South Africa’s ‘SAGE’ Tells Government: End Contact Tracing and Self-Isolation for Covid Because It’s Not Worth It
South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on Covid, a similar body to SAGE, has written to Health Minister Joe Phaahla recommending that all contact tracing and self-isolation of contacts for Covid be stopped because it is unnecessary and ineffective. South Africa is the original epicentre of the Omicron outbreak so this advice should be a strong signal to Boris Johnson and the rest of the world that the panic about Omicron is unwarranted.
The Committee’s experts write:
We propose that quarantining be discontinued with immediate effect for contacts of cases of Covid. This applies equally to vaccinated and non-vaccinated contacts. No testing for Covid is required irrespective of the exposure risk, unless the contact becomes symptomatic. We further propose that contact tracing be stopped.
They explain:
Crucially, it appears that efforts to eliminate and/or contain the virus are not likely to be successful. Therefore, it is critical that the role of containment efforts like quarantine and contact tracing is re-evaluated.
They add:
The inability of the current testing strategy to identify the bulk of cases is illustrated by the high SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity rates seen across multiple provinces in serosurveys, implying that only a fraction of cases (perhaps one in 10, or even less) are ever diagnosed.
It stands to reason that if the vast majority of cases are not diagnosed, then the vast majority of case contacts are also not diagnosed. This means that quarantining and contact tracing are of negligible public health benefit in the South African setting.
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So we can all try to move to Japan and South Africa now, if Florida won’t take us.
Plenty of room, too – Africa’s a BIG place.
…Japan, not so much.
I would hold fire for now. Expect a move from the Gates-Davos HQ to bring pressure to South Africa. They haven’t shown themselves to be very tolerant of notable countries that step out of line.
Happy to built the raft! 🛶
Rafts – we are going to need plenty of them!!!
Any dinghys that we can borrow?
That said, Japan won’t take us – to paraphrase the Good Book, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than it is for a foreigner to immigrate to Japan.
How wonderful it must be to live in a country whose leaders care for the welfare and safety of the people and their culture, who put them and their interests before those of foreigners. No, I can’t imagine what that must be like, being English, and so often of less importance than the latest illegal immigrant who steps ashore and has been persuaded that he has reached Shangri-La.
I know Japan is not perfect, but it’s no accident that it is a relatively safe and stable country.
I think I have a better idea? Why was the practice of sending notoric malfeastants to the colonies ever discontinued? South Africa clearly has a dearth of reputable COVID experts. Let’s ship them there. As oarsmen on a galley.
Ha ha! They’d never make it out if the port. Their weather and tidal predictions would make travel impossible forever..
Galley aren’t really seaworthy and can’t store many provisions, either. Hence, assuming they’d make it accross the channel alive (anything but certain), they’d have to hug the coast all the way south, making landfall each evening and then coaxing the means for continued survival out of the local population.
Somehow, I can’t help thinking that the skillset one would likely find in a group of exiled COVID experts wouldn’t be of much help for this.
🙂
‘Bye!
I’ve been tracking the UK Mortality stats on the Government’s ONS site: (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales)
Below are the deaths for 2020 and 2021 for:
The latest weeks of 2021 are tracking materially higher than a) the same period in 2020 and b) at any time in the last 24 months.
It would be really good to see mortality in these age groups by year over the last 10 years.
That will really show whether something unusual has happened in 2021.
Certainly something unusual has happened in 2021. The government has colluded with ill intentioned global players and has criminally used coercion to promote an experimental product for the purposes of killing and maiming a great many healthy people.
Ok, I’ve added a 5 year average (and had to change the cohort from 10-39 year old males to 15-44 year old males). The older data split the data into different year groups.
It’s a pity, because the additional age group (of 40-45 year olds) start dying of natural causes. But the comparisons are still “Like-for-Like”.
My conclusions are now:
“The latest weeks of 2021 are tracking materially higher than a) the same period in 2020; b) at any time in the last 24 months; and c) the 5 year average”.
Is something killing our babies? Is something killing our young men?
The mean over the past 5 years is one thing, but to get a handle on how significant the divergence might be between the blue line and this mean we need a measure of the spread during that period. Graphically can you just show the lines for each of the past five years?
“That will really show whether something unusual has happened”
Really? Are you thinking something unusual may not have happened? 😉
A signal but no outrageous enough yet for the masses to notice.
LOL.
