This is what normality looks like, the normality that we have had stolen from us for one year, three months and still ongoing. Even though most of the men in this picture are of advanced age, there is no so-called ‘social distancing’, no face masks, no culture of fear. Bowls gets caricatured as a sport for elderly men; that is partly true, though there are competitors of all adult ages and from either sex. It is an excellent way however for those of advanced years to keep active, fit, healthy and to maintain a competitive spirit. So there are mental as well as physical health benefits. Although this age group is at a higher risk for all respiratory illnesses, keeping physically fit and mentally healthy lowers that risk. But for fifteen months we have inhabited a world in which people are not allowed to manage their own risk, over a virus that poses a low risk for elderly people who keep fit and active; and negligible risk for those of younger age groups who possess no other serious illnesses. Yes, Corona Hysteria is the name of that game.
The annual English National Bowls Championships, competed by men’s and women’s teams representing a large number of county associations, takes place on Warwickshire’s home turf, which is also the national centre, in Leamington Spa, over a period of a few weeks from mid-August to early September. Despite that being the low season for all respiratory illnesses, the 2020 championships were cancelled so the photos here are from 2019. As of the time of typing the 2021 championships are still planned to go ahead, but are dependent on the government’s ever-changing ‘roadmap’. Whilst this event doesn’t get television coverage and hence revenue, it forms an important social event for all involved. It also provides revenue for local hotels and the hospitality industry in Leamington Spa, which is not as much of a tourist town as its conjoined twin of Warwick, let alone Stratford-upon-Avon, whose MP Nadhim Zahawi is the government’s chief pusher of the experimental ‘vaccines’.
Given the age profile of most of the competitors at the National Bowls Championship, it is likely that most will have had one or two doses of these experimental ‘vaccines’. Precisely because they are still at the trial stage then the safety and efficacy of each can only be based on the most recent data from each of the pharmaceutical companies, in turn based on them providing honest information, something that they all have a poor track record of doing. Given that there are four of these in use: Astra Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer and that it is possible that an individual may have had a first dose of one, then a second dose of another, each competitor from each county would require an individual health assessment on that basis. Bear in mind that not every competitor may have taken the experimental ‘vaccines’, unless Bowls England makes it mandatory in order to participate; and with all the propaganda that people without symptoms are supposedly ‘contagious’, then that would provide the supposed ‘justification’ for excluding any competitor who hasn’t. Whilst bowls has never had a record of players using performance enhancing drugs, it would be somewhat ironic that participation in any sporting event could be dependent on having been injected with junk.
Each of these health assessments would then have to be combined via a mathematical model into an overall risk assessment for the event taking place. The risk assessment would also need to include whether there is any likelihood of transmissibility (viral shedding) from any those who have recently received any of the experimental ‘vaccines’. This risk assessment would then be required by the insurers. The same logic could apply with regard to any event, a concert or a theatrical performance for example. And based upon undertaking a risk assessment for competitors or entertainers, a similar one would be required for spectators or audience. If all this seems over the top, then how else can any event be considered ‘Covid safe’, unless the definition is arbitrary? Or an assumption made that taking one of these experimental ‘vaccines’ or a combination thereof is considered to be ‘safer’ than being ‘unvaccinated’, thereby providing the organisers with a government-backed pretext to exclude the latter? (Note that the photos of the event were taken from a public footpath. Would the ‘unvaccinated’ be excluded from using that?)
Last December Nadhim Zahawi claimed that the UK government had no plans to implement a vaccination certificate. This claim was in spite of a ‘Covi-Pass Digital Health Passport’ having been developed more than seven months beforehand by Manchester-based VST and that company having been in advanced discussions with senior UK government officials. So you can judge for yourself how truthful Zahawi’s statement was, particularly on the basis of the recent news that spectating at Euro 2020 football matches at Wembley Stadium and the All-England Lawn Tennis Club Championships at Wimbledon will require use of the NHS smartphone app showing ‘vaccination status’ to allow entry. If use of the app at these events is considered to be ‘successful’ – and it is unlikely that it won’t be, given that the government has bought off the mainstream media – then expect it to be implemented elsewhere. It feels almost as if the question that Zahawi responded to was a piece of theatre, just as Parliament itself has been for the past fifteen months.
At the risk of this becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, one obvious place that this NHS app showing ‘vaccination status’ could be required is the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, given that it is in Zahawi’s Stratford constituency and he could sell it as a means of ‘re-opening’ the economy of a town that has suffered the economic impact of the legislation introduced by the government of which he is a part. Remember that he voted for the four-week ‘circuit breaker’ Tier 4 lockdown in November and that he has not even pretended to oppose any of the restrictions imposed by the government. In March, actor and singer Michael Ball claimed to be one hundred percent in favour of ‘vaccination passports’ as a means of bringing audiences back to theatres. Judge for yourself whether you feel that the acting profession or any other part of the entertainments industry is in a position to dictate about personal relationships with pharmaceuticals.
