The Department of Health recorded just four Covid deaths in the past 24 hours – the lowest number since September 7th, when three deaths were announced. The Mail has the story.
Department of Health figures showed there were also 2,963 new infections in the past 24 hours, down 17% on last week’s figure of 3,568.
Today’s Covid deaths are the lowest they’ve been in more than seven months, after falling by almost 70% compared to last Monday’s 13.
There is no indication that opening outdoor pubs, gyms and hairdressers last week, or reintroducing the rule of six late last month, has caused any uptick in cases. Coronavirus metrics are usually low on Mondays due to the way test results and fatalities are logged, but ministers will take confidence in the fact both cases and deaths are down significantly from last Monday.
The statistics will inevitably pile more pressure on Boris Johnson to speed up his roadmap out of lockdown, with the next relaxation not due for almost another month.
Mr Johnson has promised to stick to “data, not dates” when it comes to easing curbs but has so far refused to move quicker despite vanishingly low death numbers and just 2,000 Covid patients being treated by the NHS.
Cause for optimism, you’d think. But apparently not, according to the Government. The narrative continues to focus not on falling Covid cases or the success of Britain’s vaccine rollout but on the threat of Covid variants – particularly the Indian variant, which has landed the country on the Government’s “red list” for international travel. In light of this, Environment Minister George Eustice has said it is still “too early to say” whether the reopening of indoor hospitality can take place on May 17th.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Daily deaths from Covid have fallen below the average numbers from road accidents, latest official figures show. The Telegraph has more.
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Forget travel.
These rules can change on a sixpence, and cost you time, energy, nerves and money.
…and if you manage to get there, it’s just the same dystopia as everywhere else.
Even as a dirty unvaxxed, I enjoyed a lovely trip to Portugal this year. It’s not all doom and gloom my friend
Same here, to Croatia. Now even the few crumbs we were allowed have been taken away from us, unless we simply disregard the quarantine requirement. I have resigned myself to going nowhere for quite some time.
Did you enjoy wearing your face mask for 3 hours in the airport before departure, 3 hours for the flight, and for 1 hour upon arrival?
“Dog’s Breakfast of a Vaccine Passport Scheme”
Well, yes.
But the problem is still the moronic idea of limiting travel between countries at all, for anyone, over a disease that is not of “high consequence”, and is endemic everywhere.
In other words, the criminal absurdity is the fact of a scheme at all, not the implementation.
This, 100%. I couldn’t be bothered to read for that very reason.
There are so many articles now that I cannot be bothered to read. Either because they pander in some way to the narrative, entirely missing the real point, or they are just saying what we know already and can surmise from the headline.
Indeed you and Mark are over the target. It was an overlong long article on how best to arrange deckchairs, while your ship is sinking. A not that untypical distraction?
It’s a money-making scheme, making PCR tests at your own expense obligatory. The free NHS PCR test results are not accepted for travel – which shows that either they are rubbish, or that ‘Covid’ is a scam. I’m going for scam.
Faisal the Scammer:
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/halifax-covid-test-firm-furious-21092153
The government are trying to save us. Honestly, the less people travel the less people die from micro blood clots.
They cannot come out and ban flying outright, otherwise Ashok Sharma with his 30+ private jet flights (and the CO2 that it generates) wouldn’t be able to have face to face meetings concerning COP26. Zoom is crap.
Good thinking.
The farcical thing is that international travel has little influence on coronavirus — it is everywhere now, and mixing things up isn’t going to change that.
There was only one time when it would have made sense to have had rigorous controls on international travel — right at the very start of this whole pandemic. It wouldn’t have stopped it, but might have pushed our initial wave later into the year where seasonality would have suppressed its impact somewhat.
The incredible thing is that we didn’t curtail international travel way back then because it would be ‘racist’ (apparently), but our authorities are very happy to have such racist policies now even though they’re pointless.
“ might have pushed our initial wave later into the year where seasonality would have suppressed its impact somewhat”
… and simply pushed it on to an even greater brake on herd immunity than we have had.
Boris let Indians infected with the Delta Variant travel to the UK for a week and a half. But lessons have been learned. So that’s OK, then.
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley Brave New World
How to stage a Coup:
1. Take over the MSM
2. Put puppets in control of 1st world power
3. Lockdown all capitals
4. Censor and punish any dissenters
5. Establish curfews
6. Severely limit travel at home and internationally
7. Ban family gatherings
8. Destroy all economic bases of potential resistance (SMEs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWzCgXTDNQU
It was never about health folks… resist, refuse, hold the line
Indeed the travel issues seem to be more about curtailing International travel per-se rather than any attempt at disease control. Very soon we will be able to do little more travel than the 15 mile range of our electric bicycle. ”Touch your forelock and be grateful!”.
