Glorious Leader Nic Sturge-on Refuses to Rule Out Mask Wearing For Years and Attacks England as ‘Outlier’
Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said mask rules could remain in place for years as they are “not the biggest handicap” people are having to endure. MailOnline has more.
Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland’s mask rules could remain in place for years to come if they help the fight against Covid today – as she blasted Boris Johnson‘s decision to axe most restrictions from this week.
The First Minister said that face coverings were “not the biggest handicap” that people were having to endure as the country attempts to recover from Covid.
A range of measures introduced on Boxing Day to deal with the Omicron variant will be scrapped from tomorrow, but laws making masks mandatory in shops and other settings with [sic] remain.
In contrast, the Prime Minister has unveiled a bonfire of almost all restrictions in England by March, including guidance on masks.
Asked on the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme today if she can see people wearing masks for “months or years to come”, in Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said:
“I hope not. I don’t want any of these measures to be in place for any longer than is necessary. But masks … are something we can do. None of us enjoy wearing them but they are perhaps not the biggest handicap to endure in order to try to stem transmission. So while they can make a difference to controlling the virus then I think it is something we should do. Again I would suggest that it is England that is the outlier here, not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, or many countries across the world.”
Scottish Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery, Murdo Fraser said:
“Nicola Sturgeon still can’t bring herself to admit the restrictions she imposed over Christmas were unnecessary. The SNP are quick to impose Covid rules but far too slow in getting vital funding to businesses. It’s shameful that so many small companies are still waiting to receive a single penny. It’s baffling that Nicola Sturgeon plans to continue with the vaccine passport scheme even though she can’t point to any hard evidence showing it’s effective.” …
From tomorrow, bars and restaurants in Scotland will no longer only be able to serve customers seated at tables, while social distancing will also be removed.
Nightclubs will also be allowed to reopen as she sweeps away restrictions in place since before Christmas, while plans to extend the Covid passport scheme have been scrapped.
Attendance limits on indoor events will also be lifted – bringing them into line with outdoor events in a move that came into effect yesterday.
However baseline coronavirus measures in place before the Omicron wave will remain, including masks are still legally required indoors and on public transport.
In contrast in England, Mr Johnson last week announced plans to scrap all Covid restrictions by the spring.
Plan B will also be ditched as the Omicron wave continued to recede.
The under-fire PM ended working from home with immediate effect, with the remaining Omicron-fighting measures – Covid passports and compulsory face masks – to be dropped from Thursday in an attempt to win back the support of Tory MPs and voters following the Partygate row.
He also laid out his intentions to remove all remaining Covid laws by March 24th, including basic measures like mandatory self-isolation for positive cases and the requirement to give your address to NHS Test and Trace if you have Covid.
Scotland’s approach is similar to Wales’s, where even ‘Alert Level Zero’ retains the mask mandate, vaccine passports and self-isolation laws. Will they ever let it be over?
Worth reading in full.
The MailOnline article has an amusing typo (at time of writing) that I thought I’d share as it expresses I’m sure how most of us feel.
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But they can’t ‘make a difference to controlling the virus’, can they? The whole concept of ‘controlling’ an airborne (aerosol) virus is nonsenical, and face nappies (along with all the other pathetic theatre) make no demonstrable difference at all.
This is just playing politics so that she can claim that she cares about ‘keeping people safe’ more than Johnson does. And of course masks are a symbol of her control over people. I hope it backfires.
I hope it backfires too, but I doubt whether it will. Most voters love the masks. She wouldn’t impose them otherwise.
No one wants to wear N95 or surgical masks for more than 5 minutes. We need to show people constantly the tape and transcript of the CDC telling them their cool cloth masks are counter-productive. Sooner or later truth will sink in. Remember when the lab leak theory was nutty?
Please please, put a muzzle on her. Prefably a full head cover burka, or whatever the ‘muslin’ thing is called. I was just put off my breakfast.
The Scots could easily get rid of her if they wanted to – but they obviously don’t want to.
Exactly, it’s up to them
You must be joking. They’ve made the voting system up here so complicated that she’s probably got the job for life.
She’s definitely a ‘two bagger’
Better a plastic bag
I’m don’t have the right to vote in Scotland, but I do have a week-long holiday booked there for September. If she’s still playing silly buggers then, I’ll happily forgo my small deposit and vote that me and my money go elsewhere.
Plenty of lovely places in England to visit. The hostelry owners in will be grateful for your patronage.
