Restrictions have been partially eased in Scotland today, but it’s not all good news. Scots must continue to wear face masks on public transport and inside public spaces and, more worryingly, Nicola Sturgeon has refused to rule out introducing further lockdowns in the future, saying: “Keeping this virus under control depends on all of us continuing to do all of the sensible things I’ve been talking about.” She told BBC Breakfast (as quoted in the Guardian):
This has been a long, hard year-and-a-half, but we’ve got to continue to exercise care and caution – this virus is unpredictable, and I think it’s true that we underestimate it at our peril. …
Every fibre of my being hopes that the restrictions we are lifting today in Scotland will never, ever have to be imposed, and am I optimistic about that? Yes.
Can I guarantee it? Well, I could tell you that right now for the sake of an easier interview, but it wouldn’t be the right thing to say because keeping this virus under control depends on all of us continuing to do all of the sensible things I’ve been talking about.
We also know that this is a virus that has already mutated, new variants continue to be our biggest threat, so we’ve got to be careful and we’ve got to be realistic.
But I very much hope that all of that, coupled, of course, principally with the power of vaccination, will mean that never again do we have to face lockdowns.
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Is the woman trying to go for the Aussie “solution” of “zero covid”? If so, shouldn’t she level with the Scots? If not, shouldn’t all the nation’s leaders level with us and tell us what level of deaths, hospitalisations, infections, damage to9 the economy etc they consider acceptable?
World Leader Pretend.
This is what Devomax has led to. Thank you David Cameron. Boris Johnson needs to hold his nerve and keep England out of lockdown. Perhaps in time as our freedoms return, the Scots will realise that they have been duped and vote the SNP out at the next available opportunity.
About as much chance as Sheffield voting in a Tory council I’d say.
https://tv.gab.com/channel/standonprinciples/view/dr-destroys-the-entire-covid-narrative-611132777b022aa59dd65777
Refusing to rule out further lockdowns means they are literally planning them. We’ve seen lockdowns DO NOT WORK, the evidence for this is strong, there is no contingency in which locking down can ever help, hence anyone planning them as a “contingency” wants them for their own sake.
Restrictions are not cautious, Nanny Ceausescu
Death to Sturgeon. Preferably by Covid.
FFS – she makes Boris look like a libertarian.
Does she still have a minority government?
id just like say after careful consideration of the facts TWAT!!!!
I was in Scotland earlier in the year for my “staycation” (god help me). I had a lovely time all in all, but the mad maskers were everywhere. I exempted myself a long time ago and in my city I have never been challenged. Maybe I have been lucky. Visiting Edinburgh castle, I was asked to put a mask on 3 times in about half an hour. I was asked in every hospitality establishment I went to. After saying I was exempt, one girl even said “where’s your lanyard then?”. On one train between Arrochar and Edinburgh, the tanoy announcement said words to the effect of “masks are mandatory blah blah, we are checking the cameras so we have evidence of rule breakers etc”. Sturgeon’s on a mad one.
“one girl even said “where’s your lanyard then?””
Did you ask her if she had herpes? And if yes, why doesn’t she have a sign round her neck declaring it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2VoZkuRv4
“Scotland’s first minister has apologised for breaching Covid rules by taking her face mask off at a wake.
The Scottish Sun has published a photograph of Nicola Sturgeon standing talking to three people at a social distance, but with her face uncovered.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-55419564
“I am kicking myself very hard – possibly harder than my worst critic ever could – but more importantly I’ll be making sure I don’t drop my guard again.” Just pathetic. Grovelling over a prop, to placate who? Is this what it’s come to?
That muzzle cannot be hygienic
Looks quite clean on the outside. Inside it would be like well-worn thermal underpants.
Don’t worry, she only wore for the two seconds it took to take the photo.
Police clash with anti-vaccine protesters as they descend on BBC
https://mol.im/a/9876735
Worth checking out best rated readers comments!
Scary how many 77th commentators there are, though.
There were minor scuffles, and no arrests made. It amounted to nothing. Now they’re at Broadcasting House, things are getting heated but they are just about keeping a lid on it, despite the police and usual agitators. Over 5,000 watching currently on Resistance GB, figures the BBC can only dream of these days!
One could almost believe Sturgeon was governing people on behalf of a virus which elected her.
In Biden’s case that would be true.
Can’t you get Bob to do a cartoon of the monster, instead of shoving its hideous non-face at us?
I’m an expat Scot and I’m afraid my next visit to Scotland will likely be my last.
