With talk ramping up about the danger posed by seasonal influenza this winter – especially given the impact lockdowns and social distancing are likely to have had on immunity – the Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency has acknowledged that Covid is no longer the “most significant” threat to health. The Sunday Telegraph has the story.
[Dr. Jenny Harries] said today that Covid was possibly no more dangerous than flu, as she warned that there would be a lower immunity to the illness this year.
She said: “It is important to remember that for an average flu season it’s about 11,000 deaths a year, it’s somewhere between four (thousand) to 22,000 over the last four to five years.
“So we are starting to move to a situation where, perhaps Covid is not the most significant element, and many of those individuals affected will of course have other comorbidities, which will make them vulnerable to serious illness but other reasons as well.”
It comes as the NHS launched its biggest ever flu vaccination drive amid fears flu deaths could be the worst for 50 years because of lockdowns and social distancing.
More than 35 million people will be offered flu jabs this winter, amid concern that prolonged restrictions on social contact have left Britain with little immunity.
Officials fear that this winter could see up to 60,000 flu deaths – the worst figure in Britain since the 1968 Hong Kong Flu pandemic – without strong uptake of vaccines.
There is also concern about the effectiveness of this year’s jabs, because the lack of flu last year made it harder for scientists to sample the virus and predict the dominant strains.
Meanwhile Dr. Harries added that the dominance of the Delta variant globally has seen other coronavirus variants “become extinct”, but warned we still need to “stay alert”.
“With the dominance of Delta, it does look as though many of the other variants which have been detected are becoming extinct, and a number of variants under investigation have risen slightly, we’ve seen cases, and they’ve become extinct,” she told The Andrew Marr Show.
However she cautioned that it was imperative to “stay alert”, as she said it was “still very early days of a new virus”.
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Strange that. Lots more vaccines to be bought. Is it appropriate now to mentions Bill Gates’ stated intention to vaccinate the world against everything?
Perhaps the most significant threat to health we all now face is from “the Government”, whether it is adverse effects from the enforced “vaccine”, or poorly managed health services, or encouraging stress and fear, or a break down of the economic and social life of the nation…
No I think it might just be Fauci!
Here’s another powerful piece by Dr Mike Yeadon.
If only his voice could be heard by the masses of sleepy sheepies, the latest evolutionary event in the saga of the hominid. AKA HomoBovinus! Another must read. Dr Yeadon doesn’t pull his punches.
https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/11/dr-mike-yeadon-midazolam-remdesivir-do-not-comply/
no flu in the UK last year. Why? Ask Jenny, van damn, chris w or the other guy. They don’t know either.
There was no influenza this winter in Australia. Usually means a no flu season in northern hemisphere.
The conservative party are the most significant danger to UK citizens currently.
Flu was always more dangerous.
Assuming Covid 19 is indeed the threat it was purported to be even the most virulent strain didn’t do much damage when looked at closely.
Flu (a settled virus by and large) kills tens of thousands in the UK alone each year. Covid19 is at the very least going to be a new common cold in a few years time, would have been sooner if we followed the Great Barrington Declaration.
It’s inconceivable that Vallance, Whitty, Van Tam, being ex senior Pharma, do not know what they’re doing.
Reason I heard for March 20 lock-up was “to buy time for a vaccine” i.e. locked-up so we did not acquire natural immunity before Pharma produced a jab.
I thought I heard mid-2020 that Regulators reduced data for ‘emergency’ use to shorten development time – fast-tracked foot-in-door, door never closed.
Our good health is bad for Pharma’s profits – destruction of our health good for Pharma’s profits. Destroying health helps such as Harries achieve mass murder.
Those interests and basic biological science know-how incited prolonged terror in entire population to damage everyone’s immune systems via cortisol.
Then imposed restrictions to damage every aspect of our health including immune system. Then respiratory and cardiovascular health damaged further with masks.
Then drugs still in early phase development ‘pushed’. Then everyone jabbed for every virus, as announced in Dec 20 under radar of panic about Christmas.
Cold done, ‘flu next. Trillions of virus – endless lock-up – control-freak politicians happy.
Years before epidemiology collects results after caused – too late to stop disaster. Cause is now and effects, I reckon, in 2 – 5 years. Saying ‘too scared’ admits deceased been knowingly… Read more »
Is this what we’d recognise as a case of ”stating the bl**ding obvious”?
I will just post this again with the link to the WHO flue monitoring website.
https://apps.who.int/flumart/Default?Hemisphere=Northern&ReportNo=5
Marvellous way to hide vaccine adverse effects and deaths. 2021: Flu mysteriously disappears and becomes Covid. 2022, Flu blamed for vaccine caused illnesses. The game goes on.
Darned clever, these behavioural psychopaths.
