Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Health Secretary, has declared that the Scottish Government will soon introduce more Covid restrictions to combat the spread of the Omicron variant, with the new measures expected to be announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tomorrow. Yousaf also stressed that securing financial aid from Westminster is crucial to Scotland’s Covid response. BBC News has more.
New Covid restrictions in Scotland are “inevitable”, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has warned.
He said the “sheer weight” of cases of the new Omicron variant could overwhelm the NHS and precautions would have to be taken.
It came as one teaching union called for the early closure of schools to protect pupils and staff.
Yousaf said the government would do everything it could to keep schools open.
Meanwhile last week’s advice to cancel Christmas parties is already having an effect, with hospitality businesses reporting a 25-30% drop in trade.
Details of the new restrictions would be given by the first minister in Holyrood on Tuesday, Yousaf added.
Yousaf told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland: “I think it’s inevitable we will announce additional protective measures.
“I would be reluctant to get into detail on that because we’re working through that detail and the first minister rightly will update parliament tomorrow.”
He added that securing financial support from the U.K. Government would be very important.
It came after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed an ambition to offer boosters to all adults by the end of the year “if possible”.
People aged 30-39 years-old are now able to book a booster jab online, and appointments will be open to 18-29 year-olds later in the week.
Early analysis of U.K. Omicron and Delta cases shows two doses of Covid vaccine are not enough to stop people catching the new variant.
But a booster prevents about 75% of people getting any Covid symptoms.
On Monday the U.K. recorded its first death of a patient with Omicron variant
Scientists say Omicron’s higher rate of transmissibility meant cases were doubling every two or three days.
Professor Andrew Watterson, a public health expert from Stirling University, cautioned against an “over-reliance” on vaccines and stressed the booster campaign was “only one important strand”.
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You mean to say that masks, distancing and working from home which have remained constant then vaxx passes too can’t stop the spread of an airbourne virus. Who knew.
The more these dumb fuckwits piss off the Scots the sooner they’ll wake up to the tyranny of the Scottish Nazi Party – hopefully?
Don’t hold your breath
Why doesn’t she just order alll Scots to lock themselves in their homes and starve themselves to death ? Tat should sort out the wee “Covid”!
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Twenty years ago you would’ve expected most Scotsmen to have done A level chemistry, physics and biology. These days they sound like retards. Is this a conscious decision? Maybe a lassitude or falling away? I find it mildly amusing but also slightly disturbing,
Back in the 60s I went to Aberdeen University, from Surrey, and the quality of the Scottish education system was streets ahead of England & Wales. The SNP saw the end of that; it’s much easier to boss ignorant people about.
I’ve never really liked them but at least before I would fear them in a fight. Now I just have a sinking feeling when I contemplate them.
Somewhere in the 1990s a change took place. It took place everywhere but it became more rooted in some places than others. The Scots were once thought to be a cut above, a cerebral rebuke to us anti-intellectual English. What has become of them I feel embarrassed even speaking to a Scottish person these days.
Humza Yousaf… now there’s good old traditional Scottish name.. past down through the ages from a well established clan, who supposedly have a tartan to die for.. literally..
Poor old Robert the Bruce must be wondering why the f*ck he wasted all that time watching that spider.. to see the state of things now is enough to make any old warrior weep.. and keep turning in his grave..
Living in an SNP-heavy town, any new restrictions would destroy Christmas, as they would be few people willing to disobey the SNP. They have conned millions into believing that they are the saner alternative to England, and that they are much more level-headed and scientific when it comes to restrictions. Yet 72.9% of Scots being double vaccinated is not apparently enough to avoid a second Christmas in a row being ruined.
There is hardly any enjoyment any more. I am not jabbed and, even if I was, I would never even think of sharing my private medical info to enjoy any life. Most likely that’s the new restrictions – vaccine passports for cinemas, theatres, maybe even pubs and restaurants. If mandatory masks are gone by the start of 2023, I’d be shocked.
Scotland is a miserable place to live in right now. Don’t send us any sympathies, though, since we kept the SNP in power in May.
Once the bond market collapses, benefits will stop and people will have to go back out to work. But they will find there are no businesses left to work for.
Those lovely turbines won’t work so well no there’s 10% less wind (could use those those for crosses when the politicians and press are rounded up perhaps?) The days are shorter up in Scotland too so best to use the solar panels as sledges.
Kind regards,
CCP
PS. We’ll swap your single malt whisky for a bag of 100 IKEA tea-lights. Payment in CBDC once you’ve taken booster rooster number 14.
PPS.
Is Omicrom an actual thing?
Who cares? 😃
Is it the stuff you put in your eyes to relieve hay fever?
What I’d like to know is as the W.H.O. decided to use the Greek alphabet to name the variants what happened to all the ones between Delta and Omicron? Why put a system in place then almost as soon as it’s there change it to something else?
