On December 27th, the Welsh Government will introduce a series of new Covid restrictions which include shutting nightclubs, mandating that shops abide by social distancing protocols for both staff and customers, as well as bringing back work from home requirements. First Minister Mark Drakeford has declared that the spread of the Omicron variant necessitates this course of action, calling it “the most serious development in the pandemic to date”. MailOnline has more.
Until December 27th, the Welsh Government is encouraging people to follow five steps: getting vaccinated, making sure to have a negative lateral flow test result before going shopping or meeting people, meeting in well-ventilated areas (preferably outdoors), spacing out socialising to allow test days in between, and adhering to social distancing, wearing a face covering and washing hands.
It is also urging people to reduce contact with others over the coming days, especially if Christmas plans include seeing older or more vulnerable people.
First Minister Mark Drakeford said: “Delta will continue to be the main cause of Covid infections in Wales up to Christmas. But we are seeing cases of Omicron increasing rapidly every day in Wales, and across the U.K.
“We need a plan to keep us safe this Christmas and we need stronger measures to protect us afterwards, as we prepare for a large wave of Omicron infections.
“Omicron poses a new threat to our health and safety. It is the most serious development in the pandemic to date.
“It is one we must take seriously. We will continue to put in place proportionate measures to protect people’s lives and livelihoods.
“This is a virus which thrives on human contact. Every contact we have is an opportunity for us to spread or catch the virus.”
The changes for businesses comes with the announcement that up to £60 million will be available to support those affected by the new measures.
He added: “This year a smaller Christmas is a safer Christmas. The fewer people we see, the less chance we have of catching or passing on the virus.
“Please enjoy Christmas with your nearest and dearest, and think about meeting up with wider circles of friends when the threat posed by the Omicron variant has passed over.
“I also want to thank the many thousands of people who will be working this Christmas to keep us safe, especially all those who have cancelled their plans to work in the vaccination centres across Wales to increase our protection against this awful virus.”
The restrictions come after Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted today that the Government does not want to “lock stuff down” in England.
Instead, he urged Britons to “prioritise” social events, get a booster and do a lateral flow test before meeting people.
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Might I suggest that everyone in Wales still able to think for themselves – and that doesn’t include Comrade Drakeford – go to the cinema in Swansea that refuses to ask for vaccine passports, take bolt cutters to the council’s padlocks etc and spend a few hours in like-minded company.
So Drakeford is about to exercise his inner tyrant again and the people of Wales have to suffer the consequences. Why is anyone surprised? He’s a socialist and they believe that they should control as much as possible the lives of those they rule. This variant is manna from heaven for him and Sturgeon.
From what I hear, ‘cases’ are multiplying because they’re looking for multiple genes and not just a single one. So if so, guess what’s going to happen to the numbers? Another case of a testdemic?
This is about control. Controlling all small businesses and controlling the people. How does a virus management to be containable up to Christmas, or whilst our borders are wide open, or whilst the hoi paloi travel around in their jets.
The globalists want to close all small and medium businesses, for close on mortgages, and usher in universal incomes. Stupid players like the UK governments think they will be part of the Globalist elite if they play along. It never works like that. The Globalists have no moral compass and will destroy all Governments when it suits them.
There are many alternative media sites now who are openly questioning the agenda. DailySceptic is just reporting government media news so we can get both sides. Unfortunately the population is now so polarised that the real investigative journalism is informing the informed whilst the Government media are able to propagandise freely to their base.
Poor wales. They might as well put out a big sign that says, CLOSED FOR GOOD. Any town, country that intentionally implements nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI’s) shown to be ineffective, deserve to be shutdown for good. They are not fit for purpose.
Get the hell out of Wales if you are able to. It is on a self destruct.
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So there’s no risk until AFTER CHRISTMAS!
How bloody ridiculous.
There is something interesting going on with the Welsh stats. I have been monitoring these throughout the scamdemic and during much of 2020 and early 2021 the overall occupancy of Welsh Hospitals has been around the 8500 mark. Recently this has risen to about the 10,000 mark as elective surgeries etc have been restarted. The stated capacity for ‘normal occupancy’ in Wales is 10,500 (having been reduced from 19,500 over the last 25 years)The Public Health Wales (PHW) published figures last week were just under 10,000. This week they have jumped to 11,535 with Covid patients making up only 455 (4%), this is a reduction in previous weeks. To my best knowledge there is little ‘flu or other bad seasonal viral pathogen active. So what is causing this spike? If Omnicron does start to spread then this will impact staffing levels and with high occupancy there will be crisis. I think we are seeing them start to panic and there only reaction can be to start scattering blame, increase restrictions and try to obfuscate the cause of the crisis by obliquely talking about Omnicron without being specific as to the hospitalised Covid numbers.
