Use jabs to KO vaccine passport
RQ.WHEN is a fantastically successful vaccine not a fantastically successful vaccine?
A.When it’s for Covid-19 and it’s being rolled out here in the UK. Then it’s not a virtually slam-dunk protection against the virus – which running research currently proves it most certainly is – but something we all have to somehow pretend isn’t really all that effective.
The overwhelming evidence of vaccine efficiency is being studiously downplayed or even ignored by officialdom. It’s a mystery to me how the scientists advising the Government are getting away with such brazen denial of reality.
Both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines work beautifully (despite a vanishingly tiny risk of blood clots with AstraZeneca – statistically you’re in greater danger of dying from choking on your breakfast); better than we dared hope for.
On Thursday, Imperial College London announced that the rollout has now broken the link between coronavirus and death. UK fatalities from Covid dropped by a whopping two-thirds in mid-March compared with the previous month.
Immunisation WORKS. Polio, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella... all kept at bay for generations by a needle in the arm.We celebrate this human victory over malign nature. So why are we being forced to behave as though our defence against Covid is somehow less reliable; not to be fully trusted?
Both vaccines are right up there in the gold standard bracket: we’re talking about 90 per cent effective adult protection and a reported 100 per cent in children.
Yet here we are – harried, browbeaten and bullied into seemingly never-ending restrictions on our freedoms.A few months ago we were promised that a vaccine would be our swift passport back to normality.Well we’ve got the vaccines.Where are our passports?
This week the Government’s high priesthood of Covid – the SAGE committee – threatened that lifting restrictions in line with Boris’s so-called roadmap would risk a third wave, as bad as the one in January. But the January peak spiked before vaccinations even had a chance to start making a difference.Today, well over half the country have been immunised and the other half will be by summer’s
end. So how could infection levels begin to compare with last winter’s?
Meanwhile, we’ve all been urged to take a Covid test twice a week, even if we’ve had the jab.This is incomprehensible.What’s the point of mass immunisation if you continue mass testing? And what about false positives? Do you fancy having to isolate for a fortnight even though you’ve had your jabs and are almost certainly immune? It makes zero sense.
Judy has talked of the question mark hanging heavily over holidays abroad.Then there’s the issue of Covid passports here at home – papers you must show a bouncer to get into a pub, club, restaurant, cinema or theatre.Vaccination was meant to banish all that nonsense to the gloomy fantasies of the likes of Whitty and Vallance.
Well, it hasn’t.And I’ve yet to hear one good reason why not.