There follows a guest post by Dr. Peter Hayes, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sunderland, who spies a touch of Orwellian propaganda in the Government’s mixed messages on NHS staff and vaccination.
On November 9th, Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced that all frontline NHS staff must be double vaccinated by April 2022 or lose their jobs. In relaying this news, the BBC first explained the April deadline as being one that would allow staff “enough time” to get the jabs. This, of course, is nonsense: any adult who wants to get twice vaccinated has already had ample time to do so. Insofar as “enough time” means anything, it is a version of the parental ploy: “I am going to count to three, and if you don’t do what you are told by then, I will…”, the only difference being that the threat is not “send you to bed without any supper” but “sack you”.
The BBC soon replaced this lame explanation of the April deadline with a new one of breathtaking audacity. NHS staff had to be vaccinated against Covid, yes, but the deadline was delayed until April so that unvaccinated staff could be on hand to help cope with the winter pressure on the NHS; pressure that is anticipated as a result of the combined effects of Covid and flu.
This second explanation provides a textbook example of doublethink, one that is as good, if not better, than the original illustration given by George Orwell. In 1984 doublethink allows the regime to shift at will between (1) a false account of reality that is held for ideological reasons, and (2) a true account of reality that is kept handy for practical purposes. Thus, it is explained that (1) The world is the centre of the universe with the sun and nearby stars going round it. However, for the purpose of navigating the oceans, (2) the earth orbits the sun and the stars are vastly distant. So it is with the compulsory vaccination, by April, of NHS staff. First we have the false account.
(1) Vaccination protects the recipient against acquiring and transmitting Covid. Therefore, in order not to spread Covid, NHS staff must be vaccinated.
But for the practical purpose of dealing with the winter surge in hospitalisations – Covid included – there is a shift to the true account.
(2) Vaccination does not, in fact, protect the recipient against acquiring and transmitting Covid. Therefore, unvaccinated NHS staff can perfectly well help deal with the anticipated winter surge without making things worse.
When it comes to the spring, let us hope that, like the parent counting to three, the Government will find a way to back down on its threat (“One, Two, …Two-and-a-Half…”). But perhaps we do not need to worry about this too much. For if the Government does dismiss those who stubbornly remain unvaccinated, and then come the next winter the NHS finds itself short staffed, in accordance with the principles of doublethink, the Government can simply rehire them.
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So, why the reference to 2024?
I can only think it is Labours implicit, and sick, support for a proscribed organisation, Hamas.
They are not terrorists, they just work for Hamas, as I believe one person put it.
The only people who would say Hamas aren’t terrorists are the Jew-hating, terrorism-supporting rape-apologists. Everybody in possession of a functioning moral compass has both feet firmly planted in reality.
Downtickers on your marks…
Just thinking out loud… let’s assume that this act of violence was committed not as a protest over the Middle East but for arguments sake because somebody had lost their partner to the jibby jabs, how would that change our thinking, if at all?
Stella Creasy has as far as I am aware supported the government throughout the Scamdemic so she has blood on her hands. I wonder how I would feel if someone close died because they fell for the propoganda. I suspect I would want to achieve rather more than a broken window.
MP’s happily take the money so I suggest they learn to accept the downsides. And I rather suspect similar ‘antisocial’ acts might well become more prevalent once Kneel has his feet under the table and starts to enforce his version of Agenda 2030.
No, it’s not nice.
Now, now, what is the difference between a Jew hater and a Palestinian hater? And the stories of rape and beheaded babies have long been debunked as Israeli propaganda, which does not say much for those making up such perverse stories. And more than one source has claimed that your so-called terrorists performed a purely military operation on 7th October.
But, hey, 7th October was a long time ago. How come your non-terrorist Israelis are still today bombing refugee camps and killing countless innocent civilians – 9 months on?
Was it one week ago that Israeli forces rescued 4 hostages from the hands of Hamas? Only at the cost of the lives of 3 other hostages and over 200 Palestinians, not to mention several hundred wounded Palestinians, the latter presumably being unable to access anything other than minimal medical treatment.
Do you condone such excessive and rather inhumane behaviour? I hope not.
But I am certainly against the destructive actions taken against this politician. People need to sit down together and discuss grievances, not just hit out in violence. And that applies to Israel too, in my opinion.
Oh dear, CGW, I wonder what you would think if it was your baby that was beheaded or your daughter being daily raped in Gaza. Debunked? Are you one of those people who wants to see the photos for yourself, then?
Now there are daily rapes, in among all that rubble? It depends on your source of information, does it not? I read about Israelis sexually mistreating Palestinian prisoners. I have read multiple reports of Hamas ‘terrorists’ comforting their prisoners, telling them they will not be harmed or molested because “we are muslims”. Then they were fired upon by Israeli tanks and all died except for one or two sole Israeli survivors. And pure logic dictates that fighters under attack would be more concerned about their own well-being than playing with the opposite sex or beheading babies. Have you seen the photographs of the Israelis who came up with the latter stories?
So it all depends on what you read and what you believe. And I just do not believe that Israelis have a carte blanche to go around killing thousands of civilians – with what justification, because they are Palestinians?!
You would not understand if it was explained to you using small words. Old saying, or joke; the mind is like a parachute, it works best when open.
Those who call Hamas terrorists should remember that this was also the word used to describe Nelson Mandela. I do not condone the attacks on civilians on Oct 7 but that does not mean I cannot understand what desperation can do after 80 long vile years of Zionist dislocation, ethnic cleansing and slaughter.
The only thing that cheers me about all this (apart from the fact that most people now regard Mandela not as s terrorist but as a saint) is the growing number of noble upstanding Jewish people all over the world who are joining in the condemnation of the Zionist atrocities in Gaza. Judaism does not equal Zionism.
I am not Jewish, but my wife’s father was. A week ago we took a pebble from our London garden to lay on Daddy Moishe’s grave in Brighton. We did so without any doubts that he would have agreed with our views.
What do you think Zionism is, Paul?
What makes you think he is capable of thought? The apologist for the RoP swine.
I do not want to answer for Paul but I think Zionism has resulted in what was a purely Arab area of the world being slowly but surely occupied by a foreign group of people justifying their existence on some thousand year old document or other. Please pardon my ignorance but I look at basic facts, and Israel, currently being accused of apartheid and genocide, did not exist before 1948, and the region has been one of conflict ever since the whole Zionist project started around the end of the 19th century. One can only praise Zionism for its consistency and durability.
What is RoP?
Think about it.
Mandela was a terrorist and commie, the decline in SA is all too obvious. Look at the mortality when black rule starts, increases 5% a year, that’s ppl dying needlessly mostly black ones. Now we all know SA is a corrupt crime hell hole too. Obviously none of this gets reported as it would be “racist” but Mandela is an astoundingly evil and incompetent head of state.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ZAF/south-africa/death-rate
He was.