{"id":284923,"date":"2020-11-24T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=284923"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T18:02:02","slug":"bravery-or-covidiocy-mixed-reviews-as-uk-travel-agency-says-it-will-boycott-qantas-over-compulsory-covid-19-vaccine-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/bravery-or-covidiocy-mixed-reviews-as-uk-travel-agency-says-it-will-boycott-qantas-over-compulsory-covid-19-vaccine-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravery or \u2018Covidiocy\u2019? Mixed reviews as UK travel agency says it will boycott Qantas over compulsory Covid-19 vaccine policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Covidiocy&#8230;.great word<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A UK-based travel firm has polarized social media after announcing that it will no longer be doing business with Qantas Airways due to the airline\u2019s decision to require Covid-19 jabs for all international passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Tradewinds Travel, an independent tour operator, posted a statement on its website explaining that customers would have to go elsewhere if they wanted to book a flight with Qantas, citing the Australian airline\u2019s CEO that the company was looking into requiring international travellers to have proof of vaccination against coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>We feel that bodily autonomy with regard to medical intervention is a personal choice and not something to be forced onto people by businesses. We are not anti-vaccination but we are pro-choice. There is a huge difference between coercion and making a free choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/507669-qantas-boycott-covid-vaccine-compulsory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fuk%2F507669-qantas-boycott-covid-vaccine-compulsory%2F&amp;h=AT04u4N3K8y2UVyzh88iCuc15F94fBKNcBShgzESATlSCt2CZ2fvN7qCzUdwrHbHDsS69z0h5f5XuLDeWCM1EOSFx1S_CNMUTlCbTGf7AcPxRzwbEYilzXDVrOMc4MGUXQ&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: Covidiocy&#8230;.great word &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":284924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}