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“You Can’t Ever Say Mission Accomplished”: Minister Doesn’t Rule Out Winter Lockdowns

by Michael Curzon
20 June 2021 2:40 PM

Whether it takes place on July 5th (unlikely!), July 19th or later, “Freedom Day” is supposed to be irreversible. So why is a senior health official saying we may need to lock down again this winter and why is a Cabinet Minister unable to deny it?

Dr Susan Hopkins, the Director for Covid at Public Health England, says “we may have to do further lockdowns this winter” – a claim which Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has refused to deny. So will this ever end?

The Independent has more.

Dr Hopkins… said Britain needed to move to a situation where we can “live with this” in the longer term.

She told the Andrew Marr Show: “I think that means that we wouldn’t normally put people into lockdown for severe cases of influenza.

“We may have to do further lockdowns this winter, I can’t predict the future – it really depends on whether the hospitals start to become overwhelmed at some point.

“But I think we will have alternative ways to manage this through vaccination, through antivirals, through drugs, through testing, that we didn’t have last winter, and all of those things allow us different approaches, rather than restrictions on lives and restrictions on livelihoods, that will move us forward into the next phase of learning to live with this as an endemic, as something that happens as part of the respiratory viruses.”

Asked about her comments, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland declined to rule out more restrictions, telling Times Radio: “The essence of the virus is you can’t ever say mission accomplished.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Public Health EnglandRobert BucklandSusan HopkinsWinter
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Draper233
Draper233
4 years ago

“So will this ever end?”

Err, no, as many of us have been saying since March 2020.

The only way it ends is a dramatic political shift and I’m pinning my hopes on the crumbling narrative in the US, thanks to heroic leadership from the likes of Noem and De Santis.

Even then, this must end with the most serious repercussions for the perpetrators and legislation to prevent it ever happening again.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Draper233

Nuremberg 2.With gallows.
No going back from there. Hanging is irreversible.

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I’ve said before that I am against the death penalty.
Let’s ferry them all to the Falklands or a place in Siberia instead, all the perpretators from all countries.
And then destroy the airport, harbours, boats etc. and throw away the keys.

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

I am very much against the death penalty, but not this time. These supremely evil “people” have earned the right to pay the ultimate price.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

They are heavily protected by bodyguards. I bet Chris Whitty was shitting it when caught out alone on the streets of Oxford!

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Jez Hewitt
Jez Hewitt
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

They’re gonna need more than bodyguards. Eventually this will get to a point where, if/when the fury of the population is sufficient, the army/police/security services will have to decide which team they want to play for.

They too have families and friends. Truth and justice, or lies and civil war? They don’t know it yet but a decision will have to be reached regarding what kind of world they want to live in.

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tom171uk
tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  Jez Hewitt

“Fury of the population” ? I doubt there will be many furious sheep.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

I thought the video of a teenager repeatedly calling creepy Whitty a liar was worth watching. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The lad of course got rebuked by the covid worshippers.

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QuickDrawMcGraw
QuickDrawMcGraw
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Totally agree!

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Jez Hewitt
Jez Hewitt
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

I’m beginning to think prisons have been deliberately softened over the last 30 years ‘just in case’.

Crimes against humanity should always be resolved in court with the penalty of death. Personally, I consider paedophilia such a crime too.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

As South Georgia is on the green list of safe places to visit then why not there. The Falklands has a population so why inflict the criminal politicians on them, South Georgia has no towns to speak of and its further south than the Falklands, so chillier.

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Lilacblue
Lilacblue
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Good choice. With added benefit that the argies might arrive.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Not fair to the Falkland islanders.

They could be shipped off to South Georgia, where there’s no one to annoy but the penguin.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Not fair on the penguins.

