Due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, combined with the rules put in place to tackle its spread, the Government suspects that up to four times as many people will have to self-isolate on Christmas Day compared with last year. Furthermore, current statistical forecasts predict that close to one million Brits will be forced to stay at home come December 25th. RT has more.
Anyone in the U.K. who tests positive for Covid from Wednesday onwards will have to spend Christmas Day in isolation under current Government regulations. The rules issued by the U.K. Health Security Agency demand that anyone who gets a positive test goes into quarantine for 10 days. If that person then develops any Covid symptoms during this period, they will have to spend another 10 days in isolation, starting from the day the symptoms first appeared.
The Government believes there might be four times as many people self-isolating this Christmas Day than on December 25, 2020. The total number of Omicron cases reported in the U.K. rose from 4,713 to 5,346 over the past 24 hours, with 633 new infections linked to the highly transmissible new strain.
The overall number of new daily infections amounted to 59,610 and has gone up by more than 30% in just a week. This is the highest such figure since January, when almost 60,000 new cases were reported. At this rate, the U.K. may see some 100,000 people infected with Omicron on Christmas Eve, and around one million Brits isolating the next day, media projections say, using the Government data.
Omicron appears to be “the most significant threat we have had since the start of the pandemic”, Dr. Jenny Harries, CEO of the U.K. Health Security Agency, told MPs on Wednesday, adding that the time taken for the number of new Omicron infections to double “is shortening”. Earlier, England’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, also warned that the new strain is spreading “unbelievably fast”.
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why the scariant articles Toby?
Getting told what to post?
How about some reality for a change.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/time-to-bring-this-madness-to-an-end/
Reality…. what’s that?
People….people…people…I know it’s difficult but stop wasting energy searching for LOGIC as to explain what’s being inflicted upon you.
A tiny percentage of us here have been trying to SPELL IT OUT for months that what’s been rolling along like a steam-roller these last two years is a Global Coup d’État.
https://gpenewsdocs.com/global-coup-detat-mapping-the-corporate-takeover-of-global-governance/
Scream at the TV and the bought for politicos as much as you want, if it makes you feel any better. For the final nail in the coffin as to why none of this is about your health… watch, learn and listen.
https://rumble.com/vqserc-covidvaccine-discussion-dr.-peter-mccullough-with-the-legendary-joe-rogan-p.html?mref=usxns&mc=d169l
Dr. McCullough is the US cardio expert who’s been shutdown by the GPPP shill media owned by the cabal who don’t want you to know the truth.
So I ask you…what kind of society is it you live in when an alternate discourse cannot be tolerated? Remember the original UK NHS advice? Stay at home and do nothing for 14 days or when you have breathing difficulties. Thousands have died because of the deliberate deception and veiling of early conventional treatments.
Sure as fuck isn’t a democracy.
It’s not a third booster, its 3 monthly boosters to keep your security papers in order for ever after.
PEOPLE GET ACTIVE AND ANGRY – WAKE UP
Totally agreed with what you say about logic, and also kudos for focusing on Albert Bourla.
Bourla being rewarded for services to Zionism. His speech is a masterclass in two plus two equals five – “weve saved so many lives” kind of thing……:
Dr. Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, accepts the WJC Theodor Herzl Award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETZLR1e8O4
And how does injecting his company’s snake oil into Israelis serve the cause of Zionism, particularly given the reluctance of the Palestinians to take the mRNA muck?
I have absolutely no idea, its all very inverted – the whole Covid affair is one massive inversion of the truth.
I have been nothing but shocked at how Israel was designated as “Pfizers Lab”, given the reason many moved there – to flee persecution and the horrors of fascism – and the fact that Pfizer is arguably one of if not the most criminal company ever. You would have thought there would be all kinds of checks and balances to protect Israelis from this kind of thing. But a long overdue learning process is underway now, which can bring about positive change for the world. None of these governments doing this are the friends of their citizens. The citizens must seize this moment to install governments with a conscience, people of heart – the opposite of what the majority have. Its time for people to look long and hard at what it is they are voting for, and what kind of world they wish to inhabit
Pfizer: Corporate Rap Sheet
https://www.corp-research.org/pfizer
About the only wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine that was anything to do with fleeing oppression took place in the days of the Russian empire under the Tsars. For your next reading topic, may I suggest the 1948 naqba, so long as at first you avoid any author who calls it an “exodus” or “voluntary”.
