British holidaymakers will face new travel restrictions unless they are triple-jabbed, as Austria and Israel lead the way in tightening Covid entry rules.
Both countries have now placed time limits on the validity of vaccinations to guard against waning immunity.
Austria will categorise travellers as unvaccinated if it has been more than 360 days since their second dose or booster, meaning they must pay for a PCR test to enter.
Israel will even stricter rules, with foreigners barred if the date they are set to leave the country is more than 180 days after their second dose or booster.
We are in the grip of a religious cult. These jabs don’t stop the virus from spreading. They do not stop the vaccinated from getting it or giving it to others. This is a therapy, not a vaccine. Therefore restrictions are pissing in the wind. Mere theatre. All for a disease with a similar fatality rate as seasonal flu. But the authoritarians are getting off on it. Next year it will be quadruple jabbed, then it will be five, six and so on. This is one of those things from which there is no escape unless the masses refuse to play. At present, I see no signs of a backlash.
The thing about a backlash is that people need to perceive that there are enough other people doing it to make it worthwhile. I seriously considered giving away my ticket to a music concert when threatened with having to go through a load of anti Covid precautions. As it turned out, they said that the precautionary stuff would be imposed but then didn’t do it. I had already paid so not turning up would have made no difference. Even if there are things that you can boycott, if it’s just you and a tiny handful of others, it is pretty futile and feels like pissing in the wind. It seems that the only options are putting up with all the crap or putting your life on hold for the foreseeable future. Motivating others to kick back seems doomed as the majority seem to really believe that we are all going to die if we don’t keep up the magic rituals. There are still masks everywhere. One of my wife’s family members has developed an unpleasant skin condition on her hands due to constantly sanitising them. I don’t know what the answer is.
If you had asked for a refund because their T&Cs had changed then they may reconsider. Many shops put up restrictions but when when customers turn and walk into the shop next door they soon revise them.
So don’t give the ticket away, claim a refund and see how that goes.
Lots of people feel like us, but are apprehensive about putting their heads over the wall, maybe they are more sensible than those of us who have made no secret of our dissident status.
I’m speaking to others about these issues, making it plain to anyone who’s prepared to converse that i’m not taking this foul bloody concoction as long as i’ve got a hole in my arse, nor is wifey and nor (with no influence from me) is my daughter.
Once they realise they are in good company its surprising just how many of us refuseniks there are, maybe they had the impression they were alone but whatever the reasoning for them keeping quiet once someone stands up and says no, it helps them do the same.
We need to form alliances among the similar thinking.
Many who haven’t had the jabs have a pragmatic ‘don’t believe official narratives’ view of things and life in general, many also are of foreign extraction, they value freedoms more than the natives.
Time for some meaningful conversations with others.
A friend has a life philosophy which i’ve adopted, i offer it to the collective.
”Never let rich people tell you who you should fear or hate”
Living by this is a simple way of chucking a bloody great spanner in the evil machine those who own the world have been using to run things their way for too long, refuse their divide and rule messages.
Throughout the world in all countries and all races the majority of us are just working class bods trying to make ends meet, keep a job, raise our families in safety and live a normal life in harmony with others, it isn’t other working class people who are our enemy, its those who would rule over us by fear and their bought and paid for menials, the menials being most of parliament and the vast majority of mainstream media.
I’m hearing more and more from students who have refused. Maybe it’s a self selecting sample.
I have had the Fizzer jab. I tried to do my research and make an informed decision, I am a sixty something diabetic so I’m slightly vulnerable. I respect other people’s decision not to get jabbed. It seems particularly odd that younger people have been queuing up to get jabbed when they are at minimal risk.
My previous comment about masks didn’t apply to the gig that I attended, there were very few there. The comment was more general, around the supermarket and, bafflingly, in cars.
In a sane world the jab wouldn’t even be an issue. It is a personal issue that affects the individual and no one else. The insistence on vaccine passes is based on misinformation.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/aggressive-anti-masker-bizarre-totnes-6165749
I was hoping I might be able to go abroad next year, but am increasingly pessimistic about this being practicable. Having a family of four go through all the testing non-sense is a pain, also if one of us gets a positive result none of us can go. Also expensive. That’s assuming that a negative test is accepted next year. Fully possible that notwithstanding what governments might do airlines might insist..easier that way. This is perhaps a silver lining to the ‘booster requirement’. If those without boosters are treated as unvaxxed then there will always be a sizeable cohort of travellers that need to do the tests, and it will not be commercially viable for the airlines to deny them a place onboard.
I’m in a similar position. I’d love to take the bike abroad, but don’t see it happening any time soon.
There might be value in labelling the stupid places as “no-go areas”. Strangle their foreign currency input by making THEM the odd ones out.
“This is a therapy, not a vaccine.”
Yes. If all they do is reduce the severity of symptoms should you catch the thing, they aren’t vaccines; they’re treatments, prophylactics. The whole point of vaccination is to reduce transmission (which is why real vaccines don’t need 100% take-up or violation of the unvaccinated’s rights; transmission reduces exponentially with the number of people vaccinated, so everyone is safer regardless of status). And while I seem to recall one of the vaccines I received as a kid requiring a booster after a few years, three – maybe even four – doses in less than a year smacks of panic.
I was “vaccine hesitant”. Now, almost with every day that passes, I’m more and more certain I made the right decision. The whole thing stinks to the rafters.
Tetanus requires a booster. Several years, though, not months.
True, but I don’t think it was that one though. Maybe. However, yes, the point is that it’s years.
I don’t know what other one it might have been, then. The only booster I’ve ever had has been tetanus.
Do they call Tetanus a vaccine?