Coercion to Catastrophe: New Zealand’s Medical Collapse
Coercion to Catastrophe: New Zealand’s Medical Collapse introduces the personal and uncompromising feedback of Dr Matt Shelton to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into c-19. With nearly 40 years in medicine, Dr Shelton reflects on how speaking out about emerging harms from the covid injections and standing firm for medical ethics and informed consent, cost him his profession and his practice. But his focus remains on those who suffered most: the injured, the bereaved, and the betrayed.
This submission details the widespread denial of vaccine harm, the silencing of doctors, and the abandonment of patients at every level of the system. It exposes a health system in moral and scientific freefall and calls on the Commission to reckon honestly with what has taken place.
Coercion to Catastrophe: New Zealand’s Medical Collapse
27 April 2025
My name is Dr Matthew Shelton.
I am a medical doctor since 1985.
You are reading this in large part because of direct representations I made to Winston Peters, now Deputy Prime Minister. Whatever else, we owe him a debt of gratitude for listening, learning, admitting he was deceived, and campaigning for a fairer and wider-ranging inquiry.
We are in the middle of a terrible evolving health tragedy that will take decades to play out, possibly generations, due to adverse effects of the covid jabs. Some of these effects were anticipated by NZDSOS, the group I co-founded due to mounting concerns in March 2021, at the start of the “vaccine“ rollout. Even before the first jab was given here, major safety signals were flashing but ignored in the US and the UK. All our evidence is at www.nzdsos.com.
Respectfully, there are some basic facts you will need to internalise.
- The severity of covid was deliberately overblown.
- The PCR test was largely a fake due to being deliberately over cycled.
- Many many more people have been hurt by the jab than by covid.
Why submit?
So many say don’t bother.
I am not writing for myself as much as for the many people who have died and been maimed; for my ex patients, stolen from me by the PHO which objected to me telling them the truth about unknowns; for injured friends and family; for the many hundreds of good folk who have told me their stories; for all my past medical colleagues, currently lost to me and themselves; but above all for the bereaved parents who held my hand and let me shed tears with them, and the hundreds more I feel I know as I became immersed in their childrens’ tragic stories of sudden death following a novel vaccine with less than zero safety data. There was only a track record of danger for the ingredients and platform.
Sounds dramatic, or even made up? Perhaps you have no idea what is coming, or an inkling from the many powerful and truthful submissions you have received. The full extent of predictable harm from the gene-corrupting injections is unknown, but the whole thing was preventable if only someone in ‘power’ had listened and perhaps thought for themselves.
Every step of the way we informed Ministers, Regulators, Medsafe, some times MPs and other key decision makers who we thought might do something to pause the rollout and reassess as negative data kept appearing. But the rollout was carried out, regardless of the mounting evidence of danger to the populace, by many people who were siloed, kept in lane and part of something very powerful and beguiling.
Our evidence to be submitted as a group will prove all this, and I have read the statements of many other people which bears this all out too.
But I want to confine to my own personal experiences and observations. It is hard to stay sanguine about what has happened.
The once honourable profession of medicine has been destroyed, using lies, deceit, threats, bribery and fear.
The evidence?
1. “Safe and effective at all stages of pregnancy” and “safe and effective” in general, as an impossibly optimistic and scientifically bankrupt piece of jargon to switch off discernment and deceive millions.
2. Clearly a gene product, novel to boot, and the definitions of vaccine and pandemic and immunity were all changed in 2019 and 2020.
3. Clear evidence that both the injection and the illness itself were being lined up well before 2020.
4. Clear evidence the severity of covid was not out of the ordinary.
5. Refusing exemptions to those already injured or at high risk. A stunning low from MoH.
6. Mad statements like the injection stays in the arm and aspirating the needle before injection isn’t needed, it can never enter the nucleus. They did not age well.
