Free Covid Testing to End

Free PCR and possibly also lateral flow tests will be axed within weeks as part of Boris Johnson’s plan to live with Covid, though tests are likely to remain free for vulnerable people and within hospitals and high-risk settings. The Sun has the story.

Brits are currently told to get a highly-accurate PCR test after coming into contact with someone with Covid, but this advice is also set for the chop as the nation gets back to normal.

PCR tests which were previously needed for travel could cost more than £100 privately.

Free lateral flow kits could also be scrapped under money-saving plans reportedly being pushed by the Treasury.

Everyone would have to start paying for rapid self-tests except the oldest age groups, according to the Guardian.

People who catch the virus would also stop being told to take an LFT on days five and six to further reduce their use.

Ministers are poring over a menu of Covid options this week before making final calls.

The PM is desperate to end all Covid rules – including the legal duty to self isolate – by the end of the month.

Government insiders said PCR tests were hugely expensive and were less needed now cheaper lateral flow tests are widely available.

Advice for workers to take lateral flow tests regularly will also be scrapped.

And ministers may also scale down the Office for National Statistics Covid monitoring programme, which tests a sample of the population every week to find out how widespread it is.

Pity it appears some recommendations to test will remain, despite Omnicold plainly not warranting any special consideration as a contagious disease.

Worth reading in full.

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Aletheia of Oceania
Aletheia of Oceania
4 years ago

‘Omnicold’ – 😅😂🤣🤣🤣

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

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RedhotScot
4 years ago

The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town strikes again with another anonymous, single downvote……

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

I do wonder who would vote down a friendly message about peaceful protest. Some dimwit who doesn’t believe in freedom of choice, perhaps?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

All Covid testing should end!

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Its the only way to stop this madness.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

Exactly! And the media ought to be allowed to report “the truth” about vaccine safety

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

It’s a way to make even more money by getting people to pay for the tests.

Annie
4 years ago

Moronic, Omnicon, Omnicold … any more offers? I’m collecting.

Mybodymyfuckingchoice
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Conmicold? Just, commoncold 😁

Tee Ell
4 years ago

Great news!

They never have been free, so this will stop all the eejits who think you might as well have a test because they’re “free” from spending my tax money on pointless bullshit.

Username1
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

Employers who insist you get tested once a day and twice on Tuesdays might suddenly be relaxing their own rules once they realise they will have to pay for it. School budgets won’t stretch to mass testing of kids either. I’ll repeat the story I’ve written about earlier here – someone I was working with said his 13 year old daughter had tested herself 5 times in one day because she was so worried about Omnicold or Coldvid as it’s sometimes known (I just made the second one up).

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Username1

The omicron variant of SARSCoV2 doesn’t cause Covid.

Covid is an illness involving double pneumonia in the presence of a SARSCoV2 infection. It affects the lower respiratory tract. It also affects the upper respiratory tract a bit, but obviously pneumonia is a far more serious concern than cold or even flu symptoms. “Covid” symptoms have been evident mostly in the very elderly, especially those living in institutions, and also among a small proportion of less elderly people who suffer from other chronic illnesses such as heart disease or cancer or who haven’t looked after their immune systems. Hospital has of course long been a great place for catching pneumonia.

Omicron, when it causes any illness at all, affects the upper respiratory tract only, where it causes a cold.

Unfortunately the vast majority of people’s minds have had such a pummelling since March 2020 that the simple and true sentence “Omicron doesn’t cause Covid” will be meaningless gibberish to many.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

I am fairly sure that the vast majority of the populace has absolutely no idea what the term ‘Covid’ actually means. The deliberate confusion lies behind the transformation of 17000 into 150000+ in the lethality stakes of the fear porn.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

They’ve forgotten what Prof Wittery told them very clearly and definitively on 11 May 2020 in his public statement (still on youtube) that ‘covid’ is ‘‘harmless to the vast majority of people”.

