Music festivals, football stadiums and circuses are among the venues encouraging attendees to get a Covid vaccine at pop-up clinics in an attempt to combat lower vaccination rates among the young. BBC News has the story.
Spectators and passers-by at the Circus Extreme in Halifax were being offered a jab outside a tent of jugglers, acrobats and stunt performers.
John Haze, Circus Director, said: “It may not be the normal thing you expect to see when you enter the Circus Extreme Big Top, but we are really proud to be supporting the NHS Covid vaccination programme.
“We had no hesitation in letting the NHS host a walk-in clinic in the tent so that more people can get their jab at a convenient time, and we hope lots [of] people will take up this offer.”
Two festivals in London hosting walk-in clinics include a bus parked at the Summer of Love Festival in Holland Park and a four-day vaccine event with live music in Poplar.
Burnley FC in Lancashire and the Goodwood Racecourse in West Sussex, which is hosting the Stewards Cup, were among other venues being used in the vaccine push with football fans being offered Pfizer doses.
GP Dr Nikki Kanani, Deputy Lead for NHS England’s vaccination programme, said more than 2,000 sites had already taken part, including Thorpe Park in Surrey. …
She said more than 70 million doses had been delivered with “87% of adults having had at least one dose, and seven in 10 now fully-vaccinated”.
But the latest figures show nearly a third of young adults aged 18 to 29 in the country have still not had one jab.
Judging from the poor response to the offer of free food alongside a ‘jab’ by a vaccine clinic at an East London festival this weekend, this form of “coaxing” isn’t working very well. “Vegan burgers, mac ’n cheese and Chinese dumplings were enough to tempt [one unvaccinated festival-goer], but others who are unvaccinated were not taking the bait,” the Sun reports.
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These Austrians just aren’t the right kind of scientist!
We need “scientists” with climate models that show frogs farting a semi tone higher by 2100 because of human activities…..”We must act to keep frogs farting in F major”
Fact checkers have assessed this article, and declared it Heresy.
Natural climate change is real and happens all the time. If humans affect climate at all it generally for the better. CO2 is fertiliser.
Records of temperature taken through proxy measurements, that is things in nature affected by past temperatures that leave a trace like gas ratios in ice cores, boreholes, lake sediments and so on, offer a convenient grey area to exploit in terms of temporal resolution. Any spikes or faster changes in temperature of less than hundreds, or sometimes thousands of years are often naturally smoothed out. Through the usual process of cherry picking and combining this data, past climate can be presented as being far more ‘stable’ around a lower range of temperatures than it actually was. Likely similar for CO2 and isotope ratio measurements.
Researchers can then take these measurements, and with the smoothing already done, claim truthfully ‘the data says this’, ignoring that the data isn’t necessarily an accurate reflection of history, especially when further averaged and statistically combined. The proxy data viewed individually with a degree of common sense can give useful clues as to what might have happened in the past. Commonly though, academics feed it into other studies as metadata, laundering massive degrees of unknown uncertainty into obscurity to generate absurdly overreaching ‘reconstructions’ of past climates spanning thousands of years. Combined in the right way, they can make these reconstructions tell any story they like, and most importantly, researchers can believe those stories themselves.
Of course, physical evidence of the sort mentioned in the article is just handwaved away as regional anomalies, or not acknowledged in the first place. Gatekeeping at more established journals would ensure the Austrian Alps study would never see the light of day.
The two planks of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis are that recent warming is unprecedented in degree and speed, and that its consequences will be disastrous. There was enough evidence to refute the former claim long before this monomania even became a thing.
Not only is net zero complete nonsense, it is extremely dangerous complete nonsense.
Germany based its economy on cheap Russian gas. How did that work out for them?
‘China holds a preeminent position in copper smelting (47%), refining (42%), and usage (54%), in addition to its sizeable position in production, making it the epicenter of world copper.’
‘Continued trade tensions and other forms of competition between the United States and China could affect the copper market going forward. Supply chain resilience has emerged as a strategic imperative’
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-insights/the-economic-transformation-what-would-change-in-the-net-zero-transition
Copper is the only material suitable for transmitting electricity at user friendly voltages.
So, guess what, net zero isn’t going to happen.
But, surprise, surprise, our current politicians, leaders, just haven’t thought that through yet.
Our continuing changing climate and variable weather has seemingly escaped the notice of politicians deluded enough to believe it is fixed and only CO2 can change it.
I prefer to eat food and breathe oxygen, both products of the use of CO2 by plants.
Whoever allowed this article should be sent to the climate change gulag. There will be a very large carpet at BBC studios where all of this type of information will get swept under. Squirming alarmist settled science people cannot bear it. ———They will be like that robot in “Lost in Space” who cannot process the information and grinds to a halt with sparks flying out of it ——-“Renewables are now cheaper than coal” “Renewables are now cheaper than coal” “Renewables are now cheaper tha……………FZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz