Current Covid data does not indicate a need for new restrictions, a Cabinet minister has said. The Telegraph has more.
Steve Barclay, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, indicated that stricter controls were unlikely to be introduced in the coming days, based on the latest hospitalisation and case figures.
On Wednesday, Boris Johnson is set to review the Plan B measures brought in last month, including rules mandating masks in almost all indoor public settings and requiring Covid passports for nightclubs and large events.
Government sources told the Telegraph last week that they were not expecting to repeal any of the Plan B restrictions yet, with adults in England set to be told to continue working from home if possible. The measures are set to roll over to the next review point on Jan 26th.
Senior Tories on Sunday said Plan B must not become a new normal, warning Mr Johnson that the Government must push to “get back to Plan A”.
Mr Barclay’s comments come as daily reported infections in England drop by 24% overnight, to 123,547 on January 2nd down from 162,572 on January 1st. Even taking into account it being a Sunday, when there are usually fewer infections reported, it is a considerable drop.
In London, the epicentre of the country’s Omicron outbreak, reported infections continue to show no sign of growth.
The Telegraph report is worth reading in full.
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He’s posthumous by about two years re the need for no restrictions.
Now if he’d said ”There’s no need for ANY restrictions” that would have been acceptable. As it is – these people just spout the usual weasel words.
But face masks in secondary schools is a new restriction
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Well, there’s a well known saying “If a politician opens his mouth, he/she is probably lying”. It could be that they are covering their a**e and trying to weasel their way out if it. Carry on the good work with proper criticism of the whole lot!
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-are-40-among-people-ages-18-64
The head of OneAmerica insurance said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.
“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”
OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers in the state.
Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.
“And what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said.
I wonder if they offer medical insurance too. And, if so, do they pay out for ”vaccine injury”?
Can you post this onto the main comments below as I think it is quite important. When private business has to pay for all of this, real pushback could begin; his comment that this increase is worse than a one in 200 year catastrophe is amazing: “Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”
‘Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’ – Cockwomble of the Shire of Tiddlywinks.
I’m slightly baffled by the current uk situation. It feels as though the government have somehow run out of road when it comes to covid and I can’t quite read the intention at this stage. I thought omicron was the coup de grace; the ‘variant’ that would be used to bring in all the tyranny we on this forum have feared for the last two years. Got extremely worried just before Christmas. And they got their beloved ‘case’ numbers up and made all the right noises to spook the public into quasi submission. But where to go from here? The word is definitely out that this ‘variant’ is milder and it feels like a missed opportunity to inflict more damage on the economy and to advance the medical apartheid their bosses seem to want. I don’t see much vilification of the unvaccinated anywhere (apart from in the Guardian); the tyrants seem to have lost their way… finding it hard to predict what comes next while this has generally been very easy thus far!
It was never going to be easy to use deception as the primary means of bringing about sudden and profound social change. Have they fucked it up and need to backpedal and distance themselves from the scam?
Same confused thoughts here. Tyranny plan seems to be off track. somewhat.
Optimistic:
Are they bailing out?
Did Johnson drag his feet long enough for the back benchers to get their teeth stuck in and peg him down so he could ignore the puppet masters?
Is Omnicon just not producing the goods?
Pessimistic:
They recognise the mood of the nation has changed and they need a new scariant to plough on.
Are we to except a twist in the Covid narrative?
Was this just a trial that’s proven to be far more successful then their widest dreams?
Do they have another ‘virus’ at the ready to deliver their plans (smallpox)?
I just don’t see them giving up on their Digital ID’s / CBDC’s that easily and any other attempt at the same story will be met with far less compliance.
Confused.com
They’re obviously not going to give up the idea of digital IDs anyway (they’ve been in the pipeline a long time and the latest paper was snuck out recently re a ”right to work and rent”). No doubt they’ll find something else to scare the Terminally Terrified with – perhaps starting panic buying and a ration system. Who knows?
Something wicked this way comes……..
It’s not about what they say it’s about.
Yawn – just another no-mark Johnson fellow traveller Yes -BoyI
No-one gives a flying f*ck what he has to say!
Just get him out of our faces!
Plan A, Plan B. Pfft! I don’t think so. Their only modes of operation are monkey-see-monkey-do, and full-on headless-chicken – as per the majority of those in charge around the world.
I honestly don’t know how we scrape by. We simply are not sufficiently evolved as a species to be able to responsibly look after ourselves and our planet. If we were faced with a real emergency, we’d be done for.
We ponce about, believing ourselves to be very clever and grown up. Actually, we haven’t got a clue. And it feels to me as though we are hanging on by our fingernails.
Cheer up you miserable get, there’s hope for us yet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FTL1E-EJoY
“get back to Plan A”.
