That doesn't surprise me, earlier in the week they ran a story about Sajid Javid, but with a picture of Nadhim Zahawi.
Why are we listening to Sajid Javid anyway? He’s not a medical professional. The doctors in South Africa who identified the Omicron variant have gone on record to say it has mild symptoms akin to a common cold. So why are we listening to a slaphead with a degree in economics over qualified virologists who have experience in battling the AIDs epidemic?
He's Secretary of State for Health and he's acting on advice from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, which includes plenty of medical professionals. He takes advice from many sources, you should give him a bell about your Big Mac passports.
Means nothing, in all honesty. Cabinet ministers are rarely qualified or experienced for the offices they hold and they shuffle into different jobs like musical chairs on a whim. They graduate with a 2:2 or 2:1 BA from Oxbridge then walk into a job they know **** all about. Any **** could be Health Secretary in this country and it wouldn’t make a difference.
That's true, but once you hold that position you're obviously going to become more clued in on health issues than the average person. Whether he acts on that knowledge and doesn't allow any other influences to affect it is another matter though.
And that’s the thing. There are so many MPs who have conflicts of interest. In Russia, our media call it corruption by oligarchs. Here and the US, it just gets called ‘lobbying’. I can’t believe (actually I can) that there wasn’t more of a stink about the billions spent at the start of the pandemic on **** PPE equipment, a naff track and trace app and the rest.
The national budget for the UK went up from £842bn in 19/20 to £1053bn in 20/21, and PPE might have been £15bn of the increase. (dates and data can't be vouched for as accurate and from comparable sources, but they'll do for a football forum?). Maybe a scandalous lack of preparation for a pandemic that was always going to happen 'one day' or maybe the country had prudently avoided too much cost and effort for something that 'might never happen'. Sadly that's leading into politics so I'll leave it there. The bottom line is that once it did happen, regardless of what you agree or disagree with we have a government whose job it is to make the decisions. Some will in hindsight be better than others. Hopefully we'll all be able to look back and judge things again once this is over - assuming we don't naively set ourselves up for a shorter time on this planet than we would otherwise get, by choosing to be awkward about vaccines and masks all the time.
Yeah, whatever happened to influenza mate? Seems to have done another disappearing act, possibly shielding against Omicron. Dunno.
Thank god that there are others that feel exactly the same way as me, and in Erik’s case from exactly the same point in time, around early to mid April 2020. Honestly how people can still go along with the worldwide political narrative I do not know. I have an intact immune system, and I fully intend to keep it that way.
Thankfully the people who took the Polio vaccine didn’t agree or we’d have that to contend with too https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/polio/
Ok i presume nobody's going to argue with this source ? Another conformation that Omicron is much milder, really no need for these latest restrictions other wise it's just rinse and repeat every winter and were always living at the whim of who ever's in charge at the time.
There is a huge difference between the polio vaccine and the current mRNA injections. One had been fully tested and prepared in such a way that vaccines had always been prepared, the other is experimental and hasn’t , I’ll leave you to guess, or at a stretch maybe research, which is which.
