The French Government has imposed a series of new measures in an effort to battle the ‘fifth wave’ of the country’s Covid epidemic, which involves limiting attendance at outdoor venues to 5,000, with indoor environments only allowed to host 2,000 people. In addition, employees will be required to work from home for two-thirds of the working week if possible. The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, also announced that mandatory outdoor mask-wearing will be returned to some regions. The Times has the story.
Jean Castex, the Prime Minister, said the country needed tighter measures to cope with the fifth wave of the epidemic, although he ruled out the most stringent options on the table, such as a return of a lockdown or of a curfew.
Along with the limits on crowd capacity, which will affect competitions like the French football league, the measures will include a move to make homeworking compulsory for at least three days a week in “businesses where it is possible”.
Castex also announced the return of mandatory mask-wearing outdoors in some town and city centres and a ban on standing up at concerts. Eating standing up in bars or restaurants will be forbidden.
The prime minister said it would become illegal to remove masks in long distance trains and buses or in cinemas or theatres, ruling out the consumption of snacks and drinks during films, plays and journeys.
The announcements came with the Omicron variant arriving in France and the country registering more than 100,000 cases in a single day for the first time last week. Over the past seven days, France has reported a total of 1,050 Covid related deaths whilst 1,747 people have been admitted to intensive care after catching the virus.
Castex said hospitalisations were increasing at a “moderate rate” but added: “What we are seeing in Britain and Denmark justifies prudence and vigilance.
“We are engaged in a race against time.”
With 89.5% of French people aged over 12 years-old having received two doses of vaccination and 34.8% a booster, Castex said “we are one of the most vaccinated countries in the world and therefore one of the most protected. But we must amplify the movement”.
He said the delay between second and third doses would be reduced to three months, down from five at present, and confirmed the introduction of legislation to tighten the country’s Covid passport.
Under current rules, a vaccination certificate or a negative test is required to gain access to bars, restaurants, cafes, theatres, museums, cinemas, trains and other public places. Under the new rules, only vaccination certificates will be accepted.
He also pledged tougher penalties for false Covid passports, which are being produced on an almost industrial scale – police having uncovered more than 182,000 of them.
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I thought that the Nazis had been ousted from France in 1944 but, evidently, I am mistaken.
I’ve only just noticed how similar the words Omicron and Macron are.
France, another country on self destruct. How much did the French gov’t receive to ruin the lives of their citizens and to the country’s economy. It must of been one helluva lot.
Looking at the photo I realised that the Eiffel Tower could be France’s biggest syringe… but only its second biggest prick.
Yes, because with a crowd of 6,000 the virus will spread, but a crowd of only 5,000 means the highly transmissible virus won’t spread.
How much further will the gap between doses of the clot shot be reduced I wonder?
” We are one of the most vaccinated countries in the world and therefore one of the most protected”. Spot the non sequitur.
So the first, second, third and fourth waves weren’t stopped by the stupid restrictions so let’s do it again! Thick bastards!
Please don’t despair….when a country says they’ve jabbed X, it’s usually Y.
Y is usually the number of people who’ve willingly laid down their arms for the state, with little or no thought and X is the rest of us.
I guarantee Y is two thirds…..same as the UK. Clearly, two thirds in terms of jab numbers alone…including some people who have probably been paid to be jabbed many times (heroes who have taken one for the team).
So….we know there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Let’s wait and see how many French people protest….it’s going to be more than the MSM would have you believe.
I am hopeful (possibly misplaced hope) that every country’s population holds at least a third of critical thinking, government mistrusting heroes.
We will win the day….and I hope I’m around to see it. I can’t wait to tell the grandchildren what I did during the war!
Apparently there only need to be 3% to win the battle
And history is written by the conquerors.
We’ll write it.
Castex said “we are one of the most vaccinated countries in the world and therefore one of the most protected. But we must amplify the movement”. 100% bO***cks
Some of the comments here about France are rather weak. Why not mention garlic next? Or Trafalgar?
