{"id":1086,"date":"2021-12-04T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2021-12-04T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T13:56:00","slug":"covid-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2021\/12\/04\/covid-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID and me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\">So, I have COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First reaction has to be that the vaccines have worked. That is to say I&#8217;m not dead yet and no signs of dying. This is just a bad bout of cold. Slightly tickly throat, runny nose, a dull ache around my eyes, muscle ache, slight giddiness, and lethargy. O K , maybe flu, not a cold! No particular problems breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So to Vax or not to Vax. Well, that&#8217;s a notty one. It would seem from the above that they work, at least to an extent.  I&#8217;ve still caught COVID, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to be killing me.  BUT.  What if they now tell us that we have to get injected every 3 months to maintain immunity?  What if the variants keep defying science?  What if the vaccinations end up killing us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\"> What if the vaccinations end up killing us? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yep, you read right.  But no I&#8217;m not going down the conspiracy theories route.  I have to believe that this is too big to be some planned &#8220;Big Pharma&#8221;, &#8220;Illuminate&#8221;, Bill Gates inspired world domination masterplan. Where&#8217;s Bond when you need him (or her)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I understand it the vaccinations are not the traditional form of a mild version of the real thing, they are &#8220;harmless&#8221; artificial viruses that should trigger our natural immune system into identifying and fighting COVID-like viruses.  But will such interference over time reduce our natural immune system&#8217;s ability to fight disease? Have we, in our &#8220;follow the science&#8221; optimism or arrogance played God and interferred with nature, getting ourselves into an ever increasing dependency on medical intervention?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone has suggested that we have effectively introduced AIDS to everyone! That sounds overly dramatic, but if we have introduced a man-made substance into our bodies, there&#8217;s no going back, no retrieval system and we&#8217;ve done it to millions. Rather like chemo-therapy, is the treatment worse than the disease?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, anyway, there&#8217;s 7 billion of us. Worse case Bill Gates gets his population reduction! The planet becomes more sustainable. People can stop gluing their hands to motorways  &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, just remembered, GOD!  Oh yes Him.  I seem to recall there is some kind of master plan, an end times, a winding up (or down) of all things. A return. A Kingdom to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\">COVID passports nothing. I&#8217;d better check that my Kingdom Passport is up to date!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have COVID. First reaction has to be that the vaccines have worked. That is to say I&#8217;m not dead yet and no signs of dying. This is just a bad bout of cold. Slightly tickly throat, runny nose, a dull ache around my eyes, muscle ache, slight giddiness, and lethargy. O K , &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2021\/12\/04\/covid-and-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COVID and me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-kingdom","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}