Or have Epsilon to Xi (fourteenth letter in the Greek alphabet, not the dictator of China) been so mild that they’ve not even registered on a global scale.
A booster prevents about 75% of people getting any Covid symptoms means triple-jabbing people with the Pfizer vaccine doesn’t work in one out of four cases. This implies the attempt to halt community transmission by buying and using more outdated Pfizer products is futile.
Well – only if you use new model-man mathematics!
Are there any protest groups in Scotland?
…The Proclaimers?
Sturgeon, Humza Useless, and their retinue of well paid publicity hungry public health “specialists” (none of whom are experts in virology or epidemiology), are relishing this. Many English “right of centre” people don’t realise that Sturgeon doesn’t want independence. Instead she and her woke neurotic, non productive, followers want a funded centralised state which suppresses free speech, liberty and the rule of law. They favour instead identity politics, which favours a tiny proportion, green alarmism which threatens to cap our oil and gas sector, and crap welfare subsidised jobs. Covid is the perfect preparation for all of that. It’s also the perfect platform for Sturgeon to use the compliant and complicit bought media to promote the sound of her own voice. Unlike the U.K. covid briefings the Scottish Government variety don’t even attempt to present dodgy data , it’s simply Elsie Selfie droning on. Journalists don’t even ask questions simply ask for clarification why she isn’t going further. The opposition meanwhile is useless. The Parliament is full of list promoted seat warmers with IQ’s which wouldn’t exceed those on a shoe size chart. The public are pliant for the moment, especially as lots of lazy zoom grifters can pretend to… Read more »
Many SNP types are crazed cultist loonies who won’t understand stuff when they’re told it, preferring to scream that it’s not true while enjoying whipping up their own xenophobia.
I met one who called me a liar when I said that since about 75% of crude oil that’s extracted ends up as transport fuel there was a smidgeon of bullshit involved in the SNP’s position that an independent Scotland would do fine economically because of the oil and meanwhile they’d be greener than one of the Incredible Hulk’s finest bogies. He insisted that what I said about crude oil wasn’t what he’d heard from someone “in the industry” and that in fact most crude oil went to make medicines. “Our Scottish shite may be shite but it knocks the shite out of your English shite” sums up the attitude.
I met another who insisted that “most Tory voters live in the London area” and called me a liar when I said she was talking out of her bottom and that what she said could easily be demonstrated to be false.
Glossary of SNP usage:
“Westminster” – code for “F***ing English Bastards“, aka “FEBs” “London” – code for “hellhole of racial… Read more »
If a Scot criticises these restrictions over dinner, will Hamza have him arrested?
Yes, for subversion, treason, intentional harm and hate speech.
From what we already know about spikes in deaths immediately post vax, and how they have been caught out fiddling the figure by claiming all those deaths to be in the unvaxxed because it wasn’t 14/28 days after the jab so they weren’t actually jabbed, has HMG dropped a bollock by not declaring all those queuing with rolled up sleeves to be ‘unvaccinated’?
If, as likely, the death count from non-Covid causes over the next few weeks peaks, it will all be in the vaxxinated.
I, for one, will be watching the figures closely.I’d be quite happy to put a £50 bet on a sudden peak in Unvaccinated deaths just as we have seen here and in America.
They’ve already set the scene for this by declaring that the double vaxxed have no more protection than the unvaxxed to this new variant that has conveniently come along just at the right time.
The only way to keep your coveted ‘fully vaxxed’ status is to keep doing what you’re told, as soon as you’re told. That what slaves are expected to do, isn’t it?
Excellent question, @brachiopod.
What they may do is count “late” threefold injectees as only twofold injectees, or put it some other way that still pushes the idea that omicron shows that taking new rounds of injections “just in case” and “as early as possible” is vital – because even taking five seconds to think about whether you might delay getting injected is dicing with death.
Those military planning teams may stay put for quite a while.
Burkhas for male goats’ hindparts, Hamza?
“Humza Haroon Yousaf (born 7 April 1985) is a Scottish politician self-serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care since 2021. He is the first non-white and first Muslim member of the Scottish Cabinet.”
“In 2019, Yousaf married SNP worker Nadia El-Nakla”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humza_Yousaf
Yeah I know who he is. Just thought the goat burka would be a good covid measure is all 😂
Did it really say ‘self serving’ or did you add that bit?
Yeah, that caught my eye, too.
NZ are still on Covid 19 Delta (not moronic) and are relaxing restrictions for New Year
Maybe for a hot second, but Saint Jacinda loves her power, so I reckon it won’t be long before she tightens the choke-chain, again.
It’s a bit like new versions of Windows – some people delay ‘upgrading’ for a while…
As they say, if any of it worked it would be gone now and they wouldn’t have to invent variants.
Look at Israel. That’s us in two weeks.
Fighting fires with petrol.
I used to admire Jewish intellect.
(Hey, I am Jewish, after all.)
Now…not so much.
