Professor Calum Semple, a SAGE adviser, has stated that the new Omicron variant is “not a disaster”, although the WHO has labelled it as a ‘variant of concern’. Semple claims that many, including his own colleagues, are “hugely overstating the situation” and how dangerous the variant is, as they are ignoring that “immunity from the vaccination” can still, most likely, protect members of the public “from severe disease”. MailOnline has the story.
Last night the World Health Organisation branded the so-called Omicron mutation a ‘variant of concern’ as countries including Britain and the U.S. moved to shut their borders to six countries from southern Africa, the area of suspected origin.
The variant’s sudden appearance this week sparked panic in Whitehall circles, with Downing Street’s scientists warning that it could be vaccine-resistant and Health Secretary Sajid Javid threatening to reimpose lockdown if necessary.
In a rush to limit the spread, the E.U. suspended all flights to southern Africa after the first case was confirmed in Europe. Britain had already put six nations on the travel ‘red list’ and was poised to add two more last night.
But microbiologist Professor Calum Semple today urged calm, insisting that vaccines are “still likely to protect you from severe disease”.
The SAGE adviser told BBC Breakfast that he supported new travel restrictions on South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe, but added: “This is not a disaster, and the headlines from some of my colleagues saying ‘this is horrendous’ I think are hugely overstating the situation.”
“Immunity from the vaccination is still likely to protect you from severe disease.
“You might get a snuffle or a headache or a filthy cold but your chance of coming into hospital or intensive care or sadly dying are greatly diminished by the vaccine and still will be going into the future.”
Semple said that while it may not be possible to stop the variant coming to the U.K., it is still important to delay its arrival.
“If you can slow the virus coming into your country it gives you more time for your booster campaign to get ahead of it,” he went on. “It also gives the scientists longer to understand more about the virus in case there is anything we really should be worrying about.”
Asked what other measures he thought were advisable, Semple said he was in favour of compulsory facemasks in shops and on public transport, and handwashing.
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, said “it is extremely unlikely that a reboot of a pandemic in a vaccinated population like we saw last year is going to happen”. Speaking to Radio 4’s Today programme, he also insisted that vaccines could be effective at preventing serious disease from the Omicron variant.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Two cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the U.K., according to BBC News.
Sajid Javid said the UK Health Security Agency had detected cases in Chelmsford, Essex, and in Nottingham.
He said the cases were linked to travel in southern Africa and they and their households were self-isolating as more tests and contact tracing take place.
The new variant has also been identified in South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Hong Kong and Israel.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be holding a press conference at Downing Street later with the chief scientific advisor to the government, Sir Patrick Vallance, and the chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty.
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From a late post on todays Roundup comments
‘More Tweets’ was this from Ireland where Daily life will now be determined by who has the right to do what will be based on their vax statuse but where even those ‘rights’ have been redesignated as “privileges”.
.Who would have thought it in a liberal democracy in our lifetime.
I think someone jumped the gun in the fear porn stakes here.
Ireland, a nation of bedwetters
They gave the Black and Tans a run for their money.
That was then
Now the country is a woke hellhole
The only disaster has been the folly and evil reaction to covid.
They also have the ludicrous ‘gender self-ID’.
The omicron has landed! 2 cases detected in the UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59445388
Probably been here for some time!
Yet only yesterday they were talking about taking measures to prevent
B.1.1.529Omicron ever reaching our shores when any lackwit knows that even closing down air travel again and shutting down shipping would barely slow down a mutants entry but never jpprevent it altogether.Birds migrating to and from Africa are bringing The Virus in.
Did we skip the Xi, or was that the original strain?
Winnie the Pooh got upset and told them to skip a few Greek letters.
And Billy Bunter wants to get on to the pi.
“or was that the original strain?”
Nu – pronounced the same as “new” – makes fine tuning and changes of direction harder
Xi – some would find it difficult to pronounce, and the WHO wouldn’t want to damage the man in the Zhongnanhai’s “face” (anybody on a China desk in a western foreign ministry who says Xi Jinping couldn’t care less how much “face” he has in the West can shut up – are they trying to put experts, including themselves, out of a job or something?)
They didn’t want to upset the Chinese PM by naming a virus after him.
Not suspicious at all that the new killer variant is detected all over the world on the same fucking day when the MSM all over the world starts drumming it up.
My thoughts exactly!
Funny you should say that. Early last year when they were drumming up the danger from SARSCoV2, itself a variant of SARS, without referencing subvariants, I was awed by how many tiny little countries seemed to report cases early on – including Andorra, San Marino, and the Holy See.
Someone could do a statistical analysis and estimate the likelihood of that kind of spread happening by chance. It seemed as though effort was being put into raising the number of countries, not just the number of cases or the geographical spread.
Or it could just simply be an indication of how long the virus was spreading for before they decided to start the fear porn.
So the new variant doesn’t have any mutations in the spike protein then? That’s the only reason you could claim existing jabs are still somewhat effective.
Never-ending bollocks.
