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Showing posts with label NHS. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Covid -19 - Big Pharma > Big Pharma's Control over Western Governments Pushing Killer Drugs on Unsuspecting People

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See the astonishing interview of Dr. Asaam Malhotra by Tucker Carlson near the bottom of this article. He explains why Big Pharma is such an incredibly negative force in society and why we are better off without Covid vaccines.



MP, with Biogenetics degree, compares 'blind eye' over vaccine harm 

to Jimmy Savile, Harvey Weinstein and OxyContin scandals


Andrew Bridgen told the House of Commons that mRNA vaccines must be immediately withdrawn and claimed that policymakers around the world are guilty of 'wilful blindness' to the 'facts' about side-effects

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Conservative backbencher Andrew Bridgen is calling for the mRNA vaccines to withdrawn (Image: Getty)


A Conservative MP has called for the UK Government to immediately halt the use of mRNA vaccines for covid because they are "not safe, not effective and not necessary".

Backbench rebel Andrew Bridgen secured a debate on the "potential harms" of the vaccines based on recent research by British cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra. He described the roll-out of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine as "perhaps the greatest miscarriage of medical science, attack on democracy, damage to population health, and erosion of trust in medicine that we will witness in our lifetime".

Mr Bridgen, a leading Brexiteer, claimed that "policymakers and the mainstream media" are "turning a blind eye to the truth" and ignoring the "evidence-based facts" about alleged vaccine harms due to "wilful blindness".

He said: "There are numerous examples of that in recent history, such as the BBC and Jimmy Savile, the Department of Health and Mid Staffs, Hollywood and Harvey Weinstein, and the medical establishment and the OxyContin scandal, which was portrayed in the mini-series 'Dopesick'. It is crucial to understand that the longer wilful blindness to the truth continues, the more unnecessary harm it creates."

The MP said there have been more than "half a million yellow card reports of adverse effects from the public" since the vaccine roll-out. He went on: "That is unprecedented. It is more than all the yellow card reports of the past 40 years combined."

Dr Aseem Malhotra
@DrAseemMalhotra
The most important parliamentary speech you will see & it may save your life. MP calls for suspension of mRNA vaccine because of unprecedented harms & little benefit. ‘Something is rotten in British medicine & has been for a long time’ 
@RishiSunak
 
https://youtu.be/B5hb_8T5GQs

#NHS
video 8:24



Mr Bridgen claimed the benefits of the vaccine were "close to non-existent" and said a re-analysis of Pfizer and Moderna's vaccine trial results found a "rate of serious adverse events of one in 800 individuals vaccinated".

This rate was established in the first few months after vaccination. The study did not look beyond the first few months.

In his speech above, MP Bridgen states that children 5 and under have a serious adverse event rate of one in 200. And that they last more than 90 days.

He added: "In the past, vaccines have been completely withdrawn from use for a much lower incidence of serious harm."

The North West Leicestershire (MP) said he was double vaccinated with AstraZeneca jab, which he said had been "effectively been withdrawn because of health concerns"

He told the House there had been "an extra 14,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in 2021, compared with 2020, following the vaccine roll-out" and added: "Many of these will undoubtedly be because of the vaccine, and the consequences of this mRNA jab are clearly serious and common."

Mr Bridgen then outlined specific examples of alleged corruption in British and global medicine and said: "We need an inquiry into the influence of big pharma on medications and our NHS. That is been called for many occasions and by some very influential people, including prominent physicians such as the former president of the Royal College of Physicians and personal doctor to our late Queen, Sir Richard Thompson."

Government is 'on the wrong side of history'


He concluded: "As the data clearly shows to anyone who wants to look at it, the mRNA vaccines are not safe, not effective and not necessary. I implore the Government to halt their use immediately. As I have demonstrated and as the data clearly shows, the Government’s current policy on the mRNA vaccines is on the wrong side of medical ethics, it is on the wrong side of scientific data, and ultimately it will be on the wrong side of history."

The debate was held at 7.30pm on Wednesday and only a handful of MPs remained in the House, although several did speak out in support of Mr Bridgen.

This is disgraceful. Those MPs missing should be investigated for connections with Big Pharma.

The DUP's Jim Shannon said he was a supporter of vaccines but added that "we must acknowledge risks and not simply relegate them to fine print".

And Conservative Danny Kruger asked why the original plan to vaccinate only the elderly and vulnerable was "laid aside and we ended up with the roll-out for the entire population, including children?"

