The Prime Minister has yet to formally announce a four-week delay to the end of lockdown in England, but Government figures have already hinted that the imposition of restrictions could be extended beyond July 19th and even into the month of August. The Sun has the story.
Health Minister Ed Argar said it is “of course possible” that a longer delay will be needed to get the Indian variant under control.
But he said the hope is to use the month-long window to get 10 million second jabs into arms, extending full protection to 75% of Brits.
The PM is set to announce Freedom Day is being pushed back by four weeks to July 19th during a Downing Street press conference at 6pm.
He’ll include a break clause, meaning the lifting of restrictions could go ahead on July 5th if hospitalisations don’t significantly rise.
But some ministers fear that with cases spiralling the health situation could go the other way and curbs will need to stay in place for longer.
Asked about that possibility, Mr Argar said: “Were there to be a delay of course that’s possible.
“But I and the PM and the Health Secretary want to see restrictions removed as soon as it’s safe to do so, and any delay as short as possible.
“We’ve got to recognise vaccination is the key. This disease will become endemic and we’ve got to learn to live with it.
“We will not get to a zero Covid. Vaccination is the way to get to the point where we can live with this disease.”
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also warned he couldn’t provide an “absolute guarantee” restrictions will definitely be lifted on July 19th.
But Mr Argar was adamant that there will be no rolling back of the roadmap and return to the previous lockdown.
He said: “The key thing the PM has always said throughout is the dates set out in the roadmap were the earliest possible date it could happen.
“He’s been clear each step is irreversible, that is why he’s considering now whether or not to delay step four.
“The reason the gaps between stages are five weeks and the reason it’s staggered over a number of months – I know people would’ve wished it to be faster – is because he believes on the basis of the advice he’s received that means it can be irreversible.”
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I live in a small West Country town and was shocked and horrified last weekend to see my first ever blues n two’s jam sandwich “Police COVID Enforcement Unit” ominously creeping down the town High Street, occupied by several Black Mask adorned ‘Officers of the law’.
I wondered to myself…Have you lot got kids?
I can tell you, that was a disturbing sight, especially if you are of an age that can remember the collapse of “The Iron Curtain” and the day in November 1989 when half a million people gathered in mass protest resulting in the fall of the wall.
“East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans. They had not intended to open the border up completely.”
Anyone hearing bells?
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What a non-entity Argar is. Sounds a lot like the stuff you put into petri dishes to grow colonies of bacteria
Why is that such low calibre people such as this pitiful example get ahead in politics?
Because most competent people do a proper job, in the main with sensible working hours as well!
Note that everything we’ve been told about this virus is a lie. Completely novel, no immunity, everyone vulnerable, unusually lethal, no treatments, PCR a reliable detector, masks block it, lockdown prevents transmission, which is often without symptoms, there are dangerous variants, immunity after infection isn’t permanent, vaccines work & are safe.
Everything is misleading & they’re known all these are wrong since before first lockdown.
That’s lying.
The endgame is at minimum vaccine passports & a needle in every arm, including minor children (who don’t transmit well).
VaxPass cedes totalitarian tyranny to those operating the database & algorithms.
I suspect VaxPass is sought because it renders getting us to attend for 3rd & subsequent injections easy.
They won’t be vaccines but lethal biotechnology gene sequences, which will produce tissue targeting with delays, so that deaths will accord with whatever media lies are going around at the time.
Mass depopulation with plausible deniability.
Even now, when it’s obvious there’s no possible benign interpretation of actions, we still won’t rise up.
Avoidance requires emigration to a location further behind where U.K. is, repeating the trick while mass censorship keeps the truth away from the adjacent countries.’
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The vaccines are very poor & also dangerous to your health. In terms of efficacy we’re only told the relative risk reduction (RRR) which can be an impressive sounding 95%.
But you also need the absolute risk reduction values & these are around 1%.
Not worth having, especially as even the short term side effects are very bad.
