You have pingitis! Be afraid, be very afraid!

 

We have a new ‘disease’! It’s called ‘pingitis’. It has now become a ‘pingdemic’. Depending on you reading preferences the numbers of those pinged vary from a coy ‘huge numbers of staff’ in the DT to ‘500,000 pinged’ in The Times to a truly enormous ‘900,000 alerts’ in the DM.

This morning we learn that people have been pinged who hadn’t even been out that day because the NHS app even pings through party walls. We learn that pingitis is affecting the NHS, that rubbish isn’t collected in some local areas, that guests in hotels in Cornwall are being asked to help clean the premises – they’re getting a £15 voucher per day for that -, that factories like Rolls-Royce and Nissan are ‘on the verge of shutting down’ and that Trade Union leaders demand that something must be done (paywalled link).

What is going on? According to government sources, lovingly reported in the MSM, this is all due to the bluetooth facility in the NHS App being ‘too strong’ and thus picking up all those contacts even through walls:

“That is understood to have been raised as a concern in the initial stages of building the technology – now being reviewed amid concerns it is too sensitive – although Whitehall sources said on Thursday that any changes would not be made for some weeks.” (paywalled link)

The covid government is clearly not taking this seriously because those ‘changes’ won’t come before the middle of next month. Perhaps all those who should work on those changes have also caught pingitis and are self-isolating? 

There are some questions which should be asked – by Trade Unions, by factory CEOs, by local councils and not least by all those fabulous ‘health and science’ correspondents. For example: why has this pingdemic taken off in the last couple of weeks but not before? After all, if pings can go through walls this should’ve been noticed before, no? 

A cynical observer might think that this is a ploy by the covid dictators to force people into demanding the ‘solution’ which Gove ‘trialled’ when he came back from Portugal a few weeks ago, having duly been pinged. He simply took a PCR test after two days and was ‘released’.

Might the pingdemic simply be used by the SAGEs to herd people into getting more PCR tests? Never mind that ‘more tests’ equals ‘more case numbers’! After all, haven’t our SAGEs let us know their alarms about that ‘Freedom Day’ coming too soon and driving up yet another ‘wave’?  A ‘wave’ which must be shown to happen, by more tests?

Another question not asked is: why didn’t we have a pingdemic before? The NHS app developers knew about this ‘strong bluetooth signal’ – so, were people not pinged properly? For example during the ‘wave’ at the beginning of this year? After all, case numbers were rising but, even though we were locked down, those who kept the country going during that time, the shop assistants and rubbish collectors surely must have been pinged during that time?

No answers to be had anywhere as of yet. Perhaps the ‘health and science’ correspondents are working on articles for the weekend editions! Meanwhile comment posters below all those pingitis articles are practically unanimous in their advice: switch the thing off or better, uninstall it.

The Times has dedicated one of their ‘analyses’ to the ping-issue. After explaining in loving detail how anonymous these apps are, that no data are collected (yes, I too am still believing in Father Christmas), they write:

“the app is voluntary to download, free to delete at any time, and there is no legal requirement to adhere to it if you get an alert — and no one would know if you didn’t. This is in contrast to testing positive for Covid or being told to isolate by an NHS Test and Trace official where there is a legal requirement to do so. The app is designed to protect people and self-isolating after getting an alert may be the best way to prevent more members of the public getting Covid.” (link, paywalled)

Ah. So there are two apps – but how do we know which one causes pingitis? The next explanation shows that even the mighty minds of those health correspondents are somewhat confused:

“Do I need to keep self-isolating if I have received a negative Covid-19 test result? The app guidelines say you should still isolate for ten days when pinged, even if you test negative for Covid-19 as you could still get symptoms after being tested. Again, there is no way of authorities knowing whether you have complied with this and no legal requirement to do so.” (link, paywalled)

So ‘the authorities’ have no way of knowing if you’ve tested -ve but do know if you tested +ve? Interesting! Perhaps the pingdemic is simply the result of large numbers of  people being terrified out of their minds, doing as they’re told by an app? It wouldn’t surprise me one bit!

Meanwhile here’s a new conundrum. We read in Lockdown sceptics that, according to data presented by  Professor Spector who runs the ZOE data collection, 

“symptomatic infections in the unvaccinated have been dropping since the start of the month, whereas those in the vaccinated (with at least one dose) continue to surge – though are perhaps slowing towards a peak now.” (link)

Now isn’t that … interesting! How can it be that the unjabbed are no longer catching covid but the vaccinated ones do? Read the whole thing – it might have something to do with that ‘horror’ called ‘herd immunity’ in the non-jabbed.

There’s another interesting phenomenon, this time observed in Israel which was the front runner in jabbing their population with the Pfizer jab:

“With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID. By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.” (link)

Yes, these are small numbers, but surely our covid researchers ought to ask if such disparity might be found here in the UK? Moreover, doesn’t this at least raise the question about the usefulness of all those jabs and if a ‘booster jab’ even makes sense.

Our SAGEs however prefer to look at which jab people received, the ‘experts’ being from Imperial College London – the place which brought forth Professor ‘Lockdown’ Ferguson. They found that:

“Britons double-jabbed with the AstraZeneca vaccine may be three times more likely to get symptoms of the virus than those who got Pfizer and Moderna, according to SAGE figures. Scientists at Imperial College London estimate two doses of AstraZeneca’s jab is 55 per cent effective at blocking symptoms of the Indian ‘Delta’ variant. But the efficacy figure for two doses of either Pfizer or Moderna is thought to be in the region of 85 per cent, they say.” (link)

‘Tis strange though when one recalls that the Israelis used the Pfizer jab for practically everyone. Of course, it would be totally appalling were I to remind myself that Profs Vallance and Whitty are alleged to have some sort connections with Pfizer – financial ones, allegedly.

I leave you with a remark by Professor Spector who explained to Lockdown Sceptics that the main worry now must be about ‘Long Covid’ (link). Now there’s scary! Especially since the ever helpful Times has just reported that:

“Long Covid has more than 200 symptoms that affect ten organs, the largest international study of “long haulers” suggests. British health experts are calling for a nationwide screening programme to help identify the condition in people who may be suffering in silence. The study, led by University College London (UCL), has identified 203 symptoms of long Covid affecting the organs, with 66 lasting up to seven months.” (link, paywalled)

‘Suffering in silence’, is it? I recall acres of pixels having been dedicated to ‘Long Covid’, for a year. But of course we need more screening! Another nice little earner for the covid ‘experts’ who might run out of funds or become unemployed should the waves of ‘covid casedemics’ turn out to be no worse than the pingdemic created by pingitis. 

Is it the aim of the SAGEs to turn us into a nation of hypochondriac skivers? Perhaps someone ought to have a word with Rishi Washi who will ultimately have to distribute our money …

If you caught pingitis it’s your own fault, for being a good little covid lemming. So my non-medical advice is: ditch your smartphones – and if you can’t do that, at least ditch the NHS apps and refrain from getting tested. Life can be so easy!

 

KBO!