We’re publishing an original piece today by Glen Bishop, the second year maths student at Nottingham University who often writes for Lockdown Sceptics about the shortcomings of the models that SAGE has relied on throughout this crisis. In this piece, he does a back-of-the-envelope calculation to work out how much it has cost the Government to save one life from Covid. Not surprisingly, it is considerably more than the £30,000 per Quality Adjusted Life Year that is the upper limit in the guidance the NHS relies upon when deciding how to allocate resources. Here is an extract:
Financially, the test for rationality of a response to public health is the one used, until the Covid hysteria, by the NHS and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE is the body that decides whether treatments, technologies and medicines are beneficial enough to warrant their cost. The upper limit the NHS and NICE are willing to pay for a treatment yielding one extra quality adjusted life year (QALY) is £30,000. If £30,000 is the accepted limit that can sustainably be spent by society on giving an individual one extra quality year of life, then have lockdowns met this test? Even with Ferguson’s projections, they aren’t even close.
As mentioned, using the 500,000 deaths projection would lead to 372,000 lives having been saved. Conveniently the National Audit Office puts the cost of measures announced by the government by the end of March at £372bn. That would be, as readers will notice, £1 million per life saved. But again, taking QALYs lost per Covid death of seven years gives £143,000.
This is a cost per year of life nearly five times more than the £30,000 the Government previously deemed an upper limit for what was reasonable and sustainable to spend on treatments such as that for children’s cancer medication. Is it the Government’s or Professor Ferguson’s position that protecting somebody from Covid is worth spending five times more than protecting someone from cancer or do they not understand the realities of the policies they are implementing?
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Nothing stops the gene therapy.
Nothing stops Covid either.
Hmm, I’ve had 100% success supplementing with vit D. C & zinc. So far.
You and quite a few others, including myself. However if people want to destroy their immune systems then let them take the “poison death shots”.
same here. Not a sniffle since March 2020. Daily Vit D, Quercetin, Vit A and black cumin extract.
Same here, in mid/late March 2020 I had 4-6 hours of a noticeable fever and racing heart … was that all it was?? My sister had it in Feb. 2020, followed by almost 6 months of fatigue, but IMO they don’t take care of their health.
I follow the advice of Dr. Webb on how to stay healthy … geddit? I now haven’t had a bad cold or flu since 1977.
My chance of getting an immunity test is about the same as that of a meteorite landing on 10 Downing St. during the next cabinet meeting.
Children do.
Vaccines do dont they? tell me they do for gods sake man !!!!!!
I cannot for the life of me quite understand why the concept of natural immunity conferred by exposure/infection has been, is and will be ignored.
It’s almost as though something sinister is going on.
…you forgot to include the sarcasm glyph, there, Sforzesca.
Either something sinister or politicians simply covering their arses – I can’t make out which?
If they have been covering their arses then the extent to which they have been doing this, aided by the collaborators in “journalism”, “political opposition”, “science”, “medicine/public health”, “judiciary”, big tech, etc etc, is sinister.
And all the NGOs, charities.
Irony apart – the shaping of the narrative, with the obscene focus on ‘vaccines’ and the neglect of other palliative measures and natural immunity screams ‘fraud’.
Yes indeed and it also screams sinister.
Anyone doubting just how sinister just has to acquire an inceasingly rare copy of “The real Doctor Fauci” by RFK Junior ….yes, it is darker than most people seem able to imagine.
“almost”?
All reports show that moronic is, at its worst, a runny nose. Yet the world goes into panic led by, predictably, noses in the trough, Big Pharma. Some will be having a very, very happy Xmas may they rot in hell for what they have done.
With millions of years of experience the bodies natural immune system knows how best to deal with viruses much better than any politician can.
Which is perhaps why they seem determined to by-pass and destroy it with never ending vaccinations!
One problem with that is covid is a virus subject to Gain Of Function. We have no idea what’s been designed into it. That’s why, in my opinion, global governments have hit the panic button.
Every government has a Porton Down, and they’re not developing revolutionary knitting patterns.
