Warning! Johnson’s CV-19 policies ahead!
‘Outrageous’ is the correct expression to describe the latest Johnson CV-19 edict. But it’s what the nation wanted, isn’t it – at least according to ‘Our MSM’ where the DT and The Times headlined their online edition this morning with “PM slams the brakes …”. Well, he was ‘decisive’ though, and that’s what mattered, according toThe Times’ editorial (link, paywalled).
It’s fair to ask why Johnson felt compelled to take back the few ‘freedom guidances’ for the whole of Northern England. The situation must have been desperate because SAGE’s sages had told the PM on Wednesday evening that the ease of Lockdown was already as much as could be allowed. Last evening’s report in the DT reads like a report from the trenches of WWI:
“According to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) report, coronavirus, suppressed for months under a strict lockdown, was on its way back. “The ONS surveillance data was the clincher,” said a senior Cabinet source by way of explanation for the dramatic – opponents claimed chaotic – turn of events that followed. Downing Street insisted on Friday night that the Prime Minister and his team had acted on the data, seemingly showing a 63 per cent rise in infections in just two weeks, with a decisiveness critical to keeping on top of Covid-19. Within 36 hours of receiving the ONS data, swathes of the north of England had been thrown into a new, partial lockdown and Mr Johnson was forced, as he put it in a televised address on Friday, to “squeeze the brake pedal”across the rest of the nation.”(paywalled link)
Then there’s the report in that famous ‘paper of record’ where the authors don’t give out such scary numbers at all – one wonders why! They do try and hide Dr Whitty’s role in this by using suitably obscuring expressions:
“At a Downing Street press conference after households were banned from meeting each other at home in parts of the northwest, Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, bluntly warned that the country had “reached the limits” of reopening. “If we wish to do more things in the future we may have to do less of some other things,” he said. “The idea that we can open up everything, and keep the virus under control, is clearly wrong.” (link, paywalled)
Don’t ask if that decision was truly necessary though. There are further worrying proposals coming from SAGE, but most importantly, first look at this report in the DT, with the actual number which made Johnson apply the brakes so decisively. Keep this information before it vanishes into the MSM’s memory hole (my emphasis):
“The decision to row back on the easing of lockdown came after the Prime Minister was shown data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday night which revealed a rise in Covid-19 infections. But the ONS data was based on just 59 people testing positive out of 116,026 swab tests. The previous week, just 45 people tested positive out of 114,674, which meant the tipping point for a northern lockdown may have rested on only 14 extra positive tests.” (paywalled link)
That’s correct: there were 14 new cases ‘detected’ by tests – fourteen! That’s why we must be very scared according to SAGE: 14 new cases means the virus isn’t ‘under control’. So stay at home if you’re living in the North of England and everybody better muzzle up everywhere else.
There’s worse to come. Since the PM and his cabinet are so clearly in the thrall of the SAGE scientists, we cannot take their other proposal as just something they would say. After all, given the beautiful weather with people again ‘flocking to the beaches’, the police had to set up roadblocks in Dorset and at Brighton and Hove to keep those horrid people out (link, paywalled).
Funnily enough those same police forces are incapable of keeping other ‘visitors’ to our coast from arriving there in the first place. Only Nigel Farage is talking about the scandal of ‘new arrivals’ who are coming in their thousands. If you haven’t watched his latest video yet, here is the link. Watch the video – pointing out the discrepancy of Lockdown restrictions for us, of our money being wasted while our taxes will rise, is surely unnecessary.
