Businesses and some Tory MPs have complained about the Government’s flip-flopping on its work from home guidelines, with Steve Baker warning that “an entire cohort of businesses which rely on office workers will be at risk if the Government doesn’t give a clear steer to employers”. The Telegraph has the story.
Back in March, the Prime Minister said Britain’s army of homeworkers have “had quite a few days off” and should soon make a “passing stab” at returning to offices.
The Government’s work from home advice remained in place for four more months before Johnson shifted the responsibility to businesses, saying that the rest was for staff and employers “to work out for themselves”.
The result of Johnson’s flip-flopping and mixed messaging has been that the prospect of a “big bang” as city centres returned to life has turned out to be more of a fizzle.
Tory MPs and many businesses that depend on the traffic of office workers are growing frustrated as central urban economies lag behind in the recovery.
“You struggle with getting any clear messages out of the Government really, and they all seem to be a bit distracted at the moment anyway,” says Brian Bickell, Chief Executive of West End landlord Shaftesbury.
“There’s no reason not to come back to your office, public transport is perfectly safe… there’s no clarity of if you should go back, it’s just go back if you want to. I don’t know who they’re pandering to really.”
Experts expect more workers to return to offices from September, but whether it’s a trickle or a wave will be crucial for the future of many city centre businesses.
Johnson’s messaging has been stuck between making a full-throated endorsement for a return to offices and embracing the home working revolution. He is sitting out the big debate that will shape the future of Britain’s cities.
“Ministers need to decide whether they are willing to bear the consequences of mixed messages over whether to return to the office,” says Steve Baker, Deputy Chair of the Covid Recovery Group – an influential group of lockdown sceptic Tory MPs.
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Do we to talk about this?
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-british-are-dropping-vaccine?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTkwNDgwMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDEyMDg5MzEsIl8iOiJaMTRoZyIsImlhdCI6MTYzMTQyNzg0NywiZXhwIjoxNjMxNDMxNDQ3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzYzMDgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rlA5OXwfquwUVWv5ZYIbP-4OXoeSOz3qbPVfJ0iUvN0
I like Alex Berenson, Twitter were way off the mark banning him.
Twitter are way off the mark … banning just about everybody they’ve banned (including me)… another govt agent fast being replaced by ethical social media platforms who keep their noses out of the trough
Twitter’s stock price has surged 4-fold since it decided to “Play ball” with the powers that be.
I don’t believe our double jabbed, Covid survivor, masked Dictator will ditch the passports. Just more psyops.
I think it’s only a brief pause until the next assault on the population. They haven’t got the honesty or integrity to admit they were wrong about everything to do with Covid.
If it’s about arse covering then we suggested about a year ago that the natural path of the virus would allow them to claim Vax victory. If it’s about social credit then yeah, we fucked, just watch for the other shoe to drop.
I agree. That’s why I brought it up. I think he is going to go hard with school vaccines and reintroducing masking at school and is easing back on the other sheite in order to release pressure with one hand while tightening with the other.
This is largely due to the teaching unions….
No. The teaching unions have no excuse. But it is down to government. Don’t get distracted.
“Don’t get distracted” from RickH = “don’t notice things RickH finds it politically inconvenient for you to notice”.
You are dim, Mark, when you so completely miss the point I’m making. You seem actually illiterate in not being able to read my first sentence. Quote back at me any posting I’ve made about the current behaviour of unions that fulfills your imaginary ‘charge’.
… or you’re just erecting straw men – as politically senile obsessives from Plant Zog do, lacking any grasp of reality and real argument.
It’s also pot and kettle stuff – with your hypocrisy (or raddled thinking) reaching no bounds in trying to make this current shit-show fit your past-sell-by-date politics.
Onanism and analysis are two different activities – the former less embarrassing if done in private
“You are dim, Mark, when you so completely miss the point I’m making. You seem actually illiterate in not being able to read my first sentence. Quote back at me any posting I’ve made about the current behaviour of unions that fulfills your imaginary ‘charge’.”
