Nursing home nurse who claimed the Covid pandemic was a hoax while protesting lockdowns in her uniform is dropped

A nursing home nurse who attended a Covid conspiracy meeting in London in her nursing uniform and claimed the virus was a hoax has been axed.

Carley Louise Stewart of Preston attended the August 2020 mass protest holding a sign reading ‘Nurse on call’. Where is the pandemic?’.

The mother-of-two, who was fired from her care home job following the incident, was declared unfit to continue to be a nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) due to both her protest presence and multiple comments that cast suspicion on official guidance.

These included accusing people who adhered to the Covid restrictions placed on the public at the time as “performing satanic rituals and evil by complying with them.

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Stewart, in her early 30s, also boasted about flouting rules that restricted 2020 Christmas gatherings by hiring friends and family as temporary workers so they could visit her house.

She was dressed in her nursing uniform and waving a sign with the words “We have empty beds” and “Nurse present” on one side. Where is the pandemic?’ on the other

Stewart, who lost her job over her protest performance, has now been struck from the nursing record

The NMC slammed her, saying her “incendiary” comments were intended to “incite anger” during the pandemic and could have potentially endangered members of the public.

Stewart, who did not attend NMC proceedings earlier this month, faced a total of 10 charges for her behavior as a nurse.

These all related to her joining the protest in her nurse’s uniform and the comments made via social media and YouTube in the aftermath.

This included claiming that Covid PCR tests people used to see if they had the virus didn’t work, and that she had “seen no evidence of a deadly virus let alone a pandemic.”

She also claimed that viruses were not really contagious and that those who followed Covid restrictions in 2020, such as keeping six feet apart, were participating in “satanic rituals.”

“Six feet 6 PEOPLE 6 MONTHS 666 If you don’t know you perform satanic rituals and evil by complying,” she wrote on Facebook in September of that year.

Stewart also boasted about getting around the ‘rule of six’, a Covid restriction that limits Christmas social gatherings in 2020 to six people.

“Then the UK government is making fun of you,” she wrote on Facebook.

“I can’t have my family around for Christmas.

‘However, I may later get about £6 pounds from my employees, Fenn Settle Ltd. is now a legally registered company, registered with the company house.

“And I can now ‘hire’ my family and friends on a 0 hour contract, and invite them to an ‘unpaid work event’ at my home (registered location), regardless of the level system and completely regardless of the rule of 6.”

It is unknown whether Stewart actually followed through with this plan.

The NMC said the comments about Covid, restrictions and health advice, as well as her appearance at the protest in her nursing uniform, went against official health advice, encouraged the public to ignore official guidelines and break the law, and sowed mistrust in other health professionals with opposing views.

The fitness-to-practice panel said: ‘The panel viewed Ms Stewart’s comments as openly critical of all her nursing colleagues who disagreed with her views, and accused health care workers of not taking proper care of residents entrusted to their care and lack of proper care. knowledge.

“The panel believed that Ms. Stewart’s conduct would undermine public trust in health care professionals and would cause some members of the public to ignore those professionals’ views.”

They added: ‘The panel considered that Ms Stewart’s conduct was serious and presented misleading information to the public as a registered health professional, which could lead them to disregard official health advice, potentially putting members of the public at risk walk on damage.’

In the ruling, the panel ruled that all charges against her were proven, adding that Stewart had shown no insight into her conduct.

While the NMC noted that Stewart did indeed have freedom of speech, it was pushed aside “by the interests of public safety and the protection of the public.”

Kate Shemirani was removed from the Nursing and Midwifery Council register for spreading misinformation about the pandemic

Given the evidence, the panel said nothing less than striking Stewart off the nursing record would suffice.

She has 28 days to appeal the August 11 verdict.

While the NMC received multiple reports of her comments and performance at the 2020 protest, the fitness-to-exercise procedure was postponed, in part because Stewart requested an extension.

Stewart is not the first nurse to be suspended by the NMC for their role in promoting Covid disinformation.

Ex-nurse and embarrassed anti-vaxx campaigner Kate Shemirani, who famously compared NHS workers to Nazi war criminals and compared Covid lockdown restrictions to the Holocaust, was also stopped by the NMC in 2021.

Nearly 230,000 Britons are known to have died from Covid since the start of the pandemic.