Jimbo wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:13 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:51 am Vaccinating the military is fine. They willingly gave up their bodily autonomy.
But firing a civilian over this is not right.
I am glad Justice Barrett and I are on opposite sides here.
If parents must get a vaccine to send their kids to school then just call it forced vaccination. That’s what we’re headed towards.
I don’t want to go through this every year.

I had to get a tetanus shot before I started 6th grade. It's common practice. Also I didn't whine like a like wienerhead baby about it.

But the programmes are controversial. The World Health Organization has called a halt to all boosters until the end of September, saying supplies should be safeguarded for poorer countries that have yet to inoculate significant numbers of citizens.

Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, the head of the Oxford vaccine group, and Seth Berkley, the chief executive of Gavi, the vaccine alliance, describe this as “a key moment for decision-makers”.

“Large-scale boosting in one rich country would send a signal around the world that boosters are needed everywhere,” they write in the Guardian. “This will suck many vaccine doses out of the system, and many more people will die because they never even had a chance to get a single dose.”

sparky wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:16 pm The mooted booster programmes are not without controversy or indeed unfairness.

But the programmes are controversial. The World Health Organization has called a halt to all boosters until the end of September, saying supplies should be safeguarded for poorer countries that have yet to inoculate significant numbers of citizens.

Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, the head of the Oxford vaccine group, and Seth Berkley, the chief executive of Gavi, the vaccine alliance, describe this as “a key moment for decision-makers”.

“Large-scale boosting in one rich country would send a signal around the world that boosters are needed everywhere,” they write in the Guardian. “This will suck many vaccine doses out of the system, and many more people will die because they never even had a chance to get a single dose.”

In the U.K., I’d argue our government’s talk of booster programmes are more about bolstering their waning political credit for snapping up a disproportionate share of the early vaccine supplies. Vaccine nationalism is contemptible and murderous.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:54 pm America's vaccination rate is the envy of the world. We did it with logistics, persuasion, and concessions to big pharma. Not with mandates and threats. Let's show the world how it's done.

BrendanK wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 2:34 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:54 pm America's vaccination rate is the envy of the world. We did it with logistics, persuasion, and concessions to big pharma. Not with mandates and threats. Let's show the world how it's done.

Not sure about that underlined part, my kids can't go to public school without having their vaccinations up to date (and I'm all for it.)

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:14 pm I meant America's COVID vaccination rate will continue to outpace everyone else's even without mandates.

Millions of vaccines are in danger of being thrown out as the US immunisation campaign hits a wall of vaccine refusal.

US vaccinations peaked at more than 3.4 million a day in April but fell to under a million a day at the beginning of June

Gramsci wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:52 pmYeah. I have a feeling this government could become incredibly unpopular quite suddenly.

Curry Pervert wrote: Everyone else's?

sparky wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:53 pm

Gramsci wrote: Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:52 pmYeah. I have a feeling this government could become incredibly unpopular quite suddenly.

My loss of the last vestiges of confidence in the U.K. electorate mutters otherwise. My loss mutters a lot, to be fair.