Ministers have recently been treading very lightly when discussing the final stages of the “roadmap” out of lockdown. Matt Hancock said on Tuesday that the Government hasn’t ruled out ending the mask mandate on June 21st, adding that both the introduction of Covid vaccine passports and the continuation of “social” distancing beyond this date also remain on the table. The latest suggestion comes from the Environment Secretary George Eustice, who says we could see a return of tiered lockdown restrictions. When such a system was last imposed, 99% of the population in England lived under the toughest two tiers, with just 714,000 people living under “tier one” restrictions. Eustice now says that tiered restrictions could be used to combat “local outbreaks” of Covid in areas where people might have become “too lax” about the rules. MailOnline has the story.
Environment Secretary George Eustice revealed Number 10 was “closely monitoring” several localised coronavirus outbreaks that have cropped up in recent weeks.
Analysis shows that while national infections have continued to plunge, there are 34 areas across Britain where cases have spiked in the past fortnight and are now recording rates twice as high as the U.K. average.
Mr Eustice said scientists were unsure what was driving the flare-ups – predominantly in the North of England – but suggested people may have become “too lax” with Covid rules, or the highly infectious Indian variant could be driving cases.
Asked if local restrictions could be reimposed to squash local outbreaks during a round of interviews today, he said: “We can’t rule anything out.”
He told Sky News: “But our plan that’s been set out by the Prime Minister, the reason we’re being incredibly cautious about exiting lockdown, is we want this to be the last. We want to try and avoid having to get into a tiered system and regionalisation. We tried that last autumn, we know that in the end we had to go for a full lockdown.”
Most social distancing restrictions in England are to be lifted on June 21st as part of the final step in Number 10’s roadmap out of lockdown. Boris Johnson this week raised hopes that an end to Covid measures may be in sight, suggesting social distancing could be scrapped completely by next month.
The tiered system last summer was heavily criticised for being too convoluted, with people in neighbouring streets often living by a completely different set of rules.
The Prime Minister himself admitted they were “confusing” as he struggled to explain the difference between restrictions imposed in the North East in September.
The average infection rate in the UK has fallen by 15% to 40.1 per 100,000 people in the fortnight up to May 4th, according to the latest statistics.
But analysis shows that 28 local authorities in England, four in Scotland and two in Northern Ireland are recording double the national case rate.
Quizzed about the hotspots this morning, Mr Eustice told Sky News: “We are not sure what could be driving it, whether it’s particular variants that have taken hold or people being a bit too lax about restrictions that are in place… but we are monitoring the situation closely.”
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The Daily Mail scary Covid map is
‘% change in infections across the country’
So an area has 1 case, next week it has two and Bingo, into the red zone they go.
This is what Sturgeon has done, she changed the number of cases to an incredibly low rate for each tier, way lower than back in October. So my area has gone into level 2 where cases must be below 50 per 100,000, whereas before level 2 was a rate of 150 per 100,000.
They are all completely despicable.
Also there is a level 0 case numbers must be close to zero, but restrictions remain on the numbers of folk you can meet and where etc. So Scotland is one big fcking prison camp and we are all on tag.
There should be NO levels/tiers. None. If we who know this is wrong and keep complaining about the small details, such as levels/tiers and what area gets imprisoned and what area gets let out, it makes us sound like children fighting over who got to stay out to play the longest.
And of course they only talk about case rates, nothing about hospitalisations.
“Analysis shows that while national infections have continued to plunge, there are 34 areas across Britain where cases have spiked in the past fortnight and are now recording rates twice as high as the U.K. average.”
and I assume places recording half the UK average.
You first have to show it isn’t just statistical noise (which it probably is) before being worried about what ‘what was driving the flare-ups’
I’ve seen so many scientists over the years trying to ‘explain’ statistical noise
As karenovirus mentioned above, without the actual numbers rather than percentages it’s meaningless.
You are absolutely right. It’s absolutely same re. Figures on vaccine ‘efficacy’.
Who was it who bridled at the thought that half the population was below average intelligence?
This is the level of idiocy that is dominant in this country.
Just fcuk-off will you. It’s done, it’s finished, it’s moribund.
If you try locking this country down again there will be hell to pay.
I so wish this were the case but I fear, in Scotland at least, the sheep will do as they are told.
it isn’t done, it was never a thing
Same tactics as last year, keep this going through the summer using mass testing and false positives, using local restriction tactics. Burnham will be back in the MSM on a daily basis because there are 25 false positive tests in Bolton, rather than 20 the day before.