Best is to look at the conflict between humanity and the technofascist oppressors in France and learn from it. It’s essentially the same fight everywhere. Martinique and Guadeloupe are far ahead of Britain and metropolitan France for resistance to mass vaccination, by the way.
Oh and spread the “barricade” gesture if you don’t think it will make you all pouty and shoulder-shruggy and keen on ritual cheek-kissing 🙂
Nothing wrong with garlic. I eat it frequently and never feel the urge to shrug expressively.
Prawns with garlic and lemon … love it
Hail the triumph of Snake Oil Fascism!
The Times manages to bury the big news from France in a paragraph that few will read. This is that the French state plans to turn the health pass into a vaccine pass. So actually being immune to SARSCoV2, or uninfected by it, or transmitting it, will be considered an irrelevance where access to public places is concerned. And it looks as though there will be major resistance. The Times article is suitable for toilet use only. Good to hear about the fake passes, though. We should want the pass system to break.
“We didn’t love freedom enough…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Solzhenitsyn
Être dans de beaux draps
Pédaler dans la semoule
Avoir le cul entre deux chaises
Avaler des couleuvres
Oh La La
They certainly are. I wonder where the sans-culottes have stored the tumbrils and guillotines?
If you haven’t seen Matrix: Revolutions, I actually recommend it. The subtext is that people are “sheepal” (they actually say that) and that they prefer comfort to freedom. When free people choose to wear an at best marginally beneficial device indoors, in teh outdoors, and allow their government to mandate it, they are sheepal. God helps all because it seems we have indeed gotten too comfortable for our own good.
The sheep need shepherds. Some shepherds require shotguns to repel wolves threatening the flock.
I like the cut of your jib BS…
“Which cartridge would Sir be using today?”
Buck n’ ball, podna, buck n’ ball! 🤠
Shepherds repel the wolves, then fleece the sheep, then slaughter them. I’d rather have the wolves. They never kill the whole flock.
My wolves are covidians, my sheep are biblical.
Agreed, there were bits I didn’t like.but loved people on the train wearing masks while mask-less Neo did his thing, attacked by the ‘lockdown swarm’, Neo getting locked in his room for his own good which he escaped from and Wake-Up albeit not sung by Rage Against The Machine.
Fifth wave, really, you can tell some people anything. Despite the fact that crowds have gathered all over the world, the rich and ‘elite’ are daily flaunting their holidays around the globe, some still live in fear
Fith-wave Covid is about as coherent as fifth-wave feminism – yes, fifth-wave feminism is a thing:
https://maryretta.substack.com/p/the-fifth-wave
With the latest iteration comes more absurdity and incoherence, just when you thought it couldn’t become any more absurd and incoherent. And morons everywhere still lap up the absurd, anti-rational garbage.
And we dare as a society to smugly look down on past generations because we are so enlightened?
This is a time for valour and courage, honour and dignity, integrity and faith, determination and grit. I personally, could not live with the shame of yielding to the globalist tyrants. So, I will not.
Yep: this is indeed such a time. But who’s in charge – ooooooooooooooooooooooooops!
I assume you mean Johnson? He is rapidly becoming the most despised PM ever and will be gone before too long.
We’re in charge… yes, every person on this site. And every person resisting.
At some point, marching into cannon fire is the only honourable thing to do. And we’ll do it with joy. Returning home only with our shields, or on them (Plutarch).
Meanwhile, while France goes under the Covid Cosh and Johnson bumbles on his next tyrannical move, the Japanese are waking up.
Japan has demanded strict reporting of all adverse events within 28 days of the jabs together with strict warnings about heart risks especially myocarditis written on the vaccine vials.” Informed consent” in full knowledge of all risks is to be ensured.
Discrimination against those who choose not to be vaccinated is ‘discouraged’ and workplaces are told not to try and enforce vaccinations without informed consent.
So Japan respects its “duty of care” for the health of its citizens and the Nuremberg Code – shame about the Johnson Cabal.
So where is our sad, abused and ‘misruled’ country now?
The Japanese have the courage to do the right thing. They realise the alternative is just cowardice and oppression: anathema to their whole ethos.
Where’s ‘the West’s’ sense of honour?