More deaths after vaccination vs covid19 in a few months than after all other vaccines combined over more than ten years.
I’m glad I said no, back in March. All the more confident that it was the right choice.
Me too, obviously. I now believe remaining in U.K. & not being vaccinated isn’t viable.
We’ll probably screw up on timing, but my wife & I plan to make a run for it to America. Carry on the fight there.
Lockdown protesters march on Downing Street 14 . 6. 21
Look carefully you’ll see the back for our heads at about 0:23 secs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkIbXISw6A8
Monday 14th June 2021 UK’s official Covid 19 figures –
7,742 positive PCR tests –
3 (THREE) deaths from any cause within 28 days of a positive PCR test
UK population 68 million
– for that we destroy the economy for another 4 weeks
The COVID 19 and CLIMATE CHANGE rules DON’T apply to the G7 leaders, the EU leaders, or the Royal Family as we all saw in Cornwall. Just the plebs like us.
Do you really think these people care about YOU?
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, the lawyer who brought down Volksawagen and Deutsche Bank, is preparing Nuremburg trials as we speak.
Anti Lockdown Newspaper: https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
Weird cognitive dissonance there from “Health Minister” Ed Argar!
“He said the hope is to use the month-long window to get 10 million second jabs into arms, extending full protection to 75% of Brits.“
Full protection? Yet PHE has just revealed that: “Out of 42 people who died of Delta variant, 29 per cent had received two jabs”; see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9681613/Study-shows-29-people-died-catching-new-strain-vaccinations.html
Clearly Argar’s “full protection” doesn’t mean what I imagine by “full protection”.
And if 100% of the population ever receive two “jabs”, then 100% dying of any given variant would have received two jabs! A lot of “full protection” there!
I was asked what do I think. I replied:
“I think I was correct in predicting ‘Freedom Day’ June 21st wasn’t going to happen.”
To be met with:
“No, incorrect. I have seen people eating and drinking and hugging with gay abandon.”
So, we already have our freedom back, do we?
Health Minister?…whose effin’ health?
Looking at gov stats, 1008 people have been admitted to hospital in the last seven days (15% more than the previous week – roughly 1865 over 2 weeks) and the total number of people in hospital with Covid is 1089. By my calculation most people aren’t staying in hospital for any great length of time, as over 800 must have been discharged.
Does anyone know if they are using the off label therapeutics like Ivermectin?
Wash your mouth out with soap. Therapeutics have been rubbished by “our scientists”.
Reports I have seen is that people generally need a couple of days on oxygen and then are discharged. Most of the cases are late teens/early 20s so not particularly at risk.
Most of the hosptialisations are late teens, early 20s?
“Cases”. Sadly the stats aren’t generous enough the indicate the ages of the current intake (that I can find), but the numbers are small enough for it to be youngsters with underlying conditions like obesity and asthma.
Hilarious to see all the Fat Pig Dictator and SAGE-Nazi apologists running out of excuses to extend the lockdowns.
Once we get to July and they come up with even more pathetic excuses to make life difficult for people, the cat hopefully will be out of the bag. Today I’ve been surprised with the number of sheep that are getting the ache of all this. Even sheep have feelings.
Running out of excuses? They have a brainwashed, mindless audience, dumbed down by communist propaganda, they are in no danger.
They ran out of excuses last summer
In America, the fear of myocarditis was cited as the main reason that the Big-10 and Pac-12 college athletic conferences cancelled fall sports in 2020. (These leagues later rescinded this decision, albeit with the caveat that student athletes comply with about 150 pages of Covid safety and testing protocols). Well, we now have almost a year’s worth of health data on college athletes, who did get to play sports. Per an American Heart Association study, no student athlete died from myocarditis caused by COVID. There MIGHT have been one or two student athletes who developed myocarditis … but this happened even before COVID. The great irony is there is now growing evidence that the vaccines dramatically increase the chances that young people could develop… myocarditis.