The British Government being exposed as utterly incompetent, scientifically illiterate and socially moribund by the formerly Apartheid, southernmost African country.
How humiliating.
Africa has a reputation for corrupt governments that funnel cash to themselves and their mates. Most people in the UK probably think we’re above that sort of thing. Whatever the truth of that in pre-covid times, we (and almost all other rich world countries) have outdone them now.
There are no poor former UK Prime Ministers………..
There is a real irony here. No Prime Minister has ever done anything of real value; other people did it for them. Yet they all died rich. Schindler lost all his money doing one of the most selfless and majestically heroic things the world has ever seen. He died penniless. Thankfully Israel saw this and he moved to Israel and he was looked after until he died. I daresay many will say “Schindler who?”. Such is this messed up world.
I heard Jordan Peterson bemoaning that kids aren’t taught what happened in China and the Soviet Union and have this idea communism is fluffy and nice.
You have missed the point, corrupt governments across the globe are largely corrupted by the US government, its murderous intelligence agencies, and it’s illegal military installations in over 80 countries.
Imperial petro-dollar. Debt based control.
I wasn’t really making a comment on whether African governments actually are more corrupt than rich country governments, nor or on any possible causes, just pointing out people’s perception and the contradictions that follow.
Britain has this culture where people are too scared to say the authorities and hierarchical figures generally are as corrupt as anything, because capdoffers mustn’t say things like that. Many really think the politicians (who they stupidly believe run stuff) care about them far more than government figures in other countries (such as Italy or Russia or China) care about “their” populations. BUT if points are made such as “No British government has ever dared upset the City of London”, or “Funny how whenever there’s a discussion of press freedom the royal family is always mentioned”, or “The BMA is the most powerful trade union in the country – medics act like a freemasonry, never willing to grass each other up, and raking in the money from the drug companies”, few would disagree. Maybe a few middle class people terrified of being seen as conspiracy theorists and therefore as no longer dinner party invitee material might baulk.
I was blind to it most of my life because I didn’t care. I’m not greedy, having excess wealth doesn’t matter enough to me to trample on people. Now I am not blind because it’s going beyond simple greed and it may kill us.
Your assertion about the BMA being unionist is correct but not for all medics. It reflects views of GP’s mainly. Many hospital doctors are not members and disagree markedly with their self serving views. Any review of the individual members publications will give a more accurate assessment of the validity of their opinions.
Head positions of these organisations are given to people who go along with the system. The Head of British Medical Council are generally given knighthoods. One excellent surgeon/head of BMC didn’t because he opposed the piratisation of the NHS (at least a decade ago now). He left the country in disgust given the clear signs of the intended destruction.
Insightful but only introspectively; some ignorant prejudices in plain sight. Did you lift your first sentence from a pamphlet written by Moscow Centre?
And your comment about the “City of London” is belly laughable – look up MiFid and educate yourself – and that is just one example of many items of Red Tape (hahaha, geddit?) foisted on the City that is , ahem, OTT – and yes I know it originated behind closed doors in Brussels, but it still had to be ratified in Parliament.
The City of London has a veto over UK legislation. The Bank of England is a private entity lending the UK government money at a profit. The UK Government is the only known minority sharholder in that Bank. The notes issed by the Bank of England are copyright that Bank, not Madge, though she probably gets a decent commission for the use of her monicker. The real central banksters at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel travel with diplomatic immunity. Large monopolies love red tape as it increases the cost of entry to any business sector.
Oh dear – if the City of London including the Square Mile , has the veto you suggest, then the removal of large amounts of red tape – which the “City” don’t exactly appreciate, Mifid being one example only – would be unnecessary; they would have vetoed it .
The BoE is owned by the UK Government last time I studied it.
The muzzled are still too busy looking for Saddam Hussein’s WMD to worry about things like total authoritarianism being enabled in the UK. (/sarc)
Above it as in $148.8 million to Pants Down Ferguson and “In the money” Vallance with his half million shares?
Can you provide more detail please?
We’re just (slightly) more sophisticated how we do it.
Apartheid has left SA and settled in Fascist Europe.
A country in which the first heart transplant took place so some good medics there.
A relative of mine lived in SA for about 4 years – health care FAR superior to that avail in UK
Cuba and Russia are also superior in terms of the level of medics’ ability.
NHS is crap. Some good people but not enough by a long way. It’s staffed by bureaucrats and run by bureaucrats. That’s why half the doctors just follow protocols from above. May as well have AI diagnosing.
