There follows a guest post by Dr. David Seedhouse, Honorary Professor of Deliberative Practice at Aston University, who wonders why the NHS has been busy updating its monkeypox webpage.
According to one section of the NHS conditions website, monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research. It is a well-known virus, studied by scientists for decades, spread by close contact, and has established treatments.
So why has another part of the website recently been altered?
The screenshots below (provided by an eagle-eyed member of Our Decision Too) are a little difficult to read, but close inspection shows that the NHS has deleted key excerpts from its website, which previously stated that monkeypox is “usually a mild illness that will get better on its own without treatment” and “it’s very uncommon to get monkeypox from a person with the infection because it does not spread easily between people”. (Archived pages for November 2nd, May 19th and May 21st can be found on the Internet Archive.)
Despite the previous acknowledgement that monkeypox is difficult to spread, an isolation requirement has been added, “as the infection can spread through close contact, it’s important to isolate if you’re diagnosed with it”. It continues:
You may be asked to isolate at home if your symptoms are mild.
If your symptoms are severe or you’re at higher risk of getting seriously ill (for example, if you have a weakened immune system), you may need to stay in a specialist hospital until you recover.
You may be offered a vaccination to reduce the risk of getting seriously ill.
What would happen if the patient does not want to attend a specialist hospital is not discussed, nor is it explained how a vaccination will help an already infected person.
The page was reviewed on May 27th. We are told that the next review will not be until April 25th 2025. Worth bookmarking?
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Good Luck to Accenture. Working for TfL with that little squirt as Mayor must be a nightmare, at the best of times.
Accenture are probably quite glad. Any excuse to not have to work with that pipsqueak.
Traitorous squirt.
I know it’s a very easy one and I apologise in advance;
But what an apocalyptic Khant. I hope he gets eternal, painful anal fissures and IBS.
Why is this even on your agenda it is sick and absurd. The rise in knife crime is talked about in the Apocalypse of John in regard to the opening of the second seal. When you perceive these matters correctly then that is the first stage of overcoming the darkness.
This is the knife-king, the stabbaman, a scrotum full of old needles and razorblades. This is the filth that you allow to grow. No explanation save the money was good and it was worth it at the time. Now you reap the bitter harvest of your ignorance and cupidity.
The real purpose of DIE is the promotion of the Great Replacement. Good to see Khanage-the-Vile showing his true colours.
Khan needs to learn that no human empire has ever survived. His will fall in due course.
We’re an SME, on the small end of the spectrum, and we got badgered into creating CSR and DIE policies by a big prospective client, though they say precisely nothing and have the same effect- we actually removed the “DIE” phrase itself from the template policy we started with
Loads of footage of these incidents floating about. Lowlife scallies get right behind somebody as they go through the ticket barrier so that they get to go through too and avoid paying the fare. And by all accounts they get away with it, but sometimes you see members of the public challenging them, but never the staff. It’s similar to how a certain demographic appear to be entitled to a 100% discount when they go ‘shopping’ because the security staff just stand there watching while the thieving gits leisurely take their time filling their haversacks with booty, like they know they’re not going to get caught. Apparently police respond to only 40% of calls about shoplifting, so not much deterrent there, then. I presume security are told not to touch the thieves in case they’re carrying a knife, in which case shops may as well just have a cardboard cut-out of a security guard instead of employing an actual person. But what happened to ‘citizens arrests’, like the British guy in Amsterdam?
”Transport for London admits to instructing staff not to pursue those who break through ticket barriers to evade fares.
Jokes about never needing to pay for trains again aside:
Everyone with working eyes knows they aren’t doing this because “it’s racist.”
The majority of fare evaders I see every week in London are black men in their teens and twenties, with chunky trainers and matching tracksuits, who can afford the fare but know there are no consequences for them if they break the social contract.
Happened just yesterday in London Bridge: a hoodlum dashed through the barriers behind a woman who paid, and ran down the escalator to the tube. Staff did nothing.
Enforcing the law results in large numbers of non-white males receiving fines and getting in trouble with Transport Police — so they just stop enforcing the rules, for fear of being called racist.
Yet another example of two-tier Britain.”
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1910294980985233639
This lady speaks truth. The Khant must be so proud of his crime-ridden dump of a capital city;
”Blackheath fun fair was closed down because, allegedly, a bunch of kids were running around with knives.
This local woman had some choice words for the parents… (expletives aside) she’s 100% spot on.”
https://x.com/alexharmstrong/status/1910315576171315442
I used to commute into London daily. Every now and then I’d be aware of some pillock trying to tailgate me through the barriers. A brief hesitation on taking the ticket would usually prevent it. Contactless tickets put the kibosh on that idea though.
By allowing the small crimes, we’re permitting the big ones.
I’ve had a few confrontations with people tailgating me on the tube. Pretty regular occurrence.
I used to take a lot of London buses. I remember a day when some scrote in front of us sauntered on past the driver without touching in. No challenge. I did the same and the driver stopped me. I pointed this out to him. Basically I looked normal and the bloke in front of me looked mad enough to get into it if challenged. I also remember a hard-arse bus driver at Turnpike Lane refusing entry to a bunch of black kids who were not paying. They were outraged that the driver, also a black man, had prioritised doing his job over “racial solidarity”.
As a private sector business, Accenture has ditched DIE for the load of cobblers it is, whereas public-sector TfL indulges Kommissar Khan’s ulterior motive of pandering to his voting base.
The little Kommissar Must Fall.
Will that save TfL some money?
I really despise management teams that hire so many consultants to avoid making decisions and cover their arses. If they’re hiring ‘consultants’ it means they don’t have the expertise to do the job that needs doing. Sack them.
Once in a while a management team will run across an unusual problem and will need help from a consultant. Next time they meet the same problem they should have learned how to manage it.
As you say, it’s to avoid having to make decisions and ultimately do the work they are actually paid to do. Generally the more expensive the consultants, the better these people think they are…
This is the problem with taxes.
That little tyrant Khan derives his power to bestow his grace on those he considers worthy from the money he steals from me.
I don’t agree with his way of spending my money. He is using g money he steals from me to promote ideology that I find repulsive
It’s hard to get people to reconsider their fixed idea that there’s no alternative
Could be time to buy shares in ‘Accenture”.
They should do well without being tainted…
Khan is proving he isn’t interested in creativity, just compliance to his views. Every time I think I have bottomed out in my disgust toward that man, he lowers the bar again!
I don’t mean to be contentious here but I do wonder if Khan has ever visited Heathrow Airport, or indeed had his car taken away by one of the “valet” companies servicing the clients there. There doesn’t appear to be much in the way of Diversity or inclusion going on there.
How much longer can this obnoxious smarmy pip squeak be allowed to preside over the uk,s Capital City ? The enjoyment & self satisfaction he gets from London,s demise actually ooze’s from him like a curried fart !