Day: 21 August 2020

I'm starting to wonder if I'm in some sort of horror version of The Truman Show, I'm really starting to think it is time to get out of Australia before someone invites the Chinese authorities in to keep the proles under control. So latest developments… State of Emergency extended again and will reach its legal 6 month limit on Sept 13th. No worry, Kim Jong Dan is working with the solicitor general to make it possible to extend the State of Emergency indefinitely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpnRwkSoav4&feature=youtu.be Turns out in April the Victorian Government and Vicstapo were asking the military to bring in Afghanistan spec military drones to track down and monitor lockdown breakers and mask non-wearers (Better warn Mr Delingpole not to visit Melbourne for the foreseeable future he might literally get a rocket up his arse hehe). It comes to something when it is the military that said no, this isn't a good look to use military surveillance on civilians. And after a couple of days being told that 'cases' are declining but so are tests and more people must report for testing the Supreme Leader has already started wittering on about a 'third wave' and how Victoria isn't even ready to discuss a rolling back of the current lockdown. Anyway on a positive note one thing the Aussies do rather ...

Zero Hospital Deaths in English Hospitals Yesterday Several people tweeted out this graph yesterday, accompanied by the news that zero deaths were recorded by NHS England on August 19th. While that's true (I checked the NHS England website this morning), it isn't the first time that's happened as I've reported on Lockdown Sceptics many times before. In the past, the zero figure has subsequently been updated as recorded deaths for the day in question start trickling in. Will be interesting to see if that happens for August 19th, but I suspect it will. Hospital Admissions Over-Counted Must-read story in the Telegraph. According to an analysis done by SAGE, people admitted to hospital in March and April were counted as Covid admissions if they'd ever tested positive for the disease, regardless of how much time had elapsed between the test and the admissions and regardless of the actual reason they were being admitted. Science Editor Sarah Knapton has more. An investigation for the Government's Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) found that people were being counted as Covid hospital admissions if they had ever had the virus, and were added to those being admitted directly due to it.Government figures show that, at the peak of the pandemic in early April, nearly 20,000 people a week were being admitted to hospital with ...