The Sunday Times reports that the Strategic Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has been told that the British death toll from COVID-19 could climb above 100,000 by the end of the year if Boris Johnson eases the lockdown too much or too fast. These estimates come from researchers at the London School of Tropical Hygiene, the always-reliable Imperial College London and other places that have modelled the likely impact of of different exit policies. (Can we see the code please?) However, the paper doesn’t disclose whether this formed part of the advice given to the Government by SAGE when it last met on Thursday.
Boris Johnson’s address to the nation about “phase two” of the lockdown is expected to be at 7pm this evening. According to the Sunday Times, he will announce that:
- From tomorrow, the limit on one form of exercise a day will be scrapped, allowing people outdoors if they observe the two-metre social distancing rules. Staff at No 10 have been told that Johnson will begin jogging again this week
- Fines will be increased for those failing to abide by the new rules
- From Wednesday, garden centres will re-open
- The public will be advised – but not forced – to wear face coverings on public transport and in shops
- Within two weeks new arrivals in the UK will be required to go into isolation for 14 days, with quarantine centres set up for those who do not have a home where they can self-isolate.
- “Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives” will be replaced with “Stay alert, save lives”
On that last bullet point, it doesn’t look like Scotland will be ditching the “stay home” slogan. Sturgeon said on Twitter this morning that #StayHomeSaveLives “remains my clear message to Scotland at this stage”. According to the Mail, this has thrown Boris’s planned announcement into chaos.
I thought this would be a good moment to change the slogan of this website. It was: “Stay sane. Protect the economy. Save livelihoods.” However, given that more and more scientists and public health experts are warning that the lockdown will end up causing a greater loss of life than it prevents, I’ve changed it to: “Stay sceptical. End the lockdown. Save lives.”
It looks like Wales isn’t planning to abandon the “stay home” slogan either. Shame, but at least Wales has its very own lockdown sceptics website (no relation) called ‘We The People‘, or, rather, ‘Y Gwir yn Erbyn Y Byd’. Full of useful resources and links. Definitely worth a look.
Many of today’s papers have photographs of people enjoying the sunshine over the bank holiday weekend, suggesting the “stay home” message is beginning to lose some of its power in any event. Here’s one from the Mail:
The Prime Minister has given an interview to the Sun on Sunday‘s David Wooding in which he tries to lower expectations ahead of this evening’s announcement. He told the paper that the “descent” from a mountain is always the riskiest bit. “That’s when you’re liable to be overconfident and make mistakes,” he said. “You have very few options on the climb up – but it’s on the descent you have to make sure you don’t run too fast, lose control and stumble.” He added:
I said that we would turn the tide within three months. I believe we are definitely on course to do that.
The peak could have been colossal, we could have had an absolute disaster. We’re past the peak now but we’ll have to work very hard to get every step right.
We’ve beaten it, we’ve come through it, we can see the sunlight ahead and it is just a question now of making sure, as we come down that mountain, we don’t stumble. We mustn’t throw away the gains that we’ve made.
If everybody works together, we won’t. That’s the message.
Also in today’s Sun on Sunday is a poll revealing that nine in 10 people do not want Boris to ease the lockdown. Only one in 50 believe the restrictions have been in place for too long, with just 4% in favour of a gradual lifting of the lockdown starting this week. Almost a quarter – 24% – don’t want restrictions lifted before the end of July or until the virus has been completely eradicated. A reader has provided me with a quote that seems appropriate here:
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
As usual, the Germans continue to put us to shame. Yesterday brought news of thousands of people protesting on the streets of Munich and thousands more in Stuttgart to demand the lifting of restrictions ordered by the German authorities.
I was taken aback to see a Government-sponsored spread in the Sun advising people to avoid “quack” treatments, such as “UV lights” and chloroquine. Quite surprising, given that there’s now a lot of evidence linking Vitamin D deficiency to an increased risk of death from the virus, as reported in the Sun yesterday, and mounting evidence that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are effective treatments for COVID-19, as reported in the Sun on April 29th.
As I noted yesterday, the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD) has decided to police social media to draw attention to fake news and conspiracy theories – and, embarrassingly, it refers to the hypothesis that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a “right-wing conspiracy theory” even though the same theory is being investigated by a consortium of Western intelligence agencies. Today, I’ve spotted that the ISD has done some work with Carl Miller, an employee of a left-wing think tank, for the BBC’s flagship technology programme, BBC Click, to identify the source of “disinformation and hate” about the pandemic on Facebook. And the culprit is… drum roll… “the global far right”.
