The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has advised the Government that “stringent national measures” should be imposed by December 18th to stop the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, and ensure that the NHS is not overrun by Covid hospital admissions. Health Secretary Sajid Javid was warned by the UKHSA that, although the new variant appears to be less dangerous than the Delta strain, 5,000 people a day could be hospitalised because of the virus, and that further restrictions may have to come sooner rather than later. The Guardian has the story.
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, received a presentation from the UKHSA on Tuesday warning that even if the new Omicron variant leads to less serious disease than Delta, it risks overwhelming the NHS with 5,000 people admitted to hospital a day.
In an interview with the Guardian, the epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson said the total could be double that number.
No 10 insisted there were no imminent plans to bring in more measures after ‘Plan B’ measures were announced for England this week but Michael Gove, who chaired a Cobra meeting on Friday, said the Government had been presented with some “very challenging information” about the speed of the spread.
The Guardian has seen leaked advice from UKHSA for Javid marked “official, sensitive” saying: “The key point is that under a range of plausible scenarios, stringent action is needed on or before December 18th, 2021, if doubling times stay at 2.5 days. Even if doubling times rise to around 5 days, stringent action is likely still needed in December.”
It adds: “The rapid spread of Omicron means that action to limit pressures on the health system might have to come earlier than intuition suggests.” Its calculations suggest that even if Omicron causes a less severe hospitalisation rate of 1% or 0.5% compared with Delta’s 1.5%, then “stringent national measures” would be needed by December 18th at the latest.
On the current trajectory of 2.5 days doubling time, and without any further restrictions, the document warns that Omicron cases could be at 248,000 cases a day by December 19th. It also stresses that the figures are not a projection but an estimate of Omicron prevalence and doubling times seen in the U.K. so far.
The document does not detail what the necessary curbs would be but defines “stringent national measures” as those that bring the R number below one.
Boris Johnson triggered ‘Plan B’ this week including more wide-ranging mask mandates, asking people to work from home and Covid passports for big venues but a senior Whitehall source said few inside UKHSA believe this will have much effect on slowing the spread of the variant.
Further measures, now being referred to as ‘Plan C’, could include stricter isolation requirements for contacts of Covid cases, masks in pubs, shutting hospitality entirely, more restrictions on visitors to care homes and hospitals or even the return of curbs on social contact.
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Tell them to bugger off.
If you’re keeping track, count me in as someone who is paying absolutely no attention to anything the Government is setting out and, funny enough, I don’t have a mobile phone (yes I know I’m a dinosaur) so won’t be using any ‘passports’. I think there are enough out of the way pubs near us to accomodate me and others similarly situated.
I’m fighting Omicron, by not being vaxxed.
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PFIZER… is this is what they wanted hidden for 55 years..
Go to page 30 of this 38 page PDF.. read the last 8 pages..
APPENDIX 1. LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
Just reading the Kennedy book on Fauci, Pain stakingly researched and backed up with evidence, Fauci is basically Mengele mark 2, please read the book, and all will become obvious as to what is happening. Hopefully Fauci will soon be indicted, but I supect rather like Epstein he will die before actually coming to court.
Its truly shocking and sickening what this man has been allowed to get away with, but even more so that our own Government has followed him down the worm hole.
I now have a theory as to why the Pfizer papers will be locked away for 75 years if the drug company and the FDA get their way. The papers released thus far exemplify how dangerous these products are and the effect they have on the bodies immune system. Can you imagine if in our lifetimes these papers are made public, those millions who have been coerced into injections and who subsequently become ill, or family members die, they will be able to sue Governments for millions, not Pfizer etc they are exempt. This would bankrupt countries, hence the papers are going to be locked away so that most of those injected will have died… Read more »
The UK Health Security Agency – nothing sinister about that name at all.
Perhaps Susan Michie and all her comrades at SAGE should be welded into their homes, in the effort to stop the spread of Omicron.
If there is one useful thing government could do, it is introduce a licence for the exponential function in spreadsheets.
Only to be issued to those who have demonstrated the required level of knowledge and control in using it.
Look i know im going to sound lik c–t ,but cant we just let the NHS be over run once and see what happens .We might actually have tio build a better one that performs better than Kenya or Serbia which it doesnt at hte moment .how much longer can we keep trying to save an NHS that doesnt want to be saved ?
That suggestion seems eminently sensible and one I have long argued for.
Personally I believe it would be nigh on impossible to bust even our dysfunctional NHS and the government know this so instead of seeing how far it can be pushed they use the “overwhelmed” story.
It’s a load of Bollox.
