Yep, it is the same guy, his intentions were fine but his choice of words were more than a little insensitive. It did not help that this comment was made when the whole of his government is under pressure over the latest handling of the pandemic. With the much prompted Freedom day behind us most of us are seeing empty shelves in the supermarkets along with travel restrictions, refuse and recycling bin collections moved from once a fortnight of once a month, Police are saying that they cannot meet normal response times and meat and food preparation factories are saying their turnout is dropping. This is all because the NHS app is telling people to self isolate, 600,000 and counting at the last report, so many in fact the government has decided that certain key staff can ignore the ping and continue to work. Problem is the exemption is not automatic as the companies have to nominate their key staff and then apply for the exemption. The biggest complaint against this is that it is one rule for one and a different rule for others accept that the exemption is too bureaucratic and thus unworkable. Against this background I am not at all surprised the at the negative, and widespread condemnation, of the cowering remark.
So sorry to hear this Hornet. I have as you probably know many relatives in England and I find the situation over there quite worrying. I hope food supplies sort itself out quickly.
From my point of view.
Flu jab.
I have been advised to have the flu jab due to my age/poor health for the last 6 years(or so). I did have the flu jab about 4 years ago, but less than 2 days later came down with serious flu symptoms. I was in bed for best part of 4 days. When next at GP I mentioned that, and told it was not the flu, but flu like symptoms. I did ask as to what can give such symptoms other than flu, the topic was quickly changed (the only way to know if someone has the flu is to have a test).
I think it was the year later that the flu jab being given was for the incorrect type of flu.
Most likely the flu symptoms were a reaction to the jab as you can have that occur. I've had similiar myself when having flu jabs and normally occurs if you already have a virus when you get the jab. I've had the flu jab for the last 20 years as I get asthma.
Many years ago now I used to work at CSL and I was in the position of seeing the actually flu injection production line and was familiar with it due to purchasing items that were needed for the production. It would be extremely unlikely if not impossible that the flu jab having the incorrect flu type would give you the flu. For starters the flu used in the jab is inactivated which essentially means that its dead and is used only to promote antibodies for the flu.
The only thing it might mean is that you weren't protected against the correct strain and were protected against the incorrect strain.
I had many conversations with the virologist who helped choose which strains went into the vaccine. They choose the 3 most dominant strains and these will give you the best coverage against most of the flu strains but not all. It is possible to still get the flu but if you do the severity will be less than if you hadn't had the flu jab.
Too many people make assumptions about vaccines and spread them as fact this causes so much misinformation in our community. If you want the facts look to what the experts in virology, immunology and epidemiology have to say as they know what they are talking about.
I was reading about an American in Florida who is a trained osteopath who has been spreading misinformation and at the same time profiteering from it as he has a health food empire he's recommending to people instead of vaccines. Check that the people you listen to have the correct qualifications to give advice.
Misinformation is a huge issue in society at the moment and we all need to be aware that there's a lot of rubbish out there about vaccines.
If you have the chance to get a vaccine for covid take it...
Sorry for the rant but this is a very important issue.
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