Responding on social media, Dr Malhotra said: "The most important parliamentary speech you will see & it may save your life."

'The vaccine is safe for people to have'


Maria Caulfield, the parliamentary under-secretary for health and social care, spoke on behalf of the government, and said she strongly disagreed with Mr Bridgen. However, she added: "It is important that all Members get to discuss and debate such issues, and they are entitled to their opinion."

She said: "Safe and effective vaccines have underpinned our strategy for living with covid. Covid has not gone away, but we are living with it in a way that was not possible this time last year. Vaccines have saved thousands of lives, reduced the pressure on the NHS, and allowed the economy and society to reopen, not just in this country but in countries across the world."

Ms Caulfield said all the vaccines in use in the UK were safe and described safety standards as "some of the highest in the world". She added: "I have worked in clinical research, and I can say categorically that the data is not hidden from the public or the MHRA; it is inspected rigorously and can be reinspected at any time."

She acknowledged: "We know that there are some circumstances where individuals have sadly experienced harm with a possible link to a vaccination. I recognise how difficult that is for those individuals and their families."

However, she said all the yellow cards would be investigated and told Mr Bridgen: "The nature of the yellow card reporting system means that some reported events are not always proven side effects."

The government has to protect its previous decisions re: vaccines. And to do that, they have to protect Big Pharma. Big Pharma's contributions to MPs war chests also provide some incentives.



TOP PRO-VACCINE UK CARDIOLOGIST NOW CALLS

TO HALT THE COVID VACCINES

written by Avi Abelow 
January 2, 2023 
Israel Unwired

I highly suggest watching/listening to this top UK cardiologist on his complete turnaround from supporting the shot on British tv to today telling everyone to stop taking it. His personal story, professional experience and personal insight into the medical system are extremely important to hear. Especially important, and surprising, are the medical statistics he provides on the chances of being saved by taking the vaccine vs. getting injured by the vaccine.


If you want to listen to Dr. Molhotra interviewed by a Nobel prize nominee scientist where they go even deeper into the science, then listen to this podcast:


Otherwise, watch this shocking interview by Tucker Carlson:

video 52:10


Remember, Dr. Malhotra is a cardiologist and most of the statistics he quotes have to do with heart attacks not the half-dozen or more other negative effects of covid vaccines.

Dr. Aseem Marlhotra’s Story


Dr. Malhotra took the first two Pfizer shots and was a big advocate for taking the vaccine on British TV.

A personal loss and tragedy made Dr Aseem Malhotra look into the evidence on COVID vaccines, specifically the mRNA vaccines. In his recent research paper, Dr Malhotra, a National Health Service (NHS) trained cardiologist, has ‘critically appraised’ the true benefits and potential harms of the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) coronavirus disease (COVID) vaccines.


Thursday, December 2, 2021

Covid-19 > Chinese Close to Covid Panacea; EU's Political Games Cost Lives; NHS Cancer Patients Being Sidelined

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Antibody neutralizing all Covid variants found,

Chinese scientists claim

1 Dec, 2021 14:49

(FILE PHOTO) © REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo


Chinese scientists claim to have isolated an antibody which can effectively neutralize all strains of Covid-19, referencing both lab experiments and those performed on a living organism.

In a study published on Tuesday, Chinese scientists from a variety of institutions, including Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, suggested that they may have the panacea to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The authors claim that monoclonal antibody 35B5 has been shown in both in vitro (laboratory or test-tube experiment) and in vivo (performed on living organism) studies to neutralize wild-type Covid-19 (without mutations) as well as variants of concern (VOCs). The in vivo tests were carried out on humanized mice. 

The scientists noted that the antibody also works on the highly mutated Delta variant, which has been responsible for deadly waves of infection around the world since it first emerged in India earlier this year.

“35B5 neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 [Covid-19] by targeting a unique epitope [part of the antigen molecule which the antibody attaches itself to] that avoids the prevailing mutation sites,” the study explains. In other words, 35B5 targets a unique part of the virus that does not change during the mutation process.

By targeting part of the virus which is not impacted by the mutations identified in circulating VOCs, antibody 35B5 demonstrated capacity for “pan-neutralizing efficacy” across multiple strains. These findings, the scientists argue, could be “exploited for the rational design of a universal SARS-CoV-2 [Covid-19] vaccine.”

The part of the antigen targeted by antibody 35B5 is also present in the Omicron variant, the researchers note.

The research could prove particularly valuable amid the spread of Omicron, which is highly mutated. Leaders and scientists around the world are concerned the mutant virus could evade vaccine-induced immunity and immunity gained from previous infection. 

