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Reform supporting anti-vaxxers

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Granatlast007 Sun 07-Sept-25 09:05:53

I note that any Guardian article appears to be carefully avoided by GN members, well you certainly won't see this on the BBC...

www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/06/doctor-aseem-malhotra-reform-conference-speech-royal-family-cancer-covid-vaccine?

I find this terrifying. We are fast slipping towards a Trump like country of divisive slanging matches and carelessly thrown out slogans about 'stopping the boats', ditching net zero, overriding sound laws and established regulations. Do you people really want to live in the right wing destruction that is now the US?

Outcast52 Mon 08-Sept-25 17:42:53

Jeannied

Yes. The left wing ideologies have never worked. As for Dr. Malholtra, he is an expert in his field and has studied the effects the vax has had on heart conditions.
No vax, no masks, no social distancing. Same goes for all of my family and not one of us got the renamed flu.

How very community-spirited and thoughtful of you all.

LizzieDrip Mon 08-Sept-25 17:42:43

Thanks Jaxjacky.

Very interesting stats, showing there were fewer cardiac incidents in football during the pandemic period than during the pre-pandemic period.

The Covid vaccine was rolled out in the UK in December 2021, so for a year of the attached data (2021 - 2022) people would have been taking the Covid vaccine.

Yet fewer cardiac incidents!

Jaxjacky Mon 08-Sept-25 17:31:11

Robin202.
Scientific study of cardiac incidents in football attached .

Berd Mon 08-Sept-25 17:23:50

LizzieDrip

undines as we have freedom of expression in the UK, you have been free to post your views regarding the Covid pandemic and vaccine.

Similarly, I have the freedom to express my view that you are talking the biggest load of bull shit I have ever had the misfortune to read.

Hear hear. The Covid vaccine was a game-changer for the UK, in the best way. Sadly a lot of people who appear to be fit collapse for one reason or another (exhaustion just one example) or have unexpected cardiac arrests. That’s been the case for a long, long time. For those of us who remember, Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale were two in the public eye. By the time you get to be a gran, you’ve heard of many more. Also anecdotal I admit, but just demonstrating there are many facets to one situation. Being a child of the fifties, I remember the terror my parents’ generation had of polio & diphtheria, for example. I’m afraid I don’t follow medical conspiracy theories which I believe to be spread to sow alarm & are often politically motivated or just done for disruption.

LizzieDrip Mon 08-Sept-25 17:16:29

Perhaps Robin202 will come back and tell us where the doughnuts & burgers were on offer?

I wasn’t offered any for the many Covid vaccines I’ve happily, indeed gratefully, taken … and I’m fine, thank you for asking Robin202😊

vintage1950 Mon 08-Sept-25 17:07:25

'Donuts' and burgers as incentives? Where? In the UK?

LizzieDrip Mon 08-Sept-25 17:07:18

didnt the incentive of donuts and burgers to take the shot, create some suspicion?

I’m fuming - I didn’t get an offer of doughnuts and burgers to take the vaccine. How annoying!!!

Robin202 Mon 08-Sept-25 17:02:14

growstuff
Re your post concerning Malhotra and his father’s death. This is just one of so many ‘sudden deaths’ after vaccination and cannot be coincidence. Anyone refusing to question, is frankly, burying their head in the sand.
I personally know of 3 people who had heart attacks after the boosters. One was a superfit chap in his 50’s, had a second jab, despite his wife befging him not to and he had a major cardiac arrest - air ambulance called, flatlined, he had a stent fitted and they saved him. Two others were not so lucky.
You dont recall the footballers and others seen collapsing on TV at the height of the vaccine rollout?
There’s so much evidence- and didnt the incentive of donuts and burgers to take the shot, create some suspicion?

LizzieDrip Mon 08-Sept-25 17:00:53

undines as we have freedom of expression in the UK, you have been free to post your views regarding the Covid pandemic and vaccine.

Similarly, I have the freedom to express my view that you are talking the biggest load of bull shit I have ever had the misfortune to read.

Jaxjacky Mon 08-Sept-25 16:43:56

The WHO endorse Ivermectin to treat parasites, not Covid.

