Holidaymakers who are double-vaccinated will no longer have to take any Covid tests for travel abroad, Boris Johnson has said. The Telegraph has more.
Speaking on a visit to a hospital, the Prime Minister said that day two lateral flow tests – which are currently required for fully vaccinated people entering the U.K. – would be ditched, saving a family of four around £120. The changes are expected to come into effect at 4am on February 11th.
It follows the ending of pre-departure and PCR tests for vaccinated travellers earlier this month and will be seen as a major filip for the travel industry in advance of the February half-term break. …
Holiday firms have already reported a surge in bookings for half term after the easing of restrictions and in anticipation of further lifting of curbs.
Speaking ahead of a Covid-O cabinet committee meeting on Monday, Mr Johnson said the country was moving through the Omicron wave and “things are starting to get better”.
“On travel, to show the country is open for business, we will see changes that people no longer have to take tests if they are double-vaccinated,” he said during his visit to Milton Keynes University Hospital in Buckinghamshire. …
Bookings to all holiday destinations have already jumped by 67% on average compared with December 2021, according to analysts Skyscanner.
Some international and long-haul beach and sun destinations are seeing demand return to levels above that in 2019 before the pandemic, according to the company.
The destinations with the fastest growing bookings are Maldives (up 125%), Mexico (up 110%), Costa Rica (72%), Colombia (48%), and Tanzania (39%).
Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy The PC Agency, said: “When it happens, it will be a terrific boost for the travel sector and crucially for consumers. It will mean cheaper holidays and business trips and the end of the testing nightmare the industry has faced for nearly two years.”
But why only the double-vaccinated? Nobody now pretends that two vaccine doses provides any kind of protection against Omicron infection. The UKHSA estimates vaccine effectiveness of two doses against Omicron after six months of just 0-10%. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has stated that two doses are “not enough for Omicron… We have seen with a second dose very clearly that the first thing that we lost was the protection against infections”. Government data show infection rates in the double vaccinated have been considerably higher than in the unvaccinated across most age groups for some months. Where then is the evidence behind this continued restriction on the unvaccinated? It has no scientific basis, plainly is now solely to add coercive pressure to the unvaccinated to get the jab, and should be dropped.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Professor David Paton has skewered the “anti-science” in the Government’s latest move: “UKHSA data report double vaccinated adults are currently testing positive at much higher rates than unvaccinated. So of course post-travel testing is (rightly) dropped for the former but kept for the latter. More anti-science from the Government.”
Stop Press 2: Self-isolation for unvaccinated travellers will also end on February 11th, according to the Telegraph – though the requirement to test will remain.
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The title to this piece illustrates that this is just yet more Government manipulative BS.
Well. WHAT a surprise. Didn’t see that coming, did we?
Evil is as evil does.
Obvious political fraud. Policies like that are crap and not worth following at all. It’s just another con to flog things that many experienced people don’t want.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/24/self-isolation-unvaccinated-travellers-scrapped-time-half-term/
Britain has become the first major country in the world to spare all unvaccinated travellers self-isolation, as ministers on Monday lifted nearly every restriction for people arriving in the UK.
Grant Shapps announced that unvaccinated travellers will no longer have to quarantine for 10 days, and will instead only have to take a pre-departure test and a day two PCR swab on arrival.
PCR tests sold by ‘Government approved’ cowboys. Backhanders all round!
You forgot ”made in China”. Share profits all round.
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
I wonder what would happen if someone was to legally challenge this, all the way from all courts in the country up to Human Rights Tribunal? There should be evidence revealed and so on… Curious it isn’t done yet, or maybe?… Anyone?
It probably won’t get much publicity, that’s for sure. Some might prefer to settle up for damages rather than losing in court. How about the Harassment Act 1997, the Human Rights Act 1998, or the Equalities Act 2010? I’m not a solicitor, but am an experienced litigant re damages claims.
A comment I like from elsewhere:
“I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I have never tried to dissuade anyone from having the vaccination. You on the other hand constantly hector and browbeat others into having vaccinations against their will. I support freedom of choice and bodily autonomy, you are a brainwashed pro-vaxxer propagandist. You don’t occupy the moral high ground here Jim.”
