Gold Coast Hospital employee wakes up ‘paralysed’ after Pfizer vaccine

A Gold Coast Hospital employee who suffered a severe reaction his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine is accusing Queensland Health of discrimination for failing to acknowledge his doctor’s exemption and insisting he take the second jab to keep his job.

John Thomlinson, 62, says despite knowing he was left “paralysed” by the vaccine, Queensland Health has been “bullying and coercing” him for the past 16 months to take it again “even though they know I am at a high risk of dying”.

The finance worker, who does not interact with patients, says Gold Coast Hospital has refused to accept two valid vaccine exemptions from medical experts, after he developed a serious spinal impairment that left him unable to walk to a period of time.

This covid year.. It was hyped.. Scare the people and they will obey.
Covid attacked the immune system. The meds to fight it were locked up. What sense does that make?

Some years back, my son contacted mono via a microphone. Dr’s said they could do no more and he came home. I researched.. I got every item for the immune system and gave him as much as he could tolerate.. Watching him and what was going on.
He was well in 3 weeks.

I would do that before a needle with whatever in it.

Having become aware of how Australia does NOT have a robust Right-To-Keep-and-Bear-Arms in their constitution I was concerned about how much freedom there is in Australia.
Also, they seem to have a higher regard for the rights and lives of criminals, than they do for crime victims.
No capital punishment in Australia.
Pretty rare for a life sentence to be handed out.
Seems like murder convictions can be served out under some kind of “minimum term” that runs just 1/2 of the actual sentence.
Perversion of justice? Wonder what that statue would look like.

You've been deliberately spoon fed an utterly warped and misleading idea about Australia and you've just swallowed it whole. Somebody - I suspect it is most likely linked to China - has done its best over the last few years to try and split the US from one of its closest long term allies and they've used a lot of false information to do it.

There have been some problems in some specific parts of Australia - most notably the state of Victoria, which is the most far left state in the entire country (and it's where I live). But judging all of Australia on the basis of what happens in Victoria is like judging all of America based on what happens in California. It's not most of the country. It's one unusual part of the country.

And while there were some real problems in Victoria, there was also a lot of completely made up misinformation layered on top of that. Claims of police squads forcibly people, supposed concentration camps that never existed... there was just enough truth to make people believe a lot of lies.

Please comment on the hotels that were used to place people in 2 week long quarantines. Lies as well?

No, that is one of the bits that is true. People arriving in Australia from overseas - including Australian citizens - were required to spend time in hotel quarantine. But it was their choice as to whether they entered the country - they could have stayed where they were.

Australia had very low numbers of COVID at the time those decisions were taken. Trying to keep it out of the country honestly made a lot of sense in my view. We have a huge advantage of having no land borders and so it's easier for us to secure our borders than most nations. Border security, in general, is a cornerstone of Australian security in all areas.

What was indefensible, in my view, is that some states closed internal borders as well, and/or imposed quarantine on people arriving from other states. That isn't supposed to be constitutional but the complicating factor there is that Australia's constitution was deliberately written by the state governments to give them power over the Federal government, which was designed to be weak, except in a few areas (defence and foreign relations basically) so when the states did this, they were able to get away with it. Most of what was done there was almost certainly unconstitutional but state Supreme Courts prevented the cases getting past them to the High Court of Australia. Exactly how that was allowed to happen, needs to be fully examined and understood - and that process is happening now.

In simple terms, in a lot of ways, Australia should actually be seen as six separate countries - the six states still have an extremely high level of sovereignty in their own rights. Federation in 1901 was voluntary and they didn't choose to give up much at all. Significantly, during the pandemic, "public health" is almost entirely controlled at state level, not Federal.

And Victoria and Western Australia are pretty much hard left totalitarian states when they want to be - in Victoria, this emerged as an extremely long lockdown. In WA, it emerged as an extremely long near total border closure to the rest of the country. The rest of the country really isn't like those two places - but it's a spectrum. (There are two territories as well as the six states - they have a lot of similarities to the states, but much less actual sovereignty).

We have a slightly different mix of vaccines being used here, I think. Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Moderna, and Novavax are the ones in common use - the J&J vaccine is approved for use, but is rarely given - the clotting risk is considered too high given the level of protection it provides.

Ivermectin can't be prescribed for COVID by general practitioners - they can prescribe it for some other conditions. Respiratory specialists, and infectious disease specialists, can prescribe it for COVID if they consider there's a particular benefit for a patient on a case by case basis, but it's unusual - the official position from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - Australia's rough equivalent of the US FDA - seems to be that they don't think it's effective, but they won't stand in the way of an expert in respiratory disease who wants to prescribe it.

I don't know much about it - I'm not an expert of any sort in this field. But the position doesn't seem unreasonable to me - giving the actual experts the right to make the call.

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