The rise of the johnny-come-lately anti-vaxxer

‘No way am I having it now,’ said a friend, as she insisted on discussing the latest scare stories.

And she shook her head so violently that her long blonde hair was flung sideways across her face, and the resemblance to an anti-vaxxer in the throes of hysteria was extremely convincing.

But then she regained her composure and said: ‘No. I’ve had my two jabs. That’s enough.’

‘Hang on,’ I said, ‘so you are vaccinated?’

‘Oh yes, but I’ve only had two. I’m not having any more.’ And she emphasised the ‘I’m’ with a smug look that said she was no fool, unlike others unspecified.

This is what is happening now. There is an annoying new kind of johnny-come-lately anti-vaxxer who boasts about being only minimally vaccinated and in their view, therefore, qualified to join the ranks of the persecuted – those of us who decided at the very beginning not to have a single dose, for allegedly lunatic reasons.