There’s was a particularly downbeat tone to the Prime Minister’s speech on Monday evening in which he said that the country can proceed with easing lockdown restrictions on July 19th, but “with caution”.
The mood was set by Health Secretary Sajid Javid earlier in the day, who confirmed Government plans to urge large indoor venues to implement vaccine passports. In his speech, Boris Johnson said he expects and recommends people to continue wearing face masks after “Freedom Day” and cautioned that “this pandemic is not over”. The Guardian has the story.
Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister urged “extreme caution” on Monday, as he gave the final confirmation that Step Four of the ‘roadmap’ would go ahead next week.
It will mean nightclubs can reopen, social distancing rules will be abandoned and mask-wearing will no longer be legally enforceable…
But in a marked shift of emphasis from a week ago, when he said mask-wearing would become a matter of “personal choice”, Johnson said he would “expect and recommend” that face coverings be worn in crowded indoor spaces, and people were advised to limit their contact with those outside their households.
He warned businesses such as nightclubs and theatres that it was their “social responsibility” to check their customers’ Covid status; and said he expected the return to offices to take place only “gradually”.
Government documents said that ministers will “consider mandating” the NHS Covid Pass if “sufficient measures are not taken to limit infection”.
The Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, had earlier told MPs: “This is not the end of the road. It’s the start of a new phase of continued caution, where we live with the virus and manage the risks.”
Under questioning from the Health Select Committee Chair, Jeremy Hunt, Javid declined to rule out imposing new restrictions in the future, if ministers judged it to be necessary.
Government advisers expect about 1,000 to 2,000 daily hospital admissions over the summer as restrictions are lifted, and 100-200 deaths a day under what was described a “central scenario”. This would depend on how quickly the public’s behaviour returns to normal.
Minutes published by the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) also highlighted the threat of a new vaccine-resistant variant emerging in the U.K., which they warned would pose a risk to the whole world.
Johnson said there would be an increase in cases whenever restrictions were lifted, and it was better to do so now, with the “natural firebreak” of the school summer holidays, than during the autumn or winter when the NHS is already under intense pressure.
“But it is absolutely vital that we proceed now with caution, and I cannot say this powerfully or emphatically enough – this pandemic is not over,” he said. “This disease, coronavirus, continues to carry risks for you and your family. We cannot simply revert instantly on July 19th to life as it was before Covid.” …
Speaking alongside the Prime Minister, Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, said that while a rise in infections was both expected and inevitable whenever restrictions were moved, the scale of this, and the subsequent impact on hospitalisations and deaths, depended on the public.
He said: “If behaviour returns immediately to pre-pandemic levels, that would be a very, very big rise. If we go slowly and cautiously, that will be less of a rise.” …
[An official] document said the Government would, in September, review the country’s preparedness for the coming months “which will consider whether to continue or strengthen public and business guidance as we approach the winter”.
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Johnson’s default position is to lie
Johnson and his cronies might expect and recommend that the useless face coverings still be worn in crowded indoor spaces. However, as a free-thinking adult, I’ll choose to ignore both the expectation and recommendation from a serial philanderer and liar.
What choice do we have?
They aren’t following the science at all, the dates are chosen specifically for the Elite to go on or return from their holidays.
I just want him gone! The sooner the better.
Yes. But who will replace him? Another mendacious tory megalomaniac or a mendacious labour megalomaniac?
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At a time like this we need a courageous, decisive and strong leader. A Thatcher or a Churchill. Unfortunately we’re lumbered with this pathetic, jelly-belly lump.
We can but dream. Can you imagine what Mrs T would have done with Michie and co. in SAGE?
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It has become apparent that, much like any cancer, the branch Covidians need to be completely excised
Hopefully the gene therapy will do the job
Around and around we go, where it will stop nobody knows. Its like living in the film Ground Hog Day, except this is reality. Unfortunately i did predict we wouldn’t come out on the 19th.
