It's very selfish and narrow minded to get the benefit of the vaccination via everyone else getting it.......You mean the benefits of being a free person enjoying your normal rights? as opposed to not allowed to enjoy those rights unless you take the ''optional'' vaccine.

Lets all decide not to take it and remain in perpetual lockdown.......If the vaccine works and its all the fault of the unvaccinated then why is it that vaccinated people are testing positive and can transmit it? everyone being vaccinated wont end this..and you are also ignoring the whole natural immunity side. the vaccine isnt a silver bullet and non vaccinated people are not the sole cause of positive cases.

As for perpetual lockdowns well did you ever ask yourself was a lockdown a smart move in the first place...if the first lockdown was a success why did we need a second and if the first locdown was a failure why did we do a second? There were other options that could have been employed.

Wouldn't it be handy if we could have all our id, medical records and covid passes all on one handy little card ?.

I wonder how long before that one is suggested again, because well it would be just so much handier than taking out numerous bits of paper. No more than Europe our own lot have a way of getting just what they want as well.

Already happening with the green cert.The alothgrim can be modified to include a picture.Well why not introduce a social credit scoring like China as well?And introduce like what that clown in London Boris Johnston is being sold by some "experts"to tackle obesity,a social scoring on what food and drink you buy and how you much you exercise.So you are "rewarded"by your govt for losing weight....And on it goes...Just wondering how long it will be before they turn their attention on us gunowners ...Cant have the unvaxxed unclean ones armed now can we?

I do believe we are heading to a increasingly homogenized world. Think Demolition Man or Equilibrium. It seemed mad and futuristic in Demo Man that salt and red meat were banned, now it looks like it's around the corner.

Demolition Man is your typical 80s/90s action film. I wasn't on the marketing team so I don't know who they were focusing on. I'm not saying meat is getting banned next week. However there is a push in that direction.

Funny one on an ad board on the way into town, a few weeks about it was stop live export of anamils on the grounds of cruelty. That ad was replaced by an Aldi or Lidl one advertising steaks.

On adults enjoying Star Wars, a past time is a past time, watching a game of football or a film, one isn't better than the other. Unless one is actually playing and increasing fitness or working on a life skill it's just another way of putting in time.

"On adults enjoying Star Wars, a past time is a past time, watching a game of football or a film, one isn't better than the other. Unless one is actually playing and increasing fitness or working on a life skill it's just another way of putting in time."

If you were to take a shallow look at it,then yes. "The bug eyed monsters "scenarios and scripts are the shallow end of the pool

Science fiction is actually a lot deeper than that.it is also a springboard and a "what if" scenario for ideas that might seem bizarre and outlandish to us now but do become factual as we progress in time.EG take Star Trek. the original series was aired the year I was born [1966].Who wasn't impressed by the enterprise's crews nifty flip-open communicator?Or Doc Mc Coys medical Trirecorder? Flip open phones are rather quaint these days.Zoom call programmes on them ...how long was the dream of seeing who you were talking to on a device a mainstay of science fiction? As for Bones tri recorder ... https://www.healthline.com/health-news/medical-device-used-in-star-trek-is-now-a-reality#How-the-winning-device-works

Anyone remembers as a kid being told "Those stupid TV games won't get you anywhere in life and they are time wasters!"? Nowadays a professional gamer can make more than a lawyer in some cases.

As well as being a disguised social commentary, like Demolition man, Minority report,Elysium,1984,Tthe shape of things to come, Brave new world, Soylent Green. Or a warning in satire of dictatorships or racism.1984, The Moon is a harsh mistress, Fahrenheit 451, District 9, Alien Nation.

In fact if you wanted to see science fiction handle all sorts of modern-day political and social topics bothering us in the early 21st century. I'd highly recommend Battlestar Galactica.