Every government knows the potential of an engineered bio weapon because the scientists screwing around with them have told them precisely the devastation they can reap.
Here’s hoping covid is like everything else the Chinese makes. A week after unwrapping it on Christmas Day it’s busted.
Well world, what do you want? To continue existing and not living? Wear your mask, then. Take your jabs, for the rest of your life.
I choose to live, show my face and own my body.
And so say all of us.
Take your jabs, for the rest of your life.
And that will be short and not so sweet.
As I have mentioned before – I’ve had covid back in March 2020 (flu-like) recovered after a 3/4 days – recently caught tone of the variants (very mild cold-like with a slight sore throat) recovered after just a day or two. I’m the only one in my family who is not jabbed – everyone who has been jabbed and/or double-jabbed has been coming down with all kinds of flu/cold-like viruses on a regular basis ever since – a few months ago it was cold-like virus which they could not seem to shake off sometimes lasting weeks (this is when I caught my mild cold-like variant lasting just a day or two). Now they are all coming down with heavy cold-like symptoms once again but this time with coughs and sore throats too – will I catch this new bug going around? I don’t know? I’m in close proximity with these double-jabbers on a daily basis – so I probably could but I was amazed how long I evaded the last bout of cold-like viruses that were going around – dissapointed when i finally catch the mild cold-like virus. But what I’ve noticed is that if i do get any symptoms they tend to be very mild compared to the double-jabbed who surround me who all appear to get hit very hard with these new viruses.
I’m absolutely confident that when it comes to these mutating viruses that natural immunity is king – which is why I won’t have the jab.
PS: Lots of people complaining of side-effects after the booster jab – so thats another good reason not to get the jab.
This “mild cold-like variant” you had, could that just have been a cold?
No and you will take the vaccine!
Sane here. My wife is basically ill all the time now since her iabs. Takes ages to shake everything off. Plus her periods are very very heavy all the time now.
27 year old, double-jabbed, semi-pro cyclist I work with was bed ridden for 5 days with Covid, he’s made his recovery return to the office, he’s lost a ton of weight. AND had Shingles, one of the known “vaccine” side affects – I’m convinced he suffered worse because of ADE – tried explaining this to him – “imagine how bad I would have been without the vaccine though…”
Amazing how utterly determined some people are to not join the dots.
Witness to the extraordinary success of the biggest psy-op in UK history which appears to have so traumatised and brain-washed 70% of the population that they are now incapable of any independent or rational thought.
Surely Michie and Co. will be getting peerages and OBEs soon?
In Michie’s case, there’ll be a ‘Hero of the Motherland’ medal.
Yes, apparently sportsmen have collapsed in previous years too.
My double vaxxed brother caught Covid, then a cold. He’s going to have a booster…
Everyone at my work who has had the booster is ill. Ever since, they have ALL been ill – colds, sore throat, rashes, boils. Young healthy people.
If they’ve had the jabs and booster, they are now no longer healthy. Henceforth their increasingly miserable lives will depend upon receiving a regular toxic booster, until it sees them off, which it is meant to do.
We’re just moving into summer in Lockdownunder, so winter is a way off. In the meantime the vaxxed faction at work will no doubt line up for their boosters. There’s a couple of little cliques formed now; one group of young women chat about it at lunch. Could be a very different conversation by the end of August next year.
You mean, complete silence…..??
well it won’t be about baby showers.
Both my husband and I had it in February 2020. My case was really mild malaise and loss of taste and smell, he had the same plus a lingering cough. We have both been exposed since and have tested negative every time. We travel for business and have been in hot zones. I had to have surgery last April (thankfully I had private insurance or I’d be dead, literally). I’m sure natural we have natural immunity but unless we shutter our company we are forced to get the jab to travel. Luckily neither of us have ever had an adverse reaction to any drug (even all the homemade ones from youth 😎).
The jabs are genocidal, what more do people need to know.
G******* is a loaded word which annoys me. We have no good evidence for that right now. I thought this website was about scientific scepticism and trying to follow data, not dogma.
