The number of first vaccinations given in Britain has almost halved in two weeks as take-up among the young dwindles. Polling in May suggested that nearly nine out of 10 young adults want to be vaccinated against Covid, but more recent data shows that around one in seven older teenagers are now sceptical of getting the vaccine.
The Government hopes to offset this hesitancy by widening the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, such as by ending certain travel quarantine rules and ending self-isolation rules after contact with a person who has tested positive for Covid for those who have had two doses. Last month, it even attempted to incentivise take-up among younger people by partnering with dating apps to create a scheme that rewards vaccinated users with exclusive prizes.
The Times has more.
Government scientists accept that the country is “close to maximum take-up”, with many young people still hesitant about vaccination.
The NHS reported no problems with Pfizer supplies and many vaccination centres are starting to offer early second jabs to young people, saying they would otherwise be sitting idle, but the Government is resisting calls to bring forward second doses.
Ministers appear relaxed about the slowdown, arguing that removal of quarantine for the fully vaccinated when going on holiday or coming into contact with an infected person would act as an incentive to boost take-up. But it will add to concerns about the scale of a summer wave of infections after all restrictions are lifted in 11 days’ time. …
Boris Johnson refused yesterday to say how many daily Covid admissions he was expecting in the summer but sources familiar with internal estimates acknowledged hospitals were likely to struggle, saying: “The tide is coming in and we will have to see how high the water gets before the nerves crack.” …
Men are currently more likely to have Covid than women, researchers said, with indoor gatherings to watch the Euros likely to be driving the trend. The latest round of the React survey from Imperial College London found that about 0.7% of men had the virus between May 20th and June 7th compared with 0.5% of women.
Ministers are expecting cases to peak at about 100,000 a day in August after which they are expected to fall through a combination of vaccination and the virus running out of people to infect.
About 90% of adults in Britain have antibodies to the disease from vaccination or previous infection, the Office for National Statistics said.
In England this includes 60% of those aged 16 to 24 in the week ending June 20th, suggesting previous infection is the main cause. This rises to over 99% in people over 65. …
Professor Jonathan Ball of the University of Nottingham said there was a “need to increase the messaging around the benefits of vaccination”, citing “very debilitating long Covid” even in the young. Take-up has plateaued at over 95% for over-50s but is under 90% among those aged 45-49.
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I tested positive for COVID yesterday. I have a cough, not persistent. I’m 57 and have an autoimmune disease. I didn’t want to take the vaccine for that reason and as no-one with autoimmune diseases were part of the vaccine trials. I don’t think those who have taken the vaccine who have autoimmune disease realise that they are now part of the trial, along with pregnant women.
I’ve also just listened to Dr Reiner Fuellmich and Dr David Martin on Odysee.com https://odysee.com/@vaccines-covid-nwo:3/JgxEMA02opvp:6 talking about how the SARS COV 2 and the vaccine were patented years ago.
I know I made the right decision
I find it hard to believe that that many people have had the vaccine – just blindly taken the experimental gene therapy
I’m not ‘hesitant’. I’d just prefer to be in the control group for this experimental treatment.
Luckily all the shitLibs will get neutered
I came across this interesting case in the US on Telegram the other day. I don’t know how true it is really or if there is a UK equivalent, but it states that Human DNA can’t be patented because it is provided by nature. But human DNA that’s been amended such as by mRNA injections can be patented and owned.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_1b7d.pdf
Give to the thick Cunts!….I’ve wasted my breath they dont care about you.The younger models just age badly like their dumb fuck parents natural selection dont disrupt it.
F**k off with ‘hesitancy’, Curzon.
Haven’t you any words of your own?
Wonder if this is the unintended side effect of imprisoning students in halls of residence last year… They’ve all had it due to being locked in in large groups so know they don’t need the jab now.
It’s probably not a coincidence that those who are most “no vaccine adamant” (not “vaccine hesitant” – a term the use of which should carry a lengthy custodial sentence in solitary confinement) are those least likely to slavishly consume broadcast mainstream news and most likely to get their news from a wide variety of sources on t’interweb.
In short – they are probably far better informed about the pros and cons than the previous two generations.
When insanity is promoted by the entire “influencer” sector, it becomes harder to get angry about what they are doing. To my mind, the government, journalists and celebz promoting the Great Covid Terror should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, and if found guilty they should be put up against the wall – after the death penalty is re-instated, obvs.
