Still many question marks over vaccines

I WRITE in full support of the letter by Ian Phillips of Harbertonford (Letters, February 23rd).

I have had the benefit of a good medical education 1958-64 at St Mary’s Hospital W2.

In the 2nd MB course bacteriology, virology, mycology, epidemiology and immunology were included in our learning.

The latter subject, immunology, was taught by a leader in the field, Professor Ken Porter.

He was a wonderful and inspiring teacher who was later awarded a well deserved Nobel Prize for his work.

I have maintained a lively interest in medicine and its allied sciences right up to my 81st year!

There are many question marks over the ‘vaccines’ being inoculated in these isles, the PfizerBioTech and AstraZeneca Oxford ones.

That they are not actual vaccines is not a main point.

There is no need for them. The trials have been hurried and thus sketchy. They are truly experimental, with long term ill effects yet to emerge.

They have not included the frail elderly, although many of these were the first to receive the ‘jabs’. I recall one – a 98 yr old man with ‘bone cancer’!

There is an absence of logic, and our usual common sense. This has been engendered by overwhelming and unprecedented propaganda, using fear of death.

That one sees some cyclists wearing masks in brisk winter winds as they work their way up to Haytor confirms the depth of that fear, and their obedience to a political campaign.

Myself and others in our large and informal group that has been studying this unusual disease are concurrently concerned by a trial of the AstraZeneca product on children aged 6 to 17.

The fact is this – there has been a minuscule death rate in children in the UK from this virus of unknown origin.

There is certainly no need to inoculate children with a life ahead of them. My website contains 33 articles by me on many aspects – just search ‘Covid’.

Animals have developed exquisitely wonderful immune systems over millennia.

Homo non-sapiens has been challenged by a vast array of potentially harmful organisms, and survived in a large majority.

Only in specific areas has vaccination been found essential, as with Jenner’s cow pox, against small pox. Hence ‘vaccination’.

This was first used by the Chinese, ironically.

I take an opposite view to that of P Collins in the same issue. He invokes the ‘war time spirit’ to support all the various, and often contradictory messages coming from the ‘Wen’ as William Cobbett called London.

When I say ‘if the British of 1939 were as they are today, Hitler could have walked straight in’, no one disagrees. David Halpin MB BS FRCS

Haytor, Newton Abbot