Despite talking of the U.K.’s long, slow lockdown easing as “irreversible”, the Prime Minister today told reporters that an anticipated resurgence of Covid, flu and other diseases means there may be a “rough winter” ahead. Noting that hospitalisations and ICU numbers are up around 30%, Boris Johnson said:
You can never exclude the possibility that there will be some new disease, some new horror we haven’t budgeted for or accounted for… but I think it’s looking good for July 19th to be that terminus point. Things like flu may come back this winter, we may have a rough winter for all sorts of reasons – but that is all the more reason to reduce Covid cases now, give the NHS the breathing space it needs now.
His comments suggest that the reason for the hugely costly decision to defer ‘freedom day’ for a month was to “reduce Covid cases” and “give the NHS the breathing space it needs”. That raises the alarming possibility that restrictions might be re-imposed whenever some pessimistic, unverified modelling suggests the NHS might come ‘under pressure’ during the winter – despite the fact that the NHS comes ‘under pressure’ almost every winter.
There are many criticisms that could be made of this, including that there is no real-world evidence that lockdowns make any significant impact on the course of a COVID-19 epidemic, and that it shows a very narrow and warped sense of priorities when it comes to managing public affairs and public health.
But besides that, even on its own terms it makes no sense to “give the NHS breathing space” by continuing or re-imposing restrictions. Since the main reason experts are so worried about flu this year is they are concerned that lockdowns and social distancing have successfully suppressed flu and other pathogens and left people unexposed to them and thus more vulnerable. In addition to this, Matt Hancock warned last week that the backlog in the NHS of people in need of elective procedures such as hip, knee and eye operations is now estimated to be as high as 12.2 million, resulting in the NHS facing the “biggest pressure in its history”.
But where is this pressure coming from? By the Government’s own admission, the backlog is caused by people staying away from the health service. So how can re-imposing restrictions and stoking panic be the solution to pressure caused by the very restrictions and panic that led people to avoid seeking medical treatment? The only way to break out of this vicious circle is to accept that lockdowns cause more problems than they solve.
Yet with the latest delay, the Government shows no sign of kicking the bad lockdown habit it has picked up in the last 15 months. No wonder even Cabinet Minsters are starting to complain they’re not being listened to.
Increasingly it seems that we are living under a SAGE dictatorship, where those with the real power are rewarded with billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to hand out to their friends in industry and academia – friends whose reputation they may have helped protect by covering up their role in creating the virus in the first place.
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Looks like the coming winter is going to be a bigger fuck up than last winter
It certainly looks that way.
Strap yourselves in, it’s going to be harsh. These b@stards are on a mission.
Today’s UK Column reveals the true extend of the evil they have in store for us: https://www.ukcolumn.org
Thank you Helena, a really good site I didn’t know about.
Really good piece on it on how the clotting risks from AZ type injections were known already in the published medical literature – dismissed clearly by both developers and regulators. So much for the friendly “Oxford vaccine” and the “oh, just coincidence” Oxford reaction when reports began.
The lies and evil are almost unfathomable.
Yes indeed. Note the mention of no buns or wraps at McDonald’s: food crisis requiring rationing to protect ‘food security’ on the way.
Food rationing, I predict, is to be the precursor of personally targeted, prepared (and medicated) meals, distributed from repurposed supermarkets, with denial of food for dissidents.
High carb low fat vegan meals, obviously.
I have been lucky so far, we still have local butchers, veg shops and farm shops and a lot of local produce. Probably why there are so many fit healthy elderly folks. This must be stopped.
Predictive programming
twat
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Me and my immediate family.
We should get a large group and charter a boat. That way we can skip the tests, the masks etc and start again in the sane states without compromising ourselves.
im planning to organise this next summer if this nonsense continues.
it seems likely it will.
Would we be allowed to claim asylum there? If we could get there….
“No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You’re strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs!”
That’s what I’m doing by not having the injection.
