The Prime Minister is due to meet with Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty on Monday to decide whether to impose any more restrictions. If the Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer manage to persuade Boris that that’s necessary, he will need to convene a Cabinet meeting and get the decision approved. No small task since, according to the Guardian, the main leadership contenders will oppose any tighter measures. The Sun says Boris’s decision will hinge on whether Covid hospital admissions are increasing.
If the numbers have continued to rise it will mean increased pressure on the NHS, with experts urging the Government to take action.
His meeting comes as a string of hugely positive studies show Omicron is milder than other strains, with the first official UK report revealing the risk of hospitalisation is 50 to 70% lower than with Delta.
Covid booster jabs protect against Omicron and offer the best chance to get through the pandemic, health officials have repeatedly said. …
Questions continue to swirl over possible restrictions in England as the Prime Minister is set to evaluate the rules tomorrow.
Among the proposals being considered is a two-week circuit-breaker, which would include a ban on meeting friends and family indoors.
If the data continues to worsen then he could plunge the UK into further restrictions – with pubs and non-essential shops fearing they could be forced to close.
This could include plans that will prevent Brits meeting others indoors except for work purposes.
Any new restrictions will need to be passed by parliament, meaning that the Prime Minister will have to hold a cabinet meeting to approve his plans.
He would then need to recall parliament and get the support of MP’s to legalise the new restrictions.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Guardian reckons Boris is “leaning away from stricter curbs“. Let’s hope that’s right, but MailOnline has the same story, which suggests it’s a line being briefed out by Downing Street. That, in turn, makes me suspicious. Is Boris hoping to get away with trying to impose new restrictions by claiming he was planning not to but had no choice, given the hospitalisation data?
Stop Press 2: MPs and hospitality bosses have told Boris Johnson that if he brings in new restrictions before New Year’s Eve he will risk “devastating” businesses. MailOnline has more.
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should be interesting when today’s Covid dashboard reports at 4pm. This will no doubt include some quite figures for cases, deaths etc as it will be covering 25th-27th Dec. The question is whether the BBC, Sky etc will bother to mention this.
The best thing you could say to this pair of clowns is, ” you’ve both failed miserably now fuck off!”
Holidays are for reading, now I came across this in a book called “Things they Don’t want you to Know”
The Dancing Plague
July 1518, France, Frau Troffea took to the streets of Strasbourg dancing maniacally, one week later she was joined by 100 others, jigging for days at a time, many collapsed and died. The City authorities encouraged this by bringing in drummers and pipers to let them dance it out.
Moral…
Happy New Year all.
Presumably, as those that can are having to work from home, it means whoever we invite into our homes , is for a “ business meeting “??
Look: it depends on one thing alone – what does Carrie think!
No priapic Old Etonian buffoon and his criminal cabal is going to tell me who I can have in my house. We ignored these diktats previously and will do so again.
Anyone I invite to my home will be attending for business reasons!!
Boris’ track record has been to bounce out restrictions with no notice, and the circumstances this week would enable him to do that: sudden publication of skewed Christmas data after a few days gap.
I think Boris will go with the flow of whoever scares him the most: so challengers better step in quick as Vallance and Whitty will have his ear first.
The main risk is test and trace chaos crippling key workers, schools, food supplies etc. Boris et al seem wedded to their ridiculous policy. South Africa have abandoned this for tests for those with symptoms only. Now is the right moment to implement that here too.
No chance I think.
When the Spike Squad turn up at your home, your neighbours will then know who ‘The Unvaccinated’ are.
That’s the idea – but as I said in an earlier comment, I’ll know who’s on my side
What happened to “irreversible”? Remember when Freedom Day was cancelled in order to make sure it was “irreversible”? Remember when we were told, “one jab and the end of lockdowns will be irreversible”? Rember two jabs and irreversible? Lie after lie after lie. I’m voting Reform from now on, I can never bring myself to vote for any party currently in this sick in the head Parliament.
It is unfortunate that we have such a disparate group of alternative parties, Reclaim, Reform, Heritage, the rump SDP etc. The movers in these parties will have strong views and see themselves as very different but they are effectively vying for the same voters. The reform party comes with such a lot of baggage that to my mind it needs to do a lot more to convince me that it is firmly committed to all that is says. But certainly, as you say, all the mainstream parties have shown themselves as beyond the pale and not worth voting for.
