I'm desperate to be protected but my medical situation is complex and currently precludes me from doing so, so I am not in any way anti-vax, but I am anti-insanity.
I'm naïve,; is legalised, encouraged and now mandatory discrimination against any individual citizen a very dangerous precedent and divisive? Is it promoting/forcing a tribal situation between friend and foe alike, which we have lobbied against for years and fight to improve still? Doesn't this belongs in a much more brutal place in the past? Is it not a bit effortless to say that these are desperate times requiring totalitarian measures 'taken with a heavy heart'?
It does seem to me that anti-vaxxers may be misguided, but I respect their notion of body-sovereignty whether I agree with vaccination or not. Is mandating a vaccine which has only been granted an 'emergency' licence, which the NHS insist is a matter of personal choice, a strong ethical platform from which to exclude/criminalise others, and although I would be granted exemption for medical reasons, why would I be be deemed clean in still potentially being a carrier? Considering the actions of our cabinet ministers and aids, does the notion of 'legal' hold sway over common sense?
'Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed Resolution number 2361 of 2021 on 27 January 2021i, in which it was stated that:
6.1 Paragraph 7.3.1 - ensure that citizens are informed that the vaccination is NOT mandatory and that no one is politically, socially, or otherwise pressured to get themselves vaccinated, if they do not wish to do so themselves;
6.2 Paragraph 7.3.2 - ensure that no one is discriminated against for not having been vaccinated, due to possible health risks or not wanting to be vaccinated.'
I must be missing something but hasn't slavery been legal and promoted in less-informed times? Antisemitism? Apartheid? Is this situation potentially more incendiary because it has morphed into a question of morality, self-policed?
I'm just asking questions, but regarding smallpox/ebola, would not such measures be much more proportionate ergo justifiable? As someone who's contracted and beaten a disease which kills 1 in 5, I'm no stranger to the ICU and feeling fear in a hospital bed. What are mortality rates of people in different age-groups dying of Covid rather than with?
Totally naïve on this one too; Is herd immunity reached by allowing the body to contract SARSCoV2 while fighting the infection it promotes, and in what way is being unvaccinated damaging if vaccination does nothing to stop its spread, as it seems that there is now more division between loved ones, friends, enemies, manifested tribally?