Posted on 12/11/2021 4:04:16 PM PST by RandFan
Michael Gove is leading the push for tougher Plan C Covid-19 restrictions, including 'pub passports', after pandemic modelling showed the Omicron variant could cause more hospitalisations than last winter.
However, Boris Johnson and Downing Street are said to be resisting Mr Gove's calls for a new crackdown, as the Prime Minister faces a revolt from his own Conservative party in a vote over the introduction of Plan B rules.
A commons vote is set to be held on Tuesday over the Plan B measures, which require face masks to be worn in non-hospitality venues, and ask people to work from home where possible. NHS Covid passes will also be required in some venues, like nightclubs, from Wednesday.
Mr Gove, who has been one of the most consistently pro-restriction Cabinet Ministers since the start of the pandemic, said the ‘very challenging new information’ meant that ‘action is absolutely required', and as new data comes in we will consider what action we do require to take in the face of that data’.
The minister's call to potentially cancel Christmas for a second year running comes as scientists advising the government have said tougher Covid restrictions may be needed to prevent Omicron causing anywhere between 25,000 to 75,000 deaths in England over the next five months.
A wave of infection is projected which could lead to a peak of more than 2,000 daily hospital admissions, with 175,000 hospital admissions and 24,700 deaths between December 1 this year and April 30 next year, even under the most optimistic scenario.
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They will never give up their new POWER
“Pub Passports?” There’ll be rioting in the streets.
Bring put your dead! WOW!. The clockwise swirl is accelerating.
Some places in the US and in Sweden did not lock down. They’re doing just fine.
Matter of fact there was some young woman on Twitter who moved from California to Texas and saw how much freedom there was and said it was like a completely different country.
So...from a scientific point of view the lockdowns do not work. So don’t do them. But then again lockdowns are about power, not science.
UK lost their collective minds years ago. They embraced socialism post WW2.
Keep pissing people off.
Meanwhile...
There’s video on Twitter of it. But Twitter is censoring the video as fast as it can find it.
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