Last week, Boris Johnson said there was a “very good chance” all Covid restrictions would come to an end on June 21st, yet the latest reports suggest that mask-wearing and caps on numbers attending large events could stay in place past the “end” of lockdown. The Government is said to have already told football’s UEFA that crowd sizes at upcoming events will be limited to 45,000. So when will restrictions actually come to an end? The Times has more.
The “one metre-plus” social distancing rule will be scrapped from June 21st under plans to ensure that all restaurants, pubs, theatres and cinemas can reopen fully, the Times understands.
Masks will have to be worn in some cases to mitigate the risks but it will mean venues can reopen at full capacity for the first time in 15 months.
Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, confirmed yesterday that some coronavirus restrictions would remain beyond June 21st, causing concern in hospitality…
The Times understands this means theatre and cinema audiences must wear face coverings during performances and there will be strict guidance on ventilation and staggered entry.
Pubs and restaurants may keep one-way systems, screens and a requirement to wear masks while moving around but, crucially, there will be no restrictions on customer numbers.
The Prime Minister is expected to be presented with the recommendations as part of an interim report looking at the success of recent trials, including events held without social distancing. Removing the one metre-plus rule would be a lifeline for thousands of businesses that warned they faced bankruptcy if the Government kept social-distancing rules this summer.
However, the biggest events will still have a cap on numbers beyond June 21st, meaning Wembley Stadium will be half empty for the European Championship final on July 11st. The Government is said to have told UEFA, European football’s governing body, that crowd sizes will be limited to 45,000.
Government sources added that fears of “pinch points” on public transport and at bars around the stadium would prevent a full crowd of 90,000 fans. A source said: “If you’ve got 90,000 people in a stadium, it’s going to be very difficult. It was always quite ambitious to go to 50% but we’ve told UEFA we’re working on a 50% basis.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: MailOnline columnist Dan Wooton says enough is enough. We must make sure June 21st is the day we get our old lives back and if we aren’t we should just take them back.
Stop Press 2: Just one Covid death was reported in the whole of Britain today, leading to further calls for the “roadmap” out of lockdown to be sped up – and for all restrictions to come to an end thereafter.
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Some restrictions is not acceptable. You absolute numb nuts. Fuck off out of my life.
Perfectly put!
Well said.
Seconded
I think I’ll get a t shirt with Boris’s ugly mug on it….and your last sentence there, across it.
send us a picture.
Brilliantly succinct.
It’s morphed into Project Fear 2.0
Let’s hope it is equally unsuccessful.
Orders of magnitude worse and more evil than Project Fear, and global. The other side of Project Fear had half the country behind it all along, and long standing political forces. Opposition to coronamadness is a niche, minority, crackpot pastime that has no major backing anywhere other than a tiny number of maverick business leaders, media figures and some Governors of red states in the US. Every other major global institution is against us.
But we are on the right side, and we must some how keep trying.
I was thinking about the photo of the kill the bill protestors in an item on LS yesterday. I was finding it really difficult why these young people have decided to wear masks outside. The only government guidance to do so is in crowded outside places where social distancing cannot be maintained, so I guess they want to be on the right side of government guidance. But why? They are opposed to this conservative government so why do they not want to reject the guidance?
I was away this weekend with 3 households staying in a self catering place in Wales (spoiling all Mark Drakefords hard work). All of us current or past NHS workers, 2 nurses, one doctor, a psychotherapist. We spoke about young people, children also, who the doctor said have become obsessed by mask wearing, she said one child she had spoken to said it was an identity, they are the generation of “covid kids”. It was hard for us to understand as we don’t know what they are watching or discussing on social media. But it felt like it has become tied somehow to their climate change agenda. Does anyone have any insights?
In response to the masked-up protestors – if they’re wearing masks it’s difficult to identify who they are. so repercussions less likely. Plus there’s something much more intimidating about an advancing sea of people without faces… Puts me in mind of the Walking Dead.
I also feel quite sorry for the younger Covid Kids, they’ll be the ones who have to live with the worst of what’s been done to them and which they were powerless to stop. Impaired social skills, the stigma of not having received a full education and the detriment associated with this (reduced job prospects etc), and the traumatic psychological effects of feeling that the world is completely unstable/subject to the whim of those in ‘authority’ will last all their lives.
“I also feel quite sorry for the younger Covid Kids”
I guess you probably mean ‘very sorry’ for them. They have suffered the worst care from older generations than any before them in living memory.
