Vaccines Minister Makes Bizarre Claim That Postponing Freedom Day Has Saved “Thousands of Lives”

Nadhim Zahawi was in rare form at today’s Downing Street press conference, claiming the Prime Minister’s decision to “pause” the easing of lockdown restrictions had saved “thousands of lives”. Eh? The Telegraph has more on the bizarre reasoning behind the Vaccine Minister’s claim.

Nadhim Zahawi said the Government had been right to delay the lifting of all Covid restrictions by a month to allow more people to be fully vaccinated.

He told a Downing Street press conference: “Last week we took the difficult, but I think essential, decision to pause Step 4 in our roadmap for four weeks with a review of the data after two weeks.”

He said: “Two weeks ago there were over 2 million people aged over 50 in England who had a first dose, but not their second dose. Now that number, two weeks later, is 900,000.

“This pause has saved thousands of lives and will continue to do so by allowing us to get more of the second doses into arms of those most vulnerable to Covid before the restrictions are eased further.”

Mr Zahawi added: “We’re going to use these four weeks to give our NHS that bit more time so we can get those remaining jabs in arms of those who really do need them.”

He said that overall more than 14,000 lives had been saved by the vaccination programme so far, while 44,500 hospital admissions had also been averted in England, which is 2,500 in the past two weeks.

The underlying assumption behind Zahawi’s claim is that had Boris not pressed the “pause” button, the vaccine roll-out would have ground to an abrupt halt on June 21st. Eh? Surely, it would have continued on its current trajectory? In which case, it’s not clear that the pause should have saved a single life, let alone “thousands”.

Needless to say, not a single journalist in attendance picked up on the Vaccine Minister’s tortuous reasoning.

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Paul B
4 years ago

Best I can tell the NHS has had 14 months to prepare and has done fuck all.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

And that’s after 40+ years of organising itself to the benefit of its employees rather than its customers. Envy of the world, you’re having a laugh

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Seventy plus years.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  William Gruff

🙂 🙂

Hughie
4 years ago

Could have got ‘needles to say’ in at the end there…

Dave
Dave
4 years ago

Usual lies from the usual lying tossers

I am Spartacas
4 years ago

No one loses the plot faster than a government minister tangled in a web of lies and spin, and the extent to which this government has veered off the rails since the arrival of COVID is quite staggering. Not only have they lost the plot they have also lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

They have lost the plot people.

isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Completely and totally!

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

But the slave-sheeple audience doesn’t need a plot in order to bleat its approval.

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Even a congenital idiot can say baaaah without a script.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Not really.

If the “plot” is to kill millions then I would argue they are well in control of said plot.

David101
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Wise old SAGE is about as substantial as the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. Pull back the curtain and you’ll reveal a timid set of quasi-scientific cowards whose primary purpose is to protect their posteriors, while projecting an image of messianic wizardry pulling the strings of our marionette ministers.

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  David101

Pull back the curtain and you’ll reveal a set of quislings in the pay of Big Pharma and Bill Gates.

Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Brilliant, very, very well put and true.

misslawbore
misslawbore
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Agreed!

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Jabs macht Frei

I am Spartacas
4 years ago

So its confirmed then – for the Euro finals at Wembley all travelling UEFA VIPs will now be exempt from isolation and quarantine rules that the rest of us are forced to abide by …

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Brilliant!

HeresJohnny
HeresJohnny
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

What a repulsive lying slug he is. Prime lying slug of the ruling slime.

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  HeresJohnny

BIG BLUBBER IS MOCKING YOU

SimCS
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Therefore #ImDone

chaos
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

The Kray Twins killed the odd fellow crook. The Kemal Twins killed thousands.

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masksniffer22
4 years ago

Did the vaccine rollout in fact kill tens of thousands? https://www.hartgroup.org/mortality-data-covid-19/

DJ Dod
4 years ago
Reply to  masksniffer22

That is a good question. Looking at the Nightingale diagram it seems undeniable that a significant spike in deaths occurred in tandem with the vaccine roll-out. Regrettably, no-one outside of scceptic circles seems interested in finding out why.

