There has been much speculation around whether the Government will lift lockdown restrictions on June 21st. The latest reports suggest that “Freedom Day” could be delayed by at least two weeks. Even after that, it is not guaranteed that guidelines on mask-wearing and social distancing will come to an end.
Some close to the Government have attempted to justify a possible extension by explaining that this would allow time for more adults to receive their second dose of a Covid vaccine – but well over half of the adult population in the U.K. has already had two doses, with over 75% having received at least one. Health Secretary Matt Hancock seemed to suggest last month that the number of people reached by the vaccine roll-out will always fall short of the level required for a full unlock: “Our vaccination programme has reached 73% of the adult population, but that means that more than a quarter still haven’t been jabbed. 43% of adults have had both jabs [now much higher], but that means that more than half are yet to get the fullest possible protection that two jabs give.”
An announcement on the June 21st date is expected on June 14th, but the picture painted by the MailOnline this morning isn’t positive.
According to ITV News, Government sources have said that plans are being made to push the lifting of coronavirus measures back to July 5th to allow more people to get the second dose of Covid vaccinations.
“Government sources have again stressed that no decision has been made but I understand that in private other plans are being drawn up,” ITV’s Correspondent Richard Pallot said on Saturday evening.
“If there was a two-week delay then in theory all over-50s would get a chance of a second vaccine,” he added.
It was reported on Friday that secret plans were being worked on to delay the lifting of measures by two weeks in addition to retaining social distancing and limits of crowds past “Freedom Day”.
Saturday’s report comes after a Government scientist warned that pushing ahead with a full reopening later this month in England would be “foolish” and a “major risk”, which followed Covid cases jumping by 70% in a week on Saturday, reaching 5,765. However, the health chief insisted vaccines do “break the chain”.
There is currently enough evidence to say that due to the spread of the Indian variant, one of the Government’s four key tests for its road map out of lockdown has not been met, Professor Stephen Reicher said.
Multiple reports have suggested plans to lift all restrictions on June 21st could be scaled down, with social distancing and the wearing of face coverings set to continue amid concerns that the variant that originated in India, now known as Delta, is fuelling a surge in cases…
Professor Reicher, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) which advises the Government, said the criteria about the current assessment of the risks not being fundamentally changed by new variants of concern is “not upheld”.
“I think by the Government’s own criteria it’s quite clear that it would be foolish to proceed on the data that we’ve got at the moment. The risk would be very great indeed,” the professor told the PA news agency.
“And of course it’s a balance of risks but I think it would be a major risk to go further in opening up.”
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This comes as no surprise as our duplicitous government, despicable SAGE and their useful idiots continue to lie, brainwash susceptible individuals and produce ever more dodgy statistics as part of their evil machinations.
I have no idea why these people are continuing to grasp this pointless power – they’re leading the country towards revolution and all for a bad case of the flu. Either they are all quite certifiably mad, or one of the variety of so-called conspiracy theories is actually correct.
The conspiracy theories are correct. Please do more research.
According to the HSJ, hospitals are struggling with ‘dangerous’ bed occupancy levels due to a surge in non-Covid patients and high reduction of bed stock / capacity.
No doubt that information will be twisted to reflect its the uninjected who are the cause…and the reason for delays to ‘freedom’ day.
It’s very important to understand that none of the restrictions have had any impact on the transmission of this virus. None whatsoever. We even know why not. It’s because only symptomatic individuals are good sources of infection & they are ill.
Consequently, the general community had few sources of infection & so restricting interactions made no difference to epidemic spreading.
If that is true – and it is – there has NEVER been a solid rationale for lockdown & other restraints, such as business closures & capacity restrictions.
We should never have locked down, certainly not the second time, as there was copious published evidence showing it wasn’t beneficial by then.
Finally, there are multiple, effective treatments which continue to be suppressed.
So the idea that delaying lifting the final restrictions is completely illogical & flies in the face of all the evidence.
Remember, the government & their advisors are LYING TO YOU ABOUT EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THIS VIRUS. Other countries are doing the same with their populations.
However uncomfortable this may make you feel, this is unequivocal evidence of international planning. It’s not benign & it’s not for our benefit.
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Anyone still listening to these fascist c**ts only has themselves to blame.
Live your lives.