JohnK
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

It’s also true that there is a lot of lazy shorthand with the use of the terms. Originally, the disease being discussed was “Covid-19”, to denote the year of it’s discovery, being a “Corona virus disease – 2019”, believed to be caused by the “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2) virus. Historically, the term Covid has not been used much, if at all, for the chunk of “common colds” caused by corona viruses, of course, and the causal viruses have weird terms like 229E, HKU-1 and so on. No-one is really interested in which one’s they’ve dealt with over the years.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Username1

The government made the whole thing up so you are forgiven.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Maybe, but they are not!

ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Username1

The employers might decide (aided by the government’s ‘vaccination by stealth’ advice to employers regarding deployment and jabs) that in the absence of an up to date vax record – the employees must fund regular, expensive tests to show they are not a health and safety danger to the workforce.

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago
Reply to  Username1

Terrorising kids and coercing them to scrape their blood brainbarrier with carcinogenic and nanoparticulate tipped swabs for no reason other than to turn them into cash cows for the scum running this country is what these people are all about

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

The same with “your vaccine”. People don’t seem to realise that they’ll still be paying for all of this for at least a couple of generations hence; and that’s after the forthcoming years of pauperisation for many.

It may be my imagination, but from what I’ve seen, there’s suddenly a lot of advertising and publicity about heart conditions, which I don’t believe were totally unknown prior to the “vaccines”, but didn’t receive that amount of attention. There’s still a seam or two of gold to be mined out of this, along with the profiteering over the costs of these tests.

Star
4 years ago

What products is the heart advertising pushing? Is there a new drug on the market?

Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

There’s a new phone app that costs £89 and monitors your heart for arrythmias etc, heard it advertised on the radio thirty minutes ago.

CarrieAH
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

My friend already has an app like that on her Fitbit. It’s how she discovered her heart arrhythmia 3 days after the Pfizer booster. It was fine before the jab. She was all for the vaccines originally, wouldn’t hear a word against them, but has changed her mind now.

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

No products in the UK, but “public service” ads and suchlike.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

They are covering themselves for an epidemic of myocarditis heart attacks ( especially the young who are having the vaccines pushed at them) which are of course “just coincidence, and nothing to do with the vaccines”

Astonishingly, this is where we now are.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

It’s a cover-up for heart problems caused by the snake oil.

Jo
Jo
4 years ago

Pfizer already on the case with medication for heart conditions.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

They’ve probably blown our grandchildren‘s taxpayer money already.
Sunak’s record in the job is like one endless bungabunga party.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

I don’t think you can say ‘bunga bunga,’ with it’s stereotypical connotations.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Isn’t it okay since I made it a simile?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Your money is safe in Rishi’s hands.

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BS665
BS665
4 years ago

Robo-citizen reprogramming, measure 21c.

Smelly Melly
4 years ago

Great news for the tax payer and Global Warmists. How many billions of useless face nappies and LFT’s have been thrown into the sea to “save lives”?

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

But, but, but “if it saves ONE life…!”

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Do they strangle turtles? I bet they do!

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Let’s try it on Dungford and see.

Uncle Monty
4 years ago

Imagine if these billions had been spent on research into cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s instead?

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  Uncle Monty

Spent on who? Curing those diseases is the last thing big pharma wants. They need perpetual income, preferably with the highest mark-up and closest to zero-effectiveness as Fauci can cover-up. I’d suggest spending the money on fusion reactor research, but again no one in power REALLY wants unlimited energy.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

Ivermectin at 40 cents a pop, or Fauci’s deadly ‘run-if-you-don’t-want-to-die’ pill at $700+ per course of treatment.
Which would you back if you owned Pharma shares?

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Update: I checked and remdesvir is actually $3500 per ‘treatment course’ according to R F Kennedy Jr.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Uncle Monty

Or perhaps classier wine for Boris’s No10 parties?