I don’t underestimate the effects of brainwashing by the Goebbels and Mengele Memorial Brigade, but the compliance still fills me with a feeling of disgust.
Lots of influencers on social media, bought and paid for, getting into the kids heads. Event 201 spoke of influencers “carpet bombing” the public with messages to Nudge them into certain behaviours. Just my thoughts, for what it’s worth.
That’s really interesting! Where can I read about this?
It’s all been planned last year, to get masks embedded in the culture.
I don’t know why, except as a sign of compliance. It seems to be very much a far left-wing thing, e.g. Communist party member Susan Michie.
Indoctrination is so easy these days.
It all comes down to control.
I’m afraid I don’t have any insights, Wendy, but I have thought for a long time that the climate change agenda is behind the madness….the control thing was a nice little bonus for the Gov’t.
It’s going to be tough
Is it being so cheerful that keeps you going?
Well, as the government has just signed another advertising contract for CV19, for £300+ million extending to March 2023, I’d say they’re going to be rolling out another fear campaign over soon.
Boris should just out and say if these restrictions are gonna be permanent, cos that’s what it looks like. And we must send him a message on Thursday
Well said!
My ballot paper gave me the choice of 2 Tories, 2 Labour, one Lib and one Green. I took a Sharpie out the draw and wrote in bold letters: NONE over the candidates and struck a line through the tick boxes.
What is the point of vaccines if mask wearing is needed. What is the point of mask wearing when social distancing is scrapped? Where is the research that shows mask to mask transmission doesn’t exist because that is the limiting case of scrapping distancing?
There’s no research. Just assumptions, discredited modelling, and a total denial of reason and logic. It’s concerning that so many stupid people have been elected into public office.
More concerning is that people comply with the stupidity!
What comes of not paying politicians enough. The able just go into business where their talents can be well rewarded without the hassle.
Nah. This isn’t just ‘stupidity’.
They think we’re even more stupid than they are, and are unable to make logical connections.
Is there anything that Boris has not lied about?
No.
Even his ex-old woman is calling him out on his behaviour!
There is no research. They aren’t following any science. They’re just following what the global group leaders are dictating.
I agree, but who exactly are they and why do they have that power? Asking for a friend.
We know who they are, they are in your newspapers, on your television, on the boards of banks. They own the shops you buy from and populate the thinktanks your taxes pay for. They are everywhere where you allow your money to go. Or rather, everywhere you allow the wealth of your surplus labour to go. They have that power because we’ve collectively allowed them to over several generations.
Agree, they all have their fingers in the pie. But who has the overriding political clout to change the stance of, for example, the WHO on masks and herd immunity?
I don’t know, but for many years I’ve suspected a Caesar figure would one day appear just as the old and now unfashionable historians predicted (e.g. Spengler). One of the elite will break cover having built a large platform for themselves and purge the others while appealing to popular sentiment (no, not Trump, he’s small fry). That might be a while off though, I think we are currently going through the oligarchical corruption stage of conflict.
Alternatively, people just come to their senses, or both.
That’s a really interesting concept, I would hope that that someone would balance the influence of the CCP as I agree with Hugh that they may well be driving this. Their economy certainly doesn’t seem to be suffering, face masks made in China, lateral flow tests made in China etc etc etc.
Of course there’s a limit to what we can know about China. They’ve always been good at denying domestic problems. I strongly suspect that the only reason they managed to contain covid is because the party said so.
Thank you and Hugh for a really interesting discussion!
Yes, the virus was the CCP’s loss leader.
Do you think Claus Schwab is a candidate?
The Chinese Communist Party leadership.
My thoughts entirely!
I don’t believe so. I think the CCP is still very much out in the cold where western leadership is concerned and is simply a tool just as the Soviets were. The Soviets were covertly (not so covertly) built up by western business interests in the inter-war years. China is the same. This “Caesar” individual or grouping will be western I think and it will, just like with Rome and other empires, involve a re-partioning of the world on the basis that the “empire” has become too large to manage. A Putin like figure perhaps.
I should also add that the Nazis were happily supported by various people, businesses and banks in the English speaking world but that all the while the overall tendency was to pull the plug on it and fight another war to deal with the problems that WW1 had left unresolved. Similarly, Germany dealt with the USSR before going back on it all. It’s really all elementary “keep your enemies closer” tactics and nudging on a global scale. The problem is that it could ultimately be a race to the bottom. Modern technology is highly destructive.
