The number of first vaccinations given in Britain has almost halved in two weeks as take-up among the young dwindles. Polling in May suggested that nearly nine out of 10 young adults want to be vaccinated against Covid, but more recent data shows that around one in seven older teenagers are now sceptical of getting the vaccine.
The Government hopes to offset this hesitancy by widening the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, such as by ending certain travel quarantine rules and ending self-isolation rules after contact with a person who has tested positive for Covid for those who have had two doses. Last month, it even attempted to incentivise take-up among younger people by partnering with dating apps to create a scheme that rewards vaccinated users with exclusive prizes.
The Times has more.
Government scientists accept that the country is “close to maximum take-up”, with many young people still hesitant about vaccination.
The NHS reported no problems with Pfizer supplies and many vaccination centres are starting to offer early second jabs to young people, saying they would otherwise be sitting idle, but the Government is resisting calls to bring forward second doses.
Ministers appear relaxed about the slowdown, arguing that removal of quarantine for the fully vaccinated when going on holiday or coming into contact with an infected person would act as an incentive to boost take-up. But it will add to concerns about the scale of a summer wave of infections after all restrictions are lifted in 11 days’ time. …
Boris Johnson refused yesterday to say how many daily Covid admissions he was expecting in the summer but sources familiar with internal estimates acknowledged hospitals were likely to struggle, saying: “The tide is coming in and we will have to see how high the water gets before the nerves crack.” …
Men are currently more likely to have Covid than women, researchers said, with indoor gatherings to watch the Euros likely to be driving the trend. The latest round of the React survey from Imperial College London found that about 0.7% of men had the virus between May 20th and June 7th compared with 0.5% of women.
Ministers are expecting cases to peak at about 100,000 a day in August after which they are expected to fall through a combination of vaccination and the virus running out of people to infect.
About 90% of adults in Britain have antibodies to the disease from vaccination or previous infection, the Office for National Statistics said.
In England this includes 60% of those aged 16 to 24 in the week ending June 20th, suggesting previous infection is the main cause. This rises to over 99% in people over 65. …
Professor Jonathan Ball of the University of Nottingham said there was a “need to increase the messaging around the benefits of vaccination”, citing “very debilitating long Covid” even in the young. Take-up has plateaued at over 95% for over-50s but is under 90% among those aged 45-49.
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Nobody, esp the young, needs this experimental gene therapy. Great to see the parties last night in London !
I
m in my late 40s, I have had numerous reminders to get the “jab”, but if the scared and vulnerable are now protected and 90% have anti-bodies – it is my personal choice to decline.It is not “hesitancy”, its plain simple common sense.
‘Vaccine refusal’ is clearly not a nudge-unit-approved phrase – they have to imply that people are just ‘hesitant’ but will eventually be convinced that the government is right and they should join the herd…
so what can be done about the freedom hesitant?
This ‘hesitancy’ is an evil term..
Refusing the ‘vaccine’ that isn’t a vaccine would have been the right path for everybody. Too late for many, but at least the already vaxxed can and, according to Mike Yeadon, should refuse the likely highly lethal boosters, that will be along in the autumn and winter.
Coincidentally, I’m also “hesitant” about climbing out of a fifth-floor window, stepping into busy traffic and drinking bleach. https://www.minds.com/steveghostwords/
BUT BUT BUT – the MSM was showing not a week ago them all lining up for the jab in mass vaccination centres saying all the under 18s were willing participants, cannot wait for it in comment after comment on social media etc etc.
So what happened?
Or was it all just sales hype and propaganda?
Ha, ha, I know right? Apparently, according to one news outlet there were “thousands” queuing (bit like the “hundreds” at the freedom marches) Turns out, apparently, there were only about 90 people, going round and round, possibly from a crisis acting agency.
It’s always astroturf on the MSM.
astroturf msm? blimey, it’s been obvious since at least the 60’s.