You would have to ask to people making these decisions as to the reasons, but he got the award
He received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council. You’re the one who has claimed it was for services to Zionism, so I’m asking you. I suspect it’s more likely to be for his services to the WEF.
What are you referring to? @ComeTheRevolution was referring to the WJC’s award. Do you know what the WJC is? The WJC doesn’t give awards for services to the WEF.
Here is a page about Bourla playing a central ceremonial role at the Israeli embassy in the US a year ago.
I think those posters who turn the nonsense up to 11 are 77th brigade members whose purpose is the discredit those seeking the truth with lots of dribbling chaff.
Just like UFO’s were used to hide black project aviation work.
The 77th or those who might as well be in the 77th have been making a lot of “contributions” today, e.g. saying how great it would be if Chris Whitty had been murdered in Hyde Park.
PS Re. UFOs, did you ever read this story? If not, you’ll probably enjoy it
The Palestinian reluctance was in part due to Israeli attempts to supply soon-to-expire drugs at top price. The materials would been out of date before any could have been used by the Palestinians.
Look into the early Zionist ideas for the nature of the state of Israel for clues. There is a hierarchy Ashkenazim > Sephardim > Mizrahim > anything else.
Ben Hecht’s 1962 book ‘Perfidy’ is a good start.
Israel also has a massive problem regarding potable water supplies.
Edit: Forgot to mention that Israel has recognised Sputnik. A substantial number of Israelis are Russian immigrants with strong ties to Russia. They would want to go to Russia and their Russian relatives would want to visit them. The recognition of Sputnik facilitates that. Who knows who else got the conventional Sputnik drug (ineffective and harmless is way better than ineffective and potentially deadly).
The Israelis were not selling the Pfizer ‘vaccines’ at top price, they were offering to swap them, and the expiry date was known to the Palestinian Authority. Also the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research conducted a poll which revealed that only 40% of Palestinians were willing to accept a vaccine if a vaccine was made available, with 35% saying they would not get vaccinated at all. As for Ben Hecht’s book, I’ll pass – I’m really not interested in reading anything by a supporter of the Irgun.
Why this video has no sound only when you move the slider for 1 sec?
I’ll caption that photo
“We did it.”
Logic and stats do not come into it; the condition is called cognitive dissonance and you can beat your head against the brick wall for ever to no avail – up her, the following of the SNP party is the same condition.
Toby’s Daily Sceptic was the first and main beacon of light in showing all aspects of the issue. This latest variant is excellent if it proves to be fast spreading and mild and will increase the population’s natural immunity very quickly.
Btw, by my calculation if we were to .double the 75k positive tests every 2 days with this variant, by Hogmanay we will have everyone in UK tested positive. Just shows the ridiculous fear Witless is trying to drive.
Lots of talk from Whitty etc. re the comparison with the last Covid ‘case’ peak in early January. Then tests were averaging around 600,000 a day with 68,000 infections. Yesterday around 1.3 million tests carried out and 78,000 infections reported. A big number obviously but on a proportionate basis infections to tests currently are running at half the January rate.
They are talking to an audience most of whom don’t have a clue what a “denominator” is. But you gotta wonder whether these highly qualified men feel dirty at all when they stand there with serious looks on their faces saying that a move from 68/600 to 78/1300 is a horrifically scary increase. Not only that, but the doubling rate is getting so fast that soon it will rival 17-stone Boris Johnson’s heart rate after he’s had his one of his four-times daily “pick-me-ups”.
These scientists wouldn’t make a good lift man.
Only ever saying “Going Up”.
They are sell outs and as long as they get richer then they don’t give a shit
And it was admitted subsequently that some of the 78k were left-overs after a system glitch the day before, so not even representative of one day’s contribution. However, it is great for being scary.
System glitch my ass. They’ve been saving them for this.
This fact alone is evidence that whitty is a shit scientist
‘This fact alone is evidence that whitty is a shit
scientist.’Fixed it for you.
What a load of bollocks.
Don’t test, no cases.
Get on with life.
Tear the power out of the hands of these genocidal psychopaths.
yesterday I was driving home and got stuck in a huge traffic jam – thought it was due to an accident of the motorway but actually it turned out to be a massive queue of cars heading for the local drive-through test centre. No queue tonight. I think people are very suggestible, you just have to say there is an outbreak and anyone with a sniffle goes off to get tested (and some come back positive)…
More like, everyone who was going to get tested did it yesterday so if they came back positive they wouldn’t be in self isolation on the 25th.
very well written article – I shall follow the precautionary principle and assume it is all true until proven otherwise
We can’t just shut our eyes to what is being said outside our circle of sceptics. We have to know the Narrative to have a chance of understanding how other, non-skeptics, are thinking. I use “thinking” in the loosest of meanings!