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Just rang a favourite restaurant to see if I could book lunch. They were doubtful because they ‘had a group of fifty people coming in’.
Hey, I’ve never rejoiced at that sort of message before!
Shucks to Scrooge Dungford and his miserable gang of Christmas killers.
Drakeford wants to stay one step ahead of Boris in the authoritarian bully competition. Watch stupid Boris copy him a week or two after.
So by doing this, they’ve admitted the vaccine doesn’t work. All of the other restrictions don’t work. But they’re still doing them anyway? We all know this isn’t about health.
Omnicon us the worst threat yet, because nobody’s died yet?
Or because it laughs in the face of Nazipapiere?
The worst threat to Dungford, maybe, if it turns out to be harmless to the majority.
One thing you can say about Dungford. Dealing with him does not involve any kind of human contact.
Chris Witty the goblin looks like a lovechild between Drakeford and Justin Welby.
Maaaaiy Prŕeciuooos!! 😉
Eeeeeeuch!
This has similarities to when they stopped fighting each other in WW11 on christmas day, so the virus has been told to hang back for a few days. They’ve never stopped thinking we’re just dumb collateral
How long before England starts getting Welsh refugees seeking sanctuary?
“We can’t cope with our own!”
Quick! Build a wall and re- dig Offa’s Dyke!
Does anyone know what the legal status of these new restrictions in Wales is? Are they merely guidelines or do they have the force of law?
It has always been ‘guidance’ and ‘advice’. None of it is lawful, hence every time a covid lawbreaker challenges the decision, there is no case to answer.
‘It only ends when you say no’. That is their definition of consent.
Most people think you have to say yes to something. Bloody idiots!
Thanks. But couldn’t they use the Coronavirus Act to force nightclubs to close, like they did with the cinema in Swansea? Or close shops in the same way if they keep refusing to implement one-way systems?
This has not been tested in the Courts – much of what is being done is in fact illegal under Human Rights Equality and other legislation – see Anna De Buisseret – senior Human Rights lawyer explain it all.
No.
It doesn’t matter. The sheep will follow anyway. And there’s an awful lot of sheep in Wales.
Ten million four-legged, three million two-legged.
And a lot of the four-legged will be pregnant now, ready for Spring.
Yay! The virus has a calendar so it will driven off by these measures which are absolutely and in no way pea-brained and dishonest…….
Even viruses go to see their families at Christmas.
A virus has to get a life:
It’s off to see its Covid wife,
And, seeing omnicon is mild,
They might invite their Covid child.
Ah yes, nightclubs once again the seething, bubbling cauldrons of Covid so they must be targeted forthwith. That’ll solve it.
This is funny actually. I don’t know anyone who is going to play along with this charade. It’s also really hard to enforce in rural Wales.
Drakeford is a complete plonker. Everyone I know around my village hates him.
Time for Einsatzgruppen in the vales and dales.
Will the sheep be masked and vaxxed? (I’m asking about the humans, you understand.)
Maybe someone will deliver the odd present to his place on Boxing Day; perhaps the odd fox that was err, ‘caught’. No shortage of hounds out and about is parts of rural Wales on that day, most years!
Especially since omicron was probably in South Wales around 4 weeks ago, when son and daughter in law both laid low for three to four days with scratchy throat, cough and other symptoms associated with omicron.
its hard to tell. omicron presents as a minor cold
every day on average a third of a million people get colds and thats probably more like 1 million in the winter
if you have cold symptoms its probably a cold(and omicron is a cold anyway)
My wife and I have had a stinking cold for most of this week following a visit by our baby grandson (who had a horrible cold) and his parents last weekend. It’s been pretty horrible but we’re ok and mine, at least, is now tailing off.
I have no idea what virus caused it – I’ve had many colds over the last 60 years and have never felt the need to identify the specific virus that caused any of them so don’t see why I should be interested now. It’s just a cold and colds are an inevitable part of life on earth.
how does anyone know its omicron, are the same tests used for covid and omicron?