So the policies and vaccines pushed by our leaders arguably CAUSED the threat they were trying to prevent. I call this the “Law of Opposite Effects.” Whatever A is supposed to do or prevent … it will almost certainly end up producing the opposite effect.
Look them in the eyes and tell them it’s just until May…June…July…
Another story at Lockdown Skeptics points out that 30 percent of those hospitalized in the UK (or at least one hospital) suffer from the “Indian variant” but have already been “fully vaccinated.” So why the expectation that the UK can get this variant under control via even more immunization?
“So why the expectation that the UK can get this variant under control via even more immunization?” Well, that might be what the government SAY, but what do you expect them to say. “Sorry, the vaccines don’t work/don’t work against the variants”? They probably will say that everyone needs a booster against whatever variant is around, once they have jabbed everyone over 12. But we’ll need lockdowns to be sure. And so on. They have to spin it out so there’s always hope for people, and they seem to be able to do that because people are desperate to believe they will be free.
It could be that they were admitted for something else. Having a vaccine doesn’t stop anybody from catching a viral infection (it is not like waterproofing making the viruses bounce off!), after all the antibodies can only work if the virus is present in the bloodstream where they will promptly fight off the infection. Once the virus is in the body, in whatever quantity, it will be shown up by the testing.
And this from the same source shows that on the third of June only 0.66% of occupied hospital beds had covid patients.
Latest from here
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/
Note that in the northwest the same number were discharged as admitted.
Restrictions to continue for everyone – meanwhile Johnson and his mates can hold a superspreader event in Cornwall.
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This is a deeply depressing time to be in your 20s. I turn 25 in a month and feel the creep of each year of my youth whittled away by this insane totalitarian regime. Worst of all, most of my once close friends and peers have been totally indoctrinated by this fearmongering madness, and are begging, clamouring for longer locking down, and relishing the virtue-signalling attention they receive on social media for ‘sticking to the rules’. It is so very isolating
The idea that rising hospital admissions are a justification for extending the lockdown is simply a lie. There is no evidence of it in the national data. Why are SAGE and the government being allowed to get away with such blatant lies?
It is amazing how many people swallow this rubbish.
If lockdowns work, why do we have so many of them?
This is the attitude we need now … an end to the niceties and the gloves off :
https://twitter.com/andrewlawrence/status/1404400929613484035
Protest outside Downing Street against extending lockdown. Not seen anything anywhere else, quelle surprise….
://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1449636/London-news-lockdown-protest-today-Downing-Street-Boris-Johnson-announcement-Covid-update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrX1pJt6njg
Ruptly coverage
If this were a marriage, you would have left this government by now and would be seeking a divorce on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour.
Ensuring another 10 millions vaccines are delivered is not the way out of this.
Many of us don’t want it at all, as in the majority of cases it’s simply not needed.
What if the government were nowhere near their targets? What then, lockdown forever?
The simplest and easiest way out of this right now, is for Johnson to shoot himself in the fucking face.
Another fat pig faced minister. When God created him a swine it is thankful he gave him a swines sace and physique
not sace face, sausage fingers today
How can a fat man such as him become a Health Minister!
Are his healthy eating options chips, chips and more chips?
You never saw the Belgian Health Minister then
https://www.google.com/search?q=belgian+health+minister&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-pLGOiJrxAhWugv0HHccrAz0Q_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1012&bih=629
ZZ Top might not shave, he says.
Of course the lockdown is permanent, they just can’t say so yet.
the purpose of the unwinnable, perpetual war is to consume human labour and commodities so that the economy of a superstate cannot support economic equality, with a high standard of life for every citizen. By using up most of the produced goods, the proles are kept poor and uneducated, and the Party hopes that they will neither realise what the government is doing nor rebel.
Does this ring any bells?
C*nts. They’re all c*nts. (Sorry but I’m so angry no other word cuts it).
What about ‘cunts’?