Biofascism - Lest we forget 1
A reminder of the madness that was allowed to be printed and that people somewhere, in some numbers, actually bought into.
We have not yet even begun to face up to the staggering scale of overt and covert biofascism that was and is peddled across society. Like it or not, the uncomfortable truth is that you probably know people whose minds and opinions were permeated by biofascism, irrespective of whether they recognise it as a thing or within themselves.
Sean O’Grady, Associate Editor of The Independent, UK. Unlikely to be independent.
This insane opinion piece (below) is notable for:
Still being online;
Lacking any form of supporting evidence whatsoever;
Standing the test of time for possibly zero seconds (it was wrong the moment it was published);
Containing totally invented notions of “societal obligations” in modern Britain where “there is no such thing as society” (Thatcher).
Note: even when Thatcher’s words are taken in the context she later explains, there’s a glaring problem in O’Grady’s utterly childish rant:
“they never quoted the rest. I went on to say: There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then to look after our neighbour. My meaning, clear at the time but subsequently distorted beyond recognition, was that society was not an abstraction, separate from the men and women who composed it, but a living structure of individuals, families, neighbours and voluntary associations.“
Margaret Thatcher
Medical autonomy is built exactly around looking after oneself first. This trumps society, as it should. No one ever took medicine for the other girl (although if you’ve got the right kind of medicine, I might have a bit of yours).
This is what we do about anti-vaxxers: No job. No entry. No NHS access
Excerpts:
But the time has come when the hard choices are looming closer. If we don’t want this Covid crisis to last forever, we need some new simple, guidelines: No jab, no job; no jab, no access to NHS healthcare; no jab, no state education for your kids. No jab, no access to pubs, restaurants, theatres, cinemas, stadiums. No jab, no entry to the UK, and much else.
As the Tory MP Mark Harper tweeted recently: “Concerning to hear Govt is entertaining the delay of the 21 June unlocking – causing massive problems for many people’s livelihoods – because some people won’t have a jab. Wider society’s fate can’t be sealed by the actions of a small group of people, whatever their reasoning.”
Quite right, which is why the doubtful need to be persuaded and encouraged to do the right thing*. There should be far more mobile, drop-in vaccine centres, door-to-door outreach, public information, debunking campaigns, choice of types of vaccines and so on to reach individuals and communities who have missed out on this life-saving jab.
As I say, with rare exceptions of genuine medical justification, everyone who refuses a vaccine could be a killer on the loose, and should be judged accordingly.
*”The Right Thing” = never defined by anyone, ever.