Barack Obama’s recent birthday bash wasn’t a high Covid risk, according to a New York Times writer, because of the “sophisticated, vaccinated” guests who attended. But is high sophistication really an indication that someone has had the vaccine? Certainly not, according to a new U.S. study which found that the most educated are the least likely to get ‘jabbed’.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have studied well over five million survey responses and label those who “probably” or “definitely” would not get a Covid vaccine as ‘vaccine hesitant’.
As UnHerd reports, some findings are somewhat predictable, such as that counties with higher levels of support for Donald Trump in the 2020 election had higher levels of hesitancy. But others were, perhaps, less so.
More surprising is the breakdown in vaccine hesitancy by level of education. It finds that the association between hesitancy and education level follows a U-shaped curve with the highest hesitancy among those least and most educated. People [with] a master’s degree had the least hesitancy, and the highest hesitancy was among those holding a PhD.
What’s more, the paper found that in the first five months of 2021, the largest decrease in hesitancy was among the least educated – those with a high school education or less. Meanwhile, hesitancy held constant in the most educated group; by May, those with PhDs were the most hesitant group.
Not only are the most educated people most sceptical of taking the Covid vaccine, they are also the least likely the change their minds about it.
The study found that the most commonly stated reason for not getting vaccinated was concern about the potential side effects, with a lack of trust in government trailing closely behind.
The UnHerd report is worth reading in full.
Find the full U.S. study here.
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The central problem is that the clot shots totally fail to prevent infection and fail to prevent transmissability.
As Boris himself said the other day.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/10/24/boris-admits-the-vaccine-doesnt-protect-you-against-catching-the-disease-and-it-doesnt-protect-you-against-passing-it-on/
https://youtu.be/fL00v2YjWKI
A few years when moving house in the garage I found a curious plastic container which, when I managed to part open it, was full of medical syringes.
Assuming the to be drug abuse paraphernalia I contact Environmental Health who came and removed it within two hours.
In the posted video, which seems to have been filmed in a school gym, are a few of these yellow and purple ‘sharps boxes’, possibly a dozen or in this one location.
In my 20 bed chemo day case unit there are two.
How many of these things have suddenly been scourced and at what profit to the manufacturers as they ramp up production in emergency mode?
There are reports of young women who have been injected with rape drugs in pubs. It used to be that the wannabe rapist had to convince his victim to drink laced alcohol, but nowadays “jabbing” is of course the quicker method.
Exactly! I went to a social gathering with a dozen double-jabbed friends back in June, in a marquee in a garden for 5 hours. I’m unjabbed. 2 days later I came down with what I presume was ‘covid/spike protein’ shed by the asymptomatic jabbed friends, and the ONLY social interaction for weeks I’d had was that event. I took 2 doses of ivermectin beforehand as a prophylactic – it wasn’t enough. Metallic taste, loss of appetite, fever, exhaustion, weird pains across the back of my neck, so I slept a lot, and on day 3 of being in bed took another ivermectin dose – the fever started to go down from there. In total, a week of illness, and several more weeks of being unable to eat soft-boiled eggs and mushrooms (eh?!). I also took quercetin, zinc, C, D3/K2 daily and a 20-min nebuliser with colloidal silver to protect my respiratory system. I rather suspect that the ‘delta’ variant IS shed by the jabbed.
Well, you presume wrong.
You’ll have to argue that out with Boris, Ray.
I had the egg thing too. Weird.
You remembered me the old story about mushrooms. Two men in a pub. One says that he is widow three times. The first women died of mushroom poisoning. The second of mushroom poisoning. The third of cerebral trauma — she didn’t want to eat mushrooms.
With the exception of fever your symptoms match those I had for a few days following my first chemo session.
Maybe it wasn’t the chemo but hospital acquired Covid!
Poached eggs though led me back to a normal diet.
And yet, many of the vaxxed would feel safer at events if jab passports were in place. Makes one wonder what the vaccines do to the brain.
Safe from the self harm they might trigger from their cognitive dissonance. Vax passports help the jabbed feel better about the stupid decision they’ve made.
The vaccines really can cause brain fog. But the lack of judgment in the vaccinated is there before the shot is taken, I’m afraid.
The central problem is everything politicians, the MSM, big pharma & corporate science tells us is a lie!
If they bring Vaccine Passports in for pubs, I’ll boycott them like I did last year. No false names & numbers, and no Hack N Trace apps either. Total non-compliance is the only way forward. They’ll soon get the message like they are in Scotland with 40% lower attendance.
