We’re publishing today a piece by Josie Appleton on the introduction in France today of the beefed-up vaccine passports and how they signify the almost mystical role the vaccines have taken on during the pandemic. Josie – who is author of Toxic Sociality – Reflections on a Pandemic and Officious – Rise of the Busybody State – sees in this an undermining of medical ethics that only harms vaccination itself.
Here’s a taster:
The vaccine passport is a citizenship test for a morally and politically vacuous age. It is entirely passive – it is the simple act of consenting to a medical procedure, after which you are crowned with a civic virtue. This is a citizenship test that occurs on the level of what the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls “bare life”; that is, it is a question of merely biological existence, rather than a question of how a life is lived. Receiving a vaccine pass is mute; there are no words, there is no oath of allegiance to party, country or leader. You offer your body and receive a QR code in return: this is the nature of the new social contract between citizen and state. “Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate” is the mantra for reconstituting authority and society in an age where this authority cannot be grounded on a substantial social basis.
The vaccine is being treated as a mystical state or collective substance that incorporates people into the collective body. Vaccination now is like a sacrament, a transubstantiation ritual; through the vaccine we are receiving the body of the state into our body and therefore joining the community.
One casualty in this is vaccination itself. Considered scientifically, a vaccine – as with any drug – is not a protective talisman or means for membership of a community. It is a medical product with particular qualities and uses, and particular side effects and risks. It may be useful for some groups but not others, and in some contexts but not in others. The rational use of a drug is as important as the drug itself, to ensure that it is directed towards the appropriate ends.
The ideological weaponisation of vaccines distorts these cost-benefit judgements. The vaccine is forced upon people who have little or no need of it, such as children and those with natural immunity, while ignoring those who have need of it. (The older and more vulnerable someone is, the less they are affected by vaccine passports.)
This episode is violating the very basis of health and medical ethics. Through vaccination passports and mandates, it has become acceptable to force someone to take a medical treatment, even a treatment that is not really in their medical interest. When Jean Castex boasted that the vaccine passport led to a rise in people getting their first vaccination, the interviewer pointed out “but they were forced”. Castex shrugged. In normal times, medical force is unacceptable; medical force means the Nazis. When France began vaccinating a year ago, it insisted upon consent forms and pre-vaccine interviews to ensure that people were really consenting. Now, the use of force has become entirely acceptable, it has become ethical in fact. It is the duty of the state to get people to do their duty.
Worth reading in full.
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In a speech delivered Sunday in Brussels, Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav described the striking parallels between what she witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany, and COVID policies being enacted today by governments around the globe.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vera-sharav-never-again-is-now-unless-we-all-resist/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=26cf2504-60c3-4d8d-826f-e930553c5dbc
Macron – a true heir to Marshall Petain and the Vichy government.
Bar stewards!
Wow!
I reread it to myself again, out loud, to get the full impact.
Brilliant writing.
But a tragic scenario.
Macron’s Global Public-Private Partnership is winning in France…
More should be made of the fact that this ‘vaccine’ is only approved for ’emergency use’. So can we expect the Coronacircus Act to be renewed in March?
So much easier to demand accepting a very dubious substance into your body as a condition of citizenship than a demonstrable commitment to the values of France. I’m thinking of the banlieus!
Excellent analysis from Ms Appleton by the way.
George Schulz and his Great Reset Davos chums will be delighted with their useful idiot
Why did the French people vote for such a blithering idiot? Hopefully they’ll exercise their vote more carefully next time.
One must ask what the real reason is for these vaxx mandates in France. It is clear as a bell the experimental biologicals have been a complete failure. The vaxxed are now suffering more cases of omicron, hospitalised and dying. The jabs are worse than useless.
if mr macron was truly interested in the truth, he would have put a stop to this nonsense a long time ago. Sadly money appears to be involved here, because this vaxx mandate is not in the best interest of anyone, especially children who are at zero risk.
Macron is truly evil as are most country’s leaders. All subservient to the self declared globalist “elites” who consider their vast wealth, perhaps ill-gained, entitles them to rule over us.
We need rid of the lot of them.
The week 3 HSA covid-19 vaccine surveillance report shows that the triple vaccinated in the 60-69 year-old age group are more than 2x as likely to test positive for the virus than the unvaccinated. Across all people over 30 the triple vaccinated are 57% more likely to test positive. See Table 12 P 38 of the following report.
COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report – week 3 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
The first thing I noticed was the spelling error in the table! Putting that on one side (although it might reflect their standards of checking/reviewing what they publish), it can lead to a lot of speculation. There’s no obvious cause and effect relationship between the use of the product, and the occurrence of the illness (let’s pretend that the test results are true for the time being). Could it be that there is a relatively small proportion in the 60-69 group that have not used it at all, but are virtually immune for other reasons that are not well understood by the usual suspects? Another possibility is that the group under consideration has a tendency to be vulnerable to the infection, but the product on offer just does what it said on the tin – i.e. only mitigating the symptoms, not preventing infection.
Either way, it shows that there is no logic in the policy of discriminating between individuals on the grounds being promoted at present, and it tends to open the door to legal action against discrimination.
Remove citizenship to make them stateless? Then replace them with compliant Africans? Not as if this hasn’t been foretold.
TO the french that lose citizenship. Become a migrant elsewhere, free housing, phone, food and no medical jags.
Jesus – how depressing.
A choice between the end of bodily autonomy or ‘citizenship’ is clearly citizenship’s epitaph. Anyone supporting it is embracing slavery, not just for those ‘others’ but for themselves. If they can’t see that I guess they are already enjoying their enslavement.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
An absolutely knock-out article, Mademoiselle Appleton. Congratulations.
