Boris hailed what he called a “very considerable step on the road back to normality” at a Downing Street press briefing this evening, outlining what he’s graciously going to “allow” us to do from May 17th. MailOnline has more.
Pints inside the pub are back from Monday, along with hugs for friends and family and staycations, Boris Johnson said tonight. …
But he urged people to be cautious, saying the country must remain “vigilant” about fuelling cases and the threat from variants.
When the next stage in the roadmap is reached groups of six or two households will be allowed to meet indoors for the first time in months.
Overnight visits will also be allowed, while outdoors the limit will rise to 30 in the most significant loosening yet.
Staycations can also get properly up and running, with hotels and B&Bs that do not have self-catering facilities permitted to open – as well as cinemas and theatres if audiences wear masks.
Crucially the government has decided the risk is now low enough that social distancing can be left more to “personal choice” – meaning that while people are urged to be ‘cautious’, hugs are allowed at private gatherings.
However, despite the very low infection rate and stunning vaccine rollout, social distancing rules will still be maintained at bars and restaurants.
Together with a requirement for table service indoors it means many venues will still struggle to make ends meet.
Advice to work from home where possible will also stay in place.
In other elements of the changes from next week, the much-criticised cap on the number of mourners at funerals will be lifted, while up to 30 people will be allowed at weddings and other life events.
Indoor sport and exercise classes can restart, along with sauna and steamrooms. And secondary pupils will no longer need to wear masks at schools in England.
In a huge relief for many isolated elderly people and their families, care home residents will be able to have up to five named visitors – and up to two at once provided they are tested and follow guidelines. Residents will also have greater freedom to leave homes without having to isolate afterwards.
Worth reading in full.
During the announcement, Boris thanked the public for their commitment and said infections were now at the “lowest level since last July”. That’s also true of Covid deaths in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with zero being recorded in the last 24 hours in all three nations. MailOnline has more on that, too.
The UK has confirmed another 2,357 coronavirus cases and four deaths – all four in Wales – as the country’s Covid alert level was downgraded from four to three, suggesting the virus is ‘in general circulation’ and not rising.
Both figures mark increases on last Monday’s numbers, although that was a bank holiday and the counts are so low that even relatively small changes can appear to have a big effect. The longer-term trend remains flat.
July 30 was the last time that the reported death count was zero and the return marks a huge milestone after England’s toll peaked at 1,243 at the height of the second wave on January 19. The figure includes only death certificates processed yesterday; it does not mean that nobody died of Covid.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Telegraph Science Editor Sarah Knapton has interviewed a number of scientists, including Prof. Carl Heneghan, to ask them whether we really need to wait until June 21st before reopening in full. One of those in favour of reopening sooner is Dr. Jason Oke of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. He said: “We are rapidly approaching the figure required for population immunity, if we haven’t already reached that point. Even the modellers who have been the most pessimistic in the past have revised their concerns about another wave in the summer.”
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Dear Pig Dictator
FUCK OFF
A considered, concise and constructive contribution to the debate.I would like to second that.
Can I just remind the ATL folk that with no vaccine at all we got Covid down to almost zero last summer as well. But the MSM seem to be suffering from amnesia convenientum, a common disease.
Or in the words of an individual who answered the question in a staff attitude survey – “What two pieces of advice would you give to the Managing Director?” with:
WHOOPY, DOOPY, DOO!!!!
when are we allowed to wipe our own arses again? anyone heard anything?
SAGE is demanding that we be required to use discarded face nappies. Recycling, you know.
let alone someone elses…
Its all about Control and the need to be seen to be in Control for Global Consumption.
Sadly, it is worse than that. This virus is dying on its feet, however the need to get every last human vaccinated goes on. Why?
I don’t understand why the limit on funerals has been lifted but not for weddings. People are more likely to hug each other at a funeral. Yet more of the same nonsensical crap we’ve had to put up with for the last 14 months.
Anybody who voted for this lot last week needs their heads examining.
My assumption is that people tend to get drunk at weddings and SD gets ignored.
It’s exactly the same at funerals. No one distances and people get drunk.
Oh they get in trouble for that don’t they? Or so I heard. Give me humanity over (a disputed) risk reduction any day.
People only die once, but weddings, you might get to go to another one. It’s just following the science.
Funerals feed the Covid death cult.
Weddings mean joy and hope and looking to the future. Doesn’t do to encourage that sort of thing.
