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Locking down the unvaccinated? – politicalbetting.com
Locking down the unvaccinated? – politicalbetting.com
I have just picked up this polling by Sanatana ComRes and I find the numbers quite extraordinary. That by a split of 4%% to 32% the pollster found support for an indefinite lockdown for the unvaccinated.
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However, lateral flow tests are a better means of reduce the spread of cases
Was this a system-wide problem. OR should I take it personally?
Why didn't the opposition win
The main problems with lockdown for the unvaccinated are twofold. I would have to prove to people that I was vaccinated to retain my freedom. In practice it has proved to be a stepping stone to lockdown for everyone. I guess indefinite house arrest without trial is also a repugnant violation of human rights, whatever.
I once toyed with the idea of providing only basic medical care to the Covid sick who had refused the modern medicine of Covid vaccination. But this has the defect that I might need to prove my vaccination status to receive treatment, and if there was an error with my records it would end badly for me. I don't trust the accuracy of databases for such a situation. I guess it also violates some medical ethics, or something.
So I am coming round to the view that recusancy fines for those refusing Covid vaccination are the way forward. Logically this is roughly equivalent to the punitive levels of taxation levied on tobacco. Adults are still freely allowed to purchase tobacco, but they have to pay more tax to do so, this tax then being available to the Exchequer to help fund the inevitable hospital treatment required by many smokers.
Those cranks and anti-science conspiracists who want to refuse to have the Covid vaccination can be free to do so, and to live their life as normal, but a recusancy fine would ensure that they make a contribution to the Exchequer to fund the inevitable hospital treatment required by many vaccine refuseniks.
Hell, if we had another winter of Lockdown like 2021 I would support jailing the unvaccinated on the Isle of Sheppey, until they get jabbed or die
Boris goes and the Tories will fail to win the next GE imo
Off topic, I'm hearing from Bexley canvassers that response was good this evening, with a number of voters saiyng that they'd (a) not voted Labour because they didn't like Corbyn, and didn't object to Starmer and (b) were now thinking of switching because they didn't like Johnson. All very specific to the three individuals mentioned - not about policy.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/23/nhs-to-give-therapy-for-depression-before-medication-under-new-guidelines
Just who is going to deliver this remains unanswered it seems. I am an experienced meditator. And qualified teacher. Teach meditation on the NHS? Does not compute apparently.
That's fine... it becomes a problem and breaks into public when the defenders melt away, and unexpected people mumble "yeah, they've got a point". That's what's happening here - it's not irretrievable but is getting tricky.
Barring much better vaccines being developed, Covid will be with us forever. Its now an endemic disease, not an epidemic, and there are probably going to be these sort of daily case numbers every winter for the rest of my life.
The only real danger the unvaxed pose is to themselves, and for those under 50 it's not actually a particularly big risk. The only reason for these sorts of authoritian measures (and the same with Vaxports) is as sticks to beat the unvaxed with to try and make them conform, often for the sake of conforming. And that's just immoral.
Case in point - I'm not yet double jabbed. I had Covid in September, and was intending to hold the 2nd jab (due around then) off so it acted as a booster. I got a phone call pressurising me to get it booked last week, even when I explained why I hadn't had it yet. I eventually accepted a (rather inconvenient) booking for this Friday, partly because of the pestering, but mostly because I'm worried someone I know will test positive and set the test and trace goons on me - I literally can't afford a week off work at the moment at any price - it would quite possibly destroy my fledgling business.
If all the compulsory vax stuff accepted proof of recovery as a valid alternative (it gives stronger immunity!) I might believe it was actually about health. As it is, I'm increasingly convinced its about a new and nasty dimension of authoritarianism.
Benchmarking is required here. What are the best high-comment blogs in the world? Don’t care about topic or quality of neither blog posts nor thread contributors, nor moderation policy, but purely in terms of an attractive, easy-to-use, technically robust platform, across all types of devices.
Then just nick their method.
Being liberal has costs. Being illiberal also has costs. Choose!
It doesn’t help that self-professed “Liberals” are usually shown to be unprincipled, wishy-washy cowards when confronted by seriously difficult real-life choices. See Thorpe, Steel, Rose Garden etc. “Liberal Democrats” is like “the Democratic People's Republic of Korea”, “the Conservative and Unionist Party” and “the Holy Roman Empire”: all blatant misnomers.
But why hasn't his government done anything since the pandemic began?
For example, no attempt has been made to individually contact people and ask them to get vaccinated. I found out that I'm still registered with a GP in England because the NHS asked me twice to get vaccinated earlier in the year before I told them I'm not there. Here nobody has tried. Not my GP, not my health insurance, not national or local authorities who all know who I am and where I live. And until I got my booster shot from my GP yesterday, none of them had any idea whether I am vaccinated or not.
Germans tell me this is because of "data protection". I don't know if that is true, although data protection is taken very seriously. But at least make some attempt to contact people individually and ask them to get vaccinated. It's less of an infringement of their human rights than other measures being considered now.