It was revealed last week that the BBC is offering white lanyards to staff who are returning to the office but would like to continue ‘social distancing’. The Corporation has since exceeded itself by publishing an article highlighting “calls” for the introduction of wearable symbols showing that the wearer has a weakened immune system and would like to keep a distance.
There’s just one call mentioned in the article, actually, from a man who would like the system to become an “accepted way of people identifying themselves”.
Neil Collingwood, 64, from Leek, Staffordshire, said the ending of England’s lockdown rules on July 19th was not good news for people less able to fight off Covid.
Even people with two vaccine jabs were not completely without risk, he said.
He has made a prototype armband.
It “is bright orange and uses the universal symbol for first aid”, Mr Collingwood explained.
He has it in mind for adults with weakened immune systems, or who are immuno-suppressed, and less able to battle infections naturally. …
“There are about half a million people in the U.K. whose immune systems are not effective,” he said.
Recent studies suggest they do not receive as much protection from Covid vaccines as other people.
Mr Collingwood, who has chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a form of blood cancer, as well as type one diabetes, leaves the house only to exercise and occasionally take photographs as part of his work as a historian and author. …
“I’ve already had people who have refused to get out of my way,” he said, “with one person shouting ‘grow up it’s not going to kill you.'”
“Some of the people in my situation may be 10 or 12 years old, they will never – as things stand – be able to have normal lives,” said Mr Collingwood.
“I probably don’t have all that long left, but I’m damned if I want to sacrifice what time I have got left because of stupidity, and the fact we are not being considered as a very important vulnerable group.”
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This is not really needed.
It would be sufficient if all those who were at risk or ill wore masks, and the rest of us then knew that they needed space and consideration.
The problem with universal mask wearing is that it gives no guidance to the majority who largely view it as virtue signalling rather that any form of protection and therefore ignore the at risk who are just one of the crowd.
Good idea, though the logo on the armband should be a chicken rather than a cross.
On the one hand it is better than locking down everyone to protect a very tiny minority but I do wonder, why now? Did he isolate himself every winter, wear a mask and socially distance? Is Covid really more likely to finish him off then a cold, flu, bronchitis or winter vomiting?
Some sympathy, but limited. I’m afraid my first reaction to the opening sentences of this item was “Hmm, another nascent millionaire…”
There’s already a Red /Green wrist band system available. And it would definitely be wrong for users to wear a green cross; it would imply that they are medical staff, not people at higher risk of requiring medical assistance.
Fair enough.
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I’d respect this person’s desire. As long as they understand what we now know, that even if we keep 20 meters away, if there is poor ventilation, that person is still at serious risk. But I’m happy to give anyone who desire space that space. It’s just common decency. But one wonders how many people will don these on buses and the Underground to avoid the hideous pileup that is mass transit commuting.
One person wants to dictate the behaviour of everyone he comes into contact with?
The solution is simple – stay at home you coward.
What did Neil do to keep himself safe before 2020? Corona viruses have been around since man arrived on the planet, you can’t expect everybody else to suffer because of your bad health. Sorry Neil, they’ll be ‘marking’ people who haven’t been jabbed if you get your way. Whatever you did before this sh!tshow should be resumed now lockdown ends.
Exactly. Neil is being played by the Covidians, whether he know it or not.
What did he do in previous viral seasons?
Simple answer the yes no debate.
Was it thought to be needed prior to February 2020? If the answer is no, then the idea is covid generated and has no place in a world that should be returning to pre covid livimg.
And yes, I realise that would really piss off the elites, but that is our goal, surely.
Just revisiting this thread.
Jeez – this site is in danger of becoming overwhelmed by sour virtue-signallers!
The problem isn’t the suggestion – immuno-vulnerability is a real issue – it’s the exploitation in the reporting.
If these immune suppressed people really want to stay safe, then far better they stay at home and out of my way. This arm band stunt is a put up job and has very sinister overtones. What they really want is something very similar for the unvaxxed.
Spot on.