Unless of course, one takes the advice of Thomas Jefferson and completely ignores Government regulations, or as he put it, “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
Anyone stupid enough to shove a stick up their nose in the lead up to Christmas with the very real chance of it dictating their options of freedom completely deserve the misery it will inflict upon them.
To put it another way, if you don’t want the answer, don’t ask the question.
Unfortunately some of us are regular travellers…
Yet more official thuggery designed to demoralise the population and, without doubt, to further demonise those who choose not to act as guinea pigs for an experimental medical procedure with dubious benefits.
It is high time people saw this testdemic for what it really is and stop playing along with the well-prepared script corrupt scientists and self-serving politicians have written for them.
My post on the previous article applies just as well to this one. Also it is very obvious that although Omnicron spreads very rapidly it soon slow down.
Current thoughts on quarantining by reputable experts in the land of Omnicron: quaratining(self isolating) because someone near you tested positive is completely pointless, as is contact tracing. Obviously even more so for children. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-12-15-covid-19-in-south-africa-its-time-to-ditch-quarantining-and-contact-tracing/
And if test positive only isolate for 5 days.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-12-15-public-health-experts-propose-relaxing-existing-covid-regulations/
Sadly they do still go on about masks indoors(and vaccines).
Currently case fatality rate in Western Cape with Omnicron is less than 2% of the rate in previous waves.
Time to endure a common cold and get on with life.
Massive testing of healthy people with an imperfect ‘test’ is guaranteed to produce lots of false positives. Whoever came up with this wheeze in mid 2020 will have got themselves a humungous bonus.
*Fixed.
Particularly those who just caught the disease queueing up to file through a single room and breath the same air as all those who had gone through previously.
You couldn’t come up with a better way of spreading a respiratory illness if you tried.
If I had a flat overlooking a vax queue I would be tempted to play Chopin’s funeral march from the balcony.
Point randomly at people and shout “Positive”?
I wonder how many of the ‘trick or treat’ calls are genuine. Someone with access to the data – phone number X at place Y on day Z – could quite easily just send out fake messages to a random proportion every day.
I had one in September telling me I had tested positive from a test taken the day before. The only problem with that is that I was in a country outside of the UK on that day in question. They couldn’t tell me where I had taken the test – I told them it was a scam, the bloke on the end of the call scurried off and I never heard from them again.
Ah, I expected it to be an SMS message. A real person making the call is a dead giveaway for a scam? I am not up on this mobile gee-whiz stuff. I am still trying to work out how to get my Nokia 100 to recognise one of these QR thingamabobs.
It is simply amazing how this scariant appeared (like a rabbit out of a hat) just before Christmas. Just like last year, eh?
I remember not so long ago when ‘terror’ attacks happened with similar regularity. It is probably all just coinicdental.
I suppose there is a consistency there. After all, what is being perpetrated on the public by the political class is terrorism, by the very definition of the word.
We all knew this was going to happen. We all know this is a fraud/hoax/scam. Anyway, never mind, there are some parties this Saturday – be there or be square!
Globalists hate Christmas.
Oliver Cromwell would be well jealous!
30 mutations just don’t happen spontaneously.
Just don’t comply!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4G-19QB1Us
It’s beginning to look a lot like Fascism everywhere you go!
Take a look at Australia locking up Aboriginals
Just a few more steps to genocide, you know
It’s beginning to look a lot like Fascism
Most of the world is blind
But it’s never going to end, this totalitarian trend
As long as you comply
You gave your freedom away for protection
They say that’s the oldest trick in the book
But, the protection of tyrants and corporate giants is not as safe as it looks
And Google, Facebook, Youtube are now burning all the books
It’s beginning to look a lot like Fascism
We’ve seen this all before
But with greater technology
And a high tech technocracy
They’ll track and trace you in and out your door
It’s beginning to look a lot like Fascism
And I won’t hold my tongue
And you may not agree with me,
But to try and stop my speech
Would be a slippery slope
How does this work if you don
t do track and trace and dont answer unsolicited phone calls ..“Only terrorists and anti-vaxxers have something to hide.”
Every globalist MI5/6/whatever operative, ever.
