The reality of “Moar Lockdown” and more WFH
What a surprise: after the New Year’s holiday weekend we’re back to Project Fear & Hysteria, to demands for another ‘real lockdown’ or at least a ‘Tier 5’. Yesterday, the first Sunday of the New Year, was the ‘day of the politicians’. Starmer – now called ‘Kneeler’ by comment posters – demanded that BJ lock us all down, now! Teachers’ Unions were demanding that all schools, everywhere, stay closed. Local councils – well, the Labour-controlled ones, are in full support. More on that below. ‘Our MSM’ are meanwhile gleefully resuming their Fear&Hysteria campaign.
Interestingly, there’s a lack of data which the MSM ought to present in their ‘ F & H campaign’. For example, where’s the visual proof for the ‘overwhelmed’ hospitals? Isn’t it remarkable that there are no photos of those corridors full of beds with suffering patients which we remember so well from non-covid winters? One anonymous photo of ‘ambulances in a queue’ really doesn’t cut it!
Instead ‘Our MSM’ present us with ever more scary graphs in ever more lurid colours, of ‘case numbers’ rising and rising. The strange thing is that these ‘case numbers’ are rising despite most of the country having been in tier-4 lockdown since Boxing Day. Don’t expect our covid MSM to ask about that phenomenon. I expect the official ‘covid cases’ to rise even further today or tomorrow when the NHS has handed in their death data to the government statisticians. After all, you didn’t expect the poor things to work over the holidays, did you!
Also absent from the weekend covid reports were – SAGE and their speakers. I expect them to come out of hiding, back from their holidays, just in time for BJ to make his decision. The ground has been prepared for them – by other ‘experts’ now talking up that ‘South Africa Covid Mutation’. It’s another instance where I could barely restrain myself from throwing crockery against walls!
It’s also an instance where we can observe perfectly the miasma in and by which the covid MSM thrive. There’s now an entity called ‘Times Radio’. It’s run, surprise surprise, by ‘The Times’. The Times reporters then use ‘news’ gleaned from ‘Times Radio’ and publish them as articles. Other online papers pick up those articles and lo and behold: “we” have got ‘new facts’ – because, as any fule kno: if it’s published in The Times, it’s true.
And so we find a report on what a professor from Oxford told The Times Radio about that South Africa Mutation: it may be very dangerous, it may be very infectious, and it’s not yet known if the vaccines being rolled out would ‘protect’ us. Here’s the passage which fuelled my ire:
“Sir John [Bell] added that although there was no data yet on whether it increases severity, “it’s increased the infectiousness […]” (paywalled link)
He’s got ‘no data’ – but let’s scare the plebs anyway by throwing around expressions like ‘change in spike proteins’, dazzling them with ‘science’! Here’s another passage, aimed to ‘balance’ the fear factor with reassuring mumbles:
“My gut feeling is the vaccine will be still effective against the Kent strain,” Sir John said. “I don’t know about the South African strain — there’s a big question mark about that.” (link, paywalled)
‘Gut feeling’? This from an eminent virologist? No data available yet, but ‘gut feelings’ are now ‘scientific’? Are “we” peasants also allowed to have ‘gut feelings’ about mass vaccination and indeed lockdowns? Here’s more ‘reassurance’, spoken down to us plebs from a great scientific height:
“He added that this [mutations] was to be expected and that manufacturers had anticipated it. “Everyone should stay calm. It’s going to be fine. We’re now in a game of cat and mouse. These are not the only two variants we will see. We are going to see lots of variants.” (link, paywalled)
Indeed not – but is it ‘keep calm and carry on vaccinating’ – or is it ‘panic and stay at home until the virus and all possible mutations are ‘eradicated’?
This brings me to the mass vaccination roll-out, including the Oxford vaccine being used from today. We’ve heard about the bureaucratic difficulties ‘Our NHS’ has created for volunteers. This isn’t due to some hapless jobsworths clinging to rulz – it’s indicative of the attitude of the whole NHS.
