Not Bournemouth – just a generic ‘people flock to the beach’ photo
You’ve seen the pictures from the beaches at Bournemouth during yesterday’s heatwave. It only needed the ‘Independent’ to rise my ire with the headline “The scenes on Bournemouth beach make Britain look like the jackass of the world”, and even more so with the subtitle “It might be the case that those who flocked to Dorset yesterday represent a lumpen minority. Trouble is, that’s all it takes” (link). The tweet from the LibDem council leader labelling them ‘village idiots’ was just the cherry on top.
It’s of course absolutely unheard of that Brits flock to the beaches when there’s sunshine and high temperatures. That never happened before, ever! So it was totally unpredictable that people would try and enjoy a bit of sea and sun, especially after having been in Lockdown for three months. As for calling all those beach goers a ‘lumpen minority’: that’s precisely how the Westminster Bubble dwellers regard us peasants. The only point to add is that the reporter would surely have used a different description hart those beach visitors been BAME.
The true reason for this ‘outcry’ is that these ‘lumpen’ peasants, these village idiots, have shown the self-appointed ‘elite’ in Westminster that enough is enough, that there’s a limit to our patience. We accept the rules when they make sense but when they’ve turned into nothing but vehicles for national and local civil servants to ‘rule’ like tinpot dictators then we won’t. And btw – isn’t it strange that such criticism never was applied to those who ‘chase the police’ and riot. We’ve been taught that this would be racist – denigrating wypipo of course isn’t.
The DT quoted visitors to Bournemouth who described the scenes as ‘Armageddon’, immediately adding remarks from the usual suspects:
“In response to the scenes, Mr Hancock warned that he had the power to close beaches, adding: “The virus doesn’t respect that it’s a hot summer’s day.” Prof Whitty said: “If we do not follow social distancing guidance then cases will rise again. Naturally, people will want to enjoy the sun – but we need to do so in a way that is safe for all.” (link)
I wonder though if that council leader (LibDem) who declared this was a ‘major incident’ had herself lost the plot. Was this any different from a hot day out on the beach in previous summers? Perhaps all those CV-19 rule followers were shocked that their compatriots, lumpen or not, did what one does when one is on furlough, with no work, i.e. go out to enjoy the sunshine? Perhaps they were scandalised by this:
“On Bournemouth beach, crowds of topless men queued for pints at the bar, largely ignoring a sign asking them to keep two metres apart. Teenagers blasted music from sound systems. Police tended to a crying child who had lost his mother. Groups of young people splashed around in the sea, with little social distancing in sight. Police cars struggled to make it onto the beach because of illegally-parked cars. Virtually nobody was wearing a face mask – and those who did were regarded as something of an oddity. “If you’re that worried, you shouldn’t be out here,” one man said of a passer-by who had wrapped a T-shirt around his head.” (link)
Topless men drinking beer? Teenagers blasting music? People ‘splashing’ in the water? Illegally parked cars? And all that with no social distancing? Shocking, just shocking, my dear! Definitely, these must have been ‘lumpen village idiots’! Or were they? See this next:
“But some questioned whether the numbers who had travelled to Bournemouth were any different to those on a sunny summer Bank Holiday and wondered whether the council was making excuses for being unprepared. Steve Wood, 58, who spent most of the afternoon on the seafront with a pint of beer, admitted he had “never thought about” the possibility of day-trippers bringing in the virus. […] “I think the council’s been caught with their pants down.” [he said]. Married couple Walter and Ann, both in their early 80s, were surprised to hear they were sitting in the middle of a “major incident”. “I think it’s an overreaction,” said Walter. “What’s the solution – are we going to drive all these people off the beach?” (link)
I bet that’s what the local council really wanted: drive people off the beach! I bet that the Whitehall civil serpents are already working on new ‘measures’ those councils can use to stop all those CV-19-disregarding ‘village idiots’ from enjoying a day out. The actual reason for the outrage by our ‘rulers’ seems to be this:
“Meanwhile, police leaders warned of a “summer of discontent”, with violence, disorder and crime all expected to rise as Britain emerges from lockdown. There are fears the UK could face a “perfect storm” as freedoms are restored but the public faces the financial impact of the pandemic.” (link)
Is that a hint that drunken hordes with no money are expected to roam the streets and … loot? Are they thinking of the Tottenham riots in 2011? How extraordinary! Perhaps police chiefs believe the best way of keeping crime at bay is having all of us locked down …. just as the NHS managers seem to think that everything would be perfect without patients disturbing their ‘work’.
