Wales Will Not “Rush” into Ending Lockdown Restrictions
The Welsh Health Minister says that, after 15 long months of lockdown, the country will not rush out of lockdown because “this [may not be] the end of the road”. Sky News has the story.
Eluned Morgan said Wales will not be rushed into making a decision about scrapping its coronavirus restrictions despite England’s plan to do so on July 19th.
She told a news conference in Cardiff: “We will have to learn to live with this virus and what I won’t give you is any assurances that this is the end of the road.
“We don’t know. There may be a new variant that escapes our vaccines, so I can’t make those kind of predictions.”
Boris Johnson [has announced] that face masks will no longer be required in many settings and social distancing restrictions will be removed in pubs and restaurants in England from July 19th.
Baroness Morgan said she was “surprised” that the U.K. Government was able to make such predictions and that the Welsh Government will be “following the data rather than following the politics” when it considers whether measures can be eased over the next few weeks.
Ministers in Cardiff Bay have so far refused to follow the U.K. and Scottish Governments in setting a date when they will ease restrictions.
Despite Wales having the best vaccination rates in the U.K., they argue that experts need more time to analyse the extent vaccinations have broken the link between infections and hospital cases.
When asked whether the majority of Covid restrictions should be lifted, Baroness Morgan replied: “We are very clear that we are still in a very difficult situation because the case numbers are increasing exponentially still in Wales.”
She told the reporters the emergence of the Delta variant “has sent cases rising again”, especially in North Wales where there are “very high” levels of infection in the community.
But she said ministers would need to consider the consequences of extending restrictions, such as the impact on mental health and the economy, especially given the reduced number of people being hospitalised with Covid.
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is it just me or are the article titles becoming increasingly contradictory?
What a surprise. The dung gang don’t want to let anybody out of the gulag.
And right twerps the Wesheeples will look, if the neighbours really do get a chance to become human again.
**** off Drakeford. I won’t be wearing no mask. Just like I haven’t been this past year.
Hear, hear! Nor will I. At first I thought I was merely unlucky in my neighbours but I have come to the conclusion that Wales is widely hysterical over this whole scam.
I’m in Wales at the moment, on holiday from Sturgeon’s gulag that used to be Scotland. A lady in a car park was on the phone about her son, who had been playing in the school rugby or football team at the weekend, now having to isolate himself because one of the opposition had tested positive for Covid. It was all so matter-of-fact, as if it were completely rational behaviour, to expect a healthy teenager to lock himself away for 10 days, because someone with whom he had come into contact playing a sport, had now tested positive for a virus that has close to no impact on teenagers. Truly, a country without the capacity to think.
Ten precious days of a life lost. And at that age, the most precious days of all.
One shudders to think how this will end up forming these kids. What sort of adults will they grow into? Will they consider all this normal and logical or will they despise it for the mindless cruelty it is?
Rather depends on whether it becomes the status quo. Whatever, and putting myself in their place, I think that many will loathe their elders forever. Past generations have been shaped by enduring world wars, but most, in the West, found some redemption afterwards. Not so, with a disaster inflicted on them by their countrymen, and those who they supposed to care for them and their futures.
I am hoping for the latter.
I am hoping that they will, in direct opposition to their parents, become the most buccaneering, adventurous, reckless, daredevil, go-getting, ambitious generation ever.
I hope they make Bear Grylls (I think I have spelt his name correctly) look like a health and safety fascist.
Those of us who can speak and have are isolated. It is Orwellian/ Face Masks Good – Liberty Bad.
Mask wearing causes brain fog in those who wear them for prolonged periods as a result of breathing in 6 times the safe limit of carbon dioxide. This was found in a study on the affects of mask wearing in school children. They do no good, as they are filthy after only several minutes of wearing and touching them. If anything bear testimony to the rank gullibility of people it is the meek acceptance of mask mandates.
‘Nasty Hobbitses, they are stealing my precious.’ said the Minister for Control.
