A late autumn surge in reported Covid infections is underway in Europe, with spikes in Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Norway, and the possible beginnings of one in France, Portugal and Italy. This is despite high vaccine coverage and the heavy use of vaccine passports in most of these countries including Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France.
Some of this is at least partly a result of ramping up testing, especially in Austria and Denmark.
Denmark’s positive test rate is currently flat (see below). This is despite the country declaring the pandemic over and abandoning vaccine passports in September. However, due to the climbing reported infection rate, the country’s Parliament is now said to be preparing to return to a state of emergency and reactivate the vaccine pass scheme, despite the rise being so far largely an artefact of increased testing.
Elsewhere, however, the positive rate is also rising, suggesting real Covid and not just a testing artefact.
Most of these places already had a summer Delta surge of varying sizes, and there is no new variant being reported, so this appears to be primarily seasonal, and is still all Delta.
Will it dip again before winter, like it did in many countries last year, and has already in the U.K? December is usually the peak month for winter flu-like illness, so we will be following it closely.
In the U.K., it’s worth noting that in the five-year (2015-19) average of deaths there is a mini-bump in October that declines slightly at the start of November, just as there is this year and there was last year (see circled areas of graph below).
However, in the five-year average, deaths then rise again in mid-November, before spiking at the turn of the year, and Covid deaths followed a similar pattern last year. Will it repeat the pattern this year? If it does we should expect infections and then deaths to begin rising soon, gently at first and then surging in December. It’s hard to see why this year should be different, save for the immunity we have built up over the past two years. How much difference will that make? Will the vaccinated continue to experience suppressed death rates compared to the unvaccinated, or will time and winter change that?
Whatever turns out to be the case, the NHS has no excuse not to be ready this year, so there can be no justification for renewed restrictions.
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Monstrous 5G Towers
Monstrous 5G
They are everywhere ! Are they switched on yet ( Phone Mast , do me a favour
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Have the reports of risks from 5G been adequately assessed yet.
I’m confident they’ll get the “safe and effective” stamp of approval. Oh, and “necessary”, of course. We all know just how necessary these damned things are..
https://www.hartgroup.org/define-safe/
Safe and effective, of course.
And mandatory. Sooner or later.
https://www.hartgroup.org/define-safe/
No, no time – the technology is new, but there are 8 recent case studies in real life conditions. They are summed up here and context is given (i.e. past wireless radiation wasn’t safe and 30 years worth of studies show this): https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/26/are-we-taking-the-risks-of-5g-seriously-enough/
‘Consultation with local community required’… So did they do this?
Why do we keep letting these people do what they damn well feel like?, if I was a resident I would be complaining to the council, 3, the papers, tv and anyone I could think of, hardly “enviromentally” friendly is it.
And you can bet that the people who approved the tower live far, far away.
There is a chance to object to planning policy via the NPPF consultation by 24th Sep. Send an email saying you support the submission here: https://rfinfo.co.uk/nppf-consultation/ Though they are not consulting on telecoms, they are consulting on Public Sector Equality Duty. People with implants are not protected and those with electromagnetic hypersensitivity need help urgently. There are many people in these 2 categories.
Strange that so few people realise that these masts will cause health problems. Prof Lennart Hardell recently did 8 5G case studies in real-life conditions showing that people get pretty bad symptoms. DS printed a summary of these studies.
No councillors living in THAT village then.