Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed some statistics in the Commons yesterday about the Delta (Indian) variant: out of 12,383 Delta variant positive tests in the U.K. up to June 3rd, 464 went to emergency care and 126 were admitted to hospital. Of those admitted to hospital, 83 were unvaccinated, 28 had had one jab and three had had both doses.
Keen-eyed readers will spot that 83+28+3 is not 126 – there are 12 hospital admissions unaccounted for. A Department of Health source told the Financial Times‘s Sebastian Payne that nine of these “don’t match to a vaccine status at present” while three were within 21 days of their first dose so didn’t count in any category.
Can we use these figures to make some crude calculations of the severity of the Delta variant?
126 hospital admissions out of 12,383 positive tests gives a 1% hospitalisation rate, or 99% not needing hospital. How does this compare to the Alpha (British) variant?
Last week Public Health England (PHE) released a study claiming the Delta variant had around double the risk of serious disease or hospitalisation compared with the Alpha variant. However, according to the ONS, during the winter peak when the Alpha variant was dominant, around 2% of the population of England was infected with COVID-19 and around 0.04% of the population was being admitted to hospital with the virus each week, giving around 2% of British variant infections leading to hospital admission. This is double the rate for the Indian variant on Hancock’s figures – and furthermore, Hancock’s figures use positive cases, not an ONS population infection estimate, which would reduce the hospitalisation rate for the Indian variant further.
However, what we don’t know, because these are just statistics delivered verbally in Parliament not a proper report (more science-by-press-release), is how many of the 12,383 positive cases are too recent to have led yet to hospital admission. We also don’t know how elderly or vulnerable those in the sample of 12,383 are, or what impact the vaccines are making on the hospitalisation rate.
The figures are of limited use as well in estimating the effectiveness of the vaccines against hospital admission with the Delta variant. That’s because we don’t know what proportion of the 12,383 infected were vaccinated, so we can’t control for that key factor. Having said that, the three versus 83 hospital admissions for fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated seems encouraging.
Overall, this data is very limited. Nonetheless, the fact that the hospitalisation rate even among positive cases is so much lower with the Delta variant now than with the Alpha variant in winter is further evidence that the latest scariant is nothing to fear.
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Good morning, one and all.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/28/nhs-could-need-covid-style-measures-cope-winter-crisis/
“Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation has called for an “honest conversation” with the public about the capacity of the health service this winter, as he says the public needs to make a “really big contribution” as they did in Covid.”
I propose the best contribution is to substitute the clapping for a 2 fingered salute!! National Health Service – a National disgrace.
An honest conversation.? Lets start with ‘Why do you employ 1.4m people at an average cost to each UK family of £10k a year, and you use the term ‘really big contribution’, when what you really mean is ‘fuck off and die somewhere else?’..
Got it in one
An honest conversation with the NHS would be very refreshing. We could talk about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, hospital capacity during lockdown, dancing nurses, Nightingale hospitals, vaccine safety, and that’s before we get onto the meaty philosophical topics such as ‘does the NHS exist to serve the public or is it the other way round?’
And the rigged vitamin D trials.
It seems to me that the NHS has become the backstop for our welfare state system. All the people who used to end up in the Workhouse, the Alms House or with the Sisters of Mercy now end up in the NHS. This winter, if we have people suffering from malnutrition and hypothermia, they will end up in the NHS. So many people that end up in the NHS are then hard to discharge. In that way the NHS is doomed to be in a continuing crisis.
The NHS as it exists today is an ineffective hugely expensive millstone around all our necks. Changing the NHS will be hard and chaotic such that I do not think any politician will tackle it until it really collapses. In view it needs breaking up into autonomous local health provisions linking charity and private input with state provision. It needs to distinguish health and social care provision. But I am afraid it will all get worse before there is any chance of it getting any better.
Good morning ellie – thanks for that
And sack that useless CEO. He has had long enough to do his job ie some planning and rationalisation.
