Call to End the Current Health Emergency (COVID-19)

I just wrote the following letter, to Hon Yvette D'Ath, the Queensland Minister for Health and Ambulance Services.  I sent it to her ministerial email address. The text of the letter follows, with the greetings and sign-off removed, and with links to relevant legislation added:

I would like to draw to your attention to the fact that for various reasons, including our high vaccination rates, COVID is spreading throughout Queensland with only the mildest adverse effects on human health, relative to other health concerns.

Given this, and your obligations under s. 324 (1) of the Public Health Act 2005: I request that you immediately end the declared public health emergency. 

It is important that Queenslanders be allowed to manage their own health risks with respect to COVID-19, and that our freedoms – currently curtailed by the various Chief Health Officer public health directions – be restored. Most importantly, this includes the removal of all vaccine mandates, which are a continuing flagrant breach of the right of Queenslanders’ to not be “subjected to medical […] treatment without [their] full, free and informed consent”, as provided for in the s. 17 (c) of the Human Rights Act 2019. 

Please note that I am not against COVID vaccinations – I write as someone who has gratefully received three Pfizer COVID vaccination doses, and who has recently suffered from the disease. I support the vaccine, but even more than that, I support a restoration of fundamental civil liberties to Queenslanders: including full, free and informed consent. 

I thank you for your consideration of my submission.