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Hungary slams EU for ‘political’ refusal to recognize

Russian Covid-19 vaccine

27 Nov, 2021 21:15

FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist holds a vial of Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus in a department store in Moscow, Russia, January 18, 2021 © Reuters / Shamil Zhumatov


Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto told RT he’s “frustrated” with Western officials playing politics with Russia’s Sputnik V, the world’s first Covid vaccine. He says they can’t bring themselves to publicly admit it’s “the best.”

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved vaccines by Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Janssen, yet Russia’s Sputnik V is still awaiting the agency’s nod despite getting approval in over 70 countries worldwide. For Hungarians vaccinated with Sputnik V, that means they’re frozen out of the EU’s bloc-wide Digital Covid Certificate system, even though Hungary will start locally producing the vaccine next year.

“This is a political and ideological issue and I am very frustrated about this,” Szijjarto told RT, describing how under EU regulations, either the EMA or national governments can approve vaccines, as Hungary’s government did with Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm shot. “We don’t understand why [this approval] is not respected by the other member states,” he added.

It's not in the Deep State narrative, Peter!

The EU’s cold shoulder for the Sputnik V shot is more a question of politics than efficacy, Szijjarto suggested.

“Whenever I talk to Western European colleagues... they always tell me that they know that Russian scientific performance can be spoken about only very highly,” he said. “I tell them ‘Look, it works the best. Of course it works well.”

Privately they all say that… when it comes to publicly, they all say differently.


“I hoped for the conflicts to be left behind. And I hope for countries’ understanding that we need to cooperate on the issues like saving the lives of people. But, unfortunately, I have to be disappointed because this is not the case,” the minister said.

Saving lives is never part of the Deep State narrative!

Szijjarto added that the timely arrival of Sputnik V and the Chinese vaccine made by Sinopharm had helped the Hungarian economy reach pre-pandemic level by the summer.

“At the beginning – I mean [during] the first part of this year – the deliveries from Western producers were [at times] late. They were cancelled even sometimes, or the volume was less compared to what was contracted,” Szijjarto said.

The fact that both Sinopharm and Sputnik delivered additional volumes [on time] compared to others, gave us a huge advantage. We could reopen the country and the national economy around two months earlier than the European average.

Phase 3 trial data showing the efficacy of Sputnik V has been published in the authoritative medical journal, The Lancet, while a comparative study based on data from Hungary and published this week found the Russian jab to be the most effective of five different vaccines in preventing Covid-related deaths. Sputnik V came in second behind the US-made Moderna shot in preventing infection in the first place. The study was based on data from 3.7 million people.

When it came to choosing his own vaccine, Szijjarto turned to the Russian-developed jab. “The reason for my vaccination with Sputnik is crystal clear,” he told RT. “When I was a kid, I was vaccinated by Soviet vaccines. Since I am still alive and doing well, I decided, why should I change?”

Szijjarto went on to talk more about the politicization of vaccination, and had some choice words for the European politicians and bureaucrats who “attacked” Hungary over its hardline immigration policies.




Up to 740,000 missed cancer referrals in UK due to Covid-19

1 Dec, 2021 07:01

A healthcare worker pays her respects to mark the anniversary of Britain's first COVID-19 lockdown,
in London, March 23, 2021 © Reuters / Hannah McKay


As many as 740,000 urgent cancer case referrals have been missed in the UK since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic due to backlogs and growing waiting lists, a new report has warned.

The UK National Audit Office (NAO) estimated in a report on Wednesday that between 240,000 and 740,000 urgent referrals for suspected cancer cases were missed from the start of the pandemic until September 2021, as “millions of people have avoided seeking, or been unable to obtain, healthcare.”

The report claimed that the number of people undergoing cancer treatment dropped to such levels as Covid-19 took hold in the UK. “By June 2021, NHS cancer services activity had recovered to pre-pandemic levels. However, in September 2021 only 68% of patients requiring treatment within 62 days of urgent referral by their GP were receiving that treatment on time,” the NAO said.

The NAO also warned that the waiting list in 2025 could be much higher than it is today, explaining that if “50% of missing referrals return to the NHS and activity grows only in line with pre-pandemic plans, the waiting list would reach 12 million by March 2025.”

Catchup With Cancer co-founder Professor Pat Price said the report “shows we are in the middle of the biggest cancer catastrophe ever to hit the NHS.”

