Kate Shemirani
| “ | We have yet another professional first hand statement. Patients all with DNRs on arrival. Patient and relatives unaware. Murdered. Genocide. The NHS is the new Auschwitz [for the] generation warfare. Silent weapons for quiet wars. You are the target. | „ |
| ~ Kate Shemirani denying the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Kay Allison "Kate" Shemirani (born 1965) is a British former nurse, conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer known for comparing the National Health Service to the Nazi Party during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. She was struck off from practicing medicine in May 2021 for spreading misinformation about vaccines and the pandemic.[1]
COVID denialism and Anti-vaxx activism[edit]
In 2020 Shemirani called the COVID pandemic a "scamdemic" and claimed that there was no evidence it existed. She later claimed that COVID was a conspiracy to control the masses and that the COVID vaccine was a weapon designed to alter people's DNA.[2]
During a December 2020 interview with Sky News, Shemirani claimed that no vaccine has ever been shown to work or be effective, and that she doesn't believe COVID-19 exists.[3] Both her Facebook and Twitter accounts had previously been deleted for spreading misinformation, linking the disease to 5G masts and claiming that the September 11 attacks were faked.[4]
Shemirani is well-known for comparing any measures taken against the virus to the Holocaust, to the point that it got her medical license revoked. In 2020 she accused the NHS of genocide for allegedly issuing Do Not Resuscitate orders on COVID patients, comparing the organisation to the infamous Auschwitz Birkenau death camp.[5] She asked in one post, "When are people going to wake up? On the cattle truck? Or in the showers?", referencing the gassing of Jews in the showers at the Auschwitz camp.[6] In 2021, she compared NHS doctors and nurses to those sentenced to death at the Doctor's Trial following World War II and demanded that they be sent to prison.[7]
Her brand of COVID denial is so extreme that fellow denialist Piers Corbyn, who once called COVID-19 "a psychological operation", refuses to associate with her.[8]
QAnon[edit]
Shemirani has associated with the QAnon movement on several occasions, particularly the more anti-Semitic theories. She has accused billionaire Jewish financier George Soros of masterminding the Black Lives Matter movement and compared him to Adolf Hitler, despite several of Soros's relatives having died under Hitler's regime.[9] Shemirani has also supported the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that an Illuminati-type organisation called the Committee of 300 controls the media[10] (this group is typically described as being made up of Jews). In addition, she supports QAnon theories that the Democratic Party are a Satan-worshipping cult made up of child molesters.[11]
Trivia[edit]
- She is split from her husband Farabarz Shemirani.
References[edit]
- ↑ Anti-vaxx nurse who called NHS 'the new Auschwitz' is struck off, The Jewish Chronicle
- ↑ Anti-vaccine protest leader is 'mum-of-four who says coronavirus doesn't exist', The Daily Mirror
- ↑ The 'nonsense' claims made by Sussex mum about the coronavirus vaccine on Sky News, Sussex Live
- ↑ Dangerous Anti-Vaxx Brits, Hope not Hate
- ↑ Anti-mask protest leader is suspended nurse who compared lockdown to the Holocaust, Metro
- ↑ 'This is genocide': Inside the bizarre rise of coronavirus conspiracy theories, The Independent
- ↑ Covid vaccine: Speech comparing NHS medics to Nazis condemned, BBC News
- ↑ Piers Corbyn blamed for split among coronavirus deniers, The Times
- ↑ Suspended nurse at the centre of anti-lockdown protests called NHS 'the new Auschwitz', The Jewish Chronicle
- ↑ Revealed: anti-vaxx nurse at centre of Covid hate demos, The Jewish Chronicle
- ↑ 'Quite frankly terrifying': How the QAnon conspiracy theory is taking root in the UK, The Guardian