Covid Cases in UK Have Just Reached a New High — Not many dead

According to the Spectator, new Covid cases in the UK have reached a 7-day daily mean of almost 84,000.

Sounds bad, dunnit, as they used to say in my native Devonshire. But is it really such a big number?

It's estimated that adults in Britain get two to four colds every year, and children up to twice as many. That means around two hundred million colds a year in total, which averages out to over half a million a day. But then most colds are caught in the late fall to early spring, so at the present time of year one could expect in Britain about a million cases of the common cold per day.

So, in fact, this new, allegedly highly infectious, Omicron strain of Covid seems to be a bit of a slouch.

Moreover, it has only managed to kill one person in Britain thus far, or rather to have infected one subsequently deceased person whose actual cause of death has not been publicly disclosed, and may well not be known. Indeed, given the untrustworthness of the PRC Covid test still widely used in Britain, one cannot be at all sure whether this unfortunate person really had covid, or perhaps just a bad cold.

So, yes, it looks as though the British Government's main concern is to shill for Pfizer, Inc. and other makers of so-called "vaccines" that prevent neither infection nor transmission of Covid, of whatever the strain.

Time for the Brits to get back to normal life, which seems to be the view of voters in North Shropshire where, in a by-election, a Tory majority of 23,000 at the general election has been entirely washed away by the Lib-Dems, whoever they may be.

Meantime though, Professor Lockdown-for- you-but-not-for-me, Ferguson is driving up the fear factor, predicting 50,000 deaths a day, or hour, or whatever, if people don't shape up and act real scared.

It will be interesting to see what gives first. The public's nerve or the Government's.

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...The Nazis alienated Jews on grounds of public health; made them carry health ID cards and promoted the lie that they were carriers of Typhus.

Now we are witnessing the demonization of unvaccinated individuals and the forcible removal of their kind from acceptable society: in Austria, the unvaccinated face prison sentences; in Germany, they are banned from shops; in Italy, wages are withheld; in Canada, they cannot fly; in California, unvaccinated children will be removed from school; in Greece, pensioners will face steep monthly fines for non-compliance; in Australia, the unvaccinated are hustled into internment camps. ...

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In Britain Five Times More Children Committed Suicide Than Died Of COVID-19

 In Britain, five times more children committed suicide than died of Covid19.

But they kept them home from school. 

They made them wear masks.

And now they're determined to inject them with an experimental vaccine that hasn't prevented thousands dying from Covid.

Other than for killing substantial numbers of people, the "vaccine" appears to be useless. 

Meantime, most Brits are self-isolating in fear and trepidation, not.

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BitChute:
Dr. Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer VP:
Every single one of the narrative points that your government and mine tell you about this virus and what you should do ARE ALL LIES.

But is the compellingly articulate Dr. Yeadon right?

His preference seems to be for monologue, which leaves many questions unanswered. 

One question I'd like to see answered concerns the validity of Yeadon's claim about the impossibility of the community spread of Covid and other respiratory diseases. 

According to Yeadon, only sick people spread disease and sick people self isolate until they well again.  

But if that is correct, how come the common cold and influenza spread throughout the community on a regular basis?

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Daily Mail: Vaccinated people now make up almost 47% of all new Covid cases

Lockdown Skeptics: Britain Set to Carry Out Largest Flu Vaccine Roll-Out in Its History This Winter ...:all secondary school pupils and children aged two and three set to be offered vaccines..."

How the frack do you "offer" a vaccine to a two- or three-year-old?

Zero Hedge: "This Is Worrying Me Quite A Bit": mRNA Vaccine Inventor Shares Viral Thread Showing COVID Surge In Most-Vaxxed Countries

Worrying, that is, as in "this vaccine despite killing many recipients, is no damn use whatever."

Covid19: Vaccination and the Risk of Antibody Dependent Enhancement

The infection fatality rate for Covid19 has a strong age dependency. Young people have a negligible risk of death from Covid19. Those over 70 have a better than 10% risk of death from the disease. Such a steep age dependency means that rational assessment of the balance between the cost and benefit of vaccination is strongly age dependent.

For the young, with a negligible risk of death from Covid infection, the risk of accepting an untested vaccine with unknown adverse effects may seem unreasonably high, whereas for the old, if they wish to prolong what little remains of their lives, the possibility of negative effects beyond the immediate future will be of little concern.

One obvious potential adverse effect of Covid vaccines now being administered, is antibody dependent enhancement, or ADE, the enhancement in question being of viral infectivity and pathogenicity. 

Based on experience with other vaccines, ADE arises on exposure not to the viral strain against which a vaccine has been developed, but exposure to different strains of the same virus. The emergence now reported of multiple new Covid19 strains thus creates precisely the conditions that might lead to ADE and hence severe illness or death among those vaccinated.