Maremia Mon 08-Sept-25 16:30:25

Thanks growstuff. I was a wee bit taken aback by that previous post.

growstuff Mon 08-Sept-25 16:23:20

Carry on undines but I won't be fighting to the death for your right to spout that kind of stuff.

growstuff Mon 08-Sept-25 16:21:24

undines Malhotra is not a brave scientist. He studied cardiology, but has hardly any clinical practice and has not done any reliable research. He cannot back up any of his claims with evidence. He's self-promoting.

He wrote a diet book, which was a rehash of work done by many others, which was widely condemned.

He's now gone down the Covid anti-vax rabbit hole. Presumably he's found himself a well-paid niche in the US.

In the past, he's campaigned to include more full fat in the diet and against statins. He blamed firstly the delay in sending an ambulance and, secondly, a Covid vaccination for his own father's death. Linking cancer in members of the Royal family and Covid vaccinations is highly dangerous, unresearched nonsense.

If allowing him to speak for the "free speech" cause is the best that Reform can do, the sooner people start ignoring them the better.

undines Mon 08-Sept-25 16:01:44

I have to enter the discussion because I actually feel sick with fear for our country and the future generally when I read people on here saying they are frightened of the Covid debate (and presumably other debates) and talk about people saying things that are 'acceptable'
Acceptable BY WHOM?
Since when, in this country, did we fear debate, and, yes, free speech?
Brave scientists like Malhotra don't stick their necks out without reason.
Ask yourself how you know what really happened with Covid? How do you know how many people actually died of Covid, as opposed to flu (bearing in mind seasonal flue death statistics went right down at the time.)
How do you know whether hospitals, incentivised to record a death as "Covid' actually recorded the truth?
How many hospitals did you go into, and actually see what was going on? (All was incredibly quiet in the one I entered, but that's anecdotal of course)
Do you wonder why Ivermectin, a drug regarded as safe by the WHO was forbidden?
Do you not think that maybe, just maybe, the human body can be strengthened to survive infections without being injected with chemicals that humans have never absorbed before?
Do you really think that the science is 'settled'? - and if so, who settled it? There are many scientists who question the entire Covid narrative and I think their number is growing
have you spoken to an undertaker (I have) about the strange anomalies in dead bodies, the growing number of young people dropping dead of some kind of cardiac event?
Do you ever think by by throwing around labels like 'anti-vaxxer" (as if we are terrorists, and goodness knows, some would have us treated as such) and grouping all politics as Trump and not Trump, you are shutting down debate, ignoring nuances and generally turning off your brain (so it can be more easily programmed, maybe?)
How did we ever, ever get to this??? Who said 'I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Maremia Mon 08-Sept-25 15:43:47

Oh, what did vaccines ever do for us?
Polio, measles, whooping cough, diptheria...all used to be scourges from the past.
Just keep our eyes on what will happen in the USA. Sadly, it will be the children who suffer first.

Maremia Mon 08-Sept-25 15:40:04

'Left wing ideologies', what has that to do with vaccines?
Covid was a killer. It's not even history. Less than a decade ago.
If folk are daft enough to believe the conspiracy theories, well, what can you do?

suelld Mon 08-Sept-25 15:33:31

Bluecat

My daughter is a biomedical researcher at an American university. She strongly supported lockdown and then the mass vaccination, because the alternatives would have been devastating. She also pointed out that, although the pharmaceutical companies had lost much of their interest in vaccine research when bird flu didn't result in a pandemic, the universities worldwide carried on researching. And, in the face of the possible consequences of Covid continuing unchecked, they pooled their knowledge (unusual in academia!) So the vaccines didn't just materialise out of thin air.

I was talking to her on Messenger last night and she says things are terrible over there. People snatched off the street by masked men from ICE, vaccinations for children ended, women prosecuted for miscarriages, Trump's "war" on Chicago... She said that she watches news reports about Farage and Reform and thinks that the UK is walking into the same nightmare. "Don't they know how bad it is here?"

Exactly, I’ve been avidly following all in the USA and it’s horrifying! Florida ( Ron se SANTIS) has stopped all vaccine mandates, which in reality means that people ( like Kandinsky) will stop taking them and disease will start to proliferate in the state and then spread… even if you are pro vaccine, if enough people stop, your kids and grandchildren will mix with the unvaccinated… it doesn’t bear thinking about…as for holidays at Disney… forget it!

suelld Mon 08-Sept-25 15:28:07

Kandinsky

I don’t know what to believe anymore regarding the Covid vaccine - but I won’t be having any more & regret the 4 I’ve already had.

