Fancy gaslighting a grieving widow. “A 12-minute video purporting to shine a light on victims of adverse side-effects emanating from COVID-19 vaccines has amassed hundreds of thousands of views online and prompted requests from readers for Fact Check to investigate.
The video, released as part of a campaign titled “Our Voices Matter”, features interviews with people claiming to have suffered adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines, or to have had family members who died after vaccination.
However, as misinformation researchers at First Draft discovered, at least one of the case studies doesn’t square with official health data. In one interview, a woman identified only as “Kirsti” claims her 52-year-old husband died from “sudden onset myocarditis” after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.
According to the TGAs vaccine safety reports, as mentioned above, there have been no confirmed deaths linked to the Pfizer vaccine in Australia.”
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In Estimates I asked that the ABC apologise to the wife of the man who was recognised by the coroner as being killed by the vaccine.
In 2021, when the death was reported by an independent journalist as being attributable to the Pfizer vaccine it was called misinformation by the ABC.
It was nothing of the sort and it was actually the TGA who was reporting misinformation. The ABC was too lazy to contact the independent journalist or to follow up with the wife.
Given her husband died in front of her and the children you would think the ABC would be a little more sensitive.
It also raises the question of just how many more people were killed by the vaccine that was covered up by the TGA and the media.
We know there were an extra 10,000 deaths in the eight months after the rollout of the vaccine in 2021 from the prior year.
If the authorities think we are going to forget this they are wrong.
Committee on 25/02/2025
Item: Environment and Communications Legislation Committee – 25/02/2025 – Estimates – INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS PORTFOLIO – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Senator RENNICK: Hi, guys. How are you going? Good? Okay. I just want to raise a couple of issues. There was an article released back in August 2021 that basically was a fact check. You did an ABC fact check at the time with RMIT, and it was raised that the claim by Alan Hashem that a bloke by the name of Roberto Garin died from the vaccine was misinformation. It turns out that the autopsy report confirmed that he did indeed die from the vaccine. He died in front of his wife and his daughter, I think—it was one of his children—when the other child walked in. This occurred seven days after the vaccine. The coroner who performed the autopsy confirmed it was indeed from the vaccine. Are you willing to withdraw the statement that this was actually misrepresentation and apologise to Kirsti Garin?
Mrs Kleyn: I apologise; I am not familiar with the matter you’re referring to. I’m not sure, Mr Stevens, if you’re familiar.
Mr Stevens: I’m happy to take that on notice. Did you say it’s from 2021?
Senator RENNICK: Yes, August 2021. And clearly this fact check did not contact the person involved, because, had they contacted the person involved, they would have had this information and not made the statement in the first place.
Mrs Kleyn: Are you able to provide us with the exact detail on that so that we can look into it?
Senator RENNICK: Yes, I’ll put it on notice.
Mrs Kleyn: Thank you.
Senator RENNICK: I’d appreciate it if you did, because it was extremely traumatic, and I think it’s important to note that the TGA has acknowledged that, even though they receive autopsy reports that acknowledge people were killed where the coroner has said that the vaccine caused their death, the TGA didn’t actually report that as a reported death from the vaccine. So you can’t rely on everything the TGA tells you. I guess that is the point. Had your fact checker done their work, they would have known that.