Doom Slayer
4 years ago

Currently in the midst of this pathetic variant. Mrs, who works in NHS and is double jabbed but has come to her senses and rejected the booster, had symptoms last week and tested positive. She had just got over another cold and was pretty run down and so has felt rough but nothing worse. I had a sore throat on monday for a bit and then have had a headache and intermittent tickly cough. Thats it. I thought I would lft just for interest and i was positive too. What a joke that we are trying to get people “vaccinated” against this. It is the mildest cold i can remember. Ive had worse effects from a lamb madras.

Spritof_GFawkes
4 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

Never mind, it would have been so much worse of your wife hadn’t been jabbed (sarc, for the absence of doubt).
Anyway, just you watch out door the vindaloo variant! 😉

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

You believed a test?????????

Doom Slayer
4 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

I know. It was just purely out of interest. I have never and would never stoop to a pcr.

Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

SShould have had mango chutney with it😂😂😂

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

Lassie.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

Covid tests are 97% ‘false positive’. This has been know for over a year but never reported on the BBC..

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

They are 100 percent false positive because no SARS COV 2 virus has ever been proven to exist or cause symptoms. Virologists use a method to prove that viruses cause cell death which is completely fraudulent and bogus. This is “the science” (aka “the bullsh*t”) that convid is based upon. Explained in this video clearly:

The Final Refutation Of Virology by Dr. Stefan Lanka
https://www.bitchute.com/video/q81nCK05aZ0x/

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

You can be vaccinated against lamb madras. Or rather, sheepcinated.

loopDloop
loopDloop
4 years ago

The kids will be wailing. It’s their human right to test test test. Because the test is truth. The test is God. You could be killing people just walking around without any symptoms, you monster, so you must test, test, test. Because that way, you will find out if you have COVID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg i tested positive I HAVE COVID. first thing to do is get on social media, because this is a holy moment. Let everyone know. Oh, you’re fine, phew, but you TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID. oh no! are you ok?????yes, i’m ok, but I tested positive. Right time for isolation. Taking one for the team .Wouldn’t want to infect anyone with the COVID because they might die die die. So test test test. After all, they’re free, so take as many as you want. What’s that? They’re not free anymore? Not even for trans kids? Are you kidding me? This is genocide. Kids needs tests. It’s ok for the adults, they will be dead of climate change in 50 years, but what about the kids without tests? Huh? what about them, what will they do? They will be killing each other through going to the pub without symptoms… Read more »

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

“Try the (vegan) veal.” 😉

loopDloop
loopDloop
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

Me at a restaurant somewhere in America, 1994. My companion, to the waiter: ‘is the shrimp fresh?’
The waiter: ‘ oh yes, fresh frozen’.
My companion: ‘ah fresh frozen.’

That’s it, that’s the anecdote.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

In the UK “fresh” has “meant “frozen” for decades!

In France, even frozen fish straight from the catch, if defrosted before sale, has to be labelled to indicate it has been defrosted from frozen.

FrankFisher
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

In my prepping research I looked into available analysis of the vitamin content of various fruits, vegs etc, and it turns out that if you buy fast-frozen veg or fruit, as opposed to supermarket bought goods, the frozen stuff will almost certainly have a better nutritional content. Picking straight off the tree or bush is obviously better, but most shop-bought fruit and veg has been in transit for days or even weeks, it’s not actually fresh. I see no reason why fish would be any different. Frozen once, thawed once would seem a good bet.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

Agreed. Like peas: two hours from field to freezer. Compare that with ‘fresh’ ones, unless you grow your own (which, incidentally, is a doddle).

Deborah T
Deborah T
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Love this!

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

In Berlin activists are gluing themselves to the Autobahn to protest the high amount of food being thrown out by supermarkets each day due to the sell by date.

loopDloop
loopDloop
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

The same sample young person on whom I based my hilarious post above is obsessed with the dates on food. Meticulously checks on the box before consuming any item to make sure that it is not expired. Otherwise, who knows what could happen. Death probably. Severe illness at the very least. Cornflakes that expired yesterday can kill you. Also life can kill you so to be safe don’t start.

