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First Omicron Death Shrouded in Mystery Due to Government Secrecy, Experts Claim

by Luke Perry
14 December 2021 9:00 AM

Experts have expressed outrage towards the Government for not revealing key details relating to the U.K.’s first Omicron death, with Professor Karol Sikora saying that the Government’s secrecy is likely causing unnecessary panic. So far, the Government has not provided information on whether the deceased was vaccinated, if they belonged to a vulnerable demographic, or even if Covid was the leading cause of death, with the Prime Minister’s Spokesman stating rules surrounding patient confidentiality as the reason for this lack of transparency. MailOnline has the story.

Experts are demanding answers about the U.K.’s first Omicron fatality, such as the individual’s vaccination status, if they were part of group vulnerable to Covid, and if the virus was the leading cause of death. 

Professor of Medicine and Consultant Oncologist Karol Sikora said the Government was not providing the nation with enough information about the death, and that this was causing “unnecessarily alarm”. 

“Were they in hospital for Covid or were they there because they had been run over by a bus?,” he said.  

Boris Johnson revealed the U.K.’s first death due to Omicron on a visit to a vaccination clinic in Paddington, west London.

He said: “Sadly yes Omicron is producing hospitalisations and sadly at least one patient has been confirmed to have died with Omicron.”

Johnson did not reveal the age of the person who died, or if they had underlying health conditions, which made them vulnerable, or whether Omicron was the leading cause of their death or a secondary factor. 

The death in the U.K. is thought to be the first confirmed Omicron fatality in the world.

However, given the variant makes up almost every case in South Africa it is likely that the vast majority of fatalities there are due to the mutant strain but a lack of testing means these are not picked up.

Health bosses today also revealed that 10 Britons have already been hospitalised with Omicron. But the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which confirmed all were aged between 18-85 years-old and that most had received two doses of Covid vaccines, refused to say if any had already had a booster.

UKHSA however did reveal that the individual who died of Omicron was diagnosed in hospital. 

Sikora said the Government should release more details about the death to put people’s minds at ease.   

“Have they had booster? Are they elderly?,” he said.  

“There are all sorts of nuances to this thing, and we’re not being given proper information.”

He added that given the average age of Covid fatalities in the U.K., and that the individual may have died while being infected with Omicron, as opposed to because of the variant, there was no reason to panic and the Government should calm fears rather than stoke them. 

“The average age of death of Covid is 82.5 so a lot of 82 year-old people die in a year, at any one time,” he said.

“No details have been released, I suspect it’s just some old boy that’s tested positive, he may have died in his sleep or with a heart attack, who knows?

“It is unnecessarily alarming.”

Professor Sikora said his suspicion is that the silence regarding whether the person was vaccinated or not indicated to him that the person died of another cause while they had Omicron. 

“I suspect that it’s a death, which is unfortunate, but is due to something else, and it just happens to be Covid positive that’s why they’re not making a big noise about them being vaccinated or not,” he said.

When queried on the lack of details regarding the Omicron death, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman cited patient confidentiality as a reason, but added more details may be forthcoming in UKHSA end of week report.   

“Obviously when it comes to individual deaths there is a right to patient confidentiality so we are limited in what we can say,” he said. 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: DeathsOmicron Variant

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

The sad thing is that a so called liberal judge would have ruled the opposite. Everything is politicised, especially the judicial system. This just hardens the battle.

The Dems won’t look at this and go, oh wow our government did what? They will see it as an attack on them and figure out how to retaliate.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

True. What seems to me to have changed is that the consensus within which politics took place has broken down, under attack from the left. We need new countries – I can see no common ground.

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RumpoMidwinter
RumpoMidwinter
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Quite so – and when that happens the long term result is civil war. We are gradually learning – yet again – that democracy only functions within a consensus; and that the breadth of that consensus depends in turn on toleration – not approval – but explicitly the permission we give to others to be wrong.

The left withholds that permission, at first through informal means of ostracism, hectoring, bullying and worse; and at last through rafts of oppressive law.

This would be bad enough in isolation, but the left – thorough-going agent of decay that it is – has introduced into society such a disunited agglomeration of ethno-cultural groups, in which it has actively fostered such resentment, bigotry and hatred, that any civil conflict in the west will be more than tinged with racial hatred.

