There follows a guest post by Daily Sceptic reader Veronica Richards, about her encounter with a vaccination clinic and a dentist and her efforts to spread a little scepticism.
Yesterday, having arrived early at the town twelve miles away where my dentist surgery is, I was wandering up the High Street filling in time when, to my disappointment (since I thought this kind of thing had wound down), I came across a large sign on the pavement declaring “Get Your Vaccine Here”, and a few yards from it a white wagon where the injecting took place, and a short distance from that, a tent where people presumably either waited or sat to recover (hopefully fully) from their Covid jab. However, apart from the uniformed team working on this project, there were no punters awaiting their services.
A man in a white coat stood in the doorway of the wagon. I approached him. “Have you seen the Yellow Card listings following these vaccines?” I asked in a rather stony voice.
“If I want, I can access them,” he replied, without much vigour.
Actually, I think he was probably a pleasant, sensitive man and he didn’t look at all well. His face was pale, there was red all around his eyes and he had a strained look, but I wasn’t about to give up. “Do you believe in ‘do no harm’?” I asked.
“Yes.”
“Do you know about the pathologist who has done autopsies on a largish number of people who died within two weeks of being vaccinated? He said many of the deaths were caused by the vaccine and he wanted to organise more autopsies, but has now suddenly gone strangely quiet?”
“There have been over 50,000 people vaccinated,” stated the red-rimmed eyed man, as if that were an answer.
“Yes – and there are an increasing number of people around with badly compromised immune systems!” No reply came, and so with that I made off, wishing I’d remembered to say about the rising number of those with coronary problems.
Fifteen minutes later I passed the white wagon again. This time I was on the opposite pavement and the white-coated man was on the phone. I liked to think he was ringing his boss to say, “I can’t do this anymore”. Although it also occurred to me he might be ringing a nearby police car to say “there she is, the one in the red jumper” and any moment I might feel the heavy hand of the law upon my shoulder.
But that’s just my imagination and I wasn’t really too concerned. Why should anyone worry for simply pointing out something for which there is more than enough appalling evidence? But I don’t like being confrontational, and I didn’t improve that medic’s day and he already looked depressed before I started. I hope I’m not the first passerby to have said something. I have the feeling I wasn’t, and maybe as a consequence, just maybe, he’ll jump ship. Or even better, question his role himself and start speaking up within the NHS. I’m touching wood and whistling. I think basically he’s a decent bloke.
The time had come for my dental appointment, the preliminary inspection during which I knew I’d be informed that my broken front tooth needed dental bonding, something I’d been waiting 20 days to hear from professional lips. And that after paying, I would then be given another appointment, weeks ahead, for the actual bonding to be done. In Bulgaria, you can ring a dentist and say, I need this or that doing, and when you arrive for your appointment three or four days later, the dentist gets on with the job, then and there, and charges nothing like as much. I’d book a plane ticket today if I hadn’t a succession of dogs coming to stay over the summer. No wonder there isn’t the great snarling up of appointments in Bulgaria that there is here, and getting worse.
But I was wrong about knowing what the dentist would say. “I’m sorry,” said the receptionist, “the dentist didn’t feel well and had to go home. We tried to ring you this morning [when I got home there was no message on my landline], can you put on your mask please.”
“I thought that mask nonsense was over with,” I responded. “You do realise that in order to see a virus they have to use an electron microscope? A virus could go straight through that mask you’re wearing, apart from the fact there are big gaps either side.” However, the poor woman was starting to look uncomfortable and so I relented and began to fish around in my bag in the hope my homemade mask might still be lurking. It was. “Okay, I’ll put on this silly made up thing,” I said, “but you know very well it’s a masquerade, and I know very well it’s a masquerade.”
There were now three receptionists behind the desk gazing at me silently. The phone went and one picked it up. I continued, “My previous appointment to be fitted for a pair of dentures [which I’m giving up getting this year since I’ve already been semi-toothless for seven months] was cancelled because my usual dentist is as you know is sadly very poorly and it seems is probably going to retire. When can I make another appointment to be told I need dental bonding on this front tooth?”
