At a special Downing Street press conference convened at 5pm, the Prime Minister announced that face coverings would become mandatory in shops and on public transport and everyone arriving in the U.K. would have to take a PCR test, regardless of their vaccination status, in an effort to curb the spread of the new Omicron variant. BBC News has a summary:
* PM says anyone arriving in the UK will be asked to take a PCR test for COVID-19 on the second day
* They would then have to self isolate until they provide a negative test, he says
* Rules on face coverings will be tightened up in shops and public transport, with a review in three weeks
Rather confusingly, Chris Whitty said there was a “reasonable chance” the new variant can partially escape the Covid vaccines and, in the next breath, said it was therefore very important for people to get the booster jab. Eh?
So, if I’ve understood the Government’s reasoning correctly, because two cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in England, it’s essential that as many people as possible should get a booster of a vaccine that is already largely ineffective against the spread of the Delta variant and is even less effective at preventing the spread of this new variant. Clear? Oh, and in addition masks are now going to be mandatory on public transport and in shops, but not in pubs, bars or restaurants because, as any fule know, the Omicron variant poses no threat to people eating or drinking. And this new mask mandate has been imposed in spite of the fact that there’s little robust evidence that tight-fitting, disposable, surgical masks do anything to suppress infection, let alone loose-fitting, multi-use, cloth masks.
Is this a new low in Government idiocy? Has anyone else noticed than ‘Omicron’ is an anagram of ‘Moronic’?
Stop Press: Read Michael Curzon’s reaction to the Downing Street briefing at Bournbrook.
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I did wear a face nappy the first time round and am obliged to wear one in my job, as it’s a healthcare setting. However, this time around I shall just say ‘exempt’ if challenged by any jobsworth.
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Covid “Nu” (Omicron) variant a COVER STORY for accelerating wave of vaccine deaths
https://www.brighteon.com/049472b3-a836-4aeb-8e81-152d5c2146d8
More and more comments stating this new variant isn’t new, it is less virulent than delta and it is the natural progression of a virus. Now if we would just stop the experimental biologicals and let nature take its course. Despite masks, lockdowns, school and business closures not making a dent in transmission the health authorities of GB want to run them one more time. Anyone else in the slightest worried about the lack of common sense, scientific thinking in your health authority? I know I am.
Moron was a word associated with the Eugenics movement in the USA. Coincidence?
Try again. Posted this earlier, and for whatever reason it (was?) “disappeared”…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/south-african-doctor-raised-alarm-omicron-variant-says-symptoms/
“The first South African doctor to alert the authorities about patients with the omicron variant has told The Telegraph that the symptoms of the new variant are unusual but mild.
Dr Angelique Coetzee said she was first alerted to the possibility of a new variant when patients in her busy private practice in the capital Pretoria started to come in earlier this month with Covid-19 symptoms that did not make immediate sense.
They included young people of different backgrounds and ethnicities with intense fatigue and a six-year-old child with a very high pulse rate, she said. None suffered from a loss of taste or smell.
“Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” said Dr Coetzee, a GP for 33 years who chairs the South African Medical Association alongside running her practice.”
I know why they are not imposing mask mandates in pubs and restaurants etc. It will be because they want a spike in cases in those environments and then they can impose vaccination passports. Something they have wanted to do for a long time.
So much for your theory that Boris is a lockdown sceptic, Toby!
South African doctor – “”symptoms are very mild”. Nobody told the Prime Idiot, I guess
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/south-african-doctor-raised-alarm-omicron-variant-says-symptoms/
“The first South African doctor to alert the authorities about patients with the omicron variant has told The Telegraph that the symptoms of the new variant are unusual but mild.
Dr Angelique Coetzee said she was first alerted to the possibility of a new variant when patients in her busy private practice in the capital Pretoria started to come in earlier this month with Covid-19 symptoms that did not make immediate sense.
They included young people of different backgrounds and ethnicities with intense fatigue and a six-year-old child with a very high pulse rate, she said. None suffered from a loss of taste or smell.
“Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” said Dr Coetzee, a GP for 33 years who chairs the South African Medical Association alongside running her practice.”
It’s beginning to look a lot like lockdown! Here’s a few infectious songs to inject some fun into a Covid Christmas:
Staying Home for Christmas
When A Child Is Born (Jab It)
Baby It’s Covid Outside
Coughing Around the Christmas Tree
Shite Christmas
Merry Xmask Everybody
Fairytale of New Variant
Omicron is Coming to Town
Little Saint Prick
Lockdown This Christmas
Feliz Covidad
(Your) Last Christmas
God Test Ye Merry Gentlemen
Hark The Herald Angels Ping
O Come All Ye Vaccinated
OMICRON = MORONIC = yes apt and a laugh, but..
OMICRON = ONCOMIR = a much more sinister anagram. It’s microRNA associated with cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncomir
And just by chance, Israel on Thursday held a “war game drill” OMEGA in case of an outbreak of a new lethal variant of Covid-19. Just a coincidence of course..
OMEGA goes live and then OMICRON appears worldwide a day later..
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3155763/israel-holds-war-game-case-lethal-new-coronavirus-strain
A nurse resigned claiming the toxic vials were numbered 1 2 and 3. Those numbered 3 were cancer inducing toxins so what you have said makes sense.
TPTB have a seemingly gleeful way of letting us know what they are up to, it’s almost childish.
I have no doubt there’s a link between OMEGA and OMICRON and that cancerous anagram ONCOMIR.. its the sort of sick game these people indulge in.
The planning for this has been going on for decades at least, and the way that the announcement of OMICRON has overnight been acted on by corrupt politicians in itself tells the tale.
We’ll all be dead by Christmas.
Anybody know how the Amish are coping?
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1464725903519453184
“The new Omicron variant of the Coronavirus results in MILD disease, WITHOUT prominent symptoms.” -Angelique Coetzee, the chairwoman of the South African Medical Association.
What a clever little virus it is. It’s got no brain but it knows the difference between shops, public transport and bars/restaurants and never hangs around outside the latter.
It obviously got into Bozo’s brain before he made his idiotic announcement yesterday. He must have left his flies undone.
Is it coincidence that the timing may put people off Christmas shopping and decimate footfall in retail giving more profits to Amazon et al.?
Could be but I think it’s to stop people booking Christmas breaks. TPTB don’t want the plebs filling up planes, hotels and resorts. And to push another toxic jab into people’s arms, and to cover up the amount of illnesses this winter caused by injured immune systems.
It’s interesting to see once again what those two buffoons flanking Fat Comrade Pig had to say back in 2020 about masks:
https://twitter.com/JamesLadbroke/status/1412710376651821057?fbclid=IwAR1crWKbgVFHgm6usOQfwKwGWcOlhEEPzFhqd1x1UDJSZTD0f-YPeXmzYfs
I think we all know what to do from now on: refuse to comply. If you’re at all nervous about doing so don’t be. In total, I have been asked about a mask twice and both times simply said “exemption”. The first time was amusing actually because it was at Wickes just as the Manager was telling his team how to deal with customers who do not wear masks. Cue me walking in at the very moment he was getting into full flow.
Cliffhanger…I’m intrigued, what happened?
DO NOT COMPLY with any b.s. mandates which come out of Whitehall this week. If enough of us make a stand we can show this charade up for what it is. Plenty of collaborators will hate, but hey ho!
The correct spelling of “as any fule know” is “as any fule kno”. As any fule kno…
Has anyone else noticed than ‘Omicron’ is an anagram of ‘Moronic’?
Perhaps whoever named this latest chip off the Kung Flu block was trying to tell us something. . .
More like Unicorn 🦄
I prefer Necronomicon.
Me too. Klaatu verata nikto
FFS this is a must-read if you haven’t already.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/11/27/only-the-fully-vaccinated-should-fear-the-new-variant/
This winter is going to be interesting folks.
