More than half of Brits believe that the worst of the pandemic is behind us, according to a new survey. Despite this, 49% of this survey’s respondents also say they believe there will be further lockdowns. The Telegraph has the story.
The survey, by Savanta ComRes, found that 49% believe there will be further lockdowns, with 74% concerned about another virus wave this winter. Fears are highest amongst those aged over 55, at 78%.
While over half – 55% – think the worst of Covid is behind us, 19% believe the worst is yet to come.
Chris Hopkins, of Savanta ComRes, said: “While it may feel to many that the U.K. is out of the woods with coronavirus, there is still an underlying feeling – or perhaps fear – among the public that there are more restrictions, including lockdowns, to come.
“That, coupled with a small but significant proportion who feel that the worst of the pandemic is still ahead of us, shows that trust in the vaccine roll-out may still be undermined if the U.K. enters further restrictions during a winter that will be inevitably challenging for the NHS.” …
Of the 2,103 U.K. adults interviewed online by Savanta ComRes between October 8th to 10th, three in 10 said another lockdown would show that the vaccine roll-out had been a failure. But three in five believe a firebreak lockdown would be effective at relieving pressure on the NHS.
While half of U.K. adults expect there to be further lockdowns in 2021, 33% think there will be no further restrictions.
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They will try, they will definitely try. The sheep will follow for sure. But it’s up to the rest of us to fight back, ignore it all and pushback hard, verry hard.
Those who think the worst is yet to come are concerned about the carnage caused by the jab and the numbers of deaths coming down the road. We know when the eugenicist government and their globalists cannot hide the genocide any longer there will be anger and fear like never before. THAT’s what we are really concerned about because lockdown will be swift and total.
many of us just cannot believe that so many people are still walking around thinking this flu is really dangerous and they need more and more vaccines.
Results from 2,103 extrapolated to population of over 66,000,000 produces a load of rubbish.
Leading questions instead of open ones – garbage in, escalated by algorithms and fly-tipped everywhere by modelling – maximised garbage out.
Opinion about what government will do and opinion about virus are separate issues. Survey assumes they’re not separate.
As someone said: ‘assumptions are the mother of all chaos’.
I’ve been of the opinion for many years that it’s government that needs restricting
If you ASSUME it makes an ASS out of U and ME
Yep. Lots of false assumptions. Most of “conventional wisdom” is either completely wrong, or at least dubious or debatable. Of course we are now told we can’t even debate these topics or present information that challenges conventional wisdom.
The next lockdown is to protect the politicians from an angry population, I suspect.
To give them enough time to make their escapes.
I’d bet on a further lock up for sure. They haven’t bumped off enough elderly and vulnerable yet, so another lock up with astronomical gas, electric and fuel prices despite pensions being decimated (and no furlough), plus monster colds/flu should do the trick.
Feeling ‘done’ with it all? Fancy a positive spin? We’re all frustrated at the irrationality and absurdiry of it all, aren’t we?
Consider this. While we are living in truly absurd and crazy times, we are also living in interesting, exciting, and historical times (truly, in the sense that historians and laymen of the future will marvel at and teach against our actions for decades and centuries to come). Our children and grandchildren (and beyond) will reap the benefits of our monumental errors. Society will flourish once again.
Think of your children and grandchildren. They will reap the benefits of our horrific error. This will not be repeated for a very long time.
That’s certainly a “glass half full” take. I hope you are right, but I’m not sure. One would also think that society would have learned from what took place in Nazi Germany regarding the threat of evil totalitarian rulers. One might think that enough people had read and appreciated Orwell’s 1984 to make enough people never want to go to this place.
That is, I’m not sure future generations actually do learn the appropriate lessons from history.
Also, as a society we are becoming even more “dumbed down” and the tools of complete control might even be more efficient so it’s possible the future will be even bleaker.
I also don’t rule out global nuclear war. As societies implode and rulers become more tyrannical and paranoid, a global apocalypse might be more likely than it’s ever been. Wars are often used as distractions from economic and social upheaval.