Why? Are you well? Did the 4 you had affect you? If not, know that they could save your life. I assume you are elderly..ish? The vaccine will not prevent you from getting Covid, tho have enough over time and it may, but it WILL prevent you from getting it badly. The possible side-effects so loudly shouted about by anti-vaxxers and the like are RARE. Of course it can happen, but side effects can happen with ANY vaccination. Survived Polio, Measles, whooping cough, chicken pox etc … then I’m betting you had all your childhood vaccines… why stop now?

Mt61 Mon 08-Sept-25 15:26:58

Kandinsky

I’ve never been offered the flu jab.
I’m in England btw. ( if that makes any difference? )

England too. Carer fir my 85 yr old mil at the time.

Bluecat Mon 08-Sept-25 15:12:30

My daughter is a biomedical researcher at an American university. She strongly supported lockdown and then the mass vaccination, because the alternatives would have been devastating. She also pointed out that, although the pharmaceutical companies had lost much of their interest in vaccine research when bird flu didn't result in a pandemic, the universities worldwide carried on researching. And, in the face of the possible consequences of Covid continuing unchecked, they pooled their knowledge (unusual in academia!) So the vaccines didn't just materialise out of thin air.

I was talking to her on Messenger last night and she says things are terrible over there. People snatched off the street by masked men from ICE, vaccinations for children ended, women prosecuted for miscarriages, Trump's "war" on Chicago... She said that she watches news reports about Farage and Reform and thinks that the UK is walking into the same nightmare. "Don't they know how bad it is here?"

cc Mon 08-Sept-25 15:01:47

I'm going to go on taking all the vaccinations that I'm offered, whilst accepting that there are a few, very rare, problems and risks associated with them.
My husband is vulnerable so he is offered more than I am, and I'm sure that he would not be here today if he had caught one of the earliest strains of Covid before he could be vaccinated. A previously healthy younger woman that we knew caught it on a train near Cheltenham at the start of the pandemic and was seriously ill for weeks.
One of my main concerns about the anti-vaxers is that they are against all vaccinations, including those that children are given in early childhood (unless there are contra-indications). Diseases like Measles, Whooping Cough and German Measles can be deadly or cause lifelong disabilities. The meningitis vaccines have also saved lives, and the cervical cancer vaccine will stop most cases of cervical cancer and other diseases associated with the HPV.

growstuff Mon 08-Sept-25 15:00:23

Stepgranonabroomstick

karmalady

An eminent consultant cardiologist via Dr John Campbell

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgAi1TK99o

I am a scientist and gave up on mrna vaccines quite some time ago. I too got sucked into the covid vaccine hype in the early days and also regret the few I did have.

John Campbell is not a medical doctor. He is a former nurse with a PhD.

Aseem Malhotra is not an eminent cardiologist. He's a maverick who wrote a popular diet book (which was nonsense by the way) and seems to have found a way of getting his face on TV. He has never done any research on Covid - or anything very much.

growstuff Mon 08-Sept-25 14:57:17

Essexgirl145

There was a lot that I found iffy about the whole thing. It was'nt the first pandemic we had ever had and nothing was stopped before. I never had it, neither did my Son, we both just carried on as before and never wore mask. Something definatly off.

All that says is that you were lucky. It's very possible that you and your son were carriers who transmitted the virus to people who were more vulnerable than you were.

As for Aseem Malhotra ... he was uncovered as a fraud ages ago.

It appears that even Reform is trying to distance itself from him, but defends his right to free speech - I think that's where the connection is.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62z4rd87nlo

Stepgranonabroomstick Mon 08-Sept-25 14:50:01

karmalady

An eminent consultant cardiologist via Dr John Campbell

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgAi1TK99o

I am a scientist and gave up on mrna vaccines quite some time ago. I too got sucked into the covid vaccine hype in the early days and also regret the few I did have.

John Campbell is not a medical doctor. He is a former nurse with a PhD.

growstuff Mon 08-Sept-25 14:48:30

Jeannied

Yes. The left wing ideologies have never worked. As for Dr. Malholtra, he is an expert in his field and has studied the effects the vax has had on heart conditions.
No vax, no masks, no social distancing. Same goes for all of my family and not one of us got the renamed flu.

No, he is not an expert in his field. He has had hardly any clinical experience.