We do have plenty of evidence that humans in large organisations behave awfully and are happy to follow stupid, panicky or crooked orders issued by those in charge. That’s how Thalidomide and Vioxx happened. We also have evidence that some of the elite, including the pharma industry, are enriching themselves hugely at our expense. All this is awful enough.
Were it anything, it would be mass murder not genocide as there is no particular group targeted. The term also irritates me.
Look for Geert Van den Bosche (spelling?) videos and you’ll understand why the jabbed are getting sicker than you.
Conspiracy theory bingo! Sweden: Get Your Covid Vaccine Passport in a Chip in Your Hand
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/sweden-get-covid-vaccine-passport-chip-hand-video/#insticator-commenting
That’s bloody incredible!
It won’t work in Saudi…..
Oh those were the days… few weeks to save the NHS, freedom day, blah,blah,blah,
Now Boosters every three months.
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1465346793793802253
The religious amongst us can pray for those in charge (and those profiting) to face eternal damnation….my concern is that for the rest of us, these criminals are going to get away with it. I could deal with prison/concentration camps for the unvaccinated, if I knew those responsible would end up at Nuremberg II. This is my biggest worry…..
This has made me envy people who believe in heaven and hell. At least they can pretend there will be some kind of justice.
WORLD’S FIRST VACCINE MURDER CASE AGAINST BILL GATES, ADAR POONAWALLA FILED IN INDIA’S HIGH COURTPOSTED BY INDIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ON NOVEMBER 25, 2021
https://indianbarassociation.in/worlds-first-vaccine-murder-case-against-bill-gates-adar-poonawalla-filed-in-indias-high-court/
I don’t know how genuine this is but I looked up the IBA independently and confirmed it as best I could.
It seems that the Universal Declaration of Human Roghts, the concept of Crimes against Humanity and the Nuremberg Code have been simply swept aside with a wave of the hand.
The UN is totally onside with this whole diabolical project ever since the West lost control of Global institutions and Gates took over the WHO.
There was a question mark over efficacy already.
Yes, a very, very large one!
We’re going to need different antibodies for every variant and we’ll also need them topping up every few months.
Does anybody see a problem with this?
I’m sure the vax manufacturers won’t see any problem at all. Move along – nothing to see here…
As far as the South African figures are concerned, you probably want to consider the reports that they started including antigen test results in their case figures on, waht for it… November 23rd. Botswana’s case rates are minimal now too – and continue to trend downards.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-omicron-absurdities-continue
Got this yesterday, and bringing it up in conversations wherever I can.
I wonder how long it will be before this interesting fact becomes a ‘thing’?
In SA they have somehow increased by just over 400%.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10259907/Covid-cases-South-Africa-SOAR-92-just-days-scientists-raised-alarm-Omicron-variant.html
Wow, very convenient.
They suddenly (on the 23d) started adding on antigen tests.
Tell me how, within hours of this supposed new variant being found, they can publish a whole list of short, medium and long term symptoms? And isnt it strange that many of these symptoms mirror the exact same severe side effects of taking the gene therapy drug? A cynic would accuse them of lining up Moronic to be the fall guy for gene therapy induced deaths and injuries.
They could save paper (and help save the planet!) if it just said: “You may feel a bit ill, very ill, or die”.
Where do they source the list of symptoms from? Is it patient testing? Q&A? Are they all vaccinated? It’s kinda ridiculous – a bit like self-diagnosing yourself on WebMD and up comes a huge list of ailments.
Evidence suggest that the WEF were talking about this “new variant” weeks ago before it was even announced.
( See RFK J’s book the “Real Anthony Fauci” for exactly what ‘new variant’ actually means. Mike Yeadon is also on record with an explanation of the insignificant differences between these “variants” when presented with a healthy human immune system).
I would really like to know if the jabbed have the same full array of antibodies as the unspoiled after symptomatic infection.
I’m amazed that the double jabbed who’ve since caught COVID are now lining up for their booster! How does that logic work exactly?
Snap.. I asked the very same question as the same time. Weird.
Well when I got Covid in August I volunteered for NHS antibody testing, and I took a test a couple of weeks after recovering from the worst of it (and I had it pretty bad).
