A council has drawn flack from the state’s premier for sending out alarming letters warning of the dangers of taking Covid vaccines, citing controversial claims they damage DNA.
Port Hedland Council, which covers the major mining town on Western ‘s northern coast, voted to send letters to the Prime Minister, federal and state health ministers pushing for the vaccines to be withdrawn.
The motion was introduced by councillor Adrian McRae, 49, who told Daily Mail on Monday that he hoped writing to all 537 councils around would have a domino effect.
‘When a level of government puts a motion forward and it is passed it is not a court order but it is not far behind it, Mr McRae said
‘We will send these letter to every council in the country and I guarantee we have one person on every council who supports us.’
The motion cited claims that Pfizer and Moderna vaccines damage people’s DNA.
On Monday WA Premier Roger Cook insisted the Covid vaccines were not dangerous and said the council had ‘gone completely off the rails’.
‘The Town of Port Hedland should stick to its knitting,’ the Premier said.
‘It should stay focused on the services and people of that community. It should lift its game’.
Mr McRae said the Premier’s response was ‘pathetic’.
‘He was health minister when this (the vaccines) was rolled out, he has a conflict of interest,’ Mr McRae said.
‘When this goes to every council in WA I guarantee we will bring him down as a minimum.
‘There’s probably two or three in every council on WA that is supportive of this and they themselves will get this letter out and they will (say) “holy s**t, guys we need to do something about this”.’
Mr McRae said of the other four councillors who voted for the motion, one suffered severe blood-clotting after taking the vaccine, while another said his health was not as robust since taking the shot and regretted it ‘horribly’.
‘These aren’t a bunch of loony “anti-vaxxers” as I was called because I was leading marches and speaking at big rallies and travelling around the world,’ Mr McRae said.
‘Where we live, the vaccine mandates really destroyed the heart of our town, 70 per cent of the Pilbara and the Kimberley didn’t want to take these jabs.’
The n Department of Health and Aged Care and medical watchdog the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have denied that the Covid vaccines carry DNA that can be absorbed into cells.
‘The mRNA is broken down quickly by the body,’ the Health Department’s website reads.
‘It never enters the nucleus and cannot affect or combine with our DNA in any way to change our genetic code.’
The TGA has been contacted for comment.