Nadhim Zahawi was in rare form at today’s Downing Street press conference, claiming the Prime Minister’s decision to “pause” the easing of lockdown restrictions had saved “thousands of lives”. Eh? The Telegraph has more on the bizarre reasoning behind the Vaccine Minister’s claim.
Nadhim Zahawi said the Government had been right to delay the lifting of all Covid restrictions by a month to allow more people to be fully vaccinated.
He told a Downing Street press conference: “Last week we took the difficult, but I think essential, decision to pause Step 4 in our roadmap for four weeks with a review of the data after two weeks.”
He said: “Two weeks ago there were over 2 million people aged over 50 in England who had a first dose, but not their second dose. Now that number, two weeks later, is 900,000.
“This pause has saved thousands of lives and will continue to do so by allowing us to get more of the second doses into arms of those most vulnerable to Covid before the restrictions are eased further.”
Mr Zahawi added: “We’re going to use these four weeks to give our NHS that bit more time so we can get those remaining jabs in arms of those who really do need them.”
He said that overall more than 14,000 lives had been saved by the vaccination programme so far, while 44,500 hospital admissions had also been averted in England, which is 2,500 in the past two weeks.
The underlying assumption behind Zahawi’s claim is that had Boris not pressed the “pause” button, the vaccine roll-out would have ground to an abrupt halt on June 21st. Eh? Surely, it would have continued on its current trajectory? In which case, it’s not clear that the pause should have saved a single life, let alone “thousands”.
Needless to say, not a single journalist in attendance picked up on the Vaccine Minister’s tortuous reasoning.
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The vaccines have Emergency Use Authorisation. Keeping restrictions in place keeps the Emergency going so the vaccine programme can continue. Once restrictions are lifted there is no Emergency and vaccination should stop. Could this explain the 4 week delay ?
He’s not the only one. Hancock said last week before the science committee (I think) that he was told last year in March that there would be 820,000 deaths without lockdowns. How long before he’s claiming that gov policy has saved 693,000 lives (820,000 minus 128,000 so called C-19 deaths), especially when there’s an enquiry.
That would be 350,000 or so more than the USA with 359 million population.
You’ll be dealing with stupid outrageous claims t like that for decades.
Unless the country wakes up and fights back.
What’s happened to my country by the way, where has it gone. I am truly at a loss.
pig dictator
Zahawi looks less like a man who would sell his own mother and more like one who has sold her already.
I got the following email from a supplier a couple of days ago, I’ve heard similar stories out there, and a friend of mine got a bad case of Bell’s Palsy 3 weeks after his first jab and when asked if he was having his second, replied ‘its a coincidence, Anyway, I’ve got another side to my face hahaha.
Email…
“Ian
I haven’t forgotten this
Having been double vaccinated l have managed to get myself Covid and have been self-isolating for the last few days – I have another few to go
As you can imagine this has led to some delays in my work
Please rest assured I’ll have a full report with you next week when hopefully normality resumes.”
Just how many of these types that we haven’t heard about are out there?
My young neighbour (late twenties) had ‘the jab’ a couple of weeks ago (not sure if it was first or second). He has since been laid up with really bad ‘covid’ (flu symptoms) and is now coming to the end of isolation along with his girlfriend. She is due to have her first jab on 29 June. I only know this because they post it all on Facebook! Odd thing is that until he had the jab he told me he was an out and out sceptic! He did comment though that they would probably need it to travel so I suspected they might give in. Very poor judgment call I’m afraid.
Well, I’ve got to say that is one almighty relief, Jolly Jon confirming how he’s saved us all from certain death.
Here was I thinking something nasty and very sinister was going on! Thanks, JVT.
PHEW!
Some HCQ or Ivermectin early treatment from about a year ago would have saved 10’s of thousands of lives….but these bastards deliberately suppressed these safe cheap drugs.
It is painful to watch the man perform. He is clearly as thick as two short planks, which is only one plank less than “f-cking hopeless” Matt Hancock.
If this is the best team Boris can muster, the sooner he slings his hook, the better.
you do know the two of them are besties, written a book together and Zahawi hid money for Hancocks brother through a dodgy foreign tax scheme, oh and one of zahawis sons was an intern for Hancok, they are joined at the hip
On the plus side not one positive comment under the article. Everyone calling him a liar, and worse.
He thinks the public are all stupid. Fear (false evidence appeaaring real) has been the motivation for those who have been vaccinated to date. Question everything in life ,especially this government and their duplicity regarding Covid 19 and the make believe dangerous variants, I more aptly name ‘scariants’?
I like that acronym. Nice one. I might borrow that.
Sure Mr Zahawi….
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3qrgW07jZjaT/
I want these b’stards brought to justice for this!
So he thinks ‘thousands’ would have died in these 4 weeks? Talk about innumerate!!