[Not the silly Big hair 1980s Tv series.] The four-season long one done in the Oughties. Everything from apartheid, suicide bombing,state-approved torture, revolutions, rebellions, genocide, invading different cultures,voter fraud, religious fanatism and civil war to dealing with gender differences and multi sexes was covered in that brilliant bit of Scifi TV. And it wasn't all lazers .They were still using firearms and HUMVEES as personal weapons and transport in some cases. So it was kind of normal too.

So to dismiss a now well established literary genre as just some "adults who haven't grown up or a "childish hobby" is the sign of a closed small mind.

I have no interest in Demolition Man or Star Wars but I am interested in meat and I can tell you it's not getting banned anytime.

Fox News tried to spread some story recently that Joe Biden was trying to ban red meat and it was quickly exposed as another typical rubbish makey uppy story spun to discredit The President. Maybe that was where you got the idea from.

I can't imagine where you got the notion salt was going to be banned but it wouldn't surprise me if Fox News started that fantasy too.

President Biden has an approval rate of 53% after 6 months in the job, that is the most steady approval rating of any President since the end of WW11.

To claim he is discrediting himself everyday is balderdash and more likely to be a case of you projecting or reading too much far right propaganda.

You shouldn't fall into the trap of having a closed small mind, may the force be with you.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/26/politics/fact-check-biden-climate-plan-red-meat-hamburger/index.html

So Joe Biden is now the oldest dude alive as well??? Claiming he was on the senate judiciary committee 150 years ago... His "Bigly" moment for sure.🤣🤣 🤣 https://twitter.com/i/status/1418296861421670400

Great town hall meeting too.With 450 people attending out of the totally " 81million voters".who voted for him.🤣

And we wonder why Nancy Pelosi was getting her knickers in a twist about getting the 25th sorted out?It wasn't about getting rid of Trump,it was for when ol Joe finally pees himself on stage in front of the American public and the world.

Salt was an example from the film. They are already taxing sugar so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

Keep trying there Rose....The point was between the last 6months of his office, which was what your much loved CNN report was spouting.Not his overall rating....Do try and cherry-pick your[Mis] information a bit better next time?🤡

A bit of banter from President Biden and well timed with the distressing reports coming from the inquiry into the Capitol Hill debacle that Trump started.

No vaccine is a magical cure or path to eradication, we have all sort of vaccines, but have only 100% eradicated 1 or 2 diseases. But that's not really a reason to not have developed a vaccine.

That measles, we've been doing MMR shots for decades, measles still exists in parts of the world. The fact it hasn't been eradicated is a pretty silly reason to not get an MMR vaccine. Natural immunity could count towards heard immunity, but we've no idea how it stacks up to different strains. When you catch the flu, to are in future immune to that strain of flu. You can still catch other flus.

I've mentioned before that I don't agree with vaccine exclusion to pubs and dining. Should be all or nothing. But I do get it for travel, it's not an uncommon requirement to have shots for certain parts of the world. At the same time should have bodily autonomy. Nobody should be forced to take medicine or any drug against their will. Some people are just anti-vax regardless, would never take any optional medicine. Those people are a tiny minority. I'd hope less than 1%. The issue is that a much bigger present of people believe in free will. The vast majority who are anti-covid vax are simply reacting to being told what to do by the government. I get that logic, if people are clear about why they feel that way that's fine. I really question whether many people actually believe the stories they come out with. It's a really sad reflection of society tbh.

Somebody who point black refuses to believe any thing in relation the science and facts of covid. The government is trying to control us. (Ignoring the fact that it's multiple governments, multiple governments, opposing parties, and change of control). But a random, unidentified whistle blower, from the CIA/Hospital/Microsoft copy and pasted onto facebook and the same people are sharing these "facts". Just baffling.

An interesting observation somebody made the other day, what that 15 years ago, people where worried about, and ranting about Muslims being radicalized on the internet. Now, especially in the last 2 years, the same people are being radicalized on the internet. We may get past covid soon, or at some point. The damage could be longer lasting.