I give up, I really do.
UK online daters will be able to choose to display a badge on their profiles to show if they have been vaccinated against Covid or support the jab drive.
However there will be no way of verifying whether those displaying the badge have genuinely had the vaccine.
Tinder, Match, Hinge, Bumble, Badoo, Plenty of Fish, OurTime and Muzmatch have all signed up to the scheme, in partnership with the UK government.
I suppose I should have seen it coming. Farcebookers have had these puke inducing virtue signalling little banners on their profiles for a while. That said, there are the occasional renegades who have one that says “I don’t care if you’ve had a vaccine.”
I try to ignore the virtue signalling on the part of people I know as much as I can. If I unfriend everyone who did it, there would be precious few left.
This could actually be a good thing, weed out the conformists and instead look to date independent thinkers.
Where i work i’m one of very few Brits who’ve not had the jab, with the ex east europeans the percentages are the other way round.
It’s becoming noticable that the refuseniks are just more fun to be with.
It is the ignorance that is most annoying to me. The various Covid vaccines don’t work in the same way that conventional vaccines do. They don’t prevent you from contracting the bug or from spreading it, they only reduce the severity of the symptoms if you do get it. Therefore, someone who has been vaccinated is no safer to be around than someone who hasn’t. Since the odds are now about the same as a six horse accumulator you are pretty safe anyway.
It’s the ignorance that get on my tits too. A friend recently tried this one on me a few days ago. I’ve known her for forty years, she is an intelligent person yet she tried to liken my reluctance to the measles anti-vaxxers and came out with the think of other people’s health. She had no answer when I demolished it with logic – making exactly that point. Why assume that I will be the one spreading it and not her?
I didn’t change her mind unfortunately and I suspect she has me down as an anti-vaxxer, but she should know better, she used to do critical thinking. What happened?
“What happened?”
I have this theory that the individual psychological reaction to covid is fundamentally based on whether a person has considered their own mortality or not. If you have you will continue to operate much as before, your character and way of life won’t alter much. Whereas if you haven’t the threat of (potential) imminent death will have thrown you into a psychological loop, and all previous behaviours will be invalidated, as there will be only one over-riding thought process going on – ‘I don’t want to die!!!!!!’ going around their heads. This explains why people who were always extremely sensible logical people have suddenly gone into panic mode over covid – they hadn’t actually seriously considered death before, and looking it straight in the eye has scrambled their brains.
That fits with the kind of rhetoric I’ve been hearing. Even my brother in law was claiming that it kills indiscriminately and we need to follow the rules. No, it doesn’t and no, we don’t. As for the friend mentioned above, I pointed out that we all die and that thousands die every day. She got upset with me over that comment as if I didn’t understand that she had lost people she knew. I reminded her that I recently lost both my spouse and my mother, but I never expected the country to be shut down as a consequence, nor did I expect anyone else to emote over it. Grief is a private matter.
Jim makes a very interesting point. Having been raised as a Methodist, I thought a bit about mortality when I decided that I was an atheist and that there was obviously no Heaven. I was also forced to think about it after a truck started to pull out of a side road in front of my motorbike. At the time I was too busy trying to locate an exit point and deciding whether to lay the bike down in the hope that I could slide underneath it. Fortunately the driver spotted me at the last moment and stopped pulling out. I’ve also had a suspected heart condition and, while waiting for various tests to be done, didn’t know whether it would turn out to be life limiting. I retired just as the whole Covid thing was kicking off and, being in the vulnerable category, I was reflecting that it would be just my luck to have saved hard for my retirement only to be struck down by a Chinese virus. On the other hand, I have a real fear of living until I’m a completely incapacitated TS Bundy.
So the fact that I have a pragmatic approach to the tiny risk of dying from the covid virus seems to support Jim’s hypothesis.
That’s the thing that gets me. At least, if people were honest and said they were doing it for selfish reasons because it does not protect anybody else apart from themselves.
I’m reading a book by Pr. Raoult, a top expert in infectious disease in France, who’s been vilified in France for daring to suggest that hydroxichloriquine and Azymothricin are effective in the early stages of the disease, through their antiviral properties. He runs a massive hospital in Marseille and has great results in the treatment of Covid since last March. He doesn’t understand how a medicine which has been in use for several decades by billions of people can have been dismissed in Europe the way it has. That book is a compendium of everything he has written or said since March 20, and it is mind boggling how what he has said has been misrepresented in the media.
Truly, we live in a world where the observable reality has given way to the perceived reality. It is scary.
I would be happier with badges which declared the wearer to be STD free with the date of last test. And / Or a good credit rating.
But then, as they say, they might be disingenuous.
Tinder, Match, Hinge, Bumble, Badoo, Plenty of Fish, OurTime and Muzmatch sound like avatars on a dingy internet forum.
Too much hassle just to shag a skank. Let’s face it, if those people were any good at life, those sites wouldn’t exist.
I was socially awkward as a teenager, I don’t think that means that I was bad at life. In any case, the current generation of singles find the internet to be a much more efficient way of finding a partner than the hit and miss methods of the past.
Been on those sites in the past, learned my lessons quickly and dodged many bullets. Fake profiles, scams for money, non-existent profiles – its all there. Mostly fat ugly old bags with half a dozen kids that think they can pull millionaires. Speak up about any of them and you get banned, but the women can say what they like. Those sites are nothing like you think.
Actually, I met someone. It’s no great passion. We talk and meet up from time to time. A bit of amiable companionship, which given that I live alone is no bad thing. She is sane and balanced, so yes, there are real people on there. Her attitude to my vaccine approach is – you do what you think right, despite her having had it herself.
OT but I thought that you would find this interesting.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/black_lives_matter_looks_like_its_falling_apart.html#ixzz6wuziP15n
Heard about this yesterday on BBC World Service
Justification from Hancock & Dating sites is pathetic:
“1 in 4 say they wouldn’t date unvaccinated”
Yes, only 1 in 4 say – well FO you snowflakes. Bear in mind they only reached 1 in 4 by leading questions. Expressed preferences will be lower
This is more Gov’t illegal coercion to accept medical procedure
PS:
Dan is correct
Did you notice the hysterical rhetoric in the article though? He’s a bizarre anti-vaxxer, despite his comments being reasonable and rational.
Yes, disgusting hit piece with more vax promotion than the ‘story’
Don’t care about slebs views, but nice when one rebels from groupthink
DM is anti their readers on Global Warming, Plastic and Covid
As for DM hit piece, their agenda, even from columnists, is attack ‘refusnicks’
The propaganda about COVID is starting to fall apart.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/06/more-evidence-of-obvious.html
As this claims, there will be a lot more revealed now that the cracks have appeared.