The Telegraph reports this morning that mask-wearing in indoor settings will continue to be advised by the Government even after we leave lockdown (whether that will be on July 19th or later). But there will be no “legal compulsion” to wear a mask once restrictions are lifted, according to Environment Secretary George Eustice, who says he will personally ditch his mask when the rules are changed.
Sky News has the story.
George Eustice said the Government wants “all of the legal requirements to do things to be taken away completely” at step four of its roadmap for lifting Covid measures, which is currently scheduled for July 19th.
“Whether there will still be some people who might choose to wear masks or whether it may be advisory in some settings, that’s a separate matter,” he said.
“But the objective of that final stage is to remove the legal requirement to do these things.”
Asked if he would continue to wear a face covering beyond that point, the minister replied: “I wouldn’t, no. I have to be honest, once I’m told it’s safe not to, I want to get back to normal.
“I think a lot of people will want to shed those masks.
“But while it’s contributing to controlling the pandemic, yes I will wear my mask like everybody else and do my bit.”
Recent polling from Ipsos MORI suggests that, whether we are legally required to wear masks after July 19th or not, a significant proportion of the population will continue to do so. It showed that more than one-fifth of British adults aren’t looking forward to “not wearing a mask in public places”. Continued “advice” on the matter will likely ensure that this figure does not significantly drop.
The Sky News report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he will ditch his mask “as soon as possible” once the mandate is ended. The Telegraph reports:
Rishi Sunak has said he will ditch his face mask at the earliest opportunity when it ceases to be a legal requirement.
Asked if he would stop wearing a face covering if it only becomes advisory after July 19th, the Chancellor told a summit: “Yes, as soon as possible.” …
Mr Sunak also stressed his “strong expectation” that coronavirus restrictions will be lifted in England on July 19th, adding “things are looking good” for getting back to normal.
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I binned mine back in April 2020 when it was clear this wasn’t a pandemic and they were virtue signalling bullshit for lobotomised morons.
I can truthfully join you in the never, ever have I put one on club. Looks like we’ll never have to! Oh, except this is never going to end.
Legal regulation is in fact unlawful. The government realised a long time ago that very few people know the difference between the words ‘legal’ and ‘lawful’ The dictionary even misinforms in this context.
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I have never worn a mask, never stayed at home, never clapped the corrupt NHS, never avoided people in the street or stayed away from my friends and family.
I’ve never owned one. Yet surely this begs the question as to why he is wearing it now? In other words, he clearly isn’t wearing it for health and safety reasons!
I’m still waiting for any evidence that these silly masks have ANY benefit against covid infection at all. They are purely talismanic, the equivalent of a pocketful of posies….
Proof they don’t work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIaul0U83d0&list=FLB-fCMSo3bKYJRm4EpU5Bjw&index=1&t=1s
Kate Burley…. Yuk!!!!
Chief hypocrite, Kate Burley. Another lying shrill who spouted lies about the virus and then did exactly what she had been telling the rest of us not to do. Horrible Woman.
Can’t bin what I never had
Tbh, a fifth is probably not all that far off the core constituency of the over-prissy hygiene obsessives who fear any contact with anything. Now that wearing masks around other people has been rendered normal for them, and they’ve been accustomed to the inherent nastiness of mask-wearing, a lot of them will probably stick at it forever.
Only harsh ridicule can train such people out of these behaviours, once learned.
Same here never owned a dog muzzle
If we think things are bad in the UK, I was amazed (not) on watching a German golf tournament where every spectator was muzzled.
Did anyone mention the war?
What’s the catch?
They’ll change their minds and keep the mask mandate??
P.S.: see Rogerborg’s comment re Widow Twankie in Scotland.
Coming shortly – another even stricter lockup.
The catch is 75% of the population has been injected with a cytotoxin.
Oops, he’s clearly not been told.
The Dwarf from the North has already jumped the gun and blabbed the real plan, for a New Normal of indefinite muzzles and isolation, even at “level 0”.
