How many people have died after taking a Covid-19 vaccine?

We don't know; we are not being told, and they are refusing to tell us. So where does that leave Health Freedom, and Patient Choice?

The magazine (What Doctors Don't Tell You (WDDTY) have published as article called  “UK refuses to publish Covid Deaths - as it may discourage others”.

It's message is simple and straightforward.

          “UK health officials have refused to reveal the number of people who died after a Covid jab as it might deter others from taking it”.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) used to publish these figures. I used to follow them regularly throughout 2020 and 2021. I suspect that government initially thought the data would demonstrate that the vaccine was saving lives, as they had promised us, ad infinitum. But as soon as it became clear that the mass vaccination campaign was increasing death they stopped publishing it.

But is this statement correct? Is this the reason? Or am I peddling disinformation? Well, we don’t know! Why? We are not being allowed to see the data!

Apparently the data is still being collected as it being released ‘privately’ to vaccine manufacturers. But they have “resisted requests from MPs and pressure groups to publish them”. So its just us that we are not allowed to see it!

The WDDTY article says that the pressure group “USForThem” requested the information. They were told by UKHSAS, backed up by the Information Commissioner, that the data “could lead to misinformation” that would “have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake” by the public. They also said that publishing the data risked damaging the well-being and mental health of the families and friends of people who died.

• How can data lead to misinformation? It’s data!

• And the family and friends of the people who died have already been traumatised. So, in the interests of their well-being and mental health, have they been told? Or was it considered best that they remained ignorant of the cause of their bereavement?

Above all where does this leave Health Freedom and Patient Choice? When anyone is offered a pharmaceutical drug or vaccine the decision we must make is whether to take it or not. If we are to make an ‘informed’ choice patients require full and honest information, and this is made impossible by refusal to publish relevant data.

• Throughout the Pandemic, the government, the drug companies, doctors, the mainstream media, et al, all combined to tell us that the Covid-19 vaccines were “safe and effective”.

• So I have little doubt that dying from a “safe and effective” vaccine would, as sure as eggs are eggs, “have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake” - and so it should!

Ben Kingsley, the legal director of “UsForThem” is quoted in ther WDDTY article:

“You have to ask yourself why it is that the public are considered incapable of handling this data. It reveals a patronising mindset, which also characterised the pandemic response: “do what we say, don’t ask any questions, we know what is best for you”.

And it is this patronising mindset that encourages me to ask 3 wider questions.

1. Just what else are we not being told about pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines “as it might deter others from taking it”?

2. Is the reluctance to provide the data more to do with their embarrassment than our discouragement?

3. And is the governmental decision not to release the data more to do with the powerful pharmaceutical lobby, and their promise to invest heavily in the UK?

Should anyone ever believe anything we are told about conventional medicine?

Covid-19 Vaccines. Increased Illness and Death since their introduction. Misinformation? Cause for concern? Or a matter for the attention of conventional medical authorities?

The increase in illness and death since the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out has been widely publicised in the non-mainstream media in recent months.

Is it true?

The mainstream media, alongside governments and the conventional medical establishment either do not mention this, or dismiss such reports as "fake news" or "misinformation".

Yet is it misinformation? And is calling such reports 'misinformation' a sufficient response?

At the centre of this 'disinformation' campaign has been the Daily Expose, and here are just four links to some of their recent claims.

Covid-19 Vaccines increase risk of miscarriage by 1518%

Covid-19 Vaccines: study shows they have increased risk of stroke by 11361% 

Death rates are higher after mass vaccinations

Covid-19 increase risk of death by 4800%

Each article refers to data that has been taken from government and official medical sources, and the statistical analysis of this data has been undertaken by Daily Expose staff. It is not alone. There are many other such reports, coming from the Children's Health Defense, the White Rose, the Daily Sceptic, the Vaccine Reaction, and many others.

So is this all about statistics? - "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics"?

I am not a statistician, and in all honesty statistics usually leave me cold. So what am I, indeed all of us, to believe? Several thoughts pass through my mind when I see these, and similar articles. 

• It could be disinformation, like governments, medical authorities, and the mainstream media tell us.
• It could be the application of an inaccurate or misguided statistical analysis. 
• Or it could be the truth. 

Yet to determine whether such reports are factor fiction, we would all need to have an advanced degree in statistics in order to examine the methodology that is being used! The only other alternative is to decide, like most other people do, that it would be simpler to dismiss these alarming reports as 'misinformation', to meekly accept what we are being told - and get on with it.