Ha ha, it doesn’t! Have done NONE of it since day one. After a severe infection exactly two years ago, which was all the symptoms of the coof, although I didn’t know it at the time, I have not been ill at all and either has Hub. We’ve been boosting our own immunity in lots of ways. And we’ve been able to stay out of the system completely. I refuse point blank to cooperate in the new fascist state. I even cancelled a trip to the theatre last night when we were informed the day before of all the theatre we’d NOW have to go through – masking, trap and trace, testing, hand glooping at all times, arrow following, temperature taking, and generally being bossed about, in order to attend. I do not consent to any of this.
I have to admit that I went out to see The Nutcracker, as it’s my beloved ballet, worried about being “bossed around”, but to be fair to the staff and people they couldn’t care less; they just performed the rituals mechanically and thoughtlessly, while smiling and getting in touch with the incomers. One might see that no one believes in these exercises anymore, it’s even less than knocking on the wood. I think people moved on already. In cinemas in the darkness no one wears masks anymore, too.
This was a small theatre and their response to our request to cancel was one of sarcasm and rudeness by saying “that you feel it an inconvenience to keep our staff and patrons saaaaafe!” They completely missed the point of what we said in our original request to cancel, too keen to infer that we were irresponsible and “can’t be bothered” so sod them. Good on you for seeing your show though. Had the theatre been more respectful of our opinion and less covi-fanatical we might have gone but that is never going to happen now.
Yeah, I get that. Like my friend used to say, there are people and there are logs, strangely captures the feeling
This should have been That we don’t want to handle customers because that’s soooo dangerous to us!, the usual COVID-unselfishness. It’s always about unselfishly doing what someone else believes to be necessary for his own safety, or, put into plain English, uncritically humouring someone else’s gross egotism.
Helena, I like the cut of your jib!
I was clobbered multiple times over 6 weeks Jan/ mid Feb 2020. I’ve had numerous instances of the onset of colds but they have disappeared faster than a politico chasing a lobbyist for the cheque.
So the death rate “with Covid” in Britain continues to fall. It’s fallen by about 30% over the past six weeks, more or less steadily. And the mild variant continues to outpace previous variants. So it’s good news all round, eh, sheeple?
Note that “with Covid” is a double lie. First, the “Covid” part is a lie. They mean with SARSCoV2, in other words with at least one positive SARSCoV2 test in the 28 days prior to death. Second, the “with” part is a lie. Although it is widely interpreted to mean “from”, it doesn’t. The person could have died from anything – heart disease, cancer, a stroke, anything at all. Saying they died “with” SARSCoV2 is similar to saying they died with a pimple on their arse.
Or put another way – this whole episode is built on nothing but criminally fraudulent science, and anyone who believes a word of it is seriously kidding themselves and allowing themselves to be tricked on the cheap.
According to the ONS Glossary: “Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths are those deaths registered in England and Wales in the stated week where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. A doctor can certify the involvement of COVID-19 based on symptoms and clinical findings – a positive test result is not required. ” So no need for a specific test at all. Note the term “involvement” as well; it’s down to someone’s opinion on the day. I sometimes use the term “Shipman certificates”, after the sequential murder case of a few years ago. Harold Shipman would love it now, if he hadn’t killed himself in the slammer.
<b>The rules issued by the U.K. Health Security Agency demand that anyone who gets a positive test…</b>
The answer is not to submit to a test.
Ding, ding, ding…. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner…..
JUST STOP TESTING
Never done it. In my previous 75 years I always knew when I was not well.
There were calls for a boycott of Tesco two weeks ago with the Santa Vaxx Pass shown on their Christmas advert.
I said that’ll be the day. And so I was proved right – people on here have already been into Tesco’s since then. Some boycott! Yeah, yeah, I know… Tesco is your nearest shop, so convenient, cheaper than Waitrose….
Not tried Tesco yet – M&S were being fine, but unfortunately they blotted their copybook this morning – bloke on the till (after keeping me waiting for ages while he had a long chat about ‘boosters’ with the woman in front) said to me ‘do you know you aren’t wearing a mask, sir’. I told him that yes, I was alware of it and I had been coming into their shop because I wasn’t being hassled, and would now try the alternatives.
I could have said that I was exempt under the government guidance (which I am), but that’s playing their game so I didn’t.
I travelled to London for the weekend from the west country. I didn’t wear a mask on GWR, the tube or local overground trains, and no one said a thing or gave me a second glance. I was heartened – also by the amount of other people not wearing masks either.
Never volunteer extra information, just say “yes”.
Ask him did he know he’d be breaking the law if he asked about medical information?
