Restrictions on Wedding and Funeral Attendance Caused Unnecessary Distress
It has been reported that the Government will not impose any attendance limit on weddings and funerals if a series of new restrictions is brought in. The reason for this is that it ministers believe attendance caps on these events during the previous three lockdowns caused unnecessary distress to those involved. MailOnline has more.
The exemptions for life events are part of all scenarios that have been drawn up by the Government to deal with the threat of Omicron.
It comes ahead of crunch talks between Boris Johnson and Government scientists today to discuss Covid restrictions for the New Year.
Downing Street is understood to be leaning towards new guidance urging people in England to be careful and limit contacts – rather than imposing new legally binding restrictions.
But this could change if data on hospitalisations suggests the NHS could be overwhelmed by a wave of Covid infections.
Possible restrictions considered by the Prime Minister over the past few days include closing pubs and restaurants indoors, bringing back the rule of six or restricting the number of households meeting indoors, and limiting capacity at mass events.
But ministers are said to be against disrupting significant life events with the restrictions, even if they opt to bring back the rule of six in indoor settings, the Times reported.
Among the proposals are plans to prevent hospitals forcing women to attend scans and check ups – as well as give birth – without their partners.
And ministers are “increasingly optimistic but very cautiously optimistic” they will avoid re-imposing draconian lockdown rules in England before the new year.
“It’s not just that there’s a clear gap between cases and hospitalisations, but also that when people are going into hospital they tend to be there for less time,” a Government source told the Times.
It is a stark difference from previous restrictions, under which the number of people allowed at weddings and funerals was capped – and saw the Queen attend Prince Philip’s funeral alone in April.
So far Mr Johnson has resisted calls to go as far as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in introducing curbs on social mixing. Similar restrictions have also been imposed in many European countries – but not yet in England.
This morning the Prime Minister will meet Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance to consider the latest data.
Any new legally binding restrictions would need the backing of Cabinet, and would have to be rubber stamped by MPs.
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So restrictions on weddings and funerals cause unnecessary distress, while all the other restrictions cause distress that is strictly necessary?
Of course we’ve known since before the start that all restrictions would cause unnecessary distress, but it’s vaguely encouraging that the perception of what is considered acceptable is being pushed back a bit. Of course it could be that the cynical bastards are getting better at knowing how to keep the frogs from realising they are being boiled.
Vaguely encouraging but I suspect a lot of future distress will come from lockdown effects on the NHS and the economy, even if the ‘boiling frogs’ don’t realise these are already ‘baked in’
It will take decades to recover, at least, and some people and businesses and sectors never will.
I will never recover from the distress these wicked bastards caused me at my father’s funeral.
Solidarity here and we were in the same situation. You could tell that family and friends were doing what they had been told to do under duress.
If we’re ever ‘allowed’ to recover.
We have missed 2 weddings over the past years 🙁
I’m obviously quite an anti-social person, as my choice of emoji to accompany that statement would be different!
Chris Whitty got a knighthood – doesn’t that make up for the weddings?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCxpmegbnE
It would be nice if at the knighthood ceremony the sword could be used in the manner for which it was designed.
Prince Philip would have done it.
Sadly, he was fully ‘on side’ with the Great Reset and Gates as is his number one son.
I don’t think that the word “distress” really covers it. What these monsters have been doing is conducting a campaign of absolute terrorism and intentional cruelty, both mental and physical. The Telegraph story about DNR, plus the caring, sharing NHS (yours, not mine) and care home DNRs offer just a small insight of the abject moral standards now considered normal in this country.
It’s high time that sentient, decent people stopped being in some way relieved or grateful that the people responsible might at long last recognise the evils they have perpetrated. However, it is clear that the “gaslighting”, or what used to be known as a “game of cat and mouse”, is still firmly entrenched in the perverted psyches of politicians, amoral doctors, and “scientists” who know nothing of it.
“What these monsters have been doing is conducting a campaign of absolute terrorism and intentional cruelty, both mental and physical.”
And until they are stopped they’ll just continue.
So who is there to stop them?
Peter McCullough has identified “Omicron” as a “significantly mutated variant ( 30 mutations along the spike and 10 in the binding receptor ) of Sars Cove 2”.
He says it appears to have originated from vaccinated individuals and has so far exhibited only mild symptoms.
Just to be clear:
“Appears to have originated from vaccinated individuals’
So can we expect a “lockdown of the vaccinated” any day soon?
This sh*t show just goes a on and on!
Was he the one who warned against vaccinating in the middle of a pandemic for this very reason?
“Monsters” and devils – the onlu words that suffice.
