It was mid-July when 22-year-old Chloe Szepanowski announced she couldn't keep her mouth shut any longer.

With a particular interest in health, Szepanowski (who goes by Szep on Instagram) has moved increasingly into the wellness space. In April of this year, the Gold Coast based influencer launched WellWeb, a digital world of 'wellness', including yoga, mindfulness, and nutrition advice.

While Szepanowski has no formal qualifications, she does have, at the time of publication, 656,000 followers on Instagram.

That's where she decided to air her concerns.

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For the majority of her followers, they knew what was coming.

They'd followed the breadcrumbs of 'freedom' and 'knowing what is right for you and what isn't'. They'd watched the YouTube video where Szepanowski had said they were "looking into" whether or not they should vaccinate their son "ourselves" and in the meantime, they're building up his immunity. They'd heard the message that natural is always better, fear is a weapon and it's time to "awaken".

The breadcrumbs led to the following statement.

"You know what I've kept my mouth shut and I could easily keep it shut. The lockdowns haven't affected me physically, financially or mentally, so there is no personal agenda here, apart from the fact that I do not support what is going on.

"The solution is officially worse than the problem. And to the individuals personally suffering through this bulls**t and have for the last year, my heart goes out to you. My entire news feed is filled with family, friends, small businesses all suffering right now from the solution. But what my news feed isn't full of, is people with the problem..."

She tagged her partner, 25-year-old Mitch Orval, the son of former Collingwood football star, Mark Orval. Both failed to see the irony that the reason their news feeds aren't full of people "with the problem" (I presume, dying of COVID-19) is because lockdowns work.

Living on the Gold Coast, you'd be hard pressed to find a city more protected from the devastation of the pandemic. It is because of Melbourne's 15 week lockdown, for example, that an outbreak never reached Szep's doorstep.

Szepanowski eventually deleted her post.

Interestingly, if you were to visit Szepanowski's Instagram right now, you'd see no trace of her stance on COVID. It exists only in her stories, which disappear automatically after 24 hours.

One tile remains in her highlights which simply reads: "We have been programmed to live in a fearful vibration. Why? Because a fearful person is obedient. Fear is a weapon that can be used to control the mind. A conscious person leans into their fear and discomfort. They question things. They challenge things and don't blindly believe what they are told. As you awaken and walk this path, you will feel very isolated at times, but please know you are not alone."

But her stories have been far less ambiguous.

After making her stance known, Szepanowski posted a question box asking her followers to tell her how they were feeling. "This is not the new normal," she wrote, "and I'm happy to stand for our basic human rights".

On the day of the so-called Freedom Rallies, Szepanowski posted her implicit support.

And then there is her stance on health in general, which is broadly anti-medicine.

While on the surface advocating for 'health' seems relatively uncontroversial, the position becomes dangerous when it mutates into anti-medicine, anti-science and ultimately anti-expert rhetoric.

In fact, the people who put the "most time, effort, and resources towards health" would be health professionals. Doctors who train for the better part of a decade. Nurses who have worked in hospital wards for 30 years. Immunologists and epidemiologists who have read thousands of papers, and contributed to a field which abides by rigorous standards.

But Szepanowski believes - as her Instagram effectively communicates - that health is about hydration, sunlight and charging water in the moonlight.

If only it were that simple. Maybe then four million people wouldn't be dead from a virus that only a few weeks ago killed a healthy woman in her 30s.

Interestingly, there are some pharmaceuticals Szepanowski has no problem with. While, according to Szepanowski's logic, taking insulin for diabetes or anti depressants for mental illness is 'unhealthy', dermal and lip filler is permissible.

In 2018, Szepanowski appeared on ABC'sFour Cornersto talk about her cosmetic procedures, including the injection of dermal filler before her 20th birthday.

While often marketed as non-invasive and low-risk,Four Cornersreported that such procedures can have serious health consequences.

There seems to be a lack of consistency, not just by Szepanowski but various other influencers who have identified as anti-vaxx, when it comes to whether or not a 'jab' is dangerous.