Interesting conundrum. My wife, grown children and I are going up in a few weeks from SE England. Being there is no ‘border’ between England and Scotland, and the Scottish ‘parliament’ is an assembly, not a government, my contention is that the instructions from Westminster and the Prime Minister of the nation take precedent over Scotland’s procedures relative to covid.
If, for example, a fine is imposed on me for breaching a Scottish covid regulation, how will that be enforced when I travel back to England. Will the police be despatched from Scotland to England to enforce it? I don’t think so, they have no jurisdiction here.
Will courts in England be compelled to uphold a Scottish regulation England has abandoned? I can’t see that happening either.
Will a court case be held in my absence banning me from entering Scotland ever again? Hardly; there’s no border control.
Devolution awarded Scotland certain, specific, political authority over its own destiny. It was never designed nor intended to deal with pandemics or alien invasions (of the galactic type). Sturgeon is full of shit, like Drakeford, a petty tyrant desperate to impose her authority no matter the cost to Scotland.
Well said!
Some good points there. Have fun!
Please do – we’d love you to come, I’d even buy you some haggis and neeps myself, but that is really what we need – people ACTING in protest, not just talking… If you DO come, however… welcome!
If most voter loved masks, there would be now reason to impose them.
NB: Most voters loving masks is something very much different from After two years of propaganda re: wearing a face mask being identical with being a responsible and compassionate human being, most member of group XY claim they love them when being asked for their opinion on this.
I really suggest to stop taking these polls seriously. Whenever they could be measured against reality since 2016, they turned out to be completely wrong. Why whould this have changed magically? Eg, my mother positively hates wearing a mask. But she does so nevertheless because she’s been told that she should be wearing them because this protects somebody from something.
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/breakthrough-news-bbc-could-not-ignore-as-top-doctors-demand-ditching-of-vaccine-mandates/
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Anyone who believes face covering can affect the spread will believe anything. Which is the whole point.
Our GP to my wife over the phone.
“You can’t come in without a mask as I have to protect my staff*. And a third of them are off sick.
Which suggests that masks don’t work, no?
Not to mention, when did “protecting your staff” become more important than caring for your patients?
I wrote to him, point out that a late aunt had been a nurse at Barts when one night they were bombed. I noted to the GP that under his regime, he would have evacuated all the staff and himself to safety, and left the patients to hang.
Instead, she and her colleagues spent the night, bombs still raining down, lower stretched with patients on down, floor by floor, till they could be more safe.
The NHS has had it. No longer serves those who fund it.
GP noted to my wife he had read a paper on how effective masks are. I printed off this for him..,.
https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-150-comparative-studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/
and pointed out to him that his behaviour was a disgrace.
You might also send your GP this link – the headline might lull him into a false sense of security – and then the hammer will fall when he reads on…
Surgeon Destroys Myth: ‘If Masks Don’t Work, Why Do Surgeons Wear Them?’ | CNSNews
Good for you. My late nan told me how she worked as a cleaner at Guys all through the blitz.They just got on with it. I think they were made of sterner stuff back then – had they not been, the home front would have crumpled.
It’s got nothing to do with her caring about “keeping people safe”. She doesn’t give a toss about anyone but herself and her own interests. It’s about keeping strict control over us; she has repeatedly shown dictatorial ambitions, seeking to control family life in a number of ways. She just can’t let go of these draconian powers over the people of Scotland. The fact that 4,000 people marched through Glasgow yesterday in what amounts to a peaceful plea to have our freedoms restored, won’t cut any ice with her. Here’s a clip showing the strength of feeling in Scotland about “wee Nippy” – note that two of the organisers were arrested. World Freedom Rally: Glasgow 22/01/22, Scotland – YouTube
Sorry, I said the march was yesterday, but it was Saturday, 22nd January. Apologies. Like everything else, at my age, it only seemed like yesterday!
The MailOnline article has an amusing typo (at time of writing) that I thought I’d share as it expresses I’m sure how most of us feel.
Is it really a typo??
We need a link!
So masks are “not the biggest handicap”! Maybe not to some people, but to others they are very detrimental.
By this way of thinking, I could punch someone in the face and then excuse it because it wasn’t my hardest punch. At least I don’t live in her fiefdom.
Yep, my eyebrows have been forcibly elevated to such heights, and for such prolonged periods that I fear they may never return to their natural locations.
Well she’s right is she not – the biggest handicap is not possessing any ability to think rationally and being Sturgeon. The woman looks haggard – the burden of the dawning realization she’s a total catastrophe walking? Indeed totally unmasked.
