- Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:30 pm
#6845
It's a tough one.
I recall having a fit of the illiberal vapours on here when those Muslim nutters were wreaking havoc, live on TV, across France. I soon rowed back from that one!
Broadly though, I am usually quite wary of the state, any state, introducing new blanket rules but this seems to me to be a matter of public health policy which cannot be derailed by the congenitally truculent. No one is talking about vaxxed-up hit squads coming in the dead of night. It is simply a matter of requiring all patrons to be as inoculated as each other so as to minimise the likelihood of death or serious illness.
Moreover, hepatitis B, meningococcus C, pneumococcus, measles, mumps, and rubella are mandatory for all children born in France. Again, a matter of public health policy.
The one caveat I would introduce is that, in the event of a poor reaction, the state should be firmly in the sling for compensation.
Politically, and with an election on the horizon, much will depend on Le Pen and her position which, says a penny to a quid, will be an opportunistic one intended to resonate with those gilets jaunes freaks and those who are banging on with their disgraceful Holocaust comparisons.
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