So they’re going to go back to calling it ‘flu this winter then?
Yes because this year they will have ‘vaccine’ stats labelled as covid-19. Flu will miraculously make a come back.
Getting their ADE retaliation in first
It would seem so.
Yep, setting the scene it would seem, last time he said: That, of course, doesn’t exclude the possibility… that there is some new variant that is far more dangerous – that kills people in a way that we currently cannot foresee or understand.
So the seeds are being sewn…
sown
I did think ADE when I read the headline.
I’m making sure that I can say “I told you so” when the body count starts rising from ADE when the colds and flu start. Midsummer day, date easy enough to remember.
Every September, when the kids go back to school, there is an outbreak of snuffles. This normal consequence of 8 weeks immune isolation over the summer holidays will be weaponised to keep the population under house arrest.
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Johnson, you are a traitorous f#ckwit. “New diseases” ROFL. What else is going to be let out of the lab? Who gives a stuff about colds and flu, we live with these, you moronic fool.
You’re building up the narrative for the next assault on the population.
Libertarian Kim Jong Johnson strikes again.
The great fat communist fraud is a libertarian in the same way that Frank Bruno is an effeminate albino dwarf with a helium voice, no muscle and no punch at all.
Comment of The Day Award
Thank you.
Commie Pfeffel Pot is looking strikingly similar to his retched Spitting Image puppet lately. Must be the weight of his libertarian conscience bearing heavily on his soul.
Doesn’t he just? He looks like an absolute caricature of himself…but was he ever really there to start with?
This latest verbal diarrhoea from the, patently insane, Pig Dictator translates into if you are ill please don’t bother the NHS (that you have been paying for all your working life). Instead please die quietly at home, and if you have any nasty bug keep it to yourself in case you give it to someone who might be a bad citizen and ask to see a doctor.
If too many of you don’t follow these requirements we will just lock you all in anyway – but don’t for a second think you will get any sort of medical treatment.
The man is absolutely bat shit crazy – I genuinely think he is insane. Where did I leave that bleeding bowl? Can you get leeches from Amazon?
Kim Jong Johnson has laxatives administered before making a pronouncement.
It was like that from the start. The clear instruction to the British people was “die rather than bother us”. I got Covid in March last year – which was a bit scary at that point, and at the point where I hadn’t spoken for two days because the coughing was so bad, and I was going outside to be able to breathe better, I looked at PHE advice on when to ring for help. It said wait till you can’t speak before you ring 999.
Er…?
I didn’t realise then that there were already early treatments, but I did wonder why no one seemed to be trying to find any.
I had to put an appeal on street mail even for paracetomol and appeal to neighbours to pick up food for my disabled son when we ran out – there was no system for helping the sick, just stay inside, live or die.
It was clear, with that and the DNRs, and David King saying the old should die silently at home, that it was never about saving lives. It was the March of the Death Eaters from day one.
Are you saying paracetamol was a cure for the ‘covid’?
He has been emboldened by the G7 meeting. This is the second time he has said this. A veiled threat perhaps? The sheeple are not frightened enough. They are getting bolder by the day. We must put an end to this!
‘In the name of God, go!’
This shitshow would have evaporated in an instant if we lived in a voluntary society with no government. Governments always create perverse incentives…
A nice gedanken experiment: what would happen if we all simultaneously turned our backs on the fuckers and just said, “No thanks. I’ve had enough.”
Answers on a postcard…
Problem is the vast majority of the sheeple have bought the narrative, hook, line & sinker, so we’d be quite few in numbers unfortunately…
Interesting point:
From June 2010 to December 2011 (541 Days) Belgium did not have a Government.
A 2019 study found that the government formation deadlock did not harm economic growth in Belgium.
Along the lines of ‘imagine they gave a war and nobody came’? A fantasy for idle moments.
The only disease in this country is Johnson. Anyone see Johnson senior on tv last night laughing about his Stanley Johnson travel exemption?
