COVID-19 denialism Shemirani describes the COVID-19 pandemic as a "plandemic" and a "scamdemic", and said in December 2020 that there was "no evidence that I can see that a pandemic exists". She characterises the pandemic as a conspiracy to control the masses, with any vaccine for COVID-19 being a "political tool to change people's
DNA". Shemirani has been suspended from
Facebook several times for promoting harmful misinformation to her 54,000 followers, including linking the
5G mobile network to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to
Hope Not Hate, who monitor online racism and conspiracy theories, her Facebook page describes the
9/11 attacks as a
false flag, Satanic messages in music videos and the organised destruction of the nuclear family. Shemirani has been the subject of complaints for likening measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic to
Nazi war crimes and
the Holocaust. She has referred to hospital deaths as "genocide" and the
National Health Service (NHS) as "the new
Auschwitz". She asked in one post, "When are people going to wake up? On the cattle truck? Or in the showers?" She has described the government as behaving like the
Nazis in their attempts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. She defended her statements by saying: An editorial in
The Nursing Standard, stated that Shemirani is "openly propagating her unfounded opinions in her capacity as a nurse – and in doing so, casting doubt over the integrity of her nursing and medical colleagues." Shemirani has described nurses who raised concerns about her conduct as "overweight" and "envious" of her "decent looks" and success. Whilst she was observing police officers amassing at the North West corner of the square, she urged members of the audience to confront the police. Protestors chanting "choose your side" formed a human blockade in order to prevent police actions and initially forced officers to retreat. Thirty protestors were arrested and the police dispersed the protest at approximately 3pm. A split in the campaign, with Steele and Shemirani on one side, and Icke and Corbyn on the other side, has been reported, with supporters of Icke describing Shemirani as "controlled opposition". On 8 December 2020, Shemirani appeared on
Sky News and gave an interview with
Alex Rossi and made several unsubstantiated claims. She said, "No vaccine has ever been proven safe and no vaccine has ever been proven effective". Rossi interrupted and replied, "We know that's not true. Millions and millions of lives have been saved by vaccines". Shemirani swiftly replied, "Simply not true". Rossi sharply responded, "They're some of the safest medicines ever invented". That's just nonsense". Shemirani continued with more unsubstantiated claims and said, "There is no evidence that I can see that a pandemic exists. There is no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has been purified and is unequivocally in existence". On 1 March 2021, the
Metropolitan Police reported that they had charged Shemirani with 6 breaches of the UK Coronavirus regulations along with fellow activist Piers Corbyn. On 24 July 2021, Shemirani attended a protest at Trafalgar Square, London, and made threats to NHS doctors and nurses by comparing them to the doctors and nurses of
Nazi Germany who were convicted at the
Nuremberg Trials and hanged. She said, "Get their names. Email them to me. With a group of lawyers, we are collecting all that. At the Nuremberg Trials the doctors and nurses stood trial and they hung. If you are a doctor or a nurse, now is the time to get off that bus... and stand with us the people." Following her remarks, there were concerns about the safety of doctors and nurses in the United Kingdom; the police launched an investigation. Her son Sebastian has called for the police to take action and to prosecute his mother because he believes that her remarks pose an immediate risk to the lives of the doctors and nurses in the United Kingdom.
Antisemitism and conspiracy theories Shemirani has espoused several
anti-semitic conspiracy theories. She stated in an interview that her ex-husband had taught her about the
Committee of 300, she explained that he gave her "an education in the
New World Order, of the
illuminati, the top families, who owns what. All the corruption, the murders, I knew all of that. But I never knew it would happen in my lifetime." She had repeated
QAnon conspiracy theories about figures in the
US Democratic Party. Shemirani promotes narratives that universal religious persecution operation exists and that a large-scale conspiracy by the global elite is perpetrating the sexual abuse of children. Shemirani has stated her belief in the existence of
Satanic cults, which she linked to conspiracy theories concerning COVID-19. In videos, she has told her followers in speeches that "Christians are being persecuted all over the world" (along with Muslims and Asians) by "paedophiles who are all in bed with one another." She claimed that these paedophiles "all worship the devil." == Suspension from nursing ==