Sajid Javid has said that the Government is “nowhere near” bringing back full lockdown restrictions in the U.K., saying that the measures “carry a very heavy price”, such as economic damage and negative mental health outcomes. The Health Secretary also said that “people should continue with their plans as normal for Christmas” despite the emergence of the Omicron variant. The Sun has the story.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said “we’re nowhere near” reintroducing working from home or social distancing measures to combat Covid.
He told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday: “We know now those types of measures do carry a very heavy price, both economically, socially, in terms of non-Covid health outcomes such as impact on mental health.
“So, if one was to make decisions like that they would have to be done very, very carefully and we’re not there yet, we’re nowhere near that.”
He added that people should plan for Christmas as “normal”.
“I think it’s fair to say that the nature of this pandemic is it would be irresponsible to make guarantees,” Javid said.
“As for Christmas, I think people should continue with their plans as normal for Christmas, I think it’s going to be a great Christmas.”
It comes as compulsory mask-wearing is set to return next week in a bid to save Christmas from a super-mutant coronavirus.
Boris Johnson ordered the move after at least two cases of the fast-spreading Omicron variant were found in the U.K.
He also urged people to get booster jabs, saying: “It’s more vital than ever.”
Mask-wearing will again be compulsory in shops and buses, trains and taxis in England from Tuesday.
Overseas travel and self-isolation rules have been tightened after the first two cases of the super-strain were detected in Britain.
Scientists will explore how the booster programme can be extended, including to those as young as 18 years-old.
Omicron, discovered only days ago in southern Africa, has been declared the worst variant yet by one expert, while there are fears it might reduce vaccine protection over time.
The Prime Minister’s measures, outlined at a Downing Street briefing, aim to slow down its spread until scientists know just how dangerous it is.
But Johnson stopped short of imposing a devastating shutdown of pubs and restaurants in the run-up to Christmas.
He insisted that if the public stick to the rules and get their jabs, there will be no need for another last-gasp festive lockdown…
Despite the reassurances, the mere prospect of fresh Covid curbs will send shockwaves through the hospitality industry which saw takings fall by almost 80% in the festive period last year.
Johnson refused to give any guarantees but he is clear that there will be no lockdown like last year, and people were not being asked to work from home.
In a further move, he announced plans to step up the pace of the jabs programme.
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Oh dear. If a minister says something like this, it’s a bad omen, and precursor to greater restrictions. Maybe not a full lockdown, but more restrains on or freedom.
Since when do we take medical advice from a politician? Many of the doctors I follow are calling for an immediate halt to these vaccines.
Because of the serious and deadly adverse events caused,
Drs. Peter McCullough, Robert Malone, Pierre Kory, Simone Gold, Zev Zelenko, Kuldorff, Battacharya, Atlas, Sunetra Gupta, Malhotra, Harvey Risch, Tess Lawrie, Cole and hundreds of other doctors are calling for the use of early treatments, protection of the vulnerable and the freedom for all others to get on with their lives. Why aren’t they being asked for their input by this totally incompetent government?
Our healthcare system is about to experience a tsunami! Potential side effects of jabs include chronic inflammation, because the vaccine continuously stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies. Other concerns include the possible integration of plasmid DNA into the body’s host genome, resulting in mutations, problems with DNA replication, triggering of autoimmune responses, and activation of cancer-causing genes. Alternative COVID cures EXIST. Ivermectin is one of them. While Ivermectin is very effective curing COVID symptoms, it has also been shown to eliminate certain cancers. Do not get the poison jab. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
How the variant scam is just that, complete bulshit https://genuineprospect.com/2021/08/02/variants-and-vaccines/
Just received a letter from my children’s school saying that face masks are to be worn from tomorrow in all communal areas (not in classrooms… yet). Needless to say, my children will not be wearing them (they could not choose to do so of their own volition and our school actually threatened to segregate them if they did not wear them, so we had to ‘exempt’ them).
Relative of mine lives in France. They have to don a mask as soon as they step over the threshold of their front door. They do this religiously.
The Co-Op are not too interested in enforcing masks rules- “It’s not our place to enforce face coverings or to refuse to serve a customer who chooses not to wear one.”
My local have never enforced them
One thing we can all do to help is to not wear a mask. Last time, I did wear one, just to be nice and to show respect for the people who were scared. But we are all within our rights not to wear one. The rules are clear, if a mask is distressing for you, you don’t have to wear one, you don’t have to ask permission, and you don’t need to explain yourself. For me, wearing a mask is extremely distressing and I’m not doing it this time. Please do the same, if you can. In some shops it won’t be easy, but please try if you can. We need to show that we aren’t buying this bullshit any more.
Well said. It’s not law, there’s no medical risk assessment, and people have had enough now. If mask wearing worked, if this was a genuine emergency…if the vaccines worked, we wouldn’t be in this situation! But of course we know this isn’t the case. We are being tested to the core now, to see how much we are prepared to put up with. We have to be leaders in this and show others there is nothing to be afraid of. It’s now or never!
When you say ‘now’, do you mean today?
