Boris Weighs Up “Nuclear” Options
There’s a story by Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times today that I’m struggling to understand. He reports that last Wednesday at 4pm the Prime Minister convened a war-gaming exercise in which they considered various responses to different “second wave” scenarios.
For an hour they mapped out options for the next few months. Simon Case, head of the COVID-19 taskforce, led a discussion of three fictional but realistic scenarios that reflected Whitehall’s fears about what could happen next. “There were three whiteboards in different corners of the room,” one of those present said.
In their tabletop war game, Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, first discussed an outbreak in northwestern England, then an outbreak in London and finally a general increase in infections nationally.
Under the first scenario, local authorities in the northwest saw a persistent rise in infections and the measures taken by councils failed to stem the tide. Johnson and Sunak agreed that the first lever pulled should be additional restrictions on household interactions. “There must be quick, decisive action,” Johnson said.
That evening, the fictional scenario became reality as the prime minister was presented with Office for National Statistics data showing a 66% rise in infections in a fortnight, with increases in Blackburn, Bradford and Manchester.
Where does that 66% figure come from? The ONS infection survey data released on July 31st showed an increase in the number of people testing positive over the past two weeks of just five. In the period June 29th to July 12th, 31,542 people were given a nose and throat swab, of whom 19 tested positive. In the period July 13th to July 26th, 28,325 people were swabbed, of whom 24 tested positive. So an increase of ~0.06% to ~0.085% in the unweighted sample. In the ONS table below, when weightings have been applied, this shows up as an increase in the percentage of the infected population in England of 0.05% to 0.09%. Is that the figure Tim Shipman’s referring to? If so, it’s based on an increase in the number of people testing positive of precisely five.
What about the claim that infections have increased in Blackburn, Bradford and Manchester? In section three of the ONS infection survey, headed “Regional Analysis”, there is the following caveat:
There is not enough evidence to say there are differences in the percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 in different regions of England.
Indeed, the daily average for the percentage of the population estimated to be infected in the North West remained constant at 0.05% from June 15th to July 26th. In the same period in London, by contrast, it increased from 0.10% to 0.14%. So why local lockdowns in the North West but not in London?
In Shipman’s article, he goes on to say:
Wednesday’s war game also featured a sobering session on what might happen if such an approach was needed in London, where the number of cases is rising, though not as fast as in the northwest.
Er, no. As we’ve seen, the number of cases isn’t rising at all in the North West and is estimated to be rising a bit in London. (Was one of the five new cases in London?) So what does Boris intend to do if the number of cases in London continues to rise? Here’s where Shipman’s article makes for alarming reading.
In the war game, Johnson and Sunak agreed that in the event of a London outbreak, it might be necessary to scrap the entire “green list” of countries exempt from quarantine, meaning all arrivals would have to self-isolate for 14 days. “We’d need quick guillotine decisions,” one of those present said.
In March, the Prime Minister considered, and rejected, plans to lock down the capital harder than the rest of the country. But in Wednesday’s war game he agreed that if infections rose significantly, overnight stays in London would be banned, Londoners could be subject to stay-at-home orders, and close-contact services such as hairdressers would close. “The challenge in London is how quickly people move around on the trains and Tube,” a source said. “It would potentially spread much quicker than in other areas so you’d have to be quicker on the regional hammer in London.”
Most controversially, the ministers concluded that people would be advised not to travel in and out of the capital, raising the prospect of restrictions on those inside the M25. “That would be the border point,” an insider said.
God help the nine million people who live in London. A mad, hammer-wielding maniac has taken up residence in Downing Street and will “whack” the capital if a handful of more people start testing positive for the virus, regardless of the damage he’ll do to public health and the economy.
In the third scenario, which Whitehall officials called the “frog boiling” scenario, the prevalence of the virus increases gradually but inexorably across the entire country, with local lockdowns failing to snuff out fires. The response here, apparently, would be to extend the “shielding” policy to encompass everyone over 65!
Johnson sanctioned work to go ahead on plans for “enhanced shielding”, which would see the number of people judged clinically vulnerable and urged to stay at home increased from the current total of 2.2 million to “a much wider group”.
