Ministers Believe Boris’s Freedom Day ‘Gamble’ has Paid Off
According to this morning’s Mail on Sunday, ministers privately believe that falling Covid infection levels in the U.K. – and rising cases on the continent – amount to a vindication of Boris Johnson’s decision to release lockdown restrictions earlier than European countries like Germany and the Netherlands, currently in the grip of surging infections.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that about one in 60 people in England had Covid in the week to November 6th – down from one in 50 the previous week.
Government sources are pointing to the contrast with Germany, which is in the grip of a devastating fourth wave with the number of confirmed daily cases quadrupling in a month.
The Netherlands has returned to a three-week partial lockdown after its prime minister, Mark Rutte, said: “The virus is everywhere and needs to be combated everywhere.”
The move was greeted by anger on the streets of The Hague on Friday night as demonstrators hurled stones, fireworks and bicycles.
Riot police retaliated by firing water cannon after warnings that hospitals would be overwhelmed without closing bars, restaurants and supermarkets early. Austria is also set to impose a lockdown on unvaccinated people.
The UK is in a different position and yesterday Professor Neil Ferguson said Britain was “in quite a different situation from those European countries”.
The epidemiologist, dubbed Professor Lockdown for his modelling that influenced the first UK shutdown, added: “I think it is unlikely we will get anything close to what we had last year, that catastrophic winter wave.
“We might see slow increases as we did in October, for instance, but not anything as rapid as we saw last year.”
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he continued: “We can’t be complacent, but at the moment I don’t think we’ll be in a situation the Netherlands is coming into where they really do need to get on top of rising case numbers using social distancing. I very much hope we can avoid that in this country.”
Worth reading in full, although if Imperial’s answer to Mystic Meg is predicting clear skies it may be time to batten down the hatches.
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“Germany, which is in the grip of a devastating fourth wave”
A devastating fourth wave of fascism.
Yes, Fourth Reich may be nearer the truth.
With a new holocaust being driven by gene therapies.
Well, there you go. Boris is our hero! He also stopped that big asteroid from crashing into the Earth, killing everyone.
Will the next article be “Toby gets an invite to Boris and Carrie’s Christmas Party” ?
Shhhh! Don’t you know that Toby is a contrarian?
He is on a shortlist.
Downtick bait 🙂
Come, come, you may not like Toby, but would you wish that on him?
I imagine Carrie would be serving recycled cardboard canapés to keep Greta happy and some ludicrously expensive mead produced by one of her hobby farmer friends.
So Sweden was right then?
And Florida, and Texas, and South Dakota….
“Government sources” and Ferguson? It doesn’t fill me with confidence. Boris is already getting the jitters so it depends very much on the sycophants surrounding him keeping their nerve. Sunak might have some influence because he knows the fiscal and economic situation is already dire.
Behind the scenes I feel the full devastating impact of lockdowns has actually filtered through. They are right to be afraid.
A heady mixture of personal “I’m all right, Jack”, from Sunak, the supine MPs and Fergusons of the world, plus absolute garbage from the latter, and his lesser-known Cassandras. It’s a complete fiasco, from start to finish, and from whatever angle you look at it.
On this week and today, I contemplate the name of my 22 year old RAFVR pilot uncle on our War Memorial, and I guess he’s spinning in his grave in an Egyptian War Cemetery.
They’re not afraid of that: economic collapse is one of the main goals of it all. They might be afraid that we’ve sussed that our and are refusing to comply any more.
No. It’s a case of ‘Watch this space’.
Been promoted to Professor Lockdown followed his being busted to Professor Pantsdown?
Good ol’ BBC: ever ready to give airtime to Professor F*ckwit.
He’s usually so wrong that I shudder when he predicts that things will be okay(ish).
It appears that there is always a natural exit wave as restrictions are eased, which then finds a level. We seem to be bouncing around between 35-45k cases per day but the numbers in hospital with the virus (not necessarily the disease) is stabilising at about 7k whereas it was rising steadily this time last year.
Returning to lockdown restrictions only seems to serve to reset the clock for reaching natural infection levels, had Europe held their nerves they could also be in our situation right now.
It pains me to say it, but well done (eventually) Boris.
If only we’d been under house arrest earlier, TheGreenAcres.
Think how many lives that would have saved! How many, by the way?
Not sure how you read that from my comment? We should have opened up in May last year but he got there eventually.
The number of lives saved is…
We have not “opened up”. The way the Big Lie is being imposed on the UK has morphed over time and is different in some respects to other countries, but we are still firmly in the grip of it.
