Covid-19 Vaccination Plan Propaganda Brochure
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From: Paul Jones
Dear Jacinda Ardern,
We recently received in our letterbox a propaganda brochure titled "Our COVID-19 vaccination plan".
In this brochure we quote the following section.
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How we know it's safe?
Medsafe (New Zealand's medicines safety authority) only grants consent for a vaccine to be used in New Zealand once they are satisfied it's safe and effective to use.
All COVID-19 vaccines will go through the same safety steps, and must meet the same robust standards. There have been no shortcuts in granting approval.
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We write for you to provide all documentation and evidence to support the above claims, being;
1) Provide documentation outlining all the safety steps the COVID-19 vaccines are evaluated against.
2) Its claimed no shortcuts have been taken but the propaganda brochure does not outline that these vaccines have only been approved under "emergency use". Please clarify the differences ("shortcuts") between approval for emergency use and the regular approval that an MMR vaccine had to go through?
3) Please provide documentation for the criteria that enables Medsafe to determine what is considered "safe".
4) Please provide documentation for the criteria that enables Medsafe to determine what is considered "effective".
Yours faithfully,
Paul Jones
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Dear Paul Jones
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From: Paul Jones [mailto:[FOI #15328 email]]
Sent: Monday, 3 May 2021 11:51 AM
To: J Ardern (MIN) <[Jacinda Ardern request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Covid-19 Vaccination Plan Propaganda Brochure
Dear Jacinda Ardern,
We recently received in our letterbox a propaganda brochure titled "Our COVID-19 vaccination plan".
In this brochure we quote the following section.
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How we know it's safe?
Medsafe (New Zealand's medicines safety authority) only grants consent for a vaccine to be used in New Zealand once they are satisfied it's safe and effective to use.
All COVID-19 vaccines will go through the same safety steps, and must meet the same robust standards. There have been no shortcuts in granting approval.
-----
We write for you to provide all documentation and evidence to support the above claims, being;
1) Provide documentation outlining all the safety steps the COVID-19 vaccines are evaluated against.
2) Its claimed no shortcuts have been taken but the propaganda brochure does not outline that these vaccines have only been approved under "emergency use". Please clarify the differences ("shortcuts") between approval for emergency use and the regular approval that an MMR vaccine had to go through?
3) Please provide documentation for the criteria that enables Medsafe to determine what is considered "safe".
4) Please provide documentation for the criteria that enables Medsafe to determine what is considered "effective".
Yours faithfully,
Paul Jones
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Thank you for your request for official information received on 18 May
2021 for:
" all documentation and evidence to support the above claims, being;
1) Provide documentation outlining all the safety steps the COVID-19
vaccines are evaluated against.
2) Its claimed no shortcuts have been taken but the propaganda brochure
does not outline that these vaccines have only been approved under
"emergency use". Please clarify the differences ("shortcuts") between
approval for emergency use and the regular approval that an MMR vaccine
had to go through?
3) Please provide documentation for the criteria that enables Medsafe to
determine what is considered "safe".
4) Please provide documentation for the criteria that enables Medsafe to
determine what is considered "effective"."
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As of 10 Jan 2021, I'm not seeing anything on those FDA or EMA web pages that articulates any quantifiable measure of safety or efficiency of these treatments. This is an absurd circle-jerk, where all parties or referring to each other's "approvals" as some form of "proof" of safety and efficacy.
This really needs follow up.
At the very least, Jacinda Ardern is making bold claims, and unlawfully providing medical advice to several million people, without any shred of evidence to substantiate her claims of "safe" and "effective".
Helen Wallis left an annotation ()
At the end of the day who will be held accountable for the lack of evidence?
I really hope that Paul follows this up further.
Any information presented here would help to show that this is not scientifically based rather constructed for gain.
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From what the Ministry of Health and Medsafe is saying, the New Zealand public would be under the impression that independent and rigorous assessment has been undertaken by those agencies. It would appear that that is not the case.
I hope Paul Jones will follow up on this.
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