On the contrary, my point was spot on. You merely seek to deny what you are doing.
The only real question here is: are you aware of it and knowingly dishonest, or so profoundly unselfaware that you genuinely do not understand your own behaviour?
You transparently seek to deflect blame from the teaching unions for their clear and obvious appalling behaviour and its equally clear and obvious malign consequences for children’s education. In response to someone pointing out those clearly relevant and vitally important facts about what has happened in this country’s education system, you insisted (as usual) that we should ignore these facts “Don’t get distracted“. As though highlighting vital and core acts by key players in the covid disaster in our education system is somehow a “distraction” from the aforementioned disaster!
What it is a “distraction” from, of course, is your endless quest to focus blame on the political party you hate and have spent your life hating, and to deflect it from parties you see as sympathetic.
“politically senile obsessives from Plant Zog do, lacking any grasp of reality and real argument….Onanism and analysis are two different activities – the former less embarrassing if done in private”
More playground abuse – your primary stock in trade when confronted with discussion you can’t cope with intellectually or emotionally, it appears.
But were they ‘wrong’? (In their terms)
Telegraph reporting some power being dropped and now this, I’ve learn not to dare hope but, what if!?!
I’ve been using Mr Gums nom de plume on the Telegraph for the last couple of weeks and have enjoyed some trolling! If the comments are anything to go by, and the assumption is that the Telegraph is read by the Tory voter, then he’s in trouble. Other than a few obvious trolls no one has a good word to say about him, his so called Government, vaccines, passports, masks….etc.
Correct about the trolls, they are moronic and intolerable, branding all criticism of Kim Jong-Johnson as Marxist.
The real Kim Jong Il aka #FatBoyKim looks quite snappy these days. His dose of covid seems to have done him no end of good, weight-wise.
He also has a decent barber.
If Kim Jong Johnson threw his full weight behind Kim Jong-Un, the North Korean would be smashed into five million pieces……..
I don’t either.. On the other hand a recent poll (yes, I know they’re rubbish) has put tories two points down on labour, and the points lost didnt go to labour or to libdems, they went to Reform UK, who was 1 point above libdems and 3 above the greens.
I think the fat controller thinks he can regain the support lost from his hike in NI.
They claim the drop is due to taxes. I suspect it’s to do with vaxes.
I doubt however those of us that dropped support due to the latter are likely to EVER go back to the fat dictator.
I completely agree with you and our fat controller would not wish to have a group of MPs in parliament who would be guaranteed to back up a backbench rebellion in his own party.
This is the only political hope – the rise of a more genuinely conservative party to represent the currently unrepresented.
He’s neither double jabbed nor a covid survivor. It simply makes his nefarious business easier to sell to the hordes if they believe it. However, dictator he certainly is, and he has to go.
He’s been triple jabbed, hasn’t he?
Funnily enough just been reading this in the Telegraph, no signs of stopping the child jabathon though? As Boris can’t move his lips without lying, I’m not sure if this is just a carrot before a big stick!
“no signs of stopping the child jabathon though?”
Exactly. Classic distraction.
Well, he ain’t distracting me. This is my absolute line in the sand and my 12 y/o is not being jabbed- even if it costs me everything, (which it might as my wife sees no harm in it, but unfortunately she has to work with loads of covid hysterics and it does have an effect on her). I could never live with myself if anything happened as a result of just going along with it for the easy life. I’m completely befuddled by parents actively lining their kids up for this ‘to keep them safe’. If they’re so easily terrified and herded they probably belong in a pen- they certainly shouldn’t be parents.
Interesting article but I have to comment on the use of “immune evasion”: there is no immunity given with the vaccines and none of them intended there to be. Every manufacturer stated that their aim was to mitigate the symptoms i.e. try to alleviate the symptoms so people did not die. Not one manufacturer ever stated “immunity”.