“Sorry, I didn’t quite hear what you said?” said one of the receptionists, holding a hand over an ear to shield it from her colleague talking loudly on the phone.
I removed my mask and didn’t put it back on again, nor was asked to. “See – nobody can hear each other through these ridiculous things!” And I repeated my question, and two receptionists searched intently on their computer for a slot for me, and apparently did me a favour by squashing me in first thing in the morning in a couple of weeks’ time.
But the nice thing is this, after I left the building, one of the receptionists knocked on the window and gave me a very jolly wave. I waved back. Obviously there are those within the system who like it when we kick up.
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It’s a cult. Little point in explaining
It’s been a very strange few years from a society point of view. Psychologists are going to be kept busy for years sorting how what the hell we did and, more importantly, why.
Psychologists are largely responsible for this mess, if they are sensible they should keep their heads down.
I thought most of the problem was with mathematical modellers although yes, Sage had it’s fair share of psychological manipulators.
Comedians will be mocking the covidiots for a millennium.
Six times in a month ???? Good for you
Well that’s what happens when a medical service goes AWOL for over two years! Initial consultation, prepare tooth for crown, check temporary dressing, fit crown, private visit to hygienist and private visit to talk about implant.
The tooth that needed crown was hurting for a while but then stopped. Normally, I’d had have it checked out earlier and it might have been able to save before it cracked. But not when COVID trumps all. No non-urgent visits.
How many times is this story played out?
It is indeed a cult, but with varying degrees of willingness amongst its victims.
I’ve had oddly similar results to those described by Veronica Richards; and I agree that there are those within the system who like it when we “kick up”.
They like it because they feel encouraged; and they feel encouraged (in the literal sense of the word) because encouragement has been offered.
When I sit unmasked on public transport (where masks are mandatory in parts of Australia), I enjoy meeting the mutinous eyes of those who are “wearing” them in a deliberately disrespectful manner: covering the chin, rather than the nose and mouth. We know it’s bullshit.
The poor drivers, masked to the gills, rarely ask me if I’m exempt. When one did yesterday and I told him that I was, he beamed at me – “Great!”
Amongst all the compliance, every act of rebellion matters: large or small. It doesn’t have to be a game-changer on the spot, there and then.
The white-coated man Veronica encountered has received new or additional input. That has changed his day and may change his mind.
I disagree. There’s every point in explaining. Many people, such as my neighbour, know nothing about the inefficacy of the vaccines they continue to have, or of the scale of vaccine injuries. The more people who challenge the narrative the better, introducing a new thought process is the only way to make people think.
I have been struck off from my dentist for refusing to wear a mask – this was about 5 weeks ago. I was told I couldn’t enter without wearing a mask, to which I queried how the dentist was going to be able to perform his duties. “That’s not what’s it’s for” I was told “it’s to protect other people”. So are other people not going shopping, pubs, restaurants etc? I asked. “It’s a clinical setting, you have to wear one” I was told, to which I replied “oh, f*k off”. Yep, think my patience might be letting me down of late!
I’ve been to my NHS dentist six times in the last month and not once did I have to wear a mask. The staff of course wore a mask during procedures but they’ve always done that.
Even that is theater.
There was a very thorough meta-analysis published in Oral Health about 5 years ago which found that masks are useless to harmful in dental settings (there is also a similar study and result with regard to surgeries in general).
It made some waves early on in 2020 and was then pulled and erased from the magazine and all websites, for the obvious reason: to enable unfettered propaganda and brainwashing.
That may be the 2016 paper i had bookmarked and which then vanished. What crooks they all are.
It’s here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200509053953/https:/www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/
Tut! Tut! Try gritting your teeth rather than effing and jeffing.
Thank you for your sage advice. Very…. patronising. Maybe we’ve all gritted our teeth a little too long.
Your dentist is surely in a minority. I have never worn a mask at the dentist – initially I said I was exempt and they have never mentioned it again. Quite a few months ago the receptionist said she wouldn’t bother with the health (covid) enquiry forms either because ‘let’s face it, if you had covid you wouldn’t be here, would you?’ They are now totally back to normal, with chairs cheek by jowl and magazines to read once more. I can’t understand why some people are so determined to prolong covid bull***t.
