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My principal objection to going out to the pub atm is the same as it was when we got cocky over the summer: it just feels a bit grim to be waited on by people in masks and face shields who are exposing themselves for 8+ hour shifts so I can have a pint for 10 minutes.
Really feels like capitalism at its most odious. Idk.
I don& #39;t like power imbalances at the best of times, but when there& #39;s such a stark, visible divide between the (usually young) workers who have no choice but to risk their health and the chortling gammons who roll into Wetherspoons to sit at a garden table for a bit...ugh...
This is absolutely a personal thing btw. I& #39;m not suggesting it& #39;s good praxis or anything. Those precariously employed people need businesses to be open, for one thing.
And I don& #39;t really know how we all transition into just going out and doing stuff comfortably again. Maybe champing at the bit to go and live life *is* healthier in the long run.
But until we have only a tiny number of cases in the country and the vast majority of people have been fully vaccinated, it& #39;s a two-tier society even if you& #39;re not going to catch covid.
Which is a broader issue with vaccine passports that& #39;s getting lost in all the antivax and covid-sceptic noise: opening society to the vaccinated only basically creates a temporary underclass of mostly young service workers.
We shouldn& #39;t be "returning to normal" until *everyone* is protected by means of (actual) herd immunity.
Yeah, and this is the worry: what if we get to a point where it& #39;s only like, under 25s who aren& #39;t vaccinated, and then the gov& #39;t decides their level of risk is acceptable? https://twitter.com/geeoharee/status/1381586403935588354?s=19">https://twitter.com/geeoharee...
Because the supplies have run out or whatever. And then we have a *permanent* caste of "unvaccinated" for whom there is a public health justification to limit their participation in society.
Service workers wearing masks forever, the vaccine not being offered on the NHS...it& #39;s a grim picture.
It& #39;s then not the people who won& #39;t get vaccines that are second-class citizens, but those who can& #39;t afford to. God knows I want to get vaccinated and be able to get on a plane and see my mum regardless of what anybody else is up to, but it& #39;s tricky, isn& #39;t it?
There are no easy solutions to global pandemics, and it& #39;s done us no good this past year to pretend there might be. We just had to be sensible and empathetic. We just had to be kind, really.