Dodderydude
Dodderydude
4 years ago

I am sure I’m not the only one to be seriously irritated and bemused by the continual use of “doses into arms” or “jabs in arms”. They all use these expressions, politicians and media. Why? It’s just childish, patronising jibberish.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

Because a jabbed arm makes you armless.

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Right! Disarming!

Jane G
Jane G
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Where does the jab go if you don’t have any arms?
Does the vacksie go in the jacksie?

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

I saw part of the propaganda briefing from the “vaccine” minister today and it is clear that the word “vaccine” now has to be prefixed with the word “your” for PsyOp reasons. The accompanying stupid corrupt sidekick, grossly-overpaid, propaganda diversity-hire, NHS mouthpiece even tried to say that every vaccine has “your name on it”. We really are deep into CS Lewis’ rabbit hole.

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

Lewis Carol even. Oops

misslawbore
misslawbore
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

Lewis Carroll even

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

Plus it’s now ‘our’ NHS, not ‘the’ NHS. Almost like it’s ‘our Lord’….

Puddleglum
4 years ago
Reply to  annicx

Our NHS who art (died and gone to) in heaven.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

The reason they use these expressions is that it reinforces in their minds that what is being injected is utter shite and those people accepting the injections are contemptible idiots not worthy of any respect – untermenschen shall we say.

ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

Despite all the jabs in arms spiel, unbelievably, some ‘highly trained’ vaccinators have jabbed buttocks!

Words nearly fail me at times.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/948294?src=WNL_mdpls_210413_mscpedit_nurs&uac=411002PZ&spon=24&impID=3310152&faf=1

Burlington
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

That’s because they don’t know their arse from their elbow!

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

There you go- asked and answered. That’s exactly why they use it.

Fiona Walker
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

They know it’s not a “vaccine” so avoid using the term.

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

It’s a wonder thay don’t make us have jabs in arses. But I shouldn’t give them ideas.

ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

Some of the ‘skilled’ vaccinators have injected areas other than arms, albeit in error. As if the target area – arm – hasn’t been mentioned enough already, they injected the wrong area!

See my earlier comment.

misslawbore
misslawbore
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

It’s an insult to our existences as unique individuals

Owens57
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

I hate it too, and the recent post mortem showed it doesn’t actually stay in your arm but was found in every organ in the body

Burlington
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodderydude

They have been sold the myth that the poison stays in the arm at the vaccine site. But once it gets into the bloodstream and circulates the spike proteins, the blood clots start.

JayBee
4 years ago

He us going full Orwell, but then, they all do now.

Germany’s treatment of Brits actually lays bare the whole idiocy and malintent of all countries, including Britain.

Domestically, where the Delta variant already makes up 20%, it has established the apartheid system, requiring only the unvaxxed to test to acces a shop, hotel etc..

With regard to the UK, it quarantines the vaxxed and the unvaxxed without distinguishing or offering early releases through testing for the vaxxed only.

It follows, that domestically they think (or rather propagate erroneously and most deliberately) the vaccine prevents some transmission, whilst with regards to Brits, they don’t think it does.

As us critics say, governments, the media and health authorities can’t even lie straight anymore.

When is the (British) public finally waking up?!

DJ Dod
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

I notice that Zahawi’s unverifiable claim of 14,000 lives saved by the vaccines has been picked up and reported as fact by Der Spiegel. The German MSM seems to be relaying the lockdown zealot world view in the same way as the UK media. I expected better.

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/corona-news-am-mittwoch-die-wichtigsten-entwicklungen-zu-sars-cov-2-und-covid-19-a-3cf41a7f-c228-42c0-a0a1-00b008a2b613

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Since ‘British’ can now mean anyone and anything it is effectively meaningless and so there can be no British public, merely people in Britain.

I’m English not British.

sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
4 years ago

I should have opened a straightjacket factory cos I would have made a fortune.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  sjonesy1999

That’s true, because the comfortable Fascist lunatics don’t wear straitjackets these days, but the enslaved masses do.

