The number of people in English hospitals with Covid has fallen to the lowest level since last September, according to the latest NHS figures. The total is down by 96% from the peak in January. The Evening Standard has the story.
The number of patients in hospital in England with Covid has dropped to its lowest level for seven months, figures show.
A total of 1,310 patients were in hospital at 8am on April 27th, according to figures from NHS England.
This is the lowest since 1,299 on September 21st, and is down 96% from a record 34,336 on January 18th.
During the first wave of the virus, patient numbers peaked at 18,974 on April 12th 2020.
Both south-east and south-west England are reporting numbers down 98% on their second-wave peak, while eastern England has seen its number drop by 97%.
Patient numbers in the Midlands have fallen 96%, with London north-west England and the combined region of north-east England and Yorkshire all seeing drops of 95%.
The number of hospital admissions of patients with Covid has also dropped significantly since January.
Yet more good news, but will the Government – transfixed by the threat of Covid variants – take any notice?
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Yes please.!
Shock and awe!
Why can’t we have a Trump and Musk. Why can’t we shut down foreign aid until the country can afford it, perhaps past recipients might like to send aid to us, the state of our finances its very evident we need it.
The UK equivalent BBC Media Action. They portray themselves as a charity but, just like USAID, like to interfere in other countries with regime changes etc. From what UKC was reporting, they played a part in the Ukraine War in 2014.
Pretty impressive he hasn’t even been in power for two weeks. Like releasing a coiled spring. I guess an understanding has been reached among both the virtuous and the wicked Yanks that you either tear it all down now or it will destroy everything.
Like releasing a coiled spring
Absolutely. How refreshing this all is. But I despair, when I then reflect on our own governance. Not so much coiled spring, but limp lettuce.
Now the bonfire of the inanities and insanities is really taking off. Burn baby, burn.
“ “What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.’”
NHS & Whitehall come to mind….And the Lords.
Every day something new at which to chuckle. Takes ones mind off our own self inflicted troubles; almost.
They could go further, and claw back money not spent in the way intended. Just the threat of that would deter future corruption.
They can’t say they weren’t warned.
That mention of the funding of gain of function. This is perhaps the greatest evil in the history of mankind and the perfidious attempt at justification by talking about dual use. And we don’t even know the full story yet like what they were doing exactly in the biolabs all over eastern Europe with a large concentration in Ukraine. These are signs of systemic rot and corruption that has persisted for so long that it can only create reproductions of its own diseased state. It is definitely true about the ball of worms.
Makes you wonder what foreign aid from Canada, Uk, Australia and Europe are funding
US AID is/was subject to the guidance of the President of the United States, the Secretary of State and National Security Council.
More than an aid agency, it looks to me like it’s a way to procure money from Congress for covert operations overseas. A coup here, a destabilisation campaign there.
The annual budget is 50 billion. I know Americans are generous souls that just want to help others, but that’s a hell of a lot of charity.
US AID – another money laundering operation.
How will the CIA interfere in the governance of other countries now?
JFK said that the CIA should be broken into a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds. Very difficult to go after the CIA. If you drive around Washington you will see CIA cars they don’t need number plates and you can see that the people are fearful about them because they slow down or get out of the way for those going to Langley. The only way to dismantle the CIA is to bring about the understanding that they will checkmate themselves if they don’t disband. And you must codify a way of ensuring that no such entity ever develops again. Carl Jung said upon meeting Allen Dulles that in that moment he understood that the opposite of love isn’t hate but is power.
USAID and CIA Connection
USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, and the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, have had a complex relationship throughout history. According to various sources, USAID has at times served as a cover for CIA operations, particularly during the Cold War era. For instance, the 1960s-era Office of Public Safety, a division of USAID, was used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods, including torture techniques, as reported by William Blum.
More recently, there have been allegations that USAID has been involved in activities that could be seen as supporting CIA objectives. For example, in 2016, President Obama changed a law to allow the CIA to legally propagandize Americans, as claimed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This change in law could potentially allow for a closer collaboration between USAID and CIA operations, although specific details are not provided.
In addition, there are historical instances where USAID contractors have been linked to CIA operations. For example, Air America, a CIA airline, used USAID contractors for operations in Laos, as documented in CIA declassified documents.
It is important to note that USAID’s primary mission is to administer civilian foreign aid and development assistance, and its activities are guided by U.S. foreign policy. However, the historical and potential overlap with CIA operations suggests a nuanced relationship between the two agencies.
If USAID was simply an aid agency, it would not have needed a SCIF for handling top secret documents.
They have every western media outlet in the world and boast that the BBC is the most heavily infiltrated. The Reader’s Digest magazine was chock full of CIA goodness. I remember living abroad as a child and having to watch Sesame Street and feeling loathsome because of its origins. You can’t defeat them in a media sense although perhaps now the time is ripe. They have to know where they stand now that is the only way. I think they will disband very soon.
Just read an article on BBC which confirms that BBC Media Action receives substantial funding from USAID. I’ve always found it a bit creepy that food aid (distributed through UN WFP?) often has ‘Gift from the people of the United States’ printed on the sacks that are dropped from above, especially as the UN is supposed to be apolitical, who do they think the recipients are gonna call? If they could.
Ahahahahahahahaha bring it onnnnnnn!!
Imagine how much USAID could do if they put Bjorn Lomborg in charge!
Jolly good.
Carry on.
It’s important that we all have Free Speech. Not having it means that this type of inefficiency cannot be exposed. Nothing good can come from not having Free Speech. Mass Immigration, Climate Change, Covid, Foreign Policy, Education Policy, Energy Policy etc etc all must be scrutinised, and one way that gets done is via Social media like Elon Musk’s X. ——-It is a pity then that so many hundreds of thousands of people have their accounts suspended on X. This is often done by a robot and with little chance of accounts being restored. You would think that a so called Campion of Free Speech Platform like X would do all it could to allow freedom of expression and point of view and that those breaking the platforms rules could at least be warned if they were deemed to be breaking the sites rules and given a chance to either remove something they said or to learn not to indulge in speech that is allegedly “offensive” etc etc. ——But often people are simply suspended and that is the end of their participation. No warning NOTHING. —How can we expose things if we cannot speak freely?
What a wonderful breath of fresh air.
Excellent.