She’s clearly very excited to be seen to be the first to follow the WHO / CCP orders, but I’d be certain that the Johnson regime will also be complying with them.
Yes you have to read Eustace’s comments with the big pinch of salt which is that “Terminus Day” will likely never actually come – to be postponed because of another scariant – and so he won’t get the chance to bin his mask in line will all his big boy talk.
““But while it’s contributing to controlling the pandemic…” It’s not.
First of all – find the fuckin pandemic.
The lying scumbag.
Patronising bollocks. People have had the choice to wear a mask (or anything else short of offending public decency, which masks do anyway) before this crap, and if they want to now, so what. It’s not a question of “will still have the choice”. I haven’t worn one, because it mucks up the layout of my handlebar moustache.
Spoken like a true chap! Yep, if only most had worked out they did actually have a choice whether to wear them or not.
I got on a train on Tuesday evening. Sat opposite another mask free person. We got chatting as we were both going to the same Cricket match.
We were aware of the glares in our direction from a woman behind a mask when she suddenly pulled it down and sneezed loudly without covering her mouth. We both pissed ourselves laughing.
Mr H got on the train yesterday and sat near the only other maskless person as, he thought, a gesture of unity. This person however, two stops down the line, suddenly pulled out a nap and stuck it over his face, and wore it for the rest of the journey. What goes with these people???
Who knows? I despair sometimes, I really do.
I love the people who wear it down round their chin – leaving both mouth and nose exposed – technically they ARE “wearing a mask” but just in a way which renders it totally useless – well, even more useless than it is if you wear it over your mouth and nose.
Mask wearers tend to be followers, I’d expect very few to continue to wear masks once the legal requirement is dropped and it stops being the norm.
Agreed. You have to be inherently conformist to go along with the vile rags in the first place.
At least 95% of the (sub)human race are cowards who will demean themselves to the uttermost in order to keep out of trouble.
Oh, I don’t know.
Give it a couple of months and we’ll see.
‘once I’m told it’s safe not to’
He is the perfect victim for these Nigerian princes.
I guess this makes it just even more likely that July 19th won’t happen…
there was never a legal compulsion whilst you could self-assess as exempt and not require proof
be interesting how many people wear them after
I totally agree and don’t understand why so many comply with the recommendation.
It’s obvious. Fear is the most potent psychological weapon.
And a great big fucking fine
Maybe in the early days but as time went on the police, shop workers etc have obviously and gradually been made aware that a person could simply and legally claim exemption without any proof whatsoever. Yes, a shop could refuse to serve me without a mask if that was their want but I have yet to come across one that has. The £££ means more when push comes to shove.
It’s mostly fear of being confronted and intimidated by shop staff or other shoppers.
If this happens which I doubt, now that we’ve got India + 2 variant.
We will be able to see the covid lovers, the fuckwitts that have jumped on the government bandwagon and made our life miserable for the last 18 months.
I wonder how many masks Boris received in the post this week.
Yes I really think this campaign may have done some good.
I had to borrow one to send, but point made.
Must’ve been fun for one of Pfeffel’s fags, opening the things with gloves on.
The legal requirement on public transport has already expired. For shops it is 24 July. For churches 8 August.
No, they extended it to July 19th on one of their emergency bills waved through by parliament.
Three and a half weeks away from July 19, if he says the same on the 18th July I ‘might’ just believe him.
He won’t
Everyone needs to just fade out of it, which seems to happening now. Most people with some intelligence now realise the whole thing is a trumped up money making venture, with a few activist agenda’s thrown in.
I wish I could see some evidence of that, Dan, but in my area (North Hertfordshire) mask compliance is still incredibly high, especially in supermarkets and even outside. All the big talk of ditching masks on 21st June regardless of ‘freedom’ seems to be just that – talk.
