According to a report for CNN, Britain’s tourism industry is in deep trouble due to a combination of Brexit and Boris Johnson’s cavalier attitude to suppressing Covid infections. No mask mandates, no tourists, says CNN.
It’s a country that has just endured national fuel shortages, isolated food shortages, and its government voted this fall to dump untreated sewage onto its famous coastlines. Oh – and it has the second highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world.
So who would want to go on vacation in the U.K. at the moment?
Not many, the figures show.
For 2021, national tourist board Visit Britain has forecast that visitor numbers will be lower even than in 2020, when travel restrictions were at their highest.
Visitor numbers to the U.K. plummeted from 40.9 million in 2019 to 11.1 million in 2020 – a dip of 73%.
But 2021 seems to have gone even worse for the U.K.’s inbound tourism sector, with just 7.4 million visitors predicted to visit before the year is out – down 82% on 2019.
And although all destinations, of course, have been devastated by the pandemic, the U.K.’s figures show that travellers aren’t bouncing back as they are in nearby countries, which have seen visitor numbers swell as they loosened restrictions.
Neighbour France, for instance, saw a 34.9% growth of tourists in 2021 from 2020, bringing in an extra $43 billion to the economy; while flights to summer hotspots Spain and Turkey have recovered to 64% and 74% of their 2019 figures, even for flights this winter.
Greece was almost back to pre-pandemic levels over the summer, with 86% of the arrivals of July and August 2019, according to aviation data analysts Forward Keys. The UK, in turn, managed just 14.3% of 2019 levels, according to its data.
Industry insiders describe the UK’s situation as a perfect storm: rocketing Covid rates while European neighbours were stabilising; inconsistent travel rules; and the effects of Brexit, which are finally being felt, both within the UK and by those wishing to travel there.
Add in relatively low government spending on a tourism recovery plan, as other countries go all out to court visitors, and you’re left with plummeting numbers.
“The problems facing the UK are multiple, and not just to do with Covid,” says Tom Jenkins, CEO of the ETOA – the trade association for inbound tourism to Europe.
Kurt Janson, director of the U.K.’s Tourism Alliance, knows who he thinks is to blame. “Some of the problems are government-inflicted as well as Covid-inflicted,” he says.
So what exactly is going on in Blighty?
You can read the rest of this piece here.
Curiously, CNN doesn’t consider the most obvious reason tourism to Britain has failed to recover this year – our absurdly complicated rules for incoming travellers, which, in addition to being borderline incomprehensible, changed from week to week over the summer.
Another shortcoming of CNN’s analysis: if the absence of Covid restrictions in England since July 19th is the main reason tourism to the U.K. has fallen, why has it also fallen in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, given that numerous restrictions are still in place in those countries?
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“Risk increases after second dose”
So what the hell are the crooks playing at talking about denying dedicated caring staff jobs in care homes for not taking the “dose”?
And did they ever tell us how many people have died within 28 days of “vaccination”?
Either way, it’s a disgrace if people are refused work in care homes for not taking these experimental drugs. And that PHE are being dishonest/shambolic with the statistics.
They are also hounding the lapsed first dosers to get the delayed second dose in order to be ‘protected’.
As I keep stating Hugh, the deeper down this rabbit hole you get, the darker it gets.
This has nothing to do with a virus, public health or saving lives. This is an agenda to commit genocide and enslave what remains of humanity.
My criticism of Peter McColluogh when I first heard him speak was he wasn’t emotional enough. I thought he was another shill “talking head” but I persevered and realized he was actually just being ridiculously calm. He’s now calling the “vaccines” bioterrorism.
Prof. Dr. Luc Montagnier is calling the vaccines a “catastrophe”.
Dr. Yeadon is calling these things a potential “genocidal weapon”.
Sucharit Bhakdi has stated that the “vaccines” will kill everyone who takes them, as has Delores Cahill.
