Advertisement
“I know not, sir,” James M. Barrie once wrote when speculation was rife that the Bard of Avon could not
possibly have written all the works he was credited with, “whether Sir Francis Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.”
I feel the same about the quote that went viral on social media last month credited to French President Emmanuel Macron, on the subject of vaccination passports: “I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated. This time you stay at home, not us.”