It’s strange but it does seem to be area defined, my area south coast is relaxed I know cafe’s with no restrictions and not a lot of mask wearing. Hopefully it will move onto non mandatory everywhere and only the permanently fearful will slap them on, so far, I have never worn one
The comments below that Twitter post cause me pain, people really are terrified, bedwetting, self righteous, morons.
Self-selected audience?
Who else gives a s*** what Kay Burley or Sky News has to say?
the bizarre film of Queen and PM meeting yesterday showed neither were wearing masks
odd that, but then both would be double jabbed so fully protected – who knew saline could confer such immunity!!!
Well consdering all evidence shows mask wearing does not stop a microscopic virus and actually causes harm to your health, why is anyone wearing one now?…In June? I think the general public would believe anything this government came out with.
They are liars and are playing with our minds. This is just the softening calm before the storm.
I’ve never worn one, and I never will. Hell will freeze over first. I have an exemption lanyard swinging defiantly around my neck, and no-one has ever questioned it.
I find it staggering how many people have been taken in by the Great Masks Con. Masks are not PPE, they are psy-op mind-control devices for terrified sheep who are content to let government propagandists do their thinking for them.
Throw the lanyard away
You know, those of us who wear them are on your side. And over the past year I’ve become very tired of people telling me what to do.
The official absurdity is manifest. If then, why not now?
Seems the enthusiasm for muzzles varies across the country.
On the evidence of what I see here in NW London I’d bet its largely Asian population will willingly restrict breathing and communication until ordered not to, young and old alike.
Asian ? USA or our definition?
Those identifying as and perceived to be British Asians; the ‘children of the Raj’. Last year I noticed a particularly early and ‘enthusiastic’ adoption of face masks in the population amongst whom I live. It continues.
Freedom to do as you like as long as the costs do not overwhelm the benefits is essential to a liberal society. So, yes please.
But I have a feeling within 6 weeks of the mask mandate removal we will be down far below 20% mask wearing. Yes, people are paranoid, but we are also social, and once you stand out from the crowd, people begin to want to move back into the mainstream. We saw it with outdoor wearing. We’ve seen it in America. It’s why the “Powers” are loathe to lose the role of masks as control agents to begin with.
Yes indeed – it will be ‘interesting’.
The issue is that the psy-op has been tremendously successful in using Fear and Pressure to convince people to wear useless masks.
The self -satisfied virtue-signalling of ‘Well, I don’t – they’re all morons’ (and yes, I sometimes indulge in the fruitless ranting, too) isn’t going to do the business. After all, it has had little effect up to now, so the question is how de-programming can be achieved.
You may well be right, that the gradual growth of bare faces will be strong enough to reverse the social pressure element. Let’s hope so.
But there are those for whom the main motivation is Fear – genuine Fear. It will be interesting to see how this deprogramming works out when the two impulses are in conflict rather than alignment.
“as the costs do not overwhelm the benefits” Well yes, but a lot depends on who is calculating the costs and the benefits, as we have seen. As Mark was saying the other day, draconian restriction of freedom should in general be restricted to those crimes that have been seen as morally wrong and meriting punishment since time immemorial – murder, rape, assault, theft. Once you start to move away from those, you need to be careful what you consider justifiable restrictions of freedom.
The disclaimers on packs of masks actually spell out just how useless they are. The small-print is always words to the effect of “These masks are not medical devices and are unsuitable use as PPE”. Just a shame that sheep can’t read.
There is no legal comulsion to wear one now, there never was. Everyone is exempt, the Government would never pass a law to restrict everyones breathing!
And it won’t stop companies mandating masks for employees, so I see very little changing.
That is a major problem – although it would weaken their case in law, I think.
Yes they would
Always interests me what would have happened if millions of people like us had exempted themselves and not worn one. Do you think the government would have changed the rules so you had to have a doctor’s certificate to be exempt or just made it mandatory like in other countries?
A few breadcrumbs now to corral the peasants for another month.
