Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called on the Government to re-impose mandatory face masks on public transport and has recommended that members of the public wear them voluntarily in the meantime. Khan has also called on Londoners to protect the NHS this winter by receiving a Covid booster vaccine when it becomes available, as well as to book a place for the annual flu jab. The MailOnline has the story.
The Government has been resistant to bringing in ‘Plan B’ measures, which would see the reintroduction of mandatory facemasks indoors and guidance to work from home and the use of Covid passports.
Mr Khan called for Londoners to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu to protect the NHS this winter.
It comes as official data shows more and more adults in their 30s and 40s are choosing to wear face masks on buses and trains amid spiralling Covid cases.
An Office for National Statistics poll found 33% of middle-aged adults wore coverings while on public transport at the start of September.
But just a month later this had ticked upwards to almost 40%, despite no change in official guidance.
The London Mayor said in a statement that the “deadly virus has not gone away and this winter we’re facing both flu and Covid”.
He added: “The worst thing we can do is to lower our guard, be complacent and underestimate the risk these viruses pose to all of us.
“The situation with Covid in London is so finely balanced that it needs all of us to act together to protect ourselves, our loved ones, the things we enjoy and our NHS this winter.
“That’s why I’m urging all eligible Londoners to have the booster vaccine and flu jab as soon as you are offered it, continue to wear a mask where you can and I’m calling on the Government to put simple and effective steps, such as mandatory face coverings on public transport, in place to halt the spread of the virus now.”
The Mayor’s comments came after a leading scientist suggested measures in ‘Plan B’ may not be needed if data continues to show a decline in cases.
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everybody else calls for Sad Khant to sort out the terrible crime rate in London a and stop his pointless virtue signalling
Sadick is, as always, on a power trip. He thinks he’s the single most important person in the country, I bet. Also, instead of that photo, you should have used the one of him and Mo Salah without masks at an indoor event.
*anybody in politics believes they are the single most important person in the country
Doesn’t he realise that his perpetual smirk doesn’t smack of sincerity.
That pic has made me go right off Mo Salah.
Oh, p*ss off Khan! You don’t get a say in my life. You’re a nobody who thinks he’s a somebody! How about conducting a medical, peer-reviewed, risk assessment on the effects of mask wearing in the public realm before spouting your little diktat? You didn’t last time, according to a FOI request, and I don’t suppose you have now. You CAN’T mandate ANYTHING you power-crazy little man!
Just read me comment. Few minutes ago
NONE OF THEM get a say in my life.
A Doctor was interviewed last week on GB news. Commented that the “surgical” blue masks are impregnated with plastic microparticles which get inhaled deep into the lungs of mask wearers and cause a type of “asbestosis” in lung tissue.
Mask is a muzzle and is designed to have the same effect as social distancing – stop people communicating properly with each other so that they cannot help each other cop on to the extent to which they are being had by all of this.
Not that he suffers from a Napoleon complex of course!!
Studies like these?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/47-studies-confirm-inefectiveness-of-masks-for-covid-and-32-more-confirm-their-negative-health-effects/
I do hope you wrote directly to him to say this – because I doubt very much that he reads these comments.
“Amid spiralling Covid cases”! They are in denial.
“Amid spiralling Covid vaccine damage cases and with many more to come”, there I fixed for Khan. What a complete tosser he is.
Meaningless as well as nonsense. How can cases ‘spiral’? They can rise, fall or stay they same – there are no other options!
It another version of exponential increase.
That at least means something in mathematical terms if used properly (which it normally isn’t, of course!) – case ‘spiralling’ is literally meaningless!
Yes, let’s bring mandatory face masks back into London, because they are really helping in Wales, aren’t they? They certainly helped stop the ‘soaring cases’ in Cymru.
What’s the common denominator? – Ah, Wales and London are both controlled by the ‘Labour Party’!
By the way, here are two notable members of the Trilateral Commission – all information directly quoted from Wikipedia (i.e. a ‘mainstream’ source):
• Keir Starmer, leader of the UK Labour Party
And:
•Henry Kissinger, Bilderberg attendee, mentor of Klaus Schwab
Their screaming success is also evident in Scotland with the leaderene Nikola Stalin saying she wants to copy Scandinavia, but not in the things that work.
Nicola Ceausescu is copying East Germany
Masks have worked so well in Wales because “Speaking on Sky News, Drakeford said: “We have to make a concerted effort over the next three weeks to bring those numbers down.” It comes as Wales is set to tighten Covid restrictions to tackle a rising number of hospital admissions, with more than 680 people in Welsh hospitals with Covid on October 27th.”
Yep, they really cracked it.
What a Khant.
I think you mean “Lets go Brandon” or, to use it with his name, “Lets go Sandon.”
Maybe Kahn should concentrate on trying to sort out knife crime!
