Vaccinations should only be administered on the basis of free & informed consent and should not be mandatory.
Requiring proof of vaccination to be eligible for employment or services in your own country is coercive and renders decisions to take the vaccine not always free.
Requiring proof of vaccination to be eligible for employment or services in your own country is coercive and renders decisions to take the vaccine not always free.
Governments need to recognise peoples' rights & take every practical step to end the global pandemic.
Too many leaders in western governments instead try to convince people there's a shortcut, that they can solve a global pandemic with national decrees creating a 2-tier society
Too many leaders in western governments instead try to convince people there's a shortcut, that they can solve a global pandemic with national decrees creating a 2-tier society
We need to fight the pandemic, of course, and that means protective health measures will be needed.
Measures will continue to be needed until the global pandemic ends.
It will not end by itself.
Our leaders have to take action to end it.
Sadly, many are refusing to do so.
Measures will continue to be needed until the global pandemic ends.
It will not end by itself.
Our leaders have to take action to end it.
Sadly, many are refusing to do so.
Leaders in the EU, UK & others are steadfastly refusing to take actions to end the global pandemic. They try to convince citizens the solution is national/regional - and so the media conversation is about national restrictions & passes rather than the real problem.
The core problem is global vaccine scarcity.
And a key reason for it is the EU, UK & others have been blocking wider vaccine production globally by obstructing the #TRIPSwaiver, a proposal to temporarily waive some intellectual property rules on vaccines & other health products
And a key reason for it is the EU, UK & others have been blocking wider vaccine production globally by obstructing the #TRIPSwaiver, a proposal to temporarily waive some intellectual property rules on vaccines & other health products
The global pandemic won't end for anyone until it ends for everyone.
(That's the "global" part.)
(That's the "global" part.)
I fear that some politicians will try to scapegoat the unvaccinated and blame them for prolonging the pandemic - when it is actually they, the leaders themselves, who are prolonging the pandemic with their deadly policy of throttling vaccine production globally.
Leaders in the EU (led by Germany in this), the UK, Norway, Switzerland & a few others are deliberately prolonging the pandemic.
This is their policy.
➡️ So, yes, get vaccinated, please, if you can.
➡️ But also demand to know why most people can't.
This is their policy.
➡️ So, yes, get vaccinated, please, if you can.
➡️ But also demand to know why most people can't.
https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1416288113454952453
(And, in general, always be suspicious when the powerful try to place blame for their own missteps and misdeeds onto the shoulders of the powerless.)
(nb: Some rare exceptions to the 1st tweet in this thread. If vaccines are universally accessible & affordable in a country, vaccination as a prerequisite for certain jobs, subject to exemptions & reasonable accommodations, could be permissible within a human rights framework.)
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