Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called on the Government to re-impose mandatory face masks on public transport and has recommended that members of the public wear them voluntarily in the meantime. Khan has also called on Londoners to protect the NHS this winter by receiving a Covid booster vaccine when it becomes available, as well as to book a place for the annual flu jab. The MailOnline has the story.
The Government has been resistant to bringing in ‘Plan B’ measures, which would see the reintroduction of mandatory facemasks indoors and guidance to work from home and the use of Covid passports.
Mr Khan called for Londoners to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu to protect the NHS this winter.
It comes as official data shows more and more adults in their 30s and 40s are choosing to wear face masks on buses and trains amid spiralling Covid cases.
An Office for National Statistics poll found 33% of middle-aged adults wore coverings while on public transport at the start of September.
But just a month later this had ticked upwards to almost 40%, despite no change in official guidance.
The London Mayor said in a statement that the “deadly virus has not gone away and this winter we’re facing both flu and Covid”.
He added: “The worst thing we can do is to lower our guard, be complacent and underestimate the risk these viruses pose to all of us.
“The situation with Covid in London is so finely balanced that it needs all of us to act together to protect ourselves, our loved ones, the things we enjoy and our NHS this winter.
“That’s why I’m urging all eligible Londoners to have the booster vaccine and flu jab as soon as you are offered it, continue to wear a mask where you can and I’m calling on the Government to put simple and effective steps, such as mandatory face coverings on public transport, in place to halt the spread of the virus now.”
The Mayor’s comments came after a leading scientist suggested measures in ‘Plan B’ may not be needed if data continues to show a decline in cases.
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Well, he would, wouldn’t he? Does anyone else agree that he looks a right prat in that fancy virtue-signalling muzzle? (Though he looks a right prat without it too, I suppose.)
Further to my previous comment, I was astounded by the variety of different masks people were wearing on the London Underground. I did think there should be an I-Spy Masks book!
For example:
5 points for simple dust masks and blue paper masks.
10 points for black cloth masks.
10 points for masks which had elastic or rubber bands so strong they were pulling people’s ears forward.
15 points for masks with logos or fancy patterns on them.
20 points for people wearing masks, hoods and dark glasses with very little face visible (the super-safe!).
Had a few days in London last weekend.
On the London roads, apart from a few people wearing masks, it looked like a city getting back to normal – no signs of a virus anywhere. Some bags of waste on street corners awaiting collection but helping to sustain the rat population I expect.
Perhaps more people masked in shops and restaurants, but no one cares if you’re unmasked. I did see some people standing up to pay at a restaurant and putting their masks on to do so, but apart from that insanity it all seemed reasonably normal.
On the Underground I saw perhaps 10-30% unmasked. I assumed the loudspeaker commands telling commuters to wear a mask are triggered because people in CCTV control rooms can see the unmasked stood about, but the unmasked simply ignored the advice. No Underground staff or Transport Police spoke about mask wearing even if you asked them a question. I did see Sadiq Khan several times sat opposite me on the Northern line! Well it looked like Sadiq Khan but I couldn’t see all his face as he was wearing a mask! Best to not say anything to him as he presumably wanted to… Read more »
We Londoners have no interest in Mr Khan’s insanely unbalanced ideas. We need forensic audit of the recent London mayoral election. Were computerised methods used at any stage? Computerised methods are egregiously vulnerable to fraud. I haven’t met any Londoners who voted for Mr Khan.
There is no end to this fools hypocrisy.
Well he can go and **** himself. I’m marching in London today and will using the tube mask free, “vaccine” free and distancing free. I WILL NOT CONSENT “WE WILL NOT CONSENT”.
The purpose of mandatory masks is to force people to eat shite and say it tastes delicious.
What’s with the mask fetish anyway?
Um, no. Question, when we removed masks earlier this year did infections go up or down? Exactly. I’m all for adding in more ventilation (which does work) and encouraging people to good hygiene (never touch the handrails in any tube station). But, no. You are already clamoring for Plan B. And we don’t need it. It won’t help anyways. People are free to use masks. If they work, they are protected. If not, then…why bother?
How long before he demands vaccine passports to use public transport? I hear that the CCP has learned how to do that (and more). Maybe he has a hero in Premier Xi?
Sadiq Khan is a midget. And a Muslim. Probably gay too.
“amid spiralling Covid cases.”
Must be a usage if “spiralling” that I am not familiar with.
This is an FOI I sent to the Department of Infrastructure in Northern Ireland recently, as the Minister decided to stick with the face masks on public transport “based on the data” she claimed. I thought that’d be a good data set to look at. So I asked for it. Their response
“I am not aware of any evidence that relates specifically to their use on public transport”
This is what amounts to public health policy these days. Mass experimentation based on nothing but myth and legend.
I assume that none of the links provide any actual data for any other setting either? (yes, I could look, but there’s a limit to how much evidence-free government bollocks anyone can tolerate!).
If they have managed to find data to show the muzzles make a difference, they would be the first in the world to do so!
The links they provided refer to the case made in the Delve Report from summer 2020 that was used as the primary support for masking in the UK.
It’s full of holes. As are the masks.
At the very least it shows that her claim that “the data shows us its been an effective measure” is based on nothing at all. Just made that up.
Thanks for making the FOI request – good question you put to them – bet that had a few simple servants twisting in their swivel chairs trying to put an answer together!
And yet, on PT in NI there is announcement after announcement that face masks must be worn.
Sadiq Khan is wasting his breath as he doesn’t have any authority.
