A group of medical researchers and bioethicists have written a comprehensive assessment of Covid vaccine coercion policies, encompassing passports, mandates and segregated lockdowns. They argue in no uncertain terms that these measures are “scientifically questionable” and “ethically problematic”.
While most of the points in their article will be familiar to readers of the Daily Sceptic, the article is valuable in virtue of its sheer breadth and attention to detail. I’ll try to provide a brief summary.
Kevin Bardosh and colleagues begin by noting that the publicly communicated rationale for Covid vaccine policies has shifted over time, from ‘ending the pandemic’ and ‘getting back to normal’, to reducing the burden on the healthcare system. (Such shifts do not inspire confidence that policymakers really know what they’re doing.)
The authors spend the bulk of the article discussing the harmful unintended consequences of Covid vaccine policies, drawing on insights from the behavioural sciences, law and bioethics.
They cite evidence that the coercive nature of Covid vaccine policies is likely to reduce compliance with other public health measures, including recommendations to take existing vaccines (which have much longer track records than the Covid vaccines). This owes to mechanisms of psychological reactance and loss of trust in the health authorities.
The authors argue that such effects will be compounded by the use of stigmatisation as a public health strategy, and by the dissemination of misleading or false claims on the part of health authorities (such as Anthony Fauci’s claim that, once vaccinated, “you become a dead end to the virus”).
As regards the former, the authors have compiled a list of some of the most incendiary statements made by politicians about unvaccinated people.
Emmanuel Macron admitted his aim was “pissing them off”. Justin Trudeau described them as “extremists who don’t believe in science”, adding “they’re often misogynists, also often racists”. Naftali Bennett accused them of “endangering their health, those around them and the freedom of every Israeli citizen”.
Yet as Bardosh and colleagues note, many unvaccinated people had perfectly good reasons for remaining unvaccinated, such as being in a low-risk category or having natural immunity from previous infection.
Turning to the legality of Covid vaccine policies, the authors note that many measures were merely decrees, passed under states of emergency in the absence of normal democratic governance. As a result, injured parties (such as those who lost their livelihood) have had fewer or no opportunities for proper redress.
Vaccine passports also constitute a significant infringement on privacy, insofar as they require the sharing of medical information with people other than one’s doctor, including not only border officials, but owners of pubs, restaurants and nightclubs.
What’s more, vaccine mandates that disproportionately restrict people’s access to things like work, education and social life can be considered violations of basic human rights, the authors argue. This may explain why the WHO’s Director of Immunisation said in 2020, “I don’t think we envision any countries creating a mandate for vaccination.”
There are many other interesting observations in the paper itself, which is worth reading in full.
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NHS – overpaid and under worked.
That’s all folks!
Remind me – during the general elections over the past 14 years – who told us this was going to be government policy for the NHS.
So now the contest is whether Curr Stammer’s Labour-isn’t-working Party is going to ‘improve’ on these policies in not just in a race to the bottom but in a feverish bid to dig like crazy to make the bottom even deeper.
The choice for the voter is between worse of even worse.
And our next Secretary of State for Health is that Wes Streeting who tries to tell us he had a real job – in the voluntary sector – before becoming a career politician.
But that is total crap – guess which organisation his one ‘real’ job was with?
You’ll never do it.
Stonewall.
I have one definite scientific observation – these people have too much time on their hands. And instead of using it to improve the NHS they spend it on this kind of stupidity.
Unbelievable in the supposed era of evidence-based medicine.
When i worked in the NHS there were all kinds of religions represented: Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox, Deists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Druse, Buddhists… Maybe there were some Mormons or JWs, but I was never aware of them.
So how come not only the NHS, but all our institutions, are now run by a Gender Cult that rides roughshod over all those to impose its wacky beliefs, and the rationalist atheists as well?
Funding, influencers, infiltrators, extremist foot soldiers, time and minimum resistance.
And the vast majority of citizens who are PAYE and never really have to look at how much of their salary is stolen from them to support this hell.
……..and fourteen years of a fake Conservative Party.
And the ‘Chief’ in charge of this institution that belongs to the ‘worst-performing’ Trust in the Midlands, if not the country is – ‘AMANda Pritchard. Yes, the clue is in his name -another man pretending to be a woman with all the time and salary in the world to come up with contemptible garbage to infuriate the patients.
This idiot must live in a Disney Dreamworld made up of rainbow unicorns and 21 fey pixies all waving little multi-coloured flags to let you know which mental disease they’re experiencing today. They swap them around next day so everyone has a turn at being a freakshow.
Embarrassing. Ridiculous. Sick-making.
The incompetent Woke Virtue-Signallers in the Trust who appointed this man suffering from vagina-envy and inflicting his problem on ill or injured people should be sacked along with ‘Amanda’.
Dear patient
we can’t do your hip replacement today, we’ve spent the cash on a new flag.
Please advise your pronoun, as we are now prioritising operations based on this.
Regards, Woke Administration Dept.
My Polish friend, tells me that the British have got the health service they deserve. She says we don’t, as a nation, complain enough and that this leads to substandard service and products.
There must surely be some studies showing that the median IQ of many woke nations is in free fall. I can see the evidence with my own eyes; the undemanding exams through the Education system, the lack of critical thinking displayed during Covid & now Climate Change, and finally the moronic cultists who are happily pictured pushing this nonsense.
They think life improves if you bang pots and pans together, wave a few flags and dance in TikTok videos. Their make-believe world will soon collapse and they just won’t know what to do.
“Every one is welcome here”
Thats all they needed to print on the banner, would have saved ink!
Gotta keep the sign writers employed.
And the sign writers diversity team!