To paraphrase ‘Home Thoughts From Abroad’:
‘Oh, to be in Paris
Now that covid’s here…’
Mambo no.5 – zut alors !
According to the DT there are violent protests going on in Germany. Protests being reported in the MSM whatever next?
Violence is the only answer, peaceful protests are ignored.
Violence may be needed to ‘get their attention’, but we can’t guarantee it will be reported, nor the true motives and reasons behind it.
There is more than enough cause for just resistance, but still no public leadership I can think of apart from Colonel Bosi in Australia.
He had a good idea (if it would work) just withdraw all labour. Businesses would start screaming. I don’t think they’re ready yet to do without their work forces.
It is a good idea. I was thinking though more in terms of conventional leadership (still lacking in the UK) which could be escalated into ‘anarcho-Bonapartism’ if necessary.
A good old riot is exactly what is needed, take out the frustration of the past two years on authorities and bed-wetters
I’m not sure it is what’s needed. I suspect it’s what TPTB want so they can bring in martial law under the current powers they have, all in the interests of keeping us safe of course.
Peaceful resistance by non compliance with any of their crap rules, including supporting businesses who don’t do any of the masking, passports etc and boycotting all those that do will be far more effective if we can get increased numbers and will drive the TPTB mad because they’ll have no excuse to bring in further restrictions.
This is over when we decide it’s over but rioting is not the best move in my opinion
Never before have we heard of a respiratory virus doing waves and never before have they gone on for years it’s usually just a few short months. It’s truly a historic time! Amazing what you can come up with and get people to believe to push through your real agenda.
France imposes more of the same old pish…
Unfortunately, just after they got rid of most of the pish-oires.
So how are the masks, the lock-downs,the vaccine passports, the working from home, the border restrictions and vaccines working then M Macron?
So nothing to do with a virus – confirms its really about the climate change nutters afterall.
Climate change may be real just like COVID. The problem is the response is BS.
Well, climate drift (essentially random) is real, but there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE of anything more. Oh, unless you want to trust the models!!!???
The last IPCC report was pretty interesting. You know, the one that seemed to set the Green Agenda on fire and had heads of state private-jetting into the G20 to see what they could do about all the jet fumes.
The report acknowledged and listed as a source a recent paper which describes atmospheric solar forcing – the mecahnism by which the charged particles surrounding the Earth are forced into the atmosphere by strong solar winds – as a source of heating. It’s not really a difficult concept to grasp, we’ve all used a fan heater.
Unfortunately, or more likely, by design, they then completely ignored the ramifications of this heat source in their modelling. The only source of solar heating in their model was from irradiance. Yet they still had to account for this extra heat within the system. So they did, without much in the way of justification, and blamed it on humans.
Subsequently, their model suffered from acute Fergusonism; that is, it was completely worthless horseshit.
There are a number of other factors that cause variance in our climate too; axial precession, orbital variation, solar cycles, the weaking of our magnetosphere due to polar excursion, transit… Read more »
I fear that the only way the majority will wake up is if the death toll is so massive and undeniably amongst the vaxxed that most of the dullards will just keep going along with it all.
Sadly the MSM make sure that the gullible believe that the vax is ‘safe and effective’ and that 90% of those in hospital and dying are unvaxxed.
All the MSM need to do is maintain that basic lie and the gullible simply never hear the truth.
I have close members of my family who totally buy everything the government tells them. They truly believe the government is doing the best job it can in difficult times, and it is therefore our duty to be mindful of what they tell us (compliant!). All their information comes from the mainstream news channels and newspapers. It never crosses their minds to doubt, for example, the safety of the ‘vaccines’ and nothing they hear, see or read gives them cause to doubt, especially as anyone who bad mouths vaccines in any way is probably a flat earth/QAnon/lizard people sort of conspiracist, whose opinion is just plain nuts and not worth listening too. They believe this because this is what MSM tells them. Put simply, vaccine adherents good; vaccine questioners bad. I don’t see how this mindset is going to be changed easily.
