Like orphaned children who discover a dangerous world in the back of a wardrobe, people trying to discover the truth about Covid vaccines are best helped by talking animals. In C S Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, Lucy and her siblings are helped by Mr Tumnus the faun and Aslan the lion. In the Chronicles of Covid, scientists and doctors turned themselves into talking beasts on Twitter to avoid losing their jobs while sharing the truth about the vaccines. Even then, they were censored and smeared until Elon Musk bought Twitter and started restoring their accounts.

One of the most brilliant is a mouse called Jikky, a whistleblowing rodent from the CSIRO laboratory in Geelong where scientists research animal diseases and biosecurity, and have collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on bat coronaviruses.

Just after Christmas, Jikky (whose pronouns are mouse/mouseself) revealed that documents released by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in response to two freedom of information (FOI) requests show that of the 382 batches of Covid vaccines monitored by the TGA, 10 are associated with multiple deaths. Moreover, of these ‘death’ batches, four appear to be contaminated with unexplained fragments of mRNA and five of these ‘death’ batches had had their shelf life extended by up to 11 months.

The whole point of monitoring batches is to ensure they are pure, safe and effective. Yet despite the alarming association between contaminated batches and reported deaths, the TGA did not get the contaminants sequenced to confirm their contents or withdraw the tainted batches from use. And what are we to make of the fact that seven batches – which just happened to be associated with no deaths – were reserved exclusively for Pfizer employees?

Compare the performance of Australia’s regulators with those in Japan. Three healthy men, two in their 30s and one in his 40s, died in August 2021 after receiving Moderna vaccines from batches where contaminants were found in unused vials. More than two and half million Moderna vaccines doses were halted while the contaminants were investigated and Moderna recalled three batches.

It is painfully obvious that the TGA does not have the expertise to assess the safety of the Covid vaccines. In response to an FOI dated 5 February 2022, which asked for all documents relating to the TGA’s assessment of the risk posed by the possible presence in the Pfizer vaccine of cancer-causing micro-RNA, the use of pseudouridine in the modified RNA sequence which allows it to evade the toll-like receptors of the immune system, and the possibility of mutations in the untranslated region of the modified RNA which can increase the risk of cancer, premature birth and amyloid disease, the TGA responded that no such risk assessment had been undertaken.

Yet, the fact that the TGA has no expertise in genetically modified vaccines doesn’t absolve them of responsibility. Under Section 30C of the Therapeutic Goods Act, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Health, Brendan Murphy, must seek advice from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator on the safety and efficacy of any product which uses genetically modified organisms (GMO) as defined in the Gene Technology Act. The Covid vaccines use GMO because they use ‘an organism that has been modified by gene technology’ ie a lipid nanoparticle or a viral vector, ‘to transfer genetic material’ – the modified genetic sequence of the Sars-CoV-2 spike protein – into human cells to induce the cellular machinery of the human body to produce spike proteins which include polypeptides.

And not just any polypeptides. Sofie Nostrum and Per Hammarstrom of Linkoping University in Sweden showed that polypeptides in the spike protein create amyloid fibrils like those seen in Alzheimer’s disease and also induce amyloids in fibrinogen, the protein that forms fibrous clots that do not degrade. A review autopsy studies of people that died of Covid showed that 91 per cent had clots in their system. Are the Covid vaccines inducing amyloid fibrils and fibrous clots? In the first nine months of 2022, there were almost 20,000 excess deaths in Australia, 16 per cent more than the historical average with deaths due to dementia including Alzheimer’s disease 16 per cent above the baseline. Why hasn’t Murphy asked the Gene Technology regulator to investigate?

It should be glaringly obvious to the members of the Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee (GTTAC) who advise the gene technology regulator on all matters related to GMOs, and the Gene Technology Ethics and Community Consultative Committee, whose members are charged with advising the regulator on ethical issues, that the Covid vaccines need to be examined by scientists with expertise in gene technology.

A slew of peer-reviewed papers show that the modified spike protein induced by the Covid vaccines can persist in the human body for months or years, damages the endothelium of blood vessels, can enter and damage all the organs of the body including inducing fatal myocarditis, can damage the immune system by transfecting lymphocytes, may enter the cell nucleus and interfere with DNA damage repair, and can induce reverse transcription permanently altering the human genome.

In the 20 years since the creation of the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, there has been increased focus on the use of GM techniques for vaccines and gene therapies and the regulator has specifically noted that regulation needs to keep up with new applications ‘to ensure that the legislation adequately captures and regulates new technologies, to protect the health and safety of people’.

Yet as far as anyone can tell, Murphy has not consulted Dr Rajumati Bula, the Gene Technology Regulator seeking advice on the Covid vaccines and neither has adjunct Professor John Skerritt, the head of the TGA or any of the vaccine manufacturers, even though dealing with a GMO without a license issued by the Gene Technology Regulator is an offence under Section 32 of the Gene Technology Act.

At the World Health Summit in 2021, Stefan Oelrich, head of pharmaceuticals at Bayer said ‘mRNA vaccines are an example of cell and gene therapy,’ and marvelled that ‘If we had surveyed the public two years ago (and asked) ‘Would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body we would have probably had a 95 per cent refusal rate’. But as the unexplained excess death rate continues to rise alarmingly in Australia, it’s long past time for the gene technology regulator to halt the use of the Covid vaccines until their safety can be demonstrated.