- “Everything you need to know about our post-lockdown rules” – The Daily Mail on the rules that are expected to be put in place on July 19th
- “‘Stronger’ Covid restrictions could be needed in autumn and winter” – Freshly published SAGE papers show that ministers were urged to keep restrictions, such as face masks, in place, according to the Telegraph, rather than allow for a “Big Bang” in lifting restrictions
- “Boris says self isolation for double-jabbed must stay for now” – Boris Johnson said that while he intends to lift the requirement to self-isolate for those who’ve received both jabs, it will not happen on July 19th, according to the MailOnline
- “Could cautious firms keep masks and distancing permanently?” – MailOnline warns that many cautious businesses could force their staff to wear face masks and observe social distancing after “Freedom Day”, for fear of outbreaks and compensation claims
- “Britain should not give out third doses until other nations are jabbed” – Oxford University’s Sir Andrew Pollard says Britain “hasn’t got the evidence” another shot will be needed to bolster immunity, MailOnline reports, pointing out that there were still relatively few cases among the vaccinated.
- “Train bosses say social distancing not always possible” – Transport for Wales has said that as passenger demand increases, social distancing “will not always be possible” during busy times, the BBC reports
- “Manchester University sparks backlash with plan to keep lectures online” – More than 3,000 students have signed a petition against Manchester University which has said it wants to keep lectures online in perpetuity with no reduction in tuition fees, the Guardian reports
- “Businesswoman bans holidaymakers who have had Covid vaccine” – Businesswoman Sharon Girardi has banned people who have had the Covid jab from her holiday cottages, MailOnline reports, claiming they are a health risk to other customers and are causing pet deaths
- “How long does Covid immunity really last?” – According to the Telegraph, new research suggests that the vaccines may provide immunity for at least two years
- “Victims of serious crime forced to wait 18 months for justice” – The Telegraph sets out how social distancing rules and the lockdowns have led to long delays in the justice process
- “Headteacher slams parents for holidaying with isolating kids amid class closures” – The headteacher of East Crompton St James’s CE Primary School in Oldham has written to parents urging them to follow the rules and to report law breakers to the police, according to the Manchester Evening News
- “It’s time for NHS contact tracing to ping off” – “Little wonder people are ignoring Test and Trace,” says Libby Purves in the Times, “when its punitive rules confine the healthy and cripple businesses”
- “How bad will the third wave be?” – “The vaccines have forced the virus to switch its focus onto the young, who are much better equipped to resist it,” says Professor Phillip Thomas in the Spectator. “Although the pandemic is not over, the sting in its tail has been drawn”
- “Sturgeon has no credibility on Covid” – “As Scotland is named coronavirus capital of Europe, the First Minister must take responsibility for her failings,” writes Stephen Daisley in the Scottish Mail
- “Are we heading for another Covid U-turn? There are reasons to be apprehensive” – The Telegraph’s Paul Nuki examines the data that could be used to justify a U-turn on the July 19th unlocking
- “The terrifying truth is that millions do not want lockdown ever to end” – “We’re entering the early stages of a new culture war pitting freedom-lovers against proponents of Zero Covid,” says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “Sadiq Khan must resist to pandering hysterical mask enthusiasts” – Maintaining compulsory face covering on the tube would “set a tone that is far from conducive to the restoration of optimism and confidence”, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph
- “What were you thinking Boris,” – Writing for MailOnline, Dan Wootton attacks the decision to award the George Cross to the NHS as a “major folly”
- “My shamefully silent Church” – As football terraces sing out, UnHerd’s Giles Fraser laments that in church “the voice of praise has mostly fallen silent. Cowed by a desire to be overly compliant with every jot and tittle of Government instruction”
- “Lockdown lessons from America” – Alan D. Miller, co-founder of Open For All, reminds us in Spiked that U.S. States that imposed harsh restrictions fared no better than those that didn’t
- “Exit Hancock, pursued by catastrophe” – Daniel Miller expects no “fundamental shift in strategy” from Hancock’s replacement, he says in the Conservative Woman, merely “a shift in tactics”
- “Covid vaccines: not merely dangerous, but rubbish” – “If society has to be permanently restructured, people who are not at risk vaccinated, and booster jabs given every few months for it to work against a virus with an IFR of 0.15%, then the vaccine can’t be much use,” writes Harry Dougherty in the Conservative Woman
- “Professor Neil Ferguson replies to email – ‘Thanks. Filed under ‘Vaccination (nutters)’” – At the Unity News Network, David Clews reports on some correspondence he and one of his readers have had with Neil Ferguson
- “Thanks for nothing!” – “I refuse now to clap or thank, as I refused to in 2020, any aspect of the NHS,” writes Roger Watson, responding to “Thank You Day” in the Unity News Network
