Freedom Day

I have been thinking about science fiction, about imagined futures, they tell you a lot about the times they are written in. And from this 2021 vantage point I have been thinking about a possible future, maybe 2040 or 2050, near but still a little way away, in which everyone shares their medical records and genetic data to access services, enter shops, and use public transport, attend school and university. They have a handy chip in their thumbs, which only the very careless can misplace. I am thinking about a future in which insurance and pharmaceutical companies (which are pretty much the same corporate entities by 2030) are not the benevolent institutions they are at present. I’m thinking of a future where they might not have our best interests at heart. In workplace situations for instance our children and grandchildren may be overlooked for promotion, not because of gender or race (but that is also a contributing factor still) but because of their genetic heritage, because there may a predisposition for depression or alcoholism in their family line, or that they carry markers for Parkinson’s or Multiple Sclerosis or Sickle Cell so potentially represent a poor investment. In fact so bad that their credit rating is also effected. Fortunately the pharmaceuticals can keep them on the edge of wellness…ill enough that they still buy their products, well enough that they can still contribute economically.

Protesters, outcasts, bleat on about ‘medical apartheid’ on old iThink platforms…but they are in the minority, they’ll aways be malcontents. No body takes any notice of them. Most people are happy with the system. The obvious and natural order of things. It is fun and easy to use. There have been historians…the discredited kind, radicals so called, who have compared the beginnings of mandatory vaccinations in 2022 as akin to ‘mass date rape’…something about consent and body sovereignty, those kinds of musty old ideas…things belonging to the sad past, like 1980 or something. Anyway. It is just silly….date rape or whatever doesn’t even and can’t even exist anyone…not unless you’re totally off-grid and darkfringe, and who would want that? Who chooses not to have a traktrace tattoo. No wellness ID. No access. No benefits or rewards. I mean really? And I don’t know the history very well but it was something to do with Tony Blair, who was like a great humanitarian and a president of Britain back in the day just before Britain became the 53rd state. And he told all the other politicians, who were not heroes of the ‘war on terror’ and did not believe in ‘education, education, education’ that it was dumb and wrong, that non vaccinated antvaxx deviants and choice extremists have the same rites and privileges in society as real people. Something like that. Everyone is safe and safe from each other nowadays. And it is so useful to have DNA breakdowns and cross referencing attached to your dating app. It saves so much time when considering potential sexual and life partners. It is so…sanitary.

Anyway…that is my stream of consciousness. As a disabled person I feel like the canary in the mine shaft. I know that parts and functions of the welfare system have been outsourced…and I know that our health service and doctor’s surgeries are already being sold off to corporations, allowing foreign and domestic corporates to access our private medical data…indeed you may’ve already sent in the opt out forms to prevent the NHS and your GP from selling off your private medical data to insurance and pharmaceutical companies, a notion unimaginable a decade ago.

Last week the Green Man music festival, for which we have 2020 rollover tickets, announced they were going ahead. Although our entry is dependent on my partner and I being compliant on sharing personal medical data or proving we have undergone a specific medical treatment. Even if I had had this medical treatment I would still be unhappy and refuse to share medical evidence with the Green Man. I mean can you think of a situation where you would be happy to share information which previously would’ve been a private matter between you and your doctor, contractually bound by law and oath? And yet, here we are at this dubiously legal and ethical junction. Green Man are failing to respond to my concerns, nor indeed that they are breaching the terms and conditions of the original ticket purchased early in 2020. I would like to go, my family would like to go but there are bigger issues at stake. As it is it looks like a health passport will not be enough, entry to nightclubs and such may require proof of vaccinations before the year is out, not mandatory, not yet, not here but prohibitive and coercive in form. You watch the news…you hear what is happening elsewhere. We are not far from a medicalised apartheid…in fact it is already here. Thank you Green Man for being amongst the first to condone and participate…the road is dimly lit and doesn’t take anyone to a good place.

And like, before 2021 children, like old time school kids, couldn’t choose to have get a vaxx…they had no liberty or freedom…but then the government and pharma said it was unfair and little kids got mandatory vaccines cause pharma and government know better than uninformed parents and even know better than those who were informed, who were doctors and nurses….because in those days, it is ironic now I think about it, but everyone had too much choice. They had the choice to be stupid everyday and there was no social credit to encourage wise discussions. And they thought their bodies and DNA and data belonged to them. It was like so recent in years, like thirty years ago…but so dumb…

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