Yesterday, more than two million vulnerable people were released from shielding in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
This “segmentation approach” would see many more people receive a tailored letter in September or October, “before it gets cold”, spelling out their risk factors. Health issues and age would be taken into account – an approach that is likely to mean that a large number of people aged between 50 and 70 would be urged to stay out of harm’s way. Personalised advice is possible because scientists have better evidence about which factors most effect whether people survive COVID-19.
“At the moment, shielding is binary, you’re either on this list or off it,” said one of those familiar with the thinking. “But we know there isn’t a simple cut-off at age 70. People would get a personalised risk assessment. The risk rises after 50, quite gently to start with, and then accelerates after age 70.”
It is likely that this would mean people being put in tiered risk levels but would be controversial because it could be depicted as quarantine by age. Most of those affected, if the shielding plans are adopted, are likely to be over 65.
Can’t the over-65s just carry crucifixes and cloves of garlic to ward off the vampiric virus? I’m sure that would result in a far lower loss of life than imprisoning them in their homes.
Postcard From Melbourne
And if you want a glimpse of the future, a reader has written a “Postcard From Melbourne“, where a draconian second lockdown has been imposed by the Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews after a minor uptick in infections. It’s not pretty.
Lockdown 2.0 was quickly imposed, a few postcode areas first then all of metropolitan Melbourne. A concern to anyone who values their liberty had to be the total lockdown of a number of housing commission apartment blocks with zero notice. By the time the Dear Leader had finished his announcement on TV that no one would be allowed to leave these tower blocks there were already hundreds of police surrounding them forcibly stopping anyone from leaving. Considering in ‘normal’ times they can’t rustle up two cops to attend burglaries, night-time home invasions or muggings etc. they were able to find 500 of them to police this hard lockdown with no trouble at all.
Of course the lockdown has had little effect so next was mandatory face nappies for all when you’re outside your house with $200 fines gleefully being handed out by the Vicstapo. Before that has even had any chance to have an effect Prof Sutton and Comrade Andrews are informing us that ‘Stage 4’ Lockdown will have to be implemented or the world will end. Still no concrete details but from leaks in the news sites it will be like NZ, everything barring supermarkets and essential services closed, no travel more than 5km from home, one occupant from a house allowed to go shopping and a huge increase in police patrols using numberplate recognition cameras to catch and fine anyone not complying with this madness.
I’ve given up trying to have an adult discussion with anyone here. I know of only two people who are lockdown sceptics like me. Every single other person you speak to is a complete COVID Lockdown fanatic who will not contemplate any other view. It’s quite unsettling. Aussies love to make out they are this rough, tough, she’ll be right, bunch of rebels when in reality they are a nation of supine, compliant rule followers who love nothing more than ‘dobbing in’ someone else for not following the most petty of rules and regulations. They are such a nation of bedwetters someone has actually started manufacturing home wares with portraits of the Victorian Chief Health Officer, Health Minister and State Premier – bizarre and creepy!!
Worth reading in full.
No “Second Wave” in Western Europe, Says Theoretical Physicist
Today I’m publishing a third update in the “Canaries in the Mine” series produced by Dr Rudolph Kalveks. Dr Kalveks, who has a PhD in theoretical physics, has used a standard tool in epidemiology – the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered/Resolved or (“SIR”) model – to analyse the lifecycle of the virus in different regions. In his first article in the series, he concluded that in Europe and America the pandemic was approaching the end of its life and a “second wave” was unlikely. He looked at the data again in the second article in the series and saw nothing to change his mind, and did the same in the third, concluding that while the fatalities might not have reached a ceiling in some US states they had in Western Europe. That’s also what the data indicate in his fourth analysis, published today.
The curves show that when the penetration of coronavirus in a country reaches a ceiling, typically represented by a fatality rate below 0.1% of its population, its spread slows to a standstill, with few further fatalities arising. This certainly appears to have been the case in mainland Western Europe, where the average daily death rates from the coronavirus have now declined to single figures (in terms of individuals) in every country, notwithstanding the relaxation of many of the lockdown restrictions imposed early during the pandemic. The “Canaries” are telling us empirically that Western Europe has reached or is close to herd immunity. Prof. Gupta at Oxford and other epidemiologists explain this in terms of the immune mechanisms at work in addition to antibodies, such as T-cells.
