The End of "Vaccine" Mandates
Just as it seemed that universal "vaccine" mandates were about to mark the culmination of two years of tyranny, the “Covid-19” operation was unexpectedly wound down. There are lessons to be learned...
Introduction
The four preceding parts of this series argued that there are no good reasons to try vaccinating the population en masse, yet that is precisely what governments around the world ostensibly sought to do during Covid. Experimental products with minimal safety data were even offered to pregnant women and children, with the pressure of expectation being placed on virtually everyone to take them. Threats and coercion were used against those who did not comply, including threats of job losses that had no legal basis in most cases.
This last part of the series examines the final stages of the “Covid-19 vaccination” campaign, when vaccine mandates — or at least the threat of them — were introduced for healthcare workers in the UK and the discourse outrageously shifted to mandating “vaccination” for the entire population. Yet, just as it seemed that universal vaccine mandates were about to mark the culmination of two years of tyranny — or what one critic called “the violent end of European liberalism” (O’Neill, 2021) — the “Covid-19” operation was unexpectedly wound down. The moment of greatest darkness proved to be just before the dawn, with some important implications going forwards.
“Vaccine” Mandates for Healthcare Workers
England’s Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, claimed on February 24, 2021, that doctors have a professional responsibility to help protect their patients, as do “all other health and social care staff” (cited in Thomas, 2021). His thinly veiled expectation that all health and social care workers will get “vaccinated” quickly translated into headlines that introduced an element of coercion, e.g. “NHS staff could be forced to have Covid jab: Radical plan is being considered for thousands of medical staff who turn down the vaccine... but what if they STILL refuse?” (Groves, 2021).
In a policy brief on mandatory “vaccination” dated April 13, 2021, the WHO stated that it “does not presently support the direction of mandates for COVID-19 vaccination,” instead preferring “information campaigns and making vaccines accessible” (WHO, 2021, p. 1, my emphasis). The document goes on to state, however, that “if low vaccination rates in the absence of a mandate put others at significant risk of serious harm, a mandate may be considered ‘necessary’ to achieve public health objectives” (p. 2).
In other words, should persuasion fail, coercion can be introduced. Risk of harm, according to the WHO’s policy brief, is to be determined by a “legitimate public health authority,” a highly problematic concept given the role of such authorities in facilitating the rollout of experimental technologies, lacking safety data beyond a few months, to as many people as possible.
The policy brief notes that whilst “vaccination mandates for general adult populations are rare [...] mandatory COVID-19 vaccination might appear to be particularly plausible for health workers [...]” (WHO, 2021, p. 3). The language here (“might appear to be particularly plausible”) tacitly concedes the need to win public acceptance if vaccines mandates are to work. Whereas a population-wide mandate (which have been historically “rare”) would likely not win acceptance, targeting healthcare workers might do so (presumably because of it being easier to sell in terms of public health).
Unspoken in the policy briefing, but lurking the background, is that vaccine mandates for healthcare workers would set a precedent for other groups and sectors in future, not just in the UK but worldwide. The NHS, after all, is the world’s fifth largest employer — if it can mandate vaccination, then why not other employers around the world?
Vaccine Mandates for Care Home Workers
The day after the WHO policy briefing was published, on April 14, 2021, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a five-week consultation period regarding plans to make vaccination mandatory for all 1.5 million care home workers in the UK (Rough & Powell, 2021, p. 73).
The 25,000 excess deaths in UK care homes in 2020, though mostly caused by government policy (officially, discharging hospital patients with “Covid-19” into care homes, unofficially because of the spike in midazolam usage) were used to make the case for mandating “vaccines” for care home workers (Office for National Statistics, 2021a, 2021b; Department of Health and Social Care, 2021; Murray, 2025; Deevoy, 2025).
On June 15, 2021, the Guardian, priming the public for the government’s formal announcement, confirmed that care home workers would indeed be required to get vaccinated or else be dismissed – but also that the policy could be extended to all NHS staff, thus readying the public for the next stage of the plan before the first had been officially revealed (Campbell, 2021).
There was no sound legal basis for the “vaccine” mandate in UK care homes, for which legislation was passed on July 22, 2021, coming into force on November 11, 2021. As noted by the Legal Advice Network (2021) in an open letter to the Health Secretary, the secondary legislation brought in for this takes the form of a regulation amending the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. The latter amends the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 in sections 45C and 45E. Because the provisions of an Act take precedence over the provisions of a regulation, section 45E “expressly overrides” the regulation mandating vaccination. Therefore, the vaccine mandate for care homes, which Boris Johnson claimed allowed “no exemptions” (cited in Riley-Smith, 2021), was unlawful.
