Less than a week after Laura Dodsworth wrote a piece on the ‘nudges‘ involved in the Government’s threats of more restrictions, the NHS’s most senior doctor has warned Britons that our freedom to enjoy Christmas could be stripped from us if enough people don’t get a ‘booster’ Covid vaccine.
“The freedom we now all enjoy,” Professor Stephen Powis writes in the Sunday Telegraph, “is a direct result of the country’s willingness and desire to come forward for a Covid jab when it has been offered.” That very ‘freedom’ will be gone again if take-up doesn’t stay high.
Although the country once again finds itself at a crunch point, the NHS vaccination programme remains the strongest weapon in the armoury. Because we rolled out jabs so quickly, we are likely to see protection from the virus waning sooner than other countries. That means that without a booster, many people will find themselves more vulnerable to Covid, going into winter. So it’s vital that everyone gets their top-up jab as soon as they are eligible.
People will be contacted to book their jab six months after their second dose. And if for some reason you don’t receive an invite, you will be able to book directly through the national booking service after you become eligible.
We have to seize the moment, get our booster jab and protect ourselves as we go into what will no doubt be a tough winter, particularly as we are likely to see seasonal flu pose a risk to our health. And to maximise the impact of the vaccination programme we must all continue to act responsibly.
The more of us that come forward for our booster jab, and the more we keep our resolve in helping to limit the spread of infection, then the greater chance we all have of staying well.
So, when your time comes, take up the offer, book your booster and protect the freedom and Christmas that we have all earned and deserve to enjoy.
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The fucking audacity of these people. Who the hell do they think they are?!
Get boosted or we’ll cancel Christmas.
Blackmail.
What happens when you give in to a blackmailer?
So the tyranny of the unelected, inaccurate, meddling, despotic so called “experts” (when did they last get anything right?) is rearing its ugly head again. I’m interested in anyone who has a method of influencing anyone with clout to head this off before it becomes an accepted inevitability. I have my booster in 2 weeks time, and expect to be allowed to run my life as I see fit. I was 4 hours from death last December, so why the hell should I listen to the harbingers of doom. Save the NHS? They’ve had billions of pounds and still can’t run a pxxx up in a brewery. We need someone to organise mass demos round the country to stop this before it gets properly started.
Totally obscene and I am bewildered how people are going along with this.
Who the bloody hell do these people think they are. He should be focussing on making the NHS the best public service, you know how it used to be.
Get him back in his box ffs.
And so a renal medic who turned to management now hectors the population to inflict a RNA novel vaccine as a supplemental dose because- Vaccinated Society now has failing antibodies or Perhaps they fo have lots of antibodies against SARS-Cov-2 virus? Sorry Prof Powis you don’t know because you sent measuring it. It is total experimentation to give a repeated novel vaccines- will they cause ADE or increase likelihood of other viral infection You just don’t know long term. What about mixing vaccines? Are you going to give doses to Children in future or do they maintain their response? What about if they have native immunity?
Whatever has happened to my profession I joined 50 years ago as a student.
It is not those who refuse the top up vaccine or those who stand outside school urging caution about child vaccination that are the risk to society ;but those who refuse to permit the open debate which thankfully this site permits,
“book your booster and protect the freedom and Christmas that we have all earned and deserve to enjoy.” Who the hell do these jumped up bureaucrats think they are? This is what we get for giving up our freedom so easily
From his NHS bio:
“Stephen Powis is the National Medical Director of NHS England … and a Director of Healthcare Services Laboratories LLP.”
Conflicts of interest openly and proudly displayed.
I’m just waiting for the “vote for us or you will be in lockdown forever” message…
You don’t have the power to prevent me or anyone else, from celebrating Christmas as normal. You couldn’t do it last year and you can’t this year either.
What never ceases to amaze me is how all those involved in the scam can keep getting away with bare-faced lies. They say black is white and millions believe them. Blow Jo the other day comes out and says the poison jab doesn’t stop you getting it or giving it but go and get your booster. The guy is an idiot, first class, and a fucking lying canute.
Professor Stephen Powis. On the list.
Can Powis explain what the booster is supposed to achieve. I’m no expert but I understand the position is as follows based on the always excellent Gabor Erdosi.
This seems to be politically motivated medicine by Powis rather than evidence based medicine or anything science based
The booster is exactly the same jab as the previous ones, the ones that don’t work or else the booster wouldn’t be needed. And the booster isn’t going to improve the quality of the immune response at all, it might temporarily increase the quantity of the response in terms of antibodies but that’s no good in the long term as the long term effect is a narrower response.
They could switch the booster to be based on say the spike protein under beta, and they could develop that in weeks. But they know this would be futile because of original antigenic sin; the response would be to the original spike.
