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A response to ‘What to do about the Anti-vaxxers ~ there are three options’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 20 December 2021 ~ The Liberal solution to Anti-vaxxers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two things ~ two of many ~ that liberals are not very good at, but believe they are, is twisting their square-pegged ideology into the round holes of democracy and, when it suits them, which is most of the time, lathering a thick and sickly synthetic icing of Holier Than Thou on the cake that they want to have and eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, the two-faced two faces of liberalism, in all its disingenuous and dissimulating tawdriness, emerges yet again in two media articles, one from The Independent<\/em> (The Independent My Arse! Who said that?) and the other from The Guardian<\/em> (The Guardian of what?), both articles seemingly wrestling with the question, how can people who are reluctant to have a \u2018Friday afternoon vaccine\u2019 pumped into their bodies be compelled to do so? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless you understand the liberal way, you might ask yourself the question, how could anyone of this political persuasion pursue such gross illiberalism and still try to pass themselves off as the champions of equality, human rights and civil liberties? It’s called ulterior motive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberal Solution to Anti-vaxxers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Let us take a gander at that first article, the one from The Independent<\/em>1<\/sup>, and deal with the cynical iced-bun version in a later post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What I personally enjoyed about the first article was its compromising headline. It immediately set the tone of the piece, condescending and arrogant, and left me in no doubt that what I was about to read would be a consummate example of illiberal neoliberalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is that headline:
\u2018What to do about the Anti-vaxxers ~ there are three options\u20191<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is nothing new about condescension and arrogance from illiberal-liberal sources, it is their stock-in-trade, their signature, but what I did find interesting in the mindset of this piece and the ideological perspective from which it is written was the schematic way in which a solution to the anti-vaxxer problem had been approached, mapped out and presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article has all the makings of a future historical document, something remarkably similar to those which, back in 1940s\u2019 Germany, would have been served up in an emblem-impressed file and handed around to those who sat in judgement in the offices of Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before outlining and analysing the various solutions to the anti-vaxxer problem, the document pedals generalisations and pushes assumptions that would make even the most dissembling fact checker blush:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.<\/strong> \u201cThe threat to society at large from Omicron comes not from the virus itself but from pressures on the NHS from rapidly growing numbers of serious infections among the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response:<\/strong> Read this: https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/evidence-mounts-that-people-with-breakthrough-infections-can-spread-delta-easily<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do your own research, compile your own statistics: Ask yourself the question, how many people do you know who are double-jabbed and boostered who have still gone on to contract the virus? We know of several to date. We also know several unvaccinated people who have had coronavirus but had a mild version and treated themselves at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.<\/strong> \u201cThe pressures are felt by NHS staff but also those whose treatment for other diseases is disrupted or postponed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response:<\/strong> The NHS is under pressure, there is no doubt about that, but a substantial proportion of that pressure comes from hoards of terrified people running to doctors and hospitals in response to the terror tactics used by the UK media. Some have been wise to present with their symptoms; others have merely created longer queues and consumed valuable GP time, suffering from nothing more than abject panic. The majority of Brits who are vaccinated are putting further pressure on the NHS by running back to it in droves for more shots as instructed by their government, boosters which might or might not protect them ~ the degree to which they do, if they do, is unsubstantiated ~ from the unfortunate, but who can say not apt, anagrammatic Covid variant Moronic. How can the NHS not be under pressure, ie \u201cGPs will be told to cancel appointments to dedicate resources to offering vaccines to every UK adult by the end of December2<\/sup>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is painfully true that treatment for other diseases is being disrupted or postponed, which is inexcusable but quite understandable. It is a deplorable situation which came about when the National Health Service ceased to be the National Health Service and became instead the Covid Health Service. Note the following: \u201cBritain\u2019s National Health Service was stretched to the limit but never overwhelmed.\u201d The NHS is stretched to the limit because it cannot cope on a day-to-day basis even without<\/em> the Covid situation, the obvious reason being that the UK is over-populated, but, hey ho, any excuse, and let\u2019s face it Covid is the best one yet. Even better now that the problems of the NHS can be dumped on the doorsteps of the evil unvaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does this alleged political preoccupation with the wellbeing of the NHS and healthcare workers stack up against threats such as this: \u201860,000 care workers face sack after being told to get vaccine jab or lose job\u20193<\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.