Never going to happen is it? There will always be an excuse, a reason, they want complete and total control over us like farm animals. BUT how much do you want to bet that come voting time the Conservatives will win hands down again. Stockholm syndrome is I think the fastest spreading variant now
75% of tne older generation having received at least one dose??? I suspect the lies will keep coming, all the time they know more and more citizens are waking up to the genocide. So many eminent virologists are now realising the road of travel. What a pity there are so few politicians and media who are too scared to call a spade a spade.
What will this government and all who sail on her do when the Stolen election, Fauci, Gates, Clinton etc are exposed. As they will be soon and the spotlight turns to Europe, UK in particular. Will they all proclaim ‘they were only following orders’. A bit lame in the light of our history……..
I can’t believe how stupid professors can be!
It’s due to threats or to bribes. They don’t actually think these things. I’ve met many like this. I don’t know how they live with the cognitive dissonance.
Don’t fret folks – the Government won’t get away with this. Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition will make a stand and protect our liberties.
If we ever get an Opposition, that is!
I’ve tried so hard with Westminster types. I don’t believe there’s the slightest chance of salvation from that quarter. Nor are there any truly neutral countries.
It’s down to us. Do we care enough to fight for our freedoms? I worry.
Do you think the likes of South Dakota, Texas and Florida will be made to pay and be bought into line or will they be ‘allowed’ to continue as they are?
It was reported on Friday that secret plans were being worked on to delay the lifting of measures by two weeks in addition to retaining social distancing and limits of crowds past “Freedom Day”.
WAR IS PEACE
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (AND SO IS DIVERSITY OR DIVISION)
FREEDOM IS LOCKDOWN
“Just two weeks…”
It was always the plan to blame the unvaxxed – how else can they justify the stripping of assets and the social divisions which they want to create? Allowing mask removal for the double vaxxed as is being suggested by Tory Bliar will ensure the visual impact yellow stars once had so that they can more easily target their hatred. What weird times eh? We’re in a modern equivalent of the Milgram experiment and I always knew I wouldn’t do what the white-coated despots told me. It’s a test. We might lose the battle but ultimately win the war – at least that’s what I’m hoping.
It was never going to end on 21 June, because it never will end. The rainmakers and snake oil sellers won.
There is still a small part of my soul that hoped it would end, but by not being bold we have seen a commitment to the fear forever more now. Because “it’s only another 2 weeks” will be followed by just a couple more weeks and then just a bit longer and then September’s lockdown will arrive. And the whole thing goes around and around and around.
Are people gradually waking up to the reality now?
Nah!
What he said.
NWO whore says we need to distinguish between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated:
https://hugotalks.com/2021/06/06/tony-blair-calls-for-division-hugo-talks-some-more-lockdown/
Wonder if the injected will have to wear a yellow star???
Tony Blair is evil incarnate. A stain on human decency and to our eternal shame, British.
Yes he is. I’ve heard him called “The AntiChrist”.
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Have you noticed how no explanation is ever given for why it’s justified to treat the vaccinated & unvaccinated differently?
It’s utter bunk. Vaccine passports add nothing to public safety.
If you’re vaccinated that is the best you can do (assuming it’s safe & effective, both of which are in doubt).
Knowing other people’s immune status is irrelevant.
No. The only people who benefit from VaxPass are those promulgating them, evil creatures like Blair & Gates. Well known medical scientists.
Totally agree.
These people with their extraordinary wealth (I assume Blair has now accumulated 100’s of millions) have become so arrogant that they do not feel any need to justify their comments or actions.
Its scary that these evil scum bags consider themselves not only health experts but also the architects of humanity.
I doubt if there will be any further significant injection uptake by the over 50’s so I’m expecting more orchestrated citizen division to be created by the planners. Divide and conquer.
Ohh, you naughty over 50 varkseen refusnik deniers, how very dare you inconvenience your sensible vaccinated felow citizens.
Then there are the partially as opposed to ‘fully’ vaccinated who are vowing not to have a 2nd or 3rd injection, once they’ve sampled it and experienced adverse reactions.
You’d have to be a clot to risk a clot.
Sounds a lot like “three weeks to flatten the curve”, doesn’t it? People need to wake up. #groundhog year
It is quite clear that the main group showing positive are 10 to 19 years. Over 50s simply don’t figure in any of the governments own statistics.
And virtually no-one shows up on hospital admission and death statistics.
There is no science in any of this. I try not to be a conspiracy theorist, but it is increasingly difficult to deny that there is something else underlying this, and it is not the health and wealth of the British nation.
