I’ve written a piece for Mail+ urging Boris not to waiver in his resistance to the hysterical chorus screaming for more Covid restrictions. Here is an extract:
The drum beat for more Covid restrictions reached a deafening roar last week with the head of the NHS Confederation, Matthew Taylor, demanding the government implement ‘Plan B’ to avert a ‘crisis’ within the NHS. That meant mandatory mask wearing, vaccine passports and working from home.
He was soon joined by trade union leaders like Frances O’Grady, scientific advisors like Professor Adam Finn and politicians like Keir Starmer.
All the usual suspects toured the radio and television studios, urging the Prime Minister to spring into action to ‘save the NHS’ ahead of this year’s flu season, expected to be worse than usual.
But Boris Johnson held his nerve. He sent out his Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, to declare there would be no further lockdowns and his Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, held a press conference at Downing Street where he announced the government would be sticking to ‘Plan A’ for the time being.
And, once again, Boris’s instincts have proved correct. He ignored the doomsayers, just as he ignored Professor Neil Ferguson and Independent SAGE when they warned daily Covid cases would increase to 100,000 if ‘Freedom Day’ went ahead on July 19th and could go as high as 200,000. Instead of continuing to rise, cases have now started to fall of their own accord, just as they did over the summer.
Yesterday, the Department of Health reported 36,657 new cases in England in the previous 24 hours, down a quarter on last week’s peak and the second day in a row there’s been a week-on-week drop. The number of registered deaths of people who’d tested positive in the previous 28 days was 38, down 16% on last Monday.
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good article – but did this unscientific line get sneaked in when you weren’t looking?
”possibly because nearly 80 per cent of those aged 12 and over have been double-jabbed”
About 67% of the official total population has been double jabbed, according to the government. If we say 15% of the population is under 12, that would indeed make about 80% of over 12s double jabbed.
Of course the government has little idea how many people there are in the country in total and therefore has little idea how many are unjabbed…
I was thinking more along these lines…
17. Vaccine trials
The true efficacy in the Pfizer trial was actually only around 1% when expressed as a (far more relevant) absolute risk reduction rather than a relative risk reduction of 96%. None of the other vaccines showed absolute risk reductions of more than 2%. The absolute risk reduction takes into account your chances of catching Covid in the first place. (As this was tiny in the trials, it shows yet again that herd immunity was already largely established during the trial period.) Using relative risk is a trick often employed by the pharmaceutical industry to make drug performance appear far more impressive than it actually is. But even this unimpressive 1% risk reduction was the purported efficacy against the original virus, not the now mutated delta variant against which the injection is far less effective. This is because the antibodies it elicits fit the original spike protein and are a poor fit for the delta variant spike protein.
https://www.independentinformation.co.uk/resources/articles/covid-vaccines-safe-effective
Although I see my mistake now as TY was referring to population confidence
Yes as we know the % of the population who have had the vaccine is pretty much irrelevant in terms of the level of herd immunity given that the vaccines don’t prevent transmission of Delta: any immunity produced is limited to the original Wuhan strain and fades in any case within a few months.
Touching faith in the Big Con.
He’ll go whichever way might give him a chance of leaving behind the wreckage he’s made.
Yes. Whatever is best for Toad. Currently he is just putting it off until after the Climate Fear conference. Toby hasn’t clocked that yet.
With apologies to a much better Conservative leader of old..
“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The scarecrow’s not for turning!”
F**k right off!
Sycophant of the day award goes to ……………
……………… Toby Young!
WAVER, idiot, not ‘waiver’.
Come on, Annie – that IS a bit harsh. Surely Toby’s standard of writing is superior to that of most of us? Certainly superior to mine! Forgive him the occasional spelling mistake. It’s not a ‘you’re/your’, after all!
They are two different words with two different meanings. Sloppiness about meanings impedes communication and undermines trust in the writer.
Absolutely Annie.
The acid test is more whether he stands up to Bill Gates’ demands for boosters to infinity and vaccine passports.
I think that’s much less likely.
‘I think that’s much less likely.‘
Much less likely meaning positively, definitely, absolutely no chance, not a chance in hell?
Dear Toby, please remove your tongue from Boris’ backside. Thanks!
I do like the way Toby believes the best about people. I really do – not being cynical. I know how motivated I am to live up to someone’s praise…!
The word you are looking for is naive.
Makes me want to spew when this dangerous doughnut is given any credit.
Generally, I agree with this sentiment. But since the doughty do-not happens to be prime minister, it’s sensible to encourage him when he happened to be stumbling in the right direction, be it only by accident. The SAGEs urgently need to be put back in their bottle which should then be sealed and thrown into the sea after being labelled Deadly plague inside. Do not open.
How likely is it, do you think, that Big Blubber is aware of the existence of Toby Young?
This forum isn’t that important or influential.
Doesn’t it sometimes become tireful to keep asserting that reality is not real in mock conversations with people who do not think like $random_signalling_theory_imbecile thinks – generalizing from himself – they obviously must do?
The editoral wasn’t in this forum but in the Daily Mail, a widely read national paper, and given that Boris Bacon-Roll tried to appoint Toby Young to a government rule eary during his premiership but was forced to let him go after a public outcry of the usual suspects strongly suggests that he’s not only aware of his existence but even quite familar with him and used to be disposed positively towards him not that long ago.