SAGE however in their sagacity have come up with another piece of advice, to keep us off the beaches and stop protests which they apparently expect to become violent:
“The military should be on standby to intervene as local lockdowns compound tensions, threatening disorder not seen since the 2011 riots, the government’s scientific advisers warn. Mass protests, illegal raves and increases in racism, inequality and unemployment are among the issues combining to raise the risk of disorder, according to a report by the Sage advisory group published yesterday. The police are ill equipped to cope and military assistance is likely to be needed if widespread rioting were to break out, the report delivered at a meeting on July 2 added.” (link, paywalled)
This advice was given at the beginning of July, and the summary of SAGE’s sage counsel as reported in The Times is frightening – but not in the way SAGE would like us to think:
“The Sage report warned of “a high risk of civil disorder across multiple sites, with serious implications for public health”. It said that as the summer goes on police will also have to balance the threat from protests against HS2 expansion, climate change demonstrations and anti-capitalist rallies, the cancellation of Notting Hill Carnival, illegal raves, a possible resurgence in terrorist activity and further far-right and Black Lives Matter protests.” (link, paywalled)
SAGE’s sages coolly assume that every single protest is a ‘danger to public health’ and is potentially violent.That alone is indicative of their anti-democratic attitude. However, that they are even capable of thinking to use the Army in peacetime in our country to ‘police’ protests is unspeakable. It illustrates the SAGE’s mindset that “we” must be controlled – and if ‘health reasons’ and fear and hysteria about ‘new cases’, swamping “Our NHS” isn’t sufficient, then the ‘precautionary principle’ must be used, based on the threat of possible violence like those seen at the Tottenham Riots in 2011.
This is another step further on the slippery slope to a ‘Health Dictatorship’ where fear of illness can be used to curtail not just our civil liberties but our democratic rights. Moreover, many Times readers are happy with this proposal, indicated by their comment posts. How did we get to this? How did we get to a situation where normal people unthinkingly obey anything government says?
Lockdown Sceptics publishes a reader’s letter a few days ago in which the correspondent describes a boat trip round the coast. Everybody was wearing masks, even on the deck of the boat, in fresh sea air and sunshine. He wasn’t and was glared at. Then the captain came on deck and announced that mask wearing on deck was unnecessary, whereupon they all (!) removed their masks. ‘Authority’ had spoken.
This is what’s happening in our country: people obey ‘authority’ with not a smidgeon of independent, critical thought. Moreover, they are happy to enforce ‘authority’s diktats’ on their fellow citizens while willing to accept the Army patrolling demonstrations.
I wonder if those people will applaud should the police and possibly the Army enforce compliance during this Eid weekend as people are prohibited from visiting each other at home. That was outrageous enough, but the observations of a local MP are naturally totally beyond the pale:
“A Conservative MP blamed the rise in infections rates on sections of the Muslim community that, he said, were “not taking the pandemic seriously”. Craig Whittaker, the MP for Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, said the “vast majority” of infections in nearby Halifax were in people of Asian heritage.” (link, paywalled)
That was of course ‘racist’, even though his observations are supported by another muslim:
“Mohammed Nushai, from a mosque in Bradford, echoed Mr Whittaker when he said there were “people within our community who are not taking coronavirus seriously enough. […] A lot of people have been visiting relatives and friends and attending events in each other’s homes with very little thought of keeping themselves safe.” (link, paywalled)
So now that ‘community’ is angry. They seem to think that the government used CV-19 simply to thwart their festival. Perhaps Johnson will apologise to that community while he and his cabinet ponder over the weekend how best to keep the rest of us ‘under control’!
As for me – I’m now suffering from a new version of morning sickness: a sickness caused by looking at the pages of our knavish MSM which praise Johnson for being ‘decisive’ in restricting our freedom and liberty for the sake of 14 new CV-19 cases. Am I a conspiracist when I think that there’s another, a hidden agenda driving this fear & hysteria, not just the ‘concern’ for ‘our health’?
KBO!
This pandemic gets weider by the day – The response to the spread of the CCP virus is not logical – Surely now that the “3 week” Lockdown has flattened the curve it is time to proceed to the spooky herd immunity and let the North get hugga mugga and the holiday makers return with as much virus as they like – This virus seems less harmful than the flu so why are we running about like headless chickens – Our masters dicktats are so bonkers a conspiracy would be a relief – Are they really tryng to supress infection so that there are still a few left uninfected to make compulsory vaccination passports a new power to control us with like their lovely new Lockdowns and Nappy Face? – So like this conspiracy spoof so had to add it again – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcvuftqXFY
Ridiculous ‘tipping point’ fear article in Mail with charts showing the opposite. Hardly any deaths now from virus or with virus. Comments are interesting. Hardly anyone fooled now.
