The Prime Minister has stated that there is currently “no evidence” to implement a Christmas lockdown, despite what Sky News calls a “rise” in Covid cases. (In fact, they’re falling.) Johnson also said that, instead of new restrictions, members of the public should receive a booster jab when they are offered the opportunity, admitting that the effectiveness of the first two jabs does “start to wane” after a time. Sky News has the story.
Speaking to reporters during his trip to Rome for the G20 summit, Johnson once again insisted ministers are sticking with the current plan to tackle Covid and there is no reason to activate the Government’s ‘Plan B’.
Asked if he could guarantee a good Christmas, he said: “I see no evidence whatever to think that any kind of lockdown is on the cards.”
His comments come after the NHS Confederation, the British Medical Association and scientists called on the Government to take steps to ease the growing pressure on the health service.
Covid infections have risen across the U.K., with recent Office for National Statistics estimates showing the same proportion of people in England have the virus as at the peak of the second wave in January.
However, hospitalisations and deaths remain well below the levels seen earlier this year – in part due to the vaccine rollout which has seen 45.7 million people fully vaccinated.
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Lockdown, mid November. Foot on throat time again. Happy Xmas, John. Happy Xmas, Yoko.
“members of the public should receive a booster jab when they are offered the opportunity, admitting that the effectiveness of the first two jabs does “start to wane” after a time.”. Isn’t that the definition of insanity, to repeat the same action hoping for a different result.
Johnson can try to put the country into lockdown – I don’t know anyone who will follow it. He’s lost all credibility and trust.
Are you kidding? There are still plenty of sheeple ready to self-flagellate for the cause.
80% of the UK population will follow it, just as they did last Christmas – empty trains, Police patrolling to scare anyone who dares to go outside ‘without a valid reason’, face masks back on, more spraying of the supermarket trolleys, any Tom, Dick or Harry put in a Hi-Viz vest with the words Covid Marshall on the back.
Whatever… for those who have had their second or even third jab, time is still running and their ‘Vaccine Passes’ will lose their validity after 12 month maximum. Those who have had just one shot are unlikely to be able to catch up … or what will the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ be in future?
This week is the SEVENTH week of jabbings in schools for the 12 year olds up. Any headmasters been hauled into court over this yet?
I don’t think the police have the stomach for any more “peppermint tea two” incidents. None of the fines they imposed stuck.
Well, he might actually be clever enough to avoid the risk of what might happen to him and others if they try it on again; we’ll see.
So Christmas will again be denied. I suspect the unjabbed will be blamed and the NHS will protected. This is now becoming bread and circuses for the rich and the gladiator pit for the poor.
Christmas lockdown or something very similar is exactly what they will do… since christianity is the main target of the globalists behind the C19 fraud and their Great Reset.
The churches capitulated en masse at the start of this so there are no concerns about fight back from that direction.
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Double-jabbed Keir Starmer locked himself up (pity not indefinitely) after testing positive the other week. And yesterday it was reported that Eamon Holmes is ill with covid despite being double-jabbed. The berk had this to say on twatter:
Being double-jabbed didn’t stop covid from apparently catching you, did it Eamon?
Yet you can bet your bottom dollar that he will be a proponent of the vaxport once the next variant miraculously shows up in time to ruin Christmas.
Double jabbed people who catch covid attribute their “miraculous” survival to the fact they are double jabbed when in fact covid is not particularly serious for almost everyone. I had covid, felt very rough for a day and then back to work the next day (did lose sense of taste and smell for a lot longer but not worth stopping the world for).
Saying that, Eamon Holmes is carrying a lot of timber so he may have been bit harder.
And congratulations on The Daily Sceptic getting a wider circulation/more views than all those other communist papers combined. This is because there are more sane people than communists and also because the comments section actually respects free speech with quality moderation.
Here’s a very simple question for Alexander “Bojo” Johnson. How come the vaccines protect against covid-19 but not against the unvaccinated?
The regime does not have the right to force us to play Russian roulette with our sons’ hearts. #nuremberg2
There’s no reason to… but he’ll start the planning process as soon as the Climate Change nutters leave Glasgow on 12th November.
Just a quick ,slightly off topic ,question.
the press are reporting that as of today France has 6500 people in hospital with covid, and 1000 in ICU. This isn’t too different to the UK figures of 8000 in hospital and approx 900 on ventilators.
Yet reported case numbers in France are much lower, and 7 day average deaths much lower too.
You might conclude, assuming that French and British hospitals admit people when they get to a similar level of severity of illness that figures are being routinely misreported in one or both countries. You might also conclude that vaccine passports are useless, or that french hospitals do a better job of keeping people alive.
thoughts?
Fatal mistake. Most ‘cases’ of covid in hospitals are of people already in hospital and take a PCR test which records positive. I have no evidence to support different CT rates used in each country, but its possible. ‘ICU’ in France does not have the same definition as in the UK, its a wider definition of treatment and certainly includes patients who are well on the way to recovery. In both cases of course, the patients may be in ICU because of the original reason for their admission and nothing at all to do with covid. However they are recorded as covid because of the positive PCR test. Hospitals are happy to do this as they gain financially from the allocation of more resources with more covid patients.
Quite seperately , of course passports are useless as they don’t signify anything to do with infection or transmission. They do signify conformity which is after all what is intended.
