Day: 20 December 2020

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come 10 Downing StreetLondon SW1A 2AA 24 December 2022 I am writing to you to update you on the steps we are taking to combat coronavirus. In just a few years, everyday life has changed dramatically. We all feel the profound impact of coronavirus not just on ourselves, but on our loved ones and our communities. I understand completely the difficulties that lockdown has caused to your lives, businesses and jobs.I also recognise that many of you will be concerned by the Tier 17 restrictions that my Government has today announced. Let me assure you that the actions we are taking are absolutely necessary, for one simple reason. If too many people think at one time, the resources of the state will be distracted from the war on coronavirus. This will cost lives. We must slow the spread of information likely to generate cognition in order to save as many lives as possible. That is why we are giving one simple instruction – from today you must distance yourself from thoughts. You should not engage in intellectual discussion with either of the disease vectors you have been caged with since the Tier 14 mass urban evacuations. You may only think for very limited purposes such as articulating the words ‘Thank you NHS,’ completing compulsory ...

Boris Cancels Christmas Lord Protector Boris Johnson contemplates what other filthy frivolities might be putting the populace in harm's way. (Image: The Week) Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday announced his most humiliating U-turn to date, putting London and the South East into a new "Tier 4" (lockdown in all but name), cancelling the Christmas amnesty for those areas and reducing it to just Christmas Day for the rest of the country. The Telegraph has the details. Boris Johnson was forced to introduce a new tier with tougher restrictions last night as he warned that a new variant of the virus was spreading "significantly more easily" among the population.The Prime Minister told the nation: “When the virus changes its method of attack, we must change our methods of defence."He placed 18 million people across London, the South East and East of England into new Tier 4 restrictions which closely resemble November's lockdown.It came after he received alarming new evidence that a variant strain of COVID-19 – called VUI2020/12/01 – was ripping through areas in Tier 3, where restrictions were failing to control the spread.For the rest of the country, the five-day window to form a Christmas bubble has been scaled back to just one 24-hour period.From Sunday, non-essential, gyms, cinemas, hairdressers and bowling alleys will be forced to close for two ...