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Emmerich
Emmerich
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

No strong opinions on the death penalty, but we’ve seen what these people get up to when they have a private island to themselves, as demonstrated by the Epstein scandal.
These parasites must never be allowed to hurt anyone, ever again

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Or the bat room at the WIV with no suits, weld them in like the Chi nese (allegedly) did to their own people. Then cancel their British citizenship.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

as I’ve said before, there are some small islands west of Lewis that would be quite suitable…

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

I agree with Annie although I think Hanging’s far too good for them. Perhaps you’re right a slow painful miserable death would be far more appropriate with the odd carrot of pretending we’re going to let them free just so they know how it feels. Don’t think the poor Falkland Islander deserve to have this bunch of cruel, evil psychopaths inflicted upon them though.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Us or Them, shit or bust.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  Draper233

The last paragraph is motivation enough for it never to end.

Last edited 4 years ago by Anonymous
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AnnabelleG
AnnabelleG
4 years ago
Reply to  Draper233

Yes, we should pin our hopes on US and also Dr Reiner Fuellmich – DeSantis is a complete Hero — Our Government have proved themselves to be spineless creatures and Liars

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  AnnabelleG

Err…. Genocidalists.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago

There must be a full-on attack against the whole idea of lockdowns. The science is in: they don’t work to contain a virus and the isolation of healthy people actually reduces the level of immunity in the population, making it more dangerous for the sick and elderly. The lockdown restriction of medical treatment for cancer and heart disease etc has cost lives. The economics is in: they create poverty, and more than any virus, poverty kills. And then there is the psychological damage and the suicides from isolation and despair.

No wonder the government has run a mile rather than do a proper cost-benefit analysis. It would show up their ‘solution’ to be disastrous.

But more than anything, lockdowns are a fascist solution, completely at odds with our Western heritage. Free people address problems and create solutions relevant to themselves, their families and their community, but they must be free to do so and not stomped on by a one-size-fits-all ‘solution’ by a central dictatorship.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

Well said indeed.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

If you drew up a list of all the things that you should do with respect to a real pandemic nothing the govt actually did in would be on that list.

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Unless you wanted to kill as many people as drawn out as possible without being held accountable for it.
Then, everything made and makes sense.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Indeed.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

When I’m in a fruitless (as they inevitably are) argument with Covbelievers, this is the one I highlight. They tend not to have an answer.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Actually, everything the government has done, with opposition support, has been designed to maximise deaths.

It is that simple.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Delete

Last edited 4 years ago by huxleypiggles
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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

Our enlightenment and unalienable individual rights Western heritage has now died with and through lockdowns, mask mandates, censoring, ad hominem attacks on dissenting scientists and gene therapy coercion and discrimination.
We have shifted to utilitarianism again.
As before, the from that resulting future plandemics and climate change et.al. restrictions will end in catastrophes and many atrocities and discriminations being committed.
In 50 years or so, a strong yet unborn future generation might pull off a reversal again.
Almost all currently alive human beings and all current and future leaders and decision makers are sadly either criminals or totally hopeless in that regard.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

When the Roman civilisation fell, it took two thousand years to rediscover some of the inventions, e.g. how to make concrete.
It only takes two generations to lose knowledge, and generations to rediscover them, if ever.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

I disagree with your closing para.

The people on here are at least awake to what is going on.

Helpless maybe but aware.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

“The from that resulting future plandemics” – I assume you’re German. 🙂

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Squire Western
Squire Western
4 years ago

Another idiot who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word ‘irreversible’.

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isobar
isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

Tell me who in the cabinet isn’t an idiot; it seems to be an essential criterion for such a position. Doubly so given that the fat pig dictator is the biggest idiot of them all.

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MartinR
MartinR
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

Any who aspire to the higher reaches of the the Tory Party have to have undergo enforced brain amputation. Refusal is not tolerated. As for the other lot, they didn’t have anything to amputate in the first place.

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isobar
isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  MartinR

Too right! It used to be ‘Lions led by donkeys’ now it’s ‘Lions led by zombies’

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

Donkeys led by zombies.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

Lions? Lions? Where …??????