‘That’s certainly a “glass half full” take.’
It is, Bill, and it took me the best part of a bottle of Glenfiddich to get there.
‘One would also think that society would have learned from what took place in Nazi Germany regarding the threat of evil totalitarian rulers.’
it did (to a point), hence such things as the ECHR.
‘One might think that enough people had read and appreciated Orwell’s 1984 to make enough people never want to go to this place.’
I hear you, but that’s a book.
‘That is, I’m not sure future generations actually do learn the appropriate lessons from history.’
They do. It just depends on to what extent/how long.
‘I also don’t rule out global nuclear war. As societies implode and rulers become more tyrannical and paranoid, a global apocalypse might be more likely than it’s ever been. Wars are often used as distractions from economic and social upheaval.’
Ultimately, God is in control.
Again, you may be right. I hope you are – some good might come out of all of this. We are all definitely living through historic times. “Historic” in the sense that something big is happening (has changed).
1. Historically speaking, of course I’m right.
2. Indeed, my friend. Something very big is happening, hence my proposition that we are living in truly ‘historic’ times.
I’ve had the same thought. One always wonders how they would have responded if they were living through big historic moments. For example, if I was living in Germany in 1933 would I have sat back and said nothing about what was happening in my country or would I have risked my neck or life to sound the alarm and try to stop it? Well, I might be living in similar times so I guess I will see.
Well put, my friend.
And the teaching unions are the reason for the “dumbed down” population
I’ve come to believe the effort to “dumb down” the population was also intentional. If I am correct, that’s some long-range planning right there.
There will be FA to repeat in an Orwellian society peopled largely by slaves.
I reckon there will be a final lockdown that will pave way to the implementation of the Social Credit vaxport.
They’ll tell us that there’s too few vaXXXed people and the only option left is to lock us down again. They’ll say we need the 3rd shot to save Christmas and they will roll out the vaxport to ensure uptake.
As noted last week, I have seen the helicopter delivering patients to the local hospital again – this only ever seems to happen in the weeks leading up to lockdown. I’m very sure another one is on its way.
‘The survey, by Savanta ComRes, found that 49% believe there will be further lockdowns, with 74% concerned about another virus wave this winter. Fears are highest amongst those aged over 55, at 78%.’
Granting the veracity of this (I haven’t ‘clicked’ the link), since this shitshow began I have been disappointed in, and frankly gobsmacked at, the level of fear and compliance from the older generation(s), a generally rational and well educated demographic, who ought to know a thing or two about the immune system and, more importantly, possess a meaningful philosophy.
Anyway, that’s not what I’m here for. I trotted over to share a video I just watched. Now, I have no earthly idea who Jimmy Dore is, but he has helpfully compiled a montage of the great and the good flatly contradicting themselves with regard to ‘masks’ and ‘vaccines’.
Watching the video, what mostly screamed out to me was, What in the world could make these people contradict themselves to this extent in such a short space of time other than a great big metaphorical hand up their backsides?
https://youtu.be/gD9YmiGVEkA
2,103 Adults interviewed = meaningless = you can make nothing of such a low sample. Here’s one for you 2,103 adults were interviewed for Newsnight on whether the Prime minister is doing a good job, 48.5 % said he was.
Are these WFH,’Brits’. Cut their salaries and see if they still want to WFH
I don’t know how many they asked but they didn’t survey me.. No doubt it was another carefully selected sample of results and a load of useless computer modelling (also known as guessing) to generate the results. It’s nonsense.
3 people replied all against it but we modelled another 500 people who were all for what we got paid to
promotesurveyEver heard the saying two cheeks of the same ass? I’d like to slap both cheeks of this ass.
Boris Johnson And Bill Gates Talk ‘Sacrifice A Goat’ / Hugo Talks #lockdown
Life is shit enough without more restrictions but I think our only hope of victory in the short to medium term is for the Satanists to turn up the heat too much and for Joe Public to realise he’s a boiling frog.