No I didn’t see which was extremely fortunate. The whole Johnson family are parasites.
It was on GB News and indeed about the parasites, but its fascinating to see how when Johnson senior was laughing about it, the panel were smiling, its a natural reaction and it works, same with the clown Johnson Junior. I believe it is why he was selected for this
The disease is Vallance, Ferguson and co who have the fool Johnson totally under their control. And are impoverishing the country. One has to assume, deliberately.
No it isn’t, it is 100% Government propogated. Advisors provide the ammo to the government’s specification, and cabinet ministers duly aim and fire the shells. Although never the brightest button in the tin, Johnson is no fool politically or financially. Whoever or whatever he is taking orders from he’s certainly not taking them from SAGE et al (that lot couldn’t afford a fraction of his monthly brown envelope).
Too many people fishing around for scapegoats.
SAGE are culpable to a degree, but yes, the PM is in charge and the buck stops with him. People should stop defending him.
“People should stop defending him”
They should stop now. They should have cottoned on yonks ago to the fact that he is a lying, bloated, narcissistic and sociopathic bag of wind.
Not to have done so is a mark of mental deficiency. To have voted for him is …. ???
Well how come all the other governments in the world are doing pretty much the same thing? Think about it. It can’t all be being propogated by one government and it clearly isn’t. The “advisors” are clearly taking their instructions from somewhere else and relaying this to the governments.
See UK Column ,it constantly exposes this narrative.
On the contrary, Vallance has £600,000 pharmaceutical shares, plus the profits of a massive pharmaceutical career. Whereas Johnson can’t pay for his wallpaper.
Johnson is signed up to it fully now – and he certainly carries the blame for carrying it out – but he’s not the instigator.
No. The disease is this Tory government, who use SAGE.
I would like to suggest we start ignoring Johnson completely – he is just not worth the energy. Paying any attention to his words just gives him fuel and a power over us that he has absolutely no right to. Having said that, I did have a brief look at his article in The Telegraph today, to see what the comments were saying, presuming there would be a lot of loud swearing at him, but of course comments were switched off… We just need to get on with our lives
I’m already ignoring him and his lunatics in government.
“We just need to get on with our lives”
Totally agree. But the majority don’t want too, and thus prevent us from doing so.
I added a few words:
“The only way to break out of this vicious circle is to accept that lockdowns cause MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more problems than they solve.”
Kinda funny how we can’t increase NHS capacity to cope but we can spend billions on spyware and test kits ain’t it?
Is the NHS Albatross going to hung around necks forever?
Indeed. An obvious question. Why are MPs not asking it? And why are journalists not asking it?
Anyone would think that the govts handling of covid is nothing whatever to do with public health.
Indeed. £Billions wasted and ongoing. We were told it was all to protect a vulnerable NHS. Yet has there been any sign of long-term strengthening or future-proofing of that ‘vulnerable’ NHS? Not as far as I can see. Especially bearing in mind that the NHS has been under pressure for many years now; the so-called coronavirus crisis can in no way be viewed as a rare event in terms of its anticipated impact on the NHS. Nothing has been done other than a number of short-term but expensive Nightingale Hospitals which were barely used – some probably not at all – and decommissioned as quickly as they went up. That was it in terms of protecting the NHS both for now and the future. An explanation is definitely called for.
Indeed. The questions of capacity have been around for more than 20 years. The f.ing bleaters about ‘protecting the NHS’ have been in the forefront of cutting capacity (often whilst trying to make a fast buck) – across the political board.
Now we are supposed to essentially ‘protect’ their crap decisions – not the NHS.
Reorganisation of the NHS , as well as all other govt services, is part of the build back better plan .
They just haven’t bothered explaining this bit.
The level of service and and the degree of reliance on the nhs will be drastically altered.
The changes are being actively executed and have been since the start .
Don’t expect any talk of growing backlogs or awful stories of suffering to make any difference.