If you watch the report Carl Miller has pulled together for the BBC with the help of Chloe Colliver, Head of Digital Policy for the ISD, you’ll see that among the toxic conspiracy theories they’ve identified is the claim that the virus was “engineered” and that chloroquine is an effective treatment for COVID-19. According to Miller, that last theory is “unproven and potentially dangerous”. Another dangerous idea, apparently, is the notion that the risk from the virus has been “overhyped” by governments and the media. Miller says the “disinformation” he and Colliver have uncovered could be “a lot more potent” than the disinformation pumped out by shady, far right organisations during election campaigns because it might “convince people to not listen to government advice about staying at home”. Miller concludes his report by telling us he passed on his findings to Facebook and received the following reply: “We have removed a number of links BBC Click shared with us for violating our policies on hate speech and the spread of harmful misinformation.”
If the BBC is going to employ left-wing busybodies to browbeat social media companies into censoring people who think SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a biolab, that chloroquine is an effective treatment and that the risk posed by the disease has been overhyped, that’s one more reason to stop paying the license fee.
Yesterday, I drew readers’ attention to the robotic dog being used by the authorities in Singapore to make sure people follow the social distancing rules. Today, I bring news of an even more ingenious contraption, this one devised by a police force in India. Thanks to this over-sized pick-up reacher, the police can now arrest Covid dissidents without risking infection:
Good to see not all police officers are simply following orders and fining or arresting people for not complying with lockdown orders. A reader sent me this bitchute video of a US cop advising his colleagues that the constitutional rights of US citizens should not be suspended on the say-so of a mayor or a governor or a chief of police. “That’s not how this country works,” he reminds us. Well said, Officer Anderson.
One of the biggest stories of recent weeks has been the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). But what happens to this life-saving kit after it’s been used? One reader in Lincolnshire has found out:
Every time I go out on my bicycle round here I find bits of PPE scattered by the side of the road, usually the giveaway blue gloves. Here’s today’s find – a PPE mask evidently hurled out of a car window and decorating the verge near the village of Ropsley. Who’s the culprit? No idea, but it’s presumably a health worker of some sort who’s quite happy to chuck used PPE into the general environment rather than dispose of it safely.
And it’s not just here. A reader who lives in Malaga has alerted me to the same problem:
The first day we were allowed out everywhere was nice and clean and tidy. But every morning I go out there are masks and gloves littering the sides of the roads and in the hedgerows. I wonder what on earth goes through these twats’ heads. Clearly not very much.
It seems Lockdown Sceptics is gradually transforming itself from a blog into something more – although quite what that is remains to be seen. Yesterday, I published a follow-up by “Sue Denim” to his/her post about the shortcomings of Professor Ferguson’s code; today, I’m publishing a piece by Rob Lyons – real name this time – entitled ‘Public Health England: A Predictable Failure’. Lyons is scathing about the executive agency of the Department for Health and Social Care. Here’s an extract:
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that PHE is a less-than-dynamic organisation. Far from being staffed by the brightest and the best, innovative and entrepreneurial, PHE is run by the usual quangocrats. These are people whose CVs describe a merry-go-round ride of one job after another for which they are, at best, only moderately qualified. Having delivered uninspiring leadership in one organisation, they move along to ‘lead’ another, accumulating vast pensions and titles along the way.
I was pleased to receive this message from a Labour Party voter. It’s not just the Conservative Party which is causing disillusionment among its most fervent supporters:
I’m an avid reader of your website. I’m not ordinarily someone who would find myself in agreement with you about most things – I’ve always voted Labour and was a Corbyn supporter, voting twice for him as leader. However, I’m appalled by the strategy of ‘lockdown’ and also the supine agreement of the Labour Party to this lunacy. I will also never, ever, buy a copy of the Guardian again.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that coronavirus could kill up to 190,000 in Africa this year if it’s not adequately contained. My friend Aidan Hartley, Kenyan resident and Spectator Wild Life correspondent, points out that this isn’t very many in the grand scheme of things:
You are more likely to die of booze (174,000 cirrhosis) than Covid-19 in Africa (maybe 83,000 – 190,000 says the WHO had no measures been imposed – and some countries have been draconian). Africa’s traffic accidents will kill three times to a third more people than COVID-19. These WHO figures for virus deaths would rank just above “self-harm” in Africa, or at its worst, just above “interpersonal violence”. Africa’s main killers are still HIV, TB, malaria, respiratory diseases and dysentery, which kill 3.5 million combined. Those communicable diseases will now skyrocket as 100 million MORE Africans slide back into poverty due to the economic impacts of lockdown here and in the West.