Annie
4 years ago

Were thousands dying every day/week before the snake oil started pumping?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

Maybe the experimental pseudo vaccine has to stop being pumped into bodies when the “emergency” is over.and they want to keep their emergency powers.

JohnK
4 years ago

As it only has Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA), if there’s no E there is no A, so if they admit that it’s over, the whole lot is.

Burlington
4 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

Sad to say the damage done by the administration of the snake oil poison will probably last for years, if not decades.

These lunatics have no intention of this being over. They have only just started.

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  Burlington

Not at all; if what we fear is correct it will all be over for those who’ve had tghe jab in no more than five years.

NonCompliant
4 years ago

Seems more and more hospitals are having capacity problems unexpectedly for this time of year. My own local hospital is mysteriously one of these.

Are the ignored side effects of lockdowns starting to bare fruit or are the vaccine injuries piling up?

If the current NHS waiting list is the 12M I keep seeing quoted, it’s going to make than moronic clapping to save it !!

TJS123
TJS123
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

I work in a hospital. Its vaccine side effects, and people who can’t get to see their GP so they seek attention in A&E, or their condition gets so bad they need hospital for things that could have been easily treated if seen and examined earlier.

Paul B
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Aren’t staff self isolating in large numbers?

Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
4 years ago

Seems they can say what they like people still believe them. It’s a shame because no body believes the bullshit I come out with.

annicx
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

I know- where were all these people when I was selling double glazing?

Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Your bullshit is obviously not bullshitty enough then! Try harder and you could be as practiced as any politician.

clem
clem
4 years ago

Each day I’m torn between whether this is all a planned conspiracy within government or just utter fucking incompetence by really thick and gullible MPs. Today it’s the latter.

NonCompliant
4 years ago
Reply to  clem

Either way, they will be coming for the unvaccinated at some point in the not so distant future I think. For the former, we were always the target and for the latter we’re an inconvenient control specimen if ADE happens or the spike proteins ‘unexpectedly’ circulating in vaccinated people starts causing problems and things go sideways.

Looking forward to Saturday regardless !!!

maggy mcgeown
maggy mcgeown
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

An excellent book to read is “Dissolving Illusions – Disease, Vaccines and the Forgotten History”. Chapter 6 covers the Great Demonstration of Leicester in 1885 when 80-000 to 100. 000 people (according to the organizers) from all parts of Britain came to Leicester to protest against the 1867 Vaccination Act (for smallpox). Just the thing to read before the demonstrations on June 26 (and Chapters 7 “The Rebel Experiment” and 8 “The Power of the State”). It’s happened before and people have successfully protested in their 10s/100s of thousands before on this issue.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  clem

Shouldabeen the former.:-)

Emmerich
4 years ago
Reply to  clem

This is all planned. Everything about this crisis seems engineered to kill as many as possible. When you realise that their strategy has been imported wholesale from communist China it all begins to make sense

chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Emmerich

When you consider the incompetence over the top of the plan, it makes the plan harder to spot. Deliberate incompetence?

Burlington
4 years ago
Reply to  clem

Thick and gullible MPs they may be but they are useful idiots for the globalist cabal that are really pulling the strings, Check out Naomi Wolf:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/naomi-wolf-steps-to-fascism/

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  clem

It’s both; megalomaniacal psychopaths exploiting the gullibility, stupidity and venality of MPs, who couldn’t be MPs without the expressed wishes of voters who are even more gullible and stupid.

stewart
4 years ago

A minister says the government has done the right thing.

Wow, what interesting news…

7fonn7
7fonn7
4 years ago

Shoulda said a million. Dumb fuck public wouldn’t know the difference.

helenf
4 years ago

Vaccines minister says more people need vaccinating. What else do you expect from a man whose job depends on getting as much of that shit injected into as many bodies as possible. These people would sell their grandmother to get into positions such as these.

leicestersq
leicestersq
4 years ago

“We’re going to use these four weeks to give our NHS that bit more time so we can get those remaining jabs in arms of those who really do need them.”

