An Inquiry into Covid-19 Inquiry Committee

Never run an enquiry without knowing the outcome

As someone who lost his job for not taking the Covid-19 injections, it was hard to resist the invitation to join an inquiry into what might have gone wrong during the almost 4 years of this experiment.

It seems all we need do is explain our past problems to Catherine Bennett, Robyn Kruk and Angela Jackson. Letters of condolence, concern and compensation will follow hard upon.

Before these arrive, perhaps we should have a close look at the people carrying out this important task. Who are they? What are their connections? What are their past views? These will likely be pretty good predictors of any future outcome. It may even curb our expectations of felicity.

People like me lost our jobs because we wouldn’t agree to be part of a crisis. We didn’t accept there was one. This is despite the extraordinary efforts of politicians, medical experts, media along with panicky workmates, friends and family to abuse us into compliance.

Catherine Bennett

How could we fail to see the truth when it was so clearly placed in front of us. The ABC was right at the centre of this information war and the clip below from April 2022 is typical of Auntie’s pandemic reporting.

It features epidemiologist, Catherine Bennett, who has been a champion of vaxxing our children. My immediate response is she must know a bit about health because she appears so unhealthy. Here she makes a strong case for booster number 4.

An astounding array of facts are flicked at us here in the hope one or two will stick thus hamstringing our good sense. The precision assigned to these facts rarely materialised in the real world but that is not what we are dealing with. This was a crisis and these people wanted our minds and bodies.

Let’s marvel at the craftmanship

ATAGI expanded the eligibility for a 4th injection and called for 1.5 million people to take them. These included anyone who had cancer, a complex health condition or a disability.

Well, of course, Catherine thought this was a good idea because they are “the next RING of people who have that particular risk”. Particular was not defined, nor was ring.

Was taking that fourth shot a decision people should think about carefully? No, seems it was just “taking the next step out”. How lovely. Who doesn’t like the idea of a nice step out especially after months of lockdowns. Mix them up too. AstraZeneca’s clot project had not been banned at this point.

The urging here was for people who have had cancer in the last 5 years and people who have had childhood cancer. Note the exquisite precision. 6 years would be too many (check the ATAGI website for details of your callup). Catherine then appealed to people who “may not have responded well to previous vaccines”. I wonder whether she meant people who were injured by them?

She continued:
“So the good news is that the vaccine reduces risk of serious illness by ANOTHER two thirds if you have that second dose and you’re in that group and your risk is that bit higher anyway”.

Here is where things get confusing. Is that a second dose or a fourth? Context suggests fourth then why didn’t the usual precision prevail. Fortunately, Catherine clears things up in her next sentence.

It’s 4. How wonderful that she chose Israel as a reference. The success of Pfizer there suggests the Israeli Government holds its own population in the same high regard as it does Gazans.

After a bit of waning, booster 4 took immunity back up above 80% and if your risk was higher it brought that darn risk down by another 2/3. Where have I heard this level of precision before? That’s right. It was one of Catherine’s colleagues a couple of years ago, MaryLouise McLaws.

Further extraordinary claims are made but by 2 minutes 30 I was worn out with wonder. Performances like this have encouraged Australians to open their hearts to celebrity medics like Catherine Bennett. When in a supermarket:

A woman called out acknowledging she’d seen me on TV. She screamed out, ‘I love you!’”

And why not when she was giving us such good advice.

An area where she might have sought another opinion was on masks. Dr Harvey Reisch might have been able to help here.

Catherine Bennett On Masks

New research reveals what living with COVID-19 could look like into 2022
ABC News website
September 2021

Masks, boosters will help us stay safe
Institute for Health Transformation
18 March 2022

With COVID-19 rules disappearing, if you're the only one in a mask, will it still keep you safe from infection?
ABC News website
12 October 2022

Covid expert urges Australians to wear masks and warns of risk of getting infected twice
news.com.au
4th July 2022

Catherine Bennett On Lockdowns

Melbourne lockdowns to be extended again
Australian Financial Review
15th August 2021

PM’s panel members backed hard lockdowns
news.com.au
23rd September 2023

Catherine Bennett on Childhood injections

Catherine doesn’t mind jabbing a child or two either. Why should be benefits be limited to the sick and disabled. Bring the kids in.

