Just days after it led the public into believing that plans for vaccine passports were off the table, the Government has announced that they will be introduced – along with mask mandates and potentially another full lockdown – if booster jabs and vaccines for healthy teenagers fail to keep Covid infections down this winter. Laying out its new plans, the Government said it is “committed to taking whatever action is necessary to protect the NHS”. MailOnline has the story.
Fronting a press conference alongside Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, the Prime Minister insisted that the U.K. was “incomparably” better placed to deal with the disease this year.
He said he hoped the situation could be kept stable with more jabs and the public behaving sensibly – although ministers have made clear another lockdown cannot be completely ruled out.
Professor Whitty gave a more downbeat assessment saying that infections were “high” relative to last year, and the NHS was under “extreme pressure” even though vaccines were helping significantly.
Meanwhile, Sir Patrick seemed to send a thinly-veiled message to Mr. Johnson by saying that when it comes to measures to stem cases the lesson was “you have to go earlier than you want to, you have to go harder than you want to”. …
Earlier, Sajid Javid was heckled by Tories admitting that ministers can only give Britons the “best possible chance” of avoiding brutal curbs.
In a statement to MPs, he stressed that vaccines can help “build defences’ against the disease, with boosters for the over-50s and jabs for under-16s starting next week.
But Mr Javid was hit with howls of rage from Conservatives in the Commons as he said the blueprint includes the ‘Plan B’ of making masks compulsory “in certain settings”, more working from home and social distancing if the NHS is under threat.
Vaccine passports will be kept “in reserve” and could be introduced in England with a week’s notice, even though they will not go ahead from next month as originally intended. …
The Winter Plan document lays out the details of ‘Plan A’ and ‘Plan B’. But although it does not go into detail about other contingencies, it states that further steps cannot be ruled out.
“While the Government expects that, with strong engagement from the public and businesses, these contingency measures should be sufficient to reverse a resurgence in autumn or winter, the nature of the virus means it is not possible to give guarantees,” the document says.
“The Government remains committed to taking whatever action is necessary to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed but more harmful economic and social restrictions would only be considered as a last resort.”
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Today my husband, who has cancer was told he could not have a blood test because there are no blood vials. Does anyone else think we have a problem? However, if you would like a dozen or more lateral flow test kits, just walk up to one of the thousand nhs mobile Covid units dotted around the entire country. Plenty of money to waste on that nonsense, and yet not a blood vial to be seen. We are in serious trouble folks, when the flipping nhs cannot provide blood tests as needed. Oh and if you want a flu jab, come straight in. Even though there will be no flu this winter. And once you have had your flu jab and your next Covid booster, things will be so confusing, no one will be able to separate fact from fiction. That should be fun🥰
Sorry to hear your difficult situation.
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The b*****d child of tony blair now rules. Not a genuine conversative party.
Big government = big trouble (as per history of the uk). No interest in addressing the huge public debt and a slave to the monolith nhs.
Time will tell….
And of course rates won’t ‘stay low’ this winter. It was declared openly last September that henceforth flu and ‘covid’ would be counted together. How fiendishly clever – ensuring that ‘rates’ will be inflated by flu anyway. The behavioural psychopaths certainly got their act together, didn’t they?
Evil gits!
No doubt flu will be zero this winter again and COVID high. I hate these people with their Big Lie to impose totalitarianism. No evidence, no debate just assertions from nameless “experts” who don’t allow challenge.
Short and to the point https://tinyurl.com/duwjyx2r Mike Yeadon
Go earlier and harder, before the numbers naturally go down. I think they should wait until the sheep have their third clot-shot – which, hopefully will take us ’til after Christmas. The un-vaxxed should then also have herd immunity.
And how many healthy teenagers who miraculously got tested positive overburdened the NHS exactly?
Please, please at least use the correct terminology and stop referring to covid infections. Covid is not an infectious agent it is a disease, which means you have to have symptoms. The infectious pathogen is SARS-CoV-2 which may or may not result in disease.
This conflation of terms is exactly what is being used to continue with the restrictions. If you have a positive test for the virus then you are a covid case, which is absolute nonsense.
In my working career as a surgeon most years in the winter months I had operation theatre lists cancelled because of pressure on beds : it will be no different this year for surgeons still working.
