Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has admitted that the Government is “coaxing and cajoling” young Brits into getting vaccinated against Covid with plans to introduce vaccine passports at nightclubs and other “large venues”, but warned that students will have to wait for months to find out whether they need to be fully vaccinated to attend university lectures and to live in halls.
Given that Raab says “these decisions will be taken in September”, the month in which the university term starts, it is hard to see how students will have any “advance warning” of vaccine status checks, as he suggests they will. BBC News has more.
Mr Raab was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme whether the Government was in favour of going further and making the vaccine pass compulsory in more settings.
“I think the key principle is in crowded places where we want to open up… whether it’s going to a football game or pop concert, we want to make sure people can do that,” he said.
And asked whether they were planning to require students in university halls to get vaccinated, Mr Raab said: “When we come to the crunch, these decisions will be taken in September. We’ve got some time to go.
“Right the way through this pandemic we’ve had to take advice and decisions based on the evidence when we see it.
“We will certainly make sure university students have advance warning, of course we’re going to be mindful of this.”
He said he had recently visited France, where they had a big surge in vaccinations after bringing in a health pass for many activities.
“It’s a little bit of coaxing and cajoling and also making clear that ultimately over September when we know we’ll see, as a result of coming out of the lockdown step four, an increase in cases, we can control that with backstop safeguard measures.”
Latest Government figures show that more than 71% of adults have now had two jabs, while 88% have had a first dose.
Young people who are within three months of turning 18 – meaning those who are soon able to go to university – and those aged 12-17 who live with people who have a suppressed immune system, can now also get a jab.
The idea to make vaccines compulsory for university students was not ruled out by either education minister Vicky Ford or Downing Street when asked about it earlier this week.
“We are still looking at the scope for vaccination certifications,” the Number 10 spokesman said on Monday.
Earlier this week, the trade union for academic staff such as lecturers, criticised the idea following news reports.
“Students should be prioritised for vaccinations, to ensure as many as possible have the opportunity to be vaccinated by September,” said the University and College Union.
“But making vaccinations compulsory as a condition to access their education is wrong and would be hugely discriminatory against those who are unable to be vaccinated, and international students.”
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“SLIT THROAT of JK Rowling,”
So, Jeremy Clarkson gets lambasted for a joke inferring a fictional walk of shame for Megan markle, but this person gets to make a direct threat against someone’s life and nothing is said!! Arrest her and make her pay the full price of the law.
It also speaks volumes that Twitter would ban the likes of any doctor or highly credentialed expert who shared actual facts and data that inconveniently contradicts the Official Narrative but a POS like this human car crash with their death threats is totally acceptable. Could Clown World be any more f*cked up??
Morning All!
A good Thread from Dr Clare Craig about the Marburg Virus…essentially pointing out it’s neither new or novel….
https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1626880386734104580
1998-2000 Democratic Republic of Congo 128 deaths from 154 cases in gold miners
2004-2005 Angola 150 deaths from 163 cases
2007 Uganda 2 miners died
2008 one death caught from bat in Ugandan by Dutch tourist
2009 one case caught from bat in Ugandan cave by US tourist
2008 one death caught from bat in Ugandan by Dutch tourist
2010 nothing
2011 nothing
2013 nothing
2014 Hospital worker died but no cases among their 197 contacts – Uganda
2015 nothing
2016 nothing
2017 Three deaths from three cases after man visited bat cave in Uganda and Kenya
2018 nothing
2019 nothing
2020 noting
2021 One death Guinea
2022 Two deaths three cases Ghana
2023 9 deaths, 16 suspected cases, 1 positive PCR test Equatorial Guinea
2 false positives in Cameroon
The 2023 outbreak is on a par with 2012.
Because it is spread via bodily fluids in the sick interventions to contain its spread work.
The first thing I noticed was…DONT go into bat caves!! LOL!
Second thing is this re-tweet to Clare from Robin Monotti…
Join the dots..
#Marburg #MarburgVirus #MarburgScam twitter.com/DrTedros/statu…
“NIH January 30th 2023…Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-
human study.”
double LOL!
https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/the-tte-data-snapshot-week-5?r=zi22l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson with a TTE weekly update….what is astonishing this week is their info/graphs about NHS absenteeism….
NHS staff absences might interest you: on 14 Nov 2022, there were 50,067 staff absent from work through sickness or self-isolation in English acute hospitals. By 5 Feb 2023, this increased by 11,362 absences a day to 61,429, a 23 per cent increase compared with three months ago.
The locum agencies will be having a field day. Add to the current absences the number of vacancies, and you’re looking at over 100,000 hospital folks missing from action. If this trend continues, they’ll be no one left to go on strike.
You have just got to love Babylon Bee….
https://babylonbee.com/news/corporation-celebrates-lgbtq-pride-by-making-ohio-river-rainbow-colored
Corporation Celebrates LGBTQ Pride With Rainbow-Colored River
EAST PALESTINE, OH — In a powerful display of solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, Norfolk Southern dumped thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Ohio River to create beautiful rainbow-colored water.
“Wow! So pretty! Look at all those colors!” said CEO Alan H. Shaw. “We hope our valued members of the LGBTQQIP2SAA+++ community feel seen and valued by our loving gesture of support.
Don’t drink it though,” he warned.
Activists and allies around the country celebrated the beautiful shimmering display at a time when many believe corporations are just going through the motions with their LGBTQ+ support. “While other multi-billion-dollar companies simply change their logos for a month, Norfolk Southern went the extra mile,” said local queer activist and preschool teacher Xen Minxie. “So inspiring. Now can someone please look at this strange growth on my neck?”
Norfolk Southern confirmed there are more pride-themed surprises on the way, starting with rainbow-colored acid rain next week.
‘They tried to buy me…What do you want? You can have anything you want”’ Andrew Bridgen details the alleged bribery he has endured from Number 10 to get him to stop speaking about the COVID-19 vaccines.
https://twitter.com/Dominiquetaegon/status/1627315949777846274?cxt=HHwWhICwvYDPsZUtAAAA
https://twitter.com/juneslater17/status/1627105498427162624?s=20