A Gold Coast hair salon is refusing to serve people who’ve had a COVID-19 vaccine, making outlandish claims that its supposed side effects can affect women’s periods and are somehow contagious.
The Khemia HI Vibe Frequency Salon, for its part, insists its just ~speaking its truth~. Just not the scientific truth, it would seem.
“We are not your hairdresser if you have had the COVID vax,” the salon’s owner Yazmina Jade Adler posted on Instagram.
In the description, she claimed that “the unknown health effects of the mRNA vaccine are not covered by our public liability insurance.”
Yikes. Let’s unpack a few things here.
Firstly, “unknown health effects” is a nonsense term that can literally mean anything. Water can have “unknown health effects”, technically. It also implies that the vaccines haven’t undergone rigorous medical vetting.
Secondly, mRNA vaccines such as the Pfizer jab aren’t even the ones which have been in the news over medical concerns. Sure, mRNA technology is new, but totally safe.
Finally, if the salon was in fact attempting to refer to the AstraZeneca blood clotting incidents, the number of cases is still super low. Like, 1 in 100,000 people low.
In a series of unhinged Instagram stories (which are still being posted) Adler explained her thought process.
“I do a lot of work around connecting in with intuition and the body, and my body is just going ‘no, we are not standing for this,’ so my business is not standing for this,” she said.
Adler told 7 News that she got her info from “the rabbit warren of the internet,” which doesn’t necessarily scream ‘reliable source’.
She made the baseless claim that the “stuff that’s in” the vaccines can affect women’s menstrual cycles.
Adler also said that the supposed side effects can be passed on from person-to-person, which is apparently where the “public liability insurance” thing comes into play.
“From what I am reading and hearing, it’s coming through sweat, it’s coming through spit, it’s coming through the air,” she said.
What she’s describing sounds more like COVID-19 itself than any vaccines. It’s also been thoroughly debunked.
“There’s certainly no scientific basis to reports some women have experienced changes to their periods from simply being around people who have been vaccinated,” wrote University of Auckland gynaecology expert Dr Michelle Wise in The Conversation.
“Anecdotal reports of some menstrual irregularities is not a reason to avoid getting the vaccine. Getting infected with COVID-19 is much more likely to interfere with your health, including your menstrual health.”
