I read a short piece in a national paper (online version) suggesting that alcohol should be avoided by those receiving the vaccine as it affects how well the body receives it.
How much truth is there in that from a medical point of view? We all know alcohol is to be avoided when taking various other types of medication, however with a vaccine which is designed to have an effect for a longer period (compared to a course of antibiotics, for example) are they really saying now that everyone needs to give up alcohol?
Given pubs were falsely blamed for "cases" increasing in the late summer, this is smelling a bit like off beer.
The various tier and lockdown regulations have also had more than a whiff of a Nouvelle Temperance Movement about them.
Even the Eat Out To Help Out scheme was predicated on the basis of helping hospitality venues serve food (but not alcohol alone).
Then the increasingly bizarre, arbitrary and utterly unscientific tier rules requiring pubs to serve substantial meals in order to sell alcohol.
Now, it having been a requirement for pubs to serve substantial meals with alcohol in order for people to drink, they can't even sell takeaway beers alongside the same food they were serving to get them in the first place under a govt sponsored scheme and later as required by law.
One wonders whether the same definition of "essential shops" will apply here or whether they will quietly force off-licences to close.
One wonders who in SAGE is guiding this? Perhaps some of them have a political or cultural background which is against alcohol. Or this is part of a wider scheme to stamp out alcohol consumption.
The mail printed that crap.
Both user and health professional data sheets are on the .gov website for both vaccines.
None list alcohol as a contraindictation.
Pfizer doesnt mention the word at all and Oxford only in the ingredients list.
So no, its rubbish.
I am not so sure this is necessarily rubbish. I have long suspected that at some point booze for the masses will be banned. Not because it will achieve anything positive but it will surely up the hysteria and cause further depression and worry. And of course help to further destroy the economy which is the immediate game plan for the government.
Well, I'm pleased to hear it's not factually true and I apologies for reporting something which appears to be fake.
But you wonder where it comes from - is it just crap rumour mongering, or is it something leaked by "the science" to put doubts in peoples' minds...