Worth reading in full. You can see all four analyses on the right-hand side as sub-pages of “How Reliable is Imperial College’s Modelling?”
Thousands of Protestors Join Anti-Lockdown March in Berlin
Great to see so many people turn out for an anti-lockdown protest in Berlin yesterday. A crowd of people, many not wearing masks, marched from the Brandenburg Gate on Saturday ahead of a rally in Tiergarten park. The demonstration was called “The end of the pandemic: freedom day”. Euronews has more.
Protesters held up placards promoting conspiracy theories such as “Corona, false alarm”, and there were chants of “we’re here and we’re loud, because we are being robbed of our freedom”.
Placards also read “we are being forced to wear a muzzle” and “natural defence instead of vaccination”.
According to the BBC, which also reported on the march, over 15,000 people turned out (although some local observers put it at 20,000).
The mood is peaceful but hardly anyone is wearing a face-covering or observing the required social distancing, our correspondent says.
“Our demand is to go back to democracy. Away with these laws that have been imposed on us, away with the masks that make us slaves,” said one woman.
Restrictions in Germany include the wearing of face-coverings in shops and on public transport, social distancing rules and hygiene requirements apply throughout the country. Mandatory testing has been introduced for holidaymakers returning from high-risk areas.
Germany has had more than 210,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 9,000 related deaths since the pandemic began.
What the BBC neglects to mention is that 9,000 deaths is less than half of the German death toll for seasonal flu in 2017-18.
The mainstream German papers have reacted to the demo in a typically hostile way. The German-speaking reader of Lockdown Sceptics who has scanned the German papers for us before has had a look.
German papers are highly critical of the demonstrators. The Frankfurter Allgemeine describes the people attending as “corona deniers” who, with their refusal to wear masks and adhere to social distancing rules (hardly surprising given they were protesting against lockdown regulations) are described – at best – as misfits endangering the health of others. At worst they are linked to neo-Nazi groups whose support for the demo is mentioned in several reports and helps to underscore the sense that people demonstrating to retain basic freedoms are extremists. Tarring lockdown scepticism with right-wing extremism has always been a common and obviously emotive thread in German reporting.
Bild is similarly relentlessly critical, painting the protesters as “corona deniers”, “conspiracy theorists” and “right-wing extremists”. Reading these reports you’d conclude that no moderate sceptics bothered turning up. The report is immediately followed by a headline shrieking that there are 15 new cases in Hamburg. Hamburg has a population of 1.9 million.
The Sueddeutsche reports on subsequent arrests of protesters, and features a quote from the Justice minister, Christine Lambrecht. “The freedom to demonstrate is an important right, underpinning democracy,” she begins hopefully. But she then shows scant regard for this right: “However, demonstrators should adhere to regulations that exist to protect public health, and I have no sympathy for anyone who so self-importantly ignores them.”
Cornwall Residents “Terrified” of Tourists
There was a depressing story in the Independent yesterday about how local residents in Cornwall are reacting with horror to the influx of “staycation” tourists.
Residents in Cornwall have expressed dismay at overcrowding due to an influx of domestic tourists on so-called staycation in the UK.
One local in Wadebridge said on Facebook that some tourists were not socially distancing because they “feel safe down here”.
“My shielding is paused from today but I’m too scared to go out,” she said. “Tried walking into town a couple of times but no social distancing at all. I was constantly doubling back, leaping out of the way and panicking just to keep my distance from the hoards. It’s horrifying.”
Another, in St Ives, said she was “too scared” to go food shopping because of the crowds and had told her children not to visit the main shopping street or the harbour seafront.
This was “the general consensus among friends,” holiday lettings manager Claire Harris told the BBC.
I was thinking of holidaying in Cornwall this year, having been many times before and loved it. But if the locals really are leaping out of the way at the sight of any tourists, I’m glad I didn’t.
The Mail has the same story. Apparently, some locals have taken to calling Cornwall “Benidorm on steroids”, while local “Marshalls” are patrolling the streets, making sure social distancing is being observed.