A round-up of all the stories I’ve noticed, or which have been been brought to my attention, in the last 24 hours:
- ‘Statistician accuses ministers of failure to prioritise random COVID-19 testing‘ – Sir David Spiegelhalter has criticised the Government for not prioritising random antibody testing so we can build up a clear picture of how many Britons have had the virus, according to the Sunday Times
- ‘This care home carnage shames the nation‘ – Dominic Lawson berates the Department for Health and Social Care’s murderous policy of encouraging hospitals to discharge elderly patients back into care homes at the beginning of the lockdown, including those who’d tested positive for COVID-19
- ‘The virus that turned up late‘ – Post by Alistair Haimes for Hector Drummond’s blog in which he points out that the only difference between coronavirus and other outbreaks of nasty seasonal flu is that this virus turned up three months later than usual. Includes the great line: “When I complain about people fearfully embracing their incarceration I can no longer use the phrase ‘Stockholm Syndrome’, and that makes me angry.”
- ‘The strange case of the choir that coughed in January‘ – BBC story about a choir in Baildon, a village in West Yorkshire, that experienced a bout of a nasty, flu-like illness back in January that looks awfully like coronavirus. Was it circulating among the general population earlier than has been reported?
- ‘China Asked WHO To Delay Pandemic Announcement, Deny Human-To-Human Transmission: German Intelligence‘ – Zero Hedge on the German intelligence leak purporting to show that Xi Jinping asked WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Thebreyesus to cover up the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in January
- ‘Pandemic of Pillocks‘ – A Comedy Unleashed special devised by comedian Andrew Lawrence. Warning: Contains some smutty gags
- ‘Has our mad mass house arrest during COVID-19 saved even a single life?‘ – Peter Hitchens’ latest column in the Mail on Sunday
- ‘Locking up the elderly until coronavirus is defeated is a cruel mockery of basic human values‘ – Withering critique of the lockdown by Jonathan Sumption in last week’s Mail on Sunday. Can’t believe I missed this one
- ‘Wrecking entire economies: Lockdowns may be causing more harm than good worldwide, and especially in India‘ – Case against locking down India by Professor Ramesh Thakur in the Times of India
- ‘Toby Young on the Failure of the Lockdown‘ – Thought I’d give this a plug. It’s a YouTube video of me talking to the Post-Millennial‘s Nico Johnson about the biggest failure of public policy that’s ever happened during peacetime
Some more suggestions for theme songs from readers: ‘Eve of Destruction‘ by Barry Neil, ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next‘ by the Manic Street Preachers, ‘Steppin’ Out‘ by Joe Jackson (some hope) and, by way of tribute to the recently deceased Little Richard, ‘Whole Lotta Shaking Going On‘.
Thanks as always to those who made a donation in the last 24 hours to pay for the upkeep of the site. If you feel like donating, you can do so by clicking here. (Every little helps!) And if you want to flag up any stories or links I should include in tomorrow’s update, you can email me here.
I thought I’d end today’s update with a poem sent to me by Tiree MacGregor. Called ‘The Back-Pedalling Autocratic Functionary’ it was inspired by the words of Chief Constable Nick Alderly of Northamptonshire Police who said on April 9th: “We will not, at this stage, be setting up road blocks. We will not, at this stage, start to marshal supermarkets and be checking the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it’s a legitimate, necessary item. But again, be under no illusion. If people do not heed the warnings and the pleas I’m making today, we will start to do that.”
Officious fool in uniform, what need
We of your subtle threats and dour commands?
Zealous for order, at whose pleasure do
You think you serve? If it be government’s
Or monarch’s, then think: At whose pleasure theirs?
Who has “illusions”? – And “necessity”?For you, your weapons formed of Hobbesian dread,
Where is our gentle Shakespeare, whose high art
Demolishes the thoughts that shape your head,
And, brother, what high ardour forms your heart?In copperspeak, you’re nicked: for threats won’t wash;
The velvet-covered cosh is still a cosh.
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It was never a dangerous disease. As evidenced by the downgrade from being a High Consequence Infectious Disease back in March 2020.
Didn’t seem to matter one bit in March 2020. Won’t matter now.
I remember pointing this out at the time as if it was going to have some effect in people’s minds. Simpler easier times, when we all still thought bleedingly obvious facts would have an impact.
I shouted it from the rooftops at the time, and all I got was a Does Not Compute look, or a “how dare you!” response .
You are so right. “it never was a dangerous disease”.
This information was available to every scientist and government in the world, so why did they treat it as Ebola times 10?
Why did we completely ignore our own plans for dealing with a flu outbreak?
Why? because the U.S. had been formulating a scheme to deal with post 9/11 biological terror attacks since 2005 when their DHHS ( Department of Health and Human Services) started to investigate the effects of new severe influenza ‘A’ viruses as being similar in requirements to man made biological attacks.
