The NHS mobile app, through which people currently book GP appointments, will be used as a Covid vaccine passport when international travel returns. The date of return remains uncertain: Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said we must “wait and see” if May 17th continues to be viable. The Guardian has the story.
International travellers will be asked to demonstrate their Covid vaccination and testing status using the NHS smartphone app, the U.K. Government has confirmed, as the Transport Secretary promised to release a list of possible holiday destinations within a fortnight.
Grant Shapps said work had started on developing the app many people use to book appointments with their GPs so that it can show whether they have been vaccinated and tested for the virus.
But he was coy about when people would be able to start travelling abroad for holidays in interviews on Wednesday morning, saying the public would have to “wait and see” when they could go to some of the most popular foreign holiday destinations.
“Spain specifically, I’m afraid I just don’t have the answer to that because the Joint Biosecurity Centre will need to come up with their assessment and we can’t do that until a bit nearer the time,” he told Times Radio.
Speaking to Sky News, Shapps said he would be able to announce within a fortnight which countries people would be able to visit without needing to quarantine when they returned and added that domestic coronavirus statistics were on track for the Government to enable the resumption of foreign holidays next month.
“I have to say that so far the data does continue to look good from a U.K. perspective, notwithstanding those concerns about where people might be travelling to and making sure we’re protected from the disease being reimported.”
He added: “We do need to make sure that we do this very, very carefully… But, in the next couple of weeks, I’ll come back on and I’ll be able to tell you about which countries will have made it into the traffic light system – and that green list in particular.”
He said the green list would include the “countries where you’ll be able to go to, without needing to quarantine on your return, you will still need to take a pre-departure test, and one test on your return”.
Further doubt was cast on our ability to resume travel on May 17th last week when it was reported that the Foreign Office could refuse to sanction travel to countries on the Government’s “green” and “amber” lists since its travel advice is published independently of the “traffic light” system.
The Guardian’s report is worth reading in full.
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More fool them
No – more propagandised and fearful them
Sadly notice a fair few older people wearing masks whenever they go out, and I’m sure they’ve been jabbed. The SPI-B psychopaths and their political masters opened Pandora’s Box and they wouldn’t be able to close it even if they wanted to.
agreed – keep having to remind my anxious parent that they are now twice vaccinated [much through I wish they were not – would far rather they were taking vitamin D] and have very little to worry about every time I am asked a series of questions about whether X or Y is safe and hear that they are “worried” about something to do with the relaxation of the covid restrictions. If only I could manage to stop them watching the news on the bogus broadcasting corporation…
Yep concur with that. Staying in a village in Wensleydale this w/e and it’s mask central. Bloke in the village shop asked why I wasn’t wearing one, very nearly replied that I wasn’t that gullible. A lot but especially the old continue wearing them in the street – very depressing.
Too much TV & Media.
I think there lies the problem.
Switch-off the TV and radio.
If there was no TV or radio would anyone really know that there had even been a pandemic?
Back in the 14th century during the Black Death which caused an estimated 50 million deaths there was no TV or radio back then (obviously) but you were aware that there was a deadly killer disease spreading through the population because people were dropping like flies absolutely everywhere (read the diaries back then) – yet I’ve still to meet or know anyone who knows of someone somehwere who has actually died of covid19 (not died with covid19) but actually died due to the covid virus.
Also Spartacus, even in 68(HK Flu) and 56/57( Asian flu) apart from the governments, 1 Labour and 1 Conservative respectively not panicking and running around in ever decreasing circles instructing us to isolate in our homes (or else), there wasn’t 24 hour rolling news on TV and radio constantly churning out propaganda and inane comments like “It’s the wettest May since the last wettest May!”.
Weird isn’t it. I was in a second-hand furniture emporium recently; a man and his wife – about 55 – made an absolute meal of getting past me, even though I was facing away from them in a large room with a 6-foot passageway. I flipped (slightly) and said “Oh for heaven’s sake you don’t need to make such a fuss – there’s no bloody virus here and nobody’s died in this area [mid-Norfolk] for months!” The man squared up to me as if I’d asked him for a fist-fight; “Oh yeah,” he shouted, “so how many people do YOU know who’ve died?” This suggested to me that he in fact knew people who’d died. “None,” I said. “Well,” quoth the sage, “my mother was very ill with it.” Substantial pause while I tried to fathom the man’s train of thought. “So,” I replied, “You don’t know anyone who’s died, either?” He just walked off.
Very odd, very disconcerting. Bizarre illogical remarks prompted by fear/anger/ignorance? People are enjoying their confinement; it’s making them feel significant, protected, part of something. It’s a measure of their country’s loss of identity and self-confidence. Very sad.
This. They’ve been terrorised, captive with often little to keep them company apart from a TV or Radio. It’s their communication with the mad, mad world outside and it’s full, wall to wall, with extreme Covid fear porn.
