Government Scraps Covid Tests for Travel – But Only For the Vaccinated, Despite Government Data Showing the Vaccinated Have Higher Infection Rates

Holidaymakers who are double-vaccinated will no longer have to take any Covid tests for travel abroad, Boris Johnson has said. The Telegraph has more.

Speaking on a visit to a hospital, the Prime Minister said that day two lateral flow tests – which are currently required for fully vaccinated people entering the U.K. – would be ditched, saving a family of four around £120. The changes are expected to come into effect at 4am on February 11th.

It follows the ending of pre-departure and PCR tests for vaccinated travellers earlier this month and will be seen as a major filip for the travel industry in advance of the February half-term break. …

Holiday firms have already reported a surge in bookings for half term after the easing of restrictions and in anticipation of further lifting of curbs.

Speaking ahead of a Covid-O cabinet committee meeting on Monday, Mr Johnson said the country was moving through the Omicron wave and “things are starting to get better”.

“On travel, to show the country is open for business, we will see changes that people no longer have to take tests if they are double-vaccinated,” he said during his visit to Milton Keynes University Hospital in Buckinghamshire. …

Bookings to all holiday destinations have already jumped by 67% on average compared with December 2021, according to analysts Skyscanner.

Some international and long-haul beach and sun destinations are seeing demand return to levels above that in 2019 before the pandemic, according to the company.

The destinations with the fastest growing bookings are Maldives (up 125%), Mexico (up 110%), Costa Rica (72%), Colombia (48%), and Tanzania (39%).

Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy The PC Agency, said: “When it happens, it will be a terrific boost for the travel sector and crucially for consumers. It will mean cheaper holidays and business trips and the end of the testing nightmare the industry has faced for nearly two years.”

But why only the double-vaccinated? Nobody now pretends that two vaccine doses provides any kind of protection against Omicron infection. The UKHSA estimates vaccine effectiveness of two doses against Omicron after six months of just 0-10%. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has stated that two doses are “not enough for Omicron… We have seen with a second dose very clearly that the first thing that we lost was the protection against infections”. Government data show infection rates in the double vaccinated have been considerably higher than in the unvaccinated across most age groups for some months. Where then is the evidence behind this continued restriction on the unvaccinated? It has no scientific basis, plainly is now solely to add coercive pressure to the unvaccinated to get the jab, and should be dropped.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Professor David Paton has skewered the “anti-science” in the Government’s latest move: “UKHSA data report double vaccinated adults are currently testing positive at much higher rates than unvaccinated. So of course post-travel testing is (rightly) dropped for the former but kept for the latter. More anti-science from the Government.”

Stop Press 2: Self-isolation for unvaccinated travellers will also end on February 11th, according to the Telegraph – though the requirement to test will remain.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

You keep using this term vaccinated, when it’s patently NOT a vaccine being administered.

Dobba
4 years ago

. . . solely to add coercive pressure to the unvaccinated to get the jab

Don’t they get it? If we’ve not had it by now, we never will. They are flogging a dead horse.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

Indeed. It’s the sheep they need to concentrate on, as they easily get distracted.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

“Distracted “…on their way to the slaughter house.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Perhaps they need a good flogging to drive some sense into them?

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

When I read/hear that word – AND ”cases” – I have a Pavlovian response.
Note to self – order some more crockery…

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Yes, they persist in their lying, increasingly fatuous and ignorant narrative …but then look who is in charge …… the Johnson !

All they want is to push and coerce the vax – nothing to do with health or Covid or ‘safety’. But we now know “Jabs Can Kill” – never forget!

The Meissen Bison
The Meissen Bison
4 years ago

Purveyors of the narrative are unable to relinquish the narrative.

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago

Well they can’t, it would mean admitting they were wrong.

Dodgy Geezer
Dodgy Geezer
4 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

All together now:

“Well, They WOULD say this, wouldn’t they!”

