Almost all Coronavirus rules – including limits on the number of people who can meet together, the wearing of face masks, and social distancing in pubs and bars – will be ditched as part of step four of the roadmap for lifting lockdown restrictions in England. Sky News has more.
The Government expects to push ahead with step four of its lockdown-lifting roadmap on July 19th, when Boris Johnson wants to move away from ministerial edicts for managing the coronavirus pandemic.
Instead, people in England will be encouraged to use their personal judgement on the risks of infection – with the Prime Minister wishing to see a new way of living with the virus.
A final decision on whether to go ahead with the last phase of the roadmap will be taken in a week’s time, following a review of the latest data and if the government’s tests for removing restrictions are being met.
Should step four proceed on 19 July, it will see:
• No more limits on social contact to allow people to gather in groups of any size
• The removal of the “one metre-plus” rule in almost all settings, apart from specific places such as airports
• All remaining businesses, including nightclubs, able to re-open
• No capacity caps on large scale events, such as sports matches or concerts
• No more regulations on wearing face masks in shops or on public transport
• The Government will no longer require people to work from home
• No more limits on the number of people who are able to visit care home residents
The Government has also chosen not to impose the use of domestic COVID “passports” for people to demonstrate their vaccination or testing status when attending pubs, bars and restaurants or other venues.
There will be further announcements this week on whether schools and colleges will continue to have to “bubble” pupils, as well as on whether double-jabbed people will still have to self-isolate after contact with an infected person or on their return from an “amber list” country.
However, under those rules being retained, it will still be a legal requirement to self-isolate if you test positive for COVID-19, the one-metre plus rule will continue in specific places such as airports to prevent passengers from different destinations from mixing, and infection control measures will remain in place in care homes.
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I’m pleased they have ditched compulsory masking but in some ways what they are trying to replace it with is even worse. They appear to be trying to create a culture of masking, on a “voluntary” (ie coerced) basis. There may be fewer protections for the exempt. But worse than that even is the idea that habits of fear, germophobia, and subservience are to be made permanent in our culture.
Whining Whitty’s refusal to accept the legal change was outrageous. He should be sacked immediately.
The government should have simply made clear there was no longer any requirement to wear masks.
Of course the government has woven a very tangled web by lying about the efficacy of masks (why have they never funded a proper study of their efficacy?), lying about transmission routes (droplet transmission was supposed to be the rationale for mask wearing after they were introduced), lying about the reason for introducing compulsory masking (originally stated to encourage consumer confidence), lying (by omission) about how all the senior advisors had gone from being anti-mask to pro-mask (how the hell did that happen?) and lying about their personal use of masks (numerous instances of our leaders not masking on… Read more »
All excellent questions. I bet they don’t get asked,let alone answered, at Boris’s inquiry.
Not until the Covid Act is repealed will anything change.
July 19 will come and go, and on 22nd the House will rise for the Summer Recess and that’s your scrutiny window gone until September 6th. And on or before that date lockdown and masks and social distancing will again be reimposed. It is a permanent proroguing of parliament by the fat man and his team.
We the people are all being outwitted by a philandering lying fat lazy pleb-hating alcoholic, his father, his teenage girlfriend, and his cabal of pleb hating misfits. And trilateral Rockerfeller Kier.
The Uk is currently a one party state. The WEF party.
Beautifully put.
For a man supposedly working so hard.. why is Boris still the size of a baby hippo?
When I have worked hard… rushing here and there.. those have been my slimmest times.
Most dictators are fat, slimy bastards.
I’ve already sussed out all the local businesses that have forgone the slave rag since March 2020
Like aliens – they are out there
but like sheep they will be forced again into masks and/or closure…
The end game is digital biometric passports for all citizens.
Don’t forget – “No one’s safe until everyone’s safe.” Jabbed in other words.
Don’t forget that naturally acquired immunity no longer exists as the driver of herd immunity because the WHO, doubtless under pressure, said so in the middle of last year. And not a peep from our great MSM.
So, autumn/winter approaches, lo and behold cases rise, more lockdowns and guess who’s to blame?
The great unwashed. I can see mandatory vaccination for all.
The only way out of this, sadly, is if the jabbed start suffering to such an extent that even the MSM/Government/Big pharma can’t hide it. Much prefer proper evidenced based medical science to prevail, but what’s the chance of that.
“Freedom Day” Lol.
Yes when all the ADE’s kick in it will be us the ‘unvaccinated’ who will have to pick up the pieces. I spoke to a friend last night and he told me there were 4 wards in our local district general hospital that were full of people suffering the severe side effects of the ‘jabs’
One wrad usually = 28 beds so I do wonder how many are in hospital overall suffering from side effects. to say nothing of the deaths.