I don't believe we should do this. Instead, I recommend using certain other criteria to ascertain the truth.

First, we should "follow the money". Who gains from, what are the vested interests behind, both sides of this argument? 

• The 'misinformation' response is clearly in the interests of the conventional medical establishment, not least the drug companies, and those those who have been promoting, and benefiting from the promotion the mass vaccination campaigns. 
• It is more difficult to see how the Daily Expose benefits, financially or in any other way, from publishing this information. They are small, independent news organisation with a relatively small readerships. They are not large companies that generates large sums of money and income from such reports, their findings are not profitable.

So let's examine the 'disinformation' response in more detail. Why is it disinformation? Why should it be summarily dismissed? 

And it is when I ask these questions that I become sceptical of the 'misinformation responses  of the conventional medical establishment - it is not an argument - it is not backed up by an explanation - or by any discernable counter argument. Just dismissing something as 'disinformation' seems to be nothing more than an uncorroborated statement of denial.

When faced with evidence/allegations that the Covid-19 vaccines have caused serious harm to people there appears to be little (actually no) explanation or argument coming from either the pharmaceutical industry, the government, conventional medicine, or the mainstream media, about why the evidence is 'misinformation'. 

• Is the data being used incorrect or inaccurate?
• And if so, why?
  
• Is the statistical analysis being use to reach these conclusions flawed? 
• And if so, why?
  
• Or do we just have to believe that it is "misinformation" because we are told it is misinformation!

When something like a vaccine, or any other pharmaceutical drug, is subject to criticism or attack an appropriate response would be to counter this with information and evidence. Instead, we are greeted with a deafening silence; and if not silence, with a single-word dismissal.

Disinformation!

How dangerous are pharmaceutical drugs? And how long does it take drug regulators take action to protect patients? Does the pharmaceutical companies have a licence to kill?

The magazine WDDTY (What Doctors Don't Tell You) is one that everyone interested in their health and well-being should subscribe to. It often uncovers interesting and important medical research that usually does not attract attention anywhere else, and certainly not the attention it deserves, and patients need. It did this again in its April 2021 edition.

            "Researchers from the SONAR (Southern Network on Adverse Reactions), which represents drug researchers at 50 medical universities, tracked the history of 15 drugs and one medical device that had either resulted in payments or more than $1 billion in damages or had at least 1,000 reported cases of patients who had died or suffered serious reactions between 1997 and 2019".

The conventional medical establishment (CHE) will usually admit that all their pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines can cause patient harm; although they heavily discount the seriousness of this admission. Yet the drugs examined in this study were clearly the most dangerous pharmaceutical drugs that have ever been promoted and used by the CHE.

Drug regulators, like the FDA in the USA, the EMA in Europe, and the MHRA in the UK, are supposed to protect patients from medical harm. It is their primary duty. The SONAR study informs us about how well they undertake this task by looking at how many people died before action was taken (if this was known), and for how long was the drug prescribed before it was banned? This is a summary of what they discovered.

• Epoetin: number of deaths unknown: 13 years
• Darepoetin: number of deaths unknown: 5 years
• Celecoxib: 7,000 death: 7 years
• Rosiglitazone: 47 death: 8 years
• Zoldendronic acid: number of deaths unknown: 3 years
• Pamidronate: number of deaths unknown: 16 years
• Gadodiamide: number of deaths unknown: 17 years
• Levofloxin 66,000 deaths: 29 years
• Valdecoxib 99,000 deaths: 4 years
• Hydroxy-ethyl starch: 900 deaths: 5 years
• Phenylpropanolamine: number of deaths unknown: 62 years
• Rofecoxib: 270,000 deaths: 2 years
• Aprotonin: 22,000 deaths: 13 years
• Fenfluramine-Phentermine 300,000 deaths: 1 year
  

Details of many more pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines that have had to be withdrawn or banned (eventually) because they have caused serious patient harm can be found here.

Asleep on Duty? Incompetence? Or worse? Are drug regulators more concerned with the financial integrity of drug companies than protecting patient from serious harm. This is what WDDTY concluded:

           "This deadly hesitation is often the result of several factors: bureaucratic incompetence by the regulator and its cosy relationship with the drug company; the deliberate hiding of inconvenient data, and executives from the drug company threatening or bullying independent researchers who have discovered the drug's dangers."

Whatever the reason one thing is certain. Dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, however serious their so-called 'side effects', however many people they kill, do not appear to be a cause for serious CHE concern. If a drug kills thousands of patients; if it is prescribed, and known to be dangerous for many years, even decades, little is done about it.