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court
court
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

Taking of Led by Donkeys, whatever happened to that agro group of billboard posters? Hanging on every word these bastards have been saying for 18m? Probably.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

Oh sadly they are not idiots. They know exactly what they are doing.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

Don’t assume he’s an idiot.
He’s just following the plan. They just haven’t admitted to it yet.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago

Another chilling video. Police state – Ireland’s New Garda Powers

(I know that brandnewtube is full of crap and stuff about the mark of the beast and biblical nonsense, but there are gems to be found amongst the muck, and I think this one of them. I think it relevant to the Covid agenda in the UK.)

https://brandnewtube.com/watch/police-state-ireland-s-new-garda-powers_cZyldqrBrOjMqNI.html

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

The Bible is not nonsense, Emerald Fox, and you wouldn’t dare phrase your comment like that if you were talking about the Koran. Your contempt blinds you.
This is not the End Times – but evil exists, and those behind these current events serve evil purposes, and that is clear from their devotion to money, their devotion to lies, and their willingness to kill, or risk death among the old and amongst children.

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Norman
Norman
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

If you read it he didn’t say the bible was nonsense, he said biblical nonsesee, which could also mean the opposite to what you seem to be assuming.
I am not talking about what he said simply the interpretation of the words he used. It seems some people look for offense when their religion is mentioned.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

He didn’t claim that the Bible ‘is nonsense’ – just that this miscellaneous collection contains nonsense – an irrefutable fact.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The Bible contains ‘nonsense’ an irrefutable fact?

Would you like to present any examples of the irrefutable nonsense you describe?

A lot of things I can find impenetrable and often need reading many times but I certainly haven’t come across any nonsense when reading it let alone ‘irrefutable nonsense.’

I read many Biblical scholars many academic and often Christian and I would be more inclined to take their responses on things and not one of them has made a comment regarding nonsense.

So your comment is really a subjective statement and irrefutable shouldn’t be applied to it in this context.

Simply say that you don’t understand it – that will make more sense.

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Ossettian
Ossettian
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

You seriously believe the story of Noah’s Ark?

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Tangelo
Tangelo
4 years ago
Reply to  Ossettian

Of course, I think they have found the remains of at least three of them.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  Ossettian

It’s probably a fictional rewriting of a true event. A lot of civilisations have a flood myth, which suggests that there have been major floods.

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Ossettian
Ossettian
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Yep, the creation of the Black Sea.

But there are plenty of people who believe the Ark and the animals.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  Ossettian

I didn’t say these things have to be taken literally but I am willing that God can create miracles when He wishes. The world is testament to that. Anything is possible including Noah’s Ark.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

“Would you like to present any examples of the irrefutable nonsense you describe?”

Starting at random from Genesis … The rendering of the Creation and the Flood (if accepted as reality rather than myth) ; the whole history of Israel from Abraham through Egypt; the idea of a sadistic child abusing bossy psychopath being a ‘loving’ god, rather than an archetypal excuse for hierarchical priestly dominance’; the Walls of Jericho….. to virgin births, loaves and fishes and resurrection.

Just for starters.

Nonsense is interesting in an anthropological sense – but it ain’t reality.

The Bible is an interesting paste-job mish-mash of myth and legend with some interesting philosophy.

… but containing a lot of nonsense to equal Covid.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

You have listed a lot of things that if taken literally you appear to reject. That is fair enough but a choice rather than an example of ‘nonsense’. Nonsense in your example really means that with which you don’t believe. As example taking any of the list you are saying that the God of the heavens and the earth who created all things and nothing from which everything came and everything will return who created the animals the earth and the oceans, as well as the people of this world is not capable of any producing any of the list above? Why when he has created all things anyway of those which I am assuming you simply take for granted such as your and your children’s birth? Isn’t that a miracle in and of itself? How can these things come to pass if not by miracle? A miracle that no one on this earth can mirror. If births were of the virgin variety you would have no problem. But because the virgin birth is not of your experience you not only reject it you call it nonsense. When God has demonstrated all before you and given you eyes to hear… Read more »

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

No offense intended – brandnewtube, which I discovered in February, seems to have been set up as an alternative to YouTube because YT was (and is still) censoring what they decide is ‘misinformation’ about Covid.
It’s a bit of a shaky site, and I think it’s not helped by being flooded with so much religious content and utter tripe about UFOs and the like, which makes it look like amateur conspiracy nut-job drivel instead of a focused and rational site for the videos YT does not like.