We will never come out until these criminals are forceably removed from office. But who is going to do that? Not our cowardly parliament.
B&Q for rope, garden forks, and hammers.
As one of the ‘highly vulnerable’ targets of these pseudo-vaccines, and a life-long sceptical scientist, I make my own decisions on what risks I take. So I adopted the vitamin D supplementation policy from the start, and now have Ivermectin – thanks to suppliers in India – as my back-up. If this government was serious and really did “listen to the science”, then every High Street chemist would have abundant stocks of both, at the right dosages, for those many now inevitably destined to become infected to treat their infection before it becomes one of those pseudo-‘cases’ that the media still insists are identical to infections.
Correct! But the “vaccines” are more profitable and cannot be used if there are treatments. Also the “vaccines” have other benefits, though not to the recipients. I can’t decide if they were designed to be dangerous or if that is just a welcome bonus.
As with all communist regimes the people are pitched against each other. Divide and Conquer. Only this time it is far far worse. This corrupt Government are not working for its own end game of wealth and subjugation.
This government is working for Globalist takeover and depopulation. Small and medium businesses will be broken and destroyed as the big venues can cope with enforcing rules that suit them. Like trading regulations, minimum wage and PAYE have all helped the Corporations as they destroyed the SMEs chances to grow.
As a nation, we the people, have mow to decide whether we become part of World Communist Government and create poverty and serfdom for our grandchildren. OR we stop this vile projection in its tracks.
Why is LS parrotting pro-lockdown MSM articles with no critical comment? What is the point?
We are not “proceeding with caution” and have not been since March 2020. To characterise the coronamadness as cautious is one of the Big Lies and LS should be calling them out on it mercilessly.
There was internationally agreed pandemic planning in place, adopted by this country, endorsed by the WHO, that explicitly advised against almost every sinlge measure that has now become orthodoxy.
Opposition to lockdowns isn’t some crackpot position adopted by conspiracy theorists – it is just following what everyone agreed was sensible, based on decades of experience and consideration.
We must not concede the language. We are too defensive. Govt actions have been reckless and for them to prolong those actions in the face of all the evidence is reckless.
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“…Speaking alongside the Prime Minister, Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, said that while a rise in infections was both expected and inevitable whenever restrictions were moved, the scale of this, and the subsequent impact on hospitalisations and deaths, depended on the public…”
So there you have it: when we get locked down again it’ll all be our fault and nothing to do with the government or the way they handled this situation. What spineless cowards we have governing and advising us. More insidious gaslighting.
‘Speaking alongside the Prime Minister, Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, said that …‘
… his earnings from share dividends were looking very healthy. However, he added that lockdowns will continue to be necessary until his on target earnings for the current financial year show a pre-tax profit of five million pounds.
So playing the variant game there’s no end to this. Their wishing (hoping) that a variant comes along that avoids the current vaccination programme or natural human immunity. But there’s a couple of points that need to be made.
1. The variation (or mutation) of this current virus from the original is very small. The virus maintains 99% of was original form. The chances of a variant evading the immune system if someone has been previously infected with the virus is unlikely. Moreover, the reinfection rate with this virus appears incredibly small.
2. If the virus follows the path that most viruses do will it may become more infectious but it should become less dangerous. Currently the so called Delta (Indian variant) of Covid-19 in the young and healthy now has become nothing more than a bad cold.
The bottom line is we have a respiratory of virus now endemic in the population that has been treated by the government as akin to something like a ebola. This level of insanity is hard to believe.
And of course it’s only being called the delta variant because a not fit for purpose test has indicated that someone has covid when perhaps they actually have a summer cold, no more no less, or even hay fever.
It’s not so much not fit for purpose as not fitted to the purpose for which it is being used, rather like trying to use feeler gauges as screwdrivers.