RedhotScot
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Sorry, but that doesn’t pass the sniff test……..

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Nanny is watching!

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

During Lockdown I thought I eat what is my cupboard. Stuff 2 years past it’s best before date which I had totally forgotten in the back corner. Ok, it was either a can or dried pulses.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

If it doesn’t smell bad, doesn’t have green mould growing over it, hasn’t gone a funny colour and doesn’t grow little legs and walk away, then eat it.

Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

My elderly mother is getting a bit forgetful and once I went round for dinner and she served up some green pasta. I said ‘oh is it that green pasta? I didn’t know you liked that.’ ‘No, it’s just the normal, I think’ she said. I checked the remains of the packet she’d got it from, and it was fresh egg pasta, covered in green mould, about six months past its sell by date. We’d both eaten a lot of it by then and we’re both still here.

misslawbore
misslawbore
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

They aren’t allowed to protest about vaccines and restrictions in Germany but stuff like wasted food is OK

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  misslawbore

Controlled steam valve!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

Wasn’t it great when we had cheese and cured or smoked bacon which could be kept for months or years? Good cheddar was 18 months/ two years old! The food had real taste not chemical preservative wipe overs as well!

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I deliberately store my eggs – outside the fridge – for weeks before hard boiling them as they are easier to de-shell then!

The old bat
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

Surely it would be better to glue yourself to the supermarket.
Along with everything else that a great many under 45 ‘s seem to have lost the ability to do is tell whether or not food is edible simply by looking at it and smelling it. The idea that a piece of edible, say, chicken, is fine to eat on a Tuesday, but if you eat it on the next day it will poison you is ridiculous. Constant state nannying has made people stupid and unable to think for themselves.
Food waste is really one of my pet hates.

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  The old bat

The podcast where I heard this discussed that. But of course causing a disturbance during rush hour is getting them more publicity. They are just so small minded they do not understand it is negative publicity.

Amtrup
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Love it, can virtually hear them/see the text messages! 🙂

Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago

Now watch the “numbers” drop.

Aletheia of Oceania
Aletheia of Oceania
4 years ago

Drop?

I think that the word you’re looking for is plummet, and faster than Trudeau’s approval rating.

🍿

ellie-em
4 years ago

Johnson and Co will proudly proclaim that is a result of his successful jabbing spree.

Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

OF COURSE!!!!

FrankFisher
4 years ago

That will just “prove” the jabs are working.

Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

OF COURSE!!!

thinkcriticall
4 years ago

PROJECT VERITAS: FDA Exec Officer on Hidden Camera: Biden Wants to Inoculate as Many People as Possible, “You’ll Have to Get an Annual Shot”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSXHrmOy8o

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  thinkcriticall

Biden doesn’t know what day it is or what office he holds.

Rogerborg
4 years ago

I await the demented shrieking from Kween Krankie about how this is literally genocide against the Scotch folx, and the “free” stuff must must must continue indefinitely.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Do you mean Scotch Volk

maggie may
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

As long as the English pay for it?

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  maggie may

The English pay for everything. That’s what they’re there for.

John Dee
4 years ago

I especially appreciated the rarely-accurate Sun mentioning the ‘highly-accurate PCR test’.
Enough irony there to please an electromagnet.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

You beat me to it John but I commented before reading everybody else. A bit bloody obvious I agree.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

When will newspapers be prosecuted for their two years of blatant “Covid Lies”?

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Never.

Bolloxed Britannia
Bolloxed Britannia
4 years ago

😂😂😂 They seek it here they seek it there they seek the Convid everywhere.

Annie
4 years ago

Is it in heaven, is it in hell?
It’s up your nose, as you know well.

Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Last night when testing on the stair/I caught a bug that wasn’t there/It wasn’t there again today/I wish, I wish it’d go away.

thinkcriticall
4 years ago

Former BlackRock Portfolio Manager Pfizer Fraud. Must Watch!