The recent imposition of stricter travel restrictions in Britain, Canada and elsewhere, with a view to restricting the spread of new viral strains surely reflects realization, rather late in the day, that pushing population-wide use of untested vaccines for a disease that, in young people, is less lethal than flu, and of unknown efficacy in old people, could be the recipe for a huge covid ADE disaster. Such risk may explain this newspaper headline:

Daily Mail February 2, 2021: SAGE experts 'tried to get No10 to close borders WEEKS ago over South African variant': Boris Johnson is accused of ignoring warnings as surge testing starts in eight postcodes in desperate battle to contain virus strain

which headline might suggest maneuvering by SAGE "experts" (none of whom is a well qualified immunologist) to put the blame on BoJo if their direction of the epidemic response turns out to be a  disaster.

Johnson, of course, invited disaster by haqving a bunch of outsiders to serve in an advisory capacity, people, that is, who will immediately point the finger of blame at him when things go wrong. He should, obviously, have relied on the civil service, which surely not only have, collectively, at least as much intelligence as the weird crew of liars, adulterers, and Covid-lockdown rule breakers he has assembled under the wildly misleading acronym, SAGE, but also the knowledge that to bad-mouth the government will result in severe disciplinary action, up to and including ouster from the cosy and well-paid-for-life world of government service. 

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A team of researchers from The University of Manchester, Salford Royal and Res Consortium, have shown that a significant proportion of people in the UK—over 25%—is likely to have been infected already by the COVID-19 virus. The study—published this week in the International Journal of Clinical Practice—is the first to use the published local authority data to assess the cumulative impact of infection since the COVID-19 outbreak began. This has enabled them to calculate the R-value—the number of people infected by one person with COVID-19—within each local authority area. The published case data from the 144 Local Authorities analyzed by the team now gives an R value of well below 1. Source

So,  with a reported UK Covid19 death toll, so far, of 33,614, a 25% infection rate, and a population of 67 million, the infection-specific Covid19 mortality rate is just under one in 2000, or 0.05%, about the same as the seasonal flu.

If, as in Canada, Italy, the US, and many other countries, most Covid 19 deaths in the UK are among elderly residents of care-homes, those numbers imply a Covid19 death toll among the non-care-home-residents of between 0.01 and 0.25%, or one per 40,000.

Ample justification for wrecking the economy, and driving people nuts due to weeks of pointless incarceration, no doubt, but time now to end the insanely obsessive caution and allow people to get on with their lives.

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This three-minute video explains how vaccination works to protect a population, even when many, perhaps most, are not vaccinated.



The same logic applies in the case of naturally acquired immunity within a population.

Here's the explanation of the UK Government's policy in response to the bat flu, as provided by Guido Fawkes:

The government’s internationally unique strategy is premised on the idea that the majority of us will inevitably get the coronavirus and for most of us it will be merely an unpleasant experience from which we will recover. Letting the healthy get it, with the more vulnerable kept physically separated from the majority, in the expectation Britons will develop herd immunity and because immune people cannot infect others. [Thus], in the long run, [there will be fewer] fatalities.

The British Government policy reponse to COVID19 benefits from the Chinese experience. What that experience shows is that the virus-caused demand for hospital care and mortality rises sharply with age, doing so strongly over the age of 60. The UK response reflects this fact.

Thus, the authorities are allowing the infection to spread throughout the population to the point it impacts a substantial number of the elderly. At that point, the elderly will be required to go into quarantine for four months for their own protection.

Quarantining the elderly will have two effects:

(1) it will prevent mass infection of those most liable to life-threatening disease symptoms, thereby limiting both mortality and demand for hospital care;

(2) it will reduce the average number of people each infected person will infect, i.e., the reproduction rate or R_nought. The latter effect, combined with the rise in the proportion of the under-65 population who by then will have acquired immunity, will drive the reproduction rate down, hopefully below 1.0, at which point the epidemic will die out.

Perhaps Britain's current crop of bureaucrats and government advisers are smarter than the old guard:



But: Did they get the timing wrong?

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But as someone over at the Russian website Sputnik points out, whether an aircraft carrier is British or America:

... all it takes is one well placed super fast missile ...

And it's not just Russia that has a few of those.

But given that these ships have been built and the fact that, at least to look at, they are mighty impressive ships, the best thing to do with them is convert them to emergency relief vessels. As such, they would be equipped with helicopters and fixed wing aircraft for the deliver food, water, a prefab hospital and other medical aid, temporary housing, and equipment for infrastructure repair wherever on the face of the earth life has been disrupted by hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami or disease.

Such a transformation would provide concrete evidence of post-Brexit Britain's aim to be friend of all the world. Meantime, Britain should emulate Switzerland by creating a civilian militia, every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 65 to possess and know how to use a rifle — just to remind any future continental Hitlerian that invading Britain would be a bad idea.

Also, the Brits need to get back to training native citizens as engineers in place of the imported brains they've come, like the Americans, increasingly to rely on,. Then, purely for the purpose of deterrence, they should get back to the drawing board and develop a credible independent delivery system for Britain's nukes.

