A new smartphone app will cure us of covid – really!
I knew it! It’s not just government hiding ‘bad news’ when a national news story is bound to dominate the news – the Covid MSM are doing it now as well. There are two Covid-news hidden in today’s Broadsheets which really take the proverbial.
As you know – and how could you not – the former leader of the Labour Party has been suspended because of anti-semitism. Yes, that’s the man we might have seen in No 10 last year. That’s the man who was supported by fence-sitter-in-chief, Sir Keir Starmer who must of course have been oblivious to that charge. Perhaps he was too forensic. Anyway, I won’t descend into that particular mire – life’s too short.
Today I’ll concentrate on those truly astounding ‘covid news’. I planned to show that and how covid and above all the fear of covid damages even the best of minds but shall leave that for the weekend. First, there’s one other covid-related news item which must not be forgotten:
“It will take two years for NHS cancer services to deal with a backlog of more than 50,000 cases left undiagnosed during the pandemic, a leading charity warned. Macmillan Cancer Support has estimated that tens of thousands of people are yet to be diagnosed with cancer. As many as 50,000 people in the UK have cancer that has not yet been diagnosed due to disruption caused by Covid-19” (link, paywalled)
This is the stark reality to which the obsession with covid has led. This is ‘only’ about cancer, not about all the other illnesses which afflict people and lead to their premature deaths. At least the behavioural scientists of SAGE, the slogan-producers in No 10, ‘science editors’ in the Covid MSM must be very proud of the effect their campaign, ‘Protect the NHS’, has had!
Yes, we’ve heard this already, but given that the various Covid dictators, be they in the devolved nations, be they in ‘local hotspots’ or indeed in No 10 are still utilising that slogan to defend their proxy-lockdowns, it’s the stark reminder that they are all happy to sacrifice seriously ill people on the altar of SAGE covid models.
SAGE, the government, the ‘Sacred Cow’ and the fear-mongers in the Covid MSM have been and are promoting “Teh Cure” that is Test & Trace (T&T). It’s those ‘case’ numbers produced by T&T which support the various lockdown schemes. The efficiency of that test is being disregarded. The other leg on which the whole ‘covid strategy’ rests is of course vaccination. More on that below.
So – first see this … yes, it comes under ‘you couldn’t make it up’, it comes under ‘where is the science?’, and it comes under ‘who actually governs this country?’. It seems we’re now also in the hands of app developers who have tweaked that famous Test app, thus allowing the NHS ‘to force more people into self-isolation’ (paywalled link). Yes, they really said that. Worse: it’s not even that test which determines if must self-isolate – it’s the app on your smartphone. Here are the details:
“The technical changes to the NHS app – now downloaded by more than 19 million people, approximately 40 per cent of those with eligible phones – could send significantly enhanced numbers into de facto lockdown with no ministerial announcement. Designers have also taken advantage of an upgrade to the Google/Apple technology that underpins the app to improve its ability to determine proximity between phones. On top of improvements to the app’s ability to judge proximity, officials have lowered the risk threshold which determines whether an alert is sent from a score of 900 to one of 120.” (paywalled link)
That’s not a typo. It’s such a massive move of the covid goalposts that I’m speechless. Lower the ‘risk threshold’ – whatever that is – from 900 to 120? Why? And there’s more: they’ve increased the ‘ability to detect proximity’ and what do we get? Well? See this next:
“A Department of Health spokesman said: “This is expected to increase the number of people asked to self-isolate by the app having been in close contact with someone who has tested positive.” (paywalled link)
Who needs a lockdown, local, national, across the whole UK when people are told to self-isolate because of an app, tweaked to ‘increase the numbers’! Here’s the Alice-in-Wonderland explanation:
“In the context of rising infection rates across the country, this change is necessary to break the chain of transmission, helping curb the spread of the virus and therefore ensuring fewer people are infected in the long term. […] It came as health officials told The Telegraph they are concerned that not enough people are coming forward for testing, meaning that the spread of transmission is not being tracked. (paywalled link)
The logic is brilliant: there are more ‘cases’, therefore more ‘cases’ must be produced! Tweak the app and then howl about being swamped by ‘case numbers’ and that we’re all gonna die! ‘Tis a modern form of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Where the fluff is the ‘science’ in this? Nowhere to be seen, unless we accept that changed algorithms by developers who may be very clever are now replacing proper medical investigations! Is that how we now do ‘medicine’ in this country?
