Emergency powers brought in to tackle Covid will be consigned to history, Health Secretary Sajid Javid assured MPs today, saying he does not “envisage” ever having to bring back provisions in the Coronavirus Act because Britain has made so much progress in the pandemic. MailOnline has more.
While most of the lockdown powers were ushered in under the Public Health Act, the Coronavirus Act gave Government further abilities to control the spread of the virus.
Mr Javid admitted some of them were “quite draconian”, including the power to detain people with mental health issues which were never used but expired “very early on” in the pandemic.
Others included the power to prohibit large-scale events, close schools and arrest infected people not following isolation rules.
Mr Javid was defending the Act from accusations that elected MPs were unable to scrutinise controversial provisions before their introduction.
The vast majority of the Act’s remaining provisions are now due to expire on March 24th as part of a sunset clause brought in when ministers rushed them through Parliament at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
When asked by MPs if a new Covid variant could prompt the return of the Act’s provisions, Mr Javid said he could not “envisage” ever having to do so because Britain has broad immunity against the virus and surveillance programmes to monitor its spread.
“Thankfully we have built huge and very significant defences over the past two years, the vaccinations… the treatments we have today, the testing capabilities we have today including the ability to genomic sequence,” he said.
“It’s a completely different picture that we have today than before.”
It’s certainly welcome to hear the emergency legislation will expire, and while ministers not ‘envisaging’ bringing it back is a meaningless assurance, it is nonetheless the thing we want to hear and is better than saying they are leaving it open. Will the Government now follow Denmark’s lead and reclassify Covid as no longer a socially critical disease?
The expiry of the Coronavirus Act still leaves the problem that the Public Health Act – under the generous interpretation of ministers and with the indulgence of supine judges – turned out to be far more illiberal than anyone guessed. It needs a thorough reform, at the very least to ensure that no restrictions can be imposed on the healthy without prior Parliamentary approval, or better still, to follow the example of Sweden’s constitution and rule it out entirely.
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We will inject you, Javid, with your safe, effective, experimental, emergency authorisation use only, Big Pharma bonanza, it’s so good for you. For as long as it takes.
About time! Better late than never, I guess.
As the so-called vaccines are only authorised for use in an emergency, presumably this means they can no longer continue jabbing?
Even the emergency authorization is invalid if the supposed vaccine does not reduce infection by at least 50%, which these experimental gene-meddling jabs do not do. On the contrary, the latest data is that they promote infection. And as for ‘breaking the link between infections and serious disease’, for everyone except the extremely frail-elderly or already critically ill, such a link never existed. Ferguson, Drosten et al tried exactly the same jab-scam with the swine flu in 2009. They didn’t get away with it that time. Wotarg and others stopped them. Three years later, jabbed children began dropping asleep on their feet with narcolepsy. With the cvd jab, Ferguson and Drosten have got away with it. Like the banksters of 2008, they’ve brought off a scam Lex Luthor wouldn’t have attempted. One factor that prompted them to try again was a lack of fear of the consequences for them personally if they got caught. Were they wise? I would not want to be Ferguson or Drosten if children start dying of these jabs in a year or two’s time.
They are already dying.
Yet, we the people will still not forget what you Mr Health Secretary and the other abusers have done to the citizens of this country.
”….because Britain has made so much progress in the pandemic…”
No, it didn’t. The virus went away or changed, as viruses do. ”Progress” my foot.
Do they think we’re ALL stupid?
Would you trust this man who stated build back better at the end of his comeback speech! A government that went ahead and locked us down some 4 days after declassifying Covid from HCID giving the reason as the disease had a low mortality rate. This government its entire cabinet and SAGE should be held accountable for treason no less. This was deliberate, and their words are meaningless. No one trusts them.
So why is it doubtful that Djokovic may not be able to play at Wimbledon?
They no longer need the Act. They have moved on. The NHS App failed for tracing, but the Phoenix will arise shortly; we will have to have the NHS App to access all and any NHS services, so your NHS No. will by default become your digital ID. It is well advanced; they have been preparing this for a long time and Covid was and still is the perfect excuse. It will be put across as for our health and safety and a cost saving so ‘our’ NHS can better serve us, but it is really about control.
The NHS has never served ‘us’, it only serves its employees
Not sure if it even does that
Just letting the legislation lapse and forgetting about it will not do. We need new legislative safeguards against Governments, including the devolved ones, being able to ride roughshod over civil liberties without any constitutional pushback. Interestingly a health emergency is listed as a Rights qualifications in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but its authors were influenced by the 1918 Spanish flu. Before the next crisis, we need to know what Governments can and can not do and in what circumstances. MPs should get to wotk on proposals right away instead of acting as doormats.
I wont hold my breath.
Dan Dare never believed the Mekon. There’s a lesson for all of us there.
One of the untrustworthy men in todays politics
Until the next time!
Without significant reform of the Public Health Act, there is always the possibility of such authoritarian laws being reinstated without democratic scrutiny.
They are trying to jab as many people as possible so that their great reset aka depopulation plan work. If I get sick I will take my Ivermectin that I stashed just in case and leave rest to God. When i searched where I can get ivm on google I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. Every search query was censored. If I can save 1 person that will use this product instead of going to icu and plugged into ventilators that will burst her/his lungs. that is enough for me. I feel good when I put a spoke in big pharma’s wheel. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
Yes, folks, another advert from someone getting a commission flogging Ivermectin!
So what if they are? If people want Ivermectin they should be able to get it!
Never believe anything to be true until it is officially denied. What Savage Jabid is saying is that it will be back and back with a vengeance.
They’ve probably scrutinised the PHA minutely and decided that will do the trick.
Obviously they won’t bring the Corona virus act back, they will have a new name for whatever BS illness they want to scare people with and the Act will be named accordingly.
To the docile general public, they might think this is cause for celebration (or to weep in fear as a braindead covidian), but those paying attention know that any removal of covid legislation will be replaced permanently by the new human rights bill.
Only when these criminals are facing justice for their crimes will I celebrate.
Is there a court that will try them, or a judge that will convict? Or even police who will arrest in the first place?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bqpp10enrvbuugu/GMT20220223-160258_Recording_640x360.mp4?dl=0
Here is the interview with “Sasha” on Hedley Rees’s substack.
Important interview from an industry insider discussing the design and trialling of these vaxxines. Many important points on the strange process of allowing these on to the market, into the military, and the adverse events and possible fraud.
“Sasha” helped Senator Jonson draft his letter to Senate on the vaxxes.
Also working on the role of the EMA FOIs and lawsuits.
Leaked e-mails showing conspiracy to subvert normal approval process to meet a specific deadline.
Many important points. She calls them “bioweapons” Please watch.
Thanks to Jo for pointing me in this direction
Read RFK jnr book on Fauci….Stunning
This is even more dangerous, and probably the sole reason why they are all reducing the ‘temperature’ a bit, temporarily.
“WHO is World Government. Power grab scheduled for May 1, 2022. With “relaxations” you are being framed.
“The fact that they are suddenly distancing themselves from restrictions is just a game. The last week of January 2022 WHO held an emergency meeting and deliberations in Geneva on expanding its powers to take over all member states in the event of a pandemic and “any other form of threat or disaster”. WHO wants member states to sign a new treaty on Covid-19, which expands the 2005 treaty. Once signed by the Ministers of Health, the WHO Constitution (according to its Article 9) takes precedence over a country’s constitution (189 countries have signed the 2005 treaty) during natural disasters or pandemics. Since the definition of pandemic was changed a few years ago (cases based on the PCR test), they can enforce obedience in any country and impose WHO guidelines on the public, which will be mandatory, not just recommended. And that sounds like power over the country and the world.”
Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger, who has worked for the WHO for 20 years,… Read more »
OK, here is my letter to my MP Caroline Lucas, whose stupid response I received yesterday, which follows. I have to write to her on paper, she has blocked my e-mail.
I wrote a two page letter on Government policy on CV vaccination and vaccine safety.
I enclosed the Pfizer Risk Management Plan, revealing the lack of safety studies.
I mentioned that I had written to her before on the spike in care home deaths when I enclosed the report from the UK Medical Freedom Alliance.
I say I am writing to alert her to the excessive number of adverse event and deaths following vaccination as proved by the Government’s own Yellow card system.
I point out that the Pfizer Risk Management Plan reveals no safety data on children, the elderly frail, the immunosuppressed, and pregnant women.
I point out that Pfizer admit no long term safety data on the vax – yet our government giving it to children.
I point out that all the constituents have not been released to the regulators.
I point out that the vaccine is unlicensed and has only conditional emergency use authorisation.
I say it is impossible to give informed consent in these circumstances.
… Read more »
She replied.
I have thoroughly examined the governments most recent Yellow card publication…I cannot find the increase in adverse events you mention.
While the vaccine can produce some mild reactions, the Yellow card clarifies that “many suspected adverse drug reactions do not have any relation to the drug or medicine…and it is often coincidental that symptoms occurred around the time of vaccination.
Turning to your point about the safety of vaccination, no safety concerns have been identified for pregnant people receiving the Pfizer vaccine. The NHS strongly recommends pregnant and breastfeeding people to get vaccinated against coronavirus.
Trials are still underway to determine the best course of action to vaccinate children under twelve, but the MHRA has confirmed the Pfizer vaccine is very effective for children aged twelve to fifteen.
I previously shared with you a resource on the safety of vaccinating the elderly, please let me know if you are unable to access the link….
I got two derisory paragraphs in reply to a letter raising serious concerns with enclosed evidence. It is appalling.
I think I will write back saying that I identify as a woman and my sensibilities are offended when the appropriate words are not used. I will ask her to refer to me as a woman of the female sex, not gender, and to use the term pregnant and breastfeeding women.
I will say these are my preferred terms and any others are discriminatory and offensive to me. I am sure she will need to take my preferences into account.
What an appalling, ignorant, lazy and incredibly insulting response. Well she can’t plead ignorance as the reverse ferret pandemic gathers pace.
Yes, thanks HP, I do feel insulted. I will take this further in due course.
No use knocking your head against a brick wall, and there’s no thicker brick than an MP.
What the Health Minister has said is we will lapse our legislation ……….because we will have a new set of legislations based around a WHO Treaty.
It is imperative that the Daily Sceptic start to influence the Public of the UN WHOs intention to formulate a world treaty for the management of pandemic/plandemic response. This would effectively remove the UK governments role (and accountability) in all future responses that will frankly make Sturgeon, Starmer et als “quicker, longer, harder, more” bleats look like kindergarten babble.
New Mandatory vaccinations – with less than 100days development time , no-doubt to quicken the job already started with the Covid jabs could be forced upon us and that is not to mention the big prize….. digital biometric ID.
Other bricks are being placed in the war now… a manufactured war, financial collapse and the resultant energy and food shortages.
This is not over. In fact, it has only just started.
I think this Treaty is due for signing on the 1st May 2022, so not long to get the word out.
lol – tel me that photo hasn’t been photoshopped to make the Saj look like the Mekon, and I’ll call you a liar!
The Hood, from Thunderbirds. A plastic puppet.
Be very careful about reviewing/repealing the Public Health Act 1984…..
……it contains a section that makes mandatory jabbing unlawful.
Which seemed to be ignored.
“Health Secretary Confirms Coronavirus Act Will Expire in March and Tells MPs He Does Not “Envisage” Ever Bringing it Back”
Of course the Coronavirus Act 2020 won’t ever come back. The enabling act in the 1984 Public Health Act will still be there allowing for another state of emergency to be declared in response to a ‘significant and imminent’ threat with the endless continuation enabled by supposed presence of a ‘significant and imminent’ threat assessed at 3 week intervals.
Does this mean that all the face-nappy-wearing ‘measures’ in surgeries and non-surgical/infectious diseases wards of hospitals will be completely withdrawn in law, plus no more putting off patients from seeing GPs and doctors/consultants face-to-face, hoping that they’ll die off quietly instead of ‘bothering them’?
Similarly with nursing homes (as one of the few excellent DT journos, columnist Alison Pearson has stated), where they are more like gulags or prisons.
And to think most of the General Public clapped and bashed pots and pans for these so-called ‘caring professionals’. Caring my backside.
Does anyone know if all travel restrictions for unvaccinated people will be lifted, like in Iceland?
It’s not enough to envision it not coming back. Legislation needs to be put in place to ensure it, or similar emergency powers, can never come back unless an exceptionally high threshold of danger is reached (invading troops for example) and the legislation is reviewed and voted on monthly. Possibly even weekly. With no whip.
Democracy cannot be cast aside so easily again.
Covid-19 was the first pandemic of the internet era. And needs to be understood in that light.
Never before has a novel respiratory infectious disease been reported on in the 24-hour, global satellite new environment. An environment where there are almost infinite sources of information available almost instantly at the touch of a button to anyone so interested. With few guarantees as to the accuracy of that information, or the bona fides of those providing it or using it. And with pretty much zero context provided anywhere.
That wasn’t an environment that encouraged calm, rational, or balanced Government response.
Still no intention to improve the health of the country by correcting advice on diet, and mineral and vitamin deficiencies, so the drug and jab company shareholders can rest easy.
Why, exactly, is he still being described as the ‘Health Secretary’ rather than the ‘Maintenance of Ill Health Secretary’?
Permanent ill health followed by forced experimental vaccination is the Big Plan – Covid was just the trial run. Now they are even Gates giving , who controls the WHO, in charge of our Health Programme!
“Beware the First of March!”
Does no one ever read up on his history with vaccines in Africa and India and his Global Heath and Population agenda?
We must be stark staring mad!
No – Johnson wants to duck all responsibility for everything – as he has done all his life – and pass it to the UN the WHO and the WEF . – so much for Sovereignty after Brexit – we will end up not even having ‘sovereignty’ over our own bodies if he gets his way.
Ukraine is an excellent cover for their next black move against out liberties.
Trump left he WHO – he was right to do so – it is now just a tool of the Globalist Reet Agenda. No wonder they got him out of the way.
“Trump left he WHO – he was right to do so – it is now just a tool of the Globalist Reet Agenda. No wonder they got him out of the way.”
Precisely!
I agreed with his adoption of that policy at the time. And look how quickly Biden reversed it!