As someone who takes immune suppressants, Ive always had to take responsibility for my own health…up to now, with the powers that be insisting they know better for me. I still take responsibility for my own health and I know how to look aft myself, so I would never want to wear one of these. Still, if the vulnerable want to wear them, let them. If others know to stay out of their way, can we now drop the stupid mask business for good? Then, If the vulnerable want to go into crowded spaces, that is THEIR responsibility, not mine!
If the NHS can’t cope with reality, then reality has to be changed, that is the government’s position and it seems to be sticking to it. No reason why anyone should not wear such an armband, but keeping their distance will only further weaken the immune system as it withers from lack of challenge.
Oh! Now I get it. No one had a weakened immune system before 2020, so no one had to deal with it before.
No, sorry, it smacks to me of attention seeking. Look at me, I’m special, give me special treatment!
How did people who were “vulnerable” in some way manage before? Presumably they got on with their lives as best they could?
I absolutely oppose any moves to mark people out in some way, even if it is with good intentions. It just builds in more division and disquiet. No good cam come of it.
Sorry but this is just silly paranoia. What has changed for this person? Nothing at all except the abject fear of this particular virus. He is in no more danger today then he was 2 years ago. This is the “Deadly Virus” narrative doing its thing, seems to me he wouldn’t want to catch a flu or any other virus or bacterial infection. I feel for him but really folks this virus is no more deadly than any other virus.
This is like the one kid in class that is allergic to almost every food group so they severely limit what other kids can eat at lunch or for snacks.
I have no issue with this proposal, but it is up to the arm-banded to protect themselves and stay out of our way. I would give an arm-bander a wide berth out of courtesy, but as soon as the twitterazi start dictating how the rest of us should change our lives around theirs then it is finished as a concept. Nature is, and always will be, survival of the fittest. Full-stop.
Or just combine two products into one and wear the band over your lower face? If these poor people want to spend the rest of their shortened sickly lives being treated like lepers then it’s no skin off my nose. Modern science has given them a semblance of a life that they wouldn’t have otherwise had but I don’t understand why they seem to think the rest of the population needs to get out of their way.
The same people are ok about wearing a mask, an arm band should be a walk in the park.
I’m quite happy to avoid these people. Just so long as they don’t start ordering me about.
Exactly – I don’t this guy has actually suggested anything else. It’s the way it’s reported, and the fact of another fixation on the exception as a means of generating narrative news.
I do get concerned when I see the proportion of posts here that incontinently fly off the handle and miss the point. That just makes fodder for 77th Brigade.
This is typical – one unusual circumstance being blown up out of all proportion, as real risk is exaggerated.
In terms of the last figures I saw, I think the risk from inoculations was much higher than that of the immune-suppressed coming across Covid.
We don’t call them “men” when they wear armbands.
An armband seems inadequate.
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This is a blind, its just warming up for someone to propose the opposite. Everyone who is unvaxed will have to wear an armband. Give it a month at most.
And the ‘authorities’ can put their mug shots on posters and slap them all all round town. In the USA there is an on-line system, been up many years already, where you can check to see if your neighbours have been charged with sexual crimes. Perhaps the UK Gov can introduce such a system so that you can see if there are any ‘unvaxxed’ living near you.
I wouldn’t put anything past this tyranny of a Government.
Totally agree, sets a dangerous precedent.
Man shows arm band that shows wearer wants to invade Poland.
the biggest threat to Mr Collingwood’s immune system is an appointment at the hospital
Good puff piece from the
Ministry of PropagandaBBC. At first, I thought they missed a trick by not adding another lanyard for diabetes, a far bigger killer. But then it clicked, it’s too big an earner for Pharma and NHS budgets. They wouldn’t want to stop that revenue stream. Keep eating those grains, seeds and sugar you plebs, “eat out to help out” and all that…You can do so much via high finance when the media, internet and academia. Just get your mate to print more money, paying $8M in speaking fee’s helps (Yelen at the FED) and give a few shillings to a few champagne communists at PHE.
Curiously I have a friend with CLL. He was also a Type 2 diabetic and self-confessed fat bastard.
When he cut back on carbs he lost all the weight and his diabetes went into remission, which is only to be expected, but also his leukemia went into remission. Who knew?