- “Healthy 13 year-old dies in sleep after getting jab” – Hugo Talks tells the story of 13 year-old Michigan boy, Jacob Clynick, who died in his sleep a few days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine
- “Why We Must Halt the Global Roll-Out Now” – Cardiologist Peter McCullough joins Dan Astin Gregory to talk about his ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the safety profile of the vaccines. On Odysee now after it was deleted by YouTube
- “Spain restricts nightlife as virus surges among the young” – Some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them, Euronews reports
- “Luxembourg’s PM taken to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19” – Euronews reports that Xavier Bettel has been taken to hospital “as a precaution” a week after testing positive for coronavirus, and is undergoing further tests
- “Germany worried about COVID-19 vaccination ‘no shows’” – Mario Czaja, head of the Berlin Red Cross, has expressed her disquiet that 5%-10% of people were skipping their vaccines appointments, Reuters reports, saying that it is having a “massive effect on Berlin’s vaccination coverage”
- “New Canada-U.S. border rules for fully-vaccinated land travellers now in effect” – Canadian citizens and permanent residents who are fully vaccinated are permitted to cross the land border from the U.S., the Post Millennial reports, with no further requirements for testing or quarantines
- “How College Covid Vaccine Mandates Put Students In Danger” – With 520 of America’s 5,300 colleges and universities requiring students to be fully vaccinated before they return to class, the Federalist argues that the excessively narrow definition for medical exemptions puts many students at unnecessary risk
- “Why Did Donald Trump Take a Covid Route So Damaging to Trump?” – “Trump initially began his journey as a person who wanted to keep the virus out of the U.S., like a bad import,” writes Jeffrey Tucker in Real Clear Markets, and that, he says, is where the former President started to go wrong in his response to Covid
- “Lockdown hardship hits Dhaka’s rickshaw pullers again” – The closure of offices and Government buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh has lead to a heavy drop in income for the city’s rickshaw pullers, the Dhaka Tribune reports
- “Covid cases force Japanese officials to reconsider fans at Olympics” – As Delta Covid cases continue to grow in Japan, the Financial Times reports that the Japanese Government is coming under pressure to reverse course on allowing spectators at the forthcoming Olympic Games
- “Don’t sing in church, not even for a livestream says New South Wales” – New guidance issued in New South Wales says churches should not have any singing, even for a livestream from an otherwise empty building, according to Eternity News, in order to protect anyone providing technical assistance
- “Asking vaccinated New Yorker’s why they’re wearing masks outside” – Fleccas Talks goes out and about in the streets of New York to try to find out why some vaccinated New Yorker’s are continuing to wear masks
- “Tech Censorship, The Value of Conversation, and Covid Treatments” – Bret Weinstein joins Megyn on the Megyn Kelly Show to talk about the ramifications of tech censorship and the obligation to truth as well as Covid vaccines and treatments
- “If we spend the rest of our lives living in fear of a disease that is under control – I give up!” – Neil Oliver greeted yesterday’s announcements with weary scepticism, and says “it’s only a matter of time” before we are back in some form of lockdown
- “The Prime Minister confirmed today that Covid ‘contingency measures’ exist for the autumn/winter” – Covid Recovery Group Chair Mark Harper MP pointed out in Parliament yesterday that emergency powers will remain in place after July 19th, in case they’re needed
The Prime Minister confirmed today that Covid “contingency measures” exist for the autumn/winter
— Mark Harper (@Mark_J_Harper) July 5, 2021
Even if it’s ‘just’ guidance, for many businesses their insurance policies will give guidance the effect of legal restrictions
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“PM confirmed that Covid contingency measures exist for the autumn/winter”.
Freedom my arse. Don’t these crooks understand we cannot carry on with life as normal while these threats hang over us?
“Healthy 13 year old dies after getting ‘jab’ “.
I hope they will tell them about that in these primary schools too (” ‘Wow what a year’ vaccine propaganda in primary school”).
Lockdown is only on ‘pause’. It will only end when the bogus ‘Public Health Emergency’ is acknowledged. We have safe, effective and cheap treatments for covid-19 now and the emergency is no longer legal. Neither was it legal to start with, because covid-19 had just been removed from the list of ‘High Consequence Infections’. Add to this the fraud of faulty mass PCR tests and coerced jabs, the whole corrupt edifice must collapse under legal scrutiny..
Push back against medical tyranny…
A sign of the times…..
British Tennis sensation 18 year old Emma Raducanu retires from Wimbledon with on court breathing difficulties.
What is the first thing the on court doctor does?
Tells her to put a mask on. Well, stuff my old boots…….
And the medical profession hopes for our confidence……….?
Wow. Bit like the “current” first aid advice which is to BLOCK the patient’s airway when when performing CPR, as demonstrated and recommended by the good tv doctor, Shillary Jones.