What comes with the omega variant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Man
Then there is the Andromeda Variant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
Also, how long will it be before Saint Boris or one of his merry men is spotted with a naked face on a train, in a shop, or in a hospital? I don’t give it that long.
‘[Javid] told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday: “We know now those types of measures do carry a very heavy price, both economically, socially, in terms of non-Covid health outcomes such as impact on mental health.
“So, if one was to make decisions like that they would have to be done very, very carefully…”’ (My emphases)
What, like conducting a basic cost-benefit analysis, which you lot failed to do the first time round but now ‘belatedly recognise’ as necessary? Just shut your mouth, you pathetic excuse for a human being.
‘It comes as compulsory mask-wearing is set to return next week in a bid to save Christmas from a super-mutant coronavirus.’ (My emphasis)
Do these people hear themselves saying this nonsense in their swedes before they write it down? It’s like we are living out a cross between Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the film Idiocracy. We have the tyrants and the idiots in bed together, only the tyrants know the idiots are idiots, but the idiots are blissfully unaware that the tyrants are tyrants.
What a time to be alive!
From “nowhere near” to Full Lockdown usually takes 4 working days
What he means is “we know there’ll be mass civil disobedience if we try to impose another Lockdown, so instead we’re making some pointless changes to “the rules” and hope that the brainwashed sheeple meekly fall into line and we can keep the media lid on the refusniks.”
before we know it it will be back to bubbles and rule of 6
Two ‘cases’. Two! Out of 67 million people! Are they that arrogant and insane enough to think we’ll fall for that?
Unfortunately significant numbers will. This being due to many being in either a terrified or hypnotic state.
The mainstream media, particularly the BBC and Sky, has been totally complicit in the brainwashing and horror show of the past two years. They have blood on their hands.
The numbers will be whatever they want them to be. There’s no way for the normies to verify them.
As will the variant. How can any of us know for certain that this “variant” exists other than the fact that TPTB are telling us.
When I look at this
banker, I just think ‘Remember 2008’ as a veracity check.Decided to go to town today and visit some shops without a mask and without an exemption card – pleased to see many people not wearing masks in the shops (some are, most were not) and no one asked me about wearing a mask when I went in or to see my exemption card – not much has changed where I live since yesterdays announcement by the fat controller so, so far so good ..- plan to go out again tomorrow and visit a few more shops without a mask and without an exemption card – I think it will help if everyone everywhere possible went maskless and if possible exemptionless whether you buy something or not to put a stop this sinister move back to normalising mask wearing again.
I’ve done this today, I intend to keep doing so. I even had a member of staff from Pets at Home help me carry stuff to my car, across a road. I thought that was totally forbidden by health and safety roolz.
Well said, let’s try to make this happen. This is something positive that everyone can do.
Indeed. One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.
the woman that discovered Omicron reckons its a load of old bollocks
her words – not mine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59450988
Also known as the ‘US panic mid-term election’ variant for Democrats wanting to stuff those postal ballots.
Or the ‘insert your political crisis here’ variant for any useless politician seeking cover for another power grab.
very few people will see through that – especially the people sold on the fear narrative.
Just been having a debate with a friend, I commented on the fact that more people are appearing in hospital and dying of Covid after being vaxxed. His reply was that normalised data suggests that unvaxxed are 5 times more likely to die or end up in hospital. I’m not of a statistical bent but common sense would suggest the control group is still big enough to provide an accurate comparison. Is that what Will was referring to in backing the NIMS data? Any thoughts?
Heart risk after vaccines – Dr John Campbell.
A lot of ordinary folks have been watching this man since the start and value his opinion, so it’s wonderful to see him put the pandemic drums away and do a video like this.
Also amazing YT hasn’t taken it down yet, check out those comments! people are waking up.
The gradual change in his views of the ‘pandemic’ have been wonderful to see.
Campbell is clever. He has obviously figured out that YT can check his words but not his intonation and facial expressions, which he uses to tell us what he really thinks. He has done some good work on Ivermectin but still seems to be in favour of the poison potions.
over 14000 comments – many of them lengthy and recounting their awful experiences post jabbing. Hope this video is seen widely
I’ve already tweeted him and Boris to remind them that I won’t be complying with the BS, not that i ever did..
And I also reminded him the Tories have had 10 years, at least, to stop the NHS being overwhelmed
I’ve written to my MP asking for the statistics (not modelled outcomes) which show that face nappies reduce spread of this particular virus, and for a copy of the government’s cost-benefit analysis which concludes that the forthcoming nappy mandate is a proprotionate response.
Because of course the government will have all this to hand, naturally…
Not to mention all the labour and tory governments since the beastly Behemoth was first set up.
They are all Xi variants. His team kicked it all off.
It came from CHY-NA.
There’s that smug arrogant look again. And so symbolic of the predator class.
That look will be disappearing soon I think.
It will only disappear I’m afraid when people like him are dragged out into the street .
These people will take no notice of demonstrations no matter how large. They feel safe and protected from the public. The Iraq war demo is good example.. Blair just ignored it.
