Thread by @Macerty

Worth taking on board unless of course you are still blind and singing from the same hymn sheet as the corrupt politicians and those medical advisers who have shares in the vaccines! 🤨

https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1481039294445899776

The above tweet from James Melville only makes sense if you realise and accept the context it was referring to. The vaccine doesn’t stop transmission of the virus only alleviates the symptoms. Therefore his tweet wouldn’t be a valid criticism if taken as such. However..👇

On the other hand.. the whole point of Covid Passports was to restrict entrance to nightclubs to ONLY the vaccinated thus according to government rationale used to support their introduction, reducing the spread of the virus.

In that context, Melville’s tweet is entirely correct and relevant as well as highlighting the contradiction present given evidence of recent nightclub spikes. It’s simple logic! It essentially questions the merits of Covid Passports not the transmissibility of the virus.

However if you have an axe to grind with Melville or you are a bot and from experience by the look of it there are loads of them being used on social media to criticise any posts that question the official take on this Pandemic, you won’t even consider his actual point raised.

He is simply questioning the authoritarian approach taken by governments since the first piece of draconian legislation was rushed through parliament in the U.K. known as the Coronavirus Act 2019. Yes you have probability anticipated the obvious in that last sentence..👇

The obvious being that Boris Johnson and his partying cronies at No. 10 were quicker than grease lightning to rush through legislation that effectively suspended our human rights with no end date attached. At the same time he did nothing to protect our loved ones from the virus.

Hence the said authoritarian approach rather than the caring one! The only thing he actually did was to mess up the supply of PPE in our Hospitals and care homes and preside over buddy contracts that profited hugely from the misery of the Pandemic.

Desperate to save his own political skin, Johnson then saw the chance to appear as the saviour of the moment by latching on to the introduction of vaccines as the answer to his own crises created by him and his government. While the bodies piled up, he partied.

However despite rushing through more legislation in HOC - December, 2020 to exempt the manufacturers of the first vaccine available (Pfizer) from any comeback in the courts in event of serious side effects in some cases from the vaccines, as was the case, he didn’t stop there..👇

Knowing full well that the vaccines were no silver bullet, it could be argued that his government set about instilling fear and phobia in relation to this Pandemic. Lockdowns became a weapon in the armoury of the government demand we ignore everything else except this Virus!

However under pressure from MP’s calling for an end date to the lockdowns and lowering restrictions, Boris aped other governments in turning to even more restrictions despite lack of sufficient prior evidence that any of them would actually work on the ground.

So one fact still held true above this great adventure into the unknown that we allowed this government to arbitrarily suspend our human rights protections that did work and keep doing so without proper informed debate and period of public consultation.

Enter the first step in introducing digital ID’s under the title of the Covid Passport, something Human Rights groups have strongly and repeatedly opposed. Now that same government is set on course to scrap the core pillar of those inalienable rights.., our Human Rights Act.

And replace them with much reduced protections as well as stripping certain groups of any rights whatsoever in unjust circumstances. At every corner there will be serious restrictions or legal impediments faced before we can even exercise what little rights we have left.

So the question we ought to be asking is not just as @JamesMelville asks in questioning the merits of Covid Passports but who is the real enemy of reason & liberty, this virus or this government and all other states who are behaving in an unquestionably authoritarian manner! 🤨

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