Health Secretary Matt Hancock says there is a “high degree of confidence” that vaccines work against the Indian Covid variant, but that it can “spread like wildfire” among those who are unvaccinated. The Mail on Sunday has the story.
The Health Secretary said that a new Oxford University investigation showed that the innoculations available were effective against the variant which is now dominant in some Northern towns.
Four people are known to have died from the Indian variant but appearing on TV this morning Mr Hancock said those who had been hospitalised were “largely people who are eligible for the vaccine but have not taken it”.
It came as Boris Johnson today pledged to increase the speed of Britain’s vaccine rollout to a million jabs a day in an attempt to beat the increasing prevalence of the variant amid fears it could derail the country’s exit from lockdown.
Appearing on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday he said: “There’s new very early data out from Oxford University, and I would stress that this is from the labs, it’s not clinical data, and it’s very early.
“But it does give us a degree of confidence that the vaccines work against this Indian variant, but it is clearly more transmissible and has been spreading fast in the groups where there’s a cluster.
“That means that we can stay on course with our strategy of using the vaccine to deal with the pandemic and opening up carefully and cautiously but we do need to be really very vigilant to the spread of the disease.
“We have a high degree of confidence that the vaccine will overcome.”
But Mr Hancock did strike a note of more caution over the final release from lockdown on June 21st, saying the final decision would not be taken until June 14th.
When talking about the final step of the “roadmap” out of lockdown, Hancock said that the Government is being “cautious” because it wants the reopening to be “irreversible”. He seemed to suggest that the June 21st date for this reopening may not be stuck to if enough people don’t get vaccinated against Covid, despite the fact that 36 million people have already had a first vaccine dose and more than 19 million (that is, those who are most vulnerable to the virus) have had a second.
New variants are one of the biggest risks to this opening because of the speed of transmission of [the Indian variant] – it can really spread like wildfire among the unvaccinated groups. Hence we need to get as many people vaccinated as possible, particularly those who are most vulnerable to ending up in hospital.
The Mail on Sunday report is worth reading in full.
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Morning all.
Are you naturally insomniac, hp? Or is it the 58 cups of Nescafe every day?
I want to know whether hp is secretly living in Oz … how does he beat us?
I am a night owl and always have been. I don’t drink instant coffee as it upsets my stomach. One cup of real coffee per day. Thanks for asking.
Morning from the land of sun already well and truly up – and mandates …
Good morning. I live in Saddleworth.
o7 I’m just off to bed!
Richard Kemp is a Colonel Blimp who is fighting WW3 as if it is WW1.
His claim is as accurate as the idea that sanctions would destroy Russia.
He’s impatient for the inevitable false-flag chemical weapon theatre. I’m frankly surprised that it hasn’t happened already, given that we’ve been practically begging Ukraine to put on a command performance.
Contrast Kemps diatribe with this from Vladimir Chirkin, a Russian military commander and Colonel General. Former Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces (2012-2013).
https://southfront.org/without-hysterics-and-insults/
It’s a more honest assessment that fits closest to (a rather foggy) reality on the ground from other sources, than anything I’ve read in the MSM.
Steve Kirsch’s idea about mandatory autopsies is smart and simple, and for those very reasons every vaxxing lockdowning government on the face of the earth will ignore it.
When climate virtue signalling trumps humanitarian virtue signalling… because they care…
Makes me suspect they are short of children to save.
Or maybe Neptune insists on monitoring use of their donations!
“The Russian army has run out of time” – Colonel Richard Kemp
This guy is a Colonel? Blimey there’s no hope at all! Is he actually watching what’s going on in the right country? Putin may have lost the Parpaganda war, but there’s no sign of losing on the ground
https://southfront.org/ukraine-the-information-war-conflict-scenarios-and-post-conflict-ukraine/
^^Fake News Alert!^^ or false flag alert?
Who is the sanctions biting again? Hint: It’s not Putin! looks at heating bill
This is a good read, written in 2015, to give an idea how complicated Ukraine issues are, it took twenty-three world-leading academics to write it! (287 pages) One of the editors is a chatham house fellow, so expect a bit of a slant, but not as much as you mite think, it’s about as balanced as you mite find from mainstream academia. e.g. it’ll talk about US involvement in Maidan, but it doesn’t mention a whole floor of the SBU building was inaccessible without a CIA pass! It’s a bit “Putin Bad” but it doesn’t make your blood boil like the MSM do.
:Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives
https://www.e-ir.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Ukraine-and-Russia-E-IR.pdf
Dr. Robert Malone: COVID Is Just a Skirmish—We Have a Much Bigger Problem
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/03/dr-robert-malone-covid-is-just-a-skirmish-we-have-a-much-bigger-problem-video
If you thought the COVID lies were bad, wait until you find out what else they’ve been lying about…
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Just read the Mail article about visors being unusable “beyond a use-by date”. Can anyone explain how a visor has a “use-by” date? It’s made of plastic and should last years.
How about the lockdown fanatics and maskateers “use by date”?
It means that its 0% effectiveness against aerosol infections suddenly decreases by 500%. Wor to anyone wearing them after that.
Perhaps the plastic goes brittle over time and could crack? Or maybe its like those plastic carrier bags we have had for the past few years, the ones that fall to bits, especially if the sun gets on them?
I mean, if your visor cracked or disintegrated, it wouldn’t keep you saaafe. The horror!
That’s all I could think of – I’d also like to know.
Plastic embrittlement occurs due to prolonged exposure to u/v light. If plastic is boxed or wrapped in non-clear packing, no u/v, no embrittlement except after a very long time.
