They can’t help themselves, the Remainers. As any fule kno –  since yesterday we’re on our own and there’s gonna be chaos, armageddon, pandemics – oh, wait: we’ve got that last one already, despite Brexit, haven’t we … So our MSM sent out intrepid reporters to report from the front lines at the ferry ports, gibbering with excitement, to detect blood on the floor. Well … New Year’s Day wasn’t your typical business day, but never mind that: reports must be written. Some found ‘chaos’, others didn’t. More on that below.

Meanwhile, covid hasn’t gone away. There are fresh rows brewing, for example about schools: to  re-open or not, that is the question. Well, some will and some won’t, but to no-one’s surprise, the teacher’s unions have come back from their Christmas holidays demanding that all schools stay closed, everywhere, regardless. It’s the fault of the education minister, obviously, who has ‘caved in’ to London’s demand not to open London Primary schools:

“Dr Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said […] that ministers must “do their duty” by closing all primary and secondary schools to contain the virus. It left the Government’s policy on school reopenings in chaos just two days after Mr Williamson had resisted pressure from Cabinet colleagues to close schools on a region-by-region basis.” (paywalled link)

Yes – the same old actors are hell-bent on playing the same old game: covid kills and therefore we teachers cannot be asked to teach our kids. Perhaps those teachers who have now time on their hands can be asked to help in the vaccination drive? After all, they surely must have most of the papers showing they’ve ‘done’ the modules without which the NHS won’t allow retired doctors and nurses to jab us plebs. Here’s the list – remove any crockery from your vicinity before reading:

“Passport or proof of right to work – 2 DBS certificate – Highest education certificate – Conflict resolution, level 1 – Core knowledge for vaccinators – Covid mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 – Data security awareness, level 1 – Equality, diversity & human rights – Fire safety, level 1 – Health, safety and welfare, level 1 – Infection prevention, level 2 – Introduction to anaphylaxis – Legal aspects of vaccination –  Moving and handling, level 1 – Preventing radicalisation, level 1 – Managing anaphylaxis – Resuscitation, level 2 – Safeguarding adults, level 2 – Safeguarding children, level 2 – Vaccine administration – Vaccine storage” (link, paywalled)

I am flabbergasted, I truly am! This is how our civil serpents wasted their time WFH: concocting a grab-all bag of ‘qualifications’. No wonder nothing works in this country. Oh yeah: what happens if there’s an ‘incident’ requiring ‘Resuscitation, Level 3’? Will we have to die because the diversity-trained jabbers haven’t got the proper paper?

There’s another news item which has our fearless MSM’s knickers in the proverbial twist: the one-dose vaccination to get us all ‘done’. Suddenly, we’re told that getting us all out of Lockdown by Easter is a ‘government target’. Good to know – remember this, because this target won’t be reached, not if our civil serpents and the various government ‘covid scientists’ and MSM fearmongers have their say.

As far as they’re concerned, the nightmare must continue, else they’d lose the little empires they’ve created around covid. While some now declare that a longer pause between first and booster injections might be better, others rise concerns about ‘disappointing’ their elderly patients:

“Azeem Majeed, a professor of primary care and public health at Imperial College London and a practising GP, told the Guardian newspaper he was shocked by the change of plan. “We’ve got thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of people who have already booked their second jabs, and these are people who are all elderly, so they often have to make special arrangements for their care or have someone to bring them down”.” (paywalled link)

Oh look – it’s someone from Imperial College London again! He’s clearly incapable of working without ‘guidance’ from government. Then, to keep the fearmongering going, there’s this:

“The nightmare scenario is that a partial vaccination causes the virus to mutate even more rapidly. “Is it just me or does uncontrolled, high level community transmission with circulation of several new #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 variants while starting vaccination with modified schemes, leading to partial immunity in a large proportion, sound like a bad idea?”, asked Prof Isabella Eckerle, a virologist at the Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases.” (paywalled link)

You don’t understand what this professor said? Me neither! But it’s suitably obscure to scare us. Moreover, there’s the latest item in the immunisation fearmongering: do we have, will we get, sufficient numbers of doses? Pfizer sez yes we will (paywalled link) and so sez Oxford (link, paywalled) if the ‘one jab now, the other in autumn’ strategy is being adopted. The first accusatory fingers are being pointed at government already, by ‘sources’, e.g.:

“Members of the team are frustrated at the pace of production, for which they blamed Britain’s virtually non- existent vaccine manufacturing capacity before the pandemic.”  (link, paywalled)

Ah! It’s ‘yes we can, but actually we can’t’, how … novel!  RemainCentral, for it is them who reported this, dug out a heavy-weight:

“Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford, was instrumental in forging the partnership between the university and Astrazeneca to develop a British vaccine. Yesterday, however, he voiced frustration that years of neglect by successive governments had left the country without the means to manufacture the vaccine at the pace required in a pandemic.” (link, paywalled)

Was it ‘neglect’, or was it due to reliance on that fabled EU internal market? Perhaps it was due to outsourcing anything medical and pharmaceutical to save money? After all, ‘tis a global market now, isn’t it. Oddly enough though, the same complaint has been heard from across the EU ever since the covid outbreak. They, like we here, import everything, from PPE to drugs, even unto the humble aspirin, from China and India. Don’t expect our eminent scientists to realise that! Certainly don’t expect them to blame our former EU membership!

Speaking of the EU: there’s one remarkable news item in regard to fisheries:

“EU fishermen have been banned from electric ‘pulse trawling’ as the UK takes its first step in taking back control of its waters after Brexit. The new law came in at 11pm on New Years’ Eve as the country officially left the union, and government sources said this is just the start of a new swathe of marine environmental measures.” (paywalled link)

That is truly good news. There was no outcry and the EU will follow us sometime in July this year. There’s also work in hand to ban super-trawlers from our waters. I wonder what Macron and his brigade of fishermen will have to say about our first step away from EU diktats! 

And so to the carnage at the ferry ports. Dare-devil DT reporters didn’t detect any chaos at Dover and Calais – one wonders if it had occurred to them that New Year’s day isn’t precisely a day humming with business – but they do report about the few lorries which did brave the new post-Brexit bureaucracy. None except one had problems which is surprising because we recall the dire predictions of the hauliers’ associations in the run-up to the end of the transition period.

Still, there was one ‘victim’. His tale of woe made me laugh:

“Michal Perdion, 39, a Polish driver, was forced to wait at the Motis Freight Clearance Centre in Dover after arriving without the correct documents for his consignment of strawberries from Belgium. His agency had expected that he would manage to cross the border before new import rules came into play, but the father of one missed the 11pm deadline by an hour.” (paywalled link)

Oh dear! The former leader of the former Soviet Union was right: being late means being punished by ‘life’. There’s more – it’s just so very sad (not!):

“Mr Perdion was forced to wait for his employer to arrange a T1 shipping note, the document used to transport goods between different customs regimes, before being able to unload at the Port. “I need this document, which before Brexit I did not need,” he said. “I don’t really know what to do now. My company is trying to call the office here but apparently it is closed. It’s terrible. I was scared there would be a problem because of Brexit, and now look what’s happened.” (paywalled link)

Now isn’t that a shocking tale! Home office being on holidays and not having prepared proper papers – it’s the fault of Brexit, fersure! Meanwhile, “we” won’t have strawberries – from Belgium, the horror!

RemainCentral has heartwarming stories about Romanian hauliers who will now shun driving to the UK because they were stuck in that blockade instigated by Macron before Christmas – and because they couldn’t find enough places to wash in the UK … funny that: were they not aware of lockdown and Hancock-tier restrictions, meaning that everything was closed?

Still, the Road Haulier Association is collecting ‘anecdotal evidence’ of foreign hauliers staying away, using Brexit but not the general covid restrictions as ‘excuse’, warning of ‘gaps on shelves’ in our supermarkets, and that

“a lot of European drivers will be thinking it’s not worth going to Britain because it will be chaos getting back into Europe.” (link, paywalled)

Yes, the ‘chaos’ of getting back into the EU must be the fault of Brexit because nobody, not even the EU hauliers, can be expected to blame the EU or demand Macron and the rest do something about it.

I leave you with the amazing news that, just as during the 1st Lockdown, the number of  patients with heart attacks admitted to ICUs have ‘plunged’. People are apparently shunning hospitals for fear of catching covid there. Also, “cases of severe flu are down and have remained low throughout the pandemic,” according to data published by the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (Icnarc) (paywalled link). It must be because of all those face nappies worn everywhere, because of social distancing, according to doctors, and not because this season’s flu rain might be ‘weak’.

Isn’t it wonderful that lockdowns obviously work – for flu if not for covid! Also, we can feel secure at the moment because the indefatigable testers&tracers have been on holidays as well, so there are no scare numbers published to mar these first days of the New Year.

I wonder how long this covid peace will last … and I wonder if we’ll ever hear of vaccination incidents here in the UK. I somehow don’t expect so: it might frighten us from getting the jab and then how will we ‘eradicate the virus’!

 

KBO!

 

 

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