Go test yourselves … your common sniffle might be Omicron

 

Scanning the MSM to see what their esteemed editors found eminently newsworthy is always a revelation, even more so after a couple of days of abstinence. The wonderful thing is that hordes of them, always copying from each other, aren’t even aware of the dots they ought to have connected, never mind wondering if just possibly, just maybe, their own breathless reporting and ponderous editorial opinion pieces might have created the situations about which they write in outrage the following day.

Take the revelation that the Afghan Allies were ‘abandoned to the Taliban’ because our civil serpents were WFH and worried about the ‘work-life balance’ (paywalled here and here, gruesome details of the whistleblower’s report here). Shocking, innit, that the civil serpents did what the covid empire told them to do! Even more shocking that the then Foreign Secretary didn’t issue a special directive or guidance, ordering everybody back to their desks.

I dunno what that whistleblower thought Mr Raab could’ve done against the power of the top mandarins and civil service trade unions. It’s nice though to see someone lay bare the working practices in Whitehall, even though he carefully omits to mention the ongoing covid policies regarding WFH. It’s also nice to know that this ‘Downing Street Christmas Party Scandal’ which passed me by is now blamed on … civil servants.

Do those Westminster editors who seem to have turned into puritanical covid wardens actually realise that the rest of the nation, certainly those outside the M25, are simply not paying attention to their ongoing covid hysteria? Do they not realise that their scary graphs and headlines are simply shrugged off? So what if the Brazilian government has cancelled Rio de Janeiro’s New Year’s Eve festivities because they found six (!) new Omicron cases (link)? Who’d want to fly there or elsewhere anyway, given the quarantines and expensive PCR tests? Only the higher echelons in the WFH public services have the money and their secure jobs to do so – so let them moan and suffer. 

But wait – there’s the latest warning, by an eminent scientist no less, who was interviewed for The Times. Never mind that his observations are bound to pour fuel on the WFH fire. As the various Westminster correspondents are busily blaming Johnson for everything, from cancelled Christmas parties to not accelerating that booster jab roll-out while case numbers rise (link, paywalled and paywalled link), Professor Tim Spector told The Times that:

“[…] many people catching the virus now did not have the fever, persistent cough or loss of sense of smell that remain the official triggers for testing.We’re estimating that somewhere between one in three and one in four colds are actually due to Covid,” he said. “And so that’s quite a high rate of people that are currently not even bothered to get a lateral flow test, or getting a PCR test, going to parties and spreading it around.”(link, paywalled)

The DT and the DM dutifully copied that Times Interview. Thus you can read what amounts to this skiver’s charter here in the DM, not paywalled. If “we” must now be aware that the sniffles and the coughs we pick up this time of year might be covid, even ‘Omigawd – Omicron’, then we better all stay at home. It’s what the covid empire wants, isn’t it. So the wails by surgeons reported in The Times about huge numbers of operations being cancelled due to staff shortages (link, paywalled) clearly come under ‘what did you expect? We might have Omicron!’

Meanwhile, the complaints about that booster-jab campaign having stalled lead to a remarkable observation. People in Westminster now fear that this might mean all those lovely mask mandates and other insane restrictions might not be lifted by Christmas. Reporting on the current (Mr Javid, since you asked) Covid Emperor’s warnings about the rapid spread of Omicron – 336 new cases! – the DT mentions ‘concerns’ that “the current restrictions, which saw face masks and travel curbs reintroduced last month, are increasingly unlikely to be eased when reviewed by the Government next week” (paywalled link). Well, that’s the aim, isn’t it!

We better all stay at home when we have a sniffle – it might be Omicron-Covid, or so that eminent Professor told the nation. The civil serpents do so anyway. A knave who thinks the stalling of that booster roll-out is due to their WFH, their worries about their ‘work-life balance’! It’s in fact a welcome excuse for keeping their covid boots firmly on our necks.

Meanwhile ponder another casualty of the lockdowns about which we won’t read in the Westminster MSM: the effect the horrendous covid fear campaigns and mask mandates have on our children. It’s not even about the covid jabs. It’s more pernicious. A friend wrote me, describing the following instances: there’s a ten-year-old boy who has developed a phobia of germs, constant hand-washing included. That boy is scared to go out. There’s a five-year-old girl who has come down with chicken pox. When her Mother telephoned the school to alert them to the fact in case they wanted to watch out for other cases she was told that the school has had a ‘mass outbreak’ of chickenpox.

Yes, that’s anecdotal – but there were also reports elsewhere of children coming down with RSV, a common virus causing coughs but potentially deadly in children. Usually kids give it to each other, thus acquiring immunity, but not when prevented by lockdowns, masks, social distancing and all that jazz. And we, our Health Tsar, our eminent scientists, our politicians and MSM obsess about common winter sniffles because they might be ‘Omicron’! All I say is: you Westminster bubble dwellers wanted it so now live with it, with the staff shortages because people will stay at home with sniffles and the common cold. Tough. Meanwhile it’s encouraging to read that we ordinary plebs are shunning tests and are trying to get on with our lives.

Should this covid government attempt to introduce those continental ‘covid passports’, now combined with daily tests for jabbed and unjabbed alike, I believe that our patience will finally snap. 

 

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