Tuulikki
Dagobah Resident
There is some peculiarity about the British psyche which makes us so "well-behaved" and willing to be lead by the nose by those who we should be recognising as not having our best interests at heart. We seem to have lost all discernment, wisdom and the ability to judge (if we ever had those). I think it is to do with the British phlegmatic approach commenced in childhood to "listen to your elders and betters and do as you are told. The other one is "for goodness sake, don't make a fuss". Behaving ourselves is probably written into our DNA. When my colleagues were being vaccinated I just wanted to say "stop doing as you are told and stand up for yourselves".If covid is the last chance the universe mercifully gave humanity to see the truth then it seems to me that the UK is quite doomed. Most of my non-British friends, as well as friends in other countries, don't buy into the idiotic propaganda - or at least admit it's exaggerated to some degree. Brits seem to swallow everything they're told. The commitment to going down with this ship is really sad - and disturbing - to watch. The C's said that 60% of the French public don't buy into the official narrative. I would cautiously estimate that this number if much lowed for the UK.
I must add that prior to the rumour getting around that we might lose our jobs if we did not have the vaccination, there were quite a good number of people who were not going to have the vaccination. The PTB always know how to turn the screw.