A hairdresser is not accepting clients who have been vaccinated for Covid-19 by incorrectly claiming they infect other customers.
Yazmina Jade Adler, from Australia, made headlines in 2019 after claiming she relieved her severe period pain by rubbing menstrual blood on her face during a ritual meditation.
Now, the Gold Coast business owner has attracted attention again after imposing a controversial policy banning coronavirus vaccine recipients from her Palm Beach salon.
Immunology experts say it is scientifically impossible for Covid-19 vaccines to cause illness in unjabbed people as they contain no live virus or any other infectious material that can pass from person to person.
Ms Adler told 9News : “It doesn’t really make sense, I guess a lot of people will question that, [but] it is like anything, like the disease or virus, it is spreading [jab particles] somehow and women are reporting side effects when they haven’t had the vaccine.”
She announced the new rule over Khemia HI vibe frequency salon’s social media pages on Monday, stating: “We are not your hairdresser if you have had the Covid vax.”
“The unknown health effects of the mRNA vaccine are not covered by our public liability insurance,” Ms Adler wrote on Facebook and Instagram.
She apologised for any ‘”inconvenience” to customers but said “the safety of our staff and existing clients is our priority”, adding the policy would be re-evaluated in 2023 when clinical trials of the “experimental injection” are completed.
But social media users hit back at her decision.
One Facebook user said: “I find your business decision ludicrous!! I’m a hairdresser and if anything I’d rather my clients were vaccinated, but it’s a personal decision and I won’t discriminate!”
Another questioned: “It’s curious to read that so many people who are so vehemently standing up for their right to privacy and standing against a vaccine passport are also asking people to disclose their vaccination history at a hair salon not run by medical experts?”
More challenged her decision: “So just to confirm that the essential health workers, first responders and those working the frontline in health that have to get this vaccine are not welcome in your salon?”
The business’ posts have since been flagged as “missing context” and “defying science'” by independent fact checkers, the Australian Associated Press.
In a statement addressing the claims, AAP said a Facebook post circulating online claims that “countless reports and anecdotes affirm” people who are unvaccinated against Covid-19 are becoming ill “just by being in the vicinity” of those who have had the jab.
“The lengthy post lists alleged examples of illnesses and injuries unvaccinated people have picked up from vaccinated people.
“These include irregular and heavy menstruation, bleeding while pregnant and miscarriages as well as supposed cases of pets dying when touched by someone who got the Covid jab.”
Associate professor Menno van Zelm from Monash University’s Department of Immunology and Pathology agreed, saying that there are ‘no credible reports’ that vaccinated people can make other people ill.
“For one, Covid-19 vaccines do not contain the virus nor any other infectious agent that is contagious,” Dr van Zelm said in an email.
“Yes, the vaccine activates the immune system and can make the recipient feel unwell for 24 hours, but this does not affect bystanders.”
Ms Adler, who also offers ‘crystal healing’ and ‘frequency technology and sound healing for your full mind body hair experience’ in her salon, rose to fame two years ago after appearing on SBS’s show Medicine or Myth.
In front of a panel of medical experts, she pulled out a jar of her menstrual blood – which she collects – and daubed it across her forehead, claiming it cures her period cramps.
