No we don’t. We used to be resilient, brave, uncompromising and gutsy. But now we will sell out our national character and founding principles to multinational Big Pharma companies because we are too afraid. Vaccination passports are in all likelihood coming to Finland this fall, despite the fact that they are literally illegal. They will create a two-tier system of the clean and the unclean. But we’re afraid. So we’ll comply.
Nevermind the fact that the most vaccinated countries such as Israel are already preparing for new lockdowns and the most laissez-faire country on Earth, Sweden, now reports 0 daily covid deaths. Or that in the UK cases crashed down immediately after the country stopped locking down. Vaccine penetration (or lockdowns for that matter) of a country has literally nothing to do with case counts at this stage. If anything, it actually looks like most vaccinated countries are seeing the highest case counts. Like Iceland with 71.3% of the population fully vaccinated and highest case counts since the start of the pandemic. In March I predicted that the vaccines might cause the virus to mutate faster. Isn’t this exactly what you would expect to see if that was indeed the case?
I already know what you’re going to say. “But the deaths and hospitalisations are down so the vaccines are working”. Deaths and hospitalisation are indeed down basically everywhere. But isn’t the whole point of vaccines to eradicate a disease? If they do nothing to eradicate the disease, it would be more accurate to call them treatments now would it? Which brings us back to where we started: vaccination passports. If highly vaccinated countries are seeing exploding case counts, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF A VACCINE PASSPORT? Vaccinated or not, you can still get covid-19. You can still pass it on. Actually I would argue that if the vaccine lessens your symptoms you are more likely to pass it on unknowingly.
What’s the big deal? Just get the jab and shut up.
Because we don’t negotiate with terrorists. Medical privacy is a right until it’s not, and if you give it up now, you’ll never get it back. History is a constant tug-of-war between freedom and tyranny. Whether I’m vaccinated or not is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. Full stop. The free civil societies we inhabit were built on principles that are never to be broken. Sometimes it means that a guilty man walks free because once upon a time we deemed that it’s more important to make sure that an innocent man is never convicted. Once you break those principles once, they are broken forever.
Pandemics are unpleasant. They force us to study ourselves and the people around us. What is truly important? How much risk are you willing to accept for yourself, for your family, for your neighbours, for people you don’t know? Unpleasant questions. You know what else is unpleasant? Life. We’re so coddled and spoiled now that we can’t deal with anything even remotely difficult anymore, so we’re willing to give up all personal accountability when someone promises to save us. No matter how incompetent or deceiving they are. Help me daddy. Govern me daddy. Harder.
Then there are the practical issues. Vaccinating your entire population (which is the clear goal of enforcing vaccine passports) with a novel vaccine, manufactured outside of your country, creates massive systemic risk. You’re now reliant on multinational pharmaceutical companies to protect your population from future virus waves or unforeseen vaccine consequences. Doesn’t sound very robust or independent, does it?
If Finland goes down the route of vaccine passports, medical apartheid and two-tier society, we no longer deserve to claim sisu for ourselves. If anyone does, it’s now the Swedes. There’s something I didn’t see coming in 2019.
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