Bret Weinstein and others haver pointed out that noone seems to be collating the adverse effects.. just turning a blind eye… most people haven’t and don’t report their adverse effects.. headaches and heart ache are permanent damage.
The end game might be a culling of the population.. the faux green human hating cunts responsible for our predicament e.g. Prime Minister Stanley Johnson and Deputy Prime Minister Princess Nut Nut, Klaus, Bill Gates, Greta and her masters, and the woke members of the royal family i.e. William and Charles.. want fewer people on the planet.
The vaccine is quite possibly a route to that. Not just a route to identification and control but a means to shorten and extinguish lives… and to sterilise.
Meanwhile.. China.. builds, makes, owns.. breeds..
Again I will believe it on the 19 July 2021 and not before.
Yes brilliant! Trouble is, still plenty of wriggle room for them.
“A final decision on whether to go ahead with the last phase of the roadmap will be taken in a week’s time, following a review of the latest data and if the government’s tests for removing restrictions are being met.”?
Anyone know what those tests consist of?
Don’t forget the new LAMBDA uber-scariant waiting in the wings to be unleashed upon us.
I understand also that the ‘Shiny‘ people on Brekky Telly were a tad perturbed at the news this morning. Apparently according to ‘a poll’ 70% of the Great British Public want to retain their masks. Many employers are going to insist on employees having been double jib-jabbed (can’t wait for the law suits to start flying), many in the leisure sector will insist on staff wearing masks and possibly customers.
I guess these businesses are still so minted after the last 18 months or so, they won’t need sceptics cash. They won’t be getting mine.
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Anybody expecting there to be a national clapping for the NCS (formally the NHS) and Boris soon?
The government faked the Whitty incident with the estate agent.. come on.. when did you last see phone video footage like that? 2010? It was made deliberately wobbly and amateurish to appear amateurish and real.. the elites think gunpowder plots are fermented in pubs and phone footage is wobbly…
What am I saying? The great reset.. the great population reduction.. the great reset of nature for Carrie and Klaus and Bill and Stanley and all the other wonderful people who love nature more than us plebs.. will continue.
We will be in lockdown again soon. And the vaccinae passports? What of them?
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I don’t want to disappoint you all but this is a false dawn. Whitty, Vallance etc have the upper hand and aren’t letting go.
You just see there will be a massive push especially in the leftie media to keep/reinstate restrictions, brexit style.
We’ve got this for the rest of our lives I’m afraid.
The trouble is that the Government narrative about the risks from Covid is not aligned with their plans to reopen society. How is it going to turn a lot of frightened rabbits back into normal citizens? SAGE advisers “speaking in a personal capacity” continue to appear in the media to tell us that it is far too dangerous to open up. It is about time they were told to either shut up or stand down from their positions.
Not quite back to “normal” due to persisting travel restrictions, self isolate requirement, and the continued restrictions in care homes here. While there is bound to be periods of times with so called normality, I feel the days before COVID are permanently gone unless many wake up, rise up, and fight back.
Also on a note: The above puppet of Boris Johnson would fit perfectly in Genesis video and song: “Now this is the world we live in” featuring all the creepy looking puppets of Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, other people made to look like these puppets and the puppet of Phil Collins himself.
Hmm??
Election on the horizon?
A few weeks of “freedom” to lull us in to a false sense of security and “Bozo is wonderful” and then a surprise election which unbelievably the Tories will walk. And then he’s safe for another five years which is probably all the globalists want.
I don’t trust the Bozo cnut one bit.
He’s a rank evil bastard and all who sail with him.
Keep your eye on the vaccine passports… Until those are off the table both domestically AND internationally, this tyranny will continue.
5 years at least internationally isn’t it? Unless Australia get fed up of it…
Palab Ghosh, BBC health editor was talking about masks today. Quoted a non peer reviewed paper claiming 20% reduction in infection rather than the Danish, peer reviewed study showing no significant reduction.
Is this one of the many ‘literature reviews’ which have appeared? Standard methodology for these is to cherry-pick some studies from healthcare settings and then by logical contortions claim that they prove that masks make a difference in the breakfast cereal aisle of Tesco – and then issue a press release which claims that it’s ‘proven’ that masks work in general public settings (with no mention that the source data is all from healthcare settings) – and of course most people won’t actually read the paper and see why it’s nonsense so will believe that it’s ‘proven’ than masks work.
I thought these had stopped appearing as much now, as it must be obvious even to the types who write them that the infection statistics from around the world following mask mandates do not show any impact at all in practice!
Enjoy the 6 weeks of freedom before all restrictions come back harsher than ever.
There will be more ‘cases’ next week than there are now.
There will be a higher number of hospitalisations next week than now.
If it’s safe to decide to end lockdown next week it’s safe to decide now but that isn’t happening. Lockdown won’t be ended next week.
Are we still in an ‘emergency’ though? This seems like the key question. Guessing we are because if not, all those wonderful vaccines aren’t legal.