Weddings are supposed to be put off. People will just have to beget tory bastards. And with flower sales reduced as a result, more por people in the third world can die, helping them towards their population reduction targets.
Nonsense has been at the top of the agenda for so long, it does not get any attention anymore. People “must do as they are told” according to all the older people and some younger ones I know. Sad.
And we all drink a bit more at funerals than weddings, they are happier events once the ice is broken.
bloody mouse.
And we all drink a bit more at funerals than weddings, they are happier events once the ice is broken, no foreign stag / hen do, no new dress and hat for the missus and no trying to out do the neighbours tatty gift.
Surely they can find at least one Covid death
Yes, they obviously haven’t looked down the back of the sofa!
It’s weird, surely someone died of all their co-morbities but had a positive test within the last 28 days!
The Witless Welsh are hogging them. Dungford loves deaths, because deaths lead to terror leads to restrictions lead to misery leads to even more abject surrender to Papa Stalin’s dictates.
but surely they’s not that desperate to tell us what to do?
Attributed to vacc. adverse reactions?
Surprised at Carl Heneghan being so cautious, given that the CEBM was recommending an end to lockup almost a year ago.
This shit-show is so ridiculous. I was just pondering my two bouts of bad ‘flu – both 50-60 years ago. Every year since the, apart from the last decade has seen far worse tolls than now from infection, and I’ve not copped another one. Just lucky, or a fair indicator of real risk levels?
You may be not so untypical. Last had flu 1957 and no vaccines of any sort since 1961.
20+ years for me, no flu jabs.
Freshers flu in 98 after my room mate caught it, I had no chance, not sure why I’d ever get a jab for it though
Never quite sure of the difference between flu, cold, virus…
My friend has described it as, if you saw a twenty pound note on the pavement you couldn’t summon the strength or interest to bend down and pick it up. That’s pretty accurate. I’ve had it twice in my life and that’s exactly how you feel, like death warmed up basically, followed by weeks of feeling depressed and weak, aka long flu.
I don’t think I’ve ever had it in 62 years
Or maybe my immune system worked quite well and any flu that I caught was dealt with and didn’t turn into anything more than a few cold symtoms. Just like most people’s immune systems works against covid
I suspect you’ve never had it, you could have laid a £50 note on my face and I wouldn’t have noticed.
I don’t think you have either. I used to wonder, but on 11/9/2001 I knew this wasn’t just a bad cold. (You can understand why I’m so precise with the date.)
Next Monday, when we tug our forelocks in grateful thanks to our masters for releasing us from our cells into a more open prison facility, we must never forget what they have done to us over the last fifteen months.
My worry is that come June 21st, when and IF we go back to normality, that people will soon forget what has been inflicted upon us as a nation and as individuals.
I’m looking forward to Nuremberg Mark 2, but I fear I will be disappointed if the Swine Flu debacle of 2009 is anything to go by.
To quote a phrase that was used many times on here in the early days, “Never forget, never forgive”
I tend to be a forgive and forget type of person. But for this I take exception, what they’ve done and what they still plan on doing is unforgivable.
Yes indeed. The early stages of a mass genocide are now happening right in front of our very eyes. Very strange, and immensely dangerous times ahead.
bliminey, been genocide going on for many years now, this is just a new stage of it.
They have already forgotten that the UK had a terrible start into it, still leads major European countries Covid deaths league tables, and that is by far the world leader for collateral medical damage, as its arrogant but useless NHS was a Covid only ‘service’/slaughterhouse for 9 months.
For Johnson&co, as for other European leaders, this has degenerated into a useless incidence stats p*ss*ng contest, plus a bit of tyranny to introduce social control passports, restrictions and punishments.
And that’s only if the real goal isn’t the slow cull through the gene therapies, an ever bigger IF.
And not forgetting three English teams into two major European football finals as well. The triple is clearly still on with this government. Boris for BBC SPOTY!!
or world beating NHS. I’ll bet a lot of people still believe it.
Johnson and Johnson wasn’t it? oh wait a moment…
They won’t let us forget what they have done. This time they are playing for keeps and lockdowns et al will be back at the end of the summer.
Fuck off you fat cunt!
Shakespeare himself could not have put it better.
Indeed. Plain English award, that man!
not Polite Society award though!
My default setting is polite and respectful, but I can do coarse and profanity-laden as well.
I felt that it was the appropriate response to seeing that waste of skin and oxygen.
Apologies if I have offended you.
