Freddy Sayers is half-Swedish, half-English, too. Aren’t we just the prettiest?
I agree, I am surprised about his stance on vaccine passports, too. But I think what he means is that, if we want to end this horror - not on an individual level but as a society - and the two tools we have are mass vaccination and lockdowns, mass vaccination is the lesser of the two evils, or as he says "a lot less bad than simply indiscriminately depriving everybody of what makes life worth living." I tend to agree with that, but I am starting to get a bit worried about one group that isn’t talked about in this context at all, a group to which I probably belong: people who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons. First I thought I’ll get vaccinated, not because I am afraid of getting COVID but because it’s the right thing to do, because I think everyone who can should get vaccinated so we reach herd immunity and can all get back to normal life. They say mRNA vaccine are safe for MS patients, but now my doctor tells me that it’s probably not very good for me to get vaccinated as I have a very strong immune response that makes my body attack itself, makes my body attack healthy tissue, and taking a vaccine that boosts that immune response could be very bad for me. I don’t want to do anything that makes my illness worse - out of solidarity. And should I be punished and excluded from society because of that?