Despite talking of the U.K.’s long, slow lockdown easing as “irreversible”, the Prime Minister today told reporters that an anticipated resurgence of Covid, flu and other diseases means there may be a “rough winter” ahead. Noting that hospitalisations and ICU numbers are up around 30%, Boris Johnson said:
You can never exclude the possibility that there will be some new disease, some new horror we haven’t budgeted for or accounted for… but I think it’s looking good for July 19th to be that terminus point. Things like flu may come back this winter, we may have a rough winter for all sorts of reasons – but that is all the more reason to reduce Covid cases now, give the NHS the breathing space it needs now.
His comments suggest that the reason for the hugely costly decision to defer ‘freedom day’ for a month was to “reduce Covid cases” and “give the NHS the breathing space it needs”. That raises the alarming possibility that restrictions might be re-imposed whenever some pessimistic, unverified modelling suggests the NHS might come ‘under pressure’ during the winter – despite the fact that the NHS comes ‘under pressure’ almost every winter.
There are many criticisms that could be made of this, including that there is no real-world evidence that lockdowns make any significant impact on the course of a COVID-19 epidemic, and that it shows a very narrow and warped sense of priorities when it comes to managing public affairs and public health.
But besides that, even on its own terms it makes no sense to “give the NHS breathing space” by continuing or re-imposing restrictions. Since the main reason experts are so worried about flu this year is they are concerned that lockdowns and social distancing have successfully suppressed flu and other pathogens and left people unexposed to them and thus more vulnerable. In addition to this, Matt Hancock warned last week that the backlog in the NHS of people in need of elective procedures such as hip, knee and eye operations is now estimated to be as high as 12.2 million, resulting in the NHS facing the “biggest pressure in its history”.
But where is this pressure coming from? By the Government’s own admission, the backlog is caused by people staying away from the health service. So how can re-imposing restrictions and stoking panic be the solution to pressure caused by the very restrictions and panic that led people to avoid seeking medical treatment? The only way to break out of this vicious circle is to accept that lockdowns cause more problems than they solve.
Yet with the latest delay, the Government shows no sign of kicking the bad lockdown habit it has picked up in the last 15 months. No wonder even Cabinet Minsters are starting to complain they’re not being listened to.
Increasingly it seems that we are living under a SAGE dictatorship, where those with the real power are rewarded with billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to hand out to their friends in industry and academia – friends whose reputation they may have helped protect by covering up their role in creating the virus in the first place.
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So far Fauci has been shown to be, lets say, extremely economical with the actuality as far as these emails have revealed. What I find DEEPLY disturbing is that Drosten is included in this cosy cartel – his bona fides, as far as this saga is concerned, are as threadbare as Ferguson (according to Reiner Fuellmich and others) and his personal influence via his concoction of the mass testing regime using RT-PCR sampling is massively damaging by virtue of the corrupt peer review and equally corrupt insistence by the WHO that it is used as the “gold standard” for asymptomatic mass testing, something the late K.Mullis confirmed was/is impossible. It is very evident that all the correspondents in these emails highlighted were aware, perhaps as long ago as 2014/15, of existence of “Gain of Function” experimentation, the funding granted thereto AND they clearly knew the risks AND that SARS COV 2 IS MAN MADE – you don’t have to know what furin cleavage is to work that out. The statements attributed to the Bat Lady, since CV19 became a world wide virus, about the impossibility that it leaked from her Wuhan lab – the ” it cannot be, where is… Read more »
Hang on the NHS can’t cope with winter remember those red top headlines re major incidents and grannie left on trolley! That was every winter till Covid the NHS just about copes with it then has a group hug sticky buns all round and caries on with out even thinking a winter ready plan would be a good idea hell no we get poor planning leading to you’ve got it Piss Poor Performance!!
Johnson is a fat Fascist, in league with the elites pushing this medical tyranny and Great Reset as they like to call it.
To think I actually voted for this dictator; that’s what’s galling. He is a con man who jumped from the Brexit Freedom stance, which got him PM, to full corporate Fascism as soon as he was faced with getting the Trump treatment if he didn’t toe the line. Vile individual.
BIG BLUBBER IS MOCKING YOU
These charlatans are deliberately destroying us, & anyone who doest see it, is either part of the Gangsters, or DEAD in a Coffin with a Brain Mask
Is it correct that opt out date for GP and NHS data was extended?
