NHS Compulsory Vaccination as an Example of Doublethink
There follows a guest post by Dr. Peter Hayes, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sunderland, who spies a touch of Orwellian propaganda in the Government’s mixed messages on NHS staff and vaccination.
On November 9th, Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced that all frontline NHS staff must be double vaccinated by April 2022 or lose their jobs. In relaying this news, the BBC first explained the April deadline as being one that would allow staff “enough time” to get the jabs. This, of course, is nonsense: any adult who wants to get twice vaccinated has already had ample time to do so. Insofar as “enough time” means anything, it is a version of the parental ploy: “I am going to count to three, and if you don’t do what you are told by then, I will…”, the only difference being that the threat is not “send you to bed without any supper” but “sack you”.
The BBC soon replaced this lame explanation of the April deadline with a new one of breathtaking audacity. NHS staff had to be vaccinated against Covid, yes, but the deadline was delayed until April so that unvaccinated staff could be on hand to help cope with the winter pressure on the NHS; pressure that is anticipated as a result of the combined effects of Covid and flu.
This second explanation provides a textbook example of doublethink, one that is as good, if not better, than the original illustration given by George Orwell. In 1984 doublethink allows the regime to shift at will between (1) a false account of reality that is held for ideological reasons, and (2) a true account of reality that is kept handy for practical purposes. Thus, it is explained that (1) The world is the centre of the universe with the sun and nearby stars going round it. However, for the purpose of navigating the oceans, (2) the earth orbits the sun and the stars are vastly distant. So it is with the compulsory vaccination, by April, of NHS staff. First we have the false account.
(1) Vaccination protects the recipient against acquiring and transmitting Covid. Therefore, in order not to spread Covid, NHS staff must be vaccinated.
But for the practical purpose of dealing with the winter surge in hospitalisations – Covid included – there is a shift to the true account.
(2) Vaccination does not, in fact, protect the recipient against acquiring and transmitting Covid. Therefore, unvaccinated NHS staff can perfectly well help deal with the anticipated winter surge without making things worse.
When it comes to the spring, let us hope that, like the parent counting to three, the Government will find a way to back down on its threat (“One, Two, …Two-and-a-Half…”). But perhaps we do not need to worry about this too much. For if the Government does dismiss those who stubbornly remain unvaccinated, and then come the next winter the NHS finds itself short staffed, in accordance with the principles of doublethink, the Government can simply rehire them.
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Compulsory “vaccination” doubleplus ungood.
Don’t expect any sense from the government or the BBC.
Even when they try using logical arguments (e.g. Javid and Hancock of late claiming as much), they make sure that they apply their logic to false premises.
They treat us all like morons who can’t see through it.
The vaccine doesn’t help you, but you should get it cause it helps you. It will keep you and others safe from infection, but let us be clear, it doesn’t keep you from getting infected or passing it on to others. Does that make sense? Good. Get it or I’m making you homeless.
Killing you to keep you safe.
I personally think that with the winter they have in store for us/manufactured, this will allow blame for a surge in deaths to be placed at the feet of the unvaccinated staff in the NHS, plus in wider society at large.
Think this was posted earlier but worth reposting. Credit to whoever
Covid: Dr Clare Craig on why she’s against mandatory jabs for NHS staff
Excellent!
Excellent stuff.
A month later:
“How many fingers am I holding up, Mr Jones?”
“how many do you want it to be sir?”
Hopefully by then the quadruple “vaccinated” will be turning on the triple “vaccinated”, to say nothing of the reprobates known as the merely “double vaccinated”.
Double vaxxed is so last year
‘When it comes to the spring, let us hope that, like the parent counting to three, the Government will find a way to back down on its threat (“One, Two, …Two-and-a-Half…”).’
I hope they don’t backdown. 70,000 new recruits who may join the cause and hopefully accelerate the fall of the dictatorship
“the Government can simply rehire them. “
I doubt that. The ones accepting the sack will not want to return.
The more able workers will leave first, and be snapped up by the private medical corps beloved of the NHS Head Honcho. All those well-trained medical staff available en masse, which should drive costs down. A two-fer for Big Private Medical ‘Care’
A friend of mine is a Nurse. She has natural immunity – which the NHS is ignoring – and will allow herself to be sacked when the time comes. Or maybe just leave earlier if it suits her. When 000s of staff do this the NHS will have a problem.
To continue the Orwellian theme: hate week will soon be upon us.
