The government’s ‘two jabs’ rule for clubbers will start in September – the only 5 responses you need

In another, less hasty, u-turn than the one which saw Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak decide to self-isolate rather than take part in a pilot scheme to let them continue working after contact with an infected person, the PM has announced that vaccine passports will become compulsory.

"Proof of a negative test will no longer be enough"

UK PM Boris Johnson says that after all over-18s have had the chance to get both Covid jabs, full vaccination will be required for entry into "nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather"https://t.co/EZJkjkCXF1 pic.twitter.com/q0UpIP3Hmr

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 19, 2021

With only 35 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds having taken up the opportunity to have even a first vaccination, the move has been described as coercion by those against the jab, making it a hill upon which some are quite literally prepared to die.

But…. When will people wake up and see this for what it is? Totalitarian and control pic.twitter.com/44QQp9tPFo

— Madam to you (@rock_chick72) July 19, 2021

The irony of the announcement being made on ‘Freedom Day’, mere hours after scenes of packed nightclubs had hit the headlines, was not lost on anyone.

1.

Nightclubs: both so dangerous you’ll need to be double vaccinated and fine to go in for two months with or without 1-2 vaccines

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) July 19, 2021

2.

if Boris Johnson is worried about the "the continuing risk posed by nightclubs" wait til he finds out who re-opened them

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) July 19, 2021

3.

So let me get this straight – nightclubs aren’t any sort of problem until *looks over glasses* September?

— Emma Kennedy💙 (@EmmaKennedy) July 19, 2021

4.

I sort of feel like having your chief scientist describing nightclubs as "potential super spreading events" a day after you've reopened them is kind of a confusing message to send to the public

— Alan White (@aljwhite) July 19, 2021

5.

If they want people to avoid going to nightclubs they should let GP receptionists decide over the phone who gets in

— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) July 19, 2021

To be clear, while two jabs may be compulsory for clubbers, clubs are in no way compulsory for the jabbed.

Given that I’m double jabbed, I can 100% go to a nightclub

Chances of me actually going to a nightclub are 0%

— Fergal O’Brien Racing (@FOBRacing) July 19, 2021

Relatable.

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