SACKED for their service: Australia destroys essential workers for refusing the covid vaccine
Australia's best firefighters, teachers, nurses, police are being punished for refusing coerced medicine as authorities push for MORE jabs despite waning effectiveness
HUMILIATED after a lifetime of dedication, firefighters, teachers, nurses and police who refused the covid vaccine are being sacked - just as the Omicron strain makes it irrelevant.
Preschool teacher Liz, 31, was forced to resign by state government decree - then publicly shamed on her last day of work at an early childhood education centre in Sydney’s north-west.
“They didn’t want the parents thinking I was leaving because they were bad bosses,” she said. “I had to stand at the gate and tell the parents I was leaving … because I chose not to vax.
“That was humiliating. Mentally, it was very traumatic.”
Liz, fair-haired and pretty, stood with her mother and a friend at the Reclaim the Line protest against mandatory vaccination in Sydney’s Prince Alfred Park on Sunday.
She did not want to name the childcare center or reveal her identity for fear of retribution.
Unvaccinated people are often presented as ignorant fools, conspiracy theorists ‘letting the side down’. They are abused on social media as dirty ‘plague rats’, afraid of a needle, spreading disease and sucking all the health care.
Most unvaccinated people, however, have made an informed decision based on their individual risk, which is heavily stratified by age and obesity.
They’ve had to become experts to explain to employers and friends why they refused – only to be shunned, sacked and ridiculed, their finances ruined.
It takes true grit to face down the mob. These are highly principled people.
Liz had worked at her early childcare centre for nearly 10 years. She worked all through the pandemic last year without a sick day.
She was leader of the preschool room, then supervisor, then educational leader, then director.
“I wanted to open my own centre,” she said.
But the New South Wales state government issued public health orders forcing all early childhood staff to be double vaccinated by November 8 - even though children are at no significant risk of severe covid.
“I’ve been out of work since November 8,” Liz said.
“I don’t know if I can open my own center now. They’re destroying my future. It will hurt my savings. It’s stressful, but I’m not going to think about it.”
“It’s not fair on the kids because the caliber of teachers they’re left with is shocking. They’re casual part-timers and there’s no consistency.”
Hate for unvaccinated people has soared as Australian state and federal government campaigns drove the public into ever-increasing vaccination targets based on hospital bed capacity, while claiming it wasn’t a ‘mandate’.
The favourite corporate media narrative has been to find a high-risk person who actually needed the vaccine at a protest, who later dies of covid. That person is then broadcast as an example of why only irresponsible idiots reject forced vaccination.
Social media then mocks protesters as ‘cookers’, Melbourne slang for a ‘cooked unit’ - meaning a crazy person who is high. In a sinister twist they are called ‘killers’.
Unvaccinated people have been shunned. In New South Wales (NSW) they were banned from eating in restaurants or shopping for clothes, a restriction now lifted.
The NSW Government, a conservative Liberal-National coalition, socialised enforcement with rules that pitted family against itself - such as limiting funerals to 10 people if an unvaccinated person attended.
The state of Victoria, run by the union-backed Labor party, has been the most authoritarian. It is from Victoria that police brutality at protests shocked the world.
Victoria has now passed a controversial law that gives permanent emergency powers to the state premier.
In both Victoria and Labor-run Queensland, unvaccinated people have been locked out of hospitality venues indefinitely.
After a year of targeted propaganda, large chunks of Australia’s public have been left with a wildly distorted threat perception of the virus and do not understand that it isn’t deadly to all age groups.
Covid overwhelmingly attacks the elderly and those with health problems such as obesity and Vitamin D deficiency.
This has been known by health authorities since the beginning which is why Australia’s elderly and vulnerable were the first to be vaccinated. It can be seen in statistics from the UK where widespread transmission in 2020 before vaccines were available left the best data set on age-related risk.
The UK Office of National Statistics reports that out of 2.5 million people infected during 2020, a total of 69,762 died.
More than 62,500 of those deaths, or 89.6 percent, were people over the age of 65.
For ages 20 to 29, there were only 93 covid deaths, or 0.1 percent.
Studies have found young children have less than 0.03 percent chance of death.
The risk of severe covid to Australia’s elderly and vulnerable has been greatly reduced by the vaccines. But that is their only use. They cannot greatly reduce the spread of covid, especially of Omicron.
There never was much sense in forcing the vaccines on the rest of Australia’s 26 million people who were not at significant risk of serious disease, when effective treatments such as monoclonal antibodies are available.
Australia’s health authorities, however, have been single-mindedly promoting the vaccine as the primary response to covid to the exclusion of known treatments.
Medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), ignored more than 60 studies showing Ivermectin’s efficacy in early treatment when it banned doctors from prescribing it in September.
In its statement the TGA said the ban was to stop people “taking ivermectin in an attempt to prevent COVID-19 infection rather than getting vaccinated.”
Forcing the vaccine on healthy people under 65 has denied them superior immunity from catching covid and recovering, during which the immune system mounts a complex response to the entire virus, not just the spike.
Infection immunity has so far outlasted a 10-month study and an eight-month study respectively, and is expected to last many years.
A peer-reviewed study by 19 infectious disease experts from Singapore published in Nature found people who caught the original SARS coronavirus in 2003 still had immune memory T-cells 17 years later.
This infection immunity was so broad it could recognise and provide some protection against the related Sars-Cov-2 virus that causes covid-19, thanks to structural similarities between the two viruses especially on the nucleocapsid.
Australia’s vaccines cannot do this as all three of them present the immune system only with the spike protein. Vaccine immunity wanes in six months.
New South Wales is Australia’s most populous state with more than 8.1 million people.
NSW Health figures as of Monday showed 93.1 percent of all residents aged over 16 had been fully vaccinated with two doses of either the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca products.
