Medical Freedom

Source: Herald Sun – Kathy Watson-Jones was left paralysed by a mandatory flu vaccine

As the 01 May 2020 flu vaccination deadline approaches, we considered it timely to emphasise the following:

1. The flu vaccination mandates for aged care facilities are being authorised under state or territory emergency/public health pandemic laws, are temporary, and can only be extended for the duration of the pandemic.
2. If you are a financial member of a trade union, you are entitled to ask your union for assistance in protecting your right as an employee to decline flu vaccination.  Arguably, mandating influenza vaccination for aged care workers represents an unnecessary and disproportionate exercise of power by unelected health officials, under the cover of an alleged pandemic for a different disease.  This should be of keen interest to any union official worth their salt, because it represents a significant erosion of employee rights, and is not supported by evidence.
3. If you are affected, either as employees or visitors to aged care facilities, you should also consider obtaining a doctor’s letter certifying that you have a medical contraindication to influenza vaccination, which we believe is within the scope of the directions/orders in all states and territories.  There are obviously no guarantees that medical contraindication exemption certificates will be accepted by all services, but we consider it is still worth trying.
4. As the Aged Care Directions/Orders are authorised under state/territory legislation, the Chief Medical Officer of Australia and Australian Government have no authority to stipulate criteria for medical contraindication exemptions.  This is important, because many aged care facilities have been relying on information distributed by the Australian Government.

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