No Need for New Restrictions, Says Government Minister
Current Covid data does not indicate a need for new restrictions, a Cabinet minister has said. The Telegraph has more.
Steve Barclay, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, indicated that stricter controls were unlikely to be introduced in the coming days, based on the latest hospitalisation and case figures.
On Wednesday, Boris Johnson is set to review the Plan B measures brought in last month, including rules mandating masks in almost all indoor public settings and requiring Covid passports for nightclubs and large events.
Government sources told the Telegraph last week that they were not expecting to repeal any of the Plan B restrictions yet, with adults in England set to be told to continue working from home if possible. The measures are set to roll over to the next review point on Jan 26th.
Senior Tories on Sunday said Plan B must not become a new normal, warning Mr Johnson that the Government must push to “get back to Plan A”.
Mr Barclay’s comments come as daily reported infections in England drop by 24% overnight, to 123,547 on January 2nd down from 162,572 on January 1st. Even taking into account it being a Sunday, when there are usually fewer infections reported, it is a considerable drop.
In London, the epicentre of the country’s Omicron outbreak, reported infections continue to show no sign of growth.
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I agree
The current restrictions are still terrible
NHS Wanted To Kill My Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zxl_jt7AW0
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Is there a written version of that Youtube video? It looks interesting.
“Do Not Resuscitate” is nothing but a bureaucratic euphemism for a type of euthanasia – letting a person die when treatment could save them (not necessarily only “keep them alive”, but actually save them so that they recover).
Has any medic in Britain ever had the guts to say so in public? Have they f*ck!
See also this from Wales:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/31/welsh-surgery-says-sorry-after-telling-the-very-ill-not-to-call-999
Yeah, it’s such a drag, having to call 999 when a close family member is choking. That’s lost ad-watching and porn-watching time!
(Note too how the authors of this murderous advice wrote “friends” before “family”.)
This continues to really tick me off, it is one of the most misunderstood directives. DNACPR stands for Do Not Attempt CardioPulmonary Resuscitation. A separate DNACPR may be required for each healthcare provider. They are not usually transferable and a hospital cannot insist on a primary care clinician impose one on a discharged patient. A DNACPR MUST be reviewed every few days UNLESS there are valid reasons as to why a review is not required such as futility, the DNACPR can be reversed, for example a patient may be very poorly in ITU but recovers sufficiently to be transferred to a normal ward and a DNACPR is no longer appropriate. A DNACPR can be only applied to a patient in hospital by a specialist registrar or consultant level physician, I think a band 7 nurse and above can apply a DNACPR in A&E but I cannot remember the details of the forms used in University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust. CPR is used when a person has a cardiac arrest. It does not, or should not, mean that other treatment is not started or is terminated. If a person is choking then treatment to reverse that condition is not contraindicated… Read more »
You are either a fool or a propagandist if you imagine the rule of law still applies in the UK. Blanket DNR’s issued will nilly since the coup – and no one bats an eyelid.
Nah don’t play that game, you won’t get anywhere intentionally being divisive or alienating people.
Anyway, the vast majority of medical professionals only do what they’re taught & told.
Do Not Attempt Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) recommendations are used to guide health and care professionals, across all settings, in making an immediate decision on how to respond should the patient in their care suffer a cardiac arrest or stop breathing for any reason. They may be made by clinicians or be put in place by individuals as part of advanced care planning. DNACPR are not legally binding. Ultimately, the decision to start or not to start CPR is a clinical judgement made at the point in time; the presence of a DNACPR recommendation will guide this decision.” From https://www.rcn.org.uk/clinical-topics/end-of-life-care/covid-19-guidance-on-dnacpr-and-verification-of-death
Neither my late husband or myself were aware that a DNR had been placed on him. I only found out months after his death when I applied to see his medical records. I managed to trace the signatory (who had transferred hospitals by then) but all I got was a half-hearted apology…..
I am neither a fool or a propagandist, and I take exception to anyone suggesting that. I am a retired nurse practitioner, registered with the NMC. There are clear guidelines, irrespective of what the CQC found. A DNACPR, like any care or treatment plan should be patient centred and unique to that patient. Blanket decisions are a definite no no from my perspective.
And you can guarantee that this applies in all NHS hospitals and Care Homes in the UK?
