Covid week 2 Gashead79 thread

Fairly surprised that nobody has acknowledged the recent accusation that the BBC(therefore all broadcasters) misled the public. Behaviour altering headlines to fool people. Printed in the Telegraph.
It was obvious to some..

He clearly has a deep, ingrained, psychological need to try and "win"

Even as he makes himself appear more foolish with every claim.

...sorry, I was busy out and about enjoying life as i) I'm still alive and ii) there's no longer a global pandemic to disrupt things.


So let's examine that accusation - the BBC focused on some information with the aim of keeping a subset of the population safe during a fast-developing global pandemic. A damning accusation if that information was false - but it wasn't, the information was true, just not necessarily placed in the relevant context. 


Prof Mark Woolhouse is an expert in the field so I'm not going to dismiss his views out of hand, mostly as he has a reputation and book sales to protect...but for every expert at the time with a dissenting opinion there were two or three others in agreement and that's often where the politicians went....


...and why wouldn't they listen to the majority opinion of their advisors at the time? They were damned if they did lockdown, crippling the economy, annoying millions of people and hopefully stopping the spread *or* damned if they didn't, the disease spread and more and more people continued to die...



Yes, Prof Woolhouse has told us what he thought/predicted at the time, he seems quite annoyed he wasn't listened to more, but this is now all hindsight - so of course it's 20:20 and his views now look relevant, but at the time they were an outlier - if the government had followed them and his ideas hadn't worked, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands more people would have died from the virus....

More context then. Of the 6 or 7 people who post on this thread, all but one have had the vaccines. I've had 5 and am not fine, so it's not everyone doing hunky dory.

I have had 4, and had pre existing conditions none of which have been excaserbated by the vaccine. Not sure where 5 comes from.

No, no. I had no idea why you should receive 5 and why. I didn't mean to infer anything at all. Taken at face value.

My personal vulnerability was age, and diabetes (T2)
What came to light around potential heart conditions happened around the 2nd jab. I still went ahead, as I have for two more.

Personal stuff which I would not, knowingly, transcribe on to the lives of others

I'm not denying a tiny percentage of the population have, unfortunately, experienced problems due to the vaccine while the remaining millions are just fine. These things happen, sadly.

I'm intrigued still though about the fraud that has been imposed on us, and the reasons behind it. Several accusations but nothing clear, and no motive given. The idea that the BBC would enter into a pact with the powers that be to support a massive confidence trick to boost the profits of Big Pharma seems ludicrous. Beyond ludicrous actually.

It's not ludicrous. It's a scandal. Driven by greedy people in high positions. The media is bought and paid for.
Everything you see on the news is what they want you to see.
People are reluctant to want the truth and I get it. It's horrible.

I suppose if we really believed that pharmaceutical manufacturers wanted us all to be fit and healthy, without illness, then it makes sense... but they don't! Otherwise they'd cease. Who else invests in these companies? I do and I reckon others on here do too. We want profit.

Dr Aodhán Breathnach, a Consultant Global Health Microbiologist at UKHSA and a Consultant Medical Microbiologist at St George’s University Hospitals, recently published a study which found masks in hospitals had little impact on Covid transmission in the omicron wave. Spring 23.

Probably not expert enough😐