People in Wales will no longer be legally required to wear face coverings in health and social care services from Monday as the final U.K. legal restriction is lifted. MailOnline has more.
First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced today that the country will end its last remaining coronavirus regulations, which have existed in some form since March 2020.
Wales is currently at alert level zero, with the wearing of face coverings in health and social care settings the only remaining legal requirement.
But the First Minister urged people to keep taking steps to protect their health as the country moves beyond the emergency response to the pandemic.
He repeated the warning the four U.K. Chief Medical Officers issued this week about the risk of new variants…
Wales was the last U.K. nation with Covid restrictions still in place.
Scotland removed its final restrictive laws in April this year while the Scottish Government continues to encourage people to wear face masks at busy indoor spaces.
Meanwhile, England’s remaining Covid restrictions were removed in February as part of the Government’s ‘Living with Covid’ plan.
The move meant requirements to self-isolate after testing positive were dropped a month earlier than planned.
The BBC reports that Drakeford said authorities were planning to deal with Covid like “any other seasonal illness” from now on. However, ominously he added that measures could return if new variants appear and are only really “on hold”, raising questions of how Wales intends to deal with ‘seasonal illnesses’ in future.
[Mr. Drakeford] warned measures were in reality “on hold” in case of another wave – with two new variants already being monitored by health officials.“We have learned, time and again, that this virus can behave in ways that are neither expected nor predictable,” he said.
He said that the Welsh Government was “ready to bring back testing and contact tracing”, should that be needed.
Booster vaccines are already being made available for the autumn, and ministers are encouraging people to get a flu jab later this year.
Early indications were that ministers would be advised to offer an annual Covid jab in future years, the first minister added, possibly only to older age groups and the most vulnerable.
It’s encouraging to hear future vaccination programmes may be focused only on those at risk.
Regarding the new variants being monitored, BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa are already fizzling out.
At this stage it’s unclear what hospitals in Wales themselves will require of staff, patients and visitors once the legal mask requirement is lifted. At the moment in England hospitals require masks, though there is no legal requirement. The Daily Sceptic reported earlier in the week that the NHS mask requirement in healthcare settings in England will be dropped from Monday, following a tip-off from a source in the health service. No further word on that yet, but we’ll keep you posted if anything is announced at the weekend.
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Heritage Party:
“To truly regain our sovereignty, we must re-think our membership of international organisations and agreements which previous governments have signed. We should remain members of international bodies, treaties and conventions which are beneficial to our national interests, but we should not join or continue to be part of globalist arrangements which dilute our sovereignty and interfere with our democracy by imposing conditions and policies on the nation which the people never voted for. These include the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Paris Climate Agreement, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).”
Alliance for Democracy and Freedom:
“The UK should not be a member of any non-democratic supra-national bodies. This includes inter alia, the UN, WHO, IMF, and NATO. This does not preclude bi lateral agreements with individual nations which support the security and prosperity of the UK.”
Reform….Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
Reform is focused on immigration as the main (and only) policy.
Totally agree with HP (Christian based) but they of course cannot win in a FPTP system.
A brief summary of what I have learned from the pandemic:
All the legal declarations about our “unalienable” human rights are not worth the paper they are written us. Our politicians will exert power on us to the extent that we allow them to. They have no moral scruples, they want to enslave us. They crave unlimited power. We should have no illusions about them. The only thing that will stop them is the resistance we put up.
That’s about it.
Exactly. Democracy requires vigilance from the populace.
So what you’re saying is that we’re screwed, right.
Looks that way to me
I’m not expecting any improvement in my lifetime
Having said that I think “Covid” was a huge overreach that woke a lot of people up. Just not enough of them.
Maybe 20-30% have critical thinking skills. The rest are useful idiots and sheeple. The Medical Nazis and State Fascists will be back with their ‘science’ to justify another round of Nazism.
No, I don’t think we are screwed.
There is hope.
For example, during the Covid crisis, they tried to mandate the vaccines. They nearly succeeded but ultimately they failed.
The conclusion I came to is that we have to push back. In small ways if that’s all we can do (we are not all heroes) or in big ways if we have the courage but we need to resist because that’s the only way.
Do not lose hope. They want you to lose hope and give up.
Ultimately, the authoritarians will not win according to Melanie Reinhart, well known and respected astrologer. The planetary constellations indicate that they will eventually fail. Unfortunately, I don’t have any details of time scale but I think we can see that the wheels are definitely coming off spectacularly quickly for the Sausage Man. I’ve heard it said that in this country, change comes about not by violent revolution but by satire and ridicule. How much more ridicule can FreeGearforTwoTierKier stand?
Boom
A lot of good people work for these organisations. Some of the most moral and competent and at every level. And yet there is always a constraining force that is purpose built to keep most of them in line and push the agenda. It is interesting to try and identify this force. Same with the NHS. Some of the best people in this country work for it and yet it has gone deeply wrong. This is a publically funded body. I’m not sure when they last consulted the general public on a major issue. I can’t recall any instances in my lifetime.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
I wonder if the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions. Like William Blake said, tha path of excess leads to wisdom.
There may well be some truth in that
Another good article from Mark Steyn:https://www.steynonline.com/14663/talking-trivia-on-the-cliff-edge
Russia is offering asylum for anyone fleeing neoliberal totalitarianism. You will have to learn a difficult language and you will have to become more virile. They will provide you with a homestead in the Urals and a beautiful wife. Just learn to husband the land in the same way as the wife. You plough the earth and you plough your wife in service to Christ. Your masculinity will be reawakened. It would be an abrupt change but consider enduring living in this cesspool forever.
You could be talking about this country a few decades ago. I’m reminded of how much better it was (with the usual drawbacks that come with advancement) when watching TALKINGPICS TV.
Well that one is being violated ina big way in Britain. From the moment you have “protected characteristics” written into law, you are in effect discriminating on the basis of race, sex and religion.
But it’s all bullshit anyway. We all know it’s all power games and for some odd reasons women, trans people, coloured people and Muslims seem to have the upper hand these days.
“Proportionality: The restriction must be proportionate to the interest at stake, and be the least intrusive option among those that might achieve the desired result”
It certainly was not proportional, that was something Mr Hitchens was pointing out from the get go. Never invited onto the BBC after that in any meaningful way.
It is too messed up here. There isn’t any return to rationality. Economically there is no way to restore what has been lost even in terms of rudimentary function. You can stay and wait for outside forces to make it better. I am just telling you where we stand with this situation. The government will disappear in three months time. The Green agenda in six months time. At that point they will have you by the balls. Just this once will you please let us introduce rationing and CBDCs because so many are suffering and hungry. And every step of the way they retreat further into their armoured redouts in New Zealand and the South Pacific. I am not saying you can do anything I just don’t want you to be shocked when it happens.
“ The authorities have the burden of justifying restrictions upon rights”
Go away you granny killer!
Trust me when it comes to state emplyees being ordered to turn up at your door they go weak at the knees. I usually answer the door in a dishevelled butcher’s apron. Give it a go it works a treat.
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”― Albert Camus
Summit of the Futile.
U.N, along with the WHO are corrupt, bought and paid for entities, they serve other masters and as such should be disbanded, they do not serve the citizen, they are octopus arms of a world government.