Dr. Jenny Harries, the Head of the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said that, although the Omicron variant appears to be milder than the Delta strain, New Year’s Eve festivities could still be banned in an attempt to curb its spread, citing her concern that an influx of positive Covid tests is leading to staff shortages. MailOnline has the story.
New Year celebrations could be axed to stave off staff shortages and protect the vulnerable even if hospitalisations stay low, a health chief warned today.
Jenny Harries, head of the UKHSA, said the “impact on society” of Omicron will be crucial despite mounting evidence that it is generally milder than the Delta strain.
Dr. Harries pointed to the “very high” levels of absence among workers, with an extraordinary one in 35 having contracted the variant in London.
She cautioned that it is still not clear whether the new version of the disease will be milder for older people, or how long people who do have to go to hospital will need to stay.
Asked whether ministers will be able to make a decision on Monday about whether restrictions will be needed before December 31st, Dr. Harries told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Ministers will look at all of the data that we have available – and that isn’t simply what the epidemiology is saying, it’s how it’s impacting society.
“So, for example, we have very high rates of individuals off sick – we know that particularly in London, around one in 35 have currently got Omicron.
“Now that’s having an impact on the workforce. So these are not simply about hospitalisation rates.”
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Except she doesn’t make policy, or even decisions.
The impact on society that you and your ilk have caused, Dr Harries is already VERY clear this Christmas.
The dead eyed, haunted faces of people who no longer care. The result of the ‘learned helplessness’ they have endured. However many jabs they accept, however slavishly they follow ‘the rules’, even as they strap their pointless mask across their world weary face before going to buy milk. The dawning realisation that nothing will change is all too apparent.
Never forgive.
Never forget
Never again.
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkeyy kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
It is she who needs cancelling …now and forever!
Just because nobody invited you to a party, you miserable looking wet blanket.
Ministers will look at all of the data that we have available – and that isn’t simply what the epidemiology is saying, it’s how it’s impacting society.
Another masterclass in deadpan delivery. I truly am in awe! I forgive them everything – this is simply magnificent! Ultimately being rewarded with this stupefying level of talent makes everything else seem …. well, insignificant really.
You really can’t make this up. With a slight hyberbole, Our mass testing of healthy people generates loads of positive test results and we insist that they must all quarantine. Therefore, a lockdown is needed to mitigate the damage we’re doing in this way.
It’s indeed neither about health nor about a virus. It’s all about COVID-BS spread by professional COVID-bullshitters.
What the hell is a ‘Health Security Agency’?
Is this the fourth reich?
The policy may have been fixed 5 months ago – https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2021/07/23/why-we-are-preparing-for-a-worst-case-scenario-winter-season/
Some used to consider Harries less bad because she had no visible conflicts of interest, unlike Whitty/Vallance/van Tam with their pharma chums and shares. Whatever caused the about-turn?
They’ve run into trouble with Omicron, it’s very disappointing for them, and South Africa has failed to back them.
But they know the surge in winter deaths, again disappointingly late due to mild weather and early reaping, will come. When it comes the Full Fear propaganda starts again. In the meantime, this “strain on the NHS” is the best they can do. It’s only there due to their own rules of course, they have created the strain.
They must be a little worried.
Who in the SA gof lab created this variant engineered to be mild, they must be asking each other. And was it purposely released?
There was a letter published in the Daily Telegraph from a Mr. York of Daventry some weeks ago, the general tenor of which was that we should lockdown, work at home etc., etc.
My response to you Mrs. Harries (I refuse to use your title because you are not worthy of it) is the same.
YOU stay at home, shut up, preferably permanently, and let the rest of us get on with our lives.
That’s odd because the next day there was a letter in the Daily Torygraph from a Mr Daventry of York.
A very merry Christmas to everyone except commie cunts, who can fuck right off, then keep fucking off, then fuck off into the sea, then fuck off some more.
Not like you Mr Borg.
