Last Words Of A Non-Vaccinated

[Canary42]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jab-england-fan-last-words-covid-euro-2020-122227841.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

[jno]

poor guy. My OH is also spleen-free but we were told that was no reason not to be vaccinated.

[Peter Pedant]

no spleen - is a reason TO be vaccinated
oh lardy lardy
( + polyvalent pneumococcal vacca )

[Mamyalynne]

With his added vulnerability he was taking a big risk, sounds a smashing chap.

Sad.

[Bazile]

Well if the vaccines aren't safe in the long run ;then there are going to be billions of people who are going to be a tad unhappy

[Mamyalynne]

The article says where it is Peter.

[jno]

quite so, PP, I was just wondering if he'd been advised to the contrary; or maybe the spleen had nothing to do with it, he just didn't want the jabs.

[Peter Pedant]

can we leave posts on the safety grounds that say that

if people have reasons to be vaccinated ( immune suppressed, cancer, post op, etc) they really really must be sure they dont want it for their own good and others that they may infect

thank you - we are leaving posts that it is a totally free world and there is no predicable on-cost to not being vaccinated

what I am saying is - - deletion may damage the public health

[Peter Pedant]

I am not quite sure why splenectomy after an accident
seems to be a forbidden word .....

[Peter Pedant]

perhaps it is poly valent pneumococcal vaccine which is really getting under the editors skin

crazy - get vaccinated folks!
dont be like this guy!

[Sqad]

I totally agree with the posts of PP and I think it highly unlikely that he was advised against vaccination due to previous splenectomy.
I would guess it was a personal decision.

[Mamyalynne]

That's the way I read it too, he had his concerns, so sad they led to this.

[mibn2cweus]

My heart goes out to all the health care workers who have heard these same last words so many times before.

[meglet]

Surely the fact that his apparent last word were “I wish I had” imply that he was offered the vaccine but refused it?

[Mamyalynne]

Yes.

//Barratt, who previously had his spleen removed following a motorcycle accident, did not take up the invitation to get vaccinated.//

[Ellipsis]

> Well if the vaccines aren't safe in the long run ;then there are going to be billions of people who are going to be a tad unhappy

I heard a good analogy on the radio today: most people who die in road accidents are wearing seat belts.

Does that mean you shouldn't wear a seatbelt? No, definitely not.

Likewise, as most of the adult population is now vaccinated, most adults who die of Covid may be vaccinated. Does not mean that the vaccine does not work.

[Gromit]

I a. Double vaccinated, and was very glad I got them.
But I feel we are being denied information about who is now contracting the virus.
In the last 7 days, a quarter of a million people got Covid. Are these all kids I doubt it.
So how many double vaccinated have caught covid?
The do not want to tell us, but I think we should be told.

[Atheist]

Gromit; you sound like that Private Eye character, now!

[Gromit]

Atheist,
Private Eye occasionally buy my cartoons - but I am not which PE character you mean. Dave Spart, or the Number Cruncher ?