I’ll have to side with Helena here. This sounds like a theatrical set-up. I once would have been incredulous at the suggestion, but… you can fill in the rest. I no longer consider this outlandish.
One positive outcome from this shit-show is that far more of us can see more clearly what mendacious bastards those who seek power generally are. It’s not 100% but seems pretty damned close.
Let’s say 99.99% then, but I’m probably being too generous.
Members of a circulating library.
After a couple of sessions with quite young looking people queuing in the car-park, a local doctors surgery (part of a group), that have enthusiastically promoted the “vaccine”, now appears to have an empty car-park with high-viz clad “marshals” wandering around looking bored.
Maybe they’ve seen the actual numbers of healthy individuals under 40 who have died within 28 days of a positive test ?
I hope they hold firm. No doubt our media will demonize them.
Sensible younger folks! Terrible the pressures everyone has come under.
What a surprise. There are actually intelligent young people who know what they’re doing. Incidentally, it roughly matches the so-called ‘hesitancy survey’ that the ONS did back in the winter.
I don’t care whether you have had/are having the vaccination or whether you’re not, irrespective of reasons for taking either path. That is your choice. What I hate is the way it is polarising the population and the propaganda being spouted by both poles.
Most people who don’t want the vaccine aren’t demanding that others don’t have it – they are simply advocating that people choose for themselves. In contrast, the vax enthusiasts openly advocate discrimination against those who don’t want it.
Same for masks – surley the onus should be on those that want to be protected to find a mask (or even better a respirator) that works so they can be protected and the rest of us left alone to make our own risk assessments.
Indeed – which is why the government messaging has concentrated on claiming that people who don’t wear masks / don’t want the vaccine are a risk to other people. It’s very clear that the intention is to sow division in society and to promote exclusion of those who don’t follow the approved path.
The people, no doubt spurred on by the establishment government media complex including no less than The Queen herself, seem to have gotten the idea into their heads that it’s everyone else’s responsibility to protect their health, and vice versa. One wonders how they ever survived before covid.
I would say that’s not entirely representative of my position. I am opposed to people getting this vaccine. The reason I am opposed is that the people are being lied to. They are not making an informed choice The people have been led to believe this is just an ordinary conventional vaccine. It’s not The people have been led to believe they will likely die from covid if they don’t get the vaccine. Most of them probably won’t The people have been led to believe this vaccine will make them immune to covid. It won’t. The people have been led to believe this vaccine is entirely safe and free from risk. It isn’t The people have been led to believe they will get their freedoms back if they get this vaccine. The government has no intention of ever giving people their freedoms back If the people were fully informed of what this vaccine is and what the risks are relative to the risks of them actually dying or even becoming seriously ill from covid and they still wanted to take it, I wouldn’t be opposed to it. But the vaccines are just another in a non-stop parade of endless lies… Read more »
I would replace ‘led to believe’ with ‘pushed to believe’ in every case.
True. I don’t give a stuff if fools take the snake oil. They can take the consequences as well.
I would be in favour of others taking the snake oil, but only if they are prepared to pay the full costs of it, including any vaccine damage. I don’t want to share the burden of their stupidity.
You can’t blame the coerced. Blame can only be appropriate where they were fully informed of all risks and of the financial costs in the event of adverse reactions. Nobody was. It has all been hidden from the masses. That’s the tragedy.
“You can’t blame the coerced…. “
True.
You can blame the MSM for that coercion, almost certainly knowing quite early on that there were significant problems, some very serious, but failing to highlight them, and challenge the government about them.
They instead promoted them, because they were expected to so by the government.
Shameful.
MSM, govt and the docs and science bods who should have known better….all played their part.
said it before, makes “Brexit” seem an amiable parlour game in comparison.
Maybe Youths can do maths…
Risk of COVID Zero
Risk of Jabs NonZero
Just remember if you see Deal sweeteners, you’re being sold a lemon. If the state tries to nudge you, its for their benefit not yours.
