The booster vaccine roll-out is well underway in England, despite warnings that this could help to cause a permanent state of lockdown. 1.5 million invitations are being sent to people – starting with those aged 50 and over, as well as to the clinically vulnerable and healthcare workers – this week to book their third dose. Sky News has the story.
Texts will be sent out on Monday, while letters will be posted to those who are eligible for a third coronavirus vaccine dose later in the week, NHS England said.
Around 1.5 million people will be contacted and encouraged to use the National Booking Service.
Those eligible for booster jabs include those aged 50 and over, people living and working in care homes for the elderly and frontline health and social care workers.
Booster shots will also be available to those who are clinically extremely vulnerable and anyone aged 16 to 65 in an at-risk group for Covid.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said this week that people should receive their booster dose at least six months after they received their second Covid jab.
The JCVI also said half doses of the Moderna jab could be used as an alternative.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said boosters will “strengthen the wall of defence” created by the vaccines.
Ministers say the success of the booster vaccine roll-out (and of the roll-out of vaccines for children) will determine whether further restrictions – including mask mandates, vaccine passports and possibly another lockdown – should be imposed this winter.
The Sky News report is worth reading in full.
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“Decolonisation” is just a fancy code-word for anti-white racism and the desire to destroy white European civilisation, and a way for grifters of all kinds to seize, retain and increase their power to tell other people what to do.
Which is why 5 billion people non-Whites want to move to the decaying, confused, criminally corrupt, undemocratic ‘West’. They have illusions of our previous grandeur.
“They have illusions of our previous grandeur.”
Brilliant – that should go on a t-shirt.
I always thought a grifter or grafter was a hard working type? How times change!
A grifter is a swindler, dishonest gambler, trickster – there is a TV series called Grifters.
Graft (has a number of meanings) but can mean getting money or some advantage by unfair, dishonest, illegal means – often by abusing one’s position in business and politics.
Graft: is also British slang for work.
The change in times is the dismal teaching of the English language and how to use a dictionary.
…grifter..
personwho engages in petty or small-scale swindling.
“I saw him as a grifter who preys upon people”
Grafter:
British Slang. a worker, especially a particularly industrious or dedicated worker:
To succeed in this job you also need to be a real grafter, someone eager for a chance to work hard in an ever-growing company.
You mean such as the “Biden Crime Family “?
“Yes but apart from the sanitation, the fresh water, the aqueduct, education, irrigation, medicine, roads and public baths, what have the British ever done for us?”
Apologies to ‘Life of Brian.’
Not to mention the judicial system, the railways, buildings, trade…. There’s no doubt there are arguments on both sides but without the infrastructure of an advanced economy, some of the colonised countries would probably have floundered. Can you imagine India without railways or good sanitation etc? Of course we will never know how they might have fared if we hadn’t colonised them. There were certainly aspects of colonisation that were cruel and brutal. You only have to look at Belgian Congo for an extreme example. However, colonisation also brought benefits. To now have this ridiculous situation where reparations are being sought is just another version of wokery in action. The major slave trade by far was done by muslim states and caliphates to Africa. A paler version continues with cheap workers being brought over from Bangladesh and Pakistan among others to build cities like Dubai. But of course we never talk about that, do we?
Ending of slavery.
Manufacturing.
Literacy.
Technology.
Railroads.
Eye glasses.
Pants.
Shoes.
Art and Literature (still searching for the Congolese Shakespeare and the Musulman Caravaggio).
“…decolonisation…”
I’m all for it. I think the wokeratti, the self-serving political class should have their large bowels extracted through their nostrils.
What did the Romans ever do for us?
For a close to home view of the failures of decolonisation we only have to look at Scotland and Wales.
The thing that bothers me the most about all of this is the ‘decolonisation’ movement and the more ludicrous branches of that such as decolonising the dictionary or food or fiction or farming or whatever it is. THAT, to me, is absurd and I guess the point of it is to destabilise and undermine our own culture and traditions and introduce new ones that have absolutely bloody nothing to do with this country. It makes me want to learn Morris dancing!!
All part of the reset Aethelred.
In over 2000 years, the indigenous black people on the continent of Africa never built or launched a single seaworthy boat to allow them to escape Africa. There was not a single two storey building built, just basic huts made with wood straw or stones. Not a single statue was erected to an influential black person. It was only when the dreaded white man arrived did that change. They don’t act or think or create as white people do. That statement was made by a black priest.
With zero knowledge on the history of Africa…
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Ahem…The great mosque at Timbuktu, built in the 1320’s
I had the fortune of visiting Kenya,for business and pleasure in the 1970s/80’s. By the mid 80s the infrastructure had noticeably declined since the time of Kenyatta. So much so that an editorial in ‘The Nation’, the locally controlled national newspaper, called for a return of the British saying that under their colonial control Kenya and a number of other African countries were better run.