Yes, looking at her photo, that struck me as well.
Being generous, no leader has come through Covid looking good (well, the former PM of Sweden but, he’s former so…). And those who have wanted to control the most look the most worn-out. Somehow the Chinese make such control look easy. Practice I guess.
The Chinese are not practiced in control, they are practiced in obedience.
The Good Doctor was probably referring to the Chinese Ruling “Party”, not the obedient masses.
I wonder if she intends to put a mask mandate in the Scottish constitution should she ever get her beloved referendum. Right now my Scottish friends want her gagged, not masked. One is even a big supporter of independence and just wants her to shut up and go away.
Well, two years ago, I told a school friend of mine who is wife to a SNP MP that I believe Sturgeon is batsh*t crazy and a liability. She still hasn’t responded to me.
“the burden of the dawning realization she’s a total catastrophe walking?”
Nope. She is on the moral high ground as far as she is concerned, and that’s all that matters to her.
You are truly blessed not to live in her fiefdom. The woman is a horrible human being.
But most people in Fife and other Scottish regions believe this nonsense
Any hearing problem they make worse. Lip reading (you don’t need to be fully death to have to do that – indeed, must of us do that as well as rely on what hearing we have)
You can’t judge emotion in someone masked. Being able to judge someone by facial expression is a CORE part of a free society.
They are dehumanising.
They can make you sick if you have any respiratory problems.
And anyone who thinks kids should wear them is a weapons grade pudenda.
That do for reasons to junk them? My wife and I haven’t worn them for months
Masks were the initial and strongest assault on one’s bodily autonomy.
Introducing them opened the door for further attacks, like the gene therapies.
Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said mask rules could remain in place for years as they are “not the biggest handicap” people are having to endure. “No,” she went on, “I have to live with this shite….”
Fandabydozzy😁.
I absolutely refuse to believe that Sturgeon, or any other of our illustrious ‘leaders’ are ignorant about the reality of ‘face-coverings’. C’mon, they full know (in more detail, than us I suspect) about the mask vs virus nonsense – and also about the many harms associated with prolonged wearing. It’s all just political-chess fuckery.
Lowest of the low.
A while ago, the chief health officer of Australia (or NZ) went on record strongly urging people who were attending football matches to basically run for cover should a ball come flying towards them as something lots of sweating men were in contact with before must not ever be touched without it being sanitized first.
That’s called mysophobia and these peope doubtlessly also believe that other people putting on a facemask will protect them from their health-endangering filthyness. This used to be considered a mental health issue. Nowadays, it’s something which qualfies for becoming government advisor/ official.
‘Ugly woman prides in wearing mask’
I don’t really like to get personal, but what the heck: She’s obviously doing it for the benefit of others!
These people are just so sad and dangerous. Yep England is an outlier just like Florida etc. when it comes to masks. An outlier meaning doing the right thing of course.
And England hasn’t even managed to do the right thing, but analogy noted.
The waters are shark-infested, and the tyrants are thrashing about in total frenzied derangement. Live by the sword …
We so aren’t out of the woods. Barely a glimmer of light.
Re. that screenshot:
Jeeez! Will, get yourself an adblocker, man!
She has no end point in mind, since an end point would destabilise her power.
Because most people in the UK are alienated from politics and politicians, their apathy is conducive to such a persistent tyranny.
“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.”
[Ian Kershaw]
I feel sorry for the moustache!
Better a ‘global outlier’ than an out and out liar, I’d say.
Have an up-tick.
As with much of the shit-show, it’s really quite simple. ‘Leaders’ who claim the efficacy of masks have two possible qualities – they are either stupid or venal.
In either case, they need to be out of a job.
I rather suspect she is both.
Well the Davos Deviants are determined to destroy the United Kingdom.
They won’t be content with just destroying the UK, they want to destroy the world.
Not really a surprising policy from the tartan fascist party.
Sure didn’t make a bit of difference from July to December. Or was Sturgeon not watching the “case” numbers. No other measure (save the no sunbathing one in Lockdown 1) has been as idiotic (IMHO) than masks. The fact that now the CDC says “cloth masks are a magic amulet, nothing more” just validates this. Haven’t seen anyone mandating N95 or surgical masks…yet. But to believe a loos fitting covering with pores 10-500x larger than Covid can do anything to stop the spread, is just…can’t think of the word…unscientific? And yes, it can catch some of the initial spray when you cough (except people always remove it to cough or sneeze), but when it dries, Covid is free to fly. There is no scientific basis for what they have commanded. And yet every health agency continues to push it. And we all know why. Its the symbol of compliance. And sadly, every leader, every health official, is prone to wanting to boss around the lives of others, and this symbolically shows they are followed. I have worn my exclusion badge for essentially all of 2021. I will never wear one again. And here I do give Boris credit. You don’t… Read more »
N95 masks are mandatory in Germany. There are even government tips on How can you safely reuse them forever.