And this:
Former Health Ministry Director-General: Israel must force people to get vaccinated
Gabi Barbash, the former director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry, called on the Israeli government to apply extreme sanctions on unvaccinated Israelis, saying such measures should be used to effectively forced to get the COVID jab.
“We have a situation in which there are people who choose not to get vaccinated and who endanger everyone, and in my opinion this is an unacceptable situation, and the only way to deal with it that I know of is to force them to get the vaccine, no choice.”
Let the gorrilla try.
When the Fat Dictator announces the latest lockdown how long will it be for? Three weeks is getting tired.
…how’s ‘FOREVER‘ sound to you?
So we’ll ignore it just as long.
Vernon Coleman has been writing about the dangers of the so-called vaccine for 20 months – everything he has written has come to pass, but not in a good way.
He assumes, among other things, that the jabs have made us stupid.
I can find no evidence that he is wrong, which is sad knowing most of my relatives have been jabbed.
[Just recovering from probably Delta, certainly all the typical symptoms, the only annoying aspect is that the only contact with the outside world that we had, tested negative twice with a LTF before infecting us. ]
Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring! Don’t panic! Too late, they all panicked. One person, must have been a bitch to find the one, dies “WITH” Moronic and suddenly Scotland needs billions from England. This has to stop. We need people with sense in charge.
We may have to watch society rip itself apart before any sense returns.
As promised I have now watched the Event 201 video series in full, and in this post I take a look at the first 3 videos.
“Event 201 – At Best A Lobbying Convention”
http://participator.online/articles/2021/12/event_201_at_best_a_lobbying_convention_20211213.php
A quick recap for those not aware – the Center for Health Security partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to host a coronavirus pandemic exercise called Event 201 in October 2019, six weeks before the first case of symptom onset of COVID-19.
I read about that, weird isn’t it that it all started just after. Oh, what a convenient coincidence but of course all the evidence is nutter talk about conspiracies. I daresay they said that in 1936.
There is no endgame. People have blindly accepted restrictions put on their lives with meaningless slogans as an objective.
“Save Lives” – How many? If wearing a mask saves lives, then wearing them forever will save lives forever. Totally meaningless.
Open ended objectives will mean we’ll be stuck in this cycle of on and off restrictions forever.
We won’t just be stuck in this cycle, the cycle will get worse. There is an end game and the end game is permanent totalitarian control, the end of freedom of speech.
The end is The End. Who’d have thunk we’d welcome a man descend on a cloud outside Jerusalem?
BREAKING: One UK death reported with Omicron.
(Note the language – ‘with’, not ‘of’.)
Prediction: New Lockdown imposed before Christmas.
…place your bets, folks, place your bets.
In July I had two bets in the pub
Time to collect methinks
One death from… dying. Shucks. It happens.
To give a little perspective, in the Western Cape of SA, population 6-7 million, (so larger than Scotland), daily positives started going up from 21st November. Very low base of 40+ after Delta died out. Today, over 3 weeks later, 7 day average is close to 2000. 7 day average deaths have dropped from 2 to 1. Less patients in ICU and on ventilators. This may change but it is surely not panic inducing? Never mind, politicians world wide are going to enjoy ruining another Xmas.
Muslim cancels Scottish xmas.
No one in the MSM thinks “oh that’s odd”.
The last comment I saw on this site in that vein was deleted pretty sharpish. In that case the finger was pointed at Javid, not this ‘Scottish’ fella (follows a discussion about what it means to be ‘Scottish’…)
It’s very unhelpful to try to make this about race or religion – it simply isn’t. Most Muslims don’t have a problem with Christmas at all. Focus the criticism where it belongs, on the political classes (whatever their ethnicity) working for their own ends.
Very true, most Muslims don’t have a problem with Christmas.
But young Humza here is not like most Muslims.
He is on record as having a problem with Christianity.
…and, of course, English people. Unless they’re paying the tab.
“Christmas? huWHITE!” ~ Humza Yousaf, probably.
He’s a raving, frothing, angry, anti-White racist. Don’t take my word for it, watch yourself.
https://youtu.be/qUCFDzzZLKI?t=56
That’s one of the things I was referring to.
…even Abu Hamza thought he was a bit extreme.
Hamza wanted to point this out at the time, but, you know…
O/T (posting about England)
I may be wrong, but I’m reading through the MSM ‘live’ blogs (BBC, Mail, Telegraph) I’m seeing a pattern emerge.
I can see this leading to the fat twat coming back on TV and saying:
“Look chaps, having a few problems with this big jabs rollout, so we’re going to have to have a mini lockdown while we sort it all out.
“I’m sure it’ll only take, say three weeks to sort out.”
Or am I just paranoid?
The MSM is totally moronic
Just as ‘conspiracy theorists’ are merely ahead of the curve, paranoia is just an early warning system.
Are there any betting sites taking bets on a major spike in infections about a week hence?
The vaccination rooms must be teeming with virons by now.