Did your have a good holiday weekend last week? Where did you get to?

Did you enjoy the music festival? The party in the park? The beer festival? The arts and crafts at the showground? A welcome cricket, rugby or football match?

But what if you, or a member of your party were turned away, a child perhaps, or a frail, elderly relative?

This is what is currently on the cards soon, for those who don't have the correct 'papers'.

In its infinite wisdom, and we have seen much of that lately, the government is planning to introduce 'vaccine passports.' In other words, you must prove you are vaccinated before you are allowed to go into nightclubs, or other busy places.

The government argues that preventing the unvaccinated from entering such premises will help reduce the spread of Covid-19.

For the first time in our history, or at least recent history, we are going to have medical apartheid, treating people differently if they have received a certain jab or not.

There may be reasons why some people are unvaccinated. Maybe they were too young, even if the government is now pushing for it to be given to 12-15 year-olds, contrary to the guidance of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (whatever happened to 'following the science?')

Maybe people were also too old, and a mate's 90-year-old father-in-law gave it a miss as he felt two jabs might finish him off, or you might have religious or other reasons.

Meanwhile, it seems bizarre a government minister believes 12-15-year olds are competent enough to say they wish to be vaccinated when many retailers won't sell paracetamol to those under 16. And for a vaccine these children do not need.

Governments might prefer to let people make up their own minds, as Imperial College reports measures like vaccine passports makes people more resistant to being vaccinated!

Now, I am no anti-vaxxer. I have had both jabs, but it should be a free choice, but what we see here is coercion, something we should not see in a free society.

But perhaps because we meekly accepted three lockdowns, government feels it can try it on further.

The pandemic started some 18 months ago, we have been through a raft of life limiting lockdowns and for what? More than 130,000 have still died, giving the UK one of the highest fatality rates in Europe.

Government finances are trillions in debt as the government borrowed hundreds of billions to keep things closed, businesses have gone to the wall; people have missed out on essential treatments as the NHS became the National Covid Service and its waiting list is now around 5 million and set to rise to 12 million according to Health Secretary Sajid Javid.

Children have seen their education ruined and they themselves have suffered greatly, mentally, and millions of adults sought comfort in food and booze and will suffer the consequences later on.

Now there might be an argument for them if Covid passports actually worked. But they do not. If you have had both jabs, then why should you be afraid of the unvaccinated? Is it because deep down, you lack the faith in their efficacy. That you believe that the vaccines do not offer total protection?

Sadly, that is actually the case, and whether you have been jabbed or not, you are still at risk of catching Covid-19 and you can still pass it on. So why should the vaccinated and the unvaccinated be treated differently?

Yes, the vaccine appears to reduce the risk of infection, and we hear it has significantly reduced the risk of hospitalisation and death.

Or does it? I was of the view it did, so I am puzzled to see that South Kesteven sadly suffered ten deaths with Covid-19 in August and two already this month. Rutland fortunately none whatsoever. Yet it is hard to see what it may be doing differently, Rutland has the same restrictions and freedoms as Lincolnshire.

Take a look at the number of deaths reported on the UK Government's own Covid-19 tracker. Last August, the daily deaths tally for the whole of the UK was typically in single figures. This year, it is considerably higher- about ten times as much. Yesterday (Tuesday), it was 209!

But hang on a minute, nearly nine-in-ten adults have now been vaccinated, almost four-in-five having had both doses? So why the increase in fatalities? Remember, last summer, no-one had been vaccinated. And the vaccine was meant to be all our saviour. Is it all down to the 'Indian' or Delta variant?

With Covid-19 being largely seasonal, tending to reduce substantially during the summer months, with the virus not liking sunshine, one can only wonder what might lie in the winter months ahead. Surely not another upsurge in cases and yet another lockdown? What was it all for?

If lockdowns work, then we don't need any more and if lockdowns do not work, then we don't need any more.

Other countries, whether they have lockdown or not have reported an increase in cases lately. Among them is Israel, which has vaccinated more of its people than we have. Israel had a covid passport system, then it scrapped it and then it brought it back as cases surged, and its government now demands three jabs!

So here, as elsewhere, a vaccinated population does not stop Covid from rampaging.

And how do you explain Sweden, which had no national lockdowns? It kept its schools open, kids still had exams, and has suffered very few deaths over the past month, with an overall death rate lower than ours.

We have just seen in the UK, even if you have use vaccine passports to attend an event, you might still catch Covid. There is that infamous festival in Cornwall where it is now reported nearly 5,000 caught covid by attending it, even though conditions of entry included proof of having taken two jabs, and/or proof of a recent negative Covid test.

Added to the fact that such passports do not work, as now shown, let us look at the practicalities.

Hospitality and events have suffered enough. Do they need the hassle of extra staffing controlling who can and cannot enter.

Can we trust the NHS to get all the details right, which is not the case for 700,000, it was reported recently.

Might the details also be at risk of being hacked?

And in France, where people have marched through the streets against vaccine passports, people are also boycotting restaurants, because its government demands their use for entry to such places. Haven't such businesses suffered enough?

Where do you stop, a third jab like in Israel? What about a fourth, a fifth, and so on? And when jabs have side effects, including death, said to exceed 1600 fatalities from vaccines in the UK, according to government's Yellow Card Scheme, at what level do you balance the risk?

What about other infections? For visitors to nightclubs, why just Covid-19? What about STDs!

And what else should a passport contain? Financial data? Social data to say you have been a good citizen, like they have in China? It all sounds very conspiratorial, but talk of vaccine passports in the UK was a conspiracy last year.

We have come a long way from lockdown being three weeks to Save the NHS!

Looking at it charitably, I prefer to think our politicians are simply covering their backs to hide their earlier mistakes, a case of playing it safely and cautious.

But when I see 'vigorous' policing on Twitter [which you may not see on the TV news] against anti-lockdown protesters that they do not use against Black Lives Matter or Extinction Rebellion protesters; or protesters in Melbourne being attacked by horses, pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets, you do wonder.

Are the 'conspiracy theorists' right with their talk about a 'Great Reset'? I hope not!

In the meantime, we want to get our lives back. Do we want totalitarian subjugation with its mythical promise of safety?

Our MPs Gareth Davies and Alicia Kearns, the latter of whom repeatedly promotes the vaccine, have not yet featured on a list of 80-odd MPs opposing vaccine passports.

It is time we told them what we want, otherwise they and their government, backed by a spineless and ineffective Labour Party, will continue to trample over us.

Remember what fountains of knowledge our politicians and their experts are. They thought a 10pm curfew would work, but it meant people piling onto public transport at the same time.

They obviously believed that covid was waiting to get you in the toilets of a pub or restaurant, so you had to wear a mask to get to and from them, but you were safe when sitting at a table with your friends.

Michael Gove once extolled the virtues of a Scotch Egg as a 'substantial meal', no doubt capable of warding off the virus.

We need to get our lives back but we can only do it by stopping the politicians and their useless, contradictory and coercive ideas and demand they let us, the people, be free!

• This is an updated and revised version of last Friday's newsletter exclusive article.

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