Boris Johnson Lifts All Covid Restrictions in U.K.

CLAY: Good news, at least around the world. Boris Johnson has made the decision to end all covid restrictions in his country, even as our own CDC continues to hamstring many of us when it comes to returning to normalcy. Let me go ahead right now, if we can. Let’s listen to the prime minister of England, Boris Johnson, announce all remaining covid rules are now ended in England.

JOHNSON: First, we will remove all remaining domestic restrictions in law.

PARLIAMENT: (cheers)

JOHNSON: From this day, 24th of February, we will end the legal requirements to self-isolate following a positive test. We will end routine contact tracing. Until the 1st April, we will advise people who test positive to stay at home. But after that, we will encourage people with covid-19 symptoms to exercise personal responsibility —

PARLIAMENT: Yeah. Hear, hear.

JOHNSON: — just as we encourage people who may have flu to be considerate to others.

BUCK: That is exactly what we have been saying on this show for a very long time.

CLAY: For a long time.

BUCK: No one has said here, nor would we ever, that covid is not obviously very dangerous to some people; that it hasn’t, unfortunately, taken a lot of life in this country and around the world. It’s a question of how do we best reasonably deal with it. And the same way that you have the flu, you have people who are at higher risk; they should get the shot. It makes sense for them to get the shot.

If you are sick, stay away from people. But they’re pulling away in the U.K., Clay, all this other stuff, the masking, contact tracing. People who told you… For everyone out there, okay, you’re with me on this, right? If someone said contact tracing was a good idea, they either didn’t think it through or weren’t very berate or had no idea what the actual numbers of covid were.

CLAY: Maybe both.

BUCK: Probably both, and this was a government policy obviously pushed by libs and Democrats all over the country. Contact tracing was absurd. Dr. Marty Makary, our friend on the same side of things, making a lot of sense about natural immunity. Let’s play that clip.

DR. MAKARY: They’ve been cherry-picking science from the beginning. That’s been obvious. The only study they released on natural immunity during the pandemic up to a few weeks ago was a window of two months in the state of Kentucky. Even though they have data from all 50 states, they were trying to prove a preset hypothesis to advance a political agenda. And this is the first time ever we’ve seen science weaponized as political propaganda. It’s ironic that you can have antibodies that circulate and neutralize covid, but they are antibodies the government does not recognize because they don’t want to recognize it, and now we’ve learned from other countries that those antibodies are better.

BUCK: The guy’s a hero. We don’t use that word a lot around here, but Dr. Marty Makary is willing to speak truth, with all the risks that has come during covid. Very few MDs have, Clay, as you know.

CLAY: No doubt. And not only has he been willing to speak the truth even in the face of much negativity, also Glenn Youngkin — who is gonna be our guest I believe tomorrow at 2:30 Eastern — the newly elected governor of Virginia, has selected Dr. Marty Makary as his primary covid adviser.