Red Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

Do you remember this time last year when Derbyshire Police flew one of their drones over moorland to catch people who were out walking 'illegally' during that particular lockdown?  Despite being a generally law-abiding goodie-goodie over the years I was outraged.  My better half couldn't understand why, deploying the "well if they haven't done anything wrong, they haven't got anything to worry about" argument.  "Ah yes", I replied, "but how will you feel when you're caught - by drone - walking the dog in the countryside 'illegally' off-lead?"  She scoffed then.  She doesn't scoff now.  Anything feels possible, in our Brave New World.

So on the offchance that anybody who reads this blog hasn't done their own research, or at the very least not swallowed the distortions, omissions and partial truths fed to us every day by the BBC and rest of the mainstream media, it's time to ask yourselves two important questions:

1. Should you have any of the 'vaccines' that are available?  (Noting that it may be too late for some), and:
2. Even if you do, should you participate in a 'vaccine certification' (vaccine passport) programme?

The answer to question 1 is, I think, 'it depends'.  If I were over 70, or over 50 with a serious medical condition, I'd overlook the facts that these are experimental medicines, that they edit my DNA, that their manufacturers have been exempted from any kind of liability by governments, and that the Astra Zeneca vax increases the risk of fatal blood clots in those with a pre-disposition to them, and take one of them.  The potential benefit is probably greater than the risk.

I, however, am a fit and healthy 54 year old.  My assessment, even before I consider the question of the government's wider intentions, is that the risks outweigh the benefits for me, so I haven't had the vaccine. If you're under 50, with no serious medical conditions, I beg you not to take it.  The number of people in your position who've died from Covid is vanishingly small.  If you're under 18, it's microscopic to the point of being virtually zero.  That the vaccination of children is even being considered is astonishing to me, but frankly, a giveaway - it confirms there's much more to this than meets the eye.

Which brings us on to vaccine passports, the second question above.  They're made to sound so innocent and benevolent - "go to a concert where you know others are safe, and they know you're safe!"  And I'm disappointed, but not surprised after the last months of incessant propaganda, that so many of my friends are going along with this; that they're happy to be granted or denied entry to events and venues on the basis of a centrally-held and administered system that records their health status.  Because here's the rub - what might start as your health status could easily be extended to other things - are your taxes up-to-date? Have you opted out of automatic organ donation?  Have you had a minor criminal conviction?  And these things would all be presented as a terribly reasonable minor extension of the current scheme.  You may scoff now, much as my wife did last year about my point on drones.  You may paint me as a tinfoil hat-wearer.  I don't care, in fact it's nearly a badge of honour.

But just think about it - our right to freedom of assembly would become subject to governmental approval.  The current policing bill attempts to undermine that right head-on; this could be a less direct, but equally effective way of exerting control.  It's the basis for a fundamental change in how we live, and by fundamental, I mean the most significant change since the signing of the Magna Carta.  Maybe you think governments are doing this for the most benign of reasons, for all our benefits; if you do, I may have a bridge to sell you.  So going back to my questions - even if you choose to have the vaccine, I beg you not to participate in any vaccine passport scheme.  If you do, you'll be contributing to the biggest self-imposed risk to our freedoms for centuries (I'm exempting the risk from wars and invaders).

So don't, don't do it.  I'm prepared to lose my livelihood on this principle, as it's possible that the kind of major corporates for whom I act as a consultant will insist on vaccine passports to enter their premises.  It's much easier for me to do that now at 54 than it would have been when I was 34 of course.  But even if a few of us can hold out for a few months, it increases our chances of beating this horrible change.