Positive Covid tests as reported by Public Health England declined again yesterday to 29,622 after two days of going up a bit. ONS data, also out yesterday, confirmed that infections have peaked and declined in the past 10 days among people over 16 – though, unexpectedly, also showed a surge among the under-16s that appears not to have been picked up by PHE. Is this because parents have stopped testing their children and reporting it to PHE now school is out and holidays are approaching? Some have suggested the ONS is picking up ‘cold positives’ from old infections. Either way, all eyes are on the data to see what will happen next.
But should they be? After all, what now are we waiting for? All the vulnerable and more are vaccinated, and the vaccines appear to give a decent enough protection from serious disease and death. Or even if they don’t, there’s nothing more that can be done, so we might as well go back to normal anyway and the virus will do whatever it does, and the vaccines will do whatever they do.
With all our delaying of lifting restrictions – planning to take an indefensible four months over it and in the event taking five, and then doing it half-heartedly, leaving strongly-worded guidance in place – it’s hard to believe that Florida ended all statewide restrictions in autumn 2020 and Texas and some other states did so in spring 2021. They saw no new surge after the winter – not until Delta arrived in the last few weeks, suggesting that it’s not lifting restrictions that causes surges (and thus it wasn’t imposing them that ended them) but new variants, presumably due to their partial immune evasion temporarily disrupting herd immunity.
But even so, Delta has shown that it’s nothing much to be afraid of, with the U.K.’s infection rate dropping following the lifting of restrictions on July 19th, having peaked by specimen date on July 15th at 60,665 positive tests. Scotland peaked over two weeks earlier at the end of June.
What more, then, is the Government waiting for? The only reason we were given for still being cautious was uncertainty over the threat from Delta, with Government advisers issuing warnings in the run-up to ‘Freedom Day’ of massive waves of infections and hospitalisations. We now know that this didn’t happen. Even if reported infections don’t continue to drop like they have in the last fortnight, we know that the threat was greatly overblown and the doomy models (which have always exaggerated the risk, as Sweden and South Dakota attest) can’t be trusted.
As Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the Telegraph yesterday:
The Government is constantly being assailed by scientists whose forecasts seem to be around fulfilling a purpose, keeping us in lockdown. We are in a state of unreality, it’s as though we don’t need an economy, we don’t need to meet each other, we don’t need to do anything that makes life worthwhile. But we do. … We have been driven into a vortex led by these incredible forecasts that never seem to be right.
One unnamed senior minister on Wednesday had the right idea, reportedly saying the Covid crisis was “all over bar the shouting”. He or she was quickly slapped down by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam, who insisted: “This is not ‘all over bar the shouting’. I hope the worst is behind us, but I think it’s quite possible we will have one or two bumpy periods in the autumn and winter.”
But why isn’t it over? Now that we have developed our vaccines and delivered them to the vulnerable, reducing (we hope) their risk of death, what more are we waiting for? What now is to be gained from perpetuating the state of emergency? That the Deputy CMO thinks it “quite possible” the winter will be “bumpy” is no reason at all to continue doing anything that we didn’t do in 2019. What winter isn’t bumpy?
Most of the legal restrictions have now gone, thank goodness, though the threat that they may return remains and we are constantly reminded by our leaders that the pandemic is not over. Mass testing is still very much with us, along with its correlate, self-isolation, as is intrusive guidance on masks and distancing, travel restrictions, and of course the ever-growing threat of vaccine passports a.k.a. medical apartheid. But why? Now that the vaccine programme is delivered to the vulnerable and the fear around the Delta variant has been dispelled by events, what further justification can there be for continuing the state of emergency? Why are we still testing everyone all the time?
The CDC in America recently put out a notice that they will be discontinuing the Covid-only PCR test later in the year, encouraging labs to move to a test that can detect both Covid and flu. Some people mistakenly took this as a tacit admission that the current test cannot distinguish flu and Covid, but the true disturbing implication is that it means the U.S. authorities appear to be planning to carry on with mass testing, self-isolation and the rest of it for some time to come, and start doing it for flu as well.