So what happened to all the Midazolam ordered by Hancock?
To be fair it was not Anti_socialists rude assertion.
He was quoting and refuting ‘cornubian’.
I have always found your posts to be both thoughtful and interesting, certainly not those of a fool or propagandandist.
Upon leaving hospital back in April my notes included a “DNR” notice as part of my decision not to pursue the recommended course of treatment (“what’s the point? Life will not be worth living and I’m gonna die of something else soon anyway”).
All of this was very carefully discussed at length with nurses and consultants. After a while I changed my mind so started receiving day patient treatment and the “DNR” notice was cancelled.
“DNR” = What members of the public still call it.
The vast majority of NHS professionals that I have encountered recently will, I’m sure, ‘do the right thing’ regardless of what civilian managers or politicians might declare.
JOHN. Presumably a Band 7 nurse is one wearing the darkest navy blue uniform?
During my recent 10 day stretch as an inpatient it was fascinating to observe the interactions between nurses of different grades, from light sky blue to dark navy.
While reinforcing the strictly hierarchical nature of the profession (as recalled by my mum who was forty years a nurse during and after WW2) it must be extremely useful during any form of emergency.
in England there’s no standard of uniform colours! One trust I worked for had a uniform for band 7 that was a band 8 in another trust, which would be ok, except that the former trust was a service provider at the site of the latter trust.
In Wales I believe they have a standardised uniform, and you’re probably right.
One anecdote, we had an 8 week old baby brought in unresponsive. Everyone jumped into resuscitation mode, completely ignoring the advanced life support protocol. I wasn’t paediatric trained, so I ended up pulling everyone back onto protocol and running the resuscitation effort, which ultimately failed. At the debrief the paediatric consultant thanked me for taking charge, although I was a band 5 staff nurse.
I am certainly neither a fool or a propagandist, and I resent any such suggestion, just a humble retired registered nurse practitioner. None of my former colleagues either in primary or secondary care would tolerate any such directive. Whether you believe it or not, but the rule of law still exists in the U.K. As a registered healthcare professional I had a legal and moral responsibility to my patients which was underwritten by the NMC code of professional conduct, likewise my paramedic colleagues with the HCPC and my physician colleagues with the GMC. DNR orders do not exist, and haven’t existed for at least 10 years, when DNR was changed to do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR), which was subsequently changed to DNACPR, as I said in the original post above. Malcolm Kendrick did have problems with the ambulance service trying to get his patients admitted to hospital. https://www.resus.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-06/2016_07_25_CPRdecisions_patientinfo_FINAL.pdf https://www.resus.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-05/20160123%20Decisions%20Relating%20to%20CPR%20-%202016.pdf https://www.rcn.org.uk/-/media/royal-college-of-nursing/documents/clinical-topics/end-of-life-care/nmc-rcn-statement-on-cpr.pdf?la=en&hash=AE59B874B692925E848AA8EF7AFA791E “Do Not Attempt Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) recommendations are used to guide health and care professionals, across all settings, in making an immediate decision on how to respond should the patient in their care suffer a cardiac arrest or stop breathing for any reason. They may be made by clinicians or… Read more »
I will say this John, I believe your professional contributions are an asset to this site and I always appreciate them.
Thank you.
Looks like The Telegraph batting an eyelid.
Yeah, I got a real bollocking by my wife for casually comparing DNACPR as murder, her explanation was just as detailed but a lot less polite.
I’ve never mentioned it again anywhere, i’d add Things like CPR, defibrillation etc aren’t some kind of miracle procedure neither is midazolam a miracle drug 😉
It is wrong to suggest health care professionals are knowingly killing people through omission of care, we know your chances of dying are greatly increased if given medical attention.
Yes, we know,
Its all a baaa complete coincidence:
“In December 2020, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published an interim report, looking at the use of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders during the pandemic.
The final report is due in February 2021, but the initial findings suggest an inappropriate use of the decisions dating back to the beginning of the pandemic, and possibly before. The question is therefore, were some deaths avoidable?”
https://www.ringroselaw.co.uk/2021/01/26/cqc-find-inappropriate-use-of-do-not-resuscitate-decisions-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
NHSS – now just enforcers of Medical Tyranny.
Well said
NFIWTHM.
key: “H” means hieroglyphs
No data that has ever existed can justify restrictions.
