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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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.
When I read the headline, my first thought was ”Well, more fool them.”
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….”)
Don’t take the test. RESIST, DEFY, DO NOT COMPLY. It’s time people stood up for their liberty
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.
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!
The solution is straightforward: don’t get tested.
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
If they’re stupid.
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.
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.
The UK Health Security Agency – protecting the UK from dangerous thoughts
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.
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.
If there are 5,346 new ‘cases’. there must many times more actually taking tests – who are they, why do they do it?
Queen cancels Christmas lunch ‘to try to save her loved ones’ DM
Also solves the problem how to handle Andrew.
That’s good.
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
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.
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.
Are these infections or positive test results?
Yes.
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.
I have no sympathy if they choose to join in STILL. They must bloody love it!
Watched a film called ‘The Little Pink House’ about how brutal the pharma companies are
“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.
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
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?
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?
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.
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.
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’..