I’m never voting again – all of the parties available to me have supported this scam in one way or another – some more culpable than others.
Dr Peter McCullough December 21 st, 2021 – Medical Care in the Most Severely Ill with COVID-19
https://www.americaoutloud.com/medical-care-in-the-most-severely-ill-with-covid-19/
https://media.blubrry.com/mcculloughreport/ins.blubrry.com/mcculloughreport/Medical_Care_in_the_Most_Severely_Ill_with_COVID-19.mp3
Plenty of discussion especially in last 20 minutes on various treatments including @48:27
His guest Dr. Paul Marik: vitamin D potently reduces risk of getting and dying of COVID-19… it seems that if you get your vitamin D level above 50 [US measure?] your chances of getting COVID are reduced to almost zero (the data suggest)… the problem is that if you take oral vitamin D it takes days … weeks to activate to the active form. So mainly preventive, less effective in the acute setting / hospitalised.
Dr McCullough’s podcasts have been illustrating for many months the existence of numerous preventive and treatment protocols that he reports as effective. Yet all we hear is more pseudo-vaxx and more boosters that don’t work.
Against the backdrop of ongoing nation-wrecking.
Maybe Boris et al got the memo – subject line – ‘Just Try It’
“If the Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer manage to persuade Boris that that’s necessary, he will need to convene a Cabinet meeting and get the decision approved.”
The Sun tell their readers “Any new restrictions will need to be passed by parliament, meaning that the Prime Minister will have to hold a cabinet meeting to approve his plans. He would then need to recall parliament and get the support of MP’s to legalise the new restrictions.”
That’s wrong. Neither the recall of Parliament nor the request to recall Parliament has anything whatsoever to do with the Cabinet. There is no rule that any particular matter needs to be put to the Cabinet.
PM Anthony Eden committed the country to war (against Egypt) without even telling the Cabinet. (After that, the French regime lasted two years. The British one is unfortunately still with us.)
‘The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time’, the Eulogy in ‘No Time to Die’
Pig Dictator will do whatever ‘Sir’ Chris Witless & Paddy Unbalanced tell him to do. The orders from Davos are incoming…
I thought Owen Jones’ recent article – in which he distanced himself away from draconian Covid measures – was shameless, but this one from Pravina Rudra (?) in the New Stateman is breath-taking:
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2021/12/i-backed-every-lockdown-but-the-cost-of-another-is-simply-too-great
A supporter of every lockdown so far and who “fiercely judged people who infringed the rules”, apparently she has decided that, err, perhaps they’re actually quite a bad idea.
She then goes on to describe some of the terrible consequences of lockdowns – you know, the thing that she wanted – but doesn’t, oddly, accept at any point that she was wrong.
Like Jones, she tries to disguise her complete U-turn, for example saying: “We have gone from a period of temporary sacrifice to something resembling a forever war.” or my personal favourite: “we would largely be locking down society because of the unvaccinated”
She even has the temerity to have a dig at those who have always opposed lockdowns for having “scant moral fibre” and wrongly accuses our side of only being concerned for liberty rather than nobel causes such as education and jobs.
It really is a disgraceful piece but sums up the sheer incoherence and narrow-mindedness of much of the modern-day left.
OJ has probably lost a few readers. One to start with – years ago, I read his output in the G (which has also lost my support).
“Hello, Pickfords? Kneel Starmer here, I’d like to make a booking please”.
How do really (academically) smart people become so stupid. It never ceases to amaze me that some of the cleverest people I’ve worked over 30 years have one thing in common: they rarely can see the wood for the trees. Balancing complex multi-faceted problems is invariably too much for them but they often revel in their cleverness and think it makes them right. Maybe that’s the curse of the average intellect – we see things more clearly. If BoJo capitulates to the technocrats then I’m out of here. Off to Florida or maybe Sweden where the average intellects make sensible decisions that leave my liberty intact.
Here is irrefutable evidence that we do unfortunately need to lockdown again. The ZOE app has revealed the main symptom of Omicron and we simply cannot take the risk of it spreading any further.
It is……a runny nose:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/london-covid-one-symptom-confirmed-22574619
I hope you’ll agree that draconian measures are the only option to counter the runny nose threat that looms over us.
