Yesterday, I asked a popular gastropub if I could book a table for on December 21st for a Christmas Lunch for the staff and moderators of the Daily Sceptic. I’d left it a bit late and was worried the pub wouldn’t have anything available, but it turned out to be fine. “Sure,” said the receptionist. “Where would you like to sit? We’ve got plenty of availability at that time.”
In retrospect, I shouldn’t have been surprised. Apparently, English pubs and hotels have lost practically all their Christmas bookings in the last 24 hours or so, thanks to the Government-initiated panic about Omicron. As a result, an already ravaged industry has been dealt another blow. MailOnline has more.
Bosses said government warnings about the threat of Omicron and new working from home guidance had persuaded many punters that it wasn’t worth going ahead with their festive gatherings.
One London hotel told MailOnline it was expecting £100,000 worth of losses from cancelled events, rooms and covers – and said many staff were fearing for their jobs given the extent the industry relies on a lucrative Christmas period.
Gary Murphy, director of the Campaign for Pubs, told MailOnline: “It’s a massive problem all over the country.
“Quite clearly the government’s message is to cut down on socialising, so inevitably a lot of firms are cancelling parties and individuals are deciding they are uncomfortable with going out.
“I’ve seen pubs that have lost all of their bookings virtually overnight, particularly those in town centres. Every time Boris Johnson goes on the TV and announces new restrictions people get more worried.”
Mark Fuller, CEO of Karma Sanctum Soho, a boutique 30-bedroom hotel which includes a bar and restaurant, said he had seen up to £50,000 worth of Christmas events cancelled.
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And yet, what did the WHO say? “It’s a very mild variant”, “don’t panic”, and “no need for additional restrictions”! So what do govts do? Quite the opposite!
Please free us from our govts. THEY are the menace, the danger, the threat, not the virus.
Toby, did you remember to book a seat for Boris?
Mustn’t forget the New Year honours list!
Kidding, kidding, just kidding! I think…
The Government will eventually see to it that all areas of socialisation will be unviable, they don’t want us drinking or eating out, and they certainly don’t want us meeting and discussing, because that allows for ideas, for critical thinking to be cpread, and thar is a danger. They want us shut up, in buildings, in our mouths and in our minds,
The Royal Albert Hall doesn’t need to use the Vax pass system but is going to do so anyway. This is because their customers are asking for it to keep them safe. They won’t refund tickets on this basis as they can change terms of entry as they see fit. I am currently banned from Twitter but will be upping the ante on them tonight.
Safetyism and socialism are natural bedfellows.The attitude of Conservatives during this crisis is unfathomable. What motivates the Governnent to alienate their own natural constituents? Despite an 80 seat majority the Party behaves as if was only in power on sufferance. People focus on Boris but the madness is widespread. Is it that they have been hoisted on their own petard by all the empty rhetoric about saving our “precious” NHS or is something more profound at work? The slogan vote Conservative because we are slightly less crazed than our rivals will not get me to the polling station in a hurry. The Party appears to have a deathwish.
Latest: Johnson/Gove Directive : “Closedown the pubs fr good this time- stop the plebs communicating and fermenting rebellion! Wreck what is left of local communities -isolate individuals and de-humanise them with masks – especially target the children! ( Orders from Above)
The completely clueless mindset of bureaucrats and politicians is perfectly illustrated in the way they arbitrarily alter rules.
The abo natives said that there would be a parting of the ways after a run on toilet paper, this was a year before 2020. And they said that the world would separate into two planets – there would be a normie planet of conformism and subjugation and the soul people would ascend to a much more interesting place. There is no denying the sweep of this tendency all over the world. There is no pulling away from this sense of separation. For whatever reason universe has decided that this is how it has to be,
Ours is still going ahead (my boss is pro-vaxx but anti-lockdown. He went apoplectic via ‘send to all’ when Boris made the announcement), but I don’t think turnout will be high. I’m not going as I can’t bear the ‘have you had your booster?’ “ice breaker” chat (I also have another valid reason, which is ‘covidian safe’). I wonder what impact people like us socially self isolating has on business.
My modest team office lunch has been cancelled. Even getting a take-away is verboten.
“But, but, I thought that vaxpässen macht frei!” bleated my cow-workers.
I’d never even bothered signing up for the apocryphal free lunch because I knew fine well it wouldn’t be permitted.
They called me a conspiracy theorist, of course.
These are “data scientists”.
And they still can’t spot the pattern.
Perhaps tell them the following: Christmas office events to go ahead as planned in Texas. And that is on the same planet.
cow-workers
very apt!
Someone I encountered on USENET used to refer to this cow-orcers.
As a data scientist, I spotted the anomalies and inconsistencies almost as soon as this plandemic kicked off. Having said that, I know many so-called data scientists who are true believers and haven’t bothered with digging into the data and/or informing themselves as to how those data have been gathered.