Vaxx passports for millions of workers, travel restrictions on the vaxxed, mass testing, masks on TFL, track and trace still contacting people to make them self isolate, self isolation for the unvaxxed, private and public bodies imposing their own restrictions, enabled and encouraged by government filthy lies, mass vaxxing of the healthy, lying covid propaganda, threats of lockdowns and more vaxx passports, coronavirus act still in force, SAGE still spouting lies, cover up of vaxx uselessness, wasting billions on covid theatre. Outwardly things appear normal. But under the surface, this is a completely different England to what we had two years ago.
Were 60,000 unvaxxed care workers sacked yesterday?
Good question. You’d hope someone from the DS would be on the case – it’s got to be close to the top of the biggest issues for sceptics.
Spot on, Julian.
‘Nothing up my sleeve’? Be buggered.
bozo yesterday in the space of one minute
“There are dark clouds over Europe . . .
I’m looking at what’s happening overseas”
He doesn’t seem so certain about ‘avoiding another lockdown’ at all.
Alex Belfield YouTube.
I suspect there are quite a lot of dark karmic clouds over his own head.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle…. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan
Yes; well done Boris – if you can ignore all the money they’ve spaffed away, and all the care-home deaths and all the (feel free to add your own examples of his panicky ‘leadership’).
Please, please, please. They’re not cases. At best they’re dodgy positive tests. Even China requires two symptoms plus a test.
Interesting. Do you have links please?
So easily fooled.
All lockdown can possibly achieve is to leave people unexposed to the virus and vulnerable to infection. The lockdown from March 23rd achieved nothing other than to leave a vast population, naive to the virus to be infected in the winter months. If those people had caught covid in the glorious spring sunshine of 2020 they would have enjoyed much better outcomes than catching it in December. The first lockdown caused far more covid deaths.
“but well done (eventually) Boris.”
No fucking way, ever, for the remainder of the life of our solar system. He and his extended criminal gang have been prime movers and accessories in the murder of many thousands, a tsunami of mental health illness, a massive and unnecessary expansion of public debt, garroting the NHS whilst spouting he is “saving the NHS”, multiple egregious lies, waiting lists in the millions, overseen a big spike in treatable disease because early diagnosis has been suspended and enabled a psyops programme to induce mass fear of a virus, which is > 99% survivable, such as to scare millions of people to have a criminally undertested, fraudulently trialled, experimental gene editing therapies that experts said were unnecessary and dangerous and are now, belatedly by some, ackowledged to have little to no efficacy for stopping infection or transmission, and denying the use of proven -and safe -prophylactic drugs at the cost of many many lives.
J’accuse – and never ever “well done” – an abhorrent thought imho.
He could have followed the UK’s Pandemic Plan, never locked down in the first place and shielded the people THEY KNEW were vulnerable. Then, like Sweden, it would have all been over a year ago.
Nul points from me for the last 18 months of tyranny.
Absolutely – completely agree with you 100%.
And bet that he lays a wreath today at the cenotaph. Fecking hypocrit.
If only that were his worst trait.
Yes, best not talk about his inherited eugenicist tendencies.
Me 2
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056/htm
The SARS–CoV–2 spike protein significantly inhibits DNA damage repair, which is required for effective V(D)J recombination in adaptive immunity. Mechanistically, we found that the spike protein localizes in the nucleus and inhibits DNA damage repair by impeding key DNA repair protein BRCA1 and 53BP1 recruitment to the damage site.
https://theexpose.uk/2021/11/14/children-are-dying-because-bill-gates-funds-medicine-regulator-and-has-shares-in-covid-vaccines/
Because the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a primary funder of the UK’s Medicine & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and the Foundation also owns major shares in both Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna, suggesting the vaccination of children against Covid-19 has absolutely nothing to do with health, but everything to do with money, corruption, and power.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jimmy-dore-brook-jackson-pfizer-covid-vaccine-trial/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=9af91342-ba6f-4b7f-a91e-ee98a6c8b48a
The BMJ’s report exposed faked data, blind trial failures, delayed follow-ups on serious adverse reactions and the silencing of researchers who were critical of the trials practices.
A researcher who worked on the trial described the studies to The BMJ as a “crazy mess.”
“Big Pharma are the biggest liars, scammers and criminals in the country — so you know they had to do some shady stuff with the COVID vaccine and sure enough — they did,” said Dore.
Thank you for these posts. Too many on here still parping on about “the virus” when it is quite clear that our situation has sod all to do with the lurgy.
It’s not called Covid1984 as a joke.
Everywhere the covid figures, deaths, infections, are being challenged and debatable, its politics or political will which is telling them which way to go. Certainly in NZ, Jacinda seems to be more concerned about the number of jabs than having a segregated society.