F-Off Khunt and maybe look into knife crime etc.
He will struggle to get this one to stick again. No one is wearing the godforsaken face nappy on the tube these days.
I’m glad to hear that. Here in Wales 99% of people are wearing the damned things in supermarkets!
Masks = WEF Globalist agenda. No more, no less.
If you can stomach it, look at this organisation:
About Us:
#Masks4All is an all-volunteer org that started and powered the movement for people and Governments to follow the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows we need to wear homemade masks in public to slow COVID-19.
https://masks4all.co/about-us/
UK version:
https://www.masks4all.org.uk/about
Co-Founder and leader:
Jeremy Howard,
Distinguished Research Scientist at USF; Founding Researcher at fast.ai; Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council
All roads lead to High Lord Schwab, Emperor of Davos.
Most of those I saw wearing masks on the Tube yesterday were wearing them with large gaps next to each cheek, so presumably as long as the airborne virus is expelled backwards it’s ok? That’s “The Science”, right?
Also, adjacent to the signs in carriages telling people to wear masks were the Underground’s latest adverts rejoicing that the air is renewed in their carriages every 3 minutes, which is apparently with the effect of “keeping us safe”. These adverts have been in place since late summer as far as I recall, so they can only have been put up for SarsCov2 reasons. In other words the air is renewed which they say keeps us safe, but we still need masks.
But, as the virus is airborne and the air is cleaned every 3 minutes there seems little need to wear masks which worn by almost everyone don’t prevent something airborne circulating anyway (see first paragraph) to keep us safe. Apparently masks are for everyone’s safety according to the recorded messages hammered out of the intercoms on buses and in Tube stations. Unless the air isn’t really cleaned in such a way as to make it “safe” and the ill-fitting masks… Read more »
He’s an selfish activist
Deleted as Cristo had already posted on the screaming hypocrisy of this Mengele.
If face masks worked, people would wear them, just like if vaccines were safe and effective, people would be fighting each other for them. But masks do not work, and vaccines are neither safe nor effective, so no one wants to know.
Vaccines, what vaccines? Oh, you refer to the therapeutics!
I call for mandatory removal from office of communists like Sadiq Khan who share platforms with Yemeni terrorists like Anwar al-Awlaki, but it’s not going to happen.
As someone who actually uses public transport regularly, it’s clear that fewer and fewer people are using face masks, even on TFL where it is a condition of carriage. The ONS , like YouGov and their dodgy polls aims to influence behaviour rather than reveal the truth.
Why do people in his position not read the research on face masks, especially after the highly suspicious screeching U-turn over their efficacy.
This https://evidencenotfear.com/why-face-masks-dont-work-a-revealing-review-john-hardie/ sets the position quite nicely.
Sadiq Aman Khan knows masks do not work.
Facts do not matter. It is all about control.
He’s just feeling a bit powerless and his little ego is bruised because so many people in London are going bare faced on his little transport empire.
Cases have dropped day on day this past week. Cases are still officially below the 60k per day in July. Cases are pretty much meaningless. Masks do nothing without social distancing and arguably nothing full stop. Masks don’t stop flu. Vaccines don’t stop spread. If you get covid they leave you to your own devices at home and fingers cross for either getting better or ending up in the hands of the NHS (chilling) who don’t want you anywhere near it regardless.
a shorter summary would be. Fuck you Khan you utter idiot. Go sort out knife crime.
Hypocrite …
Bare-faced cheek?
Bare-cheeked arsehole.
The absolute state of this cunt. What does it say about our country that this is the finest political person who can (pretend) to lead London ?
A classic example of the “Napoleon Complex”. Add a layer of Left-wing to that and you end up with this.
Sadist Khan
No. One of the worst things we can do is to overestimate the risk that these viruses pose to all of us, and thereby lower our guard and be complacent about the huge damage that totalitarians and fascists like Khan are doing to our society.
And thinking that you can vaccinate your way out of this is delusional.
Of course, these people continually propagandize us and positively encourage us to lower our guard, be complacent and underestimate the risk that these so-called vaccines present. They work tirelessly to dupe us about all that.
Viruses? plural???? am I missing something or has he let a cat out of the bag?
I thought face coverings WERE mandatory on public transport?
Not that I have ever worn one. But you know, they make endless bloody announcements.
They are/were (!) They’re still “mandatory” on PT but not required by law. So people have decided that THEY’LL decide what they want to do, and nap-wearing has dropped significantly (thankfully) which is now upsetting the little dictator.
the announcements made on the PT I use make them sound like “law” as if you risk being thrown off for not wearing them
I think only TFL services?
Yes it’s a condition of carriage (not law) on TFL. Nowhere else in England as far as I know. They can deny you carriage on TFL if you refuse to wear a mask and are not “exempt”, but they can’t fine you or arrest you – though they could probably get you fined or arrested for refusing to leave their property once they have requested you to do so.
Several other operators (hello Northern Rail) are really going overboard with the passive-aggressive announcements to “encourage” people – worded to almost-but-not-quite imply that they are mandatory.
The Tyne and Wear Metro I believe, but only people getting on at Jesmond and Gosforth are likely to take any notice!
From some 15 years, UK is tasting and suffering what hidustanic people can do when given a grain of power.
Just think who is on the top decisions of most of the high tech corporations. Not the Owners but just the Top Employees and this ‘being’ is no exception.
Portugal offered them, with tea and curry, to Britain some centuries ago.
When they have no power they are the best servants.
When power is offered it is best to go to another place.