I have just read on the BBC news website (goodness knows why I put myself through this reading that garbage) but there is an article there that the government have been advised by SAGE that they should consider closing down pubs and others parts of the hospitality sector in exchange for opening up schools for children to return to full time education, which is more important. I cannot for the life of me see what the connection is between schooling and people going to a pub for a drink or those on holiday staying at a hotel. If Johnson falls for that, it will just confirm my fears that this country is hurtling towards a Soviet style dictatorship, where severe restrictions will be put in place of how we should run our lives and what we can do, and where we can go, and no doubt what we can say. tt will also confirm that Johnson is incapable of independent thought. The growing curtailment of our civil liberties and hard fought for freedoms are slow by surely being discarded onto the scrap heap, and for how long will the government and its SAGE advisors keep this up. Forever perhaps, or until there is a vaccine which is not guaranteed in the slightest. I just cannot see the population putting up with this situation for very much longer. The government are playing into the hands of extremists who will it as an excuse for massive civil disobedience, the like of which we have never seen before. These new draconian laws that have already found their way onto the statute book, and other which are presently being proposed are being made law without any scrutiny or debate whatsoever. Just what the hell is Her Majesty’s opposition exactly doing these days. We are in desperate need of an alternative point of view, and even The Brexit Party is presently not forthcoming with one either, which is very depressing. I think we are not too far from breaking point…………
UKIP is ‘back in business’ and looking for members, donors and sponsors if you are interested Colin.
Not unless it is very different from the UKIP that I left which was run by a bunch of carpetbaggers which the leader had no control over.
Ukip has just announced the termination of membership of a self confessed idiot, who under the “previous disasterous” leadership, presumably Batten, was allowed to stand in the May 2019 (local) elections.
Whoever wrote the statement (I suspect Freddy himself as the writer reminds us again for the umpteenth time how brilliant he is) is obviously unaware that the selection of local election candidates is for the local associations, branches etc and the feral cats under the “leader” are the ones tasked with compiling and maintaining an approved candidate list, not the leader. We saw subsequent to those elections how much influence the “leader” had over them.
Bad mouthing a good man does not entice me to rejoin.
I’m totally finished with UKIP. They used MY money to sue a perfectly good leader Braine, now it’s backfired on them. They got rid of him because he was getting UKIP off the ground, now look at it. They’d better not now come asking for any help from me or they’ll get a very rude answer.. I really think the advice (to go independent) of occasional poster to this forum Martin Cruttwellt is best. With friends like this present UKIP crowd who needs enemies.
Jake, there is absolutely no chance of me rekindling my faith with UKIP. It has well and truly had its day. It has had one too many incompetent leaders since Nigel Farage stepped down. In fact the party was already in its last chance saloon when Henry Bolton took over the leadership. In my neck of the woods UKIP has virtually no branches left now, having all been dissolved. Any party you care to mention is only as good as its local branch network and activist base. Without that it hasn’t got a hope in hell, and UKIP has progressed far beyond that stage. I did however out of sheer frustration of what is happening right now, check the UKIP website and Facebook sites this past week. There was nothing of any consequence whatsoever, nothing to excite, and just confirmed that I had made the right decision to leave when I did last year and join The Brexit Party. That is my political home for the foreseeable future, and I just live in hope that Nigel Farage and Richard Tice brings the party out of its self hibernation, rebrands and reforms itself and puts in place some common sense and workable social conservative policies that may appeal to the majority of the population who feel thoroughly let down by the present incompetent government.
‘Any party you care to mention is only as good as its local branch network and activist base.’ – and yet The Brexit Party doesn’t have any local members either, does it?
In Berlin, today, thousands are out on the streets without masks or social distancing, protesting against Covid19 restrictions.
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There is an increasing number of incidents in shops where customers have been arguing with people not wearing masks. Real old-school slanging matches, some ending up in fisticuffs and hospitalisations.