Sadly I heard several references where people actually like wearing masks as it hides a physical feature of their face which they do not like and are self conscious about. What will it take to make them feel self conscious for wearing a mask? When they are the only one and get stared at for that?
Our market stall selling masks yesterday only had a small selection available. I guess he is phasing it out as no-one buys any anymore. Although I am always surprised how many wear surgical ones. I guess it is easier to just take a new one than bother to wash a cloth one, or do they think it offers more protection?
I am also very disappointed that every person who walks past my window after leaving the Pub next door is just in the process of removing their mouthnosecovering after they walked the five steps through the pub to leave.
I encountered the pub stuff last weekend.
The patent absurdity of the rules (the virus will get you when you have a pee, and operates above 4ft) are barmy beyond belief. I reckon those who devised them had to be just having a laugh.
We met up with another couple at a riverside pub last week. None of us had masks. None of us filled out the T&T forms that had been left out for everyone.
We went inside the pub to use the toilets, sans masks, and none of the staff were bothered.
Undoubtedly, it varies.
I’m as ugly as sin but I still don’t want to wear bloody face nappies.
Tough. I don’t alter my behaviour because there are paranoid schizoprenics out there, though they deserve help. I’m not going to alter behaviour for that one-fifth either (though in their case, I don’t think they deserve any help!).
There are new starters at my job who I have worked around for weeks now, but I still have no idea what they look like because I’ve never seen them without a mask.
Imagine kids starting year 7, already anxious about the new setting and being split from their group of friends, not even seeing the faces of their new classmates or teachers.
This is deliberate.
it’s downright evil
Where do they find these people who still want to be muzzled? If they want to live in a authoritarian country fuck off to North Korea.
I was in my local Sainsbury last night and I’d say 95% were maskless. F@cking YOUGOV bullshit.
I have the choice to wear a lump of shit on my head if I wish about as likely as a fucking jamrag face mask I don’t need your consent to make my choices fuck off cunt pigs.
Wearing a mask says “I believe I’m infectious and I should be in bed”.
Treat such people as dangerous and conspicuously avoid them. Bar them entry to places and generally infer to them that they are not welcome.
Most will get the message.
Some won’t.
The government saying all sorts can happen “once restrictions are lifted” knowing full well they won’t be
MASKED SCIENCE
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I find it interesting that those ministers say they will ditch theirs, but there’s also some indication that there will continue to be advice to wear them. So will govt ministers be ignoring the advice of their own govt? I suppose it would be consistent, if nothing else.
I’m contemplating setting up a street corner stand, selling dummies dunked in golden syrup to comfort the maskless.
Or I would, if Dungford didn’t intend to keep the Welsh Gulag muzzled for ever.
i was shopping in Narberth this afternoon. Nice little town, normally.
Nobody using hand gunk, nobody distancing, but everybody knickered except me. I’m quite certain they don’t know why they are doing it. I suspect they don’t even know that they are doing it. It’s like dogs pissing against a lamp post.
Read the replies to Kay Burley’s tweet.
We know she’ll have a specific audience, but the number of idiots proudly announcing that they’re going to keep their masks “until everyone has been double vaccinated” and “case numbers drop significantly” because the Delta++ variant “kills in a couple of days.”
And they think we’re the idiots.
Never wore those ghastly things from the start – as soon as I heard that they were going to be required to enter stores etc I immediately purchased my exemption card and have worn it ever since.
Which reminds me – today I saw a sign on the door of a store that I occassionally go into that said ‘medical proof of exemption must be provided before entering the shop‘ – I thought that demanding medical proof of exemption was illegal? I thought this was descrimination?
I could be wrong – I’ll try and snap a photo of the sign tomorrow and post it on here but whatever legality surrounding this kind of request regarding mask-wearing, I won’t be shopping there ever again thats for sure.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own
Those who have an age, health or disability reason not to wear a face covering should not be routinely asked to provide any written evidence of this. Written evidence includes exemption cards.
