New daily infections are already falling in London, data suggests. The ZOE Covid Symptom Study shows infections falling in the capital since December 27th (see above), a trend that appears to be confirmed by the latest Government reported infection data, where positive tests by specimen date have not been topped since December 21st (see below).
While there will be some testing artefact in the Government data, the corroboration of the apparent peak and decline by the ZOE study (which uses modelled data based on self-reported symptoms) suggests the trend is real.
The infection peak in England last winter occurred around December 26th, according to antibody-based analysis by Imperial College London. If it happens around the same time this winter then it may give support to the notion that it is the festivities of the Christmas season themselves that drive the winter peak to a seasonal herd immunity threshold, triggering a sustained fall throughout the rest of the winter, despite the weather typically becoming colder in January and February.
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Maybe it is the festivities of the Christmas season themselves that drive the winter peak to a seasonal herd immunity threshold, triggering a sustained fall throughout the rest of the winter.
Time will tell, of course, but this is an interesting suggestion. A complicating factor may be that omicron is a less respiratory disease and may therefore not be so weather-dependent.
Omicron is not a disease.
How many of the positive results do you think come from neurotic idiots who have tested themselves multiple times and eventually got a positive result even though they’re not positive?
If a person is negative and the false positive rate is only 10% (it’s probably higher), then a person only has to test themselves SEVEN times to be more likely than not to get what they always
wantedfeared – at least one positive result. I wouldn’t be surprised if that accounts for three-quarters of the so-called “cases”.If they go to hospital after a positive result because their nose is a bit runny and their temperature is 99.0 degrees, I bet such types don’t even get ASKED during “triage” how many tests they have taken. THAT’S how “serious” the medics are. They aren’t serious at all. It’s all bollocks. A positive result doesn’t mean shee-yit. Nor does a runny nose, for most people, especially at this time of year. People need to a) grow some brain cells, and b) grow up and stop being such babies.
Besides, the omicron variant of SARSCoV2 when it causes health problems is reported to affect above the neck (nose and throat) and hardly ever below the neck (lungs), which would explain its high relative transmissibility because of transmission in “loaded” coughs and sneezes.
And if it doesn’t affect the lungs, then IT DOESN’T CAUSE COVID.
How many? Say 90% at a guess?
For Gods sake, everyone stop playing their game. Cases up, cases down, infections up, infections down….. this is what they want! They want us using their bogus parameters and speaking their pseudo medical language to describe the common cold. The guy in this still from his video. He was sent home for testing positive for covid. Look at his rap sheet – Coronavirus 229E. ITS THE COMMON COLD. .
Meanwhile all the Progressive left “liberals” love China
Leaked Chinese documents detail ATROCITIES yet we STILL turn a blind eye?
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Bloody hell. Get a grip. This is nothing to do with a virus.
Using the number of people who may, or may not, have a cold in winter as a basis to decide whether to disrupt further an already buggered economy. Genius. Only a government could be so wilfully stupid.
Unless they had a separate agenda.
Just reinforces the message from the immediately preceding article – that being that the NHS/SAGE establishment is doing everything it possibly can to hysterically talk up an historically benign and normal situation into a quasi-crisis. Why? Because that way they have a ‘crisis smokescreen’ that can hide their incompetence at providing a basic level of health care.
Without fail, they mis-manage to accomodate the entirely predictable and quantifiable winter demand. Without fail, they blame everyone but themselves. Without fail, any and all Govts cave to this admission of inadequacy for short term votes. To see NHS staff dancing like circus bears in the middle of what has been (fradulently) portrayed by them as pretty much the deadliest plague evah, and equally otherwise normal people clapping like North Korean Seals every week for this shower makes me want to puke.
IMO the sooner the whole funding paradigm of the NHS is pushed off its self aggrandised pedestal the better for the nation.
Time to call their bluff. Doctors back to work properly actually seeing people and doing their job, or P45’s handed out
This picture sums them up
(And the BBC).
In 1947 the vast majority of doctors were strongly against the creation of the NHS.
My downtick.
Agenda 2030. Please do some research.
‘Getting pissed at Christmas cures covid.’
I’m sold, long may it continue!
We wish
Australian government offering compensation for severe adverse reactions to the vaccine. There have been 20 million Australians vaccinated, and 79,000 severe adverse reactions. That is 1 in 250. Doesn’t sound like a safe vaccine to me.
https://twitter.com/NewGranada1979/status/1476926692505505795
And that’s before people have had it 3 or 4 times a year “for a decade or more”.
I genuinely do not believe that anyone who has had two or more injections will last beyond 10 years.
Wow, a whole £300k for a lifetime of living with whatever horrid side-effects you’ve sustained from the “vaccine” they effectively forced on you. Bargain, where do I sign up?
Yes, but it’s probably a shortened lifetime …
I think in Britain the maximum compensation is £120k for 60% disability. What is 60% disability?
Meanwhile an exponential number of young people continue to mysteriously die of cardiac arrest without further query from the media.
