Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said mask rules could remain in place for years as they are “not the biggest handicap” people are having to endure. MailOnline has more.
Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland’s mask rules could remain in place for years to come if they help the fight against Covid today – as she blasted Boris Johnson‘s decision to axe most restrictions from this week.
The First Minister said that face coverings were “not the biggest handicap” that people were having to endure as the country attempts to recover from Covid.
A range of measures introduced on Boxing Day to deal with the Omicron variant will be scrapped from tomorrow, but laws making masks mandatory in shops and other settings with [sic] remain.
In contrast, the Prime Minister has unveiled a bonfire of almost all restrictions in England by March, including guidance on masks.
Asked on the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme today if she can see people wearing masks for “months or years to come”, in Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said:
“I hope not. I don’t want any of these measures to be in place for any longer than is necessary. But masks … are something we can do. None of us enjoy wearing them but they are perhaps not the biggest handicap to endure in order to try to stem transmission. So while they can make a difference to controlling the virus then I think it is something we should do. Again I would suggest that it is England that is the outlier here, not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, or many countries across the world.”
Scottish Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery, Murdo Fraser said:
“Nicola Sturgeon still can’t bring herself to admit the restrictions she imposed over Christmas were unnecessary. The SNP are quick to impose Covid rules but far too slow in getting vital funding to businesses. It’s shameful that so many small companies are still waiting to receive a single penny. It’s baffling that Nicola Sturgeon plans to continue with the vaccine passport scheme even though she can’t point to any hard evidence showing it’s effective.” …
From tomorrow, bars and restaurants in Scotland will no longer only be able to serve customers seated at tables, while social distancing will also be removed.
Nightclubs will also be allowed to reopen as she sweeps away restrictions in place since before Christmas, while plans to extend the Covid passport scheme have been scrapped.
Attendance limits on indoor events will also be lifted – bringing them into line with outdoor events in a move that came into effect yesterday.
However baseline coronavirus measures in place before the Omicron wave will remain, including masks are still legally required indoors and on public transport.
In contrast in England, Mr Johnson last week announced plans to scrap all Covid restrictions by the spring.
Plan B will also be ditched as the Omicron wave continued to recede.
The under-fire PM ended working from home with immediate effect, with the remaining Omicron-fighting measures – Covid passports and compulsory face masks – to be dropped from Thursday in an attempt to win back the support of Tory MPs and voters following the Partygate row.
He also laid out his intentions to remove all remaining Covid laws by March 24th, including basic measures like mandatory self-isolation for positive cases and the requirement to give your address to NHS Test and Trace if you have Covid.
Scotland’s approach is similar to Wales’s, where even ‘Alert Level Zero’ retains the mask mandate, vaccine passports and self-isolation laws. Will they ever let it be over?
Worth reading in full.
The MailOnline article has an amusing typo (at time of writing) that I thought I’d share as it expresses I’m sure how most of us feel.
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A face mask, a balaclava or a burqua would be an improvement on having to tolerate Jeannette Krankie’s visage.
She just goes to sleep and breaks out ‘old faithful’ as she stares at the poster of Xi above her bed as her ‘husband’ watches from the corner covered in 15 masks and dettol gel.
Drunk on power. Come on Scots. Where’s that Celtic fire and defiance?
This has more to do with her losing face then covering her face. The masks do nothing. They are a virtual signaling comfort blanket that signals compliance. These tinpot dictators in the devolved authorities really don’t want to let go of their power. They are loving every moment of it.
Allowing Jimmy Kranky to be Managing Director of Scotland was always going to end in tears
and yet a large number of Scots seem to vote for her and her draconian dictates.
Theyve completely lost the plot. Everyone has. Look at what people are voting for to make the important decisions. Look at how they have reacted to Convid. These people have lost their minds – UK wide and everywhere. I cant believe what folk have allowed to occur
Rulers love Gessler hats and always want to assault or abolish their subjects right of bodily autonomy.
