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New Government Campaign Will Urge People – Including Vaccinated – Not to Hug

by Michael Curzon
1 April 2021 4:04 PM

The Government is planning a new social media poster campaign that will urge people – including those who have been vaccinated against Covid – not to hug. A source has said that the messaging will say that if you “hug your grandchildren there is a chance you are going to infect people you love”. The Telegraph has the story.

Vaccinated Britons will be urged not to hug in a new Government campaign that comes amid fears people are more likely to ignore social distancing rules once they have been jabbed.

The Cabinet Office is preparing a social media poster campaign that will call on people who have been inoculated against Covid to abide by the rules as they are relaxed in order to allow more social contact.

“The messaging will be aimed at people who have been vaccinated to stop them going off-piste and ignoring the regulations, and particularly with the elderly who have had two jabs,” said a senior source.

“It will be along the lines that it is great that you have been vaccinated, but if you are going to visit your family and hug your grandchildren there is a chance you are going to infect people you love.”

A similar campaign has been run during lockdown, in which older vaccinated people were urged to stay at home to save lives. 

The posters, featuring older Britons, warned that they could still transmit the virus even after having a jab. “There is still a risk you could spread coronavirus, even after you have been vaccinated,” they said.

The Government fears that people who have received the vaccine believe they are safe from Covid.

It follows research by the ONS which found that nearly half of all older people who were vaccinated against Covid in England were breaking lockdown rules.

Researchers found that compliance with coronavirus restrictions started to wane after the initial injection, with 41% of respondents reporting that they had broken the rules by meeting up with someone indoors.

Perhaps Bob Moran’s cartoons can act as an antidote to this campaign!

The Telegraph’s report is worth reading in full.

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Fear is Finite
Fear is Finite
4 years ago

What they are now saying is that granny’s the disease vector? At least the kids get a day off from being the bad guys.

So getting this straight, the experimental gene therapy turns you into a potential killer. How’re those vaxx passports working out under this scenario Mr Gove?

They really need to just jog on (that’s the polite version).

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Fear is Finite

Very good point. Granny will be required to have the vaccine so that she can get a Vax Passport to go to the Bingo.

If she scoops the big £25.00 prize she can’t take home a KFC Bonus Bucket to share with the grandchildren and hugs all around in case she gives them the Covid ?

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silverbirch
silverbirch
4 years ago

Who the hell do they think they are?

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  silverbirch

They think they are our masters.

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Amari
Amari
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

And so many Britons are happy for them to be our masters.

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  silverbirch

Just what I asked my pathetic Montgomeryshire MP last week plus “how dare you, this is not what we employ you for”.

Funny, I haven’t had a reply yet!

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Cheezilla
Cheezilla
4 years ago

So now it isn’t the grandkids killing granny.
It’s vaxxed gran infecting her grandkids – who don’t get covid anyway.

Get jabbed and we’ll “allow” you to go out.
Ah, now you’ve been jabbed we’re urging you to stay home.

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Fear is Finite
Fear is Finite
4 years ago
Reply to  Cheezilla

I’m beginning to think the podium gang need some serious psychiatric help to get them out of their doom spiral, I wouldn’t be opposed to a padded cell scenario…

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Sceptical Steve
Sceptical Steve
4 years ago
Reply to  Fear is Finite

… along with some experimental medicines, perhaps?

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awildgoose
awildgoose
4 years ago
Reply to  Fear is Finite

Full frontal lobotomies and electroshock therapy with a truck battery sound about right.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Fear is Finite

… with spikes instead of pads?

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  Cheezilla

Just ignore the idiots. We visited, hugged and stayed 2 nights with our grandchildren last week and the month before that.
We’re both 64 and miraculously still alive. I would say our immune systems have done that but, according to sociologist Hancock, there’s no such thing as immunity. Must be because we were a mask in Lidls….oh, and ignore the BBC.

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wendy
wendy
4 years ago

Zero covid all the way then!!! Unless folks have had enough and just get on with their lives as best they can.