A single jabbed, double jabbed, quadruple jabbed person is every bit as likely to catch or transmit Covid as I am and I wouldn’t go near a Covid vaccine if paid to.
Absolutely – you’ll be surprised how many people out there think that the vaccine stops them from getting the virus – it won’t and was never intented to stop people getting the virus – as you rightly say it was developed to alleviate possible severe symptoms of the virus – people are very surprised when you inform them of this important fact – hence why we are seeing an exlosion of new cases in some of the most vaccinated places in the world – these jabs can actually give a false sense of immunity.
And what’s more, we know that the data that supported the claim that the jabs alleviate symptoms, was a) carried out by the manufacturers and b) only concerned participants who had mild symptoms and c), rendered useless in the medium-to-long term because they gave the control group the jabs.
Yes, agreed, the manufacturers have not claimed that the vaccine stops or reduces transmission. They haven’t claimed it will stop hospitalisation or death. As you say all they have claimed is some efficacy in treating some of the symptoms of Covid…does that make it the most fricking expensive LemSip ever?
It is Government and their official bodies who have raised people’s expectations, and fiddled the data to make it seem much more effective.
https://drtrozzi.com/2021/09/the-covid-19-injection-is-not-a-vaccine/#comment-2860
… and minimally less likely to die at best. Again – keep the reality in mind :
The only thing vaccines ever give is immunity, they’re neither pain killers (which sometimes do and sometimes don’t kill pain and nobody really knows how) nor antibiotics. Virus infections cause symptoms due to replication. Hence, no symptoms or mild symptoms means little or nor replication. And this can only happen due to the immune system killing viruses and infected cells (in absence of antiviral medication).
“Virus infections cause symptoms due to replication.”
Ditto bacterial infections. Ditto fungal infections. Ditto parasite infections. The only 100% way to stay safe is to die. Guaranteed end of pathogen replication – once those responsible for decomposition have done their work.
more dramatis the deaths blamed on covid peaked at the same time but plummeted far more dramatically
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/
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Hugotalks is reporting another Danish footballer collapsed on the pitch yesterday. Although, I believe the media were quick to say that it wasn’t a heart attack but a seizure…. So that’s alright then.
I would urge everyone from assuming that every adverse event being reported is due to any vaccine that the person may or may not have had, Hugo talks has been doing this recently.
Also please do not conflate sudden cardiac arrest with a heart attack, they are not necessarily the same. A heart attack is when the heart loses its blood supply due to blockage of one or more coronary arteries, which can lead to cardiac arrest; sudden cardiac arrest is due to a fault in the electrical conduction system causing the normally regular signal to become erratic or stop completely, causing the heart to stop pumping blood effectively. Look at c-r-y.org.
Thank you for the information re heart attack v cardiac arrest, although as a retired nurse I am aware of the difference, I should have put a ‘cardiac event’.
I do not assume that every adverse event is due to vaccination, however I’m sure even you will agree that there have been more of these events reported in the past few weeks than we would normally hear about over the course of a year.
Unfortunately when the TPTB are actively suppressing information regarding vaccine adverse events there is always the risk that everything will be attributed to them and they have only themselves to blame.
Apologies, I didn’t intend to patronise you in any way, but I didn’t realise you were a retired clinician, as am I. The issue I have is that these types of event are being reported when a couple of years ago they wouldn’t have warranted making the national news. The Joe Humphries case was only reported in the Leicester Mercury and I was only aware because I had worked alongside two people involved in the Joe Humphries foundation, the 17 year old footballer was reported in the local paper and the clubs website, my paramedic colleague of course was not reported, I only know because I was part of the resuscitation team. Why was the West Bridgford players collapse and subsequent death reported on the main BBC website as well as the East Midlands website?
Good points. Rationalists need to guard against the same data blindness (single cases gaining undue significance through the act of reporting) that they criticize Covid maniacs for.
