Inspired by the brilliant Robyn Chuter (if you haven’t already read her Substack, I highly recommend you do so here), I have decided to publish some of the letters I have previously written to various government staff, political hopefuls, health bureaucrats and regulatory agencies, and any responses I received.
Late last year (2021), my husband and I received a generic letter addressed to the household, which upon opening we discovered was ‘advice’ regarding the Australian government’s COVID-19 booster programme. By this time I had written numerous letters in opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and mass childhood COVID-19 vaccination to many individuals and organisations, without receiving any reasonable response. Reading this letter pushed me to my limit as it made ridiculous and baseless claims about the COVID-19 booster dose and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in general. I knew I would almost certainly not get a reply (I didn’t), but I couldn’t let this letter go without calling out the nonsense it contained.
Below you can see the letter we received, the accompanying information sheet, and my response. I don’t usually write with such an obviously facetious tone (or like a ‘troll’, of which my husband accused me in this instance), but I just couldn’t contain myself.
Department of Health
GPO Box 9848
Canberra ACT 26012nd December 2021
Re: Generic COVID-19 Vaccine Correspondence Received 1st December 2021 (see attachment)
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Laine Jolly and I am an Australian Registered Nurse. My husband and I recently received a generic letter (see attachment) regarding COVID-19 vaccination boosters and I am requesting clarification and further information on the details contained within this letter.
This letter states that Australia’s “health response has saved over 30,000 Australian lives”. By what metric has our ‘response’ been deemed to have saved this number of lives Please provide further information on how this conclusion has been reached and what statistics and calculations were used.
Similarly, this letter claims that “Everyone in Australia is encouraged to take up the vaccine boosters to make sure we can keep each and every one of us safe”. Please provide concrete evidence to support this claim. Upon what evidence are you basing the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccine boosters? What is your evidence to support everyone taking up a booster, as opposed to only those who are in specific, high-risk groups? Specifically how will COVID-19 boosters ‘keep us all safe’?
Accompanying this letter was a generic information sheet (see attached), also related to COVID-19 vaccination boosters. This information sheet also makes so bold claims for which I would like you to provide further evidence. This document states that “Your booster dose can be a different brand to the one you received for your primary course of vaccination”. What evidence do you have to support that this is the safest and most effective course of action on booster doses? Have you examined the safety and efficacy of using the same brand as a person’s primary course of vaccination Vs a different brand of booster dose? If so, please provide the details of these studies. This information sheet goes on to claim that a booster will make the protection from the primary vaccination course “stronger and longer lasting”, and also suggests “It should also help prevent spread of the virus”. This secondary claim regarding ‘spread’ appears hopeful, at best. On what specific research are these claims regarding ‘stronger, longer lasting’ protection based, and why do you assert it ‘should’ help reduce virus spread?
The sheet also states that “only one booster dose is recommended at this stage there is no recommendation for any further booster doses”. Why is a booster dose recommended? What specific evidence supports this? This document also makes reference to “the current evidence” suggesting that “a booster dose is not required until at least six months after a person has completed their primary course of vaccination”. Specifically, what is this ‘current evidence’, to which you are referring when you state (in the letter section) that boosters “should be taken from 6 months after your second dose”, as opposed to a longer or shorter interval? Please provide explicit examples.
In a era where everyone demands that you ‘follow the science!’, I’m sure you can appreciate my desire to do so. I look forward to hearing from you regarding the evidence upon which the COVID-19 booster vaccination roll out is based. To be clear, I am asking for explicit evidence and research studies which support this broader community and public health advice, not simply a reiteration from a governmental regulatory agency (such as the TGA) or health bureaucrat (such as the CMO).
Thank you for your time and assistance with my enquiries. I look forward to receiving your response at your earliest convenience.
Yours sincerely,
Laine Jolly.
While I suspect the lack of reply had something to do with my blatant sarcasm, it must also be because the powers that be simply do not have an adequate response to my questions and requests for clarification.
While in early 2022 it pleased me that many Australians seemed to have caught on to the ridiculousness of the government’s booster advice and declined to have a third dose, this caused quite the panic and the subsequent release of shameless propaganda by at least two jurisdictions (the Commonwealth and South Australia) to manipulate people into taking up a third dose. Add in some expanded COVID-19 vaccine mandates tied to employment and hey presto, we’re now at 70% of Australians 16 years of age and older (many of whom will now have had COVID-19) who have succumbed to an almost entirely unnecessary booster dose.
It is abundantly clear now (if it wasn’t before), that many Australians are being unconsciously and/or explicitly coerced into COVID-19 vaccination, and our dear leaders (and worse, a few actual doctors) remain unwilling, and likely unable, to provide any clear scientific evidence for the ‘advice’ they are continuing to provide.
With many Australians now being encouraged to take up a fourth dose (and an inevitable peek into our future here in Australia as other countries begin recommending fifth doses), it begs the question, how many doses will be enough, especially when the recommendations for said doses are based on the whims of politicians and so-called experts, rather than concrete scientific evidence?
Your guess is as good as mine.
I sometimes amuse myself by picturing the faces of the flunkies who read these emails (I'm damn sure the people they're addressed to never read them). Do they just hit 'delete' with a supercilious smirk? Do they read them, experience a momentary cold thrill of fear, and then reassure themselves that the 'experts' advising the government must surely be on top of all this, so there's nothing to worry about? Do they laugh out loud that the plebs are questioning their masters, since they themselves sure as hell haven't taken the clot shot? Are we dealing with rank incompetence or malice? I wish I knew.
“Advice.”
I always loved this Australasian oddity, or maybe the term is more common to the
Commonwealth countries in general. It’s not found so much in the US with regard to government guidelines.
It used to be funny. Now it makes me gag. “Advice.”
Let’s be clear. That’s the last thing it is.