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Hard for for the normal person in the street to admit they are wrong. Nigh on impossible for a politician.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Let them be buried with it!

itoldyouiwasill
itoldyouiwasill
4 years ago

Being first in line for hassle-free travel is the ‘reward’ for all those who took part in the game of Russian Roulette. This is a public relations exercise. The testing bollocks will quietly be dropped for the unvaccinated as well within weeks.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

But the international travel requirements to show proof of perpetual booster will remain.
Forcing the vax pass on people, one way or another, was always a core feature of this fraud.

itoldyouiwasill
itoldyouiwasill
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

I thought this initially but now am starting to wonder. I know so many pro vaccine friends who are not getting the booster and are starting to question the narrative. Omicron has put a proper spanner in the works for Gates et al.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago

Once fear level drops their eyes can be opened?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Blind Faith is a wonderful thing!

Michie will be busy working on next psy-op angle.

A “Tory” Prime Minister in thrall to a Marxist Leninist Feminist Revolutionary Castro/Corbyn supporter – who would have thought it?

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Mitchie. Is there a reason why these people are all so bloody UGLY?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Banjones

It is their ‘dark soul’ showing through!

Menckenitis
4 years ago

Gates and his cronies ignore nature at their peril – in this case how our immune systems have allowed us to co-exist with viruses for thousands of years years. Nature always wins in the long run. Gates et al are the modern day Dr Frankenstein. Read GMO Myths and Truths to learn how, despite the hype, not a single promise of GMO foods has been realised, apart from sales of pesticides used to produce them, but endless environmental damage continues to be wreaked.

sam s.j.
sam s.j.
4 years ago
Reply to  Menckenitis

that’s how i knew too fairly soon into the plandemic having read seeds of destruction and watched food inc years ago,

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

“I know so many pro vaccine friends who are not getting the booster”

You mean who ‘said’ they are not getting the booster(s). Will they really want to see their ‘Vaxx Passes’ become invalid?

OK, for old people who don’t want to travel abroad any more, they can let their Vaxx Passes slip…. and just hope that they’re not going to be needed to get into shops, or other places.

So far, this just smacks of cosmetic re-arranging of the chairs.

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

All that matters is that rules continue to be made and changed, the more capricious the better. The public is kept in a state of suspense and captivity.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

How bloody patronising! I know many ”old people” who have been longing to get ”abroad” again – whether for pleasure or to visit children and grandchildren.
If they can stand by their principles, then good for them! If they can’t, then I think we might understand why.
As for ”going into shops” then let’s hope they have neighbours more charitable than you.

TheGreenAcres
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

We don’t control what other countries ask for, but our Government could be fighting it.

FrankFisher
4 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Precisely. During the Cold War we could not stop the soviets censoring the press, imprisoning dissidents, banning protests etc, but we condemned it. We didn’t COPY it!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

Well we’ve made up for that now!

realarthurdent
4 years ago

That would make political sense yes. Whether the vaccine zealots inside the Establishment are ready to give up the vaccine passports remains to be seen.

FrankFisher
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

They’re not vaccines and they’re not passports

Star
4 years ago

For us “unvaccinated”, the requirement when entering or returning to this country is not just testing.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago

My life long policy of standing back and watching which way the wind was blowing has served me well again.

Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

And me! Unless a medical procedure is years old I will risk nature

FrankFisher
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

King Log vs King Stork. I have always procrastinated as much as possible. Why do something until you absolutely must? Very often when you DO act you find out eventually you shouldn’t have done. I prefer to sit down with a good scotch and a book and wait for all the shit to collapse.

Right now nor I, my wife, or my kids are jabbed. None of us are dead. So far I’m calling that a win.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

 “The testing bollocks will quietly be dropped for the unvaccinated as well within weeks.”

There’s no reason to drop it for ‘the unvaxxed’ – they can keep this game going forever. All we can really do to measure it all, is to see how many people take the 3rd ‘booster’, and the 4th… and who gets to keep their ‘Vaxx Passes’ valid.