• Even when a dangerous drug is eventually banned little or no action is taken against the drug company, the drug regulator, or anyone else within the CHE.
• Even though each of these drugs went through years of 'scientific' testing, there has never been a serious examination into the integrity and honesty of the  'science' behind the drug, why it was pronounced 'safe', and why medical science consistently fails to pick up the lethal dangers of pharmaceutical drugs. Could this be, for instance, that drug companies pay for the science?
  
• The drug is usually withdrawn quietly, surreptitiously. 
• The government rarely comments, or investigates why its citizens have suffered. 
• Conventional medical bodies, who have instrumental in prescribing the dangerous drug, are usually too embarrassed, or too busy in its own self-justification, to comment. 
• And the mainstream media (MSM), who have usually played a leading role in advertising and promoting the drug, are not interested in critically examining the activities of drug companies who have been harming their readers and viewers.
• Even if patients sue the drug company, they find this difficult and massively expensive against a powerful enemy. And even if they win their case the drug company is usually fined trivial amounts of money. No drug company executive has ever been prosecuted or convicted of manslaughter or homicide.

So the pharmaceutical industry appears to have a licence to kill, back by government, CHE, and the mainstream media (MSM) 

Silence is the usual reaction to the withdrawal of a dangerous drug or vaccine. But the situation is much worse than this. It is still happening today. We have not reached the end of the process that has been going on for over 100 years. Why should today's drug and vaccines be any different?

• Medical science is still telling us that new pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are 'entirely safe'. The Covid-19 vaccines are being pronounced 'safe' right now, even though within days/weeks/months the drug regulators received reports of death, anaphylactic shock, blood clots, and many other serious reactions.
• Some drug regulators have been forced to review these new vaccines; but as usually they have dismissed and discounted the reports; they are 'coincidences', or even if they do harm, the 'benefits outweighed the disadvantages'. The conclusion is always that the vaccines are safe.

So this is the start of the same weary and predictable process, the same lethal game of damaged patients having to prove the latest pharmaceutical wonder drug/vaccine is NOT safe, and to do so against the formidable might of the CHE, and the government and MSM supporters, who insist that they are safe - and will no doubt continue to do so for as long as they can. 

How many deaths will the Covid-19 vaccines be allowed to kill? And for how many years? Before they too are either banned?

The saga continues...... watch this space!

Have Covid-19 Vaccines killed 460 people in the UK? Or is the Drug Regulator (the MHRA) using the Government website to peddle misinformation?

Let's just imagine this for a moment.

• Our doctor wants us to take a vaccine. We are reassured that the vaccine is entirely safe (without any reservation or caveat).
• We then discover that over 400 people have died in the UK shortly after taking the vaccine.

Would we be concerned? Would we want to be told that this had happened? Or would we dismiss the information as "disinformation" or "fake news" and just get vaccinated anyway?

Yet this has happened. Have a look at this link. Covid-19 vaccines have been linked to 402 deaths. It makes the following claim

        "Government data show that, compared with the Pfizer vaccine, there have been 43% more reports of injuries related to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, including 77% more adverse events and 25% more deaths - but no red flags from UK regulators".

Ahh! I hear you say. I know about this. It is disinformation. The government has warned me. The NHS has warned me too. And so has the mainstream media (MSM). So there is no need to worry about this.

But now go to this link. It not only confirms the evidence of vaccine-caused-deaths but it also discusses reports of anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions), Bell's Palsy, and "events with a fatal outcome". The figures are different - but only because they appear to have grown. So what is this second link? Is it another sources of fake news?

Well, not exactly! It comes from the UK government's official website, posted by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and is the weekly summary of the Yellow Card reporting system on the coronavirus vaccine. This is what it says:

            "The MHRA has received 212 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 244 reports for the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine, and 4 where the brand of vaccine was unspecified."

So 460 people have died "shortly after" getting a Covid19 vaccine! And this is official government information. Yet the government hasn't told us. The NHS hasn't told us. The MSM haven't mentioned it?

WHY?

Is this not a matter of public concern? Is it not something YOU might want to know before agreeing to the vaccine? Would you ask question about describing a vaccine as 'safe' when it has been reported that it is killing large numbers of people?

But wait. It's not a problem. The MHRA explain why the information is not important.....

• "The majority of these reports were in elderly people or people with underlying illness."

Well, that's okay then! Except that for the last year, when daily Covid19 deaths have been reported, the virus was always assumed to be the cause of death, even when the deceased had 'underlying health conditions', as long as there had been a Covid test 28 days prior to the death. Now the rules seem to have changed. People who die shortly after the vaccine have died of their underlying illness, not from the vaccine.

The rest of the MHRA summary follows this dismissive lead. You need to read it for yourself - it is an official public document on the government's own website. A summary might read:

• Yes, there have been reports of serious adverse reactions to the vaccine
• but we don't need to worry (we don't even have to be told)
• the reports can all be explained away, dismissed
  
• the vaccines were not the cause of death
• we can be reassured that all is well
• but we promise to keep a close eye on the situation!
  

This cavalier dismissal by the UK's drug regulator of over 400 reported deaths following closely Covid19 vaccinations is disgraceful. The general public has not been told about this by government, by the NHS, or the drug regulator. And the MSM (for whatever reason) have not even bothered to investigate further, or sought to inform us. So large numbers of the general public continue to accept the vaccines on the basis that they are entirely safe; and no doubt on the understanding that if there were any dangers they would be informed.

• Is there any other walk of life, outside the conventional medical establishment, that would have allowed this to happen? That when informed of 400 plus deaths it would have been allowed to carry on as if nothing had happened, regardless of an adequate explanation, and on the basis of unsupported reassurances?
• That following these deaths, millions more millions more people would continue to queue for the vaccine, still being reassured that it is 'safe', all apparently on the basis of unsupported medical reassurances that all is well?

Health and safety is NOT alive and well within the conventional medical establishment. The 'precautionary principle' is clearly NOT being applied. And the Hippocratic principle of "First Do No Harm?" has been completely forgotten by our doctors.

 

AND THIS IS NOT DISINFORMATION OR FAKE NEWS! 

PostScript: Nor is it disinformation or fake news to say that 1,265 people have died in the USA after taking the Covid-19 vaccines, nearly half of which happened within 2 days of the vaccination. Again, this information (and much more) comes from official sources on 26th February 2021.

Post Script: 12 April 2021. The number of deaths being reported by the MHRA, UK's drug regulator, on the official UK government website, has now been updated to 786, a rise of 314 deaths since writing the original blog. I am still not aware that the government, health bodies, or the MSM have told the public this, even when talking about imposing vaccine passports on everyone.

Numbers of deaths reported by VAERS in the USA have now risen from 1,265 to 2,342 within a similar period.

 

Five million drug errors kill or seriously harm Britons every year. Be safe. Save the NHS. Insist on Homeopathy.

This is the headline of WDDTY News yesterday (24th June 2020). The article says this has been discovered by "a shocking new report". The problem with this, however, is that shocking as this may be, it is certainly not 'new'. It is the 'every year' of the title that is pertinent here. This is just the latest report (which politicians, government, mainstream media, and the conventional medical establishment will go out of their way to ignore. So what is the latest evidence on an on-going story?

               "Researchers have identified 237 million medication errors that happen every year in England, and 2 percent of these—4.74 million—do serious harm to the patient, and a further 86 million errors are 'clinically significant', say researchers from the University of Manchester. Serious harm ranges from life-threatening adverse reactions to death."

This is NOT shocking. It is routine. It happens every year. Researchers study it year by year and come up with the same conclusion. Yet nothing changes. I wrote this in March 2018, the result of another WDDTY News report. 

               "22,000 people die every year in England as a result of medical errors. How many more die from pharmaceutical drugs that are NOT given in error?"


In this piece I asked whether patient harm is caused by 'drug errors', or by the operation of a system of medicine that is inherently dangerous. And if these are the 'errors' that have been admitted, how much more harm is being caused by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines that go unreported and unrecognised.

So I ask the same questions again!

I also ask about the ongoing silence, the apparent unwillingness of the conventional medical establishment to do anything about it.

The Precautionary Principle?
It is not applied to conventional medicine, who can continue harming patients, year by year, without anything changing to protect patients.

First do no harm?
This is part of the Hippocratic Oath that all doctors sign up to, but which is simply ignored, year by year, by doctors who continue to prescribe the same dangerous pharmaceutical drugs.

               "Around 80% of deaths from the errors are the result of gastrointestinal bleeds from NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs) such as aspirin and the blood-thinning agent, warfarin."

The research found similar rates of 'error' being reported in the USA, and in other European countries. The problem is, apparently, has even been acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO). And it costs the UK'S NHS about £98m a year.

Yet, year by year, nothing is done. In any other industry there would be a major investigation, patients would be warned, and the practices that kill and harm millions of patient would have been banned.

And it's always the same drugs that are found to be causing the harm - NSAIDs; antiplatelet drugs, anti-epilepsy drugs, diabetes drugs; diuretics, inhaled corticosteroids (inhalers); and heart drugs, such as beta blockers.

And this year, next year, and every year, these drugs will continue to seriously harm, and kill patients until in time, more researchers will discover that drug 'errors' are killing and seriously harming patients - in yet another new and shocking report.

The solution will have to be a personal decision, as conventional medicine will not change.
We will ALL have to refuse to take these dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines; we must start saying 'No' to doctors. We have to insist on safe and effective medicine, and look for safer natural therapies, like homeopathy.

Be Safe. Save the NHS. Insist on Homeopathy.

Coronavirus COVID-19. An agonizing journey to death. There is no medical treatment. So for many, it has been death without treatment when treatment was available.

At the time of writing 378,582 people are reported as having died with (although not of) coronavirus COVID-19. For all these people it has been an agonising death; and for many it may eventually be seen, one day, as an unnecessary one. Let's take a look at the what this journey to death has been all about for so many people.

Prior to Coronavirus
Prior to 2020 no one had heard of the COVID-10, except perhaps for a few medical scientists in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Our patient, who we will call Nigel, living in the UK, would have been leading his life without any indication of what laid ahead for him, his family and friends.

Coronavirus hits the headlines
Then knowledge of the virus began to percolate into the news, with fears that it might become a serious epidemic, even a pandemic. The conventional medical establishment soon realised that it had no treatment: it has admitted this throughout. The UK government, in turn, realised that this would put the NHS; after all the NHS was always in crisis during the winter and early spring every year, but with the threat of this epidemic it might be even worse. The NHS might break down, and this could not be allowed to happen.

So there was panic amongst the medical establishment, quickly transferred to the newly elected Tory government. The media, dutiful as always, picked up thse fears and began to relay the panic to the general public.

• It's a killer disease that will cause death to hundreds of thousands (that was the estimate),
• there is no conventional medical treatment,
• everyone must help protect the NHS from total failure.

The best advice doctors and politicians could give us was to wash our hands and just wait and hope that we don't come into contact with this invisible killer virus which (we were told) could strike anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Nigel gets the virus
Nigel may have been unlucky. Somehow, for whatever reason, he contracted the virus; maybe it was luck; maybe his immune system could not cope with it. He gets some of the symptoms, but there is no treatment. The symptoms get worse and it is confirmed that he had the virus. Hand washing is too late now, he must self-isolate at home, to protect the NHS, and to protect others.

Nigella
Nigella is Nigel's next-door-neighbour. Nigel is aware that she has this rather strange belief in natural medicine. She is in contact with a local homeopath who has recommended that she supports her immune system, mainly through diet and nutrition. It was, she said, the best way to protect herself from any virus. Nigella told Nigel that she was also taking a remedy regularly with a strange name, Oscillococinum, as a preventative measure. This was all nonsense, of course, homeopaths say they have treatments for all these flu-type symptoms and illnesses, but Nigel's doctor had told him there is absolutely no evidence that it works.

Hospitalisation
Nigel's symptoms got worse, and he is admitted to the local hospital. They have no treatment but they do offer the very best possible nursing care, for which he is grateful. He feels dreadful, but at least his every need is being seen to, and everyone is so kind and concerned. It's a pity he could not see his family, he is scared now and that would cheer him up. He is feeling so bad, and seems to be getting worse every hour.

Nigella
Nigella is okay. Whenever she sniffs, or sneezes, or coughs, or has a sore throat, she wonders - is this the virus? She knows her neighbour, Nigel is now seriously ill, and this worries her. She does not want to go down with it.  Her homeopath tells her to have plenty of vitamin C, so she is eating grapes, grapefruit and oranges like never before; and shee took another Oscillococinum whenever she felt symptoms. The symptoms did not develop, so she was pleased. She had been told that even if she catches the virus, a strong immune system will mean that the symptoms will be short lived, and less severe.

Intensive Care
Nigel's symptoms continued to get worse. There was still no treatment but the doctors took the decision to move him to an intensive care bed where is was connected to lots of tubes and machines, and the intensity of the nursing care was even greater. To the extent that he was aware now, he thought they were quite brilliant. They were doing everything they could

Nigella and Sally
Nigella's friend, Sally, has developed COVID-19 symptoms, and was now very unwell. Nigella spoke to her. She is very anxious indeed, has developed a dry cough, and having sneezing fits. She has a high temperature and feels she is burning up. She also has diarrhoea. Sally had never seen a homeopath, but she agrees that Nigella should phone her homeopath to describe her symptoms. The homeopath questioned Nigella for a couple of minutes then suggested that she gives her Arsenicum. She said this was the remedy being used in parts of India, and the symptoms fitted. Nigella had some in her homeopathic first aid kit.

Moving to a Ventilator
Meanwhile Nigel's symptoms were getting worse. He was now struggling to get sufficient air through to his lungs. It felt like he was suffocating. He was scared. Nothing was working. He knew that thousands of people were dying with the condition, and he wondered whether this would be his fate. He desperately wanted to see him family but lock-down rules meant this was not allowed. His family were desperately worried about him; but they were not allowed to see him. There was no medical treatment so perhaps the ventilator would help him survive. It was certainly his last chance.

Sally
Sally received the Arsenicum remedy from Nigella, silly little white pills. She had little knowledge and no confidence that they would help, but then nothing else was helping. There was no medical treatment, and doctors were now talking about admitting her to the local hospital. So she took them. Within a few minutes she felt something happening, was she breathing just a little easier? But she still felt bad. She took another remedy after an hour, and then again after another hour, according to the instructions she had been given. The symptoms did appear to be easing. Within a few hours she was feeling much better, the fever was reducing, she was more relaxed now, although very sleepy. She felt she was on the mend. She looked at the little bottle of white pills. These surely could not have worked. There was no medical treatment.

Nigel Dies
Nigel knew little after being given the drugs he needed before he was connected to the ventilator. This kept him alive for a while but doctors saw that his vital organs were continuing to close down. They had no medical treatment. Ultimately there was no alternative, they switched off the ventilator.

Sally and Nigella
Sally thanked Nigella for providing her with the remedy. She was feeling much better now, but she knew that there was usually a long period of recovery to face. Nigella reached for her first aid remedy kit. Her homeopath had suggested that Gelsenium was known to help patient recover more quickly from influenza. So she took a few over the next few days, and she soon recovered fully.

Sally's doctors were surprised. She had been lucky. She must have a strong constitution. No, it could not have been the homeopathy; there was no scientific evidence that homeopathy worked. There was no treatment for coronavirus COVID-19. Perhaps she contracted a mild form of the virus.

Sally and Nigella both listened, unconvinced. Despite the denials, something had happened, and it had happened so soon after taking the Arsenicum it could not have been a coincidence. So Sally became another convert, a disciple of homeopathy, forever thankful for this gentle, safe natural therapy.

Nigella and Nigel's Family
Only a handful of Nigel's family were allowed to attend his funeral. It was an unavoidable consequence of the virus. The NHS had to be protected. And people lives were at stake. So who should be allowed to go, his parents, his wife, his children? They had lost a loved-one, someone they loved, and so many who wanted to attend were unable to do so. What a dreadful disease. How sad there was no medical treatment to save his life.

Nigella spoke to Nigel's family, at a safe distance, gave them here condolences, and in response to their enquiry, confirmed that she was well. Her friend, Sally, was well too - even though she had contracted the disease. She must have been very lucky they said. It was difficult for Nigella to say anything about the role here immune system, and homeopathy.

How sad, she thought, that Nigel had died without being offered homeopathic treatment. How sad that nurses worked so hard to save his life, but had to watch him die. Nigel had believed what he had been told by his doctors: there was no way that homeopathy could possibly work.

• NIGEL does not exist. Yet in fact there are 371,58278igels, people who have died thinking there was no treatment, believing they were being offered the best treatment available, and there was no alternative.
• NIGELLA does not exist. Yet in fact there are thousands of Nigellas who place their trust in their immune system, and rely on natural medical therapies to support it, to keep them well, and to make them well when they are sick.
• NIGELLA'S HOMEOPATH does not exist. Yet homeopaths, and other natural therapists around the world, continue to work with their patients - sick people who are unwell, and healthy people who wish to remain healthy.
• NIGEL'S DOCTOR does not exist. Yet conventional medical doctors around the world repeat the mantra that pharmaceutical medicine is winning the battle with disease; and convincing their patients that homeopathy is just 'placebo', and does not work.
• SALLY does not exist. And there are, indeed, far too few Sally's around; people who would have died if they had not been offered homeopathic, and other natural medical treatment.

How many Sally's could there have been? The evidence from the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 suggests there could have been many. But conventional medicine does not want us to know about this. Homeopathy is being offered to patients by health services in India and Cuba - so why not elsewhere?