Everyone around here who has been alarmed at the “vaccines” needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
I’ve spent the last month on Twitter talking to some of the best scientists in the world, including a couple from the Fauci emails, and the verdict is the same from ALL of them: the “vaccines” have one purpose – genocide.
These people aren’t wrong. They comprise some of the best epidemiologists, immunologists, virologists and vaccinologists in the world.
Please wake up and see what is happening. These people – including Boris – are full on Globalist eugenicists and they literally DO NOT CARE WHO lives or dies. These f*ckers are playing for ALL the marbles, and the WEF is quite clear in what THEY want humanities’ future to be.
“will kill everyone who takes them”.
Extraordinary and frightening if true”. I don’t understand why they would do that (unless over quite a long period of time) or how they would hide it. Perhaps you could expand on this and provide links?
My reading of it has the following scenarios – pharmaceutical companies seeking profit; climate scare believers seeking to change the climate etc.; Marxists who want a one world government; eugenicists/Malthusians who want population reduction. I seem to remember the Optimum Population Trust talking about a desirable world population of one billion people, so killing 90% would seem a bit strong even for them. What exactly is going on?
and while we’re at it, is it safe to be around “vaccinated” people? are they likely to be breathing out material that could be harmful? (And I’m no scientist or philosopher, so layman’s terms would be helpful)
Of course the snake oil won’t kill everybody. if it was going to do that we’d be seeing the evidence already. But it doesn’t do anybody any good either. Like face knickers, it’s a protection against Fascist persecution and that’s all.
Well, I’d like to think it won’t. Certainly that would be unprecedented. Apparently it is the “booster shots” that will cause the trouble. In any case, a mass roll out of experimental “vaccines” on healthy people is madness. And certainly on healthy children.
I am already seeing damage in my elderly parents after just one jab – which got worse after 2 jabs – and I am dreading the impact of the “booster jabs” which I see no way of persuading them to refuse as they are convinced that covid is deadly [from watching BBC news] and they think that having the jabs is “the right thing to do” almost on some kind of moral grounds. I am reconciled now to losing my parents – long before their time – and watch them dying one day at a time. I imagine there are a lot of other people in the same boat but this is breaking my heart.
I absolutely sympathise with watching your parents get ill. My mother is one hundred next month. But are you sure that the damage is due to the jabs? Correlation is not causation and the sad truth is that elderly people do tend to get less well as time goes on (and they are particularly vulnerable to Covid).
Well, yeah – first it was the first shot that was gonna kill everyone, then the second shot… and when we see that people who have had the 2nd jab are still walking amongst us… now it’s the ‘booster’ that will be the one to get us.
Or the 2nd booster, or possibly the 3rd…. ad infinitum.
It seems the delay to all the deaths is similar to the delay in stopping the Covid restrictions/rules/laws.
Sometimes it’s hard to define the point at which something is reasonable or is just a whacky ‘conspiracy theory’.
My partner had the Pfizer jab 4 weeks ago, has noticed no side-effects at all, and is still alive and (apparently) well. That’s a fact. Despite me being suspicious of the ‘Covid scamdemic’ from the start, and not dismissing out-of-hand theories as ‘rubbish’, I also look at what is real. Of course, she may have all kinds of things wrong with her now, due to the vaccine, but I have no proof of that.
But I have seen the people-control, and the fear, and the abuse from ‘the believers’ hurled at the ‘unvaxxed’ and the mindless obeying of orders – that is certainly true.
I suppose it definitely was the Pfizer jab? Someone suggested that there could be doctors who knew it was harmful and were giving placebos instead. though whether there is any evidence for this I don’t know.
Brett Weinstein and guests: Vaccine is dangerous clip: https://youtu.be/Du2wm5nhTXY
Full video 3hrs: https://youtu.be/-_NNTVJzqtY
Reposting the scholarly review article. https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/23/49
Steve Kirsch article “Should you get vaccinated?”
https://trialsitenews.com/should-you-get-vaccinated/
The Trial Site news article is brilliant – basically the fraud of the pandemic and the vaccine in a nutshell
It won’t happen immediately. There is good evidence the spike protein is a prion, meaning CJD, Alzheimers and other prion diseases are a risk. 95% of the humanised mice used in trials died after 2 weeks and in their brains were signs of spongiform encephalopathy. 2 weeks mice life equates to 18 months in humans I understand. Dr Fleming has talked about this here https://principia-scientific.com/globalists-patent-human-form-of-mad-cow-disease/
There are currently 48 new cases of CJD being investigated in Canada, coincidentally https://t.me/The_Censored
Also cancers will rise as the spike protein disables the cancer blocking mechanism in the body.
And don’t forget the risk of ADE and the 3rd wave affecting largely the vaccinated this winter.
So we will see a gradual but mounting death toll a lot of which will be attributed to other things, and there will be plausible deniability.
If there are 7 billion in the world, then reducing this to 1 billion would be an 86% reduction according to my sums
I think it’s nearer 8 billion now.
You need to read the whole thing, not just the headline. The whole study is rubbish yielding non-sensical results.
Will misunderstood the data – risk does not increase with second dose See my post above.
“Curiouser and curiouser“ cried Alice.
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to” said the Cheshire Cat.
As always with these releases nothing makes sense.
The simple fact of the matter is that the S-Protein generated by the body in ALL Western “vaccines” is the original Wuhan variant.
I’m going to go with Dr. Yeadon on this and say that a 0.3% genetic variation SHOULD be a nothingburger, even for the “vaccines” at this stage.
The major problem at this stage is we have no idea on the following variables:
I’m fairly confident this is where the absolute numbers come in. From the hospitalization numbers I have seen recently (assuming they aren’t also lies like everything else) then it’s fairly safe to say that the hospitalizations between stabbed and organic humans are effectively a coin flip. Assuming a 0.3-1.1% absolute risk reduction if you were stupid enough to get stabbed voluntarily this probably makes sense.
This notion of the over 65s being “protected” by the vaccine: Sorry, I call absolute bullshit.
The majority of over 65 year olds I know, including my own mother who I have been red-pilling on all this BS – are absolutely terrified of this virus because of the brainwashing.
My mother would have been more than happy to roll her sleeve up until I told her she was massively contraindicated due to being on blood thinners for phlebitis and I’m almost 100% convinced we had Covid in December 2019.
So tl;dr on that point is, we know for a fact that over 65s are still “shielding” despite being “vaccinated”. We are also in the summer when respiratory viruses are at their weakest ebb.
Anything happening right now is bollocks and the proof of the pudding comes in three-four months time.
As a final point: as this article basically states, using a vaccine for prophylaxis is just about the most retarded thing I have ever heard of. You get vaccinated to be IMMUNIZED against a disease. If you want prophylaxis then use the Dr. Zelenko Covid-19 Prophylaxis Protocol:
Protocol for Low and Moderate Risk Patients:
* Elemental Zinc 25 mg once a day
* Vitamin C 1000 mg once a day
* Quercetin 500 mg (OTC) once a day
~ If Quercetin is unavailable, then use Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) 400 mg (OTC) once a day [EGCG is found in Green Tea extract]
Taking the above every day is probably a great idea anyway – vitamins, minerals and anti-inflammatory/anti-oxidants.
I tend to agree with you across the whole lot. W.r.t. the last para in the article, they have never claimed that the so-called ‘vaccine’ would prevent infection or transmission; on the contrary, in the leaflets recommending it they pretty much say the opposite. It is only intended to reduce the symptoms, according to the published paperwork back in March. Admittedly, it’s a different story on the advertising posters etc. Economical with the truth, they are.
It’s called a Nonsterilising Innoculation and the way it is being used will create huge evolutionary pressure to make escape variants that actually will kill people. So buckle up and get your ivermectin now before Winter.