Norman. I too am not a “conspiracy theorist”. There is unequivocal evidence of an international plan to lie to all populations simultaneously & deprive us of effective treatments so as to coerce us to accept vaccination.
When they write down what they are doing it isn’t a conspiracy theory it’s a conspiracy plain and simple
I agree and it is so great that you post here. What is the end game? For the evil cabal to own everything? the thrill of killing people and confiscating what other’s have accrued? Why is every single useful idiot, ie the NHS, MP’s, media etc, going along with this? What are they uniformly frightened of or blinded by? I am just so bewildered when it couldn’t be more obvious what is going on.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. The facts are right there in your face.
If the idiots who decide when we are “allowed” our full rights back really want to make it dependant on the uptake of 2nd doses, we have a long wait. Are they taking into consideration that a lot of 2nd doses do not have a live body to be injected into?
And how about all the people who suffered such severe side effects that they are advised against a 2nd dose.
Yes, there are plenty of idiots who, despite severe side effects, still want the 2nd one, but there must be plenty that do not for whatever reason.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. They’ll keep trucking out ‘experts’ and ‘variants’ ad infinitum. When they bring out the ‘Soylent Green’ cubicles I’ll be first in the queue. My final music of choice? Elgar’s Nimrod. Might as well pass on with another variation!
Note he is on SPI-B whose brief is – ‘ SPI-B provides advice aimed at anticipating and helping people adhere to interventions that are recommended by medical or epidemiological experts’. Roughly translated as terrify the population into doing what their told.
Freedom day is set.
Take it.
Stuff them.
Jenrick already admitted that full restrictions wouldn’t be lifted until the whole adult population has been vaccinated.
As the entire population will not be vaccinated, because too many are refusing, then restrictions will be permanent.
Trace and trace and mass testing are not going to go away any time soon, regardless of what other restrictions may be temporarily eased
We need to stop thinking about the lifting of this or that restriction as some kind of end point. The end point is the comprehensive discrediting of the coronamadness narrative – that’s the goal we need to work towards, slowly and patiently (you can be impatient if you want – and I am impatient, I admit – but it will just drive you mad and you may crack, which is no good for us)/
It would help a lot if those who understand we are being lied to withdrew cooperation, politely but firmly. If you’ve to do X in order to do Y, don’t do Y. It won’t take long. But if we all continue to cooperate, I assure you: this will NEVER go away. It’s long ago ceased being a natural phenomenon. It won’t end spontaneously.
It’s not just X and Y though Mike. We need to stop playing their game completely. Recycling? Paying our taxes? Whatever we can do to rebel, we should do it.
Yes, I think that’s right.
Civil disobedience now.
Jenrick appears not to know we were beyond the herd immunity threshold BEFORE vaccination started.
It’s certain that only a minority needed to be vaccinated- even if we were being told the truth – in order that a lethal epidemic could no longer be possible.
So you may be sure that he, too, is LYING TO US ALL.
I think it may be for the best
Maybe the time has come to just ‘down tools’. Stop cooperating with this corrupt communist state… The lunatics have no intention of relinquishing their grip.
But they are not ‘vaccines’. It is an experimental gene treatment. I’ve had enough of this communism and I’m going to be in London on the 26th.
Likewise.
And me.
There must be a committee of crack experts trying to work out what the next excuse will be. I no see that the Guardian, the fount of all misinformation, is touting a ‘delta’ variant. That should stop countries getting upset when they get a fake variant named after them.
A committee of crack heads more like.
I used to fly a small flag for The Guardian and nearly became a subscriber. I now despise it with an iron fist.
I was a subscriber Dobba until Katherine Viner took over as editor. Then I moved to Off-Guardian as did many other former readers. It’s very good.
https://off-guardian.org/
Thank you. I’ll take a look. 👍
Yes way back when, the Guardian was good. Now it is The Establishment and Off-Guardian has taken over the ground it used to cover.
Delta variant = Indian variant.
Well done Mr Curzon, for – yet again – putting across the Government’s lying deception that there is some relationship between levels of vaccination and “lifting” of lockdown restrictions (as though those restrictions were the most natural thing in the world).
There is no relationship between the two.
There is no relationship between vaccination of children and “saving lives”.
There is no relationship between masks and stopping viral spread.
There is no relationship between the presence of vairants and the need to delay restoration of normal civil liberties.
It’s all lies. You shouldn’t be supporting their lies.
