I have not watched Dr Who for many years, but I am old enough to remember the first Doctor, William Hartnell. He was a terrifying character himself and the avuncular Doctors (indeed we now have a materteral Doctor…I had to look it up too) were later manifestations. But none of the doctors scared me as much as their arch-enemies, the Daleks. ‘Exterminate, exterminate’ used to ring in my ears as I tried to get off to sleep and it haunted my dreams. But now we have the equivalent of the Daleks whizzing about proclaiming ‘vaccinate, vaccinate’ and it scares me almost as much. And I am not someone who would be classed—under normal circumstances—as an ‘anti-vaxxer’.
Now, across the UK—where the devolved administration tail has wagged the Westminster government dog—the utterly insane decision has been taken to ‘offer vaccines’ to children aged 5-11. How long before ‘offer’ becomes ‘force’, and we end up with an Australian style—long before Covid—situation where pupils cannot attend school without being vaccinated? We should have seen the signs, but we thought Australia was all tying kangaroos down (what did happen to that nice Rolf Harris?) and Waltzing Matilda. Now it looks like a blueprint for the vaccine obsessed.
The evidence is clear evidence that the Covid vaccines were still experimental when they were introduced, that they have rapidly declining efficacy following administration leading to negative effectiveness (greater risk of being infected with Covid and greater risk of dying in some age groups). We have long known about the increased risk of myocarditis following the Pfizer Covid vaccines and this is not fake news, it is clear from the US equivalent of our Yellow Card reporting system—VAERS—that there has been a noticeable spike in this life-threatening condition and that such heart problems are much worse for the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. The weekly update on Covid vaccine safety in The Daily Sceptic, which is not remotely ‘anti-vaxx’ makes sobering reading, especially when you scan to the bottom of the table to ‘death row’. I am prepared to agree and, indeed, have even promoted the view that these numbers are very small in percentage terms and that for most people the vaccines are quite safe, although time will tell. If this was Ebola or anthrax, I’d be rolling my sleeve up right now. But this is neither, Covid for the vast majority is a very mild viral infection from which they recover quickly. The vaccine madness is simply another manifestation, along with lockdowns and masks, of the gross overreaction that has constituted our pandemic strategy. It seems, like lockdowns and masks, not to be working. Our lords, masters and mistresses know this and when it dawns on the great unwashed, they are going to have to change tack.
Long Covid
As if on cue, Long Covid comes to the rescue. Long Covid has been in existence almost since Covid itself came on the scene. I recall early in 2020 BBC Radio 4 running programmes where they interviewed a series terminally miserable people who all claimed to be suffering from Long Covid. I have no doubt that some were suffering from—and let’s give it its proper name—post-viral syndrome. But there was never an interview with a single person who had had Covid who, six weeks later reported that they were “feeling fine thanks.” Post-viral syndrome is a controversial and ill-diagnosed condition the very existence of which has been questioned. There has always been suspicion that, at least in some people, this is a psychosomatic illness; one where the effects on the body originate in the brain. There is suspicion that Long Covid, partly whipped up by mass hysteria, is likewise psychosomatic. I have argued elsewhere, without disrespect to people who are genuinely ill—a psychosomatic illness is an illness—that the narrative around Long Covid could be referred to as a ‘Skiver’s charter’.
Long Covid has come to the rescue of the vaccine obsessed because we now have ‘evidence’, as proclaimed willingly by the BBC, that the “Vaccinated less likely to develop long Covid” and this ground-breaking news emanates from the recent report commissioned by UK Health Security Agency, which is simply the discredited Health Education England with a new label. Without wishing to be too hard on the individual researchers who carried out the study which was a rapid review of evidence* there are severe limitations, not to the report itself, but to the level of evidence that was assessed. The researchers were very transparent about this. For example, they said: “Most studies included in this report compared people with COVID-19 or long COVID who were vaccinated with people who were not vaccinated. As there are many differences between people who are and are not vaccinated, there is a risk in all these studies that factors other than vaccination status may have influenced the results”. Precisely! Surely, if Long Covid is psychosomatic or has a psychosomatic component, there is a high likelihood that knowing you were vaccinated may influence whether you think you have Long Covid, whether you really have symptoms? This is known as the ‘placebo effect’. In all the studies included all the people who had been vaccinated were aware of that fact. The only robust way to conduct such a study would be to administer vaccines to one group and distilled water to another and compare the outcomes; in other words, give one group a placebo.
The researchers also said: “Long COVID was defined inconsistently across studies, both in terms of the symptoms that would comprise long COVID, but also the time frame in which the symptoms needed to be present”. This is code for: “We don’t know what Long Covid is or how to diagnose it”. But these subtleties, of course, are not reported by the BBC who hope for two things: 1. That most people will not follow through to the original report; and 2. That those who do will be unable to understand the details of the study. But rest assured, Long Covid is going to be rolled out as another excuse to push the Covid vaccines on an increasingly unwilling population. Put simply, we will be exhorted to get vaccinated for something from which we are unlikely to suffer, will not die of and which is all but impossible to diagnose. Doesn’t that sound familiar?
*There but for the Grace of God go I as I have conducted several rapid reviews
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