This explains the need to vaccinate children – they’re the ones that usually have snotty noses (as opposed to vaccinated adults who just have snotty attitudes)
100% vaccinated ….
What a surprise. Not new though – the Royal Navy got there first, many months ago!
32% of UK unjabbed not 5% …
Thank you – this is why they are getting increasingly desperate! More and more people are refusing to go along with the fear-mongering.
The above figures don’t include the unofficial members of the population, either!
Wow – and look at the advice not to use these data in the estimation of spiking effectiveness because they don’t take into account differences in risk and behaviour. Well neither does a single piece of propaganda I’ve ever seen promoting spiking because it supposedly helps reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death. What “research” has there been assessing the “effectiveness” of spiking against the effectiveness of having a good diet, taking exercise, and so on? No medic or academic would want to put his name to anything like that – it would be more than his career was worth. The propaganda is that ALMOST EVERYONE from the age of 12 and up should get multiply “vaccinated” – including lardarse drunks who live on their sofas and people with a body mass index of less than 20 who go for a run every morning.
Whoever complied the report for the UKHSA can’t spell ‘unvaccinated’
*** Omicron doesn’t cause Covid *** Omicron doesn’t cause Covid ***
As I asked here,
has there been a single confirmed case of omicron causing Covid?
One SINGLE f***ing case?
Obviously that would have to mean
negative tests for delta and “original” SARSCoV2 (because how are you going to know which variant caused Covid?), plus double pneumonia, a necessary requirement for Covid whichever variant may have caused it. If anyone knows of a single case of Covid caused by omicron, please post a link. Otherwise I shall continue to suspect there haven’t been any.
I’m hearing that omicron mostly doesn’t affect the lungs much even for the already chronically ill 70+. If it causes any illness at all, it gives people a cold and perhaps in bad cases a touch of a flu-type illness.
Most of the d***heads who are rushing to put sticks up their hooters because they’ve got a cold or maybe mild flu and then rushing to hospital thinking they’re going to die, all while begging Father Christmas to give them fourth and fifth injections, or as many injections as the c***s on the telly say they need, ought to try growing some brain cells.
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Agree with most of that EXCEPT SarsCov2 test may have a false positive rate of up to 20%……It is actually 100% as they have NOT got a test for something they cannot isolate in pure form, or even prove exists….If you take away data generated from the PCR positive ‘cases’ there is NOTHING left!!
If the Bozo is leaning away from tighter restrictions then it’s only because he thinks he can’t get agreement from others in the cabinet and the Tory party writ large. The man is an utter buffoon and his first instinct is always to do the bidding of vaccine super salesman Bill Gates. Now why would that be?
Chicken feed.
If enough people ignore further lockdowns, they won’t work.
Time to say enough is enough!
Krankie has banned the hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh – will be interesting to see what happens!
Let’s hope at least 30,000 cheerfully drunk Scots go out, anyway!
Half a million would be better.
Apparently Celtic fans clashed with police when they tried to attend the match yesterday.
The landlord of my local pub says that the back door of his pub will always be open.
Daily Sceptic is to its readers what Boris is to Toby. Flawed but indespensible.
The problem as I see it, and I don’t claim to have the monopoly of wisdom, is that the Government is in a ‘must so something’ situation. Very depressing! So much as I would to see the Fat Pig Dictator telling SAGE to do one, I doubt it but would love to be proved wrong.
Welcome back DS, have sorely missed you!
Would ‘fucking off’ be considered a ‘must do’?
I sincerely hope so!
The “Fat Pig Dictator” is a Gates man and will always do the wrong thing, if he can get away with it.
No, he is merely a spineless, populist worm who does what he believes will be popular.
Ms Grimly Wormtongue is his eminence grise …..(with apologies to JRRT)
An excellent description
They always behave like that, to justify their existence. After all, money talks, and there wouldn’t be many jobs in the Service if they did nothing. Here’s a slightly humorous view: https://www.legalcheek.com/2013/12/the-something-must-be-done-act-2014/
I think Kim Jong-Johnson will impose further restrictions, the fantasists of SAGE will scare him into doing it after he vacillates about not imposing further restrictions.
Bozo lies, he wants to do it. It’s in his nature.
Yes. His apparent reluctance is but a cheap ploy.
Kim Jong Johnson craves popularity and he will do it if he believes there is support for it.
Whitty and Vallance are fantasists.