I thought that all of those in greatest need had already received their ‘vaccinations’?

Meanwhile, how many of those who are dying have already received their vaccinations?

David101
4 years ago

Quite unbelievably, there will still be many brainwashed citizens who believe this piece of twisted logic just because “the Vaccine Minister said so”. The tail is wagging the dog as never before.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago

Zahawi is third world mentality with an English accent.

Stephanos
Stephanos
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

That is very unfair to the third world.

chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Stephanos

Many Third World leaders were trained in the UK. I don’t know if they still are.

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

He should not be in the country, let alone in government. A nation that allows itself to be governed by foreigners has committed ethnic suicide.

Mr_Human
4 years ago

Ffs this sick gaslighting has to stop. Urging everyone to watch Joe Rogan’s latest podcast on spotify with Brett Weinstein & Pierre Kory on how Ivermectin could end the pandemic and the massive censorship & disinformation campaign being carried out by WHO & mainstream media.

SweetBabyCheeses
4 years ago

One thing I think he’s letting slip is that he knows that most people under the age of 50 have no reason to get “vaccinated” other than to get their freedoms back. Hence once they had them on June 21st they might actually use their brains and realise this and not get “jabbed” at all. So he’s saying they’re buying the NHS time now to get them jabbed before they don’t bother.

I don’t think they needed to bother though, most people are so incapable of assessing risk for themselves now that they’d do anything.

ellie-em
4 years ago

Response from the petition ‘Do not introduce Freedom Covid Passes’.

The government will respond to the committee’s report in the coming weeks.

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ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Cont:

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ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Cont: 2

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Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Yes, I got that crap too!

chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Durrans

tl:dr

we don’t think it will work but we are going to do it anyway

chaos
4 years ago

Nadhim co-founded bent poll company YouGov. His wife runs it. Nadhim got in trouble for expenses way back when when he claimed for heating for his horse stables.

You will own nothing and you will be happy. Communism. With jabs. And sterility.. possibly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60MzTlrOCXQ

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago

So one dickhead spouted bollocks to a group of dickheads? No surprise that there were no questions. Journalists like receiving salaries. These are paid by their employers. Said employers make their money from advertising. Biggest advertiser is HM Government. Bite the hand that feeds you, I think not?

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Why are people even listening, and more importantly obeying these fools any longer? It’s beyond comprehension.

chaos
4 years ago

Because they grew up trusting the government..

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago

Why do sheep walk into the abattoir?

Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago

Just the reason I object to foreign trash in our parliament

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Durrans

An interesting theory – but I have to say that multi-generation British MPs seem just as bad!

chaos
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

Indeed. Though Bojo is part Turkish.. Johnson is not the real surname.. Stanley’s father changed it.

Epi
Epi
4 years ago

Zahawi – Knob
MSM Journalists – Wankers

enlighteneduk
4 years ago

What a load of bullshit this government spouts. I will never be a human lab rat unless they literally put me in chains to do it. And then knowing the likely end result, it will save me finding a source of a cyanide pill to end the existence, not life, they have planned for us.

Mike Yeadon
4 years ago
Reply to  enlighteneduk

I foresee forced vaccination in due course.
I wish I didn’t but it’s a needle in every arm, all round the world
So says Bill.

IanC
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Yeadon

Including Bill and friends?

William Gruff
William Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  IanC

Now we both know, don’t we, that you’re just being silly.

mojo
mojo
4 years ago

Where are they getting these figures from.? The majority of people I know have had the first jab. But they had such bad reactions they have not turned up for their second jab. I am an anti lockdown believer and because I know this whole scam is about resetting economies and transferring wealth I will not take the globalists’ jab. I have had my pneumonia booster around 5 years ago and never had a flu jab in my life. ALL my anti lockdown contacts have decided not to be jabbed. Many of my friends who be.ie e in lockdowns have chosen not to have this jab.

The ramping up of fear tells me they are lying yet again about numbers.