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UK's Johnson orders tighter restrictions, tells people to work from home as omicron spreads
The Hill ^ | 12/08/2021 | MONIQUE BEALS

Posted on 12/08/2021 1:43:17 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday enhanced COVID-19 restrictions in an effort to slow the spread of the new omicron variant and prevent hospitalizations and deaths.

As part of the new policies, Johnson encouraged people in England to work from home starting Monday. He also announced that, beginning next week, the government would require passes showing full vaccination to enter nightclubs and large events and mandate face masks in most indoor public spaces, according to The Associated Press.

Johnson noted that the U.K. currently has 568 confirmed cases of the omicron variant but added that "the true number is certain to be much higher," the AP reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: johnson; omicron; restrictions; spreads
Churchill is spinning in his grave.
1 posted on 12/08/2021 1:43:17 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s probably doing back flips!


2 posted on 12/08/2021 1:46:37 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are the English people unaware of just how harmless Omicron is?


3 posted on 12/08/2021 1:46:54 PM 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

this for a virus variant that WHO has said has yet to kill anyone ...


4 posted on 12/08/2021 1:47:43 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BenLurkin

I am now calling it “Howard Hughes syndrome”:

https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug05/hughes


5 posted on 12/08/2021 1:49:03 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The UK needs a Cromwell.


6 posted on 12/08/2021 1:49:16 PM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WTAH? All those colds I had over the years and I could have stayed home!? And the economy continues it’s clockwise swirl into the septic tank.


7 posted on 12/08/2021 1:51:43 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? πŸ˜•)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A matter of fact: The only way this will end is by force.


8 posted on 12/08/2021 1:52:15 PM PST by glennaro (Although I don't believe in "big conspiracies", neither do I believe in "big coincidences")
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Johnson is an apropos name for this disappointment


9 posted on 12/08/2021 1:52:58 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
C O M I R O N

o m i c r o n

10 posted on 12/08/2021 1:53:43 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: Little Ray

And a more competent Guy Fawkes. Cromwell was too easy on parliament.


11 posted on 12/08/2021 1:54:35 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A great beacon of freedom here, an ally against Count Vladula and Comrade Xi.


12 posted on 12/08/2021 1:59:04 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Locking down due to an actual cold — not the earlier variants, which were more serious, but a COLD!!!


13 posted on 12/08/2021 2:04:06 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: rktman

They were de-industralized years ago. Mainly just a “service economy”.


14 posted on 12/08/2021 2:05:07 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm in the control group. I identify as "vaccinated".🀑)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First, it’s the Xi variant (I’m not skipping Greek letters), and second nobody has died and barely anyone is sick. Wait, that sounds very familiar... Athletes all over the globe, from child amateurs to professionals in multiple sports, are being struck down by the alt-far-left’s clot shots. I saw an article on one standing up to them, “Australian Football Player Diagnosed with Pericarditis After Receiving First Pfizer Shot – Team Director Quits and Slams Leagues ‘Forceful’ Jab Policy (VIDEO)”, and you can give that a look at TheGatewayPundit. Once you take that shot you can never undo it or the damage it does. These are NOT ‘vaccines’ they are VINOs. Just say NO! There are consequences to not standing up to leftists, and #1 is your freedom evaporates. The UK needs to kick cocaine Boris down the road.


15 posted on 12/08/2021 2:28:06 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: catnipman

I didn’t vote for WHO. I also didn’t vote for The Who, although I like a few of the later’s songs.


16 posted on 12/08/2021 2:28:58 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: glennaro

Wow, too bad the Brits gave up their guns.


17 posted on 12/08/2021 2:29:22 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Boris has set the Tories back another decade. Next election, the UK will get a full on liberal and the shit will really go downhill even faster.

Boris has been utterly useless.


18 posted on 12/08/2021 2:35:31 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx
Well, the British have often had to make do with whatever they have ... to be "creative". There are many ways force can be applied, but what it takes to do so -- and which there appears to be a significant lack of (not just in Great Britain but in many countries including our own) is a hefty dose of courage, strength and purpose, that is commitment to a cause. And I know we agree that restoration followed by unyielding defense of Liberty is cause enough ... a damn good cause at that!
Cheers!
19 posted on 12/08/2021 2:50:22 PM PST by glennaro (Although I don't believe in "big conspiracies", neither do I believe in "big coincidences")
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To: glennaro

I’ve seen the John Wick trilogy. I know what can be one with a little will and a pencil.


20 posted on 12/08/2021 7:14:51 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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