There is policy bias towards vaccination as a means of controlling Covid

In response to the editorial vaccine passports are controversial yet most people do get jabbed, titled ‘Vaccine passports are controversial yet the overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland do choose to get jabbed,’ which was published on November 27 in which the author writes “vaccines [...] offer the fastest route out of such restrictions.”

Nature, a scientific journal, asked a hundred scientists if they believed Covid-19 could be eradicated. 90% responded with the belief that coronavirus will become endemic. Dr. Paul Hunter, a British scientist wrote on Twitter “Non-Pharmaceutical interventions never prevent spread [they] only delay it…” The same scientist co-authored a scientific paper which estimates that with a fully vaccinated adult population the best outcome is an R number of 2.2.

There is policy bias towards vaccination as a means of controlling the virus of which the next stage is the vaccination of children, having already begun elsewhere. Dr. Mina T Kelleni condemns the usage of these vaccines on children. He also describes an “apartheid wall” blocking critical voices in the scientific debate. He asks a pertinent question, if herd immunity is unlikely with vaccination as it would seem, why should mandates or covid vaccine passports be advocated? Science should not be wielded in unequal favour toward the legislator’s power, freedom should never be made conditional upon either R numbers or vaccination status.

Currently the Irish Council for Human Rights have launched a consultation into the review of the Equality Acts in the Republic of Ireland, with a view to examining whether the act should include protected grounds for those discriminated against because of face-covering mandates and/or health/immunization status. As of the 22nd of November, 23159 people had participated in the survey- myself included. People are crying out for their voices to be heard.

Sarah-Jayne Pomeroy, Drumquin, M.A. Antislavery Researcher and MSc student, Drumquin

Editorial: Vaccine passports are controversial yet the overwhelming majority of people in NI do choose to get jabbed

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