As we entered the post Christian era the UK population substituted the NHS God and the religion of NHS worship has failed to see the horrors that it is creating. It is when Governments are able to pronounce to public acclaim that it is the duty of society to suffer to “Protect the NHS” that the absurdity of this fanatical religious cult should be questioned. The cry emerging from some ITU consultants is that they are working to breaking point, when the units are not full but clearly there is a major problem with staffing as any hospital doctor can observe.It is a supply side issue.
It is not silly attempts to do something by pretending that several days old pieces of cloth extracted from a pocket have any part to play in altering transmission, or potentially damaging decisions to vaccinate children that will save the health of this country but stopping discredited guessing machine called epidemiologist such as Ferguson frightening people and removing… Read more »
Bravo Sir, very well said and may I vote for you?
It’s inevitable! Colds and flu (COVID) season is imminent, and, as has been shown, the number of ‘cases‘ will undoubtedly be manipulated to show whatever Witless, Unbalanced and the Savage Jabber want them to be. The Manic Stream Media will gleefully promote it all to the quivering moronic masses.
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The scum know it is coming, just a case of waiting. As in after 1945, those brave Jewish camp survivors had a mission, a beautiful vengeful mission.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9990935/Former-Dragons-Den-star-Rachel-Elnaugh-slammed-vile-tweet-saying-Chris-Whitty-hang.html#comments
Think Bob sums it up. Trouble is only a few of us can see it. On a brighter note I have been talking to one or two in my street who are getting pretty fed up. I’ve given Laura Dodsworth’s book to the lady at no.71. She had no idea about Ivermectin, the average age of death from/with Covid, the IFR or any of the basic stuff she had just been listening to all the guff from MSM etc. Hopefully her eyes are about to be opened. She seemed up for it after her mini education! Fingers crossed.
If passports can be brought in at a week’s notice, we all know they are printed up and ready to roll. Gaslighting the population is now becoming the way to govern. No debating, no voting and no democracy. How so many people can be under this globalist spell is proving to me that the Ascension is very close. The harvesting of souls. https://energeticsynthesis.com/index.php/79-energetic-synthesis/1791-what-is-ascension-2
Disgusting and still the British public remain compliant…
Well seeing as the NHS whine every year about being overwhelmed but never is then what does this even mean?
It’s a threat, fear again to get people to comply.
If the NHS cannot cope, scrap the NHS.
Yes, it’s a threat that plays well in the media and they’ll have a field day creating a whole host of fear porn headlines, lapped up by the masses and spat back in your face when having a chat about masks/vaccines etc with one of the converted. If the NHS can’t cope, maybe use some of that £38 billion from the magic money tree they wasted on Track n’ Trace, to build more hospitals and hire more doctors and nurses. And instead of clapping like a bunch of overexcited seals, actually do something that supports the NHS. I don’t agree with scrapping it – I think that’s the subplot playing out here anyway.
Please have some sympathy for the door soldiers who have to turn up, do the hard yards, bow and scrape to their utterly inadequate “higher administrative authorities”, go home , look after their families and themselves, get some rest and repeat the next day – and we are 21 months into this madness. Not great , is it?
What happened to ‘Cry freedom!’ once the elderly and vulnerable were vaccinated? What happened to making sure we took our time unlocking to ensure it was irreversible? I don’t think Johnson knows or cares how many lies he tells anymore- just says whatever he thinks will make him look at any given point in time. I honestly think he exists on soundbites and forgets what he said immediately afterwards. No one can lie this consistently otherwise.
Whatever they say, it’s usually the opposite which is true. So they say they’re scrapping the vaccine passports…truth is they are preparing to introduce them. They say there will not be another lockdown…truth is another lockdown – or firebreak as they are now calling them – will be introduced at some point over the winter. SAGE are calling for even harder lockdowns. We should all know what the plan is by now – to introduce Digital IDs. On a global scale, this is extremely worrying, we are walking into a digital prison and I thought that 1984 was just a book, it seems it was a warning.
Sunday javid says no passports no masks
johnson says no lockdowns
Tuesday all reversed again. Cruelty a sadistic game being played on the British public.
why lie and mislead on Sunday if they knew they would change on Tuesday. How can any business or indeed anyone plan with this bunch of sick people in charge
I genuinely think they are criminally insane and sadistic.
It’s quite apparent now that injecting yourself with one of the Government’s approved covid ‘vaccines’ is tantamount to giving yourself a form of lupus.
or worse!
The end game is the passport. It always has been!
