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AstraZeneca Victim Lashes Out at “Woefully Inadequate” Compensation

by Richard Eldred
19 May 2024 3:00 PM

The Mail carries the harrowing story of a mother-of-three struggling to get by on the state support given to her after being left paralysed and forced to medically retire from work following the AstraZeneca Covid jab. Here’s an excerpt:

Like tens of thousands of Brits, Clare Bowie’s life was turned upside down during the Covid pandemic.

But the 56 year-old from Dumbarton near Glasgow wasn’t left struggling for her life from the virus.

Instead, she was paralysed from the chest down after getting the AstraZeneca Covid vaccination in April 2021.

The mum-of-three worked as an admin officer at a submarine base for the ministry of defence for 37 years before she was forced to medically retire due to losing mobility in her hands.

However, Mrs. Bowie’s frustration lies with the “woefully inadequate” Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, which doesn’t cover the cost of her mortgage or the cost of modifying her home for her level of disability. …

Initially doctors thought Mrs. Bowie had Guillian-Barre syndrome, which is a very rare and serious condition which affects the nerves that has been linked to complications with the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.    

But after six MRI scans at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow, doctors diagnosed acute disseminated encephalitis complicated by transverse myelitis (ADEM), a condition that causes inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. …

Medics never had any doubts that her paralysis was caused by the vaccine.  

Mrs. Bowie… recalls the consultant introducing himself and told her straight away: “I think it is Guillian-Barre syndrome and it’s because you took the vaccine.”

“I actually argued with him,” Mrs. Bowie said. “I couldn’t really believe it could be the vaccine.

“He said it is 100% the vaccine. He was absolutely definite on it and I am very grateful for that because I am assuming that’s why I got the vaccine damage payment.”

The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, which has been around since the 1970s, offers people, or their families, a tax-free sum of £120,000. …

Mrs. Bowie’s husband, Dave, 55, applied for the scheme in October 2021, while she was still in hospital. But the money wasn’t in her account until February 2023, a year and half after applying.

“It did take a while and you don’t really hear from them,” she said. 

But after going through the process of applying to the Government scheme, Mrs. Bowie says it is “woefully inadequate” and “traumatic for people”. 

She said: “You think £120,000 is massive. I have been in the civil service all my life, I wasn’t used to that money. But the bottom line is it doesn’t clear your mortgage and modify your house.”

In 1979, the scheme handed out £10,000 to people injured or killed by vaccines, this amount has been raised several times, but the current level (£120,000) was set in 2007. 

But according to the Bank of England inflation calculator that is the equivalent of £195,183 meaning people are now losing out on about £75,000 in cash. 

She said: “They go right back through your medical records. I’ve spoken to people who have been denied it because 10 years ago something happened to them. But I have been lucky and been a very healthy person so they can’t pinpoint it on anything else.”

Strict eligibility criteria means those affected must either have been killed or be left 60% disabled due to a vaccine.

This means a person theoretically judged to be only 59% disabled will not get a penny.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AstraZenecaCompensationCovid VaccinesNHSVaccine HarmsVDPS

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

The tosser!

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago

17 quid will get me four pints of best bitter ……..choices, choices!!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Purely in the spirit of livening up a non-thread, because the article is evidently uninteresting AF to everyone, I will unapologetically do another off-territory dump here.

This is a cracking round-up of memes and links, old and new. Something for everyone, which I hope is a tad more interesting than ’50 shades of drab’ Harry;

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/mikes-antivax-grab-bag-memes-blurbs-and-links/

Last edited 2 years ago by Mogwai
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Wow! Thanks for the link Mogs. What a library. I’ve bookmarked it.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

YW 🙂

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Spare me Prince Harry

Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 years ago

“99.9% of us on planet Earth are carrying round some form of grief, trauma or loss – the sooner we realise that, the sooner we can all get along.”

– One of whom is his own brother, with whom he can’t get along.

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HicManemus
HicManemus
2 years ago

Guess the book isn’t selling too well?

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago
Reply to  HicManemus

South Park got it about right.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

What a desperately silly boy.

If he’d called his biography “Up Yours, Ma’am”, I would’ve bought that. And a few more for Christmas presents.

Last edited 2 years ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
2 years ago

Are people really still interested in this drivel? A slimmed down monarchy after the death of the Queen was always on the cards. We can do without the hangers on.

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Dwain
Dwain
2 years ago

load of drivel.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

I’ve analysed Harry as well. My conclusion is “he’s got a screw loose.”

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago
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The hewitt genes?

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