‘Be afraid, be very afraid’ – of Covid and Brexit!

 

It’s back to Covid, back to full-on Covid hysteria. Forget the consequences for the economy and above all for the people. Meanwhile the usual Remain suspects have come to the fore, screaming about ‘breach of international law’ in regard to that ‘UK Internal Market Bill’, to be introduced today. More on that below. 

Today, according to leaks to ‘Our MSM’ yesterday evening, the PM will announce what looks like another Lockdown. ‘Social gatherings’ of more than six people will become illegal and ‘ministers are considering a national curfew between 10pm and 5am’ (paywalled link). So far, this curfew will ‘only’ apply to local hotspots. As you’d suspect, it’s about preventing that 2nd Wave. The government panic is driven by the rise in case numbers – based on tests – and on the fact that over the weekend 30 (actually 32) people died ‘of Covid’. The DT writes:

“Another 2,420 people tested positive on Tuesday following a doubling of cases over the weekend (use the graphic below to find the cases in your area), and 30 people died – the highest number since early July and almost three times the current daily average.” (paywalled link)

It’s because case numbers have been rising amongst ‘young people’ who ‘congregate in pubs’ – dreadful, innit! All are potential ‘granny killers’, according to Matt Hancock. Most of us are aware that tests have risen, to such an extent that:

“Matt Hancock has warned that a shortage of Covid-19 tests could last for weeks as he acknowledged that demand was outstripping supply. […] The head of the government’s testing programme apologised to people unable to get tested, saying laboratory capacity had created a “pinch point”. The health secretary said “there was spare capacity earlier in the summer but there have been challenges in the last couple of weeks because of an increase in demand”, agreeing that “lab capacity is what we need more of”.” (link, paywalled)

An ‘increase in demand’ – how did that happen? Nought to do with government policies, is it! Apparently the government hopes to get more university labs to provide facilities. The astonishing fact that the more one tests the more cases one finds hasn’t reached the eminent brains of those government scientists. It’s just us plebs who know this – well, those of us who read LockdownSceptics where Toby Young observes in the latest issue:

“Admittedly, daily deaths increased to 32 yesterday, up from a handful on Sunday and Monday. But that’s likely to be due to delayed reporting over the weekend rather than a rise in infections. After all, the mean lag time between infection and death – in those rare cases when infection actually results in death – is 18 days and 18 days ago infections weren’t rising. And the number of deaths in the past seven days is the lowest it’s been since the peak last April.” (link)

Indeed – and how come case numbers are rising when nobody dares to go out without a face muzzle because of fear, not just of getting infected but of being harassed by ‘authorities’ from shop assistants and police to ordinary people who believe anyone not wearing that face cloth is out to kill them? Don’t muzzles work?

Here’s another quote, demonstrating that rationality has left SAGE, the government, and many of the fear-mongering MSM. It’s from an opinion piece in the DT:

“Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, this week said that the recent spike in new cases was most prominent among “potent spreaders” aged between 17 and 21. But he also conceded that hospital admissions and deaths were “at a very low level”. So not only is the virus posing no real problem to the young people who are exchanging it, but neither are great numbers of the elderly piling into intensive care as a result.” (paywalled link)

The excellent DT author Allison Pearson is fuming. Her conclusion, in another DT article, ought to be sent to your MP and local council tinpot dictators:

“Once upon a time we were Blighty not Frighty. We have to get a grip and summon that spirit again or there will be damage without end. […] The contagion of fear now poses a far bigger threat to our national health than Covid-19. You probably won’t kill your gran if you see her, but not seeing her might just kill her. In my view, you are safe to resume your life. While it is reasonable to be scared of the dark; it’s a tragedy to be afraid of the light.” (paywalled link)

Just so! And if you wonder what happened to Hancock’s ‘confidence’ that vaccines will ‘soon’ be available, here’s another little piece of news: that vaccine trial by the Oxford Group has been put ‘on hold’ because of an ‘adverse reaction’ (paywalled link). We’re not told what this adverse reaction consisted of although Astra Zeneca has made reassuring noises that such a thing as stopping a trial is perfectly normal when developing a new vaccine. See this report in The Times:

