Gambling With the Health of Australians

Gambling With the Health of Australians
A nurse prepares a pneumococcal vaccine in a June 1, 2020, file image. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Augusto Zimmermann
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On Feb. 21, 2021, then-Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison expressed his intention to make COVID-19 vaccines “as mandatory as possible.” He declared that, in his opinion, the nation should have a target of 95 percent vaccination.

“I would expect it to be as mandatory as you could possibly make it,” he told Melbourne radio station 3AW, on Aug. 18, 2020.

Mr. Morrison also stated that COVID-19 vaccines were “safe and important.”

Indeed, since the beginning of COVID-19 vaccination, in January 2021, the official narrative in Australia with regard to these vaccines is that they are safe, efficacious, and working well.

However, there is now compelling evidence that the official narrative, fanatically promoted by Australian politicians and health bureaucracies, may be misleading and even neglectful in light of the demonstrable side effects of mRNA vaccines.

Dr. Kenji Yamamoto, a cardiovascular surgeon who works at Okamura Memorial Hospital in Shizuoka, Japan, believes that “as a safety measure, further booster vaccinations should be discontinued.”

Just one known serious potential adverse effect of these mRNA vaccines is that of myocarditis—inflammation of the heart. Myocarditis has a high rate of progressing to heart failure and is one of the reasons some younger people end up needing heart transplants.

Dr. Peter McCullough, a leading cardiologist, believes that “under no circumstances” should anyone receive a mRNA vaccine “because of the damage it can do to the heart.”

Proven Bad for the Heart

Scientists have now discovered that mRNA vaccines, not COVID-19, can cause serious heart damage, especially myocarditis.
For example, a new South Korean nationwide study on vaccine-related myocarditis confirms the severity of cardiac damage caused by these mRNA vaccines.

Published by the European Heart Journal, this study is extremely comprehensive because, in South Korea, the Korean Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) establishes a reporting system to make it legally obligatory to report vaccine adverse events such as myocarditis.

A Chinese boy screams out in pain as he gets inoculated against measles in Hefei City, in eastern China's Anhui Province on Sept. 11, 2010. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A Chinese boy screams out in pain as he gets inoculated against measles in Hefei City, in eastern China's Anhui Province on Sept. 11, 2010. STR/AFP/Getty Images

This particular study reports that vaccine-related myocarditis (VRM) after the third vaccination comprised 44 out of 480 cases (9.2 percent).

Researchers also identified 95 cases (19.8 percent) of severe myocarditis, 85 ICU admissions (17.7 percent), 36 fulminant myocarditis cases (7.5 percent), 21 ECMO [extracorporeal membrane oxygenation] therapies—as a modified heart-lung by-pass machine—(4.4 percent), 213 deaths (4.4 percent), and one heart transplantation (0.2 percent).

Furthermore, “21 deaths, all in those age 45 or less, were ultimately attributed to the vaccine. Eight of these deaths were sudden cardiac arrests that were diagnosed with myocarditis on autopsy because the Korean vaccine compensation program requires autopsies on patients that die after vaccination.”

Cardiologist Dr. Anish Koka describes such a number of vaccine-related deaths as “alarming.”

“This should hopefully end the mainstream narrative of characterizing vaccine myocarditis as mild,” she says.

Another study published in October 2022 in the blind-peer journal Vaccines reports the fascinating results of the autopsy of a patient who had no history of COVID-19 infection. The article provides compelling evidence that the patient’s death was directly caused by the mRNA vaccine’s spike protein.

Public Messaging Is Lagging Behind the Facts

Given the already known potential harms of the mRNA vaccines, of which myocarditis is just one, and the entirely unknown potential long-term adverse effects which may come to light only after many years, the decision of the Australian government to seek to vaccinate everyone, including small children, regardless of age or health conditions, was plainly wrong.
David Bell, a public health physician, and Dr. Roland Salmon, a retired medical epidemiologist and former director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre in Wales, wrote the following in the British Medical Journal:

“From a public health standpoint, it makes poor sense to impose vaccine side-effects on people at minimal risk of severe COVID-19. The argument that it protects others is weak or contrary to evidence. This conclusion suggests a policy of targeting vaccination to those at highest risk, allowing broader post-infection immunity to provide community protection.”

Australia closely followed World Health Organisation’s guidelines since the start of the pandemic.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the opening of the 74th World Health Assembly at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2021. (Laurent Gillieron/Pool via Reuters)
World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the opening of the 74th World Health Assembly at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2021. Laurent Gillieron/Pool via Reuters

By the end of 2021, the nation reached a vaccination rate of 80 percent of the population.

Despite the impressive vaccination rate, last year, 174,000 deaths were registered in Australia, which is 20,000 more than projections estimated. This represents the highest number of excess deaths on record since the end of World War II.

These excess deaths are mostly related to cancer and heart issues, including heart failure, stroke, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, and heart disease.

Dr. Ross Walker, a practicing cardiologist with 40 years of clinical experience, believes that mRNA vaccines are “very pro-inflammatory,” for the heart and should never have been mandated.

On Nov. 24, 2022, he stated the following about mRNA vaccines and their correlation to severe risks of heart diseases:
“I don’t think we should be having the mRNA vaccines. I’ve seen in my own practice as a private cardiologist 60-70 patients over the past 12 months who have had similar reactions to this. Whether it’s pericarditis or the more serious myocarditis. I’ve seen a lot of people get chest pain, shortness of breath, heart palpitations.”

Australia Must Not Jump the Gun Again

The potential for severe injury from the COVID-19 vaccines is a matter that deserves serious investigation, as does the media involvement in pushing the government’s narrative.
According to emeritus professor Robert Clancy AM, “the media has a concerning role in the propagation of misinformation, preferring to support an ideologic narrative rather than to engage in responsible journalism.”
People pass signs for a COVID-19 Clinic as they enter or exit St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, on March 18, 2020. (Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
People pass signs for a COVID-19 Clinic as they enter or exit St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, on March 18, 2020. Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images

Of course, the official narrative, which sought to placate people’s concern about the safety of the vaccines, financially benefited Big Pharma, with the Pfizer stock price soaring.

It is difficult to know how many Australians have been injured or died from these vaccines.

In the future, the Australian state government should be more cautious when it comes to making health decisions that could, in the long run, lead to adverse and irreversible consequences for Australians’ health and the country’s future.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Augusto Zimmermann
Augusto Zimmermann
Ph.D.
Augusto Zimmermann, PhD, LLD, is a professor and head of law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth. He is also president of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association and served as a commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia from 2012 to 2017. Mr. Zimmermann has authored numerous books, including “Western Legal Theory: History, Concepts and Perspectives" and “Foundations of the Australian Legal System: History, Theory, and Practice.”
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