I’m afraid I am not religious, but I will agree with you when you say evil exists.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

YT used to be full of that sort of material, and probably still is.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

I’m of the opinion a lot of that “content” is placed there to “drop a turd in the ice-cream”.
The establishment never deny something they just make up more ridiculous somethings to drown it out.

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CGL
CGL
4 years ago

No – really??? Well blow me down with a feather!

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ScepticSteve
ScepticSteve
4 years ago

“We may have to do further lockdowns this winter, I can’t predict the future – it really depends on whether the hospitals start to become overwhelmed at some point.”

Rather than waste some £400B on lockdowns, PCR testing, experimental gene therapy shots, PPE, converting the few pubs that can remain open, when they’re allowed to do so, with “distancing” and one-way systems, widening pavements for “social distancing”, etc., surely it would have been better to admit from the start that none of those measures work, and to spend some of that £400B on improving the NHS and informing people on how to lead healthier lifestyles by exercising, taking vitamins, and not over-eating?

But that would not suit the agenda of making profits, culling the “useless eaters” and enslaving the survivors.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  ScepticSteve

Or on cheap drugs known to be effective against covid, or on extra hospital capacity, better infection control in hospitals

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MartinR
MartinR
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

But, but, Ivermectin is proven to only be 100% effective against Covid. How can that possibly meet the NHS’s high standards?

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Emmerich
Emmerich
4 years ago
Reply to  ScepticSteve

Thing is, even if they wanted to, they can’t admit that everything they’ve done hasn’t actually worked because that’s tantamount to admitting that they’ve ruined people’s lives, livelihoods and potentially killed people all for nothing.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Emmerich

Which is what this shite is all about.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  ScepticSteve

You cant improve the NHS, it’s useless from design.
If you want to get better, you have to go private.

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  ScepticSteve

And orthomolecular medicine.

I once heard someone on radio talking about the benefits of consuming ones own urine. True or not, you’re never likely to hear about it as there’s no money in it. Money talks.

Last edited 4 years ago by Hugh
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Jez Hewitt
Jez Hewitt
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Finally, I have got a pot to piss in.

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Norman
Norman
4 years ago

He said “…I think we will have alternative ways to manage this through vaccination, through antivirals, through drugs, through testing, that we didn’t have last winter, and all of those things allow us different approaches, rather than restrictions …”.
We already have most of these (I am puzzled about what new testing we will have, perhaps some that work?) so why aren’t they being used now?

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

They just make shit up

I don’t think it’s meant to make sense, as long as it sounds vaguely plausible

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Indeed. And let’s not forget that we are not their audience.
Their audiences are solely the cult members and its cheerleaders.
And they believe and buy everything from them.

Last edited 4 years ago by JayBee
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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Actually not the cult members, but the general public who just go along with what they are told. Actual hardline cult members are fewer in number, IMO, and don’t need to be convinced. It’s the woolly middle you need to keep onside.

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Yamahard350
Yamahard350
4 years ago

It is planned Demand Destruction.

For the plebs.

I suspect their are shills that support it, who believe they will be given/enjoy special privileges.

The vast majority of shills are in for a shock.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Yamahard350

Probably so that the deferred wealth can be redirected into higher economic rents?

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago

Vaccinations and testing ARE restrictions.

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago

Leaving aside for a second that lockdowns do fuck all. Give me my tax back, I’ll sign a waiver exempting the NHS from having to treat me and then I can go about my merry way, no?

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

Just another round of the push me pull you psy-ops

June 21st no July 6th yes, winter lockdowns yes, but no if 81% etc, etc

This is only going to end when the people who are carrying it out are not in a position to carry it out

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
4 years ago

The Independent has more.