In 2005 they promoted new domestic increased pandemic vaccine production capacity, stockpiling of anti viral drugs and pre pandemic vaccines and for the “use of community mitigation measures” to slow the spread of the disease. (sound familiar, lockdowns for short).
They stated that “the U.S, was wholly unprepared to address the significant medical and health needs that a severe pandemic might present” They suggest that, pandemic influenza threats are one of the greatest public health challenges of our time, other emerging infectious diseases can also have a devastating impact on human health.”
However, the capacity and capabilities developed for pandemic viral influenza preparedness will enable HHS to respond more effectively to other emerging infectious diseases”.
This report was updated in 2009 and again in 2017.
What is also clear from this report is they wanted to make every effort to include as many relevant government agencies; from CDC to CIA to Homeland security and Scientists from across the nation and from as many countries in the world as they could. Including, it would appear our own. They are following the U.S. plan religiously.
Along comes Sars-Cov-2 and the full, well lubricated (billions of dollars), machine roars into action.
Just one small problem; Sars-Cov-2 wasn’t remotely in the category of severe pandemic.
Trouble is, once the behemoth is moving, it’s impossible to stop.
If you haven’t yet lost the will to live, and are prepared to read the 2017 edition, you can find it by researching
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Pandemic Influenza Plan
2017 Update
Only 52 pages for your enjoyment and horror.
I wonder if Ferguson is backing off the pro pandemic pro lockdown rhetoric because he’s losing credibility.
i don’t think he’s to bothered about losing credibility, its something he excels at
Which credibility?
That’s still the guy who had is otherwise-married female bedmate travel twice all across London, even without a mask as that wasn’t the miracle cure already back than, during the first lockdown.
This strongly speaks for the fact that he’s very realistisc regarding his assessment of personal risk, IOW, that there is none. But that’s not what he’s getting paid for when making public statements.
When did he have credibility?
He’s following the game plan.
Vaccines have saved us.
Cue pat on the back from Bill and his pharma buddies.
I suppose we can’t have a freedom of information request for conversations between Gates and all those shaping current policy? Come to think of it, it’s an absolute scandal if he has the slightest influence on current policy.
Didn’t Cummings say in his testimony to the parliamentary commission that people from the Gates Foundation met with him in March 2020 to put forward the vaccination solution to the crisis?
Perhaps Ferguson will at some point claim to have saved us all and come out with some models to ‘prove’ it.
Johnson is backing pro-pandemic Pro-lockdown because of the Cummings ‘revelations’ and he wants to look like a serious prime minister with a plan.
engine room, we need more power, up the PCR Ct to 55 – but captain it just cant take it….
Prof Pants Down seems to be giving the credit to dodgy vaccines – more likely its after nearly 2 years of highly contagious virus circulating the vast majority of us have natural immunity, dare I say natural herd immunity – despite the dodgy vaxxeeeens
Wasn’t it University College London that stated the UK had achieved herd immunity a couple of months ago?
I look forward to SAGE doing its stint in the chain-gang.
The concept of “confirmation bias” should be drilled into every single person from a very young age. You see it everywhere these days. Government says everyone should wear masks: “Well, we have to do what the government says, always.” Government says you don’t have to wear masks: “Well, what does the government know? Let’s be safe.” Or maybe, just maybe, you’re only listening to the things you want to listen to, and despite all this talk about “science” and “policy”, you don’t care at all about any of them, unless they can enable you to be a small tyrant.
The Delta scariant is as dangerous as Flu (0.2% CFR, much lower in under 50s) according to the government in May.
Doesn’t make any difference, they’re not going to let the ‘control group’ of unvaccinated go without being hounded to the ends of the Earth. There’s too much face saving and profit at stake.
Probably true – but they now have a much harder nut to crack!
Damage control until we get to Autumn and then we will have old people dying with respiratory illnesses again
which will be the fault of the “unvaxxed”, and never mind that this happens every year.
There is nothing in the “cautious statement” From Neil Ferguson that could not have been said two months ago. It is only at the point that his “inevitable” 100,000 forecast looks completely untenable that he suddenly claims a fundamental change to the forecast equation has occurred. As someone who works with this kind of data analysis all of the time I can tell you for free – the forecast equation only changes when it is proven wrong by the data. Compared to the “inevitable forecast” date, the only thing that has changed is that the positive test line has dropped dramatically. His forecast is wrong because his model assumptions were always wrong and the data confirms it. To claim a fundamental change in the formula due to the vaccine effect is about as disingenuous as it gets. Watch for the BBC to start treating him as the man who called the end of the pandemic…
“His forecast is wrong because his model assumptions were always wrong and the data confirms it.”
Exactly!
… and what is really interesting is that, after all the years and instances of getting things wrong, such models seem totally immune to the sort of feedback from real world data that should lead to some improvement.
oh, goody, the models have reached immunity!