Children to be vaccinated this year
Australian Financial Review
8 August 2021

Why is it important for kids to be vaccinated?
News.com.au
10^th December 2021

Should we vaccinate children against COVID-19? We asked 5 experts
The Conversation
2^nd August 2021

Pfizer jabs for children an important next step in vaccine rollout
Sydney Morning Herald
6^th December 2021

COVID vaccines for ages 5 to 11 start today but can schools open safely in the shadow of Omicron?
ABC News website
10^th January 2022

Expert warns there is a ‘real threat’ of kids dying from the flu
news.com.au
14 July 2023

In just about every case, Catherine has been in lockstep with official opinion. This is no Pierre Kory or Paul Oosterhuis we are dealing with. If I wanted to choose an establishment pinup, she would be in the top 6.

Robyn Kruk

Robyn is a 30 year public servant at the state and federal levels. Most recently she has lead a team that has produced this report:

Final report of the Independent Review of Overseas Health Practitioner Regulatory Settings, produced by the Department of Finance, 6th December 2023
It looks a project to hurry in foreign doctors.

NSW Health commissioned Ms Kruk AO in 2022 to review NSW Health’s operational response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As one system report

The result was the As one system report. It was completed in January 2023.

I plan to review her work on this report as a way of predicting the independence she will bring to the Covid-19 Inquiry.

In reading Robyn’s introduction we are off to a bad start when she simply regurgitates World Health Organization talking points about zoonotic risk. I don’t think we’ve found a radical.

”There is a rise in the frequency and diversity of outbreaks, with links to climate change, population increase, global migration and the increasing likelihood of spill-overs from animals to humans”.

Is there? Outside the WHO’s Geneva headquarters, the evidence for this is very thin. On this unlikely false premise, Ms Kruk’s conclusion follow:

”There is an increasing recognition that pandemic preparedness needs to be treated as a permanent priority, rather than following the path of those that have adopted a ‘panic and forget strategy,’ allowing system preparedness to wane”.

This might have been written by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Ms Kruk continues:
”The NSW Health COVID-19 Response Debrief (the Debrief) has many key messages, none more important than the criticality of the capacity, capability and health and wellbeing of the clinical and non-clinical workforce; their commitment to a shared purpose and a preparedness to deal with their own fears in high pressure environments, do the hard yards, and produce some outstanding results for their community”.

Do the hard yards include outstanding results? Who are we trying to confuse? Are these the hard yards you are talking that so spooked the Perrottet Government that they banned the release of these figures?

Once you hide this data, you can present the following as successes:

page vi As one system report

A more accurate appreciation of NSW Health’s Covid response can be found in this article (click image below) I originally wrote it in August 2021 but reviewed it a few weeks ago to add key information about the role of antibiotics.

NSW Health pretended there was nothing to be done outside getting tested and waiting until you were cyanotic (breathless). There was no advice around Vitamin D, early treatment to prevent the infection escaping your mucosal system (see Robert Clancy with John Campbell), antivirals, the role of antibiotics or any of a range of safe, effective and cheap alternatives to the mRNA, adenovirus options.

Employers usurped the role of doctors

We were forced to join this experiment or lose our jobs as responsibility for policing our vaccination was handed to our employers. They were even expected to interpret the validity of any exemption we put forward.

This happened to me. In late December 2021, the Health Minister, Brad Hazzard, changed the rules to make the exemption criteria tighter. The exemption that had allowed me to work from September to December 2021 was now considered invalid and my employer was given the role of interpreting this. In other words he stepped between doctor and patient by making a medical determination.

Further, this matter went to Fair Work where the union industrial officer refused to challenge this extraordinary situation. The Fair Work Comissioner failed to see anything unusual in this either. This was NSW Health’s Covid policy laid bare. There was no official protocol outside take a panadol (see Spike has a plan article). The clear message was take the vaccine.

The As one system report made these recommendations:

1. Make governance and decision-making structures clearer, inclusive, and more widely understood

2. Strengthen coordination, communication, engagement, and collaboration

3. Enhance the speed, transparency, accuracy, and practicality of data and information sharing

4. Prioritise the needs of vulnerable people and communities most at risk, impacted and in need from day one

5. Put communities at the centre of emergency governance, planning, preparedness, and response

6. Recognise, develop and sustain workforce health, wellbeing, capability and agility.

page xii As one system report

If the sole aim is to deliver a vaccine, why review your policies? To vaccinate people faster?