“Honest conversation” – an oxymoron if ever there was one especially from the lips of the CEO of the NHS. They have been anything but honest during the past two and a half years. They’ve coerced their own workforce to take highly dubious, dangerous and fatal experimental medical treatments and jabbed the population to boot, not truly knowing the potentially catastrophic effects. They lied to us about the initial panic as hospital after hospital was shown to NOT be full to the brim with dying COVID patients. They dispatched the elderly back to die in nursing homes. They kept the whole charade going month after month after month. They used to stand for health and doing no harm. If we’re going to have an ‘honest’ conversation how about we start with the censorship, and the ignoring of other perfectly viable, cheap and effective treatments such as ivermectim and hydroxychloroquine.
It really is astonishing how long the lies have been allowed to circulate and the fact that they are still being allowed to circulate, despite outright proof to the contrary.
The reference to Norman Fenton’s article about a warning against use of the covid vaxx in pregnant women caught my eye. Although I had not before seen a direct warning against use, over the past year or so I would have a look at the info on the FDA and EMA websites. I just had another quick look at the FDA website, revised 8 July 2022. With regard to pregnancy and lactation it STILL says what is has said all along: there are insufficient data to say what the effects of the vaxx are on pregnant women and breastfed infants. I assume the EMA also still says this – 2 years in and they still do not know, yet shamelessly keep saying it is safe and effective for pregnant women. What a bloody disgrace. And no doubt when TSHTF they will say the information on the websites of the regulators made it clear we didn’t know and you took the poison of your own choice.
The FDA fact sheet for healthcare providers also had the following little tidbit:
“For the authorized uses, although limited scientific information is available, based on the totality of the scientific evidence available to date, it is reasonable to believe that the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine […] may be effective for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals […]”
The emphasis is mine, underlined to show that after 2 years, they are still saying “we don’t really know, but definitely would like to think that it works”. What a scam. People were coerced into injecting toxic sludge on the basis of some con artist’s “reasonable belief”.
Hopefully an article will appear on the DS regarding the warning against use in pregnant women, the lie that it is safe for them needs to be called out sooner rather than later.
A down tick- has Savage Jabbit and / or Midazolam Matt joined us?
So, due to an unexpected incident involving my daughter’s finger and a bathroom door yesterday, I feel I can give feedback on the NHS based on personal experience.
Scarborough A&E were great and couldn’t fault the staff. Signage for masks everywhere but hardly any staff wore one, certainly none that dealt with us, and we were never asked to wear one. Contrast that with Hull today…I’ve just been kicked of out the dept!
Long story short, the nurse asked me to wear one or if not put a visor on, I said no chance, not happening as there’s nothing wrong with me. I was forthright she got snotty. Surgeon came in, said nothing, then nurse comes back handing me a mask ( obv my huz puts his straight on!! ) saying I had to wear one, I stuck to my guns, Sister comes in saying if I don’t wear one to comply with guidelines she’d have to ask me to leave the dept.
What happened next was me verbalizing my rational for not complying in Muppet Theatre nonsense, surgeon said he wasn’t bothered if I wore one or not but they had to adhere to Trust guidelines, me saying I’m disgusted that they’re kicking out the parent of a kid who’s about to have a minor operation just because I’m not covering my face and I did say somewhere the NHS is an embarrassment ( possibly not the best thing to say when I’ve entrusted my kid into their care ), anyway lots was said. They didn’t wanna hear about bloody droplet size and aerosolized particle size and how redundant that made masks, they only kept bleating on about guidelines and vulnerable people that need protecting ( i countered this by saying there’s always been vulnerable people and it’s up to them to protect themselves not every bugger else ), despite it being bloody August outside!!
So I flounced off making sure they knew how displeased I was with them. F*cking 
nation in there honestly.