Most reported U.S. Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated -CDC
Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-reported-us-omicron-cases-have-hit-fully-vaccinated-cdc-2021-12-10/
I was told at Easter by people who should know that the go live date for vaccine passports would be December 18th. I think I have posted that date here and elsewhere several times.
This is nothing to do with a virus, nothing to do with omicron, nothing to do with public health.
Everything this government has done over the last 20 odd months has had public health at its heart. Their sole aim has been to undermine the nation’s health, from cradle to grave. Any and all measures, physical and psychological have been employed to maim and kill.
Depopulation on a massive scale is the goal.
How many times do the authorities have to shout “wolf” before the moronic sheeple realise they have been duped. As they have taken in all the BS, hook line, sinker and fishing boat they are more afraid of looking stupid than admitting they were wrong, so I guess they will look for wolves even when the boy who cried wolf has got bored and stopped fooling them.
I note that the latest Technical Bulletin from the UK HSA suggests that the booster doses are resulting in a negative protection from symptomatic infection. Are the authorities making things worse by relying so much on boosters?
Do you have a link for that please?
UKSA Tech Bulletin.
See figure 7, left hand graph.
Thank you.
Our very own seasonal pantomime.
We are way past jabs as a matter of concern. It’s clear they are muder. But all this is yet another facade to keep us occupied. The CBDCs and the absolute control grid they exemplify are the goal. 2025 we hit the energy cliff. There simply is not enough power to drive our over consumptive digital narcissism at current population levels.
This is the real issue. Expect mass Western population reduction by 2027. Jabs to c2024 an EMP thereafter to finish the job. In the ashes the Phoenix will rise – if you are still alive you’ll most likely willingly enter the grid and you will most definitely ‘own nothing and be happy’.
Thats the reason for the huge increase in Elite bunker building – its not about Nukes. All that waffle is soap to keep us distracted.
The only way out of this is truly massive resistance now. It’s our moral duty / dharma to fight this, we are living the Mahabharata.
RE: Mask Mandates
I’ve puzzled for some time over the enthusiasm with which both Governments, and the general populace, have embraced “face coverings” as a response to the emergence of covid-19.
Masks are pretty much useless as a means of controlling the spread of respiratory viral diseases. Science and medicine have known this for well over a hundred years. But somehow we’ve decided to engage in magical thinking this time.
Why?
It’s helpful to understand that individual humans simply aren’t very good at understanding or managing risk. For example, many people get quite apprehensive when flying on a commercial airliner. But don’t give a second thought about driving their car. In reality, travelling by car is, by pretty much every metric, several orders of magnitude more dangerous than commercial aviation.
Why is this? When driving in a car, people have the sense that they are in control. Seated in the back of an airliner, people have pretty much zero sense of “control” over the situation, so they feel nervous.
Masks are useless. And I suspect most sensible people know this. But wearing one, or indeed demanding that other people wear one, gives them a sense of control.
… Read more »
No argument with that analysis. There’s also the bonus for mask wearers that they can force other people,to wear masks, using the weapon of social disapproval, Any idea that these people can control viral spread with a mask is illusory, and I suspect a lot of them know that deep down. But the idea that they can control other people has turned out to be a very real one.
And then there’s the biggest bonus of all – the scope for self-righteousness. Possibly the most pleasing sensation a human being can feel.
The general uselessness of masks is a truth that is counter-intuitive. Wearing a mask seems to be a prima facie (excuse the pun) matter of common sense. Unforunately, that’s enough for an unthinking population. Governments know they are useless; they’re on record saying so. But in a dumbed down age where people generally do not bother to think/investigate things for themselves, authorities everywhere can contradict established wisdom with regard to the wearing of masks and the people won’t even notice.
Add to this the rampant fearmongering and propaganda, and you have a dumbed down population in the palm of your hand.
Fergusons software:
Repeat
X=RND(25000)
Until X>5000
Raise Exception Lockdown
I’m visiting a couple of pubs this weekend as the way things are going, the sheep will be bleating for vax passes for pubs/restaurants by next weekend. Any word on whether shopping centres (500 people unseated indoors) require vax passes?
More lies – bin them with all the others.
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, received a presentation from the UKHSA on Tuesday warning that even if the new Omicron variant leads to less serious disease than Delta, it risks overwhelming the NHS with 5,000 people admitted to hospital a day.
Arent you sick of all these lame reasons for this tyranny. They are causing destruction deliberately and the rationale they serve up is WEAK. If the NHS cant cope, its because the people running it and the govenrment are crap at their jobs and fulfilling nefarious agendas and have been running the NHS into the ground for decades. With all the money being thrown at the NHS there is no excuse for this and the notion we should pay for their malfeasance with our freedom is absurd.
