Covid-19: Lessons Learned - Vaccinations to Lockdowns | 7news Spotlight

A special investigation into what we got right and wrong in our response to the COVID 19 pandemic with former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and a leading panel of experts and tough questions from our studio audience.
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[@catcat5045]

The ppl did nothing wrong, the establishment did everything!

[@TangerineTulip]

🎯🎯🎯

[@2011kathyd]

Come clean and admit this is your heavily edited and censored version. Shame on all of you. Utterly shameful

[@debrawilhelms8853]

💯 ditto this comment. Absolutely shameful! It needs to be fixed!

[@anneliediederiks]

I’m astonished! How could they cut so much of it? Seems like they have something to hide…

[@djduncanj]

is there a full version or a place with all the removals. Seen alot on X.

[@therealsammyvee888]

​@anneliediederiks You don't say.

[@tt9893]

When you allow fear to take over, then you are not in control, make me wonder…we were at the hands of fear, glad I didn’t need to meet that fear

[@louissambevski5378]

Chanel 7 stop lying you have been caught out.

[@searchingforjustice8800]

The criteria for financial support during COVID for those who lost their jobs was so strict many people weren’t eligible. Palaszczuk was lying about this. Mandates for medical staff is still in place. WHY??? Can she answer that question honestly? I doubt it.

[@jedbennett7397]

The unedited audio version of the audience responses & questions tells a very different story to what you portray here. Shame on you Channel 7 this edit was nothing but 57 minutes of propaganda, lies & misinformation.

[@williamparry4538]

They needed to make it friendly and appropriate for the broader public

[@healthyheartshealthyminds]

Where's the unedited audio version?

[@therealsammyvee888]

​@healthyheartshealthyminds I'd like to know too. I want to hear it for myself. We all should.

[@jedbennett7397]

@@williamparry4538 LOL 🫣

[@jedbennett7397]

@@therealsammyvee888 unfortunately each time I comment with the IG account it gets removed…

[@lilacDaisy111]

"What did we do wrong?" People didn't throw out their TVs.

[@dalesmith4985]

The internet/Social media and Radio propaganda is just as bad

[@nefelipapadi9608]

@@dalesmith4985 Wrong, on social media you can get both versions and you are able to inform yourself - then to decide whats best for you!

[@giannihatzianmevris1861]

​@dalesmith4985 At least through that people can filter through and find the truth.

[@JoannaPelc-zh3zl]

@@giannihatzianmevris1861 You actually can't, because they gagged doctors from speaking freely and censored the internet. You had to just take a side without full information. Often the information was conflicting also, so it was just a guess as to what the actual truth was (and is, although we're starting to learn a lot more now. Like the vaccines DO NOT stop transmission. This was the sole reason for most people getting vaccinated!)

[@helen9289]

just need to turn them off when they start their rubbish that is what I do

[@ec7152]

Most of what people said in the audience was censored out🤦‍♂️

[@therealsammyvee888]

Of course. Can't have an unbiased take on MSM now can we?

[@helen9289]

I know & all those clips have now been censored on KZbin thank you big brother !!

[@therealsammyvee888]

@@helen9289 Typical. That's why other video platforms like Rumble and Bitchute are so important now.

[@davidhole5535]

So what it was a panel discussion not a freedom rally

[@KanohiPai]

There wasn’t any impartiality in the audience!!

[@doodles_down_under]

Well done Channel 7 👏 You shone the Spotlight right onto your dishonesty and lack of integrity. The real audio verison is all over the internet now and shows the truth of what was really said! People can really see how biased the media really is, disgusting betrayal of all Australians!

[@dorothyerickson3861]

Where is the full audio? Still lied to. Lost my husband to these lies. So glad I am not in this country, but worried it will happen again. I will NOT Comply!

[@dianedownham4838]

Very bias. Lost all faith in so-called professionals. I recently had a degree in Microbiology and Immunology. What I learnt at Uni contradicts what the professionals were telling us for the last four years

[@vaughnwilliams8691]

A one sided edited channel 7 version to suit their narrative and protect their criminal bosses . Show the full video unedited ch 7 you are against the people we won’t forget .