I so hate him smug shill cunt
Has anybody asked the professor of psychology why people believe masks are helping others when actually it says “I believe I’m infectious but I was too selfish to stay in bed”
What’s the mindset behind the Niqab of the Self-centred?
Spot on.
The only explanation for their totally senseless behaviour is, that they now do actually also believe that wearing an unsuited, mishandled and dirty piece of cloth actually protects themself too.
That, or it’s solely down to virtue signalling and identifying as a cult member hereby now.
Same with the jabs, of course: instead of sticking to what they say on the label, that they might protect yourself a bit better, they have swallowed the big propaganda lie solely sown to create division, increase uptake and establish the apartheid, that taking them also protects others, and that as such not taking them must endanger others.
In both cases, you cannot reason with fanatics, least of all if they have an IQ below 50, as it surely must be the case now with those 2 factions.
Some of us will NOT be returning to medical house arrest.
I think some anti-lockdown business owners should take measures to extremes, like ban anyone who has AIDS etc.
The news report of the headteacher backs up a rumour going around. Seems kids are doing the OJ trick so the family can get away on a cheap break, before the prices rise.
It’s clear the ATL compilers don’t read the articles they link to. The apparently anti-Turdgeon piece is actually castigating the goblin witch for not locking the Scots up tightly enough.
I picked up on Pfeffel hinting at another lockdown in autumn during yesterday’s ‘briefing’. While people on here were singing and dancing with joy that we’re supposedly coming out of lockdown, I was in no doubt that the fake freedom day where businesses take over administering the ‘rules’, that we’re simply transitioning from one lockdown to another.
How long ago was it Pfeffel last said that the easing of lockdown is irreversible?
”Lawyer Adam Wagner suggested firms are likely to retain mask mandates and social distancing measures ”
This is how they outsource the controls. Its very similar to the way ‘climate change’ has been forced through, by getting insurance companies to include relevant clauses in all policies. Once that is done it takes a very brave ( or foolhardy) company to do something which leaves them open to no insurance cover.
You don’t need constant government edicts, the ‘system’ incorporates the restraints.
Beth Rigby, who has infamy for breaking all the rules with her colleagues for Kay Burley’s 50th birthday party during peak lockdown and being one of few journalists that sounded almost opposed to lockdown, showed yesterday during the presidential-style briefing that she is fully on board with the pro-lockdown fanatics when she described ‘freedom day’ as the “big bang”.
She was in full scare-mongering mode, calling Pfeffel irresponsible for lifting “all” restrictions, claiming doing so will cause an explosion of positive cases. Interestingly, Pfeffel will always comment to Beth that she knows he has respect for her.
Why the covi-comatose public can’t see that this is theatre is beyond me.
“Asking vaccinated New Yorker’s why they’re wearing masks outside” –
Unbelievable video.
This is what susposedly educated human beings have become; frightened, illogical, virtue signalling husks of their previous selves.
God knows what all these people’s ancestors would make of them; people who in all probability faced hunger, war, REAL disease, predudice, and a whole host of other hardships that would put this false pandemic in it’s proper context.
I’m astonished these people can look at themselves in the mirror each morning.
News out of Germany that many people do not turn up for 2nd injection.
According to the NDR, this has several reasons. The date for the 2nd is created by the computer system. Some people want to bring it forward, so just register for a new 1st date.
Some people will have trouble cancelling it, or are too ill (or dead) to go through the complicated system to cancel the 2nd. Some people now can get it at their GP, and do not cancel with the central system. Some people had such a bad experience they do not want a 2nd dose.
Authorities are now scratching their heads what to do with the refuseniks and time wasters. Apparently they have a database (civil servants) of people to rush to the vaxx centres at the end of the day to get rid of the drugs.
It kind of tickles my bone, that the efficient Germans can NOT get this sorted!
Dingwall on face masks.Best wrtiten twitterthread for a long time.Recommended
https://twitter.com/rwjdingwall/status/1412330359996432387
I loved that video from NY asking people why they still wear masks. The interviewer said to the: What’s your thought process? (what arguments were so convincing for you to conclude to keep wearing a mask?)
A lot of people could not answer and brabbled something. Obviously there was no considered thought process.
The Dan Astin Gregory interview with Dr McCullough is not on there – any other links?
BBC R2 (don’t ask!). Some Covidiot parent gets in touch to cheer that their child has received it’s jab. The response from the mindless host? ‘Excellent parenting skills!’. We are truly in deep sh1t!
As a committed socialist, I despair of the Labour Party and the trade unions with their wimpish, cowardly, pathetic attitude to restrictions being lifted.
It seems to me that they would rather live forever on their knees than try and stand on their feet.