As a former lifelong (until that point in my life, anyway) socialist, I understand completely why the left are such lying unalloyed hypocrites: it simply doesn’t occur to them that they are. When you assume — not believe, assume; “believe” implies you’ve thought about it — that there’s some kind of inevitable progress in the simple passage of time, the logical corollary is that you yourself are the most advanced creature who’s ever lived because you’re the current generation. In short, you yourself are the standard of good. If you want it, it’s right, and it doesn’t matter that you were foursquare against it last Tuesday.

I know people who express that dark and malicious glee. I try to tell them that they should be worried about the state of their souls, but most of them take my criticism as evidence that I, too, am suspect. You can be vaccinated and be an anti-vaxxer, after all.

If there are going to be two tribes, vaxxed and unvaxxed, then I’m interested to know what counts as ‘vaxxed’? One jab? Two jabs? Three jabs? Third jab in the last 3 months? Nth jab last week?
If the definition is 3 jabs, then at present only approximately 15 million people in the UK are vaccinated. A whole lot of curves potentially permanently flattened. Nice work Boris and the Christmas Party.
How would children under the age of 12 currently be classified? Would the under-age inherit the status of their parents? What about unvaccinated youngsters who were treated, but then didn’t go on to get vaccinated – could we levy an after-the-fact charge? Parents who don’t get their 3rd/4th/5th jab? Would current under-age patients with unclean parents be grandfathered in? What a mess. Much easier to exclude them all. Run along home little man, time heals all wounds. Even leukemia. Maybe.
How will the un-jabbed and Covid-recovered be classified? Seems a little heartless to be shafting folk for selflessly and bravely facing down Sars-Cov-2 in the interest of developing a community-spirited sterilizing immunity (that is also long-lived). But they did likely ignore all the scaremongering which is a concern. Maybe we should duff them up a bit.
Finally (and just a little worryingly) can we really rely on the excluded to happily keep on paying their full whack in tax?? Seems unlikely and even a minor tax revolt could be awkward. But – silly me – I’m forgetting the Magic Money Tree. Problem solved!

Given the ever increasing issues found with those who have been vaccinated it is not outwith the realms of possibility that unvaccinated blood will be sought after since it is uncontaminated with the spike protein. Given how that spike protein binds to some key organs I can see how folks having operations cannot be given vaccinated blood. Especially the organ transplants.
I wonder what the bribe will be to get us unvaccinated to donate blood?
I wonder if those currently calling for us to be untreated or put in camps or locked in our homes forever will ever get on their hands and knees and apologise should the above come about?. If they approach me they better be on their hands and knees.
Angry does not come close to how feel about all the Jab Nazis out there. I certainly have a vastly increased appreciation of how the two words “National” and “Socialist” can link to become so authoritarian instead of compassionate. I am no longer a socialist in the traditional sense I am one of the many people on the left who have distanced themselves from the traditional centralised thinking “for the good of all” and now see that our only future is in de-centralisation and the freedom of the individual being an absolute rule number 1.

Lost in all of this is the fact that those who suffered from COVID and recovered have no need of vaccination, exhibiting immune responses at least as robust as those offered by a full course of any of the Western anti-COVID jabs (or the Russian one, if we trust their data), and better than that offered by any of the Chinese jabs.
Distinctions between the fully rational refusal to take a COVID jab when one has already suffered from the disease, the arguably rational refusal when one is in a low risk group, and the irrational refusal to take any of the jabs when, actuarially, taking them poses far less risk than contracting COVID are completely glossed over by both sides in this debate.
The notion that the (not previously infected and recovered) unvaccinated are somehow a risk to the vaccinated is exactly backwards. In terms of onward transmission, the vaccinated are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers and thus circulating and potentially spreading the disease, while the unvaccinated who contract an infection with some variant of SarsCov-2 are more likely to be laid up and not out and about. In terms of contracting disease, the vaccinated are more likely to contract a mild or even asymptomatic infection, while the unvaccinated are more likely to contract serious disease (or at least were until omicron become dominant, it’s not clear anyone is getting serious disease from omicron). I for one am sick to death of having to wear a mask to coddle the irrationally unvaccinated.

No surprises here. Once the left bought into the covid drama, their obsessive zeal was always going to manifest itself in behaviour not dissimilar to that of a religious fundamentalist movement. All that was needed before ramping up attacks was a clearly defined “enemy”. Identify, isolate, demonize, ostracise. It’s the classic pattern. Phase 1, identifying “the unvaccinated” as the primary enemy, was accomplished around a year ago. And since then, the attacks on this segment of the population have been relentless. In several countries the demonization phase is now complete: the unvaccinated are presented regularly by the political class as “unclean”, selfish & a dangerous threat to society; enemies of the people! Goldstein followers all! And the idea is being pushed that they need to be excluded from all areas of society. There is even talk of isolation camps. There is rich irony here. First, the same people on the left who have in the past campaigned so vigorously against the excesses of ‘Big Pharma’ are now acting as handmaidens to that industry’s profiteering. Secondly, a very large proportion of people who do not wish to be vaccinated are immigrants and people belonging to the same religious and ethnic minorities so often championed by the left. Another angle is public opinion. It’s quite clear now that the vaccines are woefully ineffective (medically worthless it seems). And, most inconveniently, the unvaccinated are not dying in large numbers as predicted. It’s quite possible that the whole Covid drama will fizzle out sooner rather than later. And the population will then look for scapegoats to explain the massive social & economic costs incurred over the last 2 years; fingers will be pointed at those who supported this charade. But public opinion, common sense and decency have never mattered much to the left. Their standard reaction is to double down. There is a battle to be fought, and principles matter not. All that matters is power. And the conviction that they are right.

Yet another reason to ponder for a moment on the value of the UK National Health Service, lest we forget

It’s fine to point out Leftist hypocrisies, so long as one understands that merely to point them out is an act of political impotency. The Left do not care about ideological or moral consistency, and they do not have to answer for these hypocrisies; the sooner we realize that, the better.

I am writing from the UK where even extrme views seem considerably less hysterical than some of those from the US. However I offer this, what seems to me ‘reasonable’ analogy, noted in a recent UK paper: During the London Blitz in 1940 there was a ‘blackout order’ requiring everyone to ensure that no light escaped from their property overnight – to minimise risk of it facilitating targeting by German Bombers. The penalty was a fine and a telling off. Nobody questioned this because even any ‘my freedom is being impinged’ idiots recognised that the order was in the common interest. The covid situation is very similar. All the ‘normal world’ ie excluding some extremist nutcase websites, accepts that Covid vaccinations reduce the spread of infection – If you are less likely to contract it – you are less likely to infect others.
The subsequent penalty for not adhering to blackout rules was probably imprisonment. I doubt it ever came to that. But some people seem to have a less ‘common sense’ attitude or maybe a more selfish attitude to the common interest nowadays. So, unfortunately we need to penalise those who are happy to cause illness or death to others by their ignornace. Costs of treatment and degrading of priority seem only fair. The debate lies in the basic misunderstanding of freedom. There is no such thing without concomitant obligation.

If ever there was an advertisement for the NHS this article is it. I simply can’t imagine not having access to free healthcare. The mind boggles.