The brainwash internally of the staff at all levels has created another huge “silo” mentality whereby the plebs simply bring illness and “pressure” to the service , which of course needs to be protected.
The old, the sick and the inactive are in the firing-line , expect significant reductions in numbers in the coming 2-5 years.
…not to mention a new royal yacht. Maybe HMY Albatross would be a good name for it rather than HMY Prince Philip.
“But where is this pressure coming from? ” Indeed. What does the LS team think is the answer to that question. To think that it is anything to do with public health is surely now stretching credulity well beyond breaking point. The charitable reading of what the govt is doing is that they are drunk on easy power. But there’s no credible “good faith” reading of govt actions.
We must lockdown this winter in case someone sneezes!
With all the vaccinated people filling up hospital beds would it not have been better not to vaccinate people with poison in the first place. The NHS is closed for any other business anyway. To believe this Johnson is to trust someone you know would go into anaphylactic shock if he was to tell the truth.
“[B]ut I think it’s looking good for
June 21stJuly 19th”Same words, different date.
No we are not living under a SAGE dictatorship. They’re just extras in this well rehearsed pantomime. The principle actors don’t need them but they are on stage to add complexity to the plot and to absorb the hisses and boos of the audience.
The buck stops with the Prime Minister. He is in charge. He might feel bullied by SAGE, or he might be getting leaned on by sinister bods from overseas, but if that’s the case, he chooses to give in to them. If you have the Top Job, you must have the balls to make your own decisions and be responsible for the consequences. If the LS team are trying to make out the PM is a victim, I think they are on the wrong track.
Well said!!
“You Can Never Exclude the Possibility that There Will be Some New Disease,” Says Boris Johnson
Cupid Stunt!
I’ve managed 74 years (mainly of worse mortality) without it bothering me at all. And certainly not to the extent of killing social life.
How much bloody ‘breathing space’ does our sainted NHS need? And how about they just do their job, which we pay for?
I think we’re at the point where the NHS is just an excuse and this is about the exercise of endless, easy power
The current NHS is a result of years of politicians trying to use it for a fast buck (look at the revolving door), and axe-grinding.
The idea that the whole of society must be micro-managed because the NHS could not organise an inebriated event in a place of beer production is ludicrous. As an organisation it has all the hallmarks of the state controlled organisations that existed and failed in the old Communist world. It must be broken up and a new operating model brought in, the Dutch system could give us a few useful pointers.
Don’t talk bollocks – it’s the outcome of profiteering and political graft. Have a look at the US if you think simply privatising it is a solution. You have to be exponentially dim to think that.
Nothing to do with its essential structure.
I’ve gone private, and the care is excellent. I’ve begged for a ration of treatment from the NHS and been ignored, the NHS is murderously dismal.
Lock this treasonous imposter up!
Yes Will its a dicatorship, a totalitarian biosecurity fascist dictatorship. Its certainly covers the old commonwealth countries of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Given Biden’s Federal rule I would add the remaining ‘five-eyes’ state, the US to that, even though there is considerable alternative views within that state. The 5-eyes are doing this quite openly, pre-planning is now evident. There is the start of something of a divide between the ‘purety’ within the 5-eyes and the EU. This I find a bit odd as Germany has clearly been a prime mover in the enterprise. But its pivot towards Russia for energy and China for its reliance on materials and end market for products has meant its own mercantile needs outweigh other considerations. And where Germany goes the EU goes , albeit with a reluctant France. The big unanswered question is why? And why now? I strongly suspect the Fed and the banking community knew they had reached the end of the road for can kicking and a financial reset was required. Why not then have a societal and economic reset at the same time. The only form of ‘government’ that could steer through such momentus change would be a totalitarian… Read more »
Hate to admit it but I think you have hit the nail on the head there. The globalists play chess whilst our goverment plays tiddly winks.
Agreed, excellent stuff.
I finally got through reading this
https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/
as recommended here ealier. There’s a lot about the Big Picture
Barring your last para I think your case is sound and is much as I see the situation.