A Catholic Writes
A reader who recently converted to Catholicism has got in touch to tell me about his experience of attending Mass again for the first time in months. It wasn’t pleasant.
I am writing to you to share my experience of returning to Mass recently. As I had only become a Catholic last November you can imagine how much I was looking forward to returning to Mass a few weeks ago. However, my joy quickly turned to sadness. At the door of the church I was greeted by a “steward” who told me I had to put on a mask and then escorted me to my seat. Talking to other people was not allowed before or after the mass. Worst of all, the stewards were all donning masks, visors, surgical gowns and gloves. It made the experience more like an appointment at the dentist than worship! Oh, and I nearly forgot to say that no singing was allowed and when the priest came to distribute the host he silently dropped it into my hands. The service was shortened to 30 minutes. Evidently a full hour Mass might be deadly even though I could go and sit with a friend in the pub for hours safely! I left the service deflated and pondering whether to go again until these ridiculous restrictions are lifted. Perhaps I should start a catholic resistance movement called Massked Resistance.
Round-Up
- ‘The Not-So Great Cover Up‘ – David Lewin makes the case against face nappies in The Reprobate
- ‘Customer numbers fall after compulsory face masks were introduced in shops, figures reveal‘ – Mail reports that the introduction of mandatory face nappies has meant fewer people going shopping, not more
- ‘Senior Tory MP is arrested on suspicion of rape‘ – An ex-minister was arrested yesterday on suspicion of having raped a House of Commons researcher
- ‘Death of free speech in the US‘ – Caroline Graham in The Mail On Sunday reports on the assault on free speech in American newsrooms, while Andrew Roberts discusses a new Cato Institute survey that reveals that 62% of Americans are too frightened to speak their minds
- ‘The Government’s National Panic Service is being used to keep us in a condition of perpetual alarm about coronavirus‘ – Peter Hitchens’s column in The Mail On Sunday is always worth reading
- ‘Track and trace fails in 50% of “easiest” cases‘ – More evidence that Matt Hancock’s £10 billion ‘track and trace’ programme isn’t fit for purpose
- ‘Schools’ plan B for autumn Covid spike: online lessons for all‘ – Alarming report in The Sunday Times saying schools are preparing for more online lessons from September
- ‘LifeSite petition encouraging break-up of Big Tech goes viral‘ – An American website has started a petition urging the US Government to break up Big Tech to end censorship
- ‘Britain’s ship of fools sails on, rudderless amid the Covid seas‘ – Strong column by Jeremy Warner in The Sunday Telegraph
- ‘This is no time for a midlife crisis Boris!‘ – Dan Hodges thinks the explanation for the Prime Minister’s increasingly bizarre leadership style is that he’s having a midlife crisis
- ‘Mask rage: “One man told me I shouldn’t be allowed out if I can’t wear one”‘ – Unusually sceptical piece about mandatory face nappies in The Observer
- ‘Delaying herd immunity is costing lives‘ – Good piece by Martin Kulldorff in Spiked. He points out that the current lockdown is protecting the healthy instead of the vulnerable
- ‘Academic freedom on trial as sacked professor asks High Court to decide‘ – Article about Professor Peter Ridd who is fighting James Cook University in the courts after being sacked for challenging green orthodoxy about the Great Barrier Reef
- ‘They’ve Ridd us of this turbulent scientist‘ – Professor James Allan, columnist for The Spectator Australia, weighs in on the same topic
- ‘Top WHO disease detective warns against return to national lockdowns‘ – This is the same WHO official who said asymptomatic people infecting others was “very rare” back in June
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Just one today: “You Don’t Need a Mask” by Rick Estrin and the Nightcats
Small Businesses That Have Re-Opened
A couple of months ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have re-opened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you.
Now that non-essential shops have re-opened – or most of them, anyway – we’re now focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. As of July 4th, many of them have re-opened too, but not all. Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet – particularly if they’re not insisting on face masks! Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
Forums Back Up and Running
I enjoy reading all your comments and I’m glad I’ve created a “safe space” for lockdown sceptics to share their frustrations and keep each other’s spirits up. But please don’t copy and paste whole articles from papers that are behind paywalls in the comments. I work for some of those papers and if they don’t charge for premium content they won’t survive.