It’s taking a long bloody time! I’m expecting a lot of double-jabbed to end up in hospital in the coming months and am hoping that that will finally wake people up. Of course, if the hospitals fill up with the dreaded flu epidemic they’ve been conveniently predicting. People won’t fall for that of course, the symptoms of severe flu and covid are so different – oh wait..
I don’t think enough people will be severely harmed by the vaccines to make a difference. But a severe, long lockdown would piss people off bigtime.
It would just take one shocking story to (maybe) nix their plan or kill all of their vaccine momentum. I think this best scenario of this actually happening would be a high-profile athlete dying from a cardiac event traced to myocarditis, which would be linked to the COVID vaccines.
There might have been a “close call” with this story of an American football player who was rushed to the hospital for “undisclosed” reasons. The lack of follow-up journalism is of course predictable if disgusting.
Anyway, if the incidence of myocarditis is significantly elvated among young males, the probability that such an event would occur on the sports fields is probably pretty high. This possibility must be keeping officials awake at night.
I have no doubt there have already been serious health events among athletes and these stories have been suppressed. But you let some athlete die on national television and I don’t know how everyone would just shrug their shoulders and no one ask what caused this death.
https://www.startribune.com/trey-potts-gophers-still-in-hospital-five-days-after-purdue-game/600104593/
Interesting thought. I fear that the same syndrome applies to both – that cognitive dissonance is resolved by belief in both – whatever the evidence.
But you’re right about the fact that most people will not come across serious adverse events. The same was true of Covid – and they still believed it was deadly. You pays your money and you picks your perception according to initial confirmation bias.
Sorry, I didn’t mean that people would end up in hospital because of the quackcines (although I do believe some have done and will continue to do so), but rather that a lot of double vaxxed will end up in hospital this winter with covid, despite being ‘fully’ vaccinated.
Right now we’re where the UK was around the middle of summer – infections/positive tests were highest in the unvaxxed in August, started to rise in vaxxed and fall in unvaxxed in September and at this point in October are coming close to 50-50. Official figures (not entirely convinced of them, but don’t think they’re totally bogus) say some 75% in hospital now are unvaxxed. As infections rise in vaxxed and fall in unvaxxed I expect hospitalisations to do the same. As we are arriving at this point just as respiratory bug season gets into gear, I suspect we may get hit harder than the UK did over the summer and that hopefully more people will wake up and wonder about a vax that not only doesn’t stop infections/transmission, but also doesn’t stop people from getting ill and going into hospital.
I’m in the NL too and I also take those figures being reported with a pinch of salt, despite being mindful to check my confirmation bias. It’s a shame they don’t have the clear and concise data like that of PHE here, as I was on the RIVM site and the page saying 75% hospitalised were unvaxxed was dated 2nd August. Surely it cannot be the same figure more than 2 months later…? I don’t really know where else to look for the detailed government figures they’re reporting in the press, and relying solely on the press is obv a mug’s game! Especially as it seems to be a universal rule to class those that have had their 2nd jab less than 2 weeks ago as “unvaccinated”, I find it hard to believe there’d be such a high % of genuinely unvaccinated people hospitalised with Covid this late in the game, esp given Delta is less deadly. Wouldn’t they have acquired it long before now?? Doesn’t add up and would love to check these reported figures that are bound to be regurgitated and used to prolong the discrimination by Rutte on 1st Nov.
The 2 August text is ridiculous, if I’m not mistaken that is on the Corona Dashboard.
The figures I quoted were on the RIVM website. Every Tuesday they give the newest figures, ‘weekly covid 19 figures’, a lot of the website is available in English and Dutch. They also give a 90 page PDF epidemological report updated every week, I think that’s only in Dutch. That one is quite detailed, although different from the UK data.
You should be able to find it under RIVM news ‘4 in 5 covid patients in ICU are not vaccinated’, that article gives you the figures I quoted. They are much better than that text from August, but they are still not complete.
