The Scottish Government is contemplating the reintroduction of mask mandates and lockdowns in response to the emergence of new COVID-19 variant, Pirola. The Scottish Daily Express has the story.
Humza Yousaf’s deputy has refused to rule out a return to mask mandates and lockdowns as a new strain of Covid spreads. Shona Robison said the Scottish Government would “take advice” from scientists moving forward.
The new variant, nicknamed Pirola, is highly mutated and is believed to be behind a spike in cases. While data is not available in terms of positive tests, Scotland still monitors sewage for evidence of the virus with health experts saying it is on the rise.
Pirola is understood to be better to bypassing immunity, either from vaccines or previous infections. The Deputy First Minister, who said the Chief Medical Officer has briefed the Scottish cabinet on the situation, was asked by Martin Geissler on BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show if she could “see a scenario” where the likes of face mask mandates, social distancing and lockdowns would return.
She responded: “We would take advice clearly and work very closely with U.K. partners around any change to the advice.” Ms. Robison added: “So the advice at the moment is, of course to make sure that you get vaccinated if you’re eligible, and of course to take those precautions… hand washing, obviously really, really important and you make a very important point about the impact on on hospital capacity, so people who become ill and then are required to be admitted to hospital, that puts additional pressure on the system.”
The country was infamously put into lockdown in March 2020 when Covid first started to spread widely in the U.K. Ministers at Westminster and Holyrood banned people from leaving their homes except under certain circumstances while they were told they could not visit loved ones.
Later that year, a mandate to wear masks in certain settings was introduced. The Scottish Government clung to the mask mandate for longer than the rest of the U.K. and faced criticism for trying to make emergency Covid measures permanent.
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For a while I thought the current Chinese leadership were smarter than their predecessors but it looks like success has gone to their heads.
If the Chinese people decide enough is enough and really kick-off all hell will break loose and the result will be utter carnage.
The Chinese people are a fully domesticated, neutered population.
They will put up with anything and everything.
And we’re being taken down the same path. They’re just further ahead than us.
They decided that in Tiananmen Square and look where that got them. The current numbers of the PLA are estimated at 2.5million. That’s an awful lots of guns and tanks etc etc to overcome.
They aren’t smart at all they are corrupt idiots.
Of the corruption I never had any doubt. But for a time they seemed like they were playing a clever game of balancing authoritarianism with providing material prosperity. But they seem to have got carried away – I guess a common character flaw.
And here net zero is the new zero COVID policy.
It had to be zero something.
Could be have zero-rulers?
So very true, unfortunately.
I had thought for many years that I would like to visit the Chinese Civilisation (for it is not a country, as most understand a country to be).
The last few years have, well…. altered my plans, in that regard.
You have to go through long quarantines and plenty of dehumanising rituals.
Unless you are part of an accepted global elite, like the German Chancellor, in which case you can enter and exit easily.
Funny that the most protected individual in China, Xi Jingpin, is somehow allowed to meet a visitor who hasn’t gone through the strict health control measures they demand of everyone.
Either Xi is a very brave man, putting himself at risk like that to take an important meeting, taking one for the team as it were. Or maybe he doesn’t really think ‘the virus’ is actually a danger.
Hmm, I wonder which one it is…
Tricky question ….
China’s Zero Covid policy dehumanising evil
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This article I think gets somewhere near the truth but still misses the point to me. Yes ‘Zero Covid’ is about totalitarian, and not infection, control, but the author can’t seem to explain WHY. China already had enough control to manage its vast population through profound economic and social changes and is poised to become the most powerful nation on earth. Covid is a run-of-the-mill cold virus. So the alleged outbreak is being used either as cover for something, or in lieu of something. I agree with Denis Rancourt that covid is a war measure, designed to put pressure on supply chains and thereby inflict economic harm to its competitors, whilst ensuring the total compliance of its domestic population in a time of war.
Or to descend the rabbit hole, it could be a continuation of population control measures but less explicit than a one child policy. In this case other governments have made common cause through their use of lockdown and mass injections.