I have done the NHS one.. but I haven’t done the GP one…
They haven’t the guts to reform the NHS, they haven’t the necessary business and organisation skills to do so as non including the scientists and civil servants as well as the politicians have ever had to manage a business, organise or run a succesful operation. As a result now we the people have become the servants of the NHS, they are the equivalent of the Mafia with the Prime minister and his advisors playing the role of the head of the family, they take money from people with menaces, and then fail to deliver, but they continue to withold services and threaten us if we don’t pay up or do as they say. This Government has found a way to “protect” the NHS, by throwing the rest of us and our lives and livelihoods under the bus,
They have got the guts to bump us off in our thousands come the winter…
Sadly the realisation will dawn on our elite arts trained leaders that the ‘WAVE’ they will face is the hidden pathology in the population. Be it melanomas undiagnosed by Zoom GPs or malignancies or orthopaedic pathology which you can only determine by putting your hands on patients. We have to wake up and realise we are killing people by a Covid sine qua non approach-
They will always blame “The Pandemic” for all the downsides, or those who refused the vaccine, it will never be their response to the Pandemic which caused the NHS backlog and subsequent deaths of hundreds of thousands, it will never be their response to the pandemic that ruined an economy and created millions of jobless, and shut down business. It will never be their response to the Pandemic which will result in a future world where we have insufficient Doctors, etc because Children will be insufficiently educated to be competant to train.
It will be the non vaccinated to blame for this winters lockdown, and the increase in deaths from Flu.
As Johnson rakes in his millions from his stories, Hancock his millions from his various business ventures along with his peerage, As Whitty , Valance and Van Tam are given positions of power over institutions they are ill qualified for, and receive money and funding increases plus of course the peerages they so richly deserve.
We the tax payer, the sufferers from the carnage and wrekage these men have created will be left wondering how we cure our Cancers, and where will the money come from to pay for… Read more »
The plan is to depopulate.. that’s how mad they are.. they’ll do it this winter.. claim a new scariant.. really it will be the ‘vaccines’. The blame will fall on the unvaccinated. Or even those that have only had one jab. And children.
At this stage, the puppets, Stanley et al can be stopped.. but I do not know the mechanism. Other than to wake more people up. The absurdness and naked transparency of the lies will wake some more of our sleepy sheepy herd when lockdown doesn’t end.. and when we are plunged back in.. doesn’t require all of us to be awake.. just 5% would do it..
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The Authority seeks to procure a framework agreement for temporary body storage in the event of an excess deaths situation for the 32 London boroughs and the City of London, led by Westminster City Council. The framework agreement will appoint a single provider and will be for a period of 4 years. This will be a contingency contract, only called upon in the event that an excess deaths situation arises in the future and existing local body storage capacity needs to be augmented.
The over-arching aim of… Read more »
I can’t stand it. The PM has a pathological case of covid-phobia and we all have to suffer as the UK is thrown off a cliff. I want the men in white coats to catch him NOW!
He doesn’t have covid phobia.. he is a member now of the club.. with daddy.. the WEF club..
The pig dictator is the disease
“You can never exclude the possibility that there will be some new disease, some new horror we haven’t budgeted for or accounted for…”
Why would you bother saying that?
Next one is Cyber though. Will it be just to keep the fear going or will they empty our bank accounts and initiate the reset?
Let me see if I understand this ,
”… experts are so worried about flu this year they are concerned that lockdowns and social distancing have successfully suppressed flu and other pathogens and left people unexposed to them and thus more vulnerable “
They lockdown the World to protect vulnerable people , now everyone is vulnerable to even more “pathogens” because they’ve been locked down ,
and so the solution to the problem is what ?
Off course, more lockdown, obvious really isn’t it .
This isn’t going away . The horrors Fatso refers to aren’t limited to health issues.
Gone a bit quite on the “cyber pandemic” of late.
Last March I began a series of tests designed to discover why I have severe anaemia. The four tests I have had could have been done in less than three weeks. Indeed, for anaemia so bad it was apparently life-threatening, one would expect them to have been done with alacrity. I’ve just had the results of the last of them, 15 months on. Nothing has shown up. I’ve not even been advised to take iron supplements – but thank goodness I’m not stupid and have done anyway.
