Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.
So a vaccine is developed that's delivered on beef - should vegans and vegetarians be forced to partake?
Yup. Public health is about the greater good, not just shareholder profits. The idea being that with a dangerous, communicable disease, it's in the public interest to prevent it spreading. So Typhoid Mary could be quarantined against their will. We have lists of notifiable diseases for that reason, although most of those are arguably far more serious than Covid. Like say, diptheria, or even measles/mumps/rubella which are rather nasty as adults.
But we've also had anti-vaxxers stating that their kids aren't getting the MMR jab. Or anti-vaxxers saying they're not getting the Covid jab.
And of course, the media-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59147248
The UK recorded 33,865 Covid cases on Tuesday and 293 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.
Ohnoes! The media's loved it's Doomsday counts. Cases are just people where the virus has been detected. They're not 'cases' in a more traditional medical sense, ie people have become sick. Especially when PCR tests have been overly sensitive. But governments have also implemented mandatory testing. So the UK's apparently doing something like around 1m+ tests per day now, with the tests having ramped up since case zero.
Unless there's some normalisation, 33k 'cases' is fairly meaningless. More tests, more 'cases'. More PCR cycles, more cases. But less than 1%, and because epidemic, the longer it goes on, the more people you'd expect to find with traces of the virus. The worst part is still the incorrect definition of 'case', ie that doesn't mean they're a carrier in any traditional sense.
And then of course there's the definition of a Covid death, ie someone who's just died within 28 days of a trace of virus having been detected. It may have nothing to do with the actual cause of death, but determining that is more complicated, and waaay beyond the wit or wisdom of the Bbc. But <1% of cases turning into deaths, even delayed deaths. And as we approach winter, we're also into the excess winter mortality period, where we expect more deaths from respiratory illnesses.
But this is also where the Bbc does it's part. Covid's bumped down the headlines, COP is promoted. And thanks to 'climate change' policies, inflation is running rampant, energy costs have rocketed. And we know that cold kills more people than warm. So thanks to energy policies, and energy poverty, more people will die this winter.. But those could probably be spun as Covid deaths, rather than the consequence of bad policy.
Or there's just outright anti-science, ie it's becoming apparent that vaccines don't have the effectiveness originally claimed, and that side-effects might be higher. No matter, jab 5-11yr olds, and if they develop myocarditis, it's for the greater good. Or refusing to believe in natural immunity. Politicians have determined that vaccines are the answer. Get jabbed, or lose your job.
Of course there's an IT angle to that, as in it's much easier to create and maintain a database of the jabbed than it is to measure viral loads, or antibodies. But such is politics.
Disclaimer: I've been jabbed.