JC again

Also on Friday, BBC’s editors ran a sympathetic companion story headlined, “Covid, coughs and hay fever: Why you might be feeling ill all the time.” They got so close, but nope: They ultimately blamed the Flirt variant. But as we know, the real reason employees at BBC headquarters might be sick all the time, outside of normal flu season, probably came in a needle.

It seems even staffers around the vaunted, state-owned British Broadcast Company —which handed out jab mandates like after-dinner mints— are feeling “grotty” all the time. They keep getting sick again, right after they just recovered from the last grotty infection:

“Grotty” is a British slang word for a general sense of discomfort, combined with a frustrating, overwhelming sense of “I hate the government but I’m too scared to say anything.”

Britain (population 64 million) has two million identified long covid sufferers, and the number of people with chronic illnesses there is surging. There seems to be some kind of problem with people’s immune systems, which the article’s mystified experts chalked up to pandemic stress:

You know what else causes “metabolic inflammation,” immune disregulation, and stress? Spike protein, that’s what.