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Wales Takes Super Cautious Approach to Easing Lockdown Restrictions

by Michael Curzon
3 June 2021 10:25 PM

Restrictions on outdoor gatherings will be relaxed in Wales from Monday, but indoor events have been left on hold due to concerns about the Indian Delta Covid variant, despite the country having the highest vaccination rate in the U.K. The Guardian has the story.

Up to 30 people will be able to meet outdoors and large outdoor activities can resume in Wales from Monday, the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has announced.

The size of extended households can be increased to up to three households and a further household with a single adult or single adult with caring responsibilities will also be able to join.

Drakeford said the move to alert level one would be phased, with outdoor events opening first. Ministers will review the public health situation again, before June 21st, to determine whether indoor events can restart.

The first minister said the two-stage approach would enable more people to be vaccinated – and complete their two-dose course – amid growing concerns about the spread of the Delta variant across the U.K.

Of the 12,431 cases of the variant first detected in India thus far confirmed in the U.K., 97 are in Wales compared with 10,797 in England, 1,511 in Scotland and 26 in Northern Ireland.

Drakeford said: “The emergence of the Delta variant shows the pandemic is not over yet and we all need to continue to take steps to protect ourselves and our loved ones.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Indian variantVariantsWales

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Dungford can go delta himself.

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crazypaving
crazypaving
4 years ago

No surprise, Dripford is completely risk averse.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  crazypaving

He’s also completely fun averse. Good job many people in Wales are taking no notice of his ridiculous rules.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Wales online took care to explain the new rules. It also took care to explain the existing rules, because nobody knew what they were.

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Me included!
….what were the new rules again?

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago

You can have 3 males, 4 females, 2 rabbits, plus an extra rabbit if you are going to eat it, but only one of them is allowed inside at a time. Seriously who listens to this shit. It was over even in normie minds months ago, it’s just the business restrictions that’s left.

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sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
4 years ago

Wanker

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  sjonesy1999

No. He’s not that. There’s a reasonable rationale behind an individual pleasuring himself.

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Carrie Symonds
Carrie Symonds
4 years ago

I’d like to make a sensible riposte but words fail me. Why do people believe that little tool of an excuse for a man? Such an arrogant little shit. If he is the best political leader that Wales can produce then I’m a banana.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Carrie Symonds

I have a nasty feeling that you have just turned into something yellow and curvaceous, because Wales has indeed nothing better to offer than that wrinkly little pseudo-stalinist toad.

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London Duncan
London Duncan
4 years ago

Power-drunk mediocrities don’t want to give up their time in the limelight.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago

Number of patients in intensive care testing positive for covid, across the whole of Wales during the week ending 30th May? ONE!
But we can’t be too careful.

Last edited 4 years ago by helenf
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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago

And the people of Wales voted for this cnut.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

Not all of us. There are still a few human beings left.

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

Glad to say I didn’t.
I suppose he might be the best stupid pratt of the many stupid parts – sorry that’s an insult to perfectly decent stupid pratts.

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hurleyp
hurleyp
4 years ago

About that India/Delta VaRiAnT…

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  hurleyp

That line graph needs to be presented on a regular basis.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

Delta Covid variant? Is that a variant of the Chinese virus?

Last edited 4 years ago by Hugh
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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

TheWHO has decreed that scariants are to be named after letters in the Greek alphabet, to avoid stigmatising their place of origin.
Good news for llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

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QuickDrawMcGraw
QuickDrawMcGraw
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

OMG!! I was wondering where they got that. Every day I think to myself that it cannot possibly get any more insane……..and every day I’m wrong!!

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Oh you mean the Gog variant?

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Hey! What about the other 350,000 variants? Don’t they get a mention?!

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago

This is not cautious. If Mark Drakeford was taking a phased reduction in the number of punches you took from Joe Calzaghe, it would be obvious it wasn’t cautious so the same is true of his slow exit from lockdown.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

Exactly. Lockdowns are not the “safe” option, nor are they orthodox – quite the opposite. They are untried before 2020, for good reasons, and 2020 has shown them to be futile and damaging, as predicted.

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wantok87
wantok87
4 years ago

It is of no surprise when Wales I’d ruled by an individual with no scientific background and appoints a new Health Secretary with a degree in European Studies. Look no further than the waiting times for surgery in Wales compared to England. When we are led by fear not fact, superstition not science we are without hope,

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  wantok87

Sorry – but a ‘scientific background’ has absolutely nothing to do with it when you look at the queue of shit-shovellers – such as represented by SAGE.

The key skills are actually about thinking skills and honesty, rooted in evidence. Admittedly these are the basis of scientific methodology, but they are not the same as technical ‘scientific’ knowledge.

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Norman
Norman
4 years ago

Are the Welsh forbidden to cross the border into England where they will expose themselves to instant death?

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ElizaP
ElizaP
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

Not forgetting that to some people in Wales it’s just a matter of literally crossing the street to go from Wales to England or vice-versa (envious of those lucky people who can just do “best of both worlds” scenario).

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Jane Beaton
Jane Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  ElizaP

The sheeple round my way are getting hysterical about the English who “flocked” here for half term breaks this past week. Which is why the BBC news site (which I only looked at in order to see what Drakeford’s latest was) is hypng up what hot spot N.Wales is for the “Indian variant”.

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Crystal Decanter
Crystal Decanter
4 years ago
Reply to  ElizaP

There’s a pub in Llanymynech with the border bisecting the premises.
How will the Rapists Dad police the guidelines??

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
4 years ago

Ultra cautious means closing the gap between the utterly pointless Spring restrictions and the Autumn Hammer Horror fictional respiratory resurgences. The smaller the gap the easier these sociopaths can claw back any lost control.
Our safety is and always has been of no concern or interest to these cyphers.
People must simply shrug this nonsense off and live their lives.
Next winter will be a sorry time without falling for this ‘ultra cautious’ bollocks.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

No doubt we’ll have a dark autumn, followed by a dark winter, then a dark spring…ad nauseam…whilst they are building back better…

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

Interesting how the notion of judicious ‘caution’ is thrown to the winds in relation to vaccines, where there is real evidence of harm!

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago

Silly old pratt, Drakeford. He’s pathetic and has and will cost Wales dearly.
I have no idea what we’re “allowed” to do in or outside. I just try to live as normal a life as I can and do my best to de-programme people (admittedly a lost cause). I simply do not believe the percentages given of those who want to continue with restrictions.
Warning: a new variant in a few days and another (or same one) in time for the 14th. It’ll be far more transmissible, may evade vaccines and we should all run and hide under the kitchen table! … to be cautious and safe.

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