And there are those who still assume this whole bedlam is nothing but a monumental cock-up caused by blunders – a continuous, unerring daisy chain of by the numbers blunders.
And simultaneously in 140 countries – or was it 180? A lot anyway all making the same cock-ups and blunders. Nothing to see here.
Neil Ferguson predicts that the first Rangers vs Celtic game will have 1500 goals.
Johnson and cabinet puffed and blustered about our “world beating” vaccination programme, forcing it down the public’s necks, the majority of whom have now succumbed, many feeling that they had no choice. The so called “cases” are dropping, The high death rate is no longer (with or without the vaccine?) but just like a child with an abusive parent, who has tried in vain to appease the parent and done everything right, this is STILL not good enough, and the abuser comes down even harder. We KNOW they have this stored up for us. We KNOW we are going to be continually abused. Neil Ferguson may be backtracking now, to save face, but he’ll be back to his old tricks when given the nod. These are the behaviours of psychopaths.
It’s worth re-reading Christopher Booker’s Private Eye investigation into the Foot and Mouth debacle to understand the mindset of this self same set of experts from 20 years ago. The parallels involving poor modelling, manipulated data, wrong timelines, political opportunism, dodgy graphs, media manipulation and expert grandstanding are uncomfortable to say the least.
After his first catastrophic blunder, Ferguson should have been sidelined. That he’s still in such an influential position 20 years later is astounding.
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/not-the-foot-and-mouth.pdf
Because it took me a while to find it!
Ah yes, Tim Yeo, the man who profited from his government’s wind turbine policy. Probably also reported by the late great Christopher Booker.
The next scariant will be rolled out in short order.
there’s always the possibility that they’ve been lying about the number vaccinated hence all the current bs.
True: it is all about lies, damned lies and made-up statistics!
I still don’t get it, why would anyone have the app on their phone now unless their boss commanded it?
its quite handy for those who want some time off work to potter about in the garden
Since it’s your personal mobile I’m not sure how a boss could command it? I’d just say I didn’t have enough memory space or no phone anyway
No phone is a good one- the blank looks when you say this are priceless!
Preparing us for autumn, winter…
Johnson the libertarian will be announcing in August the new social control system.
Vote for Brexit, take back control. He didn’t mention he was referring to himself and his cronies, not the 66 million plebs he rules over.
68 million. Or possibly over 70 million, they really have no idea.
“The PM’s remarks may be little more than prudent caution”
WHAT? No, everything the government has done since March 2020 is RECKLESS, not cautious. They threw the orthodoxy out of the window.
“The Government needs to sort out its messaging on this.”
You mean they need to stop lying? Or just tell different lies, or lie more consistently?
There seems to be this odd ‘Let’s give Boris the benefit of the doubt’ meme infesting some articles.
No! Just pin the long-time fat, lying bastard with his lies and obfuscations!
I would expect better from Will, who I am sure has little time for him.
Also disappointing to see continued stupidity/evil portrayed as “caution”. The whole point of the lockdowns was that they were untried and specifically cautioned AGAINST in all previous planning.
yes, wreckless not cautious. Continued restrictions at this time last year was a disaster, never mind now and seemingly for the foreseeable future.
Why should anyone be surprised? The climate change bill was easily the most ruinously expensive in history, the discredited HS2 rolls on, housing construction has been deliberately suppressed for base political reasons, with disastrous consequences for many. The way we are governed is a scandal, and has been for quite a long time.
They are cautious in the same way that punches from Mike Tyson are healing aids.
“And I’m positive that by late September or October time we will be looking back at most of the pandemic”
That really, really worries me. That twat has been so wrong, so many times, if he says something positive then look out!
Quite.
Most being the operative word.
You’ll still have a full frontal view of vax passports, permanent health surveillance and permanent health passes for international travel.
Other than that, it’ll be mostly over. Hopefully. Well, maybe. Well, let’s see how the numbers look and what SAGE say.
A pity really, for the first time in years, I’d quite like to go abroad. Looks like it may never happen now.
yes, thought the same!
I just want him dead and buried and if that makes me a bad person, I don’t care!
I’ve always thought that Johnson is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, despite being able to knock out a few Latin epigrams and working as an ersatz Churchill impersonator. Every piece of garbage that now emerges from his mouth reveals that, as well as being a weak, lying weasel, he is as thick as a brick. His vaulting ego is such that he seems unable to process any simple information or to understand the most basic of concepts. Of course, as a Classicist, basic science and mathematics are below and beyond him, as the financial chaos we now face will amply demonstrate.