Climaxing in “the airing of grievances” for Festivus
The Story of Festivus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX55AzGku5Y
But the double-think is only in our learned Doctor Jones’ and his friend Peter’s head. The (rather obvious) single-think explanation is that although vaccination indeed helps a lot, it is still a lesser evil to society during an emergency to have unvaccinated medical staff available than to get rid of them. There, Doctor Jones and Peter, your minds can be at peace again.
You sure about that? Were you writing to your MP pre Covid about the flu jabs? What about natural immunity or vaccine harms (which have to be risked each round of a vaccine), what about mix and match?
You anything at all, anything at all which shows that this policy is anything other than an exercise is threatening behaviour, in coercion, in the willful breadlining of people who up until last week were being lauded as heroes by the same bastards now sacking them?
What ’emergency’??????
Thank you for the comment. If vaccination helps a lot in stopping the vaccinated from catching and spreading Covid, it would seem logical that as vaccination rates increase, infection rates should go down. But this has not happened. The simplest explanation for why it has not happened is that vaccination does not, in fact, help to prevent catching and spreading Covid.
People had to join the Nazi Party to keep their jobs.
Proof of membership is now ‘voluntary’ use of the mask and ‘voluntary’ vaxxination.
This picture needs updating.
Must be Winston Smith
I would rather have unvaccinated Docotrs and nurses, covid vaccinated ones have failed the most basic IQ test as far as I’m concerned.
“touch of Orwellian propaganda”
Just a touch. Lol.
By April there will be a requirement for a fourth jab for all those who have currently complied. So will the rules in April apply to both triple and quadruple jabbed equally or will the triple folk have to have a quick fouth jab to qualify?
The same “combined pressure” as last year, when the flu took a gap year, and something with exactly the same symptoms took its place.
Did Javid say that NHS staff would have to be “double vaccinated” by April 2022, or did he say “fully vaccinated”? If the latter, my guess is that staff will be expected to have had either their 2nd “jab” or a booster dose within 6 months (or so) of the April 1st deadline. Maybe by then they will be rolling out the 2nd booster shot! I can’t see them being happy with people having had their 2 jabs 12 months earlier and no booster since. I suspect that part of the delay about mandating the “vaccines” will be about coercing nhs staff to have the booster, as a sizeable proportion have so far not had this, much greater than the proportion who haven’t had their first 2 shots. NHS staff must dance to the tune of those saying the boosters are absolutely essential to protect us all.
Hospitals in USA and in first world countries are refusing life-saving Ivermectin treatment even with court orders. Big Pharma doing everything they can to jab us no matter what, while alternative COVID cures EXIST! There happens to be heavy censorship who are looking for these treatments. The Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
The mental gymnastics of this clown world vaccination dogma is astounding
The April deadline gives NHS staff who won’t submit to tyranny time to plan their future.
I personally know one NHS GP who won’t comply; she and colleagues are actively planning to quit and set up a private healthcare practice.
Those frontline NHS workers like my friend,who have resisted the “call to arms” so far, are terrified for their jobs now. In order to be ” fully vaccinated” ( whatever that means!) by Easter, they would need to take the first prick very soon ( because of the b.s. rule of 6 ( or is it 5 now??) months between injections of the shite). Most staff have rent/ mortgages, families to feed, etc. Principles don’t pay the bills. This is the effect of the evil bullying of our government machine. The bastards are grinding those staff ( remember they were officially “NHS heroes” last summer) who have seen through the propaganda down. I will not, ever, give my arm to the tyrants, but I fully sympathise with those teetering on the brink.
But there are very few people in parliament or the MSM prepared to call out the doublethink. Anyone daring to do so is likely to be libeled as a covid denier, antivaxxer, etc
Do these loons ever see any of the commentaries on these or similar pages? Commentary that clearly points out in no uncertain terms the complete swivel-eyed madness of the thoughts/ideas/doublethink gormless meanderings through their tiny little mind spaces? People have been firmly locked into padded cells over the centuries for far less ‘off-the-wall’ beliefs and thought processes. There really is very little hope for us as a species I fear. Good luck running the planet Meerkats.
And I hear Mark Wankford has decreed that the Welsh will have to show VaxPasses to enter cinemas, theatres, and concerts from next week!!
Message from my son who lives in Merthyr saying…”No more cinema for the boys” (my grandchildren aged 4 & 6). Well done Wankford! Doing your bit for the Welsh people and your country. I guess you’ll be wringing your hands at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, thanking those who gave their lives for your freedoms? You complete DICKHEAD!
And IF “they” are offered the opportunity to be rehired, hopefully “they” tell the government to go F themselves!