The Health Secretary has said Covid passes will be scrapped in England this month as the country’s Omicron wave continues to collapse. MailOnline has more
Sajid Javid is said to have told MPs [yesterday] that he shared their “instinctive discomfort” at the certificates, which 100 Tories voted against.
Ministers are also keen to ditch widespread working from home guidance when the current Plan B measures are reviewed on January 26th. It could mean that compulsory masks on public transport and in shops will be the only remaining curb.
Britain’s Covid cases have fallen week-on-week for the past eight days in a row, with 109,000 new positive tests on Thursday. Hospital admissions have also flatlined.
At a meeting with Tory MPs yesterday, Mr Javid hailed the “encouraging signs” – but warned that hospitals remained under “significant pressure”, the Times reports.
Currently, people in England need to show proof of vaccination or a negative lateral flow to enter large events and nightclubs.
A Whitehall source told the newspaper: “There was always a very high threshold for the policy and it looks increasingly likely in a couple of weeks that threshold won’t be met. The way cases are going it will be hard to justify renewing.”
Boris Johnson faced his biggest Tory revolt since the start of the pandemic over the introduction of Plan B measures last month, with nearly 100 Conservatives defying the party whip to vote against them.
The PM’s chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost dramatically resigned in protest over the rollout of the curbs. Yesterday he slammed the “Covid theatre” of masks and passes, and called lockdown a “serious mistake”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has done a U-turn, announcing that all Covid restrictions will be lifted in Wales in two weeks in spite of describing England as an “outlier” last week because it had fewer restrictions than Wales. MailOnline has the story.
Mark Drakeford today confirmed all major coronavirus restrictions will be lifted in Wales in two weeks as he faced accusations of “overreacting” to the Omicron wave.
The Welsh Government will reopen nightclubs, end the rule of six in pubs and lift the 50-person limit on outdoor events.
Mr Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, had warned just one week ago on January 7th that the Omicron “storm is fully upon us” as he predicted the peak would not arrive for “another 10 to 14 days”.
He also slammed Boris Johnson’s decision not to impose similarly tough restrictions in England as he branded the neighbouring country an “outlier”.
But speaking this morning, Mr Drakeford said case numbers are now “coming down very rapidly” as he rejected accusations of a U-turn.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Sign this petition which specifically calls for mandatory face masks in shops and on public transport to be scrapped.
Stop Press 2: Daily cases have fallen below 100,000 in the U.K. for the first time since before Christmas. MailOnline has more.
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And replaced with draconian restrictions on those recalcitrant halfwits who won’t take their poison as ordered.
So the fact Drakeford is doing a u-turn wouldn’t have anything to do with the 6 Nations would it?
Ha! From the “government” that sent police to investigate 6 people in Wales watching a rugby match in a house in Swansea (I think) earlier on in this shambles.
Well, what a waste of time and money these passes were, huh! When will these idiot politicians realise they are not God, and cannot ‘control’ a virus, no matter how much hand-waving they do.
Of COURSE they know! This is not about public health!
This is not about what they say it’s about.
So all restrictions “except, possibly, compulsory masks on public transport and shops”? Basically, we have to get get rid of most of Plan B, but masks almost everywhere will prove that Omicron (or a bad cold) is still around.
Why not make masks optional, so the bewildered, terrified, Public Sector and virtue-signallers can carry on with the charade?
In reality, they already are. It’s scam marketing by the usual suspects that encourage the sheep to believe in the use of them. Declare yourself exempt, using your authority to do so.
Why don’t they think, these Terminally Terrified – if these muzzles were THAT effective then there’d be hazardous waste bins everywhere.
Perhaps next time you see a dead one in the car park, you should phone the Public Health Department, in a state of hysteria………
Why do the good people of Wales vote for Drakeford the Druid with his own mystical powers overruling the facts?
You have the authority to take your life back. Stop wearing a mask. They do not work and can cause other physical harms. Take them off.
Signed the petition.
Masks are such a potent symbol that there is danger from a single virus lurking. This does not end until mandatory masks ends!
You and every other single person can exempt yourself. Do it now. You have authority over your body. Remember that.
I’m only surprised more people don’t do that. In our village shop yesterday there were some muzzle-free young people. With no ‘lanyards’.
Please watch Dr Peter McCullough’s presentation on Dr Joseph Mercola’s website today. Dr McCullough, a world renowned cardiologist gives an expert explanation of the spike protein, its dangers to the body via the vaccines, it does not get any clearer than this. A much watch. Please send it to everyone you know.
If the threshold is now low enough why were they brought in in the first place.
When they brought them in cases and deaths were less than half of yesterdays figures. Proving they were never ever required in the first place.
Bloody nonsense.
Re “atop press” – only 1025 as of 8:47 15/1/2022. Sign up for what it’s worth.
Sturgeon will surge on with the pointless measures because she gets a wide-on at the thought of being a dick-tator.
I wonder if the drop in cases and the unavailability of free Lateral Flow Test kits are by any chance related? We should be told
Happy days – or not, as the case may be. Part of the real problem is the loss of confidence in them, and many other professions across the board, unfortunately. There’s nothing new about tendencies to over react, along with a degree of opportunism in all sorts of ways. Any major industrial incident gives rise to that sort of thing, e.g. A wise politician might take a more reasonable view about the balance between risks and benefits to people with any real issue. A cynic might say that money talks, and wins the case in the end.