But as the criminals hold all the power, the enormous scale of their crimes goes unreported. I imagine it is a little like Germans and Russians muttering quietly about events in the 1930s but gradually learning to live with them.
I suppose it is possible the government knows something about the long-term threat Covid-19 poses, and doesn’t wish to cause a national mental breakdown by telling us how bad it is. I suppose it is possible the vaccines are just brilliant, and will protect us from this bio-weapon, hence the need to vaccinate people of all ages.
Possible, yes. Probable? No.
If this isn’t the case, and I really don’t think it could possible be, then the government (and MSM) is genuinely guilty of crimes against humanity. This is pretty chilling, because if they have done what they have… Read more »
‘I suppose it is possible the government knows something about the long-term threat Covid-19 poses, and doesn’t wish to cause a national mental breakdown by telling us how bad it is.’
In that case, why has Ivermectin et al been disparaged? Something very sinister is afoot.
The brainwashed won’t be persuaded to challenge the narrative, though.
It could be because Ivermectin is not much use against the long term threat of whatever it is that was manufactured in the bio-weapon lab.
However, I rate that possibility as less than 0.01%, and the probability that the government and MSM editors are effectively war-criminals at 99.99%
Sadly, I have to agree – I never dreamed the Western governments would embrace tyranny with such alacrity.
Erectile dysfunction has been added to the symptoms of covid. The experts know this will affect young people who do not get the jab due to outcomes from studies of the 85 yr old’s who got the disease. Its taken this long to announce these findings from previous studies because the old boys have only just rediscovered their pieces of string.
I’m in the under 30’s and I’ve had immense pressure from my father to get this jab. Unfortunately, two extended family members had very severe side effects from the AZ. Despite this, my father is still very keen for me to get the Pfizer. According to him its a different jab and the effects are very rare so I have nothing to concern myself with. He also has a habit of discussing my concerns with others to try to convince me otherwise, almost ridiculing me in a sense. I have tried to show him the yellow card site, but according to him these reports are mostly from hypochondriacs and are very small in comparison to the amounts of people saved from covid. I really don’t understand why my own father is so dismissive when his own family members have suffered as a result of these jabs.
According to the official QCovid risk calculator, if you are 30 years old, male, with no underlying health conditions, your risk of catching and dying of COVID-19 over a 90-day period based on data from the first peak of the pandemic is microscopic, only 0.0004% or one in 250,000.
Compare this with the risk of dying of short term side effects of the vaccine, which are not zero, but 1 in 50,000.
So you are 5 times more likely to die from immediate side effects of the vaccine than of corona at the worst of the epidemic, and that without even knowing the potential long term effects.
Choosing to be vaccinated under such premises is not only irrational but crazy!
A long time ago I was compelled to tell my dictatorial and censorious parents to fuck off, literally, and then have nothing to do with them for many years. You may find that you have to do the same.
I think the schemes only serve to increase scepticism, even among the already stabbed.
If 90% of the population having “immunity” is not enough for our lords and masters – and there isn’t an epidemic model in the world in which an epidemic doesn’t end with 90% population immunity – then we are entering a new phase of dystopia.
We’re already in a new phase of dystopia
This is not hesitancy, it is simply a rational decision.
According to the official QCovid risk calculator, for a 19 year old female with no co-morbidities, the absolute risk of catching and dying COVID-19 over a 90-day period based on data from the first peak of the pandemic is 0.0002% or 1 in 500,000.
Compare this with the risk of dying from the short term side effects of the vaccines, which is 1 in 50,000.
So a 19 year old female is 10 times more likely to die from vaccination than corona.
Avoiding the vaccine is just a rational decision, isn’t it?
and a 19year old female is likely to live to 85, so the woman has 66 years to live with vaccine side effects.
“and a 19year old female is likely to live to 85”
Depends on where she lives, and whether she’s too blasé about going out at night on her own.
The only people I know who have suffered illness and death during the past 18 months, are those who have taken the experimental gene therapy, notionally referred to as a ‘vaccine’. I personally do not know of anyone who has died of Covid.
Same here.
The gov’t really struggles to find coherent messaging on why the immune should get vaccinated. Which is obvious really because there is no reason at all. I was amused when I got the text reminding me for the eighty millionth time to go get a jab — because i was at home self isolating (bah) and nursing three family members enjoying a bout of covid-flu. So I had a look at why the gov’t thought I should have the jab while obviously immune, and all I could find was a bit about the old BS about natural immunity maybe not lasting as long – which is now proven false as far as I can tell … and a lot saying “its safe so why not”. LOL.
