unfortunate memories of some i unfortunate memories of some pretty hideous persecution of minorities in those countries in the past but i think there s an even larger and wider question here and that is seem to have accepted in western democracies that the freedoms and the personal liberties that we have all taken for granted as part of our sort of constitutional heritage are conditional. that governments can take them away. being complicit with this by choice is one thing, that is a perfectly admirable, socially responsible thing to do but when governments can issue edicts, whether it is something relatively trivial like mask wearing or something more serious like when parents not being able to see the grandchildren or saying it s illegal to have a sexual relationship with body your own household, this is going way further than anything east germany ever imposed and i think we have to think about this very carefully. i am not a covid sceptic and i m not even perhaps a lockdown sceptic
eric clapton spoke out about vaccines and it may, revealing his severe reaction to the astrazeneca one. he feared it would leave him unable to play music again, and earlier this week he had a bad reaction to this. we are planning to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gathered. following that, eric clapton issued a statement on the telegram account of an italian architect and covid sceptic. he