Burnham is now insisting on adolescents being vaccinated.
Genocide.
“areas where people might have become “too lax” about the rules”
Despicable. If anything goes wrong, it’s all the public’s fault.
They basically want working class people to stop shagging. Birth rate has plummeted since lockdowns.
The logic of the insane asylum, the intelligence of a clod of earth, the machinations of Machiavelli, the hypocrisy of Pontius Pilate and the loyalty of Judas Iscariot. I never thought to see so many vile characteristics embodied in a group of people, least of all a supposed “British Government”.
Very well put. Entirely correct.
Oh, this is all so highly scientific. <eye-roll>
You pull this kind of shit when you think there are no consequences.
We’re coming for you…
https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/05/11/uk-government-and-corrupt-scientific-advisors-are-to-be-tried-for-crimes-against-humanity-and-mass-murder/
Well they are certainly trying, but I have said it before and it bears repeating, no matter how good the evidence they have is, and I do not doubt that for a second, in order to be successful they have to somehow persuade a court to give them a hearing, ideally a fair one, but the way things are at the moment, I very much doubt they will get a hearing never mind a fair one.
Until or if the RT-PCR test can be debunked once and for all, its just too easy to create a caedemic any time they want. False positives will drive whatever number they want to justify whatever actions they want.
My guess is that if vaccination numbers and/or uptake of digi-‘life licences’ is not high enough, they will engineer enough ‘hot spots’ to never take the foot of the neck. Its increasingly difficult not to believe that the ‘ends’ ‘life licences’ were the justification for the ‘means’ , virus lockdowns et al.
As soon as 50% plus have digi ‘life licences’ were are doomed.
I’ve not heard the term life-licence before but that’s exactly what it is isn’t it.
I get the impression a lot of people I know, who couldn’t wait to roll their sleeves up, saw this as the route back to normal. That is, it was conditional on freedom being restored. Apart from some converts to wfh and online deliveries forever, the public appetite isn’t for continued restrictions, no matter how many people you might see masked in Tesco’s.
Afternoon all, haven’t commented in a while but I’m still out here, checking in every day. Hope you’re all managing to keep your sanity as best you can. Never stop hating the people who have done this to us.
Im Still lurking too…. Hi all
Good to see you too wayno
Never stop? y problem is stopping that hatred taking over my life.
Get yourself off the net for a while Annie. Its important to detach when this gets to the point of taking over your life.
I may have been exaggerating.
I feel just the same. Never had a test, never used a QR code, won’t wear a mask, won’t get vaccinated. Have visited and hugged, sister, family and friends throughout. I despise the Tyrants and their collaborators with a fiery vengeance.
It’s pretty much all I can do until we get some justice.
Of course they’ll do it again.
For another variant, Covid 22, another invented pathogen, the flu and, most likely, gene therapy induced deaths overwhelming the NHS.
They not just got away with it, enjoyed it and their increase in absolute powers and infinite spending and corruption possibilities but even won elections through them.
Lockdowns will only be buried for good when the MMT experiments have ended in the inevitable catastrophe.
Yet another quirk of political language that is becoming ever more evident: Surely we’ve learned by now that the phrase “can’t rule out” is applied by ministers to measures they are probably planning on!
It’s like breaking news gently to someone… “We can’t rule out things not being quite back to normal”… then “It’s looking likely we’ll have to extend the June 21st date a bit.”…. then “Moving into tier 4 as of June 21st”… and finally, “Lockdown to continue until zero sniffles, fully vaccinated, placid and servile population and nobody attempts to argue about lockdown”!
I know this government too well now!
Hands up who believed what politicians said 2 years ago. Do I see a few hands raised? No. What has changed that they are believed now? The old adage remains true. How do you know a politician is lying? his, or her, lips are moving.