I just wonder where the “Jab Regret” polls are? I know some people who’ve been ill since joining the experiment and volunteering to take the place of lab rats..
How ill, and in what way?
I spoke to someone this morning who had the vaccine 3 days ago and since that evening has been sick with fever. I regularly speak with people who have felt sick after being jabbed. I also know plenty who are perfectly ok. But there are many who do feel quite poorly afterwards. And compared to other vaccines, it’s just off the charts.
“Flu”, tiredness, weakness, sleepiness, bleeding problems, temperature control, muscle pain, cravings, water retention, joint pain, mood changes.
Hi Sandra,
My wife had the first shot of the AstrZeneca jab and had a bad reaction: migranes (she never gets headaches) and blured vision which she likened to looking across a tin roof on a blistering hot summer’s day. She’s declined the second jab thus far. Part of her thinks that if she had the 2nd shot then she’d be able to get the passport as and when it’s rolled out. I try to give her te facts as I see them but not to influence her unduly. She’s an extremely capable woman and more than able to make up her own mind without any pressure from me! 😉
You could go to the MHRA Yellow Card scheme and look at the total number of adverse reaction reports, currently standing at over a million and then look at the analysis to see what is included in this figure. Perhaps much better to get the figures from the UK Column website, as the MHRA doesn’t like to make it too easy.
Anyway let’s reflect on the fact that the events reported by the MHRA represent at most, only around 10% of the real figure. Goodness me, that very shockingly means there have already been around ten million adverse events related to the Covid vaccines, in just the UK alone. Phew!
For an easy way to look at and analyse that data, which is not that easy to do on the Gov. website, UK Column have provided a search facility which is easy to use, but does use that official data.
https://yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-reports
dont need jab regret polls as long as the numbers getting 2nd and third doses are accurate.
Coercion is against the Nuremberg Convention. Canada are offering free ice-cream cones for kids whose parents are dumb enough to consent to their being immunised. “Informed consent” is another tenet of the convention. How can it be “informed” when the results of the trial (experiment) aren’t in for another two years?
Why the fuck are you parroting the propaganda in your headlines? This is supposed to be a sceptical site and I can tell you that people who aren’t getting the vaccine sure as hell aren’t “hesitant”.
Well said!
I remember the “no means no”. campaign, in the post-COVID new Normal would we call that Intercourse Hesitancy?
And authoritarianism hesitancy for anyone opposing the draconian legislation to take away our freedoms
Nice one.
Flat earthers can be rebranded as ‘sphere hesitant’.
And the chronically impetuous are now ‘hesitant hesitant’.
violating people’s bodies through coercion/deception? when you put it like that it does actually sound quite criminal.
Presumably scepticism can be extended to your own assertion that people who aren’t getting the vaccine sure as hell aren’t “hesitant”. What is your evidence?
Given the bombardment of nagging (I’ve had three or four letters, and countless text messages), and the media onslaught, and peer pressure, it’s very likely now that those who are holding out are determined, not hesitant.
Absolutely agreed for adults. But the vaxxers are now aiming their poisonous darts at children, many with ignorant parents who are already jabbed and will be of no help to their offspring. These poor kids will come under intense pressure to accept the needle, but they won’t have the knowledge or the wherewithal to resist this high level child abuse. Many children will be maimed or worse, so there has to be a day of reckoning for those that instigate and carryout these criminal acts.
Those that have taken the vaccine can be split into two types, there the over trusting know nothings and the bloody fools. It’s fairly clear which type you are.
Delingpole needs to orchestrate a hostile take over of Lockdown Sceptics. 🙂
Absolutely. Until all the bollocks started with injections I generally read above the line on this website. Theses days I go below the line for analysis, in the comments section.
This website is ‘backbone hesitant’ when it comes to these criminal treatments. It’s as though they don’t want to alienate their ‘thinking hesitant’ friends and miss out on some frightfully good dinner party invites ‘after this all blows over’ – whenever the hell that is.
