Infections are on the rise according to the ONS and, despite the vaccines (and the fact that fully-open U.S. states continue not to see a rise in infections let alone the prophesied mass hospitalisations and deaths), talk has once again turned to keeping restrictions going beyond June 21st. Portugal has been brutally struck from the green list, ruining the holidays of tens of thousands of Brits. Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales, has suggested social distancing could continue for the rest of the year.
Driving the fear is the Delta (Indian) variant, which new data from Public Health England suggests could have more than double the risk of hospitalisation compared to the Alpha (British) variant. The Guardian reports:
An analysis of 38,805 sequenced cases in England revealed that the Delta [Indian] variant was associated with a 2.61 times higher risk of hospitalisation within 14 days of specimen date than the Alpha [British] variant. There was a 1.67 times higher risk of A&E care within 14 days. These figures take into account factors such as age, sex, ethnicity, area of residence and vaccination status.
It appears PHE has been up to its usual tricks again though. While the data adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity and so on might produce these alarming results, the raw data tells the opposite story. Here’s the relevant table with some key figures highlighted:
Far from showing double the risk of serious disease, in the raw figures a smaller percentage of Delta (Indian) cases versus Alpha (British) cases went to A&E (5.1% vs 5.6%), stayed in hospital (1.5% vs 2.5%) or died (0.2% vs 1.2%). The two groups are presumably very different demographically, which is why PHE’s adjustments were so radical. But the big question is, how reliable can findings really be when the reported results are adjusted so drastically from the raw data, bearing in mind the guesswork these adjustments involve?
Early Delta (Indian) variant hotspots also give reasons not to panic, with Bolton’s positive Covid tests and hospital patients already on the decline.
Is anyone else getting a wearying sense of déjà vu? As Ross Clark notes:
We have been here before. In January Sir Patrick Vallance, the Chief Scientific Adviser, held a press conference to announce, glumly, that the Kent variant appeared to have a mortality rate 30% higher than previous variants. That led news bulletins. Less noticed were two studies published in the Lancet and Lancet Infectious Diseases in April which analysed the data and concluded that, after all, the Kent variant was no more deadly than previous variants.
Who’d bet against a similarly quiet and belated admission happening here, once the panic has done its damage?
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Of course, at the same time, it shouldn’t be forgotten that the main issue is that the PCR test is entirely flawed as a diagnostic procedure.
Not that TY seems to have taken that on board!
Give the underhand sniping a rest.
If you can’t be constructive STFU!
Yes … and is the entire foundation of the house of cards. Take away the Drosten PCR test, and what is left?
No it’s not.
There are many, many different types of PCR tests all of which are very accurate at detecting SARS-CoV-2 even the original Drosten et al test was quite accurate and has since been improved.
The problem is that governments haven’t requested the amplification or CT rate of a positive test so we don’t know whether the person tested is infectious or not.
A study in the US suggested that 85% to 90% of positive cases are not infectious.
A further PCR test should be done a few days later to ascertain the trajectory of the virus in the person to see if they are coming out of an infection and therefore NOT infectious or going IN to an infection and therefore infectious.
It is the lack of CT rate information which is causing the “casedemic” and NOT a fault with the PCR tests per se.
Deliberately so thanks to Herren Cormen, Drosten and their chums at Eurosurveillance, and the interest conflicted MHRA bods who in the guise as WHO apparatchik signed off this scam “regime”
Great Video: worth watching all the way through (approx 21 mins). The fight back is explained from around 17:00 – also available on Youtube (if you still use it) – Fight this on an individual level. Lead. Others will follow…
“It is not for nothing that our age cries out for a redeemer personality – for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective psychosis and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that there is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche” CARL JUNG
BITCHUTE VIDEO HERE
More useful information, links and resources: https://www.LCAHub.org/
Fantastic video, explains everything this fascist government has set out to do. Also highlights the value of parallel structures like this site to oppose their plans.
I am just back from Canada and have to buy the 2 tests – cheap junk getting sent to a lab in Milton Keynes. Presumably the very same
Oh well, welcome back from one socialist dystopia to another!
What happens if you don’t buy them?