The tests can’t tell yo anything – please listen to Kari Mullis, he invented them after all, so he should know.
They test for t mRNA transcripts of three viral proteins: the spike protein, nucleocaspid ( protein shell) and polymerase ( produces viral proteins). If they fail to get a reading from the spike protein then they class that as an Omicron case. The thinking is that because of spike protein differences it is unable to be detected using the standard test.
If you tried to submit a scientific paper or even a undergrad thesis using this ” if it doesn’t work it must be Omicron “idea you’d be torn a new arsehole by the examiners/reviewers
Sounds like a bad winter cold.
There’s one going around, it seems nastier than Delta (hit my jabbed partner who also got wuflu).
Problem there is no differential diagnosis between SARS-CoV-2 infection and any other respiratory tract infection. None of the symptoms are unique. So, yes my son and his wife could have had a bad cold but equally it could have been omicron, who knows who even cares?
So they want to shut down the pagan New Year’s Eve celebrations. They are not the chapel way.
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there was a great video of tik tok dancing nurses and police cut with videos of dying patients and police kicking the shit out of legitimate protestors. ‘dancing tools’ rings a bell
I cant find anywhere
Helga’s waltzing with Renee.
Serious question. I have had zero jabs, so in order to be considered as fully vaccinated for the purposes of a passport, do I have to have all three? And when the booster runs out of efficacy, will I have to go for all four?
This question has been asked around the interwebs in a jokey manner, but there is a serious issue here. If you have to have all the jabs, does that not suggest a course of treatment rather than vaccination? A course of genetic therapy, and what is the end point?
Or you could just keep out of the ‘program’ altogether, the DNA harvesting thing for their experimental gene therapies. Charlie opened yet another Lab the other day, its got to pay for itself with grants and funding
I’m not thinking for a nano second of being a participant in the clinical trial. But it’s a serious question. Why would anyone need to have all three jabs?
tetanus offers ten years’ worth of protection. but a 50 year old who had never received a tetanus shot would not be required to have five jabs in order to be considered as fully protected.
There is a reason that there isn’t a vaccine for the common cold and it isn’t that people wouldn’t pay the money
The “end point” is your “end point” surely?
It is a very interesting question.
Is there a point at which, even if you wanted to, you couldn’t catch up with the programme and you are permanently left out?
The only thing that can be said with certainty is that no one has a clue, especially not the technocrats making pronouncements nor the politicians fronting for them. Maybe someone in the Gates Foundation or at the WEF, you know the people actually calling the shots, may have an idea, but they won’t be telling their technocrat minions around the world until they need to. They get their info on a need to know basis, I’m sure.
Can’t wait for these idiots to be ejected from their positions and the authority they’ve given themselves. Meanwhile, they must be ignored completely, because they are lying and they know we know they are lying.
So who is going to ‘eject’ hem when the sheep just love to comply …and even go that bit further?
The sheeple in the Valleys will vote Labour until they are no longer able to hold a pencil / crayon.
Fuck off.
No
I’ll be enjoying the sea air in Bournemouth tomorrow…
I’m going for a walk in London tomorrow …
Anyone know anybody from the Isle of Wight who is heading to London tomorrow?
Yeah, we really need more restrictions here in Wales. I’m tired of stepping over bod1es in the street. The council doesn’t collect them for days. I see people collapsing in the supermarket every day. The NHS is stretched to the limit. Doctors and nurses are taken off front line duties on tik-tok in order to write cancellation letters for vital operations and tests. Many have had to reduce tea breaks to 30 mins and overworked GPs are being asked to work more three days a week. Thank goodness we have a hero like drakeford to steer us out of this mess.
I will say that my doctor has been very attentive to my needs. No I couldn’t get an appointment to get some meds for a sinus infection but when I broke my foot and needed a doctor’s letter to claim on the insurance he managed that super fast and even relived me of of £50 for the priveledge. Great bloke 🤔
Also they had to participate in the Jerusalem dance challenge last year… It takes time to practice.
Omnicon poses a new threat to our health and safety? Oh p!ss right off. The only threat is to your agenda, as more people wake up to the crap you’re trying to pull!
It’s a serious disease, Helena…. the State, I mean.