Comparing zinc. Zinc acetate.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.15.448551v1
“It shows that, once testing positive with the Alpha variant, one dose of Pfizer reduces the risk of hospitalisation by 68% (the 0.32 highlighted), but the second dose only reduces the risk by 12%! That’s 12% in total (the 0.88 highlighted), not 12% on top of the 68%. So the second dose significantly increases your risk of being hospitalised compared to the first dose? That can’t be right.“
Why “can’t be right”?
This might be explained by the details of the study which I haven’t see, but just based on this summary it’s surely relatively easy to speculate that the full treatment has consequences that result in more hospitalisations, that almost (but not completely, it appears) wipe out any gains from the partial treatment?
It’s not clear to me from this summary whether it is talking about overall hospitalisation (which would therefore include side effects) or just hospitalisation with covid, but either way it seems perfectly conceivable that the second jab could reduce benefits gained by the first only. It could easily, for instance, render some people more vulnerable to serious consequences if they catch the disease even while giving some protection to most, surely?
Granted, the simplest explanation might well be poor study design, but I’m just not seeing the logic here.
This is a good point – it’s also worth questioning whether they controlled for the differing characteristics of the groups of jabbed once / twice / unjabbed as this is an observational rather than RCT study.
As the vaccine roll out has targeted higher risk groups first there will e.g. be many more old people who have been doubled jabbed. Thus the increase in relative risk may be due to more older people being double jabbed rather than due to the jabs themselves.
He’s using irony. He knows perfectly well the implications, but he is not saying them aloud.
The explanation is even simpler – Will misunderstood the meaning of the hazard ratio. See my post above.
So the second dose significantly increases your risk of being hospitalised compared to the first dose? That can’t be right. But it’s what it says.
Well this is a problem because the vaccines don’t do what you think they do. Will, I think you may need to catch up. Too many on LDS are playing the government at their own game, which is rigged, by claiming the vaccine has been working when we have correlation not causation.
Come winter flu season, those injected with these Nonsterilising inoculations are going to get very ill when they come into contact with the next strain.
The injections do not stop infection or create immunity, they merely reduce some symptoms at an absolute percentage of about 1%.
However they expose the recipient to risks of severe illness from subsequent exposure to the ‘wild’ virus ( and maybe other coronavirus, like the common cold). As the prevalence of SARS2 and its multitude of variants is very low in the summer , the effects will not start to be seen until later in the year.
This report starts hinting at these facts, but doesn’t explore what appear on the surface to be contradictory numbers.
I think Will has misinterpreted the hazard ratio. It does not reflect your probability of being hospitalised with one dose or two doses compared to no vaccine. That would be the VE. It reflects your probability of being hospitalised if you are symptomatic with our without vaccine. So the higher probabilities for the second dose mean that if you get symptoms despite having had two doses then your chances of going on to hospital are greater than if you get symptoms having had just one dose. This is interesting but not particularly surprising. For example, it may be that if you get symptoms despite having had two doses than you must have had a particularly large or virulent exposure which means you are that much more likely to go on to hospital than the one dose cohort.
Forget it.
As I’ve said, there is no chance now of abstracting any uncorrupted data. It’s all malfeasance, wishing and guess work.
Simply, by any normal safety criteria (as said), the snake oil should be taken out of the hands of the Mengele Memorial Brigade – and withdrawn.
Well duh!
To think a vaccine into your vein will protect you from an airbourne virus always seemed daft to me. Otherwise why not vaxx against common colds… Oh that’s right it’s well k own to do so would create more and newer strains. Likewise with kung flu.
Why should the method of transmission affect the efficacy of the vaccine? Flu, measles and mumps are all airbourne viruses with vaccines that have a long history of working. There is no vaccine against the common cold because it is caused by many different viruses.