I think and hope that he will really be in for a surprise if that happens.
Despite the constant announcements on the tube thst one must still wear them, mask usage has dropped off significantly, meaning more and more people have become aware of the self-exemption option and are willing to make use of it.
I cannot see many of them putting the rag back on just because the legal mandate is slightly sharpened.
But then, I couldn’t imagine Britons subservience at all b4 the plandemic.
Agreed. I’m told that its a minority in London wearing their pants over their faces now. I hope this means that they will ignore any new rules. However, I agree that we cannot assume this given the subservience we’ve seen over the last 18 months. Also, there’s a noticeable increase in face nappies here in the east midlands of the last few weeks.
Out and about and in shops I see very few in London wearing masks. On the buses and tubes Id say its about 50/50 though if you asked them the majority I suspect would say they are only wearing them because they need to travel from A to B and dont want to run the risk that some officious TFL minion will deny them carriage (which they are able to do)
Khan seems to think that he has the power and influence that London has and by becoming Mayor that authority is automatically conferred on him. He doesnt realise that hes just a jumped up administrator and that the vast majority of the hard working people in London that maintain that global reputation and influence are the very last people who would vote for him.
As ever with Labour Mayors…..massive overreach to stroke their own egos on the back of others. Anyone remember Livingstone opening ’embassies’ around the world to represent London? And how many times did the Lord Mayor (ie the Mayor of the City) have to slap him back into his place?
At least when Boris was Mayor we had very little of that – even his vanity projects like the Boris Bikes were actually pretty good.
“The situation with Covid in London is so finely balanced that it needs all of us to act together to protect ourselves, our loved ones, the things we enjoy and our NHS this winter.
Before March 2020, I would only take a ‘traditional vaccine’ to protect myself, no one else, and that includes family members. I would not take a ‘vaccine’ to keep
doing the things I enjoymy freedom, and certainly not to protect the NHS. The latter are not legitimate medical reasons.Spot on.
Bare with me here fellow LSs but I’m increasingly seeing these statements as potentially having positive unintended consequences for our side.
Throughout history, tyrants overreach and their hubris gets the better of them. The crazier things get, the more people come to our side of the argument. Its slow for sure but virtually nobody in the center who has been ‘going along to get along’ is moving towards Team Bedwetter.
They’ll be a tipping point when there’s enough people on our side of the argument to make these cowards stop. The faster we get there the better so I reluctantly say bring on more lockdowns, restrictions, inconsistent masking theatre, boosters etc. Lets call it acceleration theory. The quicker we can get to the end point of this madness the quicker we can expose these cowards for the evil vessels they are. We can then hopefully get on with our lives.
When you’re going through hell, go through as quickly as possible.
Did you mean bear with me?
Or maybe you did mean bare (your face) with me? hmmm.
Yep, just realise the typo should be ‘bear with me’! Note to self to reread and check before posting! Thanks.
good to know you are still with us Sophie. Are you well on the road to recovery?
The obsession with muzzles shown by Sadiq Khan and the millions who follow him has to be a fetish. Someone delighting in replacing his face with a London tube map should be seen to.
Its simply a visual sign that you’re a signed up member of the cult. No more, no less imho.
I am assuming that a practitioner of the Muslim faith has no real problem with face covering. Just an observation.
No real problem if the victim is a woman. Or anybody else belonging to what muslim men consider to be a subclass.
unfortunately the sheep really believe they work and Khant is playing to his flock.
I don’t think so. There’s a lot of money to be made by selling this throwaway rubbish to a real lot of people. Hence, a lot of money is being put in convincing so-called scientists and so-called democrats into helping to market them.
Doesn’t alter the fact that people obviously enjoy having their faces and their breath constricted by humiliatingly decorated muzzles – and so readily beg for their restrictions to be enforced on themselves and everybody else.
They don’t seem to be a particularly cheerful lot to me (except the Chinese, obviously, in whose faces these things grow naturally
).
From some 15 years, UK is tasting and suffering what hidustanic people can do when given a grain of power.
Just think who is on the top decisions of most of the high tech corporations. Not the Owners but just the Top Employees and this ‘being’ is no exception.
Portugal offered them, with tea and curry, to Britain some centuries ago.
When they have no power they are the best servants.
When power is offered it is best to go to another place.
I thought face coverings WERE mandatory on public transport?
Not that I have ever worn one. But you know, they make endless bloody announcements.
They are/were (!) They’re still “mandatory” on PT but not required by law. So people have decided that THEY’LL decide what they want to do, and nap-wearing has dropped significantly (thankfully) which is now upsetting the little dictator.
the announcements made on the PT I use make them sound like “law” as if you risk being thrown off for not wearing them
I think only TFL services?
