Crackpots’ leader trained in Scotland
SHE has been dubbed the most dangerous woman in Britain, a suspended nurse who compared restrictions to limit the spread of Covid-19 to the Holocaust.
For Kate Shemirani, the glossy face of the UK’s anti-vaccination movement, the coronavirus crisis that has killed nearly 42,000 people in Britain should be termed a ‘scamdemic’.
Despite 35 years as a registered nurse – after qualifying at Glasgow Royal Infirmary – she regards Covid-19 as a myth, its symptoms linked to 5G wireless technology. In her warped view, there is no pandemic – only a conspiracy to control the public.
The 54-year-old mother-of-four from East Sussex provoked outrage earlier this month by likening lockdown restrictions to Nazi atrocities, asking on Twitter whether the public would wake up ‘on the cattle truck? Or in the showers?’. She also claimed to have first-hand accounts of patients being taken to hospital during the pandemic who were deliberately allowed to die. She wrote: ‘Murder. Genocide. The NHS is the new Auschwitz.’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has suspended Shemirani for 18 months to avoid the risk of harm to the public.
She was represented at an interim hearing in July by Mark Steele, a campaigner against 5G. At the hearing, the pair attacked the NMC panel for not wanting to hear their ‘facts’ about vaccines and 5G. Shemirani claimed colleagues who made accusations against her did so because they were overweight and jealous. She added: ‘We all know what women can be like. The fact that I was always graced with decent looks and I’m always very slim and I’ve been very successful has generated a little bit of jealousy throughout my career.’ She has reportedly resigned as a registered nurse.
Shemirani’s rejection of conventional medicine reportedly came after a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2012. She refused chemotherapy in favour of a strict vegan regime, involving vitamins, juices and coffee enemas, that she credits with keeping her cancer free.
Her notoriety has seen her Twitter following treble in size to 21,000. Her Facebook site, which had 14,000 followers, has been removed. A Facebook spokesman said it had banned her ‘for repeatedly violating our policies against harmful misinformation’.