My oldest friend has had two stents put into his heart last month.
I visited him a couple of weeks ago at his home and asked him if he had been vaccinated.
He took a long draw on his cigarette and replied - “No, the vaccine may cause complications with my heart medicine.”
You cannot save someone from themselves.
Very true.
But in his case - if you dont want to “be saved” why bother with the operation only to engage in the same behaviours that caused the problem in the first place?
I am all for the right of choice in this matter, the right to terminate your own life, but when you give an alcoholic a new liver and they start drinking again immediately after, you kind of think well fck you - You asked for and were given help and then you pissed on everyones efforts from a great height.
To be fair to him, he’d probably love not to smoke, but nicotine is rather addictive.
It is. But no to my knowledge he has never tried to quit.
But when your Dr says “continue with this behaviour and you will die very soon - stop it and you increase your chances of living much longer” - I think he owes it to his wife, kids, friends and family to quit. And to refuse the vaccine because it may complicate his heart medicine (no evidence for that) but continue smoking is just fucking dumb.
While I cant comment on this individual I have come across a couple of cases where the vaccine has not been advised due to interactions with other medicines.
Conversely I’ve also seen the opposite where additional doses are needed to counter certain drugs.
yep, I’ve come across this with certain individuals screaming coercion etc. This is in the UK too.
A calm response on the fact that by receiving a donor organ you’re getting a second chance and the medical staff have a massive responsibility to ensure the transplant “sticks”. So there’s a heap of risk management involved which will include ensuring that people have the best chance of staying healthy and ensuring the organ goes to the best recipient.
It was met with silence which I took as someone getting back in their little box.
I found this article interesting. While it follows the BBC trend of not bashing the UK government it does touch on the relative approaches of different nations within the EU.
This happened with my son and a few other kids at his school. (We’re in the South West)
Because of the UK’s 28 day criteria for Covid related deaths reported the official figure given out can easily be increased by 50% so if there’s 100 per day that on worldometers it’s closer to 150 per day.
Just saying!
In which case they’re even less likely to have died from covid. The figures are not 50% higher though.
The total number who have died within 28 days of a positive covid test is 137,697.
The total who have died where covid is mentioned on the death certificate (so including those who died from something else but died “with” covid as distinct to “from” covid) is 160,824 (so, 16.8% higher).
Just saying.
My freedom. What about the freedom of the people they infect?
Frustrating.
Jab-a-fob-fob
There’s three in a job,
And who do you think they be?
The teacher, the healer, the computer dealer,
And all of them thick as can be
I found the figure for fatalities incredible so I checked and it’s a daily average of 1,750.
That’s over 12,000 a week.
Imagine a war with those kind of casualties.
Just for comparison 58,000 US casulaties in the entire Vietnam war.
And yet this lot ignore that? Unbelievable.
I note you often quote worldometer figures, but only when they suit your argument. I think you will find that current figures show 8,120,713 cases in the UK with 137,691 deaths.
Spain figures are 4, 973,619 cases with 86,778 deaths.
Just a thought on this. I’d wager this lot didn’t even know where Newcastle is before they started looking to invest.
I quote worldometer to be consistent with what data I’m using, regardless of what light that puts the UK in. That’s why I don’t add 30,000 to Spain’s total death toll that the ft estimated Spain had undercounted by at the end of last year.
Total cases are relatively meaningless, total death toll is also not without its problems, but both are rendered even more pointless as comparators if there’s no reference to population.
Did they have symptoms? One of the main differences between the LFTs and PCR tests, is the latter is more sensitive (more likely to test positive when you have it) in part because it will detect sub clinical levels of the virus RNA that have no clinical consequences. To be symptomatic and test negative on the PCR is really rare. Several of the explanations being given for this make a lot more sense in the situation where the positive LFT was associated with a lack of symptoms and a lot harder to explain if there were symptoms.
The other thing Im not seeing is any sort of quantification of the problem. Even superb tests will throw up strange results when used often enough. Im not seeing if the incidents of this phenomenon are in line with the predicted incidents of these anomalies or at a high rate.