Without wishing to appear smug or presumptive (both of which I excel at), Britain is doing very well in the Covid game. Ok, its the long game, but 2 years down the line and we’re kind’a getting ‘there’. Where, exactly, ‘there’ might actually be located we’re not 100% sure yet, but on January 26th they’re going to ban working from home completely and anyone caught NOT in the office thereafter will face a firing squad. You’ll no longer be required to show a ‘Covid pass’ to enter clubs or bars and you’ll no longer be arrested for sneezing on a tube train. Although part of me thinks that Boris is going to politicise this event to save his sorry and shameful ass by becoming the Covid Saviour he’s always professed to be. He’ll open up all doors to create sufficient feel-good that he might even be able to reclaim 1 or 2 percent of the 97% support he lost by being a lying, cheating worthless scumbag. It’s very Boris. Delay the full value of his crimes and misdemeanours by having ‘an inquiry’ and when its all a bit faded, hit the nation with a raft of wonderfulness the likes of which we haven’t seen for 2 years. The ‘inquiry’ is totally worthless. We know what happened. We don’t need Sue Gray to tell us what is completely beyond question. It’s just to delay. Let emotions subside. More cynicism from the man on trial for being a cynic.

So Britain is doing great. Wow. Fab. However, apparently, even though no-ones been there for a couple of years, there’s a whole other world out there too. Where they’re not all so Covid-successful as we are. They’re still in ‘cautious’ mode. Ask Novak Djokovic. And now the Chelsea match in Lille in March is under threat. Because France, like Australia, don’t want unvaccinated people to enter their land. They don’t really want anybody who doesn’t speak French there at the best of times. And lots of Chelsea players are unvaccinated. Which is a good thing. For anyone who doesn’t really like Chelsea.

But this is a tale that will repeat. With other teams. Possibly nice teams as well. For some stupid, dickheaded reason, being unvaccinated has become something of a ‘badge of honour’ for the great overpaid tattooed who wear our nations football shirts. Vaccinations are like literacy; not needed and not wanted in football.

They’re talking about playing the Chelsea match on ‘neutral territory’, in a country where they don’t care about Covid. I’m thinking Serbia. Home of the unvaxxed.

This problem is going to repeat and repeat. The world will close in for those without vaccinations. Which is discriminatory and an infringement on their right to choose. But in a good way. A sensible way. A nice way. In fact I have a new motto I’d like at all border controls, the world over:

NO VACCINE? THEN FUCK OFF!!!

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx