Scotland’s vaccine passport scheme will end on Monday (February 28th) and the rest of the country’s Covid restrictions, including the mandating of face masks, will end on March 21st, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced – nearly a month after England’s ‘last’ restrictions are lifted on Thursday and nearly two months after England’s mask mandate was lifted on January 26th. Guidance will remain in place, including the advice to self-isolate (which has never been a legal requirement in Scotland). BBC News has more.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said people would still be advised to wear masks in shops and on public transport.
But all legal restrictions on people and businesses will end as part of an effort to “return to a normal way of life”.
Meanwhile, the country’s vaccine passport scheme will end on February 28th.
The plan is part of a new strategic framework the Government has drawn up for dealing with the pandemic in the future.
Ms Sturgeon said it would see Scotland move away from legal restrictions, relying instead on “vaccines, treatments, and sensible adaptations and good public health behaviours”.
The move comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that England’s restrictions will be lifted on Thursday, with the requirement to self-isolate dropped and free mass testing to end in April.
Ms Sturgeon expressed frustration at Mr Johnson’s approach, calling for clarity about how the testing system – which operates U.K.-wide – would operate in future.
However she said the level of infection and hospital admissions were falling sufficiently to set a timetable for the easing of the curbs still in place in Scotland.
The Covid certification scheme – vaccine passports which are required when attending large events including concerts and football matches – will come to an end on Monday February 28th.
And the remaining legal restrictions will be phased out on March 21st – including the requirement for people to wear face covering in enclosed spaces and on public transport, and rules for businesses on collecting customer details and taking measures to reduce the spread of the virus.
With England lifting measures this week, and Denmark doing so three weeks ago, why is Scotland waiting yet another four weeks? What is four more weeks of suspending civil liberties supposed to achieve? What is the evidence to support this policy? None was presented.
Worse, Scotland is to extend the powers underpinning face mask and vaccine passports until September, and is also keeping the vaccine passport apps live so that venues can operate voluntary systems. Ms Sturgeon defended this saying it was necessary to have “contingency measures” for use in future as it was highly likely the country would face a threat from new variants, and that it was “proportionate” to allow firms the choice of using vaccine passports, saying some might see an advantage in “making people feel more confident about going and using their services”.
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My guess would be Because this gives them enough time to reverse course should Something Really Bad[tm] happen in England. All these in x weeks announcement should always be understood as Eventually, but certainly not now.
You mean they will “invent” something really bad surely?
No. The last COVID invention in England so far was a WHO special envoy stating that he foresaw grave consequences for England in particular and the world at-a-large within two weeks or less in the week before the mask mandate was lifted. Since that – as usual – failed to materialize, they seem to have dropped nouns from COVID speculation altogether. They’re now down to scary adjectives only, eg, premature.
Or more likely, they will release it.
Local yokel administrations wouldn’t dare. That kind of decision is way above their pay grade.
It’s simply so she can be different from England – i.e. nothing more than playing politics. Presumably she hopes this will play well with existing and potential SNP voters.
If that plays well with the Scottish voters, then they will actually have deserved the countless heaps of dung, that she has been pouring on their heads for the past two years.
Not all of them though. Sometimes I feel like this devolution business should be scrapped and we should go in and liberate the Scots from these fascists. Maybe the better option is to have them go their way and freedom loving Scots can move to England.
The best thing that England could do would be to rebuild the border walls, and add razor wire and minefields.
I volunteer to make the tea and bacon butties for the builders
There’s definitely something in that. I think I saw some Russian guy on the telly we might onboard as a consultant. Mind you, I was on the Buckfast.
“Maybe the better option is to have them go their way and freedom loving Scots can move to England.”
That could easily happen.
Yes, you’ve got it. And different not in a liberal “we’ve got more freedom” direction – perish the thought – but different in the direction of “we’re more careful to be clean than the English elite because a) England is a country of dirt, and b) “we truly love our proles, we’re all one nation here, like a big family, not like in England where the elite all wear top hats and monocles and where the proles all shoot up heroin on council estates”.
Although there’s also the reason that “Covid restrictions” bring business grants and all sorts of scam opportunities.
I am going to Scotland for wedding at the beginning of March. Rest assured I will not be wearing a mask anywhere. Wee Jimmy Krankie can stick it up her f***ing @rse.
I am in Edinburgh for the same reason in mid April and am disappointed that I can’t do the same. Oh, OK, I’ll give her two fingers anyway.
Oh don’t worry no doubt many folk will still be wearing them when you get here, you might get a few disapproving glares, I also bet there will still be screens, hand sanitizer, distancing dots everywhere.
I’m really interested why you cannot do the same as Garfy one month after ?
I’m heading up tomorrow for 5 days.
I can’t link to it but notice The Times has an article saying there will be TWO booster shots this year, 1 for over 75s and one in the autumn “like the flu programme” for over 50s plus anyone “vulnerable”. So shot 5 is on the cards. Perhaps Scotland can keep the masks going until there is a new spike in cases….
I told you Jabs 4 & 5 will be introduced in 2022. Now… who was saying “they know it’s all over” a few weeks ago…?? Quick! Behind the sofa! Here comes another variant!
I was last in Scotland 36 years ago.
By the looks of things, it’ll probably be at least another 36 years before I go back!
As far as north one wants or needs to go is Northumberland.
Lovely country, but having spent time going to branches of our company there almost 49 years ago, I couldn’t understand then why they suckled on an English money tit, yet hated us so. The oil bonanza that they thought was stolen, had very little investment from the Scots. Funny old tribe, in both old composition and the new whizzy Scotland, complete with direction from Americans of Indian heritage. It’s well out of kilter.
When do the regulations expire naturally, March 26th or something?
24th?
It has to be asked, who really governs Scotland? The answer might well be that it’s the same chap that governs Canada.
Check out what Klaus Schwab boasted about at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2017.
Klaus Schwab brags:
Schwab has openly bragged that he controls over half the government in Canada. So, as you can see, it wasn’t the democratic process in Canada that voted for the Emergencies Act to be invoked – which gives the thuggish halfwit Trudeau absolute totalitarian powers – it was Klaus Schwab.
So, who is it that’s pushing Nicola Sturgeon’s buttons as she half-wittedly does her utmost to sow discord in the UK?
People have to open their eyes the next time they vote. They have to make sure they are not actually casting a vote for Klaus Schwab and his minions in the WEF to rule their country.
Klaus Schwab makes a bad Prime Minister: See, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
The down voter obviously doesn’t want this factual and well sourced information about Schwab’s boast and his gang of planted stooges well known – we get it!
The down voter might be upset because I gave Trudeau a rather muscular body in the photograph. 🙂
I should have used the mangy body of a poodle!
The downvoter is Klaus silly.
You beat me to it FW. My first thoughts on seeing the headline was who is pushing Krankie’s buttons, because she hasn’t come up with this herself. Wasn’t it only last week she was promising restrictions would remain?
So, yes, definitely Schwab and the Davos Deviants behind this change in direction.
But surely it’s the people with the big money pushing this at the WEF?
maybe Schwab is just a mouthpiece.
She’s waiting for Kim Jong-Johnson to go first before removing restrictions more slowly than him.
She imposes restrictions in one second then removes them excruciatingly slowly.
The fact that they have used mercenaries with no identification and set them on protesters who have a right to do so, in their Charter that is referred to as treason.
No surprise that Devi “dead behind the eyes” Sridhar is a former WEF young global leader.
Has anyone checked if she is a major shareholder in vaccine passport technologies, much like Trudeau is with mRNA delivery technology through Acuitas worth US $500m. Trudeau owns Canada’s Providence Therapeutics Holdings (CPTH) who issued the patents.
At the risk of sounding too much like Toby Young, I think there is a simpler explanation.
Top of Sturgeon’s agenda is independence from Scotland. it is almost imperative that whatever the UK government does she does differently. Sadly for Scots, that has meant her systematically appearing to be even more cautious than the UK government because that has been the safest way to be different, at least until now.
As a matter of political imperative, she has to NOT follow the UK’s lead.
Given her record, that makes sense.
Yes – Toby did rather make light of the “young global leaders” business.
While I can understand his reasoning, the fact is that extremely ambitious young people are vulnerable to those who make them feel important and connected. It takes a strong moral character to stand apart and take independent positions.
Extreme personal ambition and strong moral character do not tend to sit comfortably with one another.
Delingpole didn’t seem to be able to give what to me seems like a very obvious answer to Toby’s question, “how does Schwab control these ‘Young Leaders’?”
Over the years Schwab has created this network of billionaires and national leaders who between them have developed a cozy, self serving relationship. And over time between them all they’ve created an agenda that suits them and works well for most of them.
The ‘young leaders’ get access to that network to promote their own careers if they play along.
Schwab himself is just the personification of that agenda, the mouthpiece or figurehead as it were. It’s not really HIM or his personal agenda so much as the agenda of the Davos big boys. Schwab is like their secretary.
