A Personal Perspective of the Past Five Years

Posted on by Helen Alice Springs

I am a health practitioner with two post-graduate qualifications including a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.  For twenty years I worked on public health programs, mostly in Australia but also for NGOs in south-east Asia before returning to NZ in 2021.  My speciality was infectious disease surveillance, outbreak control, vaccination program management and specific infectious disease program management (mostly tuberculosis).

My experience includes but is not limited to, investigating and responding to outbreaks, training and accreditation of vaccine providers, teaching health professionals about appropriate infection control measures, contact tracing, and coordinating appropriate respiratory isolation of infectious patients.  In 2020 my knowledge and experience became a “conspiracy theory” as I watched my colleagues buy into emotion and fear to justify irrational recommendations and chaos, pushed by politicians and media relying on “experts” with various conflicts of interest.

I worked for an Australian Centre for Disease Control unit during the swine flu “pandemic response” of 2009.  The response made no sense and changed the face of infectious disease program management significantly by encouraging panic and useless product consumption over evidence.  Politicians and legacy media outlets had unprecedented powers to insist on absurdities from the public health unit, which was made possible by a mass recruitment drive of staff into positions that did not match their skill set and who were panicked.

As quickly as they exploded onto the global public health scene, swine flu concerns dissipated a few months later, despite the virus remaining in circulation to this day.  How or why this happened was a mystery to me until 2021 when I discovered German pulmonologist and epidemiologist, Dr Wolfgang Wodarg.  He explains what happened in this English interview which is corroborated by this informative documentary on the corruption of the World Health Organization and their public-private partnerships with corporate entities.  For further detail, read this investigative report on the evolution of the World Health Organization.

Table 3 in this World Health Organization document shows that between 123,000 to 203,000 global deaths were attributed to Swine Flu.  This World Health Organization page shows that in any given year influenza causes between 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths.    Clearly, Swine Flu was ramped up to create fear and ensure medical product sales.

In 2020 the dishonest and frenzied public messaging about Covid was reminiscent of the Swine Flu debacle.  Renowned Stanford University infectious disease epidemiologist Professor John Ioannidis’ pre-vaccination seroprevalence study was published in the World Health Organization Bulletin in September 2021.  Covid infection fatality rates were much lower than estimates “made earlier” in the pandemic.  Yet hysteria continues to be promoted to this day by legacy media and certain conflicted “experts” such as Otago University’s WHO representative, Michael Baker.   The Covid fatality rate aligns with seasonal influenza (which simultaneously and mysteriously disappeared during the peak of the pandemic).

Using a screening test to diagnose a disease is one of the most unscientific interventions of the pandemic.  The recommendation of PCR testing for all and sundry to create a false perspective of disease prevalence is well documented.  A group of independent scientists published a report on the faulty use of Covid PCR testing in November 2020.  Used incorrectly, PCR testing can create pseudo-epidemics.

Instead of changing public messaging to match the evidence, a smear campaign against Professor Ioannidis ensued.  Across the globe eminently qualified public health professionals daring to challenge politicised hysteria face grotesque levels of ridicule, vilification, censorship and even death threats, criminalisation and forced psychiatric treatment.  Yet they speak established public health.  The message to all doctors is clear: your compliance is non-negotiable.  For example:

The professional regulatory agencies and their partnerships with corporations including media and pharmaceuticals, must be investigated including the Medical Council of New Zealand. 

I first experienced the phenomenon of silencing in mid-2020 as I sat in a clinical meeting with doctors and nurses speaking mistakenly about face mask use.  As I prepared to offer an education session to explain why indiscriminate mask use is contraindicated, a colleague with no relevant training announced that “anyone who thinks masks don’t work is an idiot”, putting my plan on permanent hold.  Stephen Petty, certified Industrial Hygienist, explains the basics about face masks here (his slides are available in the text below the video). 

An elderly Cambodian couple I knew starved to death during a lockdown period in 2021 when they were forbidden to leave their bamboo hut to scavenge for food.  The documented harm of lockdown policies to the world’s poorest touched me personally and my world will never be the same as I learned the lack of care that most people have for other humans whose lives they deem as expendable.

My own personal loss resulted from the vaccine mandates at the end of 2021.  My employer was against the mandate, and worked to find a solution.  Ultimately, I was dismissed and issued with a trespass notice.

The experience was devastating and changed my world forever.  The same people who marginalised, silenced, belittled and gossiped about me, believed they could avoid inhaling an airborne virus by standing to attention on designated floor stickers with an unsealed strip of microplastic across their airway and used phrases such as “go hard on the virus”.  It was a dystopian hellscape.  I know that despite what happened to me, I am no more a victim than those who believed and/or complied with the absurdities.

My awakening to the ways of the world during this time has been profound.  It is extremely clear that the health industry is captured by criminal enterprise.  Most health professionals are untrained in the speciality of infectious diseases and so do not recognise the uselessness and/or harms of interventions such as face masks, lockdowns, contact tracing for an airborne virus, and non-sterilising, contaminated, harmful medical products with negative efficacy.  Those who do understand, are tyrannised into silence.  None of this is public health.

Two short videos (here and here) show the lack of training that medical doctors receive relating to vaccines.  It was always frustrating to me as a trainer, that doctors never showed any interest in learning about vaccines, as they regularly prescribed the wrong vaccine, or dose, or route.

Noone illustrates corrupted public health leadership better than Belgium’s “Flu Commissioner” during 2009, Marc Van Ranst.  In his January 2019 presentation at a Chatham House “stakeholders meeting” he described his strategies for promoting fear to ramp-up product sales. The political intent of he and his ilk is outlined in the short documentary Stakeholder Capitalism.

Groups such as New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science and The Health Forum NZ are destined to become household names.  They offer competent expertise and collaborate with uncorrupted counterparts across the globe.  This movement is organising against malign powers and only growing in number as more of us awaken to what has happened.

The way that pandemics should be responded to following basic principles of public health is well established.  Recommendations which were thrown out of the window in favour of profiteering and power grabbing are documented in these two systematic reviews.

We must and will return to the basic principles of science, public health and democracy.  Vaccine harms must be addressed.  Preferably by holding the pharmaceutical corporations, and the individuals within them and partnered with them, accountable for the massive deterioration in public health now being experienced across populations as a result of following absurd ideologies.

These sources are working towards renewed, ethical, science based public health in specific relation to the threat of “next pandemics”:

All conflicts of interest of any “expert” held up by the media as a “single source of truth” need to be made available for public scrutiny and all voices must have a seat at the table without reputational attack and/or threat to loss of career and livelihood.

I will never be ambushed again.  “The next pandemic” will be a non-event in my life and I will not comply with any ongoing rights-diminishing “pandemic preparedness” or “safety” rules.

Finally, I highly recommend this recent interview with investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, outlining the way that corporate greed and power has overridden truth and ethics in public health.

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