Conspiracies promote ill health

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When I was in my twenties and early thirties, most of my friends were having babies. Around the same time there was a terrifying rumour going around that to vaccinate your children with the MMR jabs would cause them untold illness. So, in the parents warped intelligence – they hadn’t had Measles, Mumps or Rubella (that’ll be the jabs you had as a kid!) – they didn’t have their childrens’ vaccinations done at all.

Now, 16 years later…we have outbreaks of the Measles, Rubella and in some cases Mumps.Do you know what Mumps can do to a male? Measles can kill or leave you very much incapacitated, and Rubella is horrifying. I think whooping cough is making a come back too, and not in a good way!

For a start all of these illnesses are preventable, why bring them back?

The following are true symptoms of the diseases, for that is what they are.

Measles

• Diarrhea
• Pneumonia
• Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain)
• Blindness
• Deafness
• Premature birth or low-birthweight baby (in unvaccinated pregnant women who get measles during pregnancy)
• Reduced immunity to other deadly diseases
• Death

Rubella

Rubella infection creates mild symptoms in most children and adults, but can cause serious health problems when it happens during pregnancy:

• Rubella virus infection is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable birth defects.
• A pregnant woman infected with rubella in early pregnancy has up to a 90% chance of giving birth to a baby with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Birth defects of CRS include:
  • Heart defects
  • Hearing loss
  • Glaucoma
  • Cataracts
  • Developmental delay

Mumps can cause:

• deafness – usually with partial or complete recovery 
• swollen, painful testicles in older boys and men 
• miscarriage in pregnant women
• meningitis 

So there’s a happy list of joyous symptoms. Of course being in a wonderful Western World, we can take our little Cherubs to the Doctors and get them vaccinated now instead. Not all people have this valuable and taken for granted service. People in poorer countries face this all of the time. Note the reduced immunity to other deadly diseases. This could even be Covid that strikes you down.

People seem to have stopped washing their hands/using surgical handwash/wearing a mask. I’ve had a cold now for months! Just as it goes I meet someone who has had Covid – cripes! Because of the vaccines working so well, it is up to your employer as to whether you take time off if you are ill. My partners company deny you time off if you test positive for Covid. Even if you are crawling on the floor not breathing.

The most terrible thing about this is that he is not just sat in an office breathing his own air, he is driving to different customers across the land and going from cleanish outside air into stuffy offices with or without air conditioning, with lots or not so many other people with their versions of many germs.- here is where air conditioning comes into its own, spreading the germs evenly throughout the office! I once worked in an open plan office and suffered cold after cold after cold! The boss and his deputy had separate offices; they were not fools.

So what to do? Common sense, that most people seem to be without nowadays. If you can’t get out of bed, don’t. If you can not breathe without copious amounts of Vicks/Beconase/Sudafed stay away from me! If you must go out, wear a mask. There are some people who do this. It is mainly because they are stopping you from polluting them, not the other way around!

Lizzie Ross. Back from the Beyond 22nd January 2024.

If I knew what a bark meant

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could understand our pets’ language?

I’ve had many cats in the past and nearly got to understanding them, they have far more facial nuances that dogs do. Dogs tend to scrunch up their noses, do the sad eyes, “Have I done something wrong” look, and snuggle down down with you for affection. Rejection wise, although I have never had a dog do this, you have to treat them badly, is the tail hunched down between their legs. That is a sign of utter fear.If I ever see a dog like that, and I have – I wanted to beat the living daylights out of the owner! I always wonder they have done, probably nothing.

If you look on the internet the silly dog pictures tend be be of them wearing comical jumpers/hats/shoes/Deely Boppers/head through curtains/upside down if huge dog trying to be small! There’s also the one ear up, one ear down.

Cats on the other hand do not need props. Perhaps on occasion they have a massive German Shepherd cuddling them as a kitten, but on the main cats are themselves. Googled eyed, flat out on a desk, legs stretched out forwards and backwards. Upside down fluff ball, which way is their head/tail? Knocking items off shelves, ok it’s a prop, sitting in a box even if the cat is a Maine Coon and the box is a tissue box!

Anyway. Yes, if I knew what my dogs are trying to tell me I’d be much happier. They are both getting on a bit and as I write this one of them has started limping again. She always has this problem in her right leg, and despite us getting them checked out at least once per year – vaccinations – the vet says they are in good health. The dog has a bionic leg already. I give them green-lipped mussel multivitamins everyday with glucosamine, an ingredient used by humans for arthritis.

But there is that thing they do to try and hide pain. In the wild, any sign of pain and you are left behind by the pack. You are no use to them lame.

We rescued them, and will continue to rescue them up until their dying days.

Lizzie Ross 28th January 2024.

If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

Day Three of writing prose.

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I used to do this all of the time. Stream of consciousness. My mind today is full of bits and bobs and nothing concrete. There’s the pleasure of bumping into a friend whose dog became ill over Christmas and she and he are doing well. We both must have overslept, being out at 11am!

Our shopping is being delivered later today, not the usual slot. I’ve made sure I have eaten already so as to to be interrupted. I hate being anxious and anxiety hits when I have no control over when something is going to happen! What if they’re early? I’ll have to remove my food into the kitchen, else the dogs will eat it. Then I’d have to re-heat it…

I feel that my cold has got worse; sneezing along with a dripping nose!

The weather (yes I’m British!) is really warm today, 10.9 d, and no wind, despite it being storm Jocelyn last night and previously a horrid gale force wind too. On Facebook a friend posted “Garden Sale: a mixture of garden seats and tables, plant pots, cold frames, dustbins, a selection of trampolines and kids toys!!” Our greenhouse is made of metal with plastic panes, these invariably blow out too.

So, I’m back. One hour wasted, just as I was learning how to copy paste my old excerpt of my novel onto WordPress my shopping turns up! Dogs go ballistic, they are safe in the lounge but they can see the driver peering at them through the window! I wish he didn’t do that, it makes our bitch go crazy which sets off the dog. Now I’m back and I can’t really get my work do as I wish. My domain still sort of works except it has not updated my last 3 days work!?