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‘No’ to Covid amnesty

By Graham Young - posted Monday, 30 January 2023


Kerryn Phelps was at the forefront of masking-up, isolating, and muscling-up with gene therapies.

Now, in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry, she has revealed the effects of vaccine injury on herself and her wife. This story has made the major media as reported by Murdoch, Nine, and the whole pack. It also helps to convert her image from tyrant to victim.

How should she be dealt with? Embraced as a new convert, or shunned? I think in the case of Kerryn it is pretty clear – no mercy.

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There are an increasing number of prominent medical professionals and journalists who are not recanting but still asking forgiveness. They are repositioning to try to keep a foot in both camps. What else would we expect from politicians, health bureaucrats, and the click-bait mafia?

Kerryn Phelps prospered as a former president of the AMA, a city councillor, and briefly a federal MHR. Many were fooled into thinking that she had joined the 'Covistance' after revealing her and her wife's vaccine injuries. She even complained that the medical establishment not only wouldn't discuss, but actively censored and censured any discussion.

But Kerryn's criticism of Covid vaccines has to be taken in context. These comments were made in the body of a submission on 'Long Covid'. Long Covid is a device that appears to be designed to extend the Covid fear-dynamic and maintain the power of the current dominant faction in the Covid health bureaucracies. It is also described as an ill-defined collection of symptoms following Covid where people 'feel tired' – something not uncommon with most flues.

Fear of developing Long Covid is the reason we are told we have to keep fighting Covid, even though the dominant Omicron strain is on par for severity with a very bad flu.

Based on a low-grade study from the Netherlands which used the results of a non-representative mail-out survey to estimate the prevalence of Long Covid, Phelps claims one in eight (12.5 per cent) of us who catch Covid will acquire it.

For context, as of January 5, the UK ONS puts the figure for Long Covid at 3.3 per cent in the UK, and Israeli scientists say it will resolve in most people by 12 months.

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She then leverages her faulty figure to call for a raft of invasive and authoritarian measures such as masking and CO2 monitors in indoor spaces. She calls for substantially increased funding for research into the causes and treatments of Long Covid (a disparate set of symptoms ranging from brain fog, headaches, and loss of smell and taste to heart palpitations) and measures to stop Covid infecting school-aged children.

She wants to reintroduce mandatory isolation and expand Work From Home. And she wants information packages to help doctors to diagnose long Covid.

She still insists on vaccination, despite the plight of her and her wife, but she demands more information and more sympathy.

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This article was first published in The Spectator.



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