If Boris Johnson’s statement on the status of the Pandemic facing the U.K. is anything to go by then the public have been gravely misled as to the threat from Omicron as it appears it is just another, more complex mutated form of the flu family of viruses.
We are at the tail end not of a number of cases of the virus but of government fear mongering! Time to admit that the requirement for mandatory vaccination and Covid Passports are an abuse of human rights and no longer sustainable by the government.
If the vaccines do have a degree of protection from the worst case scenarios of ending in hospital then it is not that very different from severe forms of the flu which can equally affect the unvaccinated.
However, the incidence of younger people that are unvaccinated ending up at A&E is of concern but the emergence of newer alternatives or forms of drug treatment could reduce this figure in the near future.
However the damage to mental health caused by this government is more complex than the virus to resolve and in many cases irreparable. What this government has done to the unvaccinated and other governments around the world, is little short of a crime against humanity.
Their authoritarian approach stance has been dubbed by the mainstream media as losing patience with the unvaccinated but that phrase covers up a host of blatant discrimination under the excuse of a Pandemic and public health.
There are certain situations in which human rights have to be restricted if it is in the public interest and can even be suspended but only for a set period in extraordinary circumstances such as a ‘force majeure’!
However governments around the world are taking this Pandemic as an opportunity to assume a free license to impose whatever restrictions they choose whether or not they’re disproportionate, draconian and attack the fundamental rights we automatically take for granted as citizens.
How can it ever be excused to restrict the right to food or live where you wish in your own country or move around and travel inside your own borders and carry a form of domestic passport on your person. It’s way beyond anything remotely excusable as in the public interest.
If you even think about it for a few seconds such restrictions open up society to all sorts of extreme state violations of our everyday freedoms and civil liberties.
What’s next.. voter ID’s, employment permits based on mandatory injections, shopping permits to visit shops at only set times as laid down by government not us, travel permits even for limited movement inside your own city or town…
Surveillance cameras everywhere both outdoors and indoors with only a few exceptions watching and recording your movements 24/7, bank accounts and passports to travel suspended automatically without prior warning.
The above might sound far fetched to some readers but every one of these human rights violations have been employed in the past and still are by various governments around the world in the same ‘public interest’ but in reality, to justify their own political or economic agenda.
So the next time our government/politicians mention phrases like, ‘in the public interest’, ‘public health’ or ‘common good’ be aware that they are wide open to almost any interpretation or spin they choose to assign to their meaning at any given moment.. words have consequences!
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