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Boris Suggests UK Might Not Return to Tiers After Lockdown
Breitbart ^ | 02/02/2021 | Victoria Friedman

Posted on 02/02/2021 9:26:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that England will not return to the tiers system at the end of its third lockdown because the infectious nature of the new coronavirus strain renders the system redundant, and over reported concerns of the economic recovery of some areas of the country.

“It may be that a national approach, going down the tiers in a national way, might be better this time round, given that the disease is behaving much more nationally,” said Prime Minister Johnson said during a visit of a vaccination centre in Batley, West Yorkshire, on Monday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boris; lockdown; tiers; uk
I am so sick of hearing about these new variants. South African variant, UK Variant, back alley in Philadelphia variants.
1 posted on 02/02/2021 9:26:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It should be obvious to everyone by now that the “lockdowns” definitely didn’t work — and may have made things worse.


2 posted on 02/02/2021 9:33:15 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Somehow, someway, the media and their power has to be caught and killed because the variant story is yet another example of how they continue to disrupt and destroy many lives.


3 posted on 02/02/2021 9:35:46 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a miracle!

Somehow BiteMe’s installation will fix WuFlu in the UK, too!


4 posted on 02/02/2021 9:40:24 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Me too.

The BBC is also reporting that the UK variant (known here as the Kent variant) has mutated a second time. But that’s what viruses do anyway.

In other news the South Africa variant has led to local areas of England being forced into “surge testing”. This is where testers will knock your door and perform a COVID test on you - with the results later that same day.

A positive test leads to isolation described thus:

[source BBC] “Anyone who gets a positive result test must immediately self-isolate for at least 10 days. Their contacts will be traced by NHS Test and Trace, and must also isolate if told to do so.

Self-isolating means staying at home and not leaving even to buy food, medicines or other essentials, or for exercise. People in England who fail to self-isolate after a positive test can be fined up to £10,000”.

I shall not be opening my front door to testers anytime soon.


5 posted on 02/02/2021 9:41:05 AM PST by LordOddsocks
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To: BenLurkin

WuFlu was NEVER about public health.

It was about getting rid of Trump.

On BOTH sides of The Pond.


6 posted on 02/02/2021 9:41:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another National failure of lockdowns, social distancing and of course masks!


7 posted on 02/02/2021 9:54:38 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Boris Johnson will end up being one of the most hated leaders of Britain. He is an inbred, blue blooded, aristocratic disaster.


8 posted on 02/02/2021 9:58:56 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: LordOddsocks

Whatever happened to Tommy Robinson? Admired him greatly. I’d think he would have a lot to say about the current nonsense.


9 posted on 02/02/2021 10:05:43 AM PST by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And if you check the annual death rate at least here in the US it hasn’t changed. Same amount of people died but they all just died from covid 19 I guess. 🤔


10 posted on 02/02/2021 10:27:14 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: AFB-XYZ

I’m not Tommy’s biggest fan to be honest.

He hasn’t been on TV/radio to be interviewed since late 2019, after he left prison.

There is an interesting short video from December 2020 (on YouTube) about him appearing in court for detaining an alleged “child molester”. I don’t remember the MSM carrying this story at all.


11 posted on 02/02/2021 12:02:42 PM PST by LordOddsocks
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To: OttawaFreeper

The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.

2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke

Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.

Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake

2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/

Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.

Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.

This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.


12 posted on 02/12/2021 8:58:26 PM PST by tbw2
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