Macron absolutely has to get Le Pen through to the second round of the Presidential elections in April to stand any chance of getting reelected. If Pecresse is the other candidate in the second round then Macron has no chance of winning
That’s all there is to Macrons vaccination policy. Election politics. A hard line with vaccination is very popular with the only voting block that Macron has any real support, urban affluent professionals. Most of his current vote. And will add a few percent to Le Pens vote as the strongest anti-vax candidate. Enough to really hurt Pecresse.
The fact that Macron will kill tens of thousands of people through adverse effects and has engaged in pure Vichy abuse of basic human rights is irrelevant. The callous incompetence of people of his class killed 15K old people during the heatwave in 2003. No one in a position of power paid a price for all those deaths. None.
Onwards to the 6’th Republic because the 5’th Republic is well and truly dead.
If Macron keeps pushing too hard the citizens may bring out Madame Guillotine. Especially, when the fully boosted start dropping and finally they twig they have been well and truly sold out.
One of the best descriptions of what is going on that I have ever read.
Seems like his ego is in play. The more the protests go on the more he seems to want to double down harder. Same here in Canada with Trudeau. A massive truck convoy heading to the capital to protest vax mandates and apparently he’s called them “terrorists” and is looking at calling in the military.
If the French re-elect Macron they will be committing Cultural Suicide and ruining their health in one go!
He does appear to have declared War on the French people he has always held in total contempt.
While reading this article I was suddenly struck by a similarity to an old advert that used to be a regular feature of nighttime TV, my re-interpretation of it goes thus:
(Limited time offer only).
Those of you not born in the 80’s had better look here:
https://tube.connect.cafe/watch?v=4q8inM0gKVo
How much does Gates have to pay to get Macron to say things like this? He is clearly not ignorant enough to believe anything he is saying and he is something of a political heavyweight, so the price must be high. Obviously Drakeford and Sturgeon would do it for a £50 donation to their ‘independence’ parties, but Macron is in a different league.
I suspect a much simpler motivation: Macron knows that he’s very much not loved by a sizable part of the formely French population and has an election upcoming. If France is similar to other countries in this respect, unvaccinated people will tendencially belong to groups who are opposed to Macron. Hence, by stripping them of their citizenship, he gets rid of a bunch of voters who could be instrumental from stopping him from a second term in office.
The real scandal here is democ-rats getting to restrict the franchise to their supporters. That’s not how democracy is supposed to work, or rather, that’s how so-called democracy used to work in the former eastern bloc.
German Government “Concerned” About Massive Anti-COVID Restriction Protests | ZeroHedge – the news on here is encouraging, especially the comments underneath the article. Apparently in Canada, the truckers set up a go fund me page to fund a convoy protest, its up to 2.5 million ! Also good to see that there are protests all around the world still, not that it is covered MSM.
Convoy to Ottawa 2022 | Facebook
I wonder how those who have served in the French armed forces, or have represented or served their country in some way feel about this? Quite frankly I would not want to be in Micron’s shoes…
World Economic Forum building back better.
Surprised how few question that. Perhaps a body language expert looking al Justin Trudeau might reveal a few things when just brushing it off as a conspiracy!
Last year’s conspiracy theory, todays government press release.
“The fetishism of Covid vaccination is at base a fetishism of bureaucracy.”
From this piece, a contribution to that astute observation:
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/what-convinced-you-containment-was-88c
“One red flag that caught my attention early on was threat inflation. Those with knowledge of security issues should recognize the problem immediately, because it is so pervasive in our field. National security bureaucracies have a vested interest in inflating the threats they are facing in order to justify their budgets, prestige, and their powers.
We can see this at work in the war on drugs, human trafficking, military force posture planning, even nuclear strategy. The worst offender is, by far, the global war on terror since 2001. All the mentioned threats are real, which is why they are plausible at face value, it just their likelihood and severity that are grossly exaggerated.
And the hygiene theater around covid strongly resembles the security theater around terrorism, where most policy measures are meant to show action without actually being effective (or even counterproductive).”
Macron is the leader with the biggest God complex of them all.
I am boycotting anything French, German, Austrian, Italian, Australian plus Nike, Ikea, Apple, Fenwick, Morrisson’s etc. until they’ve rediscovered the moral compass.
Add Eataly to the list as well. The only place on my long walk yesterday that aggressively and persistently asked people to wear masks. They accepted the E word, but still.
Temporarily.
Prior to the French Revolution a certain Clique in Europe are alleged to have said, I paraphrase: “We need to get rid of the aristocrats and royalty and bring it about that a country’s leaders are plucked from the masses. This way we’ll be able to fully control the nation”.
There’s no doubt that the aristocrats and royalty in late 18th century France hadn’t the citizen’s very best interests at heart. They were, though, intelligent enough to know that they needed to maintain a symbiotic relationship between themselves and the peasants in order to remain in power and keep the taxes flowing into their coffers.
There would also have been an element of patriotism in the aristocrats and royalty. A genetic connection would have existed between the rulers and the ruled. There would also have been on some level a tribal connection between the rulers and the ruled.
This symbiotic relationship and tribal connection stood in the way of the Cabal gaining the total control it wanted in France. Thus, the revolution and wholesale slaughter of the ruling classes.
Now we see in France what a leader that’s been plucked from the masses is like. A… Read more »
I want to know who you think the Cabal is.
You know who he thinks comprise the Cabal: your people.
That’s what I thought. 😉