But don’t worry – there’s a new kid on the block: saliva tests. By heck, SAGE and their government will get all of us tested, one way or another. It’s a case of ‘increase tractor production by 500%’. It’s another of the SAGE-directed covid government where one lot wants that universal lockdown while BJ wants to get ‘lockdown by proxy’. A fast saliva test is just the ticket:
“Ministers are believed to be on target to meet a promise to deliver capacity of 500,000 tests a day by Sunday, but that could be increased to twice as many within two months. That increase would put the UK on course to the two million capacity needed to pick up asymptomatic cases.” […] Several versions appear to have passed government standards, though experts warned yesterday that they were likely to fall short of the sensitivity of the standard PCR tests that have formed the backbone of the test-and-trace system.“ (link, paywalled)
Look at that shiny bauble: moar test capacity! We’re world leaders, yee-hah! And why do “we” need more tests? Because every single one of us could be a covid leper! The ‘Sacred Cow’ gives the game away:
“According to NHS Test and Trace, the aim would be to “protect those at higher risk, find the virus, break transmission and enable wider social and economic activity”.(link, paywalled)
Ah – it’s about ‘protection’ again! Armed with that new T&T app which will ‘harvest’ more suspects, more tests can be done and more people can be labelled ‘ill’, told to isolate or, in rare cases, go back to work but not go to pubs because they might get infected again. Or something like that.
There’s one huge fly in the ointment though which will not just affect T&T but vaccine development as well. This is the other covid news item which is reported but hasn’t gained attention, not when Corbyn is producing that Labour Theatre. Well, obviously the nation needs other than covid news, for once. So now see this:
“A genetic variant of the coronavirus first seen in farm workers in Spain has spread across Europe and now accounts for more than 80 per cent of infections in Britain, a study suggests. Its origins have raised questions about whether holidaymakers brought it to the UK and whether tighter border controls and quarantine measures might have contained it. The spread of the variant, which is known as 20A.EU1 and has six distinctive genetic mutations, has been described in a study released online but not yet peer reviewed. Scientists are now looking for evidence of whether its genetic features make it more transmissible or have any impact on the severity of illness.” (link, paywalled)
Obviously, the ‘party line’ needed to be followed, namely that the spread of that variant of the virus is only due to us ‘irresponsible plebs’ daring to go on holidays or indeed anywhere else. Macron, Merkel and the rest have also used this argument as reason for punishing us. No fun permitted, just work and sleep and watch the Covid government ‘news’. Oh – and get lots of T&T! Here are the important details, first ‘the science’:
“The study, led by Emma Hodcroft, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, found that the 20A.EU1 variant was detected in Spain, among agricultural workers, in June. By September it was present in 40-70 per cent of cases in Switzerland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. It was also prevalent in Norway, Latvia, the Netherlands, and France.” (link, paywalled)
As we all know, there was nary a hint of ‘cases’ between June and September, not in Spain, not here, nor in the rest of the EU. So is it really this new strain which is now slaying the whole continent? Do we actually know if this variant is a baddie? Do we actually know if and how many other variants are floating around and what they do? This finding though must throw doubts on the vaccine development:
“The tiny differences that give it away include an alteration to the spike protein which the coronavirus uses to latch on to and infect cells. Changes to this region are of interest to teams working on vaccines. Their efforts are largely focused on developing jabs that prompt the body to produce neutralising antibodies that clump onto the spike, preventing the virus from infiltrating new cells. Changes to the spike could affect the efficacy of vaccines.” (link, paywalled)
Indeed so! We know that the flu virus evolves rapidly, demanding the development of new vaccines every year. Can it really be surprising that this novel corona virus should behave in a novel manner and not like other corona viruses? Is it permitted to ask if the vaccines now being tested on people have taken account of this development? Is this why one of them apparently needs two jabs to ‘protect’ us?
We don’t know how infectious this ‘Spanish Covid’ strain actually is. It doesn’t really matter though: such changes are just wonderful for SAGE and the ‘Sacred Cow’, bent on tracing us all, testing us all, and keeping us in self-isolation (not a proper lockdown!) in perpetuity.
Why are we letting them get away with it? Why are we allowing an app to decide what we’re allowed to do? An app tweaked by developers to produce the numbers desired by the usual suspect?
Isn’t it time to ditch smartphones, to cancel the covid-data collectors who fuel the covid madness?
KBO!
I don’t have a “dumb” phone, mine makes calls, texts and take’s quite good pictures. My handwriting is illegible.
Thanks Viv. Corona Madness! Surely it can’t go on for ever. Surely everybody will see that it is mad.
Seeing as TPTB are still relying on the PCR test results, people should be made aware that the PCR test does NOT test for viral infections. The person who developed the PCR test emphatically stated that the test would NOT return accurate results of viral infection and also that the test results could easily be manipulated by increasing/decreasing the sensitivity of the test !
The person who developed the test is Kary Mullis and a quick search will verify this in his own words !
