What’s in a vaccine?

What follows must be true. The twitter user who posts it is of course anonymous, so s/he could have made it up, but I am certain this is happening all over the country:

I have friends who work in the NHS and all of them say this is how things are with the anti-vaxxers presenting at hospitals across the land. People who decline vaccines but then accept all other forms of medical interventions are probably not thinking straight. It’s like the people who say, “I’m not having a vaccine. I don’t know what’s in it” but then enjoy a KFC without knowing what the 11 mystery spices are.*

The best and maddest example of vaccine hesitancy appeared in our local media a few weeks ago when a care worker said she would risk losing her job because she would not take the vaccine, playing the “It’s come about too quickly. We don’t know the long term effects” card. However, she was happy to carry on taking the flu vaccine because it’s been around for many years. Just wait until she finds out that the flu vaccine changes every single year to take account of new strains. She’ll probably stop taking that one, too.

Apparently, we shouldn’t call the sceptics and refuseniks idiots, even though they are, because it might discourage them from taking a vaccine they haven’t had yet. The poor loves, such sensitive souls. Christ, if you don’t want to be called an idiot, then don’t be one.

Perhaps, the unvaccinated should sign a disclaimer, that if they contract Covid-19 that they shouldn’t receive treatment for it. A bit like a ‘DNR’ notice. They might die an unpleasant, unnecessary death, but it might at least free up space to bring down the numbers, six million now, on the NHS waiting lists. Of course, we don’t and we won’t do that, but when an idiot like Richard Fairbrass from the unpopular beat combo outfit Right Said Fred refuses a vaccine but then gets admitted to hospital when he’s very ill with Covid, you do wonder what’s going on in his head? He might be “too sexy for his shirt” but he’s stupid enough to die from a deadly virus.

If the not so great unvaxxed don’t want their jabs, then I’ll have them. Fill me up with Pfizer and Moderna and any other vaccine that’s been passed safe by people who know what they are doing and not said to be unsafe by Piers Corbyn and David Icke.

Now, I need a drink. I’ve got a pint of Santa’s Little Belter produced by the excellent Glamorgan Brewing Company. It contains Bramling Cross, Cascade, Challenger and Goldings, whatever they are. If this means Bill Gates has put a microchip in this bottle and I’ll be under his permanent surveillance once I’ve emptied the glass, I won’t be happy.

*I wish I’d thought of that line.