In response to this:
“Since when was the drivel posted by some antivaxxers a balanced viewpoint?”
Does anyone know how rigidly the quarantine garbage is being enforced?
or it is not true a nd they are still going along with everyone must be ‘ vaccinated’ world wide
i can’t tell anymore what is going on if really true they are giving up . i will never give up. glad so many of us non sheep. anyone see washintong dc protest yesterday? not on the ‘ news’ of course
why is no one taking this shit to court? This is grossly discriminatory and not supported by a shred of science.
is it true that the uk is geting rid of vax passports?. a beacon of hope just like in ww2.
and the u sa soon to join the u k?
meanwhile france is staying true to form collaborating . glad there is the resistance there . i feel like im in the groundhog movie . next russia joins with the uk and the us a?
then nuremberg 2 follows i hope .
It isn’t true.
They have installed the infrsatructure for the vaccine passport, they have dressed it up as an NHS app, for our convenience of course.
. thank you for explaining ,meaning is the way of getting digital passport but they are suppsoedly fine with the ‘ unvaccinated ‘ ?
they a re evil !
Don’t know if anyone is watching but everyone should go to Rumble sbd watch Ron Johnson’s senate committee offering an alternative view on Co Vid. It’s on now snd it is absolute DYNAMITE. No holds barred. It is all laid bare – early treatment, age stratification, censorship, corruption in efficacy and dangers of the vaccines. If people watch this it is all over! DYNAMITE
Where then is the evidence behind this continued restriction on the unvaccinated? Worse, the unvaccinated are still required to isolate for 10 days. This has no scientific basis, is now solely to add coercive pressure to the unvaccinated to get the jab, and should be dropped.
Depends on the science, in this case psychology. These initiatives are tests to see how the public react.
They typically react emotionally. Few operate on principle and even fewer on facts or data. For most the observed fact that the double jabbed are at best no different from the never-jabbed is not a consideration. What is important is vindication for the effort and sacrifice they imagine the unclean have avoided.
This will be understood by most as a mild financial punishment for unorthodox views that threaten the egos of those who succumbed to the propaganda. We must be punished for not chipping in with some kind of manufactured blitz spirit.
If it backfires, and people object in principle, they can ease off at low cost. If people don’t care and merrily go about booking their holidays they’ll turn the screw a bit harder on the unclean.
They do these tests all the time. One… Read more »
Are we suprised that the NWO totalitarian acolytes ignore the statistics provided by the ONS?Insidious ideology, never been about protecting the compliment indoctrinated masses from a malevolently contrived public health emergency! Jab the useless eaters with a hideous cytotoxin and thin the herd out, that’s the fundamental plan along side editable CBDC and neo-feudalism!
Not a conspiracy theory, all been planned in plain sight for decades….but the majority ain’t been looking, “Bread and Circuses”
This sets the tone for years to come. There is no way the majority will give a stuff about the rights of the unvaccinated, as said in the article it’ll he viewed as penance for non compliance. The only silver lining is the hope we can continue to exist as citizens in the UK without overly cumbersome discrimination… something that comes without any guarantee.
One senses that the next variant will give the opportunity to bring back every restriction and up the ante too. We are actually quite fortunate to have more time on our hands than our European friends who are being targeted in a much more extreme fashion.
Time is an important weapon as the data is slowly building up and it isn’t looking particularly pretty for mandates…perhaps the bubble will burst…
That’s true up to a point, but there are many double jabbed who have said “enough” and will not get the third jab. And that will only continue if they push more jabs. At which point classifying those with “only” two jabs” or “only” three jabs will push the so-called “unvaccinated” into the majority, making the passports untenable.
The dam is breaking slowly…..
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Where then is the evidence behind this continued restriction on the unvaccinated?
