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There’s a lot of hooha about vaccine mandates at the moment. Apparently it’s the Turd Reich all over again and the End of Civilisation As We Know It, according to a wide range of Twitter accounts. Some of these accounts belong to actual medics, who do know better. Predictably, all this faffing about annoys me intensely. Too many people expect other adults to act as, well, adults. This, let me remind you, is a universe in which we have David Icke, Sheryl Tenpenny, and Boris Johnson. So, briefly, what is a va
COVID-19 IS NO RANDOM KILLER screams the WDDTY headline. The notion that SARS-COV-2 goes out of its way to select its victims isn’t exactly what I’d classify as encouraging news, even if it were true. You can see what’s coming, can’t you? A spot of COVID denialism to brighten your day and maybe randomly lead to your demise, or that of a loved one. The WDDTY disinformation piece isn’t that long. Well, it wouldn’t be, as they’ve revamped their business model to get as much as possible behind a paywall. This d
On 1st February of this year, Janssen – the Belgian subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson – began a Phase III trial of their COVID vaccine, called Ad26COV2.S by its family and friends. Basically, what this means is that it uses an inactivated adenovirus, one of the many viruses that cause the symptoms we laughingly refer to as “the common cold”, to transport the spike protein, i.e. the part of SARS-COV-2 that allows it to invade its host’s cells. Virus vector vaccines aren’t new. The vaccine for Ebola uses this m
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