“A large trial of the candidate coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University has been put on hold in the United States after a volunteer suffered a possible serious adverse reaction, it was reported last night. […] The pause was first reported by Stat News, a website that specialises in the health industry. It said that the volunteer who had experienced the potential reaction had been part of a UK trial of the vaccines. The nature of the adverse reaction was unknown but they were expected to recover, Stat News said.” (link, paywalled)

Yeah right – they’ll ‘recover’, how reassuring! But what about long-term side effects? I suggest that this adverse reaction must have been quite severe for the trial to be stopped as drug companies are ‘in a race’ to get that vaccine out first. But it’s apparently just a bit of collateral damage, and since we’re all so scared of getting CV-19, we surely won’t worry about side effects – it’s our duty to crack on, innit!

And so to Brexit – because Covid comes into this. In a disjointed scare piece the DT’s Brussels correspondent informs us that:

“British tourists could be forced to quarantine or take Covid-19 tests when travelling to EU countries under new bloc-wide rules and, if coronavirus infections increase, face being locked out of the bloc after the end of the Brexit transition period. EU member states and the European Commission began preliminary discussions on agreeing a standardised colour system, infection rate threshold and harmonised approach to travellers from high-risk areas for the bloc on Monday. They do not involve the UK, which will be treated as a non-EU country from January 1.” (paywalled link)

Oh dear! Surely, had we known about Covid in 2016 we’d have voted to Remain, wouldn’t we! However, the intent of this Remain article, trying to inject some extra fear and hysteria into the No Deal Brexit debate, becomes clear when the author quotes the ubiquitous EU diplomat: “Discussions were at an early stage and any decision was a long way off, the diplomat said.” (paywalled link)

Meanwhile, in preparation for ‘That Bill’, we’re told about a ‘Tory Backlash’: this Bill ‘will break International Law’, making us ‘a laughing stock’ and making us ‘untrustworthy’, or so the Remainers say. No, “A Law” is cast in stone for all eternity, especially when it involves the EU, and cannot be changed, evah:

“Mr Lewis [NI Secretary] told the Commons: “Yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way.” He added that the powers the Government was taking would enable ministers to “disapply” the legal concept of “direct effect” – which requires the enforcement of EU law – in “certain, very tightly defined circumstances.There are clear precedents for the UK, and indeed other countries, needing to consider their international obligations as circumstances change,” he added.” (paywalled link)

Precedents don’t matter when it’s about keeping us tied to Brussels! Remain remains strong in the Tory Party, never mind Whitehall and ‘Our MSM’ where a huge case is made of the fact that the Permanent Secretary in the Justice Dept, Sir Jonathan Jones, has resigned over this Bill.

However, we read in the DT that he was ‘on the brink’ of going last year already, “over the Government’s attempts to circumvent the Benn Act, the rebel legislation which forced Boris Johnson to ask Brussels for a Brexit extension.” (paywalled link). Well, he got his gong as reward for staying but apparently he’s not ‘staying bribed’. 

Interestingly enough, all those Remainers, be they Tories (yes, Ms May is of course one of them), be they lawyers, seem to have it in for the Attorney General, Ms Suella Braverman:

“Legal experts also suggested the move raised questions over the future of Suella Braverman QC, the Attorney General and Robert Buckland, the Justice Secretary, who are bound to uphold the rule of law. […] Sir Jonathan is understood to have disagreed with Ms Braverman’s interpretation of the legal implications, with insiders claiming external advice from a leading QC had also warned that the plans risked breaching international law. However, Downing Street is said to have accepted the advice of Ms Braverman.” (paywalled link)

How dare Downing Street ‘accept the advice’ of Ms Braverman, the lady appointed by the PM after the GE! Especially when an external, ‘leading QC’ advised about ‘a risk’!

In all humility I’d like to suggest that these Remainers, these civil serpents, lawyers, Tories and ‘writers’ must be misogynists as well as racists for attacking Ms Braverman. I’ll refrain from accusing them of undermining our standing in the international community by their attacks. That would be futile because we know already that Remainers, even if they are former PMs, are not loyal to this government, never mind to our country.

 

KBO!

 

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