The Government here in the U.K. has shown no sign of winding down its testing capabilities in preparation for a return to normal. Seven large lighthouse labs have been built in the last 16 months, and the NHS, which appears to be intimately involved with them, seems fully committed to ongoing mass testing. I’m told by someone in the know that mass testing for Covid was the first mass screening programme that bypassed evaluation by the National Screening Committee, and that there will be eagerness within the medical establishment for this to set a precedent that mass screening for flu and other diseases can follow.
With legal restrictions lifted, it is now primarily mass testing, vaccine passports and overbearing ‘guidance’ that stand between us and normality. As the Delta wave subsides (possibly after another ripple, who knows) and with it any remaining sense in which politicians can claim we are in an unprecedented or emergency situation, our efforts must be focused on ending these remaining measures and insisting that life return to normal as soon as possible.
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Because it’s not about the virus
Obviously IDS didn’t get the memo.
When has he ever?
It was all over in April 2020. Why the regime has chosen to prolong it until now is what you should be asking.
Should have been back to normal last summer. We could have been. People should ask why we weren’t……and still aren’t.
And that’s how it will stay unless or until the sensible ones revolt. How to do that is the question.
Inflated cases. Stupid ping app and multiple frequent testing of course it will look high. It’s been the seasonal flu the entire time but alas the weak-minded jelly brain masses who will do anything as long as they can enjoy their degeneracy. This fall hopefully they will learn what a real pandemic looks like when they start dying from poisoning.
A senior minister is “slapped down” by a dim-witted clown / genocidalist who has no public mandate. Of course all based on a “maybe.” We might be in for a bumpy Autumn / Winter.
Too fuckin right we are in for a bumpy A / W once the new scariant is let loose; either that or ADE takes hold.
“But why isn’t it over?“
Because it’s over when they say it’s over, and we haven’t forced them to say it’s over yet.
That’s the problem. HOW do we force them.
Because all the stats are a fugazi. Smoke and mirrors for their real goal: domination of us mere serfs
“Why Isn’t It “All Over Bar the Shouting”? Why Aren’t We Back to Normal Yet?”
As A Heretic points out it was all over in April 2020. But to answer the question, the only explanation that now stands up is that the leadership are acting in extremely bad faith OR have gone certifiably insane. I know which explanation I favour.
They love the power. They adore having control and watching the sheeple jump without asking ” how high”? And this will continue until we, the sensible, logical, far seeing ones, tell them in no uncertain terms that It’s all over and they can shove their apocalypse where the sun don’t shine.
That is not going to happen; we are too few and too weak, protest as loudly and as peacefully as we might. Unless the armed services of all of the most powerful nations mutiny more or less coincidentally it’s all up for life as we once knew it.
It should have been over when the vulnerable had been vaccinated. Once you have reduced the threat level to below that of flu, which would be the case if the vaccines were as effective at reducing severity as claimed, then there is no possible justification for retaining any restrictions whatsoever.
The restrictions are not effective anyway – but we live in a world where covoodoo has replaced biology, chemistry and physics.
Even the government’s own statements make little sense.
Consider the PHE statement that vaccines have prevented 22 million infections and saved 60,000 lives.
Let’s make the wild assumption that all that vaccines do is to prevent infection – no effect on reducing symptoms. This allows us then to use these quoted figures to give an upper bound on the IFR (all lives saved are as a result of infection prevention – not reduction of symptoms, under this assumption).
So according to the figures quoted this translates to an upper-bound IFR of 0.27%
Taking the official number of deaths with covid on the death certificate from the government dashboard which currently stands at a bit over 150,000, we can work out using this upper bound IFR the lowest number of infections consistent with this.
We get 55.5 million infections.
So not a lot of people left to infect. Of course, these government figures are somewhat less than believable – but it does nicely illustrate the inconsistent nonsense they keep spaffing at us.
