THEY never give up, do they?
Although I opted out the last time I got an NHS message telling me that because of my age I was eligible for a free flu and covid jab, I am still getting these texts. I have had two recently and this time I am ignoring them as clearly there is no point in going through the palaver of attempting to opt out. They just take no notice.
The message goes on that it’s best to get vaccinated as soon as possible although they don’t tell you why. Bending over backwards to be helpful, the message adds: ‘Contact your GP if you need a home visit.’
Great. Yet if I wanted to book a doctor’s appointment or home visit for anything else, I probably wouldn’t be able to. So how is it that doctors have endless time to jab people or even to make home visits, but none for proper consultations?
As a case in point, a friend recently broke her arm in two places, and her GP was informed. Has her GP contacted her in any way, arranged a consultation or a home visit? No. There has been complete silence, not even a phone call to ask how her recovery is proceeding.
We are endlessly informed that these vaccinations are the best way of protecting yourself from viruses that circulate over the winter months. So if the jabs are so good, why are even jabbed people going down with flu and what passes for covid every year?
The old excuse that yes, jabbed up you may still get flu or covid, or both, but not as seriously as if you were unvaccinated, is still being trotted out, and astonishingly, all too many people are falling for it.
At the same time as these urgent texts to get jabbed are being sent to every octogenarian’s phone, scare stories have been appearing in the media about a new covid surge. Hospital admissions are rising, we are warned, and no fewer than 3,049 cases of covid were reported in the week ending October 1. This is a very precise number, so where the hell did it come from? Or, more likely, where was it dreamed up?
The ‘experts’, whoever they may be, are telling us that two strains of covid, known as Nimbus and Stratus, are now proliferating and are highly infectious. Symptoms of these new variants include a ‘razor blade’ sore throat, hoarseness and nausea. These are exactly the same symptoms that characterise ordinary colds and flu, of course.
As it’s difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between a standard winter cold and covid, it’s important, say some doctors, to take a test with a covid testing kit.
We are assured that you can still get these tests. And certainly, you can. They are now available in every pharmacy and supermarket, with prices ranging from 99p to about £18. In this way the covid industry rumbles on, picking up speed all the time. Covid tests, much like the vaccines themselves, have become a highly profitable worldwide industry, operating on fear alone. Last year the global covid diagnostics business recorded a £43.5billion profit.
Even the inventor of the PCR test, the late Nobel Prize-winner Kary Mullis, said that his test can ‘find anything in anybody. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick’.
But people are still terrified when they take a covid test and a quick dark line appears, telling them that it’s positive. They then cower in fear, staying at home, avoiding social contact and most likely take to wearing a mask.
Talking of masks, which I hoped I would never have to do again, there have also been stories in the media saying that compulsory mask-wearing will be reintroduced in some places. A headline in the Daily Mail on October 10 read: ‘Chilling map reveals where MASKS will be brought back this winter.’ Oh dear, prepare to be chilled.
Several hospitals have already reintroduced these masks, taking no notice of the many reports saying that they are not only ineffective but cause breathing and other problems. It is difficult to hear people when they are speaking through a mask and being able to hear a doctor or nurse is, one might imagine, pretty important if you are going for a hospital appointment or consultation.
The retired headmaster of my son’s school, a highly intelligent man who once put the fear of God into about 800 rowdy boys, is now so petrified that he wears a mask while shopping in supermarkets and when doing Sudoku puzzles sitting outdoors. In vain have I pointed out that they make no difference and are completely useless. He just carries on wearing the mask, probably thinking that I am the crazy nutjob.
And although an increasing number of people are saying that they will not be fooled again by dire warnings of new covid variants, the majority are still going along with the propaganda that keeps the industry thriving.
A friend of my ex-husband’s, a successful businessman, proudly announced the other day that so far he’d had six jabs. And a former colleague I met recently for lunch told me that he had just been for his flu, covid and RSV jabs.
All this tells us that the vaccination/fear programme remains in full swing and is not going away.
Is there ANYTHING we can do to make people see sense and understand that it’s all to do with profit and nothing to do with health?
Answers, please!
