Just 1.7 million, or 8.5% of Australia\u2019s 20.1 million adults have had Covid booster in the past six months, according to the latest Australian Government update<\/a> (as at 7 February). In contrast, 18.1 million, or 90% had at least one vaccination previously, but have not kept up-to-date.<\/p>\n An estimated 302,000 (1.5%) of Australian adults remain unvaccinated, although this number may be closer to half a million according to data aggregator site Covidlive.com.au<\/a>.2<\/a><\/p>\n Aside from a barely perceptible flurry of boosting in November and December of 2023 (likely related to a hysterical media blitz about an eighth Covid wave), Australians are no longer bothering with boosters, which at this stage are predominantly the Pfizer and Moderna mRNAs.<\/p>\n Predictably, the majority of up-to-date Australians are aged 75 and over, although even then, two thirds (66.4%) are under-vaccinated. 80% of adults in the 64 to 75 years age bracket, and 96.7% of adults in the 18 to 64 age bracket are under-vaccinated.<\/p>\n This means most Australians have ignored even the relatively conservative guidance<\/a> of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), which recommends Covid boosters only those aged 65 and over, and adults who fall into special risk categories.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve also largely ignored repeated warnings in the media from high-profile experts about the dangers of Covid, and calls to get boosted<\/a> for reasons as trivial as \u2018feeling at risk\u2019 because of their job or lifestyle.<\/p>\n Notably, ATAGI does not<\/em> recommend boosters for such reasons, especially in the case of adolescents and young adults, which it advises<\/a> \u201chave a lower age-related risk of severe COVID-19, and a comparatively higher risk of myocarditis following vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n Experts blame social media, vaccine fatigue, poor public health messaging, and rampant misinformation for Australians\u2019 disinterest in continuing to vaccinate. All of these may be contributing factors, but there\u2019s another glaringly obvious explanation.<\/p>\n The products were a failure from the very beginning.<\/strong><\/p>\n Recall that Pfizer\u2019s vaccine, which accounts for over 70% of all vaccine doses administered in Australia and billions worldwide, was provisionally approved for the sole purpose of, “Active immunisation to prevent coronavirus disease<\/strong> 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n This is clearly stated in the Therapeutic Goods Administration\u2019s (TGA) Public Assessment Report<\/a> for the Pfizer vaccine, first issued in January 2021, and in comparative regulatory approval documentation around the world.<\/p>\n This is also the case for Moderna\u2019s Covid vaccine, which was approved to \u201cprevent coronavirus disease,\u201d as stated in the corresponding Public Assessment Report<\/a>, August 2021.<\/p>\n Australians knew the deal. Civil liberties were confiscated until we earned them back by vaccinating our way to freedom and gainful employment. The Federal Government allocated taxpayer funds to a \u2018Spread Freedom<\/a>\u2019 campaign to assist state and territory governments in achieving their vaccination targets.<\/p>\n Of course, Australians considering vaccination against job loss and house arrest probably hadn\u2019t read the TGA\u2019s Public Assessment Report for the Pfizer vaccine, which specified that “vaccine efficacy against asymptomatic infection and viral transmission”<\/strong> had “not yet been addressed” <\/strong>(emphasis added).<\/p>\n So when officials chanted \u2018stop the spread\u2019 and \u2018keep our community safe\u2019 like rosary prayers in the daily televised press conferences, all but the resolute few believed, and rolled up to participate in the mass jabbing ritual.<\/p>\n And yes, officials really did say it would stop transmission<\/a>, presumably because this particular piece of disinformation provided the rationale for Public Health Orders (PHO) related to vaccine passports<\/a> and workplace vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n For example, the New South Wales PHO below<\/a>, which asserts that the risk of Covid transmission can be \u201creduced if all people eligible for vaccination\u2026 are fully vaccinated.\u201d (As spotted on Arkmedic\u2019s Substack)<\/a><\/p>\n But, just as Australia hit its record-breaking vaccination targets and some degree of freedom was restored, Covid cases skyrocketed.<\/p>\n Australians soon clocked that the products did not do the one thing they were approved to do – prevent symptomatic disease.<\/strong> The term for this in the Australian Immunisation Handbook<\/a> is “vaccine failure.”<\/p>\n Then, seemingly overnight, the story changed.<\/p>\n \u2018It was only ever meant to reduce the severity of illness and death.’<\/em><\/p>\n Like the Men in Black with their memory flashy thing<\/a>, public health campaigns introduced new phrases like \u2018reduce the severity\u2019 and \u2018protect the healthcare system\u2019, as though citizens exist to protect the infrastructure they pay for.