Mark Drakeford Tells the Welsh Hospitality Industry to Prepare for Vaccine Passports
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has declared that vaccine passports may be imposed on the hospitality industry, along with the return of work from home mandates, to tackle an increase in the number of Covid hospital admissions. The Welsh Government also wishes to introduce vaccine passports to cinemas, theatres, and concert halls from November 15th. The MailOnline has the story.
Speaking on Sky News, Drakeford said: “We have to make a concerted effort over the next three weeks to bring those numbers down.”
It comes as Wales is set to tighten Covid restrictions to tackle a rising number of hospital admissions, with more than 680 people in Welsh hospitals with Covid on October 27th.
Positive case numbers have also been at their highest recorded total since the pandemic began this month, although numbers have dipped in recent days to fewer than 2,600.
Official data showed England recorded 33,903 new infections, 2,153 cases were confirmed in Scotland, while 2,664 were spotted in Wales and 1,122 in Northern Ireland. Cases appear to be trending downwards in all four nations.
And the number of people going to hospital who were infected with Covid seems to be plateauing. Some 962 sought NHS care on Sunday — the most recent day the data is available for — a rise of 0.3% on the 959 patients admitted last week.
Meanwhile, 165 people died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus, a jump of 43.5% on the 115 deaths recorded on the same day last week.
Despite cases trending downwards and No10’s modellers estimating there will be just 5,000 daily cases over the festive period, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the UK is still in a “very uncertain phase'” of the pandemic and warned ‘Plan B’ should not be taken off the table.
Within Wales, adults who are fully vaccinated, and young people aged five to 17, will be asked to self-isolate until they have received a negative PCR test if someone in their household has symptoms or tests positive for Covid.
People who are not vaccinated will still have to self-isolate for 10 days following contact with someone who has tested positive, including close contacts outside of their household.
Asked what more could be done, Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We can certainly extend the Covid pass into other settings.
“We will be talking to hospitality over the next three weeks to help them to prepare, should that be necessary. We hope it won’t be, of course.
“We will go back to the risk assessments we carry out in the workplace to see whether there is more we can do, more people working from home, back to social distancing in the workplace, looking at the way that schools are organised to try to prevent more young people from contracting the disease.
“The current level of restrictions in Wales are the lowest they have been since coronavirus began. I want it to stay that way, to keep Wales safe, to keep Wales open”.
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Let’s hope the Welsh people return any passports to Drakeford as suppositories, on large screen devices..
This chap seems a good candidate to deliver the necessary message to Drakeford:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1454005048879505409
Just brilliant! Would buy that guy a drink anytime.
That’s the spirit.
Hopefully he speaks for most of us Welshies now. Have the tyrants gone too far this time?
Brilliant. Mega. At least one Welshman who isn’t a pathetic grovelling twit.
Good man. Most politicians now require a good kick in the hole!
If that was broadcast on TV news tonight people might wake up.
But I can say it is a racing certainty that it won’t be and even it if was, I don’t think people would – more’s the pity.
If I was to do a straw poll of my neighbourhood, all double jabbed and some absolutely terrified of “the virus”, I think they would think vaxx passports would be a GREAT idea “to keep us safe”.
Considering that a double jabbed person can spread the virus to other family members inside their own home what use now would a vaxx passport be against “the virus”?
Yes – we need more of this fighting talk please – excellent.
One of the factors that sustained and generated totalitarian atrocity was the willingness of ordinary people to swallow things they knew to not be true. If you swallow enough lies your state becomes a monster. – Jordan Peterson
There’s a total absence of any critical thinking – or else there is a more nefarious agenda.
Now we know (So he must know, unless he disagrees with the PM) that the “vaccines” do not prevent infection or transmission, what is the point?. But none of these clowns ever explain why, then, they believe that “Vaccine Passports” are of an value – just do as I say, as though we are all brainless sheep? They just plow ahead regardless. This never was about Public Health – it’s about control and authority – and also I fear, identifying and labelling who are the non-compliant “Domestic terrorists”!!
Screenshot of the tweet? (this LS is suspended from twatter)
What an absolute ass clown!
Lets carry on doing the same nonsensical interventions and hope to get different results …
Clown World
It depends what results you think they’re intending to achieve.
All I see is the face of the Devil.
Masks obviously working well. Oops!
Thank fuck the border is just five minutes walk away from me. If necessary, I’ll swim across.
Didn’t the East Germans do that to get to the once-free West?
We’ll all be fleeing to the Free East soon. Belarus looks nice this time of year.
Second from bottom
Graphs and maps — EUROMOMO
Excess deaths in Wales trending at or below average for all of 2021.