No, data that never existed did justify restrictions.
Utterly corrupt, stupid, perverted with excess power. The Johnson imprint is clear to see.
No Opposition, No media, No Courts, no Challenge
“King of the World” psychopath Johnson in action – masked and waving a syringe – Xmas Day message: “Jesus wants you to take the booster”
However did we get here ?
Great … now get rid of the old restrictions.
They havent even started yet. Doomsday set for 2030. Wait until they really get going.
Cracking kaleidoscope. The pieces are in play now, but have not yet settled.
Another bent wazuk that can’t lay straight in bed.
People too busy enjoying themselves to get tested, just keep doing that and the scamdemic is over.
This is an interesting read. Makes a decent case that the Unions agitated for this…
http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-road-to-lockdown_02121758366.html
Seen similar claims before. While I don’t doubt that there is some truth in it, I am not at all convinced that the unions forced the government to do it – they wanted to do it anyway (especially the SAGE bedwetters), and the behaviour of the unions just provided them with futher “justification”.
Absolute Bollox.
So the teaching unions are responsible for shutting down most of the world.
This guy is away with the faeries.
So the teaching unions are responsible for shutting down most of the world.
Such a claim is nowhere in this text.
You haven’t thought beyond the story he tells. Do you seriously accept that the teaching unions held this government to ransom?
Do you believe the same scenario panned out across the world?
Do you take the view that pubs, theatres, restaurants, sports facilities, libraries, churches,gyms, and restrictions on weddings and funerals are all down to some brain dead ex teachers?
As I stated at the top – “absolute Bollox.”
You haven’t thought beyond the story he tells.
Precisely. Which is why I’m not putting statements which came from my own fancy into the mouth of the author in an attempt to discredit the text, also called strawman fallacy. The texts restricts itself mostly to England and these parts are well-documented facts and conclusions drawn from them. It should be possible to argue against them in order to show what’s wrong with them.
My beliefs are immaterial here. I’m just pointing out that this text doesn’t contain what you’re trying to use against it (still true for the second statement).
“Improve Education – Let the Teachers go on strike for the right not to teach!” Then sack them!
They can all “leave them kids alone” and wear their putrid masks at home!
Teachers without a wage for two months? They would be pleading to be allowed back.
A minor point.
The author claims that USDAW, the shopworkers union, lobbied the government for a masks in shops mandate.
That may well be true but it’s what the government wanted anyway as an easy way to asses levels of lockdown compliance.
USDAWS members were not so keen, shopworkers abandoned masks as soon as they could.
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No…they are too stupid!
Given the rumours that school children are going to be nasally raped en masse from Jan 4th I suspect this BS will change within the week.
Lying bastards.
Mass testing of children is essential to get those ‘case’ numbers nice and scary looking.
Yep. Which is why they are doing it.
Cause cases to impose lockdowns, drive mad to restore sanity, gang-rape to guarantee chastity, cause fear to dispel concern, test and trace to fuck the human race…
But cases were already high enough for Javid to have justified restrictions no? I feel something has changed.
Backbenchers making noises, and the fact that ‘cases’ aren’t translating into hospital admissions in the way the Covidians hoped!
Could it be the light is beginning to illuminate the madness and mendacity?
Carcinogenic contaminants on the swabs? How many nose bleeds?
Do the perpetrators of this offence actually ‘get off’ on this constant Nasal Testing perversion?
Any parent today with school-age children should seriously consider home-schooling if at all possible; in the long run, it would be worth the effort.
Indeed they should – schools it now seems are alienating environments no longer capable of keeping children ‘safe’. or secure – never mind suitable places where ‘education can take place.
One must calmly ask whether the country is now in the hands of psychopaths?
I still think they’re going to turn the screw, I no longer trust or believe any Govt Minister’s.
Yep.
Surely they realise this won’t go down too well with the RPTB.
Must brew up a definitely deadlier, more transmissible one soon.
Just imagine if it really turned out to be a really, really deadly virus –
Whitty et al wouldn’t have to lie.
The shock of actually telling the truth for once might do them irreparable harm…
What took you so long?
