Analysis

As we endure a Christmas panto of Omicron fear porn, the SAGE equivalent in South Africa – Omicron’s original so-called epicentre – is recommending the end of all contract tracing and self-isolation.

A theory of conformity and Covid jabs from Amy Willows: the ‘liveliness’ of the unvaccinated provokes envy in the ‘unobtrusives’ who get jabbed not as a personal choice but to do the ‘right thing’.

Zimbardo said: “The line between good and evil is permeable. Any of us can move across it”. We are hurtling down a road to hell and it’s signposted ‘Vaccine Passports’, writes Rusere Shoniwa.

Part 1 warned that the Covid crisis has induced a mass delusional psychosis which lays the path totalitarianism. Here Rusere exposes the delusion using an age-old expedient – being able to smell a rat.

If you’re trying to change opinions, you ought really to address those with whom you disagree. So, this is an open letter to those who are either indifferent to or in support of vaccine passports.

A public health emergency is always a political emergency. The citizen becomes a biomedical object with a duty to be well – and the authority of diagnosis rests with the state, not a personal doctor.