Boris Johnson tonight pushed the button on Plan B coronavirus curbs amid fears that Omicron could be causing 1,000 hospital admissions a day by the end of the year.
That “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I will not antisocially distance, I will see whoever I want during the Christmas season, I will not wear a mask and I will not have a vaccine. None of this clusterfuck is my fault – despite the hard of thinking trying to blame me. This is entirely down to the government. Only mass disobedience will put this fucking merry-go-round to an end.
‘It has become increasingly clear that Omicron is growing much faster than the previous Delta variant and is spreading rapidly all around the world,’ he said.
So what? All the evidence is that it’s mild. So let people get it and we can move on with our lives.
‘Most worryingly, there is evidence that the doubling time of Omicron could currently be between two and three days.’
So what?
But he admitted there would need to be ‘a national conversation’ about how to protect the public, particularly those who choose not get vaccinated for any reason.
How dare you! How fucking dare you! My body, my choice – that is all the reason needed. My decision is none of your goddamned business. I am not obliged to justify myself to charlatans like you and I am not answerable to you. The only conversation I want to have with you is your final words before I kick the chair out from underneath you, you totalitarian scumbag. How dare you!
Beautifully put. God only knows what our furher in Wales will come up with. You only get one life and I intend to live it in my own way. It’s the only option I have. So glad I am at the end of my life and not the beginning.
Dear Doris, Instead of continuing with the data manipulation, bullshit, spinning and lying, you could (see what I did there) take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. That way, you will have done something of more value than your typical daily output.
He’s prepared to put the country back into lockdown to divert attention from Number 10’s Xmas party antics. He truly is a grade A cunt.
Quite so. The only option now is mass disobedience. Make it impossible to enforce.
“The only option now is mass disobedience. Make it impossible to enforce.”
except that we’ve already helped them mold and hone the key to such enforcement by caving in to the smoking ban. All they have to do is conscript the owners and workers of businesses as unpaid,unwilling,untrained, and unarmed citizen vigilante enforcers o r face the penalty of losing their livelihoods.
– MJM
Michael, that argument is as dead as the Norwegian Blue. They used to allow gambling in pubs but that was banned in 1963 and people don’t carp on about it.
The only thing the smoking ban did was to prevent the minority of smokers polluting the atmosphere for everybody else.
Hi Addolff!
You say, “The only thing the smoking ban did was to prevent the minority of smokers polluting the atmosphere for everybody else.”
Since the pub owners certainly had the freedom to do that on their own if that was what they and their customers wanted, I fail to see how the ban helped… Unless either the majority were not concerned enpugh or the pub owners weren’t bright enough to know what was good for their business. I don’t believe either of those to be true. Would you disagree?
-MJM
Rubbish ! Smokers kept the pubs going. After the smoking ban came in pubs died or degenerated into kiddie orientated crap food joints.
Hi Addolff!
You say, “The only thing the smoking ban did was to prevent the minority of smokers polluting the atmosphere for everybody else.”
Since the pub owners certainly had the freedom to ban on their own if they and their customers wanted a ban, I fail to see how the ban helped… Unless either the majority were not concerned enough or the pub owners weren’t bright enough to know what was good for their business. I don’t believe either of those to be true. Would you disagree?
One very important note I want to make, However : I would never ever support a lot mandating that all businesses more property young allow smoking on their properties. I firmly believe in And support The freedom to choose In this area. Unfortunately the support for such freedom seems to be totally lacking among ban supporters!
-MJM
Hi Michael. No one ever asked me if I wanted smoking in the pub or not and do you think the campaign started because no one wanted it? The choice was accept the smoke or do not go into a pub and prior to the ban, when they implemented smoke free zones, many smokers did not respect it and the smoke certainly didn’t respect it either. Even now in my local, the smokers have a designated area outside but still insist in sitting in the non smoking area (and get very arsey when the staff ask them not to sit there). I am an ex smoker and absolutely respect the right of people to smoke if they wish to but no one respects my right to sit in a pub without having to breathe in foul air and have myself and my clothes smell like an old ash tray.
If the option was given for pubs to be smoking or non smoking there would be no non smoking pubs.
Reply to Timothy.
