Friday, June 11, 2021

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?

 On June 2nd the Telegraph published this article

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/wont-have-vaccine-no-friend-mine/

in which some upper-middle-class woman boasts of “ditching” her “unvaccinated” chums, who, she goes on to say, won’t be invited to any more of her no doubt scintillating “dinner parties.” It makes demoralising reading. Dripping the language of privilege and with breathtaking absurdity this utterly repellent op-ed talks of “vaccine-dodging idiocy” and describes the act of taking an unlicensed, experimental medical product already known to be dangerous and unethical, as a “social responsibility.”

Was this written as a wind-up? One could be forgiven for thinking so. Only in the dark days of Nazi Germany could I imagine anyone thinking like this. What does it tell us about the author?

I would suggest the first thing this reveals is that this lady is the sort of person who, if the “vaccine” question didn’t arise, would easily find some other self-serving, narcissistic reason to pass arbitrary judgement on her “friends,” clearly seeing herself as so charismatic and well-connected as to have the luxury of practising this kind of social apartheid whenever it suits her. It’s the kind of superior attitude one associates with the good-looking girl at school from a wealthy background who bestows her “friendship” on one classmate today, and another tomorrow, casually rejecting her “friends” of yesterday. This is common childish behaviour and most children grow out of it.

I myself lost a good friend to the “vaccine question”, albeit indirectly. I was, and remain, deeply unhappy about it.  The loss of a good friend is always a sad thing. What sort of person regards it as good, or something to boast about?

Nobody needs people like this in their lives. Nobody has the right to instruct someone to accept invasive medical treatment against their will, and to do so as a condition of continued association is a perfectly disgusting act. It is the act of someone with no regard whatever for your well-being or best interests.  “Have the vaccine or you’re no friend of mine,” deserves the retort, “well, p*** off then.” It is a price well worth paying to protect your most basic human integrity.

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