People in Scotland may have to wear masks in public places for years to come, Nicola Sturgeon has warned – in spite of the fact that masked-up Scotland has a higher number of cases per 100,000 than England. MailOnline has more.
The First Minister insisted that tough curbs dramatically imposed on hospitality venues and large gatherings from Boxing Day had stemmed the spread of Covid, despite official figures showing that Scotland’s virus rate is higher than England’s.
And furious business leaders said Miss Sturgeon’s “gamble” with restrictions must end after they failed to make “any meaningful difference” to infections in Scotland.
Speaking ahead of today’s announcement about extending restrictions beyond next week, Miss Sturgeon said face coverings “might be required in the longer-term to enable us to live with it [Covid] with far fewer protective measures”.
In England, Covid restrictions could start to be lifted this month after Michael Gove said Britain was moving towards a situation where it could “live with” the virus.
Downing Street is examining options to lift Plan B measures in stages if cases remain too high to remove them all in one go. Extending Covid passes, due to expire on January 26th, would require another bruising clash with Tory backbenchers, which No 10 wants to avoid.
But some ministers are pushing for the WFH guidance to be removed first, arguing that it causes the most damage to the economy.
Miss Sturgeon told STV’s Scotland Tonight: “Sometimes when you hear people talk about learning to live with Covid, what seems to be suggested is that one morning we’ll wake up and not have to worry about it any more, and not have to do anything to try to contain and control it.
“That’s not what I mean when I say ‘learning to live with it’. Instead, we will have to ask ourselves what adaptations to pre-pandemic life – face coverings, for example – might be required in the longer-term to enable us to live with it with far fewer protective measures.”
Worth reading in full.
According to the Government’s coronavirus dashboard, the number of cases per 100,000 is currently higher in those parts of the United Kingdom with severe Covid restrictions in place than it is in England, including Scotland.
Stop Press: Nicola Sturgeon has announced that some Covid restrictions in Scotland will be lifted next Monday, including the ban on more than 500 people attending football and rugby matches, and she hoped other restrictions would be lifted the following Monday, pending a review of the data, including limits on attendance at indoor live events, table service in hospitality businesses, and distancing in indoor public spaces. But anyone wanting to access those events will still require a Covid Pass – and merely being double-vaccinated won’t be sufficient if the second jab was more than four months ago. From Monday January 17th only those who’ve had a second dose within four months, had a booster or uploaded the result of a recent lateral flow test will be able to download a Covid Pass. What’s more, she’s thinking about extending those venues that require Covid certification to include pubs, bars and restaurants.
Stop Press 2: Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph says it’s time to disabuse people of the idea that Nicola Sturgeon has had a good Pandemic.
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Sounds a bit like Marxism. When that gets tried a new elite tell people what to do, a few million die and it’s insisted it wasn’t done right and more Marxism is the answer.
OK quite a lot of nasty anti-Scottish comment on here, some ironic and barely funny, a lot of it moronic and hateful. That’s especially so for the racist bile of backlash and others directed at black people.. This divisive, reactionary approach does nothing for the sceptic movement. We need a broad church not a narrow evangelical chapter of angry zealots.
We Scot’s are not dupes but we have an electoral history of being ruled as an adjunct to the Westminster game, both the Tories and Labour and now the SNP have treated us as stage army for U.K. elections. Under devolution, the SNP now treat Scots as dupes for their their woke, green, oppressive globalist agenda. They have also created through both parliaments, a perpetual promotion machine for mediocrities and chancers, many of whom are in the SNP.
I respect unionists but some of us believe that Scotland should be independent but we also know it will never happen under the SNP. In any case the unionist parties have done a terrible job of holding Sturgeon and her clique to account. The SNP don’t believe in independence, they are a middle class movement which mobilises the working class through… Read more »
Sturgeon: named after a fish, brain of a fish. I think Boris is bad but she is one step beyond.
The Barnet formula that affords Scotland a hefty public subsidy was only supposed to be a temporary measure, Several decades on they are still biting to hand that feeds them. I don’t mind the bail out continuing IF the UK Government rescinds many of the powers foolishly ceded to the Scotland local authority by Cameron and Blair. Then in a couple of years time allow the Scots to choose independence if they wish but on fair terms ie on the basis Scotland’s share of economic output and contribution to the UK economy. Sturgeon is out of control but the monster was created in London.
Hahahaha. This just means live with covid-restrictions. For no other reason than Sturgeon being a dictator. Watch as pubs, restaurants etc all close
What are these gov’t leaders getting paid to destroy their economies? Must be quite a bit.
Just pure mania on her part. Makes you think she might have lost her mind.
However, don’t be fooled she hasn’t, this is cold calculated control that the people need to fight back against. We need a war against this tyranny but for that we need the masses to come to their senses.
I’m not holding my breath.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there lots of SNP politicians are incompetent, simply because of the suddenness with which they came to dominate Scottish politics (which meant they had no experience before being thrust into office).
Something similar happened in a lot of American cities when white flight resulted in black politicians gaining power, especially if the loss of tax revenue resulting from this white flight sends the city finances into a death spiral anyway.
The way to live with it is to treat it like all the other viruses that cause colds; Lemsip and tissues.
People just need to stop the stupid mask nonsense. It’s not as if they even do anything positive.
I think I get it now. Peking Piffle has a chance to attract fed up entrepreneurial Scots South of the boarder by easing off on the tyranny (a bit) thus further weakening the case for Scottish separatism.
“Masks for years to come”.
Sounds (first) fishy.
While main stream media condemns using ivermectin the most populated area in India simply declared they’re actually COVID free after promoting this safe tested medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches covid spike proteins and stops them from binding to ACE2 receptors. I recommend everyone to have ivermectin for emergency situations https://ivmpharmacy.com
I wouldn’t mind if she kept hers on. Can’t stand seeing her face.