Seems to say it all, updated in April ’21
That is illegal and could breach the Equalities Act 2010.
Should be conspicuous when you photograph it. Do it from several angles. Hopefully, they’ll come and question you. Then say you’re gathering evidence for the lawsuit.
It showed that more than one-fifth of British adults aren’t looking forward to “not wearing a mask in public places”. Good, the 4/5th’s majority want them gone
I asked ‘What’s the catch?’ when this was first posted, cynic that I am.
One thought – the timing would be about right for the expected autumn rise of respiratory infections to be blamed on the relaxation of the bullshit. – ???
As someone who has never worn a mask but was under some pressure to wear an exemption card around my neck to justify my refusal to wear a mask I suggest that anyone still wearing a mask after July 19 should be forced to also wear a t shirt with the word ‘WANKER‘ printed on it .
Ok. Never worn one. Don’t know why anyone wore one, it always struck me that the guidelines were so broad that everyone was exempt if they wanted to be.
I was out and about today around Dursley (not my home area); pretty quiet, a lot of shops seemed to be closed (the camera shop, forexample); some twats wearing masks outdoors, generally everyone I saw still being very compliant. I do agree though with a comment further down, that if they start trying to ramp up the infection numbers again in a few months’ time, it’ll be blamed on “removing the masks” and the bastards will bring them back again. I hope folk will resist, because if indeed four-fifths of people truly do want to get shot of them, then they’ll have to stand and fight.
The ones who continue to wear them.. we should all pretend not to hear them when they speak (which is what I did as a teacher to encourage the kids to remove theirs)
I do this any way, as I’m hard of hearing. My reaction to people in masks, as the year has gone on, has got progressively more pronounced! Mask wearing is evil & has made my life very unpleasant in the past year.
Unfortunately, for a lot of people/organisations, guidance/advice is pretty much synonymous with law itself.
Is this unmasking on the 19 July a definite or a maybe definite or not a chance in hell definite?
Never worn one in daily life. Never will. Had to wear one on the plane as otherwise I wouldn’t have been allowed to fly, even with an exemption lanyard, so I was prepared for that and bought 2 ultra thin one layer cheesecloth masks off eBay. See through but that kept the airline happy and I breathed easily. Which just shows what a lot of nonsense it all is!
Me, I like masks.
I have a face for masks.
(Rather like having a ‘face for radio’, that.)
Heck, if I could get away with it, I’d wear a full bondage hood – zip mouth and all – both at play AND at work.
Of course, this might frighten children and little old ladies.
So…BONUS!
I suspect this is one area where government will be doing a cost benefit analysis. The benefit of attempting to maintain mask mandates from their point of view, is the way they serve as a visual reminder of how compliant people are. The cost is the risk of a tipping point being reached where non-compliance becomes the norm, and compliance more generally collapses. More seriously, all sorts of things start to be questioned. The government might calculate its own authority is better served by permitting a return to sane behaviour, than by waiting for people to take the initiative. Initiative is dangerous to authority.
The masks work is done now the blood work is well underway. The fear largely engendered and sustained by the masks led successfully to the frit population bending over for the toxic injection (and all that flows from that).
Coming next: the badges. V or Un-V
(I wonder how the Royal College of Psychologists is getting on with justifying their honourable members’ wholehearted participation in this brutal Godless psyop.)
Eustace is part of the problem we are in this mess because he has bought into the propaganda. It is why I no linger have any respect for politicians. If they had any sense of democratic rule and any sense of history, they would have been asking sensible questions and seeking advice from real virologists. Not Government advisers who have only ever worked in an academic field.
We have to accept that our politicians are there for career purposes and have no real ability to discern truth from fiction. If people like Eustace had asked intelligent questions from the beginning, done a little research into paper and cloth masks, looked at the virus particles and then held the Government to account for their ignorance, we would mot be in this position today. As it is we are now on the brink of becoming the socialist state so beloved by the Remainers/leftwing that the Brexiteers voted to avoid.