Omicron, FFS…Do these loons ever see any of the commentaries on these or similar pages? Commentary that clearly points out in no uncertain terms the complete swivel-eyed madness of the thoughts/ideas/gormless meanderings, through their tiny little mind spaces? People have been locked into padded cells over the centuries for far less. There really is very little hope for us as a species I fear if we fall for this one too. Good luck running the planet Meerkats.
TBH and based upon the Bovine behaviour typical of so large a majority of our species, looks like we’re fucked.
We, therefore, deserve everything we get…
Well, I ain’t part of the Homo Bovinus breed and I don’t bloody well intend to be culled, you bastards!
Bandstand in Blake Park – Bridgwater – Somerset. Every Sunday at 10 am meet like-minded people who can see the bleedin’ obvious.
Telegram: Connecting Warriors. MeWe group Connecting Warriors
Other venues are available all over the country, but you won’t find their details on MSM.
If unsure A good start would be Telegram groups for your area. “A Stand in the Park – Bracknell & Wokingham”. Via posts from our very own ‘Lockdown Sceptic’ A regular here on DS
From Monday go out once a day and collect discarded masks, put them in a bin bag and when full add a ‘hazardous waste’ label and deliver to the local council HQ or a jabbatoir or an NHS facility etc. If these things are so effective then they require proper disposal facilities and it is up to these upholders and supporters of the mandate to deal with them.
I think this is a very good idea and something I will be doing first thing in the morning …
Yep. Already committed to this.
Yes, but only when it is passed into law so wait till then.
It has never been law. It would have to get parliamentary approval and put in the statute book.
Been doing it since forever!
Never worn one never will. Got shopping to get today.
I’m sure these words have been quoted here in the past but right now they seem very appropriate:
The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me
You can decide to turn your face away
No matter, cos there’s
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Tho’ you’re doing me wrong, so wrong
The more you refuse to hear my voice
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time
You squander wealth that’s mine
My light will shine so brightly
It will blind you
Cos there’s
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Tho’ you’re doing me wrong, so wrong
Brothers and sisters
When they insist we’re just not good enough
When we know better
Just look ’em in the eyes and say
We’re gonna do it anyway
And to Johnson, Witty, Valance, Gates, Schwab, Fauci, Andrews and all the rest of the evil lying bastards I say – Fuck You!
Labi Siffre👏
it is not yet known of vaccine can slow omicron.Only time will tell on that.
But, ewe loe, we know that the vaccines are the square root of fucking useless at stopping Delta infections or infectiousness.
If the public still go along with this bollocks then I suspect that the whole country is suffering from Stockholme Syndrome – they have fallen in love with their abuser and can’t or rather won’t accept that they are being manipulated and mistreated by the the saviour they placed so much faith in back in 2019 – the very idea that someone they invested so much emotion and trust in is actually abusing them would too much to carry – so they continue to put up with the mistreatment and the threats in the vain hope that one day their abuser will change and do the right thing … but they never change … in fact the cycle of abuse is repeated and the abuse gets worse – we are back in that three week cycle of abuse again.
This abusive relationship doesn’t end until we say enough is enough and walk away.
If masks work why are they sacking care workers?
If vaccines work, why the PCR tests and quarantine for travellers?
If vaccines don’t work, why the boosters?
Whether or not the vaccines work, why the passports?
Oh my head
Sars-Cov-2, the most predictable virus ever, you can set your calendar to its mutagenic rate as apparently Novavax did with their new shot ready to get emergency use approval!
Only when you accept the pandemic is fake does all this bullshit make sense.
It is now clear. They’re lying, consciously. About as ungodly as it gets, given what they’re lying about.
Some people still can’t accept it’s all about depopulation – the constant push to get everyone (even the under fives!) in the world jabbed with drugs that still only have emergency use authorisation, for a virus that doesn’t kill 99.7%+ of the population, makes no sense from a health perspective, does it?.
Exactly.