He nails it, as usual.
Indeed.
The doctor treating people in SA/Botswana just on TalkRadio saying that Moronic is very mild and they haven’t been treating anyone.
even the virus must be embarrassed about the response. just wanted to infect a few people – go about its business. now its public enemy number 1. maybe we should put it on trial
virus: in my defence I didn’t kill anyone – look at sweden. yes I helped a few old people on their way – but it wasn’t really me – they’d had died of old age soon anyway
prosecution: you killed 5 million people and gave 500 million long covid
virus: lolz – you should stop reading the guardian
There are around 50 studies demonstrating that not only do masks not work, but that they are deleterious to personal health. They raise blood pressure and induce hypertension due to the recycling of carbon dioxide and increase the chances of bacterial pneumonia. There is also the possibility the increase the risk of coronavirus infection because they cause the wearer to bring hands up to the face more often. Furthermore, not once, anywhere, has mask wearing been shown to have reduced overall rates of infection.
You are being forced to wear them as an exercise of totalitarian power politics and for no other reason. Crowd psychology shows 30% of people will become hypnotised by regime propaganda, in this case mask-mandates. 50% are not hypnotised but will go along with it, aware of the absurdity. 20% will question is openly and disobey.
As the UK sinks into totalitarianism, which group are you in?
As the UK sinks into totalitarianism, which group are you in?
I’ve been hypnotised into disobedience..
Seeing armies of facepantied zombies is certainly bad for my blood pressure.
Especially the idiots who wear them in their cars when alone!
Its only to stop them licking the windows.
TPTB will be well aware that masks are dangerous for the wearer and as far as they are concerned, given their depopulation agenda, this is a nice plus, along with confirmation of compliance.
Every single NPI has at heart the aim of eroding the nation’s health.
They intend to kill billions make no mistake.
I read yesterday that microscopic studies have confirmed that the cotton “surgical” masks are contaminated with parasites even when taken out of their plastic wrapping. People are breathing these things in.
Beverly Turner and Neil Oliver tried valiantly to make the same very good case on GB News last night – Sadly other panellists are so heavily invested in the MSM fear narrative that I doubt they got any traction. But well done those 2 for trying. The prevailing view of the other panellists was “but if it keeps other people safe I am happy to wear a mask”. Arrgghhhhhhhh
Covid-19 vaccine trials cannot tell us if they will save lives
https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/covid-19-vaccine-trials-cannot-tell-us-if-they-will-save-lives/
Doshi hitting the nail squarely on the head, and pulling the rug out from the jab narrative.
‘There is no vaccine that you put into your muscle that can ever protect you from an infection of the respiratory tract. And anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or he’s lying.’ Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, microbiologist. Co-author of ‘Corona Unmasked’ and ‘Corona, False Alarm?’
It really does help to reframe this as a war, the Third World War in fact. Not nation against nation but billionaire corporate class against the masses. It’s a biological war and the S1 spike protein is the weapon, a carefully developed biological agent in development for around 20 years, designed to kill slowly in a way that won’t spook the herd before they are corralled into taking it.
Our historic role is to make sure we don’t give in under any circumstances and nor do our children. We’re doing this to protect the species and our civilisation and must rise above the threats to our jobs/incomes/freedoms etc. We have a duty to uphold. It’s time now to make connections with others who see this for what it is and agree to support each other through what will likely be a very ugly period of human history. We should have our own private and encrypted database of contacts, anyone know a good way to do this?
Silent weapons for quiet wars.. its been in the planning an awful long time..
https://educate-yourself.org/cn/silentweaponsquietwarsmay79.shtml
Very informative and explains a lot. It confirms my view that depopulation is the aim. We are cattle to the elite, slave labour.
The evil of these people is boundless.
Agreed. The regime thinks by making this happen everywhere at the same time, people will have nowhere to flee to. In fact, the lack of anywhere to flee to means an aggressive and violent stand must be made wherever we already are.
I’m glad it’s not just me. I started to see this as WW3 a few weeks ago and wondered if I had gone mad. It’s also a psychological war, pitting the vaxed against the unvaxed. That will get ugly soon. The usual suspects are behind it, and they are clever. They plan meticulously for decades, and they are very good at it. In previous wars, some people could hide, survive, re-group, and fight back. This time, there’s nowhere to hide. You’re right, we should form groups and get organised, but I don’t know how to do that either.
Has the new nappy-legislation appeared yet, or (given that it reportedly comes into effect on Tuesday) do we need to wait until 11.55pm on Monday before they publish it?
Two words to describe the governments latest shambles, predictable and pathetic.
OMG… My smartphone has caught the virus :
OKWU Omicron – Specifications (devicespecifications.com)
and I hope this one misses the Planet on Monday :
Huge asteroid twice the size of Big Ben set to crash into Earth’s orbit on Monday (msn.com)
“been declared the worst variant yet by one expert”
Can we ask a different expert?
its the most different. that means nothing yet for actual outcomes. poor use of language by the ‘expert’
He’d obviously just checked his new bank balance..