Can you imagine if I was the only parent there though? No way would I be leaving my kid on her own, they’d have to carry me out cos no way would I leave voluntarily. Luckily, in this instance, I’m married to Mr “Just tell me what to do and I’ll do it” Compliant, so he’s with her now as the plastic surgeon repairs her finger. I just cannot believe how indoctrinated they are, just like a cult. I’ll be simultaneously grateful for their care of my kid but I’m massively pissed off that they’ve made masks obligatory, not even ‘strongly advised.’ Totally disproportionate and anti-scientific attitude!
Honestly, who needs The Muppet Show omnibus when you can just walk in to Hull Royal Infirmary for your own personal exposure to Nazi-like treatment?!!
That defo wasn’t a short story but I had to get it off my chest. I nearly went to Wetherspoons for a stiff one because any excuse, right? But found a Costa so Mogs is keeping it together with coffee and an extra shot!
Oh Mogs! As a Mum I feel for you.
Good on you for sticking to your guns.
The way to deal with it is just to say that you’re exempt. Guidelines do not trump law.
I sincerely hope that the drug of choice calmed you down & that your daughter is okay.
BB
Ah thank you. Yes I think when the nurse asked what my reason for not wearing one was I replied, “Because I’m sensible.”
The thing is, by saying that im exempt it’s essentially lying isn’t it, and I’m not a liar.
Anyway must scoot. Huz just called and she’s all done. She was nil by mouth just incase so we’ll go eat somewhere….
Everybody is exempt from a medical experiment if they choose not to participate. You’re not lying!
Firstly, hope your daughter is better soon, secondly BRAVO….I’m coiled like a spring waiting for my chance to explode!! LOL!
I had to go to a local hospital, taking an elderly friend, and I was ready for the mask-Nazis…and there weren’t any…!! It was super-disappointing, but I know that my chance will come one day…and I’ll channel some Mogs as well….!
I agree with you, we need to say NO outright, no excuses, they have no science or sense on their side, and people need to tell them straight!
Mask nazis are like the Spanish inquisition – nobody expects them. I have often been prepared for a confrontation that doesn’t happen, then it pops up in the most surprising place. We stopped going to our regular pub of 20 years over just such a stand off with the landlady. True shardenfraude when I saw that they are closing down.
Well that’s it. I certainly wasn’t about to be cowed or bullied into submission when they have literally no rationale to back up their Nazi rules. Penalising people, esp parents of child patients, is just the lowest of the low. Zero ethics. Zero evidence-based practice. All about enabling and perpetuating the narrative by adhering to dogma rather than data. There is no evidence to back up their mask protocol. We were sat in the waiting room and every chair had plastic screens at either side FFS.
So if this is Aug what is winter gonna be like? I’m also incredulous that staff seem to be OK with wearing those things for long shifts. Stark raving mad. I thought I’d wandered into the psychiatric ward by accident.
Thanks for the well wishes.
She’s right as rain and the power of KFC has brightened her up. She broke her nail bed getting her finger jammed so no nail now but it’ll grow back in time. The rock pooling will be postponed.
I went for a scan recently at the local hospital. Unexpectedly, I was asked to wear a mask by the unmasked lady in reception. I said I was exempt, which was fine, although compliant on my part. It was unexpected because I thought the hospital had done away with mask requirements. They still had a stupid plastic screen that I had to peer round when speaking to the receptionist, but thankfully the stupid ‘do not sit here’ tape on some seats in the waiting area had been removed.
I like to make a point of using taped-off seating and breaching taped-off areas.
Much respect from me HP. Up to 2019 I had been one of those Englishmen who would avoid confrontation at all costs if possible. I suppose it is a testament to the successful divisiveness of government propaganda that I almost came to blows with another old man over my lack of a face mask in a local Farmers’ Market during the height of COVID mania. On the plus side, whenever I see crowds of jubilant sports fans celebrating together or rock festival goers crammed together while enjoying their favourite band, I derive some pleasure from imagining Susan Michie’s annoyance when she witnesses such scenes.
Thanks Chris.
Good on you for sticking to your guns Mogs. I hope the young ‘un is OK.