Just as teachers don’t want to teach our kids, ‘Our Sacred Cow’ doesn’t really want us all to get vaccinated as fast as possible. I’m not sure yet if this is because they do not want to add another halo to the Brexit one which is hovering over BJ, if they want to deny him a covid success – or if they are afraid that the eradication of covid means they won’t be able to bask in their ‘covid holiness’ any longer. See this:
“Health sources have warned against over-optimism and pointed out the huge difficulties in creating an army of vaccinators and the logistics of delivering the biggest vaccination programme in history. A source said: “We do have to manage expectations. You cannot just vaccinate two million people a week from nothing.” The source [… added]:”The NHS has never said it will deliver a target of two million a week.” (paywalled link)
I rest my case! However, the various ‘sources’ in ‘Our NHS’ ought to be afraid, very afraid, of another ‘national organisation’: our Armed Forces. See this:
“The armed forces are conducting their biggest home operation in peacetime in support of the Covid-19 response, as the first Oxford vaccines are set to be administered. More than 5,000 personnel are assisting with testing, cross-channel logistics and vaccine deliveries, military chiefs said, as a “quick vaccine task force” is set up to support the NHS.” (link, paywalled)
There’s more, putting the ‘test&trace’ operators to shame and especially shaming the vaccination ‘programme’ of the NHS. While most of the service personnel are involved with testing in communities and schools, they’re also testing hauliers and are
“setting up permanent test sites for traffic into and out of France. […] Both regular and reservist personnel stepped up on Christmas Eve to help clear the backlog of trucks in Kent, setting up testing facilities overnight when they would otherwise have been spending the festive period with their families.” (link, paywalled)
That’s astounding, especially since ‘Our Sacred Cow’ has been failing to do their job while finding excuses for their failure for nearly a year now. There’s more:
“The Ministry of Defence said that as the vaccination programme was expanded more than 200 logistical planners would be deployed to help with organisational and logistical problems. Defence medics will be among those administering the vaccine, while the task force will provide surge support where the need arises. Initially this will be small, involving 21 teams of six helping local health authorities.” (link, paywalled)
Let’s hope those ‘defence medics’ have all got the proper papers and certificates showing they’re not racists and are ‘diversity’ trained! Meanwhile, ‘Our Sacred Cow’ is shown up as the ‘no can do’ lefty bureaucratic monster which would rather keep us all locked down and not vaccinated yet, just as the other lefty monster, the Teachers’ Unions, would rather keep our children ignorant than teach.
Even Sir John Redwood seems to vacillate on this issue, asking for ‘more views’ from his Diary readers (link) rather than taking a stand. Unsurprisingly, Teachers’ Unions and Labour local councils are only following their leader’s demand. Starmer the ‘Kneeler’ went ‘full lockdown’:
“Sir Keir told Mr Johnson to bring in new national Covid restrictions within the next 24 hours rather than hinting that he would do so soon, saying: “The virus is clearly out of control. We can’t allow the Prime Minister to use up the next two or three weeks and then bring in a national lockdown which is inevitable. Do it now. That’s the necessary first step to get the virus back under control. Nationwide lockdown – the Prime Minister has hinted that that’s going to happen, but he’s delaying again.” (paywalled link)
Of course, the Kneeler didn’t tell us when and where ‘the virus’ actually was ‘under control’, but let that pass, he’s only kicking in the door already opened by BJ who will ‘assess the latest infection data’ by Wednesday, already being predicted to result at least in creating ‘moar tier 4’ areas:
“Boris Johnson told Britain yesterday to prepare for what will in effect be a third national lockdown, including further school closures, as he pledged to “do what it takes” to get Covid-19 case numbers under control. […] In a downbeat assessment the prime minister warned of “very difficult” weeks and months ahead until enough people had been vaccinated to start bringing infection rates down. He said he was “fully reconciled” to yet more tough restrictions.” (link, paywalled)
Well, that’s nice of BJ, isn’t it! He ‘doesn’t want to do it but ‘teh data’ will force his hands. Gone are the ‘sunny uplands’ he mentioned on New Year’s Day, of mass vaccination meaning we’ll be ‘out’ by Easter, or perhaps in May. Lockdown Sceptics in this morning’s Newsletter remark that it’ll probably be a ‘tier 5’ rather than a national lockdown because Parliament would need to consent to that (link). I’m not so sure, given the way BJ and Hancock have managed to circumvent parliamentary consent thus far.