As Andre Gide said, the pubs were the last of what was left of merry old England. If you take the pubs away then England becomes essentially a car park. We should defend the boozers like they are our connection to the sacred becuse they really are.
Look at how joyless life is already and look at this further dent that is put into it. This isn’t happenstance. We are the English we don’t put up with this crap. Businesses need to develop federations and networks of survival against this attack because our adversaries have it all mapped out until 2025 and by the end of that period the likes of you and me will be well and truly dead.
You should not be socializing with covidians anyway nor contributing to their business. For sure it helps protect the NHS better than all the covidian masking.
P.S. You also need to save money to pay the vaccination fines next year. Unless you work for the government, in which case just bill them more.
I was just thinking about this at the weekend- saving money is now a priority as I think it is only a matter of time before mandatory vaccinations arrive.
I’ve got two Christmas pub/meal bookings coming up, looking forward to them and going high or hell water to them…
And who is the one person who died from Omicron? Age, sex, ethnicity, health information? Vaccinated?
No answers. No evidence. No truth.
with not from
It looks to me and friends like a controlled demolition of the economy.
Marcus Fysh MP was quoted by the BBC as comparing ‘Plan B’ to Nazi Germany. Send him an e-mail of support.
This is now the equivalent of Mad Cow Disease, where on modeler named Ferguson (whatever happened to him) predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths and uncountable number of animals were slaughtered despite being disease free. Less than 100 died.
Despite No 10’s claims, no one has died FROM Onicron. Deaths week over week for Monday down 3 (41 to 38). Hospitalization up to 10th (last data point) up a whole 58 on last week and down about the same from 9-12. Infections up 3k, tears up 100k. Positivity rates stable.
Data matters. Why hasn’t one mainstream journalist figured out that uncovering the lies and misleads could net them their own scandal series that leads to awards and lifetime respect (as Bernstein and Woodward have for Watergate). The data is screaming at us. SA is not worried.
Fuaci, a cynical panic monkey isn’t worried.
Yet Javid and Boris are destroying retail and now hospitality. This must be brought to light. And these men must pay for this criminal practice.
This has to end!
Neil Ferguson is bloody good 😉
we estimate the 95% confidence interval for future vCJD mortality to be 50 to 50,000 human deaths considering exposure to bovine BSE alone, with the upper bound increasing to 150,000 once we include exposure from the worst-case bovine BSE scenario examined.
Over four million head of cattle were slaughtered in an effort to contain the outbreak, and 177 people died after contracting vCJD through eating infected beef.
he was only slightly out on the numbers
Some research indicates the vaxxes could lead to prion disease, similar to CJD – maybe he’s holding out for his “see, I told you it would happen” moment. Sure, completely different scenario and caused by the insane push for vaxxes by him and his ilk – but I can imagine it would be very important for Prof. Pantsdown to be right at least once in his life.
Those numbers are iffy too.
How many background CJD cases occurred naturally before they started looking.
I’ll bet the number over baseline is zero.
How, no one seems to have the intelligence to see it all for what it is
“Why hasn’t one mainstream journalist figured out that uncovering the lies and misleads could net them their own scandal series that leads to awards and lifetime respect (as Bernstein and Woodward have for Watergate).”
Au contraire, any journalist rocking the boat will attract the wrath of their editors, owners, colleagues as well as the entire establishment and every powerful institution on the planet. With Watergate, there was actually a functioning political opposition in place. There is no such opposition here or anywhere else outside the United States, where the Republican Party represents the only mainstream party in the rich world that is not captured by corona fascism.
All part of the plan. Hospitality has no place in their new world order. Drinking will ecome the preserve of the rich elite, as it is in China, fewer tourists because air travel will be all but impossible for those other than the rich means fewer hotels, restaurants and pubs required.
I asked last year what the relationship is between alcohol and the jabs. Wait and see when the next variant specific jab is produced we’ll allhave to do the right thing and ensure it works….by not drinking for a month or so afterwards.
Home testing will be mandated at risk of losing the upgraded fully jabbed status.
Tomorrow’s vote is the step off a very steep cliff.
I think the problem is very much urban – the countryish pubs I have been in over the last few days have been busy.
Of course, in one breath the hospitality industry says it cannot get staff and then in the next it might have to lay people off.
Can not believe they are getting away with this, listening to the lies from Javid, the hysteria, makes you wonder how if they can ever be seen as sane again
They even all nod in agreement with each others lies – they look truly demented with their own poison.!
Worth sharing? Reuters news agency. Most reported U.S. Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated -CDC | Reuters
What happened to ‘Freedom Day’?
Don’t worry, there’ll be another one! Then another one…
I think that you probably blinked! Me too!
That tickled me.
