Freedom Day, June 21st, will go ahead.
Poll: Freedom Day, June 21st, will go ahead.
Total Members Polled: 497
Discussion
I'm struggling to see how there won't be a rebellion if lockdown isn't lifted for the majority. I can see strong recommendations to continue to wear masks in crowded indoor locations (eg public transport) and I can see the 2-metre recommendation staying.
However, as long as diagnosis of the rising Delta variant isn't being accompanied by rising hospital admissions, I don't see that there's a justfication for continuing with the current restrictions.
TL:DR - lockdown lifted, but with some ongoing measures to help control inection rates
However, as long as diagnosis of the rising Delta variant isn't being accompanied by rising hospital admissions, I don't see that there's a justfication for continuing with the current restrictions.
TL:DR - lockdown lifted, but with some ongoing measures to help control inection rates
If it were to go ahead they would already need to be actively working to defuse the fear instilled in people over the last year. They are not, so I conclude they are not particularly sure yet. It needs bravery to proceed, this government does not have it.
If anything does change it’ll be a downgrading of restrictions from law to guidance, which is progress, but practically will mean little difference as already people don’t understand what’s law and what’s not. This is also the most cowardly option, and thus what I believe this government would go for.
If anything does change it’ll be a downgrading of restrictions from law to guidance, which is progress, but practically will mean little difference as already people don’t understand what’s law and what’s not. This is also the most cowardly option, and thus what I believe this government would go for.
Its completely safe for the G7 to meet without any quarantine/isolation for the the various big wigs their security teams and who knows how many people flying in with them. They're mixing with 6000 of our own police from all over the country. Any upsurge in 2 weeks will be due to that meeting, not anything us normal people are doing.
If people getting hospitalised and dying aren't vaccinated or everyone else even noticing they have it before getting an asymptomatic test then stuff the restrictions.
If people getting hospitalised and dying aren't vaccinated or everyone else even noticing they have it before getting an asymptomatic test then stuff the restrictions.
Gary29 said:
I think they'll delay it a couple of weeks just to flatten the curve.
and save the NHS no doubt 
I think you need to ask what a coward would do and then that will be the answer. Boris doesn't have the spine to withstand the zero covid loons, no matter how nonsensical their claims.
valiant said:
Zoon said:
As Boris says, they are lead by the data.
If they were able to cancel Christmas, they’ll be able to cancel the 21st June.
Even if restrictions were lifted on the 21st, I would expect them to come up with a new set of rules or restrictions a few days later, just to satisfy the government requirement to pull a U-turn at every opportunity.
As it is, I fully expect t
t Hancock to deliver a sweaty message of misery next week, claiming variants of concern, wanting to protect the vaccinated (doesn’t the vaccine do that, not government?) and other things to justify his presence in office.
Even if restrictions were lifted on the 21st, I would expect them to come up with a new set of rules or restrictions a few days later, just to satisfy the government requirement to pull a U-turn at every opportunity.
As it is, I fully expect t
t Hancock to deliver a sweaty message of misery next week, claiming variants of concern, wanting to protect the vaccinated (doesn’t the vaccine do that, not government?) and other things to justify his presence in office. 
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