One politician conspicuous by his absence is the Chancellor of the Exchequer – a certain Mr Sunak. You might remember him. It would be good to know his and the Treasury mandarins’ explanation of how more lockdowns are going to be paid for. Will the Bank of England just print more money? Can we look forward to a rise in inflation after the economy has crashed? Have Sunak and those mandarins never heard of the hyperinflation in the 1920s in Germany, after WWI?
Finally, let me mention in passing that local and assembly elections are supposed to take place in May this year. I predict that the Khans, Dripfords and Sturgeons as well as the local tinpot dictators will only be too happy if these elections are postponed until 2022. This might turn into a massive own goal because by 2022 we’ll hopefully have become so fed up with them that we’ll wipe them out in those local and assembly elections.
Or will we? Will we have become so cowed by another covid year that we can’t be bothered to stand up for our freedom? Time will tell. Meanwhile, let’s
KBO
“‘Our Sacred Cow’ doesn’t really want us all to get vaccinated as fast as possible.” Maybe that is because there have been numerous incidents where the vaccine has induced ‘hospital treatments’ and they don’t want to even more underwelmed?
”The NHS has never said it will deliver a target of two million a week”.
Two million aweek is about six months worth – timewise
(75 – 80 million population, including illegals – less say one third youngsters = 50 million. Two million a week is approx 25 weeks. If that two million number is ever achieved . . . .World beating).
I’ll speed up the process by not getting impregnated with ‘Lord knows what snake oil’ for ”the Greater Good” – All together ”The Greater Good”.
Any betting on the date this fiasco sorted out?
Put the vaccine in beer and open the pubs. By next Thursday most of the country would be vaccinated. Just trying to help.
The Times reports that some Covid patients are experiencing severe psychotic symptoms.
“Multiple case reports reveal the shocking separation from reality that some people are experiencing.”
QUOTE
The woman reported visual hallucinations that made her think she was seeing lions 🦁 and monkeys 🐵 in her house.
https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/covid-19-patients-severe-psychotic-symptoms
What I want to know is, if we have to endure yet another pointless national lockdown with all the restrictions in place to curb our ever decreasing civil liberties and freedoms, how will this affect the Covid 19 immunisation programme, where they hope 2 million people will be vaccinated per week. Will the immunisation programme itself be put on hold for months on end, ss this means one person injecting another in a building Lets face it there seems to be doubt as to the numbers of vaccinations this hapless government have ordered or have in storage, and the cancellation of the immunisation programme will feed the need for ever more lockdowns and curbs on our freedoms. One thing is for sure that neither me and an ever growing number of people, will forget Boris Johnson’s dire and inept premiership for a very long time, and before long both he and his fellow bumblers will be politically cast aside, hopefully forever. This is the man who wanted to emulate Sir Winston Churchill. No chance of that happening, not in a million years. He has more chance of emulating the lowliest earthworm in my back garden.
Maybe emulating a trainee earthworm?
Don’t be rude to earthworms, trainee or otherwise. They serve a useful ecological purpose.
Don’t get tested with that discredited testing the government are using, that will bering the “cases” down. its not acute anyway, take two fingers of Whiskey and a hot water bottle for a proper cure.
Note in the news, “experts” are saying alcohol reduces the effectiveness of the jab by 50% so get blocked and feel nothing!!!!
It’s becoming obvious that anyone with a functioning brain must realise that bumbling Boris needs to be removed the idiot has. Absolutely no idea what He is doing whilst Johnson Hancock Witty Vallance and Sage are in charge We will continue to go round in circles
“Boris Johnson told Britain yesterday to prepare for what will in effect be a third national lockdown, including further school closures, as he pledged to “do what it takes” to get Covid-19 case numbers under control.”
REALLY!!! Notice how in the Marx-stream media we’re a million miles away from questioning why we’re even doing any of this in the first place.
Of course the Chinese Communist Party virus, a corona virus, will mutate. That’s why we don’t have a vaccine for the common cold. This virus is the common cold with Chinese characteristics.
Lots of ‘cases’. Perhaps. Lots of sick people?? Not so much.
