I’m rather concerned. About clottage. Blood clottage, to be specific. In Europeans. Because issues have been raised… ‘over there’ about a problem with the good, British, UK, Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which is the fish’n’chips of covid vaccines. It is the veritable roast beef and Yorkshire pudding of drugs. Solid, consistent and representative of all things Britain. It’s so good and desirable and United Kingdomish it is almost the full chicken tikka masala!!! of medicines.

Yet it ‘doesn’t work’ on foreigners. Not European ones anyway. They suffer blood clots from it. (WARNING: this is NOT just a political statement due to being snubbed with Brexit then forced to buy our drugs and then, being a bit let down with expected deliveries. There is NO concerted effort on the part of the European Union to defame a product just because its English. Even though it kind’a looks very much like that’s the case.)

Because statistics don’t lie. Except when they do. But in this instance, the statistics are brutally consistent and damningly significant.

In Britain, we’ve vaccinated 25 million people. About half have received the Astrazeneca version. 12,500,000 people. I won’t  name them here. And of those, there have been 3 reported incidents of a blood clot. Which, ironically, is far less than the blood clots you’d expect from any ‘normal’ sample of  that immense size. Indicating possibly that the AZ drug may actually prevent clotting!!! What’s French for ‘YOU’RE A TOTAL DICKHEAD, MONSIEUR!!!’? 12.5mil, 3 clots. Whereas ‘over there’, they’ve now vaccinated, between France, Germany, Spain, Holland and Italy, a total of 327 people and have found 496 blood clots! Half of them fatal!!! 

Disclaimer: these numbers have not been validated or confirmed by the ONS since they were invented by me this morning. Vaccines can go up as well as down. 

So the question is: in what way is European blood so massively different from good ole British blood? Ok, our blood is a bit  bluer, because we’re all posh, but other than the colour, how could this horrendous difference be reconciled with our fundamental understanding that: blood is blood, innit? Inconceivable. 

So without being too cynical, if this is a fiendish (read: ‘transparent and stupid’) plot to discredit ‘our’ vaccine, it should be pointed out that their continued efforts to do so are effectively using the entire population of Europe as pawns, as cannon fodder, to try and score a political point. Because whereas we’ve all been rushing around with our sleeves rolled up, searching for a suitable syringe, since November, there is already far greater resistance to vaccination ‘over there’. And this is a further impediment to getting the EU vaccinated. 
Emmanuel Macron is our Tosser of the week! (and month, and year). 

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx