Trust me. I'm a Doctor.
In this guest article Trish Taylor wonders if medical doctors are to be trusted after a hit and run accident and other recent events.
A few evenings ago I was driving home from work when a blue Mini Cooper emerged from a side street and hit my car. As I pulled up onto the kerb to exchange details with the Mini-driver, he promptly drove away. A kind stranger stopped behind me and asked if I was OK. He had witnessed the incident and gave me the Mini’s registration number and his own name and number in case I needed his testimony for insurance purposes. I reported the incident to the police who went to see the driver and they passed on his name and number so that I could contact him about damages. They were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt regarding his excuse for leaving the scene – apparently he thought that I had driven away first.
The most shocking aspect of this series of events was when the policer officer told me the driver’s name, beginning with the title Dr. “So this man is a doctor and he drove away after hitting my car without even apologising or checking that I was OK?!,” I asked the police officer, incredulously. Apparently so. An NHS doctor, no less. Furthermore, when I made contact with the good doctor to arrange payment of damages he refused to admit liability and wanted to “have a chat first.” Needless to say I was not interested in having a “chat” - I’m letting the insurance companies thrash it out.
I suppose I really shouldn’t be surprised that a doctor would have such low moral fibre given the events of the last two and a half years. Doctors have been largely responsible for providing governments with the “public health” pretexts to unceremoniously remove our rights and freedoms, with no scientific evidence of benefits, and zero effort to calculate the risks and harms that such draconian measures would cause. Trusted doctors of high repute appeared continually on our TV screens throughout 2020, explaining why we needed to comply with the “temporary restrictions” to “flatten the curve” and “protect the NHS.”
Meanwhile children were locked out of their schools, patients were forced to die alone in hospital wards – their families prevented from comforting them in their final moments. Women and children were locked down with their abusers, no welfare visits from social workers to make sure they were OK. Vital services were cancelled overnight, with nothing put in place to care for the most vulnerable in society. Addiction rates and mental health problems soared as people desperately tried to cope with the stress of lockdown and the fear of covid, with no help available. We were told that we must comply with some of the most bizarre and non-sensical regulations for the sake of “public health.” Masks, visors, one way systems around shops, isolation, invasive testing, obsessive hand sanitising - all underpinned and championed by our esteemed medical experts.
The worst was yet to come. The miracle vaccine that emerged at the end of 2020, hailed by doctors as the solution to this deadly pandemic, which was rolled out to the only-too-grateful first recipients: the elderly who had lived, largely in isolation, terrified of the deadly pandemic for the past year – a pandemic that had a survival rate of well over 99% before the emergence of the jabs.
The same medical “experts,” who had so easily cheered for the removal of our freedoms, now told us all that we must take the jabs to “protect ourselves and others.” The same scare tactics that were effective in keeping us prisoners in our homes, were now deployed to ensure that we continued to comply with the public health measures, this time by having multiple jabs of a brand new, mRNA substance, with no long-term safety data to give us peace of mind. Don’t get me wrong, many people were only too glad to queue for hours and roll up their sleeves for the miracle jabs. After all, it was “safe and effective.” It must be, right? That’s what the doctors say! Surely the doctor wouldn’t tell you to take something that would do you harm?!
Doctors appeared over and over again on our TV screens, gleefully praising the efficacy of the vaccine. Mostly notably, perhaps, was Dr Sarah Kayat who was almost beside herself with euphoria on This Morning, exclaiming that the Astra-Zeneca vaccine is 100% effective at preventing “hospitalisation and death.” 100% effective.
We now know that the vaccines weren’t even tested for transmissibility before they were unleashed on the general public. Indeed, Pfizer were working “at the speed of science” to produce this miracle cure for all of us – of course they didn’t have time to check if their “vaccine” actually did what it was supposed to. As the jabs were rolled out and covid cases continued to rise, with many of the vaccinated reporting that they had contracted the dreaded virus shortly after receiving their injections - the very virus that the jabs were supposed to prevent - the more discerning among us pointed out that there was something wrong here. How could a vaccine that was so “safe and effective,” be so useless at preventing transmission? Of course we are now all too familiar with the oft-repeated line, spouted ad nauseam by covid enthusiasts when posting a picture of their positive covid test: “I’m so thankful for all my jabs or it could have been so much worse.”
And then we come to the question of vaccine safety – the most damning feature of the medical profession’s collective failure since March 2020. We were told repeatedly, by the most trusted individuals of the most well-respected occupation, that these jabs are extremely safe. With the sad death of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, following her Astra-Zeneca jabs, they were forced to acknowledge that these injections, “like all medical treatments,” carried some risks.
However, side effects were said to be extremely mild and serious adverse reactions vanishingly rare. The “vaccine hesitant” were encouraged to discuss concerns with their GP, no doubt to have the narrative reinforced by a familiar and trusted face. However, we just cannot escape the overwhelming number of excess deaths occurring amongst the vaccinated - sudden and unexplained deaths of the young and healthy. And no amount of headlines about the dangers of making your bed too vigorously or the effect of a few hot summer days will assuage the concerns of those of us who know that there is something dreadfully wrong here. Something that cannot be easily explained away. Something that demands in-depth investigation - and yet the media remains silent on this clear public health issue.
Can trust in the medical profession ever be restored after the events of the covid era? The only glimmer of hope for me is the few exceptional individuals who have consistently, and at great personal cost to their careers and reputations, blown the whistle on what they have seen. The notable heroes of the medical profession, who have been slandered, isolated, censored and ridiculed for their brave stance. They give me hope that there are some good people left in the profession – some doctors who are willing to prioritise patient safety above all else. For the rest, I’m looking forward to what they have to say when the truth finally comes out. In the meantime, I’ll take my doctor’s advice with a large dose of salt and do my own research.
Trish Taylor is a writer and political commentator.