Not so ”hidden” though. It seems all this conflicting advice/guidance/rules are delaying tactics to confuse and cow us. They are holding out the hope* that there will be – bingo! – a vaccine very soon!*
The delay is to help the big pharma giants a little more time to get their act together before they produce their very expensive vaccine to sell to the world. The virus fear must be prolonged for just a few more months before our Dear Leaders can be ‘induced’ to purchase it for the nation.
Or am I being a conspiracy theorist?
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“Hopeful people are more easily controlled, but the volume must be managed. Too much hope leaves a person emboldened and resistant. Too little leaves them disabled and useless. But just the right amount of hope subjugates them. They cradle it like a dying ember, and they’ll do anything to keep the wind from extinguishing it…..”
Hidden agenda? Fact is there are some huge changes heading our way which no one in government will discuss. Remember ID cards? Very popular with New Labour but not the great British public? Look out kids the Bio-metrics are coming. And sooner than you think. Dr. Microsoft and partners have a new business model and its on trial all over Africa.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/africa-trust-stamp-covid-19-vaccine-record-payment-system/269346/
I have carried an ID card for most of my life and I am now 74 and still carry one, and a passport, so isee no reason why it should not be compulsary for all carrying a large fine if not held
The point is that a population having rejected compulsory ID cards is not going to vote for anyone seeking to ration access to health services according to a vacination record. It will not be an ID card as we understand it. It could be an implant or facial recognition, chances are it will not be on paper. It will be a certificate of compliance.
Yeah that’s France though (libertë?) , this is meant to be England.
Stuart Have you considered getting a chip implant too just in case you misplace your card and passport?
A number tattoo’d on the forearm would be just as effective.
Very effective seem to remember they were used in the last World war concentration camps
ER Doctor Fired for Appearing on Frontline Doc Vid. Fox News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsKZx3KoHXw
Here is the official video of the conference of front-line doctors from across the US who came together to discuss the nature of the virus and the family of viruses of which it is a member. Also discussed was the extent of the politicisation (corruption) of public policy and medical practice surrounding this disease. To me it seems clear that what has and is still being done is, by withholding treatment, causing avoidable deaths and killing our economy. Although this is all US-based the same things seem to be happening here, albeit better hidden.
Like not using Hydroxychloroquine.
Notice how the ‘news’ has now shifted away from deaths to numbers of new cases. (And, the more they test the more cases they find!) Presumably this is because the mistakes made in the beginning, like moving infected people into nursing homes where they infected everyone else are no longer producing the sky high, and very newsworthy, death rates.
Here we see doctors that follow a simple rule: Do no harm.
It cuts through politics like a scalpel through butter.
https://www.teapartypatriots.org/live-broadcasts/americas-frontline-doctors-summit/
It’s funny (not),
I am now convinced Johnson is being “controlled”, by whom I know not,
but why he should pick on “the North” where supposedly his vital support for a COMPLETE Brexit lies on such flimsy nonsense evidence.
Beats me, unless he has already committed to a SURRENDER position, that he knows would finally “do” for his re-election prospects, never mind his continued presence in office as a useful tool to consolidate the Conservative party as the permanent fully controlling government
Obligated of course to the Global governance agenda.
Oh dear I nearly wrote fool , but perhaps there’s too much low cunning for that
His ”re-election prospects”? That’s always supposing there’s be another election as we know it. Perhaps he knows that too.
I would say you have put your finger on it Mr. Turner. Johnson has been warned that the existing WA&PD he has already signed contains elements that will not allow a proper clean exit, deal or no deal. He has been repeatedly warned he must tear it up, but has so far declined.
He and his palsied Cabinet’s handling of the chinese virus has been woeful for outstanding inconsistency and nannying authoritarianism. The blind refusal to tackle the rising incursions of illegal immigrants from France pinpoint Johnson’s globalist and social liberalism. His govt is not on our side. Prepare for the worst and KBO.
Does anyone ever get to become a Chief Executive of the Conservative Party PLC without first agreeing to deliver the agenda of its major shareholders?