Please stop using the hesitancy term in headlines. It’s starting to get really irritating.
The point is that given the propaganda about vaccines and the coercion then surely we can all agree (regardless of our view on these experimental vaccines) that if we create a hypothetical scenario where everyone was given unbiased information to be able to make an informed decision as to whether to get experimentally vaccinated, then less would get vaccinated than are currently choosing to do so.
So those choosing not to get vaccinated can’t be vaccine hesitant, and if we were going to play that game in reverse then given the propaganda we would be justified in describing some of those choosing to get vaccinated as vaccine overconfident.
…. or ‘vaccine addicted’ … or just ‘frightened to death’.
Note that the Council of Europe that got it right over the Swine’Flu scam with that penetrating report also got it right about vaccine coercion.
I’m a proud anti-vaxxer and occassional satanist and anti-trans racist.
Yes, but about the cheeeeeeldren?
Or at least put it in quotation marks.
O totally agree. When Dr Tess Lawrie was asked what she thought was meant by ‘hesitancy’, she said ‘thoughtfulness’. Spot on!
“The Government hopes to offset this hesitancy by widening the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, “
So you’re admitting that it’s not about public health.
It’s about herding, not health.
Lemming hesitancy.
If it was about public health, no incentive and no coercion would be needed or undertaken.
If iut was the virus we were first presented with in videos taken on phones in China.. people falling in the street… there would be no incentive or coercion necessary.
People didn’t fall in the street. All we have are dodgy tests and and idiots playing ‘the fish i caught was this big’ on social media i.e. the never ending stream of boring twits claiming they had covid and how it was the worst cold they ever had.
yesterday on another forum some twat was claiming not one but three of his young employees had long covid and couldn’t even hold a conversation without getting short of breath.
and we’re supposed to believe this crap.
… which raises the question of why patients who have the symptom of shortage of breath are forced to wear masks on entering a hospital. Sort of ‘ethics inversion’?
I may have got this wrong but wasn’t the young tennis player who suffered with shortness of breath on court the other day, made to put a bloody mask on?
The players entering or leaving the hallowed courts apparently have been told to wear masks. Roger Federer, after being thumped in the quarter finals, couldn’t be assed with that load of nonsense and walked off bare faced. Well done Roger, even if you played tennis like a thirty nine year old.
Fair point, but the Covid cult quickly became endemic in hospitals and remains a stronghold. Hospitals will remain enemy territory for the ordinary person.
surely this could have worrying health implications?
change your nhs. At the least.
There’s been a lot of BOT activity noticed around the web yesterday, someone is getting scared the COVID narrative is failing.
“couldn’t even hold a conversation without getting short of breath.”
Ditto people who’ve been vaccinated
the worst “cold” I ever had was years ago. long before all this nonsense.
Selecting places for the camps already then….
widening the gap between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated
=
discriminating against the unvaccinated
Aka: health apartheid.
Or coercion.
It’s about coercion and apartheid.
Anyone else proud when they see this?!
As an unvaccinated 40 year old with positive antibodies, it’s heartening to hear of other people who are never going to be a strain on the health service holding firm.
How long can they segregate and disciminate the unvaccinated.. treat the unvaccinated like they used to treat blacks, Irish.. gays.. in this supoposed age of non-discrimination?
For as long as they think they can get away with it
Steady in the ranks
Yes and of course they can get away with it because many of the vaccinated want this discrimination on those who won’t participate! I am preparing for a winter of exclusion as I won’t have these vaccines. And will see where the land lies next spring.
There may not be many ‘vaccinated’ still alive come the spring
Stanley has said he wants the population of GB reduced to 15m
I will decline their offer to commit suicide
He can start with himself!
It’s funny it all the old, shrivelled roach-like creatures that want everyone else gone. I mean, have they looked in the mirror lately?