And with periodic power cuts we will need plan those journeys carefully.
Residents of Melbourne, Australia, were subjected to a 10km travel distance from their homes. Today been ‘upgraded’ to 15km.
As an aside, a roundabout that I passed last night had a homemade banner on it saying ‘HOLD THE LINE’. Made me smile.
And for your Sat night delectation I bring you Wayne the COVID Marshall….
https://twitter.com/CovidMarshall
https://twitter.com/CovidMarshall/status/1441821801147944975?s=20
Yes. It’s a shocking dog’s dinner, and a bugger for all caught in the idiocy.
But, I have to ask – did you resist at any prior point the train of obscene and idiotic measures that were pushed at you under the guise of an emergency? Governments initiate, but citizens comply and lay down the red carpet for the next assault on human rights.
Some of us never did swallow the Narrative, or were naive enough to think that the snake-oil salesmen would let up after they’d been allowed to get away with so many lies and impositions.
Sounds like you live in Guilford?
And your point is?
This isn’t a continuum of questionable policies, it’s a step-change. I could list a lot more undesirable interventions going way, way back, but they would not be part of the current general assault on civil liberty under the Tory government.
And yes, I’ve opposed many of them.
What “batch” of vaccine isn’t “dodgy?”
The only safe vaccine is one that’s gone into the incinerator.
A dog’s breakfast would be more likely to stop the spread of coronavirus. They’re insulting our intelligence with this bullshit!
Ha ha, South Africans also in the dog box precisely because we have such good genomic researchers. You find them, you own them!
My proudly vaccinated friends (for travel, of course) are fuming. Serves them right for participating in this scheme.
Your friends worries will soon be a thing of the past.
Get vaxxed if you think it is beneficial to your health
Don’t get tested
Don’t show any kind of vaxx or health passport
The government have been waging war on us
They are the enemy
They are evil
Talking of sinister bullshit, has anyone noticed the ‘Global Citizen’ concert currently being broadcast by the BBC to raise awareness of ‘climate change’? Featuring Elton John, Ed Sheeran, and other court jesters of the New World Order. They’re really rubbing it in our face aren’t they?
At some point it simply won’t be possible to keep up the pretence anymore and I expect vaccination requirements will be removed.
The bad news is that it may take a few years and the technology will remain available.
Technology + Stupidity = Suicide
Not looking forward to the future I have to say.
Thank you for providing another example of the idiocy, incoherence and inconsistency of the UK’s travel bans.
The good thing about the travel bans is that they highlight for so many people the incompetence of the Government, hopefully this spurs us all to action in forming a credible alternative to the Conservative Party.
The UK Government is far from incompetent – they are expert at stealing your money.
I have an idea for the Kenyan government – restart your tourism industry by getting rid of all covid requirements, no lists, no vax passports, no testing, no masks, no quarantine, no bullshit. I would love a holiday like that!
I believe that this issue affects pretty much all of Africa, South America and South Asia and is not specific to Kenya. I’m a British expat in Sri Lanka. The FCDO instructs all expats to get vaccinated in their country of residence and then refuses to accept the vaccination certificates as a means of avoiding quarantine on returning to the UK. My wife and I were also vaccinated here in Sri Lanka with AZ. I gather that many countries are up in arms about this and hopefully commonsense and joined up government might be established at some point! The issue (or excuse, perhaps) is that it is the conditions under which people are vaccinated rather than the type of vaccine they are given which the British government finds unacceptable. Pure tosh, of course, and arguably racist.
And a way of making money from backhanders from their mates who own the quarantine hotels.
I still don’t understand the necessity of a vaccine passport when the said vaccine’s efficacy wanes with time, significantly. CDC, and other health authorities now report. Can anyone explain the logic of a passport? How much does it cost to develop and implement such a document x 65,000,000. We can’t even get in to see a GP or get a blood test, no blood vials. Cost please for this vaccine passport scheme, that says what? You have taken something which now has minimal efficacy? Cases in the vaxxed skyrocketed in all highly vaxxed countries like the USA, U.K. and Israel. 🤔🤔🤔
The passport contains date of your vaccination and is going to expire, at which point you will have to vaccinate again. In other words it is an open-ended (life-long?) vaccination subscription, and in the future, who knows what other “measures” similarly prescribed by world-wide government. So there you see, there is a “return” on this investment.
Doesn’t cost very much at all. You just put 70 million names (for the UK) onto a computer database, and there you go. Those 70 million will download the ‘pass’ onto their smartphones, or have printouts made via their table top computer/laptop/computer at the library.
The ‘vaccine passport’ is to control you. You will need it for many things. If you haven’t had the latest jab, you will not be able to do those many things.