Of course it is, then comes the credit score app as in China.Why people can’t see this is beyond me.
Johnson looks decidedly shifty in the middle of his 2 handlers.
Re the cartoon at the top – maybe an alternative could be Commservative Gov
What the fuck. Three jabs for over 70s in 10 months and that’s not good enough to stop veiled threats of lockdowns, useless bloody masks and anti-educational school closures?
Jesus, it doesn’t take any acumen in science to realise that something is deeply wrong with this strategy.
But hey, keep your heads in your sand pits … or up the arses of your conformant mates.
For God’s sake, just say “no” to more shit.
Hold the line, people, this is gonna get fucking ugly!
Exactly – we were told back in February/March that vaccines were the way out of this – vaccines were the road back to normal – well three jabs later including children and this government is still making threats to withold our freedoms – rights and privileges that were not simply handed over willingly but were swindled from us and stolen under false pretenses because they promised that it was temporary and would save lives – both were lies – this does not end until we all say it does – the more we comply the longer this nonsense goes on – and here’s another thing – this government must fall if there is any hope of returning back to normal – this is a government that can no longer be trusted – it is a government that addicted to the manipulative methods of psychological abuse to control and coerce people into doing their bidding – this is a tyrannical government.
Vaccinate the vulnerable and you’ll all be free and happy, they said as they loaded the sheep on to the lorry bound for the abattoir.
Hooray, we’re so happy, bleated the sheep as they leapt joyfully on board.
This must be the most authoritarian government in the history of British politics – this is a government that is hooked on control through fear – its a government that took away our freedoms under false pretenses and promised that the measures were temporary – now that promise to return those freedoms come with caveats and underlying threats that they will be confiscated once again whenever they feel the need to do so – this is what the start of tyranny looks like – this is the road to totalitarianism – this is a government that rules by fear this is an evil government.
Absolutely, evil personified!
Only if we let it.
“Whatever action is necessary to protect the NHS”.
Like no more lockdowns or fear porn for example?
So lockdown, social distancing, masks, and the added delicacy of vax passports are on the way, as it is obviously inevitable that numbers of infections and hospitalisations will rise as we go into autumn/winter. Beyond farce into dark, dark waters …
Evening. I am perplexed as I listened to Whitless say you were 9 X more likely to die if you were unjabbed? .. yet in today’s daily sceptic it said those poor souls dying were 70% double jabbed . Anyone know the truth ? Please thx x
He is using this shambles of an analysis. It’s as bad as some of the scary graphs they presented in the past.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-fully-vaccinated-people-made-up-just-1-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-england-in-first-half-of-2021-figures-show-12407019
And of course it doesn’t stack up.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/14/why-is-the-ons-claiming-just-1-of-covid-deaths-are-in-the-vaccinated-when-phe-data-shows-the-true-figure-for-august-was-70/
https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1437769574615764992
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-12/31381
Whitty and Vallance know this.
They all fucking know this!
Vallance is in this scandal up to his neck; he knows all about the development of SARS COV2 – see the Highwire and it is all laid out there as with other blogs – I could no more stand up and pontificate as he does than fly to Pluto on a brick.
Reading this, I have the words ‘disgusting’ and ‘turds’ in my mind. I have nothing but contempt for these people.
Hoisted by his own Petard?!
Sorry I don’t get it
Correlation between the vaccine rollout and the upsurge in cases, hospitalisations and deaths. The numbers to date are greater post vaccine, yet the answer is more vaccines! You’ll find this correlation in all highly vaccinated countries. For example, Israel, where nearly the entire adult population is vaccinated and proof of vaccination is required to access restaurants and indoor events, now rolling out a 4th round of shots as spread soars to record highs.
But infections will stay low because we have all been vaccinated surely .The minute this is not the golden apple then the vaccine will be rendered useless and their uptake will vanish.The govt have promoted a double narrative throughout this virus period .Protect the healthy ,send the elderly home from hospital .Get your vaccines ,vaccines dont offer full protection.Please get your second jab ,you now a need a booster .Constant ly shifting their plan as the bullshit behind each one becoms exposed .Its over .tell yourself ,tell your friend and tell your employer and then get then to tell everyone they meet .Its over (if you want it)
Even if millions die of the vaccines, the gov will not admit it’s happening. They can get away with it because too many souls are too scared to confront the harsh reality. This is what the Commies did very effectively for DECADES.