Could you please rewrite this in good idiomatic modern English, and define ‘tireful’.
I hope you are not employed in a ‘government rule’ (sic).
I don’t care what Johnson does to be honest – I’m past caring – can’t even stand to watch his ugly mug on national broadcasts anymore – although I had my suspicions when Cameron took over the party (Heir to Blair) the Conservative Party have now revealed its true colours for all to see during this pandemic and it stinks of authoritarian globalism – I will never vote Tory ever again regardless of what Johnson does ( I will never call him Boris – its a made-up name and his whole public persona is an act).
This is now more than just Left or Right, Tory or Labour – this is about those who believe in individual liberty and freedom with the right to speak freely without fear or oppression – and those who want to impose some some kind of authoritarian techno-tyranny that censors opposing thoughts demonises individuals with contrary views and aims to make digital slaves of us all to some kind of all powerful all-knowing all-seeing bio-fascist state.
Feck Johnson, feck the Tory party, feck Labour, feck the LibDems, feck the Greens – in fact feck em all.
The last sixteen months has well and truly opened my eyes – I’m done with the lot of em.
Call the Prime Minister Kim Jong-Johnson
Hear hear. Feck them all.
Exactly my thoughts
The real Johnson. Don’t be fooled by his deliberate bumbling.
U-turn or no u-turn, a Social Credit System is due to be launched in 2022, according to the UK government. No doubt that all of this will eventually be tied in with digital IDs and central bank digital currencies. Welcome to dystopia.
https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/26/uk-government-to-launch-social-credit-system-in-2022/
Toby still thinks it’s a conspiracy theory. He still doesn’t understand how the global public-private partnerships influence/dictate government policies. Politicians are merely policy salesmen.
This being Kim Jong-Johnson we’re talking about, he will announce full lockdown at the last possible millisecond
“Deadly covid pandemic” = “Big Lie”
We’ll never win by accepting the Big Lie. It has to be challenged at every turn, from the ground up, from first principles. Covid was and is not exceptional. End of story. Keep repeating it. Don’t accept the mad fantasy universe invented by the Satanists.
Again, yet more unwithering praise for the leader of this criminal regime. More uncritical deployment of their warped terminology and more selling of the regimes hard man/soft man psychological maneuverings. If this is scepticism then the Pope really is catholic.
I’m afraid I can’t accept the notion that Johnson is in a position to decide one way or the other. It would seem that power now lies with four major investment firms and a range of non-state actors and NGOs. As local executor of a global campaign, Johnson can probably choose the contents of his speeches to an extent and how to sell the various illiberal measures to the British public but imagining he’s able to reverse this juggernaut is for the birds methinks.
Sadly, Boris really has no say in what happens. This is so much bigger than Boris. He simply does as told. If most people took the time to read the facts, they would understand, this is not about a cold virus that strikes a few lethally, just like it does most years. Giving unproven experimental biologicals that don’t work only exacerbates the problem. Thus more “cold virus” cases. But for those who keep wanting to blame Boris or Kier, go ahead. It simply makes no sense.
It never fails to make me smile, how gullible Toby can be. I do not doubt we will be back in lockdown before Christmas. There has to be a black out of gathering and communicating in order to change the monetary system and complete the damage to small independent businesses. The plan was to control us and depopulate us. The jab is working as many will now fall over the winter. The transfer of wealth is nearly completed and the NHS will be replaced within the next few years.
We are in a race against time to save humanity from taking the wrong road and becoming extinct. Unless some of us actually begin to use what brain cells we have our grandchildren will be slaves and serfs with no discernible reasoning skills.
cyberslaves
Well done. As I commented to someone else the other day, gullibility works both ways; lets hope it does.
Toby Young. Boris is following Agenda 30. No appeals, reason, or common sense will divert him from the path he’s on.
“It is with a very heavy heart, that we must lockdown once more…”
‘Here you are, no you can’t have it, here you…’ – up-the-garden-path – raise hopes, smash them, raise hopes, smash them…
They won’t stop if we keep falling for it
God, Boris is a real hero, we are lucky to have him as the leader of the free people of England. Gawwwwd Bless him.
Yes, that is sarcasm.
The NHS coped last winter when the vulnerable weren’t vaccinated so it would be utterly nonsensical to even contemplate a lockdown this winter. Or, put another way, it would be an admission that the vaccine doesn’t really work.
Not just that they aren’t vaccines but that the under-reported side-effects are a serious problem and ADE an ever present fear.
These brief ejaculations of “Liberaltarianism!” from Grosse Leader Johnson are generally followed by “… but very reluctantly”.
Vaxxports haven’t gone anywhere, they’re just learning lessons from the Scotch and Taffy impositions.
Am I the only one who has noticed that Covid just follows the same path every single time no matter who has been experimented on or who has not? It always, always, follows the same path. Therefore no amount of interventions are, in reality, having any effect all. All the UK lockdowns started when the graph was going down and it just followed the same path. There are others where the trajectory was upward and it continued upward.
This is a man made disease and it is not responding, no matter the assertions, to anything anyone does. Why am I seemingly the only one who sees this?
Yes agree – it just seems to ebb and flow regardless. I guess that’s because, even with a “lockdown”, there is still lots of interactions between people in which case why do we bother? I’ve said that for a long time now.
Daily Sceptic? I can’t see it.