[zuriblue]

Maybe our Swiss and German correspondents would like to comment on this, seen elsewhere?

I assume people here seen the fences up in streets in Switzerland and the high fences in supermarkets in Germany separating the vaxed and unvaccinated? They also came on trains checking papers.

Whilst apparently these are concentration camps according to the same poster: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100644212

In Switzerland certainly that is a pack of lies. If you're caught on the SBB without a mask and can't prove an exemption it's going to cost you a few francs but nothing like this idiot's meth fuelled hallucinations

[kreuzberger]

Germany; the supermarket thing is bollocks. In fact, the supermarket is one of the few places you can get in to if you're part of the murderously awkward squad.

Transport is all 3G, meaning, as of this week, you at least need to be able to present a negative test result. Massive fines are possible, at least in theory.

[Arrowhead]

Did anybody have Sue Cook down on their Coronavirus Fucknuggets bingo card? Her entire Twitter feed is chock-full of utter nonsense, including the likes of Neil Oliver, Maajid Nawaz and Claire Fox being approvingly retweeted.

Imagine going back to the mid nineties and trying to explain that, in the middle of a deadly global pandemic which has claimed millions of lives, Matt LeTissier, Right Said Fred and Sue Cook were the public faces of a large, extremely vocal and increasingly unhinged anti-science/anti-vaxx movement in this country

[Andy McDandy]

The days of Chris Morris asking Kim Wilde her views on clamping homeless people and it being obvious satire seem very far away.

[Boiler]

Been a while since we had a FOTL type, isn't it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-essex-59481911

"A living woman, operating under common law".

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ben Bradley, Conservative MP...

[Samanfur]

Last seen on this lunchtime's Politics Live on BBC2, pontificating on the new mask regulations.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's also leader of Nottinghamshire Council. I think he may be setting himself up for a fall.

[Bones McCoy]

He's also leader of Nottinghamshire Council. I think he may be setting himself up for a fall.

Also an expert on drug dens and brothels.

[Cyclist]

The Saj qualifies for this thread

There is no need to call off Christmas parties despite the emergence of the Omicron variant, the health secretary has said, as he urged people to get a booster jab to fight Covid.

Sajid Javid said people should be "sensible" and take precautions such as taking a lateral flow test or wearing a face mask when celebrating this winter.

He also urged people to "step up" and get their booster vaccine when called.

The government aims to offer all adults in England a top-up shot by 31 January...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59486165

I can see a lot of people not bothering with a LFT before going off to their Christmas parties. And wearing masks while out celebrating? Like *that's* gonna happen.


Isn't 130,000 a big enough number?

[Boiler]

Covid: Omicron may require 'very stringent response', say Sage scientists.

Javid: "No need to cancel Christmas party plans".

Herd immunity, and if it gets rid of a load of useless eaters in the process that'll help fund the tax cuts just before the next GE. Or am I being much too cynical?

From the BBC's SYB:

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[The All New KevS]

I wish to be associated with the remarks of the following speaker.

[Boiler]

Well, the comments below are only to be expected. The article is about when Ursula von der Leyen was asked if she thinks mandatory vaccination is necessary in Europe.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... l#comments

And from the unmoderated comments, in response to "what's next?"

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Mitch Benn song applies.

[mattomac]

Didn’t Gaz Chambers play for Burnley in the mid 90s?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[Oboogie]

Didn’t Gaz Chambers play for Burnley in the mid 90s?

Not the singer in Supergrass, then?

[Boiler]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-59493747

A man who put superglue on the lock of a Covid-19 vaccination centre, preventing 504 people from getting jabs, has been jailed for 12 weeks.

[Arrowhead]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-59493747

A man who put superglue on the lock of a Covid-19 vaccination centre, preventing 504 people from getting jabs, has been jailed for 12 weeks.

He'd carried out his own research online, and decided the lizard people weren't going to get away with it yet again.

[kreuzberger]

We have a word in the English language for ideologically-driven criminal behaviour.

[Boiler]

We have a word in the English language for ideologically-driven criminal behaviour.

And I'll bet it doesn't rhyme with Berkeley Hunt either.

From the BBC SYB on office parties at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59492569#comments

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Is this why we can't have nice things? And why can't the author of that BranesPeke do other things in the 30 minutes his LFT is doing its thing? (Something other contributors have remarked upon)