Far too sweeping and also denigrating legions of people who are doing a damned difficult job made far more difficult by inept managers, and people like Powis who demonstrably and provably lie to further put pressure on their staff. If you haven’t noticed, NHS clinicians are utterly “broken” and not just by the last 23 months of madness.
However, I agree 100% about protocol driven “healthcare”, where “BMI” is an example of world class, scientifically robust assessment techniques. In my experience, eg , GP’s are Big Pharma driven spreadsheet pill dispensers; it takes very little effort to demolish the NICE diktats and the fact that supposedly intelligent and “well qualified” people masquerading as Doctors do not question what they are told to do disqualifies them, as far as I am concerned after several potentially life changing consultations over many years, as “professional” people – they have forgotten “Do no harm”
Why humiliating? Why would South African scientists or doctors be prima facie any less competent that British ones?
Apartheid is irrelevant. However, it is humiliating that all of the billions that go into NHS cannot produce as logical a statement as that from South Africa.
Interesting idea. I wouldn’t say that billions of pounds being thrown around is exactly conducive to clear, logical thinking in the public’s benefit.
SAGE tells the government exactly what it wants to hear.
Mean IQ: 68.87
You’re looking at 2 standard deviations just to get up to the Man on the Clapham Omnibus.
Well, the man that used to be on it, not whatever’s on it now.
It would be hard to less competent than most British GPs beguiled as they are by toxic jab money.
If they even had a sustained urge to TRY to be competent the stuck-up moneygrabbing 100-lie-a-day bullshitters would be in the wrong job.
Most just regurgitate memory or the protocol handed down to them.
See my comment above in answer to “TT”; in case any DS reader IS a GP, there are some evident exceptions to the diktat driven masses.
Some time ago, after an extremely fraught conversation with a NICE robot Google auto cutie, and whilst reading a blog post by Dr MK, it occurred to me that a national register of financial interests – “money and services provided” – should be mandated for all GMC and HCPC registered healthcare providers – and that it should start from, say, 2000 ie backdated; and it should include ANY “value” received whether directly or indirectly ( filtered through a 3rd party like a “trade” organisation)
Only then will people be able to see how these people are potentially compromised.
That’s a silly question.
But you may have noticed the extreme amount of social deference in Britain. Why do you call a medic “a doctor”, for instance? Do you think people do that in France or Russia?
From today I am self-identifying as a black saffer. (at least their cricket team is better than ours).
I am not sure their cricket team was but their rugby team was certainly better than the Lions
The most sensible thing I’ve read in ages.
sceptics will see this as SA reacting to being put on red lists due to announcing they found omicron from traveler’s arriving from Europe which unduly impacted their travel sector and their international reputation.
our generously funded NHS has failed to protect us despite the money and clapping. We offer free vaccines to anyone that wants them, we need to stop mass testing and tracing, anyone with covid should do a home test and isolate until the test is negative.
older and more vulnerable people need more protection so we should directly protect them and let everyone else go about their business, sadly it’ll mean I have to go back to working in an office but ho hum I can make the sacrifice.
Why would anyone bother to do a home test if they already have covid?
Why would anyone bother to do a test at all unless they were seriously ill and the doctor wanted it for confirmation. People are testing their kids because the school said so. Tell them to f off unless they are properly ill – in which case they wouldn’t be in school anyway.
What does this actually achieve? The statistics show no impact on spread. We’ve never done it with anything else! If you feel crap, stay at home as with a cold or flu. In the unlikely event that it gets really bad, seek medical attention.
There is no justification for responding to this virus any differently than to other moderate respiratory infections.
Oy! Leave off us older people! I, for one, do not want locking up and mothballing thank you 😉
You choose if you want vaxing or testing or isolating. If you’re seriously ill you wont want to go out anyway.
That all shows an encouraging level of common sense – hence unlikely that it will be followed here.
Vested interests trump common sense
They will ignore the advice – because racism/colonial uppityism.
‘Poor’ countries now seem to have superior health policies to ‘rich’ countries.
They can make more money out of health ‘policies’ in rich countries
Funny how the people who scream loudest about racism or diversity turn out to be the bigots.
Yet another country/state discovering that the Emperor has no new clothes and is actually naked. How much long do we have to suffer the utterly useless PM and her idiotic decisions. We have to start living with cold viruses, a great start would be the MSM blowing the PCR test out of the water. All of the evidence is freely available, it wouldn’t take a Pilger or Frost to root it out.