On opening the surgery door I was confronted by a rather fat agitated lady assistant who shouted at me to put a mask on, I grudgingly complied as I had toothache and gave curt answers to the numerous questions about whether I had covid etc. Shortly afterwards I was summoned by the dentist to explain why I had been rude to the assistant. I explained that I had not been rude but that the assistant seemed very agitated for some reason. Since then I have not encountered the rather fat lady assistant again at the surgery, thank god.
Never swear
only say I am exempt
I changed dentists because they insisted on temperature checks and mask-wearing. When I asked how they could possibly insist on people wearing something that increases the likelihood of dental hygiene issues, I was met with silence.
The Covid vaccine rollout has destroyed everything the medical community once stood for, informed consent, compassion, honesty and respect for bodily autonomy. Throughout my research the whole premise of informed consent has been destroyed by the bullying, coercion and pressure people faced in order to take the vaccine.
I’m aghast that nobody has taken legal action against Javid.
Legal action is likely to fail as the legal system has become part of the same scam
Nice little story. Thanks for sharing it.
I have yet stopped short of street level abuse targetted at people staring angrily at me over the rim of their perceived face armour but I’ve had the strong urge to do so a couple of times. Subjectively, about 1% – 2% of the people I met in the streets (or inside shops) still wear these things, these being the hardcore feeble-minded or the true believers who’d like to go back into full blown COVID-gymnastics at any time. Hence, they’re a danger to everyone around them and one should do something about this.
COVID-weirdo of the day: A relatively young-looking (certainly younger than me) guy approaching the Oracle (Reading shopping mall) Riverside door from the bridge crossing the canal while proudly (the impression I got from the way he moved) wearing a purple cloth-mask. The hand sanitizer stations at the mall entrances are long gone. Hence, while he was descending the final flight of stairs, he momentarily stopped, pulled a small tube out of his pocket, put some of the semifluid content on his hands and carefully rubbed it in. He then put the tube back into the pocket, proudly raised his head again, looked around and went through the mall door.
I’d really like to know that he was thinking at that time and especially, what he believes this procedure accomplishes.
Hypochondriacs are there to be pitied.
I’d prefer pelting this kind with plenty of pebbles.
My father is a bit of a hypochondriac and always wary that whatever presently ails him could be the first sign of a serious disease. Nevertheless, he has openly regarded (and mostly, also treated) anything-COVID as bullshit from day one of it.
We shouldn’t mock the afflicted.
Apologies to Frankie Howard.
Ask your parents or even grandparents.
I suspect there was no thinking going on, full stop.
Well, yes, not thinking the sense of thinking, more in the sense re-examining and -arranging one’s prejudices.
I went through that very same door at the Oracle yesterday. I failed to notice the absence of the sanitiser (!) or whether there were any masked incumbents. Most were just heading in there out of the torrential rain at the time and didn’t care two hoots about any covid nonsense.
Madness isn’t it – I see this kind of insanity all the time where I live – I often wonder how these people manage to cross the road sometimes.
Thinking would require certain equipment this individual probably lacks. Either that or he has severe OCD.
It’s worse than that in places.
Our local Catholic church is still without holy water in the font.
But it does have a Methylated Holy Spirit dispenser which most of the congregation diligently use.
Weirdo alert. I hope you laughed at him.
I like the photo with the nose sticking out above the mask.
Now, author: the size of the virus doesn’t matter. What could matter is the size of the aerosol droplets in which the virus is borne.
But the masks can be helpful at keeping pollen out. Some pollen particles are quite big e.g. up to 1000 microns.
But but but what about evaporation, allowing a virus particle to be freed from its slimy droplet? I’m sure I read about this somewhere. If I stick a plastic bag over my face, it gets wet a lot faster than if I stick a mask on, so surely the water droplets are either escaping or evaporating?
The virus is spread by aerosols, not droplets. Do some research.
Aerosols are droplets, you twit. Just little ones.