The Independent always has more. MUCH more pro vaxx, much more pro-lockdown, much more anti-UK bs. It specialises in this guff, with Sean O’Grady (he of the all kids must be vaxxed or be excluded from state education article recently ) being a particularly choice propagandist.
File along with its many other articles to be lodged with the post-C19 prosecutor.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

What is that rag independent of? I’ve always wondered.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

independent of the truth?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

FA.

Not even a competent comic like The Graun.

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AnnabelleG
AnnabelleG
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

Does this Sean O’Grady have children???

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
4 years ago
Reply to  AnnabelleG

Dunno, but he has an Indy profile:

Sean O’Grady is the Associate Editor of the Independent. He writes editorials, columns about politics and economics, and reviews, including television and cars. He has worked for our titles since 1998, and before that enjoyed a varied career in parliament, the City and at the BBC. He drives a Skoda Octavia and lives in an unfashionable district of south London.

Quite what the relevance of the last line is, other than to establish his Mr Normal street credentials, is also unknown. Read it and weep:

No jab, no job; no jab, no access to NHS healthcare; no jab, no state education for your kids. No jab, no access to pubs, restaurants, theatres, cinemas, stadiums. No jab, no entry to the UK, and much else.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

Lovely chap then?

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

“Succession of more vicious variants”? Who the hell’s he/she/they been talking to? That’s not how viruses work is it, unless various NPI’s – including “vaccinations” – mess up the usual course of viral infection.

And what about the rights of the rest of us when someone who thinks they are well because they have reduced symptoms after “vaccination” goes about infecting people? I ask again, is it safe to be near people who have had these “vaccines”?

Last edited 4 years ago by Hugh
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Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

Seems like a nice boy. Wonder whether his mother knows what he does?

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adamino
adamino
4 years ago

Irreversible? 😂😂😂😂

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

“You Can’t Ever Say Mission Accomplished”
With those words Buckland admits lockdowns will never end

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

They will.
When the money has run out.
When a bog roll costs a billion.
The only good thing is that therafter, our politicians and civil servants will be in for a huge surprise.
Contrary to their current thinking, that the state will then be debt- free and the civil service and its pensioners won’t have to make any sacrifices and that/because the government can borrow cheaply and a lot again, the very opposites will be true- see Germany from 1945-1975.
Once you have defaulted, no one lends you much and if anything, only at high rates.
And the state can then only spend the few leftovers of the private sector again, which will take decades to come to its feet again befor they can and will start to milk it and bloat the public sector again.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

However these clowns have prepared for what they consider to be THEIR outcome, many will be in for a shock.

It’s the nature of WAR.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

Well – not difficult to work out from the start that sociopathic significance seekers are going to be reluctant to give up power tools.

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago

Read the Uni Duisburg-Essen study on testing and stop it, for good and chrissake!
Otherwise, there will always be multiple waves of the rebadged flus and multiple lockdowns each year, until the money has finally run out, then signified by a bog roll costing a £100billion.
The NHS will always be overwhelmed in Fall, Winter and Spring. That and its management incompetence and its doctors lazyness is a British character trait by now, like not taking responsibility for ones own decisions and mistakes, internationally known as the ‘wrong kind of leaves’ syndrom.

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago

https://unherd.com/thepost/coming-up-epidemiologist-prof-johan-giesecke-shares-lessons-from-sweden/
https://unherd.com/2020/07/swedens-anders-tegnell-judge-me-in-a-year/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3
Maybe someone can forward them these two interviews again.
I remember in another one, one of them actually stated that the main problem with lockdowns is the exit strategy, ‘How do they want to come out of this?’ following it with ‘Not my problem.’ (I think the precedent having been set is the even bigger problem, as we can see now.)