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WasSteph
WasSteph
4 years ago

Absolutely despicable. Yesterday, in the park, I congratulated a multi-generational family arriving in separate vehicles for their hugging. It made me smile and I know it certainly made them happy to hug. The older man’s viewpoint was all the adults had been vaccinated and the death rate from anything at all was at a very low value. I urged them to keep it up (the hugging that is) but I’m under no illusion that they needing my suggestion! I think everybody is soon going to be telling the doomsters to Foxtrot Oscar. We have had enough.

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JoP
JoP
4 years ago

Just checked the figures at https://twitter.com/rp131/status/1377283083490238471?s=21. Current rate of infection for over 70s 1:50,000. Assuming that most of these people will be symptomatic and only the 10% asymptomatics would consider hugging anybody that’s 1:500,000. Chance of infecting someone by hugging them is 10% at the most. So chance of vaccinated over 70 year old infecting someone by hugging them 1:5,000,000. Probably a bit risky.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  JoP

Apart from your overestimate of asymptomatic infection, and the value of the minor risk reduction by vaccination :-), your calculations compute as indicative of reality.

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alw
alw
4 years ago

As a granny and a grandpa we have continued to hug throughout and are still alive. We won’t be told what to do or how to behave by a bunch of fools. We have managed quite well without the help of government.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  alw

QED.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  alw

Yep

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ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago
Reply to  alw

At the beginning of this crap I asked my elderly neighbour who is 84 if he still wanted me and Mr Gum to come round, or if he felt happier being alone and ‘safe’?
He went with the former and frankly I can’t imagine having left him to be alone for a year! We have hugged throughout and guess what we’re all ok!

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Old Trout
Old Trout
4 years ago
Reply to  alw

Great stuff. You could teach my mother a thing or two. She hasn’t hugged me or her grand-daughter for over a year and won’t until ‘Boris says we can’ (her words). FFS!

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  Old Trout

That’s really sad. Some just can’t not obey a rule. Sort of Stockholm syndrome.

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yohodi
yohodi
4 years ago

Propaganda/psyops straight out of the Behavioural Psychologists playbook, and who checks the behaviour of those bar stewards?.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  yohodi

When you learn that most of the “SAGE” office consists mainly of behavioural psychologists, “Nudging” the public into “new” and permanent behaviours you realise how evil this all is. And they’re all just contolled, useful idiots doing their master’s bidding.

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Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
4 years ago

It’s beyond mental illness with these fanatics now. They’re diseased in the soul, morally deformed. They obviously view all human life as disgusting and insanitary. I’d be happy enough to leave them in their joyless, soulless hell, but they insist on locking us all in the room with them. I hate them.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

Too right. And their great triumph is to convince the zombies that everybody else is disgusting and insanitary.You got to admit it: as a psy-op the idea is brilliant, because even zombies would resist thinking of themselves as disgusting and insanitary.

I know that everybody on this site, and our Reddit home, is a huggable human being, though hugs are voluntary! But huggazombie would be beyond me, I think.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

They are indeed the evil ones because they knowingly and willingly obey the psychopaths at the top. The psychopaths are deluded and broken but their enablers give them power because they’ve been promised big rewards on the way. Oh, it’s very dark…

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Squire Western
Squire Western
4 years ago

#SAGE is the new STUPID

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

Far too generous an assessment.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
4 years ago

Of course it has, everything this globalist government have ruled this past year has inhibited our immune system!!

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

I concluded many months ago that the government were doing everything they could to stop people getting naturally immune and the population from reaching herd immunity.
This was especially so when they tried, but mercifully failed, to stop students from mingling at the beginning of the academic year.

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Just follow the money.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Pretty nasty and evil, so something people have done since they evolved is now, because of a low mortality virus, being made out to be a killer. Those advocating this really need to be locked away on a island where they cannot mingle with the real humans

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st27
st27
4 years ago

I’ll answer this insane idea in kind with a 3-word response

1st word: sounds like “duck”
2nd word: opposite of “left”
3rd word: opposite of “on”.

Actually that’s probably a bit too challenging for the evil idiots who come up with ideas like this to grasp.