If implemented in the Football Premiership and Championship, then from a local perspective, the newly renamed Coventry Building Society Arena may exclude the ‘unvaccinated’ from a stadium that the Sky Blues have rarely managed to fill during the seasons that they have been based there. It could therefore be seen a shrewd move by Ricoh that its brand has been recently removed and would therefore not be tarnished by association. Similarly if such a policy were applied to Premiership Rugby for Wasps games and for concerts. How would the Coventry Building Society’s customers feel about it sponsoring a stadium enacting such a discriminatory policy? This is hypothetical at present but something that the customers of every business that sponsors a sporting and/or entertainment venue will need to think about. A boycott of the business, giving the reason why, would be the most effective one.
Warwick Folk Festival, where such a ‘Covi-Pass’ may be envisaged for future use and which usually takes place in mid/late July in the castle grounds, has for the second year running been cancelled. This year’s COVID19-induced cancellation has been because of the so-called ‘Delta variant’, or hay fever as it traditionally known, on the basis that ‘many in the scientific community’ had expressed ‘serious concerns’. When next year’s hay fever season becomes another COVID19 ‘variant’, perhaps all participants and spectators will need to have updated their NHS smartphone apps with having had the relevant ‘jab’, because once you start down that road there is no way back.
Twenty miles down the road just over the Oxfordshire border, the Cropredy Festival planned for mid-August and hosted by the old-timers of Fairport Convention, is on hold for the same ‘Delta variant’ reason. Its director Gareth Williams told the Guardian in March that ‘What we really need is for government to say everybody needs a vaccination to get in’, showing that ‘folk’ music really has lost its way. Granted that many of the musicians and spectators will be of senior age, but making it mandatory to take a form of treatment in order to access the festival sends out a signal to the spectators that they are to be treated as nothing more than laboratory rats; and how will the insurance of these ‘vaccinated-only’ events be affected when someone contracts a COVID19 ‘variant’ after having attended?
Underlying all this is that implementing in these areas would only be the start, supposedly on a ‘temporary’ basis that would become as ‘temporary’ as the ‘three weeks to flatten the curve’ sixty-five weeks later. Once the NHS app requiring ‘vaccination status’ is required in business areas that are not a necessity for any customer, the requirement would then be extended to other businesses which are a necessity for almost everyone. The very introduction of a requirement for ‘vaccination status’ downgrades by the state the citizenship of everyone who exercises personal bodily sovereignty. As such, the citizen is entitled to downgrade his or her relationship with the state, by for example withholding the payment of taxes. Even if the requirement were just limited to sports and entertainments why should these businesses be subsidised by the taxes paid of those who choose to remain uncontaminated by the pharmaceutical industry? And if the legal rights of the ‘unvaccinated’ are to be denied, then they are entitled to ignore the rotten legal system that has done this.
Jeremy Wright QC, the MP for Kenilworth and Southam, is the former Attorney General, so he should understand full well the implications of such discriminatory measures and his opinions should also carry a lot of weight in the notionally ‘Conservative’ Party. If he agrees to these discriminatory measures on the basis that they are supposedly ‘temporary’ to bring about a pseudo ‘normality’, then it would set a terrible precedent for the legal profession in this country, which will show itself to be bereft of integrity. He should also be an educated enough person to understand the implications of the saying ‘when those who make the law, break the law, in the name of the law, there is no law’. It is not a game, of flat green bowls or otherwise.
Addendum, 21 August 2021
With the English National Bowls Championships having started, unethically, but unsurprisingly, Bowls England is following the Johnson regime’s guidelines of insisting on proof of ‘double vaccine or negative test’ (in either case implicitly for COVID19 though not specified on the sign). That the majority of those being hospitalised with attribution to the ‘Delta variant’ have been ‘double vaccinated’ gets conveniently ignored, as will any transmission of this ‘Delta variant’ by competitors or spectators. Because the real issue is about control with the long-term damage caused by repeated injections of this experimental medical treatment being ignored.
For bowls championships in which a high proportion of competitors or spectators are of senior age, these requirements may seem trivial; and this is intentional as a form of grooming to get the public accustomed to signs like this appearing at all venues. Thereafter, such signs could be familiar in shops or public spaces such as parks, these bowls championships taking place adjacent to Victoria Park, part of which is being used for the ‘hospitality’ tents, so these signs appear in a public park. This is not what normality looks like.