Totally agree. Why should anyone be grateful for the partial and grudging restoration of freedoms that should never have been removed from us? I’m not grateful – I’m furious at the deceit, lies, half truths (sometimes worse than outright lies) that have been foisted on the British people. Whitty, Vallance etc are not caring good people, -frankly, they have committed evil. They have no ideas nor do they care about the distress, trauma, and stress so many have suffered. I lost no one to covid, but the frankly supine attitude of my family has caused me great stress – and that’s nothing compared to those who have had to watch as family members or friends were isolated in care homes, or were forbidden even the most basic social contacts, or were terrified by Sage pronouncements.
Checkout Freddie for the sheer imbecility that ordinary people are up against. Freddie DeBoer, who’s essay is linked to in a previous article, says elite professionals that whine about being terrified of Covid, do so in an attempt to signal how virtuous they are. Virtue Signallers extraordinaire, as it were. DeBoer is probably correct. The inhabitants in the giant progressive echo chamber find it vital to constantly signal their high-mindedness, uprightness and ethicality. Freddie DeBoer, though, begins the essay in which he implies this with a hurricane of capitalised Virtue Signalling. First off, DeBoer brags about how he donated $2,000 to a charity. This boastfulness was just the beginning; he then went on to use his donation as a lever to attempt to coerce his readers into also giving to this charity. It takes a fair amount of gall or lack of abstract thought capability to start an essay with an anchored tornado of virtue signalling, and then go on to condescendingly apply this same label to others. But DeBoer, though, was only getting into his stride. He then went on to Virtue Signal how he got his “Covid booster yesterday, along with a flu shot”. Freddie then regales his… Read more »
I started looking at the article with high hopes, but they were very quickly dashed, for the reasons you have described so well. The writer evidently has the “e” and “r” in his name transposed, but I think “Plonker” fits better.
had covid, had 4 jabs in the past year, still wears a mask everywhere, still thinks he’s going to die from covid and then dares to call other people bonkers?
They will have him on the platform next to “Sir” Whitty next talking of his ‘faith ‘ in the vaccines and calling for converts to “reach out”!
I’ve never heard of this mad moron.
Evidently I have been fortunate.
They first brainwash them with psy-ops for two years – it seem there is not much left between the ears of so many – except for fear and blind faith in the Government and the BBC..
…rubber stamped by MPs. Says it all.
Perhaps SAGE members and politicians who believe they have dispelled knowledge to humankind could suffer the same fate as Prometheus, but without a Heracles to rescue them.
Anyone have a few spare chains and eagles?
It’s going to be a long process until they acknowledge that all their compelled measures and restrictions cause unnecessary distress.
But at least it’s a start.
They don’t care.
All the restrictions have an impact on us as individuals. That is why a blanket lockdown is so devastating. What affects me may not affect the person living next door. Imagine how someone feels when told their business is non essential for example. It is if that business puts food on the table and a roof over your head. Politicians stand to lose nothing and will never understand.
I’ve read stories about people who’d built up businesses over many years, employing a good number of people only to see them wiped out overnight by government diktat. Unfortunately the stories were being told because the person who’d put their life into the business couldn’t carry on and decided to end it all.
I built up a business from nothing to 50k profit per annum over two years. Then the lockdowns came. Initially I was ok until component shortages kicked. By march 2021 my income had fell to virtually nothing and it has remained there ever since. I never qualified for any furlough/grants as the first year of my business I was also working PAYE and I earned £200 above the grant cut off point. As bad as it was for me I know a lot more people are much worse off.
A friend of a friend committed suicide due to the destruction of his business and compounding debts. Whilst my in-laws did so well out of the various grants etc they had a swimming pool fitted and a new kitchen.
It really truly disgusting
And maybe why no pandemic plan in the UK included them Quite the opposite. I’m sure it said that lockdowns and restrictions were the last thing we should do. There is a classic mistake in software development – abandon planning under pressure. Which is exactly what most governments around the world did. When planning is often the only thing that will save you.
Lovely thread showing who is the most insane and most virtuous in one go
https://mobile.twitter.com/mtracey/status/1475268418865704967
I know somebody who “felt very safe” on a recent trip to Italy because of all the masks and vaxpasses, but who wouldn’t allow an unvaxxed grandson to attend the Christmas gathering. We’re seeing some seriously distorted perceptions of risk!
FFS!
This is interesting. Gene/cell therapy uptake in England, Week 51: 1 dose: 68.2% 2 doses: 62.6% 3 doses: 38.9% https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-surveillance-reports I’ve looked at 3 estimates of England’s population, and they all exceed 56,000,000, so we’ll round it down to 56,000,000. Regarding the figures for 1 dose, and granting for our purposes Government’s own numbers, 56,000,000 – 31.8% = 38,192,000, which leaves 17,808,000 who have not had one dose of this experimental technology. Subtract those still currently ‘ineligible,’ which is those under 12, and you have roughly 10-12m refuseniks. That number is substantially higher than we’ve been led to believe. Now look at the number who have had the much vaunted 3rd dose, also known as a ‘booster’, which is essentially a 3rd dose of the same experimental technology, but apparently calling it a ‘booster’ detracts from this and makes it sound more sexy*. The uptake here is strikingly low. While Week 51 is up several percentage points from Week 50, probably mostly if not entirely down to the relentless ‘booster’ campaign over Xmas (interestingly, dose 1 and dose 2 uptake has barely moved from Week 50, which might indicate that the campaign has gone as far as it can), it’s still significantly low. So… Read more »
I think both counts of “refuseniks” may be correct; the count would have increased from 5-6 million to around double that after they extended the eligibility to teenagers.
That ‘eligibility’ has been in place for some time now, and yet the lie that there are around 5m people ‘unvaccinated’ (in the traditional/meaningful sense of the term) is still doing the rounds, in the face of the regime’s own numbers, which, with Chris below, I do not fully trust, and use only for the sake of argument.
No-one has a clue what the population of England is. I suspect it’s many millions higher than any official number. I also doubt the government vaccination numbers. They have lied about everything else. Why would anyone believe the vaccination numbers? I suspect there may be a lot more of us than we think.
Judging by the amount of beautiful wood land and girls that have been forced by horrific housing estates I imagine the population must be 40% higher than that of 1970.
Apparently that number was 55000000 in 1970.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/population
A lot of double jabbers are refusing the booster because of adverse effects from the first two. We’ll see how long their resolve lasts.
Indeed. In addition to this, I wonder how many of the double jabbed who haven’t had any adverse events are nevertheless waking up to the con.
My girlfriend/partner is one. Now she’s waiting to see what happens to others who take the 3rd ‘booster’ before sacrificing herself to the alter of Pfizer.
She’s had 2 Pfizers – no noticeable side effects, still alive. I did tell her it wasn’t a clever thing to do, but there you go.
As I’ve written already, it’s just laughable at the amount of people having a 3rd jab, getting Covid directly after, and then moaning they feel like shite, yet claiming that if they hadn’t had the booster they’d be much worse.
Worse from what, exactly?
The Queen was not wearing a face mask at the G7 meeting. Thanks to giving the residents of Cornwall Covid, Queenie!
She’s another one in on the scam.
The Windsors need to go. Way past their “best before.”
Wasn’t “causing maximum distress” and disruption of people’s normal lives and relationships the whole point? I think it was.
Anyway, it got Whitty his knighthood for ‘Service to the Gates ‘owned’ WHO.’
Their admission is grounds for court cases and compensation as well as criminal prosecutions. People have made to suffer with no real evidence.
This image will (hopefully) haunt politicians for many years to come. We had a much reduced funeral for mum after she died scared and alone in hospital due to the restrictions. I frequently wake in a cold sweat thinking about it and if I let her down. It’s going to take a very long time before my faith in the NHS and government is restored. If ever… Has the UK ever prevented family and friends being with the terminally ill on such a scale before? It was brutal, inhumane and not necessary.
Next year’s financial collapse is causing me distress.
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So if the government impose new restrictions (more like when), then even though they didn’t work last time, this time they won’t be quite as strict. We must all hide away in our homes unless we’re invited to a wedding or a funeral. As there will probably be more funerals than weddings in the future (especially if everyone is locked up in their homes in isolation), this might make funerals more of a social event. People might start going to funerals that they never otherwise would have done just to get out of the house. They might become lively social events (to be fair, I hope my funeral is – instead of everyone wearing black and being miserable). People might kill themselves just to “take one for the team” and give other people a reason to get out of the house and meet other people (“I never would have married my wife if Brian didn’t kill himself just to give people an excuse to get out of the house to go to his funeral”) This increased social interaction will obviously lead to more people “spreading it” causing even more deaths and more funerals. I predict that if the government imposed… Read more »
”….ministers believe attendance caps on these events during the previous three lockdowns caused unnecessary distress…”
And are we supposed to believe they actually CARE?
This country is f’d if it doesn’t get rid sage and get rid of them quickly.,
So they finally get it. What happened? Did one of the Sage members lose someone and have to submit to the same draconian inhumane rules that they inflicted on so many thousands? Was Whitty told to distance from a loved one? Was Vallance unable to attend a loved one’s wedding? It has to be somethingn that adversely affected a Sage member – they were unmoved by tales of other’s trauma.