The SNP have destroyed my country.
OT. These are posters just put up in France for Vaccine Passports … look when they were printed:
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZsBBwXZbP53KBC5I87CxLR7RF2dlfulBzby
This is a set up, for us to fall for and look stupid. Sadly a lot of people/sceptics already have apparently. The poster has been printed and laminated from French govt publicity document templates available online, with the false date combo etc. Apparently you can tell it’s not the real thing because it doesn’t follow ‘French govt house-style guidelines’ for layout etc.
Update/postscript: it may not be deliberate; the errors in date and house style may be innocent publication mistakes/hasty central press office errors, according to French journal “liberation” and they’ve just been leaped on by people who’ve become hypersensitive to any signs of govt manipulation and deception, as yet more proof of that, and with good reason, but perhaps not in this case.
They used an old template and failed to update all parts of it. https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/pourquoi-la-date-du-20-janvier-2020-apparait-elle-sur-des-affiches-pedagogiques-sur-le-pass-sanitaire-20210802_J7QQ73R6NZD75LJR5GT4AV5LWM/
Thanks for the correction!
Will our country ever waken up? Will we ever think for ourselves again? Or are we simply going to keep accepting whatever the dictatorship chooses to inflict on us, and be grateful for the pitiful existence it is our privilege to enjoy.
I’ve seen people moaning about Nicola Sturgeon for months now. I think that’s the best we’re going to get. Moan, moan, moan – and no-one will actually do anything apart from some more moaning. Keep on moaning – she’s not going away.
Imagine a nice sturdy kilt pin securing that piece of tartan.
Looking at that picture of the fish I can’t help thinking of what’s festering in the damp confines of that warm tartan muzzle.
Could’ve done without seeing that thing – time for a walk I’d say.
Yellow-Card data 28th July 2021
This is the best video you will ever watch about the virus, how it spreads, how the vaccines don’t work and are in fact making matters worse and how governments and politicians are promising the impossible – watch it and share it as much as possible.
This is what we need right now – hero’s standing up and speaking the truth.
Governments have convinced themselves and the public that they can defeat this virus – it will never happen – this is why we are all over the place and implementing measures and restictions that do not work and never will – this is why nothing works – this is why we are still seeing rises is cases – this virus like any other respiratory virus (flu, colds etc) is not going away and never will – in fact those who are being vaccinated right now are wasting there time and deluding themselves into thinking they are safe and immune when in fact they are probably the biggest spreaders of the virus variants.
Fantastic video … a must watch and as I say – please share it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUPD0W71iMc
I’m afraid governments haven’t convinced themselves of anything.. they’re acting out a script.. lying.. following the orders of a sick, devious cabal who’ve been planning what we’re experiencing now for decades..
I think it’s opportunistic but agree that they know very well they can’t control a virus
Just looks like a power grab to me
Excellent! This should be shared as far and wide as possible. Copy it before YouTube takes it down.
Too late, gone
Very good, rare, watchable, to-the-point non-waffling video. Thank you.
It’s been removed from YouTube.
Heh, best photo of the Northern Witch that I have seen for ages. Now, if she could just be persuaded to wear dark glasses … !
If she looked like Sharon Stone, it would not be a virtue.
A beautiful totalitarian is still a totalitarian.
I’m loathe to defend politicians, particaurlarly throughout this artificial and fabricated ‘crisis’ but they seldom rule anything out even in normal times. It is a cheap journalistic trick designed to provoke public reaction which always works.
Why would anyone rule anything out?
Of course Nicola Ceausescu won’t rule out further lockdowns, she’d make them permanent if she thought she could get away with it.
Report: 14 Israelis have caught COVID-19 despite receiving booster shot
8 August 2021, 5:55 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-14-israelis-have-caught-covid-19-despite-receiving-booster-shot/
Internal Health Ministry data shows that 14 Israelis have been infected with COVID-19 a week after receiving a booster shot, Channel 12 news reports.
The network says 11 of those infected are over the age of 60 — two of whom have now been hospitalized — while the other three got their third dose because they are immunocompromised.
If confirmed in larger samples, the figures could cast doubt on the effectiveness of the booster shot, which Israel has started administering before major health bodies around the world have approved it.
Afternoon, rational extremists.
So, here were are, in Free Caledonia, now at Level -1.
Still muzzled, still begging Queen Nicola for permission to hold events, still being tracked every time we buy a sandwich or a pint.