The 40% lower attendance in Scotland suggests that vax takeup in reality is rather less than the government figures show.
Or that people who have been injected do not agree with passports.
Or they have a friend who is not vaccinated and they don’t want to leave them out, so do something else where no vaccine required.
I can see this being a big factor in decision making.
Similar to the relative unpopularity of ‘no smoking’ rooms in pubs even before the ban. Someone in each party would want to smoke.
Out of the dozen randomly chosen fellow panel members on a recent zoom market research meeting I participated in, all apart from me, were staunch mask-wearing, double-tapped Branch Covidians, eager for their next booster. All hated the idea of vaxxports.
I’m sure that stupidity is a very serious disorder as it has no prevention, no treatment and no vaccine.
And/or that the people that don’t tolerate “vaccine” Nazism strongly overlap with people that would regularly frequent hospitality. The people wetting the bed are more likely to have a bi-weekly journey out to Asda in their car, and dine out at the drive through.
Ocado deliveries, dinner parties with triple jabbed fellows.
Doesn’t matter. Compliant businesses will be subsidized. Imaginary money will be generated and handed to the collaborators. State Corporatism has bottomless pockets.
The problem is that it is a war of attrition, and with time most sheep will not be able to resist to lift their boycott. And the governments can bribe businesses to maintain this ad infinitum (using the boycotters’ tax money).
The only solution would be to have a sensible government, but this would predicate having sensible voters. But in the past for any sort of central-managed grand policy project, if there was any resistance, it was short-lived and squashed by the rulers easily. Even in case of (supposedly) grassroots revolutions, the winners quickly returned to the natural order of doing things.
In short societies at large will continue being fucked by those powerful, clever psychopaths, as they have always been. Because most people are not clever psychopaths – evolution at work.
yes, for the obvious reason that the experimental gene therapy clot shots fail to stop COVID transmission – it would certainly be an extraordinary app that could stop the transmission of a virus that isn’t a computer software virus
Surely we’d be in the realms of Magic :).
Just for the record for any government bods reading these comments: I and millions of freedom lovers will withdraw our custom from any business that requires digital ID. Ive already boycotted MotorCycle Live 2021 at the NEC.
This collateral damage is well accounted for and the perpetrators don’t care because they are in power to redistribute goods and services from non-compliant to compliant using violence. This power stems not just from the fact that the opposition is a minority. It is perfectly possible to run a 100% opposition country if only you only have a handful of loyal people with guns – ask any dictator. In the future robots with guns will be sufficient.
The PTB will quite happily see small businesses go bust to achieve their goals.
The complete disregard for the small business economy suggests to me the market system is on the way out anyway. You will be allocated resources from government approved monopolies appropriate to your social credit rating.
Correct, China is just a testing ground, but the overall plan is to have an incredibly efficient system of oppression controlled by only a handful of people and a bunch of advanced technology. With increasing automation, most of the humanity is viewed as a disposable nuisance and a big potential risk (of revolt) by the ruling class. Call it cyberfeudalism if you will, it is also the way forward to tackle the “climate change” challenge (which may or may not be real, but in the end it does not matter as long as it serves the interests of the ruling elites).
I like cyberfeudalism. Cyberpeasants.
Cyberlord
It’s called Climate Heating now rayc.
Have you seen that video with the very effective looking robot dog that scans peoples temperature from yards away, what fun when combined with facial recognition software.
Me too. It might not affect the tyrants at the top – but it might just make my jib-jabbed friends and family think a little more deeply.
TPTB intend to destroy businesses as well as your health and freedom.
But they’re not introducing vaccine passports to prevent COVID transmission. They are obedience passports, not vaccine passports.
Absolutely, all they signify is compliance.
Spot on, how can electronics stop a virus ffs. If the jab worked there would be no need for passports, it doesn’t work, so there is no need for passports.
Well put. I think I’ll use that term with my jabbed friends. I am sure of a hostile response, but they need to be told.
Digital IDs to enable the Bio-surveillance State. Nothing to do with Public Health at all.
The bedwetters will say the obvious answer to this is to require the vaxxed passport in order to leave your home.
This ‘displacement’ problem, a supposed ‘unintended consequence’ of introducing vaccine passports only for some venues, is a two-edged sword.
It reveals that displacing people from one place to another will have no beneficial effect on transmission, and could make it worse.
But there are two ways of addressing the ‘unintended consequence’: the path of freedom or the path of slavery.
We would argue that this ‘unintended consequence’ gives more strength to the argument that vaccine passports should not be used for any venues.