So to say that Schwab influences these Young Leaders is really to say that the Davos billionaire oligarchs influence these Young Leaders.
That what this article alludes to:https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-master-plan-behind-the-covid-crisis/
Indeed. The billionaires don’t lead, and the leaders aren’t billionaires – to begin with. The former buy the latter, it’s a symbiotic/parasitic relationship.
Essentially Schwab is a pimp, much like Epstein.
Unlike Epstein, he really is above any law, national or international.
Yep – it’s the connections that matter.
Point of order, Krankie doesn’t want Scotch independence. She’s not a complete moron, she knows that her tiny, decrepit, sick, sponging satrapy’s only chance for survival is to hand the leash from London to Berlin, and send the likes of Blackford over there to skirl and drone like a burst bagpipe about how they’re never gibsed enough free stuff.
Her agenda is a permanent nanny state and she’ll blame it on England.
She doesn’t want independence.
Not cautious, not more cautious, more illiberal than Kim Jong-Johnson and she presents it as safe.
I know it’s a typo, but it’s a lovely fantasy that Krankie might be independent from Scotland!
In the linked BBC article:
“The apps which underpin the vaccine passport system are to be remain live so that venues can operate voluntary systems, but Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton called for this to be dropped.
He said: “Far from abolishing Covid ID cards, this will normalise their use by some businesses, perhaps indefinitely – from now on venues will have carte blanche to ask for private medical information without a public health imperative.”
So, merely a pause, all the mechanisms in place to bring back for the next scariant
Alex Cole-Hamilton has been the only clear voice in Parliament against these vaccine passports ( I think he is English, oh the irony).
I live in Cole-Hamilton’s constituency. His latest update dropped through our letter-boxes in December. His picture had him fully masked, with a COP26 mask. No more virtue could have been signalled.
FFS! Unbelievable.
I expect he put in an expenses claim for the face mask.
“The full list of Lothian MSPs’ expenses tops £1.75m
A breakdown of official figures published by the Scottish Parliament showed Liberal Democrat Edinburgh Western MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton topped the table with the biggest claim, for £116,269″
All we can hope (faint hope) is that people vote with their feet. If companies lose business due to stupid mandates they have decided on themseves, they deserve to go to the wall.
I’m boycotting a couple of local businesses that are still mandating spy-and-snitch even though nothing compels them to. Sadly, they’re both rammed out the door with customers. The Branch Covidians have no problem at all with showing ze papers and begging for permission. I honestly don’t think they’ll get it even when they start getting dings to their social credit score for spitting insufficient venom during the 2 Minute Hate.
It’s not independence if you wait for someone else to go first then just be different from the for the sake of it.
It’s not independence when you need Nanny Ceausescu’s permission to do anything.
Nanny C was known as the “scientist” and was very seriously disliked for her meddling in national affairs – a fact illustrated by the manner of her very sudden demise after a short helicopter trip.
I have been referring to Nicola Sturgeon as Nanny Ceausescu because she’s a communist Dictator who interfered with the football
Nanny C – she was shot, btw.
A vast number of people and institutions in Scotland are not going to be able to cope without all these crazy measures in place. It’s so ingrained in them now, no more virtuous testing every morning, schools having to open their doors to unmasked parents! Universities having to do actual face to face lectures, office workers having to get up early and get on trains! Not feeling like you are special because you don’t have to show a QR code to get into a venue to keep everyone safe.
Folk up here are going to have a melt down. They will cling onto this for as long as they can. Scottish society as a whole needs major therapy, it’s pretty broken.
My parents live in Scotland and I visit them regularly. I go climbing often in the mountains. Last year on two separate occasions, I saw people wearing face masks near the top of Munros! Miles from any city or town, sunny days, 3000+ft above sea level and on their own. These people clearly think that all the air is dangerous. They can’t have a brain or any understanding of anything.
That’s just so sad, tragic.
Indeed. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Russia could easily Scotland. Their soldiers could just say they had ‘Covid’ and 80% of the Scots would just run away and hide in the broom cupboard.
Real talk, no joking, if Russian Spetsnaz started dropping out the sky, I for one would welcome our new anti-degenerate overlords.
I cannot think of any way in which my life would be worse under Uncle Vlad than Kween Krankie.
You say “having to”, but they’ll simply make it a policy / contractual term and continue to scream “Unclean! Purge the heretic!” at unmuzzled purebloods.
“The plan is part of a new strategic framework the government has drawn up for dealing with the pandemic in the future.”
