Concerned about the spread of the Omicron variant and a lack of understanding surrounding how dangerous the new strain is, Gillian Keegan, the Care Minister (the Minister of State responsible for mental health), has declared that New Year’s Eve festivities might have to be cancelled. In addition, Keegan mentioned that the Government was being lenient with the public in allowing Christmas to go ahead with the current restrictions in place, but that this leniency may end following Christmas Day. The Guardian has the story.
Plans for New Year’s Eve parties in England may have to be scrapped, a minister has admitted, as she said there remained uncertainty over the severity of illness caused by the Omicron variant of Covid.
Gillian Keegan, the Care Minister, refused to rule out lockdown measures being introduced in England shortly after Christmas and said 129 people had been hospitalised and 14 had died with Omicron in the U.K.
“There is uncertainty. So, if you can’t change your [New Year’s Eve] plans quickly, then maybe think about it. There is uncertainty. We can’t predict what the data is going to tell us before we’ve got the data,” she said.
She told LBC Radio that the Government’s approach in England had been to try to allow people to go ahead with Christmas plans, but that the same could not necessarily be said of the following holiday.
Boris Johnson has said no new measures will be put in place in England before Christmas Day, but the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales are introducing some new restrictions before and after the holiday.
Keegan told Sky News: “We do not have all the information that you would like to have at your fingertips, in particular… the severity of the disease. So it is a difficult balance but we think we’ve got the balance right. You know, saying to the country we wanted to lock down etc, when you’ve got those kind of figures wouldn’t look proportionate.”
She said the decision that was taken on further restrictions was “difficult”. Asked whether there was any chance a ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown might be avoided if the country continued on its current path, Keegan said: “We are waiting for data on the severity, we’ll still have to wait to see where we land on that, but we can’t really say, you know.
“What we’ve said is: up to Christmas, we’re fine, looking at the data, looking at the numbers we have at the moment. But, of course, we have to look at where this virus goes, where this variant goes, so we have to look at that data. I can’t tell you in advance of getting that data, but you should be cheerful because we’re doing a lot more than we could last year. We’re able to see our families.”
Keegan acknowledged that Johnson was refusing to act based on the same data that had led first ministers elsewhere in the U.K. to take preventive measures, but she claimed this was not a result of indecision or political calculation.
She was asked on Times Radio if the issue was not Johnson’s “own political judgment and that he doesn’t want to do anything with the data that all the leaders are seeing”.
Keegan said: “If we see large jumps in the data, large jumps in hospitalisation… then of course we’ll react. But we don’t actually have that yet. So what [Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon and Wales’s Mark Drakeford are] doing is… they’re looking at the risk and they’re coming up with a different answer.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Lockdown zealot Mark Drakeford, Wales’s swivel-eyed First Minister, has banned New Year’s Eve celebrations and ordered pubs and restaurants to re-impose the rule of six from Boxing Day. MailOnline has more.
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Keegan – ‘Bugger off’
As we knew very well, once the state gets its hands round your neck it will never let go. Omicron is milder than delta, there are not the projected hospital admissions or deaths, but does that stop them threatening our freedom? No, they disregard the evidence, and persist in their lies and dishonesty. If you want to celebrate at any time, anywhere, with anyone, just do it. Ignore the doomsayers and government stooges. I can’t wait for the moment the entire nation tells them and Whitty, Vallance, Ferguson et al to GO TO HELL(which, by the way, is where they’ve sent millions through their utter stupidity and tyranny)
Why are these people left unchallenged. Since when were we in a situation where we have to wait for government permission to do something. These people need reminding who they are.
“Being lenient with the public”
Who the bloody hell does she think she is, or any of the rest of them, to he anything with the public.
They have no bloody right to any control over us.
This type of attitude boils my p**s.
I’m incandescent with rage with these people.
“Keegan mentioned that the Government was being lenient with the public in..”
Who the fck does she think she is!! Lenient? Do the job we pay you for and otherwise mind your own bloody business.
A ‘Care Minister?’ Sounds like a figure from 1984. Anyway dear, because you and your fellow dribbling, swivel eyed control freaks say we should stay home on NY’s eve I will be out and about.
I won’t be changing my New Year’s Eve plans.