I did research this and on his official website it is denied that Kary Mullis actually said this. However, the huge number of test results are so skewed as to be meaningless, but they are being taken as fact. Under proper laboratory conditions for a handful of tests they could be accurate, but the current system is a huge waste of time and money. This must be happening for a reason and it’s not for peoples health or to save the NHS. Quite frankly I am sick of arguing with people, especially some family, as the brainwashing is almost complete. I wish them a nice life and am glad I won’t be around to pick up the pieces, or comply with any “rules” not laws, they come up with. Nothing that this Government or the tin-pot dictators in the devolved councils would stand up in a Court of Law.
I have watched both of these videos and it is indeed quite shocking that central London is like a ghost town with masses of business either closed or closing down, but this just reflects what is happening in almost every town the length and and breadth of this once great country. Very few people enter my local railway station in the morning at the time you would expect them to be travelling to work and the same in the evening with few people coming out, and I live in a so called dormitory town As for those government Covid testing centres devoid of any people wanting to be tested, words fail me. What exactly is going on, surely everyone cannot be working from home, I just don’t believe it. I have a couple of civil servants living near me who would normally work in central London, but they haven’t been anywhere near there since March, and instead seem to be living the life of riley going out for day trips and the like. It is a good job the police, nurses, doctors, firefighters, tradesmen, lorry drivers and shop workers are not in the same frame of mind otherwise everything would grind to a halt. It just reinforces to me that this country is hurtling towards another great depression far worse than the one in the 1930’s. And to think I voted Conservative in December 2019 because I thought Johnson was actually going to make a difference to the lives of ordinary working people. He has turned out to be absolute jester and is overseeing the transformation of this country to that of a third world country. He needs to be gone and gone pretty soon with his Covid 19 strategy which is strangling the life blood out of our nation. And all in the name of an illness that hasn’t yet affected 1% of the population. It is indeed politics of the madhouse……….
Colin Hussey. Stop beating yourself up for voting Tory! What was the alternative? That’s why I did it.
It certainly is MADNESS.
There was an alternative, to vote None of These or even to stand as a candidate ones self ; any one of us on this forum would be better than most of the existing MPs ! And anything is better than voting for a party that does nothing but insult humiliate and abuse you , laughing at the suckers who voted for them. In a way you consent to whatever package of abominations they commit, merely by voting for them.
I humbly suggest, don’t do it again; if indeed we get another election.
Why are we letting them get away with it? Good Question.
Isn’t it time to ditch smartphones? Another good question.
Here is a third to muse upon. Has the nation been lobotomized or totally mesmerized already? It would seem so. And I thought awake meant much the same as aware.
It isn’t a crime not to take it out with you is it?
I do have an old fashioned mobile phone which I don’t take out with me -even on the golf course
And when I was working and they tried to impose those message things, I wouldn’t use it ?
I know one of our lads behaved in a similar manner and it was well known he was to be occasionally found in the local snooker hall.
But there was form, my first job was as a Purser at sea, after each and before each voyage we were required to spend time on ship’s papers in the Liverpool head office. Which was on the 8th floor of India Buildings.the typists pool was on the 7th floor..
The Kardomah cafe was in the basement and the pub “the Bull’s tit” was just outside the rear entrance
Where’s this tale going? Obvious innit? The typists from the 7th floor and the Purser’s from the 8th floor could be contacted in an emergency by telephone to the cash desk or pub bar till if required.
No need for “pagers”
I would add that most of the typists in those days were “roving” as opposed to “audio”
A number of said Pursers eventually married typists
And was that shipping line Union Castle by any chance?
No Elder Dempsters, the monkey boats not the banana boats which were Elders and Fyffes
Often referred to as EDs or early death West Africa had a bit of a reputation as “white man’s grave”
Luckily it was’t too bad from that angle by the time I joined in 1953, but was recovering from a lot of wartime losses.
Perhaps that’s why there was an easy-osey attitude to sea staff in the office and it may not have been typical of business office life generally
Don’t ditch the phone you payed good money for, just don’t install the demon App. I cannot work without the software so if you have downloaded it delete the thing. If it will not delete by the straight forward method then not down all your important info like phone numbers etc then do a factory reset.
You own the phone — no one else !!
Sorry Typo
” IT cannot work”. and and. ” then NOTE down ”
Sorry again
I just hit upon this article which looks interesting.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/legal-fiction-how-they-control-us
Interesting article, thank you Mary.
Lisa I’m trying to get my head round how it might help us now, or if it can (it was written some years back), but don’t know the answer yet. It would help if people out there would wake up, I’ve twice been called a conspiracy theorist today alone. simply for saying that the Govt’s narrative doesn’t hold water and that the abominable attacks and abuses we’re suffering are not to cure a virus.