I reckon that just about nails it. Although nothing about a classical education inhibits basic scientific literacy/understanding ; the term ‘Renaissance Man’ admits as much, even if specialisation and the growth of knowledge has removed a lot of possibilities from reach.
I think you’re being unusually charitable towards him there, RickH. I can’t believe he hasn’t noticed it’s all nonsense, if for no other reason than his political sense will always be wondering how things will play with the public and media so will keep a watchful eye out for things that are so obvious that even the gullible public and compliant media could call him out on, like the dodgy predictions from Whitty presented last November/December to justify more stringent lockdowns.
Nothing, absolutely nothing will stop the final push to get as many jabbed as possible before the year end. I call the year end as its when the CDC have decided PCRs are no more. Its very clear from co-ordinated efforts in western nations.
Johnson is taking his instructions as part of the ‘club’, his job is not to do anything that would jeopardise his position. So he has put it out that he is relecting to pressure on the gas boiler business and putting that back 5 years. It will please some of his major critics in the Tories and give him the breathing space to see the biotech ID project to a conclusion.
Macron was looking to 31 December for ‘health passes’ laws to encourage jabbing, he has had to temorarily at least concede 15 November; but you see the pattern.
As many have said, there is so much BS about the covid/SARS stats etc , but it makes sense if you work backwards from theultimate aim of biotech IDs and what was required to get there. They see the next 5 months as bringing that to fruition.
SARS2 /covid will be allowed to drop off the radar screen, but we will all be prisoners.
Sorry peyrole but bad news – the CDC document doesn’t say that, it actually expands the use of PCR for the flu. This was covered by UK Column yesterday:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-26th-july-2021
They are now mandating flu jabs. The next gen flu jabs will be mRNA. SAGE and Fauci are calling for masks forever. By expanding this nonsense to the flu, they can make this go on indefinitely. I would imagine that would also include lockdowns for the flu, all in the name of “saving the NHS”.
The medical tyranny via the passports will result in the Social Credit system. The Chancellor has announced a government crypto which will replace cash. No prizes for guessing if they will link this to the passport or not.
Not had your latest booster and flu jab? Well, sorry, we will have to turn off your UBI payment until you sort that out, you filthy anti-vaxxer.
What’s ironic is that us “conspiracy theorists” have known this was all in the works for years. None of this was a secret, it was all on websites for organizations like the UN, the EU, Bank of International Settlements, World Economic Forum, etc.
Instead of focusing on stopping these evil bastards, we have wasted years arguing about which bathroom 0.03% of the population should use and whether maths is racist (all by “their” design of course). Divide and conquer is the oldest political tactic known to man.
I don’t think we are disagreeing. My point was the drive to get as many jabbed as possible before the drosten Rt-PCR test is abandoned. This will form the basis of their biotech iD system. Of course it won’t stop, it will progress for the dual purposes of control and creating income streams.
“Filthy anti-vaxxer”. The new “filthy Jew”.
That “Nuremberg” quote at the demo was bang on the money.
You are right, of course, regarding the width and breadth of knowledge and learning available even to anyone educated in the Classics, and that has been so throughout history. What inhibits those qualities from being present in this particular individual is precisely that; the individual himself. His chimerical childhood fantasies, apparently going strong in middle age, of being King of the World or the like, now reveal themselves as Dreams of Dictatorship, rather than a benevolent ruler.
I expect that a perceptive and unbiased psychologist could readily identify in him, characteristics he shares with Stalin, that German leader and several other “bad actors” of the twentieth century.
Austrian leader of “Germany”?
II suspect this century will be worse for bad actors. At least some of the 20th century ones had principles of sorts.
I suspect Churchill would have nothing but contempt for Boris and his cowardice and weakness
Churchill was a Georgist and Boris is a feudalist.
Of course it is Boris…have a day off wont yer…
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Turns out it’s a lot further than even I thought- and I’ve been appalled by the sheep like behaviour of people for decades.
Boris is far more dangerous than the virus ever was, that’s for sure.
Increasingly P.M. Johnson looks like a sinister deranged version of Father Jack, it shows what a state we are in if this monstrous Great Dictator with the appearance of a mad telly tubby is allowed to continue to be in charge of this, one time, mother of the free, that used to be the UK.
oh, Fr. Jack would’ve been far better on this, and he certainly wouldn’t have banned drinking on the tube.
While hoping that Ferguson is right on this ….
,, it may turn out to be his worst prediction yet.
I’ve been quietly following Geert Vanden Bossche ever since his controversial videos a few months back. The recent decline and increase in cases follows pretty closely the scenario GVB described in the videos. He’s now posted another article on his website and it doesn’t make very pleasant reading.
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/a-last-word-of-caution-to-all-those-pretending-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-toning-down
Whatever people think of GVB, he has stuck to his guns from the start. I wouldn’t bet against him.