“There is a deadly cocktail of delays across the board, a regional lottery of cancer inequality and a growing cancer backlog. And it feels like the Government and NHS leaders have their heads in the sand,” she said, calling the situation “frightening.”



Friday, January 1, 2021

#PCMadness - Hungary and Poland Stand Against Soros; Soros-Funded DA Wreaks Havoc in San Fran; SS Marriage in Switzerland?; NHS Wants Diversity, Not Doctors

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‘Merkel’s surrender & worst of all possible worlds’: Soros pens angry op-ed over Polish-Hungarian victory in EU budget talks
12 Dec 2020 00:26

The headline is, of course, the very opposite of the truth, in my humble opinion. Merkel may have surrendered to Hungary and Poland, but she stood up to Soros, and by doing so, the 'worst of all possible worlds' was avoided, for now. 

FILE PHOTO: Billionaire investor George Soros attends the 2019 Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria.
©  Reuters / Lisi Niesner

Hungary and Poland getting the EU to abandon its conditioning of Covid-19 relief on ‘rule of law’ standards aimed to control their policies has incensed international financier George Soros, who called it a German surrender.

The European Commission originally imposed “rule-of-law requirements” on member states for disbursing the pandemic recovery funds. The measure was seen as a method of pressure on Budapest and Warsaw, which have been at odds with Brussels over their laws on the media, the judiciary and LGBTQI+ rights, among other things. Hungary and Poland responded by threatening to veto the entire seven-year EU budget, prompting Brussels to back down.

To Soros, the Hungarian-born US citizen who funds ‘open society’ causes around the world, this was “the worst of all possible worlds,” and amounted to a “surrender” by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to an op-ed Project Syndicate published on Thursday.

Merkel “caved in to Hungarian and Polish extortion,” Soros wrote, blaming the German chancellor personally for the outcome of the talks. She is “something of the sole main decision-maker for the EU,” he argued, what with President Emmanuel Macron of France “temporarily distracted by the laïcité issue,” as Soros euphemistically described the country’s woes with Islamist terrorism.

Poland and Hungary are “brazenly challenging the values on which the European Union has been built,” Soros argued.

The EU was not built on the destruction of Christian values, as far as I know.

While labeling Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) government “illiberal,” much of Soros’s vitriol was reserved for Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, whose “kleptocratic regime” he alleged “has stolen and misappropriated vast sums during his decade in power.”

Orban’s government has cracked down on Soros’s NGOs, universities and other projects in Hungary over the past decade. The financier turned to Brussels for help, and in October the European Court of Justice sought to strike down the Hungarian education reform that compelled Soros to relocate his Central European University to Austria.

Budapest struck back by accusing the EU of “executing the Soros Plan” with its budget conditions, and attempting to “blackmail and pressure dissenting member states to fall in line,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs wrote last month.

Soros concluded his December 10 editorial declaring that all he can do is “express the moral outrage that people who believed in the EU as the protector of European and universal values must feel.” 

That’s somewhat facetious, given the billions of dollars at his disposal
to influence lawmakers and fund media and pressure groups.

When the Hungarian culture commissioner Szilard Demeter wrote an op-ed last month described Europe as “George Soros’ gas chamber,” and called the financier “the liberal Fuehrer,” opposition politicians called for his firing while the American Jewish Committee in Central Europe and the International Auschwitz Committee demanded an apology. 

“Poison gas flows from the capsule of a multicultural open society, which is deadly to the European way of life,” Demeter had written in the piece, which he was forced to retract, as well as delete his social media.

There is no place on social media for the truth. Cudos to Poland and Hungary for not selling their souls to Soros.




San Francisco man arrested for vehicle theft for 14th time in 18 months
as Soros-funded DA claims too many people are in jail
12 Dec 2020 03:50

FILE PHOTO ©  Reuters / Lucy Nicholson

San Francisco police apparently tried to make a point last week when they publicized the arrest of a man who had been busted for vehicle theft 13 times in 18 months – and repeatedly let out of jail to repeat his crimes.

The point must have been lost on Chesa Boudin, the district attorney who was elected last year with funding help from an associate of billionaire George Soros. The suspect was let out again. And now? He has tallied his 14th arrest for vehicle theft in 18 months after police in San Francisco's Tenderloin district again spotted him riding an allegedly stolen motorcycle.

“The same suspect continues to steal vehicles,” the police department tweeted early Friday morning. “Tonight, he is back in custody for his 14th motor vehicle theft arrest.” The motorcycle had a stolen license plate, and its vehicle identification numbers had been removed, police added.