These warnings from police chiefs relate to the opening of pubs on July 4th. They seem to assume that the whole of the ‘lumpen village idiots’ will immediately flock to the pubs and get drunk. But – don’t pubs have to observe strict social distancing rules, locally enforced, I’m sure? Will people really ‘flock’ when they know that they must give name and address before being permitted inside, no place at the bar, table service only?
The next bit is worrying because it shows that the police who’re used to policing drunken weekends in our cities are now apparently less concerned with policing drunkenness than with enforcing ‘CV-19 rules’:
“Senior police officers fear the decision to “suddenly turn on the tap” at a weekend could have dire consequences. and all leave has now been cancelled in some areas to prepare. There is also mounting concern that a large portion of people are no longer willing to adhere to coronavirus rules, creating a headache for the police, councils and the NHS.” (link)
And there it is, in that last sentence: people must be forced to ‘adhere’ to CV-19 rules to prevent giving ‘Our NHS’ a headache. Perhaps police chiefs think that they can polish up their image, damaged by their running away from BAME rioters, when they ‘enforce’ CV -19 rules against pub goers and against those who go to the beaches or parks.
This ‘Bournemouth Event’ was yet another opportunity for the good people of mostly middle class England to signal their ‘virtue’, by wailing how horrible it was that these lumpen village idiots weren’t thinking of the NHS while people were ‘still dying’. However, there’s an amazing report on CV-19 deaths in The Times this morning:
“The death rate for coronavirus patients in English hospitals has fallen to a quarter of the level at the peak of the outbreak, which may mean that doctors are getting better at treating it. At the beginning of April, when there were 15,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, about 6 per cent died. Since then, the number in hospital has fallen by 2.4 per cent a day, meaning numbers have halved every 29 days. At the same time the number of deaths has reduced by 4.3 per cent a day, meaning that it has halved every 16 days. As a consequence, in the latest figures the hospital death rate has fallen to 1.5 per cent.” (link, paywalled)
Far more astounding is the following observation, with the comment from one of those statisticians creating a jaw-hit-table moment:
“Statisticians are struggling to explain the findings, which imply that patients are more likely to survive today than they were three months ago. Jason Oke, from the University of Oxford, is one of the statisticians behind the UK analysis. He said that they had initially held off from releasing the figures. “We sat on it. We had a good discussion about it to try and work out all the different ways we could be wrong,” he said. “Then we thought we should put it out there — it’s what we’ve observed. The caveat is, we don’t really understand why this is happening. But it’s happening.” (link, paywalled)
If statisticians are ‘struggling’ to explain these findings – wouldn’t it have been a good idea to talk to clinicians, that is: actual hospital doctors who treat these patients? Are statisticians now the only ‘CV-19 scientists’ permitted to explain what happened during the Lockdown months? Is it because any reports in learned journals by pathologists or clinicians on actual treatments are undermining the narrative of a terrifying, deadly virus from which we lumpen village idiots must be protected at all costs?
This raises the question if the government, if Hancock will prefer to follow police advice, just as he’d followed ‘Teh Science’, and cancel pub openings, close the beaches and the parks yet again rather than accept that the pandemic is petering out. Many of us have long suspected that all those rules are no longer about ‘saving lives’ and protecting ‘Our NHS’ but about denying us as many of our civil liberties as possible.
I think this ‘armageddon on the beaches’ was a very British way of showing the finger to government and the Westminster bubble dwellers who prefer cowering in their rabbit hutches while denying us our freedom, just to keep ‘project fear and hysteria’ going.
Having fun on a beach on the hottest days of the year? How very dare you! Having fun is not permitted in CV-19-land!
KBO!
Photo by Jakob Wochang
Is anyone old enough to remember the 1968 Hong Kong Flu? It killed a higher proportion of the population than this current virus.
So what did we do about it? Well, as we didn’t have a wimpish Govt. and a compliant MSM to whip up hysteria, we tightened our belts and got on with the things that really mattered…like work.