Well he’s definitely going to be wrong in the U.S. after December when they bin the PCR test.
You can also bet on Ferguson having prior knowledge of something similar happening over here this autumn/winter.
The NHS will have to change their tests in order to distinguish between common colds and influenza.
The pantless shaman would never pass up on such an opportunity for more soothsaying like that.
Why would they bin the PCR test in the US after December, and not now?
They are transitioning from now.
‘In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. ‘
To what?
‘CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorized alternatives.
Visit the FDA website for a list of authorized COVID-19 diagnostic methods.’
What happens in America never stays in America.
Do you know whether the alternatives are any more accurate?
South Dakota, Florida and Texas have stayed in America.
They are not binning the PCR test in America, see @baboon’s comment and link above.
They are binning the PCR test:
‘After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only. CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorized alternatives.
Visit the FDA website for a list of authorized COVID-19 diagnostic methods. For a summary of the performance of FDA-authorized molecular methods with an FDA reference panel, visit this page.
In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test.’
As much as i would wish you are correct, you are not. Read the whole article. If you already have, can we leave the propaganda to others please.
I am not quoting from an article.
‘‘After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only.’
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
The key words ‘for detection of SARS CoV 2 only’
Tim….not seeking an argument. it’s only the EUA that is being revoked, that test is still listed on the approved list of Molecular Diagnostic Tests.
Read it earlier, cant link just now.
I agree that it is important to be correct here.
All I can do is quote direct from the CDC website.
The influenza/covid combined test will be a PCR test but it will drastically cut down the number of incorrect covid diagnoses, indicated by influenza having ‘disappeared’ this year, only, of course, it didn’t really.
That is a major step forward which will put covid in perspective alongside influenza; a long overdue normalisation, in good time for the U.S. mid term elections, not that that will save them from a fearful drubbing.
‘In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.’
Yes they will be because the mid term elections are 08 Nov 2022.
We have council elections next year so I would be very surprised if the NHS doesn’t move from PCR to mixed SARS CoV 2/Influenza tests this winter as well.
We haven’t seen the libertarian stance of some U.S. States replicated over here yet but some more savage beatings at the polls lie in wait for this government, if only because they cannot get their own vote out.
a sobering read ending with…
Last but not least, it must be emphasized that those calling themselves ‘experts’ while pretending that this pandemic is ‘a pandemic among the non-vaccinated’ are devoid of any scientific insight in the evolutionary dynamics of Sars-CoV-2 as currently shaped by a combination of high viral infectivity and vaccine coverage rates. Neither the vaccinated (who merely believed the vaccine would protect them from Covid-19 disease) nor the non-vaccinated (who simply believe there is no need for them to take the vaccine in order to stay protected) are to be blamed for the escalation of this pandemic. Mass vaccination is the one and only culprit.
I cannot follow much of the unexplained science babble in this text but the following excerpt
But how on earth would a treacherous virus all of a sudden breed descendant variants that are no more harmful than a common cold CoV?
is sufficient to discredit this guy forever insofar I’m concerned as he must know how completely wrong all of the implied factual assertions in this sentence are.
School kids aren’t being tested now that schools out – especially if their parents want to go on holiday. Hence the drop?
You can check for yourself as the testing and “case” stats are here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing
Only the % positive is meaningful, but no-one publishes that.
Great fat gibbering, blubbering, witless, spineless, gutless, communist fraud.
He is farting through his mouth again.
Ahhh, that’s how Savage Jabbage got it. . .
‘Clearly very dangerous’ is a thought clearly shared by the Guardian-look a like English language mag in France called Connexion. Time was it was almost worth reading…
Thought I would share the latest ‘covid fear porn’ article itemising localised anti-pandemic measures employed by local psychotic fascists not content with the national lunatics.
You will note the dangers of ‘amplified music’ and the demon drink, don’t go there….!
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Covid-4th-wave-France-Check-mask-wearing-and-other-rules-in-your-area?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=0e5f91fcee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_07_27_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9b5fbe85b4-0e5f91fcee-357796174
Is there an ‘irony’ deficit on this site?
Fungus the Bogeyman is less pessimistic than Bozo?
Has the sun taken to rising in the west?
The PM is on a personal mission to get everyone jabbed. Ferguson probably doesn’t care about that – he may be confident that more cases can be found come the autumn.
Some French healthcare staff seem to have relocated their moral compass:
Breaking news:
“French hospital workers in Nice have decided to not give the vaccine any longer.”
Dan Ⓥ on Twitter:
https://mobile.twitter.com/nderssonD/status/1419772936349749251?s=20
Just so I understand this clearer, as I am a Covidiot and of very little brain. The pig dictator has had Covid and has had a double vaccination against Covid but has caught covid from being in contact with another double vaccinated person and has had to self isolate.