One can only hope. But I fear it’s all much more mundane than that and it’s all just about tagging the world population and having our “health” managed for us from now on.
cost managed…
like cattle do. we live until we stop being able to be rent-seeked from.
You have to admit, it’s a bold way to deal with an unsustainable social welfare system.
Has Stanley had the jab…hmmmm?
I won’t be surprised if there is another lockdown in winter so don’t worry too much about been excluded.
It’s a dead cert
Don’t be silly. The lifting of lockdown on 21st of June is irreversible. Oh… wait…
Don’t worry, we the unmodified are finding new alliances, and we’re getting stronger by the day. Businesses will have to decide whether to go woke or go broke, or treat people like human beings again, and respect their choices otherwise they’ll lose. I don’t think it’s going to be very long before the proverbial hits the fan, and the truth about these 💉explodes like a dirty bomb every which way.
I wish I could share your optimism, but I think the reality is that sceptics are likely to be more and more discriminated against and excluded from aspects of society.
just got to keep picketing the baskets and shouting to known collaborators about the new apartheid.
At what point will the modified become a different sub-species from those of us who have not allowed our DNA to be corrupted?
I have hope this madness will end and therefore we should all hold firm.
I’m the same Wendy. I’ve written off any thoughts of going away or attending an event of any kind as I won’t comply with the rules – not having these experimental vaccines and won’t wear masks as they are completely ineffective. The feeling of dread (recently mentioned somewhere else) comes to me when both my grown-up sons (sceptics too) tell me they have both had the first Pfizer jab. Deeply depressing.
Many ‘good’ Germans wanted discrimination against Jews.
Basically (speaking as one who is really anti-discrimination in any field), because a lot of establishment adoption of such causes is a meaningless token gesture aimed at preserving rather than demolishing prejudicial hierarchy – a big con). Looking good rather than doing good. The BBC’s token bullshit is a good example : look who’s actually still running the show. Or look at Lenny Henry working for the establishment against the black population.
in this age of non-discrimination.. this liberal age of accepting boys can be girls..
age discrimination is still rife.
Some groups are more fashionable than others in the oppression olympics.
old people have long needed a ‘stonewall’…. but it isn’t fashionable.. age discrimination begins as early as 40 at work…
One aspect I’ve always been aware of is that apparent non-discrimination policies can be used to engineer compliant individuals into roles that require grateful compliance in order to maintain the existing hierarchy.
The Blair use of single-gender shortlists (cutting potential applicants by 50%) is a classic example – the result of which we now see on the (lack of) opposition benches.
When I see a these “experts” telling me that boys are girls and girls are boys it hardly makes me more confident in medical expert opinion that tells me that the vaccine is harmless.
dont worry, newsround said it’s 100% safe…
I seem to remember a story about someone (in Benelux?) who tried to legally “change” their age…
Is it credible that no government or government ‘scientist’ or government ‘expert’ from across the world has picked up on the issue of the false positive rate of the PCR test?
Equally is it credible that none of these people have questioned the number cycles at which positive tests are obtained?
Therein perhaps lies the evidence of conspiracy
One could argue that the pig dictator is just an ignorant lazy moron who just can’t be bothered to listen, but across the whole world?.
Every lie and inconsistency has been picked up by many all over the world.
But the mass communication channels are effectively shut down to them. Lockdown Sceptics is as good as it gets.
In fact, we are useful idiots. A bit of dissent is good to keep up the appearance of democracy. We also provide what passes for comic relief for them as something to be laughed at for our “crazy conspiracy theories”.
They can laugh, but what’s the difference between accepted truth and a conspiracy theory?
About six months.
The world is stuffed full of ignorant lazy morons.
Glad to hear. Just read that Hamburg govt is going against official advice and is offering the injection to 16 year olds and above with parental consent.
This psy-ops word ‘hesitancy’ is bad enough from the PTB. I still don’t see why you repeat it. I suggest you change the name of your website to Selfish Anti-vaxers as that is the label the PTB also use. You know the role warping language plays in orwellian govt control so why are you colluding in it?
I agree with your point on the word ‘hesitancy’, though I am still miffed they are calling it a ‘vaccine’ 😉
The widening of the gap between vaccinated and unvaccinated is more likely to spawn a generation of revolutionaries
Good news at last!
You should not be repeating that propaganda term ‘hesitancy’ here!
vaccine hesitancy i.e. want ovaries and testicles that work and don’t want future heart problems and therefore will avoid the experimental gene therapy.
I just saw something funny on Sky News Oz, from James Morrow, talking about Covid. He coined term The Australian Variant: You don’t actually get the virus but it makes you miserable anyway.
Behind the scenes, there are many good people who have been working tirelessly to get information to the youngsters so that they can make an informed decision. The ‘Safer to Wait’ campaigning group have been delivering leaflets to households and to parents and carers outside schools. It looks like their efforts are paying off.
Brave people…
Indeed.
Brave indeed. If they really start being effective, they’ll be the ones getting knocks on their doors.
If they are ineffective they’ll be fine. Futile dissent is better for the new system than no dissent.
Youths, statistically the least at risk from Covid, do not require vaccinations.
This most Branch Covidian of governments refuses to acknowledge this.
I suspect the minutia of this covid rule or that covid rule will become pretty irrelevant by the time the winter is over
‘Events dear boy events’ as someone once said
Don’t fret too much right now, sit back and enjoy the show
Get the popcorn in, it will be in short supply in the winter
Is it wrong to want all the people who chose the jab (especially ones who did it just to “go on holiday”) to die? Asking for a friend.
For the majority who’ve succumbed to 15 months of non-stop propaganda, yes it’s wrong.
People like Hitchens however…
Many people I love, including my only son, have chosen to have the injection.
Many of my family members have chosen to have the jab also. I would never wish ill of them despite my own concerns. In fact, I am extremely concerned I could lose them come this winter should their immune systems go into over drive. I’ve already had two family members suffer very severe side effects and I don’t wish to see anyone else suffer.
The young people are just right, the experimental vaccine will never be as good as natural immunity.
They have long lives to live and the last thing they need is poisoned by someones black art
Take a look at the graph at the bottom left hand of the page below. Vaccine take up appears to be at the lowest level since mid Jan.
https://data.spectator.co.uk/city/vaccines
And yet, “infections” in the vaccinated are growing ….
Boomer here. I am just about incandescent with rage that people in my age range expect young people to get vaccinated in order to protect them. Neil Oliver had a phrase for it on Talk Radio: “adults sheltering behind a wall of children” (or very close to that).
yea but we’re not even protecting them by taking it. Makes no sense. The “vaccine” does NOT stop the spread. NO proof whatsoever.
The lies are so blatant I just can’t see how brainwashed one needs to be
Ouch.
Others have used that sort of terminology, i.e. using children as shields for the elderly. It’s very apt. It throws the whole “for the good of society” back in their faces. I’ve said the same on other sites, and said it was deeply unethical and immoral to coerce children and their parents into being vaccinated against a virus that barely affects them.
Have heard that younger people are finding a lot of items on Tik Tok that give them reasons to be ‘hesintant’ful
Is there any credible information emerging on the vaccination status of
Christian Eriksen
Emma Radicunu
The two West Indian women cricketers who collapsed one just after the other
BA and other pilots?
We can thank this brave young man for using his musical talent to get the message across to the youngsters.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDIBrpuxzA
“Ministers appear relaxed about the slowdown, arguing that removal of quarantine for the fully vaccinated when going on holiday or coming into contact with an infected person would act as an incentive to boost take-up.”
Ministers appear relaxed about clear medical coercion to take an experimental treatment and creating a two tier society.
They are part of the Elite so restrictions don’t apply to them.
Rise up against the mindless medical tyrrany. The UK has become the laughing stock of the planet. C’min folks.