7. Many hundreds of patients telling us their own doctors know the jabs are dangerous but tell them they are afraid to do the right thing. Even down to referring an obviously injured person for ACC compensation.
8. Extensive scientific references supplied to the right people – to absolute silence. No debate, no refutation, nothing.
9. Extensive OIA and other evidence demonstrating sabotage of pharmacovigilance, denial of effective early treatments for covid, denial of lab origin when it was clear from the start, pretenses around masking, distancing and implying effectiveness against transmission (protect grandma).
10. the refusal to debate, and the moves to silence dissent using blunt force trauma, weaponising disciplinary processes, the media, and the people against one another. Sickening.
11. Widespread evidence of industry links and payments to the talking head experts given extensive media time.
12. Refusal by Medsafe and Ministers to address the evidence of batch variability; deception around manufacturing processes; immediate record breaking reports of side effects and sudden deaths; abuse of definitions to slant the data away from vaccine causing harms and covid; vaccine interference, pathogenic priming and enhanced disease; mRNA frameshifting producing aberrant proteins; IgG4 class switching producing immune tolerance not just of covid but other infections and cancer; vaccines causing rising all-cause mortality, vaccines causing more infections; myocarditis being near universal but silent in most recipients if you used the right imaging (Nakahara et al); whistle blower stories from inside the health system and death industry (probate, insurance and funeral directors); and most recently – and outside your terms of reference timeframe – the fibrous clots, and grossly high levels of DNA in all vials tested in multiple centres.
I could go on and on, but you get my drift. This is all beyond morally repugnant. It is beyond reckless, it is disgusting, degenerate even, and it is, in my view (and that of the Nuremburg tribunal 80 years ago), frankly criminally psychopathic to medically experiment on anyone, let alone the most vulnerable and precious. This dearly held ethical principle, of ABSOLUTE caution with pregnancy and children, flows from a simple pragmatism by the way – they are the future of our species.
Ethics Schmethics – left to politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and non-clinicians.
Perhaps if you are not schooled in medical ethics it seems these lofty old ideals are optional in times of an “unprecedented global emergency” which we proved it never was early on.
Anyway, they are absolutes. Coerced injections were emotionally tortuous for many people aware of the potential for harm but forced into them anyway. Perhaps millions of times in NZ, the laws preventing forced consent and torture were broken. Why do we have the right to decline medical treatment in the first place? Because most are dangerous. The technical term for ‘therapeutics’, applying in spades for vaccines, is they are “unavoidably unsafe”. By design.
We have witnessed the courts uninterested in medical ethics, lawyers struggling to communicate the implications of important science, and otherwise educated judges state emphatically that their preexisting notions of safe and effective vax are not up for debate, and then clearly influence the judgements.
Where have we seen this before?
The shifting Overton’s window in 1930s Germany saw doctors lead the way through discussions and conferences on eugenics etc to produce a landscape where the population accepted medical murder of the disabled, deformed and mentally ill. Mass genocide was but a small next step.
It is no exaggeration to observe the same pathway in place in New Zealand. And on a completely fake basis, where there was never a basis for coerced mass medication even if the initial fear-mongering had been accurate.
“But the Medical Council supported the rollout…”. Yes it did, unquestioningly, without assessing the scientific validity, human rights or ethical implications, and conducting a witch hunt against those who objected, me included.
In fact, Chairman Curtis Walker was later heard in court (in NZDSOS vs MCNZ in September 2024) to have taken the line at the start that these rushed gene platform products were a ZERO RISK MEDICAL PRODUCT. A true WTF moment if there ever was.
There is no such thing as a zero risk injectable, or any medicine really, and in other times he would be severely censured for ever saying such a thing to a patient (which he did), let alone to an entire profession, which he did effectively with the MCNZ’s infamous guidance document. This stated doctors were to be jabbed, and only the upside was to be discussed with patients. But the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act commands the MC to uphold medical ethics!