This is perhaps the only test – as every day goes by, the final date of validity for these passes approaches. Will people be keeping their ‘Vaxx Passes’ valid… as it looks like the only way to do that is to keep taking the jabs.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

The so-called vax passports, if they are intended to be Social Credit Passports by stealth, require 100% take up. So if the number of ‘unvaccinated’ remains at its current level, what are the Govt going to do?

FrankFisher
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

kill the dissidents

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

Or just give them shitty jobs and cut their benefits.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

“Untermenchen” what would you badge them with so that the Vaxxed ( the Walking Dead) people can keep ‘appropriate’ Social Distance like the Nazis did with the Jews?

A Yellow ( medieval plague warning colour) UV?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I was pointing out what could be likely to happen, not what I wished would happen. You seem to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick this time.
I generally agree with your posts, by the way.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

No I haven’t – I understood that – I was just taking the point further into the darkness!

We all know what a “slippery slope” leads to!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

The Government doesn’t need to do anything, other than keep on punishing the ‘unvaxxed’ whilst allowing the ‘vaxxed’ to have life a bit easier.

I don’t see why 100% should come into this. The ‘unvaxxed’ can have their ‘Social Credit Scores’ but they’ll just have to use their points at home, and not abroad. Why go to Biarritz when there’s Blackpool?

I do think some kind of ‘social credit score / carbon footprint score’ (or whatever) will be coming along, but maybe not just yet. The ‘Vaxx Pass’ is all that’s needed to keep us all under control.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

What are they going to do?

Hold people down and force vaccinate them…if they die on the spot, quickly shovel them into a ditch out of sight of the cameras?

Just a suggestion.

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

I expect they will be preparing the next crisis to frighten even the unjabbed into accepting digital IDs – climate-related disasters, the complete collapse of the financial system, fake alien invasion etc etc. It might be a rocky ride!

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Just design a new deadly variant for which the vaccine is actually effective, then release it to target the unvaccinated. You just need to do it once. If an impressive number of unvaccinated die from it, unlike from covid, the success of all future vaccination campaigns will be virtually ensured. Whether/when it will be done is just a simple matter of technological progress – because there’s billions of dollars in it for the perpetrators.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

The plan is clearly a war of attrition. Endless persecution of the unprivileged while the privileged keep rubbing in their face how “stupid” they are.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

There’s still the destination’s requirement though. Let’s try going to NZ or Canada…..

Sambagirl
Sambagirl
4 years ago

Let’s hope you’re right!

Username1
4 years ago

This is going to piss off those who reluctantly got boosters no end ha ha ha ha ha!

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Username1

Sure I had a stroke but it saved me taking a lateral flow test.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

And you get placed on the plane first (even though the wheelchair is a bit of a pain)

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

“Sure I had a stroke but it saved me taking a lateral flow test.”

No – it’s 2 PCR tests for the ‘unvaccinated’ plus 10 days quarantine – unless you test ‘positive’ and quarantine continues.

Whether you choose to skip quarantine or not is your choice/risk.

It’s blackmail – take the jabs or be punished. Mafia tactics – protection money. Give us your money or we “won’t be able to protect you” (from ourselves).

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Username1

Johnson has a ‘Masters’ in “pissing people off” -women especially ( it followed on from his “First” in Lying! ).

Bellingcat
4 years ago

Ah fuck it I’ve given up on this shit show. Head clown pork-pie BoJo should be deposed just for this.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Bellingcat

Talking of which…there has been drip-drip PR saying that only “extracts” from the Gray report will be released, or maybe a summary, or maybe the document but not the attachments.

Well that’s f***ing funny, because the oh so contrite Johnson promised the Commons that he would answer questions about the report. MPs including Starmer can hardly question him about it usefully unless they have seen it including its attachments.

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Typical government whitewashing! He’s guilty on all counts!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

And many more we don’t yet know about!