These are crimes and these people need bringing down plain and simple. Theyre a bunch of traitors drunk on power, being egged on by the banksters and big pharma and all the rest of the criminal entities with their claws in the British government. This is fascism. They are murdering and maiming British people with these hideous needless injections and the removal of normal health care and midazolam and remdesevir and ventilators… Read more »
Agree 100% with the analysis of the “Health Emergency”, the criminals and the useful idiot experts actually making this happen.
All behind this – and the ones just carrying out orders – are committing crimes against humanity.
Oh for a Nuremberg 2. Befehl Ist Befehl won’t wash this time either.
Whist I pray for this to happen, they will get their just desserts in Hell come what may. In their shoes I’d be a teeny bit worried about meeting my maker.
FWIW I disagree with your assessment of the DS.
At the very least I find it comforting to be amongst and mainly of you.
( I am not T.Y. by the way.)
letter to the ICC on D4CE from Holocaust survivors
what is this?
do you have a link?
Here it is:
https://doctors4covidethics.org/holocaust-survivors-letter-to-international-criminal-court/
And here is a good interview with one of the authors Vera Sharav who is very eloquent and can really wake up a lot of people. If you can get people to read the letter and watch her testimonies, I dont see how anyone can not be moved. Also its very important to say that waking people up is a process and not an event. These people are hardcore brainwashed. It happens slowly. You start waking them up, then they start seeing the news with fresh eyes, instead of just sucking up all the lies, they start to question things. Keep working on people, get them interested, then keep supplying them with good info from good people and have conversations about what they have seen, how they interpret it etc.
Vera Sharav Holocaust Survivor and Dr Reiner Fueller/COVID Measures Similar to Nazi Germany
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6cCHtoXnoeFZ/
This is also relevant:
CARING CORRUPTED – The Killing Nurses of The Third Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz8ge4aw8Ws
This is useful to understand the psychology of what is going on here:
Cults, Mass Hypnosis + A Way Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZLQfTqaik
Thanks for the links and the holocaust survivor’s letter CTR.
The letter is deeply moving – how the ICC can read it and not act is beyond belief.
When the history of this time comes to be written they cannot claim they did not know.
Do the morons ever wake up to this theatre? I mean, what if they don’t?
The problem isn’t covid. The problem is the massive pressure that’s currently on the NHS even though we’ve not quite entered the traditional winter increase in demand. Why the NHS is under such non-covid pressure would appear to be a rather important question.
It would be an important question. My even more important question though is why does the state of the NHS determine whether or not I can live my life freely as I choose to?
My 86 year old mother who is intrinsically programmed to “do as she’s told” from an early age and despises confrontation of any sort, has dispensed with her mask in shops. I got her an exemption badge but she doesn’t even wear that and told me that she’s “had enough” and won’t be wearing one and “that’s that”. She went to a funeral this week where she was the only one in the congregation maskless. A friend offered her one and my mum said, “No thanks”. There is hope, especially if you knew my mother’s natural deference to authority and rules.
Yes, do it quick before Moronic is found to be not very dangerous at all! How can Doris deny us Hanukkah after last year? They will prime us for after New Year.
Just looking at the UKHSA notes under the Guardian graphic:
“This is not a projection. This purely illustrates timings based on our estimates of Omicron prevalence now and doubling times seen in the UK so far.” – So it has as much realism about it as the graph of doom from September or October last year.
“Assumptions: … no age mix adjustment, … no susceptible depletion”. – Looks like they have missed out some pretty important factors there. I guess that susceptible depletion means the variant running out of people who are susceptible to it. If they are ignoring that, and if (as I read recently, sorry cannot remember where) each variant only really gets to a modest segment of the population, their numbers have a good chance of being way over the top.
I hope someone tells Sajid that there is a good chance these scary numbers are a load of rubbish.
Where was that picture taken? It needs to be stickered with “get this scaremongering off our streets”. Spreading fast. SO WHAT????
My brain asked if that was a real poster! It’s outrageous!
Well, you can easily find out who the advertising agency is. Next protest round at their office? Or get a key, open up the panels, remove poster, put in bin.
“plausible scenarios,”
Really
Now that there has been a run on the vaccination centres, I hope we are looking out for the spike in cases about 7 days hence from all the people who picked up Covid going to get vaccinated.
And that’s because they are staffed by people who believe in masks and can’t get their head around the idea that moving a load of people into one location is likely to mean the air in that location is infectious.
There a fable about a boy who cried wolf.
I could fucking scream. Why are they still listening to Ferguson!! I know its cos he fits their scaremongering agenda but come on.
Feel free to write to him: [email protected]
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/neil.ferguson