Last year I put in a complaint about that particular M&S after the door guardian asked for ‘proof’. M&S customer services said it wouldn’t happen again – and in fairness it didn’t although I started wearing a lanyard after that. Not prepared to wear it now – that would be playing their game.
I now know four people who are supposed to be self isolating. I was at the pub with two of them last night. They were previously pro lockdown. Funny how they have tired of following the rules. Somehow I suspect this will be the best thing for breaking the psychology of obedience, so hopefully even more will be told to self isolate. The more the merrier.
The problem is that many who follow the rules honestly believe they are making sacrifices for the well-being of humanity. It is a sort of moral reward to them, just like self-flagellation was to medieval cultists. It messes with the brain at a very fundamental level.
Around 1500 people die each and every day in the UK (lower in summer, higher in winter). So far we have 1 ‘with omicron’ death.
Stalin: 1 death is a tragedy. 1500 a day, every day is just a statistic.
Yes ideed. Tragic.
But as Dominic Raab also (having ‘confused’ the figures) announced “250 hospitalisations” when he really meant “10”, might we think that just 4% of someone “died”?
And because of “patient confidentiality” no details could be released? Not age, sex, vaccine status, health? Not even shared with other scientists?
I wouldn’t believe Chairman Boris Zedong if he said tomorrow would be Friday.
Even whilst we wait for the undoubted triumph his “Great Boost Forward” will bring.
We have one “with omicron” death alleged by Boris Johnson. We don’t know how old the person was, what part of the country they were in, what chronic illnesses they may have suffered from.
What’s the problem here? To think it is patient confidentiality is ridiculous.
Perhaps everyone should light an “eternal flame” in their window for the unknown casualty, next to their rainbow for the NHS, and then go outside and clap for “the NHS” if they’re in England and for Nicola Sturgeon if they’re in Scotland. That’s if they have time when they’re not putting sticks up their noses.
We do know that the unknown foreign citizen who was supposed to have tested positive for omicron and hung out “in Westminster” before leaving the country turned out to be a cardiologist who by the time he was named was safely back in Israel, and only known to have travelled between Islington and Docklands before flying out from Heathrow. So no questions about Westminster, OK? Lol.
Bonkers Boris: “The death i had a news conference about is totally confidential”
It is confidential because the script writers haven’t finished the character development part of the script.
Very simple answer to that: DONT GET TESTED!!!
Only if they are “on the system” and obey.
‘One Million Brits May Spend Christmas Day in Self-Isolation’
No sympathy for any of them. They are choosing to get tested and have the app on their phones and for those who ‘have’ to do regular tests for work, they are choosing how they do them.
Me neither. They’ve done it to themselves. They’ve chosen to follow the cult of covid, even when loved ones tried to warn them. They chose to listen to their beloved government, and now they’ve been totally hooked in. They don’t even realise they’re being psychologically abused on a very deep level now.
“People go mad in crowds, but regain sanity as individuals” :- some gnarly dude/dudette
But in exchange they get the heart-warming reward of being good boys (and girls).
In today’s ‘News’:
“Now France BANS Britons from all non-essential travel from Saturday after UK recorded highest-ever number of Covid cases”
“Millions of Brits CANCEL pre-Xmas plans, pubs CLOSE and West End falls silent as Whitty warns people to prioritise their fun and says Omicron hospital admissions rise is ‘NAILED ON’ – and Independent Sage demands 10-day circuit breaker”
We already knew this was coming way back last Summer, didn’t we? All planned.
The people running this hate Christmas as much as Sardis the Queen/ White WItch of Narnia. They are incrementally trying to destroy Christmas and Easter, having taken out Whitsunday a few decades ago, and given us May Day instead.
Not really. What they hate is that all people are collectively having a good time while having time off. This means they’ll be drinking alcohol again, those inconsiderate bastards, despite the massive harms this causes!
It might cheer you up that where I live Christmas bookings are not possible anymore because everything is FULLY booked. People just can’t care less.
Fscking parasite MSM. The NHS is hammered every winter since its inception probably. It isn’t helped by cutting bed capacity and filling hospitals with people who are only there because ‘covid testing’ revealed a bad case of “wah! I’m going to die”.
Omicron appears to be “the most significant threat we have had since the start of the pandemic”,
How? There’s been one death, probably not from O’micron.
I know the gov use “case” and “infection” (i.e. positive test result) interchangeably when it suits them, but how many people are actually seriously ill as a result of ommy cron
More worryingly, how many people are STILL believing this horse
?