The mystery of how coronavirus doesn’t infect and kill people in Japan anymore… here’s a clue: Ivermectin.
“Things were looking pretty bleak in August during the post Olympic spike of cases; for a while there were more than 20,000 new cases every day. Then, “a miracle” occurred, and now in a population of 126 million the current daily cases across the whole of Japan amount to a very small, 200 per day.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/12/oh-the-mystery-of-how-coronavirus-doesnt-infect-and-kill-people-in-japan-anymore/
Pssst, don’t tell the Bozo!
In the absence of DS I visited the other place at Reddit for 24 hours or so. That too has suddenly gone down 20.20hts 26/12/21 to be replaced with
“WOW so empty”.
The rest of Reddit (with which I am unfamiliar) seems to be fine.
Which subreddit is that?
Mask wearing is dead. Went to cinema tonight in Manchester. Masks seen less than 10%. If Bozo wants to be out of No 10 by New Year he can attempt increased restrictions. Let’s just hope he doesn’t want to move house quite yet.
I made a prediction eleswhere this morning that
A. Bozo would introduce new restrictions soon after Xmas. He nearly overstepped the mark last year by wrecking so many family Christmas’s at the last minute but failed to get the media to do it for him this year.so his need is great.
B. He would use it to enforce alignment between England and the devolved administrations.
C. He would do it under cover of the extra Bank Holidays just because.
I caught the tail end of Channel 4 17.45 evening news (16.45?).
“New restrictions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland tomorrow, England to follow?”
Channel 4 worls to the governments bidding, just like the BBC and in any case bozos every move is so predictable.
‘Right chaps, this policy hasn’t worked so obviously not enough of it. Cripes! Let’s do it again but more this time!’.
Yeah noticed that. People got it. Omicron has backfired. Happens when this whole agenda’s run by sub intelligent people who suffer from Dunnings Kruger
This is true. Had a great conversation with a cousin today. She’s always been a bit sceptical but has largely had to go along with stuff due to her job. But this morning she rang to chat because she knows my stance on this. And we did! She’s through with it all and refusing as far as possible go along with ANY of it anymore. She too has been doing research and sees how this is part of massive controlled operation. Her husband has always been sceptical, and my other cousin too, is waking up. So many I’ve spoken to recently are seeing there is something very wrong now. Not many now, are fully buying this.
Oh no it aint; LIDL/Sainsburys in an East Midlands location on two separate days – I was 1 of only two people in both locations on both days not to have a useless FN and there were hundreds of people in both supermarkets on each day) – so no it is not “over” – not a representative sample of course.
I have noticed a decrease in the number of people challenging those not wearing a mask. I’ve always been quite polite with my reply when challenged – offering a simple “I don’t wear one mate” though I quite like the “go and fuck yourself” retort too.
I have not worn the FN for a while – I am a law abiding citizen but am a fully paid up member of the “Benjamin Franklin Club” as far as unjust laws – I have only been challenged in Waitrose – the greeter ( young – how crass is it the the management of these stores seem to give the tough “FN” jobs to either the very young or more mature, barely over 5 feet – I am 185cm, physique and stare to match ) – who looked a teenager answered his own question and I did not say a word; a small chain of stationers quizzed me “Do you have a mask?” – “No” – “So you are exempt” statement not question – me “evidently”.
Resistance – there are many ways to resist – the (non Vichy, non Milice, non Quisling) French found ways in WWII that were very subtle, did not involve blowing up trains etc and which were lost on the NAZIs; I think we have to do the same; don’t get angry ( tough for me ) get much more than even to bolster your sanity.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chris-whitty-to-be-knighted-in-queens-new-year-honours-list-k7zff8jwd
Reward for supporting state terrorism: a knighthood.
Reward for opposing state terrorism: harassment, hate speeches, threats, fines, imprisonment.
Couldn’t agree more, outrageous given what Whitty has put our people through.
Did you mean Sir Whitty?
Nope. Just like Karen Brady lost her title when she went off about the unvaxxed.
OK, fair enough. Ms Brady.
Whitty has been a Gates man for years and that is something to which Boris now aspires. What rewards will await the Bozo when he is chucked out of No10?
You forgot to add being consistently wrong and catching covid when he was telling everyone else what to do to avoid catching it. These people have enjoyed their 5 minutes of fame and never want to give it up imho