Hi folks – often I see us falling into the trap of speaking about the justification of so called restrictions, or lack of. Please reflect when structuring your arguments, as germane as they may be, that these so called restrictions are not evidenced based and do nothing to cut transmission of the virus etc. So we are simply faced with a false premise. What needs to be be focused on is obvious to you folks I’m sure.
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
MSM is garbage, taking the Gates shilling! $314 millon of it globally!
same here they all s ay i t’s a horse de wormer .i tell them otherwise that is also for human consumption safe used for decades talk about india and africa but no reply or the usual ‘that’s mis information !’
absolutley no one has listened to me
South African parliament burned down today in unexplained circumstances (e.g. fire alarm not sounding, firefighters having trouble with “building security”). Perhaps a little warning from TPTB for the legislators there for not taking care of sufficiently silencing their doctors during the first days of the omicron?
Next stop, an Enabling Act?
We already have it – read the small print of the Corona Virus Emergency Act – our dumb MPs didn’t even bother to read it!
History tells us it should be good for Eleven Years’ Brutal Tyranny before they are all brought down in flames!
I wondered when “measures” would be taken.
False Flag from te Globalist thugs? US involved?
More than likely.
Democracy, Dutch anti-lockdown protester is MAULED by police dogs. Thousands attended an outlawed protest
Policing by consent, arrested for dancing, Dozens of police storm Glasgow pub suspected of breaking strict Scottish Covid rules Officers filmed shouting at punters to leave and wrestling people to the ground
Note: How the MSM never allow comments on police brutality.
Indeed the video is very shocking to see. – does Johnson watch eagerly and plan his own next moves?
We wait with interest to see his real plans to enslave and beat down the populace!
I don’t like saying this but the Plods are going to be in for a very rude awakening if they carry on like this. From their point of view they need to be careful because they don’t have the numbers. Seriously.
If sustained and multiple uprisings occur the cops are fucked. This isn’t Maggie fighting the miners at specific points like mines where London coppers were shipped to the Yorkshire coal fields. Half a dozen reasonable demos would soon have plod at breaking point.
Or perhaps there is a hidden reserve of young migrants being fitted for their uniforms daily?
Dutch plod clearly did not have the numbers in the street scene vids shown by the Mail.
Just in the orchestrated scenes with horses and vans in a largely empty park.
25 Officers, 6 vans for a routine visit?
Just two arrests and a pub closed for a day.
Senior Officers should arrest each other for wasting Police time.
I take your point about the Mail not allowing comments on this blatantly political action.
No need for further restrictions, at the same time the slap masks on school children again. But that’s OK, a recent poll suggests the majority actually enjoy the masking.
Hitler appeased/ignored the middle aged people whilst going after the young
@Backlash. I agree.
Those like me who are approaching fifty are not the target. The focus is on subjugating/conditioning the young, who will eventually be so cowed they’ll accept anything.
We need to actively fight any imposition or unfair restriction made on school-age children. Their resilience is lower than ours, so it’s up to us to act as proxy votes. If the rules apply to them but not us then we have a duty to object on their behalf, rather than be thankful we don’t have to comply.
They’re being actively trained to comply with the ‘new-normal’ – we’ll have shuffled-off/become obsolete in a few years, but for those few years we need to remain awake. I’m not a dad, but I am an uncle and I intend to fight this.
Lovely words.
I am not a Dad, I am nominally a Grandad, my wife’s son’s child, but by God I am not surrendering to this shit. It’s bad enough for my nieces and nephews but our grandson cannot fight. I must do my bit for him or admit I am a coward.
The progressives were always very clever at this.
They could have made life hell for my racist nan but instead left her alone knowing that she and her equally racist cronies would soon be dead as indeed they have been these past 40 years.
I encountered the first of the Polytechnic progressives in the 6th form at school. We didn’t use words like politically correct or woke. “Woolly thinking” perhaps.
We had to tell a new ‘0’ level economics teacher, wanker wanted to “be our friend”, to teach by the book or we would drop out of his subject leaving him with no job.
After that he left us alone, going for the younger kids in the classrooms down the hill that we never went near.
Did they say this on exactly the same day new restrictions were announced (masks in schools) or just out slightly by a day?!
Dutch lockdown protesters MAULED by police dogs and hit with batons
https://mol.im/a/10362603
The Dutch have evidently had enough!
Dutch now set vicious dogs onto protesters – and attack them six onto one – just like1940 all over again! ( See videos)
Well, duh!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/dr-gottlieb-now-admits-cloth-masks-dont-provide-protection-covid-19-video/
No need for any restrictions.
No need for government either in my opinion, certainly not a “Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster” what ever that is.
