{"id":1121725,"date":"2021-12-15T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121725"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:43:42","slug":"boris-again-reaches-for-ww2-imagery-to-push-covid-booster-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-again-reaches-for-ww2-imagery-to-push-covid-booster-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Again Reaches For WW2 Imagery to Push Covid Booster Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboris-again-reaches-for-ww2-imagery-to-push-covid-booster-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121725&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237247519-e1639592029504-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The United Kingdom received yet another direct address from the Prime Minister Wednesday evening, with Boris Johnson making a return to wartime metaphors that were so common in the early part of the pandemic, while his top scientist appealed to the public to stop socialising now to enjoy Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Boasting of the speed at which the United Kingdom was giving third doses, Boris Johnson said from Downing Street on Wednesday that, per capita, British people were thrice-jabbed at a rate twice of that seen in the European Union, and over twice that in the United States. Yet this was still not enough, he said, as \u201cthe wave of Omicron continues to roll over our whole of our United Kingdom\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Prime Minister said hospitalisations were up ten per cent and at 170,000 the number of new coronavirus cases detected was the highest ever in the United Kingdom \u2014 a development that comes as the country simultaneously <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/explorers\/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&amp;facet=none&amp;pickerSort=asc&amp;pickerMetric=location&amp;hideControls=true&amp;Metric=Tests&amp;Interval=7-day+rolling+average&amp;Relative+to+Population=true&amp;Align+outbreaks=false&amp;country=USA~GBR~AUS~FRA~DEU~JPN\">approached an all-time high in the number of tests administered<\/a>. Indeed, the number of tests being undertaken is now so high that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-59651166\">new testing slots became unavailable to book in England this week<\/a> as capacity hit the maximum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5342465753425\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UK Vaccine Push Could Leave Up to 5,000 Cancer Cases Undiagnosed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdhRDORrCZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/KdhRDORrCZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1471081100244135943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson said, promoting the \u2018booster\u2019 third shot campaign: \u201cyou can get jabbed right now and it\u2019s absolutely vital that you do, because the wave of Omicron continues to roll over our whole of our United Kingdom, with over 170,000 covid cases today, the highest daily number ever reported\u2026&nbsp;the progress we are making with the booster is absolutely vital. These numbers are extraordinary, we really are boosting a huge number of people now, we\u2019ve got a much higher proportion boosted than either the United States or Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>There was also a return to some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200430-covid-19-what-we-can-learn-from-wartime-efforts\">war-like talk<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-britain-idUSL8N2B80B1\">characterised some<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/03\/24\/your-nhs-needs-you-govt-calls-army-250000-volunteers\/\">early pandemic rhetoric <\/a>from the government, when he praised \u201chealthcare auxiliaries, an emerging territorial army\u201d of volunteers helping administer doses, while encouraging the public to give the Omicron variant \u201cboth barrels\u201d \u2014 a reference to a double-barreled shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>Standing to Johnson\u2019s right at the conference was&nbsp;the UK government\u2019s Chief Medical Adviser Professor Chris Whitty, who advised the public \u2014 at first obliquely but later in clearer terms \u2014 that they should limit themselves to essential socialisation in the run-up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8698224852071\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tory Rebels Crushed by Combined Weight of Government and Opposition in UK Lockdown Vote <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QqWgELsu7R\">https:\/\/t.co\/QqWgELsu7R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1471060070196822020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following up remarks that people should get tested before socialising, Whitty told the conference: \u201cI think that what most people are doing, and this seems very sensible, is prioritising the social interactions that really matter to them. And to protect those ones, de-prioritising ones that matter much less to them. And I think that is going to become increasingly important as we go into the Christmas period, and people are taking a lot of precautions \u2014 and this is exactly right \u2014 for instance if they are visiting vulnerable people they are taking tests beforehand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Whitty made the point more bluntly: \u201c\u2026I do think people should prioritise what matters and that by definition means de-prioritising other things, and I think people are doing that, and I would recommend that, and most people would recommend that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conference comes after a further tightening of rules, which include making face masks again mandatory in many public places and the introduction of coronavirus passports for some venues. Despite a sizable Conservative backbench rebellion against the measures at a vote on Tuesday night, the measures still passed as the government had the support of the so-called opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom received yet another direct address from the Prime Minister Wednesday evening, with Boris Johnson making a return to wartime metaphors that were so common in the early &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}