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/098/870/006/original/bc4a786ab8eba750.mp4

Smelly Melly
4 years ago

I go onto the Guardian website every now and then, mainly to have a laugh at the lefties BS. There is a howler of a comment today in the Guardian Opinion “The Guardian view on axing Covid rules and testing: this is not normal”. You couldn’t make this up.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Since the Guardian view on anything is ‘not normal’, that’s more accurate than they usually manage.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

The word “normal” has lost its meaning. You can probably get the sack nowadays for saying that being gay is not normal, when gays are no more than 2% of the population. I heard a transvestite on BBC Radio 4 saying that nobody should say he’s not normal because what’s normal for “you” isn’t normal for “me”. There is no truth! Any old sh*t is as true as anything else, even when it’s obviously false.

Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Yes, we don’t just have truth nowadays, we have ‘my truth’ and ‘your truth’.

Sforzesca
Sforzesca
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

I was moderated over 18 months ago but have been waiting for an opportunity to post this

https://www.authorea.com/users/455597/articles/552937-innate-immune-suppression-by-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccinations-the-role-of-g-quadruplexes-exosomes-and-micrornas

after engaging their appeals system.

If it is actually is allowed to appear in the comments section I anticipate an apoplectic reaction. That said, I don’t think they will allow it.

Please post the above to the said Guardian Opinion piece if you are able ie not banned, assuming you can bring yourself to do so.

misslawbore
misslawbore
4 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

They allowed it because they correctly surmised that most of us would not understand it and so would not get to the end. I am one of those but I am inclined to agree with the conclusions. I would welcome the opinion of those who do understand it

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Every time you click on the Guardian they register a success and carry on with their shrieking, adolescent Marxist Feminist drivel!

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I believe you’ll find it’s actually described as ‘fearless investigative journalism’.
Or, rather, self-identifying as such, which is quite good enough nowadays.

MizakeTheMizan
4 years ago

Before we get too optimistic about this I have a concern that they are going to force the unvaccinated to keep on getting tested everywhere, and pay for those tests, to ratchet up the coercion.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

Such as on returning from abroad. This is an aspect that members of the critical community who have a presence in the MSM should try to force into view: ending “all” “Covid rules” should mean ending all compulsory testing for the unspiked.

Will
Will
4 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

Not if Johnson is still in number 10, which he will be, because Sir Desmond Swayne and his mates won’t have it and they know they have got Johnson and Carrie Antoinette exactly where they want them.

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

Yep, they did that in Germany and my sister got injected because of it. She could have waited 3 weeks, then they were made free again due to rising cases. She took it so she can go to museums etc.

misslawbore
misslawbore
4 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

Fine. More protests then. Judicial Review

mka1221
4 years ago

Still not taken either a PCR or lateral flow ‘test’.

But I have used LFT’s on various foodstuffs and condiments, and some did return ‘positive’ results.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

need a damn sure -ve test without inserting nanoparticle-laced tubes in ooifices? – use the test kit buffer with a drop of coke (other shite sugary refreshments are widely available)

Bob is your Auntie’s Brother.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Its never been free, its cost the tax payers, billions

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

And the small matter of the complete destruction of society based on these fraudulent unvalidated pieces of crap. And the upshot of repeatedly scraping the inner lining of the nostrils and the blood brain barrier with these carcinogenic ethylene oxide swabs caked in nano partticles remains to be seen……but its definitely been worth it to save all those lives

Antonietta M. Gatti, Ph.D. is the coordinator of the Italian Institute of Technology’s Project of Nanoecotoxicology, called INESE. She is a selected expert of the FAO/WHO for the safety in nanotechnological food, and a Member of the NANOTOX Cluster of the European Commission.

ABRASIVE “PORCUPINE” SWABS: DR. ANTONIETTA GATTI’S RESEARCH ON COVID SWAB ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WxVYvvsC0SxR/

Antionietta Gatti | Analysis of Covid Test swabs | Planet Lockdown
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TrkiY1ZMXlo3/

Star
4 years ago

What about compulsory testing for the unspiked returning or otherwise entering from abroad? That’s a “Covid rule” and I’m not convinced the prime minister is “desperate” to end it.

ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Fear not, that will be one of many ‘considerations’ the ministers will be looking at retaining esp for the uninitiated – non jabbed – into the vax jab cult – at personal cost, of course. Other ‘considerations’ will be for the non-jabbed to have to continue to partake but with self funded ‘tests’ to prove they are fit and not a danger to ironically, the jabbed, in day to day work and leisure activities. We all knew this was coming.
All in the best interests of public safety, of course…and the coffers of whichever companies provide the expensive testing services.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Lile many here, I will not be coerced into taking an injection I do not want. Nor will I submit to a “test” I do not believe I need.
This is nothing to do with phobias about needles or tests – I’ve had both in the past when I felt they were necessary, or just a good idea. It’s entirely about my refusal to allow others to dictate what enters my body.
I think TPTB have no idea how many people will never submit.

ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

My sentiments, too.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

And mine.

Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

I want to visit the U.K. tjis year snd it will cost me six covid tests and expensive quarantine on return to Thailand

Deborah T
Deborah T
4 years ago

And that is how you end a ‘pandemic’. We always knew that it would end when they decided it would end. End self-isolation and end free tests, which means all the ‘good parents’ will be less inclined to stick a swab up their double-jabbed children’s noses when they’re perfectly healthy. (A teenager the other day told me that she is still tested twice a week and goodness knows some will be having to have this done to them daily…). So, it’s all over, until they try it again.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Deborah T

This shitshow is a long way from ended.

Phase two about March. Phase three, the big one, once the Online Harms Bill and super shiny, new Human Rights Act are on the books – watch the crap fly.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Well, we have to win. So – however long it takes.

Cranmer
Cranmer
4 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Yep, we know we’re not going back to the Old Normal (and why would we want to – it was the world of 2019 that enabled this barbarity) so we might as well get used to perpetual ideological warfare.

thinkcriticall
4 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: Pfizer Vax Trial Manager Tells All; Blows Whistle on Data & Medical Integrity, Alleged Fraud During Covid-19 Clinical Trial; Brook Jackson’s Shocking Revelations During Her First Sit Down w/ Paine & Former Blackrock’s Ed Dowd

https://paine.tv/exclusive-pfizer-vax-trial-manager-tells-all-blows-whistle-on-data-brook-jacksons-shocking-revelations-during-her-first-sit-down/

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

I’m now suffering from testing kit deficiency syndrome…

Nymeria
4 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

Please isolate for 7 days.

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

Has a plant based vaccine been developed, yet?

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

To produce a plant based vaccine you would first need to develop a plant based monkey

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

But monkeys eat plants…so there you go.

maggie may
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Well i wonder – now they know that if they terrify the population enough they can do their trials on humans, why bother with the poor monkeys?

paul parmenter
paul parmenter
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

If the monkey identifies as a plant, it’s a plant. Only a dangerous right-wing Brexit-voting fashist would deny that self-evident and scientific reality.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

They’ve already produced a vaccine-free vaccine.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

How about a death free vaccine…… now that would be progress

Nymeria
4 years ago

Lol!

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

The ‘Vegetarian Butcher’ is working on it currently.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

What a strange world we live in. A regime that can confiscate peoples assets for refusing to take part in a medical experiment is described as a Liberal Democracy

HicManemus
4 years ago

From a Norwegian friend living near Bergen. “It’s weird to have the virus without being sick. This virus has been so much husteria around for 2 years. Had I not taken the test I wouldn’t have noticed anything. Took test due to a little sore throat yesterday morning but it is gone now. Now I have no symptoms. Norway has just removed all Covid rules. Children can go to school as long as they do not have a fever and no longer need to test themselves. So now Norway is back to being home if you are sick and at school if you are healthy. That’s very good. If adults have no symptoms but test positive they can now go to work if the employer wants you to. So, I’m going back to work.” She also told me that last week at the local school virtually all the children were off “sick” with Covid. At one time there were only three students in her son’s class. Pragmatism has won the day for the Norwegians, as ever. Why can’t Trudeau do the same for the the Canadians?

