2022 JUL 21 WHAT A COMPLETE CLOWN SHOW ABC presenter Norman Swan fears Australia could ‘be stuffed’ from next variant

BACKGROUND HEADLINES: WHAT A COMPLETE CLOWN SHOW ABC presenter Norman Swan fears Australia could ‘be stuffed’ from next variant

CRAIG KELLY – National Director, United Australia Party said “WHAT A COMPLETE CLOWN SHOW”^[1]SEE URL: https://t.me/craigkelly/2540: This bloke; Norman Swan is the Tim Flannery of the Covid world. Just about every prediction Norman Swan has made in relation to Covid has been wrong. Yet the ABC give him a platform to pump out misinformation and regurgitate the lies of Big Pharma without challenge. Now Covid doomsayer Norman Swan warns Australia will be ‘STUFFED’ by the next variant unless the country reintroduces MASKS – as ABC cheers on mandates^[2]SEE URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11023541/Covid-19-Australia-ABC-presenter-Norman-Swan-fears-Australia-stuffed-variant.html And no, this is not a misprint ….

Dr Swan said he would host world leading immunologist Chris Goodnow from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research will be a special guest on a program of Radio National’s Health Report. ‘He himself has had four doses of the Covid vaccine and is currently unfortunately disabled with a cardiac side affect of Covid,’ Dr Swan said. Now Covid doomsayer Norman Swan warns Australia will be ‘STUFFED’ by the next variant unless the country reintroduces MASKS – as ABC cheers on mandates.

Daily Mail Online | Now Covid doomsayer Norman Swan warns Australia will be ‘STUFFED’ by the next variant unless the country reintroduces MASKS – as ABC cheers on mandates

■  The face of ABC’s Covid coverage has again renewed calls for mask mandates

■  Dr Norman Swan has described Australia’s latest Covid wave as very worrying

■  Says vaccinations aren’t working as well as with previous strains of the virus

■  Added repeated re-infections led to increased risk of longer term side effects

Australia could be ‘stuffed’ when the next Covid-19^[3]SEE URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/coronavirus/index.html variant arrives on our shores unless mask mandates are brought back in, ABC presenter Dr Norman Swan warned.

Dr Swan renewed calls for the return of masks in indoor settings on Monday as the highly infectious and ‘immune evasive’ Omicron^[4]SEE URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/omicron-variant/index.html strains BA4 and BA.5 run rampant.

State and territory leaders convened an urgent national cabinet meeting on Saturday after federal health minister Mark Butler warned to expect ‘millions’ of cases in the coming months.

Dr Swan described the latest wave of the ‘immune evasive’ sub-variants was very worrying.

The accredited medical doctor said vaccines aren’t working as well as they used to as he called for improved ventilation measures and mandatory indoor masks.

(pictured Sydneysiders in the CBD on Sunday)

There are growing calls for Aussies to wear masks in high risk environments such as shopping centres 

Dr Swan told ABC’s Radio National Breakfast:^[5]SEE URL: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/health-with-dr-norman-swan-covid-vaccine-reinfection/13977140

‘We probably do need to mandate masks and N95s in high risk environments, otherwise when the next variant comes along and it’s more virulent than this one – in other words more likely to kill you or make you seriously ill – we’ll be stuffed.’

Dr Swan said governments had a responsibility reinstate mask rules, and insisted vaccines alone weren’t enough to protect the population.

Australia could be ‘stuffed’ by the time the next Covid-19 variant emerges, according to Dr Norman Swan (pictured)

‘What is not happening is what some people thought would happen, which is that we would build up a background resistance and this would become milder and milder with time.

‘What it’s showing is that with repeated re-infections, there is an increased risk of cardiac, kidney and other side effects, which increased with time independent of vaccination.’

‘We’ve got to slow this down and prevent it as we’re going to have a significant burden of cardiac and pulmonary disease as a result of this.’

Dr Swan described Australia’s current third wave of the virus as very worrying.

‘The history of this virus is perplexing, every six months or so a new variant appears,’ he said.

‘BA4 and BA.5 are behaving as if they’re a new variant, even though they’re a sub-variant of Omicron.

‘Six months after Christmas, here we go again with viruses that are evading the immune system.

‘As time goes on, this virus is perplexing the immunologists because it’s not behaving as expected.

‘The government has loaded the dice on the vaccines and the vaccines are not enough.’

Dr Swan called for a return of mandate masks and N95s in high risk environments (pictured, Sydney shoppers on Sunday)

Dr Swan ended the radio interview by accusing the federal and state governments of prioritising the economy over public health.

‘Mask wearing should not affect the economy to a significant extent but we’ve got to slow this down and plead with people nicely to not necessarily go to work,’ he said.

‘It’s young people as well who are getting these long term side effects even though they’re not getting severe diseases.

‘This isn’t the common cold – and it’s not the flu.’

Australia recorded 39,028 new infections and 30 deaths on Monday.

Dr Swans also accusing the federal and state governments of prioritising the economy over public health.

ATTACHED TO THIS ABC HUNG THIS ARTICLE

The astonishing Covid-19 stats that EVERY Australian needs to see – and the data proves we DON’T need more rules – as a busy city centre hospital’s ICU ward sits almost EMPTY of Omicron patients

■  Median age of Covid deaths is 83, same as Australia’s average life expectancy

■  Most cases are among under 50s but only 1 in 10,000 of them died from Covid

■  Even 95 per cent of elderly frail residents in aged care units survived infection

■  St Vincent’s Hospital ICU ward currently only has a couple of Covid patients

■  NSW Premier Dom Perrottet admitted on Monday that flu was worse than Covid

AUSTRALIA 

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Date-stamped: 2022 JUL 18 - Time-stamped: 17:47 AEST - Author: Kylie Stevens for Daily Mail Australia - Article Title: Now Covid doomsayer Norman Swan warns Australia will be 'STUFFED' by the next variant unless the country reintroduces MASKS - as ABC cheers on mandates - Article Link: dailymail.co.uk

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Date-stamped: 2022 JUL 18 - Time-stamped: 12:56 AEST - Author: Kylie Stevens for Daily Mail Australia - Article Title: Covid Australia Government statistics data undermine extremist calls for masks and isolation pay - Article Link: dailymail.co.uk

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