I eat more than the minimum required to live despite others living in poverty, and I use more energy than the minimum despite others living in poverty, and I bet you do too. I'm not going to pretend that refusing to get privately vaccinated against COVID is going to change anything except my risk of serious adverse outcomes from exposure to COVID.
Yes, they are offered for free. If you are elderly, pregnant, immunosuppressed, live/care for vulnerable people, or have a variety of other health conditions including asthma, you get offered a free flu jab every autumn on the NHS .
3 July 1979: CIA initiates Operation Cyclone, financing the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan.
25 December 1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1989: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1992: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan collapses; start of the Afghan Civil War.
1992: Operation Cyclone ends, after funneling thousands of tons of weaponry worth several billion US dollars to militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties.
"Asian hornets have caused havoc in France, where they have a stronghold, and have decimated honeybee populations... The Asian hornets first came to Europe in 2004 when they were spotted in France, and it is thought they were accidentally transported in cargo from Asia. They rapidly spread across western Europe and have crossed the Channel to Britain, probably also in cargo... Once they establish permanent populations they are almost impossible to stop."
It's not about days per year. Children go to school; you can't expect them to be in use 24/7 during term time.
A single activity centre -- let's take Foxlease as an example, which was gifted to the Guide Association by Princess Mary in 1922 -- can sleep 166 girls & leaders in indoor accommodation plus 140 camping assuming all pitches are at minimum capacity.
GirlGuiding UK's London offices, which are opposite Buckingham Palace, sleep 30 and are functionally inaccessible to Guides in most of the country. Unlike the activity centres.
Perhaps if GirlGuiding hadn't had to write off £2.8 million owed to them by a company they decided to let run a hotel out of their Location building, they wouldn't be having to sell the family silver. And perhaps they should be selling the inaccessible London office, and not their campsites.
"The then head of complex casework [at the CCRC] in Manchester said [in 2009]: “If it is assumed that the saliva came from the offender, then it does not derive from Malkinson. This is surprising because the area of the clothing that the saliva was recovered from was crime specific.”
However, he said “he did not see that there was a need to do any further work on the file” unless the case was brought to appeal, and then his focus would be on “bolstering” the case against Malkinson."
No, I don't see that as particularly helpful.
Global annual influenza vaccine manufacturing capacity is around 1.68 billion doses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309624/
Pfizer alone can churn out 4 billion COVID doses annually. https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine/manufacturing-and-distribution
I eat more than the minimum required to live despite others living in poverty, and I use more energy than the minimum despite others living in poverty, and I bet you do too. I'm not going to pretend that refusing to get privately vaccinated against COVID is going to change anything except my risk of serious adverse outcomes from exposure to COVID.