I’m sorry, but this just isn’t good enough. Somehow we must all do our best to get case numbers up, up I tell you. It’s outrageous that the NHS can’t be used as an emotional club to beat all those evil antivaxxers into compliance. They must be forced I tell you, forced to take the vaccinations no matter the cost. It’s your duty to protect me, I don’t care about your health but I must be protected at all costs. Line the kids up, hunt the brats down and vaccinate them. Employ big game hunters to target the miscreants from a distance if necessary, with vaccine darts. If they run, it’s fun you know. I don’t want the filthy little urchins near me, my life is far too valuable, I contribute more to society than anyone else so its essential I’m protected. Masking isn’t good enough for you antivaxxers, you should be put in the stocks to be pelted with rotten vegetables, from a safe distance. Zoom, Zoom, Zoom. That’s my watchword. I demand to be released from my civil service office attendance so I can isolate at home on full pay and pension. Who cares about all those silly… Read more »
Totally agree – why leave your home to be confronted with humanity in its odious reality. Smelly puerile infectious people getting close to your sterile pristine purity. No way – lockdown, lockdown and total isolation is the way forward for humanity.
What the hell is plan A? A pay rise for the boys? Wink – wink….
While don’t they all F.O. for all the good they are doing?
No need for new restrictions, keeping the old ones? Pathetic hysteria
Awful how ‘restrictions’ hurt worst those who comply the mostest.
People believe that following guidance as if it were absolute truth will lead to safety, peace of mind, security, and even an end to this situation. But the goalposts keep shifting.
In reality nobody can follow all the rules consistently. The lethargic majority cut corners here and there – thus demonstrating their absurdity – but never compute their servitude.
Only a sudden violent event may rock the system. I think this outcome is increasingly likely.
Oh yes they will….
Exactly… death is after all the ultimate freedom!
“Covid: Workplace absences could reach up to 25% as PM drafts contingency plans“.
Is this what they call “blowback”?
Someone who thinks they’ve got “Covid” because they obediently stuck a probe up their nose every day for a fortnight until they eventually got a blue line indicating a “positive result”, and who then
walks around with their head in a paper bagstops going into work because they need to “self-isolate”, is now classified not as a sensible and public-spirited citizen, but as a “workplace absence”.Gotta see the funny side.
I could have told them the time would come when rather than getting a “We love you” letter from the queen or the prime minister, or even from their local GP, their only thanks would be a flying kick up the arse with a hobnailed jackboot.
I saw this from a ‘Julian French’ on a Sky News Australia YT video: IMAGINE we were living in medieval times…. and you’d been invited to a royal banquet. 👑 🍷 🍲 The ones in charge were extremely keen to get you to drink the wine. They were very insistent. 👀 You’d probably assume the wine was poisoned. “Drink this wonderful wine.” “No thank you.” “Be a good guest! Drink the wine. We uncorked it especially. It’s a beautiful and rare vintage.” “No thank you. I appreciate the offer though.” “Drink the wine. It’s very expensive but you can have a glass for free, and we’ll give you an extra plate of supper.” “No I’m fine as I am.” “Drink the wine and we’ll feed your entire village for a week and reduce your taxes.” “Wow all that for wine? What’s in it? Still, no thank you.” “We’ll make you a Duke.” “Very generous but no thanks I’m content in my home.” “You are not anti-wine are you????” “No I just don’t feel like drinking this wine this evening.” “Drink the damn wine or we’ll stop you working.” “Eh?” You notice they’re getting desperate now. “We’ll ban you from markets.”… Read more »
Prester, I have a simple rule: if after saying ‘no’ once, anyone continues to try and ply me with covid wine, I tell them I am teetotal.
Sadly, too many are too timid to say ‘no’ in any way, shape, or form. It isn’t politeness to agree to being raped over and over again.
Exactly.
Simpler heuristic: Whenever somebody tries to scare you, he’s trying to coax you into something which is much better for him than for you.
An even simpler heuristic: always consider offers from other people as potentially unfair to you (the key is to observe that the initiative to enter transaction was not yours).
Every time!
End all restrictions immediately.
So, Whitty warned of 5,000 deaths a day (even 6,000) and got a knighthood.
If he’d warned of 50,000 deaths a day, would he have been made a Duke?
Refeudalisation. It’s coming, folks!
Duke Whitty of Turtlehead
They’ll certainly try. There is no guarantee they will succeed.