So I am now awaiting my next appointment for this serious issue. I have been sent one. It’s in September, by phone. I mean, for goodness sake. Not even a call for a blood test to check my current platelet levels. This is the world beating NHS that we’re all being asked to ‘protect’, and it can’t even give me a five minute phonecall before September.
I’ve never supported privatisation. But if I got my tax for it back I’d be all for it now.
Support private care, the NHS is run for the convenience of the staff, not the health of patients.
Please just get yourself treatment!! Worry about everything else later.
What kind of iron tablets are you taking? Some are better than others, I expect you have researched. And are you supplementing D too? Can’t harm, and might possibly like C help absorption. It’s a long time since I looked at this… I have a dim memory that Vit A deficiency may in some cases link to an inability to absorb iron, but again you have probably checked?
Very sorry they are so useless, I imagine you have. found PubMed.
PS You can get stand alone blood tests privately in London anyway, and you should. No expensive consultant, just blood analysis.
Johnson looks evil now,smirking and knowing what he’s doing
He’s been smirking since the start. Hancock too. Quite a lot of smirking at the G7 too. . . Does BG (smirker-in-chief) have another concoction we don’t know about?
Before I read the comments:
A fine article Mr Jones with a bit of steel in there.
There are so few admissions to ICU “with covid” now that ICNARC are reporting them on a monthly rather than weekly basis now. Perhaps Boris was referring instead to the big uptick in admissions for acute myocardial infarction, self-harm and stroke!
1.Johnson & Hancock hail the Success of the Vaccine Program.
2. Johnson & Hancock say the restrictions won’t end because of the Unsuccessful roll out of the Vaccine Program.
3. Johnson & Hancock say because of the Success of the Vaccine Program they now want your children
4. Because of the Unsuccessful Roll out of the Vaccine Program, Johnson & Hancock now say that it will be a harsh winter with more lockdowns and no overseas holidays.
The only reason to expect a rough winter is that him and Hancock will still be doing harm, for harm’s sake.
As Lord Sumption said for everyone to hear:
“The real problem is that when human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom in return for protection against some external threat. And the threat is usually a real threat but usually exaggerated.”
AND he said it 15 months ago. Please now get your act together!!
This is just fear mongering on a giant scale. Armageddon might be around the corner. The sun might explode. All sorts of things could happen. If policy is guided by worst case what ifs then we are really are in for the rest of our lives being spent in misery.
The problem in my view is that governments and populations have now got themselves into a kind of feedback loop of self perpetuating fear. It was not originally based on a conspiracy. But it is being aided and abetted opportunistically by some scientists, mainstream media and specific corporations that benefit.
Governments have also realised that owing to the fear they are staying popular. This is what happens in war. Usually, populations rally to the flag. We are seeing that effect at the moment. And just like war, people lose sight of the futility, the collateral damage and whether what the fight is really worth it. Rationality gets suspended. That is what we are now seeing and the “believers” think that all us non believers are evil. Just like in a war too.
Don’t forget, the sky might fall in.
Don’t worry Mr Gates has a plan to hold it up with giant balloons fitted with sky-hooks. They will also spray universal vaccine over the entire world eliminating all known disease (but inadvertently killing 99% of human life in the process)
Fair comment.
Jesus may come again. I wish he’d get on with it.
“You Can Never Exclude the Possibility that There Will be Some New Disease,”
We can’t, technically, completely exclude the possibility that this regime and Johnson himself might actually do something useful.
But it’s a safe enough bet that they won’t, for us to never vote for them or their Labour equivalents again.
I think most of us have arrived at that conclusion, though I do know a few stubborn Tories who defend the PM. What we really need is for mainstream figures (journalists like TY, sceptic MPs) to now repudiate previous party allegiances, and accept there is no way back
May be there won’t be any more elections.
Yes Will its a dicatorship, a totalitarian biosecurity fascist dictatorship. Its certainly covers the old commonwealth countries of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Given Biden’s Federal rule I would add the remaining ‘five-eyes’ state, the US to that, even though there is considerable alternative views within that state.
The 5-eyes are doing this quite openly, pre-planning is now evident.
There is the start of something of a divide between the ‘purety’ within the 5-eyes and the EU. This I find a bit odd as Germany has clearly been a prime mover in the enterprise. But its pivot towards Russia for energy and China for its reliance on materials and end market for products has meant its own mercantile needs outweigh other considerations. And where Germany goes the EU goes , albeit with a reluctant France.
