Malarkey:
We are where we are. I could see where the process was going a long time ago. I believe ‘vaccine passports’ are acceptable in the current context. What is the alternative?
You are on record as a supporter of the GBD. To me, that factor robs most of what you have to say of credibility. You believe it was somehow possible to avoid restrictions almost entirely and continue with normal economic life. You hold it was unfair to ask supermarket workers to operate because they were accepting more risk than the teacher or the engineer or the candlestick maker who could work from home. I never agreed for a moment with the black and white all or nothing GBD position. But I note that a vaccination passport asks everyone to accept risk – and the risk is minimal, according to nearly all reputable research – in equal terms. So vaccine passports are actually in tune, funnily enough, with the GBD.
I was walking home at teatime on Tuesday evening. My favourite pub in Ireland had reopened the day before. So I said I would I go in and see how they were and have a couple of pints before dinner. But I had forgotten my vaccination slip, because of being used to drinking outdoors in a beer garden. So when I was asked for the slip I had to admit I had left it at home and therefore could not come in.
I was not one bit put out. I simply went home and had dinner and came back in later and had a couple of pints, after showing my slip. The idea that not getting in there at teatime was some great infringement of my liberty seems to me laughable.
You seem absolutely desperate to bring this back to your Gurdian talking points on the GBD. This is what was said to you bringing it up to me before, do not lie
I don’t think many aspects of the Great Barrington Declaration are realistic and given where we are with the vaccine now (it wasn’t when they made it), undesirable. The idea that we can put workers who have antibodies into nursing homes and lock them away for two months is an experiment is not palatable to western societies. The additional challenge of intergenerational homes they also have not answered convincing (IMO).
But we are living in prolonged chaos through rolling lockdowns, that is u…
Let’s keep to what this is about. Pretending that these aren’t a big departure for western societies and that the way they’ve been brought in was on the back of good debate is nonsense. We had months and months to properly debate them, you give conspiracy theorists oxygen when you say that you won’t bring them in but then ram them through at the last minute.