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www
www
4 years ago

It is not illogical. The inoculated with the pathogen are likely to become the infection spreaders. The elderly were specifically targeted by the inoculation campaign. Ergo, they are the spreaders now.

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Marg
Marg
4 years ago

Have these advisers realised how stupid they sound. We are being told that the vaccine is working. How is it working? Am I missing something?

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Marg

You are, of course, absolutely right.

But how many fellow citizens will recognize the shit in their feeding bowl as shit?

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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Marg

Precisely!

If it was a vaccine it would stop people catching it or spreading it.

Since it does neither it is NOT a vaccine which they are now admitting

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

Well, having just returned home after mixing households indoors, ignoring the rule of six (let alone 2) and hugging my grandchildren (and the rest of the family), my only response is :

“F. off you incredibly, brainless, maniacal sociopaths. Go isolate your pathetic selves until you are cured and fit to mix in decent society instead of contaminating it. You’ve got everything wrong up until now – are you going for the Japan Olympics in the Stupidity Class?”

…. or something like that …..

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

well said

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago

Perhaps its time for the editors of this site to reflect on doing anything but support the enforced vaccination policy. They do not work, they do not confer immunity, they do not confer protection against transmission.
Like masks they are an outward sign of conformity to a totalitarian regime.
A respiratory illness given a name covid19, which may develop from a coronavirus, given a name SARS2 ( but is really just SARS) has an IFR of 0.15% and falling.
Health services are seasonally under pressure as they are each and every year, especially since economic decisions made to close wards, units a reduce beds.
Time for heads above the parapet, stop the injections.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Does Covid stand for Certificate of Vaccination ID and are we following the Lockstep plan the blueprint for Covid 2020?

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Tillysmum
Tillysmum
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Yes to both. Time to revolt.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago

I read this as a nudge unit move to vaccinate children. “Granny can infect you, ask mummy and daddy to get you jabbed”. Pretty horrendous, but there we are.

But on the other hand, the loons are screaming we must vaccinate the kids to stop them spreading it and killing Granny, even though they aren’t at risk.

So either the vaccine stops spread, or it doesn’t. It’s pretty obvious to me it’s the latter and so vaccination with a trial drug, should only be administered to those clinically vulnerable.

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JFJ
JFJ
4 years ago

I have hugged, both family and friends and in public. I will continue to do so for those who wish to and are willing. I think a better campaign for everyone might be a resurrection of the 1980’s U.S. anti-drug slogan, but now aim it at our idiotic Government, ‘Just say No!’.

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

‘Many of us ask when will we return to normality? The short answer is NEVER. Nothing will return to the rotten feeling of normality that existed before the crisis, because the corona-pandemic marks a fundamental change in our global development. Many analysts call it a crossroads, others a crisis of biblical dimensions, but in essence this shows us that the world we still knew in the first months of 2020 doesn’t exist anymore. It dissolved in the context of the pandemic.’

-Klaus Schwab

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago

“The Government fears that people who have received the vaccine believe they are safe from Covid.”

Should the Government also be afraid that people who have received the MMR vaccine or indeed any other vaccine believe they are safe from MMR etcetera?

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Amari
Amari
4 years ago

This is ridiculous. Are they deliberately pushing opposing messages? In a Tower Hamlets vaccine propoganda video, I noted these quotes:

“This is about protecting your loved ones and making a safe Tower Hamlets for us all.” Dr Somen Banerjee.

“The sooner you take the vaccine you are protected, others are protected, you’re helping your NHS, you’re helping your country. I don’t think really there is a choice (of vaccine), just take the vaccine.” Dr Anwar Ali. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skmISAYuXbE&list=WL&index=23

So you must take the vaccine to protect others, but once you’ve taken this vaccine that protects others, you still need to stay away from others in order to protect them.

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Jules
Jules
4 years ago

When will they stop?

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago

As with all their childish social control adverts, they can go swivel.
Love Moran’s cartoons.

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Jane G
Jane G
4 years ago

This unvaccinated granny will be welcoming her baby granddaughters next week for an overnight stay and cuddles galore, so ner!

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