Proveritate
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Really? Zahawi was on the radio this morning saying that it would all be published. In the interests of transparency, you see.

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

People may be ‘vaccinated’ but they are not inoculated.

It’s time to start again. To hell with Johnson and co. We are better than this. I look forward to mass gaol time for certain people with surnames beginning with F, G, J, W and V.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

The trouble is that at least 80% of the voting public always vote Tory or Labour.
Like those red wall bell ends, they thought they were voting for a change by electing the Tories, there is no hope with these retards.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago

Ferguson/Fauci, Gates, Johnson, Whitty, Valance?

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

Boris and his Cabinet need to prosecuted for crimes against humanity, coercing people to take a rushed experimental injection is beyond disgusting.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Have no fear – the ‘Alpha Male Assemble’ will be kicking ass soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w7znks-h5A

JayBee
4 years ago

Where are the effin lawsuits and lawyers?!
This should be a shoo-in, unless the UK has gone full Banana Republic.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

The latter.

But not just the UK. The entire western world.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

No money in it ( yet) Guv…. but wait for the massive claims for vaccine injury and death to start gaining momentum though.

Named individuals can be sued personally and Class Actions are the way forward!

When the £100,000s – start to appear, so will the Lawyers!

Then there is always “Malfeasance in Public Office”!

CrouplessCoup
CrouplessCoup
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

How are law claims going to work when there is no-liability conferred by law on the manufacturers etc.? Fraud may vitiate all but it can be hard to prove and does it annul statute?

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Sorry David, but did you see the establishment takedown they other day by the BBC of Mark Sexton’s incredible work of getting a crime no from the Met police – dismissed in a matter of words by referring to it as “antivaxxer activists”? It doesn’t bode well.

Mike Oxlong
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

The fucking lawyers are too busy stopping illegal migrunts being deported.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

“Where are the effin lawsuits and lawyers?!”

Is the penny dropping yet?

Steve-Devon
4 years ago

By the time they go on holiday, for many double vaccinated people, it will be nearly or over a year since since they had their 2 injections. It is already looking very silly to pretend that 2 injections over a year ago are having any great effect on a respiratory virus. This does rather beg the question at to whether they are going to wait until all the holidays are booked and then change the rules to 3 injections? In that way people will either have to get a booster or lose their holiday.

Ceriain
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

Johnson did say at a presser in December that the definition of fully vaccinated would be changed to three jabs at some point.

Ceriain
4 years ago
Reply to  Ceriain

Confirmed (allegedly) in this article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/24/self-isolation-unvaccinated-travellers-scrapped-time-half-term/

Ministers are also expected to confirm plans to change fully vaccinated status to include a third or booster jab, although they are not expected to set a timescale for its introduction.

Nudge, nudge, nudge…

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Ceriain

Yeah …rule changes in mid-game – what’ s not to like?

Anyone remember the footage of Porker Johnson, pushing a young lad , one-third his size into the mud during a “friendly” Junior Ruby practice?

An Eton Education shows!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

“Stay home and stay immune Healthy” could be a new slogan for the English Tourist Board!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

The EU ‘Covid Pass’ was valid for 12 months after the first 2 jabs – I think it is now 9 months. It does seem to be a matter of getting the 3rd jab (and then the 4th, 5th, etc.) to keep the ‘Covid/Vaxx Pass valid’.

I think only some kind of civil war, or good old-fashioned punch-up, is going to get rid of all this shite. But so very few are interested in that, and the authorities know it, and so here we are in our current situation. Control by Vaxx Pass. There is no real indication that this is ever going to stop. Any ‘trouble’ and they’ll bring out another ‘variant of concern’.

https://stm.fi/en/the-covid-19-passport

From the link below it states: “The COVID-19 vaccination certificate is valid for 12 months.”

https://www.kanta.fi/en/web/guest/covid-19-certificate-faq

Star
4 years ago

The current requirement for “unvaccinated” people entering or returning to Britain isn’t just testing – it’s 10 days of isolation.