The government isn’t going to care about cross contamination. The whole idea is to get as many false positives as possible to keep the fear element pumped up and to keep on track with the global agenda. I keep coming across the fact that the virus hasn’t been isolated and purified. If that is the case then isn’t any testing pointless anyway?
“the virus hasn’t been isolated and purified”
Ah, the good old Koch’s Postulates nonsense. These criteria were postulated before viruses were known about. Viruses and some simpler bacteria exploit the host’s biochemical system to enable them to reproduce. That means they cannot reproduce outside a host and hence fail Koch’s Postulates. One of the bacteria that falls into this is Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphils. This too fails to meet Koch’s Postulates and hence syphilis cannot exist (/s).
Those pushing this are the equivalent of Ferguson gnashing at the teeth over the fact that reality fails to comply with his model.
Edit: missed an important ‘not’ – doh!
More research for me! One thing that has perplexed me regarding
the Sars-cov-2 virus is
the huge array of symptoms attributed to it. You name a symptom, it must be covid. Whereas other condtions attributed to a viral illness tend to be more limited and exact. So that aspect has caused me to question its existence.
And only just recently I read that viruses don’t exist at all! A new thought entirely…
Viruses exist. They have to be seen using electron microscopy, but they exist.
That’s not the argument that is being made. The argument is that if you have not been able to isolate and purify the virus, how can you possibly test for it, not that it doesn’t exist.
If I tell you to sort objects A and B into separate piles, but you have no idea what those objects look like, how are you going to do it?
Viruses are complex entities smaller than the wavelength of visible light (400-700nm) which are only evident when they attack another cell and therefore virologists know they cannot be “isolated” in the dictionary sense of the word.
Partial computer generated sequencing was done early on but since then the full 30,000 bases of SARS-CoV-2 have been “whole gene sequenced” many times around the world. To date virologists have taken over 3.2 million human samples of the virus, gene sequenced them using different types of machines and uploaded the results, which are all the same gene sequence apart from the variants, to the GISAID Initiative. Everyone with an ounce of modern virology understanding knows that SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses have been proved to exist.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has also been shown to infect another human cell or person in many cases.
Unlike Climate Change where there are hundreds of climate experts and thousands of scientists who disagree with the IPCC there is not one virologist, retired or otherwise, scared of losing funding or not, who disagrees that this virus and other viruses exist. There is one marine biologist, Stefan Lanka, who discovered a virus in an ocean brown sponge decades ago who has made a career out of Terrain Theory that viruses do not exist and peddles quack medicines but he is a lone voice with no credibility.
Others like Kaufman, Cowan and David Icke have also jumped on the “no viruses exist” bandwagon with books to sell and websites to fund but they again have no virology credibility.
Yes there is a Covid scamdemic and possibly even a plandemic but to suggest that viruses do not exist is barking up the wrong tree and deflecting from the perpetrators of this Global Elite money and power grab and whatever else they have planned for humanity and is dividing the alternative media against them.
Thanks for that very informative answer. Yes, the Terrain Theory was a new one to me. The Climate Change being a hoax I am on board with, having previously had no cause to doubt it. I have just finished another excellent book exposing it and wasn’t surprised to learn that it is a con being used to implement the global agenda further.
A business entity based entirely on an fear-induced mass testing found to be proactively supporting the ‘fear-based’ demand for testing? What a fscking surprise. Who didn’t see this coming?
The cessation of mass testing sees its whole profit plan disappear.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/german-employers-not-allowed-to-request-workers-vaccination-status-labor-minister_3980684.html
Are we the baddies?
Can’t read it but based on the link I can say that fortunately the same is true here. Our idiot head honcho – the same dribbling fool who thinks a mask is a mark of respect – was going on about how they’re exploring all avenues to be able to enforce double jabbing for the office here like they have in the US office but unfortunately <sic> the law doesn’t currently allow it.
As long as the labs keep the CT at over 40, thereby producing ‘positive cases’, they are doing exactly what they were intended to do, and will receive government approval!
