PM makes COVID vaccine plea
Boris Johnson has raised the prospect of Britons soon needing a booster jab to be considered "fully vaccinated" when going abroad or for self-isolation rules.
Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, the prime minister revealed plans to add evidence of a vaccine top-up to the NHS COVID pass.
He also said Britons would find "life easier in all kinds of ways", including for foreign travel, with a booster dose.
The PM warned a 'new wave' of COVID cases was sweeping across Europe
Following an earlier announcement that the rollout of COVID booster shots will
now be extended to all over-40s, Mr Johnson highlighted increased vaccination rates as a means of avoiding the reintroduction of domestic restrictions.
The prime minister warned that "storm clouds are gathering over the continent" with a "new wave" of COVID cases sweeping westwards through Europe, prompting some countries to reimpose coronavirus measures.
He said that "countries with lower vaccination rates have tended to see bigger surges in infection, and in turn been forced to respond with harsher measures".
"We don't yet know the extent to which this new wave will wash up on our shores, but history shows we cannot afford to be complacent," Mr Johnson added.
The prime minister said he saw "nothing in the data at the moment" that would force the government to move to "
Plan B" of its winter contingency planning for the NHS, which could see the reintroduction of mandatory face masks or the return of work from home guidance.
But he warned that ministers "cannot rule anything out" when asked about the prospect of a Christmas lockdown.
Boris Johnson met Arzou Miah, who received his booster jab on Monday, during a visit to an east London surgery
Mr Johnson said the "most important thing people can do" to prevent the reimposition of restrictions was to "get the boosters".Asked if evidence of a booster jab would be added to the NHS COVID pass, Mr Johnson replied: "I think we will be making plans to add the booster dose to the NHS COVID travel pass.
"But, again, I think what the general lesson is from anybody who wants to travel, you can see that getting fully vaccinated with a booster is going to be something that will, on the whole, make your life easier in all kinds of ways, including on foreign travel.
"So I would just say, if you're thinking about that, then this is yet another reason to get it done."
The prime minister later suggested that, at some point, only those who have had a booster jab - which for most people is a third vaccine dose - would be considered "fully vaccinated"."On boosters, it's very clear that getting three jabs, getting your booster, will become an important fact, and it will make life easier for you in all sorts of ways," he said.
"We will have to adjust our concept of what constitutes a full vaccination to take account of that. I think that is increasingly obvious.
"The booster massively increases your protection, it takes it right back up to over 90%. As we can see from what's happening, the [protections afforded by] two jabs sadly do start to wane.
"We've got to be responsible, and we've got to reflect that fact in the way we measure what constitutes full vaccination."
The prime minister said that, so far, around 12.6m people across the UK have had a booster jab.
In England, this includes three-quarters of all people aged over-70 and 80% of eligible older people in care homes.
It would be an "utter tragedy" if people who were double-jabbed "ended up becoming seriously ill or even losing their lives because they allowed their immunity to wane", Mr Johnson added.
Fuck off with your blackmail. I don’t respond to blackmail and I certainly won’t participate in this utter fraud, because the moment you get that 1st test or put on the mask for the 1st time you have consented to this. There Satanic religion requires that we consent whether we know it or not. Not once have I ever followed restrictions. Even when my Dad was on his deathbed (from the jab, I might add) and they called me in to say my goodbyes they tried saying I couldn’t go in unless I had a test and masked up. Well I’m not breaking my principles even over this (he was effectively a vegetable from the massive 3 bleeds on his brain) so I said fine I’ll say goodbye through the window. They then proceeded to let me in.
Moral of the story? Never back down from your beliefs even when it’s one of the hardest things to do. They will never crush my PureBlooded spirit and they will never win.
I never believed in God growing up. Always thought that book was an early form of control. I still think the book is about an early form of control but I now think the story in the main was accurate but was co-opted to suit the early PTB. That’s just my belief. I only started thinking God existed in the last few months really, and that’s only because everywhere I look I see Satanism. All these conspiracies seem to have roots in Satanism. If there’s a Satan, then there must be a God.
Well, sorry folks, that’s my rant for the day.