by Rusere Shoniwa at Left Lockdown Sceptics
Preaching to the converted is satisfying for obvious reasons but, if you’re trying to change opinions, you ought really to address those with whom you disagree. So, this is an open letter to those who are either indifferent to or in support of vaccine passports.
On Sunday 12 September the government announced that it had ditched plans for vaccine passports, only to announce the very next day that vaccine passports remained a “first-line defence” against a winter wave of Covid. Given the number of times the government has u-turned on this and other Covid issues, the aim seems to be to make u-turns a normal state of affairs rather than something which used to bring shame and embarrassment on a ruling party. There are few things in life of which I am certain, but the imminent return of vaccine passports is one of them.
Putting aside the dizzying u-turns, in a country where more than 80% of people over age 16 are vaccinated, we have to ask why the vaccines themselves are no longer being relied on as the “first-line defence”. If the vaccines themselves are not the defence, how will an app on a phone provide immune protection?
Dissenters from the official narrative have watched with disbelief the mass hysteria over a virus from which 99.85% of the population recover (most suffering only mild symptoms) and for which the average age of the person unfortunate enough to die from is around 82 years old. The violently disproportionate government response to it, the media censorship and propaganda employed to ram home the official narrative and, the proposed introduction of a biometric ID system granting access to society based on medical status, are all signposts to a totalitarian dystopia.
Voluntary informed consent to medical treatment is a fundamental human right that was recognised and codified into law to prevent a repeat of grave abuses committed by the Nazis during World War II. For those who seek to question the safety profile of the Covid vaccines and value their bodily autonomy, it is obvious that this human right is being obliterated. My body, my choice? Not when it concerns injections of Big Pharma’s latest offerings.
The power of totalitarianism to take root and flourish lies in its ability to delude the vast majority of people into thinking it is a necessary, even healthy, state of affairs. It is a cruel seduction, rather than a sudden imposition. It wouldn’t work otherwise. The Covid crisis has paved the way for a series of delusions, fuelled by fear, confusion, panic and anxiety, inducing what can only be termed a mass psychosis in which citizens en masse are prepared to accept a loss of freedom that would never be entertained under normal circumstances.
So here I am, barely a minute into the piece, getting off on the wrong foot by saying, “You’ve been had. You’re detached from reality.” But how else are we to explain the impending submission of the citizens of a liberal democracy to forced medical treatment (which won’t stop there) in exchange for basic freedoms that only 18 months ago were treated in the same unconscious manner as the air we breathe?
It’s a stunning coup, and for those professing not to understand what the fuss is all about, let’s be clear – this is a massive rupture in the fabric of the nation. I’d like to suggest that the main reason you can’t see this is that it doesn’t feel like you’re being forced to do anything if having a vaccine is something you intended to do anyway. If so, then with all due respect, I think you’re missing the point. The point being – are we free to choose? The debate about enforced medical treatment to keep your job is not just something on which we can agree to disagree. You’re either on the right or wrong side of history on this. Period.