The number of patients being admitted to ICU for Covid in the U.K. (excluding Scotland) fell to as little as two in one day last month, according to data from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC). MailOnline has more.
Although the figures may be slightly higher after being revised for a time lag, [ICNARC]’s Head Statistician said towards the end of January, admissions would still be “in the region of 20-30 per day”.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Sir David Spiegelhalter, said: “The Omicron wave saw a huge rise in cases, and a moderate rise in hospitalisations.
“Since more than half of ICU admissions have not been vaccinated, this suggests an intrinsically milder virus rather than just increased protection from vaccination.'”
In contrast to January last year, when more than 400 patients were admitted into ICU for Covid in one day at a peak of the new wave, recent figures seem to suggest that Omicron, in most cases, is a milder strain.
The new report from ICNARC also found that the “percentage of patients admitted to critical care with confirmed COVID-19 that were unvaccinated decreased from 75% in May 2021 to 47% in October 2021” but increased to 61% in December.
According to the latest ONS data, the risk of death involving coronavirus, when age-adjusted, is consistently lower for those who have had at least three vaccine doses compared with unvaccinated people.
On February 3rd there were 478 patients in mechanically ventilated beds; this figure was above 4,000 in January last year.
One mystery is why Israel’s Omicron wave is proving a rougher ride in terms of ICU admissions and deaths compared to ours.
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Well I don’t know about any super deadly virus but footballers are still falling victim to ‘Climate Change’. Live on air too, apparently;
”Wow! 3rd footballer collapsed on live TV this week!
30 year old Egyptian National Footballer Ahmed Refaat collapsed on the pitch during a match between his club Modern Future FC and Ittihad.
The Egyptian international suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to hospital. After an hour, his heart started beating again.
Club’s medical supervisors claimed doctors hadn’t seen something like it before.”
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Sorry, what is this “covid 19 pandemic”?
Whatever the origins, and regardless of whether it’s even a novel pathogen or whether viruses exist at all in the way they are portrayed, the “covid” scam globally with all the lockdowns, withdrawal of medical care, dodgy “vaccines” etc etc is much more than “gross negligence”. I have flip flopped on this but my views on the “origin” “story” are tending towards thinking it’s at this stage a luxury distraction from the “why” and “how” of the “covid” reaction by governments and others worldwide, in lockstep.
The world requires answers.
The question that I have is why?
What would be the point of developing a common cold coronavirus in a laboratory when at least four are already out there in circulation, at least one of which probably hopped from animals to humans?
More to the point, why turn the world upside down for something that wasn’t dangerous, regardless of where it came from?
Well they have turned the world upside down for a 1 degree natural rise in temperature, so they are well used to capitalising on non-crises.
Incompetence or venality, or both. Farrar, who knew not much, gave a press conference (circa 24 Jan. I think) at Davos where he pretty much said that the new coronavirus was as dangerous as SARS but a great deal more infectious, palpable nonsense in terms of its CFR, as was clear certainly by 06 Feb 2020. They needed to bounce some vaccine development funding out of the U.S.
The result? PANIC! (and vaccine funding!)
They knew it wasn’t dangerous early on
Can you evidence that?
Well I knew
You knew by 24 Jan 2020? Good effort!
This was what Farrar and colleagues said at Davos 24 Jan 2020:
‘It is not SARS. The virus is in a similar family as SARS but this looks different … and the difference is probably it is easier to pass between human beings. I think we can expect many more cases in China and many more cases in other parts of the world.’
Richard then emphasised how much was unknown, such as how infectious the virus was; the pattern of transmission; the range of symptoms and whether they ran from mild to severe; the exact number of cases; how far it had spread geographically’
I wrote early on, not necessarily immediately
The reason I ask about evidence (genuine question) is simply because, if you are correct and can evidence that Farrar and co. knew early on covid was simply another common cold coronavirus, then they could be held to account.
Certainly they should have known by 06 February but they, of course, maintain that they did not, and, indeed, still believe that covid really did cause a ‘pandemic’.
Farrar’s own account to the inquiry, needless to say, appears to back that up.
At some point between February and March there was enough data from the Diamond Princess to see that this wasn’t in the same ballpark as SARS.
But in a way “evidence” seems irrelevant to me. Repeating as they do to this day that there was a deadly pandemic that required extraordinary measures, which in combination with the “vaccine” saved us from disaster, to me seems like saying “black is white” because there is simply no evidence FOR that statement. I feel like I am in a parallel reality.
