{"id":5276,"date":"2021-12-22T20:18:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:11:55","slug":"dont-let-that-man-spoil-your-vaccinated-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/dont-let-that-man-spoil-your-vaccinated-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let that man spoil your vaccinated Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s beginning to look a lot less like Christmas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 22 December 2021 ~ Don\u2019t let that man spoil your vaccinated Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a previous post, The Liberal Solution to Anti-vaxxers<\/a>, I promised that I would turn left towards The Guardian <\/em>(Guardian of what? You may well ask, young white man!), and place before you, for your learned consideration, a big, sickly dollop of icing from the cake which the liberals want to have and also want to eat. Liberty, freedom of choice, civil liberties;  or rules, regulations, restrictions ~ which is it to be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article in question, \u2018Someone in my family won\u2019t get the vaccine \u2014 should we still spend Christmas with them?1<\/sup>\u2019 is one of those agony aunt respond-type pieces, and believe you me it is agonising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some bod writes into Auntie complaining about an awful relative who refuses to have the vaccine, so what should they do? This naughty, naughty man horrified them last Christmas, when Mr and Mrs Fully Vaxxed and their fully vaxxed family objected to his unvaccinated presence in their self-isolation unit, aka home, where he could easily infect them with coronavirus (But I thought you said that they were all fully vaccinated?) and bugger me if he\u2019s not about to do it again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auntie Agony actually solves the dilemma in the first sentence. Tell him that as he does not want to be vaccinated to shove off. Most likely he would rather not spend Christmas huddled up in a mask looking like a broken bauble hanging on the terror tree anyway.  But the good advice from the Christmas tree fairy (bemasked, 6 feet away and fully vaccinated) suddenly becomes a vehicle for \u2018Get Your Vaccination Now!’, citing all sorts of popular statistics, some pushed by some scientists, some pulled by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shock and horror, however! The \u2018refusenik\u2019 (a liberal \u2018thing\u2019) as opposed to the \u2018accept-twits\u2019, may not be such a leper as the kids! For scientists tell us ~ those that have not been deplatformed ~ that children who have not been vaccinated, ie because they are too young, might be more dangerous Covid spreaders than the party-pooper with no prick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering all the horrible stories coming out of the UK involving psychiatric-ward parents, we could venture that this is not the best time to demonise children in what might be misconstrued as an attempt to lower the age for mandatory vaccination, something surely which nobody, not even in their wildest liberal mind, would wish for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t let that man spoil your vaccinated Christmas!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In all fairness, one or two sensible points are made in this piece, but did they have to include that awful, cheesy stock photo of old middle-class gramps sitting in his armchair with a face mask wrapped around his mug, wearing that silly Christmas sweater whilst his granddaughter (One would hope it’s his granddaughter. He doesn’t work for the BBC, does he?) sits at the table unwrapping a Christmas present also happily swaddled in a regulation mug mask? It\u2019s amazing what they put in Christmas crackers these days, isn\u2019t it? Perhaps, not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Independent<\/em> (Independent My Arse! Who said that?), not to be outgunned in the \u2018let\u2019s spoil Christmas for them\u2019 department, ramps it up a notch with their own version of I\u2019m Dreaming of a Vaccinated Christmas, with a similar article in which the family becomes a target for seasonal separatism along the divisive line of the \u2018jabs\u2019 and \u2018jab nots\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about that later! \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bedtime reading from The Lancet<\/em><\/strong>
COVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified<\/strong><\/a>
The Lancet<\/em> is a peer-reviewed general medical journal published weekly. It is one of the world’s oldest and respected general medical journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright [Text] \u00a9 2018-2023 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference<\/strong>
1. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/dec\/10\/someone-in-my-family-wont-get-the-vaccine-should-we-still-spend-christmas-with-them<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image attribution<\/strong>
Snow globe: https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Snowman-in-crystal-ball-vector-illustration\/25170.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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