Concerned that British holidaymakers arriving back in the country may lie when submitting lateral flow test results, ministers are planning on requiring testing to be done during video calls with ‘health advisers’. The Mail has the story.
The Government is planning to replace the requirement for double-vaccinated travellers to take a PCR test on their return to Britain with a much cheaper lateral flow swab.
But the Health Secretary is said to be concerned that those taking the tests could lie about the results.
He is proposing travellers do their lateral flow test on video calls supervised by a health adviser from a private firm, the Times reported.
This is similar to the way some pre-departure tests which were scrapped last weekend were conducted.
No date has been set for the change but there is speculation among travel industry leaders that it will be around October 25th, the start of half term for many families. …
Airlines and tour operators have been hit hard during the pandemic, and have accused the Government of being too slow to relax and simplify the rules for international travel.
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How about just scrap the worthless jab requirements, useless testing, stupid masking and farcical quarantine (for everyone, not just those who have surrendered to the jab) and get international travel back to normal!!!!!
‘You can’t obey your way out of tyranny, you have to disobey your way out of tyranny’ – Awaken With JP (a brilliant YouTube channel)
I expect they will be compiled into a weird video for Bozo to watch with gratification, as some sort of domination porn.
So the government has even more money to spend on hiring a company to watch you do your lateral flow test times a million people? Who on earth makes these kind of ridiculous decisions. Why won’t the uk health authorities simply follow the scientific data which clearly says their is minimal Covid transmission on aircraft due to the improvements made in ventilation. Yes the airline companies will do whatever it take to get bums back on their planes.
A simple daily reminder to take Vitamin D would have cost nothing. A nudge to lose weight again costs nothing. Encouragement to eat a healthy diet, get exercise daily and a good night’s sleep costs nothing. And yet all of these simple, free examples of public health advice have been COMPLETELY ignored. Another missed opportunity. But we have loads of money to babysit people performing a lateral flow test. Something is seriously wrong folks.
not only completely ignored but ACTIVELY FRUSTRATED for long periods of time when the country was locked down – not allowed to take exercise, not allowed to go to health food shops [not classed as “essential” in my region] not allowed to get out to the sunshine (if you didn’t have a garden and lived in a block of flats), stressed to bejaysus levels with the fear porn. It isn’t about public health, or about a virus, but about control.
When wIll people see the road they are travelling. It seems to me that the majority are so hooked on their holidays they will do ANYTHING. We will now have fluoride added to our tap water. Fluoride is the drug used to calm down and control those who went to the gas chambers. We ask why they were so docile???? Fear and Fluoride. Yet not one historian or one politician is prepared to stand up to the plate.
we will get through this but anyone, ANYONE who suggests government or monarchy be put in place to run the country must be sent to an offshore island without a paddle
Big Brother is watching you.
Wouldn’t it be easier for governments to have a camera in everybody’s rooms?
Now where did I read about that idea?
A government that doesn’t trust its citizens is morally bankrupt.
Is there any evidence anywhere of significant symptomatic infection spread by returning holiday makers?
Or is this just another excuse to show they can control us whenever they want?
The latter, clearly.
Just say no, refuse to play.
If enough people rebel against this wickedness, it’ll fail.
What the government geniuses don’t seem to realize is that you only lose trust once. The opposition might be small initially and you can succeed at bamboozling the majority at first, but as time goes, every new individual pissed off by their “policies” will never follow any more of their crazy orders any time soon. Should a REAL danger emerge, this sort of “let’s keep exaggerating and keep crying wolf like idiots” policy will be directly responsible for increased damage among the no longer compliant (but maybe that’s the goal).
That’s a very good point, there is a one-way ratchet effect, you don’t go from scepticism to I-believe-the-BBC, but you can go the other way.
What real danger were you thinking of?
It would appear TPTB mistrust us as much as we do them.
Guaranteed to produce a respectful, cohesive society.
sorry don’t have a smartphone
It’s only the not so smart that do.