How many professional footballers or other sportspeople have you heard of collapsing on the pitch? Prior to this year and the vaccine the only time I can remember was Fabrice Muamba who collapsed playing for Bolton Wanderers in 2012. How many such events have we had in the last few months? I’ve lost count but similar events are being reported quite frequently now, seems more than just a coincidence to me.
Youtube actually has videos of sudden collapses by players during matches!
There was the player in the recent Euro, which is mentioned on the c-r-y website, so likely cardiac arrhythmia/arrest unlinked to vaccination.
The player from West Bridgford who had a sudden cardiac arrest in a match against Boston United in the FA youth cup, who sadly died two days later, Hugo talks intimated that it was a Boston player who had had the jab. If you look hard enough you can find these events.
Since Muamba these are the cases that I am aware of Joe Humphries collapsed and died whilst jogging here in Leicestershire, he was 14; a 34 year old paramedic had a cardiac arrest in an urgent care centre the day after completing a long cycle ride, resuscitated with single shock from defibrillator, ICD inserted; a 17 year old female footballer collapsed and died after training with professional football club.
A few years back (2014 I think) there was a seminar at my local university about cardiac problems in elite athletes as the university is renowned for its sports, speakers included a cardiologist and a consultant paediatrician from Glenfield and Leicester royal infirmary.
You don’t give the timescale for the cases you have mentioned. If they were all within the space of a few weeks then they would back your theory of previous under-reporting, however if they were a few years apart then I’m afraid they do not support your theory at all. I would also highlight that the majority of those that have happened recently have been in players/sports people in high profile teams and therefore most definitely do warrant reporting in the MSM.
The point I was making is that those cases, which were spread over a period of a few years, but within a relatively small geographical area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing
https://blog.10med.com/death-on-football-pitch-the-challenge-of-diagnosing-sudden-cardiac-arrest-in-athletes/
John is correct to highlight (as he has here before) that this has always been a known occasional event for sports participants, and that it is not correct to simply assume that any reported incident now is due to the vaccines.
As Malcolm Kendrick pointed out a while back (COVID19 – the spike protein and blood clotting), it is precisely the treatment consequences that cause an increase in an already relatively common problem that are the hardest to pick out in the early days. It takes long term careful analysis of the numbers to identify whether there is a true signal or merely a noticing of events that passed unnoticed previously.
The problem is that such analysis is precisely what is most efficiently suppressed or manipulated by corrupt and partisan elites.
So arguably what is needed is populist coverage – the kind of stuff Johh is criticising that makes unwarranted but superficially reasonable implications of causation – to balance out the vast amount of exactly that kind of coverage on the other side.
There is a genuine dilemma here. On the one hand we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard, but on the other hand we need to counter the propaganda of the other side.
It’s heads we lose, tails they win, but that’s how life is. Unfair.
Hmm.
It is nice that there’s now a recognition forming that covid waves are natural and self-exhausting.
But too many people are still clinging onto the ‘SIR’ model of viral disease (aka the ‘measles model’). We’re not getting a series of waves that generate herd-immunity only for it to be lost, IMO. It looks far more like the disease is following the Hope-Simpson model of viral infection, where we have a small number of superspreaders and the wave dissipates when all people susceptible to being superspreaders has temporally run out.
We’ve currently got a nice test-case in New Zealand. It looks very much like they have recently (17th August to 5th September) had a single superspreader in south Auckland. According to the superspreader theory there is a ‘good chance’ that new superspreaders will be infected as a result. If they have, they’ll start a new in the very near future (before the end of September).
Note that the Hope-Simpson superspreader is asymptomatic — it isn’t clear why this should be be the case, but it might be associated with relative differences in the innate immune system, local (to the lung mucosa) antibodies and circulating antibodies — a poor local (to the lung) immune system coupled with a strong central (blood plasma) antibody response might suppress the normal symptoms associated with upper respiratory tract infections (which are a function of the immune system not the virus itself) but protect against the disease becoming systemic (and thus reduce the risk of there being a ‘cytokine storm’). The consequence of this would be that these individuals would have high levels of infection, as measured by random testing to identify the asymptomatic, but low levels of hospitalisation/death — sound familiar?