So when they said this was the last lockdown – what they REALLY meant was this would be the last NATIONAL lockdown – they neglected to mention that the weapon of lockdown would still remain in the arsenal, but that it would just be TIERED. Can someone please explain to me why, if over half the country has had 2 vaccinations, ANY kind of lockdown would be needed, irrespective of whether it is a national one or a tiered one? Unless of course it is all about making sure that the fear never goes away and that people know they are subject to government control
100% correct Milo, it’s wordplay, smoke and mirrors, deflection. We are being gaslit. It is so incredibly frustrating that people, not only can’t see through this, but went out on mass and voted for more of the same. We need to be given an end date.. no more tiers, no more levels, no more daily briefings. No more Sage advisors telling us what to do, no more experts on TV, no more adverts on buses, radio, outside supermarkets. No more lateral flow testing, or self isolating, no more quarantine hotels and safe travel corridors, no more variants of concern, and mass vaccination programmes. When can someone go to a nightclub, or the theatre or softplay? When can I have a party with live music, dancing, singing, where the only limit on numbers is at my discretion. When will libraries be able to have mother and toddler events, singing and babies interacting? When will all the ridiculous rules on social distancing end, no more hand sanitizer, plastic screens or dots to stand on. When will we see a gp face to face or get a dental appointment? When will I have a face to face parents evening, when will school clubs start back up, when will kids be able to sit exams? I’m sure there are more, many many more, when will this be over????
I’d kill for a dental appointment. My dentist may throw in the towel next time I see him when I open my mouth as things are so bad in that department. The PM said in the Queen’s speech debate yesterday that he doesn’t want to go back to normal. He wants us to go forward to a new normal – one which will be ‘better’. Seeing any signs there Dante? Yesterday was a democratic travesty – indeed might be the last time we see that. It should have been called Klaus Schwab’s speech.
Are you in Northern Ireland Milo? If you need a dentist you should come down South. Dentists and doctors are seeing patients here. Not having a National Health Service here, if they don’t see people they don’t get paid.
Hilarious how the areas with higher case numbers is due to their local population misbehaving and nothing else whatsoever!
Funny how the tiered lockdowns suddenly get rolled out again as a possibility as soon as we get close to the end of the latest nonsense. Never mentioned once this year and then all of a sudden…..
I can only imagine what BS is coming our way this summer. Hopefully more people will join us in just ignoring their dictates.
We are following an irreversible “road map” back to normality. We need to do all we can to reinforce that message, in the public perception. This is not Covid denial, nor conspiracy theory; it’s just assisting people to remember the government position (so that the bastards cannot change it).
There was a reasonable appetite for freedom, back in February, but Boris managed to pacify the masses with his insistence of irreversibility over speed. So, he’s been enjoying some slack, but surely he’s now fast running out of rope.
Tiers/levels, we’re being played and even lockdown skeptics are falling for it.
I’m not very good at psychology but I believe this is another tactic to keep us fighting amongst ourselves.
Moray for example is kept in level 3, rest of Scotland in 2, the brainwashed are now terrified that this will happen to them because of all the people not obeying the rules. We know what happens when people believe that not everyone is doing as they’re told.
We then have the skeptics complaining about the levels last year and what level we should be in this year.
It’s up to us not to get tangled up in the governments narrative.
We should set an example and change the narrative, there should be no such thing as levels/tiers, because after all they’re the breadcrumbs the government is throwing our way to keep us all in line.
Tiers /levels is another word for lockdown, which is another word for prison and in prison you have your freedoms taken away and certain perks for good behaviour.
Well I haven’t committed any crime, so I don’t see why I should be in any prison be it closed or an open one.
Given that there’s strong evidence that lockdowns don’t work then I’d venture that there’s even stronger evidence against local lockdowns.
Take Leicester for instance – they never got let out of lockdown last summer and they’ve never had their local lockdown eased. Hence they’ve been under the heaviest of restrictions for almost 14 consecutive months now!!! It’s done nothing but harm.
Someone had better explain to Boris that irreversible means irreversible.
He’s a professional liar. An example of all that is wrong with the vast majority of politicians.
So SAGE are proposing to change the definition of death from COVID away from the 28 day rule, rendering any comparison with the past year meaningless. Also tacitly shows how wrong the measure was to start with!
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/28-day-definition-covid-deaths-could-distort-vaccine-success-data-warn-scientists-973655
Simultaneously CDC reducing PCR cycles to 28 now jab roll out is happening. Surprise! This will show more vaccine means less Covid cases.
Talk about manipulation!
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/05/13/cdc-coronavirus-cover-up.aspx
I heard the CDC are holding with 45 cycles for those who haven’t been vaccinated and 28 for those who have.
Please tell me that was a joke?
Surprise, surprise! We’re sharper than the brainwashed masses. More inquisitive and resourceful too.
Meant for MIT study article