WARNING – THIS WEBSITE MAY COMPEL YOU TO COMMIT VIOLENT ACTS AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE OR YOURSELF. DO NOT HEADBUTT WALLS AFTER READING IT! Wow! What A Year! By Andrew Oxspring & Nick Haworth End of year/leavers’ musical for KS2 (ages 7-11) https://www.edgyproductions.com/shop/wow-what-a-year/ Go through the links, go through the tabs – Script Sample. Score Sample. Plot. Reviews. – but be warned – it is likely to provoke acts of mindless violence and aggression. Wow! What A Year! is a musical aimed at school children which normalises masks and vaccines, tyranny and all the rest of it. It is an uncomfortably Orwellian and evil assault on the minds of children. It is pure indoctrination. This is what is going on in British schools. More evidence that the UK is being sabotaged by nefarious forces and is undergoing a process of transformation conducted by some of the most evil people on Earth. Highlights include a song called “A Shot In The Arm”, “Put That Mask On” and “Captain Tom”. Sorry to burst the Captain Tom bubble but as well meaning as I am sure he was, ultimately he helped to bring fascism to the UK after spending his formative years fighting against… Read more »
many in wales live like me, 15 miles from border. if restrictions are onerous, I’ll head to Chester or even Merseyside instead of using Welsh merchants. I already avoid Welsh merchants due to minimum booze pricing. I use ASDA Saltney, which is 50 yards outside Wales over the English border. ASDA Saltney: cheaper booze:
Yep, me too. Oswestry, Shrewsbury or Chester for me and my family. Border is on my doorstep, so a 5 minute walk and I can be free (for now…).
One of the first tangible results of Wee Krankies minimum pricing in Scotland was Majestic Wine opened a new store in Berwick on Tweed.
A perfect destination for an afternoon drive from Edinburgh.
I’ve also heard white vans do a roaring trade from Carlisle to Glasgow.
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Nor will England.
Wales will just be even slower.
Council to spend £370k on Covid enforcement staff
“Council officers are proposing that a team of 11 enforcement officers are employed until March 2022.”
So no, we’re not unlocking anytime soon.
Thank God I live five minutes walk from the border.
I can’t even rant at the fact that Drakeford is unelected any more. Last May, my fellow Welsh chose him to lead them. They chose these restrictions. Well done to them.
I got my DNA analysed a few months ago. The test highlighted that I’m not only 70% Welsh, but 1.5% Balkan, so from now on I’m self-identifying as a native of Romania. Where’s the spirit of the Men of Harlech gone?
The Welsh have always been a gaggle of spineless cowards.Anything that suggests otherwise is a delusion.
Rorke’s Drift… Don’t demean my ancestors.
The Welsh are no different in their submission to Covid hysteria than the English, Scottish, Irish, French, Spanish, Italians, Australians – in fact the entire Western world, with the marked exclusion of several US states. What we are seeing is the collapse of Western civilisation and Western values. The end of an era. The beginning of an error.
I spoke in anger.
There are exceptions.
Rorke’s Drift acknowledged.
Not rush?
Exit from lockdown has been glacial.
The caged Welsh dragon picture is getting another run out. I remember this picture heading an article about the firebreak lockdown in the Autumn which was supposed to prevent a longer lockdown later. Instead that was a clear demonstration that lockdowns don’t work. Not that anyone in power seemed to notice or care.
Freedom Demo at the Senedd, Cardiff Bay on Saturday July 24th at 1pm (I think).
Wales has suffered from the longest waiting lists, poor health outcomes than most of the U.K.. Neither Morgan or Drakeford have a science background which permit them to interrogate the science. What is tragic is the playing of party identitarian politics with peoples lives. Perhaps someone could inform the Welsh leaders that Covid19 neither has longitud discrimination or a GPS!
And do you know how we learn to live with a virus? Because it isn’t by getting an experimental jab that cannot stop infection, disease, or transmission, but rather by adding to the NICE lists, treatments that doctors can prescribe at first presentation of symptoms – not a f**king useless test – that will stop the infection quickly and cheaply.
It isn’t as if we don’t have such treatments, it is that politicians are in the pockets of powerful vested interests that are stopping their use.
I never tire of repeating a quote from Gore Vidal that he overheard President George Herbert Walker Bush making “if the people knew half the things we have done in their name, they would chase us down the street and hang us”.
Perhaps our current crop of self serving elected idiots need reminding that once they lose control of the narrative they might well need running shoes.
Of course it won’t, because Drakeford and his cabal are hard left who want to experience total control over people’s lives.