2/ "As the country with the highest vaccination penetration rate on the globe, Israeli businesses are the first to grapple with thorny issues about those who decide to refuse vaccines. ...
3/ "...There’s increasing talk of similar practices around the world as people in more nations get vaccinated.... Businesses are considering whether to require employees to get vaccinated to continue working...
4/ "...In Israel, businesses are being assisted by a system being rolled out by the government... Other countries are considering similar measures that would create a two-tiered social structure, blocking unvaccinated people from some everyday activities...
5/ "... in an attempt to both get life back to normal and encourage people to get the vaccine....
Proof of vaccination has been a cross-border requirement in some form for years, notably for yellow fever."
6/ [NOTE: Actually by 2016, unless you are travelling from a yellow-fever infected country, VERY FEW countries required proof of vaccination: Angola, Burundi, Dem Rep Congo, Mali, etc.] who.int/ith/2016-ith-a…]
7/ (Back to the Bloomberg article)
"... What is unusual is the idea of restricting everyday activities at home or at work depending on your vaccination status...
8/ "...Israel is working on laws to determine what companies can require. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that some employees who don’t want to get the vaccine feel harassed and ostracized.... Some say employers shouldn’t always have a right to ask about vaccination status....
9/9 "... Amir Fuchs, a senior researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, said ... there shouldn’t be a blanket permit for employers to question their workers on vaccination, which is a matter of medical privacy."
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@21WIRE THREAD 1/ In January 2018 Matt Hancock spoke at the WEF meeting in Davos on "Reimagining Policy-Making for the Fourth Industrial Revolution". The speech was credited to his "Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP." gov.uk/government/spe…
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In 2018 the Director General for Digital and Media was Matthew Gould. As a senior civil servant Gould had worked as Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Blair and Brown, then Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
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From 2010-2015 Matthew Gould was British ambassador to Israel. In 2011 he was involved in several meeting with Defence Secretary Liam Fox, Fox's friend Adam Werrity (who had no security clearance) and other Israeli officials.
@lyne_ian Thread.
The author of this peer-reviewed work is Prof John Ioannidis of Stanford University. On 17 March 2020 Ioannidis called the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic a "once-in-a-century evidence fiasco". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioan…
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@lyne_ian Also in March 2020 Prof Ioannidis and colleagues tried to organize a meeting at the White House where they would caution President Donald Trump against "shutting down the country for [a] very long time and jeopardizing so many lives in doing this." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioan…
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@lyne_ian Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx@NextRevFNC was chief strategist to PM David Cameron 2010-2012.
He worked at Stanford University and here tells how Ioannidis and colleagues were suspended for 6 months in an attempt to silence them.
@SalikaDavis@MarkGBblog Thread.
Email: "You recently signed the petition 'Prevent any restrictions on those who refuse a Covid-19 vaccination': petition.parliament.uk/petitions/3234…
"On Tuesday 8 December there was an Urgent Question to the Department of Health and Social Care on the covid-19 vaccine roll out..
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@SalikaDavis@MarkGBblog Hancock: "At 6.31 this morning, 90 year-old Margaret Keenan ... became the first person in the world to receive a clinically authorised vaccine for covid-19... Today marks the start of the fight back against our common enemy, coronavirus."
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@rowandean et al who have always asserted that #lockdown has NOTHING TO DO WITH #COVID19 VIRUS have been dismissed as "conspiracy theorists", their views labelled "misinformation".
Real purpose of this totalitarianism is to "fight the climate emergency".
Hancock was a protégé of George Osborne for whom he worked 2005-2010. Elected an MP in 2010 he had several junior (Minister of State) posts in the Cameron govt. And of course was a Remainer.
@BillKronoss@CatrionaColllns@FatEmperor The same month, Jan 2018, Hancock gave his speech in Davos ‘Reimagining policy making for the fourth industrial revolution’.
@michael53021960 It is wrong to lump all "anti-vaxxers" together as weidos and "conspiracy theorists". There have been scientifically based criticisms of vaccination ever since the UK Compulsory Vaccination Act of 1853. theothersideofvaccines.com/2019/05/a-brie…
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@michael53021960 The case of Dr Andrew Wakefield is "the episode which defines the stupidity of the ‘anti-vaxxers.’" But a detailed look at this case suggests that Wakefield’s "professional assassination" should encourage us to be more sceptical about vaccines. 2/n
@michael53021960 Surely we need to ask why in 2017 the proposed screening of Dr Wakefield's film "Vaxxed" by the European Forum for Vaccine Vigilance (EFVV) was ***not allowed*** in London, Brussels, or Paris? change.org/p/european-par…
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