Pubs voluntarily asking for it I’m not concerned about. The answer is they won’t. A voluntary scheme will rapidly wither and die. The problem is the Govt will make it mandatory to ensure it happens. … (View Post)

Meanwhile there's a potentially emerging health disaster in this country as hospitals are still nowhere near offering a full service, cancer referrals have dropped through the floor (with no und… (View Post)

"The last few holdouts" are not important in a highly vaccinated population. That's what herd immunity is all about. Once there is a high degree of immunity within the population you g… (View Post)

The Government doesn't seem to be proposing "vaccine passports" in the next few months. Only once everyone has been offered a vaccine. At which point, what is the point? (View Post)

The proposals being touted go far beyond simply "showing a card" as a one off event to get through a door, bad though that is (especially given the somewhat unclear benefits - see below). T… (View Post)