Their honest expectation seems to be that in 2 weeks from now everybody will suddenly start dying at once. Despite no such thing having happened anywhere in Africa.
“Omicron appears to be “the most significant threat we have had since the start of the pandemic”, Dr. Jenny Harries, CEO of the U.K. Health Security Agency, told MPs on Wednesday”
This is the Jenny Harries who is the one who is going to get us out of this, is it?
If she thinks omicron is her “most significant threat”, she’d be well advised to give me a very wide berth.
The problem with such people is that when they are given these jobs they feel like they have to do something. I’d love it if one of these folks just rocked up on stage and said ‘no, I’m paying a close eye on it and it remains a nothingburger. Relax people..’
She was a voice of reason back in March last year. Now well and truly defected to the other side!
Well waking up to horses heads in beds does nudge people into correct thinking.
Ah the good old Nudge Unit comes to the rescue once more!
Don’t get tested and don’t use track and trace. Problem (mostly) solved.
Bonkers and brainwashed
More fool them.
More fool them
Apologies, Off Topic.
For some reason I find this piece of misinformation, (count the lies within it!), even more disgusting than usual.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59658701
Anyone who knows someone who is pregnant and has influence over how they think, please try and intervene…..the adult may be a “lost cause” in terms of being brainwashed, but there is a 2nd life involved here too.
Try not reading /listening /watching Al Beeb. It’s so cathartic.
Radio 3’s propaganda broadcast (formerly known as the news) this morning was banging on about ‘Long Covid’ again – something about lots of people still affected a year after getting the virus. Yeah, of course. Ramping up the fearmongering again.
Wonder if a lot of them (if they even exist) are in areas of work where people are often ‘ill’ off work for months at a time (e.g. local government)? No doubt they’ve been careful not to look for that sort of correlation.
That was brave of them, given how much doubt seems to have accumulated around ‘Long Covid’ recently. Perhaps they have been emboldened by the Omicron.
I don’t…… not very often. From time to time I’m curious to see how bad it’s getting.
We are contemplating getting rid of our tv entirely; that should sort it
Who on Earth would be stupid enough to place themselves in voluntary self-imprisonment at any time, let alone Christmas?
If you are fit and healthy just get on with life. Sod these criminals at Westminster and Imperial College etc.
I believe in the UKHSA, as I do in Santa Claus.
That surely proves that vaccine works.
Currently being reported on Reuters, you could not make this stuff up:
Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits – documents
YJCMTSU!
I’ve got a number of outings planned between now and Christmas but there is zero chance I will be isolating on Christmas Day, simply because it isn’t the law to take a test so I shan’t
Does it matter whether it’s the law or not?
This is likely to become a non-hypothetical question in the very near future.
Is it ‘the law’ or is it ‘a rule’? I have no idea these days.
Couldn’t give a toss either way.
This may all come to pass, but a sceptical view would be the increase in London follows the exact same trajectory as last year brought on by increased mixing from shopping, parties and getting it all done before the Govt restrictions. Last year cases increased rapidly from 15th Dec and I believe the Govt has been playing to this date. Also, the increase in ‘cases’ comes from more testing and the %test positive is still around 4.5% which it has been for 3 months lower than most of Europe and not increasing rapidly like most of Europe.
For what’s its worth I bumped into a parent this morning, Covid came up, and she volunteered the information that she wasn’t going to get a booster. It’s possible that she may be a secret sceptic as I know she is into natural healing and such (that being said, the worse Covidians I know in our parent group are also way into homeopathy – go figure.)
Another parent mentioned to me at a party that she just couldn’t take it if they closed the schools again. She felt obliged to start off with ‘I’m not a covid denier, but’..
Good, because they obviously love it all!
Indeed, obviously not listening to real news. My elderly aunt who has followed it all on the BBC and obeyed the instructions, and now has family visiting for Christmas has decided its all rubbish and not letting it stop her, maybe she’ll go back to it when the family have gone but for now there is no virus
A friend who has closely followed to government line all this time now says that neither her nor her husband will be boostered. I merely asked them how many boosters were they prepared to have, and this obviously got them thinking. A small victory.
I have “faith no more” in this government.
Please pass this on. If workers are required to wear a face mask then their health or life is in danger because they are working in a dangerous environment. Demand danger money until the risk has gone.
Look at the ‘law or fiction’ website for the full legal background.
https://laworfiction.com/blog/
Lots of good stuff to be used against jobsworths and stupid corporates who blindly follow ‘the rules’ which sometimes contravene multiple pre-existing laws. It says a lot about corporate legal departments that they haven’t spotted the traps laid for them. The government has been bluffing its way along.
