Lies about the pandemic flu vaccine…

There’s an awful lot of bullshit and lunatic conspiracy theories on the Web about the flu vaccine, not least this egregious list of  vaccine “contents”:- Mercury, Formaldehyde, Aluminium Phosphate, Aspartame, Human Fetal Tissue, Monkey Kidney & Lung Cells, MSG, Bovine Fetal Serum. That list has been mendaciously cherry-picked from a whole range of different vaccines [...]

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All my COPD and flu posts in one place…

Here are links to what I think are the most important of my COPD and pandemic flu posts, in one place. You can access a lot more by typing COPD into the search box (top right). The post about the pneumonia vaccine isn’t COPD-specific, but since many people with COPD will be offered the viral [...]

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The Progress of COPD…

And here’s another search-engine question:- “COPD stops getting worse during years…”. Now, obviously, it’s not complete, but whatever is missing after “years” is irrelevant, as there’s only one way that COPD goes – it gets worse. Period. I did

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Reapplying for DLA…

I’ve not dipped into my search-engine slush-pile for a while, so I’ve just had a look and found this:- “What happens if u don’t reapply for DLA? Well, for a start, you’ll get more sense out of Google if you learn to spell “you” – trust me, it’s not hard! Never use text spelling in [...]

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Tamiflu Rip-Off…

I suggested, in a recent post, that many, if not most, people calling the government’s swine-flu hotline and clogging the website were there to blag Tamiflu in case they got sick (and doubtless, in some cases, to sell it at a huge profit). This is theft. Seems I was right

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Firefox 3.5.1 first impressions…

Well, a new version of Firefox, and Mozilla screw up again. WordPress apparently runs better with Google gears installed but, having just upgraded to Firefox 3.5.1, I wasn’t too happy to discover it’s not compatible with the current version of Gears. Why? What dimwit thought that was a good idea? Why couldn’t Firefox 3.5 have [...]

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Flu, Tamiflu, and NICE…

Just a few notes about Tamiflu. According to the NICE Tamiflu guidelines TA158, Oseltamivir, amantadine (review) and zanamivir for the prophylaxis of influenza (available here in PDF and Word formats in English, and Welsh just in Word), Tamiflu, among other undesirable side-effects, can cause bronchitis. Several pages on it lists bronchitis as

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Internet connection speeds suck…

Ofcom, the communications watchdog, is getting its knickers in a twist over the standard of Internet services – saying that almost nobody is getting the claimed speed. Well, doh! We’ve all known that for years. “Up to 8Mb”, is the most common speed, apparently, but there are many factors contributing to the difference between what [...]

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My nebuliser…

As I said in this post, I’d ordered a Medel Clenny nebuliser. Well, it’s arrived, and it’s pretty good and, unlike my previous machine, is very quiet. It comes in a zippered case that looks, worryingly, like a handbag (no matter, I have a small, black leather “man bag” that’s just the right size), complete [...]

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Swine flu panic? Don’t, OK? There’s no need…

According to health secretary Andy Burnham, today, the health service is crumbling under the pressure of people panicking about the swine flu. Really? Well he shouldn’t be too bloody surprised, considering the torrent of bullshit that’s flowed from government sources of late. From 650,000 deaths forecast – and without the slightest evidence to support the [...]

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