The Scottish Government Will Inevitably Introduce More Covid Restrictions, Says Humza Yousaf
Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Health Secretary, has declared that the Scottish Government will soon introduce more Covid restrictions to combat the spread of the Omicron variant, with the new measures expected to be announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tomorrow. Yousaf also stressed that securing financial aid from Westminster is crucial to Scotland’s Covid response. BBC News has more.
New Covid restrictions in Scotland are “inevitable”, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has warned.
He said the “sheer weight” of cases of the new Omicron variant could overwhelm the NHS and precautions would have to be taken.
It came as one teaching union called for the early closure of schools to protect pupils and staff.
Yousaf said the government would do everything it could to keep schools open.
Meanwhile last week’s advice to cancel Christmas parties is already having an effect, with hospitality businesses reporting a 25-30% drop in trade.
Details of the new restrictions would be given by the first minister in Holyrood on Tuesday, Yousaf added.
Yousaf told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland: “I think it’s inevitable we will announce additional protective measures.
“I would be reluctant to get into detail on that because we’re working through that detail and the first minister rightly will update parliament tomorrow.”
He added that securing financial support from the U.K. Government would be very important.
It came after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed an ambition to offer boosters to all adults by the end of the year “if possible”.
People aged 30-39 years-old are now able to book a booster jab online, and appointments will be open to 18-29 year-olds later in the week.
Early analysis of U.K. Omicron and Delta cases shows two doses of Covid vaccine are not enough to stop people catching the new variant.
But a booster prevents about 75% of people getting any Covid symptoms.
On Monday the U.K. recorded its first death of a patient with Omicron variant
Scientists say Omicron’s higher rate of transmissibility meant cases were doubling every two or three days.
Professor Andrew Watterson, a public health expert from Stirling University, cautioned against an “over-reliance” on vaccines and stressed the booster campaign was “only one important strand”.
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I’d like to know why people are still getting vaccinated, taking tests and wearing masks if they are still doing this to us?
Yeah, the vaccines did a great job at ending the pandemic, didn’t they? Having demonized the unvaccinated, the vaccinated are now back to square one (or worse, depending on the medium to long term side effects).
The amazing thing is that people are flocking for another jab. They haven’t yet seen through that they are being played. Astonishing!
Simple: people are either terrified by propaganda or as thick as…, or both. I’m leaning towards both!
scottish relatives supposed to be coming down at the weekend for a xmas party
maybe they should consider coming by dinghy
Bit of a long route to Folkestone mind you.By New Year England will be locked up and you may find the rellies can’t get back into their disease strewn country since Moronic must, surely, be rife up there and killing off the rats that infested the bin strewn streets.
people lying down and dying in alleys and shop doorways. mind you that was back in 2018 when I last visited
Ah, “Third Scotland”!. The bitter fruits of socialism?
They could drive down here and then set sail from a remote beach near dover, with the piss poor coverage of the channel by our boarder force who would know.
Yes and the crucial point is that the Scots Govt are looking for financial help to pay for their communism. Furlough again everyone ?
if parents have to look after the kids during the working week because schools have had to shut over a f**king cold then the Govt have to cough up, road to utter ruin but there it is.
The financial help is required in order to ramp up the genocide.
Playing politics again – knowing that when they trash a load of businesses they can play the ‘nasty Westminster wouldn’t give us money’ card. They really are contemptible.
There are no flies on the SNP. Any excuse to thieve public money and increase hatred of the English. Do both at the same time and they’re in seventh heaven.
Just don’t ask where they’ll get money if they get their own independent toy state.
That’s what the Scottish Income Tax rate is for.
Those that voted for it should pay it.
Actually most people didn’t vote for the SNP. There was a low turnout and apparently only 30% of the voting public voted for the SNP. Sadly it was enough to keep them in power.
On Monday the U.K. recorded its first death of a patient with Omicron variant. You get the feeling that the establishment is totally unconcerned about tens of thousands of people dying of cancer, but if one person dies of omicron it is a complete catastrophe. Strange world we live in.
