One more day and it’ll all be over, done and dusted: the 2nd covid year 2021, that is. The end of a year is always an opportunity for the MSM to splash out on ‘year-end-reviews’, ‘iconic photos’ and ‘significant events’. They never look back a bit further into the past though and they never compare the ‘then’ with the ‘now’ if such comparison throws an unfavourable light onto the present.

So let me help them out. Casting my mind back to the pre-covid winters five, four and even just three years ago I recall the annual reports of NHS hospitals full of people with flu and pneumonia, adorned with photos of unfortunate people lying on trolleys in corridors. The PM didn’t exhort people in daily PR stunts to cut down their contacts and stay at home.

The NHS, ‘overwhelmed’ punctually at that time of year, only wailed about needing ‘moar money’, with added Labour screeches about ‘Toreee cuts’. Nobody, from top doctors down to politicians, demanded lockdowns, tests, self- isolation to ‘save the NHS’. Nobody blamed people who caught the flu for not having had a flu jab – such jabs were only given to the elderly and ‘vulnerable’. The rest of the people were supposed to just get on with it.

Remember the annual sniffles and colds! Exasperated GPs – yes, they actually did see sniffling and coughing patients in those days! – told people not to bother asking for antibiotics because it’s a virus, not a bacterium, that a couple of days at home with Lemsip or a hot toddy would do the trick. Remember equally exasperated pharmacists telling their customers that one could indeed catch ‘a cold’ several times a winter because there were over 200 corona viruses producing those colds.

There were no ‘health nudgers’ demanding venues be closed because people could catch an infection on the football terraces, in cinemas, in nightclubs and pubs. Catching a cold was a fact of winter life, so one just got on with it and went to ‘winter wonderland’ theme parks. Cancelling New Year’s Eve? That was simply unimaginable! If you were ill you didn’t go, tough!

Those were the days … and look at us now! The fringe dictators’ diktat forbidding New Year’s Eve displays and parties means that hordes of border-dwelling Celts will invade English pubs. And while Johnson pushed his booster campaign even further, claiming that 90% of covid patients in ICU didn’t have yon booster (paywalled link) he told people that they ought to take a test before going out (link, paywalled).

The snag is – there are no tests to be had (link)! Javid said there was no ‘quick fix’ for this, even as “officials [were] warning that the system will be overwhelmed within days” (paywalled link). Which ‘system’ are they talking about? Furthermore, we’re informed that “on Wednesday, Mr Javid, the Health Secretary, privately admitted that there was a worldwide shortage of tests.” – oh dear! So ‘officials’ must have known that such test kit shortage was developing even as Johnson blithely peddled testing as the ‘pass to freedom’. Never mind – it gets worse:

“The Government’s new policy of allowing people who test positive to stop self-isolating after seven days if they have two negative tests has created a surge in demand for tests – but capacity has not significantly increased.” (paywalled link)

Who could possibly have foreseen that telling people to test might lead to a rise in demand of said tests! But that’s not all. On the one hand, “business leaders have warned of an effective New Year lockdown as workers unable to get tested are forced to stay at home.” (paywalled link) while on the other hand the Test & Trace tsars at UKHSA had to do a shameful climb-down:

“The Telegraph revealed on Tuesday that people testing positive for Covid were being told to self-isolate for 10 days, in apparent contravention of a change in the guidance by Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, last week.” (link, paywalled).

What shambles! Are the covid tsars not even able to sing from the same hymn sheet any longer? Are some perhaps secretly preparing the way for the lockdown next year they clearly crave? We’re told that this was ‘only’ an error on the official website, see –  now corrected. Phew.

However, even a seven-day instead of a ten-day spell of self-isolation after a positive test means that our precious Sacred Cow will be overwhelmed because so many NHS staff – nearly 19,000 in England – are in quarantine. The covid propagandists write that Johnson is ‘standing firm’ against a sudden anti-quarantine coalition. He is

“[..] resisting calls from scientists, health professionals and Tory MPs to stave off an NHS staffing crisis by cutting the coronavirus self-isolation period to five days.” (link, paywalled).

Now there’s a turn-up for the books: ten-seven- five days – who offers three days?  What about no test – no quarantine? Moreover, we read that suddenly:

“Health service chiefs warned that staff absences caused by the requirement to isolate for seven days after a positive test risked causing a bigger problem than the number of Covid-19 patients being admitted to hospitals.” (link, paywalled)

Oh really! These are the same ‘chiefs’ who fell over themselves, crying for blanket tests and quarantines so as not to ‘overwhelm’ you-know-what. The call by this latest anti-quarantine coalition, to cut quarantine to five days hasn’t changed Johnson’s mind. But here’s the conundrum – read this carefully:

“But if nearly a million self-isolating people cannot get swabs, they can’t leave house arrest after seven days. Shops, hospitals, schools, supply chains and trains are already at risk of grinding to a juddering halt in so-called Pingdemic Mk II. The lack of tests will turn a crisis into a disaster. […] Confining the healthy to their homes needlessly will hamper the economy and society – and our attempts to rebuild this Covid-battered country.” (link)

If the lack of tests is damaging to NHS and businesses then why would a shortening of that period from seven to five days matter? Tests would still be demanded, correct? If five days are now acceptable, to save NHS and businesses, is covid becoming less terrible within two piddling days?

Will self-isolating people be told to go back to work and ‘just be careful’, as the New Year’s Eve revellers were being told by Johnson? Then why have tests at all? To fill the coffers of the test manufacturers who need a slice of the covid pie, just as Big Pharma has? Or is this a devious attempt by the SAGEs and other assorted covid-pushers to ‘create’ the conditions for another lockdown, spitefully hoping that all those ‘cases’ might turn up in hospital in the New Year?

It couldn’t be, could it, that covid is no longer the deadly plague we must all fear! Perish the thought that it has evolved into something akin to the usual winter sniffles for which formerly nobody was tested and no vulnerable patients were left untreated at home, to be carted to hospitals and put on ventilators.

No vaccines were suddenly developed, the nation was not exhorted to get jabbed again and again. No tests were suddenly demanded as ‘proof of health’ and no GP would have given tests to people who were not ill. We were told that there was no cure for the common cold and that we should just get on with it. 

Surely we’ve now learned, after two covid years, that following government covid advice has become detrimental to our well-being. Perhaps we’ve now also learned that actually, despite those covid smoke and mirrors, we can rely on our common sense and don’t need to wait for government to tell us which way to put on our shoes.

If we’re permitted to go out without daily tests because there aren’t any, provided we’re ‘careful’, then surely, after two covid years, the whole covid house-of-cards is now falling down before our eyes.

 

 

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