My risk from covid: zero. My risk from jab: >0. Hard decision? Nope.
My optimistic prediction is that this is a final “push to victory” from HMG on jabs and the narrative will shift in about a month or two to “of course natural immunity works too” and it will all be over. I base this on nothing except…
Did anyone notice the BBC carrying articles over the last day or so saying… Read more »
The story has changed because there is a high take up of stabs, which they plan to increase further this autumn, by a new fear variant, by increasing and making more obvious the pariah status of the unjabbed, and by stabbing children.
They want to appear reasonable to a degree this summer because they know the voters expected an end to it all once stabbing was through. They believe that will make the people more willing to trust them when they up the “variant which evades vaxx” propaganda in late summer, mid August probably. So not long to wait.
Bedwetting article on the Daily Wail about last night’s crowds in London is getting absolutely hammered in the comments.
A colleague just commented on it: “spot the mask – thick idiots”. I bit my tongue.
Epsom Racing – Good. Wimbledon Tennis – Good. G7 Meeting – Good. Football – Bad. London Rallies – Bad
I’m seeing a theme here!
Is it just me, or does it appear that anywhere the working class might congregate is a super spreader event according to the MSM? But typically middle class events, like Wimbledon, don’t appear to have the same problem?
can’t be letting the peasants have any fun.
In various ways ’twas ever thus: it’s the rich wot gets the pleasure, it’s the poor wot gets the blame.
Professor Jonathan Ball? Never heard of the chap, never seen his name before, but hey-ho! Unlike buses, which are useful, just when you don’t want to hear another peep out of these time-served perishers, along comes another bloody Professor of Mumbo-Jumbo. Do these wretches do anything other than take to the media to spout nonsense?
It is sad that many people automatically assume other people are a threat despite the vanishingly small number of people with who are likely to be infectious in most areas.
Rise up against the mindless medical tyrrany. The UK has become the laughing stock of the planet. C’min folks.
“Ministers appear relaxed about the slowdown, arguing that removal of quarantine for the fully vaccinated when going on holiday or coming into contact with an infected person would act as an incentive to boost take-up.”
Ministers appear relaxed about clear medical coercion to take an experimental treatment and creating a two tier society.
They are part of the Elite so restrictions don’t apply to them.
We can thank this brave young man for using his musical talent to get the message across to the youngsters.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDIBrpuxzA
Is there any credible information emerging on the vaccination status of
Christian Eriksen
Emma Radicunu
The two West Indian women cricketers who collapsed one just after the other
BA and other pilots?
Have heard that younger people are finding a lot of items on Tik Tok that give them reasons to be ‘hesintant’ful
Boomer here. I am just about incandescent with rage that people in my age range expect young people to get vaccinated in order to protect them. Neil Oliver had a phrase for it on Talk Radio: “adults sheltering behind a wall of children” (or very close to that).
yea but we’re not even protecting them by taking it. Makes no sense. The “vaccine” does NOT stop the spread. NO proof whatsoever.
The lies are so blatant I just can’t see how brainwashed one needs to be
Ouch.
Others have used that sort of terminology, i.e. using children as shields for the elderly. It’s very apt. It throws the whole “for the good of society” back in their faces. I’ve said the same on other sites, and said it was deeply unethical and immoral to coerce children and their parents into being vaccinated against a virus that barely affects them.
Take a look at the graph at the bottom left hand of the page below. Vaccine take up appears to be at the lowest level since mid Jan.
https://data.spectator.co.uk/city/vaccines
And yet, “infections” in the vaccinated are growing ….
The young people are just right, the experimental vaccine will never be as good as natural immunity.
They have long lives to live and the last thing they need is poisoned by someones black art
Is it wrong to want all the people who chose the jab (especially ones who did it just to “go on holiday”) to die? Asking for a friend.
For the majority who’ve succumbed to 15 months of non-stop propaganda, yes it’s wrong.
People like Hitchens however…
Many people I love, including my only son, have chosen to have the injection.
Many of my family members have chosen to have the jab also. I would never wish ill of them despite my own concerns. In fact, I am extremely concerned I could lose them come this winter should their immune systems go into over drive. I’ve already had two family members suffer very severe side effects and I don’t wish to see anyone else suffer.
I suspect the minutia of this covid rule or that covid rule will become pretty irrelevant by the time the winter is over
‘Events dear boy events’ as someone once said
Don’t fret too much right now, sit back and enjoy the show
Get the popcorn in, it will be in short supply in the winter