‘Tis the season to avoid being brainwashed

Why vax compensation needles me and distracts from the real issue

I do love September. *autumnal glow*

Old traditions are revived, aren’t they?

Collecting conkers, blackberrying, your mate Dave harvesting his annual stash of mushies….

And there’s that slight chill in the air as we’re told to roll up our sleeves.

Ah! Those familiar ‘reminders’, along with warnings of ‘misinformation’ and reassurances from wealth amassing kind pharmaceutical companies just warm your heart!

A few carefully-selected Dot-Cottonish youngsters; heavy-eyed and hollow-cheeked, are paraded. Kids whose parents ‘failed to protect’ them from various preventable illnesses. The sheer audacity! Their ghost like faces are interspersed only by the splash of a Johnny Vegas type WHO DIED!!!

And then……I spot a story with a different angle. A piece about a pharmacist who’d taken his life after being denied compensation from the vaccines injury scheme. I’ll put the link in the comments.

“We’ve all had our vaccinations and continue to since we’ve lost dad”

Said the opening quote.

Interesting, I thought.

To emphasise that aspect straight off the bat,  after having read so much recently about vax take-ups declining. If I were a cynical woman, I’d almost think a grieving relative was being taken advantage of in order to boost the jab rates.

Hm…..

“You start to question”

said the relative.

Well,  at this point, I’m face-palming.

No love, you ‘start to question’ whether you should have brought a jacket with you when it’s gotten a bit nippy.

You ‘start to question’ whether it was too much puff pastry that played havoc with your indigestion.

If you’re still at the questioning phase and cracking on taking the jabs when someone dear to you not only experienced severe complications, but was so distraught they took their own life, then I despair.

“……If a rare, unusual thing were to take place…..”

*Cue more sighs*

The main focus of the story, anyway, was to highlight the failures of the compensation scheme.

A telling excerpt was this, relating to claims.

Before the pandemic there were a few dozen a year.

But since the COVID vaccine rollout, 14,000 people have made claims, according to Freedom of Information requests submitted by Mr Todd to the NHS Business Services Authority.

So hang on then, there are ‘healthcare’ products that have upped injury claims by 14,000 since 2021 and we’re concentrating on the access to compo?

But that’s clown world logic!

Much as I agree that the compensation scheme is inadequate and difficult to access and prove, when we make the focus about that, we are distracted from the real issue.

You know, like THE INJURIES THEMSELVES.

Injuries that each have A PERSON attached.

The fact the scheme exists in the first place tells you all you need to know.

What’s needed, is for people to be able to make informed choices from the offset.

For example;

What is a ‘side effect’?

Is it like a ‘side’ of shit onion rings?

Like……didn’t realise they were part of the deal, didn’t particularly enjoy em, but over all, it sorted the job out……

Or could it mean something life changing?

How are we defining ‘rare’?

White dog shit rare? 

Or rare like MPs who don’t accept massive ‘donations’?

You know, THAT rare, like fucking hens’ teeth.

What are ‘complications’?

There’s ‘complicated’ like your friend Sharon’s love life, and there’s ‘complicated’ as in; being completely fucked over every single day.  Not being able to use the loo without assistance, sleep properly. Nerve damage. Jolting like a dude in an electric chair. That kind of ‘complicated’.

How are these things reported and what factors might influence that reporting?

These are the real issues I believe people need to understand and reflect upon in order to make true informed choices about future jabs.

We also need to know, of course, for balance sake, the risks of not taking something. But isn’t there enough of that already?

Balance hasn’t so much been ‘struck’, but struck off.

Health is wealth, the one thing that can’t be bought or resurrected once it’s gone.

There is no amount of money that can redress a completely shafted life.

If you’re left paralysed, you won’t give a monkeys whether you’re wearing Armani or Primarni.

If you can’t eat properly, are you fussed if it’s puréed caviar through your soggy paper straw, or Maccy D’s?

Choose well.