[@catherinegangur6106]

Rubbish one sided show…

[@jackieboyle9002]

Big Pharma look after the Media

[@therealsammyvee888]

That's MSM for you.

[@helen9289]

yes I thought at last people are being listened to but alas it is still the same BS safe & effective

[@therealsammyvee888]

@@helen9289 We can't have too much hope from MSM and big pharma now can we? We've learned that over the last few years.

[@3143gasa]

Badly edited and very bias. But what can we expect from MSM 😖

[@trebledown6713]

Australians were treated like convicts. And the people playing the guards enjoyed themselves immensely. Shame on media, politicians, medical staff and anyone who listened to them.

[@Her.Serene.Feline.Cuteness.]

The truth about how this country operates was exposed for all the world to see. It was beautiful. We have become an international laughing stock..

[@trebledown6713]

15 thumbs up and no notification from you toob…

[@PluraSapiens]

We were lied to by the TGA

[@poerava]

Want to be specific? The likelihood of all side effects from the vaccine were 8-12 times more likely with COVID unvaccinated.

[@debrawilhelms8853]

💯

[@utb2136]

The whole world and our government not just the TGA

[@poerava]

What did they lie about?

[@PluraSapiens]

Safety and efficacy of certain COVID vaccines

[@piedpiper1727]

The leaked audio was the true show!

[@MikeyMacPerth]

May i have a link?

[@cg401]

@@MikeyMacPerth its all over X and instagram

[@catcat5045]

@@MikeyMacPerthand on Rum ble Cafe lock down or Cafe lock out

[@TangerineTulip]

@@catcat5045thanks 😊

[@latinaonangel]

Please share where or how we can find this. Very intriguing.

[@jacquelinezdrazil5104]

Please explain Dr Booys conflict of interest regarding payments he received from bigpharma. ?

[@lalima9114]

Disclosure Australia provides a searchable database of payments and transfers of value made to healthcare professionals by Medicines Australia member companies. Google "disclosure australia" and it'll be the first result.

[@jedbennett7397]

If you look at footage of him from 2020 to footage of him now you can definitely tell what 4 years and 9 boosters will do to a person…

[@nickykakamanoudis6049]

Show us the uncensored version!

[@susannahspooner4947]

Show us the unedited version and stop lying to the public.

[@AbbyPhone]

Chanel 7 , and Michael Usher in particular, you are a poor excuse for journalism. Not only did you chose guests who are on pfizer's payrole ( except Prof Gigi Foster) you also edited out lots of what was being said and the comments by the audience. Michael Usher you have no integrity. The actual audio of the program is available and was heard by hundreds of thousands of Australians..not the version you put out. Shame on you Michael, shame on you Chanel 7. Gigi was the only objective and intelligent guest, she was the only person there who didn't get her pockets lined by big pharma money. Read NZ Daily Mail latest edition, they have done much better job at sussing out your guests than you did...

[@LizzGee1111]

100% - Michael Usher and the 2 doctors on the panel have sold their souls it seems. No person with a conscience could do what they are doing.

[@helen9289]

why was there no doctor talking about the poor effects of the government actions & the nasty effects of the jab ??? & still calling it a vaccine shame on you medical people you know it is not a vaccine come clean & admit you got it wrong & it is harming people

[@mrekin2146]

DIED SUDDENLY EXCESS DEATHS above average ???????????????? We Need ANSWERS !!

[@teresatuttle7934]

Typical media strikes again. Edit out what you don’t want seen or heard…fill the panel with biased views (except for Gigi Forster) so you can manipulate those at home. The whole response of the audience should have been shown for an accurate understanding what really happened in this segment. People are angry because they’ve been lied to and you’re still lying! Disgusting!

[@crimetimeAU]

We didn't stand together and say "NO" well, some had the bravery to say no but most just violated their own moral boundaries.

