How to Kill More People

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The issue weighing heavily on Governmental in-tray
was how to kill more people in the wintering, grim UK.
for Vaccine was arriving and would rust death's undimmed blade;
and look at Hancock feebly raining... on his own parade!
No weakness now.
                                     Some scheme to tighten up a rattly snare...
when from the TV screen leers out...  arch war-criminal Blair:
"Give folks just one vax jab for now. Get roll-out quickly done!"
as brilliant as Somme-push gave relief to breached Verdun.

We had all the good fortune of a better Covid variant
big Christmas bubbles, shopping - and it's out into the square they went,
a jostling and a squeezing by, and only half with masks affixed,
then mockdown, schools half-open still to keep the Covid nicely mixed.

And yet we needed more,
for vaccines we deplore:

Oh nice one, Toe-knee, nice one, son.
Nice one, Toe-knee; your work is never done.

Bozo Bojo, Covid-brained and mouth agape,
dancing in number 10 - fantasy showers of ticker tape.

To offer just one vaccine jab will so reduce efficacy
and give the old and delicate a sense of false security,
while weeks it takes for antibodies, even then one jab,
brings only feeble shielding power and Covid still may nab.
We learned this hot from Israel. It happened there, so here ...
we have the problem fixed to slay so many more a year.

But still let's make it sure:
outsource this feeble cure.

We'll give a heap of tax-stream to our generous party-donors,
we'll spaff oodles for consultants - we'll pump big financial boners.

They'll fuck it up so gloriously that it will take 'em years
to vaccinate our victims. So now let's hear three cheers

for fascism, kleptocracy, police-state, oligarchy.
When weakened are the people; then we are hale and hearty.
Trash safety standards, workers rights, sell off the NHS,
kill the bees, flog arms to evil. What a glorious mess!

Techno-feudalism
here we come!
 

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OK, so there will be two jabs but 12 weeks apart. So for 12 weeks one is susceptible to some extent, and then possibly will still be susceptible after this  late second jab, re the Pfizer jab - the jury is still out. Astra Zeneca, however  HAS tested later intervals. Of course, Johnson's dad had two prompt doses.

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