After several arguments with people in the past week or two, I have thought more on this subject and decided to make a post about it.
Why? Because for some insane reason, people seem to have the distinct impression that your vaccination status is public domain information, or something you are required to have tattooed on your face or emblazened on your t-shirt for all to see.
In fact when people ask me if I am vaccinated, I honestly feel a chill up my spine, and what my ears actually hear is something more like “YOU! Show me your papers!”
Regardless of your view on vaccines, whether you are vaccinated or not IS your own ‘personal medical information’ and nobody has the right to demand that information from you.
It is protected legally, just as tightly as any other medical information such as whether you have been sterilised, whether you have depression, whether you have tried to commit suicide, whether you are impotent or are going through the menopause.
Hell, we live in an age where the criminal records of pedophiles is stringently protected by privacy laws, even from their next door neighbours!
In fact I once got in trouble for passing on information to inform a young family that they had a 7 times convicted child sex offender living just two doors away from them, and their children.
Yet you want to know if I have taken an experimental mRNA shot?
Well, as my American friend would say:
“F*uck you, and the horse you rode in on.”
The lady who runs my local village shop is a funny sort. She’s feisty (to say the very least!), forthright, and scared of nobody.
She recently told me that a local (busybody) woman walked into the shop, strutted straight to the counter and asked her, in front of a queue of customers:
“Someone told me you have not been vaccinated, is that true?”
The shop owner was shocked, a little embarrassed, and a whole lot more than a little annoyed!
Being anything but a pushover, she replied sternly:
“I heard you’ve got a yeast infection. Is that true? If so we’ve got plenty of Canesten cream over there, should clear that up in a jiffy!”.
I was in stitches when she told me. But this is a serious point. There are LAWS protecting the privacy of our personal medical information, and a vaccination is a medical procedure/treatment, which means it is between you and your doctor.
Nobody else has any right to know, or even ask for such confidential information.
As my friend told me, if you apply for a shotgun licence here in the UK, the application forms ask you to tick to give permission for the Police to contact your doctor to obtain information which may impact the granting of said licence.
Obviously if you tick “no”, they may not give you it! But the point is that you have to grant that permission because even the Police are not allowed access to such data without your express consent.
And I am told that even when you give that consent, that does NOT give them access to your entire medical profile, as I would have assumed.
It just means they can ask your doctor to confirm whether you have, or have not, had any medical issues (depression mostly I would guess) which are relevant to the purposes for which they are asking.
For Pete’s sake, my WIFE can’t even get access to my medical information if she calls the doctor for me! I wish she could sometimes, when I just need a repeat prescription of antibiotics or similar!
The vaccine is completely covered by these very same, and very stringent legal privacy protections. Know your rights, and make sure others respect them.
If you’re asked and aren’t sure what to say, try this:
“My medical history is between myself and my doctor, and I wish to keep it that way, in line with the Caldicott Principles. If you don’t know what they are, you should look it up before asking me to waive my legally-protected right to privacy and confidentiality. If the Queen can’t demand that information from me, you have very little hope of getting it I can assure you”.
And yes, this applies to Police Officers too, perhaps more so than anyone else.
I have used virtually this exact wording myself on more than one occasion, and it stunned the person into a satisfying shade of pink.
Always be informed, as these fascist automatons never are. Their mental computer hangs when confronted with a self-assured person who knows more than they do. :)
Learn about the Caldicott Principles, something all British NHS services are bound by.
Medical Privacy In The Covid Age
Right to privacy. Property rights. Bodily autonomy. Even Freedom of Speech. All of these rights are being squashed like bugs by people who are either deluded into thinking these rights are simply unimportant speed bumps in the way of the grand vision of a techno future - or they have schemed for decades under a might makes right paradigm believing they deserve the freedom to design life itself as they see fit.
Yuval Noah Harari. Hubris.
In the US, many states have already put in place vaccine passports as if any privacy laws are already gone.
Mark Jones, would be interested in your views on this https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/fox-news-and-newsmax-took-biden-money?s=r