Chief among the many blessings which seperate us from the beasts is our capacity for abstract and complex thought. We fail at being human by not exploiting our natural gifts, like an Albatross that refuses to take flight and soar across oceans.
It’s an astonishing waste.
I know people like to get their knickers in a twist about this, in fact they become so deranged and heated up about it that this in and of itself raises my suspicions, especially when you consider that most of them have absolutely no idea what drives people to believe the earth could be flat. Their opinion is usually based on hearsay and groupthink, not knowledge of both sides of the argument. Flat earth logic is not crazy. It makes a lot of sense. People generally have no idea why some believe we live on a flat plain as opposed to a giant spinning ball covered in water. They just know its crazy without ever having scratched the surface or done any proper analysis. Im not sure if its true or not, but its not anywhere near as crazy as people make out and it makes sense to me the layman – moreso than a ball earth – having a basic understanding of both models.
Here is an experiment you can do yourself to show how it is not completely crazy.
Part one – try getting water to stick to a ball. A physics expert recently stumped me by saying… Read more »
I like flat earthers. I have no opinion on the shape of the planet, I only know what i’ve been told & pictures i’ve seen, which is of course proof of nothing either way. The reason I like flat earthers is that they aren’t willing to take someone else’s word for it.
Question everything, especially settled science & the consensus.
Another proof of flat i just remembered is that people all over the world have taken long range photographs of things that should be hidden by the supposed curve of the earth. The longest range shot was over 200 miles i think, what they photographed should have been concealed by miles of curve. Photos of buildings over large bodies of water for example.
Also lighthouses are pretty useless on a ball earth.
‘homeworking compulsory for at least three days a week in “businesses where it is possible”. Does Covid have a lie-in on Monday and Friday then? Darn clever stuff this bug, it knows when you stand up, knows when you are in a supermarket and it now knows when you are outside. It is sure as hell getting a better education than any kids are getting from their idle teachers.
Must destroy those independent businesses in cities to make room for the slave quarters.
It’s called faire le pont. It means that the weekend starts in Friday and ends on Tuesday. Been going on for years.
What do they expect to happen when they enforce leaky jabs on people? Does anyone in any Government read facts? The jabs turn people into Covid factories.
“Do you expect me to talk, No, Mr Bond I expect you to die”
Vaccine deaths blame COVID
COVID deaths take more jabs
Everyone dependent on vaccine like Marek’s chickens.
Meanwhile the elite have their supplies of IVM, HCQ, Vitamins and have probably gained good natural immunity by now anyway. Funny how none of them seem to get cancer – funny that.
None of them have died or suffering from adverse reactions and you would expect a few to have done so which poses even more questions of WHY NOT?
They take herbs with sugar according to this guy:
Dr. John Coleman – Committee of 300, Tavistock Institute, Club of Rome……Global 2000, et cetera
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EKS9TWqP12Yq/
Facts? I’ve concluded the government and their ‘entourage’ are fully onboard with democide as long as they are excluded from the cull.
This obviously manufactured stunt featuring a cartoon-character like villain stalking the Royal grounds with a crossbow is clearly designed to manufacture broad consent for the further disarming of citizens. I can only imagine that such a thing would be immediately necessary if they were laying the groundwork for door-to-door vaccine death squads to start hitting the UK streets very soon.
It looked so fake and unbelievable. Don’t think they need to disarm the population any further – that project was completed years ago. Everything the media do is about increasing fear and hatred amongst the population and increasing worship of the state and authority. This site could do some good work taking apart this obvious propaganda and fake news but instead just posts links to it.
For people like us to see through it for what it really is and to take it apart.
This isn’t really the place for it. This site does great work, and I’m grateful for its existence, but there much about it that screams Fisher-Price My First Conspiracyᵀᴹ. It is as if Toby and crowd have reluctantly accepted that there is something fishy going on in this one instance, yet are still really resistant to entertaining the deeper manipulations within in our society (despite these same having been clearly demonstrated by some very learned minds). Toby the FSU guy even went so far as to shut down any discussion regarding problems with the vaccines before eventually climbing back down.
