When I got my first vaccination against Covid-19 back in September 2021, it was already becoming evident that the available vaccines gave limited protect against Covid-19, and there were potential side-effects. My doctor nevertheless recommended I get the AstraZeneca vaccine because he said it would be easier to manage the potential side effects, blood clots. He said that while rare, there would potentially be ongoing issues should I end-up with myocarditis, which was a documented side-effect of being vaccinated with Pfizer.
My preference would have been to not get vaccinated at all, to put more effort into keeping fit and working on increasing my natural immunity. But it was also increasingly evident, that my ability to travel interstate, get on a boat to go scuba diving, and even just to go to my local surf lifesaving club for a glass of wine, were activities that government was about to mandate I be double vaccinated for – or excluded from.
I decided to get vaccinated.
My unvaccinated friends did warn me that soon they/the government would be mandating a third dose, and on and on it would go.
I’ve been listening to the Premier of Queensland, Annastacia Palaszczuk, explain that whether a booster was going to become mandatory or not would depend on advice from the ATAGI (Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation) and that decision would be made by 11th February. Those are my words, but this is more-or-less what she has been saying.
They published a new advice yesterday on 10th February, entitled: ATAGI statement on defining ‘up-to-date’ status for COVID-19 vaccinations.
It explains that the advice is to serve as ‘the basis for policies for the public health management of the COVID-19 pandemic’ and ‘the basis of the due and overdue rules for the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)’.
It is my ‘Immunisation History Statement’ as a green document that I flash from my mobile phone that currently allows me to Scuba dive with my local club, entry to the local surf club, and entry onto an aeroplane should I want to fly to Cairns or interstate. Without having an ‘up-to-date’ immunisation history statement these things would be denied me. Yet I’m told that being vaccinated is not really mandatory.
The specific advice from the ATAGI yesterday includes:
Booster dose is a subsequent dose after an appropriate primary schedule based on choice of vaccine and immunocompromise status. Eligibility is from 3 months after last primary dose. The minimum time frame for a booster dose to be considered valid is 2 months. Although a booster dose at any time after 3 months is safe and effective, people who have not received a booster within 6 months of completing their primary series will be considered overdue.
So, does this mean that I will effectively join the ranks of the unvaccinated, and become a pariah, if I’m not vaccinated within 6 months of my last AstraZeneca injection?
The national broadcaster uncritically reports the new advice:
Australia's definition of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is set to change, with people aged over 16 years now only considered ‘up to date’ with their vaccinations if they have had booster shots.
Key Points:
- People will need to get a booster within six months of their primary course to be up to date
- The rule will not apply to international travellers coming to Australia
- Those not eligible for a booster will be considered up to date after their primary vaccine course
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has recommended moving away from the term ‘fully vaccinated’.
ATAGI's new advice was endorsed by national cabinet at a meeting on Thursday afternoon, but will not apply to international travellers arriving in Australia.
"A person is 'up to date' if they have completed all the doses recommended for their age and individual health needs," Health Minister Greg Hunt said.
Under the new rules, if it has been longer than six months since someone's last primary course dose and they are eligible for a booster, they will be considered "overdue".
Fancy that. New rules. New words. Time to overturn the tables.
All this when the latest advice from the British Medical Journal in an editorial dated 19th January is that we don’t know enough about Covid-19 vaccines.
Today, despite the global rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, the anonymised participant-level data underlying the trials for these new products remain inaccessible to doctors, researchers, and the public—and are likely to remain that way for years to come,’ the editorial states. ‘This is morally indefensible for all trials, but especially for those involving major public health interventions.’
The editorial also accuses pharmaceutical companies of ‘reaping vast profits without adequate independent scrutiny of their scientific claims,’ pointing to Pfizer, whose Covid vaccine trial was ‘funded by the company and designed, run, analysed, and authored by Pfizer employees’.
As far as I can tell I'm not eligible for an AstraZeneca booster, that the only booster available to me here in Queensland is Pfizer.
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The feature image was taken at Heron Island on 10th November last year, I was only able to visit that coral cay because I was classified as fully vaccinated. My capacity to travel and to participate in community activities is going to be severely curtailed should I choose to not get 'up-to-date' and fall 'overdue' to this Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine.
In respect of being "up-to-date" with vaccines, citizens are treated worse than travellers - nice.
"I thought you were supposed to be immune after recovering from an infection"
Immunity does not prevent re-infection. Prince Charles may have been diagnosed as having COVID in his system, but the difference is in how the body responds. This is also why case numbers (which are counted as any positive test) on their own are practically useless - they need to be lined up with how the persons body has responded to the infection
There is currently about 10,000 + people gathered in Canberra for the sole purpose of getting the federal government to stop all mandates in relation to the cov-id sham. The PM said he's got nothing to do with it, so don't demonstrate on my patch. Go see those state leaders, they are the culprits! I notice in a post that this weeks National Cabinet which the PM leads, has announced the euphemistic direction re the 3rd jab which Jennifer outlines, which basically says if you don't get your 3rd jab, you will be sent to purgatory with those who, in their wisdom, have chosen to not be injected. The clever wording of the Health Minister leaves everyone threatened, but not sure, so confusion reigns again for the umpteenth time. Me thinks, the PM has a problem: his government has purchased so many injections he has to offload them somehow. Who does he sell to? Those pesky State Premiers, who carry out the dirty work for the feds, i.e. hey people get vax-xed or else!! I wonder what the Federal Government will do with the millions of people who will congregate at Parliament House this week, as I see more cars, buses, are on the way there to swell the ranks of the already 100's of 1000's. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see Australia go the way of the many countries which have declared the corona virus is not a health threat, i.e no longer a 'pandemic", and have dropped all mandates, and credited their people with the intelligence to know what to do when they get cold, flu and viral type symptoms, and can go about life without fear or favour.
Covid is about control and not a virus. Climate change controls the governments and funds the NWO through CO2 taxes. Covid controls the individual via "keeping eveybody safe you selfish diseased bastard". Next is Klaus Schwabs great reset. The fix in in.
I see Prince Charles has just tested positive to the Virus AGAIN. I thought you were supposed to be immune after recovering from an infection. Looks like nothing is going to give us immunity, as the jab most certainly isn't.
Fortunately I just received my mail from India. 100, 12mg Ivermectin tablets, & another dozen Zilverdo KIT, the kit given to all covid close contact people in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, which stopped the virus dead in the 240 million inhabitants. Looks like the Uttar Pradesh government is one of the few in the world who wanted to protect it's citizens.
I feel much safer for me & my family now.