Might have to apply for that court jester position with Count Beckham after all.
Bring back hanging, drawing and quartering of traitors : “Behold, this is the head of a traitor”`.
Most of those receiving this justice were of course members of the Ruling Elite!
Duke or Puke?
Whitty is simply beyond any words of contempt.
The only ‘restrictions’ should be life sentences for complicit politicians, media and pharma complex who are killing young people with mandatory experimental genetic vaccines, many fine athletes included.
https://rumble.com/vrt1h0-athletes-collapsing-this-is-supposed-to-be-rare.html
Enough have died now, where are the autopsy results? I’d hire a sky writer or project them onto big ben.
They managed to do an autopsy on an alpaca, yet how many have they done on people who “died of covid”?
As few as the can get away with !
They have banned and hidden the autopsy results to conceal their crimes!
If only this guy was PM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgTPxC1ZXSc
Or President
Unfortunately, Gulag Wales is still crushed under a pile of Dung and likely to remain so, because that’s what Dung enjoys.
Annie, you always make me laugh with the way you put it 🙂
Yes, she has a way with words 🙂
A man definitely not of these times….
What’s with the recent retreats? Are they trying to cut themselves loose from the ever growing elephant in the room aka horroundous vaccine side-effects? Going to be an interesting beginning to the New Year, still can’t figure out what their next move will be if not pushing people with more variants. Well done too all those resisting. I saw that Amsterdam was mayhem
Nobody knows if it’s a feigned retreat or a real one. I thing it’s feigned, but every new edict is beginning to look like desperation.
I think they have lost, in the long view, but we’re still in c. 1942.
Feigned – they are coming back wit more outrageous horror and scheming l ies!
No need for government either in my opinion, certainly not a “Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster” what ever that is.
Meanwhile, the biggest scam the world has ever seen continues, The COVID-19 Fraud with Dr Mark Bailey on Counterspin.
Johnson has amply demonstrated the virtue of abolishing tyrannical Governments and declaring creative, populist anarchy!
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a Cabinet level post without a department to run.
It is given to someone either to shut them up or, as is likely in this case, to give them access power without the bother of having to do a proper job. They can spend ALL their time politicking on the PMs behalf.
No need for any restrictions.
Well, duh!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/dr-gottlieb-now-admits-cloth-masks-dont-provide-protection-covid-19-video/
Dutch lockdown protesters MAULED by police dogs and hit with batons
https://mol.im/a/10362603
The Dutch have evidently had enough!
Dutch now set vicious dogs onto protesters – and attack them six onto one – just like1940 all over again! ( See videos)
Did they say this on exactly the same day new restrictions were announced (masks in schools) or just out slightly by a day?!
No need for further restrictions, at the same time the slap masks on school children again. But that’s OK, a recent poll suggests the majority actually enjoy the masking.
Hitler appeased/ignored the middle aged people whilst going after the young
@Backlash. I agree.
Those like me who are approaching fifty are not the target. The focus is on subjugating/conditioning the young, who will eventually be so cowed they’ll accept anything.
We need to actively fight any imposition or unfair restriction made on school-age children. Their resilience is lower than ours, so it’s up to us to act as proxy votes. If the rules apply to them but not us then we have a duty to object on their behalf, rather than be thankful we don’t have to comply.
They’re being actively trained to comply with the ‘new-normal’ – we’ll have shuffled-off/become obsolete in a few years, but for those few years we need to remain awake. I’m not a dad, but I am an uncle and I intend to fight this.
Lovely words.
I am not a Dad, I am nominally a Grandad, my wife’s son’s child, but by God I am not surrendering to this shit. It’s bad enough for my nieces and nephews but our grandson cannot fight. I must do my bit for him or admit I am a coward.
The progressives were always very clever at this.
They could have made life hell for my racist nan but instead left her alone knowing that she and her equally racist cronies would soon be dead as indeed they have been these past 40 years.
I encountered the first of the Polytechnic progressives in the 6th form at school. We didn’t use words like politically correct or woke. “Woolly thinking” perhaps.
We had to tell a new ‘0’ level economics teacher, wanker wanted to “be our friend”, to teach by the book or we would drop out of his subject leaving him with no job.
After that he left us alone, going for the younger kids in the classrooms down the hill that we never went near.