To be fair, I think the figures here are more reliable than in most countries. I don’t think it’s the OMT (or not all of the OMT) that’s the biggest problem, I think it’s Rutte taking orders from Berlin/Brussels and De Jonge’s political ambitions that are the driving force behind the measures. I will never forgive that moron De Jonge and his insistence on the face diaper last autum – baat het niet dan schaadt het niet.
We had a couple from our bowling club who died last week ‘from covid’, I suspect if they carried out post mortems they would find it was ‘from vaccines’.
I expect a lockdown, all the noises for months have indicated that there is one coming and Doctator Ferguson is already calling for restrictions.
Yes, quite likely. But that will seriously damage the vaxx uptake – a lot of people, certainly those under 50, got vaxxed because it was the way out of the crisis. More of the same nonsense, along with rising ‘cases’ merely emphasises it was pointless at best and harmful at worst. Who would want to give up on the vax cash cow? And what do Western governments do with the gazillion vaxxes they bought for the future?
I just caught a headline over here that virologists are shocked that even with a positive test, people keep their green check in their vaxshist pass. Not quite sure why they are shocked – the OMT was advising back in the summer that even the double-vaxxed should test before going to big events. About 3 weeks ago the government announced that they weren’t going to modify the software, so that even if someone tested positive but was vaxxed, they could still go everywhere. The reason was clear – otherwise those still unvaxxed would not bother getting the shot.
But the new variant may come to the rescue. Alpha more infectious than original Wuhan, Delta more so than Alpha, now Delta+ even more infectious… Read more »
it’s obviously about coercing people into social credit and out of cash, it obviously is not about health.
It never was about health; social credit is definitely the end game and via that, central control over what people spend their money on. Cash will be verboten as those transactions can’t be readily traced. The excuse will be to stop tax avoidance and the black economy. Spending on items deemed as being bad for either “public health’ or ‘the environment’ will be strictly rationed via the social credit system. Welcome to the Gulag!
The Black economy matters, it’s the uncoerced un extorted one.
It has been about our health – the degradation of it, physical and mental.
I watched a segment on C-Span in the U.S. this weekend. The guest was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who wrote a big piece about how China is moving ahead of America on the transition to a “digital currency” and all the advantages this would allegedly give China.
I can now read the real intentions of such stories. This is more of the “roll out” of the digital currency “ban cash” program. Importantly, the predicate of the story was that going to digital currency is a good and smart thing and China is ahead.
If there is one prediction I am supremely confident about,it’s that the Powers that Be want to get rid of cash. Now I’m not sure this desire will be fulfilled, I just know this is what the Establishment wants to happen. And, as we should all be able to tell by now, these people usually get what they want. We know the press will do its part with stories like that referenced above.
No to your last question because as was widely predicted here and elsewhere when Variants became a thing; as each variant becomes more infectious they become less dangerous to the individual.
All viroligists know this and so will most other medical staff, journos and politicians even.
at least Latvia is doing some sums concurrent with their Lockdown, which started today.
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/lockdown-will-cost-latvia-eur-200-million-says-finance-minister.a426280/
8 The Matrix
7.5 the cult of Covidius
dammit, should be 8. 🙂
Definitely “worth a read” ….
Washington State’s football coach and four assistants have been fired for not getting jab.
This quote drives me mad:
“Our priority has been and will continue to be the health and well-being of the young men on our team,” said athletic director Pat Chun in a statement.”
Can any reporter at least report the number of Washington State athletes who have died or been hospitalized from COVID. The FACT is NO ATHLETE in the world has died of COVID. There is no real health risk to healthy young athletes, regardless of vaccination status. But five coaches – who were doing a great job by the way – are now out of a job.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/washington-state-coach-nick-rolovich-four-assistants-fired-for-cause-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/
Another good debunking of masks here.
https://anthonycolpo.com/covid-19-face-masks-are-not-only-useless-but-harmful-part-1/
The final video is well worth your time.
Excellent post. Thanks for the link; as you say, well worth the time to view the final video!