Toby I really don’t why you are constantly picking at the detail whilst ignoring the bigger picture. This is a multilayered deception that has one clear objective in the short term, to get everyone onboard with the Vax Passport by which point we’re all screwed. It matter not one jot if such matters as these labs being clean or whatever other inconsistencies arise as long as they get to that point.
The only way out of this trap is to totally discredit the PCR test in courts (good luck with that) and/or kill the Passports. Everything else is just a distraction whether just, ethical, fair or whatever or not.
We all need to wake up to the real issues and ignore the marginal because those skirmishes are already lost.
“The only way out of this trap is to totally discredit the PCR test in courts (good luck with that)”
I believe that is Reiner Fuellmich’s preferred strategy (and there have been a handful of courts in Europe that have agreed). The idea, I think, is : no PCR test = no ‘cases’ = no pandemic = no restrictive policies and no emergency use vaccines (and/or no right to mandate non-emergency ones).
The key is to reject the passports. That’s what it’s really about, as a precursor to digital IDs for everyone, and a central bank-controlled digital currency.
Yes, this is surely the end game, it should be obvious by now. Which is why it must be resisted to the maximum degree. Our fat pig dictator of a Prime Minister has sold us down the river to the WEF Globalists. Government after government are now using the same slogan ‘Build back better’. This isn’t by accident, it’s by design. Covid 19 has provided the necessary air cover for the wanton destruction of our lives as we previously knew it.
You know, I remember a time when animal rights activists would break into labs to disable operations and liberate the poor test subjects, track down staff and ‘persuade’ them to see the error of their ways, barricade the gates. Then there were the anti-choice activists who’d stand outside abortion centres with placards trying to convince attendees not to go ahead. People who’d literally chain themselves to trees to try and stop developers churning up the countryside. Why is the same not happening at jab centres and test processing labs?
Yellow Card Data – 18th Aug 2021
“WE WERE RIGHT: In August 2020 TGP Reported Per the CDC That Only 6% of All COVID-19 Deaths Were Caused EXCLUSIVELY by the COVID-19 Virus – Today It’s Down to 5%!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/right-cdc-confirms-post-showing-6-covid-19-deaths-due-covid-19-now-actually-5/
or even less, apparently
They don’t want to know. The Lighthouse labs serve a purpose, and it isn’t to provide accurate testing, otherwise much greater use would have been made of NHS path labs, who have a better track record in sample analysis.
And you don’t set up a completely new laboratory and train all the staff to a professional standard inside three weeks. Where were all the staff working before?? How many were qualified lab techs??
Why would the authorities investigate properly, when this shambles tops up the number of positive cases? Plays into the hands of those keen to lockdown, to power grab and to keep this nightmare rolling along. Anything goes when it comes to keeping the fearful afraid ( and it works, looking at the proportion of mask- wearers I saw in my local supermarket yesterday).
“nearly every MSM publication faithfully reproduces the daily positive cases from the Government’s coronavirus dashboard, so you’d think they would be a little more curious about the reliability of this data”
They couldn’t give a flying f… This has got nothing to do with a disease and all to with getting us to sign up to those “vaccine passports” so eventually we’re controlled like robots. If the figures coming out of these Labs happen to coincide with reality (i.e.never) then so much the better if not, well as long as it suits their narrative who gives a f…
I come a genetic line of working class scum who mostly died of industrial diseases, smoking or drink. Covid must have been with us for a long time and I’m sure our me and my species can survive it. A few billion deaths would be no bad thing as we are breeding faster than dying. What is all the fuss about?
Biohazard? They can’t have it both ways…70% of an East Anglian town are still wearing muzzles…outside? But they are discarded everywhere, mainly carparks. Where are the ‘biohazard waste’ bins? Perhaps because there are no biohazards involved in this scam?
Absolutely. My Partner and I walk our dogs in the local park twice daily. Every day and I mean every single day we pick up at least 2 or 3 masks just left on the side of the road or around the park it’s disgusting. I make a point of holding them at arms length before placing in the nearest bin. I have even found them scattered around the golf course wtf!
PS Funnily enough I don’t seem to have contracted any diseases nasty or otherwise so far.
No press follow up? The modern version of a D Notice would be withdrawal of all Government advertising for those doing the job journalists used to do