England’s autumn Covid wave has begun as figures show both infections and virus admissions to hospital are beginning to surge. The Mail has more.
NHS statistics show a 48% weekly uptick in the number of infected patients in England needing treatment, sparking panic among health chiefs.
And the Office for National Statistics, which tracks the size of the country’s outbreak, estimates cases have risen 12% over the space of three days, suggesting pressure on hospitals is nowhere close to peaking. Roughly 860,000 people in England are thought to be carrying Covid.
It marks the first sustained rise since mid-July, when the summer wave peaked and ministers faced calls to bring back pandemic-era restrictions.
Hospitals have been overwhelmed all summer. Care backlogs have amassed to record highs, patients have been killed by ambulance delays and thousands forced to queue 12-plus hours in swamped A&E units.
The never-ending crisis, largely fuelled by a lack of staff, has already forced one NHS trust in Nottinghamshire to start cancelling routine operations. Rationing care is the only way to ensure critically-ill patients get urgent care, bosses said.
Leaders fear the situation will only worsen as routine winter pressures begin to bite, with Covid and flu expected to combine to create a ‘twindemic’…
The rate of daily virus hospital admissions is also increasing, with 7.6 admissions per 100,000 people in the week to September 25th, up from five the previous week. Rates are highest among people aged 85 and over, at 82 per 100,000. This is up sharply from 49.4 and is the highest rate for this age group since mid-August. However, six in 10 so-called Covid patients were primarily admitted to hospital for another ailment – and just happened to test positive.
Health chiefs say the infected still pile pressure on hospitals, because they have to be isolated from patients who are not infected.
Hospitals have already started cancelling scheduled operations amid “extreme pressures” due to “high numbers” of patients showing up at emergency departments and the bed blocking crisis…
With a surge in people seeking hospital care due to Covid, flu and the economic crisis in the coming weeks, the cancellation of more routine operations could be on the horizon. Millions of procedures were cancelled during the first year of the pandemic, as hospitals prepared to treat an influx of those sickened with the virus. And thousands more were cancelled last year – despite the successful vaccine rollout and the virus not posing enough of a threat to bring in tough restrictions.
Any extra stress on the health service is expected to exacerbate its already record low performance.
Nearly 7 million patients in England were already in the queue for routine hospital treatment by July, the latest date figures are available for. The figure equates to one in eight people, including nearly 380,000 who have faced year-long delays…
Separate data from the Zoe Health Study, which is based on symptoms reported by volunteers across the country, suggests one in 32 people in the U.K. had symptomatic Covid at the start of this week, with rates rising in all age groups.
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The Tory’s demise has been telegraphed for a generation or more, probably since they knifed Thatcher and tried in the intervening years to accommodate the views of both extremes of the party rather than insist that they followed the common central line, or leave.
To blame Farage for precipitating their collapse is pointless, although thoroughly expected of a party that lacks the capacity for self-reflection. Reform has simply filled the void left by their implosion… it is a symptom, not a cause.
I do not recall much accommodation to Eurosceptic, freedom loving patriots. The running was by and for left wing globalists and deficit spending. Add in an enthusiasm for quangos and wokery with “vote blue get green”.
I think Brexit was the final straw. The one that broke the back of a party trying to maintain the fiction of unity when, at best, there were three or more factions tilting for supremacy.
Their eventual demise was inevitable, short of one side or other gaining sufficient dominance to expel the other. Which they were never actually going to do, in any case, as the trappings of power are too seductive.
Of course, Labour suffer from much the same issue, but possibly over an even wider spectrum, though they currently have both the MSM and Civil Service ‘on side’, for the time being.
Both of which are other factors in the equation, for the moment at least…
“If Farage succeeds in destroying the Tories,”
The Tories have done this to themselves.
“In the Telegraph, Annabel Denham argues that while Farage’s Reform is gaining momentum, his quest to obliterate the Tories might doom us to endless Left-wing rule.”
1) The Tories have obliterated themselves.
2) The Tories were and are left-wing.
3) Like any politician, Farage seeks to gain more support than rivals. Singling him out as being somehow to blame for “left wing rule” is a crock.
