03-26-2021, 12:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2021, 12:17 PM by backsidebaggie.)
(03-26-2021, 12:09 PM)baggy1 Wrote:(03-26-2021, 12:04 PM)backsidebaggie Wrote:(03-26-2021, 11:59 AM)baggy1 Wrote: You need to look at the context that Boris said it would be needed, he was blustering around not answering questions in PMQs and tripped over his own tongue trying to avoid answering directly as usual.
I hope you’re right that he is just using it to persuade uptake. Because as I say, the idea of a domestic passport to get in places was literally a tin foil hat idea six months ago.
And the more people that go on about it mean that more people will protest and resist meaning that it is more likely to be needed if there is another resurgence of the virus.
However, and here is the catch - if after vaccination it does turn out that those that haven't been vaccinated are causing a new wave of infections, would you then be comfortable with introducing some form of these restrictions, would you mandate the vaccine or would you allow the virus to spread?
I would never mandate a vaccine. From the statistics I have seen, I don’t understand how on earth the small anount of those who choose not to have it can create a surge in hospitalisations (an increase in cases doesn’t matter as long as it’s not an increase in hospitalisations and deaths).
And that is exactly the excuse the tin foil hat nutters have said will be used to mandate it. Literally exactly that. I laughed at them.
High take up of an effective vaccine was supposed to be enough to live with it. The goalposts keep moving and I suspect they’ll continue to.