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Will British Travellers to France Pose as Lorry Drivers to Avoid PCR Test Bill?

by Michael Curzon
29 March 2021 4:51 PM

A reader has drawn attention to the likelihood of some people posing as lorry drivers to avoid paying hefty PCR test fees.

According to the Government’s website, lorry drivers and hauliers can now get tested while on the road.

This means that they can travel from services to services between drops and get tested according to the following rules.

When to get tested

You will need to take at least three tests, if you will be staying in England for 10 days or longer.

You must take the first test within two days of your arrival. The day of your arrival is counted as day zero.

You must take the second test three days after your first test and the third test three days after your second test.

So if your first test is on day one, your second test will be on day four and your third test on day seven.

If your first test is on day two, your second test will be day five and your third test on day eight.

Apparently, these tests are free.

I wonder what will happen if they put France on the “red list”, as Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden seems to be considering… I suspect if you are a haulier you will still be able to come in from France – otherwise, where will all the food come from?

As has been seen from a previous LS post where the author set up a “removals” company and went skiing, one thinks this could be open to abuse.

I live five minutes away from the 24 hours South Mimms testing centre – I do wonder what is to stop me from getting free tests. Also, I wonder if van rentals will start popping up as members of the public suddenly become hauliers to find a reasonable excuse to go abroad!

Stop Press: In England, Lloyds Pharmacy is cutting costs for PCR tests to the bone by undercutting Boots by (wait for it!) £1! Its now only £119 per test with them, which means the cost of the PCR tests you’ll need to go on a trip to France has been slashed from £360 to £357. Bon voyage!

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago

Didn’t Kariko and Weissman nick the original idea from Malone – and he’s got the patents? Alfred Nobel must be turning in his grave….

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago

That’s a big fat no from me.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago

Shots. A strange name to use. When you’re being ‘shot’, it usually mean you’ve been injured. That aside, this reeks of evil and who knew that evil would come to you in a smiling jolly, jokey way starring your fave handsome football star, imbuing you with confidence and all-round feeling good vibes. I’m only surprised they aren’t giving away free Subway sandwiches laced with gmos and seed oils too. Or maybe when you turn up for your shot, they just shoot you in the head instead.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Shooting people in the head would be more merciful and you’d probably have a better chance of surviving covid 😉

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
2 years ago

This is what happens when ‘credentialled experts’ are allowed to spout whatever crap they want unchallenged (in MSM) for nigh on 3 years.

Of course they haven’t studied whether there could be problems in stabbing people with 2 different ‘vaccines’ at the same time.
Just as they didn’t study what would happen if you gave someone a covid vaxx right after they had had corona.
Just like they didn’t study what would happen if you mixed and matched a viral vector vaxx with an mrna or a subunit vaxx.
Just as they didn’t study what would happen if you kept stabbing people with the same worthless crap that didn’t work the first 50 times they were stabbed with it.
Just as they didn’t bother to keep track of AEs.
Just like they said it stopped infection and transmission, without having tested for this and knowing full well a respiratory virus will not be stopped by antibodies in the blood.
Just like they claimed they knew there would be no long-term AEs, with zero long-term data.
Just like they claimed it was safe for pregnant women, with zero data.
Just like they claimed the mrna would not be present in breast milk, with zero data.
Just like they claimed children born of vaxx mothers would suffer no side effects, with zero data.

On a side note – I happened to have heard of this football player about 2 days before this ad came out. Some twatter nonsense about him hooking up with Taylor Swift. The only thing I know about her, besides being mega-famous and rich, is that she has an unending string of boyfriends who apparently provide her with all her hits, so when he was first mentioned I thought nothing of it. As soon as I saw this ad – well, let’s say I don’t believe it’s a coincidence and I believe they were pushed together to try to boost the reach of the ad. If true, how pathetic, how low will any of these money-worshipping whores sink? And no way on this earth they actually stabbed him with the poison, they wouldn’t dare risk having him collapse in the middle of a game.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Well said, Jane. You’re right, he obviously received the placebo, saline solution.

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Roy Everett
Roy Everett
2 years ago

The Nobel Prize for Medicine is going the same way as the Nobel Prize for Peace, won by the IPCC a few years ago: just a political badge that the elite award each other for singing from the same song-sheet on cue, in time and in tune.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 years ago

Yes! I’ll get my ‘flu and Covid-19 shots at the same time… when Hell freezes over.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Please tell me this is parody! WTAF did I just read?? This is just wrong on every level.

”Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, American scientists whose long collaboration has revolutionized the making of vaccines and raised the prospect of new treatments for a range of afflictions, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for their work on messenger RNA.
Hungarian-born biochemist Karikó, 68, spent nearly a decade at BioNTech, the German pharmaceutical firm that collaborated with drug giant Pfizer to produce the pandemic’s first vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19. Physician-scientist Weissman, 64, is a professor of vaccine research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.”

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-10-02/kariko-weissman-mrna-covid-vaccine-nobel-prize

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize despite continuing the business as usual tradition in the USA of bombing or invading other nations they don’t approve of, so why not.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Well I can tell by the picture of them wearing matching face nappies that they know a thing or two about viruses. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤡

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Glad Aussie17 has picked up on this as well and shown that it’s always a case of ”follow the money”,

”Dr. Karikó was a senior vice-president at BioNTech, and Dr. Weissman is a vaccine research professor at the Perelman School of Medicine from University of Pennsylvania.
Yes, the same University of Pennsylvania that forged a long term partnership with Pfizer.
A revenue of 100 billion dollars can buy you a multitude of joyful toys! Meanwhile, observe their choice of cloth masks (not even N95!), which do not effectively work. Pardon my aussie, what a shit show!!”

https://www.aussie17.com/p/pharmafiles-news-october-2-2023-biontech

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
2 years ago

Of course.
How else will they pay for their yachts, exec jets, fancy holidays and expensive food?

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

The BBC reports that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to the two scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.

I don’t trust any establishment institution. But one of the first I started distrusting, long before the covid terror, was the Nobel Prize.

When Obama got his for peace I immediately came to the conclusion that it was all political BS.

And then of course looking back Kissinger, the IPCC.. Jesus, what was I thinking.

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Jane G
Jane G
2 years ago

My OH has been chin-wagging with both sets of neighbours today and the conversation turned to the latest jabs. Married couple on one side were both poorly afterwards (not enough detail obtained by OH but sounds like flu symptoms)
Elderly man on other side actually needed an ambulance because he felt so ill.

I must have been busy because I didn’t see an ambulance but it bears out a remark from a visitor I had last week who had a brief chat with him and he had made a similar complaint to her.

Maybe they will learn this time, if it’s not too late for them.

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago

Went out to lunch yesterday with some fellow retired work friends. At one stage they were all talking about either having just had their flu and Covid jabs or were about to get them. They’re all university graduates apart from me! We don’t speak about the dangers but they know my views. All very sad and very stupid.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

To be honest, I think anyone who is still paying attention to these discredited spokesmen/ women for Big Pharma and gets these jabs deserves everything they get.

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