Gabor Erdosi says it’s the same in breakthrough infections: only a small fraction of vaccinated people seem to develop nucleocapsid (N) antibodies after being infected, and some of them may even had undetected, low N Ab in a prior infection. Original antigenic sin at… Read more »
“Can Powis explain what the booster is supposed to achieve.”
Keeps him in his job, and more money to his bank account. Mission accomplished!
Correction: Should have read “they could switch the booster to be based on say the spike protein under delta” not “spike protein under beta”
Should say: ‘NOT worth reading in full’.
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A freedom which can always readily to be taken away unless people agree to undergo whatever medical procedures some body of so-called experts want them to undergo is no freedom: It’s a temporary unshackling of the chains people enslaved by the medical establishment, which regards them as property.
Sick of these jumped-up little medical tyrants telling us how we should live our lives and making veiled threats about confiscating our freedoms if we’re naughty little boys and girls .
.. well we’ve had this crap for nearly two years now and with no end in sight – we stayed indoors, we wore the masks, we stayed away from family and friends, we took the jabs and still its not enough – well, I’m sorry but enough is enough – the NHS was created to allow us to live our lives to the fullest without having to worry about becoming ill and paying medical bills. The NHS is there to treat us when we are ill and prevent the worst from happening. The rest of the time, we should be able to forget about the bloody NHS and carry on with our lives without fear of being locked-up in order to ‘save the NHS’ – if we have reached the point where we are having to sacrifice our freedoms to save the NHS then there is something seriously wrong with the NHS.
Stick your threats where the sun don’t shine.
This is well worth a listen. RFK Jr is a hero.
“That very ‘freedom’ will be gone again if take-up doesn’t stay high.”
Stay high? Yes. You mean boosters forever or else. Can I get off this ghost train please?
Another predictable political knee-jerker, gleaning a salary from compliance.
As a double vaxxee NHS Vaccine Central tell me to go to my GP for my boost. My GP says no as they are only ‘commissioned’ to boost the over 75s.
NHS Vaccine Central give no contact details other than to say don’t try 119 or the NHS/Covid apps or websites..
Am I bovvered? No, but it occurs to me that this apparent conflict might be deliberate because the failure of people like me to get boosted will be the excuse to reintroduce lockdown well before Xmas which will be crap anyway since we were being warned as long ago as August that their would be a dearth of ‘pigs in blankets’.
That was a sucker story to see how easily we would be taken in by fake ‘shortages’ stories; obviously considered a success given the torrent of others that followed.
Why ‘Pigs in blankets’? Because taking the piss again, how difficult is it to get a bit of bacon and wrap it around a sausage?
Re your last paragraph. It sums up certain aspects of Our Great Leader, but I will not particularise, in the interests of decency.
“The freedoms we all now enjoy” – Is he for real?
https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1450596473524080641
https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1450874274701586434
Ain’t no Nazi gonna stop my Christmas I can tell you that. I don’t think i’m alone in that sentiment either. I expect this will only bring a section of the double jabbed around to our way of thinking.
This jerks understanding of of the word ‘Booster’ appears to fly in the face of the dictionary definition
booster
noun [ C ]UK /ˈbuː.stər/ US /ˈbuː.stɚ/
booster noun [C] (IMPROVEMENT)
something that improves or increases something:
a confidence/morale booster
https://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1450903030589710345
https://twitter.com/3milyhill/status/1451165032771956745
Green might be good but it’s a ruinous scandal that Boris lets his Silicon valley chums tell him how to spend billions of British taxpayers money
https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/117471/green-might-be-good-but-its-a-ruinous-scandal-that-boris-lets-his-silicon-valley-chums-tell-him-how-to-spend-billions-of-british-taxpayers-money
Not just these people, but the egregious Climate Change Committee here. It is not by chance that one of its leading figures is Lord Deben, otherwise known as the apostate and former MP John Selwyn Gummer. This odious individual spent a lot of his time when in Parliament feathering his nest with profitable “green” directorships, holdings and all the rest, many of which were not far distant from his Ministerial responsibilities. There’s nothing like profiting from public office when in it and after it, and it adds to his modest Lords allowances.
Well, you know where he lives!
Wikipedia tells me that Mr Gates is 65. Just 65? Really? He looks to be mid-80s to me. Whatever he’s on ain’t working.
Yes he’s a few months younger than me.
I can’t see how people don’t see through this blatant coercion. It is so transparent, how does it fool anyone? For something that has that has an overall recovery rate of 99.95%..If I ever encountered this Powis I’d tell him what a murdering see you next Tuesday he was. These people are despicable.. ..
Seen elsewhere …
“Joe Biden’s popularity has fallen more in his first nine months than any other US President since the Second World War.
An exhaustive study by Gallup showed Mr Biden’s approval rating had plummeted by 11.3 per cent, worse than all the other 10 presidents before him.”
Telegraph
Well, goodness me. Could it be due to trying to rule like a despot in the land of the free?
Let’s go Brandon.