True. But they didn’t say the person died “of” omicron. They said “with”.
Exactly, and the number of comments in the DM that point this out and are absolutely scathing about the government is a joy to behold.
not deleted yet then?
Are there any details as to the age, gender, co-morbidity status of the person or is a great big secret as usual?
Shhhh! Secret…
Did everyone catch the latest scare/lie?
“Britain dies from Omicron.”
Except, like the 10 “Omicron in hospital” patients, Boris didn’t bother to give specifics. Like the fact this person dies “with Omicron.” What did they actually die from? Cancer? Heart disease? Poverty due to taxes and lockdowns? No word.
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but this government is either a pack of lemmings running from a John Carpenter movie, trying to cover over this many scandals or so incompetent they don’t understand what is going on and just trust what SAGE says even when it is a lie.
This government is acting under orders and the orders are to ramp up the depopulation programme tout suite.
That’s it in a nutshell.
I still struggle to get my head around that, but I also struggle for other explanations for doing things like vaxxing kids. That’s the point for me where the cockup theory became implausible.
How things will look by Easter (17 April) will shock the guts out of many people.
Interestingly Easter 2022 comes smack between the two rounds of the French presidential election.
Do tell so that our guts remain intact, please.
If it’s not stated, it’s very reasonable to assume that the deceased had serious health issues.
Let’s face it, if it had been a 25 year old in good health they would absolutely, definitely have paraded that as ‘evidence’ of how dangerous the scariant is.
Excellent point.
Isn’t it time to get rid of SAGE? Once and for all. They have caused nothing but misery.
It’s been time to get rid of sage from right back at the start of 2020. Bunch of incompetent troughers lead by a failed scientist who can’t even fix his model to get the correct answer.
Yes – up against a wall in front of a firing squad. I’ll volunteer for the squad.
Indeed.
Interestingly, the death rate in Britain “without” SARSCoV2 is down:
What has happened to non-COVID mortality during the pandemic?
Those who assume the authorities don’t tell lies will quickly offer the explanation that since many office workers were “working from home” then workplace accidents leading to fatalities must have been less frequent (such as tripping up a cable and accidentally knocking yourself dead in the photocopier room)…er…er…and people weren’t giving each other so many doses of the flu…er…er…but…meanwhile in the real world it’s pretty obvious what’s going on.
Yeah.. its strange that.. all other forms of snuffing it have declined.. must be the excellent health care people have been getting during the scamdemic.. oh wait..
These people are expert at telling the “truth” – highly selective, and sometimes distorted, facts to fit their agenda.
Wow, ten whole people in hospital with this variant out of a population of what, 70 million, pretty good odds for not getting it or even being close to a person that’s got or had it.
Not incompetent. Following Agenda 30, that’s already been written.
‘He added that securing financial support from the U.K. Government would be very important.’
I think he’s having a laugh
Well the answer to that is disband the Scottish assembly then there will be loads of spare cash to pay for the health of Scotsmen.
‘Early analysis of U.K. Omicron and Delta cases shows two doses of Covid vaccine are not enough to stop people catching the new variant.
But a booster prevents about 75% of people getting any Covid symptoms.‘
They don’t know the severity of omicron but they know a third jab will offer more protection against it. And people are still falling for this guff. My missus was just telling me a girl was actually crying (on a Radio1 news report) because she was told the place where she was getting jabbed had run out of jabbing juice. I really don’t think I can take anymore of this hysteria without going slightly crazy.
nothing new
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
Go to the pub and have a good time. It cures all
But do it quickly before they order the pubs to close!
Absolutely, I’m just home from meeting friends for lunch in Princes Square, and it was really really busy. In fact it felt almost like it did pre pandemic (if you ignore the masks). I think this is a turning point I really do. Most people are no longer in fear, a lot of the mask wearing is habit or not wanting to stand out. Talk to most folk and they think we need to move on.