The DM and MSM) appear to want Johnson out, the hysteria is off the wall. Johnson appears to be pushing back against measures that Sage want, Sage who are controlled by Gates and Blair.
Johnson needs to grow a pair and sack them – I cannot think of any other pre-Covidbollox occasion where official advisers have been repeatedly allowed to go to the media and try to undermine the government, but they do it repeatedly now and get away with it (and often push the government into doing what they want).
right at the beginning he should have asked all the ‘experts’, who wants to keep the 2011 pandemic response plan and who wants to throw it away?
then sacked all those that said throw it away
Pity he didn’t do what Mr DeSantis did, he read and consultedindependent medical/scientific experts not big pharma mouthpieces.
They are his handlers, its bigger than Johnson
Yes, he does try to give that appearance.
His actions though, say otherwise.
He dragged his heels on the social credit score apps, got a smack, and then imposed them the next morning.
Only actions matter.
Johnson we-must-have-the-conversation on forcible vaxxing – that’s pushing back?
they say boosters are the way out of this
they said the same about vaccinating the vulnerable
and test and trace
and that stupid phone app
and vax passports
the way ‘out’ of this is to open your eyes to the reality and realise we are not ‘in’ anything to begin with
Don’t forget that old perennial favourite, “three weeks to flatten the curve” !
is this another “three weeks to flatten the curve”?
meaning an incredible bare-faced lie that no-one believed at the time
This curve?
even Tim Spector says R=1.0
literally nothing to see
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-and-cold-like-symptoms-rapidly-taking-over-in-london
“Anyone who tests positive…will have to spend Christmas day in isolation…” Hmm. How about not testing then? That’s the simple answer. If you feel bad with a flu or cold type thing, you are not going to want to socialise anyway – just tuck up with a lemsip and a hot toddy and watch Christmas tv. I do know people who constantly test themselves. Why? I have never been tested for covid and I’m not starting now. If I’m well I’ll be out and about, if I’m not, I won’t. Simple.
The people who continually test are those who think “wah! I don’t want to die! I can’t take any chances” whilst fully jabbing up at the earliest opportunity.
Modern western narcissism, a totally cushy life and totally detached from reality. We all die of something sometime.
Watched a film called ‘The Little Pink House’ about how brutal the pharma companies are
I have no sympathy if they choose to join in STILL. They must bloody love it!
That’s what testing gets you! I stay home for Christmas, anyway. We had a completely normal Christmas last year, too!
Xmas 2020 was not a ‘superspreader event’, if I remember the BBC reports correctly.
Nor was Thanksgiving 2020 in the USA.
As Dr Chris Martenson regularly says, look for the data; ignore the narrative.
Are these infections or positive test results?
Yes.
So things are four times worse than this time last year… At this point, every single person queuing up for another lethal injection is getting exactly what they deserve.
It will be very interesting to see if all the Korona Karens who are so desperate to announce their imminent martyrdom and screech “GET URSELV TESTED!!!!!1!” develop a sudden strong aversion to getting swabbed themselves.
Omicron appears to be “the most significant threat we have had since the start of the pandemic”, Dr. Jenny Harries, CEO of the U.K. Health Security Agency, told MPs on Wednesday,
Heck no Jenny, the most significant threats are people like you and your UKHSA, Imperial College and all the other sell-outs in academia, SAGE, HM Government plus its overpaid and psychopathic advisors, Big Pharma, doctors, the judiciary, a bent mainstream media, Bill Gates, and of course those dangerous boosters, which will destroy thousands of lives. There are many more of your dodgy friends who deserve a special mention, but the list is long enough just for now.
They can’t see its all about money especially funding for their own interests
“It’s a big incestuous club”
My postdoctoral primary investigator 2017
Queen cancels Christmas lunch ‘to try to save her loved ones’ DM
Also solves the problem how to handle Andrew.
That’s good.
If there are 5,346 new ‘cases’. there must many times more actually taking tests – who are they, why do they do it?
My husband has a pcr testing scheme at his workplace. Despite being asymptomatic, he was going to – voluntarily! – take it.
I blew my top, asking why just before Christmas he was doing this.
He is a covid fanatic.
We’re divorcing. He has nagged me incessantly to get the jab yet when he DID test positive recently he was out every day going to the supermarket.
Self-isolation apparently just means staying two metres apart when out of the house.
The ****ing hypocrite.
