Your sending me down the the rabbit hole here. Just discovered that magnesium helps regulate Vit D levels and good sources are spinach, pumpkin seeds, almonds, cashews and peanuts. I eat all of those, so all good But not Watercress which has a lot of Vitamin K, which is good for ... Ok this has to stop now
I've started taking Vit D for 4 weeks now. Ive found they go straight through me. Literally, the sun does actually shine out of my arse.
Me too - I feel awful for agreeing with Piers such a lot, but he’s been pretty spot on for a while now! Why is it a basic human right to potentially pass a lethal virus around because you can’t be arsed to follow sensible precautions?
How lovely for you. You think its fair then to make a vaccine essentially mandatory? I'm not an anti vaxxer, or a covid denier, but I am (amongst many others) a huge needle phobe. I cannot even look at a needle without feeling queasy, and I just cant have injections. So that's fair on me (and others in the same boat) to lose my rights of going shopping and feeding my family?
I also think we have no right to not be vaccinated, but there are issues of civil freedom with vaccine passports. Just make everyone get a jab. Making me show documentation everywhere sounds like I have moved to 1970s USSR.
We will knock you out and inject you. I imagine you have to cope with a needle if you were dying after a car crash and needed some blood.
If you have that much of a phobia to needles, then, perhaps, you get an allowance until there’s a way of taking the vaccine differently. I’m sure most people would be ok to have a vaccine passport. I think in the case of this virus the vaccine should be mandatory - perhaps you could take the vaccine via a suppository
Speaking as someone with Type 1 diabetes who has to have at least 4 injections every day you might be surprised to hear that I do sympathise. Phobias are real and you can’t just say “get over it”. If it’s any consolation, when I had my vaccination last week the woman at the table next to mine obviously had similar issues to yourself, and could only go through with the jab after a lot of counselling from the excellent nurse giving the injection.
This is a genuine worry for me. I have absolutely no truck with conspiracy theories at all, but I find it alarming how happy the public appears to be, to surrender so many civil liberties out of fear of a virus that really isn't that deadly (in most cases). And I wonder if, having given those liberties away so willingly, will we ever get them all back?
Yet no hint of lockdown being eased yet. So yeah, great effort, but we currently have one of the strictest lockdown's (and highest death rates) of any country in the world, so I'll applaud when I see something concrete.
A Scottish farm has culled 14000 game birds because they discovered the H5N1 strain of flu amongst them. If that develops and gets into the public it will cause a few additional problems for the NHS to deal with. I have only had flu twice, to my knowledge, and this particular strain knocked me for six.
