Australia may mandate 5 jabs

Australia’s top immunization regulator, Professor Nigel Crawford, refused a request from a parliamentarian to rule out mandating a fourth or even fifth COVID-19 vaccine injection. Instead, according to the Daily Mail, Crawford opted to respond to Liberal senator Alex Antic’s query with:

“It is a possibility.” 

2 not enough

Crawford’s statement comes less than a week after the federal health minister, Greg Hunt, announced a new requirement of a third dose to be considered “up to date” with COVID jabs.

‘Fully vaccinated’ ‘’Up to date’

The Guardian reports that the change of terminology from “fully vaccinated” to “up to date” was purposeful:

“Australia’s chief medical officer, Prof Paul Kelly, had flagged such a change. ‘Rather than ‘fully’ [vaccinated, we should be] talking about ‘up to date’, that’s the terminology we use with other immunisations,’ he said on 3 February.” 

This “up to date” terminology opened the door to continuous vaccination requirements as one is never to be considered, “fully vaccinated,” just temporarily “up to date” with the latest vaccine schedule requirements.

Hence Crawford’s refusal, as the chairman of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), to quell concerns of endless jabs. Instead, he explained, the decision whether to add additional doses to the vaccine mandate would have to wait until more data is available on the efficacy of additional booster as well as on new vaccines targeting COVID variants.

Wrong direction?

Australia’s move to expand vaccine mandates bucks a global trend of canceling vaccine passport requirements. Even Austria, the first European country to obligate adults to vaccinate whether or not they leave their homes, reversed course and is today ending the requirement to show proof of vaccination or recent recovery to attend events or enter restaurants. Their chancellor Karl Nehammer was quoted by the AP:

“On March 5, the bulk of the restrictions that burden people so much will end.”

Out of step

Switzerland today dropped the requirement to have a COVID-19 vaccination pass to enter stores and other public settings and events. 

Germany announced plans to drop “all far-reaching protective measures" on March 20th. 

Denmark removed all virus restrictions as of February 1st, declaring, according to Anadolu Agency, the coronavirus is, "no longer a critical threat to society."

Sweden lifted all COVID-19 restrictions on February 9th while also ending COVID-19 testing.

Norway removed COVID measures this week and Finland and the UK are planning to end all COVID restrictions at the end of this month.

Federal gov’t vs. states?

While its national government is expanding vaccine mandates, Australia’s two most populous states are going in the opposite direction. 

The Guardian reports that, in New South Wales, “QR check-ins will only be required at nightclubs and festivals with more than 1000 people,” while mask requirements will be partially rolled back.

According to the Market Herald, Victoria is “scrapping the QR codes for certain industries.”

Missing the writing on the wall

In going against the grain, Australia may be misreading the political map. In an article entitled, “‘Take back life’: More nations ease coronavirus restrictions,” ABC News informs us,

“Many countries … are easing their tough and often unpopular restrictive measures to fight COVID-19.” [Emphasis added].

Government officials do not appear worried by the prospect of facing the wrath of the voters for expanding “unpopular restrictive measures,” as they continue to move the goal posts for obtaining up to date vaccination status. 

This defiance of public opinion comes even as Australians, showing support for the Canadian truckers’ protest convoy, packed the nation’s Parliament House in Canberra’s lawn, which accommodates 270,000 people. The protestors are pictured in this tweet of photographs from the February 12th protest:

Extraordinary use of weaponry against citizenry

Many Australians who gathered at the February 12th anti-vaccine mandate protest in Canberra reported falling victim to extreme riot control measures as they peacefully protested. 

XYZ posted a video purportedly showing, “Evidence that the AFP [Australian Federal Police] used LRAD’s [Long Range Acoustic Devices] against peaceful protesters in Canberra on Saturday, 12/2/2022.”

Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw refused to answer a question from Senator Malcolm Roberts about whether LRADs were in fact used against these protestors. The question and answer may be seen in a video posted by the senator:

 ABC has reported that LRADs “can also cause permanent hearing damage.“ The article quotes 

Melbourne University sound and law expert James Parker as saying,

“The secrecy of the state around the tools, the weapons that it has and is capable of using on its population is something to be really, really concerned about,’ says Parker.

‘It expands the nature of police/state/military authority in a certain kind of way …”

XYZ concludes,

“The Australian Federal Police are using a military grade weapon on ordinary people who refuse to inject poison into their bodies.”