Unfortunately it’s not just the PM. There is systemic corruption all across government and the institutions. I wouldn’t bet on Boris’ successor being more liberal. I suspect the opposite.
That would be Gove, the lockdown fanatic, God help us.
Its been done; but the MSM and “factchecker” commissars have wheeled behind the agenda/OFCOM diktat to con the masses. Does not change one iota about the fraudulent nature of a regime bolstering the casedemic; still does not test for the whole 29K+ SARS COV2 bases, cannot determine presence of infection, relies on CT amplification which has been proved to be of no use above 25 ( ref Dr Richard Fleming and others), WHO CT Rate recommended to be 40+, FoI answers from NHS Trusts confirm testing regimes have used 40+ CT rates, uses a conversion of RNA to DNA because PCR does not work with RNA molecules and, finally, uses software to determine a “positive” test result.
In any other situation, the ST Insight team, for one, the likes of Tom Mangold etc, would be all over this scam – for all I know they are; don’t see the evidence of it , do “we”?
More power to the sceptic MP’s collective elbow.
Make sure to send a copy to Steve Baker et al.
Lock up this man! He has had a severe attack of sanity!
They say that man first came out of Africa, how ironic then that the first common sense should also originate from there.
Boris isn’t interested in real world data, he prefers computer modeled doom by Ferguson.
According to Ferguson Omicron is so dangerous that 100 million Brits died last week and the only solution is mandatory jabs every 3months with vax passport as proof.
Ferguson must be right though, Bill Gates paid him $148.8 million to be right.
Sounds like the Souith African SAGE are far more with it than the unsage UK version
More sagacious you might say.
it was never about a pandemic
FOIA against the Dutch Government reveals this:
ht to Sundance over at: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/20/evidence-of-inverted-fascism-surfaces-through-foia-requests-in-the-netherlands/
Perhaps someone can FOIA Sunak?
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Bloody embarrassing that the useless Africans can get something right before the penny has dropped here.
Simplicity itself: They have more difficulties with borrowing loads of money to burn it on nonsense. Hence, a certain efficiency of bureaucratic measures is called for.
Do you think western governments are shitting the bed because of the high vaccine rates (compared to S.africa) and people are going to realise that the vaccines don’t do anything to stop transmission, which is still a lie they’re desperately trying to cling onto?
Is it because of the damage the vaccines are doing to people’s immune systems and they going to try and blame it on Covid and omicron has conveniently popped up?
Or is it part of the plan to get people further down the vaccinated road so that there is no way out and they are tied into the vaccine cult?
Genuine question because I think it’s starting to happen. When are people going to start waking up to what’s happening or are they going to double down and keep blaming it on the unvaccinated?
When they realise the jabs for most do nothing except make you more susceptible to cancer they may revolt!
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056/htm
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS–CoV–2) has led to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic, severely affecting public health and the global economy. Adaptive immunity plays a crucial role in fighting against SARS–CoV–2 infection and directly influences the clinical outcomes of patients. Clinical studies have indicated that patients with severe COVID–19 exhibit delayed and weak adaptive immune responses; however, the mechanism by which SARS–CoV–2 impedes adaptive immunity remains unclear. Here, by using an in vitro cell line, we report that 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. Our findings reveal a potential molecular mechanism by which the spike protein might impede adaptive immunity and underscore the potential side effects of full-length spike-based vaccines.
Most probable answer in my opinion is No, to all questions.
As the prison warden said to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, What we have here is a failure to communicate (I would add, anything useful) This is what happens when you have large groups each with a different agenda.
The truly great character actor, Strother Martin, RIP.
All of the above
And SA was red listed for being a world class evidence led nation and held its nerve. Unlike the headless chickens here.
