Has anyone been following what’s going on in France? Stuff of actual nightmares!
After a week of “debate” through the french parliamentary system, last night the law was passed for the introduction of their version of the covid passport. It begins on August 1st - although it has already been in place at tourist attractions, museums and cinemas since 21st July. It’s called the pass sanitaire and is applicable to all over 18’s from now and for all over 12’s from 30th September. You can achieve a valid pass by being fully vaccinated, having a negative covid test within the past 48 hours or having tested positive for covid within the past 6 months. It will apply to all restaurants and cafes (inside and out), all museums, theatres, cinemas, events, local fairs, on all longer journey trains, coaches and planes and even to enter any kind of medical centre like a gp or dentist unless it’s an emergency. A list of 72 professions including all doctors and nurses and fireman must be vaccinated or lose their jobs. NOT the police though, who are entirely exempt from both vaccination and the pass sanitaire!
Employees in public spaces like restaurants and cafes can also lose their salaries without state support if they wish to remain unvaccinated but the law stopped just short of making it legal to fire them purely for being unvaccinated.
I am not anti-vax but my goodness I believe in freedom of choice and feel that this forced vaccination for all over 12’s is so very wrong and so very intrusive on Liberty.
Personally vaccine passports make zero sense to me. Since infection and spread can still take place amongst vaccinated people, exactly what does it achieve in making it a prerequisite to enter a cafe or restaurant? Going by the figures in France, even with a lower uptake of vaccines overall, the link between hospitalisations and deaths has been broken just the same as in the uk because ultimately the people that needed to be protected by a vaccine have been and cases now spreading amongst younger people, whether vaccinated or not, aren’t having an impact on those much more significant figures.
I despair at the continued forced agenda and don’t believe it is to stop future lockdowns being necessary. If they’re going to keep counting cases and basing their actions on that then vaccinating and vaccination passports are going to make sod all difference.
There is huge protest and not just the unvaccinated are unhappy with this law but as in the uk, the media is heavily censored when it comes to coverage of the protesting and they are all wrongly labelled anti-vax nutters by the politicians. Figures regarding the number of protesters present in over 190 towns and cities were reported on msm as 160,000 but Twitter feeds estimates 2-3 million!