England, from whom we declared our independence a few centuries back, has taken a leading stance on the matter of individual liberty. Last week the UK dropped enforcement mask mandates and vax passport enforcement. They’ve announced another COVID policy rollback.
“A mandate for all NHS and care workers to be jabbed against Covid looks set to be scrapped amid ‘crippling’ staff shortage fears.”
The Government’s Covid-O Committee will meet following warnings that some 100,000 healthcare workers would be forced out of their jobs because they had declined to take two doses of a Covid vaccine.
A pressure to vax campaign against home care workers saw 40,000 unemployed overnight when they refused to get The Jab. The effect on public health of such a dramatic loss of resources is probably at the heart of the decision to walk back the NHS mandate. You’re in the middle of something you’ve hyped for years, but then, as a matter of policy, you pull the health care rug out from under thousands of citizens?
It’s not good policy or politics, and it certainly isn’t improving public health.
We see those problems across the pond (here in America), but daft politicians continue to sing the same siren song. Headlines scream about overwhelmed hospitals, quoting policymakers responsible for the problem.
Health care facilities already have staff shortages resulting from mandatory vaccine policy, so what do the experts do. They mail out home tests. Asymptomatic home-testers descend on hospitals in mobs.
What a great idea.
We scared the crap out of you for two years over almost nothing. We undermined the ability of public health infrastructure after insisting the unconstitutional mandates were to prevent that. Then we catalyze that very problem through policy.
Fear plus home test equals chaos sold as the justification for more lousy policy.
That’s America, or at least large swaths of it.
England has been as bad or worse, but someone returned on a light for one reason or another. They are still saying you should get the Jab. That’s their official position. But they are not going to force you to do that.
So what’s next? Will they begin protecting people’s jobs in the private sector from these mandates?
I’m not holding my breath for Brits, but there’s some hope here. New Hampshire has legislation to protect workers from vaccine discrimination.
- HB1210 would require acceptance of any exemption from vaccination
- HB1099 would deny DHHS the authority to institute a vaccine passport requirement.
- HB1035 would allow parents to exempt kids from vaccination for matters of health, faith, or conscience.
There are also bills related to government contractors and others designed to protect people from public health tyranny.
Sadly, it has to be this way, and they may fail, but we have to keep pushing back. If the state permits such measures unchallenged, there is no limit to what it can do or take from you.