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Avoid masks carried on see folk without social distancing did not sanitize disregard SAGE advice and nudges as I decided that a well functioning immune system was more important than ever
So covid didnt work, we’ll try again, in the meantime, stay terrified. glad I ignored the whole thing.
Well that’s good news then as I totally ignored the social distancing, over-zealous sanitising of shopping trolleys, mask wearing and hugging avoidance!
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She played central roles in the UK’s response to COVID, Ebola, Zika, monkeypox, MERS and the Novichok attacks.
Ebola and Novichok
Another bought and paid for shill
What is it about these “health” people – her and Whitty etc. – that always makes them look like they should be starring in horror movies I wonder?
Evil perhaps…
All of them – ”leaders” too – look manic and evil. It’s the wickedness oozing out.
Well as I ignored the last 18 months of their “advice” and carried on socialising and living as close to normal as possible, I doubt if my immune system is weakened. So it’s NO to the ‘flu jab, just as it is NO to the Covid one.
What on earth is the U.K. Health Security Agency? Propaganda Central?
It’s taken 19 months for overpaid, useless, EVIL idiots like Jenny Harries to come to this conclusion?? ….Perhaps she should pass this finding to the useless clowns in government and garbage that call itself SAGE
The simple fact is, if the governments of the world and the press hadn’t made such a big song and dance about it, we wouldn’t have even noticed a “pandemic”.
Even if you believe all covid deaths were actually as advertised, a global death toll of five million is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
A bad flu season kills more globally, you only have to look at deaths in the UK from 1990 to 2020 (ONS) to see there was nothing unusual about last year’s death rates. Perfectly average.
It’s never been about public health, though. It hardly matters how they’ve brought us to this pass – all that matters to them is the introduction of ”passports”. Any means have justified that end.
Whatever the origins of covid, it will become a weaponised revenue, if Segregation passports become an item, it will eventually cost the public money to keep them up to date, once again, follow the money.
All tyrannies rule by fear, and it’s been fascinating watching the tyrants create their new biosecurity state for just this reason. Thousands of people, mostly very elderly and in poor health, die of the flu every year and always have done. Now though, it’s going to be presented with a heavy side salad of fear as they continue to terrorise the public into submission.
Again, less than 8000 people under 60 in England (a population of 44 million people), have died of or with covid-19 across the entire pandemic. Does that seem good enough reason to destroy the nation-state system and all its concomitant rights and freedoms?
No. But then it’s not about the well being of populations.
Next day: how fortunate we have vaxx passports, now they can be extended to certifying flu vaccination!
So, according the the Bullshit BBC article I just read, they are specifically worried about people getting flu and Coronabollocks at the same time. Did I imagine it or was it not revealed a few months ago that not only does influenza inhibit (trump) Corona virus, but even the lowly Rhinovirus shows it the door?
The propagandists know that they can put down a bowl of dog shit, and it will be eaten up.
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Looks like a ploy to get flu on the pedestal of threats along with covid. The vaccine pass can’t just be for covid afterall!
Though most statements from government organisations are misleading at best, and lies at worst, I am prepared to believe that we have a vaccine which offers partial protection against the Covid virus for a short time. Much the same as the flu jab.
So why we didn’t just make it available to the elderly, like the flu jab….
“protection”!!! This is the common cold. The flu maybe. What are you talking about?
Oh FFS!!! Not the ‘jab the vulnerable with a cytotoxin myth. Again!
And yet she is still standing behind a lectern bearing the absurd slogans ‘Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives’.
It’s an old picture, dearie.
news: Covid not biggest threat to health and well-being.
Government policy is.
Fearmongering dialled up to 10 in the Guardian.
How would they know about the risk of COVID + flu since flu disappeared during the COVID epidemic?
So, because the “vaccinated” are more likely to test positive for covid than the unvaccinated (good article, Will), I guess they are more likely to die from flucov. Bummer.
They have created a quadrivalent flu vaccine that targets a couple of As and a couple of Bs, I understand.
But as there is no current dominant A or B, if it is true that flu disappeared to the point that cases were no longer being counted, how likely is it that any of these variants is going to re-emerge and cause huge numbers of deaths.
Because, if researchers like Hope-Simpson was correct, as these were the last dominant strains and had been for some time, there will be high levels of existing immunity something that fits with the ease with which the SARS virus replaced it last year.
So, we might get a new flu virus, but it likely won’t be dealt with by the vaccine.
On the other hand, the threat could create demand for more jabbing that will reduce immunity to other ILIs which can then be hyped as a specific NEW flu from which everyone needs protecting with another mRNA vaccine.
I don’t fully understand this but could this be why I have read posts suggesting that this particular flu vaccine will be pretty ineffective.
It hardly matters. This is just a distraction.