Nevertheless, care home staff represented a weak and vulnerable target, underpaid and without strong unions. 14,000-18,000 care home workers in England and Wales (3-4% of the total) left the profession as a direct result of the mandate (Girma & Paton, 2023). So much, then, for “protecting the elderly.”
“Vaccine” Mandates for NHS Workers
On May 30, 2021, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi claimed that the government was considering making Covid-19 vaccines compulsory for NHS staff (Lee & Snowdon, 2021), even though 89% of NHS staff had already taken one dose and 82% two doses, making them one of the highest “vaccinated” groups in the UK (Campbell, 2021).
The NHS Confederation and the Royal College of Nursing both opposed mandatory vaccination of NHS workers, which would drive out staff and lead to legal challenges that would take years to resolve. Yet, the Government announced its intention to mandate vaccinations for NHS workers anyway, under the pretext that “vaccines are our way out of this pandemic” (cited in Campbell, 2021).
A six-week consultation on mandatory vaccination for “frontline” NHS workers took place between September 9 and October 22, 2021 — not only for “Covid-19” but also influenza. Half way through the “consultation” (for the outcome is usually predetermined), headlines appeared such as “Covid vaccinations for frontline NHS staff are almost certain to be made compulsory” (Waugh & Gallagher, 2021). Yet again, the aim was to create an air of inevitability, so that people would feel as though they had no choice but to get the shot and therefore consent to doing so.
The British Medical Association (2021) cautioned that mandatory vaccinations came with “legal, ethical and practical implications that must be considered,” not least regarding the threat of redundancies for staff refusing to take the shots.
Following the end of the consultation, Health Secretary Sajid Javid told Sky News that he was “leaning towards” compulsory vaccines for NHS staff, priming the public for the inevitable outcome (Culbertson, 2021).
When the findings of the consultation were published, it turned out that 65% of 34,900 respondents were against mandatory “Covid-19 vaccination” for NHS workers (Waitzman, 2021).
The government pressed ahead regardless, announcing on November 9, 2021 (two days before the care home “vaccine” mandate came into effect) that “Covid-19 vaccination” would be made mandatory for NHS workers (excluding those with medical exemptions and/or those not having contact with patients) from April Fool’s Day, 2022, with no indication of how anticipated staff shortages would be mitigated, itself a major risk to public health.
As with all aspects of the “Covid-19” operation, similar developments were taking place transnationally. Also on November 9, 2021, for instance, it was announced in the United States that the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services would begin requiring vaccination for employees in most healthcare settings and not just nursing homes, affecting 17 million workers (Paretti et al., 2021).
Mandatory “Vaccination” for the Population?
Barely had the mandatory vaccination of NHS workers been announced than the narrative became about mandatory vaccination for the entire population. As Yeadon observed in November 2021, “In the U.K., it’s abundantly clear that the authorities are bent on a course which will result in administering ‘vaccines’ to as many of the population as they can” (cited in Sones, 2021).
As usual, it began with outright denial in order to seed the idea. When asked on the Andrew Marr Show on November 21, 2021, “Would you ever accept compulsory vaccination in the UK?,” Matt Hancock answered, “No” and went on to state “In terms of requiring mandatory vaccination for the general population, I don’t think that is something we would ever look at” (cited in Bancroft, 2021).
Yet, according to Laura Dodsworth (2021), a government advisor shared internal documents with her in November 2021 revealing that the government was working with analysts to ascertain whether “mandatory vaccination would hit the right target or not.”
The discourse of mandatory vaccination was transnational. For example, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed that the EU must consider mandatory vaccination (Boffey & Smith, 2021).
Boris Johnson claimed with respect to mandatory vaccination on December 8, 2021, “I think we are going to need to have a national conversation about the way forward” (Stephens, 2021). Maintaining non-pharmaceutical interventions indefinitely because a substantial proportion of the population had not got vaccinated, he claimed, was not an option.
On December 10, 2021, Professor Kevin Fention, Public Health England’s Regional Director of Public Health for London, pointed to the need for “many national conversations” on BBC Radio 4, with mandatory “vaccination” being one possible option (cited in Allen, 2021), thus opening the door to a potential violation of the principle of informed consent enshrined in the Nuremberg Code.
Conservative politicians in December 2021 bluffed that they had the power to introduce population-wide “vaccine mandates.” Conservative Party co-chairman Oliver Dowden, for instance, repeatedly refused to rule out mandatory vaccination for the population in an interview with Talk Radio, claiming it was “not something we want to do in the UK. We won’t have to [...] as long as people get the booster” (see Friedman, 2021).
Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood made a similar threat on Talk Radio later in the month, claiming that people can avoid mandatory vaccination by “getting jabbed” (cited in McNulty, 2021). There are parallels here with a rapist mentality (also involving violation of bodily integrity): “if you let me, I won’t have to force you.”