My headline would have been:
SAGE Adviser Uses The New Omicron Variant As a Reason To Push More False Pro-vaccine and Pro-mask Propaganda
““Immunity from the vaccination is still likely to protect you from severe disease.
“You might get a snuffle or a headache or a filthy cold but your chance of coming into hospital or intensive care or sadly dying are greatly diminished by the vaccine and still will be going into the future.”
These guys can’t stop peddling their lies about these clot shots. The fact is that whatever these things did to gin up your immune system all the evidence suggests that once it wears off you are in a worse spot than you were before you got the Frankensauce. Not to forget the alarming increase in deaths following the first few days and weeks of the jabs (completely unrelated of course).
The panic in Whitehall is that if these vaccines prove to be even more useless than they already have, then the case for vax passes gets even harder to sell.
They may be right that the new scariant will only cause bad cold fluey symptoms, but that’s the case for 97% of everyone that got the first Bioweapon mark1.0. So they are only relying on the vestigial remnants of our billion year old immune systems compensating for our fiddled with ones.
Total farce. But I guess odds that Toby will be paying James 50 squid have just flipped.
Amazing, share your jab pass in seconds Australia, pwahahahaaaa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlGtzKfKT5E
I like this comment: “Everyone should carry a permanent black pen. As you pass the QR code. simply add a dot.”
Simple yet effective
“Immunity from the vaccination is still likely to protect you from severe disease”.
What gobbledygook.
Another word that’s been re-defined, obviously.
‘You’re immune’ = ‘you might get a bit less ill’.
Omicron is an anagram of Moronic.
Didn’t take long. It’s here
Two cases of new variant of Covid detected in UK – BBC News
I say lockdown until we get a vaccine (no I’m taking the piss)
Go hard go early go… What’s that? It’s here already? Ah shit
“Hey, we’ve already ordered millions of mildly ineffective vaccines, and increasingly people are getting bored with the bs and start turning away, what do we do with all these drugs, can’t even dispose of them in Africa properly without losing face… and how to justify our most important product, the global ID for everyone in the world?”
“Don’t worry, plan Omicron combined with some compulsory vaccinations will sort it out. We now have Putin on our team.”
Agree, very convenient timing for Plan B and maybe even Plan C in England.
Oh Oh! PM to hold press conference this afternoon. Announcement of plan B?
I’ve not been worrying about
XiOmicron variant, but now that SAGE has told me not to worry I think I might start.Professor Calum Semple is about to get booted.
How dare he belittle our precious new scarient.
It was going so well, everybody was about to jump on the wonder pill and make them billions, since this, although developed a while ago, apparently works.
Blimey, we almost started to think the boosters would be a waste of time….thank goodness for SAGE.
Who cares if the variant is here? FFS have we not learned a single thing yet?
We have! They haven’t…
“Immunity from the vaccination is still likely to protect you from severe disease.”
Got to agree with everyone who has said there must at some point be major trials and severe punishment.
It seems that cracks are beginning to appear in SAGE. Whitty is quoted as saying the new variant is less worrying than the delta variant, while Susan Michie (surprise, surprise) has called for immediate restrictions. Meanwhile, the Director of COG-UK (just how many advisory groups are there exactly?) has said “I believe that it is better to go hard, go early and go fast, and apologize if mistaken”. Well, no, an apology would not be good enough. If these people get it wrong, they should be sacked, given all the damage and misery that lockdowns cause. I wonder if Whitty is now starting to worry about being held to account?
It’s very easy for them to advocate restrictions when they won’t be personally much affected! None of them are going to see their income dry up as a result of restrictions…
Exactly this. The cretins calling for sacking of care home workers as well, they’ll never have to sit anyone down and tell them they are unemployed because they won’t inject something into their body. They know it’ll be left to others to do the dirty work
One of the shocks to me remains tbe fact that charities have remained so compliant. They know it is the poorest and most vulnerable who have suffered the most throughout. Yet, they have never spoken up for them.
Charities are unfortunately largely staffed by the type of Guardian-reading bedwetters who are always demanding more restrictions to “keep everyone safe”, and their paranoia seems to over-ride every other consideration.
Do stop imitating the crassness of Covid idiots in your brainless generalisations.
I’ve worked for charities for nearly two decades so I think I have a fairly good idea of the demographic. What’s your experience which qualifies you to be such an expert?
Do you have to be so obnoxious towards anyone who you disagree with?
Very well said, I agree 100%
“immunity from the vaccination” can still, most likely, protect members of the public “from severe disease”.”
… and natural immunity is a much more likely protection than this ~1% risk reduction.
But who can take this significance seeker seriously, making statements like this?:
“Semple said he was in favour of compulsory facemasks in shops and on public transport, and handwashing.”
Any sane member of the human race recognizes that we need to rapidly get back to a normal normal in the face of this very ordinary health event.
Can someone please explain to me how they are identifying these new variants, I genuinely want to know.
I think this is how they do it …
Think of a line of text, let’s say AAAAA. Thats your virus. When the virus replicates, sometimes it makes a typo in the copy. So now it’s AAAAB for example. That’s it in a nutshell.
But I understood that the virus hasn’t ever been isolated, so how do they do it?