Anything less than Sars Cov 3 is moot
as both 1+2 were easily identified by the human immune system with a 30% difference and after 17 years
Of course ‘caution’. Its akin to telling the mask wearing bedwetters to walk across a field they may contain landmines…! Keep em scared and let em eat cake…Obesity is the biggest pandemic this world is facing!
Yep: surely the first time Bozo has led on anything!
As Boris was giving us his blah blah blah the latest figures came up. 35 something thousand cases and SIX deaths.
Come on people, Javid is looking for 100-200 a day to pork it. Dont let him down!
Just the news the moronic bed wetting wetting, facial nappy wearing sheep want to hear!!
So “as you were” then.
Watch this, it will blow your mind. It exposes who and what is behind this nightmare called a ‘pandemic’. Class action lawsuits bound to follow this. It’s a criminal conspiracy of massive proportions.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-david-martin-dr-reiner-fuellmich-july-9-2021_RlmKScwsMf6ATEG.html
Indeed….something to send to the spineless MPs to digest over their extended break.
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If Mr Alexander Johnson had moved the goalposts at Wembley as readily as he does with these rules, England could not have missed any penalties.
The Cowardly Lion has finally worked out that extending the “route map” would have negative political consequences. That’s a positive; he’s getting concerned about sceptics/ civil disobedience.
But instead he’s basically telling private businesses to enforce the restrictions for him.
And anyway, this is only a summer break: in September we already know that restrictions will be re-imposed because they’re levelling the pitch now.
This isn’t Freedom Day; it isn’t Terminus Day.
He lied ….. and he must be held to account.
They are training us to accept total control through digital IDs. It’s so obvious now. Be good or we will be forced to put a collar on you. Which we will do anyway.
We need to fight them.
Is it me, or are the lunatics in charge of this fiasco totally without logic? IF one believes that Covid-19 is truly a threat to “you and your family”, then lockdown easing should not be happening. IF it is that dangerous ( which it isn’t), why on earth would the authorities encourage the opening of nightclubs, remove the legal requirement to don a useless mask indoors and encourage the return to the office “gradually” (WTF??). IF they believe their own b.s. about the dangers why would masks be only “encouraged and expected” if they truly protect anyone?
Co-vid passports in domestic settings are clearly intended to be the norm ( anyone fancy a dance?), yet these c*nts continue to deny it. Autumn will see a “dramatic” rise in respiratory illnesses ( who knew?), which will be labelled the “new surge/ wave “, which will be our fault for enjoying our new found “Freedom” too much! Then comes the new lockdown ( “it’s the only way to be sure”) and even stricter authoritarianism. I see no way out of this global institution. Revolution is needed, but the cowering, cheering , mask hugging masses just don’t see it.
This is the reason for it all. Johnson etc are merely puppets. This is not their doing.
Watch this, it will blow your mind. It exposes who and what is behind this nightmare called a ‘pandemic’. Class action lawsuits bound to follow this. It’s a criminal conspiracy of massive proportions.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-david-martin-dr-reiner-fuellmich-july-9-2021_RlmKScwsMf6ATEG.html
Everybody should watch this. It’s dynamite and should be on every front page. Sadly we know it won’t.
I wonder how long it will take for that video to be discussed ATL?
Seems the path is set in stone, unlock, implement passports voluntarily or we will make it law, blame, and with a heavy heart lockdown again once the weather is too bad to protest.
just out of interest, why does he keep doing this with Union flags behind him, as if what he announces applies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? (Though admittedly it’s not entirely clear what exactly applies in England with the latest one…)
Because the decisions about England are made by the U.K. government as we are not a devolved nation with our own assembly/parliament/senate.
I suspect the lesson that many will learn from this is that we are not really a united kingdom anymore (and that England, unlike the other members, doesn’t have a government).
Because that’s how Yanks present things and he is simply the actor delivering their script
Some big shopping trips coming up in London very soon….!
Restrictions are moronic, restrictions are disastrous, they are not cautious, you great fat flatulent communist fraud