Anything else was considered antivax, that derogatory ad hominem designed to get the crowd baying. This court case is still in progress, but the statement we relayed in court by an ex MCNZ board member validated what we observed in 2021 at the medical council – reckless complacency, abandonment of scientific and ethical medicine, and a blunt stick to promote the political strategy of the government of the day – vaccinate like hell, come what may.
It transpired that Dr Walker was on a promise to head the Maori half of TWO should the labour government retain power in 2023. I thought this was a severe conflict of interest in operation.
In a further gross conflict, the government’s lawyer who led negotiations with the Pfizer over the procurement contract, Simon Watt, joined the medical council subsequently and, as current deputy chair, continues the actions against most of the original doctor signatories of our first open letter of concern in 2021.
What could go wrong?
I observed all this with mounting horror.
The governments consent form was a joke, with lies and omissions.
Doctor colleagues didn’t know it wasn’t “just another vaccine” so did not care to understand its novel mechanism.
As a GP – who has vaccinated my entire career – I saw patients turning up with obvious covid jab (it is clearly NOT a vaccine) side effects, before I even knew they were jabbed as we did not receive notification.
A 17 year old boy who I had looked after since he was a dear 6 year old got pericarditis – with very unpleasant symptoms – several days after his first jab. The hospital physician did not do a CARM report until I rang them and asked why not.
Skin rashes, eye problems, severe fatigue, intractable headaches and patients turning up to ED with chest pain, fast pulse and often REMARKABLY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, or unstable pulse and blood pressure, were sent home being labelled anxious. I am an experienced front-line doctor with time in anaesthetics and ICU and I KNEW this was not correct.
Around the same time, my brother in law got pericarditis, as did my best mate (a dentist) and his wife. I suspect they all had the same batch. He also became demonstrably magnetic, and will give evidence on my behalf, along with two other witnesses to magnetism, at my HPD tribunal in September. One became so magnetised she was sent to hospital. Essentially I am charged with making stuff up to frighten people. I only went public with these magnetism findings, and the vaccine microscopy, as the government refused to take the concerns out of my hands and I worried I might be complicit if I had evidence of a crime. In fact, the MoH told its staff that our photos were fake line drawings so nothing to worry about. I have a recording to this effect. In fact, I gave a sworn affidavit to Police at the time.
Meantime, abundant literature was appearing which shed light on the likely mechanisms of harm related to the ingredients, intended actions and other unanticipated effects.
I shared the load of constantly passing this proof of harm evidence to the relevant authorities, to mostly silence. It is all available at nzdsos.com.
I anticipated terrible problems from the jab in the future, and did not take a dollar in covid jab payments. I suggested we put it in another account for the inevitable disabled patients and those refused ACC. Unbeknownst to me, the partners simply divided it amongst themselves.
I had taught integrative medicine at a post grad level for over a decade before covid and had found my way to it due to the limitations of the drug paradigm and the clear and repeated malfeasance by pharma companies. I had learned to read and critically assess scientific references; listened to prestigious medical journal editors bemoan the malign influence of pharma on academic medicine.
Along with many colleagues, I became more expert in immunology, “vaccinology”, statistics, medicine, the law, medical ethics and, yes, the bloody and dreadful history of tyranny.
My Waterloo
I had been feeling mounting alarm as the rollout proceeded.
In late August 2021 the PM announced that children could be jabbed from the following day. I sent a hurried text to all my patients under 50 advising their own due diligence, that the government’s info was inadequate, and caution was advised in pregnancy and children.
Within days, the PHO had torn up my capitation contract, and the GP college had removed by fellowship, and me with it. My indemnity lawyer advised me (incorrectly) I would be immediately suspended by the Medical Council. As it was, after 3 months of me refusing to voluntarily undertake to keep quiet on covid matters I was suspended. There was no Professional Conduct Committee undertaken. I appealed in the High Court and won. Despite the judge saying the MC should draw a line through their actions against me, within a week the MC had resuspended me, for statements I’d made since my original suspension.