Over my working life I had a couple of jobs I really didn’t like, and if the present situation had happened then I would have moved heaven and earth to make sure I had some time off ‘quarantining’ when I felt the need. I wonder how much of that is at play now. I was told of someone the other day who took 6 LFT tests on the trot, and to his relief, the 6th one was positive.
If this woman is suggesting a lockdown is needed because of staff sickness, she needs her head examining. What next, a lockdown because there is, say, a transport strike, or a heavy fall of snow? I can see lockdowns forever being wheeled out now – how about being locked down because of poor air quality for example? The possibilities are horrifyingly endless
A lockdown because I’ve seen Harries’ face and feel ill?
Who cares what this cnt thinks?
she can do one. The Sage advisers and health technocrats all taking to the airwaves to defend themselves and as predictable as it was it’s now all about the staff off sick – which of course it was always going to be with the BBC doing the groundwork yesterday when the wheels started to come of the modelling – only one word left for me to describe this collection of technocratic fools who remind me of the self-important prefects at school who when you give them a bit of responsibility turned into complete and utter T***s.
Well, I suppose if our New Year’s is cancelled, it won’t bother the Chinese?
It’ll be a shame, though, since Jenny Harries looks like she’d be a fun girl at parties.
Yet another corrupt and morally bankrupt bureaucrat.
I’d love to know just how much people like her are making for selling their souls to big pharma.
Why not grab the old bag and force her to show everyone her bank statements?
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Brilliant.
Running out of things to say now, other than: Oh, Fuck Off You Twat
I like that. It has a certain earthy charm.
Well, I was going to go with Rudyard Kipling’s If, but thought mine had more eloquence 😂
Aye, haddaway an’ shite, man
“Ministers will look at all of the data…and how it’s impacting society.”
Well that will be a bloody first.
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer and so I could be seeing this all wrong but it seems to me that the threat of further restricitions is not based on the actual number of deaths directly due to this variant or the number of people who are in hospital severely ill with symptoms, again directly due to the virus – but because perfectly normal fit and healthy people without so much as a sniffle are testing themselves like crazy out there and because they are testing positive this justifies further restrictions.
Madness! Complete and utter madness.
Stop testing yourself you mad bastards.
The ever-moving goalposts!
see latest article for proof of that.
I am spending Christmas with one of these.
So we’ve got to lockdown because a badly run organisation is short staffed due to government regulations. Not because people are ill. The madness continues. Monty Python springs to mind.
I know, it’s brilliant isn’t it? We no longer have Spike, or Monty Python, but who cares, when you can have this? Oh joy!
Edit: actually, maybe it’s a bit of a double-edged sword – I have just had to use a whole packet of wet-wipes trying to clean myself up after spontaneously losing control of all bodily functions. Annnd laughing so much brought on a severe asthma attack – in spite of the fact that I am not asthmatic. Also, I am not sure, but I think I may have dislocated several of my joints.
Heavy, heavy stuff. I recommend not to watch or read any of it unsupervised. I’m not joking, it verges on being potentially fatally funny.
I really hope they try as their is zero evidence to back them up this time, also I reckon their will be riots.
3% absent due to Covid doesn’t sound like we need to shut the economy down. I wonder what the difference is between sickness rates in the NHS and say, Tesco?
I wonder how many are off on Maternity leave?
Or indeed between the public and private sectors generally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbgTm9JLhtc
She doesn’t understand. They should be encouraging the spread, especially among those who still have an intact immune system, the great unvaxxed.
J.Harris is conducting a classic propaganda exercise; keep ’em guessing, keep ’em uncertain; the more likely to accept any new imposition if only to have some certainty.
I would describe her as a c*nt but its Xmas.
She’s not a cunt: she doesn’t know what a cunt’s there for. Dried-up as a nun’s chuff.
OMFG stop with the testing. Then piss off Mrs Harridan.
