Vaccines Minister Maggie Throup has told Brits they ‘probably will’ have to get a coronavirus booster jab every year.
Absolutely not. As with the flu vaccine, make it available to those most at risk. Assuming that long term data shows that it is sufficiently benign. However, the idea that all of us should be subject to it is nonsensical and I flatly refuse to play this game. If enough of us refuse, then maybe we can make it unworkable.
The comments on the BBC‘s Question Time programme came after the boss of Pfizer, Dr Albert Bourla, said annual vaccinations ‘are likely to be needed’.
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? (Kerching! – Ed).
Ms Throup was asked last night if she agreed with Dr Bourla’s assessment on annual jabs and she said: ‘Every year we have the flu programme and obviously we are talking about another virus.’
Quite so. However, we don’t vaccinate the whole population for flu and the same applies here.
Asked for a third time if booster jabs will be needed every year, she replied: ‘At the moment it looks as if we probably will and looking at the way the virus has gone already, one thing about this virus it has definitely been unpredictable.
‘Just when we thought we were getting somewhere then obviously we have got a new variant.
Are these people thick? I do wonder sometimes at the intellectual capacity of the average MP. This is a coronavirus. It is a single-strand RNA virus. This is what they do. It is what they have always done, so why this should be a surprise to anyone that this one behaves exactly like all of its predecessors, is itself, the surprise.
And just as every year, they guess at what to put in the ‘flu’ jab. I will not be having any ‘flu’ or ‘covid’ jabs, whatever the clowns say
That she can say things like this on television and not called an ignorant twat on the spot says a lot about the intellectual capacity, or lack thereof, of these people. They have no qualifications apart from climbing the greasy pole.
The flu vaccine has been shown to be ineffective, and they have known that for many years, as it turns out that the people getting it are the people less likely to get the flu anyway (https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M19-3075?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed).
I got the flu in January 2018. At the time, I was Mrs L’s sole carer, so we had to get my mother in law in to look after both of us. Subsequent to that, I was talking to a friend of mine who is a nurse. I pondered whether I should have had the flu vaccine that year. She told me that I’d have been wasting my time as they misjudged the variant that year.
Every year? Bet it’s more frequent than that.
Current booster is 5-6 months after the double jab as it was claimed that vaccine protection significantly waned after that time.
A booster only once a year? I thought they were saying in the last week or so that people will have a booster every three months.
Does anyone remember when vaccines were real vaccines, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri? Well, I was looking at my vaccine records recently, and I was reminded of the BCG skin test I had at school as a teenager in the mid-’80s. The results of the test showed that I had immunity to TB, and so they didn’t give me the TB vaccine.
I understand that these days the BCG skin test is no longer performed. However, if it were, I have no doubt that even people with immunity to TB would still be stabbed with the TB vaccine. That’s the mentality today. If you have acquired natural immunity to a disease, you still get stabbed with the vaccine (or so-called vaccine).
“Are these people thick?”
Yes is the short answer. Politics seems to be the ideal vehicle for people who are too stupid to hold down a real job to make a comfortable living. We have had an energy minister who thought that STOR meant that we could store electricity from wind turbines. We have had a minister for the environment who thought that El Nino was the name of a hurricane. In what other place can you get appointed to a position without having to know anything at all about the job?
The question, of course, was rhetorical, but you knew that already.
Rhetorical question obviously but this has become a really serious matter. Examples:
Charlotte Nichols, got so pissed on a flight that she had to be taken off the plane in a wheelchair. She was on official government business, in other words, she was at work.
Dianne Abbot, unable to do basic arithmetic even at primary school level. Not self aware enough to ask a ten year old to help her out before she had her TV interview.
Claudia Webbe, clueless about her job and threatens imaginary love rivals with acid attacks.
Richard Burgon, MP for Leeds East and Palestine, thinks that the taxation policies that were a disasterous failure in the 1960s will absolutely work this time.
Let’s not forget old Jerry Corbyn who thinks that piles of corpses and endless queues for basic essentials constitutes a success.
You forgot Lammy. Mr Thick from the planet Thick.
Pure unadulterated, rabid, hate filled racist to boot. It’s this that keeps getting him elected and his truly cosmic, ignorant stupidity is no hindrance whatsoever.
Ditto abbot.
Out in the real world, he’d be unemployable. Likewise the Abbopotomus.
Lammy was the guy who said that parliament should overturn the referendum result.