Masks and social distancing could remain in the UK for several years after lockdown – “at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are”, according to a Public Health England official. The BBC has the story.
People may need to wear face coverings and socially distance for several years until we return to normality, a leading epidemiologist has predicted.
Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England, said basic measures could be in place until other countries successfully roll out jabs.
She also said a return of big spectator events required careful monitoring and clear instructions about staying safe. …
Dr Ramsay said restrictions such as face coverings in crowded places and social distancing had become accepted by many and still allowed the economy to function.
She said “people have got used to those lower-level restrictions now, and people can live with them, and the economy can still go on with those less severe restrictions in place”.
“So I think certainly for a few years, at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere, that is when we may be able to go very gradually back to a more normal situation,” she added.
Warning it was “very important that we do not relax too quickly”, Dr Ramsay said any circulating virus would inevitably pick on those who are vulnerable.
“We have to look very carefully before any of these restrictions are lifted,” she said. …
A group of Government scientific advisers said last month that “maintaining a baseline of policies which reduce transmission” will be necessary for some time to come.
Those experts said these could include continuing test-and-trace, self-isolation, and public messaging that encourages “voluntary actions to reduce risks”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A record number of people have been vaccinated in the UK for the third day running. But what’s the point of the vaccine if it’s not going to allow us to return to normality?
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GTF..
Vote with your feet and your faces!
So says a paid for temporary advisor to WHO on vaccine preventable diseases. She can take a long walk off a short cliff. Deaf people who need to lipread do not consent…nor should anyone else. This woman is I’m afraid acting like a selfish inconsiderate monster, propping up her own career agenda. According to her employers over 75.8% of over 75’s now have Covid-19 antibodies…so why should we, the 60+ million, keep sacrificing our freedom after a year of this nonsense.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england
These people do not consent and they claim local police
‘told me they don’t have the manpower to cover every grouping. Here they don’t have the political will unlike in London where they will come out and batter you for turning up’.
Note the three piece propaganda turned back on the liars.
“No more Lockdowns !
No more lies !
No more government genocide !”.
It’s about submission and subservience, controlling people’s lives. It’s all theatre, nothing more.
I have just read this and I have now hit rock bottom. I really am struggling and don’t know how much more of this cruelty I can take. This Woman I hope realises the damage she is doing. I don’t believe we will ever be allowed to have normal lives again.I am so depressed
Ignore this stupid moronic sad woman.
I ‘liked’ your comment. I don’t really as it depressed me. They don’t seem to want us to have our lives back.
If the sheep and collaborators want to wear face nappies and run away from other people, let em.
The rest of us have got lives to lead.
I would suggest you take a walk in your local park. If it is anywhere like round here people are less interested in social distancing than during lockdown lite last summer.
This Womans statement is just another example of the authorities clutching at straws, worthy of no more attention than the rest of their ceaseless fear porn.
This a million times.
There are a few loons about, but overall there are few scared cats around.
Also, the controllers are losing money when you’re outside the digital world.
Ignore what is said – I’m sure despite what this woman says most will do that. The tide is turning as so many are vaccinated. Those who want to be muzzled can keep doing that and the rest of us can get on with our lives. Mary Ramsay does not make public policy.
Yes, Ozzie, this stupid sad woman really ought to get out more.
NO! on second thoughts, she should lock herself away and wear face nappies and social distance to her heart’s content.
I think more people are waking up to this shit show too.
Can I just say this is EXACTLY how they want you feel! The aim is to destroy people’s morale in order to get more compliance. Laugh it off, live YOUR life. Don’t be frightened. Anything can change at any time and they are getting desperate to maintain the control they think they have, because they KNOW more and more people are seeing through this. Have faith. Their house of cards is wobbling.
Yes meet friends, don’t wear masks and hug people in view of other people. We have to get the message across that we are not complying.
Mr CGL and I feel exactly the same.
At an all time low reading this
Hester, remember this one thing: nothing lasts for ever, nothing. This time of madness will pass. Focus on that thought.
I say this because it helps me to get through on some of my worst days.
Irrumabo illis omni. (My newly minted family motto – F**k Them All. I imagine the grammar is wrong but it’s the thought that counts.)