This is all about maintaining the sense of crisis and preparing the way for Digital Compliance ID.
Absolutely right.
I still want someone to tell me where SARS-COV-1 went.
The virus that was even deadlier than the sequel. It just faded away without any lockdowns or vaccines.
It’s still there in the virome. It’s just that we don’t test for it. It’s like a sleeping dog. Don’t poke it with a swab and it won’t bite you!
Think of the EB Virus. Virtually everone carries it without they’re knowledge. With suitable primers in the PCR machine we could have a pandemic of asymptomatic Glandular Fever carriers.
I’m 72 and in good health and I don’t consider myself vulnerable or/and at risk in the slightest.
If the sheep and collaborators of all ages want to live their lives in slavery (in all but name) they are perfectly entitled to do so but I want my life (and death) back now!!!
My sister has a close friend who is also in his early 70s and last March was in excellent health. Then he caught COVID, spent several days on a ventilator and was lucky to survive. A year later he still has trouble walking upstairs. Not much freedom for him.
I’m one of those who has Long Covid, I’m 20 years younger than that chap. I was unlucky. Why the hell should my personal situation, which is really crap, prevent someone else in good health from taking the normal risks of life?
If someone is so damned scared of living, then that is their problem for them to take responsibility for, not mine, not FP’s nor anybody else! The sheer selfishness of the Covid Cultists & Bedwetters really pisses me off!
Well said!
Thanks, BB.
It is very unfortunate for your sisters friend. Many people in their 70s and older will be fine following covid but some will not. We cannot hold back the lives of a nation of 68 million people to save a few AND people of any age must be able to decide for themselves whether they have a vaccine.
Did we save anyone? Not sure the real world evidence shows that. Quite the opposite
Thats life. Same issue could affect them with Flu.
Both my parents in that age group had COVID, both were sick for 3-4 days with mild Flu like symptoms then got better.
Thats what happens with every disease. A tiny tiny number suffer ill effects.
That’s not a justification to imprison everyone in the country including the overwhelming majority who have zero risk of severe disease.
Exactly: context! I am reminded of the old legal adage, ‘Hard cases make bad law’: you can’t (or, at least, shouldn’t!) rule society on the basis of tiny numbers of victims of anything.
So what?
By this logic we should ban cars tomorrow.
Don’t worry. That’s coming.
He certainly was lucky to survive if he’d been on a ventilator when there are considerably better treatment options available.
Ventilators killed the majority of people there were imposed upon.
They were meant to.
Exactly. It seems to me that the scramble to intubate anyone with a slight cough was responsible in no small part for the spring 2020 covideaths.
I think that depends on how ill he was. As I understand it doctors have learned to defer the ventilator longer than they thought necessary when Covid first struck but it remains the last resort.
I think we should be very wary of telling experienced consultants how to do their job.
“I think we should be very wary of telling experienced consultants how to do their job.” You make a good point, but the coronamadness has been exceptional. Consultants are not immune to groupthink and panic. I must admit I’m ignorant on the subject at hand, but I think losing some faith in the medical profession as always acting rationally is understandable.
‘Long Covid’, which has still not been fully diagnosed, is is a statistical outlier. It doesn’t mean it’s not serious for the tiny percentage affected but in no way can it be used to design or justify policies for the overwhelming majority.
And I have a friend who is back in hospital after a previous two-week stay for blood clots following the Astrazenica vaccine. My worry is that she’s going to get blood clots that kill her or cause a stroke.
Perhaps if your sister’s close friend had been given some proper treatment before getting so ill as to be on a ventilator, e.g. Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, then perhaps said friend wouldn’t still be unwell.
Lucky to survive the ventilator?
I am sorry I can’t possibly respond individually to all the replies to this comment. This will have to suffice.
I only intended the story to make two points:
I make no claims about how often this kind of case happens or whether a ventilator was the best treatment.
“One person’s freedom is often another person’s restriction.” True, though in the case of covid it’s not at all clear that restrictions have helped anyone – in fact the evidence points in the opposite directkon.
For a clinical doctor’s views on the ‘treatment’ of covid patients and how the negligent protocols have led directly to death, I recommend watching this very disturbing interview with Dr Peter McCullough. It’s long but worth watching from start to finish. What he describes has been happening worldwide in countries pushing vaccine rollouts.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KKqIFoil9WEo/
Not so. If you’re in good health & not old, it simply isn’t a health threat. Almost no one who wasn’t elderly & already ill died with let alone of Covid19.
