Almost all Coronavirus rules – including limits on the no. of people who can meet together, face masks, and social distancing – will be ditched as part of step 4 of the roadmap for lifting lockdown restrictions in England.
The Prime Minister has signed off plans to end the legal requirement to wear masks on July 19th, saying the link between COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations has been broken.
Sajid Javid is striking a very different tone to his predecessor as he makes the right noises about opening up and getting our priorities right. But will he be able to deliver against all those with other ideas?
We're publishing a short story today by the historian and regular Lockdown Sceptics contributor Guy de la Bédoyère, set in Britain in 2039. Needless to say, the country still hasn't unlocked due to the weekly appearance of 'new variants'.
Sajid Javid appears not to have got the memo about perpetuating restrictions on flimsy pretexts as in his first full day in office he has said he wants the country to "return to normal as quickly as possible".
The models from SAGE and others all forecast a huge summer surge as we reopen, but the predictions are already wrong. With the peak expected in the next month, we'll soon know how wrong they are.
The Prime Minister has said there may be a "rough winter" ahead. But since by the Government's own admission lockdowns appear to be the cause of the pressures on the NHS, the cycle of lockdowns will never end.
Lockdown Sceptics received a fantastic response to our call for news from the reopened states in America with which to shame our own timid Government as it delayed reopening for yet another month. Here they are.
What justifies a lockdown? That's the question which, 16 months after the policy was introduced as a draconian tool of disease management, we still don't have a clear answer to.
Boris will definitely announce that the end of lockdown will be delayed tomorrow evening. He's going to spin this as a necessary delay to ensure the end of the lockdown is "irreversible". Yeah, right.
