A Supreme Court bombshell in Queensland this week as dozens of police and health workers, including paramedics, won a mammoth legal battle over mandatory vaccination, with the Supreme Court declaring they were unlawful.

On Tuesday, a 115-page decision by Justice Glenn Martin declared Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s direction for mandatory Covid-19 vaccination issued in December 2021 unlawful under the Human Rights Act and banned her from taking any steps to enforce the direction.

It’s been nearly three years since Australian state premiers and chief medical officers forced Australians to choose between a novel Covid-19 vaccine within a phase three trial and feeding their families. A new study involving 99 million people has linked neurological, blood and heart-related medical conditions to Covid-19 vaccines.

Researchers identified potential connections with the following medical conditions:

• Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle)
• Pericarditis (swelling of the thin sac covering the heart)
• Guillain-Barré syndrome (an attack of the immune system on the nerves)
• Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (a type of blood clot in the brain)
• Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (inflammation and swelling in the brain and spinal cord)

To date, vaccine injury reporting in both the USA and Australia has amassed more injury and death reports for the Covid-19 injections than any other vaccine in history. In Australia, it is more than every other vaccine combined on the DAEN website.

The range and rate of adverse events for Covid-19 injections starkly contrast to traditional flu vaccines. As of March 2022, according to government data within the VARES (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), the 14 flu vaccine variations reported 1,696 adverse events in a total of 45,650 reports. For the three Covid-19 injections available, VARES listed 10,526 different types of adverse events in a whopping 5,368,444 reported adverse events. To compare adverse events per million doses, data on VARES demonstrate 2020 flu vaccines reported 62 adverse events per million, while Covid-19 injections for 2021 ran at 1,362 per million. While deaths for the same period were reported at 0.4 per million for the flu vaccine and 20 for the Covid-19 injections. 

Just this week, Dr Dean Patterson, a leading consultant cardiologist in Guernsey and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, wrote an extraordinary letter to the CEO of the General Medical Council (GMC) calling for an investigation into unprecedented harms from the Covid-19 vaccines.

“Over the past 18 years, I have been a partner, consultant cardiologist, and general physician at the Medical Specialist Group and Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Guernsey with a population of 63,000,” wrote Dr Patterson.

“Here I am proud to say, we provide a consultant-only service which leads to exceptional continuity of care compared to the NHS where multiple tiers of doctors working shifts care for patients.

“In my personal experience, the Covid-19 vaccine has caused me intolerable concern for patient safety here in Guernsey. In my 33 years of medical practice, I have never witnessed such harm from a therapeutic intervention.

“I lost a female patient due to myocarditis aged 42 in 2021. A 63-year-fit woman died from myocarditis 1 month after her booster vaccine in 2022 after getting breathless within 1 week of the injection. In addition, I personally cared for a 20-year-old male with severe myocarditis which developed within 24 hours of his second Pfizer vaccine. In the first year of the rollout, I diagnosed 20 patients with myocarditis and 15 cases of pericarditis, including one death (42-year-old) and another who required an ICD (79-year-old male). 

“In the 16 years prior to this, I would on average diagnose 2-3 myocarditis cases per year, with serious cases being limited to 1 every 3-4 years. The UK ONS data for England and Wales shows 250 hospital admissions for myocarditis over 10 years. This equates to 2 per 10 years for Guernsey. In the first year of the rollout, we had 10 hospital admissions for myocarditis. In the second year of vaccine rollout, I have seen another 18 myocarditis cases, including the death of the 63-year-old woman listed above.”

While the Covid-19 injections skipped the traditional 10 years of development that regular non-mRNA vaccines take, the unblinding of Pfizer’s trial after emergency use authorisation was novel. This trial phase involved 44,060 subjects, where half received a dose of BNT162b2 and half got a placebo consisting of an inactive sterile salt solution to monitor the safety signals of the injection.

However, at week 20, after the FDA issued the EUA for the vaccine, trial subjects in the placebo group were allowed to switch to the vaccinated group and receive their first BNT162b2 shot.

Switching from the placebo to the vaccinated group — or ‘unblinding’ — normally occurs when the benefit of the drug is so great that not treating subjects becomes unethical. For example, investigators might consider unblinding a cancer trial if at some point all untreated patients deteriorated or died but all treated patients improved.

Of 20,794 unblinded placebo subjects in the Pfizer trial, 19,685 received at least one dose of BNT162b2, almost entirely removing the control group.

The contacts for the supply of Covid-19 injections to Australians were shrouded in secrecy. While it was known that full indemnity was provided to the manufacturers, little else was publicly available. 

While Australians remain in the dark, a South African judgment handed down in the Pretoria High Court on August 17, 2023, compelled the National Department of Health to provide access to the Covid-19 vaccine procurement contracts. 

The judgement and the contracts can be downloaded here: https://healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/pandemic…/

The disclosed Pfizer contract in paragraph 5.5 states, “Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known.” 

The purchaser was the South African government, and they signed the contract on April 1, 2021. 

With the Covid-19 vaccine neither stopping transmission nor infection and unknown long-term effects, were Australians provided an informed medical choice or a “safe and effective” slogan?

The NSW Council for Civil Liberties (CCL) recently argued in a submission to the Covid-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2022 and the Fair Work Amendment (Prohibiting Covid-19 Vaccine Discrimination) Bill 2023 that employees were not forced to have the shot. Still, employers could “give a direction to relevant employees that to continue working in the role they will need to be vaccinated.” 

While the NSW CCL attempts to outline the loss of employment and an inability to feed one’s family as not a force exerted upon an employee, they were quick to point out, “An employer is liable for the consequences of all directions that they give to an employee, whether or not the direction is reasonable. In directing employees to be vaccinated, there is an inherent risk of injury. If the employee, who voluntarily complies with such a direction, suffers an injury and can establish that but for the employer’s direction they would not have been vaccinated, then the employer should be liable.”

So, as an employer in 2022, one could face a $100,000 fine like those Daniel Andrews imposed in Victoria for not complying with mandates ‘directing’ employees to be injected, without fully informed consent, with a trial therapeutic, which may carry an inherent risk of injury, which you, then as an employer, would then be liable for.

This article appeared in The Koondrook and Barham Bridge Newspaper, 29 February 2024.