Covid-19 | Laodicea

I am appalled by the announcement of the Gaulish chieftain Macron that he intends in effect to subject his hapless people to a regime of compulsory anti-Wuhan-flu vaccination from the start of next month. I say in effect because in theory one could get a Covid test every two days instead. But these will no longer be free, and apparently the test is not pleasant to experience. So in practice, everyone will need a vaccine to a get a ‘sanitary passport’ and everyone will need a sanitary passport to go into a restaurant or café or supermarket, or to get on a bus, train or plane.

Unless vigorously resisted, this is almost bound to spread to other countries very fast. One will have to accept things tested on murdered babies as a condition for remaining a part of society.

What should we make of this Covid business? I would not belittle the grief of those who have lost elderly parents or other friends or relations to an untimely death. Yet from my vantage point it has seemed to me from the start like playing at the plague. No doubt the fact that it came from China helped; people have a vague memory of having learned in school that the Black Death did the same. If it had come from Brazil or Nigeria, I doubt it would have so impressed our minds.

I have been living, by chance, rather off the beaten track since it all began, so perhaps my information is inadequate, but I know of no one personally of whom I can say with confidence that he died from it. The only person whom I know who might have done so is an octogenarian who was also receiving chemotherapy. And they tell us that life can never be the same again? This is not a plague: that is when people wake up in the morning feeling fine and are dead by night-fall.

Some of St Paul’s words have been coming to mind recently: Because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying. Widespread acceptance of lying words of men about what is needful for the salvation of the body would at any rate be a just punishment for widespread rejection of the truthful words of God about what is needful for the salvation of the soul.