Australian health professionals who are questioning the wisdom of Australia’s Covid-19 vaccination policy have been effectively silenced. A position statement of 9 March 2021 (a short extract below with my margin notes) reads like a thinly veiled threat to either toe the line or, if you do have objections, shut up about it and do as you’re told anyway, or else you face disciplinary action – in other words you risk losing your license to practice.
The Hippocratic Oath, the Declaration of Geneva, or the International Code of Medical Ethics, all thrown out of the window. It’s all about blind obedience – but that has quickly become the norm over the past year.