Presumably, the suspect doesn't get caught every time he steals, so there's no telling how many vehicles he might have taken. Property crime is rampant in San Francisco, with more than 5,300 motor vehicle thefts reported in this year's first 11 months, up 33 percent from 2019's pace, according to police data. Car burglaries are even more common. In 2017-2019, a vehicle was broken into about every 20 minutes, on average.

Boudin is part of a wave of Soros-backed prosecutors across the US who are reducing enforcement of crime. After being elected, he almost immediately fired veteran prosecutors in the DA's office. The son of Weather Underground radical left extremists who were imprisoned for murder when he was 14 months old, Boudin has spoken out against mass incarceration and racial disparities in criminal justice. His plan for “rapid decarceration” was accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. San Francisco's jail population is being cut to 600 from 1,100. He also banned prosecutions of so-called quality-of-life crimes, such as prostitution, public urination and blocking sidewalks.

The result, according to some observers, is increasing lawlessness. “The city used to be a treasure,” one Twitter commenter said. “Now it's overwhelmed with aggressive, dangerous druggies and filthy streets where it's genuinely scary to walk the sidewalks in the daytime.”

News of the serial vehicle thief's 14th arrest only exacerbated such frustrations. “You can't even make this s**t up,” MMA fighter Jake Shields tweeted. Another observer said, “This is like a skit on some comedy show, back when those were funny. Soon enough, all they'll be left with is criminals and rich elitists in gated communities wondering where the taxable income went.”

Twitter users speculated that the vehicle thief would be back on the street by the weekend and would soon reach arrest No. 15. One observer suggested sarcastically that the suspect must be a master escape artist who keeps getting out of jail.

“I can't wait for the movie,” he said. “I mean, the only alternative is some morons keep deliberately letting him out of jail. But that'd be stupid.”




Swiss parliament votes to allow same-sex marriage
– but public may have final say in a referendum
18 Dec 2020 15:06

Gay couple exchange rings after being married. © Reuters / Tobias Schwarz

Legislators in Switzerland have approved a bill to allow same sex-couples to marry. But it's too early to call victory for the LGBTQ community – opponents of the legislation have promised to put it to a referendum.

The vote, which took place in both chambers of the parliament on Friday, was far from unanimous. The bill was backed by 136 MPs in the National Council, with 48 against it and nine abstaining. In the Council of States, 24 deputies were in favor of gay marriage, 11 of their colleagues rejected the idea and seven abstained. 

The bill, allowing gay couples to get married, while also granting lesbian couples access to sperm donations, faces yet another hurdle before becoming a law.

The conservative Federal Democratic Union party, which stands for Christian values, has announced that it's going to put the issue to a referendum vote. This means that the Swiss public might have to decide if same-sex marriages are to become a thing in their country.

"If the opponents launch a referendum, we're ready," Matthias Erhardt from the Rainbow Families association, which protects the rights of gay parents in the country, told AFP. "We have 82 percent of the population behind us," he insisted.

Switzerland remains one of the few European nations where same-sex marriage is still illegal. Members of Parliament have been debating legislation on the issue since 2013.

At the moment, the Alpine nation allows gay and lesbian couples to enter into so-called "registered partnerships," which doesn't provide the right to obtain Swiss citizenship or to jointly adopt children.




UK ex-doctors volunteering to help with Covid-19 vaccination blocked by
mandatory DIVERSITY training & paperwork forest
1 Jan 2021 21:45

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker draws an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine into a syringe at the Hurley Clinic in London, Britain. ©  Reuters / PA Wire / Aaron Chown

Thousands of retired doctors and nurses volunteering to rejoin the UK’s National Health Service during the pandemic are being forced to endure “diversity training” – but vaccination training is optional.

NHS veterans applying to return to the service are required to supply a whopping 21 pieces of evidence, the Daily Telegraph revealed on Wednesday, noting that the “red tape” had created a massive bottleneck in hiring with just 5,000 of over 40,000 doctors and nurses who applied for the positions starting in March had been hired by July.

A list of the requirements was posted to social media the same day, and the service’s bizarre requests raised eyebrows across the country. In addition to standard requests like identity documents, proof of education, certification in such urgent-care basics as resuscitation, the NHS demands applicants complete courses in baffling subjects like “preventing radicalization” and “equality, diversity and human rights.”

Even as hospitals complain of staffing shortages and job applicants tear their hair out at the number of hoops they’re forced to jump through, the NHS has refused to budge on its requirements that doctors need not only be medically competent, but mentally compliant. Indeed, the service defended its “stringent recruitment process,” arguing its goal was to “recruit a wide array of individuals from a variety of backgrounds – many of whom are not registered healthcare professionals.”