The results showed I had antibodies you get from natural infection and those you can get from a vaccine.
As I’ve not been vaccinated then both types must have come from the infection, which proves, at least in my case that I have a better antibody response than those who’ve just had a vaccine.
I think it’s madness to vaccinate those who’ve had the bug, as there are trustworthy reports that the chances of a bad vaccine reaction are increased.
But just think how bad the Covid would have been if they hadn’t been spiked!
(yes, that is sarcasm, for the avoidance of doubt!)
I believe the stock response is:
“Well it would’ve been worse without the ‘vaccine.’
Is this the response officially approved by Dr Fauci?
I would love to find someone who could prove that.
The jab progressively reduces the immune system response and makes the recipient dependent on ever more jabs?.
Ignorance of natural immunity tells you everything you need to know about the corporate capture of public health. They know. They know we know. They know we know they know.
How does natural immunity stand up for the massive amount of double vaxxed getting a PCR +? Whatever that means, or PCR + with symptoms at least. Does the acquired immunity effect still result in the kind of outcomes detailed in the Qatar study?
Given this evidence, they argue, “policy makers should consider recovery from previous SARS-CoV-2 infection equal to immunity from vaccination for purposes related to entry to public events, businesses, and the workplace, or travel requirements”.
Fat chance.
“According to the assistant minister Sethomo Lelatisits, of the 15 cases still in Botswana, three showed mild symptoms while the rest did not. Eleven of the cases were vaccinated, while those unvaccinated did not show symptoms“. Are we awake yet sheeple?
https://www.mmegi.bw/news/omicron-cases-show-mild-or-no-symptoms-lelatisitswe/news
Omicron was in South Wales (Pembrokeshire) about 3 weeks ago, both son and daughter-in-law had throat discomfort and, significantly, were very tired. My son is normally active, but this fatigue laid him low for 3-4 days.
BBC have seen leaked document from SAGE, yeah right, deliberately leaked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59484322
This is why all the restrictions are meaningless. This new variant has been around for quite a while, and we’re only finding it because we’re specifically looking for it.
It’s like when you get a spate of dog attack stories in the press. There aren’t any more dog attacks than normal, it’s just the press looking for more after the first one happens giving a false impression they’re increasing.
I still say that if we had no way to test for this virus we wouldn’t be panicking as we’d just think it was a bad flu/cold and carry on as normal. It’s the testing of asymptomatic people and calling them ‘cases’ which drives this.
Variant my ass. So far we have had original covid and at least 2 or 3 more around the world up to this omnicon variant. Influenza has a single variant every year, or at least that’s what we’ve all been led to believe, as they dispense a single conventional vaccine for it annually.
Asymptomatic illness is a myth concocted to induce panic. Nothing on the planet can resist contraction of a virus, it’s what the body does with it that affects the critical element, transmission.
If immune systems are healthy, as with children in this ‘crisis’, the body deals with the virus internally and early. Thats why in the early days there were no recorded cases of children passing the virus on, their immune systems stopped it in its tracks. They were not asymptomatic transmitters, they were nature’s first line of defence.
The safest place to be was in a classroom but the teachers unions decided teachers needed time off so perpetuated the myth about asymptomatic carriers.
Adults are more likely to suffer symptoms, at which point they invoke natures time honoured means of self isolation, taking to bed.
The most bizarre thing I have witnessed so far is my neighbour catching covid early on. She was rough for a couple of weeks but was nursed back to health by her husband and two grown daughters. All self isolated in the house. All have underlying health issues including epilepsy and asthma but the husband and the daughters suffered no ill effects whatsoever.
When the clotshots were announced the whole family trotted off to their nearest centre and took the jabs. That’s how mind blowingly brainwashed society is.
It’s encouraging to see that even on the BBC there are now a good few sensible comments with lots of upvotes – perhaps the tide is at last beginning to turn?
Yes, I know that might be over-optimistic…
“Controlled Opposition “- like GBNews – plenty of it around!