What all NHS staff need is to attend a presentation by the always excellent James Lindsay. That is the antidote they need to deradicalize their addled and captured minds and bust them out of the cult they’re well and truly pledging their allegiance to. These unethical woketards have a duty of care to their patients and they’re doing the exact opposite. Parallels with Covid, of course, but this time they’re going after the kids specifically, which absolutely crosses a line. Some quality notes from a recent presentation James did here;
”Unlike gay identity, which, though deliberately proclaimed in an act of affirmation, is nonetheless rooted in the positive fact of homosexual object-choice, queer identity need not be grounded in any positive truth or in any stable reality. As the very word implies, “queer” does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence.
So nobody is “queer.” People feel “queer” against some standard, perhaps imagined, and people act queerly. By that, it means they act defiantly against normalcy and legitimacy while denying reality. You can only perform queerness—or, if you refuse, straightness. Performing straightness, to Queer Theory, isn’t being who you are if you’re straight; it’s just another kind of performance, one that upholds the allegedly oppressive “status quo” instead of opposing it.” David Halperin.
”Under the standard Iron Law of Woke Projection, the dispensing of existence aspect of cult environments is why Woke activists say everything is “denying their existence” or a “genocide.” They’re projecting. You don’t have a right to exist if your beliefs “deny their right to exist.” In Queer Theory, this means if you don’t affirm their embodied political activism against the legitimate and the normal, you’re denying their existence. You are therefore beyond the pale of humanity and do not deserve to exist. All totalitarian genocides come from this darkest piece of cult logic.
What we must do is start with the truth. Not the mediated “truth” peddled by the corrupt institutions. The plain, simple truth. There are two sexes. Most people are straight. Gay happens. Queer isn’t an identity; it’s a defiant political stance we don’t have to tolerate or accommodate. If someone claims to have an identity or sexuality that requires an explanation, it’s fake and doesn’t demand our respect. Predatory behavior of any kind in any place and perversion outside of the confines of consenting adults acting in private do not deserve our tolerance and shouldn’t be given it. Pornography doesn’t need to exist in children’s libraries, and children do not benefit from its presence there. Enough.”
https://newdiscourses.com/2024/03/queer-theory-doctrine-sex-based-cult/
I was at a pharmacist and they were running through some questions on a form, till it came to stuff about gender or some other total crap like that. I said “Can we just miss all of that out please”? —–After all there was no need for me to be rude. The lady said “Eh hold on” She scrolled down the page a bit and Siad “Oh yes it seems that it isn’t compulsory”. —-I replied “That is just as well because I won’t be answering any of that stuff”. ——–This is what we all must do. POINT BLANK REFUSE to participate in this crap.
Yep. I already do.
The NHS is rapidly becoming a mental institute, where the staff are the patients.
The NHS employees are taking the P–s how much longer are we expected to cough up billions to allow these people to gleefully rub faecal matter in our faces
Sorry – but what a bunch of cupid stunts!!
Big up for the spooner
How can they have the check to say “everyone is welcome here” so shortly after staff and patients were being refused, bullied and hounded out during Covid?
The only way to bring this nonsense to a grinding halt is to start unceremoniously picking out the offenders, and publicly naming and shaming them before sacking them.
And tell any subsequent employment tribunal to farq orf.
I went to my surgery at the beginning of December. It is now April 15th and I have only just found out what my issue is. (It is nothing serious as it happens). ——-But imagine if you took your car to a garage in December and it took to the middle of April for them to tell you that you need an alternator? ——–How are they getting away with this?
I am due an appointment with a ticker specialist and have been waiting to see him for six months. Four, yes 4 appointments have been cancelled and rescheduled. Next due end of May. I doubt it will happen.
Thinking of you, hux. Fingers crossed.
Thanks M A k it’s very kind of you.
Good Luck. ——–The precious NHS can never be criticised or we are all “ungrateful”. ———-I often use the analogy that we can all have a second hand Polo but never a Mercedes. I think for the money this NHS is costing us we maybe should not have a merc but definitely more than a used Polo
I think we are perfectly justified in criticising the NHS seeing as we pay for it, the most senior of us for many decades.
Personally, having gone six years without the sight, sound or smell of a GP, I no longer care to see one. Surgeries seem to be organised to erect as many barriers as possible between patients and the services they are entitled to. Nurse Practitioners are, on the whole, as good if not better than GPs but less well paid.
Why not abolish GPs altogether and save millions to spend on more NPs and hospitals that are not run by trans & queer activists who like to shove every sexual perversion that exists down your throat?
I’ve never been interested in other people’s sex lives and certainly don’t want to hear about them in a bloody hospital!
You need to understand the subtext to all of this. And why you are angry about it.
These activists are not being funded by people who are concerned to promote the activists points of view.
These activist missions are chosen because they undermine Western democratic values and create division and conflict just as the failed experiment of the drive to multiculturalism does.
And part of this is to make people so angry they start to take direct action which will eventually turn into violence and eventually paramilitary action.
At that point we lose all our democratic rights, the army moves in with an armed police force and we are governed under martial law with no freedoms.
That is what it is all about. Or at least what I describe is an approximation to where this is potentially headed.
The bottom line is we have no clear idea of who is driving all of these movements which are destroying common western values.
Look at the schoolchildren today who come home indoctrinated with climate change, LGBTxxxxx whatever, bizarre gender views and suchlike driving division between parents and children.
And it is the teachers and head teachers who are responsible for making it happen or at least some of them and rather too many it would seem.
I do understand the subtext and it may go the way you describe. On the other hand the politicos are playing a dangerous game and civil war or violent revolution may result.
How fondly I remember Mr & Mrs Ceaucescu being shot against a wall when they pushed the Romanians too far.
So in essence it means that every human being is equal within the healthcare system, in fact as has always been the case. There you go, I’ve saved them a fortune, and they won’t need to ask any stupid questions.