The current New Zealand outbreak might also inform as to whether vaccination increases the chances of being a superspreader — this will be reflected in the initial rate of change (first week) if we get a new wave forming there in the next few weeks. A case load of >250 cases per day at about the +1 week point would suggest that the vaccines are increasing this risk.
According to this model we should get a new covid wave in the UK around mid December. This will be considerably more damaging than this summer’s wave (seasonality) but may or may not be worse than last winter’s wave (dependent on the characteristics of the next variant to take hold).
Yes – only there wasn’t really a ‘wave’ this summer – just an insignificant uptick. Again, we would expect a seasonal upturn in infection, building through December into January. Undoubtedly, this normal seasonality will be attributed to Covid – but whether that will represent reality is moot.
Again – look at that last line graph, and massively extend the y-axis to represent the absolute scale of 1,000,000, and you get a better idea of what these ‘waves’ entail! More sort of ‘ripples’ on a very flat sea.
Again – too much credence given to duff data about PCR+ results. I fear that giving such house room – even in a critical way – adds to The ‘Narrative’s’ credibility.
There needs to be a concerted return here to Farr’s observation that all, other than death, is an assumption. Only such a basis will make for consistent comment in real perspective.
Why do you think the most used data by the fictionalizers is ‘case’ or ‘infection’ data? Doh!!!
55,000 healthy people reportedly infected with something (from a population of about 60 million) is not a surge. That’s the branch covidians (another term I like) going through the house with a looking glass in the hope to find something which would enable them to sell more face masks (or – in the case of Viral Trisha – force other people to buy something she hopes will help against her own mysopohbia).
It is an important part of understanding the coronavirus fraud that we also understand how 9/11 was brought about by the “deep state” in order to invade and asset strip the middle east.
These people are remorseless. The AE9/11 truth website is good to start with but it is extremely depressing and frightening to see the chaos and destruction they are prepared to bring about. True evil exists.
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/775-the-censorship-of-spike-lee-s-nyc-epicenters-is-a-tragically-fitting-end-to-the-last-20-years
If you want an insight into True Evil, see Ronald Bernard’s videos for an almost-but-not-quite-full insider’s view of Big Finance – the level of finance where a whole country can be destroyed by coordinated financial warfare. In his 4 part series, he gives details of the initiation ‘ceremony’ into the top level.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RonaldBernard/videos
“The Sharp Decline in Infections in Florida and the Southern U.S. Shows Once More That Covid Surges Peak and Decline Naturally Without Interventions”
Well that is totally surprising – not.
SARS-CoV-2 has mutated into an endemic for that allows it to co-exist with its host. There will be seasonal ups and downs just like the other endemic respiratory infections – the common cold (coronavirus) and the flu (also still mutating)
The Western World was pulled for the sake of a not-very-effective cold vaxxine.
Thanks to evolutionary pressure caused by ‘vaccinating’ during a pandemic (as opposed to once it has naturally faded) is that variants that ‘escape’ will be produced and some may become dominant as a new wave.
It is beyond ironic that infighting for awards (Nobels) in the US National Institutes by the likes of Fauci and Gallo has deprived the world of paradigm busting antivirals and anti cancer drugs by suppression of publication and prevention of approval to develop. They did it with the whole HIV debacle but when called out, nothing changed. And we are here again. Sheesh.
It’s endemic.
In the long run I come down on the side that the (leaky) vaccines and stupid interventions will make it worse than need be.
But … remember COVID is just a tool.
That was quick. Vaccine Passports off the the this morning, back on the table by this evening.
You are all going to get jabbed, and you will all soon be holding your shiny new Vaccine Passport.
That’s really what it has come to.