The overall global trend of inching ever closer to indirectly mandating coronavirus vaccination by introducing COVID passes at more and more events and venues is not going away, and neither is the hypocrisy of politicians.
That’s one of the things that come to mind when considering the about-face Nadhim Zahawi, UK’s Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, referred to as “the vaccines minister,” has just performed.
In fact, Silkie Carlo of the Big Brother Watch civil liberties and privacy non profit thinks this example is so egregious that it “really should be career-ending stuff.” What Zahawi did was announce that COVID passports will be rolled out in the UK after all – having previously publicly vowed this would not happen. In a tweet Zahawi posted earlier, a screenshot of which was shared on Twitter by Carlo, this government official replied to The Telegraph by saying that there were no plans to introduce […]
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