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  • DiscoveringLisa
    DiscoveringLisa Posts: 112 Member
    I don't know why my comments aren't posting...

    Just to say, in the UK, people are now being compensated for vaccine injuries/deaths ...I don't think they compensate on the basis of hearsay

    https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-poster/fact-check-poster-about-uk-vaccine-compensation-scheme-is-not-from-uk-government-idUSL2N2X2270

    Not really sure why you've posted this link....?
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,822 Member
    edited July 2022
    this is just a post to reverse a notification...nothing to see here...
  • DiscoveringLisa
    DiscoveringLisa Posts: 112 Member
    I don't know why my comments aren't posting...

    Just to say, in the UK, people are now being compensated for vaccine injuries/deaths ...I don't think they compensate on the basis of hearsay

    https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-poster/fact-check-poster-about-uk-vaccine-compensation-scheme-is-not-from-uk-government-idUSL2N2X2270

    Not really sure why you've posted this link....?
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I don't know why my comments aren't posting...

    Just to say, in the UK, people are now being compensated for vaccine injuries/deaths ...I don't think they compensate on the basis of hearsay

    Very few and rare in reality. There is a lot of misinformation about this on social media...the reality is that these complications can be genuine, but are exceedingly rare. Anecdotally my brother works in the ICU in a hospital here...he's treated exactly ZERO people with any major complications from the vaccine.

    Because that.

    Oh I see..

    From what I read it looked like a warning against phoney government websites claiming to be offering vaccine compensation....? Didn't get why you were sharing that with me, I'm sure you were trying to make a point, I just don't know what it was. Did you think that's where I was getting my information from?

    People are claiming for vaccine injury in the UK and according to the British Medical Journal, 1681 people have claimed (as of may 20th) so far. It's certainly not everyone, not most, not even half or a quarter but it's way more than a one off or a freak rare occurrence. And it's enough to give some of us pause for thought and to ask if this so called vaccine is something we really need to have and to keep having. As I've said before, it doesn't stop you becoming ill or spreading it so I'm happy to go with my immune system on this one.
  • DiscoveringLisa
    DiscoveringLisa Posts: 112 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I don't know why my comments aren't posting...

    Just to say, in the UK, people are now being compensated for vaccine injuries/deaths ...I don't think they compensate on the basis of hearsay

    Very few and rare in reality. There is a lot of misinformation about this on social media...the reality is that these complications can be genuine, but are exceedingly rare. Anecdotally my brother works in the ICU in a hospital here...he's treated exactly ZERO people with any major complications from the vaccine.

    Not ending up in ICU is not an indicator of no problem though is it? There are people living with long term issues, people who ended up in the ER and then sent home ... Not in intensive care doesn't mean no harm done, just means you didn't end up in intensive care
  • DiscoveringLisa
    DiscoveringLisa Posts: 112 Member
    edited July 2022
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I don't know why my comments aren't posting...

    Just to say, in the UK, people are now being compensated for vaccine injuries/deaths ...I don't think they compensate on the basis of hearsay

    Very few and rare in reality. There is a lot of misinformation about this on social media...the reality is that these complications can be genuine, but are exceedingly rare. Anecdotally my brother works in the ICU in a hospital here...he's treated exactly ZERO people with any major complications from the vaccine.

    Not ending up in ICU is not an indicator of no problem though is it? There are people living with long term issues, people who ended up in the ER and then sent home ... Not in intensive care doesn't mean no harm done, just means you didn't end up in intensive care

    1200 out of around 45M people in the UK who received the vax are applying for the payment...that's a small number. You sound exactly like all of the social media antivaxxers out there.

    I'm not an anti vaxxer, I've had all my childhood vaccinations; I was also vaccinated for Hepatitis B as an adult when I started my training as a Midwife some years ago. My children have had all their important childhood vaccinations. I'm not against vaccinations that are safe, that are necessary and that work....

    We have not been vaccinated for COVID because we don't need to be. I weighed up the information, used my power of critical thinking and decided against it. I'm not alone, many people did and decided the same thing, including many health professionals. I don't actually think choosing not to have a particular medical procedure makes you an anti vaxxer....

    Being mindlessly against all vaccinations makes you an anti vaxxer, deciding not to have one vaccine based on real concerns doesn't.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,245 Community Helper
    I don't know why my comments aren't posting...

    (snip)

    FWIW, I think it's because you typed above the closing /quote tag of the message you replied to, or some other edit made the tags not pair up right.



  • BuellerFerrisBueller
    BuellerFerrisBueller Posts: 35 Member
    Am I the only one who has gone over 2 years without consuming any junk food or restaurant food? Unhealthy foods weaken the immune system and promote inflammation.

    While I'm all for vaccines, face masks, and physical distancing, these precautions don't go far enough. During the course of this pandemic, nutritional immunology NEVER made it into the national dialogue, not even when a study showed that those with higher quality diets were at lower risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19.

    Are nutritional deficiencies and junk food sacred?
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    Fuzzipeg wrote: »
    Progress towards normality in the UK. Visiting the care home yesterday the Assistant manager of the day was saying she can't wait till all restrictions are removed, looking forward to how things used to be, something we've not experienced. She went on to say when one visits a hospital now unless you have respiratory issues it is no longer required for one to wear masks. I should have asked what kind of respiratory issue was being referred to, a person with asthma for instance as a way of self protection or someone who could possibly be showing symptoms of covid,

    I'd be masked anyway with a military grade filter because of my chemical sensitivity, its come back again. Its no fun reacting to cleaning products be they household or personal, laundry products or someone's perfume or aftershave. Then there are the pollens too. Even the smoke from someone burning garden rubbish or local heath fires to scuffing through deep damp leaf litter in the autumn! I suppose the last three are sort of related to petrochemicals which is another. I'm not that badly off that its each and every smell but its the knowing it can happen anywhere from passing next doors washing lines to being further away from someone in the open than the early early covid distancing required. I don't feel as self-conscious wearing a mask now thanks to covid. True I still get looked at but am assumed to be overly careful but not some odd ball now.

    Sorry to hear about your chemical sensitivity coming back. Mine has gotten much better since I first got sick in 1999, but one thing that still bothers me is fabric softener, specifically, if I walk by a house where someone is using conventional fabric softener in their clothes dryer and it vents out into the air. The smell can actually spread for quite a distance.

    I have no need for fabric softener myself, but people who would like to be considerate to their neighbors and passers-by can learn more and consider these alternatives:

    https://zerowastememoirs.com/natural-alternatives-to-fabric-softener/
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,054 Member
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    @ahoy_m8 Keeping you and your family in my thoughts! Please keep us updated and stay hopeful. That's a whole lotta stuff to worry about. :(

    This is so kind. Thank you. Today they get monoclonal antibody infusions at 3. I'm hopeful. <3

    And yes with the fabric softener! I'm not sensitive but I definitely smell it in the air when walking past a house that uses it.