I think we have had left wing rule of various sorts for a very long time in the UK, with the occasional correction. A definition I like is to characterise the political left as having the “unconstrained vision” (see below for a summary of Thomas Sowell’s contrasting definitions) and the right as having the “constrained vision”. I think the unconstrained vision is what most people buy into and have done for a very long time, in most rich world “liberal democracies”.
In what he terms the “constrained vision,” man is by nature flawed, selfish, and limited. Under the constrained vision, man seeks to deal with his flaws and excesses by establishing institutions of restraint: the separation of powers, constitutions, etc. Those who employ the constrained vision see abuses of power by leaders like Napoleon Bonaparte as inevitable. For this reason, limitations must be placed on power and on the institutions themselves so that it is more difficult for any individual to abuse them. The idea is to decentralize power so that man’s flaws are not catastrophic.
The “unconstrained vision,” by contrast, sees abuses of power as being caused by not having chosen the right leaders or established the right kinds of institutions. “Implicit,” writes Sowell, “is the notion that the potential is very different from the actual, and that means exist to improve human nature toward its potential, or that such means can be evolved or discovered, so that man will do the right thing for the right reason rather than for ulterior psychic or economic rewards.” And central to the unconstrained vision is the notion that human beings are highly malleable; they can be trained in the service of some ideal.
That reminds me the so-called Tory Eurosceptic Tories said a Brexit referendum could not be won and dod their best to prove it.
I hope I am wrong about the voters
There’s a much better video of “my generation ” on the web:
https://youtu.be/qN5zw04WxCc?si=nqoDtBMBfFk1bbX-
A real time capsule of what we’ve lost.
Totally agree with June Slater’s comment here. Obviously I did not watch globalist King Charles’ speech but the sad reality is that Prince William is exactly the same.It’s evidently not just the cabinets that have been penetrated;
”Anyone using the word Diversity as a plus point in the description of anything and especially Christianity, shows which team they’re batting for, and it isn’t Britain, or our values, or Christianity.
The King’s speech was filled with references to diversity . His speech sent a shiver down my spine.
Sitting in a chapel, as a backdrop was a hopeful sign, alas it’s a ‘ former’ chapel, now as he describes it a vibrant community space.
Our churches aren’t supposed to be a vibrant community space. They’re supposed to be hallowed ground. The public have lost interest in the church because the church has lost interest in them . It’s a business and it’s spiritually no longer present.
It appears rotten from the head down.
I’m no Bible thumper, but it seems to me other religions are now promoted by The very head of our own. Do other faiths surrender their holy ground for vibrant community spaces?
Do the heads of other religions have leaders who sacrifice their system to incorporate others?
He inherited his job, he needs no tests to prove him worthy and it comes with abundant powers that need a hand with a light touch and a fair mind.
I see before me as a king, so far removed from the needs and concerns of his people he is merely an aloof presence, with a mind that can be easily manipulated by advisors in close proximity, whose goals are not a thriving British nation. You could be forgiven for thinking a very destructive force is at work that finds our needs and ambitions rather tiresome and tedious, and certainly no consideration of theirs.
We are merely a nuisanc, an obstacle, until enough people have been distracted whilst a massive influx of others are settled into place.
A new melee of individuals with no allegiance to anything we hold dear.
Their imported faith as alien to us as the languages they speak…
The King’s vocabulary would probably not be noticed in many households on a busy Christmas Day… His words rolled along his sanctimonious road with intervals of selfish concerns , interjected to display him as a warm being with problems similar to our own. It failed to warm me to him.
It simply filled my heart with foreboding.”
Joseph Robertson makes good comments and sound observations here. Yes it’s Cultural Marxism, and inconveniently for many here, neither Schwab nor Soros ( to name only two hugely powerful and destructive forces ) happen to be female ( 7mins );
”Patriots, a seismic shift has occurred!
Reform UK has now surpassed the Tories in membership. Is this the start of a peaceful revolution?
Watch this video to fully understand what we need to do in the battle for Britain’s soul.”
https://x.com/nero_returns/status/1872664143465267665
John O’Looney reiterating his theory about a ”standing army” being imported under the Trojan Horse guise of ”asylum seekers”;
”Your government is betraying you and mass importing UN troops.
This is Starmer’s already mentioned “standing army” ready for the next lockdown enforcement and any attempt to remove him from destroying this country from within.”
https://x.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1872691376661643724