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums that are now open. Initially, they became a spam magnet so we temporarily closed them. However, we’ve found a team of people wiling to serve as moderators so the Forums are back up and running. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
I thought I’d create a new permanent slot down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (although it’s showing a delivery date of Sept 7th to 16th). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from eBay here and an NHS exemption notice for just £2.99 from Etsy here (see above).
And don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face nappies in shops here.
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There are neither Delta, Omicron, nor Scientists.
Why are we still ‘jumping how high’ when a minor scholastic detail is floated?
Woo-hoo this one’s unpopular!
They need to hold each other’s hands now. They are so unsure of their ground that they don’t dare to show their arguments and and only go about in groups.
I’ve fended off the Old Kung Flu with Hi Karate
Stand in the Park Sundays from 10am – make friends & keep sane
Wokingham – Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
The 77th Brigade knives are out for those that know the Covid narrative is utter bullshit.You are clearly over the target.
Hardly a surprise.
“If that is true, then the disruption Covid has caused in our lives may become less,” Professor Sigal continued.”
FFS! Covid has caused hardly any disruption. Almost all the costs and disruptions have been and are being caused by the absurd response to it!
These people are all democrats. This means they’re institutionally never responsible for anything.
Who’s the downticking twat?
I have several human fannies assaulting my excellent post, above.
Five of them if my reply is anything to go by….
They seem to be getting scared and only travel in large groups. Poor little namby -pambies.
“Three-quarters of people in the U.K. with Cold-like symptoms are likely to have Covid, according to a new Zoe Covid study”.
Or as we used to say in 2019, four-quarters of people in the UK with cold-like symptoms, have a cold!
This Zoe shit is getting really boring now.. as you say.. its a bloody cold FFS!!!!
The latest Beeb hysteria generation is a thing to behold.
391 athletes have had cardiac arrests, blood clots, thrombosis, strokes, irregular heartbeats, arrhythmia and neuropathy. All after receiving the SARS‑CoV‑2 gene manipulating serums.
230 athletes have died after receiving the SARS‑CoV‑2 gene manipulating serums.
Why are these tragic figures not being reported in the MSM? Perhaps because Bill Gates is on record as having given at least $319 million to media outlets?
So-called fact-checkers come forward and dispute these figures. But when asked to produce statistics from the pre-COVID-19 era that would show these numbers of deaths and injuries as being not abnormal, they make various excuses, but don’t produce the relevant statistics.
I wonder why?
Indeed. This is a good link for historical comparison – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing . Pre 2021 high of 12 I think, with an average ~9 (haven’t actually done the maths), 2021 big spike to 21 deaths. Nothing to see here of course!
The fact-checkers will click your link and immediately pounce on this: “The following is an incomplete list of association footballers who died while playing …”
Then they’ll set about editing this Wikipedia list to give the “correct” information.
I told someone about this and they said they’d never heard about increases in deaths in young footballers so where was the evidence? They assumed I”d made it up… Seems a lots of people just don’t make connections.
It’s not like the peaks correlate with v rollouts or anything…….
Well, they also correlate with rollouts of covid.
And the vaxx you fuckin odour
“ultra-infectious variant” Is it? I thought the government’s own figures suggested it was like delta.
You don’t say.
In other news, some good ideas do come from China. China tell their footballers they must have their tattoos REMOVED ‘to set a good example for society
Yep, another slap your forehead moment; it’s red-raw now.
I think they have to be covered also
And no hair dye or curls apparently in the women’s
Reminds me of that story a few years back about extra large pink parking spaces for women in a Chinese car park…
If you think it’s government’s business to mandate what tattoos you may or may not wear, you must be a closet socialist after all. Probably more socialist that all the other socialists, actually.
Ah but Chinese footballers don’t genuflect to some American Communist outfit called Black Lives Matter?
Strange that!
A mild dose of anything is better than an experimental jab which could potentially kill millions according to Professor Sucharit Bhakdi.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/bhakdiburkhardt-pathology-results
Regardless of the ad nauseam repetition: The immune system still cannot prevent infection, that is, PCR positivitis. And the disruption in our lives was caused by the Professor Sigals of this planet and will end once they’re firmly shown the door.
