Covid vaccine centre in Los Angeles forced to close yesterday by anti vaccine protesters.

There is an piece in the news about "How a picture of my foot became anti-vaccine propaganda" on how anti-vaccine activists picked up on a foot problem that happened to someone a few days after she was in a vaccine trial.

She never received the actual vaccine. Medical records show that she received a placebo, a small injection of salt water.

Her illness had nothing to do with injections. But that didn't stop activists twisting her story to advance their own agendas. And the false account will stay in anti-vaccine minds, while the true one is forgotten.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-55179300

Some people are bonkers. It does look as if police dealt with the anti-vax demonstration though because the report says the vaccination centre re-opened after an hour.

I've no problem with people protesting peacefully but they shouldn't be allowed to interfere with other people's choices, nor to put undue pressure on people.

Nuts - just completely nuts. How do you reason with people like this?

Piers Corbyn and his "happy band of followers" are picketing hospitals. The medical staff have to make their way through the pickets to get in. I know exactly what I would like to do to them!

I was just about to post that Lizbethann
Where are those water cannon now? They're not afraid to use those and tear gas on the Continent.

Yes why are we so pathetic about using water cannon?
I didn’t know anything about Piers Corbyn-I thought it was a joke combining Pers Morgan and Jeremy Corbyn.
I think the protesters should have the courage to wear wristbands saying ‘don’t treat me’ in case they get ill. But then they’d probably whizz out and share their illness around.

Disgraceful behaviour,

Boris bought the water cannon when he was Mayor of London. Kahn got rid of them so we haven’t got them to use.

If they don't want the vaccine that's fine but they shouldn't interfere with the choices of others. It is very arrogant behaviour.

this article explains what happened to Boris's water canons!

Mollygo Piers Corbyn is a very dangerous individual. He is an anti vaxer, a Covid denier, a conspiracy theorist and has compared the vaccine to Auschwitz. Thanks to social media he has thousands of followers.

There are so many supposedly intelligent, rational people behind this conspiracy nonsense. Covid isn’t real and Trump is returning and Biden, Pelosi et al are going to be arrested! I have actually lost a friend to Covid two weeks ago - only 63 and it came as a total shock. I can’t even attend her funeral. I ‘lost’ another friend last week who took umbrage when I likened her unswerving belief in this conspiracy by the dark state, to being in a cult! I don’t know where it all began or why normally rational people are convinced we’re all being duped but these people truly believe this nonsense. I find it baffling.

Annodomini that’s very interesting. Thanks for posting. Looks like Cameron was implicated in promising they could be used if there was civil unrest. Bought second hand from Germany when no one else would buy them, Theresa May banned their use as being unsafe. So if water canons are considered necessary get the right ones! Although I saw a picture of a girl who was bleeding from a bad head wound where water canon had knocked her into a wall and she was innocent. Horrific!

And Piers Corbyn’s brother is.....?
What a lucky escape we had.
His brother could have been in charge of our vaccination rollout if (unlikely though that would have been) he had won the General Election.

How about if/when the vaccine refusers get ill and have to go to hospital they have to pay for all their treatment?
DH has his vaccination tomorrow and I hope to be soon after (I am 69).

The NHS is there for all, free at the point of delivery so we couldn't make them a special group.

He can please himself but encouraging others to protest and preventing people having their vaccines warrants arrest imo.
He's a lot cleverer than his brother but all that intelligence is misdirected.

25Avalon, and others urging the use of water cannon.
they are not legal to be used here, thank goodness.
that woman in the Netherlands was flung against a concrete wall and sustained a fractured skull.
she was trying to pass by, not protesting.

JenniferEccles

And Piers Corbyn’s brother is.....?
What a lucky escape we had.
His brother could have been in charge of our vaccination rollout if (unlikely though that would have been) he had won the General Election.

isn't that guilt by association.
like saying i was robbed by a black man, so i wouldn't trust any black men.
JC is not responsible for what PC thinks or does.

Wellbeck after reading annodomino’s article and seeing that horrific “accident” in the Netherlands I am not one of those urging the use of water cannon. Looking at other countries some have a pretty awful way of dealing with dissenters. No guns here either.