Can somebody please explain to me (in very simple language as I’m a Covidiot), how effective are these vaccines and why hasn’t the pig dictators own immune system helped him against Covid?
Who is self isolating?
Err Boris after saying he was exempt.
Yes, this is still a Very Dangerous Disease and appears unlikely to go away. I presume he is referring to the zombies eating his brain?
I feel sorry for poor old Boris, he can’t see the wood for the trees, he’s got his own thoughts and beliefs then the doom mongering from the grim reaper and his mates. He has no one he can rely on.
He is completely responsible for this shitshow
shambles, old bean.
Why are restrictions always referred to a cautious?
Both lockdown enthusiasts and opponents alike do this.
In reality, a slow exit from lockdown is cautious in the same way a slow reduction in the number of punches from Frank Bruno is cautious
I know it’s a quote in the headline, but maybe we should replace “this is” with “i am” !
It seems to me that those who never turn tv on are in a much sane place than those who watch regularly. It isn’t just the news, it’s everything that is broadcast. The television has become a purveyor of propaganda and fear.
We do not own smart phones either so we have never been dogged with NHS ‘information’ or apps to give us permission to enter shops, etc. We have carried on our lives as normally as we can. We have gone wherever we want and when venues have been open we have not been stopped. We don’t go to theatre or concerts anyway because we have found them boring and insidious over the last few years. We do not, however, want to stop others from enjoying their leftwing activities. The problem is many people don’t stop to question why they have to do as they are told in order to have a life. They don’t question that surely this is communist regime stuff. Why don’t they question this and why don’t they just drop the apps and leave their phones at home.
The penny does not seem to be dropping, I cannot think why its either because the writers are hopelessly naive regarding Boris Johnson and his motives or they can see what is being laid before their eyes but sheer terror and disbelief means they refuse to see it.
Boris Johnson will do everything and anything to keep the Covid terror story going, he is incapable of letting it go, his career is tied to the thing and if its controlling effect on the population goes down, so does his. He loves the thrill of playing God over people’s lives. He will never let this go, not until he has bought the people of this country down to his level, wherby they turn on each other at his bidding. If you don’t believe the orchestrated segmentation of society is underway, can I draw your attention to the uproar surrounding Javid wherby he had to grovellingly apologise for using the word cower to describe the atitiude of much of the population. and contrast this with Michael Gove who has been allowed to get away scot free after calling those who have not had the Covid injection Selfish. So identifying and calling for the isolation and public condemnation of one group of society who do not obey the Government. Johnson and his cabinet are setting in motion a series of events that will under his watch see great unrest and division in society all in order to allow him to keep the powers he has accrued to himself under the disguise of Covid. These are dangerous times for the non conformist
These power crazed psychopaths can’t give up Project Fear…
Running scared now as their lies are exposed.
The government is keeping up with this farce in order to get rid of the surplus vaccines purchased, probably preplanned. The vaccines/genetic treatment are in use under emergency authorisation. They need to maintain the “pandemic “ so that the vaccines stay on the shelf otherwise they would have to be removed (as the vaccine has not been properly trialled and tested). It would also appear that the government planned all along to vaccinate the entire population, not just the elderly or vulnerable otherwise they would have purchased just enough to cover the elderly and vulnerable; after all, you don’t cook for 500 people when only 20 are coming to dinner. I am also surprised at the low key news reporting about Fauci and his dealings/emails with research on gain of function at the Wuhan IoV..
Ecohealth Alliance, who had a connection to that institution and research, unsurprisingly have a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation employee as a science policy advisor! The CEO also was one of the “inspectors “ sent in by WHO to investigate the lab and had to retract his statement that there was no evidence there at the lab linking it to the SARS 2 virus.. our MSM are deliberately keeping information from the general public. Not surprised as they are paid by the government and in the case of the BBC, get funding from the B&M Gates Foundation…as does Imperial College..
I do believe Mike Yeadon said that this would only end when Sage said it would. Looks like October then.
At least here in Wales, Mark Drakeford hasn’t scrambled to allow in the more infectious ‘fully’ vaccinated from the US and the UK.
Why do Boris et al think that letting in the people who are most likely to be infectious as a result of ‘vaccine breakthrough’ ,which is now very common in the US (and everywhere else that has high levels of vaccination – every variant being involved not just Delta), is not going to contribute to rising infections in the UK?
It’s never been a dangerous disease for the overwhelming majority of the UK’s population.
If Pantsdown is optimistic, should we start to worry?
Of course, we all agree that Bozo is still a deadly disease.