Is this one of those newfangled pandemics that just goes on, and on, and on and…
When will there be an actual recognition that it’s OVER.
It’s over in Reading, ie (my usual yardstick) mask wearing in the Oracle (shopping mall) has decidedly become a freak’s occupation. As usual, the politicians lead from behind here, ie, it will be politically over once everybody has stopped making pandemic jokes because the topic has become to stale for that.
NB: Especially with Johnson as jelly-in-chief, reversals are always possible. But let’s hope for the best.
https://www.reading.gov.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-vaccinations/
Some Public Health Berkshire videos are available and can be accessed below in the following languages.
Vaccine information in Igbo
Vaccine information in Urdu
Vaccine information in Turkish
Vaccine information in Spanish
Vaccine information in Romanian
Vaccine information in Punjabi
Vaccine information in Polish
Vaccine information in Nepali
Vaccine information in Gujarati
Vaccine information in Bengali
Vaccine information in Arabic
Vaccine information in Swahili
Vaccine information in Yoruba
As usual, the politicians lead from behind here, ie, it will be politically over once everybody has stopped making pandemic jokes because the topic has become to stale for that.
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Also, this is a Lab-controlled council which means it’s in the rear of the rearguard of said politicians.
And in pidgin:
You put stick up nose, you get two line, you no panic, you go get needle in arm, you ok plenty, yes boss.
“We have always been at war with The Virus which arrive in 2019”
In the future, this will be written in the History books, and children will be brought up in fear and told that the only thing that will stop them from dying is taking regular ‘vaccines for Covid’. All movements will be tracked and recorded.
Nope. It’s the ability to hang onto legislation to abuse as they see fit. Like anti terrorism laws were used to hound people online who didn’t conform to the script.
Strong probability its distraction from the endemic & long term child exploitation tendencies of the Scottisch Natzi Party as noted in this newpaper article
In a way strangely similar to the painting of Bubba Cliinton in a.dress at Epsteins little hovel, apparently this picture hangs in Kim Yong Sturgons house, making one wonder about predilections
UK interim study using Raman spectroscopy to look specifically for graphene in the vials.
Sturgeon is one of a few that should never be allowed to remove the mask.
Achtung, Gasleiter!
Perhaps Nicola is hoping for a super dangerous monster variant within a month so she will be vindicated.
The Lochness variant?
Lochdoon, ideally.
Couldn’t be more monstrous than she is.
But a slew of dead Scots would delight her almost as much as a heap of dead English. Nothing like a covvicorpse for scaring the zombies back under the bed,
In France, Veran, the health minister, has announced that ‘all or most’ ( no explanation) of the vaccine pass requirements will be dropped in the next 2/3 weeks if current trends continue.
Outside mask mandates have already ceased but there was no mention of changes to internal ‘public space’ mandates, although the last move was to remove requirements for spaces where vaccine passes were required. If vax passes are removed for all or most spaces it would be logical to remove mask requirements completely. But I very much doubt logic will be applied, we await those pearls of wisdom.
The real problem with this is that Veran is publicly stating what the trends have to fall to, which of course means any future increases are likely to provide the ready made opportunity to reinstate them without need for senate approval.
No further changes to travel, exit or entry requirements. Although the EU is now suggesting all countries should conform to exactly the same vaccine requirements ( ie up to date if last jab within 270 days) and no kebab stick needed. This is expected to be approved , however it begs the question of which vaccine ‘boosters’ will be agreed, as France has determined it has to be an mRNA one, but Germany is buying Novavax in quantity and it is seeking EMA booster ( 3rd jab) approval. EMA already have approved Janssen for booster. My guess is that both Janssen and Novavax will get the green light for acceptance across EU as booster despite French resistance. Kebab stick remains available for intra-EU entry without vaccine pass. As more countries become ‘green’ for EU entry its likely a kebab stick will also be OK for EU entry from other countries.
I wonder how much money Devi Sridhar has made out of ‘Covid’ so far. Wouldn’t it be interesting to go through her bank statements?
Gazillions, as she’s a “Young Leader” in the Schwab Jugend. If she’s short of moolah, she can do a Trudeau and just steal it.
We need to fully expose the lockdown policy for the failure it has been.
We desperately need to fully expose the harms the ‘vaccines’ have caused.
If we are unable to educate true believers it will be a simple matter for Boris, or the next liar in chief, to scare the herd back into lockdown and into the needle.
And next time around we won’t be able to protest!
If Sturgeon wants testing to continue, she can make it happen. As long as she is prepared to pay for it.