Xi Xinping was the keynote speaker at the last Davos meeting. Schwab is a big fan.
Bezos. Gates, Soros, Zuckerberg.
More money than anyone in previous history ever. More money than many governments and countries.
Several generations ago, only 5,643,170 people had the vote in England and Wales (according to my Harmsworth) so it’s only relatively recently the people have had a chance. The job’s far from finished though.
Had a chance to what? Change things? People could strike long before they could vote. Arguably they got more substantive things done that way. Voting made people feel someone else would do it for them.
Start with the WEF’s Great Reset and Agenda 21-30 then take it from there.
They include the multi-billionaires with a desire and ability to control the world. They control large international corporations, social media, and have disproportionate influence over government leaders.
We “just” have to convince more people that masks are useless and how easy it is to exempt yourself.
WE DO!!!
I try but I have friends who will use someone else’s mask when they go to the loo at the pub rather than wear my exemption lanyard that I offer them. They admit that they’re “institutionalised” and it’s ridiculous but they can’t appear to get over their fear of “what other people may think”. The fear of social opprobrium is a powerful force. I shall persevere though and turn them to mask freedom eventually!
Dear God it is a good job that I have up worrying about what other people think about 15 years ago. Imagine if that was the underlying rationale for why you made your choices and did the things you do.
Perhaps this is what I am missing in my attempt to understand mask wearing. I don’t give a fig about what other people think so it’s hard for me to understand that other people do worry about social opprobrium?
So I wonder if we folks that have questioned and set ourselves against the covid cr.p are folks who generally aren’t worried about fitting in or being accepted by everyone else. Do you think we might be more outsider people?
Outsiders? Critical thinkers? Anti-establishment? Probably a combination of all three and more.
I suspect there’s a huge element of the population who hate wearing the things but do so for an “easy” life …. so I’ll try and do my own little bit to persuade them – in as friendly a way as I can – that this mask madness has to end. Whilst I’d like it to happen now – that 21 June date is a very useful line-in-the-sand deadline to use.
You’re right, I’ve always been a bit of an outsider. I’ve never really tried to fit in, never wanted to.
I wanted to fit in at school but the herd wouldn’t let me. Now,I don’t give a stuff. Thick skin is one of the great privileges if old age.
We are. I have been an outsider all my life and have learnt not to give a damn what others think.
Possibly – I think as you grow older you grow in confidence maybe and you care less about others opinions whereas when you are younger you are desperate to fit in – at almost any cost. I think we must also be fairly independent minded, prepared to question, to think for ourselves, assess evidence etc. I never fail to be surprised by the number of supposedly intelligent people I know who don’t do this at all and just go with the flow – follow the herd.
I’m much more interested in truth than fitting in.
I went to a local indoor shopping mall last week. Muzzle-less and didn’t follow the stupid one way system. I just wandered around as I used to do, shopping for summer clothing, beaming brightly at everyone, being polite to shop assistants. I got a few strange looks but nobody said a word to me. Maybe the fact that I was quietly singing “we’re all going on a summer holiday” put them off challenging me!![😄](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f604.svg)
We knew as soon as they were brought in that masks would not go away. How could they? Once you’ve accepted the “if it saves one life” bollocks you can never go back from that.
Other restrictions will come and go according to whim, seasons and political purposes. Anyone who thinks this is anything like over needs their head read. The pandemic may be recognised as being in abeyance but the coronamadness has hardly receded since the start – most people still buy into the narrative. Let’s face it, we have so far been losing the war very badly. The opposition has been split by the arrival of vaccines. I have my doubts about the wisdom and efficacy of the vaccines but even if they are a miracle drug, the lockdowns were still wrong and the reaction to covid was simply collective hysteria and madness, but this message has been diluted by those who are happy to cling on to vaccines as a way out, even if they don’t really believe much in any of it.
“even if they are a miracle drug”
… and they’re definitely not that.
Just get lost Johnson, your time is up!
Sadly not. Only chance he will be replaced is with someone more pro-lockdown.
Hartlepool is looking like it is theirs and it is because of Boris that they will take it so they won’t rush to replace him, not when he can get more former red seats.
Hartlepool – associated with monkeys?
difference between monkey hangers and sheeple?
unless they lose blue seats…
No.
We need to start telling the “unofficial collaborators” that June 21 is the day this nonsense ends.
21/6/21. It has a nice round look to it. Let’s call it “Mask Freedom Day” or something. Let’s start, now, letting shopkeepers and other people know that, from that date, we simply aren’t going to bed wearing masks any more.