As I posted a couple of days ago all the NHS are brainwashed and signed up to the cult. An industry supposedly based on science.
Absolute joke.
Please can you amend your claim that “all the NHS” are brainwashed to the vast majority of the NHS.
There are a few good & enlightened souls who are fighting this battle from within the cauldron of NHS hell.
Dr Dave Cartland, Dr Sam White to name two GPs who have lost so much for placing patient care & medical ethics above the covid cult rubbish.
Apologies BB it’s just that from the considerable numbers of NHS personnel within both my family and social circle I do not know ONE who is not a fully paid up Covidiot.
I stand corrected.
Apology fully accepted. I know of a couple of awake clinicians personally, who are the resistance within. Sadly far too few of the medics at consultant level or GPs who are speaking out. The reasons? Above their paygrade & not wanting to put their livelihood at risk.
The tyrants at the top will quite happily sacrifice this spineless supine cohort. I’m so disappointed in friends within the NHS who have just swallowed the whole cult for an easy life.
One positive for the HCAs in my GP surgery – covid bioweapon injections were administered by the GPs…
It is the HCAs who are awake.
Bloomin’ Nora, Mogs! Bit of an ordeal. Trial by fire. I would have been right there with you, ripping up the masks in front of them, stamping on them in a sort of Basil Fawlty way and screaming ‘Naughty Masky, naughty masky, you can’t even do a simple job like keep out a simple virus’ before being dragged off by burly NHS thugs, I mean, security and thrown into the street. I don’t have a problem with most nurses and doctors but it’s the ones who refuse to look further than what they’re told, what they’ve read in the guidelines, who frighten me the most. They are the facilitators of this nonsense. They would probably approve of segregation and incarceration for unjabbed if things got ugly again and they would justify it to themselves. They are dangerous because they’re ignorant. Fighting ignorance with facts and truth is pointless: no amount of data will persuade them. We could throw reams of facts at them, bags full of overwhelming evidence and it wouldn’t make any difference.
Glad your daughter is OK.
They could have just respected the fact I wasn’t gonna comply today and left it at that but no, they had to push to the degree that they’d force a parent to leave their kid at such a time. It’s totally appalling when I think about it and unforgivable as its completely disproportionate and unjustified.
Anyway, now I’ve had a taste of what you lot have to contend with. I also really feel for those who’ve perhsps been waiting months to see a specialist then you’re confronted with this crap. I mean, you can’t afford to just say, “Shove your masks.” And flounce out if you’ve waited months for a procedure so I thought how many are having to wear masks under duress. They’ve got you over a barrel if you need them more than they need you. I can go back to NL soon and not deal with this shit but you guys are stuck with this crapola for the foreseeable it would appear.
Dr Mike on form. Again. This time about increasing control of movement.
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https://petersweden.substack.com/p/bank-loan-cars?utm_medium=email
A switch to electric cars is a way that the perpetrators intend to deprive private individuals of ownership of vehicles.
Note the lack of interest in hydrogen fuel cell cars. There are numerous good arguments that solar-generated hydrogen creation from water, which can be stored & transported & dispensed safely at adapted current gas / petrol stations.
The cars themselves can readily make 400 miles per tank & refuelling is brisk, like gasoline.
The fuel cell creates electrical power upon demand & the exhaust is water vapour.
This combines not using fossil fuels to move about, with personal freedoms like we have now.
This solution is disregarded because this returns to individuals the right to drive “from coast to coast”, without stopping for anything more than fuel & sustenance.
Before anyone says “battery cars are the proven winners” I ask, battery technology can be refined further but hydrogen fuel cell cannot?