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ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago

Yes, here we are in LA LA Land, where the, at least, thirty and more peer-reviewed studies showing lockdowns have no benefit in medical terms and only cause immense damage to health and the economy, are constantly ignored. Sweden, ignored, all the open US States, ignored. Well I can’t do anything about the Government but I am ignoring anything they say, and I mean anything. My family have all agreed, finally, (maybe one dissenter) that we will never not see each other again, they can stick their lock-down where the sun don’t shine. I’ve even got at least two of them to agree they’ll never have another covid schmovid jab. Best friend will never have another jab, best friends daughter, not getting her second jab and bitterly regrets the first. Just keep the dissent up and refuse to bow-down to these amoral f***wits.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago

Told you: they’re never going to let us out.
We’ll have to fight our way out.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago

Off topic. perhaps, but saw this on reddit LS and thought it might be important. I have often noticed my Samsung Galaxy mobile phone will turn WiFi on in the presence of a WiFi signal even though I have turned the setting to not to automatically turn WiFi on. I have also noted that updates come without my asking.
Can the NHS Covid apps get snuck onto your phones without you knowing?

I quote:

It seems from reports on online forums that the state of Massachusetts stealthily downloaded a tracker on people’s smartphones.

I was reading about this yesterday and confirmed that I did not have gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3 nor gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications installed.

I turned off auto-updates in the Play store (Settings -> Network preferences -> Auto update apps -> Don’t auto update apps) and went to sleep. This morning I woke up with a cheerful notification that Google can help with COVID notifications and gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3 installed — the app was pushed overnight over explicit instructions NOT to update

(sure, one can say auto-install != auto-update, but it is worrying that forced pushes can happen even with every single relevant UI switch turned off).

The person goes on to show relevant code that overrides user settings.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Thanks.

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JYC
JYC
4 years ago

It really is nothing short of miraculous that the human race has survived for thousands of years without kind-hearted public servants to tell us when we can see members of our own family, when we are allowed to visit different parts of the country, that we should put on masks in just about any public place and that we should participate in mass medical experiments to be allowed access to normal life. When will this country ever wake up? Based on the past 15 months or so, I would say the answer to that is “never”.

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Barbara Baker
Barbara Baker
4 years ago

Funny how they don’t add extra capacity to the hospitals ….. o no they did, the Nightingales , then promptly decommissioned them just before the winter “wave”…..and of course now they won’t have enough staff due to mandatory vaccines. So the only option is to vaccinate every living thing without offering any therapeutics (otherwise the emergency use authorisation will fall). Problem, reaction, final solution….. mission accomplished Robert👍

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago

Its a worry that the UK Justice Sectretary is obviously clinically insane.

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eyesee
eyesee
4 years ago

As he just said “mission accomplished”, actually used the words, I think you can say, mission accomplished. Govt, as Julia Hartley-Brewer writes in the MoS, has pretty much ignored ‘the dangerous virus’ and the applied regulations since last summer. That would be when the virus ran out of steam and functionally disappeared; became endemic. The moment when if you had panicked for a while and locked down, you would reopen. If however, everything was set up to deceive…

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

Here we go again. Getting the bad news in early to soften the blow to the conditioned masses. I doubt any regulars on here didn’t see this coming.

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
4 years ago

“overwhelmed” = destroyed. When a ship is ‘overwhelmed’ at sea, it sinks; it’s destroyed. These desperately dishonest people mean “over-stretched” – which happens EVERY year in NHS hospitals. The ‘over-stretching’ was no worse in 2020 than in any other year, and less serious, for instance, than in 2017. Why is this simple fact not being screamed at people like this? Why didn’t Andrew Marr say something? Useless, useless, useless.

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sgf
sgf
4 years ago

The ‘Mission’ was to ‘flatten the curve’! What mission are we on now, Minister?

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QuickDrawMcGraw
QuickDrawMcGraw
4 years ago

We all know they’re going to lock down again as soon as they can, probably autumn. If we let them do it this time I fear we may be finished. We need mass civil disobedience, its our only hope and I believe it would work. Any serious pushback and these evil wimps will fold!

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago

C***s the lot of them! Although C***s are useful….

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ellie-em
ellie-em
4 years ago

Heartily sick and tired of ‘it depends on whether hospitals can cope or not”.

Of course the hospitals will say they are struggling and need more resources including staff – they always have done and always will.

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