[@carmenarciuolo3038]

Look up interviews with Dr Keryn Phelps about 1 year ago. She talks about APRHA suppressing doctors to admit vaccine injury in patients. Also that it was a new type of technology vaccine. That should have been discussed on the show

[@_inamorata_]

Kerryn Phelps is an absolute hypocrite to the highest degree. Back in 2020-2021 she was a vocal champion for getting the vaccine but yet when she finally got it she cries foul because she and her wife received an injury from it. I do not trust a single word that comes out of her mouth or what she writes in various blogs and neither should anybody else.

[@lilacDaisy111]

The end: "What did we learn?" I learnt not to trust any professional on TV, or anything a journo says.

[@therealsammyvee888]

So have a lot of us who are now awake to the truth. In a way, I'd say COVID was a blessing in disguise.

[@brendansmyth5053]

So true 👏🏻

[@stelltame227]

How much did big pharma pay politicians? We need an AUDIT.

[@traceymanz4686]

Shame on you channel 7 (Gaslight) Spotlight and everyone on the panel 🐍 ☠️👿except only one telling the truth was Gigi Foster and the Audience ❤️💔🙏❤️Crime against Humanity

[@louisemusiclover]

The only person telling the truth is Professor Gigi Foster 👏👏👏

[@LB041272]

And people in the audience

[@louisemusiclover]

@@LB041272 absolutely, i agree totally

[@bgoh1655]

Make it make sense! Gigi is the only reason why I continued watching. Replace long covid with 💉 injury!

[@margrho]

I got 💉injury in 2021. Two of my friends got long covid in Spring 2020 - before the 💉even existed

[@MiaN..N]

​@@margrholong bs . Its the jibby jab

[@ColetteBaron-e2f]

What a one sided load of rubbish. Scientists with a huge conflict of interest should tell you everything. Was hoping for truth, expecting lies and wasn’t disappointed! So disappointing but what else can we expect any more from mainstream media! Just a mouthpiece for whoever’s paying

[@CaramelSunflowers]

I didnt get vaccinated, I had planned to with the non mrna vaccine but it too had nasty side effects, so that ended it for me.

[@jaczak1]

haha the people are awake. Crimes against humanity.

[@yogabelly26]

We SEE YOU! And we see your heartless manipulation. You're not fooling us.

[@amanda-ok1ww]

Anastasias' final thoughts " I've learned nothing and I still don't care about you people"

[@jimmymcthunda5906]

The unvaxed are not sick.

[@AmonAnon-vw3hr]

My unvaxxed mother died of a stroke 8 months ago. I thought we were supposed to be safe?

[@helen9289]

no we aren't & none have long covid either if they happened to get covid there was no long covid until the jabs came out

[@Maçonariafilhosdaputa]

Safe doesn't mean immortal

[@sxmplyemma5270]

Liars. You edited out conveniently the information the public needs to know. Shame on you!!

[@joelhungerford8388]

A better question would probably be... did we get anything right?

[@chimosh]

What did Australia do wrong? Everything.

[@AATSAATS-x1f]

Please put up the full program , not the edited version.

[@mahls93]

What a joke! It was fear peddling and panic in overload. Australians played right into the madness.

[@poerava]

Fear peddling is what Professor Gigi Foster (American accent panel member) is doing buddy.

[@mahls93]

@@poerava Do an ounce of actual research - then get back to me. Hint - you might need to expand past a channel 7 tv show.

[@VarpuKarhu-ow1nc]

@@poerava you sound like would be happy with our e-security commissioner (American) having a say what we are allowed to watch and listen to

[@poerava]

@@mahls93 Do you have any research that the vaccines were not effective in saving millions of lives? I’ll wait.

[@missinterpreted4923]

Problem is, people are still listening to the doctors who jabbed them! I told the doctor who gave me the vax that I was only getting it because I was mandated and couldn't afford to lose my job - he and the nurse didn't bat an eye.

[@ianstory5062]

Absolutely shameful coverage. An absolute disgrace. How about doing another 'TRUTHFUL' one without all your one-sided bias. Just disgusted !!

[@lillian3890]

And people still believe what the media tells them to this day 😂 stay asleep, folks

[@suetempleton5150]

That was really great of you to have a live audience... shame you felt the need to then censor them. Sounds very much like 7 is keeping up the MSM narrative.