I’ve made damned sure that the land line can no longer receive certain numbers.
I have warned him that should I have to endure another ten days inside with him, I will be reporting him for going out without good reason. Funnily enough he’s not so keen to take the test now.
He’s not doing it to have time off work, but to be ‘socially minded’. Hypocrite.
Algorithm Whitty is running:
It’s amazingly simple to program an expert AI.
That’s why we replaced expert systems of the 80’s with deep learning algorithms.
The UK Health Security Agency – protecting the UK from dangerous thoughts
UK Summary | Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK (data.gov.uk)
Just seen today’s (official) data. 300,000 extra tests on yesterday with a “positive” rate of 5.4% (approx. average for ever!). Only 3% extra found for the extra tests from yesterday. That brings the average down from the yesterday figure. Would you believe it? More tests = more cases.
Here’s my patented “Do I have covid?” test:
If you have real covid symptoms then yes.
If you have fake covid symptoms, then you have cold or flu.
Otherwise get on with your life.
Many have referred to Dr Jenny Harries now heading up the positively Orwellian HPA. She is now being deployed as the chief outrider for spreading gloom and scared compliance. Lets be honest no one is going to confuse her gaunt, drained visage with someone who thinks we should have a good time (within reason). Like our Scottish Leaderene Sturgeon, she studiously avoids the possibility of life ever being fun or spontaneous. Orders must be followed to the bureaucratic letter.That said when playing second podium to Whitty, foreboding cadaver- in -chief she found it in her heart to excuse Covidian Cummings who of course broke the rules. Harries said when it comes to childcare we must use “common sense”. Oh How much the Uncle if little Arthur or the Great Grandad of little star (who might still be twinkling) would have welcomed that latitude. But of course they were just people not important people who supported their lockdown in lockstep. Anyway if inevitably Dame She’lldoshesoneofus, gets to adress “social justice” in her deliberations maybe, just maybe that contrast won’t evade her.
when it comes to childcare we must use “common sense”
By the time Cummings was filmed when he literally flew out of Downing St 10 after Johnson and Hancock had tested positive, there were widespread shortages of essential goods due to panic buying, it was said that London hospitals would soon fill up with dying people and there were rumours of impending social unrest. He then hastened home, bundled wife & children in his car, drove accross all of the country in a hurry to his parents estate to ‘stay’ there in a hidden cottage.
Common sense tells me this had nothing to do with child care: This guys was running like a hare because he was afraid for himself, or, as the German idiom goes, weil er die Hosen gestrichen voll hatte (had shat his pants until they were completely filled). Thankfully, he quickly made a full recovery from that and came back as nasty as ever.
That makes sense. Sadly this sociopathic Strangelovian authoritarian is heralded by some as the real brain of the Tory government. Should Obadiah Gove shove Bojo out of the way he could be back in the saddle. The globalist sift left now love him of course because he sprays vitriol at their enemy.
If they’re stupid.
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
The solution is straightforward: don’t get tested.
Well the obvious response to this has probably already been posted but I haven’t got time to go all the way through the comments…It goes like this.
If you’re stupid enough to go and get tested unless you really, really, REALLY have to, you deserve to be in self isolation FFS!
Chris Whitty, also warned that the new strain is spreading “unbelievably fast”….
If he can’t believe it then he should stop pretending he understands epidemiology in a mobile population.
Don’t take the test. RESIST, DEFY, DO NOT COMPLY. It’s time people stood up for their liberty
See this latest for 16 Dec.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-omicron-daily-overview
11,700 Omicron confirmed cases
16 Omicron confirmed in hospital
1 (dubious) death
These are real, official government figures. Why not report them instead of the rubbish I see all around?
Where is the MSM hysteria coming from? Models, projections and guesswork? Most of the country has gone mad!
There will be 11 members of my family here for Xmas, and we are eating out as a group at a local restaurant on the evening of the 24th, come hell or high water. No prior testing allowed!!
”Confirmed cases…” Not ”cases” but just healthy people stupid enough to get tested.
”In hospital….” WITH ‘omicron’ – actually admitted for something else
”One death….” WITH ‘omicron’ – but died due to other illness or accident. (”Just ignore the tyre marks, nurse….”)
When I read the headline, my first thought was ”Well, more fool them.”
There’s an easy answer to this particular piece of COVID nonsense – don’t take one of the incredibly unreliable tests. I’ve no intention of sticking a swab contaminated with mercury and glass up my nose or down my throat. Anybody wanting me to take a test can bugger off.