These look good but all the talk of inclusiveness, strengthening, enhancing, prioritising and community-centred promises will mean nothing if the aim is the enforcement of unnecessary medical procedure against the interests of the patient.

The document then goes on to open up these 6 items in more detail. The discussion of pandemic preparedness looks like it might be designed to complement the International Health Regulations (2005). Proposed sharing of data with community partners need closer inspection too. Who are they? Sadly, our medical officialdom has become very tricky in recent years.

Robyn Kruk looks like a team player but I am not sure we’re on her team.

Angela Jackson

Dr Angela is a health economist and lead economist with Impact Economics and Policy. She is a member of the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee and is the National Chair of the Women in Economics Network. She was also previously a Board Member and Chair of the Finance Committee at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 2015-2021.

At Melbourne she may have met champions of pro-vax orthodoxy Raina Macintyre and Tony Blakely for whom no child is too young for the jab.

She also spent time at Monash where she may have met Professor David Jans or Dr Kylie Wagstaff. Early in 2021, they were creating excitement through early research they had done on Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19.

And then everything went quiet. Someone pulled Monash management into line and it is now a manufacturing hub for Moderna mRNA vaxxes. Does anyone know what happened to Kylie and David? I am afraid to ask.

Monash is also the home of Planetary Health through the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. There is even a Blue Mountains link to this body and our very own Planetary Health Initiative. Tony Capon has a leading role in both organisations.

Angela also studied at the Fabian Society linked London School of Economics. She’s an occasional writer for the Age (calling for free RAT tests), the sniffy Conversation and wrote an article in the early days of Covid on how it affected young people, especially women.

She has an interest in Minderoo’s ThriveByFive campaign. With an Impact Economics partner she published this paper: Child Care Subsidy Activity Test: Incentive or Barrier to Labor Force Participation in conjunction with Twiggy’s operation.

Her company is interestingly named. The current Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is running an Investment Roundtable (see item 7 Social Impact Investment) with banks, superannuation funds and big investment houses. He has a strong focus on the concept Social Impact Bonds as does Ms Jackson’s ally Minderoo.

She was former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s Deputy Chief of Staff. Her strong Labor links are further confirmed with this generous description of Dan Andrews’s Victoria prior to his resignation:

”But that agenda, from investing in hospitals, mental health and infrastructure to addressing domestic violence, has had widespread public support and is setting Victoria up for higher living standards in the future. What has had less support and focus is how we pay for this agenda”.
25th May 2023

I wonder whether Victorians are dilating on their future higher living standards at the moment.

This ABC radio interview in Melbourne with Ali Moore tells you pretty much where Ms Jackson stands. From it we get comments like:

“If we had let things run the hospitals would have been overcrowded”;
”It was a difficult trade-off with lockdowns and in terms of zero-Covid”;
”I did support the lockdowns”;
”From an economists point of view, I think [lockdowns were] the best approach and I think most economists, most mainstream economists, had the view, really, to protect the economy you had to protect the health system”.

Before she starts writing all this into the report. Someone might advise her that lockdowns, masking, vaxxing, hospital overloads, economists and trade-offs may have been perfectly unnecessary with early treatment.

Ali Moore interview with Angela Jackson
ABC Radio Melbourne
21st September 2023

Finally, these Tweets tell us quite a bit about Ms Jackson’s perspective. She is clearly pro-vax and has already decided that from medical and economic perspectives things went pretty well.

We get a tip of the hat to Peter Doherty and his 70%….now 80% and you’ll be free.

Here is Angela in conversation with one of Klaus Schwab’s Young Global Leaders.
This tweet leaves me in despair. These are leading figures in our country making a virtue of terrifying children over nothing. Don’t tell me these people are smart.

In summing up, I think the three committee members can point to the limitations being placed on this enquiry by excluding state governments actions and policy. Yet, there is nothing in their profiles or their activities online that suggests they are other than political choices.

Catherine Bennett actively promoted a Big Pharma agenda including the injecting of children despite Covid-19 being of minimal threat to them. Robyn Kruk seems the ideal bureaucrat to hand our liberty over to the WHO. Angela Jackson simply thinks everything went pretty well. This will be a very large whitewash.

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