Nicole Tobin,who is sixth on the Liberal National Party’s Senate ticket in Queensland,also promoted a debunked theory that vaccines cause autism and claimed there was a conspiracy about the reporting of COVID-19 deaths in Australia.
Tobin claimed that up to 7000 Australians may have died from COVID-19 vaccines.Liberal National Party
The comments were made in a series of posts from a now-deleted Twitter account.
Tobin,who is a teacher from Cairns,suggested the public COVID-19 death figures were incorrect,saying most deaths were caused by old age or obesity.
“So… people in NSW are being counted in the COVID stats when they’re being admitted for broken bones,heart attacks,births,etc.,but test positive,have Qld Health also been fudging the stats?” she wrote in a Twitter post on January 3.
Tobin suggested COVID-19 deaths were not being reported correctly in Queensland.Twitter
She also “liked” a tweet comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.
“Yellow heart,yellow star next,” the tweet said,referring to the badge Jews were made to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe.
In another tweet earlier this year,Tobin backed a comment from another user who said they knew COVID-19 was a “scam” when Bill Gates “was known to be involved”.
“This!” Tobin responded on February 17.
Last year,in response to a news article about the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s involvement in the research of coronaviruses,she posted:“Doesn’t Bill Gates fund the EcoHealth Alliance?”
The EcoHealth Alliance,an American non-profit that once had a research partnership with the Wuhan lab,has received grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
LNP Senate candidate Nicole Tobin appears to support a theory that Bill Gates was behind the outbreak of COVID-19.Twitter
The possibility of the coronavirus emerging from the Wuhan lab has not been ruled out,but there is no evidence that Gates was in any way involved.
In another post,she claimed that “up to 7000 Australians may have died as a result of the COVID-19 vaccines. The TGA and ATAGI are concealing vital information about the figures”.
She also suggested PCR tests were not effective,saying that it was “interesting” that the US was no longer using the tests.
Tobin with Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Cairns during the 2019 election.Dominic Lorrimer
“It’s basically saying that the PCR tests can’t tell the difference between COVID&the flu,” Tobin tweeted on December 23 last year.
She also supported a discredited theory that “triple antigen” MMR vaccines cause autism.
“I am sure one of my children is on the spectrum,but I also suspect my ex&his mother are too,” she said in a tweet on March 19. “They had at least their triple antigens as they were called in the day. So there may be a genetic overhand between generations?”
She has suggested that her “natural immunity”,built up by taking supplements like zinc and echinacea,were the reasons she had not yet caught COVID-19.
Tobin appears to have deleted her Twitter account after other posts emerged last week of her saying overweight people should be banned from drinking soft drinks.
Replying to a tweet that suggested obese people “shouldn’t be able to purchase anything containing white sugar or refined flour”,Tobin said:“And no soft drink if your BMI is over 30 either. Water or one glass of red wine.”
Asked whether she still stood by the comments,a Coalition campaign spokesperson said:“The Morrison government supports and encourages everyone who can to be vaccinated against COVID-19.”
“Nicole Tobin has had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. These tweets do not reflect government policy,” the spokesperson said.
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