Bobby has been busted telling lies:

Bobby. wrote on Jun 6^th, 2023 at 8:59am:


"ABC media watch caught them out", says Bobby.

No. ABC's Media Watch debunked the conspiracy theorists' fake story.

Here's the full story and video from Media Watch:

An important health message featuring real-life patients with COVID-19 is attacked on social media as fake. We debunk claims the patients are ‘crisis actors’.

Paul Barry:

So, is Ramona a crisis actor pretending to have COVID for New South Wales Health? No, of course she’s not.

As New South Wales Health made clear, the patient’s name is not Ramona Khoury but Ramona El-Nachar, who is a pharmacy worker.

And as you can clearly see they are two different people, despite the fact that both are women and both have dark hair.

And as for the two male patients, well, we’re happy to tell you they are not crisis actors either.

Who were they Greggy?

John Smith wrote on Jun 6^th, 2023 at 2:41pm:



Hi halfwit - how's it going over there curly - old darling. 

RAMONA EL-NACHAR: This is real. And this is for, you know, Australia. The whole of Australia. You know, all I can think about is my children that I haven’t seen in a very long time. And this is for them.

WOMAN: It’s had a really huge impact on your family. You’re not able to look after your kids at the moment.

RAMONA EL-NACHAR: I haven’t been working. Like, I’m a single mum. It’s not easy.

- Nine News (Sydney), 25 August, 2021

Hello, I’m Paul Barry, welcome to Media Watch.

And that was single mum Ramona, one of 700 COVID patients hospitalised in Australia at the end of last month.

Who, along with two others in Sydney’s Concord Hospital, was keen to warn people of the dangers of COVID by sharing heartbreaking stories about the illness from their hospital beds:

FAWAZ DANDAN: So please get vaccinated. I wish I knew it beforehand.

OSAMA AHMAD: … shortness in breath, something attacking the lungs. It was harsh.

- Nine News (Sydney), 25 August, 2021

Footage of those patients, identified only by their first names, was recorded by Dr Lucy Morgan and released by New South Wales Health. And it made it onto all the major networks including ABC News, Ten News First and Seven News.

But soon people on social media were wondering if the New South Wales Health video was actually a fake.

And among the sceptics was former One Nation senator Rod Culleton, whose post received thousands of likes, and another former senator, David Leyonhjelm.

And one intrepid TikToker who went digging was able to reveal:

I found all 3 actors. Now how can this be coincidental?

- TikTok, @loiannecapone, 27 August, 2021

Yes, all three, including Ramona, were supposedly paid crisis actors, who did not have COVID at all.

And another internet sleuth then set out to prove it, ringing Concord Hospital to show that Ramona Khoury was not a patient there:

MAN: Hello, is this Concord Hospital?

WOMAN: Yes, can I help you?

MAN: Hi, it’s John Khoury. I’m just looking for my wife.

WOMAN: Patient?

MAN: Ramona Khoury ...

WOMAN: I just can’t see anyone with that surname.

- TikTok, @tiktokkotkitime2wakeup, 27 August, 2021

Well, bingo. That video — which TikTok only removed today — had nearly 800,000 views.

And elsewhere on social media other punters were getting outraged by what they saw as TV’s fake news:

How stupid and outright deceptive is Channel 9?

- Facebook comment, Glenn Baylis, 28 August, 2021

Phoned the hospital - she is not a patient at all! More lies on our tv!!!

- Facebook comment, Julia Lemuria, 31 August, 2021

So, is Ramona a crisis actor pretending to have COVID for New South Wales Health? No, of course she’s not.

As New South Wales Health made clear, the patient’s name is not Ramona Khoury but Ramona El-Nachar, who is a pharmacy worker.

And as you can clearly see they are two different people, despite the fact that both are women and both have dark hair.

And as for the two male patients, well, we’re happy to tell you they are not crisis actors either.

As actor and comedian Mitch Garling — who was ‘outed’ online as COVID patient Osama Ahmad — said on Instagram:

MITCH GARLING: … turns out that people are using my photo and my StarNow profile saying that I am an actor sitting in a hospital pretending to have COVID. Look, I am an actor …

But not pretending to have COVID. Not that. Just, doesn’t even look like me. Has a beard. That’s it.

- Instagram, @mitchgarling, 27 August, 2021

It is amazing what people will believe, isn’t it?

And even we have had viewers asking: Is it true? And why haven’t the mainstream media covered this?

But it’s not just fun and games for the COVID conspiracists. Because the hospital told Media Watch:

It has been highly distressing for Dr Morgan and the patients to see their powerful messages undermined by these baseless and dangerous accusations, and to have their credibility questioned. Staff in Concord Hospital’s intensive care unit have also received multiple intimidating phone calls from members of the public over this matter.

- Email, Dr Teresa Anderson, Chief Executive, Sydney Local Health District, 3 September, 2021

It is the last thing our exhausted health workers need.

And it’s not much better for the rest of us, relying on people to take COVID seriously and get the jab if we’re ever to win back our freedoms.

Bobby. wrote on Jun 6^th, 2023 at 2:42pm:


I bet you call all the guys darling

greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 6^th, 2023 at 3:18pm:



It looked genuine to me -
how was I to know that half the video was cut off?
It was a media watch video - which is in itself a fact checking show.

Bobby. wrote on Jun 6^th, 2023 at 3:24pm:



but you're an idiot. I don't know how many times you have to be told before it sinks in