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Passport for getting through borders… and for eating cake. Some reflections on mandates and life now. ======= I’ve been tentatively starting a Facebook comment based conversation with my second cousin about the vaccine mandate in NZ. He’s housing a couple who have lost their job because: they won’t have the vaccine (my view) or the government is creating a divisive society that is forcing people into abject poverty (his view).   He’s a good man, always been kind, is housing and feeding them as they can no longer afford rent (my view) or is allowing and fostering a cluster of dangerous political views (another relatives view, and also mine a bit). Or both.  The UK has only just now announced that the vaccine will be compulsory for NHS workers ( https://www.politico.eu/article/covid-vaccination-mandatory-nhs-england/amp/ )… by next spring (March-ish 2022). It’s a very heavy handed soft handed measure, and consistent with all the other British public health policies that slam the...

FOMP - fear of making plans. I was meant to be  here last night.  But a colleague and his kids have covid so another night shift needed covering. As I write, another colleague, who was to cover tonights' shift, is heading to the lab to test herself and her daughter, who has had a positive screening test and needs a PCR. So I'll head to bed soon, bank some sleep in case I need to go in again.  I'm hanging out for MIQ openings for March, I'm thinking of booking a flight home around the 22nd March next year. Theres an amazing, up and coming (up and already here?) artist,  Sam Fender  who has a show in Nottingham 20th March. He is so good. the capacity will be 10 000 people. I imagine there will be probably at least 10 001 there.  Mostly young people. Statistically more likely to be unvaccinated. Theres probably no surer way of mucking up my return flight than going to that show. A positive covid test for me as I leave the UK would stuff up all sorts of timing ...