Yup, we are told they are “following the science”. Bollocks!
Coronavirus quarantine could be slashed to just seven days amid fears Britons are flouting the tough 14-day requirement.
The government’s Covid-19 taskforce is understood to be considering slashing self-isolation for those who come into contact with infected individuals to between a week and 10 days.
The incubation period for this virus hasn’t changed. If there is a case for quarantine, then it should be driven by that. However, upon finding that people are ignoring their idiotic rules, they have decided to do what they do best – panic.
The quarantine changes – which could come into force within weeks but would not apply to those who test positive for the disease…
Then why bother at all? If someone has come into contact with another who has tested positive, then they either have it or they don’t and if you presume that they have it, then they isolate for the given period sufficient to rule themselves out or you just don’t bother at all.
This is evidence – if we hadn’t already seen enough – that none of this idiocy has any basis in science whatsoever. None.
I’ve sidestepped the whole thing. I don’t have the app and don’t check in anywhere. Indeed, the app has made this much simpler. Whereas before, venues would ask for contact details (and they got valid ones, honest, guv) now they just expect you to scan in and don’t ask one way or the other. So I walk past the QR notice and carry on just as I was doing this time last year. Nor do I wear a mask. I am my own little pool of normality. It’s a small rebellion, but a rebellion nonetheless.
A rebellion where n=1
Not much on its own, but there’s another one of those here. Given they seem to shut down any form of Covid protest greater than 1, it probably the best we can do.
My rebellion started weeks ago. I won’t wear a mask and refuse to do business with anyone who tries to make me.
But, interestingly, I have only been challenged once. I was asked if I needed a mask in a motorway service station. When I said I was exempt and reached for my phone where I keep my exemption pdf the lady concerned said OK and scurried off.
So Doris and his gang of fascists can fuck off.
I’ve been asked a couple of times, but on each one they quickly backed down. On one occasion on seeing my sunflower lanyard, the teller at a petrol station asked if I’d had any trouble with my exemption.
Until and unless the British rediscover their traditional truculence and refuse to abide by these draconian measures I fear our country will slide into the sort of regime that Orwell warned us about. Indeed, we’re well on the way. Since our benighted ‘leaders’ haven’t a clue it’s up to us to force them to re-think their plans. Sadly, I am not too optimistic at present. However, there have been a few encouraging signs of the MSM actually permitting reasoned debate on the issue. Hope springs eternal, eh?
Add me too. Not really had anyone make a deal of it so far. I tell them I am exempt and they let me in.
I think you’re missing what’s going on. That “huge number of contacts that can’t be traced” isn’t just the track & tracers being incompetent (although partly maybe), it’s that people are just making up fake details when requested.
In every restaurant I’ve been to since this nonsense started in Scotland I have given a fake name and a fake address and/or phone number. This has never once been checked or challenged. When presented with a QR Code or online checkin I pull out my ancient Nokia C100 phone and say “Doesn’t seem to work”.
The British don’t tend to march in the streets, they simply refuse to comply or treat the demands for compliance with contempt. We’ve never been a “Papers Please” kind of place and that won’t change anytime soon.
Well, I’ve seen for myself that it’s not just me. Bike club members, students, all much the same. Sidestep it quietly wherever possible. Students are required to wear masks for the brief and debrief on their tests, so they usually just pull up the snood thy are wearing anyway. Then pull it down again.
Our useless Government is not “following the Science”. They are abdicating responsibility to the scientists that the Civil Service tells them to listen to. The Government does not listen to any scientist who fails to say what the Civil Service wants the Government to hear. If any scientist speaks inconvenient truth, the Civil Service makes sure they are never heard again … or nominated for gongs.
I used to look around me and think to myself’ how come everybody seems to know what to do’, since this bollocks with all the masks I now realise that its the opposite and most dont have a fucking clue.?
didnt mean to include the question mark, was supposed to be an exclamation mark.
You could have used the edit facility.
This looks interesting:
https://4liberty.org.uk/2020/10/25/they-might-as-well-have-lined-them-against-a-wall-and-pulled-the-bloody-trigger/
I don’t claim any exemption, I just don’t wear a mask. Any challenge I just go elsewhere, vide the local builders merchant and the independent supermarket. I can survive using just the village shop and lidl, for everything else there is ebay, amazon, …
No mask wearing by me and never challenged – staff in shops seem to like I’m not wearing
As John Galt says, more need to refuse and not use petty excuses
Delers nails it
Same as DM’s Bel Mooney – who has rightly refused to back down
Christmas: In SNPland message is “Students will not be permitted to return home for Christmas. Public must accept a virtual Christmas & Hogmanay”
Sod these miserable puritans, we’ll be having a four household Christmas as normal – hope Turkey available to buy