Best wishes
Mike
The agenda to deprive us of our cars is in full swing. Oil and gas drillers are finding it hard to raise finance for new prospects as banks adopt woke policies and deny finance. There will be no new petrol/diesel cars manufactured or sold in the UK after 2030 (2035 for the EU). Prices of fuels are bound to spike later in year – we are in the lull period – with rationing predicted. Will anyone do anything about it? Of course not. People will just go along with the plans until they’re sitting in their unheated homes, doling out the baked beans in the dark and talking about their summer holidays next year in the farmer’s fields down the road. Meanwhile, either Truss or Sunak will bleat on about supporting Ukraine (the refugees of which get all their rent and food paid for plus extra dosh on a card – not their fault but hey…) until the cows (who have clearly lost all navigational abilities) come home. The media will wholeheartedly support them while praising us all for tightening our belts for democracy and freedom and more jingoistic nonsense to make us feel good about ourselves while we shiver. You couldn’t make it up. The Net Zero fundamentalists will be having a field day when they see us all off the roads -yay! – except they’ll be paying through the nose for their food and sitting in darkened caves too (er…yay?). I wonder how long I can watch as this all unfolds without going completely Bill and Ben. Potty that is. It’s a slow motion car/train/plane crash. Drawn out for maximum pain for those that can see it all coming but for many they will hunker down with the Pringles in front of a disaster movie showing pretty much exactly what is going on outside their windows but as entertainment. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that we are under attack. Our own governments are waging a silent war against their own people. What does one do in a war to protect oneself? One fights back. I think it’s time we proceeded down to the barricades and the assizes – they’re going to be busy.
We need to rise up before the UN army is deployed to shut us down, remove us unclean sceptics & either inject us with the toxic mRNA or incarcerate us in one of their new super prisons….
This is VERY disturbing. Who controls the past controls the present. Who controls the present controls the future.
Something is happening to internet search, no matter which engine you use. Ok, illustrated just one search term, but the troubling observations are that while you’re told there are hundreds of millions of hits, in practise, once you scroll down a few pages, so you’re still in the top fraction of a slice of 1% of these purported “hits”, all you’re presented with is the same items, again & again & again.
At a glance, this preliminary conclusion. Unless you know exactly what you’re looking for, “search” is no longer a matter of mere efficiency, of page rank view. It’s inaccessible to you. You will never see anything that doesn’t come from a WEF-partnered media organisation or its affiliates.
As the presenter says, if this doesn’t worry you, I don’t know what to say.
I’ve lived on information, professionally. When I started, there was no internet & indeed no computers. It didn’t prevent us from knowing our field very well. I’d peruse TOCs every time a new issue of a main journal published. I’d make a list & go and spend a few hours in the library. I’d often find lucky articles next to the one I’d decided to check. I’d check the references cited & maybe pull those older journals from the stacks. After a while, several weeks, I’d have a decent grasp of the topic.
I thought initially the same could be done using internet search. But you can’t. What you’ll see is controlled, restricted, decided.
Few people even know how to find information & go back in time.
There were absolutely vital volumes which were painstakingly assembled by hand.
Index Medicus & Science Citation Index.
I used to love the thrill of leafing through time find your own papers then check how many times your work had recently been cited in others’ work, and go read those papers. They probably still exist. But nobody is going to rely on physical searching. The perpetrators know this.
It’s really concerning.
There’s no obvious fix to this, but being is a helluva start. For example, do not search for anything important using WEF browsers. They’ll learn what your search interaction is & ensure you or someone like you will never find things that aren’t WEF friendly.
Best wishes
Mike
https://youtu.be/8O_NvPpbsbw
A further link to another article on this subject. Thank God for the Way back machine
https://newspunch.com/wef-hires-millions-of-info-warriors-to-delete-the-internet-of-alternative-views/
Prof Norman Fenton on the contradictory advice on NHS official sites for pregnant, nursing & women who are trying to conceive. Surely the barstewards can’t be trying to hide something??
https://www.normanfenton.com/post/breaking-news-uk-government-says-vaccine-not-safe-for-pregnant-or-breastfeeding-women
Informative article on the current state. He argues that it’s WWIII, others say that it is merely a continuation of WWII
https://michaelyon.com/dispatches/wwiii-is-on/
A very disturbing Twitter thread regarding age of consent in law vs age of consent in Islam. The father decides when the girl is of age…. Not the law of this land.
https://twitter.com/paulturner2012/status/1564163309858947072?s=20&t=ZMU5RNnxh6e5FgOl0nzYHw
This evening’s MD4CE zoom call is with Todd Callender & his associates. Should be interesting.