Masks qualify as being and doing both, that’s why they were introduced and why the worst of the lot would live to keep them in place for good.
As we all know,there is absolutely no protection from an airborne respiratory virus using what has been properly described and used for by, medical and scientific professionals around the world forever as “Splash Guards.” FFS.
Puppet Dictators such as Wankford and the Sturge obviously relish their application as highly effective symbols of subjugation.
If you’re of a mind to signal your contempt for these mini dictators and their power trip DIKTATS, ‘flip them the bird’ so to speak, this is worth a look/laugh…
https://www.vax-free.co.uk/
When the tourist industry in both Scotland and Wales suffer due to the restrictions there hopefully will be a change because who in their right mind would go there to relax and be forced to wear a mask ect
In 15 years of power, the SNP haven’t attracted a single major industry to the country, despite cheap land and the best deepwater ports in the world (well, they were).
Don’t imagine for a moment Sturgeon and the SNP give a monkeys about the average Scottish citizen.
The Idiocracy is fully upon us. People VOTE for the likes of Sturgeon, Trudeau and Ardern. Some sort of Masochism I guess, putting petty demagogues who revel in division in charge.
I can’t understand why anyone still lives in Scotland with that hideous excuse for a human being in charge.
I live in Scotland and am appalled at the small mindedness and arrogance of this woman. She does not speak for the majority of the country but unfortunately there are enough voters to keep her in power. Sometimes, I can’t believe the situation we find ourselves in due to the narrowness of her vision. She is a terrible human being.
In what way does she fit the definition of a ‘human being’?
The moron Sturgeon getting elected was bad enough but letting her carry on is insane. Time for the Scots to waken up and get rid of her.
What a cheek from tartan tyrant Nicola Sturgeon, only the other day reported to the statistics watchdog for “seriously twisting” the use of coronavirus figures to justify her disastrous COVID policies.
Better by far to be an “outlier” like Bojo than an out-and-out liar and gauleiter for the globalists and their iniquitous Great Reset plans!
Christ, she’s ugly and then some.
I’m getting a word 🤔🤔🤔 ‘Bitch’ 😃
You’re being too kind, Andrea!
Was she bullied as a child for being a krankie as Drakeford was for being a freak or Jacinta for looking like a horse? Do these people have something in common like getting their own back now. I wish they would grow up and leave normal people to get on wth their lives. If you are stupid enough to wear a mask and hide under the bed then it is fine with me. Just don’t expect me to do what you do.
It is strange how many of these political leaders appear determined to ignore the science.
It is almost as if their main priority is to keep their electorate in the dark about the lack of evidence of effectiveness for their damaging, dictatorial and frankly useless covid policies over the last two years.
Theatre. England isn’t backing down on agenda 21-30 and the Sturge knows it.
From April 6th this year, the regime are going to implement the next phase of the social credit system.
It’s called IDVT and is a stranglehold on the employment market, taking over employment history checks and background checks for landlords, etc.
This probably coincides with the potential delay of the NHS jab mandate.
To think Sturge doesn’t know about this is ridiculous. They’re still fucking around with the public, the Great Reset is still happening.
Just look at the very sudden and intense vegetarian/vegan adverts being blasted in our faces. Meat advertising has all but gone now Christmas has passed.
For clarity, this feature is apparently already installed on the existing version of the so-called ‘covid pass’ but it’s currently hidden.
Speaking of TV adverts, on GBNews there is an ad for the Norfolk Feather Co.
It shows a white woman and a white man cavorting and then going to bed.
I kid you not a white couple!
The last witch burnt in Scotland was Isobelle Goudie in 1662.
It’s time to add a new name.
This is the goal of Nicola Ceausescu, a permanent nanny state where everything is someone else’s fault.
If she thought she could, she’d lock Scotland down for five million years.
Wee Jimmy looking a couple of Irn-Brus short of her best (after a night on the electric soup perhaps).