All of which goes to show how gullible a large part of the population are, and how little understanding they have.
I recently tried to book a physio appointment via the NHS Patient Access website. The message is that MSK staff (Musculo-skeletal) have been assigned elsewhere ‘due to Covid’.
Or could it be that they’re generally short-handed due to the pushback against mandatory jabs for healthworker employees?
Not so much the fault of covid as that of the loons who are ‘in charge’ of this fiasco.
I’m happy to wait for my physio, but what are the chances that cancer sufferers and the like will again be sidelined so as to ‘fight’ this Wu-flu?
Sorry to hear that; I’ve got a consultancy coming up with Musculo-skeleto physio department.
That referral was made by my in-hospital lymphoma Consultant which I’m beginning to think trumps GP or self referral since it’s happened before.
Whipped!
Of all the COVID skeptics, Eshani King wrote perhaps the most impressive summary of evidence that rebuts the key elements of the COVID narrative.
One brief section of this paper mentions a topic/possibility that has not received enough attention in my opinion, and is very possibly germane to the topic of whether there will be another seasonal spike in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
In the below excerpt, my King postulates that the flu vaccines might have contributed to deaths and hospitalizations last winter. He seems to be saying that those who received the flu vaccine might be more susceptible to serious cases of COVID. I remember thinking the same thing last year. Before the seasonal flu season, cases, hospitalizations had fallen significantly. This changed markedly beginning in November. What was also different about the months November – February? Large numbers of people had received their flu vaccines, especially those in the older age cohorts.
It takes no imagination to come up with a theory on why no such study has been done as such a study might show that the flu vaccine, in many people, might somehow cause or contributes to severe cases of COVID.
Anyway, if there is… Read more »
I read about that in this article too. Nice to see it’s being read and shared as it really is a thoroughly good piece with many useful links to be used as a resource for our benefit.
Yes, very impressive piece of research. He obviously knows the science, but did a great job of presenting the information in terms laymen can follow.
I also agree with his conclusions about why these vaccine passports and mandatory vaccines are being pushed so hard. He thinks it’s to further the effort to get us closer to digital currency and “social credit” tracking.
“Digital currency” is a euphemism for banning cash in my opinion.
Yes I’m tending towards this theory more and more now too tbh. I also watched a great talk by the German chap, Ernst Wolff ( I think…) who seems to be of the same mindset. He gave a fascinating 30min talk which I could always find and share if you’re interested. If we’d only known in 2019 what we had in store eh? How I might have lived that year differently! :-/
They are also doing everything they can to eliminate the “placebo” groups.
Yes I agree. It seems to smack of desperation in many countries as they’re using every trick in the book, from subtle nudging to outright threats, to get as many humans jabbed asap. Then there’s ‘Prison Island’, formally known as Australia, which is on a whole different level of dehumanizing and brutality!
https://odysee.com/@LongXXvids:c/Ernst-Wolf-speech—summary:3
Nice one! 🙂
Hence also the recent rise of contactless card payments to £100.
In the U.S., there’s language in a bill right now to have the IRS notified of any transaction over $600. Throughout Europe, I think cash withdrawals above a certain figure have to be reported (as in America). You can’t travel outside the country with cash over a certain amount. They make it as hard as possible to migrate to another country (out of reach of the tax man).
They don’t care about you or me leaving. They care about you taking your money with you.
Ron Paul once made a profound statement in a presidential debate. The topic was the wall with Mexico. Said Paul: “You know walls not only keep people out; they also keep people in.”
Personally, I’m glad they only added a couple of miles of wall to the U.S. border to Mexico. One day my heirs might want to get out of this country.
all those soon to be unemployed track and trace folks can be re-employed traciking and tracing people who risk using cash.
Excellent article. I have bookmarked it.
The above cartoon should use ad nauseum instead of ad infinitum!
I’m a biker and attend the MotorCycle Live event every year at the NEC.
Not this year though.
