ALTHOUGH not Italian, I am one of the journalists traumatised by covid – but not for the reasons stated in Roger Watson’s TCW article this week. No, I was shocked and deeply depressed because, almost from the start, it was obvious to me that the media, and in my case the British media, were not telling the truth.
It became clear very early on that although for some people covid may have been a nasty illness, it hardly touched the majority of us, and nor was it likely to. And yet we were urged, forced or bullied to get jabbed, to stay at home, to take the PCR test, to self-isolate, not to travel and not to go shopping except for absolute necessities. Unless we obeyed all the rules, we were warned, we would be struck down by certain death.
The mainstream media not only went along with all the lockdowns, mask mandates and other nonsense imposed on us by government, but in many cases bayed for more restrictions, tighter controls on our movements and severe punishments for not conforming to the rules. Loudmouths such as Andrew Neil and Piers Morgan (who has climbed down somewhat since) called for the unvaccinated to imprisoned, fined or refused medical treatment. Morgan called the unvaccinated ‘quarter-wits; not even half-wits’.
These were television presenters who knew nothing whatever about vaccines or how they worked, but television doctors, who might have been expected to know something about vaccination, were even worse.
I’m thinking particularly of the late Michael Mosley, who used every single one of his many media platforms to cajole his readers and listeners into getting vaccinated. Mosley was perhaps the most vociferous and relentless public pusher of the covid jabs and even refused to allow the unvaccinated into his home ‘because of the risk’. He was all in favour of mandatory jabs for NHS workers, and wrote: ‘I’m convinced we have Covid on the run once vaccine-hesitant people will realise the benefits of being jabbed.’
The irony was that, after obeying all the restrictions and having all the jabs, Mosley himself caught covid! And later died!
We later learned that some TV doctors, such as Hilary Jones, were being paid by vaccine companies to promote the jab. So how impartial was their advice?
Yet all the while the mainstream media and their tame medics were promoting the vaccine, never questioning the indecent haste with which it was rolled out, dissidents were pointing to an ever-growing body of evidence that the vaccines did more harm than good, and that the PCR test, never designed to diagnose covid, resulted in thousands of false positives. The mainstream took no notice.
The implementation of the PCR test meant that thousands, maybe millions, of cases of covid were apparently confirmed, when most of those tested probably never had covid in the first place. The PCR test seemed to validate covid as a deadly pandemic, and taking this test was in some cases a condition of travel. When my grandson went to India for work, he was forced to take the PCR test as he had refused all the jabs so did not have a vaccination certificate. He said it was awful, painful and invasive. Yet many people, terrified of catching covid, would not admit visitors to their home unless they had taken the PCR test and it had shown up negative. The fearmongering engendered by the media was unprecedented in my lifetime.
Many people I know took a PCR test at the first sign of a sniffle and proudly recorded the results on Facebook or other social media. Yes, they had caught a dose of covid!
It was also the case that many elderly people had covid as a cause of death written on their death certificates, even when they had tested negative only a few days before.
It was impossible to raise any of the obvious questions about covid in the mainstream, such as: did the masks actually prevent infection, what was the point of social distancing, and did the vaccines even work?
Because of all this, and the blind refusal of the mainstream to hear any opposing views, I am eternally grateful to Kathy Gyngell and TCW for publishing many of my articles and those of others, such as my ex-husband Neville Hodgkinson, Sally Beck and Paula Jardine, who wrote coolly and authoritatively about vaccine harms. The mainstream even refused to acknowledge the work of leading oncologist Professor Angus Dalgleish and cardiologist Peter McCullough, who were warning that the jabs could cause turbo-cancers, heart disease, infertility and other serious diseases.
If the mainstream reported adverse reactions from the vaccine at all, as eventually they had to, they covered themselves by saying that these were ‘extremely rare’ compared with the ‘millions of lives saved.’ But where is the evidence for millions of lives saved? Nowhere.
Now, finally, the mainstream press is being forced to report on injuries and even deaths from the covid vaccine as these can no longer be blithely ignored. A Daily Mail headline on January 13, 2025, read: ‘The “fit and healthy” Brits killed by the Covid jab and families fighting for damages – as minister announces plans to change compensation rules’.
The report went on to cite Kate Scott’s husband Jamie, who suffered a permanent brain injury from a blood clot brought on by an ‘incredibly rare reaction to the Astra Zeneca jab missed in safety trials’.
After listing a number of other victims, the story ended by saying: ‘the Astra Zeneca jab has been effectively withdrawn following discoveries it carried the very rare risk of triggering potentially fatal blood clots’.
You will notice that in these brief extracts the terms ‘incredibly rare’ and ‘very rare’ are not mentioned just once, but twice. This means that, even now, the mainstream is clinging to the notion that the jabs were, on the whole, a world life-saver and it is just an unfortunate few who suffered a bad reaction. Indeed, throughout the autumn, most branches of the media were urging readers to go for their booster jabs. They are still, in the main, ignoring the overwhelming evidence that these jabs do far more harm than good. At the same time, they are warning us against a new, even more dangerous variant known as XEC and hinting darkly about the next pandemic which will be even worse than the previous one. (Which of course, wasn’t a pandemic at all.)
And the mainstream still continues to believe that covid vaccines saved the world. Only two days ago medical writer John Naish reported Professor Tom Solomon as saying we should spend millions on developing vaccines for the forthcoming pandemic. Solomon was quoted as saying: ‘It was vaccines that got us out of the Covid pandemic.’ Why Britain must act NOW to survive deadly Disease X: Scientists warn the next pandemic will be worse than Covid and we are woefully unprepared – here’s how we can prevent future lockdowns | Daily Mail Online
No wonder I am traumatised. Or, you might say, completely disillusioned with my previous profession.