Ivermectin makes them illegal, which is why they are burying any information about it.
More people should be pointing that out!
True indeed, but they don’t give a damn about ‘legal’ haven’t since the beginning. We could reel off loads of National and International crimes committed since this farce started. Not least Crimes Against Humanity. Nobody has had to answer for anything. Mancock, even after having judgement/s awarded against him for lack of legally required clarity in awarding of PPE and other related contracts.
He seemed to ignore it and it apparently went away. The MSM weren’t very interested in that either. Whatever happened to real journalism? Where are the old fashioned Hacks who would have bloody loved the potential screaming headlines they could have published on a daily basis from the COVID farce. God wouldn’t they just.?
Under orders to make sure they lick the hands that feed them is my guess.
To me, this means one of two things:
(a) The game is up. A tsunami of counter narrative has finally broken the levee with prominent names like Joe Rogen now openly discussing Ivermectin which signifies potential legal calamity for the architects of this fraud. Of the many strands of deception, the suppression of early treatment is surely the most incendiary because no one actually had to die! With an effective treatment, all other measures, including the kill shot, are unnecessary. Imagine the lawsuits!
(b) More fuckeries (as we say in the North). Loosening restrictions gives them the opportunity to blame us in a couple of months for rising numbers of something on a confected graph of nonsense. Especially the anti-vaxxers and, I don’t know, children maybe.
Definitely (b)
Come on people, get a grip. ‘If’ , ‘should’ . Psyops at its best. Dangle the carrot, then find a way to give some but not nearly all. But if your are very very good you can have a bit more.
Our freedom is NOT his to give, it is ours to have.
Applause all round for Big Brother? No F.Off you twat!
That’s right.
Make the most of the next 2-3 months because once old people start dying of respiratory ilnesses in the autumn the Media will dial the fear back up to 100 and the Govt will lockdown again.
I hope I’m wrong, I really do.
I think you are right – it would be naive to think otherwise.
The Northern politician who’s said that masks should continue to be enforced in supermarkets because ‘very vulnerable’ people might feel frightened…well, the answer’s quite simple isn’t it – THEY can wear a mask if they like!! (I might also suggest they switch to Ocado, as I did last July as I no longer wanted to enter supermarkets full of masked people! It’s not such a great hardship if they are that terrified.)
When masks were enforced they were ‘protected’ by two masks, the one they wore and the one worn by the person next to them. If they are scared at the prospect of the person next to them not wearing a mask then the solution is simple, just wear two masks.
Gina and Matt hancock seemed to survive without their masks
So if you aren’t a covidiot, if you don’t take any tests, you won’t need to isolate yourself.
Great!
Of course, this is just the pause before the storm hits in September or maybe November if we are lucky and some new scariant will be rolled out and even more draconian measures will emerge.
So let’s enjoy the freedoms our glorious leader has granted us.
Sounds like they’re continuing the abuse of care home residentsand the enforced isolation of healthy people. Not normal. So when is freedom day? Will there in fact be a freedom day or is that a thing of the past?
Oh and the rest of it is subject to a decision in a week. Plenty of time for them to think of something….
Johnson murmured something in the presser about putting it off until next year again. Bet they find a really really really concerning variant in the next few days.
One metre rule applies in airports but once on the plane, passengers can get up close and friendly. Ok.
Yes it’s quite silly. I’m an aircraft engineer, up close and personal with scary “red list” flights all day. Occasionally, I’ll even fix a seat with a plague ridden red list passenger sat in it! I go home and go about my business normally every day 😱 How have I not died multiple times? How is my town not ridden with deadly variants?
Oh yeah, I forgot, this is a load of nonsense.
If this comes to the notice of the locktivists they will proably be pushing for people in your line of work to be housed in dedicated plague hotels!
Entirely typical of Coronatheatre – it doesn’t matter whether it makes any difference; it doesn’t even matter whether it theoretically makes any sort of sense. The only thing that is important is that there is a ‘rule’, and then the virtue-signalling sheep (i.e. a large part of the population) can feel all virtuous about following it, and have a good grumble on social media (and the Guardian’s comments) about all these terrible people who aren’t ‘following the rules’.
No patience nor understanding for such people anymore.
I tell them ever so subtly and gently: “fuck off with your rules”.
Still nothing like normal so long as the travel restrictions remain.
I long for a hot beach but I refuse to submit to the vaccine.
I’m in the same boat – I usually travel 3/4 times a year – a couple of times to see relatives who live overseas that I’ve not seen for two years now.
Damned if I’m going take that vaccine though.
Many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip …
I think we have to hope and pray that Eng-er-land do the business against Denmark so that the MSM focus is entirely on the three lions’ date with destiny (or some other Sun-type rubbish headline) against Italy/Spain.