Anyone noticed how the masks of public figures have become billboards?
This has to be stated. If a fart can get past the cheeks of your arse, through your underwear, through a pair of jeans and stink out a room, what use is a cloth mask??? Somebody needs to tell Krankie.
But its tartan, it has super powers.
Dictators will dictate
The Shah of Persia, tyrant and addicted to secret police and the rest of the apparatus, before getting the boot, claimed to “hold the pulse of his people in his hand “. The late, great Australian Clive James observed that the pulse is most prominent in the throat. So it is with Sturgeon.
She is an in incredibly silly woman yet so many admire her
Check this out. Keep your guns:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32jokh0l6mY
No surprise there then. Sturgeon ‘cares more’ than BoJo so it’s masks to ‘keep us safe’ for longer.
I can’t comment on the central belt – where Scotland’s compliant covidian classes sit in judgement on the rest of us, but here in Aviemore the only people wearing masks are visitors – considerately aware of the continuing requirement – until they clock nobody here gives a toss – and it’s happy British faces all round 😁
Sadly, in the central belt, I often find I’m one of only two or three in shops without a mask. It has been continual unthinking obedience. You’ll even see folk walking along the streets on a windy day, fully masked. It is so dispiriting to see what our country (this part at least) has become.
And the bit that really depresses me is that the very few other unmuzzled faces that I see around Glasgow are clear either neds or New Scotch, in either case low-IQ goblinoids.
There’s precious little informed dissent to be seen.
Leitch the National Clinical Director on STV our commercial SNP Channel. He basically conceded that the science driving decisions in Scotland was exactly the same as in England. They are proceeding more cautiously because ‘that’s what people want”. A lot of Scots are either traumatised living on their nerves or virtue signalling arseholes who want to wear masks forever, and see Covid restrictions as the way society should be run. Others are treating Covid like a giant skive. Then there are a growing number of citizens who want this to end and want the pandemic paraphernalia to be binned. Many know that we were put into lockdown fir nothing and had the festive season ruined, an increasing number want Sturgeon binned as well. Some commenters on here make the mistake of assuming she is all about Indy. It’s not the case. She had many opportunities post Brexit to force the issue but she and her cabal, in coalition with the Greens are more focused on banning free speech, sexualising kids and giving women’s spaces over to trans men. The Greens want to destroy road building and prioritise net zero thus fucking up the oil and gas industry which pays the piper. Sturgeon committed to this so she could get extra selfies with global goons at COP but the wheels are coming off that strategy as the true costs of net zero hit home. Woke globalists and remoaners love Sturgeon but the hardcore Indy and serious unwoke left now despise her. Some might even vote tactically, . I know I will.
It seems that all the Robert the Bruce and spider legend, taught me in an English school, followed by the Wallace Hollywood stuff, was all hokum. Those descendants I thought to be warriors are just serfs, after all..
Did we catch this one?
2 Billion people x 3 stabs, that’s another 6 billions doses potentially in the bin, couldn’t happen to a nicer company.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/exclusive-pfizer-withdraws-application-emergency-use-its-covid-19-vaccine-india-2021-02-05/
I’d say they lost nothing, the US taxpayer probably footed the bill for producing the toxins in the first place.
It’s the ultimate Satanic sacrifice, get the victims to pay for their own blood-letting.
First fish sounds fishy shocker.
“why is Scotland waiting yet another four weeks?”
For reasons of corruption, thieving, and the opportunity to continue to paint Scotland as superior to England, because Scotland is different from England and because England, as all nationalist morons north of the border “know”, smells bad and is a country of filth. (Insert reference to Monty Python’s famous “What have the Romans ever done for us?” joke here.)
The top reason though is thieving by those who occupy positions of state authority and those who have connections that allow them to pocket state money either directly in grants or as rake-offs.
She has been rightly smacked down
27 page rebuttal letter from 8 industrial hygienists complaining about flawed CDC mask guidance.
Read today’s Steve Kirsch’s substack article, when you are done pass it on to Nicola and all the other uneducated health authorities mandating masks.
FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT:
I have never – ever – worn a mask here in Edinburgh. I have been asked about it once – to which I responded that I do not wear them, and carried on with my business.
The “mask mandate” is a “mandate” only to the extent that people choose to act as if it exists. For those of us who who reject the claim that it is relevant to how we choose to live our lives, life has not changed.
Wee Jimmy Krankie should be made to wear a balaclava indefinitely.
That is before she’s sent to the ‘nonce’ wing in a female Scottish jail.