He could have had a tick and developed Lupus. So what, he got covid. Plenty of illnesses about which make some people very ill, some people get away lightly. It’s a lottery.
Still experiencing difficulties a year after being on a ventilator for several days is common.
The 80 plus year old husband of a friend went into hospital March 2020 and was on a ventilator for an entirely unrelated problem; he caught Covid in hospital. He passed it on to his wife (similar age). He was discharged from hospital after 2 weeks and they recovered together at home. They are both absolutely fine now.
I thought you would like another anecdote to balance yours.
Very unfortunate but that’s life.
They should have given him the proven Ivermectin or HCQ/Zinc and vit D- and then he would have been just fine.
You people know that.
If they were ventilated, they were almost certainly badly treated. COVID-19 is NOT an obstructive disorder, so impacts on breathing aren’t due to inability to breathe in and out without exhaustion.
Nasal oxygen is far better & not injurious, whereas mechanical ventilation is extremely dangerous for many people. It’s used only when truly essential & comes with substantial risks.
I know someone who had “long Glandular fever” and ended up in a wheelchair
Most people get a swollen throat
That’s how viruses work
My sister in law who was 74 and had COPD died last April. She was put on a ventilator and after a couple of months taken off because there was a shortage and ‘hard decisions had to be made’. Her Covid tests were negative!
I’ve known from the beginning that it’s not more than flu as I and half the staff where I used to work had it at the end of 2019. Some people got quite ill and were off for over a week and others just had it for a couple of days – like flu it had a knock on effect (post-viral / long covid?) which was breathlessness and fatigue. No one was hospitalised. I rang my doctor’s practice to ask the reception wtf it was as so many of the staff and students (some from China / all from overseas) had had it and they were not really interested. Fast forward to March 2020 and what were the elderly dying of? End of life care – midazalan and morphine which are respiratory suppressants – might have had something to do with it. (Watch the latest video from Icke on how backdoor-euthanasia killed thousands in care homes and the preparation Hancock made for this by buying up double the usual amount of end-of-life medication and allowing do not resuscitate notices to be put on the elderly and disabled.)
I have watched and it is heart breaking. Utter cruelty
Murder even.
Yes, watch it and see how you feel about Hancock then. He’s a disgrace.
Oh what a shock, who’d have thought
Maybe if most people like me, had had no furlough, no SEISS no financial help whatsoever, and been excluded through no fault of their own they would not go along with this rubbish. Facing financial ruin may make them see sense. If I sound bitter, it’s beause I am, incandescent infact.
Don’t blame you for being bitter – too many people looking out their windows thinking I’m alright jack and not looking in to the windows of others to see how many are suffering.
Blame the middle class who have been loving sat on their arses working from home or getting furloughed and hoovering up every piece of drivel The Guardian and BBC have thrown their way.
I am middle class and WFH but not to blame
There are covidians in every section of the population
I’m middle class too, and we both WFH. This has hit us hard. Husband is a contractor and spent 6 months with no work and very little financial support. We aren’t in financial trouble as we had contingency plans, but we’re well aware that others weren’t so lucky. We have friends who work in aviation, publicans, and in theatre all who might be deemed middle class and all of whom are struggling.
It’s not a class issue.
I’m afraid you are entirely correct. My gf is even grateful to the government for supporting her after they destroyed her business. Stockholm syndrome or what.
Bring back Guy Fawkes and do the job properly.
Well the freedom march on June 26th just doubled in size again.
This time I hope we go by the BBC building or number 10 and throw eggs.
That’s in my diary.
Eggs or variants thereof.
😂 😂
Or large tomatoes.
Eggs? a waste of good food – grenades would be better!
“At least two weeks”. = infinity. Tomorrow never comes. Goalposts move.
But also – “coming out of lockdown” – NO. As I posted earlier: “We already know Furlough, Track and Trace, mass testing, vaccine boosters and propaganda, and international travel restrictions will continue after whatever does or doesn’t happen in June or July, because the government have said that they will and the contracts are signed, to the tune of billions. We also know that they are considering more lockdowns in the autumn, winter etc.
There will be no true freedom. True freedom is when the folly and evil are exposed. That’s the only goal worth working towards or focusing on. Trying to nudge the PM to tweak the restrictions sooner or later to better boil the frogs is fiddling while Rome burns.”