I rather suspect that; elderly, frail & clinically vulnerable people make up the vast majority of the people who fail to generate antibodies after vaccination. Thus, the same kind of people who died from covid previously will be the same as the people who die in the future. The vaccine will make little difference to the vulnerable, & the people for whom antibodies are generated didn’t need a vaccine anyway.
I suspect the Government have realised this & so are now pursuing a zero covid policy to avoid people realising that everything to date was pointless as the same vulnerable people die at the same rate regardless of what they do.
I think it is a zero covid policy – but just as the means to achieve control as the measures required to get to zero covid are so restrictive they give them absolute control
“observational study”
Of course, this term is being seen all over the place.
Why? – because it is now the only available data regarding the effects of the snake oil, since proper testing was abandoned. There is absolutely no chance now of getting proper blinded RCT data – normally a requirement for anything of this significance. Vast stages of normal testing have been skipped – including sufficient preparatory animal studies.
Simply – one cannot judge the relative safety of this gene therapy withoutthat data.
‘Observational’ studies are important as follow-up, but they immediately run into all sorts of statistical complications re. manipulation and confounding variables etc. if the data is used as a substitute for honest trialing.
They cannot replace the need for proper controlled basic testing over a sufficient period of time. It’s as simple as that.
So what mechanism could be at work here? We know that generally the reactions to Pfizer are worse at the second jab. Is the exposure to the wild virus acting like a third jab, setting up some bigger inflammatory response which might be fatal in the old and frail?
Or an auto immune response?
The people who know are the vaccine research scientists, discussing all this behind closed doors.
Those who have not looked at the death of Simone Scott, 19, after her second dose of an rna, should urgently look at Alex Berenson’s Twitter. The most worrying aspect – after her death – is the parents’ report that the doctors would not report it to VAERS for evaluation. A doctor’s “assistant” eventually said it would be done. (Was it?) If even the horrible death of a 19 year old after the second jab is not automatically and immediately flagged from a sense of moral duty, then under reporting must be massive.
No need for an elaborate “mechanism”. All this is saying is that if you have had two jabs and nevertheless get symptoms then you are somewhat more likely to end up in hospital than if you have had one jab and nevertheless get symptoms. One plausible explanation is that an infection that gives you symptoms despite having had two jabs is particularly virulent. Another might be that the type of person who gets symptoms after two jabs is also the type of person who ends up in hospital.
A co-worker told me today that symptoms for the indi….sorry DELTA variant include hay fever symptoms. I haven’t read newspapers or watched the MSM propaganda for ages but please tell me this isn’t the case. F**ks sake!! they’ll have a field day, really high pollen count at the moment, they can claim that half the f**king country has this so called variant!!
In the UK the peak was early to mid April 2020 and it was unseasonably warm, prime conditions for hay fever symptoms to kick in. I did wonder if that might have had something to do with the whole debacle!
Not meaning to rain on the parade, but the conclusion in the header ignores the uncertainty in the estimates. The numbers vaccinated who develop symptomatic disease is large enough for the odds ratio to be well-estimated and incremental benefit shown. The numbers admitted to hospital are so small that there is a very imprecise estimate of hazard ratio, and it is the width of the intervals in the table, not the highlighted point-estimate that matters.
A better interpretation would be that there is insufficient data to distinguish the effects pf vaccination on hospitalisations by strain.
There is a more serious problem with the headline. See my post here.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/06/16/phes-latest-vaccine-study-suggests-hospitalisation-risk-increases-after-the-second-dose/#comment-523517
Basically Will did not read the paper carefully enough.
Surely that is the age effect superposed on the vaccine uptake, all such relative metrics need to be age-banded for comparison.
Hi Will – I see you’ve posted the Spectator covid-19 hospital admissions by age which shows hospitalisation increases in ages 18-64 (lol). The issue is I’ve tried to find this data separately from the gov uk website and cannot find it anywhere – anyone know where The Spectator found this admissions by age data from on the gov.uk website? Am I being blind?