UK accepts JCVI recommendations to further restrict covid vaccines
Narrower eligibility than Makary and Prasad's controversial new restrictions in the US
The UK government has accepted the JCVI recommendations to further limit access to covid boosters to:
Of particular note is the removal of eligibility for pregnant women and a range of health conditions.
While concerns were raised at the time the recommendations were made, there was little media attention to yet another JCVI decision that makes the UK an outlier. For comparison eligibility in the UK will be more restricted than the changes being brought in by RFK's controversial team.
From when the recommendations were made.
Full article
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/12/09/covid-vaccines-at-risk-jcvi/
JCVI vs RFK Jr
In May the Guardian wrote about the Trump team's restrictions on vaccines citing the controversy around those responsible for the decision.
What the Guardian didn't mention is that these controversial changes in the US are similar to where the UK was before the JCVI recommended further restrictions.
If RFK Jr, Makary and Prasad's attitude to covid vaccines are controversial, why has the UK managed to have greater restrictions without much criticism?
Papers such as the Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Express are more likely to publish articles quoting those who have promoted vaccine disinformation than they are to call for wider eligibility for covid vaccines.
Covid is over, it has gone away, let’s forget about nearly 250,000 deaths and focus on the harms of lockdown.
This is the mainstream right wing narrative, they prefer to forget that they claimed there wouldn’t be a second wave, while privately lobbied Boris Johnson in the run up to the second wave.
The UK's approach to covid vaccines was as a short term fix to normalise life, there is little evidence from JCVI minutes of discussion on the possibility of covid joining the list of standard vaccinations.
While the UK bet on vaccines, building up immunity via infection was also built into the plan. During the first wave inside government there was an expectation that there would be many waves over the course of years.
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/09/leaked-home-office-call-reveals-uk-government-wants-economy-to-continue-running-as-we-will-all-get-covid-19-anyway/
It should be noted that over the past couple of years the UK's clinical lead on covid in children Shamez Ladhani has been publishing questionable papers with Trump picks Prasad and Tracy Hoeg. Ladhani has been one of the key sources of evidence for the JCVI in regards to children.
It is another sign of the end of our civilization. Just like all the other times (Roman, Greek etc) people are denying/rejecting the advances that have been made in science, medicine, organised civil society with laws etc and rapidly deteriorating into the type of conditions seen in the 100 year war with recurrent waves of the Black Death or for the 'lucky' ones after the end of the Roman empire in Great Britain. And just like the populations then, most cannot see it happening, how can such a huge and powerful civilization fall? It will last forever! Make us great again! Even though we can see the super rich and privileged planning for the fall, with their bunkers, wealth hoarding and attempts to buy huge parts of countries considered 'safe', such as New Zealand.(where they are offered 6 monthly Covid vaccinations).
We know that Covid weakens the immune system, therefore all other illnesses, once thought conquered, like TB, measles, polio, diphtheria, pertussis are surging.
Getting a Covid vaccine now in the UK is VERY difficult, believe me, I've been trying for months and avoiding Covid infection in the meantime is also very difficult, never mind having to put up with the politisation of wearing masks (people deliberately coughing in your face, staring at you, loudly stating' silly woman')- why shouldn't I be able to wear a mask ? It harms no one, its none of anyone's business. The UK is supposed to be a country of free speech and expression , but that's no longer true, everything is being more and more regulated, what vaccines you can't have, what you can't wear, where and how you work, the general public have turned themselves into the thought police. All exactly as you would expect at the end of civilsation vulnerable groups are being isolated , blamed and punished. In many cases driven to their literal deaths (disabled, trans, chronically sick etc), better off dead, just a cost to society, eh? And the more people get Covid the most disabled people there will be, so best if our rulers create the conditions to make sure they die off quickly and are not a 'drain' on society. The people who have 'drunk the Kool aid' are sure it will never happen to them, or their loved ones (my experience is that a 'loved one' can very quickly become a 'hated one' once disabled).
So its everyone for themselves now.
excuse me, I'm off to get a Covid vaccine...
and MMR, shingles and given the recent research showing the RSV vaccination reduces the risk of dementia, that one as well. I'll have to travel hundreds of miles and pay hundreds of pounds to access them, but at least I have a chance at the moment.
soon, I suspect , just like the US, they will become unavailable and then the manufacturers will stop making them and then its just a waiting game for the next pandemic and this time, weakened by Covid, measles etc, and hastened by the rapidly warming crisis, it will be much worse, much more deadly and our 'leaders' and the rich will joyfully watch us die in our millions while they hide in their bunkers with their chosen few.
Bwahaha, what an ignominious end to "Covid vaccines"
We won