Yep, fantastic site. I’ve been checking Euromomo since this nonsense began, every week, and thus guffaw at any notion we have ever been in a pandemic. All-cause mortality is the only source of data I take seriously.
Plus twiddling with the map option is fun. Rise, fall, rise fall, rise, fall – every year for the past 5 years – except with no excess in Winter 2019 and 2020 and the Grim Reaper playing catch up in Spring 2020. 2021, back to normal.
It’s a great visual representation of the fact the death rate’s been normal for the past year.
Wait till the vax gets going
680 people in Welsh hospitals works out at about 8 people per hospital……
Hospital patients with covid are steady at about 6.5%.
Drakeford doesn’t do facts.
Did the nasty communist also warn of bankruptcies in the Welsh hospitality industry as a direct result of his entirely unnecessary policy – the ‘man’ is the definition of a failure
He hates fun, enjoyment, happiness, love … everything good in life.
He’s a Chunt !
If they have to have another vote can someone teach the useless prick, who didn’t vote last time, how his computer works.
Or was it an accident? Hmmm? It was all a bit too convenient…
The lack of protest from all sides suggests it was rigged.
Plaid Cymru pretended to protest, and I believed their sincerity for about 5 seconds, until I discovered that the woman who denied the vote is a member of Plaid Cymru.
For as long as entirely avoidable problems with shoddily written software are routinely blamed on users, you’ll have to deal with them. Which includes this vote. It would have had to be postponed.
Dictators have often been little men with some physical abnormality, however they have never been wet farts who appear to dress themselves from charity shops. How can such inadequates acquire so much power?
I think it clear that unqualified universal suffrage is a bad idea.
This twat is probably the most tinpot of all these nouveux dictators. Couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat. And to think, this man is actually on the cusp of introducing aparteid
William Gruff: ‘I think it clear that unqualified universal suffrage is a bad idea.’
Welcome to the Red Pill.
History shows us freer with less ‘democracy’; and as the franchise expanded, so did government, while our liberties and retained income shrank. That right across the ‘democratic’ West (despite a plethora of ‘constitutions’, ‘bills of rights’, and fancy voting systems), tyrannies with neither historical nor even fictional precedent have been instituted is surely final proof of Plato’s argument that democracy leads inevitably to tyranny.
There is also the correlation between the expansion of democracy and the increasing savagery of war, as noted by 19th Century contemporaries through to modern writers, democracy making us all active participants in wars against, not governments and their militaries, but entire nations.
I’m getting a terrible sense of de ja vu…
I think that Herr Drakeford hasn’t been keeping up with the latest information on infection/infectivity of “vaccinated” individuals. Perhaps the English Great Clown Leader here can repeat what he said the other day on this subject, but speaking, very slowly, in Welsh, for the benefit of this fellow.
Perhaps CeltLeiter Drakeford would be more apt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauleiter
Just as with all things Corona, the so-called vax pass is based on two elementary lies
Conceding anything to the Coronauts will have them come back asking for more of it after its failure to have an effect.
Useful…sorry…USELESS idiot.
He’s useful to the people staging this shitty, global comedy. Presumably, this includes the Chinese as they literally have to cut themselves off from the world forever if only a single country doesn’t buy into their idiotic elimination strategy.
Yes, prepare by printing some “We will not comply with fascism” signs…
Once upon a time the pope was the most powerful man in Christendom, because people did what he said. Now the pope has no power over non Catholics and Atheists, if the pope decreed something, then I as an atheist would just ignore him.
If people just ignored politicians then they have no power. Yes they can try and fine or imprison you but if enough people just ignored them they have no power. Politicians only have power if you obey them .
Ceausescu found to his detriment that once your ignored you fall from grace.
In fairness, an awful lot of people died to knock the Popes off their position of secular power.
Not that I disagree with your basic point.
There is also the counter argument, how many people were killed by the popes to maintain their power.
Ceausescu and his wife were shot, not just ‘ignored’.
They were ridiculed and their power ignored, then taken out and shot.
For the record, does it matter in which order this is done? (Taking notes…)
Ceausescu and his wife were shot, not just ‘ignored’.
You can’t just ignore airport security and waltz through. It’s hard to ignore a restaurant that won’t let you in because you have been ‘fully vaccinated’.
Has anyone here sent an e-mail to Susan Michie yet?
You’re not comparing like with like. Ignoring what politicians say is easier to do than airport security. Politicians only have power because we consent to follow their diktats. Airport security is now part of an airports infrastructure. You can turn your back on a politician but not at passport control.
Ok. I will play.
vaccine passports help how ?
If Drakeford can get everyone to use them Blackrock have said they won’t put a horse’s head in his bed.
Neither have Vanguard or State Street.