These reports are of little or no interest to long-term readers of the Sceptics. We have never been remotely worried about contracting the bloody thing, although I doubt any of us would have welcomed it in its earlier more potent form.
Make Lemsip great again !
Got my stocks ( for a £1 ) in from a well-known discount shop, don’t go to the main players they will rip you off…
Woke up yesterday with the traditional aching muscles, mainly in my legs, bit of a dull headache, slight temperature and a general feeling of being slightly unwell..
Started off with an ultra vitamin d tablet – a large glass of water with lemon slices – bit more vitamin c through apple and squeezed oranges – stayed on the sofa – falling asleep for maybe 2 hours – woke up – had a shower – got back into bed and started to watch a movie – about 3pm decided to take 2 ibuprofen – 40 mins later i genuinely felt better
Aches gone, no headache, energy returned, it was quite sudden in terms of feeling better..
Maybe a total of 6 hours, in terms of feeling unwell.
No issues today, out walking with the kids for 2 hours or so
Now Patented and available under EUA
And… yes… yet another study primarily funded by Bill n Melinda.
Is this shambles getting a bit embarrassing for Bill? Time for a way out, focus on the next reason the whole world needs injecting?
Like many other powerful men, he’s probably keeping a close eye on Ghislaine Maxwell’s response to the prosecution’s suggestion that she might name a few names in return for a more lenient sentence.
For all normies that visit here and still believes that Bill Gates is a saintly pullover clad figure who has mankind’s best interests at heart, click this link, and on the video you are taken to skip forward to 04:21 where you will hear Gates’ say:
In June 2011 The Sovereign Independent newspaper picked up on this and ran an article about it with the headline:
We are now actually experiencing forced “vaccination”. And Gates has very openly said they’d use “vaccinations” to reduce population numbers.
When are the leaders we need to fight these genocidal sociopaths going to show themselves?
Meanwhile, the world’s foremost military power has an imbecile in the White House that sputters out this: “Truinternatialdepressure”.
What has humanity done to bring devils like Gates & Co upon it?
“What has humanity done to bring devils like Gates & Co upon it?”
Evil prospers when good people stand by and let it happen and all that.
You could put that on a huge screen, repeated on a loop with mega loud speakers, and the pro-jabbers would still bleat “bUt wHerE iS yOuR eViDeNcE???!!!! iT’S jUsT a CrAzY TiN-FoIL hAt CoNsPiRaCy tHeOrY!!!!!!”
that’s correct. It is a tin foil hat CoNsPiRaCy.
Clip from Gate’s deposition from 1998.
Look at his body language, the guy’s a splintered nut-job.
He’s a 100% pure psychopath. A disgusting creature.
Did you know that an ancestor of his was heavily involved with a “vaccination” which was administered to US soldiers in Fort Riley prior to them setting off to WW I in Europe?
What’s a fact is that the 1919 “Spanish Flu” began in the United States. Many believe that the “vaccine” given to the soldiers in Fort Riley was actually the origin of this so-called flu.
Bill Gates comes from a long line of people who are heavily inbred. They like to keep their blood pure. Heavy inbreeding is why they are so psychopathic.
And his old man was head of Planned Parenthood the American Abortion Conglomerate.
Reminds me of that film “Cheaper By the Dozen” (1950) where someone from Planned Parenthood visits and eventually realises: “They’re all yours, don’t deny it”. The father replying “I wouldn’t dream of denying it”.
All of the mega rich families inter marry
but you are a cretin, the virus did not exist until another 21 years had passed are you confused about he difference between a computer virus and a real virus?
You’ve had enough Buckfast for today.
Having passed long queues at three testing places today, I can only assume that people are desperate for a positive result to avoid the mother in laws New Year Party, or to virtue signal that they are still ‘doing their bit’.
Can we please stop testing out of hospital, stop Track and Trace, and stop mandatory isolating. Please..?
Of course not. That would blow the gaff.
To be fair, the long queues for PCR testing have more to do with the current fetish for “strongly recommending” that people take LFTs before they’re allowed out of the house. Once the unreliable LFT has reported a supposedly positive result, people have little option other than to wait for a “gold standard” PCR tests to release them from quarantine, so that’s another couple of days wasted. (This is exactly the situation that’s preventing my local pub from providing a decent level of staff on New year’s Eve.)