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  HicManemus

Not only for Turdeau and Canadians!

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  HicManemus

We were supposed to fly to Oslo yesterday. Sad we didn’t. Was so happy when they scrapped everything on Saturday.

We just felt we needed warmth and sun right now. So instead we flew to Lisbon. Mask compliance is 100% in the required settings (airports, shops, standing up in cafés and restaurants, sitting or standing on public transport, etc.). I enter these settings barefaced and fancy free, if anyone asks me I take out a secretly pre-snapped mask, and pretend it just snapped as I start to put it on. Almost without exception, the response from the authority figure to my ‘surprised’ face is a wave of the hand, a shrug and “Ah, don’t worry about it.”

The exception so far is having two shopkeepers in different branches of the same supermarket “fight” with me about it. I just turned around and walk out. Bought my milk somewhere else.

Oh, and had an evil glare from a passenger, a posh bitch on the tram who would have suited jackboots.

HicManemus
4 years ago

Love the broken mask excuse! Just as a follow on from my previous comment, my Norwegian friend wrote to me: “Yes, I am glad that we can now return to normal life where we are at home if we are sick, and at school and at work if we are healthy!” 
 
She goes on: “This pandemic has hurt a lot for many. There are very many young people who struggle with great mental difficulties after being isolated from school and studies for a long time. This will be a huge challenge for the country in the future. They struggle to get to work and shool due to mental difficulties.”
 
And finishes: “This may be a much more serious consequence than what the virus has actually caused.” So there you have it in a nutshell. What has our government, and those around the world, done to us. Just brutal and unwarranted.
 

Catee
4 years ago

“Brits are currently told to get a highly-accurate PCR test after coming into contact with someone with Covid, but,,,”

Where have they been hiding the highly accurate tests then? LMAO

Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

A court in Germany this week ruled that as long as there is nothing better, despite the PCR’s shortcomings, it is the best we have.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Silke David

“Chicken entrails declared a superior oracular divination technique to casting runes.”

Number48
Number48
4 years ago

My daughter has a massive pile of unused testing kits from school shoved under the stairs, I’m tempted to set up an ebay account to flog them to vaccinated people still living in fear. How much do we think they will go for and would it be better to hang on to them for a bit?

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Number48

Will certainly be appreciating in value faster than USD.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  Number48

Good hedge against inflation caused by the testing

Nymeria
4 years ago
Reply to  Number48

You could have a small fortune shoved under your stairs. Don’t ditch the kits yet.

steve_z
4 years ago

why ‘by the end of the month’? just do it now

is he announcing intentions to see how much the guardian and bbc complain?

PaulMac66
PaulMac66
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

The Guardian are already moaning about it.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

It’s ALWAYS a few weeks away… carrot + donkey.

steve_z
4 years ago

I remember the good old days where they rushed out a vaccine for the vulnerable. As Kate Bingham said – ‘this is only for the vulnerable’. It was a conspiracy theory back then that they would give it to everyone including kids.

I thought ‘fair enough – do our vulnerable then do the rest of the world vulnerable if you really want’. When they started coming down the age groups – as it was clear Covid was harmless to most – at no point did I consider getting it. I just thought ‘what a bunch of twats’. Haven’t changed my mind since

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

“People keep talking about ‘time to vaccinate the whole population’, but that is misguided,” she said. “There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.”

https://www.ft.com/content/d2e00128-7889-4d5d-84a3-43e51355a751

steve_z
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

how we laughed!

Ross Hendry
4 years ago

They are phasing out PCR tests because they know they have always been bogus and that law suits revealing them as the key deception in the plandemic are being filed in many countries.

Too late – we are waking up from the whole nightmare.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

A counter revolutionary tennis player is interrogated by the state media and denounced

How much more information does this running dog need before he starts to believe?