Well, I had my first Covid jab last week, (it was the Pfizer vaccine if you are interested). It is about the only time that being diabetic has worked in my favour, as it has meant that I got bumped up the vaccination schedule by a couple of groups. I haven’t so far suffered any side effects, I’ve not turned all bestial and hairy and ravaged every woman in the district, like people in low-budget horror films do whenever they get injected with something. (Or worse, grow a second head before splitting in half, like in The Manster). Nor have I so far come under the influence that microchip the anti-vaxxers claim Bill Gates has put in the vaccine – I haven’t had the urge to buy a Microsoft Surface (although I did used to have a Windows phone, but that was pre-vaccine and long before anyone had heard of Covid-19). Perhaps that’s all to come, but right now, I have to say that getting vaccinated has proven pretty anti-climactic. So, I’m none the wiser as to exactly what it is that the anti-vaxxers have a problem with. What do they think will happen if they take the vaccine? Their excuses, as seen on social media, become more pathetic all the time. Apparently the Astra Zenica is ‘well dodgy’ because it is made using aborted foetuses or some such nonsense, (in point of fact, much medical research involves the use, for testing purposes, a line of cells derived from a 1970s elective termination in the Netherlands). Just grow up.
Speaking of anti-vaxxers, I see that one of the celebrity anti-vaxxer cretins was talking shite again the other day. Yes indeed, I speak once more of the moronic Ian Brown, proving thse days what many of us knew at the time – that the Stone Roses were shite, pouring forth a torrent of pretentious gibberish. Any way, this time he was spouting some cobblers about not performing to vaccinated audiences or some such bollocks. Which is fine, as I doubt that anyone other than fellow deranged gobshites would pay to see him these days. You know, what I really don’t understand about celebrity anti-vaxxers like Ian Brown is why they are so worried about being injected with a vaccine when they probably spent several years of their lives injecting all manner of toxic substances into themselves. They really are utter twats. As is anyone refusing the vaccine. I mean, these are pretty much the same people who have opposed all the anti-Covid measures that governments have been forced to introduce, yet when they are offered a way out of theses restrictions, they oppose that, too. Thankfully, though, they seem to be very much in the minority, judging by the take up of the vaccine so far. Anyway, I’d urge everyone to get the vaccination when the opportunity arises. It really isn’t anything to fear. It doesn’t even hurt – just a small prick, (insert your own joke here).
Anyway, these anti-vaxxers, what are we to do about them? I don’t believe in making vaccinations mandatory (that’s just likely to create more resistance, as there will always be those who then refuse as a matter of principle). Nor am I sold on the idea of ‘vaccine passports’. But the ant-vaxxers do irk me, not just for their stupidity, but because of the way they are effectively ‘free-loading’ their way out of the pandemic. They are relying upon the majority of us taking the vaccine to bring down infection rates and bring the coronavirus under control so as to ease lockdown, but they just don’t want to contribute themselves. Bastards. Maybe that’s what we should do – call them names. Because that, apparently, is the thing to do these days if you disagree with someone’s views: all them names. Despite not reading the right-wing tabloids as a matter of principle, I can’t help but see their front pages when I’m in the newsagents. Consequently, I am not spared their ‘War on Woke’, (although, to be honest, as with ‘Political Correctness’, I’m still not sure exactly what ‘Woke’ is, other than it apparently being anything to the left of Hitler), which, in the case of the Daily Star’ seems to consist of playground level name-calling.
As the term ‘snowflake’ no longer seems to suffice for conveying their entirely synthetic rage, anyone who disagrees with neo-Nazism in general or specific things like Brexit, racism, bigotry and the like, is now a ‘Bed-wetter’. Now, leaving aside the fact that bed-wetting can actually be a symptom of deep seated anxieties and fears in children and therefore shouldn’t be stigmatised, is this really the level our press has sunk to? What next? Are they going to start calling people who express emotion over the deaths of, say, illegal Vietnamese immigrants who die in the backs of lorries in people smuggling rackets gone wrong, ‘Cry Babies’? I mean, whatever happened to the good old days when we just kept it political, not personal? If you were on the left, the right called you a Commie’, if you were on the right, the left called you a ‘Nazi’. All nice, simple and relatively inoffensive.
I wouldn’t mind, but epithets like ‘Snowflake’ and ‘Bed Wetter’ aren’t even properly applicable to their, inevitably left-wing, targets. They aren’t the ones strutting around telling people how hard they are, before dissolving into hysterics when their actions catch up with them. That’s the right. I mean, just look at those dicks who tried to stage a coup in the US by storming the Capitol Building. That self-styled ‘QAnon Shaman’, for example – there he is, strutting around the Capitol with his freaky pals, his fucking stupid hat, face paint and Nazi tattoos, all ‘Billy Big Bollocks’, but as soon as he’s in prison, it’s a different tune, all whining about how he can’t get his organic breakfast cereals and how he’s willing to testify against Donald Trump at his impeachment. Because, you know, Trump made him do it. No, you chose to support Trump and commit insurrection. Own it, you fucking bed-wetting snowflake. But to get back to those anti-vaxxers, what can we call them? Prick-less wonders, perhaps? Or is that too subtle? Maybe would should keep it simple: knob heads.