If the BBC receive / get hold of ‘leaked’ documents they have not been leaked.
DR SUCHARIT BHAKDI – THE VACCINES WERE DESIGNED TO FAIL (Nov. 25th 2021)
Bhakdi is a brave and great man – he explained everything months ago and warned humanity… as not reported on Global MSM and Social Media
Alpha placed a question mark over efficacy, Beta barely registered. Delta smashed it to pieces. Omicron, more of a middle finger I think than a question mark.
Please check out the latest video from Unherd and Freddie Sayers interviewing Paul Kingsnorth….it’s rather enlightening and has changed my view of our “argument
It is interesting. The portrayal of two groups at war with each other is spot on, and also the “if we go down this route, what next” issue, but I think he gets the characteristics of the two groups wrong. Best I can tell, he sees the pro- group as broadly rational, and the anti- group as more spiritual. As I see it, the pro- group is the more religious, faith based, and the anti- are the rationalists.
Why do we never hear about natural immunity? It is how the human race has survived down the centuries!
Because they are seeking to replace natural immunitiy with regular injections.
There’s no profit in natural immunity, silly…….
it is about time that government addressed natural immunity in their vaccination plan, and it is also about time they were taken to court for failing to do so. By not testing – via a T-SPOT or other t cell test – they may be forcing the “vaccine” on people who do not need it, at all. As is demonstrated by the above actual science. If you are an immune careworker, the government is forcing you to take a treatment you do not need with an appreciable risk of doing you harm. On what planet can that be legal?
As care and health workers were at work during 2020, and a significant proportion of infections were nosocomial then logic would suggest that those workers were exposed to the virus and probably infected. Therefore they would have immunity built up.
It seems that under Emergency Regulations anything Johnson says is now instantly ‘legal’.
Professor John Edmunds 🤣🤣 still going to that ✊💦💦💦💦
Italy Holds ‘March of the Vaccine Dead’ To Remember Those Killed By The COVID-19 Vaccine
Last weekend, a group numbering in the hundreds staged a mourning march in Parma, Italy to commemorate those who have died as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine. The marchers held up pictures of the dead as they moved in solemn procession through central Parma, chanting the names of those lost to the experimental vaccines.
https://thecovidworld.com/italy-holds-march-of-the-vaccine-dead-to-remember-those-killed-by-the-covid-19-vaccine/
Very moving … at least 5,000 in the UK must have seen it.
BBC missed it of course.
Margarita Zikou: 48-Year-Old Aspiring Greek Politician ‘Dies Suddenly’ From Heart Problems Months After Praising COVID Vaccines
Those who use the argument, ‘I don’t want the Astrazeneca vaccine because I’m afraid of thrombosis as a side effect’, think for a second, the chances are only 4 in a million. But if you get struck with covid, (very likely), the chances of thrombosis are 160,000 to one million. Vaccines have always been the only solution to deadly diseases …
The best vaccine is the covid vaccine …
WE ARE VACCINATED ….” – Margarita Zikou
https://thecovidworld.com/margarita-zikou-48-year-old-aspiring-greek-politician-dies-suddenly-from-heart-problems-months-after-praising-covid-vaccines/
Is this another one? – the usual silence from the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/59484992
Just as convincing as all those MSM articles about people dying from covid after rejecting vaccines. Actually, less so.
The FT. That Pillar of All Lies Governmental
Honestly DS, I don’t even bother reading the article when you quote the usual suspects.
As other posters have mentioned here, change your sources. Currently you’re a Government mouthpiece and appearing to be part of the Nudge Unit.
My down vote. Out of order.
Truth hurts Mr Piggle.
Tweet from Gabor Erdosi
https://twitter.com/gerdosi/status/1465981861063180289
Updated full spike vaccines will NOT achieve what’s needed after poorly designed vaccination dosing regimens in the first round. If you’re coerced into more spike-only (but full spike) vaccines it’s immediately clear that new campaigns are (again) not about following science.
So the Moderna quote “He also said it would take months for drugs companies to update the vaccines” needs to be looked at in that context. Because of OAS (original antigenic sin) just updating the experimental vaccine for the new spike won’t work.