As late as January 9, 2022, the Guardian was asking “Should the UK make [Covid-19] vaccination mandatory?” (Mckie, 2022). The article was based on the false pretext of “a virus that threatens to overwhelm the NHS” (debunked in Hughes, 2024, pp. 128-134).
The End of “Vaccine” Mandates
Almost overnight, and without adequate explanation to the public, the “Covid-19” restrictions, which had lasted almost two years, including intense pressure to get “vaccinated,” suddenly went away in Q1 of 2022, creating enormous disorientation for those who had been pressured into getting in the shots as well as those who had resisted.
The UK Prime Minister, on January 19, 2022, announced the end of the government’s “Plan B,” and with it an end to a raft of restrictions including mandatory mask wearing, working from home, and having to prove one’s “Covid-19” status to attend large events.
Days after NHS staff threatened legal action against “Covid-19 vaccine” mandates (Turner, 2022), which would have cost 80,000 health workers their jobs, Health Secretary Javid announced plans to rescind the “vaccine” mandate for care home and NHS workers (Bunyan & Hayward, 2022). Yet, he still wrote to nine health regulators, including the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council, on February 7, 2022, reminding them that abandoning compulsory injections “in no way diminishes the importance that health and care workers are vaccinated” (Smyth, 2022).
Following a consultation period to March 1, 2022, the UK Government formally confirmed that “vaccination” would be revoked as a “condition of deployment” (a military term) across all health and social care two weeks later (Department of Health and Social Care, 2022).
Notable about the consultation is that 96% (!) of the general public supported revoking the mandate, compared to just 30% of managers and 22% of organisations providing health and care services, showing just how out of touch the managerial class is when it comes to grasping fundamental violations of medical ethics and inalienable rights.
As though to demonstrate this, England’s Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, wrote to NHS staff during the consultation period telling them that it was their “professional responsibility” to take the “Covid-19 vaccine,” provoking a stern but reasoned response from NHS100k, an initiative founded by ambulance workers in opposition to “vaccine” mandates (NHS100k, 2022).
Conclusion
The threat of vaccine mandates may have come to an end, yet the call for mandatory vaccination did not go away. In July 2022, for instance, the Lancet published a “viewpoint,” whose authors included Chelsea Clinton, advocating for mandatory vaccination (Mello et al., 2022).
In some ways, the “vaccine” pushers had achieved an important victory. As Stefan Oelrich, the president of Bayer’s pharmaceutical division, told the World Health Summit in October 2022:
If we had surveyed two years ago [...] “Would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?,” we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate. I think this pandemic has opened many people’s eyes to innovation in a way that was maybe not possible before. (cited in Armstrong, 2022)
With most of the population having been cajoled or coerced into taking unlicensed, experimental technologies into their bodies, the precedent was set for normalising such treatments in future.
On the other hand, it is important to remember that the transnationally coordinated drive to inject as many people as possible, despite using every dirty trick in the book, did run up against its limits. In particular, legal limitations prevented the “vaccination” of employees en masse, and public resistance intensified as the “vaccination” campaign became ever more irrational.
That resistance was epitomised by the Freedom Convoy in Canada, which began on January 22, 2022, demanding an end to “Covid-19 mandates” and bringing out huge numbers of supporters all across the country. It posed such a threat to the government that the Emergencies Act was invoked to deal with it on February 14, 2022 (Government of Canada, 2022). After two years of tyranny, with copycat protests threatening to appear in other countries, the entire “Covid -19” operation was abruptly wound down and the next deep structural event was instigated with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Particularly in light of the military dimension to that operation, it is highly disturbing that governments and their private sector partners went to such extreme lengths to shoot whatever was in the vials into as many people as possible.
From positive incentives (donuts and lottery tickets) to negative incentives (not being allowed to go on holiday, attend sporting events, etc.); from moral pressure (“protect others,” “professional responsibility”) to creating an air of inevitability (everyone will have to take it at some stage); from “vaccine” apartheid to abuse directed top-down against “the unvaccinated” (Hughes, 2024, Chap. 7); from relentless propaganda by “celebrities” to street signage to “get vaccinated”; from bluffs about generalised job losses to “vaccine” mandates in the healthcare sector; from threats of making “vaccination” compulsory for the population to enforced injections for the US military — it was absolutely disgusting how far they went in undermining informed consent to get people to risk their health needlessly by taking the shots.
It seems clear that in the era of biosecurity and transhumanism, direct interference with human bodies is intended to become the norm. The drive to inject everyone during Covid may well have been a gigantic conditioning exercise in that respect.
Whether the public ultimately proves willing to abandon the Nuremberg Code and fundamental principles of medical ethics, however, is another matter entirely. Although the public was blindsided by the ferocity of the “Covid-19” operation, the lessons of what took place are clear for all with eyes to see. Never again must such atrocities be allowed to take place.
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