The fascists will delight in the discovery of this ‘unintended consequence’ to argue that it strengthens their argument that vaccine passports should be extended to almost all venues so that there is no incentive for displacement to ‘less safe’ venues.
For the enslavers, every ‘unintended consequence’ is an opportunity to turn the screw tighter.
Yes, this is what makes this scheme so incredibly effective – you can spin any setback in your favor. It reminds me of methods utilized by the Inquisition – if the witch thrown into water sinks, it was God’s will, if she floats, burn her at stake because obviously the devil is helping her.
Another way to view it is that the perpetrators are what in finance is known as “arbitrageurs” – which is no surprise, as this is coming from the same guys who run the finance system. If there is an arbitrage situation no matter which direction things go, the arbitrageur benefits. And the way to become (ultra)rich and powerful is to set up such arbitrage situations over and over again (which can generally be achieved either by scamming other participants of the system or by direct threat/use of violence). That is also why big corporations flock to governments like flies to shit – because that’s where their power of arbitrage comes from.
The Inquisition didn’t use such methods. Indeed, the Inquisition had higher standards of evidence than state courts, to such an extent that common criminals would, often request to be tried by the Court of Inquisition if they could – they’d get a fairer trial.
The Inquisition also never tried a single person for witchcraft.
I was sent this article on medical fraud in relation to IM
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/ivermectin-research-problems/620473/
Basically, it appears to suggest that the attitude to published medical papers, i.e. even peer-reviewed, should now be ‘fraudulent unless and until proven otherwise’.
I’m now waiting for the relatively mainstream media to alert us to other medical products whose trials could also, shock horror, have been fraudulent …
This Atlantic article is just another piece of propaganda, taking a different angle against cheap and effective Ivermectin.
“Scotland has already adopted a vaccine passport scheme. The first weekend of its enforcement was dubbed an “unmitigated disaster” by the Scottish Hospitality Group.”
Which is, of course, a statement of the bleedin’ obvious. Whether viewed from a pragmatic epidemiological viewpoint or an ethical one, there is absolutely no case to be made.
What is interesting is that the most important issues seem to be totally neglected in this report – both the contravention of established ethical principles and the black hole where evidence of efficacy (both of vaccines and control of the virus) is concerned. It seems to focus on peripheral additional downsides.
Having had some experience of holding the ring between cold evidence-based advice and political wish-fulfilment, I have to say that this is a poor piece of advisory work, smacking of tentativeness and pleasing the master without pulling up any trees.
Scotland is as close as you can get to East Germany 1959 without a time machine.
Only because the Scottish people let it be so. What can they do? Any fighting or ‘direct action’ is deemed as “playing into the enemy’s hands”.
So it’s back to another on-line petition, writing another e-mail to your local MP, and boycotting this pub and that nightclub, and generally engaging in some kind of ‘non-compliance’.
What happens when one day any criticism of the government is regarded as ‘terrorism’? And sending e-mails to your MPs is outlawed (unless you want to praise them for doing such a fine job)?
The article shows that the governments plan to enforce vaxxine passports is dead in the water.
This good news too!
https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel/7619
that is excellent news indeed
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-zealand-vaccine-mandate-workers.html
Sounds like they’re ignoring the courts to push clot shots.
I wish that I could share your confidence about the plan to enforce ‘vaccine passports’ being dead in the water.
This Highwire episode explains how they are the potential ‘starters for ten’ in terms of an all embracing health pass on a global basis.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/exposing-vaccine-passports/
Having said that the court verdict is indeed good news, but will governments just ignore it or change the law?
The regime knew from the very beginning that the vaccines could not stop onward transmission because their status as imperfect vaccines or “leaky vaccines” did not come as a surprise. This has always been a known feature of these vaccines. The obvious corollary is that QR codes on telephones could also not stop transmission.
Therefore, the regime lied from the very beginning about the intended goal of the vaccines, and they lied because the end goal was always vaccine passports, designed to integrate the plebs into a global digital ID “tag and track” system more easily.
Sajid Javid on Mike Graham, Talk Radio being very unconvincing about why showing natural immunity isn’t sufficient for care workers. Apparently the strength of the natural immunity is too variable amongst people (like vaccine immunity isn’t variable amongst people?!) and it would be “difficult” to look into natural immunity (like setting up a national vaccination programme and a track and trace system weren’t “difficult”).
I mean, their arguments are so flimsy and boil down to wanting to do things the way they’ve decided and to hell with valid alternatives.
I suspect Sajid Javid didn’t sound very convincing because his entire life experience was forged in international finance and now he finds himself trying to talk about immunology, one of the most complex sciences. He should go back to Chase Manhattan. That’s more his milieu.
I’m sure that he’s managing to combine his interests in banking aka “money” with his present role as a pseudo-scientific type. Who knows what Pharma Danegeld may be returned his (and others) way?
What is really infuriating is that these interviewers don’t know how to ask proper questions.
Why does covid need to be tracked? Do we track people with HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, flu? What is so special about covid that it needs to be tracked?
You have a jab, whoever wants it takes it whoever doesn’t doesn’t. Done.
If we’re worried about deaths, lets track overweight people as heart disease is the number one killer.
Or let’s mandate annual cancer screens. That’s the number 2 killer. If you can squander money on covid measures, surely you can on cancer?
Somebody ask these fuckers some challenging questions for once.
Dr. Keriarty gave the real ressons in his Brownstone Institute article yesterday.
Of note in that regard is also that Berset in Switzerland is now offering immunity proven as per antibody tests (which?) to qualify for the passport (temporarily).
But this is just a trick by him to get them over the line on 28.11.
The negative impact on business is fully intended. This will nudge the business to demand and install electronic gates when ID2020 (specifically, vaccination-linked personal ID carried on your smartphone) is soon introduced.
P.S. These same electronic access gates will also be touted to reduce risk of terrorism.
P.S.2. The gates will also be sold to public using the argument “there are already similar gates to prevent shoplifting, so no big deal”.
P.S.3. Another argument will be “there are already surveillance cameras everywhere”.
Vaccine passports aren’t to stop the transmission of COVID or any communicable disease for that matter.
They are to control the population and manage our behaviour.
If the argument that they don’t stop transmission helps to put a stop to them great. Although I doubt it. It’s not as if facts have stopped any of the craziness so far.
Here’s a list:
COVID isn’t especially dangerous – ignored.
Lockdown is not correlated to the transmission of disease – ignored.
Masks don’t work – ignored
Chlldren are at zero risk from covid – ignored
There is no asymptomatic spread of respiratory diseases – ignored.
The jabs have an unprecedented level of adverse effects – ignored
Jabbed people get infected and infect others – ignored
Just add covid passports to the list.
The problem is society has not found yet a way to deal with the situation where those in charge lie to you, you prove them wrong and then they just continue lying and ignore you. We just don’t know what to do next. Our default reaction is to come up with more evidence and more arguments, but that presupposes that the reason they continue to lie is because they are unconvinced by our arguments. But that’s not the reason. They are acting in bad faith and have no intention of ever listen to any arguments. They have an agenda and they are determined to see it through.
We’ll either have to figure out how to stop them (presenting arguments doesn’t seem to be helping much) or they win and we end up as slaves to a technocratic bio-security world order.
I think the only thing which will stop them is a global depression.
I’m not even convinced that will stop them but the chaos which will ensue may be our only hope.
I think you are right. At one point I naively believed that there would be enough basic human decency around to put the brakes on when things got really dystopian. But if they finally succeed in getting the majority of parents to vaccinate their children, then a population that is willing to risk the lives of their children under pressure is going to go at the unvaxed with real rage. We’ll be entering jews in Nazi Germany territory at that point, which I always saw as a possibility but hoped unlikely. Now I think it’s at least 50-50.
They’re vaxxing to get on planes. When the word spreads on side effects and deaths in children, things could change very fast.
I too think that the loss of affluence for most people will increase resistance to their plans. Other revolutions at least promised to improve living standards for the masses. Now they have to sell a massive reduction in quality of life. Hard to do.
From the bbc… as predictable as the day is long:
Prof Lucy Chappell, chief scientific adviser to the Department of Health, tells MPs there is no extensive work on developing future curbs beyond those set out in England’s Winter Covid plan – which contains the current Plan A and a harsher Plan B.
Responding to a question about reports of a so-called Plan C, she says: “The name has been mentioned, it is not being extensively worked up. People have used the phrase.”
“At the moment the focus is on Plan B,” she tells the Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Dr Thomas Waite, interim deputy chief medical officer at Department for Health, adds: “I haven’t been consulted on anything beyond a Plan B”.
So there is and always has been a plan c and we always were going to move to plan b.
“Leaked Government Report Claims That Vaccine Passports Would Fail to Stop COVID Transmission”
I don’t expect this will result in any second thoughts about implementing them as this is not their intended purpose.