Omicron Fears Overblown? US and EU Admit Most Cases Are ‘Mild’
https://unredacted.co.uk/2021/12/10/omicron-fears-overblown-us-and-eu-admit-most-cases-are-mild/
I hear that Scotland has scraped up an omnicorpse.
I wonder what it really died of.
Sturgeonitis most likely.
Probably the plague in 1665.- they did a PCR test on it!
They must FIGHT BACK. Ring clients who have booked. Reassure them. Offer them free drinjs or something. Not give in to state terrorism.
I guess that represents the controlled demolition of the High Street Economy.
And our whole way of life as we know it, for as long as people let it happen.
Here’s what is going to happen:
The Tory ‘rebellion’ will halve in number and most Labour, Lib Dem, SNP and PC MPs will vote for all the new (and more) restrictions etc. The government will easily win the day in the Commons with a majority in three figures.
‘Rebel’ Tory MPs will then be subject to ‘cancellation’ campaigns in the MSM, and most will never hold any sway/power in the party in Westminster and many will leave by the next General Election, whether by choice or being forced out by being deselected.
The UK and devolved governments will, after the ‘new’ booster rollout, either claim success if the number of cases reduces as proof their extra restrictions, OR, if cases keep rising (whatever the real number of hospitalisations DUE to COVID [not just who catch it or its incidental], ICU numbers or especially deaths from (not with) COVID-o), they will blame the unvaccinated (unclean) and will, ‘with a heavy heart’ be ‘forced’ into even more draconian measures, including full lockdowns, restrictions on movement (including working or shopping) of the unvaccinated, vaccine passports for all things and even manditory COVID vaccinations/boosters.
The MSM, unions, civil servavnts, scientists/clinician ‘experts’ and ‘industry leaders’… Read more »
Yes, with regard to your last paragraph the ‘positivity rate’ has hardly changed over the last few weeks. But that of course doesn’t cut it for politicians or the MSM.
That’s why they want all the extra restrictions, so when either the numbers reduce by themselves (wave over) or they induce it by reducing the number of tests, magically the number of infected reduces.
Of course, they can just as easily massage the figures over hospitalisations and deaths ‘from’ COVID by reinterpreting them as they did before (but notably never said what they now use after getting found out).
Bearing in mind the Italians said in reality the number of real COVID deaths there was only 15% of the headline figure, because most were of people already near death or those who succumbed to other things within the 28/56 day ‘window of opportunity’ for the scaremonerging experts to call COVID deaths.
It shows how much the ONS etc people are ‘with the cause’ given none of them thus far have broken ranks to find out and show what the real picture is. As all the ‘hints’ and ‘suggestions’ informally given to those giving and collating the data are done so without a central source (i.e. a bit like chinese whispers), it means that they all have plausible deniability and don’t really know what the big picture is.
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Damn right. That’s been the name of the game all along. Increase the (dubious) testing to procure a higher absolute number of cases. God give us strength.
Reiner Fuellmich exposed all this over a year ago.
The fake PCR tests are rigged at 45 cycles to provide the results they need. It is obvious that the NHS management is fully involved.
Watch these hotels, pubs and restaurant units will suddenly re-appear as very expensive “American style” candy shops.
All the rage down Oxford Street.
Or wall-to-wall coffee shops, Pound shops, barbers and charity shops. That’s how most town centres have ended up.
Does it not occur to anyone that these people go to hospital because they are sh@t scared because of the fear narrative that they’ll die. Albeit in the US one recent poll showed that 25% of people thought they’d end up in icu if they caught covid. The British public will be no less gullible. Utterly monstrous stoking of fear.
This is an excellent point that I hadn’t thought of before. How many people with bad flu symptoms would in normal times actually call an ambulance to ferry them to ICU (or walk up to it). Now, when you are laying there going ‘I’m dying, I’m dying’, when actually you’ve had much worse hangovers, you are more likely to take yourself to hospital than you would have been without the fear propaganda.
On the other hand, this might not be a bad thing as we know that Covid is more likely to kill you if you don’t get treated when you need it (which is still a small minority of cases). Then again that might also be true for the regular flu.
I used to work for a catering company in my market town which does events at the council owned buildings. This year one venue, which is usually a concert venue, is doing concerts Fridays and Saturdays. The other venue, which has a capacity of 120, according to their website, has sold out every Thursday, Friday and Saturday this month. Non-refundable deposits will have been paid by now, so if people now cancel the venue does not loose out that much. And I do not expect they would advertise late availability on their website!
As there is no staff, having less parties is actually better for them. I am glad I am not part of this madness this year!
True, I think many establishments are in on the scam. After all, they can always cry for government help later when the government hurts them (and maybe even earn more from the dole than from doing actual work). The only mistake is if they believe this “support” will go on forever.