It’s not “quarantine” when you have to stay in your house or garden but you can have a dozen of your mates in every day for a party who can then go wherever they like.

It’s a form of punishment that is meant to encourage “vaccination”.

When the government make an announcement, hopefully later today, we’ll find out whether this position will change soon or not.

Chris_uk
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Yes, and what an utterly ridiculous business that 10 day isolation is. My unvaccinated partner arrived in England recently. During the 10 days we shared everything (I’ll spare you the details), and yet there was nothing to say that I couldn’t go to the pub with my mates. I’m thoroughly fed up with all these dystopian rules that damage our quality of life for no purpose whatsoever. It’s long past time to put all this bullshit behind us and start holding the perpetrators to account.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

It’s called “detention”.

realarthurdent
4 years ago

I’m not in the business of defending the government, but given the pressure they’ve put on the population to get vaccinated, in order to avoid an immediate riot by the double and tripled jabbed, they need to, in the short term at least, make it appear as if being vaccinated bring some advantages over being a “disobedient, stupid, misogynistic anti-vaxxer).

I expect the requirements placed on the unvaccinated will be quietly dropped in a few months time. After all they are completely indefensible on health grounds and sooner or later the government would lose a court case over it.

(That is assuming the UK government really has decided to unwind the pandemic response in its entirety, and give up on vaccine passports, something which I’m not entirely convinced of yet).

A Heretic
A Heretic
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

disobedient, stupid, misogynistic anti-vaxxer

you forgot “racist”.

realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

Quite right, sorry it’s so hard to keep up. I suppose “granny killer” must also be in there somewhere.

It reminds me of David Cameron calling Brexiteers “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”, which didn’t turn out so well for him.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Call me Dave got turned over by “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”, well played Dave, well played.

Amtrup
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

…. and selfish, irresponsible, neo-nazi, alt-right extremist deplorables ….

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Well, he was describing Jacob Rees Mogg pretty accurately!

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

and climate change denying……

Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Whats “ whats climate change”

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Durrans

Its what happens when you don’t keep up to date with your vaccines death jabs. Just waiting for them to make that claim any day now.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Since when in the last 2 years has the completely indefensible been grounds for not doing something?

This is of course a reward to the jabbed for compliance.

What there is no evidence of any kind whatsoever, at least so far, is that the UK will ever soften on vaccine requirements for travellers. Quite the opposite, I would say.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

“Expect” nothing good from Johnson and you will not be disappointed

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Your name is Carrie Symonds and I claim my £10.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

“That is assuming the UK government really has decided to unwind the pandemic response in its entirety, and give up on vaccine passports, something which I’m not entirely convinced of yet.”

I really can’t see England/the UK standing up against the rest of the world as regards Vaxx Passes (call it ‘Covid paperwork/certificates’ to cover it all).
I find it quite terrifying to see how much has gone into making them already.

And they’re probably made by cheap labour ‘coders’ in India who have flogged all of your personal details to the Chinese.

FrankFisher
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Read the German interview with their guy in charge of “defending the constitution”, actually an intel oversight board; he calls the unvaxxed “enemies of the state”.

Speaking for myself, I agree.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

Certain kinds of “State” deserve “Enemies”.

Ceriain
4 years ago

Nobody now pretends that two vaccine doses provides any kind of protection against Omicron infection.

Yes they do! Fat Bozo and Savage Jabbit claim it still.

Nikki Kanini, or Panini, or whatever her name is, said it on Saturday while commenting about the NHS jab mandate.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Still playing games with us – this is by no means over!

Concentrate on the damage being caused by the injections, not their stupid, childish and pointless regulations.

“A trip to Corfu for a week, or a working, undamaged immune system for life”?

Still your choice.

Vaxtastic
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Exactly. People are choosing to be injected, no matter how much propaganda they pump out. The way out of this for everyone is to exercise choice.

Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
4 years ago

Logic has long since left the building.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago

It was never in the country, let alone the building

stewart
4 years ago

The reward for the compliant.

And the non-compliant can continue to sit on the naughty step and think about their behaviour, while the rest are outside playing.

maverick999
maverick999
4 years ago

Everyone should stop travelling, in solidarity with the vaccine-free. Some hope though!

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  maverick999

I don’t think the boycott should be done in solidarity with the unvaccinated or anyone else. Rather, it should be done as a matter of moral principle.

Emmelda Johnson
4 years ago

As someone who had to experience the horrors of the hotel quarantine gulag. Shame on this government. I hope Johnson is hanged, drawn and quartered and his body parts sent to four quarters of the planet.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

Was it a ‘Government approved’ ‘hotel’? I expect ‘Government approved’ means Javid visited to make sure the pillows were fluffed and there were no stains on the carpet.

Quarantine hotel in Kenilworth – the first 2 minutes tells me all I need to know – just as I thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbwWviJFU24

“nice to see the taxpayer is providing employment to half of Africa and the Indian Sub Continent in our security industry....”

Emmelda Johnson
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Holiday Inn. Last place I’d ever go for a fucking holiday. Twats all of them.

TSull
TSull
4 years ago

Holiday Inns are kips at the best of times. I suspect they are many times worse under this “new normal”.

8bit
8bit
4 years ago

They had to excuse the double-shot but not boosted because, if the double-shot were not exempt that would mean 40% of the population would require pantomime testing to travel. The real % may be significantly higher but those are the official gov stats. Unfortunately for the single-shot, they’re not classed as “fully vaccinated” and they have to stay behind after school for detention with the rest.

Vaxtastic
4 years ago
Reply to  8bit

I also suspect the numbers are nothing like the ones published. Probably plenty initially double jabbed. But the boosters less so. Including boosters would dramatically reduce holidays booked perhaps.

amanuensis
4 years ago

It is remarkable how keen governments worldwide are to ignore the science.

It is almost as if they don’t want their electorate to realise the negative consequences of their hubris-driven policy mistakes over the last 12 months.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

They’ve been ignoring scientific evidence since the spring of 2020, starting with the actual danger posed by the new coronavirus, to masks, to tests, to social distancing all the way through to jabs and vax passports.

The remarkable thing would be if they started to act on the basis of good scientific evidence.

snipola
snipola
4 years ago

Bonkers ruling, so there no need for the booster then, ever? At least they can’t blame the unvax for bringing in new scarients into the Country! (Not that tests are accurate anyway).

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  snipola

Of course they’ll add the booster requirement in due course.

A bit of carrot, a bit of stick, a bit more carrot…

Jabs and vax passports are here to stay forever, make no mistake. There is nothing in the announcements of the last week, ten days that isn’t consistent with the promotion of jabs and vax passports.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Pfizer’s new shiny specially repurposed anti Omicron booster – you must get that. 98 per cent effective.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Same sh*t, differenet angle!

Gates must have been on the ‘phone again!

ImpObs
4 years ago

It implies unvaccinated can travel, with a test, but where could we even go! lol

Evidence? You mean more ‘mumbo jumbo’

This must be the ‘punishment’ phase.

Amtrup
4 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Mexico!

Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Reply to  ImpObs

and Croatia, Slovenia, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and a few others… reward these wonderful places

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/which-countries-can-i-travel-to-if-i-e2-80-99m-not-vaccinated/ar-AAT5itE

(Slovenia requires a RVT for day to day stuff – just use your initiative)

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago

Greece? The birthplace of democracy currently fining old people for exercising their human right not to take part in a medical experiment? No thanks.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

and only a very few of the locations on that list [thanks Major Panic BTW for the link) DON’T restrict other venues or services to the jabbed only when you are there, even if you are prepared to go through the PCR/antigen testing rigmarole and passenger locator form BS

Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Reply to  Milo

like I said, use you’re initiative, these are box tickers, we had no problems in recent trip to Slovenia using UK domestic covid pass and screenshots of things – just fcukin do it – restaurants, bars, ski resorts just want you’re business but need to show they are ticking bullshit boxes

rayc
rayc
4 years ago

And by supporting such “box tickers” you are making sure that the current regime never ends.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Yes…”compliance” hands them victory.

Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Reply to  Beowulf

you’ve got to get on with life, do stuff, make things happen, work around obstacles – stop finding excuses to be chicken shits

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

How many days have you been ‘in isolation’ after your trip? Remind us. Sounds like fun!

“stop finding excuses to be chicken shits”

“I daren’t leave the house in case Test & Trace find out and fine me.”

Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Reply to  Emerald Fox

A the resident retard spouting drivel again. I would have been out last thursday if my 5 day early release hadn’t been positive. I also got 5 days excellent days skiing blue sky on every day – fabulous and well worth the effort – oh and I am also naturally immune for life now. Anyway you keep talking bollocks as if you have any authority you drivel on about, keep hiding from life and avoid mirrors you pointless coward

ImpObs
4 years ago

technically possible I guess, but a complete 3 ring circus of hoops to jump though!

Seems nowhere is possible without a smartphone, and a local address, so that’soverland travel out the window too.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

Do you remember when Boris was ill with covid and hospitalised, he came back looking dog rough.
I have it on good authority that he was actually on a week long bender (not in hospital at all), he over did the cocaine and looked so rough due to an epic hangover.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Had he been told what was expected of him now

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

We have passports already.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

we just cannot use them in any meaningful way, like the purpose for which they were originally intended

Star
4 years ago

Some good news at last! “Self-isolation for unvaccinated travellers to be scrapped in time for half-term – Holiday boost as Transport Secretary confirms people who have not been jabbed no longer need to quarantine for 10 days” Let’s hope Shapps does actually say this. Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, is expected to announce that travellers who have not been jabbed – including children – will no longer have to quarantine for 10 days.(…)The moves, which will take effect in England from 4am on February 11, will be hailed by ministers as a major filip for families and holidaymakers in advance of the February half-term break.All travellers will still be expected to fill out a passenger location form. However, the only distinction between jabbed and unvaccinated will be the continued requirement for those who have not had their Covid jab to take tests.Anyone who is not jabbed will still be expected to take a pre-departure test within 48 hours of their entry to the UK and to complete a day two PCR test after their arrival. Edit: note that this says “UK”. It’s only an article in a newspaper rather than a government statement, but Nicola “Fake Marriage” Sturgeon had better… Read more »

Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Reply to  Star

getting rid of the punishment quarantine is extremely good news, and the cost of punishment testing is reduced to £63. But this is entirely political with not an ounce of science involved as the vaccine makes people just as, or more, likely to catch and transmit the virus. (Having just ‘recovered’ from the deadly virus i can confirm that the slightly croaky voice was a little bit irritating for a short while)

Anyways – In a just world i would line up all responsible for these crimes and put my forehead through each of their corrupt faces

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

“Buy your PCR tests from Government approved Honest Faisal!”

Anyway – could easily be a trap. They can make sure the PCR tests of the ‘unvaxxed’ can show a ‘positive’ just to be awkward. Before you get on the plane if they’ve had ‘the nod’.

Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Reply to  Emerald Fox

LOL – a retard and a fantasist

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago

Slightly off topic, I emailed the following to the Prime Minister over the weekend, using the ‘email the Prime Minister’ contact form on the .gov website. Imagine my surprise when it was acknowledged this afternoon. I’m looking forward to the response, although I already know it will be the usual weaselly mealy mouthed dissembling obfuscatory double speak that we usually see from the civil service. Prime Minister, I would like you to explain to me why NHS healthcare professionals who have been trained in many cases by the NHS, to work and therefore exercise their clinical judgement in the NHS are now under threat of dismissal (without any severance pay or other standard payments or the ability to receive unemployment support if we are to believe everything that your government officials are telling us) for exercising their clinical judgement by refusing your mandatory so called vaccinations, which incidentally have emergency use authorisation only, no marketing approval and no long term safety data, and with widespread evidence of severe or even fatal cardiovascular adverse events, especially in young men. I hope you saw the coverage of the anti vaccines protests over the weekend, & the healthcare workers uniforms being returned to… Read more »

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

They are still maintaining the illusion that covid is a thing, and punishing unjabbed for knowing it is patent bullkrap.

