Q. Exactly how much of a threat is this 'pandemic'? A. Not very much, it seems.

Let's accept the basic realities that, over the last year: the lockdowns have come and gone; not everyone follows the social distancing rules; people have flocked to beaches, protests, parks - oh, and masks are pretty useless at stopping any virus.

And yet...

As at 27th February 2021, only 6.2% of the entire UK population has ever tested positive. In my own health board region (Forth Valley), that dropped to less than 3.5% of the population, meaning that, since the pandemic began, over 96.5% of the population in my region either hasn’t had Covid, or has had it in such a mild or asymptomatic form that they didn’t even bother going for a test. In my best friend’s region (Fife), only 2.6% of the population has tested positive. In a YEAR, during which a supposedly highly infectious and deadly pandemic has been sweeping the world. Righty-oh.

And just 0.2% of the UK population has died within 28 days of a positive test – which, let’s bear in mind, doesn’t actually mean they died from Covid. (See Bel Mooney's article about her father being marked a Covid death - despite being 99 with COPD and having 3 had negative tests - simply because people living near him had tested positive.)

The average age of death from Covid (82.4) is higher than the average life expectancy (81.4).

Even if you have the misfortune to get Covid - and stats suggest 93.8% of people in the UK have managed to swerve it for a year – the infection to fatality rate is very, very low. If you’re aged between 20 and 49, your chance of survival is 99.98%. Under that, it’s 99.99. For 50-69 year olds, it’s 99.5% and 70+ it’s 94.6%.

Factor into those figures that, before the NHS stopped including pre-existing conditions in their publicly-released data in May 2020, just under 95% of those dying had a pre-existing condition, a.k.a. co-morbidity.

So, if you’re otherwise healthy, your chances of being adversely affected by the ‘pandemic’ really are teeny tiny.

Of course, they’ve got to keep the public health emergency rolling because these vaccines and experimental biological agents (in the case of the mRNA jabs) have only got temporary approval because we’ve got a ‘significant public health issue’. Once that’s subsided, I’m assuming they won’t be able to carry on with these shots, which don’t complete the 3rd phase of trials until around autumn 2022.

And, regardless of how “harmless” The Queen and assorted famous state puppets say the vaccine is, that’s just not true.

From the government’s own Yellow Card reporting system data up to 14th February 2021, out of 15.8m vaccines given, there had been 58,427 reports in total, listing 192,437 separate reactions, including 406 deaths. Those reactions included 39,810 nervous system disorders (things like paralysis, facial paralysis, tremors & seizures), 28 of which resulted in death.

The question is: how many adverse events haven’t been reported?

Well, according to the government themselves, only around 10% of serious reactions and 2-4% of non-serious reactions are reported.

Multiply those figures above by 10 and vaccines aren’t looking quite as ‘harmless’ now, are they?

Even if the chance of dying from a Covid vaccine is still pretty tiny, let’s balance the risk. I’m 47 with a terrific immune system. I’ve never had a flu jab and I’ve never had the flu. I’ve never spent a day in bed sick in my adult life. The most I ever get is a sniffle and a cough for a couple of days.

So, my chance of dying from Covid, even if I were to catch it (very remote), is around 0.02%. Assuming only 10% of deaths are being reported to the Yellow Card system, my chance of dying from a Pfizer jab is 0.02% and for the AstraZeneca jab it’s 0.03%.

I’ll take my chances, thanks.

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Cases in Scotland as at 28th February 2021

Source: https://coronavirusscot.uk/