In other words, ‘no confidence’. Is anyone really confident with respect to the junk being dished out by the Governments now?
If the total number of estimated infections begins to exceed the size of the population, will the sheeple wake up then? Will the media even report it? I’d wager we’ll still be at groundhog day.. Idiocracy (2006 documentary) here we come!
That indeed was what Boris said. But who ever believes a word that that xxxxx says? Put bluntly, he loves the power of control. He is a despot. And until someone forces him to retreat this semi so called freedom and state of fear will continue. But who has the guts and the authority to tell him?
You’ve written five exes yet the only words I can think of to describe BIG BLUBBER consist of four or six letters. What can the unmentionable word be?
Not all over because they haven’t yet introduced a third jab.
Boosters every 6 months, forever, to keep your biosecurity passports up to date.
The testing laboratory in Loughborough that was closed earlier this year is to reopen by an American company.
Is that the one recently bought by Gates and soros?
To paraphrase Kenneth Wolstenhome, “Some people are having a party, they think it’s all over, it isn’t yet”
I want to see Johnson and Zahawi prosecuted for coercion. Their illegal forcing of people to have medical procedures against their will .
We must see justice!
In the highly unlikely event that they are prosecuted, what then? A comfortable retirement after a bit of disapproval from the authors of a report?
Perhaps this? Dan
(@Kingbingo_) Tweeted: Do you want to know why the elites have destroyed your lives over the last 15 months?
Well read on, I promise to explain all of it
A thread.
It links nicely to this story: https://t.co/CjLW1kcesa
(1/28) https://twitter.com/Kingbingo_/status/1419293260468690946?s=20
It will only be over when we the people start saying in the words of Maggie NO! NO! NO!
Sadly the majority are still walking around with their eyes shut and their brains dead, wearing masks, antisocial distancing and sanitising their hands every 5 seconds.
This is all about surveillance and control through fear always has been, it’s got nothing to do with a virus.
God help us.
Goodness I was very polite there!
Those with enough social credit will be allowed to eat.
It will only be over when we the people start saying in the words of Maggie NO! NO! NO!
Sadly the majority are still walking around with their eyes shut and their brains dead, wearing masks, antisocial distancing and sanitising their hands every 5 seconds.
This is all about surveillance and control through fear always has been it’s got nothing to do with a virus.
God help us.
Goodness I was very polite there!
Positive tests NOT Covid tests. The tests pick up ANY fragment of infection. When will people STOP testing for a condition that CANNOT be tested for…? Or are we just a bunch of hypochondriacs morbidly looking for symptoms?
Given that I’m unlikely to be able to leave my home anyway as I am one of the ‘unclean’, I can imagine a day, not too far away, when no-one will leave home before having to perform a battery of tests to declare one germ free.
‘What more, then, is the Government waiting for?’
It’s waiting to launch more false flag operations in pursuit of its Great Reset plan.
The whole Cabinet should be tried for treason. The most authoritarian government in British history, bar none.
It is simply that until the sheeple wake up it will never end. That won’t happen while the Gov remain committed to the control they currently wield. And who’s challenging them??
I’m 71 and won’t see true freedom again in my life.
All I can do is ignore it all, which is what I’m doing.
I agree. I am 74 and do not expect to see full unqualified freedom in my lifetime. So I refuse to wear a mask, go where I like, stand by who I like and dare anyone to tackle me. You are right – until the sheeple wake up and realise that they have been criminally lied to, nothing will change. And anyone who hopes that the public enquiry will bring the truth to light is deluded – it will exonerate all the so called experts( mathematcians) and ministers (liars).
This is what you get if you let physicians run the country: they regard every single death and every hospitalization as intolerable, an affront to their professional standing and do not see the bigger picture at all. It’s like having a car mechanic run the Ford Corporation. Physicians treat people not societies…they simply don’t have the mental equipment for the latter. Most of them are also raving leftists with authoritarian tendencies; patients (i.e society) must do as they’re told….it’s for their own good. Real conservative politicians should stop listening to these people and assume control again; grab the wheel and start driving us back to sanity.