Here’s an abridged response from Ken Skates, Labour Member of Senedd. “Thank you for writing to me about the possible introduction of domestic Covid passes. I understand your concerns about the imposition of a blanket vaccine certification scheme, but I hope my response helps to ease those concerns. … The aim of the Covid Pass is not to make it harder for people to access these venues and events but to give people the confidence to attend them, knowing everyone else attending them will either have had a very recent negative test result or has been fully-vaccinated (or both). Wales is currently at alert level zero – there are fewer restrictions now than at any time during the pandemic. We all want to keep Wales open and to keep Wales safe. The Covid Pass is one of the measures that does just that, alongside the other measures the Welsh Government retained, including the coronavirus risk assessments and all the things we each do (such as washing our hands, vaccination and wearing face coverings) to help to reduce the risk of people catching and spreading coronavirus. Throughout the pandemic, the Welsh Government has sought to balance people’s freedoms with the need… Read more »
Considering that people where attending these venues before the vaccine assport was introduced, the statement about it giving people confidence to attend them is obviously a lie and Ken Skates, Labour Member of Senedd thus knowingly peddling falsehoods.
How long can the pandemic keep growing? It’s been growing for 20 months already.
Perhaps the answer is to shoot anyone who shows up as ‘positive’ – I bet that will get the ‘cases’ down in 5 minutes!!
Ken Skates says you are all very naughty children and must listen to the advice of SAGE, for they are the sage ones. And if you don’t he’s going to “get tough”.
Ken Skates is another one with big gnashers – a cousin of Shergar Ardern? Maybe he will bite you.
“We haven’t really been paying attention, so we can only do what we’ve been told.”
It’s not just in Wales that the screw is being tightened.
In this sponsored article in the Daily Mail (and maybe other MSM) the UK Government tries to reintroduce face covering wearing into supermarkets, shops and cinemas by the back door by now specifically characterising them as being ‘crowded places’.
‘Give COVID the cold shoulder this winter: Make sure you’re protecting yourself and those around you’Sponsored by UK Government
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10073041/Give-COVID-cold-shoulder-winter-Make-sure-youre-protecting-you.html
Contains specific advice :
‘But you should also be wearing a face covering when in a crowded indoor space such as a supermarket, shop or cinema.’
So, based on this, one might expect more mask wearing in those places and possible confrontations between maskees and non-maskees.
Sick fucks
cinemas – lol. Death traps. Crowded is not a cinema with aircon for fuck sake.
shops, like all constructed buildings, have to have ventilation in line with Building regulations. So that’s a no too.
why no mention of hospitals when they contribute at least 25% of cases.
sick sick fucks.
Idiots!
What does he mean ‘We’
He can fuck off
He’s a piece of shit.Someone should visit him in that shed he lives in.Preferably as he knocks one out whilst he recalls the memory of court transcripts detailing his sons rape case.Scum hope cancer eats him from within.
I’m reliably informed that todays threats are a reaction to an almost universal refusal to take the booster or jab 12 to 17 year olds in Wales
Been told there was an almighty row between Drakeford and the half witted Health Secretary who is refusing to go along with this
technical-advisory-group-advice-on-vaccine-passports.pdf
Worth reminding people of his own scientific advice on his own website.
“No net benefit”, “Could backfire”.
The slimy little tyrant has been relatively clever here.
He’s waited until case rates peak and just start to drop (peak was Oct 18), introduces new restrictions so in a few weeks time when cases are dropping fast (as every model also predicts) he can claim his restrictions did it.
Very cynical political point scoring going on here.
How on earth can this have happened? Didn’t Wales’ mask mandate ‘keep everyone safe’? Don’t the jabs? And clearly there hasn’t been enough vaccine passporting to make them effective.
How anyone believes any of this any more is beyond me.
The jelly-head Paul McCartney clone is merely giving the rest of us a preview of what they want to bring to England. It must fail.
So – you wore the masks, you obeyed the restrictions, you cancelled Christmas and you had the jabs … and still they have not returned your freedoms despite all the promises – in fact you are worse off this year than you were last year without the jabs.
‘Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?’ – John Lydon 1978
Then supermarkets, then your job. Once these are out there then they’ll expand to everyday life. How thick can you be to implement these saying they will reduce cases but in reality cases are rising. So they expand them to more outlets. They don’t fucking work! It’s obviously about control!! We did warn them!
I see the vaccine surveillance report has now been comprehensively “ adjusted” to get rid of easy reference to vaxxed/ unvaxxed incidence. And it contains many caveats that are no more than random thoughts or guesses.
bound to happen, I guess,
Every single person who values their freedoms in Wales should turn up for this ….
URGENT PROTEST ..