First year students at Bath are being given wristbands by university authorities to signal whether they’ve been double-jabbed amid anger at emerging “two-tier” university campuses. The Telegraph has more.
Students arriving this week at the University of Bath have been given a different coloured wristband on club nights if they can prove in advance they are double jabbed, or have COVID-19 immunity.
COVID-19 passports are required for nightclub or arena events in Bath students’ union, but those who can only show a negative lateral flow test enter through a different queue.
Parents expressed alarm at “vaccine passports by stealth” as millions of students return for the first Freshers’ Week in two years, despite the Government ditching plans for the certificates for venues in England.
At Sheffield University, students must present a COVID-19 pass to enter freshers events or union nights out, with double-jabbed students and those with negative tests offered separate wristbands to jump queues.
Meanwhile, Cambridge University and two Oxford colleges have asked students to disclose their Covid vaccination status to staff.
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Some students might want to stand up to this form of discrimination. I’ll try to put myself in their shoes and consider just how awkward and difficult that might be for them. Look at what has happened to those medics who have spoken out.
But where is the legal profession when you really need them? The discriminated students need advice and protection based on the following principle of informed consent….. ‘It is the obligation of the provider to make it clear that the patient is participating in the decision making process and avoid making the patient feel forced to agree with the provider’ [PubMed.gov]. In my opinion any University that employs such a policy described in today’s article is blatantly interfering in this supremely important safeguarding ethical principle. It is scandalous.
Correct. Scandalous! Though scandalous is the norm now.
The world is defo topsy turvy.
We all live in a yellow submarine… I fear. Without the nice bits.
These students are our future leaders FFS! God help us all.
At least some of the current set of psychotic megalomaniacs actually had spines back in the day, when free spirit, independent thought, and inquisitive minds were still around.
I guess you’d have to go back to the ’60s ’70s and early ’80s to find the last of the real free-thinkers possessing backbones.
Oh, how they do change when they rise up.
Today’s student molluscs will be our leaders soon, and even more easily manipulated than the current escargatoire.
I think it was Billy Connolly who said “The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.”
A variation on the Danish yellow star:
They could wear “rainbow” wrist bands, whatever their status? Get lots of them to do it. It clearly makes the point that they are not interested in colour segregation. And might (in this case) appeal to those on all sides of the political spectrum.
If only people realised the power they hold when they join forces. Back in the 60s and 70s students were a pain in the butt forever marching about this and that now they’re so meek it’s embarrassing.
Then they should tell them to ‘go forth and multiply’. It makes no difference if you are jabbed or not as jabbed can still get it and pass it on. Completely insane!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00HNpAG13Sk&t=5s
This about sums it up, Perhaps the universities would watch this
Time for parents to step up to the plate and refuse to let their children go to university. Use your children’s natural competitiveness to start learning hubs from home. There must be many patents with barns and studios and there must be many professors prepared to leave retirement to help educate properly. Otherwise send your kids to work. There is no better education for life than a working environment.
So let me see, badges of identification to prove your social status. thus identifying the group of society that needs to be seperated because of their “inferior” status.
Hmmh, now where have I heard about something like that used before? Oh I remember, it was in that little country called Germany. Those badges it worked out so well for those people didnt it? and society was so much better off.
I wonder do the students and lecturers recognise the irony of the situation? they probably even have an anti bullying stance, diversity people and teach war studies,
Good Germans! Good British people following suit
When the vaxxed are contracting and transmitting Covid, what exactly is a wristband meant to do. Who is responsible for this type of discrimanatory measure. 1:1000 cases of myocarditis post vaxx in young men, who have a negligible Covid risk. Case fatality rate and infection fatality rate negligible. Vaxxed death rate significantly higher. What young person needs to take this experimental vaxx with minimal safety and efficacy data and no long term safety or efficacy data. Criminal.
Arbeit (or wristbands) macht frei…
I thought that it was against the law to ask people for personal health information; has this been repealed or just conveniently ignored?
Is this vaccine apartheid? Right in 2021? Isn’t this similar to how the Nazis badged the Jews with a yellow star?? Where are the warriors of liberty ?? Are universities are now as corrupted as the gangsters who fund them?? Is t this how hatred is bread? & what kind of brainwashing education is this now?? Why not burn the foreheads of the unvaccinated with a UV just like the cowboys marked the cows so we can clearly see them ?? how about a badge for Heterosexuals ? Another colour badge for lesbians ? One for gays? One for Eastern Europeans so they’re not mistaken with the English ?
Evil Sinister idiots! & the union scums? Yes scums! Parasites ! They’d sell their own mothers for a buck & a bit of fascism glory
Yes I’m unhappy with this.
This is the student union doing this. Utter scum. The body supposed to represent students is steamrollering them like this.
They need to say “NO”! Coercion is blatantly against the Nurnburg Code, which the UK is signed up to.
Welcome to the new apartheid.
