Tag: France

The French pay the same for their health service as Brits, but this gets them far more doctors and nurses, much less bureaucracy and much better outcomes. Why don't we ditch the 'our NHS' dogma and learn from them?

Opposition MPs defeated a proposal by Emmanuel Macron's Government to extend vaccine passports for travellers entering France, raising major doubts over the President’s ability to pass new laws.

France is planning to extend its vaccine passport scheme obliging travellers to present proof of vaccination, proof of recovery or negative test results to enter France until at least the end of March 2023.

A French region bans gatherings "due to the heatwave"; Germany mulls an annual winter mask mandate; and China uses its Covid app to target protestors. Some of the worst fears of sceptics are coming true.

Given the field day the world’s petty bureaucrats, busybodies and bourgeois bullies have had with Covid, it's something of a victory to go to France and see things change so fast for the better.

Rules requiring people to show a vaccine passport to access venues and to wear a face mask indoors will be lifted in France on March 14th, French PM Jean Castex has said, just in time for the election.

Freedom Convoy protests continue in Canada, France and New Zealand – three countries where extreme responses to Covid have persisted for two years and where the unvaccinated are targeted with harsh restrictions.

Under France's vaccine passport, the vaccine is being treated as a mystical state that incorporates people into the collective body. Vaccination now is like a sacrament; through the vaccine we are joining the community.

France has said it will lift its ban on UK tourists tomorrow after pleas from the tourism industry – but only for the vaccinated, despite current infections being overwhelmingly in vaccinated people.

A petition signed by more than 1.2 million people, including doctors, nurses and vaccinated citizens, protesting against vaccine passports has been delivered to the National Assembly in France.