I’m sure the Fat Controller has his chequebook at the ready seeing as the same BS will happen in England 2or 3 weeks later.
What is the evidence base supporting the assertion that a booster enables 75% of so called cases to avoid symptoms. But being double vaccinated does not.
How do they know? Did they run a control study already?
Its from the MUS report
MUS = Making Up Stuff! Right, Cecil?
Nearly, Made Up Shit
Do you want to be on our quiz team?
Observational ‘study’ of the preciously few Omicron cases confirmed in the UK so far, obviously. Eg, four of them had a mild cold. One was triple-jabbed. Makes 75% vaccine effectivenss.
This isn’t even worse than the original Pfizer trial results.
Should have been: Five in total, one triple-jabbed.
Anatomy of a cold
I know you are all keen to know
Update re my cold from yesterday
Thanks for the cards, flowers, telephone calls you uncaring bastards (wait till you get a cold I hope they refuse you medical treatment and you die)
I was coughing yesterday but the cough receded overnight
My nose is not running, but I do have a few aches
Total paracetamol consumption since day one = 2
I will report back tomorrow
That’s a near certainty unless it is the right sort of cold.
Can you let us know after you die what it was you actually died from and whether you had the jabs?
did you die ‘of’ death or ‘with’ death?
Oh the humanity!
But are you sure it’s a cold, and not some terrifying new scariant?
And before you ask, I’ve no idea how to tell the difference between sniffles for a few days as a result of a cold, and sniffles for a few days caused by a deadly, mutant virus!
The difference is that one exists and the other doesn’t
They’ve been itching to increase restrictions anyway and would stay in permanent lockdown if they could.
That’s the plan.
O/T (posting about England)
I may be wrong, but I’m reading through the MSM ‘live’ blogs (BBC, Mail, Telegraph) I’m seeing a pattern emerge.
I can see this leading to the fat twat coming back on TV and saying:
“Look chaps, having a few problems with this big jabs rollout, so we’re going to have to have a mini lockdown while we sort it all out.
“I’m sure it’ll only take, say three weeks to sort out.”
Or am I just paranoid?
The MSM is totally moronic
Just as ‘conspiracy theorists’ are merely ahead of the curve, paranoia is just an early warning system.
Are there any betting sites taking bets on a major spike in infections about a week hence?
The vaccination rooms must be teeming with virons by now.
Muslim cancels Scottish xmas.
No one in the MSM thinks “oh that’s odd”.
The last comment I saw on this site in that vein was deleted pretty sharpish. In that case the finger was pointed at Javid, not this ‘Scottish’ fella (follows a discussion about what it means to be ‘Scottish’…)
It’s very unhelpful to try to make this about race or religion – it simply isn’t. Most Muslims don’t have a problem with Christmas at all. Focus the criticism where it belongs, on the political classes (whatever their ethnicity) working for their own ends.
Very true, most Muslims don’t have a problem with Christmas.
But young Humza here is not like most Muslims.
He is on record as having a problem with Christianity.
…and, of course, English people. Unless they’re paying the tab.
“Christmas? huWHITE!” ~ Humza Yousaf, probably.
He’s a raving, frothing, angry, anti-White racist. Don’t take my word for it, watch yourself.
https://youtu.be/qUCFDzzZLKI?t=56
That’s one of the things I was referring to.
…even Abu Hamza thought he was a bit extreme.
Hamza wanted to point this out at the time, but, you know…
To give a little perspective, in the Western Cape of SA, population 6-7 million, (so larger than Scotland), daily positives started going up from 21st November. Very low base of 40+ after Delta died out. Today, over 3 weeks later, 7 day average is close to 2000. 7 day average deaths have dropped from 2 to 1. Less patients in ICU and on ventilators. This may change but it is surely not panic inducing? Never mind, politicians world wide are going to enjoy ruining another Xmas.
BREAKING: One UK death reported with Omicron.
(Note the language – ‘with’, not ‘of’.)