Good luck with that, Sturgeon. I reckon your time is going to be up pretty soon.
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She wants to be in line with Europe on masks, not England. That’s one reason. As an Englishman, Scottish independence can’t come soon enough. I would gladly wish the Scots the best of luck, grateful that the SNP had no further influence in England- as long as those who wish to leave Scotland are allowed to do so without penalty.
Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP do not speak for the majority of Scots. They get all the headlines because they continually portray Scotland as a poor victim of English nationalism and imperialism. And the supine Scottish media that won’t challenge them on anything.
There are plenty of us who want to stay in Scotland as part of the United Kingdom.
But those views don’t seem to translate into votes in the ballot box??
And English taxpayers can stop subsidising Sturgeon’s profligacy
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Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake – Napoleon.
Let them dig themselves into an impossible hole….
I don’t know about a mask, but I wish someone would put a bucket over that head!
I wish someone would just chop it off and be done with it.
I live and work in Scotland. What is her obsession with all this. Why can’t she let it go. Children are growing up thinking this is normal. It is just horrible. I don’t understand the agenda. I just pray thale Scottish people tire of dirty ineffective face nappies and let her know pronto.
She loves nannying, she wants perpetual micromanaging of Scotland
It’ll ONLY ever be over when there’s no financial or political incentive for it to be. And it’s likely that the UK government (i.e. England bankrolling it) is subsidising Wales, NI and Scotland on their COVID responses by more borrowed money from (mostly English) taxpayers via the UK Treasury.
If Boris had the guts to remove the money, get rid of all the globalist and leftist SAGE lot and the money/whispering from the Gates Foundation etc via the MSM and directly ‘whispering’ into ministers’ ears, then maybe.
Same headlines appeared in several countries (live in Austria same stuff about masks staying forever, follow the news elsewhere, in other countries same message in MSM either official or informal/unofficial form).
They are just announcing the implementation of another part of their overall plan.
The reason is obvious: eventually impose digital ID, preferably in the form of a body device.
Remember couple of years ago when some EU countries imposed a ban on muslim face coverings: rationale given was : identification impossible + “War on Terror” so security risk.
Now they are going to play it backwards:
“War on Virus” ergo uncovered face = health risk, but face covering = security risk (no identification possible), SO individual digital ID is required, preferably remotely readable (authorities can’t check everybody in a crowd), so some body implant as a wearable device would increase the risk of loss and so increase risk of fraud, false ID, etc… back to security risk…
Won’t need much to convince the crowds as everybody (both checked and checkers) would quickly get tired of having to pull out their phones, log in, launch the digi ID app, enter their password, etc…
if the crowds don’t follow… Read more »
Meanwhile over in Sweden, 4000 (happy) volunteers have a little chip ” no bigger than a grain of rice” implanted in ther hands.
They find it very convenient for opening doors etc.
The powers that be say it is just an experiment.
All this silly cow Nicola “Lesbian With A Fake Marriage” Sturgeon can do is to stir up hatred against the English. England an “outlier” indeed. She might as well say English people are poo-heads, because that’s what she means.
She plays to the utter morons for whom everything is a matter of Scotland versus England and for whom the answer is always that Scotland is better than England.
The same goes for the SNP’s policy of Scotland being in the EU while rump Britain is outside of both the single market and the customs union. That’s just the political equivalent of supporting whichever sports team is playing against England. The policy would obviously mean a hard border. (It would have to.) Equally obviously, the SNP would drop the policy within hours of winning a referendum. But to make either of these points in Scotland gets a person characterised as a non-believer in National Destiny, a race traitor, or a lackey of ruling English colonialists.
Decent people in Scotland must consign the SNP to the dustbin of history where it belongs, as soon as possible. Otherwise it will be mostly they who pay the price.
Cut her money off.. quick end to SNP assured..
It will be interesting to see how the pharmaceutical industry the pro-vaxers and BJ respond. I like irony and it is fully loaded into Scotland’s latest idea.