<\/strong> \u201cThe idea that unvaccinated people should be treated differently and discriminated against as a conscious policy runs into several objections. The first is widely heard but weak: that people have a basic right to exercise a choice not to be jabbed. But if that exercise of choice harms others, it is not a valid choice. We do not allow motorists to choose to drive the wrong way down a motorway or allow people to choose to hold noisy, all-night, parties whenever they wish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response in two parts: (a)<\/strong> Of course people have as much right not to be jabbed as Big Pharma, governments and policy makers pushing vaccine mandates assume that they have the right to hide behind a get-out-clause, a disclaimer, that protects them from all and any responsibility in the event of adverse side-effects including, but not exclusive to, fatalities. If the vaccine is perfectly safe, then the above organisations and our democratically elected representatives, should put up or shut up! \u2018Papers Please!\u2019 \u2018Compensation Please!\u2019 ‘Or even on trial for murder please!’ But, hey wait a minute, what about the scientific evidence that categorically states that the vaccine is as safe as houses (what was that crash? Negative equity?) What about the deplatforming, social media censorship, conflicting statements from once respected medical professionals and scientists. Sorry, I forgot, they all turned into conspiracy theorists. It happened overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b)<\/strong> \u201cWe do not allow motorists to choose to drive the wrong way down a motorway because they know that it would be a silly and rather dangerous thing to do.\u201d Motorists do not need politicians to instruct them in this fact. By the same logic, they do not need politicians to tell them to drive over Vaccine Cliff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[We do not] allow people to choose to hold noisy, all-night, parties whenever they wish.\u201d I can assure you that you do (dring, dring: “Is that the police? There’s a lot of noise coming from my neighbour’s house …”. “Sorry, Sir, that’s nothing to do with us.”) and, in certain cases it would seem, hold governmental parties whilst instructing the entire population of the UK that it must refrain from doing so ~ or else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.<\/strong> \u201cElected ethnic minority figures, such as the Mayor of London, have given strong, clear leadership on the need for vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response:<\/strong> He is fulfilling the political function that an \u2018elected ethnic minority figure\u2019 is paid to do. That is why he has been installed, precisely for this purpose. Sadly, but evidently, a lot of people just don\u2019t trust the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.<\/strong> \u201cThis is a classic case of the distinction between \u201cfreedoms from\u201d and \u201cfreedoms to\u201d. It is objectionable that the freedom of a majority from restrictions on their daily lives might be removed by the freedom of a minority to refuse vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response:<\/strong> This is a perfect example of twisting square liberal pegs into the round holes of logic, to which I referred earlier. It\u2019s similar to \u2018you must not discriminate against minorities\u2019 and then arguing for \u2018positive discrimination for minorities\u2019 and being banned from social media for \u2018inciting racial hatred\u2019 when what you have really been banned for is posting something that challenges liberal fraudulence. In other words, it is playing with words to protect a flawed ideology and is a facile attempt to disguise the U-turn taken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The distinction between \u2018freedoms from\u2019 and \u2018freedoms to\u2019 is a semantic nicety acceptable perhaps at the vicar\u2019s tea party (keep your distance, please!) over a game of Scrabble, but when used in a debate on incarceration by Covid it simply becomes a ploy to entice the vaccinated into believing that their freedoms are inextricably linked to the opposing views of anti-vaxxers, when lockdowns, as well as other restrictions, are indiscriminately executed and at the proverbial drop of a hat. Case in point, it was announced today [18\/12\/2021] that a two-week \u2018circuit-breaking\u2019 lockdown could be brought into force before Christmas across the UK. This restriction on daily life will no doubt go ahead, and when it does it will affect everyone, despite the fact that the majority of UKers are labelled as fully vaccinated. This restriction, as with enforced mask wearing, has no bearing whatsoever on who is vaccinated and who is not. It is a State embargo on freedom, for which there is no trade-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the real world, however, in real democracies, where \u2018freedom\u2019 is supposedly sacrosanct, you do not go around forcing people to take potentially harmful biological substances which, for the sake of expediency, or so it was originally reported, could not be effectively tested either for safety or for efficacy by normal standard protocols.  If this is \u2018fake news\u2019, then lay the blame on mainstream media. As for the negative use of \u2018minority\u2019, ie \u201cthe freedom of a minority to refuse vaccination\u201d, whatever happened to the liberal obsession with cossetting and protecting minorities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.<\/strong> \u201cFurthermore, the experience of France and other European countries is that, faced with serious barriers, large numbers of unvaccinated people drop their objections to vaccination very quickly. France was regarded as implacably anti-vax; but quite suddenly that has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Response:<\/strong> Wooh! Look at the arrogance and control-freakiness in that statement! \u2018Faced with serious barriers\u2019 = force, brownshirt bully-boy tactics, open confrontation. France is still \u2018implacably anti-vax\u2019. Hey, Mr Neoliberal have you forgotten to pay your TV licence? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Boot was one of my favourite dancers; he really set the tone. And the tone having been struck in this \u2018oh so very brimming over with the milk of human liberalism\u2019 piece, we now come to the real nitty-gritty. The three proposals on what to do with anti-vaxxers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberal Solution to Anti-vaxxers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All rise. Court in Session. His Lord Justice Liberal-Lefty Presiding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole thing had become so devilishly and blood-curdling juicy by the time I had read this far that I was compelled to put away the other fiction that I had been reading, penned by the Marquis de Sade, to focus solely upon what demoniacal torture the Chief Inquisitor had up his sleeve for those sub-human anti-vaxxers (clap of thunder off-stage and devilish laughter!!!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, on the conveyor belt tonight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1.<\/strong> Compulsion through employment conditions [meaning get vaccinated with a potentially harmful substance or lose your job: very liberal, I must say!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2.<\/strong> Changes to rights of treatment under the NHS [no treatment unless you are a prick ~ no doubt with a refund on NI contributions; well, I liberal never!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3.<\/strong> A more comprehensive vaccine passport system [not allowed to go anywhere \u2018Papers Please! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The architect of the solutions document takes a pause at this point whilst he mulls over the consequences of brownshirt tactics but, seeing a dangerous precedent in this, resorts instead to name calling. \u201cIt is, of course, impractical and unacceptable to have \u2018refuseniks\u2019 (Ha! Ha! is this a play on \u2018Beatniks\u2019? Who remembers those? And what does that make the vaccinated? By default, Accepttwits?) dragged away, held down and forcefully injected<\/strong>. Oh shucks, come on, why not? Oh yes, I just remembered, we are supposed to be living in a democracy, aren\u2019t we? And then, of course, there is that old but sensible adage: \u2018Those who live by the sword die by the sword\u2019 and \u2018violence begets violence\u2019 and lots of other unpleasant \u2018don\u2019t go there stuff\u2019 to do with vendettas, revenge and repercussions. That\u2019s a point? Are security details and personal bodyguards subject to the \u2018condition of employment\u2019 policy\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer does note with unbridled satisfaction that NHS and care staff face forced vaccination as a \u2018condition of their employment\u2019. In other words \u2018Get vaccinated or get the boot!\u2019 He acknowledges that some \u2018quality staff\u2019 may not comply and will presumably \u2018have to be let go\u2019, but considers this eventuality to be perfectly acceptable collateral damage, when only a moment ago he was whacking anti-vaxxers around the head with the be-it-on-your-conscience stick, asserting in no uncertain terms that the NHS must be protected and that NHS staff face impossible stress and pressure. Er, doh, am I missing something here? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely, any examples that need to be made for the \u2018condition of employment\u2019 clause could be more effectively applied by rooting out those MPs who are refusing to take the jab or, better still, some of those who have indiscriminately had it and are pressuring others to \u2018make the same mistake\u2019. I am sure that the general public would welcome this with open arms, whereas they may not understand, with or without their jabs, how culling medical staff at a time when they are desperately needed solves anything, apart perhaps from justifying the daily death rate figures and blaming it all on anti-vaxxers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you know, there is so much that is fundamentally wrong about this article that it makes you want to jump in the air and rejoice that the Liberal Party is where it should be, at the bottom of the bin just below the potato peelings. Let\u2019s hope that North Shropshire is a blip on the protest vote graph: Heaven help this poor country if these twits are ever given the key to number 10!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry for that emotional outburst. I hope I’m not turning liberal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving on to point number two, \u2018Changes to rights of NHS treatments\u2019. This gets the writer into a \u2018right old two and eight\u2019. He starts badly with an inadmissible concept, waffles on in an attempt to prove that he really is a nice liberal and descends into nowhere land. So, no need to concern ourselves with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, it\u2019s on to point number 3, the final solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, tonight\u2019s star prize is \u2026 Yes, you\u2019ve guessed it ~more extreme vaccine passports (demoniacal chuckle!!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gist is that the nice liberal man who wrote this compassionate article is eager to see the \u2018minimal\u2019 model of vaccine passports adopted in England recast in the image of the more \u2018extreme version\u2019, which is the one that is causing riots and mayhem in totalitarian Austria. Chilling stuff comes next with his prophesising comment that \u201cIf the Omicron wave gets out of control the UK will move inexorably in [the] Austrian direction.\u201d Place your bets, place your bets (Its, Others and What Have Yous), will the Omicron wave get out of control in the UK \u2026? That’s as rhetorical as do we need a new script writer for the popular Covid-19 soap opera Coronavirus Streets<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNot much happening on Coronavirus Streets <\/em>tonight, love. Just a lot of people ignoring the lockdown laws, trashing the streets of the UK and those liberal-fascists running around in leather coats and trilbies, saying \u2018Papers Please!