My understanding is that it has been isolated
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0516_article
Scientists reveal first picture of Omincron variant.
just realised that the Swiss are due to vote in their referendum tomorrow on the rules etc., so this latest scare has been rushed out just before
Saturday press conference. Nice. Don’t let people have their family time. Don’t let society have a rest from their absolute bollocks. Let’s rob families of even more peace and quiet. Do these people never read the room ?
sick of the lot of them.
so we all going to be nudged into Plan B. Without evidence on the off chance because plan B was always the aim.
I despise them all.
It’s the Unholy Trinity too – Johnson, Whitty and Vallence. That never bodes well.
The three stooges.
I expect seeds will be sewn to move to Plan B, then it will be accelerated early next week and finally the National ID card into pubs to “save xmas”
We have to revolt.
Agree.
Yes, they have already been sown with mandatory face covering coming back. If anyone thinks that these new rules will be relaxed in three weeks time I want what they are drinking!
Absolutely NEVER watch these press conferences in our house!
Its not really fair on the variant, its not it that’s Moronic, its the humans.
As people who have been double-jabbed start succumbing to ADE reactions caused by vaccine-priming and weakened immune systems, it will be necessary to provide to explain why so many people who have been vaccinated are developing pneumonia and pleurisy. They won’t be developing them through exposure to ordinary rhinoviruses and adenoviruses. Of course, it will be due to the unvaccinated carrying the terrible new omicron variant.
Face coverings in retail environments and public transport are back. More details from the mad jabber tomorrow!
Brought to you by that well-known closet sceptic, Libertarian Prime Minister Alexander “Boris” Johnson, unfortunate victim of SAGE bullying.
Bullied? I feel so sorry for him – NOT!
Unfortunate? No fucking way. He and that scrubber of his are enjoying every moment. They, and all the other complicit arseholes, won’t comply with any of the restrictions. They’re just for us proles.
So more bullying from Covidian jobsworths in store then – no doubt there will be no penalties for companies demanding ‘proof’ – just like last time.
Those imposing this realy are fucking evil.
It not in hospitality. Makes perfect sense! Twats
That’ll be next week or the week after – an intermediate step which ‘Alas’, can be imposed to ‘Save Christmas’. Christmas will then be cancelled with a few days notice (for those who ‘follow the rules’ anyway)
Here we go again with the toing and froing and the contrived concern. Bloody hell. They must think people are stu-
Oh wait, people are stupid. And they’ll fall for this bollocks yet again, so strap yourselves in for the Adventures of the Gnu Variant.
As well as mandatory face covering wearing, the Fat Pig Dictator refuses to rule out a lockdown at Christmas. Deja vu?
https://mol.im/a/10249355
The Israeli military is rushing to locate 800 “potential cases”, order them to self-isolate, and test them. It is also meeting arrivals and taking them to quarantine hotels. (Source: Times of Israel.)
I think it’s time to stop focusing on our health status and start focusing on our lives The sooner this obsession is stopped, the healthier we will be.
The ‘made up ‘ variant is steadier to say than the ‘omicron’ variant.
The source for the new variant is page 313 of Agenda 30.
Keep up people!
Nothing is a surprise. Everything has been planned. Happy reset John. Happy reset Yoko.
OMICRON = MORONIC = yes apt and a laugh, but..
OMICRON = ONCOMIR = a much more sinister anagram. It’s microRNA associated with cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncomir
And just by chance, Israel on Thursday held a “war game drill” OMEGA in case of an outbreak of a new lethal variant of Covid-19. Just a coincidence of course..
OMEGA goes live and then OMICRON appears worldwide a day later..
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3155763/israel-holds-war-game-case-lethal-new-coronavirus-strain
How is it possible for Calum to be this distanced from let’s say Chris? Do they speak to one another? Share scientific data? Anyone else concerned with this lack of consensus?
Well, someone is having an almighty belly laugh at the expense of the human race.
Talk about a blatant bare-faced piss-take. Didn’t see this coming did we?
These COVID-19 bioweapon shots are now what is driving the fake ‘pandemic’.
Last year they accomplished this by simply reclassifying the flu as “COVID-19,” and the actual overall death rate did not increase much last year, those in the funeral industry have confirmed that, while also confirming that massive deaths have only happened this year, 2021, after the COVID-19 shots were introduced.
This year, the deaths are REAL, they are following the COVID-19 shots, and they are being blamed on COVID-19, now they will be blamed on this new fake variant.
Is There Anything that is True About this ‘New Variant?’
Yes, everyone now agrees that the ‘vaccines’ and other measures that have been taken to combat “COVID-19” have failed.
With the creation of yet another super mutant ninja fake variant, they have actually had to admit that those who have been fully vaccinated and have their health passports, will soon need to start from scratch again, and agree to all the new drugs and repurposed vaccine booster shots to have a ‘paxxport’ that allows them to participate in society.
How many will hold to the adage: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”?
We’re about to find out.”
Interesting link this https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/the-new-covid-variant-scam-was-simulated-in-israel-weeks-before-it-was-discovered/