Buried in the small print is the requirement for the NHS app or a negative covid test result. I’m certain many will attend without realising this, only to be turned away without a refund.
This is the first occasion I’ve run into the new medical apartheid and won’t play their game. We need to apply direct democracy to boycott any and every event that demands this nonsense.
Any chance of a shout out on this from LS to raise awareness?
go an have a Bike Meet in the car park.
It’ll be a lot more fun and won’t be full of corporate PR biker “skin suit” wearers.
“We need to apply direct democracy to boycott any and every event that demands this nonsense.”
Thing is as long as they get a reasonable turnout, enough saying “it’s no big deal” to show their confidential medical info to get in the door, these places will keep on doing it.
I totally agree with your sentiment and where I can, am making places fully aware of my non attendance and associated reasoning. Also raising complaints – medical information is private and personal, and this therefore constitutes a direct breach of GDPR, if an organisation will not abide by it, complaints can be directed to the Information Commissioner.
If they say it’s OK, hold an event and explicitly ban people treated for STDs or AIDS.
ask for proof on the door.
“We need to apply direct democracy …”
Depends on what you mean. If unfettered individual choice on such issues – fine. If majoritarian rule by prejudice – f. off.
If any country locks down after all these months having bullied, bribed and blackmailed citizens into taking the jabs I think there’ll be full on riots in the streets. Or there bloody should be! Basically it’d be admitting that the much lauded “vaccines” have been a failed experiment of epic proportions and going back to square 1 isn’t an option many ( I hope ) would tolerate.
Hence the narrative of getting Troops on the streets for the recent fuel ‘crisis’. Getting people used to seeing military in their neighborhoods, first whiff of violence then it’s martial law, jabs for everybody “to keep you safe” and off to the races.
The first lie was people falling down dead in the street in Wuhan in 2019. We know that was a lie because they fell down carefully. The last lie is today’s case rates are rising and we must save the NHS! In between these two lies exist only more lies.
As mentioned yesterday the DHSC has written to reassure me, as a formerly shielding person, that while
‘”Cases are rising, the numbers of people becoming very ill, going to hospital or dying are not”.
It will be game set and match when Reiner Fuellmich and his associates win their first major headline-grabbing class action law suit in the U.S., Canada or elsewhere. (Or win against Drosten, Wieler, et al and their fake PCR test, in the German courts).
Hang in there. “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”
You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool ALL the people ALL the of time. That time has come…..
Yes, but you don’t need to fool all of the people all of the time. All you need to do is fool just enough people most of the time, and “enough people” is a surprisingly low number.
They have had a damn good try and for the most part have pretty much succeeded. I strongly suspect most would dutifully mask up again if and when the instruction comes – which it probably will.
If I remember correctly from studying psychology, around 20% of the population are subservient, will do just about anything they are told without question, around 20% are sceptical, so that would be us, and the remaining 60% are fence sitters. That’s where a good dose of propaganda comes in, to sway the 60% and hopefully hoodwink a portion of that sceptic group. Humans aren’t quite as far up the evolutionary ladder as we would like to think we are. Quite simple creatures to manipulate.
But 100 percent (maybe 99.9 percent) of those in the mainstream news media believe all of this BS* …. so the “gatekeepers of the news” are not going to allow any information through their gates that would allow more of the 60 percent to become skeptical.
COP 26 finishes on 12th Nov when all those tree huggers and eco warriors go home on their private jets.
ImprisonmentLockdown, end of Nov anybody?If we locked down on 10th november the more equal would still be allowed to travel in their zil planes.
Just an opinion pollster trying to get some publicity. Their accuracy in gauging public opinion has a terrible record in recent times. My poll in the practical and productive sector is almost completely against shutdowns, although many were happy to take the bribes last time. Rishy Washy’s budget next week might focus minds further.
One certainty through the ludicrous shutdowns and money poured away on dodgy tests and job retention handouts is that everyone under 55 has lost 5 years in state pension at least, possibly 8. Washy will be preparing the ground for that right now.