As a matter of interest, I wrote to the National Trust to ask whether they were in favour of the concept of vaccine passports. They replied that they did not have a position on the matter. I told them that this was not good enough and cancelled my membership.
We need to be proactive and not just wait to see what businesses & organisations decide when the time comes.
I did this will all my friends, months ago.
Really! Bloody hell. I won’t renew mine then. This is an excellent idea.
So far: National Trust and Aldi are on my blacklist (can you say that these days?). Any more?
It’s like the 1980s and South African apples again.
As to what people say they want as they perceive risk, it must be remembered that plurality still believe the IFR is 10% or greater. People have no clear idea of how dangerous Covid is, so is it any surprise they have a belief that vaccine passports will make their time in an enclosed space safe.
The law of unintended consequences is rarely considered, but thankfully there are some in government who remember it. And we have proof. Just as early closing doesn’t reduce infections, neither do vaccine passports. And beyond all this, the actual costs are never considered.
Be it masks or passports, neither will stem infections. And so, putting them in place only serves to do the ultimate goal: lockdown. Learning to live with Covid means learning to live with it like we do flu. None of these measures have ever been used for that, nor should they now.
The goal of vaccine passports is to implement vaccine passports, as an end in itself.
Most definitely not – the goal is to implement universal remotely controlled individual access permission systems beyond what is already possible in IT and finance, a sort of super-reliable automatic distributed law enforcement. Vaccine passports are just a boring pilot application required to obtain public acceptance of such systems, and a test run for the actual technology.
You win a cookie, spot on!
Who Will They Blame When Everyone is Vaccinated? Waterford County, Ireland, Provides The Example
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/25/cashill-asks-the-obvious-question-who-will-they-blame-when-everyone-is-vaccinated-waterford-county-ireland-provides-the-example/
The answer is they will blame nobody. The vaccination does not prevent infection, but it reduces risk of death/severe illness by ~10x, while still fresh.
It is getting boring to read all the braindead straw man assaults that try to make vaccines appear useless on the grounds of the single feature that was never advertised as such (except maybe by some idiot politicians and their uneducated followers).
Well of course if wouldn’t, the f@cking jabs don’t work. Take about pointing out the bloody obvious.
I always preferred small music gigs*, promoted by word of mouth, in rooms behind/above pubs that largely ignored licensing regulations to those in larger venues; bring on the pop up gig economy, much more fun.
*usually punk but also folk and cajun
Bring on the illegal repetitive beats again, too…
The future, our future?
Public Health Or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way For Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism
It’s quite a long read so in summary: communism = starvation.
Just one example, The Terror-Famine of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933.
Perhaps I missed it, but did daily sceptic pick up the disturbing anouncement by Arden yesterday that she acknowledged that she was creating a 2 tier society in New Zealand wherby those who had the covid 19 injections were permitted freedoms the uninjected are not. Seems that the media is happy to let this pass through without comment, surprised if daily sceptic hasn;t picked it up though
That person which menstrute (I think) is a stupid crimimal.
I posted a short vid of her/it/thing/him/they, the other day, what people aren’t picking up on in that interview (uk column did) its rationale for passports was to give the public confidence in returning to normal life, it had sweet F A to-do with disease suppression.
UK Column News – 25th October 2021 @ 9.13min mark.
Florida Surgeon General reportedly says the unsayable
According to Tom Woods from the US
https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/ladapoagain?e=6fe7ac95b6
“The narrative is really breaking down now.”
Last month I introduced you to Joseph Ladapo, the new surgeon general of Florida.
An immigrant from Nigeria, Ladapo holds his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. from the Harvard School of Public Health.
So when he says lockdowns are a public health disaster, and vaccines should not be mandated, he sends the guardians of allowable opinion into a special kind of frenzy.
Here’s what he said yesterday, stitched together from remarks to the media:
“As we now know, these vaccines are not preventing transmission. Sure, they reduce the likelihood of transmission — and even that is sort of questionable depending on how far out you go — but they’re not preventing it. I’ve heard some leaders say things like, ‘We’ll create safe workplaces by mandating these vaccines.’ Well, they’re really decoupled. Because the infection can still happen whether people are vaccinated or not. I mean, that’s very obvious.
“You remember, these people were also telling you that all these breakthrough infections were rare. Well, they’re obviously not rare. In fact, they’re common.
“So this idea that the vaccine mandates are needed to create safe workplaces is a complete lie. It’s continued to be repeated. And you should know that it’s not at all backed up by science. In fact, the science says something that’s completely the opposite.
