The Netherlands has been in the news this week after Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologised for reopening nightclubs at the end of June following a surge in infections that came in the following two weeks. Rutte has now closed them again for a month amid allegations that he made a “criminal choice” and “put people in danger”.
The rise in positive tests certainly looks alarming – though note the past four days has seen a slowdown.
However, the rise needs to take into account that when night clubs and other venues reopened there was a requirement that guests presented a negative COVID-19 test (or proof of vaccination, but few in the relevant age group are vaccinated) within 40 hours prior to entry. This means lots of asymptomatic or mild infections in young adults are now being picked up that were previously going under the radar.
The country is also probably due some kind of surge from the arrival of the Delta variant.
If the surge is peaking already, it hardly seems worth worrying about. Or even if it has got further to run the summer surge from the Delta variant in the U.K. has been no great disaster (and has already peaked in Scotland). If we weren’t testing every man and his dog it would likely hardly have been noticed save as a summer cold going round, particularly as all-cause mortality is through the floor.
It’s a sad reminder, though, of the difficulty countries are finding in moving away from a disproportionate fear of Covid and getting back to normal.
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Cases! Argh!
Exactly. Who cares? Is anyone actually ill, or dying?
Strange that cases are published daily but real infections are about a week behind. In the week ending 11.07.2021 NOIDS (England and Wales) records 38 real infections of Covid 19 (Fewer than scarlet fever or tuberculosis).
So young people were being exposed to the virus, causing a rise in “cases”? That’s actually a good thing. It doesn’t do them any harm and it builds immunity in the population that helps to protect older people.
If it really were a deadly virus people would limit their movements voluntarily – few would run a real risk of death in order to go to a nightclub.
Forced lock-downs of healthy people are always wrong and are indications of a totalitarian mindset and an agenda that is nothing to do with public health – especially in light of the suppression of effective treatments. Lock-downs must be thrown in the dust bin of bad ideas where they belong.
Not even that. It’s that the rise in “cases” is due to young people getting “tested” to prove their innocence, and being told, much to their surprise, that they were in fact dying from a lethal disease with no symptoms.
F to pay respects.
Poor old Will – still clinging on to data about ‘cases’ and the ‘Delta variant’ rather than real indicators.
The hysterical breast-beating from Rutte betrays the underlying infection – the double-bind of politicians faced with fear of getting blamed for a pretty unexceptional reality, having made a train of crap decisions.
Completely missing the point.
Open up the clubs, ramp up the testing and probably raise the cycle threshold – BINGO – casedemic. Shut clubs.
Politicians everywhere are being controlled. They carry out orders and do not make decisions.
Can anyone say “Testdemic”
casedemic?
Hysteric-demic?
Plandemic!
I prefer bollocks.
Comparing their share of positive tests with the UK, looks like they had their peak some time ago.
Probably just a testdemic.
Why be so modest? Why not test for flu too? Why not test for the myriad of other things the PCR test can pick up in fragments? TB, why not test for it? STDs, certs for lack of those?
Inpetigo. Hand, foot and mouth. Cold sores. Chicken pox. Measles. German Measles. Mumps. The sky’s the limit.
Don’t give them ideas
Quite.
Viruses are so small, I bet they can float on the air for hundreds of miles. Sometimes you will get them up your nose and sometimes they might make you ill. I have no doubt that you could test for anything with the PCR test and create a fakedemic for anything you want.
We need a test for idiocy
There’d be a huge spike then!
vitamin D deficiency. And bmi
https://www.francesoir.fr/videos-les-debriefings/analyse-des-assertions-scientifiques-macron-mccullough
Peter McCullough demolishing Macron’s claims on the necessity for mandatory vaccination
During his speech on July 12 2021, President Macron made a number of scientific assertions: “the Delta variant is three times more contagious than the first strain”; “vaccines divide the power of contamination by 12 and prevent 95% of severe forms”; yet we must “live with the virus” … All had the objective of establishing a decision to make vaccination compulsory for caregivers, as well as the establishment of a health pass, which corresponds more or less to an obligation vaccine. Indeed, unvaccinated French people have a good chance – subject to votes – of being denied access to restaurants, bars, shops, travel, etc. One of the most coercive measures in Europe.
However, the burden of proof falls on the one who states a scientific fact , but Emmanuel Macron did not have time to substantiate his point as part of his speech.
So we asked an expert, Dr McCullough, who testified under oath in the United States Senate to review each of these assertions and comment on them.
I didn’t know people were claiming that the current jabs are completely avoided by delta, wow interesting stuff! I suppose I should steel myself for a mild cold pretty soon then as I start mixing again in pubs (that don’t have any silly requirements) from Monday.
I do find him a little unbelievable.
For example a contradiction, he says: people can only spread a virus if they have a fever and are symptomatic etc. Then he says: at a recent family wedding, 6 people contracted it. Who goes sick to a family wedding during a ‘pandemic’, how big was this wedding 10,000!?
Answer: a surge in false positives
‘Create Your Own Pandemic’ starter kit now includes PCR and LF testing kits!
Will, trotting out the “Asymptomatic ” nonsense is a bit lame. That garbage has long since been burned.
The number of infections is utterly irrelevant – what matters is the number of deaths. And vaccinations have broken the link between infections and deaths. So we should stop worrying aboiut infections: in fact, there is no point even recording or reporting these.
I don’t believe this – particularly when there’s research that suggests 1 in 10 elderly may have been killed by the vaccine. The vaccines are bullshit
Casedemic
I’m waiting for things to close again here. It’s gonna happen.
“Cases” means diddly-squat! Deaths ( directly due to Covid-19) and hospitalisations are all that really matter. But authorities everywhere are so heavily invested in this b.s. narrative that they just can’t help themselves. Their own psy-ops has turned them into raving lockdown nut-jobs!
Infections? Of what? The tests don’t even identify Covid…only fragments of any infection you may have had…including urinary/injury/big toe…!
People who are so sick with this terrible disease that they want to go clubbing… Hmmm
I don’t really get this site any more in terms of all this focus on positive test stats.. we know the stats are all fake as the PCR is completely unreliable to be used in the way that it is, it can so easily be used to get false positives depending on the Ct so they have the ability to make the graphs look however they want. Nothing’s really a surprise at this point is it?
It was this website that presented this fact so well so why are we going along with it now?
Am I misunderstanding something here?
What we’re seeing is people getting seasonal allergies that they forgot about due to being indoors all the time, the gov is now telling us that the delta variant has different symptoms (which sound like hay fever to me) and so people when they get their shock hay fever, they go and get tested and it goes down as a positive case WITH symptoms.
There’s so much good being done in revealing exactly what’s going on (genocide) but I see so little of it being reported here on LS
In clearer wording: huge numbers of people were surprised to discover that they were in fact dying from a lethal virus when they had no idea that they were ill at all.
The same thing could be happening in Spain i.e. large numbers of people there on holiday, having to take a test before they’re allowed to board the plane home. Does anyone know whether non-nationals tested on Spanish soil (or in any other country for that matter), count towards that country’s tally of “cases”.
And also get counted as “cases” in their country of residence?