COVID-19 sceptics accuse Gauci of creating ‘national panic’, want removal of face masks order
A group of COVID-19 ‘sceptics’ have filed a judicial protest against the Health Superintendent, claiming that she is causing a national panic which is unjustified.
A group of protestors, including the environmental activist and lawyer Rudolph Ragonesi of the Gaia Foundation, is arguing that public health restrictions are unlawful without a declaration of a public state of emergency.
The group argues against the self-isolation of so called ‘asymptomatic’ carriers of the COVID-19 virus who are otherwise healthy.
“She (Gauci) has not informed the public adequately or transparently enough whether the patients diagnosed with COVID-19 have indeed suffered serious symptoms. Had she done so, she would have given a more realistic picture of the national situation, rather than create a national panic on a disease that is no more serious than the flu or pneumonia, as doctors globally have said.”
They seek the immediate revocation of “decisions that do not make medical sense but breach fundamental rights, including draconian measures such as wearing masks in open spaces more than one metre away from other people; social distancing measures that prevent family gatherings, especially those in the last days of their lives, and other regulations preventing burials of relatives.”
They also want “measures that force clubs and schools to police citizens” to be revoked.
The protestors said the PCR test was not useful in establishing who is infected by COVID-19, arguing that the PCR test should not be used for diagnostic results of the virus, and that this is resulting in a lot of false positives, “up to 90% of all PCR tests.”
They claimed a large number of people allegedly testing “positive” for COVID-19, do not even have symptoms of the disease, and therefore, they cannot be said to be sick.
“Data issued by the health authorities shows that the COVID19 virus has not been serious in Malta, and not more serious than the seasonal flu, which even when it affects the elderly and immunosuppressed individuals, can still cope with it.”
The protestors said the Maltese public was being given a picture of what appears “graver than it really is”, and without giving people a clear and realistic reason for the cause of deaths of people who succumbed to COVID-19’s effects.
“The public health department has never before published some daily or weekly list of elderly and immunosuppressed people who succumbed to influenza or pneumonia, which number in the hundreds every year… Today, even if a death is caused by some other disease when COVID-19 strikes, the authorities are raising a national panic because people are believing these people are actually dying of COVID-19.”
The protestors said Malta has gone beyond WHO guidelines by ordering the mandatory wearing of face masks, without any scientific evidence backing it. “This action cannot be considered as reasonable in a democratic society, as laid in the Constitution.”