Interesting but as a concept of which we are totally unaware it needs (perhaps) more thought before acceptance.
So for example, I am not MATT HANCOCK, I am Matt Hancock, nothing to do with me and my advisors on SAGE (Sage?) are mainly lower case also, so it wasn’t us.
I would need evidence of the successes claimed in the article before attempting asserting my freedom in this way.
Jim R (the real one). No I cant get my head round it either, that’s why I posted it hoping for other views. . Plus all the legal protections we had even 10 years ago have disappeared now. I think the only time people would resist en masse is, obviously, if they had nothing left to lose, and didn’t even fear imprisonment or worse because their freedom was THE most important thing to them.
If omnly people en masse were willing to resist now when it’s easier still.
Our Council Leader told us that last week in Thurrock:
0.1% of the population tested positive.
48 were over 60’s in a care setting [low on Vitamin D3 by any chance?] and 26 in the community.
2 were tested positive on admission to Basildon Hospital.
The Thurrock leader also said “Most people who catch COVID-19 will experience only mild or moderate symptoms but for some it can become an extremely serious condition which may mean they require life-saving hospital care”.
Correct me if I’m wrong but this sounds exactly like what one might expect in a normal flu season. Not like something one would trash the economy over.
Could it be that Our Dear Leader understands? Perhaps he even understands that there’s a distinct possibility that the measures we’re being told to accept will have little or no effect on the virus, that we’re in a game? (If not why aren’t the people in Sweden all dead?)
Of course, that’s not all the Council Leader said. I’ve left his beginning bit until last.
He said: “Right now Thurrock remains at the lowest possible alert level – Tier 1 or Medium Alert – and we all need to play our part to help make sure that we do not have stricter rules imposed on us.”
He went on to say that we need to keep the infection rate as low as possible or we ‘could be forced into Tier 2 if the situation on the ground …’
i.e. If YOU don’t do as you are told more people will test positive for this terrible DEADLY disease, it will be YOUR fault and YOU and everyone else will be PUNISHED!
He also said The Secretary of State for Health [who we didn’t vote for] will make the final decision as to which tier Thurrock will be placed on. (So even if you’re ‘good’ and all do as you are told, he might punish you anyway!)
Here’s where this road to ruin goes. Welcome to asymmetric warfare.
Good question about Sweeden.
A close relation has been living in nearby Finland. He and the rest of the Finnish population have been back at work ”as normal” for months. No masks, no lockdown and like Sweeden, not all dead (or worried)!.
And if things had been different, who knows Tim Aker would have been leader of that council. He blinkin well deserved to be in my humble opinion, nut let down by the national leaders of the party……..
Anyone able to program a cellular automaton? With a few simple rules it would be capable of emulating what different levels of T&T effectiveness would do. My guess is that as the app gets better and the results come in quicker and notification more efficient the whole country will be isolated in a couple of weeks. Then we can all starve in the dark. Unless people do what i have done which is delete the app.
JF
BTW, I saw our esteemed hostess had written “what the fluff.” No! i thought we need stronger language than that. But a couple of sentences down I found “by heck.” That’s better.
Actually, it’s beyond bad language. The tide has gone out and we see that our entire PPE, Oxbridge, over-paid, lacking in common-sense or experience of the real world political class has been swimming without a cozzy.
Government covid testing sites completely empty!!!
Ah – but the tweaked smartphone app tells you that you’ve been close to a covid leper -> therefore you must have covid as well and -> therefore you must self-isolate. Covid-Plod will get you for not self-isolating as the app told you to. So let’s just wait until the app (and covid-plod) tells everybody to get tested now! It’ll only take another tweak …
Got Cancer? Protect the NHS! Keep Away!
I leave my phone at home on the increasingly rare occasions I do to a cafe, pub or restaurant so I can either “forget” to complete T&T or hand write my details (I have terrible writing.) I have Bluetooth and location turned off.
The swervers seem to be back or at least more numerous. I especially dislike the ones who step aside and wait pointedly for me to go past them despite their being plenty of room for two people to pass each other. They then look at me as if they expect a pat on the head (good doggie!) and glower if I don’t notice them or acknowledge them fast enough. In April I said thank you, in October I just mutter something.
You know those war films where the Gestapo thug demands “Papers!”? It’ll soon be “Phone!” after the app becomes compulsory.
JF
Handy, bitte!
Is this new variant so different that our T cells wouldn’t still recognise it as a corona virus? Heaven forbid that the powers that be would discuss such trivial matters, Speaking of T cells why weren’t they mentioned in the breathless news of us not having enough people with antibodies?