Pathetic.

Ceriain
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Pathetic.

Totally! I was just writing my post below as you were posting. It’s all just made up rubbish!

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Ceriain

Yup!

Ceriain
4 years ago

Totally made up garbage! “Vaccinated”? Not “vaccinated”? Makes no difference!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10427261/Two-thirds-passengers-flight-Pacific-island-remained-Covid-free-test-positive.html

All of the arrivals on the flight from Fiji had been in quarantine for two weeks before their departure and undergone Covid tests, the government of Kiribati said in a statement, prompting questions about how they contracted the virus. All of the passengers had been vaccinated.

The whole thing is utter bollocks!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Ceriain

Mumbo Jumbo Johnson ( ‘a rubbish hair cut makes me a serious politician’ !) was all over GBNews like a rash just now – blustering on with all matters and manner of crap and lies.

It looks like he has been told by his US Big State CIA minders to ‘Big Up’ war with Russia – can anyone even make this sh*t up?

Johnson playing “Blair “to Senile Joe’s “Bush” – history repeats, as pure farce!

It makes you weep!

We need rid of him and his whole “excess baggage” worthless Cabinet – plenty of old Tories on the back benches -and we have Frost and Baker to make Team Leaders.

A purge of the Gates-Davos- Biden Clique is long overdue.

New picture of Johnson with his toy mask and syringe due out soon? Remember Jesus still wants you to have the jab!

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

2008: Israeli-armed Georgia provokes war with Russia, loses.

2020: Israeli-armed Azerbaijan attacks the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Unfortunately Russia does not fulfil its treaty obligation to defend Armenia, and Azerbaijani forces conquer most of NK, razing villages, torturing prisoners and posting the film to “social media”, destroying churches, and expelling the population whom they claim had no right to be there (despite the presence of Armenian churches dating back to the Middle Ages). (Cf. the genocide against Armenians in 1915. Anyone who doesn’t know the meaning of what Azerbaijan did in 2020 should ask any Armenian.)

December 2021: Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov visits Israel.

Anything that can be said about gangsters in Russia can also be said about the Ukraine…in spades.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Look out for statements by Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of NATO. He is a complete loony – a follower of Rudolf Steiner.

NATO is what the US uses when they can’t get a resolution through the UN Security Council. They used it for example in Afghanistan. That was nothing to do with defending any allies against attack, and nor is Ukraine.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

You seem to have it in for Israel, which is currently doing itself more harm that Syria, Jordan, Egypt et al. have managed to do in over 70 years.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Any odds offered on Biden’s face -saving 8,000 multi-gendered Woke vetted jabbed and demoralised US Doughboys against 100,000, now professional, Russian soldiers defending Mother Russia from False Flag operators and mercenary CIA stooges?

court
4 years ago

This’ll get revised by Easter for everyone. The Tory donors who run the fly-by-night ‘testing’ companies will soon wrap them up when there isn’t a guaranteed massive income.

A Y M
4 years ago

Because it’s about getting to digital IDs via health passes….

TheGreenAcres
4 years ago

This is simply apartheid by stealth.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

The following terms should be used:

  • “pass laws””
  • “internal passports” (also known as “propiski”)
  • “the ear-tag” (instead of “the app”)

“Apartheid” was a propaganda word used BY the South African regime of 1948-1991 (during which every prime minister was a Calvinist). An accurate term would be “white supremacist”.