Expenses scandal and YouGov vaccine minister Nadhim’s speech yesterday:
Half of all 25- to 29-year-olds had received their first vaccine dose, and a third of 18 to 24-year-olds. “To all the young people who have stepped up, I wanna say a HUGE thank you”, he declared passionately. The vaccines were “EXTREEEMELY effective – especially with two doses”. Praise BE! Enter the carousel.. enter.. be strong and you will be renewed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M2vx_RCwSs
RENEW! RENEW! RENEW!
If they are so good why are they going to need boosters in autumn?
Mike Graham is getting braver.. reason perhaps to be optimistic.
Jabs in arms “for those that really do need them”…. what, such as children?!!
“protecting the most vulnerable”….!!! He’s reading the script from months ago/the beginning of the ‘pandemic’. Pure stupidity; pure b….ks.
hands
face
space
stay home, protect the NHS
heads and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes
stanley says put your mask on.. stanley says don’t travel.. stanley says get in your huts..
“Two weeks ago there were over 2 million people aged over 50 in England who had a first dose, but not their second dose. Now that number, two weeks later, is 900,000.”
Fewer than 700 healthy people under 60 with no co-morbidities had died “with” Covid in the UK to the end of March 2021. God only knows how miniscule the figure is for under 50s.
Actually the vaccine rollout would have stopped – remember these jabs only have ’emergency use’ – if they lift all restrictions then they can’t still insist on an ’emergency’. Hence the extension was always on the cards so they can jab more folk. His words were wrong though – instead of saving thousands more lives, what he should have said is now we can inject and put at risk thousands more from the these toxic poisons.
How many thousands of lives have the vaccines cost? At least 1300 according to the Yellow Cards but that is known to underreport. Also I see I slow down in reporting. Is that due to the vaccines getting safer, or, more likely, the government exerting more control and censoring reports.
Lets face it these people can say what they like now and no main stream media outlet,or indeed politician will question it. Zahawi could have said “by postponing the freedom day for 4 weeks Boris Johnson has saved thousands of people from their arses turning blue”. And the media would have bought it.
I remember I worked on the board of a company owned by a private equity house, and once a month we had to do a business update, for all the sleek haired PE teenagers who made up the team who had bought us. They knew nothing about the operation, only the finances and how much debt they could load us with. So we used to play a game with them,(they didn’t know), the game was to sneak in an outrageous word, reference, name of a tv programme whatever,it changed every time. It was our chance to have a laugh at them, they sometimes looked perplexed but no one ever questioned the word or reference. I suspect same game being played with the public here. Arrogance, conceit and contempt is the atitude from this Government to the people
The guy is a complete spiv, totally blagging it and stealing a living, off the productive sector. I also am led to believe he said the virus avoided vaccinated people and only attacked those who have avoided Billy’s potions. Unchallenged on that as well, clueless on both sides of the microphone. Led by Cluelessburg of the BBC.
You wouldn’t buy a second hand motor off the greasy Twat but he’s jabbing our kids !! This has all now reached Jackanory proportions !
Just helps demonstrate how ignorant these ministers are – ruining the country with their misplaced hubris and stupidity.
Rubbish in Rubbish out! Who are these 14,000 ? It is so absurd it almost does not warrant comment but yet it is sinister that the Government,SAGE and Imperial modellers now control truth!
I have long since given up trying to make sense of politicians utterances on Covid. They are the true Covid idiots.
They are Covid criminals.
Where are they getting these figures from.? The majority of people I know have had the first jab. But they had such bad reactions they have not turned up for their second jab. I am an anti lockdown believer and because I know this whole scam is about resetting economies and transferring wealth I will not take the globalists’ jab. I have had my pneumonia booster around 5 years ago and never had a flu jab in my life. ALL my anti lockdown contacts have decided not to be jabbed. Many of my friends who be.ie e in lockdowns have chosen not to have this jab.
The ramping up of fear tells me they are lying yet again about numbers.
What a load of bullshit this government spouts. I will never be a human lab rat unless they literally put me in chains to do it. And then knowing the likely end result, it will save me finding a source of a cyanide pill to end the existence, not life, they have planned for us.
I foresee forced vaccination in due course.
I wish I didn’t but it’s a needle in every arm, all round the world
So says Bill.
Including Bill and friends?
Now we both know, don’t we, that you’re just being silly.
Zahawi – Knob
MSM Journalists – Wankers
Just the reason I object to foreign trash in our parliament
An interesting theory – but I have to say that multi-generation British MPs seem just as bad!
Indeed. Though Bojo is part Turkish.. Johnson is not the real surname.. Stanley’s father changed it.
Why are people even listening, and more importantly obeying these fools any longer? It’s beyond comprehension.
Because they grew up trusting the government..
Why do sheep walk into the abattoir?
So one dickhead spouted bollocks to a group of dickheads? No surprise that there were no questions. Journalists like receiving salaries. These are paid by their employers. Said employers make their money from advertising. Biggest advertiser is HM Government. Bite the hand that feeds you, I think not?