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/03/19/the-show-must-go-on-event-201-the-2019-fictional-pandemic-exercise-world-economic-forum-gates-foundation-et-al/ The sixteen high-level participants included: Ryan Morhard, Lead, Global Health Security, International Organizations, *IGWELS, World Economic Forum, Legal Analyst, The Center for Biosecurity of UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) Chris Elias, President, Global Development division, Gates Foundation Tim Evans, Former Senior Director of Health, World Bank Group Avril Haines, Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Former Deputy National Security Advisor Sofia Borges, Senior Vice President, UN Foundation George Gao, Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Latoya Abbott, Risk Management and Global Senior Director, Occupational Health Services, Marriott International Stanley Bergman, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Henry Schein, Inc. (a worldwide distributor of medical and dental supplies including vaccines, pharmaceuticals, financial services and equipment) Stephen Redd, Deputy Director, Public Health Service and Implementation Science, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson Jane Halton, Board member, ANZ Bank; Former Secretary of Finance and Former Secretary of Health, Australia Matthew Harrington, Global Chief Operations Officer, Edelman (one of the largest PR/marketing consultancy firms in the world, in fees/revenue) Chokwe Ihekweazu, Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Martin Knuchel, Head of Crisis, Emergency and Business Continuity Management, Lufthansa Group Airlines Eduardo Martinez, President, The UPS… Read more »
‘Martin Knuchels, Head of Crisis, Emergency and Business Continuity Management, Lufthansa’
How well are Lufthansa doing these days?
I don’t think we havea cleu as tow hat si going on with infections – that is alla bsed on faulty testing.
All cause mortality is up on last eyar – that is a signpost that we must abandon present policies which focus on dangerous vaccines and get the NHS back to normal working.
This would be a reasonable hope if all this were down to a policy blunder.
Why call him ‘Boris’ constantly. Did we call Cameron ‘David or May ‘Theresa’? The Boris thing is still linked to the likeable buffoon act. He is an utter disgrace so please stop making him out to be a friend.
Fat Pig Dictator suffices.
De Pfeffel for less formal occasions.
Indeed, he is Alexander Johnson, Prime Minister, perpetrator of psychological warfare on the British people.
Hmmmmm – the only thing that gives this piece credibility is Isabel Oakeshott’s name attached to it.
She is usually impeccably well-informed.
I live in hope……..but am (well) prepared to be disappointed.
Possibly bought a ‘one-careful-owner bridge’ with that Cameron/pigs’ head stuff she wrote for Ashcroft, though?
If only he hadn’t caved to the lockdowners, jabbers, and maskers in the first place…..we might still have a functioning economy and society….not to mention a health service.
I doubt it was the plan ever but they could have united us all in a positive message, we could have come out of this even stronger on the world stage (unless everyone copied us). Socially, financially, educationally, medically. If only we didn’t have a blithering idiot, come coward in charge.
Totally agree. The UK already had one huge challenge on its hands in March 2020 with Brexit, and only an idiot would have thought we should buckle in the face of something else. Having read Johnson’s book “The Churchill Factor”, I was astounded by the deceitful posters that suddenly got pasted up everywhere on 24 March, simply capitulating to a prefabricated crisis.
We are truly blessed to be living in our great leader’s totalitarian state. Thank you, Fat Controller!
although if Imperial’s answer to Mystic Meg is predicting clear skies it may be time to batten down the hatches
The seven day moving average has now increased for four days in a row.
“The seven day moving average has now increased for four days in a row.” Moving average of what? Anything meaningful and reliable that could and will lead to rational action to improve some problematic situation without making other things worse? No? Thought not. In which case don’t care about whatever “moving average” you’re on about. Nothing exceptional happening apart from lots of people dying from lockdown related deprivation of treatment etc etc.
.. and soon also from lack of care in care homes and before too long staff shortages in the NHS as well!
Today, of all days, ought to be the day the rational and brave pledge to appropriately honour our courageous forefathers and put an end to this tyranny.
Mail sub headline reads
“Figures show 60 people had Covid in England in the week to Nov 6″
Whatever happened to copy editors?
Meanwhile in the Guardian there is a piece with the headlines Why is Europe returning to the dark days of Covid?What piece of poorly written misinformation, which does not conclude with an answer to the question posed. It is there to partially inform of what is going on. Yet again missing an opportunity to give whole story.
That’s the Graun’s ‘fearless investigative journalism’ for you.
Nothing to do with a virus, everything to do with politics.
If they’re holding off another lockdown it’s either because they’ve realised the resistance will be too big this time, or (and most likely) they’re continuing their psychological games, building our hopes so they can crush our spirits.
They are just bigging up nice guy Boris before
“witha truly heavy heart”
he puts the country back into lockdown again in about three weeks.
Would love to be proved wrong, but I think that your analysis is spot on. Oh and might do an Alok Sharma a la COP 26 and fight off the fake tears for extra effect.
I suspect they’re waiting until the by elections have been held.