Where is the need to do this? Governments have been running policies for years with no evidence of benefit, and plenty evidence of harm. Climate Change is a classic example…
Least bad efficacy against testing positive in the adult age groups with exactly two doses of vaccine around minus 183% according to UKHSA, or nearly three times as likely to test positive as the unvaccinated (based on the raw data)
“day two lateral flow tests – which are currently required for fully vaccinated people entering the U.K. – would be ditched, saving a family of four around £120.”
Free LFTs from high street chemists, and yet £30/person from cowboy rip-off merchants ‘approved’ by the Government.
Interestingly, the places where bookings are rising most are all places that welcome the un-jabbed with minimum fuss!
I’m sure this will not have gone unnoticed in the Mediterranean countries in the EU…
“Lord” Theodore Agnew, minister for efficiency and transformation at the Cabinet Office and the Treasury (nice work if you can get it), who is said to have played a “leading role” in the British state’s “vaccination” drive, and who is a notorious “player of both sides of the street” where government contracts are concerned, resigned from the government today. Nothing to do with Partygate, he says. Lol.
Is he related to Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon’s vice president in the USA, whose middle name was Theodore? (Spiro Agnew is well remembered for sporting a name that is an anagram of “Grow a penis”.)
How can you tell one fraud from the other. the whole of the panicdemic was a fraud!
surely, surely now there must be a lawyer out there who is willing to take a case on for discrimination against the Government. I am sure many of the unvaccinated, and indeed the vaccinated would chip in on this I know I would. Toby can’t you put one of your contacts forward? surely now is the time to strike as this is now blatantly wrong.
The courts are stuffed with collaborators
Did the German courts intervene in the 1930’s or 1940’s…. no, they hung the freedom fighters
Thank you and goodbye
Conservative minister resigns in anger over Covid fraud – BBC News
A few days old, but wtf…?
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/german-health-minister-no-one-will
That’s how the Spanish Inquisition worked. You were tortured until you confessed. But because admissions under torture were not valid in court, the torture was relieved long enough for you to sign the confession, under threat that if you resiled then the torture would come back on harder than before.
It’s marvellous how these people can still hold the principle that submitting against your will is invalid, but will use whatever means it takes to ensure that your will is aligned to that of the torturer.
The thing is, we sort of expect the Germans to behave in an authoritarian manner, but nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition,
LoL.
More proof that we’re better than the other lot – we have a sense of humour, which Guardian types singularly lack.
You can get on the Transports voluntarily or we will shoot you
They will learn to love Big Brother.
Still here, still unvaxxed, still healthy, still a threat.
Ditto….
Exactly. We are a threat to their one weapon, the narrative.
They will NEVER catch up with me.
It’s a start at least.
maybe they realise there is an argument for not getting vaccinated if vaccinated also need to jump through the same hoops.
More madness – so as an unvaccinated traveller I will have to take a test to confirm that i do not have the virus – after a negative test I can then travel – however, a vaccinated traveller doesn’t have to test despite the fact that the vaccine does not stop them from catching and spreading the virus and in fact the vaccinated could even spread the virus to me even though I have just tested negative.
I get the feeling this is just government being petulant towards those who dared defy their orders to get jabbed.
Well, yes. They are being spiteful towards people who just won’t do as they are told!
Sort of “smacked legs and sit on the naughty step” sort of mentality.
That’s exactly what it is. Vindictive and spiteful towards those who refuse to play their game. But the game will continue as there is no-one to stop them.
The prime minister of Northrhine-Westphalia (Germany) recently mentioned in a talk show that the reason for the mandatory vaccination is to send a signal to the vaccinated (!) that now the time has come to “deal with the unvaccinated”.
So yes, you are guessing correctly – it is exactly the frame of mind in which these sociopathic scumbags are operating.
o/t: COVID-19: A Second Opinion.Senator Ron Johnson with Malone, McCullough, Alexander et al. livestream.
https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html
excellent – all the big players present
The Austrian TV station RTV showed an interview with Dr Silvia Berendt, a lawyer who worked for the WHO, on 22nd January about recent events.
She highlighted that the WHO reprimanded covid passes for travel, and said isn’t it strange if the WHO issues a statement that suits the narrative the press pick it up and make headlines, if it is a statement in the other direction it gets buried.