Is it not possible that those like Farrar, who were in the know about the research, and put two and two together about the leak (either accidental or above his paygrade if a deliberate release), would naturally assume that the attempt to build a deadly pathogen had actually produced a deadly pathogen?
In that case, their impossible task would have appeared to be to keep the lab origin secret at all costs, and to put the genie back in the bottle with vaccines etc at all costs.
The consequence was that a bug that would scarcely have been noticed (because their research was crap) actually became a global disaster because of the response, all designed to protect the deep state and their own backs.
Bioweapon research alied to research on “viruses” in order to help mankind develop a vaccine to enable all humanity to become immune to the virus which the bioweapon lab er, may have created in the first place.
An alternative view is that viruses, ie random? chains of nucleotides do not exist in the sense that they actually cause disease – as drilled into all medics, the MSM and governments by bigpharma courtesy of Pasteur and the Rockefellers. All illnesses and disease may merely be cellular housekeeping necessitated by stress, pollution, age and just living in an ever increasing chemical world. Oh, and being vaccinated in the first place.
Nothing sells better than the lure of a cure to disease.
Lots and lots of money to be made.
Bastard Snake Oil Salesmen, but very rich and powerful are they.
Cui Bono!
It had to be “novel” so they could ban Ivermectin and HCQ, allowing them to declare their “vaccines” Emergency Use Authorisation. So the aim appears to be an excuse to, as Gates declared in 2014 (TED talk), vaccinate the world.
But why? Sure Big Pharma makes $Billions in profit, but why did (do) they want to inject everyone with their experimental mRNA product? If it changes everyone’s DNA, then (conspiracy alert) do the injected become some kind of Human 2.0, a genetically modified transhuman that is “owned” by the mRNA manufacturers?
This is pure conjecture, but there has to be some reason behind what they did.
Here are some possible reasons why.
1.To vaccinate the entire population, as suggested by Bill Gates in a 2104 TED talk, but to what end?
a. To kill and main a proportion of the population
b. To create some kind of chemical dependency
c. To create an endless revenue stream for the Big Pharma companies
d. To compromise the innate immune system, to make the vaccinated more susceptible to disease, leading to a future dependency on pharmaceutical drugs
e. To introduce some foreign agent, as yet undisclosed – graphene, nano-lipids, nanoparticles
2. To introduce a vaccine passport system, whereby people can be punished, excluded or fined for failure to keep up to date with their “required” boosters and vaccinations
3. To introduce a China style social credit system, whereby peoples movements, and other aspects of their lives can be controlled, a natural extension to item 2.
4. Use the fear generated to control the populations, allowing the implementation of Agenda 2030, Zero carbon goals, the WEF Great Reset and Build Back Better initiatives, 15 minute cities.
5. Introduce CBDC’s and usher in the cashless society, tied in neatly to items 2, 3 and 4.
6. Leading to “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy” and you will do exactly what you are told, when you are told without question. Failure to comply will mean total exclusion from society or movement to a death camp (potentially).
7. Alternatively, this could be just part of the wider Climate Emergency agenda, to allow lockdowns and other measures to be introduced to combat Climate Change – which always means Manmade Climate Change.
The virus wasn’t the cause of the problem; the government power grab using the virus as an excuse was the disaster. This ‘virus origin’ obsession is a distraction.
No – not a distraction because it is how they planned the power grab. It’s the same calculus as knowing that NATO and the military industrial complex is exploiting the Ukraine war because they engineered it in the first place.
It’s the modus operandi, which is good to know: are the powers exploiting the fact of anthropogenic climate change for gain of wealth and power, or did they not engineer the “fact” in the first place? Are they exploiting an escalating financial crisis to gain control, or engineering it? The difference matters.
Not if the outcome was the US Government’s intent to destroy individual liberty. The panic and total failure of governments worldwide to maintain a modicum of critical thought and conservatism has ushered-in a new global authoritarian age and probably new Dark Age. The Enlightenment is clearly toast and unreason/madness mounts.
I can well imagine the following conversation:
Fauci to Shi Zhengli at Wuhan “did the virus escape from the Wuhan lab?”
Shi Zhengli to Fauci “probably, but if you point the finger at us, we will announce who funded the research.”
Both “if one hangs, we both do….. so we must lie.”