I’ll report back what I understand tomorrow & the presentation with Q&A session after should be uploaded to Charles Kovess’ rumble which again I’ll direct you to.
BB
Thanks BB.
Watch Todd yourself!
https://rumble.com/v1hzqm1-august-30-2022.html
Neil Oliver warns that more is coming from the evil overlords
https://youtu.be/HTA90R9FMoQ
Powerful stuff as ever from Neil Oliver.
Katie Hopkins on Heat Banks and learned dependency on the State
https://youtu.be/fZvi8HAhT6U
A summary of an article in German on the wonders of Smart Cities….
Smart City Charta – You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.
This document (https://www.smart-city-dialog.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/smart-city-charta-langfassung.pdf) written by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (no joke, this is really the ministry’s name) is somehow scary.
It was written in 2017 and shows that the current agenda was planned for a long time. I translated page #43 for you that covers their societal vision.
1. Super resource-efficient society
A society in which no building stands empty, but is used optimally all the time. Also, no cars drive empty anymore. New appliances and machines generate their own energy. For those working on energy harvesting sensors, the discussion of centralized, large power plants seems pointless.
2. Post-choice society
Artificial intelligence replaces choice: We never have to decide to take a particular bus or train, but get the fastest way from A to B. We will never forget our keys, wallets or watches. We will also never forget our keys, wallets or watches.
3. Post-ownership society
Thanks to information about available shared goods and resources, it makes less sense to own something: Perhaps private property will indeed become a luxury. Data could complement or replace money as currency.
4. Post-market society
Basically, markets are information systems that allocate resources. As an information system, however, a market functions very simply. It only transmits that a person bought this or that; but we don’t know why. In the future, sensors can provide us with better data than markets.
5. Post-energy society
To be used ubiquitously, sensors must be energy efficient and energy self-sufficient. If a data revolution is to take place. Energy harvesting – the ability to generate and store energy at macro, micro or nano scales – become commonplace.
6. Post-voting society
Knowing exactly what people do and want, there is less need for elections, majority rule or voting. Behavioural data can replace democracy as the as the social feedback system.
Resist!
Dr. Simon
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Yes very scary. I wonder who writes this nonsense. People who have watched too many sci-fi films perhaps? Bland people who want us all to be exactly the same so that they don’t feel so awkward or alienated? Certainly, utterly insane geeky data people who have no relationship with reality, no empathy with ordinary human beings, no real understanding of culture or society other than their own twisted interpretations. This would be the death of art and originality. Everything boiled down into a beige stew of bland, meaninglessness, of data to explain everything. No passion, no fire, no future at all. Who would ever want to live in such a world? And yet it has a government stamp to it. I despair. Resist indeed with every last breath.
While ever we have a cohort of youth who can see through the woke & call it out, there is huge hope for resistance to the woke cultist dogma to continue to grow. The best thing is, not an insult in sight from the children, just a clear message.
https://www.tiktok.com/@farageforpm/video/7135976233875016965?_r=1&_t=8VGh2VObl7W&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7135976233875016965
A bit stuffing late now. I distinctly remember pregnant women being urged to take this drug (and the apparent consequences). Will people be held to account?
Why should anyone trust these crooks again?
Todd Callender presentation on rumble now!
https://rumble.com/v1hzqm1-august-30-2022.html
Sadly no sound. Maybe make a tape of it?
Sam Dube has sorted out it live on youtube
https://youtu.be/ED_qYimI9mI
https://youtu.be/WnsUoJJlcYQ
Good piece from Ivor Cummins on the Reset.