As for the Trident subs, they can sell 'em to the Canadians, to replace the earlier consignment of British-built dud subs now reaching the end of their expensively unproductive life.

The European Union: Why Britain Should Never Have Gone In; Why Britain Must Come Out

Against joining: Here is the impassioned Speech (I heard it broadcast live) by the late Hugh Gaitskell,* speaking as party leader at the 1962 Labour Party annual conference:

For Britain’s entry into a Customs Union – such as the Economic Community of Europe – has a double effect. The barriers go down between us and the six countries of Europe. But they go up between us and the Commonwealth. We shall find it easier to sell in the markets of the six, because we shall no longer be faced with tariffs against our goods. How much are they now? Ten to fifteen per cent. But we shall be at a disadvantage in the rest of Europe compared with our position today, because in the European Free Trade Area we now have a tariff advantage over and against the six countries, which we shall lose if we go in. And since it would be rash to assume that the advantages which the Commonwealth countries give us in their markets will be retained by us when we deprive them of the advantages they at present have in ours, we shall also lose in Commonwealth markets for the same reason. What does all this amount to? In 1961, 16.7 per cent of our exports went to the Common Market countries: 13.1 per cent – not so very far off it – to the rest of Western Europe – the E.F.T.A. countries, and 43 per cent went to the countries of the Commonwealth Preference System. We would gain in markets were we sell less than one-fifth of our exports and lose in markets where we sell about half our exports. This needs to be qualified a little because of the level of the tariffs. But nobody who has even glanced at this problem can really suppose that there is any advantage to be expected from the switch. ... Full Text

For leaving: Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking today at the Conservative Party annual conference:

——— * Hugh Gaitskell, a right-wing member of the Labour Party, died shortly after this speech, poisoned so he is said to have believed, by the Soviet Secret police. His place was taken by Harold Wilson, a left-wing socialist, said to have been favored by the Soviet Union.

Europe: The Perils of Complacency

Source: The modern typewriter

The UK urgently needs to wean itself off international finance and get back to what it did well 150 years ago, making and selling quality things and services. That will mean an attitudinal revolution in the UK ...

That's a quote from a discussion at the Slog, which prompted some reflection.

One thing the above-quoted remark brought to mind was a cartoon, in the style of the 19th Century Punch Magazine, which seemed to exemplify the thinking of many Europeans during the present moment of financial shock. It portrayed a fat man watching a cricket match on the village green and wearing a look of astonishment at the moment of being struck in the stomach by the ball.

Sadly, I was unable to find the image on the Internet, which raises the interesting though irrelevant question of whether I retain in memory more images than Google has stored on its servers. But Google did provide a link to the image of the sinking Titanic and a note by the Modern Typewriter:

On April 14th, 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm. ... the Captain ordered the lifeboats to start leaving the ship. The passengers were frightened. They thought that leaving such a safe ship into a[n] “unsafe” lifeboat wouldn’t be smart. So they refused to enter the boat[s].

The insistence of some in Europe on clinging to the past, and on assuming that what Europeans did better than the rest of the World 150 years ago they can do better than the rest of the World today with little more than an adjustment in attitude, is reminiscent of the belief of those on the Titanic who apparently thought that if they kept a stiff upper lip and refrained from panic they could stay aboard the warm, comfortable sinking ship indefinitely, without need to brave the cold ocean in a tiny lifeboat.

The question these people need to ask is how can Britons get back to making things, quality or otherwise, when competing with those in Asia and elsewhere who are earning a tenth or less of what UK workers earn?

150 years ago, Britain was the workshop of the world because she had the world’s most advanced industrial technology powered by the World's largest coal industry.

Today, energy is available everywhere and the most advanced technology is moved to wherever labor is cheapest -- and that includes not only factory labor, but much white collar labor including design, software engineering, all kinds of R & D and back office work in financial services, publishing, marketing, etc.

There appear to be only three ways Britain (or any Western nation) can revive its manufacturing sector, these being to: (1) construct a massive tariff wall that excludes cheap products from low wage economies, (2) print massive amounts of money, while keeping a tight lid on nominal wages, thereby driving real wages to the Asian level, or (3) subsidize wages to create a work force that can be employed at internationally competitive rates, i.e., by wealth transfers from the 1% to the 99%.

It seems that the inflationary route (plus mass immigration of third world labor to help drive market wages down) is the route that, without public acknowledgment, has been chosen. To be effective, it will take many years, possibly a decade or two, and it will cause much social conflict in a period during which multinational corporations that can take advantage of opportunities for wage arbitrage continue to reap huge profits by off-shoring production and services.

In the meantime, something like one quarter of the Western world's workforce continue to be treated as so much useless baggage to be kept alive in a demoralized and degraded condition on food stamps or other forms of welfare including residential programmes in prisons and mental hospitals.