At least we in England look marginally less stupid than other places. Plenty of scpetics and free spirits in England. I use public transport regularly and more and more people don’t give a fuck about this bollocks. We should be grateful for what we have left in England and America.
Olympics for stupidity 2021/2022 – this individual has obviously trained well and is reaching levels of stupidity never reached before. Scotland is achieving in the stupidity games like no other endeavour henceforth, perhaps second only to Wales, ………People voted for this? Bananas – which in Scotland have be fully sterilised and masked before eating.
She means, they will have to wear masks until there is a second independence referendum, at which no one will be allowed to speak, as the SNP thugs will drown them out anyway.
That is, until the overwhelming majority of Scots finally realise masks did them only harm, not good, and then they can wrap their masks round Nicola Sturgeon’s mouth and end devious, petty manipulations of the truth.
The mask is never coming off. That’s it baby down on your knees. Lick my boots. Lick through the material of the mask.
Just about sums it up, i think
‘Tie the unvaccinated down sport’
The ‘Sturgeonater’ has a rival down under!
Australian territory bans unvaccinated from exercising outdoors, going to work
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/australian-territory-bans-unvaccinated-from-exercising-outdoors-going-to-work/
If you have time, watch the video that the article links to. Beyond belief!
Which part of “Measures do not work” does Sturgeon fail to understand? Does she not even think to question the fact that countries with very few restrictions fare best? Look at France, Wales and Scotland for examples of the complete and utter failure of any and all measures. There is also the fact the not-vaccines do absolutely nothing, look at Israel, 4 jobs and cases soaring – well, that worked well then didn’t it?
I can’t remember the name of the contributor, but he had a T shirt with a slogan which applies here.
“I’m not a gynaecologist but I know a Cunt when I see one!”
Brilliant
Just like to say excellent pic
More likely personal ambition, to be seen on the global stage as a potential ‘global leader participating and willing to go to extremes’, sadly they probably laugh at fools like this.
I live in Scotland and I am so sad and angry at what this woman and her SNP Cronies are doing to make it a creepy sanitised and irrationally strict place to live. I’ve been to protests and I hope more people will stand up against what is wrong so that the SNP back down. If you live in Scotland and are reading this then go to a protest and being a friend, please.
Here is a link to a funny and sadly accurate 2 minute video about the restrictions.
It’s called ‘Sexy in that face mask’
https://youtu.be/aRhQ2saV_Ps
First sign I spotted from down South was her decision to create “state guardians” for every child. I think that was stamped out, but were I parent in Scotland, I’d have been a parent in England. The default state of play is that the state butts out of the family.
She’s probably one of the zero-covid delusionals. Is zero-covid possible? It’s more likely that Santa Claus exists!
More importantly, it gives her an excuse to nanny permanently, achieving her dream.
It is possible: it’s already there!
Every woman has one. Nicola is one, too.
An exceptionally obstinate and stupid one at that.
Beware your first statement. You don’t need one to be a woman. Ask any wokeman in the Labour Party.
We know Jeffrey Epstein and Ghilane Maxwell were child rapists that have been convicted of supplying victims to powerful men all over the world.
We know that both of the above are directly linked with Israel/Mossad.
We know Epstein operated in London, Prince Andrew enjoyed his company here and overseas.
We know that Boris is completely unable to control his penis.
What are the odds that Boris has enjoyed the hospitality of Epstein and Maxwell over the years and that Epstein and Maxwell had footage of the hospitality that he enjoyed?
What are the odds that such footage has been used to force Boris to impose the covid fraud on us and to force these vaccines into our people?
How do we connect the blackmail to vaccines, though?
Well, if there is anything to this idea (personally, I think Bozo is just setting himself up with a cushy future via satisfied vested interests), think how much money has been made from the non-vaccines, PPE etc., etc.!
Or it could be that green ideology has been taught for decades and is being put into practice, rather than your mindless claim.
Green idealogy will sink without a trace in the end. Like it has over every supposed “climate emergency” that spelt the end of the planet for years on end. At least fifty of them over the last 60 years or so.
Was Andy the only one daft enough to be photographed, when allegedly planes were flying into that island from all over, no more names have emerged.
Won’t happen. England decides what goes on in the UK. Sturgeon and Drakeford just use Westminster policy to fuel divide and take pot shots.
If England remove restrictions, Scotland follows.
Yes – time for an Independence poll (for all UK citizens) with two options: a) complete independence or (b) complete cancellation of devolution!
Open letter from a senior Israeli immunologist criticising government policy: https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/
I live in scotland and simply state ‘exempt’ when approached by the police about not wearing a mask. Up to now they have actually been polite in their response – no problem, etc.
The approval rating for wee krankie is dropping fast and with the ‘cost of living crisis’ and economic stagnation, etc., on the horizon, she knows there is no chance of getting agreement for another independence referendum. She also has no credible successor. A parliament full of also-rans!
Instead, as per her recent television broadcasts on covid, she is now coming across a bit deranged and petulant – for example, a recent exchange with a journalist about cutting the quarantine period for covid positive essential workers from 10 to 7 days (now likely to be 5 soon!).
Covid is the only thing left where wee krankie can still exert any real power, but her career will end in failure and she now knows it.
I sincerely hope so but the idea that Nanny knows best is thoroughly ingrained here.
Her career will end but the chunky pension payments will continue.
I have a horrible feeling that Humza Yousaf will bully-pulpit his way into Bute House.
God – any version of Her – help us if that happens.
Then that also spells the end of the dominance of the snp. A three year old can ride a scooter:
Scottish health secretary Humza Yousaf falls off mobility scooter in Holyrood. – YouTube