MSM is trying to make fun of people wanting to protect themselves with cheap and proven drugs. Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996. It also beats Pfizer’s new wonder drug hands down, and costs next to nothing. Ivermectin doesn’t make tons of money. So they know the Covid shot is on its final gasp, so they take it add something different to it, rebrand under another name and charge 20 times what they would for ivermectin. I cannot wrap my head around this nonsense. When I explain this to my relatives they label me as crazy and ask me if I know better than science. I don’t make up these information out of my ass. All this information is true and proven. For some people it is near impossible for them to wake up. They are comfortable in their clown world life. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
Keegan is exhibiting a benevolent coercive behaviour which is common in politicians. Their SPADS probably tell them to aim at being Aunty or Uncle , cajole don’t corece. Most of the time they are the strict teachers you had to put up with when you weren’t laughing with the fun type. But when you laugh at them and ridicule them their fear over you fractures like a falling test tube. . Just a thought.
Enough is enough. Omicrom, as described by the South Arfrican Doctor is of no concern as it is about the same as a mild cold. WHO reiterated this, there was no crisis. Now it has become a two-headed monster. As far as I can tell, it cannot change its properties to make it more lethal, its properties are its properties. This reeks of another gigantic scam because things haven’t played out politically as all the power mad wanna be dictators in Europe had envisaged. We are currently in the flu season. Johnson stood up to the scientists and he should do so now. We are not in a state of emergency, we are not in a public health crisis we are merely in flu season with a totally incompetent, badly managed, NHS who spend all available money on themselves, on regradings, on pay rises etc. 2 years ago before all of this, they took a whopping £150bn pa of public money and delivered very very little. Now they get an astonishing £250bn pa and they haven’t opened any more acute beds, put more nurses on the front line or invested in any clinical procedures. They have probably created tiers and… Read more »
You should send this to your MP Jo. A good summary of the last 2 years and the current position.
The only thing that is out of control is the number of so called experts who are trying to take the piss, to extend this horror indefinitely. At what point do we say, as the South Africans have, you can’t micro-manage an endemic virus. Stop testing (14 out of 15 tests are negative…), stop track and trace (Its completely pointless if anyone can catch the virus from anyone), and stop isolating. If you are ill take sick days like we used to for flu’s and bad colds. Too many people monetizing this, and feathering their own nests.
Covid is the scam that keeps on giving.
Neil, Well said. Starmer needs to be voted out as Leader of the Labour Party. He is totally in bed with Witless and Unbalanced. No opposition at all. No concern for Democracy or the British People just himself. You are right, kick this thing into touch now. Johnson could, if he is thinking straight, be the first Prime Minister in Europe to say all restrictions are ending and that England is going to manage this as a routine virus like the flu (after all, it’s not much different, it targets the same group; the over 80’s with 2 ore more comorbid conditions and, the data cannot be trusted as, only a few months ago, the Govt admitted that between 45-50% of all deaths attributed to Covid were not Covid deaths. I look around and see a healthy population out and about not thousands of sick people. Johnson has to stand firm against Witless now. We know Witless is a proven liar. He and Unbalanced bounced us into Lockdown 2 on deliberately falsified data; which is serious professional misconduct and cost thousand of business to go into administrations and hundreds and thousands of job losses. Sth Africa have got it right.… Read more »
Starmer is one of the worst Covidians, but the trouble is that Labour has no vociferous objectors to it all so who would replace him?
Who the hell is the ‘care’ minister fgs, its like when they had the Minster for floods after a couple of days of rain and it stopped flooding. We don’t need one, unless they havent already heard, there are hardly any ‘moronic’ intakes in the hospitals although they might catch it while there if they go for other conditions.
Any position called “Care Minister” is immediately suspect.
“People’s free democratic republic of …” Definitely Animal Farm territory.
Lenient with us?
Oh thank you so very much your Majesty.
I’ll be doing whatever I want, when I want with who I want.
Get bent Nazi’s.
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty”
Mmmn.. it seems like they are all singing from the same hymn sheet…
https://www.thelocal.fr/20211222/french-government-no-new-covid-restrictions-for-christmas/
In Germany, too. Except that they have already (insofar I know this) stated that they will come down on the people again from the 28th onwards. But this has been happening all the time. COVID is a well-marketed pandemic. In Germany, that’s sometimes comical as they’re not very good at translating their statements into German. For instances, the RKI (Robert-Koch-Institut) claims that its job would be Evidenz erzeugen. In English, this was obviously produce evidence, which would be einen Beweis erbringen in proper German. What they’re using instead really means fabricate evidence.
This is true for most of the current German political and media elite: Their German is usually so poor that they have to supplant it with English words written in an outwardly German style all the time. They’re all just accidental Germans (those who aren’t Turks, that is) and are soo ashamed by that.
Besides the restrictions and lockdown, what tires me the most is reading/hearing the absolute horse shit fake narrative – worse is seeing Daily Sceptics peddling the same bollocks.
There has not been a pandemic. We’re not in a pandemic.
This was surely put to rest the moment we completed a whole year of this scam without any meaningful change to the mortality rate.
