{"id":43160,"date":"2021-09-13T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43160"},"modified":"2021-09-13T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:14:46","slug":"some-semblance-of-sanity-comes-to-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43160","title":{"rendered":"Some Semblance Of Sanity Comes To Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/england-ditches-vaccine-passport-plan_3991471.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2021-09-13&amp;mktids=33de9f9c08142a21e91e56f801e2202f&amp;est=%2BEWqTjhjyPDocjsdZfIQbyR7mZ69EdfVx8eKmCakkL%2Bb1BI8YnJW5IaYRHC31w8%2Bnz5bgg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times<\/a> reported that UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that Britain will not go ahead with the plan for vaccine passports.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The plan to mandate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a> vaccine passports for nightclubs and crowded events in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a> will not go ahead, UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It comes after British lawmakers across the political spectrum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/uk-vaccine-passport-plan-triggers-cross-party-backlash_3987353.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voiced strong opposition<\/a> to the plans this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Speaking on the BBC\u2019s \u201cThe Andrew Marr Show\u201d\u00a0on Sunday, the health secretary said he \u201cnever liked the idea\u201d of forcing people to show their papers in everyday activities, but the government was right to look at the evidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWhat I can say is that we\u2019ve looked at it properly and whilst we should keep it in reserve as a potential option, I\u2019m pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports,\u201d\u00a0Javid said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The health secretary added that the government shouldn\u2019t be doing things for the sake of it or because others are doing them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cSo many countries, at the time they implemented it, was to try and boost their vaccination rates and you can understand why they might have done that,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Javid said that England has so far been \u201cvery successful\u201d with its vaccination rates, with 55 percent of 16- to 17- year-olds having had their first doses only a month after the jabs were offered to this age group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A number of European countries have introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ccp-virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP virus<\/a> status passports for settings including large events and restaurants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Scottish Parliament voted\u00a068 votes to 55 on\u00a0Thursday to support the implementation of CCP virus vaccine passports in Scotland\u2019s nightclubs and other crowded venues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A negative test for COVID-19 will not be accepted at this stage. The Scottish government said it was to boost vaccine uptake and\u00a0to prevent limited PCR lab capacity from being overwhelmed by clubbers. The now-scrapped vaccine passport plan for England also wouldn\u2019t have accepted negative test results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.data.gov.uk\/details\/vaccinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official figures<\/a>, CCP virus vaccination take-up rates across the UK\u2019s four nations have been broadly similar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As of Sept. 9, nearly 90 percent of the UK population aged over 16 have received the first dose of a CCP virus vaccine, and over 80 percent have received both doses, the government said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Freedom is going out of style in a lot of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Epoch Times reported that UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that Britain will not go ahead with the plan for vaccine passports. 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