News Round-Up
7 May 2024
Liz Truss may have foresworn future lockdowns, but at the time she publicly supported the restrictions and voted in favour of vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. Sceptic she was not.
Despite first insisting vaccine passports would never happen and then scrapping them weeks after they were introduced, an FOI shows the Government is planning to switch them on whenever they are 'needed'.
Lockdowns, masks, fast-tracked vaccines and vaccine passports – all emerged from a radical biosecurity agenda that can be traced back to the Bush White House in 2005 and as of 2020 has established itself as orthodoxy.
Vestiges of the Covid regime persist everywhere, either in relation to flying or within countries. The UK is a welcome outlier with respect to the absence of Covid regulations.
Novak Djokovic will not be allowed to play in the U.S. Open in August due to his declining the COVID-19 vaccine – an unhappy reminder that the U.S. continues to discriminate ruthlessly against unvaccinated visitors.
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.
U.S. tennis legend John McEnroe has led calls for President Joe Biden to ease the “ridiculous” Covid ban on unvaccinated people entering the country to allow Novak Djokovic to compete at the U.S. open.
Deprivation of rights for months on end, constantly-shifting petty rules backed up with threats, victimisation of particular groups – there's a word for how Governments have treated us the past two years: bullying.
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.
The European Parliament has voted to approve an EU Commission proposal to renew the EU Digital Covid Certificate for another year, despite 99% of the responses to the public consultation being opposed.
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