During a debate in the British Parliament last night, MP Tobias Ellwood urged the Prime Minister to have the British Armed Forces oversee that COVID-19 vaccination roll out process.
Noting that a coronavirus vaccine was potentially six months away, Ellwood said, "Mass vaccine roll out is an enormous responsibility and we need to get it right."
Ellwood said he had written to Boris Johnson urging him to give the power to a Ministry of Defence task force to ship the vaccines across the country and set up regional distribution hubs as well as developing a "national database to track progress and issue the vaccination certificates."
The MP said the vaccination certificates "will probably have to be internationally recognized in order to allow travel, international travel."
Ellwood went on to make it clear that people who take the vaccine will see their lives return to normality while those who don't will still be "subject to social distancing rules."
The prospect of denying basic rights of mobility and travel to people who refuse to take a vaccine for personal, religious or medical reasons is shaping up to be a human rights minefield.
A poll conducted by King's College London (KCL) and Ipsos Mori last month found that only 53% of Brits would be "certain" or "likely" to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
One in six said they would definitely not get a vaccine or that it would be very unlikely. When extrapolated out to the population, this equates to 11 million people who, if Ellwood's advice is taken, will be denied travel and treated like second class citizens.
Reader Comments
RC
P.s., Coyne1959, great quote. Wouldn't it be nice if people learned the value of old fashion common sense?
RC
The west I think, tried to use the opportunity to gain leverage in these countries via the WHO.
However, now they have developed ''immunity'' against that very thing.
Plus Fauchi was working at the Whohan Lab. Do you think that the Chinese didn't know what he was doing there?
Fort Dertrick more like. That is a possibility?
Whatever he was doing there, may not have been connected to tweaking corona viruses?
It has been said that the virus was possibly/probably made at Fort Dertrick. .
Fauchi was working at Wuhan, what he actually got up to there is anyone's guess, though he doesn't tweak viruses himself, nevertheless, it's a bit suspicious that the virus broke out there.
Plus their were early reports from virologists that there were about 5 different strains of CV detected around the globe (in the early breakouts) and the US was the only place that they were all detected.
But then COVID does stand for C ertificate O f V accine ID entification
It looks fine in the damn preview but then silly in the finished comment.
Irritating that.