What happens when ministry leaders have no training in their ministries

This is what happens when you put people in charge of a ministry who have no training or experience in that ministry. Matt Hancock is Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. He has no training or experience for either. He is a trained economist.

Sir Chris Wormald KCB, Permanent Secretary also seems to have no experience or training in health or social care. 

As such, I might suggest they have more interest in doing things in a politically correct manner than in a medically effective manner, hence the emphasis on the 'variety of backgrounds' and the deemphasis on healthcare backgrounds. Just my humble opinion!

If the NHS is deliberately attempting to fill empty positions with non-medical staff, one might question why it doesn’t require applicants to show proof of training in vaccine administration or vaccine storage – two requested documents that are not listed as “required.” Surely, it’s more important for someone who will be vaccinating a large number of individuals with shots that require deep refrigeration to know how to dispense and store those vaccines than it is that they prove competency in “data security awareness.”

More ominously, vaccinators are not required to complete a course titled “Introduction to Anaphylaxis” – even as a growing number of vaccine recipients have experienced life-threatening allergic reactions. While Pfizer, whose vaccine was the first to be approved in the UK, has emphasized the importance of having staff trained in recognizing the signs of anaphylaxis and equipping vaccination sites with the materials needed to save lives, it’s healthcare providers’ job to ensure their employees are competent.

Even the chair of the Royal College of GPs, Professor Martin Marshall, has denounced the NHS’ red-tape-laden policies, as well as the lack of instruction regarding how, when, and where the Covid-19 jabs are supposed to be administered. “The workforce isn’t big enough to allow” for getting “30 million people vaccinated twice in six months,” he told the Guardian, noting that numerous chronic and acute conditions that have nothing to do with coronavirus still require doctors to treat.

But the NHS has made clear for months that competence is not their chief concern during the pandemic. Aside from its 2020-2021 list of priorities, which includes a directive to “recruit people with learning disabilities,” the service even adopted a measure in February that would allow staff to refuse treatment to patients deemed ‘guilty’ of making sexist or racist comments. The mandates seem to make a mockery of the Hippocratic oath, which requires physicians “first do no harm,” though it supposedly can’t be invoked for patients who require critical care. However, such requirements have an unfortunate tendency to turn into slippery slopes.

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Sunday, July 31, 2016

More Transgender Men Using Fertility Treatment to Get Pregnant

Thomas Beatie was the world's first pregnant man. © F A C T
Thomas Beatie was the world's first pregnant man. © F A C T / Facebook

Dozens of transitioning women are choosing to freeze their eggs at specialized clinics if they decide to have children after becoming men.

At least three men in the UK who were born female are believed to be using IVF techniques, according to the Daily Mail. Dozens of other men are also having their eggs frozen prior to transitioning to switch sex.

Despite it being possible for a male who was born female to become naturally pregnant, it is rare.

Instead, the fertilised embryo is usually moved to a surrogate, rather than a transgender man giving birth.

Thomas Beatie became the first man in the world to become pregnant, showing that men with female reproductive organs are still able to give birth.

The father of three paved way for other transgender men to consider having children, such as 17-year-old Riley Middlemore who hopes his eggs can be inseminated by a sperm donor and implanted into his girlfriend’s body to allow her to carry their child.

The National Health Service (NHS) is able to fund sex change and fertility treatment for patients, costing on average up to £34,000.

Some people have criticized the free treatment including Conservative MP Peter Bone, who said the NHS should get “its priorities right.”

“I am not sure why the taxpayer should be funding this,” he told the Daily Mail. “I just sometimes ask if the NHS is getting its priorities right.”

The measures were, however, defended by Dr James Barrett of the NHS Gender Identity Clinic, which is based in London.

“As a matter of principle, anybody who loses their fertility as a result of standard NHS treatment should be able to preserve their fertility,” he said.

They lose their fertility as a matter of choice. It appears they want to have their cake and eat it too.

“Why are people with cancer particularly magic and get this NHS fertility treatment, and other people don’t?” he added. “Transgender patients want to live like normal people. They want what everybody else gets as a matter of course.”

Seriously, 'what everybody else wants'? I don't know any women who want to father their own children. 

Interesting statement: 'transgenders want to live like normal people'. Nothing about this sounds 'normal' to me.

Once you start down a perverse path, it just gets weirder and weirder.