Yes we are in an echo chamber here. It’s really hard to get a popular site/media that can reach the people instead of BBC/ITV/Facebook etc. If one was started today it would take a few years to reach the masses whilst under constant attack openly, behind the scenes and illegal means.
At this stage of total media saturation and propaganda entrainment, only the autodidact can escape. And that path itself is beset with deliberate traps and the muttering of madmen.
As unpopular as the opinion is, perhaps Aristotle was correct in his observation that certain types were simply born to be slaves.
Maybe it is easier on us if we accept that humans are naturally slavish, and we seekers after personal sovereignty are simply a virus in the Matrix rather than flattering ourselves by thinking that we harbour the true aspirations of all mankind, if only they would but realise it.
😮 I hope not.
I would like to think that we are the ones that move civilisation forward by not blindly accepting what we are told.
I would share your hope, but I struggle to reconcile it with what I have witnessed over the past two years. It is clear what lies in the heart of man, for the most part. Am I too pessimistic? I don’t think so, not when it so readily provides answers to questions relating to the historical popularity of tyranny and atrocity. Bonhoeffer, Solzhenitsyn, Le Bon, Arendt, that their warnings have become relevent once again is revealing enough.
That isn’t to say I will just throw my hands in the air and give up, as if my most deeply cherished beliefs could ever be cast off like yesterday’s underpants. But I think it certainly changes my attitude. I don’t think it is a worthwhile mission to try to ‘wake up’ others (though I still applaude those who try), but instead I’ll clutch my rudimentary understanding of Socrates and Thoreau close, prepare myself to die on the hill of my stubborn non-compliance, and secretly hope in a small way that by living free and purposefully I might be an example to someone.
Excellent comments Black Flag.
I would rather be dead than comply away all my freedoms and be trapped in a hollow, worse than Orwellian society.
But that may not yet be necessary as the harder and more miserable life becomes, the easier it will be to wake people up.
They only have to recognise the evil looming over them to strip its power away, barely any physical action required.
I would do the same, but I feel I have to fight this for the sake of my kids. I cannot accept that they will inherit this dystopian world. Didn’t Aristotle say that courage was the greatest virtue? Yes, I am scared and it seems hopeless, but I cannot give up and abandon them to tyranny.
Perhaps one day soon I will be lucky enough to lay down my life for your children, and I would do it readily, but there will likely be no great fight to join. We will simply be crushed by the masses as they roll over.
Perhaps that isn’t what you want to hear, but I have not been left unchanged by the painful lessons of last two years. But who the hell am I anyway? Don’t listen to me, do as you must, so shall I, and one day we will walk together in Valhalla.
Your beautiful words have really touched me. Thank you.
I think you are both correct.
Humans are a herd species that organises itself through hierarchies. You need the majority to be unquestioningly compliant for societies to function. But you also need a vocal critical thinking minority to drive things forward. The scary bit is when the totalitarians take control.
We need greater cohesiveness on our side, and a strong leader.
Not sure how to take that, I can’t relate to it, so does it mean i’m not human, is that a good or bad thing?
I’m neither a leader or a follower, I despise authority, shun conformity, always felt it my duty not to comply & question everything.
Go to UK Column.
What gets me is many of the leading Free Speech Union members are taking part in this State propaganda campaign and demonising anyone who through personal choice declines the jabs. They don’t really seem to believe in Free Speech if it disagrees with government chosen ‘experts’ or ‘scientists’ or narrative.
When the propaganda is targeting your fellow citizens (who are unarmed and can’t defend themselves) surely it is time to speak out. Some of the recent MSM headlines have (subtly) promoted violence against the un-jabbed (they clearly have lawyers advising on headlines so no action can be taken). It’s nothing short of evil what Toby Youngs MSM colleagues are doing 24/7.
They don’t need door to door vaccine death squads.
They just need vaccine passports so they can turn your life off.
More simply and effectively, ban cash.
God, can you imagine when they start the door to door ‘reminders’, how the most brainwashed, jabbed family members will side with them to degrade and shame those un-jabbed in their own homes.
Don’t invite the vampires.