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Vaccination? No thanks!
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From Christopher Davey.
RECENT utterance by the Jersey Medical Officer of Health: ‘It would be unwise to under-estimate this new flu virus, as there have been 91 deaths to date in the UK.’
She does not tell us how many thousands have died from routine flu – ‘All those in Jersey who have caught the disease have either recovered or are recovering at home.’
Am I to be the first to stand up, put my head over the parapet and suggest that this Swine Flu malarkey really has gone on quite long enough? It really has become like the Emperor’s New Clothes, and someone needs to assert: ‘He’s got nothing on; there’s nothing there.’ So, can someone please tell me, in all honesty, what on earth this is all about?
The 1919 World Flu pandemic killed some 40 million, many more than died in the First World War. When Asian Flu struck back in 1957-58, it killed some 30,000 unfortunates in the UK alone; at my school we were firmly told by our house master that, if we were succumbing, we were to retire to bed with an improving text – with the implication that we were pretty feeble.
I myself was rowing in an VIII at the time, and, following one outing, found myself staggering back to my house in a serious embarrassment of sweats, was obliged to miss the next five outings, and nearly lost my seat in the crew. Matron dosed us with aspirin, ensured we drank copious quantities of water, and booted us back downstairs the moment she felt we had recovered enough.
Obviously we cannot criticise our own MOH. She, like her peers world wide, is obliged to treat Swine Flu as if it had the makings of Apocalypse Now – despite every appearance to the contrary.
We are warned of catastrophe this winter, when there has already been absolutely no sign of such in the southern hemisphere. I myself am seriously alarmed that she is planning to buy in enough stock to vaccinate the whole Island. In my case it is: ‘Thank you, but no thank you! In positively no circumstances shall I be taking up your kind offer. Please save the taxpayers’ money.’
This whole politically correct nonsense seems to fall into the same category of wild profligacy as the upcoming replacement of the remainder of the perfectly good lamp-standards on Victoria Avenue. Will we ever break our addiction to wasting money?
For all that, she is not alone; the UN, the WHO, they are all at it, worldwide. One is bound to pose the question: Are there too many highly paid specialists with too much time on their hands? Have they been duped by the hand-rubbing manufacturers of vaccine, disinfectant and rubber-gloves? Have they forgotten that the Third World is suffering many more appalling diseases that do merit such attention and resources?
In the final analysis, do we not need to ask ourselves whether we should really seek to deny Nature’s way? As Sir David Attenborough recently pointed out, the sustainable world population is 3 billion; yet we have already exceeded 6 billion, and are pushing for 9 billion by 2050 – an unwelcome policy that even our Chief Minister seems keen to inflict upon our Island.
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