It was clear to me that they would not let me work so I did not reapply for an annual practising certificate. That way I do not show as suspended on the medical register. But I have been unable to work for 4 years, and lost my saleable medical practice business asset. The judicial environment has been hostile to perceived antivax sentiment (with the seeming exception of some individual employment cases where the Pfizer contract is not tested) so there seems no current legal remedy.
At 63, retirement is a distant dream. I have dependents.
But I would do it all again. Without ethics, the slippery slope starts. North Korea is at the bottom, as were the Stalinist and Maoist ideological mass murders of hundreds of millions.
Based in equity law our fiduciary obligation trumps all regulators’ petty orders of compliance, and should mean that we may have to almost take a bullet for our patients if ever called upon. That time arrived, in our lifetime, but most doctors were successfully stood down by bureaucrats in service of a lie that only served corporate beneficiaries.
The ToR time frame is dangerously artificial.
Fast forward to today and a whole parade of new safety concerns have emerged, beyond sudden death, myopericarditis, clots and neurological disease.
Talking of clots, there is a brand new disease of human blood caused by the shots, causing amyloid-like white clots that are extensively reported by embalmers, but forming before death. The potential for neurodegeneration from associated prion disease is a concern. You may exclude this from your final report but you have been informed.
Again, all of this is documented at nzdsos.com.
The biggest nightmare – proven integration into the nuclear DNA
We worried about the potential for integration into the human nucleus, and for 2 years I have tried to inform the government of high levels of “bystander” DNA discovered by McKernan and now 9 other labs, that DOES integrate into our own cells and likely causes cancer. The LNPs themselves, and the artificial mRNA code were already suspects for the obvious upsurge in cancers. This is astonishingly bad.
Governments round the world have been silent, as has ours. Do you want this response for you, and your families? Clearly, they are beyond doing the right things, are captured psychologically, and need rescuing somehow. Only the US, Slovakia and possibly the Philippines have started to face reality.
It is not possible to overestimate the burden of sickness to come. It will change human history. An urgent recognition is needed if we are to find some solutions in time. Fiddling at the edges is not enough. There needs to be a truth and reconciliation type process, and evidence of wrong-doing must be followed to its conclusion.
My formal recommendations flow from the above but recognising the enormity of the harms done these will unlikely get buy-in from the many existing decision-makers – those identified by the “but for” test (from criminal law) whose decisions share the blame for the deaths and disabilities so far, and NZDSOS is desperately concerned, for the many more to come.
Every single institution involved must be assessed for its behavior independently, responsibilities laid bare and processes and laws amended so that:
- The political process is kept out of heath matters, where citizens are at their most vulnerable and disempowered.
- Politics is redefined, and practised as being on behalf of, to protect, and with the consent of the people. The social contract must urgently be repaired; tremendous damage has been done by the state, which threatens the safety and cohesion of us all.
- Regulators powers are severely curtailed and conflicts are forbidden. Medical ethics are left to experienced doctors with a track record of congruence with them.
- Officials must be formally trained in recognising and avoiding bias, group think, echo chambers and all the other pitfalls of being handed some power and other people’s money.
- Corporate lobbying is somehow removed from influencing policy. Liability compensation must be pursued.
- Corruption in all its forms and at all levels is acknowledged as the constant enemy inside the gate of human affairs, and processes and rules altered to expose and guard against it. One obvious solution is localism and more self-government. The malign influence of international forces must be exposed, acknowledged and removed from local affairs.
- Judges must be reminded and place the principle of legality regarding the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (BORA) at the centre of their considerations, BORA must be solidified and made an absolute. There can be no place for vaccine activist judges, and experts provided by the government must not receive the “Chevron deference”.
Above all, you must be brave, selfless and do your bit to ensure that, actually, THIS TIME – NEVER AGAIN
Dr Matt Shelton