Already, those who grudgingly accepted the vaccine passport as a temporary measure are willing to – less grudgingly – accept it as a permanent compromise. Was there ever, in human history, a better example of the slippery slope in action?
We might never know but it has a smell about it.
There is nobody rational, on the whole planet, who seriously believes that tennis player Novak Djokovic poses any kind of health threat to the people of Australia.
‘Open up at some point’
2021 was the year of the great Irish vaccine culture war. And, in a sane world, 2021 is where that great vaccine culture war would stay. We now know the facts about the Covid 19 vaccines, and what they do, and do not, do. We know, for example, that the vaccines confer some important benefits. […]
I’ll try and do better in 2022
Merry Christmas to you too
It has been revealed that a third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated according to an analysis official UK government figures by The Times. With a population of 8.9 million, that means 2.9 million people in the English capital have declined the Covid jab, despite an all-out promotion of Covid vaccines from the UK government and […]
At this stage, my calculation is simple: If, having taken three vaccines, I now require a fourth dose to protect me from serious illness and death, this vaccine cannot be said to work at all.
To be clear, this is not a population-wide fourth booster dose
One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
Either the vaccine is worth having, or it makes very little difference.