Cases are down in every region of England and fewer over-80s are catching the virus than ever before, according to the latest figures from PHE. So why are restrictions not being lifted for another seven weeks? What happened to data not dates? MailOnline has more.
Public Health England’s weekly Covid report found just 6.3 per 100,000 people in the most vulnerable age group caught the disease in the week ending April 25th, the lowest since surveillance data began last June. The infection rate among over-80s peaked at 623 in mid-January.
For over-60s, the rate was 9.1, down from 9.9 the week before and a high of 454 at the peak of the second wave. Both lockdown restrictions and vaccines — which were given to the elderly first — have helped turn the tide on the crisis.
Every English region also saw falls in cases in the past week — despite millions more tests being deployed — with the lowest rates recorded in the South West (14.2), South East (17.2) and the East of England (20.5).
Meanwhile, the Department of Health’s daily update revealed there were 2,445 cases in the past 24 hours and 22 deaths, with infections down 10% from a week ago and deaths up slightly on the 18th last Thursday.
Latest figures show another 462,000 second and 134,000 first vaccine doses were dished out on Tuesday. It means more than 34 million Britons have had at least one dose and 14 million have been fully vaccinated.
Experts said the UK was moving out of the Covid pandemic and into a situation that was much more manageable after separate figures showed the number of people falling ill across Britain is also at a record low.
But despite a plethora of evidence showing the virus is firmly in retreat, England faces at least seven more weeks of restrictions. June 21st has been earmarked as the earliest possible date that most curbs can be lifted.
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“Data, not dates” ….. HA. Double fucking HA! More like: “Agenda, not truth”
I think they mean that they are waiting for Data to be beamed down from the Starship Enterprise!?
Is there the slightest chance of “back to normal” on June 21st though? If not, they effectively lied to us about vaccines and drugs being the way out, and we should not forget it. More worryingly, they don’t seem to have any other plan.
Normal involves back to 2019 for me. Coerced vaccinations, passports, tests before going to concerts, jabbing babies, annual boosters (for a fucking cold!) – none of this is normal. We won’t be going back to normal on 21st June, that much is certain.
Don’t forget to wear the mask! Forever…..
Is any of this nonsense not forever?
And they should level with us about what they’re planning to do with the inevitable seasonal increase in respiratory deaths this Winter – rather than just employing covid marshals with contracts until December on the quiet.
They’ve lied from the start – why stop now?
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I believe that politicians and public health officials should not lie as a point of principal. I suppose there’s no way of deposing such people?
Who knows? I think lies were told about the Iraq war and not much came of it. This is bigger by far but the whole world is against us, not just the UK establishment. All one can do is plug away and hope that by chipping away we reach a tipping point. But lockdowns plus vaccine have provided sufficient cover for the lies not to have been widely noticed.
None of them have any courage, none whatsoever.
And with a possible option to renew the CM contracts for a further year!
Unfortunately I can never go back to 2019 normal now that I have learnt that 95%+ of my fellow human beings are utter morons running entirely on primitive instincts and not intelligence. I am no longer proud of my country and the dream normal for me has become living somewhere where the nearest neighbour lives at least a mile away.
No chance of going back to normal in June or in the next few decades unless the true extent of the madness is exposed and understood, which is unlikely to happen given the powerful forces at work to prevent that.
My worry is that once pubs are open and a few other headline restrictions are lifted, most people will acquiesce in the “new normal” which is now generally accepted as inevitable, and many antu-lockdown campaigners will move on – something I understand as who wants to spend decades of their life banging their head against a brick wall?
Quite frightening really, if we are going to have a section of the population treated as second class citizens for years. A dangerous road to go down, and could lead to even greater horrors. It seems to me like we will need to develop a whole alternative culture. Make no mistake, (effectively) segregation is where we’re headed, and it’s hard to see it ending well.
Zombies on one side.
Human beings on the other.
Choose your side.
For zombies, it’s a no-brainer.
Oh they’ve got a ”plan” all right. Do you REALLY think they’d share it with us peasants?
Even more worryingly, they are well ahead in the polls.
From article: “For over-60s, the rate was 9.1, down from 9.9 the week before and a high of 454 at the peak of the second wave. Both lockdown restrictions and vaccines — which were given to the elderly first — have helped turn the tide on the crisis.”
COMMENT: Maybe, to some degree. What can’t be known is whether these ratios would have declined if no one had been vaccinated … or if the lockdown measures would have been cancelled seven weeks ago.