The medical establishment has played its part – doctors in staying silent, management pushing their own agendas and power/budget grabs, “scientists” ditto – but the politicians have been pretty keen on the easy power and importance that the “emergency” has given them.
Indeed! Politicians have ceded power because they think they lack the expertise and also because it shields them from responsibility if someone else is at the driving wheel. There is no more excuse for lack of expertise after 17 months….if they still haven’t done their homework on the virus by now they should resign in disgrace.
Well, someone else is not at the driving wheel, IMO. If you’re a leader then you pretend to abdicate responsibility but it won’t wash – you are responsible.
It’s not homework that is lacking, it’s honesty. They know it’s all lies. They are not stupid.
Because its about Money, Control and avoiding blame. Lots of Money for Gates, the big Pharma, Big tech, and filtering downwards through their puppets in SAGE and the cabinet.
Lots of Power control over life and death of millions of people, what a rush for these otherwise unattractive people, better than any s-x they have ever had.
And cover up, responsibility and blame must be avoided at all and any costs, social unrest, increased deaths all acceptable if it means that the orchestrators can get off the hook, and get away with the dosh.
I’m afraid “back to normal” isn’t going to be possible without some fundamental changes.
You may not have noticed but the government has increased the supply of money 7 times over, as have the governments of many other major powers. What you own is now worth 7 times less than it was.
We are well on our way to “owning nothing and being supposedly happy” about it. Like sticking a load of synthetic genes into your arm, this process can’t be undone without serious harm to, and likely killing of, the existing system.
How are they detecting the ‘Delta’ variant? You can’t do it with PCR.
Once enough people have succumbed to the clot shots, testing requirements will be expanded again to include them as well.
That’s a given. £££
What is most certainly NOT over is the damage done by the hysterical shutting down over the last 18 months. In particular the NHS, which we have supposedly “saved”, is spavined by a massive backlog of patients needing life saving treatment, staff shortages due to the ludicrous isolating of healthy people, difficulty in getting to see a GP, and a continuing atmosphere of can’t do won’t do.
You can’t get your cancer treated but don’t worry because you will still be nicked by cops in speed camera vans so we are all safe. The topsy turvy world of skewed values we live in is not going to change soon.
I note that the desperation levels among the jabbers has reached new heights.
SAGE are now stating that a mutation to MERS with a case fatality rate of 35% is now on the cards (though the small print suggests that mutations may leave the virus as dangerous as a common cold – in time).
They are forgetting the original MERS story though. Likely it was another ‘gain of function’ release/trial but like the first SARS and this one if someone hadn’t blabbed, it was blamed on zoonotic transmission – in the case of MERS they really pushed the boat out blaming camels and camel herders. But don’t worry about the 35% fatality rate, this extreme mutation won’t escape the trusty old mRNA jabs that were created before we even knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed (December 2019 in China, January 2020 in the rest of the World) or posed a threat (March 2020 WHO pandemic declaration) – how prescient were they, how philanthropic to take a punt on making a costly speculative vaccine before November 2019, how lucky that it will still work against every future mutation.
Or not, as the ‘breakthrough’ cases are proving.
Because, if it is failing against the slightly more infectious but no more dangerous Delta variant (and others in countries highly vaccinated but where Delta is not yet dominant) why are they confident that it won’t continue to fail against a more deadly MERS type variant?
It’s already all over for the vaccinated. Enjoy what little life is left to you.The effects of the mRNA and graphene oxide poisoning will be irreversible.
As for the unvaxxed, a different end perhaps, but an end all the same, is coming.
We now have only a small window of time to take our revenge on these murdering bastards.
As an unjabbed, I expect to be blamed for the huge rise in flu deaths that is coming in the autumn as ADE kicks in. I think we are going to be subjected to a great deal of very hostile propaganda as the government goes into overdrive in denying that the jabs are in any way responsible.
yea but no but yea its the test points mean prizes come on down…………….