And in France..
The French State Council Quietly Voted the Vaccine Pass – No Longer Democracy but a Putsch..
The machine is not going to stop unless the people stop it..
https://www.europereloaded.com/the-french-state-council-quietly-voted-the-vaccine-pass/
One for TY & cock-up theorists to excuse, Do the new Pfizer and Merck pills have digital chips in them? Take note of the background.
“Over in the UK, Britain’s NHS ‘is now on a war footing,’ one of its top medical officials warned on Thursday. He said they would start erecting field hospitals to absorb a feared surge in hospitalizations as cases continue to climb. In a statement, the service outlined plans for temporary wards in England, called ‘Nightingale hubs’
in response to the surge in omicron cases.” … in response to some people getting a cold.https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/us-reports-record-500k-covid-cases-britain-erects-field-hospitals
Ah yes; splendid follow-on from the earlier Nightingale hospitals!
By the way, does anyone know how that worked out?
Beeb headlined today!
You mean, catching the cold will protect against the flu?
It is instructive to understand that although the admissions are going up the total number in hospital is not.
Unlike death rate, admissions are instantantaneously reflected in the patient population then the only to facors also in the mix are discharges and deaths.
Deaths are also dropping so the only conclusion I can come to is that Omicron is not detaining people long in hospital.
Did anyone think it wouldn’t?
Toby still struggling with Long Delusion.
Completely misses the effect of natural broad spectrum low affinity antibodies that recognise +20 different viral proteins. But I guess that would demonstrate the pointlessness of strain specific vaccination based on a single protein target.
This is a sign of OAS, not cross immunity. (Original Antigenic Sin).
If you read the paper it is rather clear that infection with Omicron stimulates the immune system in the vaccinated to produce antibodies to the strain they were originally immunised against (a weird ‘disease’ that was entirely comprised of spike proteins for the Wuhan strain).
Those unvaccinated that were infected with Omicron produced relatively little levels of antibody protection against Delta.
Now, this might be considered ‘bad’ as it suggests that the unvaccinated have a poor protection against other variants. However, it probably isn’t as the immune response to natural infection is broad and isn’t focused merely on the antibody response to a single, highly mutable, part of the virus; it is likely that the immune response after natural infection actually offers a broad immunity against many variants.
The actual question that should be asked as a result of this work is:
Are the vaccinated now forming a broad immune response against Omicron, as well as producing antibodies against Delta.
Or is their immune system now biased towards making IgG antibodies (not used for upper respiratory tract infections) and is only going to form a weak response for other aspects of the immune system.
If it is the former of the above then Covid will soon become a mere ‘cold’ suffered every now and then. If it is the latter, then it is likely that covid will be hanging around at a much greater level as the vaccinated will form a disease reservoir and keep cases high — this would stop when the vaccinated get around to forming a broad immune response to the disease.
The second of the two possibilities you mention requires urgent research. Is anybody looking into this? What we can say is that the results of several studies have clearly shown that immunity acquired through infection is superior to that acquired through vaccination.
No-one is looking. If anything, there’s suppression of any attempts to investigate any negative impact of the vaccines (it is all about funding).
On a separate note, I see that it is now 6 months since the end of the large and expensive Coronavit trial into the use of vitamin D as protection against covid — where are the results, Adrian Martineau?
This is why many unvaccinated are waiting until the trials are finished and the conclusions are in, bit much to push it before that.
Interestingly (or predictably), the review of respiratory tract infections by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine is (to my knowledge) never quoted anywhere in the MSM.
An incidence of 40 in 100,000, surveyed through GP practices is required in order to identify an ‘epidemic’.
Throughout the ‘pandemic’, this has never occurred (surprise,surprise), and the latest update states :
“The levels of suspected COVID-19 have not reached epidemic consultation levels and are dropping dramatically.”
Such is the measure of official dishonesty – get up on screen, Whitty, and quote that!