Germany is a lost cause. It has a government that wants its people to suffocate, while at the same time they freeze. Stupid is, as stupid votes.
And the Arbeitsschutzgesetz concerning them is completely ignored, even for children.
That law states expressively since decades that you are not allowed to wear them for longer than 75minutes, need half hour pauses etc..
But neither the sheep nor the unions care.
Madness.
Don’t give Boris credit. I think the gov was given advice it wasn’t legally possible to force a medical intervention on us, so they did the smoke and mirrors exemption to prevent it going to court.
Give Tory backbenchers some of the credit. Fatso Boris is skating on thin ice and he knows it.
Can we please review the Barnet formula? If the Scots want to indulge Sturgeon and her Covid opportunism they should be made to pay for it out of their own pockets. I suspect if the UK Government had enough courage to do this, it would not take long before her support base withered away.
Bang on.👍
The Sturge:
As my Mum used to say – she’s got a face only a mother could love.
A face like a bucket of melted wellies
The Sturge should have been drowned at birth.
A face like a smacked arse.
Fuck off and die you witch cunt
I concur.
Don’t hold back Jag, say what you really think 😉
I agree though!! Imagine arr Ange (Rayner) with power – she would give wee Jimmy Crankie a run for her money
Astonishing! Do the Caledonian Neo-Jacobite revivalists hate the English so viscerally that they will continually vote for the ginger Goebbels, even though she is on a pathological mission to turn Scotland into neo-feudalist basket case? The antichrist Blair’s devolution agenda facilitated the slow death of the UK, 2016 and the separatist vitriol from elements of the Scottish people and the malevolant SNP and two years of a NWO compliant English establishment have all but guaranteed the inevitable destruction of the Union!
I’m an Englishman married to a Scot, so honestly, good luck for the future, you’ll need it with this psychotic fundamentalist driving the tartan turd over the cliff!
Now that was a comment! Had fun speaking it outloud. Lovely.
I do that with most of the comments here. Keeps me sane.
Yes indeed,
It is hard to describe the anti English mindset up here. The very existence of the SNP is based on it.
Says it all..
Except in typical SNP fashion, they can’t even run the police state well. I’d put it a nod ahead of Scottish healthcare and a nod below Scottish education.
You’re welcome to your mask, Nicola. Make it an iron one that doesn’t come off, cos we don’t want to see what’s behind it
The First Minister said that face coverings were “not the biggest handicap” that people were having to endure as the country attempts to recover from Covid.
No, it’s YOU, little St.Jimmy of Krankies!
Can the people of England have a referendum on Scotland having independence as we pay for the place we should be asked if we want to keep coughing up?
Please accept my profound apologies, I am slightly embarrassed by this…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60082436
Scotland truly is peak 🤡🌍
I see the Red Cross have climbed on board with the anti social distancing badges. That’s a charity I can cross off my list. Their reasoning in support is truly Orwellian.
Talk about shooting your own foot off. Idiots.
“Not the biggest handicap”.
Try being severely deaf and autistic, you sadistic b**ch. Masks on other people (I don’t wear one) are an absolute nightmare for me, as I’m sure they are for many others, with and without health problems and handicaps. You deserve the death penalty. I am beyond angry!
Put a sock in it, hen.
When a disastrously ignorant, self centred wilfully ignorant politician meets shit “science” this is what you get.
In spades.
Is that a conservatory our Dear Leader is sitting in? I thought that they were now a hate crime against the climate?
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“as the country attempts to recover from Covid”
If covid exists at all, it was nothing more than a flu like disease that was hyped up by Sturgeon and her fellow psychological warfare terrorists into a purported existential threat to humanity in order to generate the levels of fear necessary for people to accept long planned social, economic and political changes.
The only thing we need to recover from is Sturgeon and her fellow psychopaths.
I only spoke to someone last week who told me they had recently worked on a new mask factory in Dumfries and couldn’t quite believe the money being spent….. She has no problem spending other peoples money on a pointless exercise and looking virtuous to boot.