<\/p>\n Soon, the hospitals filled up with vaccinated patients<\/a>. After several months of regularly reporting that there were zero unvaccinated patients in hospital<\/a>, New South Wales Health, the only state health department that published proper data on hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination dose, stopped publishing the reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vaccinated Australians probably didn\u2019t know that the TGA\u2019s Public Assessment Report<\/a> indicated that the Pfizer vaccine probably worked for five weeks at best, \u201craising concerns over long term immunity.\u201d But they worked it out for themselves when they got their first, and then second Covid infections. By the end of 2022, serosurveillance data showed that more than 2\/3 of Australian adults<\/a> had been infected with Omicron at least once.<\/p>\n Vaccinated Australians wouldn\u2019t have read that the report flagged missing safety information for multiple cohorts, including pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, immunocompromised patients, frail patients with co-morbidities, and patients with autoimmune or inflammatory disorders, either.<\/p>\n The TGA considered this “acceptable,” and the vaccine rollout was prioritised to these groups (and healthcare workers) despite there being no safety data available. Patients seeking vaccine exemptions due to the absence of safety data were denied.<\/p>\n Maybe vaccinated Australians trusted the TGA, the pharma companies and public health officials at first. But within the first year of the rollout, Australia\u2019s safety surveillance systems recorded an \u201cexponential increase<\/a>\u201d in injury reports associated with the Covid vaccines.<\/p>\n The TGA admitted to 14 deaths arising from Covid vaccination, but vaccinated Australians surely found it troubling that over 1,000 deaths had been reported. Some, like Amy Sedgewick<\/a> and Caitlin Goetz<\/a>, were so obviously related to the injections that the TGA\u2019s refusal to acknowledge it could only undermine public confidence in the regulator.<\/p>\n Vaccinated Australians would also have noticed that severely injured people were having great difficulties accessing compensation<\/a>, with fewer than 5% of claims being approved by the national scheme.<\/p>\n They may never have seen the below graph, from data aggregator site OpenDAEN<\/a>, which pulls injury reports related to Covid vaccinations from Australia\u2019s adverse event reporting database, the DAEN<\/a>. The scientific literature suggests that injuries captured by systems such as the TGA\u2019s are under-reported in the order of 10-100 times. By now, many Australians know someone, if not multiple people, who have had cause to submit such a report (whether they did so or not).<\/p>\n To this day, the TGA\u2019s Public Assessment Reports still state that the single approved therapeutic use for the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid vaccines (both mono- and bivalent) is prevention of coronavirus disease.<\/em><\/p>\n Yet these products, by the TGA\u2019s own documentation, never did what they were supposed to do, and still don\u2019t. In any other industry, this would be chalked up as an unmitigated failure, and Australians know it.<\/p>\n The Government and its agencies can parrot \u2018safe and effective\u2019 all they like, but now that most Australians no longer have to take the shots in exchange for the right to earn a living, they\u2019re walking away from the mRNAs.3<\/a><\/p>\n Now, wait til the people find out that the Pfizer vaccine that most Australians were injected with was never tested<\/a> at scale in a Randomised Controlled Trial before being rolled out en masse\u2026<\/p>\n 1<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBy the end of April 2022, almost 58 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered, with 95.5% of Australians aged 16 and over and 80.4% of those aged 12\u201315 having received 2 doses. Over two-thirds (69.3%) of eligible people had received a third dose. Among children aged 5\u201311, 52.8% had received their first dose and 36.9% had received 2 doses,\u201d reports the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 2<\/a><\/p>\n The number of unvaccinated Australians is not a precise figure, as the report deducts the number of individuals with recorded vaccinations from an Estimated Resident Population<\/a> (ERP) which is extrapolated 2021 census figures, and updated quarterly.<\/p>\n The federal DOH numbers vary from the numbers on Covidlive.com.au<\/a> which is an aggregator site that pulls data from multiple sources including state and territory databases. By Covidlive\u2019s estimation, there are slightly fewer in the vaccinated groups and a couple of hundred thousand more (total 527,700) in the never-vaccinated group.<\/p>\n The DOH table (on page 6 of this document<\/a>) also contains confusing anomalies, wherein the numbers in the state and territory row cells do not add up to the given totals in the top (National) row. When I queried this, the DOH advised that the variance is due to rounding of state figures, and that the totals given in the top row are definitely correct. Accordingly, I have reported the DOH official figures with the caveat that I\u2019m not convinced they\u2019re completely accurate.<\/p>\n 3<\/a><\/p>\n Most workplace Covid vaccine mandates have been dropped, but they remain in place for some industries in certain states. In other cases, workers are still being subjected to disciplinary action for failing to comply with vaccination directives issued in 2021, despite mandates no longer being in effect. 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