Masked while sitting at wedding ceremonies but unmasked while sitting at the reception – but God help you if you stand up to make a toast without putting your muzzle back on.
Still utterly unclear on what, if anything, the distinction between a nightclub and a pub is, and whether punters tonight will be standing around quietly, muzzles on, not approaching the bar, and swaying to their imaginations if music remains verboten.
Oor Greet Leader has no intention of giving up power, and has never intended to control “the virus”, only the proles.
Can’t let go of the muzzles, the visible sign of control. The DM also can’t let go of its propaganda, which is now leading from the daily death of a non vaxxer to climate change
Yeah, I’ve noticed that. Everyday there is a ‘I-wish-I-had-the-vaccine-but-it’s-too-late-because-I’m-now-dead’ story.
All part of the state sponsored propaganda campaign.
Agree, but interesting that the best rated reader’s comment on today’s DM headline article about the Portuguese fatalities.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9875841/Covid-wipes-anti-vaxxer-family-Son-loses-father-73-mother-65-brother-40-virus.html
‘This is absolutely tragic. For the love of God, get vaccinated!’
4560 up votes 3290 down votes
got so many downvotes and the second best rated readers comment:
’Seem to be a lot of these articles lately.. The propaganda is relentless.’
3498 up votes 789 down votes
scored a huge majority of upvotes.
This suggests that a large number of DM readers are seeing through the propaganda and are not buying it anymore
It also suggests that the 77th have targeted sites such as the DM. The comments against todays protestors in London have an eerily similar tone.
Not just the DM. Same shit all over the world:
https://www.kktv.com/2021/07/23/mom-8-nearly-dies-covid-regrets-not-getting-vaccinated/
https://eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2021/08/02/delta-variant-covid-19-hospital-admissions-increase-across-kentucky/5415576001/
From the 2nd link
wow. and they say it’s “anti-vaxxers” that are making shit up.
it’s always projection and it’s all the time.
Lock step..
Despicable excuse for journalism. They never publish a story of a RTA death with a suggestion that we all stop driving or travelling in cars.
amazing how all these youngsters are suddenly dying when none of them died prior to the miracle cure being available. Today’s lot are conveniently in Portugal making it just that little bit more difficult to check if they actually exist or not.
Indeed, but they can’t really be called youngsters. The reality is that they are very much exceptions and by no means the norm. My mother is worried about me because of ‘all these unvaccinated people now dying’. I had to give her another lesson in perspective and propaganda.
A 24-carat authoritarian who has been loving every minute of the extra control she has been able to exert. And don’t get me started on the appalling Humza Yousaf and his Stasi-esque ‘Hate Crimes Bill’ rubbish. And now he’s got the Health portfolio.
Scotland is a Kafkawellian nightmare these days. Every aspect of civic life has been poisoned by the appalling SNP, every part of the state bent and twisted in pursuit of their vile, moronic ends.
I am appropriating Kafkawellian for the struggling proletariat, comrade-pal.
Yes.. and an ugly bitch to boot..
Apparently in uni she was called seaweed as not even the tide would take her out
It’s so blatently a symbolic muzzle, the mask. I don’t know why more people don’t see it. It creeps me out.
Shhh.
i’m trying to sell her some malaria nets
Dam, you’ve got a finer mesh than my old football nets I’m flogging .
Madness isn’t it? I now, (more often since 19/7), see some people with them just over their mouths which is bizarre. I find myself sitting in the cafe watching folk with their little comfort blankets. The ritual of ordering with a mask on, sitting down and taking it off, putting it back on to collect their drinks, taking it off when sitting down again, putting it on to select a paper to read, off again to sit down, then on again for the 4-5 steps to the exit and finally off when outside, (mostly), must surely be behavioural- no sane person could possibly think that this could affect a virus in any way- especially given the variety of masks, the way the things are handled, left on tables, etc. It’s so obviously pointless and yet the majority still do it. On the train station platform, there are messages constantly imploring us to wear masks to consider others, respect others, keep everyone safe, etc. but not one mention of them being effective at stopping the virus. It’s constant propaganda and the message is clear- I don’t care because I don’t wear one. Sorry, but I have to respect myself before I… Read more »
It’s just become a normal behaviour. Remember that until very recently, it was considered perfectly ‘normal’ to sit down at a pub table and take out a roll of paper containing the dried leaves of a plant, set fire to it and inhale the smoke. Nothing rational about it, it was just accepted.
My wife misses those days…