[@djbello8ball]

The amount of cuts and editing is disturbing to say the least its deceptive from channel 7.

[@traceyhaigh6216]

Channel 7. Your censoring of the audiences response was disgusting. Michael usher you are disgusting.

[@kerryangus3030]

Show the whole truth not just your one sided narrative. Where's all the audience participation clips. Disgusting.

[@lalima9114]

Booy and Senanayake, why is it so hard for you to express sympathy for the vax injured? Your only message was to go report it. No condolences. No understanding. Nothing.

[@piedpiper1727]

@@lalima9114 I agree and who would take health advice from an obese doctor? Not only did he show no empathy, he was rude!!

[@suetempleton5150]

After all this, who would take any advice from any doctor?​@@piedpiper1727

[@queeniebee4782]

You have to be human & have a soul to feel empathy.

[@devonrex4959]

Pair of Narcissists

[@ritalarocca1968]

Funny how they never gave true health advice.... just jabbs of unknown substances

[@amossoak]

I tried to watch this, but couldn't stomach the gaslighting and lies.

[@Cordigordie]

Best to watch it on rum ble with cafe Lo ck ed out. Michael and esp Paul were hilarious

[@rossalynsmith5253]

Australia should not sign the health treaty with WHO. When was this broadcasted

[@nicoleadler1251]

30th June, but recorded weeks beforehand

[@popie592]

Heavily censored and biased

[@kylsgair3612]

Jackie !!! I had a massive anaphylactic reaction I felt all the same symptoms and I ended up in ICU and now in anaphylactic reaction to things now they I enjoyed like alcohol coffee fermented food and the list goes on. My life is ruined I risk dying every day 🫠😭🤯🤬

[@LaDeee57]

Lies lies lies!

[@williamparry4538]

Good job chan 7 for opening this conversation. Everyone should know the TGA expert has huge financial conflicts of interest. Receiving $1,000s monthly from large pharmaceutical companies

[@paavan2809]

Why did you censor Alison Bevege from Letters from Australia Substack? Australians deserve to know about the black triangle and how they were meant to report side effects.

[@cinabonello2731]

I had all the vaccine ended up in Hospital with two coronavirus the first was the coronavirus then had the RSV coronavirus I blame it on taken the vaccine

[@joelgaylor9696]

These two male professors have a conflict of interest n they should recuse themselves n apologise for going on this panel

[@squid832]

Regarding Dr Robert Booy - is this the same person as the one that comes up on Disclosure Australia (search health professional name)?? If yes, he should not have been on the panel (and especially shouldn't have been the TV 'expert' provided to the public to educate us) as this would be a serious conflict of interest.

[@cathryncavaney5070]

Why didn't you question Palazchuk about Janet Young about her husband's relationship with Pfizer? Prof Graham Nimmo...

[@devonrex4959]

100% yes!! Another panelist with vested interests and family connection to big phma

[@MKSouthernStar]

And Palaszczuks father's gene data storage facility in Qld?

[@ec7152]

There needs to be repercussions for their action especially Robert Booy’s

[@kazziet7t352]

It was so obvious that man has zero conscience. All he was vying for was more money for ‘science!’ An Australian CDC! 🤬

[@kmac5364]

Pretty simple really - we had a pandemic plan that was appropriate, why did you not follow it and instead choose to follow insane measures that have destroyed mental health, lives and the economy?

[@zoeduckering7509]

It was a scare campaign

[@muttsmannersandobedience]

Why did I think that this would be a fair and unbiased report? Ridiculous, one sided reporting

[@AndreaValencia-tr4rd]

It Killed my mum.

[@phoenix1223]

Sorry to hear 😢RIP

[@AndreaValencia-tr4rd]

@@phoenix1223 🙏

[@nicoleadler1251]

Sincerest condolences.

[@AndreaValencia-tr4rd]

@@nicoleadler1251 Thank you so much.