Former mine workers demonstrated outside Parliament House in Perth today.
The report says ‘hundreds’ so I translate that to mean a couple of thousand.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/hundreds-of-western-australians-gather-outside-perths-parliament-house-to-protest-covid19-vaccine-mandates/news-story/5344004ef88aa13e7eb9d6f749b34770
This is what happens when you deliberate set out and continue to scare people … I personally know of one person who should really see a doctor but is afraid that if they see a doctor and they refer them to hospital they will catch covid and die .
‘Biggest cancer catastrophe ever’ to hit NHS as up to 740,000 potential cases missed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/01/biggest-cancer-catastrophe-ever-hit-nhs-740000-potential-cases/
I spent from September 2019 to February 2021 in and out of hospital for 4 major surgeries, the longest period of sustained stay was nearly a month.
I have not been jabbed, I have never worn a face covering, I don’t socially distance and I didn’t see one sign of a covid patient at any point in time. None of the numerous patients I spent time in the ward with caught covid.
During my final stay, in an Oxford hospital in February I had a four bed ward to myself for a week. I had almost personal Nursing care, the food was still shit though…..
This cancer situation, alone, is going to get much worse. People should be hammering down the doors of their GP’s surgeries and demanding attention from their surgeons.
Whilst under cover of the covid panic, our government is hollowing out the NHS. The only contact I’ve had with my GP in two years is three or four phone calls to sort out medication. This will never change back to the way it was. Personally I rather welcome not having to spend two hours visiting a surgery just to update a prescription but I’m generally healthy. There are many cases where a visit for a prescription gives doctors the opportunity to do a quick health check, blood pressure, blood tests etc. and observe the overall condition of a patient.
We are all going to be left self diagnosing symptoms with little help from the NHS. The organisation will be completely handed over to crisis management over the coming years as the backlog of patients builds up and staff losses are welcomed by our government. How better to cut the biggest cost to the NHS than by sacking 100,000 staff who refuse to take the clotshot.
Guess what? The only means of accessing quality health care will soon be through private health care. None of this is accidental, at best its opportunism. At worst, this is an accelerated program.
But who am I to comment? I’m just your common, or garden variety conspiracy theorist……….
Does nobody find it curious that T-cell tests are virtually impossible to obtain, are expensive when you can, but even if you could get one, wouldn’t count as “recovered” on a vaccine passport…?
Can anyone quantify “Material drop” from and efficacy of less than 1% lol
funny!
Facts, for a change.
This is what it’s about .. Chinafication
https://www.bitchute.com/video/od03vT1BSvND/
Please share widely .. it needs to go viral
Boris Johnson Cabinet meeting:
https://vimeo.com/651974059
Nobody cares
There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et.al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
COME ON! Vaccine efficacy is meaningless when these things aren’t vaccines. We as a species are only still here because of natural immunity. Drugs and vaccines haven’t been around for millennia. We will survive ( unless the not so great dictators deem most of us a drain on resources and engineer depopulation. Oh, hang on…).
This does: Covid Crusher: Mix one heaped teaspoon of Iodine table salt in a mug of warm clean water, cup a hand and sniff or snort the entire mugful up your nose, spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. If sore, then you have a virus, so continue morning noon and night, or more often if you want, until the soreness goes away (2-3 minutes) then blow out your nose and flush away, washing your hands afterwards, until when you do my simple cure, you don’t have any soreness at all, when you flush – job done. Also swallow a couple of mouthfuls of salt water and if you have burning in your lungs, salt killing virus and pneumonia there too.
My simple salt water cure, kills all Coronaviruses and viruses, as soon as you think you have an infection, or while self isolating, before the viruses mutate into the disease in your head and body, for which there is no cure.
I have been doing this simple cure for over 27 years and I am and others never sick from viruses and there is no reason why any of you should be either – when your only alternative are those vaccines!!
Richard
Natural immunity has served mankind well since Adam and Eve. Certainly much more effective than the junk being forcibly injected into the brainwashed and brain dead.