I don’t think bullying, threatening and scaring people into taking a medical intervention that they do not want – in this case a leaky vaccine – represents success. Anything but. It is shameful overreach of a powermad, compliance-obsessed government. And in the groupthink that now charaterizes the global political class, there is little left of our much vaunted democratic western scociety to look on with pride.
Jack Nicholson in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, it was for his own good.
Maxine Shaverin
2 years ago
I truly hope that the author is wildly incorrect and is displaying their own obvious biases and that the French are sticking with their principles and far fewer than claimed are having the clot shot. How at ease the author (and others) are at suggesting that the world should take an untested vaccination which at best reduces symptoms for a virus that the majority are not impacted by and that as a consequence vaccine passports are warranted makes me cringe and incredibly sad at how degraded, selfish and deluded so many are. I pray that the French are not caving, and that both vaccinated and unvaccinated continue protesting daily. Crush Macron and then hopefully the remainder of the unethical, evil and hypocritical across the world will follow shortly afterwards
Rob Britton
2 years ago
Possibly, Macron rubbishing the Astra Zeneca vaccine didn’t help matters.
What he does (same as many other politicians) is covering his traces.
Andrew Horsman
2 years ago
“Many of the non-political participants on Saturday’s marches were demonstrating — consciously or not – against Covid-19.”
Nonsense. First off, who is ‘non-political’, exactly? Everyone is political to some degree or other and those on a political protest would seem to be engaging in politics, would they not? More importantly, what is clear is that Macron’s extraordinary, unprecedented, nasty, divisive attack on liberty and bodily autonomy is something that many ordinary people can see right through as not being about the management of a virus at all, but about the imposition of authoritarian control by the narcissistic psychopath that Macron clearly is.
James Joyce
2 years ago
In the US, these vaccines are experimental. In Europe? Can people really argue that everyone should be forced to get an experimental vaccine to enjoy normal liberty? Yes, this vaccine appears to be safe and effective, but it has not received final approval, at least in the USA. Perhaps final approval takes time, so the “scientists” are not persuaded by the whims of the moment. But if so, isn’t that a good enough reason? Normally vaccines take years or decades to be produced; this was “warp speed.” But should people be forced? I think not!
I don’t think bullying, threatening and scaring people into taking a medical intervention that they do not want – in this case a leaky vaccine – represents success. Anything but. It is shameful overreach of a powermad, compliance-obsessed government. And in the groupthink that now charaterizes the global political class, there is little left of our much vaunted democratic western scociety to look on with pride.
A good product sells itself
Perfectly put.
Jack Nicholson in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, it was for his own good.
I truly hope that the author is wildly incorrect and is displaying their own obvious biases and that the French are sticking with their principles and far fewer than claimed are having the clot shot. How at ease the author (and others) are at suggesting that the world should take an untested vaccination which at best reduces symptoms for a virus that the majority are not impacted by and that as a consequence vaccine passports are warranted makes me cringe and incredibly sad at how degraded, selfish and deluded so many are. I pray that the French are not caving, and that both vaccinated and unvaccinated continue protesting daily. Crush Macron and then hopefully the remainder of the unethical, evil and hypocritical across the world will follow shortly afterwards
Possibly, Macron rubbishing the Astra Zeneca vaccine didn’t help matters.
What he does (same as many other politicians) is covering his traces.
“Many of the non-political participants on Saturday’s marches were demonstrating — consciously or not – against Covid-19.”
Nonsense. First off, who is ‘non-political’, exactly? Everyone is political to some degree or other and those on a political protest would seem to be engaging in politics, would they not? More importantly, what is clear is that Macron’s extraordinary, unprecedented, nasty, divisive attack on liberty and bodily autonomy is something that many ordinary people can see right through as not being about the management of a virus at all, but about the imposition of authoritarian control by the narcissistic psychopath that Macron clearly is.
In the US, these vaccines are experimental. In Europe? Can people really argue that everyone should be forced to get an experimental vaccine to enjoy normal liberty? Yes, this vaccine appears to be safe and effective, but it has not received final approval, at least in the USA. Perhaps final approval takes time, so the “scientists” are not persuaded by the whims of the moment. But if so, isn’t that a good enough reason? Normally vaccines take years or decades to be produced; this was “warp speed.” But should people be forced? I think not!