Yes it’s a condition of carriage (not law) on TFL. Nowhere else in England as far as I know. They can deny you carriage on TFL if you refuse to wear a mask and are not “exempt”, but they can’t fine you or arrest you – though they could probably get you fined or arrested for refusing to leave their property once they have requested you to do so.
Several other operators (hello Northern Rail) are really going overboard with the passive-aggressive announcements to “encourage” people – worded to almost-but-not-quite imply that they are mandatory.
The Tyne and Wear Metro I believe, but only people getting on at Jesmond and Gosforth are likely to take any notice!
No. One of the worst things we can do is to overestimate the risk that these viruses pose to all of us, and thereby lower our guard and be complacent about the huge damage that totalitarians and fascists like Khan are doing to our society.
And thinking that you can vaccinate your way out of this is delusional.
Of course, these people continually propagandize us and positively encourage us to lower our guard, be complacent and underestimate the risk that these so-called vaccines present. They work tirelessly to dupe us about all that.
Viruses? plural???? am I missing something or has he let a cat out of the bag?
Sadist Khan
A classic example of the “Napoleon Complex”. Add a layer of Left-wing to that and you end up with this.
Hypocrite …
Bare-faced cheek?
Bare-cheeked arsehole.
The absolute state of this cunt. What does it say about our country that this is the finest political person who can (pretend) to lead London ?
Cases have dropped day on day this past week. Cases are still officially below the 60k per day in July. Cases are pretty much meaningless. Masks do nothing without social distancing and arguably nothing full stop. Masks don’t stop flu. Vaccines don’t stop spread. If you get covid they leave you to your own devices at home and fingers cross for either getting better or ending up in the hands of the NHS (chilling) who don’t want you anywhere near it regardless.
a shorter summary would be. Fuck you Khan you utter idiot. Go sort out knife crime.
He’s just feeling a bit powerless and his little ego is bruised because so many people in London are going bare faced on his little transport empire.
Why do people in his position not read the research on face masks, especially after the highly suspicious screeching U-turn over their efficacy.
This https://evidencenotfear.com/why-face-masks-dont-work-a-revealing-review-john-hardie/ sets the position quite nicely.
Sadiq Aman Khan knows masks do not work.
Facts do not matter. It is all about control.
As someone who actually uses public transport regularly, it’s clear that fewer and fewer people are using face masks, even on TFL where it is a condition of carriage. The ONS , like YouGov and their dodgy polls aims to influence behaviour rather than reveal the truth.
I call for mandatory removal from office of communists like Sadiq Khan who share platforms with Yemeni terrorists like Anwar al-Awlaki, but it’s not going to happen.
If face masks worked, people would wear them, just like if vaccines were safe and effective, people would be fighting each other for them. But masks do not work, and vaccines are neither safe nor effective, so no one wants to know.
Vaccines, what vaccines? Oh, you refer to the therapeutics!
Deleted as Cristo had already posted on the screaming hypocrisy of this Mengele.
He’s an selfish activist
Most of those I saw wearing masks on the Tube yesterday were wearing them with large gaps next to each cheek, so presumably as long as the airborne virus is expelled backwards it’s ok? That’s “The Science”, right?
Also, adjacent to the signs in carriages telling people to wear masks were the Underground’s latest adverts rejoicing that the air is renewed in their carriages every 3 minutes, which is apparently with the effect of “keeping us safe”. These adverts have been in place since late summer as far as I recall, so they can only have been put up for SarsCov2 reasons. In other words the air is renewed which they say keeps us safe, but we still need masks.
But, as the virus is airborne and the air is cleaned every 3 minutes there seems little need to wear masks which worn by almost everyone don’t prevent something airborne circulating anyway (see first paragraph) to keep us safe. Apparently masks are for everyone’s safety according to the recorded messages hammered out of the intercoms on buses and in Tube stations. Unless the air isn’t really cleaned in such a way as to make it “safe” and the ill-fitting masks won’t make a difference in any case. In which case why the adverts?
Anyway, I supposed that is The Science at work again, keeping us safe! Cheers, The Science. Appreciate it.
Masks = WEF Globalist agenda. No more, no less.
If you can stomach it, look at this organisation:
About Us:
#Masks4All is an all-volunteer org that started and powered the movement for people and Governments to follow the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows we need to wear homemade masks in public to slow COVID-19.
https://masks4all.co/about-us/
UK version:
https://www.masks4all.org.uk/about
Co-Founder and leader:
Jeremy Howard,
Distinguished Research Scientist at USF; Founding Researcher at fast.ai; Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council
All roads lead to High Lord Schwab, Emperor of Davos.
F-Off Khunt and maybe look into knife crime etc.
He will struggle to get this one to stick again. No one is wearing the godforsaken face nappy on the tube these days.
I’m glad to hear that. Here in Wales 99% of people are wearing the damned things in supermarkets!
