@Mitz i pretty much agree with you, i think compulsory vaccines are highly unlikely. the covid passport is their way in about that, he is now just following the lead of sturgeon and the scottish greens who think this will encourage youngsters who are hesitant for whatever reason to go and get the vaccine. the hardcore conspiracist refusers will never comply anyway, even if they made it compulsory. they’ll go off the grid and live in the mountains before that.
and then there are the ethnic minority communities who very understandably have a contingent with absolutely no trust in either the government or the pharmaceutical industry.
i don’t know, the whole thing is fucked up.
Opposition to mandatory vaccination in this country would be fierce and very problematic, imho, and it wouldn't only come from the anti-vaxx brigade, it would, imho, come from all quarters including from many within Parliament. It just seems like an impossible sale to me here in the UK.
People obviously hear different things when listening to the same thing. What I hear from BJ in that press briefing seems to be very different to what
@andipandi hears. No idea if I'm just hearing what I want to hear, hearing what I THINK he's saying, or if I'm listening and reading between the lines, I really don't know. But when I listen to what he said what I hear is the first words out of his mouth expressing that mandatory vaccination doesn't sit well with him and is not what is expected in this country, and that is exactly what I would expect him to say. Andi thinks the "other measures" clearly means mandatory vaccination. I must be one of those "thick as shit" people (definitely not ruling that possibility out) because when I hear that I can imagine a load of possible "other measures" that does NOT include mandatory vaccination. Yes, eventually we are going to have to try and move away from the continuous possibility and reality of restrictions. But that depends almost entirely on covid. Doesn't matter what we want to do because it can all change almost instantly with a single new variant. But a "national conversation" on how to try and achieve that goal "IF and when" the time comes - to quote BJ - doesn't seem unreasonable. If that conversation happens and turns to the option of mandatory vaccination then I don't think that conversation will ever actually lead to mandatory vaccination.
It is effed up Zou. Covid is nasty. In my opinion people should get vaccinated, but I have a mate who isn't and I have a step daughter who isn't. I'm not going to judge them because it's their choice. I may not agree with it but I'm sure I've made a million choices in my life most people would disagree with. If I'd chosen not to be vaccinated then that would have been my choice and nobody else's. And if someone tried to force me? Yeah, good luck with that.
This is only my opinion, others are obviously entitled to theirs, but as far as I'm concerned, mandatory vaccination would be a truly shocking development that I just cannot see happening. I don't care what Germany, Austria, Greece, or the rest of Europe does. They can have at it. I'm not German, Austrian, Greek, French, etc. And I'm not anti-vaxx, I've had both and I'm having my booster, but the day we bring in mandatory vaccination is a day that I'd feel embarrassed to be British.
The means do not always justify the (imagined) end.
Just my opinion. Other's MMV.