Have we forgotten this one already?
“Orwell’s Australia: 15 minutes to take your photo and text to the government
People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person.”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/orwells-australia-15-minutes-to-take-your-photo-and-text-to-the-government/
This was already done past year for monitoring quarantine in Poland. Not sure how well it worked, probably not enough policemen to check on all the people who didn’t give a fuck about the app.
From a private firm…. yes, ‘Honest’ Faisal of Halifax, time for you to set up another company, there’s more money to be made!
You can just imagine the types of people behind these ‘firms’.
You can just imagine the types of people behind these ‘firms’.
Tory ministers and Labour front benchers?
Great to see the vaccination program is running so well that the government is still in a state of fucking fear.
Another Government contract for a ‘private firm’. Will he dare give it to an old acquaintance, a Tory donor perhaps, or just another wad of taxpayers dosh for Serco.
How about scrapping these stupid requirements altogether, or is that too simple a suggestion?
Never mind the stupid testing requirements, it’s the genocidal vaccines that need to be scrapped.
Can we envisage Javid filming himself doing a lateral flow test in front of a stranger the next time he has to travel? No we can’t. The humiliation rituals are for the plebs.
I’m sure that people are already “lying” about the PCR tests by swabbing the wrong person as you can do it all at home. It’s quite simple, just do free lateral flow tests and if someone comes up positive don’t swab them, swab someone else.
Or if you want to have evidence that you have recovered from COVID-19, find a friend who has it and swab them when you are free and clear.
None of this is remotely secure. And, it is certainly not secure enough to make any difference to the progression of the virus through our communities.
None of this is remotely secure. And, it is certainly not secure enough to make any difference to the progression of the virus through our communities.
What virus?
Guilty, instead of presumed innocent. Why do we listen to this Fascist government drivel. Stay home and destroy the tourist industry.
Yes that is clearly the way forward and think of the money you’ll save.
I’ve done an LFT on a Korma curry. Result: negative. True.
I have heard that schoolchildren use orange juice to get a positive result, so they can avoid school.
that and Ribena
After transgenderism, road-blocking eco fanatics, covid hysteria, footballers bending at the knee, etc., etc. can anyone doubt we are going through a period of collective madness last seen perhaps in the Middle Ages?
I highly recommend “The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages” by Norman Cohn.
As Jung said “We are on our guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are exasperatingly careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind.” -Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 130.
the five stages of collapse
““The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages” by Norman Cohn.”
That takes me back.
It’s called conditioning.
As each day passes I am more and more convinced that the governing classes are suffering from some kind of mind virus. Rational boundaries were crossed many months ago and I simply won’t play their stupid immature games.
It’s time for the grown-ups to take back control from these delinquents.
So are going to record you, or just watch? What happens if I dont do it properly but say I did? or they say I didnt, but I did…
fucking idiots. fucking idiots everywhere.
No bother, holidaymakers can be filmed shoving these tests up Kim Jong Johnson’s arse.
Just tell them you can’t do it via video because you don’t have a webcam or smartphone.
Just don’t use your smartphone to tell them that.
Becoming a detached observer – it’s fascinating to see how an essential basic false premise (that SARS-CoV-2 is an ’emergency’) has spiraled into a ludicrous fantasy land of measures that no rational person would previously have contemplated.
Sigh. More psyops.
I used to laugh at people who called things “psyops” but after the last 18 months it’s hard to think anything else.
That’s exactly how I feel now.
Did I read this correctly? You have to be double vaccinated to travel abroad (which means then that the vaccine isn’t really voluntary and citizens are being blackmailed into taking it), but once you have consented to two doses you still have to prove your health “status” using a questionable diagnostic. Either the goal posts are constantly shifting or the vaccines aren’t quite as effective as we’re being led to believe.
No, you dont have to be jabbed to travel.
Either … or
No. Both
My son has recently travelled to Russia and has not been vaccinated. He has tests to comply with and has to isolate on return.