I was pleased to find that the toilet cubicle I was using yesterday, near to Bournemouth pier, actually had a sticker behind the door which referred to the Nuremberg Code and the importance of informed consent. Unfortunately parts had been torn off so I was unable to discover who it was who was spreading a little more scepticism. Good for them!
“Spread a little skepticism.” I love it. I’m going to copyright this and make it into a bumper sticker!
Science progresses one sceptical thought at a time.
I had a couple of run ins with nurses at a private hospital (the NHS was shut, my treatment was urgent and expensive but affordable). One was angry that I hadn’t been ‘vaccinated’ and the other that I refused to wear a mask. I declared myself exempt. The consultant I was seeing was masked but didn’t seem too worried by my lack of face nappy. My GP when I saw him (last August) was not masked and neither was I.
Angry how? I meet people who are shocked when I say am not vaccinated, but if they are angry (which usually means scared) they are too polite to show it, for the most part. I can only think of one example where someone was angry actually (I now have her pegged as a Nazi to be avoided at all costs)
Nowadays people are more curious, and (I like to imagine) somewhat simultaneously envious and ashamed. I can still go on holiday, and I don’t have to worry about my heart exploding from nowhere. Ha!
A vaccine stops the spread … it wasn’t a vaccine.
A real vaccine does sfa, they are complete bollocks
By exhibiting signs of anger.
I routinely pretend not to be able to understand what people say when they are wearing a mask – often they then take it off (but put it back on after speaking).
I did say, when taking my wife to the clinic where the nurse who saw us absolutely insisted that I wore a mask that a) exemptions apply in all locations, including hospitals and b) that if she genuinely believed a thin cloth mask would stop the spread of a virus that I had serious doubts about her medical competency and wanted to be seen by a better educated nurse who I felt confident knew what she was doing. That seemed to do the trick (and to be fair, the rest of the staff were lovely and didn’t give a damn about my maskless face.)
Bitchy? Belligerent? Yep – but that’s how they’ve made me. I have genuine and undisguised contempt for the useful idiots who helped mess up my life for the last two years.
I ask them, “Aren’t you vaccinated? Don’t you think the vaccines work?”
The only problems I’ve had being maskless in medical settings have been from dictatorial women. These harridans have kept me from entering both the surgery and the pharmacy. Once I’ve got past them there have been no problems from the male doctors. My podiatrist wears a mask to appease his receptionist.
June 2020, there was an article by a GP, reproduced on this website, who highlighted that reported Covid deaths were in fact deaths with Covid, not of Covid. I forwarded to it to a good friend. He messaged back: “Interesting, but this isn’t the time for articles like this”.
I despaired.
Recently went to the dentist and was told for peace of mind not to ask questions.
The dentist went on to explain their CQC registration was dependant on keeping the Covid-19 signage and messaging.
Was pleased to hear him say he had stopped using the masks and visors as he was unable to see properly to do his work. They allow individuals to decide how they interact – mostly this works except for when they’ve a staff member that is irrationally fearful of their patients. Was pleased to see no patients wearing a mask and those of us in the waiting room interacting pleasantly sharing a joke or two.
re instruction to put mask on
why did you relent? This is part of the problem where people fail to stand firm and just say no
That’s true, but it’s very difficult sometimes. I was once served out on the pavement by a pharmaceutical assistant because she refused to admit me without a mask, despite my telling her I was exempt and wearing a lanyard. It was very embarrassing with people going past and staring, but having given in once at the surgery I resolved never to do it again, and I didn’t. I later had a blood test outside the surgery for the same reason.
I thank my lucky stars I had a mouthful of implants fitted in Budapest over 10 years ago at less than half the price I would have been charged in the UK. And yes they are the best in Europe as Germans, Swiss & even Americans can testify
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You do realise that in order to see a virus they have to use an electron microscope? A virus could go straight through that mask you’re wearing, apart from the fact there are big gaps either side.
You do realise this is beside the point? Viruses do not travel through the air by themselves. They are attached to much larger aerosol or larger particles. The question is whether those particles will pass through a mask.
It’s the GP practice receptionists that get me. Did they take the job thinking that there wouldn’t be a parade of sick folk passing through the waiting area?