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UK Medical Official Says Lockdown Has “Improved Life” For Some

Brits enjoy a taste of Stockholm Syndrome.

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While acknowledging the mental health impact of lockdown, England’s chief medical officer asserted that the pandemic restrictions, which have been in place on and off for a year, have “improved life” for some people.

Professor Chris Whitty made the comments while addressing the Public Health Conference 2021.

While recognizing that people were exercising less and drinking more as a result of lockdown and that domestic abuse had increased, the professor argued that many people have actually enjoyed lockdown.

“For some people lockdown has either made no difference or in some cases – if you actually look at the academic literature and surveys – has even improved life, interestingly,” said Whitty.

Whitty went on to add that due to new variant strains and vaccine supply shortages, there will likely be a third wave of coronavirus either later this year or next winter, meaning lockdown restrictions are likely to return.

As we previously highlighted, another public health official said masks and other social distancing restrictions are likely to remain in place for years because the public has become used to them.

Many have suggested that high levels of support for lockdown is a form of Stockholm Syndrome, although the fact that most people’s wages were covered by a government furlough scheme, allowing them to stay at home and avoid work in some cases, is definitely also a factor.

Weeks after the first lockdown was introduced last year, a poll found that 9 out of 10 Brits wanted to see it continued.

Another more recent poll found that that over half of Brits say they will miss either “some” or “many” aspects of lockdown.

Aside from the mental health impact and the untold numbers of future deaths as a result of people having missed treatment and screenings for serious illnesses, the UK’s economy contracted the most in 300 years as a result of the lockdown, leading to 726,000 job losses.

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90 Per Cent of Germans Who Haven’t Had the Vaccine Say They Won’t Get It

Vaccine passports harden opposition to getting jabbed, survey finds.

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90 per cent of Germans who haven’t taken the COVID-19 vaccine say they won’t get it, with only the remaining 10 per cent saying they will “probably” get it or remaining undecided.

A recent survey carried out by Forsa on behalf of the Ministry for Health found that 65 per cent of Germans say there is “no way” they will get the COVID vaccine over the next two months.

A further 23 per cent said they would “probably not” get the COVID jab in the near future while 2 per cent said they would “definitely not” get the jab at any point.

Out of 3000 respondents, only 10 per cent were still undecided or said they will “probably” get vaccinated in the near future.

According to the Local, the poll results emphasize how, “people who have until now chosen to remain unvaccinated against Covid are unlikely to be convinced.”

The survey contradicts Thomas Mertens from the Standing Vaccinations Committee (STIKO), who claimed that unvaccinated Germans were not “hardliners” but were merely sitting on the fence and could be convinced.

Doesn’t look like it.

Only 5 per cent of respondents said they would get the jab if hospitals were “overwhelmed with patients,” while 89 per cent said it wouldn’t change their mind even if intensive care units reached their capacity.

Emphasizing how vaccine passports actually harden people’s opposition to getting vaccinated, 27 per cent said imposing restrictions on the unvaccinated would make them even more determined not to get jabbed, while only 5 per cent said it would encourage them to get jabbed.

It’s also worth noting that the 10 per cent figure who say they will get the jab or are undecided is probably lower given that some respondents will be telling the pollsters what they think they want to hear, and are actually not planning on getting vaccinated at all.

As we highlighted back in January, German authorities announced that COVID lockdown rulebreakers would be arrested and detained in refugee camps located across the country.

Earlier this summer it was also confirmed that the unvaccinated would be deprived of basic lifestyle activities like visiting cinemas and restaurants.

The editor-in-chief of Germany’s top newspaper Bild shocked some people by apologizing for the news outlet’s fear-driven coverage of COVID, specifically to children who were told “that they were going to murder their grandma.”

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Poll Finds Majority Of Vaccinated Americans STILL Wearing Masks

78 percent of Democrats say they wear a mask outside their home

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A YouGov poll has found that the majority of Americans who consider themselves fully vaccinated are still wearing face masks, even outdoors.

The survey noted that 56 percent of all people, vaccinated or not, still wear masks “always” or “most of the time”.

When split along political lines, the poll found that a whopping 78 percent of Democrats say they wear a mask outside their home, while 55 percent of independents and 35 percent of Republicans claimed they are still wearing masks.

Among those who consider themselves fully vaccinated, 65 percent say they wear a mask outside the home always or most of the time, while just 43 percent of the unvaccinated say they wear the masks.

Among the unvaccinated, 57 percent said they never wear a mask or only do so “some of the time.” 

The survey noted that 48 percent overall believe masks should be mandatory, with 78 percent of Democrats holding that belief, but only 20 percent of Republicans doing so.

The poll also found that 52 percent of respondents overall are “worried” that the vaccine doesn’t work, incorporating 17 percent who are “very” worried.

Only around a third said they are “not worried.”  

Among the fully vaccinated, 57 percent said they are worried about the efficacy of the jab waning over time.

The findings come at the same time as revelations that Florida, which never put a mask mandate in place, now has is the lowest daily average of COVID cases in the country.

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    Danish Health Minister Threatens to “Shut Down Society” if More People Don’t Get Vaccinated

    Opposition calls announcement a “completely wild message.”

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    The Danish health minister is threatening to “shut down society” if more people don’t get vaccinated after the country experienced a COVID spike despite over 75 per cent of the population being fully vaccinated.

    As we highlighted on Monday, Denmark just suffered its worse COVID case load since May, while the virus reproduction (R number) also jumped to 2.01, which is the highest level since January.

    Over 75 per cent of Denmark’s 5.8 million inhabitants have been fully vaccinated.

    Despite the fact that 85 per cent of people over the age of 12 are vaccinated, Denmark has seen more than 1,000 daily cases of COVID for a week straight.

    Now authorities are threatening to “shut down society,” according to opposition party health spokesman Martin Geertsen, if more Danes don’t take the shot.

    “If we are to keep Denmark open, we must have more people get the vaccine,” said Health Minister Magnus Heunicke

    Although Heunicke said the vaccine would remain voluntary, he ominously warned the unvaccinated that their refusal to get the jab “no longer works.”

    Geertsen said the government was breaking its promise to eliminate lockdowns once a high proportion of the population had been vaccinated, adding that Heunicke was sending a “completely wild message.”

    Last year, Danish authorities tried to pass a law that would have allowed the forced vaccination of anyone, with police being used to physically detain people and hold them down while being jabbed, but the effort was abandoned after mass protests.

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