Sadiq Khan is wasting his breath as he doesn’t have any authority.
This is an FOI I sent to the Department of Infrastructure in Northern Ireland recently, as the Minister decided to stick with the face masks on public transport “based on the data” she claimed. I thought that’d be a good data set to look at. So I asked for it. Their response
“I am not aware of any evidence that relates specifically to their use on public transport”
This is what amounts to public health policy these days. Mass experimentation based on nothing but myth and legend.
I assume that none of the links provide any actual data for any other setting either? (yes, I could look, but there’s a limit to how much evidence-free government bollocks anyone can tolerate!).
If they have managed to find data to show the muzzles make a difference, they would be the first in the world to do so!
The links they provided refer to the case made in the Delve Report from summer 2020 that was used as the primary support for masking in the UK.
It’s full of holes. As are the masks.
At the very least it shows that her claim that “the data shows us its been an effective measure” is based on nothing at all. Just made that up.
Thanks for making the FOI request – good question you put to them – bet that had a few simple servants twisting in their swivel chairs trying to put an answer together!
And yet, on PT in NI there is announcement after announcement that face masks must be worn.
“amid spiralling Covid cases.”
Must be a usage if “spiralling” that I am not familiar with.
Sadiq Khan is a midget. And a Muslim. Probably gay too.
Um, no. Question, when we removed masks earlier this year did infections go up or down? Exactly. I’m all for adding in more ventilation (which does work) and encouraging people to good hygiene (never touch the handrails in any tube station). But, no. You are already clamoring for Plan B. And we don’t need it. It won’t help anyways. People are free to use masks. If they work, they are protected. If not, then…why bother?
How long before he demands vaccine passports to use public transport? I hear that the CCP has learned how to do that (and more). Maybe he has a hero in Premier Xi?
What’s with the mask fetish anyway?
The purpose of mandatory masks is to force people to eat shite and say it tastes delicious.
Well he can go and **** himself. I’m marching in London today and will using the tube mask free, “vaccine” free and distancing free. I WILL NOT CONSENT “WE WILL NOT CONSENT”.
There is no end to this fools hypocrisy.
We Londoners have no interest in Mr Khan’s insanely unbalanced ideas. We need forensic audit of the recent London mayoral election. Were computerised methods used at any stage? Computerised methods are egregiously vulnerable to fraud. I haven’t met any Londoners who voted for Mr Khan.
Had a few days in London last weekend.
On the London roads, apart from a few people wearing masks, it looked like a city getting back to normal – no signs of a virus anywhere. Some bags of waste on street corners awaiting collection but helping to sustain the rat population I expect.
Perhaps more people masked in shops and restaurants, but no one cares if you’re unmasked. I did see some people standing up to pay at a restaurant and putting their masks on to do so, but apart from that insanity it all seemed reasonably normal.
On the Underground I saw perhaps 10-30% unmasked. I assumed the loudspeaker commands telling commuters to wear a mask are triggered because people in CCTV control rooms can see the unmasked stood about, but the unmasked simply ignored the advice. No Underground staff or Transport Police spoke about mask wearing even if you asked them a question. I did see Sadiq Khan several times sat opposite me on the Northern line! Well it looked like Sadiq Khan but I couldn’t see all his face as he was wearing a mask! Best to not say anything to him as he presumably wanted to travel incognito.
I did see signs on the Underground trains advising me to wear a mask and also telling me how the air in carriages is changed regularly – which is nice of them, though I didn’t actually see any air changing myself.
No taxi driver liked Sadiq Khan or his restrictions or road works.
On the train down a number of people did wear masks but it made no sense to me to see them eating and drinking without a mask for half an hour and then later push the mask back up. But perhaps a virus was coming through and I never noticed.
The train back home was full – a lot of football supporters – hardly anyone was masked. The only masked people I saw were a few pairs of Chinese students – which was considerate of them because I know that “my mask protects you”.
I saw no dead bodies in London; no sick people falling down on the pavements. I haven’t come down with any symptoms since returning back home. The virus is a huge disappointment.
If people abandoned masks, signs about the virus, and voiced messages urging mask wearing, we might be living in normal times.
Further to my previous comment, I was astounded by the variety of different masks people were wearing on the London Underground. I did think there should be an I-Spy Masks book!
For example:
5 points for simple dust masks and blue paper masks.
10 points for black cloth masks.
10 points for masks which had elastic or rubber bands so strong they were pulling people’s ears forward.
15 points for masks with logos or fancy patterns on them.
20 points for people wearing masks, hoods and dark glasses with very little face visible (the super-safe!).
Well, he would, wouldn’t he? Does anyone else agree that he looks a right prat in that fancy virtue-signalling muzzle? (Though he looks a right prat without it too, I suppose.)