The slight increase needs to be attributed to the only change that occurred: political lockdown/restrictions. With this, the only change was mass murder of hospital ‘bed-blockers’, chucked into ‘care’-homes and administered Midazolam and Morphine.
Any increase that occurs this year must be attributed to the only new occurrence that has happened this year, which is industrial-scale injections of the bioweapon, otherwise rebranded a vaccine.
Politicians and their fanatical scientific advisers know all this. Anyone with a functioning brain knows this as well.
New Year will not be “cancelled” because of their world destroying ‘Unicron’ – it will be cancelled to further destroy our people and our culture.
This is deliberate and it is has NOTHING to do with a virus.
Here’s this to back up your post..
Thank you, sir.
No problem.. its worth keeping and sharing, especially because its from the BMJ.. British Medical Journal, and used by Will Jones who writes for this site..
hopefully we will have the 2021 graph soon to go with that How are the figures looking compared to recent years so far?
Agree entirely with you, James.
The affirmation of longevity over the quality of life is in effect the mission statement of the enemy. Trust me they don’t want longevity. All over the world the baby boomer generation is seen as an impossible liability. I don’t want people to think in predatory terms but there are times when you have to.
Easily solved care Minister, just make the triple jabbed stay at home, let the double jabbed come but only in masks and six feet apart, let the unvaccinated interact normally.
I endorse this message.
This country has become remarkably conformist in the last few decades. I lived abroad and every time I came back for a visit I noticed the fear and conformity and uniformity growing with the passing of every year.
I think you are imagining things, the British have always been weak conformists.
For example millions agreed to live in trenches for years whilsts they were bombarded by artillery and poisoned with gas simply because their rulers told them they should, millions died that way.
There were more lovable eccentrics in my childhood. There was a place for Bohemia even in London. A sense of well met in a pub with a man you don’t meet everyday. Yes this country has been conformist for a long time in so many ways but there were at least certain modes of freedom permitted. Given the scientifically crafted propaganda model of the last one hundred years it is a wonder that any dissent persists at all and yet it does. The English language contains many mansions and mysteries but central to it all is the ability to take the piss.
The British have been fed on a diet of Big Brother, Strictly and Love Island:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPXzShsFT8
(ps – it’s not just the British – here in Finland we have the Finnish version of Big Brother, ‘Survivor’, and a TV programme where you can watch people.. err… watching TV, I kid you not!)
“Care Minister”? Some humdinger of an oxymoron there, from one of the band of halfwits who couldn’t care less for anything but themselves and their own interests.
The whole shitshow is falling apart. It might not look that way in this country but it really is if you take a panoramic view. For our civilisation so heavily dependent on corporate infrastructure this this signals a major schism. They think that they can release Omicron and switch it all off. No chance this situation has ignited the intelligence of many thinking people all over the world who are discovering each other on a level never before imagined.
Unfortunately, so far, these ‘intelligent’ people have not yet figured out a way in which to get rid of these awful governments in a peaceful manner.
During the Chinese ‘Cultural revolution’ they got rid of the ‘intelligent’ people first.
Care Minister Says New Year’s Eve Celebrations Could Be Cancelled
But government New Years ‘cheese and wine‘ celebrations will go ahead as usual.
No new measures until 72 hours time. Hurrah!
‘being lenient’??? Why would you be lenient if you honestly believed that mankind was facing an existential crisis which could only be averted by locking down the population? Surely thoughts of ‘leniency’ would go out of the window in such circumstances and you’d say “my God, we must lock down now to save mankind”, not “oh, well, go on – have Christmas and then we’ll lock down”.
Clearly this person and the admninistration she is speaking for do not believe there is an existential crisis, they/she just want to experience the power of being able to lock people down, and they can live with putting it off for a week or two as long as they get their kicks eventually.
Locking down a society was never deemed a sensible way to tackle a pandemic. You can’t stop airborne viruses from transmitting.
At best you’re going to prolong the situation by locking down, but everyone will catch it eventually, unless they’re deep in the Amazon or on a sunny desert island.
The only reason they will ‘cancel’ new year is to further confuse and demoralise the nation, making us more malleable and weak.
This has got nothing to do with a virus.
129 people in hospital with Omicron. And what else are they in hospital with?
So we are going to shut everything down for 129 “cases?”
And we are supposed to believe this is about a virus? Oh do FO Keegan you lying bitch.
So it is true, ‘politicians ARE like diapers and should be changed frequently for the same reason’
The difference is that politicians start out full of shit right from the beginning!
Who is she anyway?
She seems to relish having power.
Dreadful person.
Gillian Keegan better have a Care that she and her boss are not cancelled soon
Do you have a plan?