A reader has forwarded an email sent by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas via the platform of March for Change in which she reiterates the need for an immediate public inquiry into the Government’s handling of Covid. As with most people calling for a Covid inquiry, she accused Boris Johnson of lifting the coronavirus restrictions “too soon”. That restrictions suppress infections is simply taken for granted.
The odd thing about this email is that it appears to have been written a week ago since it makes no reference to the fact that the number of daily cases yesterday was 40% lower than it was on July 18th, the day before ‘Freedom Day’. By going ahead with ‘Freedom Day’, Caroline Lucas claims, the Prime Minister has “chosen to bury his head in the sand and simply hope for the best”. As a result of this criminal recklessness, “the third wave of Covid [is] sweep[ing] across the country”, she says, and”cases are soaring”.
In fact, official figures show that cases are falling or levelling off in every region of England, including Caroline Lucas’s Brighton constituency. As Will Jones has pointed out, “the myth of the exit wave persists” – and the fact that this myth is so impervious to facts makes it look like a pro-Lockdown conspiracy theory.
The same goes for Lucas’s claim that hospitals are filling up (see orange line in graph below).
Professor Adam Finn of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation says the fall in reported Covid cases “means less viral transmission and eventually fewer hospitalisations and deaths than we feared and expected a week ago”. The biggest problem faced by the NHS is the huge backlog of patients who haven’t received treatment because of successive lockdowns. Not to mention those whose illnesses haven’t even been diagnosed. Isn’t Caroline Lucas concerned that sending out emails like this, including false claims about the case rate, will discourage even more sick people to seek much-needed hospital treatment?
Next time Lucas accuses a lockdown sceptic of trafficking in ‘misinformation’, they should point to this dangerously misleading email.
Stop Press: U.K.’s Covid cases have dropped for the sixth day in a row, according to MailOnline.
Stop Press 2: The Director of March For Change has tweeted an apology to Caroline Lucas for sending out an out-of-date, earlier draft of an email in her name. This is almost certainly a result of our eagle-eyed reader bringing this matter to our attention, the above article and those other Daily Sceptic readers who emailed Caroline Lucas’s office to point out the mistake.
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Anyone would think that Hollywood softened us up for the last 25 years with weather based disaster films, in which obscure or previously discredited scientists were able to single handedly convince the government of the error of our ways, save the day, get the girl, live happily ever after etc etc.
Reality check: mankind has and does live in one of the longest and most stable sea level era’s of the last 20000 years!
Yes but humans will send that line into exponential increase if we don’t DO SOMETHING!!! ANYTHING!
I thought generally populations got wiser with better education and better understanding but it seems they are becoming more gullible doesn’t it?
…a very good point Dinger. Despite all the learning, enlightenment, and advances it seems that control of other humans remains the main agenda…
I came across my eldest’s Year 11 geography jotter [2006/07]. Top of the first page: “Weather – the day to day condition of the atmosphere. It includes temperature, sunshine, rainfall and wind. Climate – the weather condition of a place over many years” Who knew? Later there’s a detailed explanation of hurricanes. I can’t believe.they still teach such heresy, especially at GCSE level, hence the gullibility?
Depends where that education is coming from I’d say…
Notice that the war on “misinformation” is all the rage. There are all these official “factcheckers” working overtime trying to prevent all the views officialdom don’t like, but on the issue of climate and energy anything goes and the “factcheckers” are nowhere to be seen —–We regularly get Politicians, media and activists (which are often the same people) spouting evidence free drivel on climate and energy that is very easily checked. — (1) “Renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels”—- FALSE. If you hammer fossil fuels with huge costs and give 100% subsidy to renewables, you have distorted the market so that it is absurd to make that claim, and in any case fossil fuels are full time energy and renewables are part time. (2) “Climate Change is happening because there is a huge consensus of scientists who say so”—–FALSE. Nothing happens because lot’s of people say so. (3) “Storms, floods and droughts are getting worse because of global warming”—-FALSE. Real world data indicates no such thing. —–(4) Sea levels are rising. —–This is trying to imply that sea level is rising because of global warming caused by humans, but sea levels have been rising for thousands of years and there is no evidence of an increase in the rate of sea level rise —so FALSE. —–These type of claims are made all over our TV News and are seldom challenged. —Where are the “factcheckers”?
No points to be gained in checking those type of facts! 😉
My elder brother has just completed his annual migration from his main residence in New Hampshire to Naples, Florida.
As Naples is 165 miles south of Tampa, I was concerned about the circumstances of his journey. He and his wife set off on Friday 5 October and completed the 1,500 mile journey on Monday night, having driven past Tampa, where he reported that the roads north were choked, as Tampa’s residents followed the mayor’s advice/instruction to get the hell out. Andy, on the other hand, had a stress-free journey south, and he even commented on the ready availability of charging points for his Tesla.
Yesterday, after the storm had passed, he reported that the maximum observed wind speeds at his property had been 35 mph and, although he’d deployed the storm shutters, there was never any concern about the integrity of the property.
His business partner, who had a property at Tarpon Springs, 30 miles to the north of the hurricane’s landfall (and just 4 feet above sea-level) had been instructed to evacuate his house, but had been able to monitor it through smart technology. The house remained undamaged, never lost its power supply, and the much-feared storm-surge was much lower than expected.
All in all, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the whole hurricane scare was hysterically overblown for political purposes both in the US and abroad.
First hand info is always the best 👌
Nice one Steve
I was not surprised to hear Socialist Joe politicising the weather, par for the course. I was surprsied to hear deSantos going along with it, when a brief glimpse at Windy [weather forecasting channel] 3 days ago showed that Marlin was not that serious [given that Florida lies in the hurricane belt and must expect some bad weather..]. I’m guessing that >200 dead in H Helene made everyone super-cautious, that and the thought of getting some free greenbacks from FEMA.
Being Americans, they have started suing each other about hurricanes potentially causing delays to voting………. Oh well, takes their minds off their America’s Cup wipe-out I suppose 🙂
I think it’s to try and fix an event in people’s minds by talking it up. It’s like the naming of storms in the UK. People don’t remember what really happened, but they do remember the hoo ha round it, ergo, it must have been bad. I looked at a few live streams in Florida during the hurricane, and it didn’t look out of the ordinary – in fact, if it had been that bad, I don’t think a Web cam would have survived.
Or the comms to it for sure – the disappointment in the newsreaders as it was reported was palpable
Agreed, it is all propaganda. The BBC showed a webcam seeded up to make it look more dramatic.