Postcard from the South Sandwich Islands
Day 22
At the SAGE meeting yesterday one of the Penguins brought up a new paper published this week in the Oxford scientific journal Clinical Infectious Diseases
The penguin seemed to suggest that the scientists had discovered something in the vaccinated that was not predicted and they don’t understand
I pointed out that this was not an agenda item and we must concentrate on Martin Bashir and Harry’s indescribable pain
Anyway said penguin went swimming this morning and never came back
So sad. He leaves a wife, children and the islands first Jamie Oliver franchise
I got told in one letter, in March that I was suddenly ” clinically, extremely vulnerable” and that should shield for a month…and book my jabs! It’s funny that I wasn’t considered so the whole of last year but come jab rollout time…time to try and frighten even more people into accepting it. Didn’t work on me though. Chucked it in the bin and carried on as usual.
I’ve had numerous texts and letters from my GP, noting my ‘underlying health issues’ (I haven’t got any!!) pushing me to book an appointment online or via the GP.
I’ve had 3 letters from the NHS directing me to book an appointment.
Several telephone calls. One caller left a message on my mobile, stating I need to contact them to discuss my ‘treatment plan’ regarding the injections!!
Oh – and a further 2 letters from my GP and one from some place else – inviting me to join clinical trials in the fight against Covid!!!!! I would of course, have a full medical health screen and travel costs would be reimbursed, whoopy doo!
Bog off to the lot of ‘em!!
oh the joys of not having a mobile phone of any kind – I seem to be below the radar and hope that I can manage to keep it that way for as long as possible
I’m going to find my old faithful basic Nokia – about 15 years old or more – and if it still works, start using that if / when I go out and apps are needed. Can’t download anything to it
In Kidderminster yesterday along with most of the country it was pouring down with rain,blowing a gale and bitter cold and yet there were the collaborators and sheep fully “facenappied up” outside. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THESE PEOPLE?
Later on, myself, Mrs FP and our younger son went for a meal and had to put up with the usual:”Have you signed in,sanitized your hands, etc”followed by: ” Follow the one way system and if you want to visit the toilet, don’t forget to wear your face nappy, etc”, but then a ray of sunshine (common sense); 3 workmen came in, one without a fn,ignored the instructions that I mentioned before and went to the bar if they wanted anything.
Oh, it did do my 72 year old heart good.
Thank you lads, whoever you are.
Stockholm syndrome, negative adaptation etc.
In Germany, one state wanted to eliminate the Mask mandate when the incidence no falls below 35.
The sheep revolted. They want to keep their masks on now!
(Highly manipulated and framed sampling of course, but still.)
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Maske-im-Einzelhandel-bleibt-Niedersachsen-lenkt-ein,corona7926.html
Bonkers! and there I was thinking the Germans were a sensible logical nation.
Fine by me if they spend the rest of their lives hiding ‘safe’ at home. Leaves more room for the rest of us to enjoy being out and about.
HEAR,HEAR!!!
Well, yes, except if one of the fearful is a close friend or family member, it’s causing you direct pain.
Narrative is now that as we had to mask up to make the timid feel safe, we should talk part in the global experiment to achieve the same.
Anyone with an insight into anxiety-based mental illness knows that this is precisely the wrong way to get over it. It reinforces irrational fear.
Of course they’re still shielding the BBC et al are constantly sending out the message it’s really dangerous out there and we’re all (well mostly, not me) muzzled up everywhere.
They scared them now they need to de-programme them.
The irony is they are inside eating cakes and getting fatter – thus more suceptible to the rare killer sniffles aka covid agenda 21.
Much easier to scare people than to unscare them.
I wonder why only 2/3 have been fully vaccinated? I thought the shielders were right near the top of the list? I wonder if this means that a significant proportion of them can’t/won’t have it? Which I fully respect of course, it’s their lives and bodies but if even they don’t want it then as a perfectly fit and healthy person I do resent being told I need to get it to protect them or to be allowed to live my life fully!
Only 40% of vulnerable people typically take up the offer of a flu jab and obviously it’s not offered to the rest of us so I wish we could just go back to that.
I have two neighbours, who have lived this way for 14 months…they are not much over 40, wont allow anyone in, not even a tradesman, have free groceries delivered every week and unless they have a home gym tucked away somewhere, cant be getting ANY exercise. Neither are stupid but they apparently say they will not go outside or let anyone in until they have their jabs, later on in the year. It’s just beyond tragic.
A relative of ours (woman in her late 40s) is obsessed with keeping her home germ free, she sanitises all the time. Her son, in his 20s, sensibly, goes out and about seeing friends etc….his mum is in bed when he comes in at night but listens for his key in the door and gets up and disinfects everywhere in case he’s brought the dreaded virus in with him. Totally paranoid.
“Neither are stupid” you sure?
It is very sad that some people have been so taken in by the fear generated by Government at the behest of SAGE in March 2020 that they are still terrified to leave the house. My sister’s in-laws are amongst this group – they even have testing kits for family members to use when visiting (and then wait outside in the car for 30 minutes). They are so scared of dying that they are not living! And as for people wearing masks outdoors – just don’t get me started. I see young people, middle aged people, old people all wearing the things when walking along the street or in green public spaces – what is the matter with them?
Zombies