*bowing
Why thank you *bowing
The zealots still want you hand over your soul (trap and trace, face naps, SD, no mixing, laughing, and generally wondering why the actual hell you are there) if you wish to partake of any sort of refreshment in an actual hostalry. And what’s the craic now with cinemas and theatres? Aren’t the Great un-quackxxed banned from these placea? So nothing will change for me, as I’ve been doing my own thing all along.
Didn’t see any mention of excluding unvaxxed from cinemas and theatres; perhaps they will once the vax passports are up and running. They require masks though.
I love the theatre and the flicks and have sorely missed both. Perhaps the faint-hearted will allow the mask to ‘slip’ once the lights go down – or buy endless ice creams and popcorn and munch unmolested.
oh, that’s for later this month
Altogether now – “when I was a lad” (G and S)
and don’t forget, you can’t wipe someone else’s rear. Especially if they’re not your friend.
It’s good for those who get their jobs and/or businesses sort of back, but really not much to celebrate.
We can celebrate when we see the end of
And the fat pig dictator, Wancock, Twitty and unbalanced.
Even then, precedent has now been set and the people have been conditioned for it and shown their worst.
A repeat is guranteed.
I stopped short of public admissions that it’s all been a huge mistake, as that is unrealistic in the next few years. But then I doubt very much whether many items on my list will actually happen.
Indeed. I’ve said this many times, the most terrifying word in all of this shit show is ‘precedent’.
Can we implement a zero death by vaccine policy that states no more vaccines will be given if even one more unnecessary death occurs? Bit late given over a thousand already have (and most likely many, many more), but still worth considering as vaxx deaths per day are now set to outstrip Covid deaths per day, if they haven’t already.
I thought they alreadyhad
I am sure they have, but best be careful in case the ONS found 100 fake backdated C19 deaths over the weekend to keep the scam going.
Vaccine deaths are now outstripping Covid deaths. Covid deaths though, have always been wildly overstated, while the reverse applies in regard to what is becoming a tsunami of vaccine deaths and serious injuries.
1 in 44,000 jabs has an associated death according to Yellow Card reports. 1102 people have died so far. In Europe, nearly 10,000 have died – and the official death rate per jab is about twice as much as in the UK.
For comparison, the death risk ‘with covid’ in 2020 for healthy 40-44 year olds was 1 in 47,000 – less than that due to the jab.
And the death risk ‘with covid’ in 2020 for healthy under 15 ear olds was less than 1 in 5,000,000. Currently, the jab has more than 100x the risk for them!
And these risks are just the immediate ones – not the long-terms ones.
Indeed, and I have been flagging this issue for some time.
So, are those who are about to legalise/sanction/administer/oversee experimental gene therapy treatment for school kids under the age of medical consent going to be tried for crimes against humanity – including parents? There must be some expert body behind the scenes warning SAGE and the Government against this upcoming carnage whereby (using your figure of 1 death per 44,000 administered vaxxes via the MHRA Yellow Card, and assuming 9m UK schoolchildren) we have at least 200 wholly unnecessary deaths of school kids about to occur through sheer idiocy and corporate greed/obstinacy. And if the 90% MHRA under-reporting figure is correct* this could rise up to 2000 deaths – and (as you say) this is not factoring in the long term risks.
While even at the most pessimistic estimate only 5 schoolchildren would have died from C19 without this dubious vaxx. As the age of those receiving the experimental gene therapy lowers, an already pointless blinkered vaxx program is about to turn into a wholly avoidable crime against humanity on a scale no government or individual should ever get away with.
https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/yellow-card-please-help-to-reverse-the-decline-in-reporting-of-suspected-adverse-drug-reactions
Just as for CoViD-19, we need to look at “vaccine” initiated deaths by age bucket. Anecdotally, the injections seem to be far less skewed toward the elderly, in whom they dispatch, but (vaccine death) sceptics will look to the programme having started with the oldest cohorts to dismiss our concerns.
I spoke to some people today whose next door neighbour died a day after vaccination but they said he took something else that disagreed with it and it was blamed on that. The vaccine rollout is effectively an organised crime operation.
yes but aren’t most “vaccine” deaths among the elderly?
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fauci-possible-mask-mandates-could-last-indefinitely-fight-flu
The mad doctor testing cult members again.
I think it’s high time to cancel him.
One day that mop-headed bag of piss will pay for his crimes, along with the rest of his Davos-run conspirators. It will be a long road and a hard fight but we will win.
Tony “Count Dracula” Blair would disagree though, sadly.