They have done this from a variety of motives, but we can have little doubt that lurking down at the bottom of the toxic mix lies a Marxist will towards the annihilation of civil life in the west.

A single encounter with any of those touting the various lies which sustain the left’s position will demonstrate this point conclusively. They offer fake statistics, skewed history and tendentious reasoning; exposed on such points, they stoop at once to insult and denigration until – at last – if forced into acknowledging their real views, they stand exposed as hate-filled mystics, inviting the apocalypse.

The trouble is that many of them have been sucked into this whirlpool of unreason and hate from moralistic motives – virtue becomes vanity, degrades into shame and ends as puritan rage. And pride prevents retreat.

Last edited 1 year ago by RumpoMidwinter
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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  RumpoMidwinter

Bloody hell, you have a cracking turn of phrase, Rumpo…

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  RumpoMidwinter

Today’s YouGov chat:
“Government aims to end smoking by 2030, give us your views”

Even Winston Smith was allowed Victory Gin.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago
Reply to  RumpoMidwinter

Never in the history of humanity have authoritarian leaders survived and these won’t either.

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

“Socialism” only ever gets remotely close to working when it is imposed by force – this principle has led to the the tactic of indoctrinating people (the intended enforcers) through the educational system.

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RumpoMidwinter
RumpoMidwinter
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

Very true. Indeed, it can only be sustained by force since neither human instinct nor abstract reasoning justifies its claims. It is, in short, a sustained moralistic lie imposed by screeching prigs in a state of advanced insanity. People find this hard to believe, in spite of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and all the other scum, because we are hard-wired to assume rationality in our fellow men; but in thousands of ways and on thousands of occasions, human society has succumbed to mass psychosis and millenarian preening – perhaps, as Pascal suggested, because otherwise we might – quite simply – grow bored. The emptiness of the poor human head and our lack of appetite for sustained effort are, in combination, the origin of almost all our self-inflicted disasters.

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LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
1 year ago
Reply to  RumpoMidwinter

Even force fails eventually, as the Ceaucescus found out. I’ll help to build the gallows, should I still be alive

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  LaptopMaestro

I like to think that too. But then I remember the Kim dynasty in North Korea and the CCP in China and realise that it can go on for a very long time.

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Prophet Orwell
Prophet Orwell
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

The left have become absolutely deranged. “Cluck, cluck, jibber, jibber, my old man’s a mushroom” deranged. I think they know they’re responsible for the sh*tshow we’re living in, but instead of behaving sensibly and start rowing back on stuff, they’re doubling down, putting their hands over their ears and shouting “LAH, LAH, LAH, I can’t hear you!!”, like a petulant child. That’s the main problem with the left (the current middle class left, not the old working class left which has been destroyed), they have no ability to think ahead. They think in the now, not the then, and refuse to understand why something they demanded hasn’t turned out as they wanted. Again, like children.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago
Reply to  Prophet Orwell

I have a little test. If someone opposes my views, I ask if they could be devils advocate for me, could they argue for my point of view.? Obviouly they can’t because they have never thought about my point of view, only their own. Only by trying to see both sides can you make a reasoned judgement of for or against.

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Prophet Orwell
Prophet Orwell
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Yes, it’s incredibly important to listen to both sides – even more so if you passionately disagree with one side. Some of the articles I enjoy reading the most are the ones that run counter to my own belief system. Only by considering other points of view can you gain real confidence in your own opinion. Without doing that you’re just living in an echo chamber. Surprised by the number of downvotes you got tbh. Oh well.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago
Reply to  Prophet Orwell

Downvotes.? I take them as a badge of honour…

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I’ve tried that exact same thing on several occasions. I usually go first and find I pretty much nail their viewpoint. And then they fail miserably. Always. Never fails.

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago

Given that the cornerstone of democracy in the US lies in the first amendment and the right to freedom of speech, without the threat of censorship, I’ve always struggled to reconcile that with philosopher Karl Popper’s ‘paradox of tolerance’: which states that “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.” Essentially, if a so-called tolerant society permits the existence of intolerant philosophies, it is no longer tolerant. I bet sleepy Joe lies awake at night pondering this.
As the right-thinking’septics’ would say, “Let’s go Brandon.”

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
1 year ago

So the Biden administration is authoritarian and used the 3 letter agency to enforce its authoritarian policies. Imagine my surprise.

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