Sparks flew during a contentious public hearing in the Australian Parliament earlier this week as Representatives from Pfizer and Moderna gave unsatisfactory answers to multiple lawmakers’ questions.
The Australian Senate’s ‘Education and Employment Legislation Committee’ held a hearing Wednesday regarding the status of the COVID-19 vaccines, which included witnesses from Pfizer Australia, Moderna, and Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
Conservative lawmakers were outraged that at least half of all Australians got COVID after the country imposed some of the most draconian lockdowns and vaccine mandates in the world. During the hearing, a Pfizer representative insisted that no one was forced to get the risky COVID-19 jabs in Australia, despite the county’s strict mandates.
Senator Pauline Hanson confronted Dr Brian Hewitt, Pfizer Australia’s Head of Regulatory Sciences, about a comment he had made earlier in the hearing regarding the country’s vaccine mandates.
“You actually made a comment that no one was forced to have the vaccination,” Hanson said, after initially attributing the comment to his colleague Dr Krishan Thiru, Pfizer Australia’s Country Medical Director.
“You were in Australia during COVID-19 … you must have been fully aware that people—nurses, doctors, people—to keep their jobs, were forced to have the vaccination,” she said. “Now, do you retract your statement that they were not forced?”
“Senator, no, I believe firmly that no one was forced to have a vaccine,” Hewitt responded. “Mandates and vaccine requirements are determined by governments and health authorities. I believe everyone was offered an opportunity to get a vaccine or not get a vaccine and I don’t believe that anybody was forced to take the vaccine.”
“A lot of Australians will disagree with you on that one,” Hanson shot back.
Senator Alex Antic cited statistics showing that cases of Myocarditis spiked precipitously in South Australia following the introduction of the COVID injections.
“Now, we know that myocarditis and pericarditis are two heart inflammation conditions well associated with the COVID mRNA injections—even the Therapeutic Goods Administration admits to that, Antic began.
“Yet despite this well-established fact, the injections were mandated to thousands of Australians and speaking out about these incursions on freedom got one labelled an anti-vaxxer or a peddler of dangerous disinformation,” the senator continued.
Antic cited data he obtained through a Freedom of Information request from the South Australia Health Department that tracked cardiac-related presentations in 15-year-olds to 44-year-olds going back to 2018.
The senator showed a chart indicating that the numbers remained steady at 1,100 a month from January 2018 until July of 2021 when it “drastically spiked.” By November of 2021, he said, the number of cases peaked at 2,172 per month, almost double the norm. The rise in cases, he noted, took place “just as these injections were rolled out.”
Antic noted that there was another spike in cardiac-related presentations in February of 2023, “just when the boosters were being mandated.”
“These injections are harming, and in many cases, killing our young people,” Antic declared. “So what does SA Health have to say about this? Nothing. They continue to roll out the injections. They continue to push the injection narrative. This injection campaign is going to go down as the greatest scandal in medical history and none of you said a single thing.”
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🇦🇺Australian @SenatorAntic presents concerning statistics revealing heart-related incidents 🆘doubled🆘 within the timeframe when individuals received 2 SHOTS 💉💉& BOOSTER dose of the vaccine pic.twitter.com/mLX535IrCc
During the hearing, one of the Pfizer representatives admitted that during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, Pfizer employees received a different shot than the general public.
