Even the vaccinated aren’t safe from the consequences of vaccine passports

If your unvaccinated neighbour can be blacklisted from society then let me assure you that you can be as well.

In Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons, there is an interaction between the 16th century English lawyer and member of Parliament, William Roper, and Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII’s High Chancellor.

Roper asks More: ‘So, now you give the Devil the benefit of the law!’

More replies: ‘Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?’

‘Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that,’ Roper excitedly responds.

Sir Thomas More stings Roper in Bolt’s beautiful prose: ‘Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?… do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!’

If the Prime Minister can cut down the freedoms of England to chase a virus, where will vaccine passport advocates hide in the future when the circumstances change and they find the liberties they need for their defence have vanished?

Michael Curzon and S D Wickett discuss the introduction of vaccine passports.

Vaccine passports diminish us all, not just the unvaccinated. A double-dosed inoculation enthusiast may be eligible to enter a nightclub in the autumn but they will have to perform an active prosocial deed to be afforded that liberty. Usually, freedoms are deprived as a result of a failure to refrain from antisocial acts. Once that flips we are all – not just the ‘hesitant‘ or even the ‘anti-vaxxers’ – vulnerable to the demands of benevolent bio-authoritarians keeping us ‘safe’.

Those who have chosen not to accept the offer of a vaccine or who have deferred their decision until the hard-sell quietens (including those who have been infected already and may have acquired natural defences as good as any available ‘jab’) will be blacklisted from participating in certain aspects of society.

If your unvaccinated neighbour can be blacklisted from society then let me assure you that you can be as well. The laws would be flat and we have little chance of staying upright in the winds that would blow in the future.