Wristbands? Not yellow stars then?
Where can I buy these magic bands that, despite the not-vaccines being as much use as a chocolate teapot, confer immunity from the alleged virus?
Simple. Boycott the apartheid universities. Boycott the student unions and their poxy bars and nightclubs. Only frequent establishments that don’t impose such sanctions for the unvaccinated. Vote with your feet and deprive these bastards of your money.
Why not yellow stars?
Maybe the universities and the governments of the world could implement a “final solution” to the eternal unvaccinated.
Students (and, of course, faculty) never protest for free speech or against censorship.
With reference to this great comment from Galene77 the other day.
“Q: What’s the difference between a Vaccine Passport and a Yellow Star?
A: 82 years…”
Asked to disclose?
Fuck off.
Not a university, but a shop in a town in Suffolk, today. Gobsmacking notice in window, and I quote:
“Please ensure you are wearing a mask while queuing and during your time in the shop.
If you are exempt from wearing one due to medical reasons, please wait until the shop is empty before entering, allowing other customers to choose whether to be in the shop at the same time.
We reserve the right to check your temperature when entering the shop.
If you choose not to use hand sanitiser we respect your right not to, but we then respectfully ask you not to touch anything in the shop. We are happy to help with your shopping and will collect any items for you”
I was so astonished at this blatant discrimination, against anyone who doesn’t wear a mask for whatever reason, that I took a photo of it.
So, if I have asthma and don’t wear a mask, I have to hang about until the shop is empty, before I can go in. If I get eczema from the hand gunk, I’m not allowed to touch anything. They don’t ask me to clang a bell as I’m walking… Read more »
The worst thing is that they frankly deserve to go bust, but most lemmings will cheerfully comply.
They won’t go bust in Suffolk
Hope they go out of business.
They bloody well deserve to.
They won’t. It will be full of people who wear masks even to walk to the damn shop saying ‘thank you for keeping us safe’.
They didn’t get my business. There were a few people in, all masked up, of course.
This town seems to have quite an authoritarian air, as several shops had noticed demanding mask wearing. One even said they asked it “in line with government regulations”.
The whole town had a decaying feel, many closed or empty shops and businesses, and not that many people about. Hardly surprising.
Yet here in another part of Suffolk it is quite relaxed. Some shops still have “mask required” and hand sanitiser notices but no-one cares that I do neither. Masks are well down in the street and even in the supermarket.
Which town?
Hadleigh?
Yes. And we SHOULD ensure they know how people like us feel. If we just walk away, we’re giving in. Write at the very least. Stay and make a fuss if you’re brave. But don’t just walk away.
In Sainsbury’s North Cheam most people were masked. I congratulated personally the four I found who weren’t. They didn’t seem to understand
Boycott.
Deserves to die.
I am writing to every establishment who promotes this kind of divisive tosh. I don’t suppose it’ll make much difference unless many others do so too. I tell them they’ll alienate more people than they’ll attract – whether that’s true or not, perhaps it’ll be food for thought if I’m not the only one saying it.
It won’t alienate people unless and until they turn. That time has not yet come
Is this shop one of those that accept cards only, no cash? The shop deserves to flounder. Good riddance.
Which town in Suffolk
I’m suprised that they didn’t want them to wear yellow star badges, given the same ‘appreciation’ of leftists of those of the Jewish faith…
My daughter is at another uni which hasn’t gone full on wristband, but still they have to show LFT or vax pass to go into any union events. The best of it is, every single person in her house is now ill, except for her. And guess what is the other thing distinguishing her, apart from being in good health?
It’s ironic but in the 1970’s and 80’s students boycotted Barclays Bank because of its ties to the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
I remember that. And all the singing of “Free Nelson Mandela”. And boycotting South African products!
That was then. The interesting question is what has happened since?
Generally, students a not very politicized now (and actually, neither are the electorate)
Work it out.
Good question. In my day it was all rent strikes and occupying buildings and general protest; not now though.
https://lsu.co.uk/termsandconditions student union will be expecting proof of vaccination or negative test result. Main university will not.
I wonder how they decided that, and whether they were influenced by any external funding.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/internal/coronavirus/latest-updates/update-for-students-06-09-21/
From our university web site about challenging people not obeying the rules
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/internal/studying-working-living/say-when-not-ok/
My goodness, is this for real? Manages to be patronising, and passive aggressive, all at the same time!
I am thankful every day that I was at University several decades ago.
Imagine being the person who writes these instructions. No, better don’t, too traumatizing.
I’m sure it excites them in the most unpleasant and perverse way….. Rather like those people in metaphorical dirty raincoats who want to ”OFFER” jabs to children.
I love how the last point is essentially “snitch on them and run away yourself”. What a perfect advice for our future pillars of society.
I saved this for my Surreal Clip File under the headings: How to “Rat Out” Your Neighbors. How to force others to Comply and Obey.