The Government is considering sending council staff to visit people who have refused an offer to get vaccinated, the minister responsible for the roll-out has suggested. Amid fears a sizeable proportion of the population are still sceptical of getting the Covid vaccine, those who have so far turned down the chance to get inoculated may soon get a knock on the door to find out why.
The answer to which is: None of your business.
Me, I’ll probably do what I usually do and not answer the door.
Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi told MPs he wanted to identify ‘at an individual level’ the people who still need to be reached, according to The Times. He said he wanted to then use councils to seek out those who had refused offers and see what might convince them.
Am I the only one who finds this sinister?
“Those who have so far turned down the chance to get inoculated may soon get a knock on the door to find out why“
Echoes of the bill wanting to “Understand your thinking” from a while back.
“Am I the only one who finds this sinister?”
Of course not! But I’ve already spent far too long imagining how I’m going to greet (probably the wrong choice of word) any CP trained council jobsworth knocking on my door…
Where we normally stop the dogs going out when the comm box rings they’ll be first out the door if this shower turn up, we’re gated and locked, anyone outside the gates is safe from the dogs physically but the conversation won’t be much to write home about amid the din the mutts kick up.
So, let me get this right. They are breaching NHS confidentiality to send busybodies and other prod-noses round to my flat to try and get me to risk their dodgy vaccine that won’t even finish clinical trials until 2023?
Me: “You got a warrant?”
Prod-nose: “…err. No”
Me: “Jog on then”
End of story.
“Am I the only one who finds this sinister?”
Nope, I do too. Door, like phone, I don’t answer if don’t know
@JG
“They are breaching NHS confidentiality” – Again
Excellent point
If one knocks on my foor, I think I will just stand there blank faced and not say a word
It would be sinister but for the legendary sloth and incompetence of UK councils…
Don’t think they’ll like the reception they’ll get here
I’ve just had to pop to the post office in a neighbouring village. There are a lot of stickers critical of the Covid panic there.
Stickers around the village, not at the post office.
Mark Harper MP tweeted yesterday that Ministers are seeking MPs’ retrospective approval on measures that allow the sharing of health data with the police and a vote will take place today
https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Harper/status/1359242574758879236