[@rawjo6958]

So sorry my dad has brain cancer now, my neighbour who is a nurse a mass in her brain, two friends with pericarditis 😢

[@neredapinkerkimnned]

No hard hitting questions on mandates, oh hang on there were no hard hitting questions. Best person on the panel was Gigi Foster.

[@FirstNationsScruples]

Come clean and release the unedited/uncensored version. People have a right to know and will find out eventually. Be on the right side of history or on the wrong side.

[@NoNamezv6ck]

I’m 52 I was an age care worker it was “No Jab No Job” policy I worked through several outbreaks….. I had three jabs that I didn’t want …. Yes the only choice I had was being employed or unemployed… I caught covid at work, 11 days later I suffered a massive heart attack, I was a healthy person, then 16mths after, I suffered another heart attack and deal with the repercussions every day ….im a different person my body’s different and now I’m unable to work at all…. Great life at 52 NOT!!!!! I had Pfizer 💔🖤

[@user-jc4yo6hh7y]

That’s heartbreaking to hear, so sorry this happened to you ❤

[@robertlenon7216]

What happened to you is sad and unfair. I was a paramedic. A colleague died after volunteering for the experiment. It made 7 News. No doctor reported it. I'm 61. I chose being unemployed. I got another job. I'm fit and healthy.

[@robertlenon7216]

I wasn't personally unaffected. My son's 35 year old partner dropped dead in our bathroom at 4am last year. She made her choice to care for her mother who got cancer. My mother had a heart attack with no cardiac profile. My uncle died from a stroke. While I cannot be certain they are all jab injuries, if they are not investigated, they never will be.

[@user-jc4yo6hh7y]

@@robertlenon7216 last few yrs, 11 people gone in family, two very close relatives were found passed with massive heart attacks.. & this yr my beloved Father, yes ok he was 87 however, 3 x Experimental injections, cancer returns & spreads, severe chest pain Dr Baffled, very low iron, blood transfusions, 12 days spent in hospital & then sent to palliative care 🥹💔🥲

[@cathryncavaney5070]

@@robertlenon7216 How devastating for your son and yourselves. I am so sorry.

[@geecee1288]

The whole thing was a disgrace. I’m just forever grateful I didn’t get my child vaccinated!

[@catcat5045]

Of course the experts are defending themselves

[@Whereareyouthen]

Experts 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@BeGoodBe]

My friend killed herself in lock down as she was stuck in a lockdown without any visitors being allowed in her area in a tiny unit.

[@la7418]

I’m am so sorry to hear this ..if you read through comments , I ask this exact question, noting a comment was made from one of speakers about how many they lost to covid, yet I queried but how many to suicide ? What an absolute tragedy ..I am so so sorry for your loss and condolences also to her family, may she rest in peace for all eternity at her real home 😢😢🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@monikawelch339]

That’s so very sad! All of this so unnecessary.

[@15540]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@SharonHaddock-n9j]

Those so called “medical” experts will bow their heads in shame

[@Ian-m4i]

Why you did not disclose the conflict of interest with the professor on the Pfizer payroll?

[@MKSouthernStar]

Coersion is not consent

[@gardenwaster]

We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong, good job Channel 7

[@therealsammyvee888]

Clearly we're better at finding answers than they could ever be.

[@janineg3387]

channel 7 you have lost all credibility. You have shown you are plain lying to the public.

[@andreahutchins7645]

Unedited version please

[@user-ij2rv9lw4r]

We noticed you had TWO pro medical experts but NO against medical experts. Biased to the core and the way to only have narrative you want voiced. Poor effort to deflect blame, we see you all.

[@healthyheartshealthyminds]

What a whitewash! You ignored so much of the evidence that didn't fit the narrative. Hope public wakes up sooner rather than later!

[@potatoships9379]

After covid my life and health got efd up

[@poerava]

And because of the vaccine you’ve still got a life

[@Just_sparkle]

Channel 7 lyeing news - be honest with your viewers.

[@AATSAATS-x1f]

How about you address all the evidence against you and panel members that’s come to light since you aired this program ?