Meanwhile, the biggest scam the world has ever seen continues, The COVID-19 Fraud with Dr Mark Bailey on Counterspin.
Johnson has amply demonstrated the virtue of abolishing tyrannical Governments and declaring creative, populist anarchy!
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a Cabinet level post without a department to run.
It is given to someone either to shut them up or, as is likely in this case, to give them access power without the bother of having to do a proper job. They can spend ALL their time politicking on the PMs behalf.
What’s with the recent retreats? Are they trying to cut themselves loose from the ever growing elephant in the room aka horroundous vaccine side-effects? Going to be an interesting beginning to the New Year, still can’t figure out what their next move will be if not pushing people with more variants. Well done too all those resisting. I saw that Amsterdam was mayhem
Nobody knows if it’s a feigned retreat or a real one. I thing it’s feigned, but every new edict is beginning to look like desperation.
I think they have lost, in the long view, but we’re still in c. 1942.
Feigned – they are coming back wit more outrageous horror and scheming l ies!
A man definitely not of these times….
Unfortunately, Gulag Wales is still crushed under a pile of Dung and likely to remain so, because that’s what Dung enjoys.
Annie, you always make me laugh with the way you put it 🙂
Yes, she has a way with words 🙂
If only this guy was PM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgTPxC1ZXSc
Or President
The only ‘restrictions’ should be life sentences for complicit politicians, media and pharma complex who are killing young people with mandatory experimental genetic vaccines, many fine athletes included.
https://rumble.com/vrt1h0-athletes-collapsing-this-is-supposed-to-be-rare.html
Enough have died now, where are the autopsy results? I’d hire a sky writer or project them onto big ben.
They managed to do an autopsy on an alpaca, yet how many have they done on people who “died of covid”?
As few as the can get away with !
They have banned and hidden the autopsy results to conceal their crimes!
So, Whitty warned of 5,000 deaths a day (even 6,000) and got a knighthood.
If he’d warned of 50,000 deaths a day, would he have been made a Duke?
Refeudalisation. It’s coming, folks!
Duke Whitty of Turtlehead
They’ll certainly try. There is no guarantee they will succeed.
Might have to apply for that court jester position with Count Beckham after all.
Bring back hanging, drawing and quartering of traitors : “Behold, this is the head of a traitor”`.
Most of those receiving this justice were of course members of the Ruling Elite!
Duke or Puke?
Whitty is simply beyond any words of contempt.
End all restrictions immediately.
I saw this from a ‘Julian French’ on a Sky News Australia YT video:
IMAGINE we were living in medieval times…. and you’d been invited to a royal banquet. 👑 🍷 🍲
The ones in charge were extremely keen to get you to drink the wine. They were very insistent. 👀
You’d probably assume the wine was poisoned.
“Drink this wonderful wine.”
“No thank you.”
“Be a good guest! Drink the wine. We uncorked it especially. It’s a beautiful and rare vintage.”
“No thank you. I appreciate the offer though.”
“Drink the wine. It’s very expensive but you can have a glass for free, and we’ll give you an extra plate of supper.”
“No I’m fine as I am.”
“Drink the wine and we’ll feed your entire village for a week and reduce your taxes.”
“Wow all that for wine? What’s in it? Still, no thank you.”
“We’ll make you a Duke.”
“Very generous but no thanks I’m content in my home.”
“You are not anti-wine are you????”
“No I just don’t feel like drinking this wine this evening.”
“Drink the damn wine or we’ll stop you working.”
“Eh?”
You notice they’re getting desperate now.
“We’ll ban you from markets.”
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Prester, I have a simple rule: if after saying ‘no’ once, anyone continues to try and ply me with covid wine, I tell them I am teetotal.
Sadly, too many are too timid to say ‘no’ in any way, shape, or form. It isn’t politeness to agree to being raped over and over again.
Exactly.
Simpler heuristic: Whenever somebody tries to scare you, he’s trying to coax you into something which is much better for him than for you.
An even simpler heuristic: always consider offers from other people as potentially unfair to you (the key is to observe that the initiative to enter transaction was not yours).
Every time!
“Covid: Workplace absences could reach up to 25% as PM drafts contingency plans“.
Is this what they call “blowback”?
Someone who thinks they’ve got “Covid” because they obediently stuck a probe up their nose every day for a fortnight until they eventually got a blue line indicating a “positive result”, and who then
walks around with their head in a paper bagstops going into work because they need to “self-isolate”, is now classified not as a sensible and public-spirited citizen, but as a “workplace absence”.Gotta see the funny side.
I could have told them the time would come when rather than getting a “We love you” letter from the queen or the prime minister, or even from their local GP, their only thanks would be a flying kick up the arse with a hobnailed jackboot.