The latest Vaccine Surveillance report from the UKHSA shows a sharp drop in unadjusted vaccine effectiveness against infection (calculated from the raw infection rate data) in 18-29 year-olds, down to minus-75% in the month ending December 19th, from minus-10% the previous week.
Unadjusted vaccine effectiveness fell in all age groups this week, particularly sharply in 30-39 year-olds, where it hit minus-98%. In 40-49 year-olds it fell to minus-131%. Negative vaccine effectiveness means the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated. A vaccine effectiveness of minus-100% means the vaccinated are twice as likely to be infected as the unvaccinated.
With Omicron infections particularly prevalent in the young and the vaccinated, this drop is likely to be the impact of Omicron, combined with a waning of vaccine efficacy. The high relative rates of infection in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated undermine any argument for vaccine passports or mandates that depend on the idea that the vaccinated are less likely to be infected or pass on the virus. If anything, it’s the vaccinated who are a higher transmission risk to the unvaccinated rather than vice-versa.
Unadjusted vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death continues to hold at a high level on this data, and has even increased in recent weeks in line with what is presumably a booster effect – though a drop in vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation in 18-29 year-olds this week may portend a coming shift.
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ESG—————A communist coup. You all come onboard with the wokery or you will be banished from polite society.
“Resigns!” I like that, now the rest of the bent board will be forming cliques to scapegoat the weakest members to save their own necks!
I fully expect the left to claim this is right wing cancel culture and draw a false equivalency between people who lose their jobs for expressing “inappropriate” opinions and this lady who drove the political persecution of Farage.
Her statement last night made her position untenable, that the board did not recognise that means they are similarly unfit for their positions.
And the Board, with their statement of support, have ignored the excellent advice of Dennis Healey, a Chancellor of the Exchequer a while back: “when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging”. They’re so blind they all need to resign asap.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer crowd. I was a longstanding customer in the mid 90s when I spoke with my ‘Relationship Manager’ in the St. Mary Axe branch about my upcoming divorce. I wanted to secure my money in my joint account from my rapacious, soon to be ex-wife. He, a 20 something inexperienced individual, had the gall to try and tell me what I couldn’t do with my money! Shame he wasn’t in the building when the IRA ‘refurbished’ it.
Yay!!! I suppose that means she won’t be answering my letter…
Apologies to Nigel, but in many ways I’m glad this happened to him. He’s probably one of the few people, along with Toby, prepared to kick up an almighty fuss and bring to light the extent to which debanking is happening.
There’s a lot a similarities with a China style social credit system, but at least for now the government isn’t totally in step with it. Goodness knows what a Labour government would do, especially if they’re propped up by the SNP or Lib Dems.
Unfortunately there is fly in the ointment.. if CBDC’s (Central Bank Digital Currency) become a reality, all these banks will be wiped away anyway, and then we will truly be under the ‘collective’ dictatorship on everything we do, say, or buy.. just a thought!
That’s why it’s supremely important to keep cash and start developing parallel communities, etc.
Exactly right..
I see my little 77th ticker is on my tail this evening.. haha
George, it’s a badge of pride.
Spot on.
And why it’s supremely important to ensure that these banks cannot ‘judge’ people regarding wrongthink, but treat each one fairly and dispassionately. Let the debate of ideas happen in the open, in the ‘market square’, not behind banking (or other) closed doors.
government pretend they are against this but just turn a blind eye. Either people’s opinions are protected or they are not. Has the regulator said anything ?
She’ll either be the head of the National Trust or the new CEO of John Lewis within six months.
Or NATO..
Jesus! I’m a JL pensioner the current “Chairman” is bad enough what with “pride” signs all over the bloody place. That’s the trouble with having a woke civil servant in charge. Be quite good if we had a retailer who actually knew something about shop keeping. God help us all.
Ditto the NT.
Howard Davies…name rings a bell……couldn’t be……..could it?
‘Sir Howard John Davies (born 12 February 1951) is a British economist and author, … He was the first chairman of the Financial Services Authority…..regulating the whole of the UK financial services industry…..’
‘For both American and European economists, the main culprit of the (2008 banking) crisis was financial regulation and supervision.’
https://www.promarket.org/2017/10/17/blame-2008-financial-crisis/
Failing upwards
These so-called liberal financial institutions are a bunch of whig bankers.