At some point though I believe factions will develop amongst the “they” and at that point the blood WILL really flow. However, many of us might be dead before that point is reached.
All good stuff, But this isn’t being enacted by the national govts. This is a multi generational agenda to control the World. The national political classes , institutions and civil society have been systematically corrupted and indoctrinated by incremental pressure from the real global power cartels which are basically intent on forcing a Marxist evolution of society worldwide. Property wealth control, control of freedoms and drastically altering the population numbers and locations. The present raft of national leaders are essentially thick ideologues who are sell propelled. The political/inal classes are a mix of ideologues and corrupted/compromised hacks. There are multiple agendas not least of which is to reduce the influence of individual nations. The five eyes are hugely important but the civil structures/“demographics” that have kept these countries as major directors of World events MUST be broken while retaining the security and power assets in tact for wider use. Hence the relentless assaults by argent provocateur eg blm , antifa and other Open Society funded groups. The infiltration of all levels of civil/local govt institutions by the UN is extensive and now all these bodies are totally embedded into the so-called sustainability agendas. This is why the there is so… Read more »
I agree that the supra-national NGOs are the foot soldiers and that the UN ‘Agendas’ are providing a lot of the philosophy, drawn from the Frankfurt School etc.
However the drivers of this are not ‘marxists’, they are capitalists who want to impose a new capitalism based on resource constraints which is as disruptive as possible. They want digi currencies controlled by the CBs and the full control of a totalitarian regime. Its fascism not marxism. Although I agree sometimes its difficult to see a difference in the end product.
But they must have a reasonable idea, don’t you think?
“You Can Never Exclude the Possibility that There Will be Some New Disease,”
We can’t, technically, completely exclude the possibility that this regime and Johnson himself might actually do something useful.
But it’s a safe enough bet that they won’t, for us to never vote for them or their Labour equivalents again.
I think most of us have arrived at that conclusion, though I do know a few stubborn Tories who defend the PM. What we really need is for mainstream figures (journalists like TY, sceptic MPs) to now repudiate previous party allegiances, and accept there is no way back
May be there won’t be any more elections.
This is just fear mongering on a giant scale. Armageddon might be around the corner. The sun might explode. All sorts of things could happen. If policy is guided by worst case what ifs then we are really are in for the rest of our lives being spent in misery.
The problem in my view is that governments and populations have now got themselves into a kind of feedback loop of self perpetuating fear. It was not originally based on a conspiracy. But it is being aided and abetted opportunistically by some scientists, mainstream media and specific corporations that benefit.
Governments have also realised that owing to the fear they are staying popular. This is what happens in war. Usually, populations rally to the flag. We are seeing that effect at the moment. And just like war, people lose sight of the futility, the collateral damage and whether what the fight is really worth it. Rationality gets suspended. That is what we are now seeing and the “believers” think that all us non believers are evil. Just like in a war too.
Don’t forget, the sky might fall in.
Don’t worry Mr Gates has a plan to hold it up with giant balloons fitted with sky-hooks. They will also spray universal vaccine over the entire world eliminating all known disease (but inadvertently killing 99% of human life in the process)
Fair comment.
Jesus may come again. I wish he’d get on with it.
As Lord Sumption said for everyone to hear:
“The real problem is that when human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom in return for protection against some external threat. And the threat is usually a real threat but usually exaggerated.”
AND he said it 15 months ago. Please now get your act together!!
The only reason to expect a rough winter is that him and Hancock will still be doing harm, for harm’s sake.
1.Johnson & Hancock hail the Success of the Vaccine Program.
2. Johnson & Hancock say the restrictions won’t end because of the Unsuccessful roll out of the Vaccine Program.
3. Johnson & Hancock say because of the Success of the Vaccine Program they now want your children
4. Because of the Unsuccessful Roll out of the Vaccine Program, Johnson & Hancock now say that it will be a harsh winter with more lockdowns and no overseas holidays.