An American medical specialist, Dr Peter A. McCullough, has stated that he has heard reports that up to 71 African government ministers (from various countries across Africa) have been murdered since the start of this “pandemic”. (Many African politicians are acutely aware that Western pharmaceutical companies have over the last few decades poisoned many of their people whilst using them as guinea pigs to test their drugs – they’ve now taken this testing out of Africa and gone global with it.) All these murdered African politicians had objected to the SARS‑CoV‑2 “vaccines” being given to their people. Dr Peter A. McCullough has also told of hearing reports that many pharmacies across Africa that stocked/sold hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, et al, were raided by mercenary-type military units that destroyed or took away their stocks of these drugs. The reason why Africa had/has almost no SARS‑CoV‑2 is because generic drugs like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are very common there to treat tropical diseases. Fair play to the brave people in South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) for calling out the SARS‑CoV‑2 “pandemic” for the genocidal criminal fraud it is. I pray that these people in the MAC are aware… Read more »
“he has heard reports that up to 71 African government ministers”
That sounds too anecdotal to be useful although I would not be surprised. Certainly, there have been suspicious deaths reported although the MSM didn’t think them suspicious.
Dr Peter A. McCullough is under great pressure from the “vaccine” promoters in the US. He has been “cancelled” by major medical institutions that formerly he worked with and was closely associated with. He’s also under threat from huge legal expenses, all stemming from his stance against the “vaccines”.
The reason I point this out: This doctor doesn’t make any claims or statements that he can’t cite or reference to a reliable source. Any chance at all, and the “vaccine” promoters will pounce on him, all with the financial backing of the federal government.
So, when Dr Peter A. McCullough says he’s been informed that up to 71 politicians have been murdered across Africa, this information comes from a reliable source.
In some cases he can not go public with his sources, as this would leave them open to attack by the “vaccine” promoters. And also give them an extra advantage in their attempts to bring himself down.
For me , the acid test for professional people during this scam – the wider WEF/Gatesian/Fauci led scam too – is what have they to gain versus what have to lose from going public with their knowledge/experience – and is their information theory based or backed up with citable evidence.
Not the most involved or difficult process – but the diminution of their professional careers, denigration of their standing is disgraceful. But, one other indicator is who is doing the hatcheting – that leaves a trail and where does it go – QED.
One other test is – despite the personal attacks , do these people “keep going” – Yes, they do; once more QED.
I am not a conspiracy theorist; however, the malign influence of Big Pharma/Gates/GAVI/WHO/Wellcome/Zuckerberg/Google is too apparent to ignore.
Murdered as in died conveniently of covid as determenied by a PCR test with cycle count ramped up to 50?
1 May 2021 Why have so many African leaders died of COVID-19? | BMJ Global Health
BloJo was against the deemed lockdown etc until he too conveniently came down with covid, released from hospital after 3-4 days?
Hospital 5 April 2020 … 3rd night in ICU 8 April … leaved ICU 9 April 2020 …. that was a remarkably quick turnaround.
I don’t suppose there is a cat in hell’s chance of our SAGE suggesting anything as sensible as this, but it is really good to see and very encouraging.
It is.
Will be interesting to see how long it takes until big brother suggests corrective action….
HMP Five Wells, a new mega prison in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, will be ready to take it first prisoner in January, 2022.
Perhaps, corrective action will begin then?
I’m sure Trusted News Initiative has people working on it as we speak seeking to discredit it and say that it doesn’t apply to UK and is work of conspiracy theorists yada yada yada
Yes, the panic is unnecessary, but it’s all about Agenda 30.
Ah – but that’s simple logic which our SAGEs and doom-modellers will of course refute, with the usual: they’re all young in SA so it’s different and we trust our models be they ever so wrong’.
Will Tedros now demand SA be kicked out of the WHO? Will Fauci cancel all US monetary support to SA medical and especially Covid research? Will GAVI now stop handing out covid vaccines to SA?
Hm. A difficult decision for the Covid global dilators, isn’t it!
This is extremely telling. Or rather it’s extremely telling in the version of reality we live in. Unfortunately neither the lawmakers nor the majority of people live in that reality 🙁
Meanwhile in Scotland… essentially lockdown
Really? Don’t know, don’t care, won’t know, won’t care.
Once upon a time in the past, I considered moving to Scotland as England isn’t always the nicest place for foreigners. But thankfully, Nicola Sturgeon made it clear that Scotland is always the worst place for anyone before it could get to that.
Same here. I will not go anywhere near the place now. Sturgeon is turning it into a communist failed state.
I’m an expat Scot with family there but I won’t be going back until there is a change of regime. Sad, but I don’t want to contribute any money to the Scottish economy any more.
How have we come to a state that you are driven to that conclusion – dreadful; apartheid in all but name.
But then, that is what Marxist/Leninist imperialists want, is it not?
A reset that is anything but “Great”.