Prediction: New Lockdown imposed before Christmas.
…place your bets, folks, place your bets.
In July I had two bets in the pub
Time to collect methinks
One death from… dying. Shucks. It happens.
There is no endgame. People have blindly accepted restrictions put on their lives with meaningless slogans as an objective.
“Save Lives” – How many? If wearing a mask saves lives, then wearing them forever will save lives forever. Totally meaningless.
Open ended objectives will mean we’ll be stuck in this cycle of on and off restrictions forever.
We won’t just be stuck in this cycle, the cycle will get worse. There is an end game and the end game is permanent totalitarian control, the end of freedom of speech.
The end is The End. Who’d have thunk we’d welcome a man descend on a cloud outside Jerusalem?
As promised I have now watched the Event 201 video series in full, and in this post I take a look at the first 3 videos.
“Event 201 – At Best A Lobbying Convention”
http://participator.online/articles/2021/12/event_201_at_best_a_lobbying_convention_20211213.php
A quick recap for those not aware – the Center for Health Security partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to host a coronavirus pandemic exercise called Event 201 in October 2019, six weeks before the first case of symptom onset of COVID-19.
I read about that, weird isn’t it that it all started just after. Oh, what a convenient coincidence but of course all the evidence is nutter talk about conspiracies. I daresay they said that in 1936.
Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring! Don’t panic! Too late, they all panicked. One person, must have been a bitch to find the one, dies “WITH” Moronic and suddenly Scotland needs billions from England. This has to stop. We need people with sense in charge.
We may have to watch society rip itself apart before any sense returns.
Vernon Coleman has been writing about the dangers of the so-called vaccine for 20 months – everything he has written has come to pass, but not in a good way.
He assumes, among other things, that the jabs have made us stupid.
I can find no evidence that he is wrong, which is sad knowing most of my relatives have been jabbed.
[Just recovering from probably Delta, certainly all the typical symptoms, the only annoying aspect is that the only contact with the outside world that we had, tested negative twice with a LTF before infecting us. ]
When the Fat Dictator announces the latest lockdown how long will it be for? Three weeks is getting tired.
…how’s ‘FOREVER‘ sound to you?
So we’ll ignore it just as long.
Look at Israel. That’s us in two weeks.
Fighting fires with petrol.
I used to admire Jewish intellect.
(Hey, I am Jewish, after all.)
Now…not so much.
And this:
Former Health Ministry Director-General: Israel must force people to get vaccinated
Gabi Barbash, the former director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry, called on the Israeli government to apply extreme sanctions on unvaccinated Israelis, saying such measures should be used to effectively forced to get the COVID jab.
“We have a situation in which there are people who choose not to get vaccinated and who endanger everyone, and in my opinion this is an unacceptable situation, and the only way to deal with it that I know of is to force them to get the vaccine, no choice.”
Let the gorrilla try.
As they say, if any of it worked it would be gone now and they wouldn’t have to invent variants.
NZ are still on Covid 19 Delta (not moronic) and are relaxing restrictions for New Year
Maybe for a hot second, but Saint Jacinda loves her power, so I reckon it won’t be long before she tightens the choke-chain, again.
It’s a bit like new versions of Windows – some people delay ‘upgrading’ for a while…
Burkhas for male goats’ hindparts, Hamza?
“Humza Haroon Yousaf (born 7 April 1985) is a Scottish politician self-serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care since 2021. He is the first non-white and first Muslim member of the Scottish Cabinet.”
“In 2019, Yousaf married SNP worker Nadia El-Nakla”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humza_Yousaf
Yeah I know who he is. Just thought the goat burka would be a good covid measure is all 😂
Did it really say ‘self serving’ or did you add that bit?
Yeah, that caught my eye, too.
From what we already know about spikes in deaths immediately post vax, and how they have been caught out fiddling the figure by claiming all those deaths to be in the unvaxxed because it wasn’t 14/28 days after the jab so they weren’t actually jabbed, has HMG dropped a bollock by not declaring all those queuing with rolled up sleeves to be ‘unvaccinated’?
