If Never again means Never again, it’s necessary to spot the signs that might indicate democracy is threatened. Totalitarian regimes arise with certain dynamics, and if we do not understand these signals, how do we protect hard won freedoms?
And when trigger warnings appear, that might be red flags for a direction of travel that is dangerous, we must take a closer look. How else to prevent repeating atrocities of the past?
Throughout the ages, a well used tool of the tyrant is that of divide and rule. Here I am talking about social division that is deliberately mined by those in power.
An aspect of this division is to create a ‘superior’ group which looks down on the other group, as lesser beings who are deemed a threat to the them, the ‘worthy’.
Tyrants can divide the population on the basis of many things including class, gender, or race. As outliers and a minority, Jews have been targeted multiple times by governments looking for a scapegoat. The most well known example today, is the targeting of Jews by Hitler and the Third Reich and it’s catastrophic consequences.
This is not an examination of antisemitism. I will do that in a separate article. This is a look at tyranny, and at the authoritarian measures being employed by governments around the world. Are these measures about keeping the public safe or are they a signifier of tyranny?
2021 is the year in which government policies around the world have created a division between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. From my own life science training and from the mouths of immunologists (Covid Symposium 2021, as below) creating this division is false. It is accepted science that there are two ways to achieve immunity, with natural immunity following infection being one of the two methods. The science is inclusive, yet government policy unnecessarily divisive. The latter says you only contribute to public health if you are vaccinated. Even if you have good immunity from infection (which is durable and robust as confirmed by countless studies, eg cell.com below ), this is not recognised in the UK and the USA, for example, and only for six months in Europe.
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In the UK, radio and TV presenters frequently lay into the Covid recovered telling them they must get vaccinated. This is not science based. It is unprecedented. You don’t vaccinate people already immune.
Good health policy, I was taught, unites the population, it does not demonise or coerce. However, we are now entrenched in a situation which is the very opposite of good practice.
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Some vaccinated members of the public are acting out the government messaging that only the vaccinated ‘count’. They are the righteous and superior; and the unvaccinated inferior and unclean. This is a Facebook comment to someone, Covid recovered, explaining the research on natural acquired immunity:
I have seen Facebook posts saying the unvaccinated should be sent to camps.
Coming out of the pandemic, shouldn’t we be seeing a lessoning of picking on the unvaccinated? However in November 2021, as hospitalisations and deaths fall in relation to case numbers, rather than dial down the othering of the unvaccinated, the rhetoric and measures against them ramps up.
Esther Rantzen on the Dan Wootton show on GBNEWS in November 2021, says the unvaccinated should be denied care from the NHS (msn.com), including those who don’t take the booster.
In Austria on November 15th 2021, the unvaccinated are forced to lock down. Police are carrying out random spot checks on individuals and have the power to issue €400 fines.
Health care policy has always been to lock down the infectious, the symptomatic, the sick and let healthy people get on with their lives.
And Germany is adopting the same policy, along with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and maybe Italy to follow.
This is despite the death rate being much lower now than during the pre-vaccine peak, according to Germany’s disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute.
The British media are polling the public to see if they want the policy here.
This group is already so ‘othered ’ in the mainstream media, it is seen as acceptable to ask about removing their civil liberties.
Let me repeat: deaths from Covid are way down compared to this time last year. In addition, the ONS say over 90% of people in England have antibodies against Sarscov 2. And it’s accepted, even by the British Prime Minister that the vaccines don’t stop you getting or passing on the virus.
There is no public health justification for discriminating against a section of society. And that is before discussing civil liberties. This is the stuff of propaganda that sets a group up as unworthy to which wrong doing is justified. This is scapegoating.
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In the UK, we have already seen from November 11th, a mandate to sack 60,000 care workers for being unvaccinated. Most of whom will already have acquired natural immunity through working on the front line through the pandemic. As have the 100,000 NHS workers facing the same mandate in April 2022. There is no science or sense in this. Immunologists recommend those with naturally acquired immunity as the best protectors of the vulnerable.
Are these public health measures just governmental overreach that will recede or are we witnessing tyranny walk in under the cloak of public safety? I suggest there are enough red flags to be vigilant. Policies based on prejudice and not science are to be resisted vehemently. Let alone policies that create a two tier society.
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References
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(21)00203-2?s=03#secsectitle0020
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/16/germany-set-to-tighten-rules-for-unvaccinated-as-covid-cases-rise
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1522446/covid-news-Germany-angela-Merkel-lockdown-unvaccinated#conversation
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/indulgence-for-inoculation-germany-bars-unvaccinated-people-from-christmas-markets/ar-AAQOqV2
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/familyhealth/esther-rantzen-suggests-those-who-refuse-vaccine-should-choose-not-go-to-hospital-and-take-up-space-in-icu/ar-AAQCNhl
I totally agree with Laure, what is happening right now is the biggest threat to humanity and freedom. Under the disguise of pandemic, governments are acting in totalitarian manners, restricting our fundamental rights and freedom to come and go. As Jews we have a duty of memory, we have seen that in a not so far past, let’s not forget.