UK has historically carried out a lot more tests than most other countries so that is going to throw up more cases by its very nature. As to hospital numbers, obesity levels in the UK may be a factor?
Which basically means that as soon as he finds a reason (or at least tells us about the reason he’s already found), it’s lights out.
Here’s a chart from ONS data showing that in the middle of the year (week 26), how few all cause deaths were in the unvaccinated. It’s the little green bit on the right of the chart. Would be interesting to see the up to date chart.
If the deaths are any idea of hospitalisations, and it’s the same now, which I expect it is, I doubt it’s the unvaccinated that are causing any pressure at all on the health service! They seem to be the healthier ones at the moment.
So called cases been falling for a couple of days now and even before, they were well below January levels. That’s why these people have again switched to their meanwhile known tactic (first used in January) of referring to ONS estimates they’re usually ignoring: In order to claim that cases aren’t really falling because someone estimates, that is guesses, that they simply can’t be doing this.
The idea that (example) People must be forced to wear masks because we estimate some must be infected with something is positively surreal.
Definitely a lockdown then, announced at the very last millisecond.
The Johnson knows how to go in hard and fast.
(Those of a sensitive disposition can interpret this as a reference to the PM’s comparison of his withdrawal of the Tory whip from 21 MPs to Roman emperor Augustus’s brutal cull of his enemies 2000 years ago.)
What is this rise in cases they are talking about. On the ONS site they have dropped for a week now, and today were back below 40K.
‘According to the vaccine rollout’.
Or maybe a lack of dry tinder!
Who cares?
“Boris” Johnson is an evil liar.
Wish the DS wasn’t so obsessed with him. He’s not going to be our saviour.
Stick to the basics – covid was not an unprecedented deadly pandemic.
Anyone who thinks that comrade Johnson’s word can be trusted just hasn’t been paying attention …
No reason to plunge into a Christmas lockdown, Boris? There was no reason in March 2020 and look what happened.
Cue: the “Glasgow variant”…which the boosters will be shown to work miraculously against, increasing their precious “vaccine effectiveness” exponentially thus widening the gap between the righteous and the sinful and laying the ground for the original policy which was jab freedom licences all along just in time to separate the jabbed from the unjabbed at a time of family festivity.
Happy Christmas.
Of course religion is not the natural bedfellow of their hardline global communism (see N Korea for details) so it might be the last one we get anyway.
But while waiting for the knock on the door, you could still enjoy the sight of a tearful Boris Johnson saying
PS The Anthropogenic Climate Change lie and the Vaccination Versus Pandemic lie are fated to shack up together and have a baby at some point. That is obvious.
PPS The state ideology in North Korea is highly religious.
A family get together has just been cancelled because one of them (who was getting regularly tested for payment) has just tested positive, and has to isolate for 10 days! So now they’re all getting tested, and all want to stay away from each other again despite being triple-bloody jabbed! Hubs and I though, are the danger apparently, because we won’t comply! They just don’t get that it’s THEIR compliance that’s keeping this shit going! We’re through.
@Helena – To be regularly medically tested for payment is quite sad, but I hope they were paid well. What’s the false positive rate for their test? And what is the value of
(1 – the FPR) ^ (the number of tests they took) ?
That will give you the probability of NO false positive occurring in the first n tests, for a person who was negative all the way through.
(I am just playing the game here, because even being really SARSCoV2-positive matters almost not at all to the health of a reasonably fit and well person. But the above maths as far as it goes is thoroughly sound.)
Wear a mask, Johnson, you pumpkin!
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Question: How can they tell? It wasn’t effective in the first place!
Does he mean it stops killing people after a while?
There is no reason for any more lockdowns, restrictions, mask mandates, vaccine mandates or vaccine passports none of it … all have been proven to be wholly ineffective, total bollocks and in many cases more lethal than the virus itself – all a complete waste of time not to mention billions pissed up the wall in taxpayers money – we want every single one of our normal freedoms returned as they were intact when we were swindled out of them pre-March 2020 and no going back to this medical tyranny ever again.
I do hate to contradict a fellow sceptic, just felt your comment needed a wee tweak,
There was never any Reason for Lockdowns
Apologies Sir Spartacas.
They won’t be returned – they have to be taken back.
If anyone really believe this gobshite from the fat pig dictator then I have a bridge to sell them.
Once more a quality weekly bitchslap of reality from Mr. Oliver…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U2UoR-oB1M
We are COP26 apart… come what may building for a US v THEM showdown… the fall out of which, for those coerced into dubious experimental medical treatments… well… frankly put ugly….
Neil Oliver is an absolute star and a very welcome flag bearer for the opposition. He’s reaching into millions of homes with his brilliant monologues.
When he was swanning around the coast with the wind blowing through his hair, I thought he was a whanger while Mrs Borg thought he was every so lovely.
On closer acquaintance, I have realised that he is an absolutely solid chap, while poor Mrs Borg is traumatised that she didn’t realise what a dangerous science-denying fascist[*] he was.
[*] Loving freedom is the new fascism, I am told.
I think he is brilliant. If only we could swap him for that fat fraud in No 10.
Awesome video/speech. 🙂
The only thing reliable about that man is his inability to speak without a forked tongue.
Get Con26 out of the way and then back to Con 67+million.
With a heavy heart, alas, I fear the commentators here are right: some s*** this Xmas comes.