Obviously this Rose woman is now due a few years in prison as would be the lot of any ordinary bank employee for leaking customer information. After a completely fair trial of course. And it goes without saying that the Boards of Natwest and Coutts must also resign for in offering their support, “full confidence,” to this Rose woman they have confirmed that they are wholly unfit to remain employed in the banking sector.
Howard Davies and Peter Flavell must now follow Rose in to Court to hear how long they must serve. After completely open and fair trials.
Send, ’em down.
Arise Sir Nigel.
(He is playing an absolute blinder).
Unfortunately, I think that’s rather going to be a case of I really don’t want to do these unpleasant press conference anymore, hence, I’m now retiring into privacy (with my millions).
Not forgetting the BBC reporter of course, or his editor for allowing the piece to be published..
Good. Other exemplary representatives of the Anything is ok provided it harms the enemy!
culture will hopefully follow. The people who invented the atomic bomb for the sole purpose of efficient torching of Japanese cities are unfortunately dead. But there are plenty of others who still not-so-secretly worship their accomplishments.
The atomic bomb comment is way off. The Americans invented the atomic bomb in a race to beat the Nazis to it. Lucky for us the Americans won. The Americans dropped the bomb on Japan in an effort to shock Japan into a quick surrender rather than invade the Japanese mainland, a venture that would have cost tens of millions of civilian lives in a country with a “no surrender” Bushido code.
The atomic bomb comment is way off. The Americans invented the atomic bomb in a race to beat the Nazis to it.
The Germans never put any real effort into the mass murder of civilians by aerial firebombing during this time as this was singularly useless for actual warfare and they had plenty of other problems to deal with. Apart from that, I’m aware of the If we openly demonstrate what kind of dishonourable, insane and completely out of control killers we are, they will certainly … ! cover story. It doesn’t really change anything. Intentional mass killing of civilians is murder. Even when there’s a war going on. This has been the civilized consensus since the 30 years war.
Aerial firebombing wasn’t necessary. They had ‘showers’ and Xyklon B, admittedly for a select portion of their population
There is an interesting and very thoughtful interview with Oppenheimer from 1965 about this. His view seems to be the same. It was an awful thing to do,but invading Japan would have been worse.
The free advertising for the Free Speech Union has been absolutely marvellous. Well done that Nat West board.
I wonder what’s due next? The WEFfers will surely be in a bit of a flap over this as it hi-lights were they are headed with the social credit system. Might a climate catastrophe be on the cards? A plane crash perhaps? A mysterious explosion?
The saying “each action has an equal and opposite reaction” has been redefined as “each [left/woke] action will have a far greater reaction”.
With one hand Sunak calls for Rose to stand down (Tory poll rating dead in the ditch and only 18 months to GE) and with the other he will surreptitiously be working to impose a credit rating system on the people of the UK to keep the WEF off his back.
Let’s not forget the BBC’s original breathless “reporting” on this. They were clearly delighted to be going after Farage. Higher ups at BBC News need to go too.
This needs to be built on into a full scale attack on ESG and stakeholder capitalism. NatWest is one of many banks. All the corporations are in on this ideology at the behest of Larry Fink and Klaus Schwab.
And crucially, Nigel Farage still can’t get a replacement bank account or the restoration of his bank account at Coutt’s!
Maybe this is just the start. A defamation claim could follow, loss of reputation/consequential damages, perhaps…
A few days Nigel warned the Banksters “you don’t pick a fight with the toughest guy in the pub.”
I wonder if they’re starting to understand that now?
Yesterday, on his GB News show he had as guests a Conservative MP who has been de-banked, Alexandra Tolstoy who has been de-banked and Kwasi Kwarteng.
He is building a politically neutral campaign against the Banks which will be launched pdq.
The FCA, ICO and the Government are going to be forced to act.
The viscerating of Nick Robinson on R4 by Nigel Farage yesterday beat all of this. You can’t barrage the Farage
This is a great win for our side, but I won’t be happy until NF and GB News gets on the case of all the other thousands of people who have been de-banked or (as is the case right now) Britain First who can’t get insurance for their vans.
Great stuff Nigel you’ve got ‘em on the run. NF said he was a bit of a Marmite character. Well I absolutely love Marmite!
And NatWest must now, as 39% public owned bank, state what her severance package was, and indeed, somehow justify why she should even have one. After all, if it had been a minion, it would have been a straight firing.