First time I’ve read the ‘rules’ for 6 months. I was curious to see what perks our lords and masters were going to grant us out of morbid curiosity !!
People who are waiting to hug another human being until BoJo says so are beyond hople, can you imagine what rubbish has filled their minds by now?
Regardless, anything that requires a mask is a no-no, I can still happily forgo anything that involves that nonsense.
This hugging bullshit is interesting. It is strange that the media are now trying to pretend that this was a law and not guidance. I guess they are trying to elicit an emotional response from the brain-dead zombies, to reinforce the brainwashing – perhaps to link relief emotions with the actions of the pig dictator.
So the question now is…….who wants to be in a room with 1000 vaccinated spike protein shedders? You know what, I honestly don’t think I do.
I notice the story about the Orthodox Jews in New York who are banning anyone who has been vaccinated from their campsite has been all but scrubbed from Google.
NY Summer Camp Bans Anyone Who Has Been Vaccinated — and Pushes COVID Vaccine ‘Biological Weapon’ Conspiracy
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/05/ny-summer-camp-bans-anyone-who-has-been-vaccinated-and-pushes-covid-vaccine-biological-weapon-conspiracy/
Does anyone take any notice of this? Its a charade.
Agree, unfortunately unless things change we seem to be a captive audience.
I’m more than happy to be completely wrong on this but I can’t help but think that the reason why cases are so low at the moment isn’t strictly down to the success of the vaccine rollout but because coronaviruses are highly seasonal and therefore this is the time of year (warmer temperatures, longer daylight hours and more time spent outdoors) when cases will inevitably drop down to virtually nothing anyway … then when the winter months arrive later this year (colder temperatures, shorter daylight hours and more time spent indoors) we will inevitably see a rise in cases once again as we do every year along with other seasonal respiratory viruses such as the common cold and flu.
Yup. That’s why fear messaging will intensify around the end of August to coerce everyone inc children to have top up vaccines, helping keep Pfizer profits up.
Trudeau has announced that Canada has ordered 5 years worth of gene therapy
Beds Boosters and BS
https://www.wholeheartedmedia.ca/
There seem to be no one able to stop the psychopath’s
The psychopath’s what?
As they cooked the books to scare us into self imprisonment, possibly they’re cooking the books to convince us the Vax really works?
The tragedy is there is no opposition in Parliament to get anywhere near a sense of balance.
1) SARS-COV-2 is endemic in the UK.
2) It will be with us for the foreseeable future, and we will all run the risk of catching it jab or no jab.
3) And of those who at any time have the virus (given the chances of developing C19 are slim in most of the population) most will have a 99.8% plus chance of surviving. Indeed this risk is as low as 1 in 2.5m for 10 to 19 year olds = 99.99996% survival rate).
4) Given the huge numbers involved someone WILL die of C19 at some point, so this is an utterly stupid condition to impose.
5) An equivalent idiotic zero-Covid policy would be a zero-traffic death policy to suspend road traffic nationwide every time there is a fatal road traffic accident somewhere.
“Attention all UK citizens, this is the voice of the BBC! A drunken man has carelessly driven into a ditch near Ilkley Moor and subsequently died, this means no-one can use private vehicles to drive to work – or for any other reason – for another week as a punishment. Anyone seen using their own vehicle on UK roads in the next 7 days will be arrested, fined, imprisoned and banned from driving for life..
“Next, Gardener’s Question Time….”
Bill Hicks – You Are Free To Do As We Tell You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRRkMOlYBhQ
“hugs for friends and family”
Yes but what about those of us who want to love our enemy or hug a hoody?
(maybe we should’ve still had Dave for pm…)
Did anyone else here Boris mutter towards the end of his incoherent press conference yesterday, the words “build back better”? I guess we can all be very clear who he is working for and I can tell you, it ain’t us.
I don’t get it: according to that bastion of truth, wikipedia, and the paragon of statistical virtue, the ONS, the UK is already at herd immunity levels.
I’ve got a new favorite hypothetical condition. It fits perfectly so many politicians, scientists “experts”, zealots, maskers, finger waggers the whole caboodle in fact.
The ‘Dunning Kruger’ effect. I love it.
“Concerns about a third wave in the sumner”- even the Secretariat of Valance, Witty, JVT, Gove, etc. have possibly realised that even our “great” British public have twigged that we had no summer outbreak last year, even without the “miracle” of “vaccines”. Hardly anyone (surely?!) is going to buy that bullshit this time around? Unless “variants” are the new Bogeyman…