I think the far bigger worry might be all the germs and crap creeping up the inside of it that you breathe in from that nasty microclimate you are creating with your own exhaled breath.
European Union and CE Mark regulations regarding medical devices.
All roads lead to EU stupidity which still infests post-EU Britain because of the useless goon-squad in charge.
Regulation benefits producers.
I should have known that Wales would continue this madness.
As far as I understand it under current legislation an unvaccinated person who lives with a covid case has to isolate for TEN days BUT if they themselves have it it is only FIVE ergo you are better off saying you’ve got it too.
If anyone here has a few minutes to spare, could you please confirm this?
Unfortunately I live with someone who gets tested every few weeks at the request of their employer.
I am trying to hope this is the last gasp of a dying cult and the worse they’ll do is follow Scotland’s mask nonsense but you never know and still it boils my urine.
Thanks.
And yet there was Drakeford himself dancing at the Indian Diwali party without a face mask. Neither were the Indians there wearing any. All a bunch of liars and frauds.
Why do people keep testing? Without this there would be no CoVid, no hysteria about new ‘variants’.
The NZ situation is beyond stupid.
In March 2020 NZ had 5 “cases” of Wu Flu. The Horsey Horsey Leader imposed the most Draconian civil rights restrictions out side of North Korea.
In March 2022 NZ had 20,000 “cases”. Today ALL restrictions have been removed.
The difference?
Russia had not been persuaded to invade Ukraine in 2020.
A sound proposition, but it presupposes that the powers want evidence against “misinformation.” In fact they want to assert their narrative unopposed, which means silencing any awkward evidence.
The article on the possibility of diesel rationing is important as it is diesel that fuels agriculture and in the UK red (tractor) diesel has seen a huge price rise and a shortage of supplies. This along with fertiliser price rises does not bode well for future UK food security.
Diesel, fertiliser and a fair amount of wheat comes from Russia and so I suspect the Russian wheat farmers will be busy this spring, in hopes of a good harvest and good prices later this year. It will be ironic if, next winter, Russia is able to offer good supplies of wheat for export?
You can always eat your local MP when there’s no food available in the shops.
I expect Boris is a bit fatty – can you imagine chewing on his buttocks?
No, no: use him as fuel!
S**t don’t burn.
That image will stay with me all day. Thanks.
However he could be rendered down and used as biodiesel.
The fact that we have not had a national food policy since the second World War is absolutely criminal. I would hope some thought is being given to the upcoming shortages but given that harming populations is all part of the Reset I wouldn’t bet on it.
We have, but Unfortunately it’s the equivilant of the WHO for food
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alimentarius
And lorries, buses and fishing vessels… and by the by emergency diesel generators which are co-opted to stop the grid falling over when the wind stops and run-down of coal and gas means grid demand cannot be met.
This is not a universal contradiction since there will be some overlap, but consider this:
Many on the hysterical/deranged side of the isle regarding SARS-2/COVID, who were screaming ‘Granny killer’ at those on the calmer side of the isle, and who said little to nothing about children and the effects lockdowns, etc would have on them, are the very same people who, during the ‘Brexit’ debate and after the vote, were writing off Granny and Grandad’s vote, saying they were ‘not the future’ of this nation, and saying it’s all about the children and their future.
And the same galoots who until yesterday were saying what a hell-hole of Fascism, Nazis, and corrupt Government Ukraine was, now insist it is a Nation of Boy Scouts led by a Saint and Angel of the Lord, icon of freedom and democracy.
Valiant and heroic senior Ukrainian doctors order staff to castrate Russian patients. Funny how everything leads to depopulation.
While we’re ‘celebrating’ the anniversary of the first lockdown, the chancellor is to make his Spring statement which is expected to utterly cripple the UK population.
Funny how ‘The Virus’ managed to coordinate itself in such a way that coincides with government scheduling.
Just a coincidence… the virus is the enemy and Putin is a madman said the good citizen.
RPI for February just announced.
8.2%
Highest since March 1991.
And the big increases in electricity and gas prices haven’t yet happened.
And well over 10% for the basic cost of living, excluding luxuries.
Amazing how a virus and a Russian President is responsible for all UK Government policies.
Incredible isn’t it – and we didn’t get to vote for either of them.
To think that we lecture other countries on the merits of democracy…
Tragic that all of the articles on the predatory man “Lia” Thomas use Online Safety Bill compliant newspeak like “transwoman” and “she/her”.
If you can’t even speak the truth, then how can you discuss it? Eventually you wont even be able to perceive or think it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxe-C5b8sAQ&ab_channel=TheDuran
Biden, NATO, UK, Poland ponder options to counter Russia
reports in the british press about ukrainian “victories” being entirely made up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-60834936
I’m glad I don’t live in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Wales. Scotland isn’t on my desirable abode list, either.
Dr. Matt Shelton and Lawyer Sue Grey from New Zealand joined Zeee Media to show us evidence submitted to them by four separate groups of New Zealand scientists who have examined Pfizer COVID-19 injection vials under a microscope.
https://zeeemedia.com/interview/dr-shelton-sue-grey-evidence-of-nanotechnology-graphene-oxide-in-covid-19-injections/
This evidence has been carefully examined, and shows self-assembling nanotechnology that appears to be forming into micro-computers in as little as fifteen minutes, as well as graphene oxide in the Pfizer vials – a matter that has been dismissed by many Fact Checker organisations.
They have submitted this evidence to police, MP’s and other government officials with zero response. They have asked for people to share this information far and wide so that people stop getting these dangerous injections immediately.
Dr. Matt Shelton’s work can be found here:
https://nzdsos.com/