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article, ‘What to do about the Anti-vaxxers ~ there are three options’, fizzles, futts and farts out on the smug prediction that a more rigorous vaccination passport system (which, incidentally the UK government vowed we would never have ~ lucky then that Omicron came along, and just before Christmas at that), will, by effectively confining anti-vaxxers to their homes except for essential shopping ~ bog rolls, and the like ~ enable the \u2018socially responsible\u2019 (the ones that stand to attention on the command of \u2018Papers Please!\u2019 Woof, Woof) to enjoy all the freedoms that our wonderful democracy can offer, such as going to work, for example, presumably to earn enough money to pay the benefits of the 10 million minority or more squirrelled away in their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer concludes his final solution project with the ultimate act of liberal hypocrisy by playing word games with what freedom is and freedom means, to wit (he is, isn\u2019t he!) that by some strange twisting of square pegs into round holes, the systematic curtailing of freedoms for the obdurate few will eventually lead to freedom for all. Having delivered his \u2018must be cruel to be kind\u2019 curtain call, he then gazes steadfastly into his crystal balls and, like a new mutation called Prophet, let\u2019s us in on the secret that we will all be where we want to be, or is that all be where they want us to be, come 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master plans such as this are about as funny as the prospect of the Liberals coming to power. Thankfully, from the way the tarot cards have been played in ‘What to do about the anti-vaxxers … ‘ , I think we can safely say that such an unmitigated catastrophe is unlikely to happen soon and, may we add, hopefully never will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All you need to be aware of is that they<\/em> are now saying openly what they have been thinking for a long time. It is your choice whether or not to go on swallowing the sugar-coated pill ~ ‘Freedom’, ‘Freedom of Speech’, ‘Democracy’, ‘Civil Liberties’, ‘Equality’ and so on ~ or reject it as placebo on the evidence of the totalitarian policies that they are implementing across Europe and also, unbelievably, in the UK. At least you have a choice with the sugar-coated pill, which is more than can be said for the Covid-19 vaccine. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please see my following post, scheduled after a beer or two, on the \u2018sickly iced bun\u2019 from The Guardian<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comment:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 As the vaccinated are still capable of catching and spreading the virus after the miracle \u2018fast-track vaccine\u2019, why not lock them down instead? What\u2019s the point of them vaccinating hundreds of times, mixing with each other and then spreading new strains? By locking down the majority, more NHS workers can safely lose their jobs and with less people to care for we can protect the NHS, if only from bullshit. (Don\u2019t forget to stop the boats arriving first!) Much better to have the majority under lock and key and the minority wandering around. They can be given Unvaccinated Passports and be made to go to work to pay for the keep of the obedient vaccinated. Just give the vaccinated congratulatory Obedience Certificates and let them lounge at home. Good dog!<\/em> ~ Mr I.M. Crufts<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Customer: <\/strong>That\u2019s a small piece of freedom. How much is it?
Purveyor of lies: <\/strong>33 vaccinations and 16 boosters, please.
Customer: <\/strong>When will Complete Freedom be available.
Purveyor of lies:<\/strong> Soon, soon. In the meantime would you like another piece of Freedom. I hear it\u2019s going up tomorrow by another 7 boosters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Copyright [Text] \u00a9 2018-2022 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1. https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/anti-vaxxers-omicron-covid-booster-jabs-b1975737.html#<\/a>
2. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/12\/uk-booster-jab-rollout-to-increase-to-1m-a-day-to-battle-omicron-tidal-wave<\/a>.
3. https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/60000-care-workers-face-sack-22050622<\/a>
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Image attributions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Shopkeeper drawing: http:\/\/www.publicdomainfiles.com\/show_file.php?id=13956681015535<\/a>
Sinister figure: https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Spy-drawing\/51737.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst we are on the subject …<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Are progressives becoming progressively less progressive?<\/a>
I have had my Covid vaccine<\/a>
Trust, the greatest victim of coronavirus
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I know, let's sack thousand of NHS workers! Published: 26 January 2022 ~ April Fools' Day Mandate for NHS Workers \u201cThousands of protesters flocked to central London to remonstrate against mandatory coronavirus vaccination for NHS staff1.\u201d So reported the Express on Sunday 23 January 2022. 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Held in somewhere that used to resemble the UK, this is the first\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 "Meanwhile in the UK"","block_context":{"text":"Meanwhile in the UK","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Covid 19 Vaccine Race","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Carousel-horse.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Carousel-horse.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Carousel-horse.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Carousel-horse.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Carousel-horse.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2075,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/on-the-crest-of-the-covid-wave\/","url_meta":{"origin":5222,"position":4},"title":"On the crest of the Covid wave","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"30 \u0430\u0432\u0433\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0430, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 169 [30 August 2020] Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye ... 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