I can report that in my state all the COVID metrics have also been plunging … and even today, only 15 percent of our state’s population has been fully vaccinated.
I still think “seasonality” and the growing number of people who have acquired natural immunity largely explain these declines.
its natural virus progression – immunity and season. nothing to do with lockdown or vaccines. there is literally nothing else which explains the below
Isn’t there a suspicion that the large number of deaths in the first seven weeks of the vaccination programme accentuated the decline through the course of “vaccinations”, with a lot of the most frail dying in January meaning a smaller pool likely to die later on (plus sesonality etc.)? And if only deaths within a week of getting the covid jab are counted as “vaccine deaths (rather than within 2 weeks, or 4 weeks), does this give an accurate picture?
Bill – there was no f.ing ‘crisis’ on which to ‘turn the tide’ in the first place!
Last year was very ordinary in terms of mortality – both in the US and UK.
Absolutely, your last paragraph is spot on. But seasonality and herd immunity aren’t in the “official” narrative.
Everywhere I go I hear people saying 21st June and it’s all back to normal. Some are calling it mid summer nights dream! So if it doesn’t happen perhaps there will be a mass turning point?
Midsummer night DREAM. They will not wake up from this nightmare on the 22nd June. Sadly, people will continue to sleepwalk into this mess.
I think most people have accepted there will be a new normal. The only unknown is to what extent it will resemble the old normal and to what extent it will hold or whether we go back into lockdown every winter.
We can but hope…not holding my breath though.
To be expected with seasonal viruses, especially with all the nice weather we’re having lately.
Has the Daily dashboard update changed its’ criteria for showing yellow (low numbers) on the map?
Total numbers on the graph are going down, but areas like Cornwall, which were yellow, have turned to a light green again. Seems to me they did what the German news did, they just lowered the numbers to justify a darker colour.
If you found my video on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 (“The Elephant in the City” on YouTube) interesting, you might find the video that YouTube censored to be of interest. It details the financial ties between the US NIH and Big Pharma, with Fauci at the center of it all, and how they lead them to suppress ivermectin. It’s on Odysee, safe from further censorship: https://odysee.com/@crooksy417:0/MENK5956-1-:3
Yes. Big pharma suppressed apricot kernels as well. Quite worrying that as one of the conditions for these “vaccines” getting emergency authorisation is that there’s no alternative, they have to pretend that vitamin D, invermectin etc. don’t work. Lies, damn lies and big pharma…
Not looked here for a while. It used to be a daily thing for me until Toby changed it…something about too many deplorables?? Anyway, read this article and have to say find your backbone Toby and face up to the not-a-conspiracy many of us tried to tell you about all those months ago. Heed your mate Delingpole.
It is a conspiracy, but the idea of it being a theory is ridiculous at this point. Global governments have most certainly conspired against the people. It’s not about money – it’s about absolute control. Even the impending Chinese-style Social Credit System is about control.
”… why seven more weeks of restrictions?….” It’s not the restrictions that matter per se – it’s the excuse to continue the ”emergency” and therefore the ”vaccine”. That’s why masks are going to remain – to reinforce the idea of a ”pandemic” even though there isn’t one.
A good point; the “vaccine” products only have ‘Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA)’ ONLY, so if the emergency ends, so do they. logically. Mind you, we live in the real political world.
Of course they will not lift the restrictions they need everyone to be jabbed. This is the reason for the date. If they lift the restrictions they will also have to lift the emergency pandemic rules and one of those is the permission to use 70 million people as experimental rats. If we all went back to gathering the under 40’s would start chatting and wondering why I need a jab when nobody is ill.
Simply stop following the rules. They make no sense.. Go out take off your mask socialise with friends and family. Honestly, start living your life. Under 50’snearly 0 risk. Start living again. All the older people took the koolaid. Sadly some died afterwards, see all the nursing home reports of deaths post COVID vaccine there are many. Boy did they keep that quiet. Why? Ask any care worker, or medic. Although they have been gagged no doubt. Sad.
‘Scientists are working on vaccines that spread like a disease. What could possibly go wrong?’:
https://thebulletin.org/2020/09/scientists-are-working-on-vaccines-that-spread-like-a-disease-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
This explains the ‘prooximity’ problems a lot of people, especially women, have had after close encounters with recently jabbed folk.