Almost daily now there are media reports about the limitations of the covid19 vaccinations, with expected reactions from employees gearing up for the debate about whether compulsory vaxxing is legal or not.

One thing everyone seems to agree on, however, is that the world will never be free from epidemics.

Even the people making billions upon billions manufacturing the current crop of vaccines, with wide-open eyes and deep concern in their voices, admit that none provide protection: they vary from 70 to 87 per cent, and at best they only claim to provide protection for a year or two at most. Which sounds to a cynical observer as though they are laying the foundation for a marketing strategy featuring yearly jabs, and their income for life.

Boris Johnson is threatening to destroy that plan by vowing to open schools, sports, theatres and sit-down restaurants (gasp!) by next week in order to let the disease spread in the UK till herd immunity is reached and this particular epidemic has run its course.

There are many implications for TT organisations to consider, not the least being how it can affect the future world of work.

Meanwhile, international organisation insiders, being the ones most likely to know and gossip about inter-org politics, recall sardonically how hard the WHO tried to persuade their boards that bird flu was a pandemic (the more fear they could engender, the greater the budget they could attract to deal with it, the gossip went in those days), but it failed miserably because people developed an immunity, so bird flu petered out after a season or two.

[caption id="attachment_901144" align="alignnone" width="764"] A vial of the Sinopharm covid19 vaccine. Countries are gearing up to debate whether compulsory vaxxing is legal or not. - Angelo Marcelle[/caption]

Then it was swine flu they tried with. That didn’t have the Big Pharma communications mafia behind it either.

There were others whose names I have forgotten, that came and went, as most viruses do. But my memory fails me when I try to go back before my birth. Hardly surprising, I suppose, but the one that stays with me most was the genocide of the First Nations people in the continents of North and South America that I read about as a child, who died in their millions when the Europeans came ashore with viral infections embedded in them that they were unaware of because they had themselves become immune to the symptoms: measles, yellow fever, smallpox, and plague. Chickenpox and trichinosis were among the alleged culprits, although smallpox may have been one disease that travelled the other way, from the Americas back to Europe. Leptospirosis, which is something awful you can get from rats, I am informed, was probably brought over on European ships and passed on to native rats.

I have no idea how much of that is true, but I do believe that the human race has lived through epidemic after epidemic in its history and will continue to do so as long as there are co-existing humans