[@VarpuKarhu-ow1nc]

Panelists should have audits done on their finances

[@carolelee3724]

I would like to know if any of the panel has received any money from big pharma (as tv doctors did in the UK) if so, how much and when did they receive payment?

[@squid832]

Regarding Dr Robert Booy - is this the same person as the one that comes up on Disclosure Australia (search health professional name)?? If yes, he should not have been on the panel (and especially shouldn't have been the TV 'expert' provided to the public to educate us) as this would be a serious conflict of interest.

[@isatousarr7044]

Hey, we didn't mess this up! It’s like one of those sinister plots you see in movies, where a tiny group of troublemakers decided to mess things up for the rest of us. Imagine a few rogue villains in a secret lair, twirling their mustaches, planning to throw everyone else into chaos. Honestly, it's like they had a master plan to turn our well-ordered data into a giant bowl of statistical spaghetti!

[@robokwon3599]

Never again. No Amnesty

[@nato4287]

Long covid or long vaccine.

[@belcon2896]

The public needs to 'trust government surveillance' 😂😂😂

[@PolyC-888]

😂they talking about long Covid what about long vax - they still can’t accept it.

[@lalima9114]

Many are asking about the unedited version. I've uploaded it to my KZbin to make it easier to find. A big thank you to Ayse Goknur Shanal and Alison Bevege for speaking truth.

[@sarahbattle9117]

Share the link to it please

[@lalima9114]

@@sarahbattle9117 sorry, KZbin blocks links so you will have to click my name. The video will be the first thing that appears.

[@lalima9114]

@@sarahbattle9117 Apologies, I've just been notified that KZbin removed my upload.

[@cg401]

LIES LIES LIES, just come clean and show everyone the massively edited version, its being shared all around social media anyway

[@jenpen7888]

Lies , biased and a Dr paid by Fizzer . Well done to GiGi too ..... I’m so sorry to all the jab injured but for heavens sake Dr Kerrin Phelps, get some alternative help for you and your partner.

[@Cordigordie]

Notice how she got cut off as well?

[@user-nb5ms7fz6j]

Shame the other comments were edited out, at least it's a start...

[@kirstenheuer6435]

lies,lies,lies

[@proveallthings_521]

The greater picture can be seen in Revelation 13. This was a trial period to see if people would submit to this evil.

[@suetempleton5150]

Exactly why I didn't and exactly why I convinced my partner and kids not to take it too

[@proveallthings_521]

@@suetempleton5150 🙏🏼

[@angelpups6211]

what an absolute crock, edited much

[@neovynappa755]

Shame on you Spotlight for not editing out a lot of the show that went against your narrative. It was supposed to be an open discussion showing both sides.

[@johnchan6213]

Explain to us why ministers were exempt from the vaccine. Go on?

[@JenniferBlackham]

Why did you heavily edit your audience? Their voices should have been heard. Isn't that why these people were asked to this program.

[@hevam5]

I learned not to be peered pressured. Since having the vaccination my health has been nothing short of horrendous. Living in chronic pain, always feeling crappy! Big mistake!! I had covid twice before being vaccinated and I was absolutely fine, had the vaccine and day 2 of my second vaccine and I’ve been Ill and never felt right ever since. How many women are now being diagnosed with endometriosis?? I’d say 80% of women I know have all been diagnosed since taking the vaccine.

[@missinterpreted4923]

With regards to endometriosis, they're claiming that it has ALWAYS been like this in term of numbers - and again generating division by calling it 'the gender pain gap' - what a load of garbage.

[@presidentelect-jasonbourne4383]

A big fat HEALTH expert.😅

[@MsSilver41]

What did it do to the children ???? The amount of kids on antidepressants now is disgusting . But profits will soar as was intended .

[@milljuice]

What did you do wrong??? Accept lies!!!

[@jakeroberts6473]

I am unvaccinated and bloody proud of nyself to not crumble to the corruption and manipulation our government put on us !

[@deborahstone9696]

I too and my grandchild did not get vaxed!!! We have not contracted covid either. Unfortunately both my children did have 2 jabs due to jobs and travel. 😮😢. Etc. So far my children haven't noticed any symptoms as of July 2024.