The big unanswered question is why? And why now?
I strongly suspect the Fed and the banking community knew they had reached the end of the road for can kicking and a financial reset was required. Why not then have a societal and economic reset at the same time. The only form of ‘government’ that could steer through such momentus change would be a totalitarian… Read more »
Hate to admit it but I think you have hit the nail on the head there. The globalists play chess whilst our goverment plays tiddly winks.
Agreed, excellent stuff.
I finally got through reading this
https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/
as recommended here ealier. There’s a lot about the Big Picture
Barring your last para I think your case is sound and is much as I see the situation.
At some point though I believe factions will develop amongst the “they” and at that point the blood WILL really flow. However, many of us might be dead before that point is reached.
All good stuff,
But this isn’t being enacted by the national govts.
This is a multi generational agenda to control the World.
The national political classes , institutions and civil society have been systematically corrupted and indoctrinated by incremental pressure from the real global power cartels which are basically intent on forcing a Marxist evolution of society worldwide. Property wealth control, control of freedoms and drastically altering the population numbers and locations.
The present raft of national leaders are essentially thick ideologues who are sell propelled.
The political/inal classes are a mix of ideologues and corrupted/compromised hacks.
There are multiple agendas not least of which is to reduce the influence of individual nations. The five eyes are hugely important but the civil structures/“demographics” that have kept these countries as major directors of World events MUST be broken while retaining the security and power assets in tact for wider use.
Hence the relentless assaults by argent provocateur eg blm , antifa and other Open Society funded groups.
The infiltration of all levels of civil/local govt institutions by the UN is extensive and now all these bodies are totally embedded into the so-called sustainability agendas.
This is why the there is… Read more »
I agree that the supra-national NGOs are the foot soldiers and that the UN ‘Agendas’ are providing a lot of the philosophy, drawn from the Frankfurt School etc.
However the drivers of this are not ‘marxists’, they are capitalists who want to impose a new capitalism based on resource constraints which is as disruptive as possible. They want digi currencies controlled by the CBs and the full control of a totalitarian regime. Its fascism not marxism. Although I agree sometimes its difficult to see a difference in the end product.
But they must have a reasonable idea, don’t you think?
Lock this treasonous imposter up!
How much bloody ‘breathing space’ does our sainted NHS need? And how about they just do their job, which we pay for?
I think we’re at the point where the NHS is just an excuse and this is about the exercise of endless, easy power
The current NHS is a result of years of politicians trying to use it for a fast buck (look at the revolving door), and axe-grinding.
The idea that the whole of society must be micro-managed because the NHS could not organise an inebriated event in a place of beer production is ludicrous. As an organisation it has all the hallmarks of the state controlled organisations that existed and failed in the old Communist world. It must be broken up and a new operating model brought in, the Dutch system could give us a few useful pointers.
Don’t talk bollocks – it’s the outcome of profiteering and political graft. Have a look at the US if you think simply privatising it is a solution. You have to be exponentially dim to think that.
Nothing to do with its essential structure.
I’ve gone private, and the care is excellent. I’ve begged for a ration of treatment from the NHS and been ignored, the NHS is murderously dismal.
“You Can Never Exclude the Possibility that There Will be Some New Disease,” Says Boris Johnson
Cupid Stunt!
I’ve managed 74 years (mainly of worse mortality) without it bothering me at all. And certainly not to the extent of killing social life.
No we are not living under a SAGE dictatorship. They’re just extras in this well rehearsed pantomime. The principle actors don’t need them but they are on stage to add complexity to the plot and to absorb the hisses and boos of the audience.
The buck stops with the Prime Minister. He is in charge. He might feel bullied by SAGE, or he might be getting leaned on by sinister bods from overseas, but if that’s the case, he chooses to give in to them. If you have the Top Job, you must have the balls to make your own decisions and be responsible for the consequences. If the LS team are trying to make out the PM is a victim, I think they are on the wrong track.
Well said!!
“[B]ut I think it’s looking good for
June 21stJuly 19th”Same words, different date.
With all the vaccinated people filling up hospital beds would it not have been better not to vaccinate people with poison in the first place. The NHS is closed for any other business anyway. To believe this Johnson is to trust someone you know would go into anaphylactic shock if he was to tell the truth.
We must lockdown this winter in case someone sneezes!