NHS doctor tells Health Secretary he won't get jabbed

[Celerity]

What an absolute bellend.

He needs to get the sack.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Terminate Him!

Tomorrow morning.
He's too dangerous & cavalier to be there.

[turbinetree]

2. This dumb shit got vaccinated when he was kid ......or did he forget that ....

so that he could become a NHS doctor later on.....terminate him now.....and let him go over to the fix noise machine and help spread the BS onto other people in violation of his oath to be a doctor and then charge him....

[vanlassie]

3. The least he can do is wear a fucking N95.

[Celerity]

6. FFP3 is the gold standard here in Europe, it offers even higher protection than a N95

[3Hotdogs]

4. Would you want that wanker treating you?

Bellend - that's a new term for me.

Origen or reference?

[Celerity]

7. I am London raised, it is British slang, in the US it would equal dickhead

[róisín_dubh]

8. Bellend is one of my favourites...

along with muppet, donut, and rat.

[ShazamIam]

9. I had to look, bellend, up: bellend [ˈbelend] NOUN BRITISH vulgar slang the glans of the penis.

bellend
[ˈbelend]
NOUN
BRITISH
vulgar slang

the glans of the penis.
an annoying or contemptible man.
"he is a total bellend and should step down as soon as possible"

[vanlassie]

10. My daughter is expat Brit. She says that guy is getting roasted.

She usually calls the typical Brexit lovers “Gammon.” But I love wanker. 😂

[ShazamIam]

11. The Brexits are twins to our magats. All about hate and fear.

[vanlassie]

13. Yes. And unfortunately TFG spurred them on

once somebody told him which side he should support and where England is, exactly. Their economy is just cluster fucked now. It will be generations to recover. 🥲

[ShazamIam]

19. He did know where Scotland is and he did hope for a more royal welcome.

[róisín_dubh]

15. Most are, but some aren't.

I know a lot of Brits who just don't pay that much attention to the news and get their news from friends, if at all. One of my closest friends deeply regrets his vote.

[ShazamIam]

18. Inspite of the deeply turffed TFG online support I believe there are TFG voter regrets as well.

[róisín_dubh]

12. I'm moving permanently in the Spring.

I can't wait, British humour cracks me up.

[3Hotdogs]

14. Two come to mind... both from The Times. On our trips, Joyce and I would read The Times each morning

to start our day.


1. from an article about a Boy Scouts Jamboree taking place in London, 5,000 scouts expected. "Hordes of the blighters will descend in our city."


2. Ministry of health suggested Brits add more fish to their diets. Article quoted people against the nanny state. One guy interviewed, "I don't mind fish. I had Halibut once."


And of course, I saw Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on Broadway, June, '71. "I've always wanted to be a judge" skit and "abiding my sheep."

Then, there was the time, flying home from Paris, --- Air France or whatever. We were probably the only gringos on the plane Plane takes off, minutes later, the lights go dim and screen lights up. This was followed by a cheer from probably every passenger.

"MONSIEUR BEAN !!!"

And Benny Hill: Benny and Jackie Wright, dressed in polyester suits at a discotheque. Music is thumping and Benny reaches down to Jackie to pat Jackie on his bald head.

Benny: "As smooth as my wife's bottom."

Jacke: "Yes, I know." Followed by a deep frown on Benny's face.

[634-5789]

5. More morans here:

https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/

[Bleacher Creature]

16. I'm pretty sure he's completely wrong on the facts.

Two doses of the vaccine on top of prior infection provides protection that lasts longer than two months as well as more durable protection against other strains.

[Delphinus]

17. Yes,

I was rather surprised that wasn't refuted.

[Celerity]

20. Sajid Javid, The Health Minister, is a typically feckless Tory berk

And those NHS nurses looked cowed, likely afraid for their jobs.

Irvine Welsh, the superb Scottish author (Trainspotting, etc) and playwright, summed up Javid in short order a couple years back.

Link to tweet

[YP_Yooper]

21. They can't refute him because it's the facts even by the NHS

A study (Lumley et al 2020) of over 12,000 people working in 4 English hospitals found that people who developed antibodies after SARS-CoV-2 infection were protected against disease for 6 months after infection, and reinfection (without any disease symptoms) was very rare.

Similarly, a UK Biobank study found 88% of 1,699 people with antibodies against COVID-19 still had these antibodies up to 6 months later. The SIREN study detailed below has also published similar findings. As more information is published on these studies and surveillance we will update these pages to link to new research.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-reinfection-surveillance/information-on-covid-19-reinfection-surveillance-in-england


Substantial immune memory is generated after COVID-19, involving all four major types of immune memory. About 95% of subjects retained immune memory at ~6 months after infection. Circulating antibody titers were not predictive of T cell memory. (ie, antibody levels are NOT predictive of immunity) Thus, simple serological tests for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies do not reflect the richness and durability of immune memory to SARS-CoV-2. This work expands our understanding of immune memory in humans. These results have implications for protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and recurrent COVID-19.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abf4063

This is actually good news

[YP_Yooper]

22. The longer duration and increased spectrum is from recovery, not the vaccine

because the vaccine from SARS2 version 0 doesn't build up all the other components of the immune system that recovery creates (ie antibodies are only one piece to the immune system, and not the most important). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abf4063

...and it has something like 90% protection for at least 8 months - vacc doesn't even come close to that.

I'm not anti-vacc as others say, just optimistic around what the science says.