The “major incidents” that occurred yesterday were a natural and predictable reaction. The Govt. effectively imprisioned the greater part of the law-abiding citizens, closed businesses and trashed the economy, all based on some dodgy “science”
Some of the “people” woke up and opened their eyes.
THEY BROKE OUT OF GAOL.
That report in the Times is refreshingly honest saying about the huge reduction in deaths from Covid ‘we don’t really understand why this is happening’ – It is obvious that as with most science we know what we observe really well but our understanding of exactly why is vast and the more our technology allows us more detailed observation the greater is our grasp of the vastness of what we don’t know – (We are so at the beginning of understanding ‘life’ and a sign we are starting to understand it is when we can create it.) – One route for this reduction in death rate can be that it is in the interest of a virus to be as benign to the host as possible because mutations that achieve that have greater success at passing themselves on – Looking more and more likely that we have the spooky ‘herd immunity’ and may have had it before Lockdown – That and the unbeleivable cost in treasure and social and mental health, as per the riots etc, ensures that this Lockdown will come to be seen as the greatest self inflicted wound of all time?
How long can the bug survive in UK coastal briny ?
how long can the bug survive in local swimming pool chlorine ?
wheres the effing science ?
Like cod, there is no F in science.
I’m a pub owner and am told we will have to provide table service. Trouble is I dont have any staff with arms four foot long, carrying a tray while staying a metre away.
Yet at the bar, which is about a yard wide, I stand a foot or so behind and the most customers do the same their side. I fear a little civil disobedience may ensue. And whether customers return in significantly numbers ….God alone knows.
I follow UK Col regularly, and walk round with a tote bag bearing their logo, to advertise them . They said on this you tube (end) that they hope BoJo and Cummings are trying to remedy the colossal power concentrated in civil service mandarin Sedwill (this concentrated- power phenomenon originates with Blair). However I’m not holding my breath; is it just Tory posturing again?
Errr . . . Yes Alan I’ve been saying that about, my arms are not long enough, ever since the whole thing started. I’m sorry to tell you it seems most unlikely to me that your customers will return to face the restrictions being imposed. I hope somehow sanity might return instead.
Sadly, this sort of behaviour, like the Liverpool fans’ celebrations and those parties in London is too widespread. The idiots in the Whitehall bubble attribute “enormous sacrifices” being made by “the people” but sadly these persons displaying moronic behaviour will be the cause of a spike in cases and deaths and for libertarians to decry the NEED for separation, isolation, quarantine and compulsory mask-wearing in public is to display a wanton lack of willingness to keep infections and deaths to a minimum.
Tom trust. I think you’ve lost the plot.
Agree. Here’s someone who tells it how it is :
http://www.vernoncoleman.com/main.htm
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Oh you already are.
Half a million beach goers don’t subscribe to ”the Flu Man Chew is worse than ebola”.
Many, like me have had it. I do not appear in any statistics. I live in a hotspot of Flu Man Chew it seems.
The WHO, you remember they made that well know doctor Mugabe an official, called it Feb / March
Do you believe the current government any more than that august institution?.
Danny Kaye’s song the Kiing’s New Clothes sums it up.
Others have similar experience to me, and worked worked out the hoax. Hence this (disasterific) behaviour.
Its like an agreement to impoverish everyone and to reset the economy worldwide.
What we dont know is when this was agreed and by whom?
If that is not the case why is this ”be terrified” coordinated action being perpetratede on us?
I liked your “.police who`re” Viv.
I`m sure it wasn`t just a Freudian slip.
However thinking about this theory of the peasants deciding that the virus is fading away, I have been saying for at least the last month when the beaches first got “overwhelmed” and certainly since the BLM surging masses took to the streets;
I have been saying…………”is there any evidence of a catastrophic, even a small increase in cases in those areas local or indeed wider nationally to the Chinese Disease”
Unless I am mistaken, the answer is NO.
I have heard about a mad tennis player getting it himself and infecting officials and his mates in somewhere called Serbia and I`ve also heard of an abattoir in Germany diffusing widely, but NO nothing to speak of in this country
Quite Roger.
Interesting events. With 500000 people on the Bournemouth beaches (to imagine this, think that there were only 350000 on the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940 , and over some days , not one) we SHOULD expect a spike that really shows up on the daily stats, as half a million people is a very good sample size.