Alison Pearson in the Telegraph said she would do this, wonder if she will be true to her word.
Of course she won’t. Frankly, I’m getting sicker these days reading, listening to and watching the “rebels” and “resisters” than I am the paid-off flunkies and government lickspittles. Sick of Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk Radio with her endless histrionic displays of “gumption” that always have “but of course I could never break the law or condone breaking the law” tacked on the end of them so that, in the end, they mean exactly nothing. Sick of Peter Hitchens and Lord bloody Sumption and all the other “figureheads of our movement” who’ll talk for hours and hours but always shy up short of any “conspiracy theory” and bend the knee and put it all down to “a remarkable number of bad eggs in government” in the end.
The only people we can rely on – and the people we will soon be ourselves, if we’re not them already – are the outcasts and “crackpots” doing what they do on in holes and corners and on a shoestring; living between the poorhouse and the prison for the few years or months still left before they’re driven out into the maquis. The UK Column, David Icke, Piers Corbyn maybe (though he’s a little too close to power, and not just for family reasons, for me to put the faith in him that I do in a lonely, indomitable renegade like Icke). Them and the hundreds of anonymous shabby men and women being pushed around Tesco car parks by thugs in face-nappies and visibility jackets, men and women who are cranks and pig-headed contrarians maybe but will soon be the last representatives of true humanity left.
Take fond and respectful leave, my friends, of the Alison Pearsons and, dare I say it, of the Toby Youngs. They won’t be at our side on the day we all know is coming.
Between half a million and a mlllion took part in the London Unity for Freedom rally on 24 April a substantial increase on the bit over 100000 on 20 March; none of whom will have the vaccine As the rallies were so uplifting everyone there will want to come to the next big London one on 29 May, and also lots to the rallies for World Freedom day round the country on 15 May.So not quite so pessimistic,there is till a lot to fight for.
Didn’t Julia H-B say the same?
Yes. JHB did make that promise.
Fuck masks. I fucking hate them.
Pardon my French.
It’s the best French since Jean Racine’s.
So ditch the thing that no one is doing anymore anyway (physical distancing) and keep the thing that the majority seem strangely happy to comply with (masks).
Observation: if you want masks to be ditched, you have to stop wearing them. Simple. Why wait til 21st June? Start now if you haven’t already.
Yes indeed! It is truly appalling how people STILL fall for this guff. If shops want your money, then they should earn it.
Lets make 21st June ‘Mask Free Day’.
Odd how they want to keep the masks when we and they know that they are detrimental to our health and help with Covid not one jot. I wonder why they want us to wear them so much?
Well, serf, yours is not to reason why!
But we should try and reason why. I suspect that the correct answer will tell us much.
But is there one answer? Folks I have asked say they feel safer from everyone else breathing on them, others say they feel better that they are not passing on their infections to others? Seems young folks might be wearing them as some badge of humour?
All we need to know is that something they want us to do that much is something very bad.
Like getting the snake oil.
I have also heard that it has something to do with cutting down the electro-magnetism from our bodies which could interfere with their surveillance technology when it comes online.
Bin the mask day – provide bins and collect masks for disposal.
I’d prefer a sort of ceremonial burning
Didn’t slave owners in the ancient world find that slaves were more compliant when forced to cover their mouths and noses? That’s what I have heard anyway.
Been doing wheat I want for months now, got no idea about any stupid rules, don’t wear a mask, have people in my house. 21st June makes no odds. If the pubs and restaurants need masks I’ll pass thank you very much, end of.
This morning heading home from Wales we drove past a man, maybe 50, walking along the pavement wearing a mask in the pouring rain. It was one of those 3 layered blue ones so must have been sodden on the inside as well as the outside. There was no one about, just this lone man in waterproofs in a mask in pouring rain! I really cannot think what is going on in that mans head!
Isn’t that literally waterboarding?
Waterboarding at least has an element of excitement to it.
Far better than shuffling along like a masked up zombie in the grey, dismal, mundane existence you’re allowed to have now.
No need for Gitmo anymore. People do it to themselves voluntarily. Are we living inside one of Dick Cheney’s wet dreams?
That’s my immediate thought.
Self-waterboarding. That’s a new form of sadism….
Maybe he drowned.
Good bloody riddance.
nothing, clearly.
As well as being completely unscientific its in no way normal.
A plastic screen isn’t normal.
