Insurers shouldn’t pay out to anti-vaxxers
CERTAIN diseases in sheep were eliminated completely due to compulsory sheep-dipping. True, many farmers themselves suffered side-effects from this practice unless it was administered properly.
Then in 1992 it was decided to render this practice NOT compulsory and since that time sheep scab and other diseases have been on the rise in epic proportions.
But now, with professional contract sheep-dippers, sheep diseases are once again being gradually eliminated.
I believe it is possible to compare this with today’s Covid problem. Without compulsory vaccination, which is happening in some countries in the Far East, there will always be refuseniks (and people easily influenced by them) putting themselves and others at risk.
The science tells us that double vaccinated people have less than a 5% chance of death from Covid and that will be even lower for those who receive the booster jab. This in turn means the unvaccinated have more than a 95% chance of losing their life to the disease.
It may be their choice to put their own lives at risk but they have a moral duty not to infect others, or to put additional strain on the NHS – not that they seem to care about this.
I think it is only a matter of time before life assurance companies (who must be paying out a fortune on premature deaths) treat such ignorant, or more likely arrogant, people as if their deaths are self inflicted with a ‘No Jab, No Pay-out’ clause. That would sharpen the senses!
Like today’s professional sheepdippers who have turned the tide for our farmers, these NHS vaccinations are carried out by dedicated, experienced professionals, and it is working extremely well and beyond our wildest dreams.
But, there again, ‘there’s none so blind as them that don’t want to see’, as the old saying goes.
As for the old sheep dips, they would be put to better use by dipping the anti-vax brigades who are terrorising and picketing children and parents outside our schools. We can only hope.
Edward Kynaston Lydney, Gloucestershire