{"id":225522,"date":"2021-01-18T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225522"},"modified":"2021-01-20T05:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T05:05:12","slug":"when-conspiracy-theories-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225522","title":{"rendered":"When Conspiracy Theories Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sunday Times Under Fire for Branding COVID Vax Passports as \u2018Freedom Certificates\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Russia Today \u2013 Jan 17, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Sunday Times is facing a social media backlash for pushing Covid-19 vaccination passports as \u201cfreedom certificates\u201d with many noting that the idea was considered a crazy conspiracy theory only a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>An article published in the UK newspaper on Sunday makes the case for <em>\u201cimmunity passports,\u201d<\/em> which would allow vaccine recipients to be exempt from lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, titled \u2018Covid passports: a freedom certificate that may get the world travelling again\u2019, argues that several countries will start to introduce the documents, in some shape or form, and pressure will mount on British authorities to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhether or not the moral, political and medical questions of favouring the vaccinated are resolved, demand from the jabbed hordes for the necessary paperwork to travel this summer is likely to prove irresistible,\u201d<\/em> the article argues.<\/p>\n<p>The piece drew the ire of many, who couldn\u2019t help but take to Twitter to note that it appeared to be a conspiracy theory brought to life.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beyond Orwellian: The Sunday Times promoting Covid passports as \u2018freedom certificates\u2019.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EYjymOfmKn\">https:\/\/t.co\/EYjymOfmKn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Neil Clark (@NeilClark66) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeilClark66\/status\/1350719003690487808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2018Freedom certificate\u2019 is an oxymoron. This was a \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019 a few short months ago,\u201d<\/em> writer and photographer Laura Dodsworth wrote. Journalist Neil Clark branded the article <em>\u201cbeyond Orwellian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">True freedom, like true love, is unconditional. If you need a pass to be free, you are the exact opposite of free.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Mee (@midgard_misfit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/midgard_misfit\/status\/1350743708585652229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s vaccines minister said in recent days that the government has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nadhimzahawi\/status\/1349107577481809920\">no plans<\/a> to introduce vaccine passports.<\/p>\n<p>However, many expressed doubts that it would maintain that stance, having previously flip-flopped on a range of Covid-19 related issues including masks and lockdowns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No plans to mandate masks, no plans for a second lockdown, no plans to cancel Christmas&#8230; legislate to make it unlawful otherwise we all know it\u2019s coming and believe this govt less and less with every statement uttered.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hhh (@cfctctcyc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfctctcyc\/status\/1349121112047833094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/512800-covid-vaccination-passport-conspiracy-theory-sunday-times\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream media now promoting Covid Vaccination passports as \u201cfreedom certificates\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225650,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225522\/revisions\/225650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}