At 46, former Mickey Mouse Club actress, Tiffany Hale is the latest tragic death:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10357035/Mickey-Mouse-Club-Member-Tiffini-Hale-dead-46-suffering-cardiac-arrest.html
At what point will we stop talking about “covid” stats and demand answers for these heart-related deaths?
You forgot the obligatory MSM – “Medics Baffled”
I pointed out another fan has had a “medical emergency” during the Watford vs Tottenham match earlier.
Check out this DM article which manages to fret about all these heart attacks, including the one I mention, without a single hint of investigation into why it’s happening:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10360931/Watfords-clash-against-Tottenham-halted-medical-emergency-crowd.html
Football matches now require the vaxport which means either a negative test or fully jabbed up to enter. I think we can be sure that the jab is almost entirely responsible for these heart attacks, but not even LS is investigating.
Yes. It’s almost like it’s a seasonal endemic virus.
Alternative interpretation: annual consumption of brussel sprouts triggers decline in cases?
Many a true word. Much to my surprise, brussel sprouts are packed with vitamin d.
The number of positive tests when so many people are taking multiple tests which have less than perfect sensivity, and perhaps a false positive rate as high as 20%, is not a measure of the number of infections. It’s more a measure of propaganda success.
But…here you go, from the Telegraph:
Operations face axe if Covid hospital admissions surge.
At some point you have got to call antisocial action by individuals what it is, even when it’s lawful. Anyone who is contacting an NHS hospital or other NHS service right now because they’ve got a runny nose and a little plastic stick showed them a blue line in the wrong place is an antisocial arsehole. Some people are genuinely ill – either chronically ill in need of surgery, or having suffered falls or injuries or burns or whatever – and these types are pushing in front of them out of stupidity of a depth that is embarrassing to behold. They are adults and they are responsible for their actions, and we shouldn’t see them all as little darlings who never bothered to get into the habit of thinking about stuff, who believe whatever big business and big state propagandists tell them to, and who for that reason are wholly innocent parties.
Bloody well stated.
But surely they are now being sent home with the new antivirals
What is infected these days? Getting COVID-19, the disease, or just detecting the virus and recovering?
This made me ponder – I understand Jehovah’s Witnesses believe one of the signs of the apocalypse will be the banning of religion. If the govt can invent enough evidence that Christmas is a superspreader event, they may decide to outlaw it… surely other religious festivals won’t be far behind, and if you can’t participate in the communal rituals could it be said that religion has effectively been banned?
Won’t happen it would upset the peacefuls
‘Cases’ are manufactured nonsense used to terrify the gullible into compliance.
More testing, more cases.
Government data suggests they are declining in London and the sites of the initial outbreaks around the country, and rising elsewhere. Due to this the media will distort rising casenumbers as a whole. And Boris will panic, as he did last night by agreeing to masks for school kids in class, which will either have no effect or raise cases due to their unhealthy effect. Perhaps it’s a virtue signal to the unions.
Boris the idiot seems determined to wreck his own policy by enforcing masks, tests and longer than needed isolations. I think this has all to do with stubborn adherence to failed policies which despite all the evidence, ministers just won’t let go.
Will not stop them!
They will simply make up some new “deadlier threat” to be hyped by the craven Daily Mail and Johnson will go around in his mask waving his little syringe for the cameras again !
Or via the Daily Mail owned New Scientist weekly magazine to try and get cred.
Oh I would like to prick Bozo.
Right Bozo you have a choice of six needles.
You pick a needle and inject yourself. If you are not dead or writhing on the floor after 30 mins you pick another needle – you can shuffle them – we do this seven times because we have to be fair to the people of this country.
If you survive you will receive 12 months in an isolated padded cell and then we will hang you.
That seems eminently fair, no?
OT: I was going to put out a request for people to sign the petition opposing the knighthood for Tory Bliar. Looking at the official petition website, it seems pointless
Stop Tony Blair receiving a Knighthood
Tony Blair should not get a Knighthood. He took the Country into an illegal war.
Do not give Tony Blair a knighthood or any other honour
Stop Tony Blair receiving a knighthood
U.K. Armed Forces Veterans objection to Tony Blair receiving a Knighthood
Stop Tony Blair from becoming a Lord
Ensure that Tony Blair (former PM) is denied a knighthood.
Block the Knighthood of Tony Blair
Petition to stop Tony Blair receiving a knighthood
Tony Blair should not receive a knighthood.
However, it is probably still worthwhile given the massive vote against it, even though Parliament’s rules allow such petitions to be rejected out of hand.
About 250,000 signatures so far:
https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-minister-tony-blair-to-have-his-knight-companion-of-the-most-noble-order-of-the-garter-rescinded
It’s hardly surprising that more positive test results are being recorded for a nasty dose of the sniffles, after all, around 3 or 4 times more tests are being carried out now than this time last year. The more you test, the more you’ll find. The answer is to stop testing, and stop panicking
There is usually a second winter peak in early March for respiratory illnesses dependant on the type of coronavirus. So that will likely happen but how it will be interpreted by the government and its advisors will be interesting.
If there are insufficient flow tests then there will be fewer folk presenting for PCR tests. Data in these conditions are virtually meaningless.
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
Time to end this. And Khan is a big tosser with a God complex.