By the way Margate/Broadstairs/Whitstable were just as bad, Especially Margate, where the hordes were shi**ing on the streets as well as on the beaches and in the sea, a sea with strange floating things, like nappies and sanitary towels bobbing around along with empty beer cans and a slick of vomit.
But what IF there is NO spike in infections? Can you imagine if there are few, or no extra cases ? What then ?
Well then the entire Government lockdown plan, along with the advice of scientists, and the £350,000,000,000 hit to the economy will have all been for nothing. They will look very foolish indeed. Election losing stuff.
But if there IS a spike, and half a million punters is the sample to end all samples, then expect not only about 5000-10000 extra deaths ( 1-2% ) in a couple of weeks, but draconian lockdowns and worse. And Boris will say ‘I told you so’ .
A bit of a cr*p year so far isn’t it ?
Yes – It will be interesting to see the effect of such a vast number socialising and be big evidence hard to deny either way – As this Covid is so very contagious and for most very mild it is likely everbody was infected before Lockdown and if this fine weather experiment shows no significant spike then Lockdown was a complete waste – However our masters love the new powers Lockdown gives them and will be reluctant to end it or countenance it was the worst self inflicted wound of all time as history will likely record?
Mr Bav. If that is the state of our seas and beaches I’m glad I’m unlikely to go anywhere near. But you are right about spike or no spike. There won’t be of course.
“Enoch Powell – On the European Union”
https://youtu.be/oRZA1-scNMg
A great man who spoke common sense; if only he were alive today to keep Boris in line.
Wow. Thanks flyer. Not only did he speak sense, I could clearly hear every word he spoke. What a contrast to today’s gabble.
lumpen minority = deplorables?
Headline should have read: ‘Council officials were furious at the sight of so many people enjoying themselves.’
Positives rising whilst actual deaths diminish is only strange for those who ignore the real science, in favour of agenda-driven ‘scientists’; good thing that is only the government, the broadcast and print media, and every leftist group going.
Once the body has defeated and shredded the invader virus, there are harmless bits of its DNA floating around the body. But what they never explain is that the PCR test looks for strands of virus DNA, and does not discriminate between live and dead DNA. Hence positives galore (false positives), even amongst people who never knew they had it, or who had brief discomfort. If you are actually unwell and suspect it might be the virus, then the test can tell you whether it is. But mass testing using this method is useless. Unless you want to keep the fear going, but, hey, who would want to do that?
Can pubs and so on even break even under the rules? Is it worth opening at all? Friends who run a cafe are asking themselves that.
I’d like to say more but I’m up and down all day on one knee.
Actually all this reminds me of a story about Stalin from his daughter’s book. One of Stalin’s speeches was put on 25 78 rpm gramophone records. The last 20 were the applause. No one could risk stopping clapping before anyone else. Hence the enthusiasm for knees nowadays.
One of my sons lives in Australia and we were chatting a few days ago as we do several times a week when GP surgeries were mentioned. I said ours were still self-isolating and he was puzzled and then outraged when I explained their ‘repel all boarders’ attitude over the past few months. Australian GP surgeries have apparently been open throughout although they check the patient has no Covid-19 symptoms etc. They take precautions and ask the patients to do likewise and that’s it. My son asked what was happening to patients here who may be seriously ill, possibly with cancer and other serious problems!
GP sugeries there are ‘private’ and they claim a fee from their health department when they see a patient. No consultations, no income! Some GPs are free to charge a little more than the standard fee, with the difference being paid by the patient or their private insurer but patients are free to move too. When I first visted many years ago I noticed some premises along highways had large notices facing the road which said ‘We bulk bill’ and my son explained they were GP surgeries confirming their services are free at the point of use.
Like all predators you eat the weakest first. But then weak ones get fewer, And survivers get more aggressive. And a balance is struck. The Politics and NHS is annoyed because it is largely irrelevant.The goal of all professions, in this case , doctors, politicians and Pharmacuticals being to keep the golden goose alive, and carry on charging.
I believe I may be guilty of mixing something dire.
PS. Isn’t lying in sun a way of getting Vit D3. Could it actually be doing good.? Can you acquire D3 through roast meat.