One way systems aren’t normal.
Staggered entry isn’t normal.
Testing isn’t normal.
and wearing a face nappy is the absolute worst of abnormal. Its the most abhorrent thing to come out of this entire mess.
Basically there is no intention at all to return to anything approaching normal after June 21st.
So despite the entire eligible population being vaccinated, every single vulnerable person as protected as its possible to be, near zero circulation of the disease they want to maintain draconian restrictions indefinitely.
There never ever want this to end. Absolutely no will at all to return to normal.
They’re basically anti-vax at this point. Effectively stating the entire programme has been a complete waste of time, accomplished nothing and put us in a WORSE position restrictions wise than we were last summer.
I refuse to go anywhere that makes me wear a mask or follow a one way system. Regardless of their capacity, these venues aren’t getting my money or custom. Its still lockdown as far as i’m concerned.
*NORMAL* is exactly the same legal rights and restrictions everyone had in February 2020. Any deviation from that is abnormal.
So the vaccines don’t work then?
Got to keep on fooling some of the people all of the time, that there is something to be terrified of, otherwise it’s game over, and they know it!
Sorry – it’s ‘most of the people all of the time’, I think.
The WHO made a statement back in May or June last year – I didn’t keep the reference unfortunately – which said that muzzles are of no practical use whatsoever, except that wearing them reminds people to obey the rules.
And, of course, they remind people that they must still be afraid. And people ACTUALLY FALL FOR IT!
Aren’t those mask things supposed to be changed or washed after 30 minutes use to avoid becoming a health hazard? Has any research been done on how many people actually do this and what the consequences are?
There’s no science been done on whether the things have any effect in the real world at all. It’s all just lab projection and curve fitting
No medical risk assessment either. I was informed by my MP that masks were “to others feel safer when out and about” ??? NO THEY’RE NOT! They’re a stressor tool! To keep the fear going!
I always think that when I see that Bidet or Biden or whatever his name is, pulling off his grubby muzzle and stuffing it into his grubby pocket, with the eyes of the world upon him.
Has no-one told him he’s supposed to use a clean one every time?
Peking Bidden. Jumping Jim’s mate…
In conversation with our neighbour on Sunday, masks came up: he knows they don’t have any benefit, he doesn’t like wearing one but he won’t run the risk of ending up in a slanging match with a self-appointed maskoid marshal. We told him if you wear a lanyard, you are left alone and will go unchallenged but he is too fearful even for that step.
The bit I keep thinking about is that his little rebellion over the mask diktat is to wear the same one he keeps in his pocket since November. Sorry, what??!! Utterly disgusting, utterly cowardly.
Bet there’s loads of people like that. Seem to remember a story that in the army, about one in a hundred soldiers is a real grit. (Same with gruds, almost all seats on trains have fecal matter)
So they’ve got no faith whatsoever in their much vaunted ”vaccine” if they still expect people to act abnormally.
This is beyond pathetic.
I have never worn a mask and now choose not to wear a lanyard. It sits in my top pocket with as little showing as possible. I am daring anyone to challenge me, but for the past month I have been doing this, nobody has.
Masks are NOT going to remain, whatever the government thinks. Can I appeal to all readers to stop using them NOW, even if it creates a few incidents. It is high time we showed some backbone on this.
Yes Wooten you will be there on the ramparts just like Footpenis
21 June 21 NAKED FACES DAY!
perhaps they are enjoying the money they are making from the PPE companies they’ve bought into..good little earner for them, to add to their mountain of wealth
Why does that photo make me think of Al Jolson?
I think I know!![🙂](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f642.svg)
NO restrictions after 21 June, ever again. The mask mandate is an appalling thing. If people want to wear one, fine, their choice. But never again must they be forced on us. Nasty, horrid, damp things full of bacteria within minutes. Ugh.
What’s with the obsession with masks? Even the best performing surgical and N95 masks provide NO protection for the wearer and only 6 to 13% protection for others.
Single-layer cloth masks provide NO protection for anyone, yet they are completely compliant with the regulations in the UK.
We should ditch masks altogether and review what the understanding of control measures was pre-2020. It was well-established that border closures, distancing, masks and population-wide curfews do not work to curb a respiratory virus, and only hand washing and staying at home if you are sick were recommended.
It’s not that suddenly, in about July 2020, cloth masks started to be an effective measure. It’s that governments and the WHO realised that they are superb instruments for fear creation and control of people’s minds.