The news broke today of the death of the man known to the British public as Captain Tom. The one-hundred-year-old veteran of the Burma campaign in the Second World War who raised over £33 million for the NHS last year had become a celebrity and an icon of the efforts to control the CCP virus and its effects. He has inspired many others, his image has been featured on many things, from NHS murals to the cover of GQ (the oldest man ever to do so.).
Along with many other awards and accolades he was personally knighted by H.M. The Queen at Windsor Castle last June. The fact that the investiture ceremony was held just for him and The Queen’s first public engagement since the start of the Panda-demic is a real indication of the deep respect and affection the nation had for Captain Tom. Even my shrivelled, callous and cynical heart glowed at times when elements of his story were told.
The passing of a century old man is sad, but it can’t be called a shock. What has shocked me, you’d think I’d know better by know, is how the legacy media have slickly and without so much as a blush, added him to the growing list of those who have died “of Covid”. The first reports of his hospitalisation yesterday said quite clearly that he had ben taken into hospital to be treated for pneumonia which had prevented him having his Covid vaccine. Once in hospital he tested positive for C-19.
Now that he has passed you have to look a long way to see mention of pneumonia. The more honest reports are saying he died “after testing positive for Covid”. Other reports are just going for it and saying he died “of Covid”. I watched the whole of both the national ITV and the local London ITV news, both quite lengthy pieces, and the word pneumonia never passed a presenter’s lips. Looking online it’s a similar story.
The reports in the 24 hours before Capt. Tom’s death didn’t mention Covid complications or give any indication that he was being treated for anything other than pneumonia, only that he has also tested positive. I’m not a doctor, and I have no inside line to the hospital where he died, but it seems to me it’s more accurate and honest to say he died of pneumonia, possibly with complications. At one hundred years old I would have thought pneumonia was quite serious enough.
I know, I shouldn’t be surprised at this almost casual manipulation of the death of a national hero in the service of The Narrative. I try hard to be balanced and objective about the information on the whole Covid 19(84) business, but when you see bare faced lies told with a corporate straight face it makes it hard to believe a damn thing they say.
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The Zombie Media are going into overdrive. Capt Tom’s legacy is meant to help us build a more “equal” world apparently. His death is also being used to try to revive the public adulation of the NHS. The doorstep clapping of the NHS died out with the first lockdown. There was a recent attmept to revive it which fell on distinctly stony ground. The PM, after a minute’s silence for Capt Tom, announced a national clap for him, and the NHS carers of course, at 6 pm tonight.
This is all rather nauseating. I share the deep respect and affection for Capt Tom, he did an amazing thing and was a witty, remarkable and inspirational man, he is a loss and should be mourned. The parade of insincere media faces tying themsleves, and their agenda, to his memory is deeply unseemly.
“But it was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.”
Henry IV Part 2. Act I Scene 2
Journalistic honestly? What is that? Everybody who dies in a hospital now dies of Covid.
That man must have had an immune system made of steel having survived the conflict in Burma where the jungle itself is out to kill you! Just the fact that he didn’t die of malaria before this is amazing. An awesome man and true patriot. He will be missed. RIP Tom.
He did indeed survive dengue fever while on service.
Higher orders. May he rest in a heroes reward.
Amen