AstraZeneca Victim Lashes Out at “Woefully Inadequate” Compensation
The Mail carries the harrowing story of a mother-of-three struggling to get by on the state support given to her after being left paralysed and forced to medically retire from work following the AstraZeneca Covid jab. Here’s an excerpt:
Like tens of thousands of Brits, Clare Bowie’s life was turned upside down during the Covid pandemic.
But the 56 year-old from Dumbarton near Glasgow wasn’t left struggling for her life from the virus.
Instead, she was paralysed from the chest down after getting the AstraZeneca Covid vaccination in April 2021.
The mum-of-three worked as an admin officer at a submarine base for the ministry of defence for 37 years before she was forced to medically retire due to losing mobility in her hands.
However, Mrs. Bowie’s frustration lies with the “woefully inadequate” Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, which doesn’t cover the cost of her mortgage or the cost of modifying her home for her level of disability. …
Initially doctors thought Mrs. Bowie had Guillian-Barre syndrome, which is a very rare and serious condition which affects the nerves that has been linked to complications with the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
But after six MRI scans at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow, doctors diagnosed acute disseminated encephalitis complicated by transverse myelitis (ADEM), a condition that causes inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. …
Medics never had any doubts that her paralysis was caused by the vaccine.
Mrs. Bowie… recalls the consultant introducing himself and told her straight away: “I think it is Guillian-Barre syndrome and it’s because you took the vaccine.”
“I actually argued with him,” Mrs. Bowie said. “I couldn’t really believe it could be the vaccine.
“He said it is 100% the vaccine. He was absolutely definite on it and I am very grateful for that because I am assuming that’s why I got the vaccine damage payment.”
The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, which has been around since the 1970s, offers people, or their families, a tax-free sum of £120,000. …
Mrs. Bowie’s husband, Dave, 55, applied for the scheme in October 2021, while she was still in hospital. But the money wasn’t in her account until February 2023, a year and half after applying.
“It did take a while and you don’t really hear from them,” she said.
But after going through the process of applying to the Government scheme, Mrs. Bowie says it is “woefully inadequate” and “traumatic for people”.
She said: “You think £120,000 is massive. I have been in the civil service all my life, I wasn’t used to that money. But the bottom line is it doesn’t clear your mortgage and modify your house.”
In 1979, the scheme handed out £10,000 to people injured or killed by vaccines, this amount has been raised several times, but the current level (£120,000) was set in 2007.
But according to the Bank of England inflation calculator that is the equivalent of £195,183 meaning people are now losing out on about £75,000 in cash.
She said: “They go right back through your medical records. I’ve spoken to people who have been denied it because 10 years ago something happened to them. But I have been lucky and been a very healthy person so they can’t pinpoint it on anything else.”
Strict eligibility criteria means those affected must either have been killed or be left 60% disabled due to a vaccine.
This means a person theoretically judged to be only 59% disabled will not get a penny.
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It’s worth noting that if she, or anyone else, becomes a victim of some kind of physical injury – such as being run over by a road vehicle, there is no such cap on the damages payment. Such people sue for damages, based on a legal assessment of their financial circumstances. Been there, done that, as a victim, so I know what I’m saying. It is down to the relevant civil court – typically a County Court, to work out the judgement in due course.
Absolutely, and some people get 6 or 7 figure compensation for hurty feelings to make up for lost earnings when they can perfectly well go and get another job. It makes you livid. Also making me livid is the consultant’s breezy “it’s because you took the vaccine” like it was her fault. I know we didn’t all succumb to the propaganda but many did in good faith.
There was no pandemic. Millions of us don’t believe in flying viruses. DNA, RNA don’t survive outside a host.
This woman was lied to, abused, violated, threatened, jabbed and injured. £120 K is chump change when the government enforced stab has ended your working life. She should be paid whatever her salary was before the injury, every year for her entire life. The gov’t, pharma, politicians et al should be in jail. But in clown world they give each other awards, money and damehoods.
And evil Next Tuesday’s like Zahawi claim that Bozo was a fine chap and a phenomenal PM instead of the criminal he was and is.
I have mixed feelings about this “vaccine damage compensation” business but if we have it then certain people should be putting their hands much deeper into their pockets than us – Zahawi for example.
When I found out, very early on, that Big Pharma had been indemnified against claims for jab injuries and claimants would have to rely on the Government scheme, I read it.
It was obvious that (a) it would be very hard to prove 60% disability due to the jab and (b) £120K was completely inadequate.
I live alone; my adult sons live at some distance and have busy lives. If I’d been injured, who was going to care for me or fight my corner with a Government Dept that was primed to resist claims of injury.
It was one reason, of several, why I didn’t get jabbed.
What has been done to people is unforgivable and I do have sympathy for those seriously injured and for the families of those killed. But whatever happened to their common-sense and ability to think for themselves? If a drug-pusher on a street corner had offered them a dodgy concoction with no safety data whatsoever, they wouldn’t take it. So why did they take the dodgy concoction pushed by Big Pharma and the likes of Johnson and Handcock?
Caveat Emptor: buyer beware.