I’m sorry mate, that is a logical failure. The argument was “people went into pubs full of smoke so must have been happy with being in a smoke filled pub”. Now we have smokers going into non smoking pubs, so they must be happy with non smoking pubs.
And by the way, in your ‘option’, what do the non smokers do?
Going to a pub is not a right, the only person that should be allowed to forbid smoking is the person who owns the business. You don’t like it, open your own non-smoking pub.
You, and the likes of you, are the reason why we are in this mess now, with politicians allowed to do anything they want.
That said, I’m all for a ban on the stupid, although methinks you wouldn’t like that one so much.
I know Twitter isn’t representative, but the mood is definitely very much the same. And speaking to work colleagues ahead of the announcement, even those usual ‘the government knows best’ ones were starting to get pitchforkey…
That’s good. Although I always had my underlying doubts about Johnson, the level of awfulness has taken me by surprise. Truly the worst prime minister in history.
Same here. I could not have been more wrong about someone, to my eternal shame.
Could not agree more. It’s not Johnson’s doing though, he’s dancing – being forced to dance? – to the tune of the people running all the countries involved in this fraud.
It’s going to take a lot to wrest the nation back.
No interest at all in what bullshit is spouted in the house of ill repute, with barely a handful of exceptions they are a set of loudspeakers repeating what those who own the world have decided.
I will not live by their weekly shifting goal posts of rules, without reading this and other blogs i wouldn’t have a clue where we were in the latest gradual shift towards 1930’s central europe because i long ago gave up on the idiot box and all other mainstream medias.
How long before bunter is told to echo the new eurofuhrer in hinting at moving away from the Nuremberg laws to pave the way for forced injections of God above knows what foul mixture.
The answer to them all is the same as its been from day 1 of this (bought) media backed worldwide coup…”NO, now sod off”
Boris must know that it was bloody-minded Brits sticking our heels in and saying “No” – Brexiteers rejecting the Parliamentary backsliders, the “Red Wall” telling Labour to eff off – who put him in power. What makes him think he can fool us?
But I think it’s important not to jump on the outrage bandwagon over the Downing Street party. The hypocrisy doesn’t lie there; it lies in the regulations themselves. This isn’t like a Cabinet Minister getting caught embezzling, or an MP cheating on his wife. That’s how they’d like us to see it: a few idiots getting too big for their boots and thinking they’re above the laws that protect us. But that’s not it at all. The scandal here is that these people have all the statistics and scientific data, and they know the true level of risk. Judge them by what they do, not what they say. They know that what they did was safe, yet they tell us not to do it.
I became very suspicious when they exposed a 95 year old woman – and a monarch to boot – to the deadly virus at their G7 bash.
The comments that I made at Samizdata:
Isn’t telling people to wear masks, and then observing how many of them do so, a really good way of deciding how much other shit they will be prepared to put up with? My observations, supermarket 90% compliance, railway station, 50% compliance, doctor’s surgery and dentist 100%. Various people walking alone or alone in cars wearing masks. If the vast majority were refusing to comply the clear message would be that mass resistance to further restrictions could be expected. Alas the people have voted with their masks it would seem.
An interesting development that I have seen more recently has been people wearing a mask but not properly. Under the nose, on the chin or just hanging around the neck.
“An interesting development that I have seen more recently has been people wearing a mask but not properly. Under the nose, on the chin or just hanging around the neck.”
I wonder if that’s their kind of protest: “I’m wearing a mask so you can’t fine me, but I know it doesn’t work/don’t care, so not wearing it properly”?
Let’s face it, the only reason Boris got in was because he wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn. The only problem is, when they give Boris the push it looks likely that Gove will get the job – and from what I’ve read, he’s even worse than Boris.
Sunak is positioning himself.
Sunak’s largely an unknown quantity. He seems to have succeeded somewhat in keeping himself out of trouble, but as he’s overseen the squandering of billions upon billions he shouldn’t escape punishment either.
This is interesting. If this stuff really gets out into the open and becomes common knowledge, there are members of the government and of SAGE who will be facing charges of crimes against humanity.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/three-cheers-for-dr-sam-and-a-judge-who-backs-free-speech/