“Part of the reason that some people are not comfortable with these vaccines is because of the climate of scientific dishonesty about the science — whether it’s natural immunity, denial of that in the face of data, or in the case of the vaccines, open, honest discussions about both effectiveness and safety. There’s been dishonesty around that.
“The reality of how safe these vaccines are is absolutely not public. Healthy people who have had adverse reactions after the vaccine, there’s been a concerted effort to prevent these types of stories, these experiences, from receiving the attention that they obviously should receive. It’s completely ridiculous.”
Hot off the press from the Daily Fail
‘Has SAGE finally got it right? Covid infections are ALREADY flatlining in England weeks before models say they will slump naturally — as Boris Johnson is warned five months of Plan B could cost economy up to £18billion’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10131837/Has-SAGE-finally-got-right-Covid-infections-flatlining-England.html
How long would it actually take to get everybody seated at Wembley Stadium if vax passport checks had to be carried out as well as ticket checks for every single person queueing? And how much longer would the queues be, and would this mean that given limited space for people to line up, would they all have to double back and pack more densely?
It could essentially double the time taken; and given the stadium has a seating capacity of 90,000, if this measure were to be carried out in any meaningful way, you could find the people at the near the back of the queue find their seats at about the time the match is finishing.
Did anyone think that through, or are they intended to be a recipe for chaos?
I doubt it was thought through in that sense, but that’s not the point
It’s the principle. Technology will evolve to make it easier to enforce this kind of stuff, meantime it will be done through threats
As most people know, there are actually intelligent & competent staff in the Civil Service (often contrary to the usual suspects), but they are still peddling the myth that the drugs on offer do inhibit transmission. In reality, it appears to do what it said on the tin (“We do not yet know whether it will stop you from catching and passing on the virus” – NHS March 2021). Thus the whole policy, built on a lie, is invalid.
I don’t think it’s worth subscribing to the T to read it in full. I’m reasonably sure that the last time I caught some kind of respiratory bug was indeed in a busy, overcrowded pub in the middle of winter; lots of us are probably aware of such risks, which are often tolerated just before Xmas.
How can an advisory report fail to mention that vaccination does not stop infection or transmission? You have to conclude they didn’t want to address that glaring issue because it would be a pretty short report otherwise.
How many more Vaccine Surveillance Reports showing higher rates of covid in the vaccinated (per hundred thousand) than the unvaccinated do they need to see?
Or will they address the “displacement” argument by requiring the passport in every venue, extending it to pubs, restaurants etc to keep the state coercion going?
Dear DCMS and Govt, I see you are now becoming aware of that most basic of parameters, ‘human nature’. You cannot defeat this, it’s always cleverer than you are and at least 1 step ahead. There is simply no point trying, you will always lose.
Yes….humans with ‘free will’ will always find a way….and are currently. Money doesn’t buy everyone and can’t compete with human instincts.
Surely this is one of those ‘managed’ leaks….vaxx passports won’t work at large venues because savvy people will go to ‘uncertified’ venues, ergo the vaxx passport must be presented everywhere, as in Lithuania, for example. Bait and switch…..such ‘leaks’ always serve a purpose.
I thought people would be interested in this comment sent to vaccine trial particiants today:
“We recognise that some trial participants have been unable to take advantage of some of the benefits offered to people who have received a full course of approved vaccine, particularly overseas travel. This is because each country sets their own requirements for entry, and we are aware that many do not recognise trial vaccines.
The UK government has been working tirelessly with international partners including the G7, G20, EU Commission and the WHO to get recognition for trial participants. However, there is currently no internationally agreed policy or consensus on treatment of trial participants despite the UK government’s efforts.
We want to do everything we can for clinical trial participants. As a result, in consultation with the JCVI and in partnership with Chief Investigators of the trials, we are making an offer to trial participants who wish to receive additional doses of approved vaccines, on top of the trial vaccines. This will make it easier for participants to travel overseas as they can prove they have been vaccinated with an MHRA authorised vaccine.
It is important to remember that you do not need a full course of additional vaccines at the moment for clinical reasons, this is for travel purposes only. There is still an expectation that the vaccines trialled in phase 3 studies in the UK will offer strong, long-lasting protection against COVID-19, even if they have not yet been approved.”
I wasn’t sure where to post this so maybe this isn’t quite the right place. But it seems clear that it’s recognised by the NHS, the government and others that further vaccination is only important in order to comply with travel requirements rather than for health reasons. Make of this what you will.