Holy shit. I just read the rest of the article on the Daily Snail Trail, Boris is invoking Jesus now to flog his Stroke Pokes. The guy has lost it. Sorry you corpulent fuck, a philandering, gluttonous, greedy, lazy, sullen, jealous and prideful rancid shitweasel such as yourself is most certainly NOT on Team Jesus pal. Fuck off, and when you get there, fuck off some more, you vast stinking corrupt Satan fellating pig whore.
You have a wonderful way with words BF. Maybe you could start a business writing greetings cards for people to send to their politicians?
Nice 🙂
Baby Jesus would approve of your message.
Jesus Violently Ejecting Moneychangers From The Temple is my favourite Jesus.
And some people say that English doesn’t have the beauty, expressiveness and elegance of French. Thanks for the masterclass.
Come on, don’t hold back on our account.
Love it 🙂
I have a question, wife of a friend really needs to travel next May, is concerned she’ll need to start getting caught up now in order to have had 3 (maybe 4) shots by then. Doesn’t want them really but want’s less to miss this trip.
Which one is least likely to kill her?
She’s got coeliac disease (which is already an immune system issue iirc) and has already had the children she plans to have, 36yr old female.
Side note, where’s the sense in catching up?! Surely you only need 1 jab just before you travel, f’ing insanity by the government surely!?!
Not insanity, evil. It’s all politics. Can’t imagine what trip would persuade me to get jabbed – it would have to be a dying mother or something. No guarantee she’d be able to travel even if jabbed. As to which is least dangerous, I think the point is that we simply don’t know yet. I don’t think you get a choice, anyway – perhaps if you go private but doubt it. Not all the vaxxes are licensed in the UK.
I asked about choice, apparently she does.
Yeah it’s a really tough situation, no doubt made worse because she will be terrified and stressed throughout.
Why not actually catch it?
Just have ivermectin, budesonide, Vit-D and zinc. And lemsip for a serious case.
She’s had it already, whole family had delta, but she didn’t get PCR’d
Antibody test at lloyds pharmacy?
I assumed testing now would expire by May?
Hahahaha……………. as long as there’s oil, the Chinese will be making their little plastic LFT kits.
haha, I meant in that her green status would be red by May, how long does your “antibody protection” keep the pass running?
Here, have a look at this – half the world hasn’t a clue as to what’s needed to travel:
https://www.reddit.com/r/uktravel/
I wonder if perhaps some jabbers will be willing to squirt the muck into a sink, log it as taken, for a suitable level of remuneration?
It’s worth her doing more research on this. There is a view that the worst damage caused to people is the immune response to the spike protein, whether produced by infection with the virus or the vaxx. If that is correct (from what I’ve read I think there’s a lot of merit to the argument), any vaxx could cause problems, as they are all based on the spike protein.
Novavax has been okayed for use in Europe – it is also based on the spike protein, but you are injected with the actual inactivated spike protein, as opposed to your own body being forced to produce the spike protein, which is how all the others currently in use in UK/US/EU work. Have no idea whether it will have the deleterious effect on the immune system that the mRNA vaxxes seem to have.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.03.21256520v1
She should be careful
the BNT162b2 vaccine also modulated the production of inflammatory cytokines by innate immune cells upon stimulation with both specific (SARS-CoV-2) and non-specific (viral, fungal and bacterial) stimuli. The response of innate immune cells to TLR4 and TLR7/8 ligands was lower after BNT162b2 vaccination, while fungi-induced cytokine responses were stronger. In conclusion, the mRNA BNT162b2 vaccine induces complex functional reprogramming of innate immune responses, which should be considered in the development and use of this new class of vaccines.
Tell her to save up some cash, book a “vaccine” appointment with a nurse in a surgery in a deprived neighborhood, and see how much cash it takes for the nurse to flush the potion down the sink. I’m sort of half joking about this because if pushed to the absolute extreme, this will be my last resort.
There’s often another ‘nurse’ present – to grass on the other one if they accept a bribe.
Just don’t.