How many are ther, 3 or 4?🤔😃
If I had to choose between Bozo and Lukashenko I would choose Luka. He did not lock down and did not bow the knee to the IMF and the Pharma world Order.
That’s why we are demonising him.
‘The epidemiologist, dubbed Professor Lockdown ‘. He was dubbed Professor Pantsdown for breaking his own lockdown advice in order to roger his married lover. Setting a trend which Matt Hancock was quick to follow.
Meanwhile this freedom loving govt.’s decision to force care home workers to be jabbed is taking its toll. I’ve done a write-up on some of Dr Peter Doshi’s comments, mentioning the care workers being sacked:
“What Do You Mean By Anti Vax Exactly?”
http://participator.online/articles/2021/11/what_do_you_mean_by_anti_vax_exactly_20211114.php
Commentary from a guest columnist in the Cyprus Mail as regards the irrelevance of ‘Safe Passes’ (their word for ‘Vaccine Passports’ ) in Cyprus. Judging from the readers comments, some residents at least are waking up to the fascist state that they unfortunately now live in.
‘The whole SafePass business is unsustainable’
https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/11/14/the-whole-safepass-business-is-unsustainable/
The only thing the Netherlands is in the grip of is a rise in fascism. Most restrictions were abandoned end of June, only a handful were left end of September, when they introduced the nazi pass. The nazi pass was supposed to end beginning November, depending on infections. Seriously, we are expected to believe that the experts on the OMT had no idea that the autumn would bring a resurgence in respiratory infections? The OMT referenced the Qatar study in advice given to the government in October, as well as other foreign sources. The lack of a reference to the UKHSA data stood out to me, but rest assured the OMT is familiar with this data. It did reference Israeli data. In other words, NL has known since the summer that vaxx effectiveness wanes, that the older age group was as vulnerable as before. This age group was double vaxxed by April – yet boosters were not mentioned until about 2 weeks ago, planned for December. It is difficult to see any of this as other than intentional or incompetent. To ignore clear data coming in over the summer and not draw conclusions if they believed in the vaxx is… Read more »
It was only ever about control. Day by day this becomes more obvious.
And the research that shows facemasks and distancing make any difference in transmission of respiratory viruses?
From March 2020 to 1 December 2020, the Dutch Outbreak Management Team maintained that masks were NOT advised. Over the summer of 2020 the cabinet pushed for them to change that opinion, the OMT refused and presented a report referencing x number of studies saying masks did not work.
Orders from Berlin/Brussels, who realised the gig would be up if people started looking too closely at NL and seeing that it was doing fine without the face rag, got the idiot health minister and the idiot mayor of Amsterdam, both always eager to jump in and prove the existence of “useful idiots”, pushed and pushed until they got their way and the rags were forced upon us. Even on 1 December 2020 (when it became required) the Dutch Public Health Authority still published on its website that masks did not provide protection.
Although I find the distancing nonsense, I find it the least annoying of the measures, if only because I don’t like idiots being on top of me at the best of times.
You want to read what the BBC are writing about the situation in your country.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59274688
More shaking of my head in disbelieve.
Actually, I’m pretty sure I don’t 😉
I stopped watching BBC news about 5 or 6 years ago, biased garbage is probably too positive a description. It used to be great.
I used to watch TVE but they took that off air here shortly before the craziness broke out. Too bad, I’d probably have a better idea how Spain went so crazy if I saw the news. I did watch a few broadcasts on the laptop, but couldn’t deal with the presenters wearing face masks, too stupid for words.
For you, this never gets old
Dutch political activist tells The BBC to f*** off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-G0LK0k5wk
Note that they are claiming ‘success’ for their totally pointless policies. Another lie.
Watch out!
Will somebody rent me a weekend cottage in England so I can breathe free air – if all this really happens?
Sadly I suspect if you wait long enough there will be plenty of empty properties for you to take your pick from. I have to admit that I’m hoping, if it comes to pass that it will be due to the vaxxed dying off rather than the unvaxxed being rounded up.
‘ministers privately believe that falling Covid infection levels in the U.K. – and rising cases on the continent – amount to a vindication of Boris Johnson’s decision to release lockdown restrictions earlier than European countries like Germany and the Netherlands, currently in the grip of surging infections.’
If only Boris hadn’t imposed lockdown at all we would have dealt with this minor issue as Sweden did with most people not even noticing that anything was happening.
And he could have exploited it to celebrate the onset of Brexit, at the same time!
Among these young Queen Scouts providing the honour guard for the Queen today in London is my nephew. While I cannot watch the tptb (including the royal family) perform such a hypocritical piece of theatre I can feel pride for my nephew.
What’s really interesting in the photo is not a mask in sight, not even on the police. How much do you want to bet they’re back next time they’re dealing with the ‘unvaxxed loons’.