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Wednesday 9 February 2022

Napoleon is no longer a threat



Covid: Self-isolation law could be scrapped in England this month

All remaining Covid restrictions in England - including the legal rule to self-isolate - could end later this month, Boris Johnson has said.

Under the current rules, anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for at least five days.

The current restrictions are due to expire on 24 March.

But Mr Johnson told MPs he expected the last domestic rules would end early as long as the positive trends in the data continued.

To my mind we have reached a situation where it seems odd for people to bang on about this issue. We've moved on, much of what was done was a waste of time, we should learn from that, reform the NHS and move on. 

But I suppose Boris needs a positive headline to distract us from Keir Starmer's Savile debacle. Something like that. 

4 comments:

microdave said...

What's the betting that [come the end of the month] Sainsbury's will STILL be assaulting customers with posters & PA announcements (every 3 minutes) asking us to continue muzzling as "We are nearly there" - what ever the hell that means? They've even reinstated the plastic dividers between adjacent tills! To be honest, I fully expect at least 50% in my local branch will still wear the damn things in the summer...

Sam Vega said...

"He then said that he was determined to complete Brexit, while simultaneously reforming the NHS, abolishing the BBC, and cutting 30% off University funding. Immigration would be massively curtailed, and the illegal sort eradicated. Push-back would now begin against malign left-wing influences attempting to subvert our democracy and culture. An aide in a party hat then appeared, and Mr. Johnson had his glass refreshed and was led off back to a room from which loud music and drunken revelry could be heard..."

DiscoveredJoys said...

Looking around the world many governments adopted quite restrictive controls on their populations. While initially justified (perhaps) by the precautionary principle it now seems that many of the measures (other than vaccinations) had little effect and were not justified.

Governments have continued to pursue restrictive controls beyond all reasonable limits, and often with measures logically at odds with others. They now need to find a way of getting down off their high horses and returning the world to something more normal. They are finding it difficult. Boris, and the UK government, for all their faults seem to be doing a 'smooth dismount'. Some other countries (lets go Brandon) are beginning to rewrite history to make the dismount smoother, but all they seem to be doing is irritating all the people who already had reason to doubt the Official Narrative.

A K Haart said...

microdave - we see lots of people still wearing masks, even outside. It could even become permanent in that some may always wear them. If people have a cold but need to go shopping perhaps they would have some value.

Sam - sometimes I think that having to put up with what Boris puts up with would drive me to drink.

DJ - large numbers of people appear to like restrictive controls, as if they feel generally safer under them. It may be that some governments have adopted a slow relaxation to wean people off this feeling of safety.