Australia-wide, 89.5 percent of those aged over 16 had been vaccinated as of December 15, the Health Department said on its website.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows the case fatality rate of covid in Australia was just 0.1 percent for all people under 60 as of 31 July, 2021.
Healthy young people have effectively zero need of a covid vaccine to keep them out of hospital as their covid risk is so low.
Despite this, more than 77 percent of children aged 12 to 15 in New South Wales have been given two doses of the products, NSW Health says on its website.
Jeff Parker is a fit, trim firefighter aged 61 who doesn’t want the vaccine.
The case fatality rate for covid in his demographic is 1.8 percent according to the ABS – slightly higher than for young people, but the number includes the morbidly obese and insulin-resistant. It’s hardly the 30 percent one might fear from paralytic polio.
So, Mr Parker refused the vaccine product.
As a firefighter he risked his life for Sydney for 29 years. October next year would have marked 30 years of service, a wonderful lifetime achievement.
Instead, he will be stood down by Fire and Rescue New South Wales on December 17 to be “assessed” for being “non-compliant” before being terminated, he said.
“I’m still a firefighter but I’ll work Tuesday for the last time,” he said.
“It was supposed to be Thursday but I’m going due to stress. I had wanted to go another five years.”
It comes just as the New South Wales Government eases restrictions for unvaccinated and vaccinated alike as of today, December 15.
However the government’s reopening plan says only that employers have discretion to allow workers to work from home.
It is unclear what that means for unvaccinated workers like firefighters who cannot work from home, or for those who have already been sacked, or resigned thinking they had no choice, or who were designated to be vaccinated by public health orders.
Fire and Rescue NSW confirmed the 17 December deadline and said in an emailed statement that it had to follow the directives of the NSW Government, NSW Health and Australian Department of Health in relation to covid, along with Work Health and Safety laws that stipulate ‘all reasonably practical control measures’ must be used.
Fair Work Commission Deputy President Lyndall Dean, a workplace relations expert, has rejected safety as a valid reason for employers to coerce workers into covid vaccination as part of her dissenting opinion in the 27 September 2021 decision Jennifer Kimber v Sapphire Coast Community Aged Care Ltd (C2021/2676).
Legal challenges, however, are costly, fraught with risk, take years and might fail.
Mr Parker has 30 years of superannuation to retire on – but others are only 10 or 20 years into their careers with families to support, and he is worried for them.
A younger colleague was forced to cave in by his mortgage, leaving him feeling violated.
“He unloaded on me for 50 minutes, I didn’t know what to say,” Mr Parker said.
“I’m holding out, but we have to stop it because it doesn’t end with the vax and booster - and another 5 boosters.”
The Fire Brigade Employees Union (FBEU) asked for a right of return for sacked employees within a year if “circumstances changed”, in a December 7 statement on their website.
Unions across Australia have been unsupportive of unvaccinated workers. While the Australian Council of Trade Unions did issue a statement calling on the federal Coalition Government to make vaccines voluntary, in September it launched a campaign to push vaccination.
The FBEU did not respond to a media request asking if they would support unvaccinated firefighters returning to work.
Ironically, Mr Parker and his colleagues are losing their jobs just as the wildly infectious but mild Omicron strain takes over the pandemic, making Australia’s vaccines irrelevant.
Omicron has been spreading widely in South Africa for a month.
Netcare, the largest private healthcare provider in South Africa treated 126,000 patients during the first three waves. Last week Netcare reported the Omicron wave resembles a mild flu.
“Approximately 90 percent of covid-19 patients currently in our hospitals require no form of oxygen therapy and are considered incidental cases,” Chief executive Richard Friedland told the Daily Maverick newspaper in Johannesburg last Wednesday.
While early reports of mild severity are promising, Bloomberg reports experts estimate up to 80 percent of South Africa’s 60 million people have already caught covid in the first three waves, giving them broad and robust natural immunity.
It is unclear how severe it will be in those who have inferior vaccine immunity or in unvaccinated people who have not yet encountered the virus.
Early studies show Omicron easily evades vaccine immunity. It has 50 mutations of which more than 30 are on the spike that is used in all three of the vaccines on offer in Australia.
Vaccine manufacturer Pfizer, which expects to reap $33.5 billion from covid vaccine sales in 2021 according to Forbes, admitted a reduction in vaccine effectiveness against Omicron.
In the same press release Pfizer recommended the purchase of more product, saying a third dose improves protection.
Pfizer has not released the data on which this claim is based, however the company said in an emailed statement it is from a preliminary study, with full results to be published “in the coming weeks”.
Australia’s state and federal governments have sought expert advice on vaccines throughout the pandemic from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI).
ATAGI, which falls inside Australia’s federal Health Department, is tasked with weighing the claims of manufacturers who want to sell product against the evidence in a transparent manner.
On Sunday, ATAGI released a statement recommending a third dose of product five months after the second shot for anyone over 18 years.
“The anticipated benefits of bringing forward the booster dose include … improved protection against COVID-19 due to the Omicron variant,” the statement said.
ATAGI did not link to any published study evidence for this claim, and did not provide one in response to a media request.
Instead, the statement linked to a South African study showing immune evasion from prior infection, an Israeli study showing a third Pfizer dose boosts immunity to Delta, and an October meeting presentation from the Israeli Ministry of Health that doesn’t mention variants, but shares data with Pfizer.
It is unclear why ATAGI determined a third dose is needed by healthy under-65s as neither the Health Department nor ATAGI responded to a media request.
If any response is received this story will be updated.
Totally agree no one must push any one to get the vaccinations
Because no vaccination they must not sack people. It’s not Australian. It must be there personal choice. Any way more than 90% Have been vaccinated
Less than 5% will don’t want to get the vaccination. So you can not discriminate them.