Forcing "Consent"
The manipulation of language has become so pervasive and habitual that authorities don't blink when posting blatant contradictions
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Thank you for drawing attention to this language in consistency. Speaking up about it is part of our job!
The only way I could think to express my dissent when forced to get the vaccine was to write on a piece of paper "I am consenting under duress because I will lose my job if I do not do so" and photograph it, next to the farcical "consent" screen at the vaccination centre. I hope that there is a class-action lawsuit at some point, because I cannot take on my institution on my own. I also plan on getting a non-smart phone and informing my employer that I have no cell-phone to utilise for the increasing number of apps and access-screening software that they expect me to put on my personal phone for their institutional use. At the very least, it should confound them for a bit and make things difficult as they try to figure out more cumbersome alternatives. I would heartily recommend that like-minded people start doing the same, as a form of passive resistance. In fact, where is it even stated in a country's constitution that all people shall carry cell phones, period? Never mind cell phones for their governments and employers to keep tabs on them? Our phones have become our ankle trackers.