The grotesque and pointless muzzles need to go too. What is the logic behind keeping them? The ‘pander to the hypochondriacs so that they still go shopping’ argument, or the ‘let’s pretend we’re in a deadly plague to frighten people’ argument? There certainly isn’t another one.
SAGE and Boris & pals are making everyone wear them just for a giggle. That was obvious from the start.
“Look how stupid they all are!” they laugh.
And they are right.
It’s what I think when I see the drones sitting in Parliament muzzled up to the eyeballs. What a bunch of silly, posturing dopes, slumped unprofessionally on their benches, looking half asleep, and occasionally honking.
The Omicron Lag and what that means for the UK
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/the-omicron-lag
“There was a very high threshold”.
No there wasn’t or they wouldn’t have abandoned the original pandemic preparedness plans for something less serious than anything envisaged in them.
All restrictions must end! Masks first and foremost! People can keep wearing them if they are afraid (can they then sue the manufacturers if they get Covid). End it all! It didn’t help, it only hurts and the pandemic so over!
or do we need another garden party at No 10
to get back to normal.
Bring a bottle. To smash into Sunak’s sneering ugly face.
He will soon be your Prime Minister, and The Jewel in the Crown of The British Empire.
I have found a sadistic new pleasure in coughing loudly around masked wankers.
I’ve been doing that for almost 2 years now. Nothing sadistic about it.
“Please have your Covid pass ready.” That reminds me of those little front door signs which said “please have your identification ready”, now replaced with doormats which say “Welc – wait, are you vaccinated?”.
(Totally missing the point)
Slightly O/T, but interesting…
A friend in Scotland just told me he’d received a government-sponsored envelope. It contained an invitation to apply for a lottery to take place in a ‘Citizens’ Jury’. This would hear information about the QCovid online tool which is mooted to be able to predict one’s likelihood of being hospitalised or even dying from Covid. If selected to take part, there’s an offer of £300 per participant, for taking part in six separate sessions.
The results will be fed back to Krankie and Co, so they can consider how best to use this tool (and the ethics of doing so).
Questions that occurred to me and said friend were:
Is this likely to be repeated in England if the Jocks lie down for it?
What the fuck is the point in having a random selection of people talk about a subject which most of them will know nothing about?
There’s now enough hard data to be able to form a reasonable judgement on how accurate the tool is – anything else is pointless.
If the tool is sufficiently accurate then the ‘ethics’ (an alien concempt to many poltiicians) are that everyone should be encouraged to use it in order to get a realistic understanding of their own risk.
It’s just a simple algorithm seeded with a lot of guesswork and apparently doesn’t ask valid questions such as do you think you have had previous infection.
Bollox it’s too late and too far down the line for any damage limitation.They will attempt further faked crisis to enable their diabolical goals.Dont take your eyes off them and give no quarter keep your powder dry and your pecker hard.I also submitted a statement on behalf of Mark Sexton’s legal team hopefully somebody in Scotland Yard or the CPS is looking at my Involuntarily Euthanasia bomb piece I set them.
Do I need witness protection?A new face and money welcome!
I need to get the fuck out before I’m driven to do something sensible.Nurses are fucking crazy and dangerous at this point!.On one job after they dispatched an old soul I was asked to view the Covid face and toes post mortem.I couldn’t find the words to express my anger at further violation of a Human corpse.Sick fat bitches!
This is yesterday’s vaccine surveillance report. Negative effectiveness in the jabs such that the jabbed have, on average, a case rate 2.26x that of the jab-free.
This is much the same as last week (2.29x) but there is an increase in the elderly as the booster effect reduces.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-surveillance-reports
Unless they admit all of the interventions were/are useless/a mistake, they will just bring them back in the autumn. It’s far from over.
Yep, absolutely nothing different in essence to the garbage ‘roadmap’ they launched last February. The only glimmers of hope seem to be the Tory rebels, and the indications that some of the cabal are jumping ship.
That is one ofthe most odious of all the restrictions. What possible justification is there for keeping the face-nappy mandate, bearing in mind that there has never been any evidence that they do anything at all? Their only function is to reinforce a sense of fear.
There nothing more than splash visors only to be worn in theatre nothing more try advising the sheep.They should have theirs permanently fixed on
Always good to be suscipious but this is very good news. If we start seeing similar announcements in other nations e.g. Italy, France then we know that it is unravelling – yet to see that.
The rats are running scared now. Soon they will start eating each other.
Drake Ford u turns as he expands the use of Covid passes. Yeah.
“It could mean that compulsory masks on public transport and in shops will be the only remaining curb.”
Told you! They are never, ever going to let go.
“Mark Drakeford today confirmed all major coronavirus restrictions will be lifted in Wales”
Define ‘major’.
Will people be able to travel from abroad to Wales with no need for LFTs or PCRs or quarantine, nor Passenger Locator Forms? If not, then it’s just more fobbing off the gullible.
This appears to be very good news.
However, I shall only open the champagne IF the following happens:
Completely agree. A people’s enquiry needed followed by a truth and reconciliation committee to help us ever trust the medical industry again.
Also if all individuals or companies that have been fined or forced out of business for breaking the ‘rules’ get completely exonerated
How about “never trust”
These are encouraging words.
That’s all they are though.
A week is a long time in the New Normal.