NHS Test and Trace, which has cost the taxpayer £38 billion, may have only prevented 6% of Covid infections, according to a new official report. MailOnline has more.
No 10’s Test and Trace system has had barely any impact on thwarting the spread of Covid, according to official estimates.
The controversial £37 billion scheme has been heavily criticised over the past year for being ineffective at breaking the chains of transmission.
New Government modelling found the programme – which critics have described as being the biggest ever waste of taxpayer money – may have only slashed cases by as little as six%.
It also estimates that people isolating prevented 1.2 million to two million secondary cases, with NHS Test and Trace responsible for stopping 300,000 to 500,000 of these.
The estimate assumed people with Covid symptoms and their households would still have isolated if testing wasn’t on offer.
But health chiefs noted that without the offer of testing, millions more people would have needlessly self-isolated when they weren’t infected because they wouldn’t have been able to prove they were negative through a swab.
Test and Trace identified around 900,000 positive cases in August, according to official figures.
It comes as Boris Johnson will today warn that the pandemic is “far from over” as he unveils his “winter plan”, admitting that another lockdown cannot be completely ruled out.
A report published by NHS Test and Trace looked at what impact it had over and above if people with symptoms still isolated without any access to testing.
It did this by analysing the transmission reduction from testing, tracing and isolating from the current scheme.
This was then compared to an imagined scenario where testing was not on offer and households were told to self-isolate if someone developed Covid symptoms.
A panel including ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, helped with the modelling.
The study, which looked at the period from last August to April, found the Test and Trace scheme reduced transmission between 10 and 28%.
But if people stayed at home when they suspected they had the virus anyway, like they are supposed to, the testing system only reduced transmission from six to 19%.
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It’ll be fine, because here come the mandatory Social Credit Score apps to Save Our Pubs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9774653/Covid-passports-compulsory-pubs-clubs-restaurants-prevent-fourth-wave.html
All utterly inevitable, all completely predictable, and completely predicted. Creep, creep, creep goes the mission. First pubs, then non-essential retail, then Supermarkets to Save Christmas. You want to Save Our Christmas, don’t you, citizen?
“In autumn vaccine passports could become an important tool that will allow us to keep things open.”
This is the language they’re going to use. Social Credit Apps are on our side, fighting with us against the lockdowns being imposed by… forces unknown. But until Our Science finds out what perfidious fiends keep closing down the country, Our Apps are our best defence against their nefarious plots.
On spy-and-inform: “The new director of the UK Health Security Agency Dr Jenny Harries said experts were looking to tweak the [spy-and-inform] device to take account of people who have received at least two doses of the vaccine”.
Boosters to the moon, lads.
And after you’ve held out your app in supplication and begged for permission, just once, you’ll never object again. That’s it. The State owns you, forever. We’ll never, ever come back from there.
At this point the only real question is what the final name will be. CitCert? FreePass? SerfApp?
Depressed about missing out on the footie down the pub? Well you needn’t be! DO the National Vaxx Lottery today – and even if you don’t kick the big bucket jackpot you still stand a 1 in 10 of getting some kind of reaction. There are so many reactions to look forward to from simple feel lousy Anaemia to more exotic blood disorders like Lymphadenopathy, try saying that after a skinful. How about Guillain-Barre syndrome, Autonomic nervous system imbalance or even a mysterious Cerebrovascular accident (which also can be fatal) to boast about to your excited jabbering friends? The list just goes on and on – but remember if you don’t get your jab you will miss out!
As for keeling over, let me tell you (most sincerely…) that we are offering bucket kicking Vaxx odds of 1 in 24,000 (and this could fall as low as 1 in 2400 if MHRA under-reporting estimates are accurate, but shhhhh, don’t tell everyone). That means (at the very least) you have 583 times (or 5830 times, with those lowered secret odds) higher chance of dying from the Vaxx than getting all 5 balls plus the bonus ball in the National Lottery.
How good is that?
And for those EuroMillions hopefuls trying for 5 balls plus 2 stars, well these lucky punters have almost Six Thousand times (up to a staggering SIXTY THOUSAND TIMES) higher chance of dying from the jab than getting that elusive perfect EuroMillions result. That’s like buying six thousand (perhaps even SIXTY THOUSAND) lottery tickets at a time, and who could afford that? Better still, the National Vaxx Lottery is absolutely free!!!
What’s not to like here? Even if you don’t become a Vaxx Victim in the first few days, don’t worry, there’s still plenty time for the adverse reactions to occur in the weeks, months or even years to come – perhaps to your future offspring. And even if an adverse reaction doesn’t happen to you on the first or even second jab there’s no need to despair – the boosters are soon to come. It’s the free jab that keeps on giving.
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My brother has made it a condition of employment in his business that staff do not use the spy-and-snitch app, and he’s advised them in no uncertain terms that if they don’t show up because they’ve been advised not to, then it comes out of their holiday allowance.
We’ve been told that business can choose to enforce the use of spy-and-snitch or the social credit score app, so it only seems fair that they can prohibit them as well, right?
Wow – it sounds as if you have two sane, Homo Sapiens members in the same family! Is this a world record? (Actually, no, my family also has two!)
We have six
There’s five of us. And some new emerging friends!
Snap.
Excellent. Good on your brother for standing up to this. Lead by example and others will follow.
I love pubs. They are my favourite places to be in the world. Despite all the ridiculous rules and regulations that are in place, I’ve still used them extensively whenever they’ve been allowed to open since this shitshow began. But I will say that the pub industry on the whole did not fight hard enough against the government over this. They meekly rolled over and let it happen. The best pubs are the ones playing lip service to the rules. These are the ones I frequent. The ones that bark at you and constantly tell you what you should or should not be doing will no longer get my custom. And even when (if) things get back to normal won’t either. I shall not forgive. I shall not forget.
I too love pubs but if I need to show my medical history to get inside them, they can fuck off. Agreed that the whole industry was far too compliant – and silent.