According to the “Roadmap” all restrictions end as of 21 June, yet government minister and expert advisors constantly assert that restrictions will be necessary for the foreseeable future. People ought to recall that the prime minister said the restrictions were for three weeks to flatten the sombrero – and were are already a year on and the excuses constantly change. For months we were told there would not be a vaccine passport, now it is merely a matter of the details. Government ministers told us that once the most vulnerable had been vaccinated they would be on the barricades with us for our liberties, now it is we cannot throw away all the sacrifices we have made. We were told it was all about not overwhelming the NHS, now we are told it is all about variants. We were told vaccines were the route out of lockdowns, now we are told that vaccines will not be enough. If this kind of behaviour happened in a domestic relationship it would be recognised as abusive; indeed, the government would characterise it as coercive control and deem it to be criminal.
ABSOLUTELY!!!
It’s been a long time since I posted here but when I read news articles like this it does my heart and soul good to come on here and get some sense from decent people !
They are torturers and abusers. Nothing more, nothing less. And way too many of their captives are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. The ironic thing is, by their own guidlines, it states (along the lines of) that if you need to flee from danger of abuse, from either a mental or physical perspective, you can literally excuse yourself from complying with the diktats!
What a bunch of absolute idiots these people are. Ffs, there is still no reputable evidence that masks do anything at all in real life situations other than act as a panacea to the cretinous and the hysterical. And even that, most of the blithering idiots just want more and more ludicrousness to keep them ‘safe’. Why don’t they just fuck the fuck off to fuck land, lick themselves away and let me get on with my life. Selfish bastards. Christ I hate people.
Lock themselves away! Rather than lick. Though frankly they can lick too. The excitement would hopefully kill them off.
Must admit, I had a lurid and unpleasant image in my mind at people licking themselves away! :-0 🙂
Russell Brand would appear to have one of the healthiest subscriber lists for an increasingly sceptical YouTube site.
He may not be everyone’s cup of tea but with covid/lockdown we are all in it together.
Here he tackles the worldwide introduction of enhanced Police States just as the Covid disappears.
As at 19.15 this Sunday 20th, 13 minutes after posting his video, Mr Brand has recieved 611 upvotes from his 2.3 million subscribers.
“Public Health” as a pseudo- profession needs to be firmly stamped on, and regarded in the same light as witchcraft (which does far less harm).
It is not good to elevate a career path that attracts medical people who aren’t up to scratch just so they can strut their stuff.
My feeling exactly from when they started touting public health at the expense of my health several years ago.
This is a terrifying article particularly her expectation that the public have got used to masks and will tow the line.
Well, I haven’t and I never will.
But she will get her way unless those of us who hate masks get our views broadcast better than we have done so far.
A campaign? I would start one if I were 30 years younger.What about it, Toby?
‘Got used to it’ ??? Anyone who can get used to it has something fundamental missing from their brain
That’s what I thought. Mind you their Behavioural Insight Team have been “nudging” this from day one. What an absolute wet dream it’s become for them with so many complying without queation. The doozies wearing all the time seem to bloody love it…sod them all!
An obnoxious nonentity, spouting nonsense.
its quite clear that this non entity is part of a concerted campaign for zero covid. You can bet your bottom furlough pound that they will be interviewed as high profile experts on mainstream broadcast media. The journalists act like their PR’s ask no searching questions. I haven’t heard one alleged “science” journalist question the effect of so called variants. I haven’t heard any question the broken predictivelink between testing and Covid. None have questioned the whole “died with” nonsense. I disagree with a lot of the anti vax and reset stuff on here, but I am glad we are resisting this reactionary, paranoid public health police state.
Yet another person who has presumably not been affected by all the restrictions calling for more measures and a continuing level of fear among the public, presumably because publicity is good for her career, and if we all stopped worrying about Covid she would find it hard to justify her job and status.
Covid is going to become endemic around the world and will never completely disappear, so some people will always be able to find a reason to call for continuing attacks on our freedom and dignity. Sadly our spineless leaders seem unable to stand up to these idiots. At times I really do dispare about the future of this country.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYiHLl-qxFA
Steven Crowder:
EXPERIMENT: Can You Breathe with a Double Mask? | Louder With Crowder
Short answer: No.
Am I being stupid here? What was the point of the vaccines then? what is the masking supposed to actually do and for whom? Protect who? Is anyone outside us the minority sceptics asking these questions? Why not?
Not much mention of the catastrophic environmental damage being done by these 1.6 billion discarded face knickers every month. Environment? Suddenly that’s hardly on the agenda any more.
“Mark Drakeford said he wanted to be realistic and warned Wales was not likely to return to normality in 2021.” From the BBC website.