According to Sucharit Bakhdi, immune systems are fighting an autoimmune battle. The lymph nodes along with other organs are creating the spike and in turn the T helper cells are attacking the body. According to him the only antibody to defend against a respiratory infection is Secretory IGa, the vaccine only creates IGg and Circulatory IGa, completely useless for any airborne virus. There is no such thing as a break through infection when the damn vaccines where never going to work in the first place!
It’s not a breakthrough infection.
It’s “vaccine” failure.
Can someone please educate the cretins etc. at the BBC.
The mRNA and vector-based Sars-CoV2 vaccines are infecting cells which then produce Sars-CoV2 spike proteins. This causes the immune system to kill the infected cells (among other things). That’s not an autoimmune reaction, because the immune system is not attacking healthy cells. It’s more an like infection with an artificial virus (for mRNA) which has been gene-engineered such that its first generation offspring is incapable of reproduction.
The vaccines were never capable of (and never meant to) preventing transmission, only serious disease caused by Sars-CoV2 escaping from the so-called upper respiratory tract and starting to infect other parts of the body. Any suggestions to the contrary (effiacy against infections) are lies the people in favour of Corona policies are circulating.
We’ve had a chorus of ‘antibodies, antibodies, antibodies!!!’ for 12 months now. Any attempt to say ‘but the immune system is more complex than that’ has been ignored. It is a extraordinary situation.
We’re now getting the slightest glimmer that there might be more to our immune responses — but it is too late, they’ve already vaccinated nearly everyone in the western countries and about 60% of everyone in the world… with a novel medical product that has only been in existence for 18 months…
So catching a cold may protect against catching another cold again… mind boggles!
Christ on a bike.
Basic immunology – could it be making a comeback!
Meanwhile, back in Clown World, can anyone enlighten me as to why the sheep aren’t dropping like flies after, gasp, testing positive for a cold?
Doctor, Doctor, ( of course assuming one could actually engage with said doctor), I think I’ve got covid – “Why,” – because there’s nothing wrong with me…
In the good old days, said doctor would have told you, politely, Fuck Off.
Whoopee! Today I got a letter from HM Pensions dept telling me I qualify for an age related increase as I will turn 80 on Jan 18th
I am asking some kind people on here to advise me how best to spend the extra 25 pence a week. Yes that’s right – 25 p a week.
Any suggestions?
I was so overjoyed at Boriss largess that was inspired to write the following piece of doggerel.
VARIENTS
Do you just go with the Lateral Flow
And trust in the PCR
If you’re not I’ll you don’t need a pill
For your Mortis won’t be Rigor.
In days of old if you caught a cold
No one classed you as Unclean
You went to bed and covered your head
With no need for Quarantine.
Now the slightest whiff of a nasal sniff
Means you must master ancient Greek
You line up for a Test with all the rest
You’re a Case in Orwellian New Speak.
If you’ve gone along with the compliant throng
And believed a so-called expert
Had the latest Jab from some unknown lab
You’re a New World Order convert.
If you are still puzzled by those who are Muzzled
Knowing diseases pass through a Mask
Pity poor people herded like Sheeple
With never a question to ask.
In days of old
When men were bold
And vaccines weren’t invented
They ate their tripe
Then had a shite
And went to bed contented
You can get a two-minute phone call for 25p. So, every week you could phone Boris Johnson and tell him he’s a narcissistic prick, and have the pleasure of knowing his government is paying for the call.
And don’t worry about him suing you for defamation, because about 40 million people in the UK will give evidence that he really is a narcissistic prick.
A senior moment there – missed the last verse:
If you’re desirous of avoiding this virus
This Gene Altering Jabbing won’t do
You can still pass it on its an Omi Con
A biological gift from Manchu.
You could buy 5 penny chews. But better buy them quick because inflation will mean it’ll only be 1 penny chew soon enough.
You could do what other elders like we have done – even with inflation one IVM tablet costs less than 25p. Now why haven’t the medical unions challenged the Government’s decision to prevent their members from prescribing the same to each other? (Or get it from certain overseas suppliers). Might that not be a simple solution to the claimed critical staff absences during the impending apocalyptic winter surge, through them carelessly associating with infective staff and patients? Oh damn – of course, they don’t do simple stuff any longer, do they?