Matt Hancock tweeted today:
"I'm pleased the Coronavirus Act has been renewed with an overwhelming majority 306.
The Act is crucial for our strategy: to suppress the virus, supporting the economy, education, and the NHS until a vaccine can keep us safe."
Must admit, I had no idea the government HAD a strategy at all, but at least now we know: we are going to be muddling along in the same start-stop way, subject to government interference in our family lives and all aspects of society "until a vaccine can keep us safe".
Whenever that is.
And here is tory MP Tobias Ellwood, speaking in the House of Commons on 28th September, about the challenges of rolling out a vaccination programme:
"I believe that the biggest challenge will be in managing the transition period—potentially up to a year—*when parts of our society have been liberated from the threat of covid-19 and seek to return to normality, but those who have yet to be vaccinated are still subject to social distancing rules*. We need to get the planning right today so we can avoid the logistical challenges that we suffered with PPE and testing. In the spirit of global Britain, we can then share our blueprint and plans with other nations, especially those without such advanced logistical capabilities as ours."
So there you have it: the government has bet the farm on a vaccine becoming available before we all die of something other than covid, and if you decide for yourself you don't think covid is enough of a risk to you personally to volunteer for the rushed-through vaccine, you will be subject to continuing restrictions on your civil liberties.
We will have a two-tier society, with those who haven't been vaccinated being excluded from normal life.
According to The History of Vaccines (by the Royal College of Physicians of Philadelphia), "vaccine development is a long, complex process, often lasting 10-15 years". By contrast, the covid vaccine that we will need to accept in order for our rights to be returned to us will have taken maybe a couple of years.
What could possibly go wrong?🙄🙄🙄
We will have a two-tier society, with those who haven't been vaccinated being excluded from normal life.
It'll be worse than that: the restrictions which officialdom will impose on our lives are only one half of the equation.
The brainwashed, bed-wetting elements among the citizenry, their fears stoked by the government and lying media, will undoubtedly "do their bit" by making whatever is left of our lives as unbearable as possible, if their performance thus far is anything to go by --- and I've little doubt that it is.
Parliament is offering no real opposition, save a few lone voices: we'll wait forever and in vain for MPs to defend us. And of course, if we dare protest peacefully, then the police will be sent in to crack our heads, as we saw on Saturday.
As one who is more or less a lifelong conservative, I never thought I'd ever say it, but this country needs a revolution. ...And soon.
Very soon the battleground is going to shift from lockdown to proof-of-vaccination.
Now, I'm very far from being an antivaxer, but I absolutely refuse to permit my family to be injected with any drug for which the creators have been absolved of responsibility. That is a line I will not cross.
Perhaps our rallying cry should be "Remember Thalidomide". It was not a vaccine, and part of me feels terrible bandwagoning on the suffering of those poor people (I'm old enough to have seen the fallout first hand), but we need some way to protest unnecessary vaccination without being labelled as antivaxers.
Showing the public what can happen with even a (supposedly) properly-tested medicine might make them think twice about the risk to themselves and their family.
we need some way to protest unnecessary vaccination without being labelled as antivaxers
Oh, they'll label us regardless, just as they do now. Any person who thinks the government or the media is deliberately skewing the picture about the seriousness of the Coronavirus is routinely branded "a conspiracy theorist" or a "denier". It's just standard smear-tactics.
And unfortunately a significant section of the population is so brainwashed that they will believe that we are exactly what the government and media tell them we are.
We'll need thick skins if we're to fight this.
By the way, have you seen this film?
And if you have proven anti-bodies is there really any benefit to being treated with a potentially unproven vaccine?
Again i'm hardly an 'anti vaccer' when it comes to proven vaccines on MMR, Typhoid etc etc but I can't see a world in which i'd get one for covid especially as have/had corona antibodies and i don't get a flu jab annually as a mild illness doesn't scare me and i'd prefer my able body to deal with it
I hope there will be some way of not having mandatory vaccine in the future and finally people say enough is enough on this or you can find a medical reason not to have one or find a way of obtaining a certificate...
