Vaccine passports are here, no matter what the Government might say – Issue XXIII
Our busy body elite loves nothing more than to tell people what to do and to allow government to restrict the freedoms of the people.
Cartoon by Crid.
This is an excerpt of an article that features in our 23rd print issue.
I’ve written before on the tricky subject of Covid vaccine passports, specifically in a domestic sense. The arguments then were tied to a high level of vaccine uptake rendering their utility void – that argument still stands. However, now more than ever I believe the redundancy of the policy stands out all the clearer with the onset of the 'Delta' variant.
It was my belief, and the belief of many, that the vaccines would have great utility in bringing down Covid to near rock bottom levels – excluding the risk of variants from abroad. Yet the Delta variant shot this fanciful dream down before it got off the ground; transmissibility is exceedingly high, and this seems to apply to the vaccinated as much as it does the unvaccinated.
An idea that is familiar to the anti-lockdown brigade, which I now identify with more strongly, is that no amount of government restriction could control this unusually high transmission virus which will continue to mutate indefinitely. Wave after wave will come and go, as it does with influenza.
Covid passes, which are intended to exclude the unvaccinated for the sake of safety, become even more redundant due to this Delta variant and variants to come. If catching Covid is a high likelihood to everyone in the immediate future, and avoiding Covid means a permanent restriction of basic living and freedom, then why does the Government insist on their implementation?
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