If, as likely, the death count from non-Covid causes over the next few weeks peaks, it will all be in the vaxxinated.
I, for one, will be watching the figures closely.I’d be quite happy to put a £50 bet on a sudden peak in Unvaccinated deaths just as we have seen here and in America.
They’ve already set the scene for this by declaring that the double vaxxed have no more protection than the unvaxxed to this new variant that has conveniently come along just at the right time.
The only way to keep your coveted ‘fully vaxxed’ status is to keep doing what you’re told, as soon as you’re told. That what slaves are expected to do, isn’t it?
Excellent question, @brachiopod.
What they may do is count “late” threefold injectees as only twofold injectees, or put it some other way that still pushes the idea that omicron shows that taking new rounds of injections “just in case” and “as early as possible” is vital – because even taking five seconds to think about whether you might delay getting injected is dicing with death.
Those military planning teams may stay put for quite a while.
If a Scot criticises these restrictions over dinner, will Hamza have him arrested?
Yes, for subversion, treason, intentional harm and hate speech.
Sturgeon, Humza Useless, and their retinue of well paid publicity hungry public health “specialists” (none of whom are experts in virology or epidemiology), are relishing this. Many English “right of centre” people don’t realise that Sturgeon doesn’t want independence. Instead she and her woke neurotic, non productive, followers want a funded centralised state which suppresses free speech, liberty and the rule of law. They favour instead identity politics, which favours a tiny proportion, green alarmism which threatens to cap our oil and gas sector, and crap welfare subsidised jobs. Covid is the perfect preparation for all of that. It’s also the perfect platform for Sturgeon to use the compliant and complicit bought media to promote the sound of her own voice. Unlike the U.K. covid briefings the Scottish Government variety don’t even attempt to present dodgy data , it’s simply Elsie Selfie droning on. Journalists don’t even ask questions simply ask for clarification why she isn’t going further. The opposition meanwhile is useless. The Parliament is full of list promoted seat warmers with IQ’s which wouldn’t exceed those on a shoe size chart. The public are pliant for the moment, especially as lots of lazy zoom grifters can pretend to… Read more »
Many SNP types are crazed cultist loonies who won’t understand stuff when they’re told it, preferring to scream that it’s not true while enjoying whipping up their own xenophobia. I met one who called me a liar when I said that since about 75% of crude oil that’s extracted ends up as transport fuel there was a smidgeon of bullshit involved in the SNP’s position that an independent Scotland would do fine economically because of the oil and meanwhile they’d be greener than one of the Incredible Hulk’s finest bogies. He insisted that what I said about crude oil wasn’t what he’d heard from someone “in the industry” and that in fact most crude oil went to make medicines. “Our Scottish shite may be shite but it knocks the shite out of your English shite” sums up the attitude. I met another who insisted that “most Tory voters live in the London area” and called me a liar when I said she was talking out of her bottom and that what she said could easily be demonstrated to be false. Glossary of SNP usage: “Westminster” – code for “F***ing English Bastards“, aka “FEBs” “London” – code for “hellhole of racial… Read more »
Are there any protest groups in Scotland?
…The Proclaimers?
A booster prevents about 75% of people getting any Covid symptoms means triple-jabbing people with the Pfizer vaccine doesn’t work in one out of four cases. This implies the attempt to halt community transmission by buying and using more outdated Pfizer products is futile.
Well – only if you use new model-man mathematics!
Is Omicrom an actual thing?
Who cares? 😃
Is it the stuff you put in your eyes to relieve hay fever?
What I’d like to know is as the W.H.O. decided to use the Greek alphabet to name the variants what happened to all the ones between Delta and Omicron? Why put a system in place then almost as soon as it’s there change it to something else?
Or have Epsilon to Xi (fourteenth letter in the Greek alphabet, not the dictator of China) been so mild that they’ve not even registered on a global scale.