound familiar to TrialSite readers, as a very comparable situation unfolds in America with its federal Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program (CICP). In fact, the non-profit patient advocacy organization React19 as part of its scholarship program has awarded more funds as grants to vaccine injured than the entire U.S. federal government!
TrialSite's founder Daniel O'Connor shared on this topic:
"We should understand this present situation in the context of the Australian government as reported in the spring of this year continuing to seek hundreds of millions for more COVID-19 vaccine purchases, despite huge waste of unused product and the complete lack of interest in helping the thousands of people in that nation coping with various injuries."
Again, thanks to News Corp Australia and Frank Chung's ongoing investigations for exposing some of these dynamics, ongoing. Few other big media bother to report on this topic although here TrialSite cites the Sydney Morning Herald as at least covering the recent COVERSE and UNSW study.
Chris Nemeth shared, "It's almost like they were waiting for you to go away or pass away," explaining his multi-year struggle to get compensated via the "complex, narrowly targeted scheme" described as "unnecessarily cruel".
Naturally, with more vaccine injured persons than the Australian government is willing to acknowledge, at least publicly, a growing chorus laments the lack of access to any kind of government support for a range of injuries that can impact the neurological, but also cardiovascular in nature.
The paper authored by researchers at UNSW and COVERSE, and first reported in the Sydney Morning Herald calls out the troubled Australian national vaccine compensation scheme. It's no wonder people who have been vaccinated feel like it could have been designed, intentionally, to offer authorities an ability to evade any political and financial accountability.
"[Human Services] Minister Bill Shorten has used the low number of approved compensation applications precisely in this way to argue for vaccine safety," the study's authors write.
Nemeth, who has been aided by an attorney, has spent nearly 12 months gathering the supporting documentation for his 1000-page submission for compensation for his established COVID-19 vaccine-related injury. From the start it's been a cumbersome, complex and convoluted process and again according to the researchers at UNSW it most certainly looks to be designed that way on purpose.
The UNSW ReportCOVERSE, a registered non-profit charity in Australia dedicated to improving support for Australian residents who have been injured by a COVID-19 vaccine and established in mid-2022, by professionals who connected with each other online while trying to find answers to our health problems that the COVID-19 vaccines had caused reported on the cited UNSW study above.
The charity partnered with UNSW to generate the report titled "The Australian COVID-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme Misalignment between the evidence base and Scheme design."
In the Forward, the authors first establish that all medicines have side-effects – and of course COVID vaccines are exception.
The report documents key issues with the COVID-19 countermeasure deployment compensation scheme. Describing the vaccine-related serious adverse effects reported in Australia, the authors feature the unacceptably "slow and inadequate response of the vaccine claims scheme."
And given the compensation program will end next month its likely thousands of injured Australians will have no recourse, nowhere to turn for help. Also, at least in Australia, "the overlap between many vaccine side-effects and the symptoms of long COVID – identified in Australia and in many other jurisdictions – will not be further studied through this scheme."
While the authors declare such vaccine injuries as rare, nonetheless the Australian "government owes a debt to those few who suffered injury from those medications." Moreover, the authors of the report emphasize the criticality of not only surveillance but also compensation programs as key for "ensuring trust in the system and accountability of institutions."
The conclusion of the study: instead of ending the COVID-19 vaccine compensation program in Australia, "the program should be revised and re-funded, as a measure of faith to all Australians who have participated in this unprecedented vaccination program, and of ongoing support to those who continue to experience adverse effects from COVID vaccination."