Its weird, she wants to remain in the EU with its open borders, but can’t get that so turning it into a marxist state where no one can go anywhere, ie an extremist
At present, the only borders the people who think the EU is a great institution still want to keep open are those accross supposedly illegal immigration is happening or could be happening.
We considered the exact same thing, but because we are English, we put that idea into the bin marked “rubbish”, because of the “Thoughts of Chairman Sturgeon” poisoning of the polyglot melting plot psyche.
Sorry, doing too many things at once – melting pot…but then again melting plot might cut it too…
I mentioned in a previous comment that the globalists behind the SARS‑CoV‑2 genocidal fraud are murderous thugs that will stop at nothing in order to install their one-world governance. People need to be getting ready mentally and physically for where this is going. All pointers so far tell us we are at that place with the totalitarians that the Russians were at in circa 1910. In any given society about 33% of the population will unquestionably follow and obey an authoritarian government’s dictates. About another 33% will question these dictates and disagree with them, but, nonetheless, these people will ultimately obey them. The last (about) 33% will see the authoritarian government and its dictates for what they are, and refuse to follow or obey. A host of research and surveys done by psychologists all point to these figures being fairly correct. Then you take a society like the UK and you add a couple of foreign demographics with their own unique cultures. And then sow discord between them and the native population. Think in the UK how you can watch TV in a town which is 98% White naïve British, but yet 99% of… Read more »
Maybe they see what’s coming down the line.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/crimes-against-humanity-lawsuit-processo-de-crimes-contra-a-humanidade_DC4jAKVydkNAr3a.html
The Ministerial Advisory Committee didn’t kill themselves.
Too soon?
Two stabs in the back of the head, with the syringes locked away in the glove compartment of their car – Covidicide.
Overheard while having a coffee in MoD Main Building:
“They’re protesting against LAWs (Lethal Autonomous Weapons – ‘killer robots’) again….”
“Ah… do you think it would make any difference if we said they would only be used against the unvaccinated?”
Today’s vaccinated is tomorrow’s unvaccinated.
This has more than likely already been shared on these forums (it’s nearly a day old now), but I’ve only just got round to watching it. So for those who haven’t seen it yet, Paul Joseph Watson annihilates the narrative in under 8 minutes. This is him at his best:
https://youtu.be/hYzXjFsIcGw
Brilliant!
There’s another implication: When the vast majority of infections is never detected, the disease must be harmless. Otherwise, people would get seriously ill which would be noticed.
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom of London and Westminster plus some associated bits of much less important countryside: We can’t wait for hospitalisations to rise – England needs a circuit breaker now! demands Christina Pagel, director of the Statistic-based Bullshitting Applied to Health Care unit at University College London. Because, even for the most harmless disease, treating sick people costs money and that’s dreadful or catastrophic.
In contrast to this, mistreating healthy people doesn’t cost the NHS anything.
Should be an easy choice then.
Also, treating people will mean that our poor doctors and nurses might have to, horror of horrors, break off from making tic toc videos and demanding another massive pay rise.
I’d be careful blaming this on actual NHS frontline staff. Most of this will be decent, (reasonably) hardworking people doing an often very unpleasant job which has to be done. IMHO, the rotten part sits two or three layers atop of these, presumably the more rotten the closer it gets to the top.
In my humble experience there’s plenty of shite on the frontline too.
With people, there alway is. But that’s still a difference to the institutional shite which exists at the level where people are making (or would like to make) general health policy decisions.
You can also tell the “rotten” cadre of people – they’re the ones who don’t/ ever pull on gowns or inhabit operating theatres without a clipboard in hand.
The dreaded checkbox syndrome.
Whitty publicly stated the disease was harmless to the great majority back in May 2020. I wonder if he either i) ‘mis-spoke’ against the deemed narrative or ii) was ‘encouraged’ to recant and go along with the imposition of fascism.
He also faces just as serious a “charge” by appearing on the NHS “Booster ads” and stating that ( not verbatim) …”Getting a booster/vaccinated is the best possible protection against the virus/variant” – he then goes on to state that everyone should get a “booster”.
So without seeing the patient , he gives medical advice; he does not ensure “informed consent” is made available and he provides no cited references to back up his statement. As a NHS Consultant Physician he surely cannot be allowed to get away with that – he would have the greatest difficulty in proving that statement in any court – the witnesses for the prosecution would shred him.
So how do you complain about his abandonment of the “do no harm” code of conduct he abides by – or doesn’t?