In short there is now no GOOD reason for lockdowns. (Only bad ones, probably measured in Renminbis or Yuans). And as for me at least no good reason for taking their vaccine either.
And why? Well I’m sure that by now I’m not the only one taking 300 micro grams of vitamin D3 with 100 micrograms of K2 daily.
Here’s the ACTUAL SCIENCE, updated recently.
Medcram video on taking vitamin D as a supplement, both for the PREVENTION and treatment of COVID. Very thorough. (1 hour).
An interesting comment on smoking and COVID at 25:10.
My only criticism is they neglected to mention Vitamin K2 when talking about hypercalcemia. (Hypercalcemia can, among other things, give rise to calcium being deposited as bone in the walls of arteries which tends to make them hard.) My understanding is that K2 protects against this.
Michael Keal. Sorry I’m not going to watch it but otherwise I totally agree with you. Did it make the point made before that smokers are less likely to get or die from covid viruses? Not that that will affect me. I’m totally committed to smoking real fags anyway and the stupid steroid inhalers etc. are if any thing counter productive in helping the bronchitis – given them all up.
I’ve been on your recommended dose of D3 for ages, from NHS, for fragile bones so getting that OK. No worry about hardening arteries – blood tests if I remember right but stupid GP wanted to put me on statins, ‘for statistical reasons’ !!
Generally, as I say, I agree with you. Never WAS a good case for lockdowns and it is totally ridiculous to carry on this way. The Chinese Communist virus will behave like the common cold and the ‘pandemic’ has been a scam from the start.
Thank you Pauline. Yes they made the point that smokers are less likely to go down with or succumb to COVID. I referred to it because in my mind saying something counter to the official NHS narrative adds credibility to the the rest of what they had to say.
Thanks Michael. I’m 76yrs old now. One way and another, since approx 2016 I have found from personal experience, that the ‘official NHS narrative’ needs to be challenged.
(And the WHO, SAGE, etc.)
And here’s a bit of what I would call common sense. Yes my bronchitis has been ’caused by’ years of smoking. Basically bronchitis is my lungs producing excess phlegm. That is surely an immune response to the irritant chemicals in fags.
I cough it up and get rid of it. Job done!
What is the point of suppressing this response? None.
Strikes me that same ‘excess phlegm’ may well form a protective barrier against the covid viruses. So for heavens sake let everyone learn to cough and spit!
“‘South Africa Covid Mutation’. ” AKA ‘SACM’, pronounced ‘Sackem’. We won’t though.
JF
South Africa eh? Obviously due to the past Apartheid regime!
Our vast expensive intelligence network, in conjunction with those of the other vital others from Aussie to EU or even USA, seems unable to to mention HOW CHINA IS DOING IT; or indeed ABOUT ANYTHING not actually killing us.
You might expect this to be a clue for SAGE and our holy uncriticisable rags.
Does the CHINA vaccine work?
T. G. Spokes. Don’t put ideas into anyone’s head. Would YOU opt for a vaccine from China?
An interesting short video from Sanity 4 Sweden, the title is self explanatory. I’m posting this because you won’t get these snippets in the mainstream media.
“One of the First to get the Shot in Sweden now Dead / News from NY, France, Scotland & Belgium”
https://youtu.be/mZYmfJ6BjBs
flyer. Yet another reason NOT to be vaccinated.
What’s happening to Trump?
The only way I got to hear various horror stories from Europe, all of them results of politicians’ actions, was Voice of Europe. But “dark forces” have now wiped this very informative site off the internet. Not a trace left, no archives, nothing. Tales of rapes, burnings, loudspeakers in a part of Amsterdam, murders. Of course these were unsubstantiated but you need to get the unsubstantiated news in the first place in order to check them out.
Now, unless you know someone in Europe, you get to hear nothing at all. Without a site like that how will we get to hear about jabs gone wrong there?
I will see if I can find out anything Mary , I have family in Rotterdam. In the meantime I am sure it has been said before but “the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result” Johnson has just put England into another Lockdown from tonight!!! The insanity continues.
Its not insanity. It’s deliberate cold wickedness. BoJo and Co are fully conscious of what they’re doing. The second lockdown is nothing to do with a virus, I’m totally convinced and they know it.