Daily Cases Fall 40% as London Returns to Normal
Britain’s daily Covid cases plunged for the 12th day in a row today as the Omicron wave continued to collapse and workers headed back to offices in their largest numbers since it took off. MailOnline has more.
Another 84,429 tests came back positive for the virus in the past 24 hours, according to Government dashboard data, down around 41% on last week. Daily cases have fallen week-on-week since January 6th.
There were also 85 coronavirus deaths registered today in a 10% rise compared to last Monday. Latest hospital data shows there were 2,357 admissions on January 11th, virtually unchanged in a week.
In a sign of public confidence in the promising stats, London’s roads were the busiest they have been during the morning rush-hour since the day Boris Johnson confirmed that England would enter Plan B restrictions.
Congestion data recorded by location services company TomTom found the level in the capital between 8am and 9am this morning was at 69% – the highest it has been for that time period in six weeks since December 8th.
The congestion level represents the extra travel time for drivers on average compared to baseline uncongested conditions – so a 69% level means a 30-minute trip will take 21 minutes more than with no traffic.
Today’s figure was also above the 2019 average of 63% and 2020 average of 49% for 8am on a Monday in London – showing there were more cars on the road in the capital today than before the pandemic. The figure last Monday was 61%, while it was just 2% on Monday, January 3rd but this was a bank holiday.
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What’s going on North of the wall? Whoever could have predicted such a strange occurrence!
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19843315.covid-scotland-case-rates-lowest-unvaccinated-double-jabbed-elderly-drive-rise-hospital-admissions/
Probably because the un-jabbed don’t test. I only tested to go on holiday and would never get one any other time. It appears the only people still frightened of Covid are the jabbed. Idiots.
If that’s true also for the children, then I don’t think that is the case. The children all get tested 2x weekly, in school, no?
‘Probably because the un-jabbed don’t test.’
Everyone going into hospital is going to be tested.
No-one can be forced to have a ‘test’.
Tests are 97% False Positives.
I’m 97% confident that you won’t be able to show the evidence for that.
“Weird” data 🤔
You don’t take poison, you don’t get ill.
And that’s weird?
Made my day with that one, thank you
Exactly what the well informed would expect to see.
Semanticnumberwang.
The elderly are always the most likely to be admitted to hospital, for any cause.
Then once they’re in the system, they catch, or at least they test positive with the coofs, given that they’re testing them over and over and over again in their ongoing obsession to put everything on the coofs track.
I’ve yet to see any evidence that coof shots provide immunity against infection. Really, it’s just been assumption and assertion. It’s extremely hard to isolate good community data for this give the lack of isolated but comparable control populations.
And as always, the number with scales with testing, not with infection, and certainly not with serious disease. It’s not an interesting number any more, compared to those in critical care for the coofs.
This is just another bad, deceptive headline. You don’t need to come up with a “weird” explanation for it, it’s just as-expected.
Who gives a sh*t about cases?
Was anyone ill?
Oh yes, the “vaccinated” are ill!
Positive test results?
A good thing we didn’t do this every Winter before 2020.
No, it’s simply because people can’t be bothered to test anymore
Only the stupid would ever have bothered with testing on a voluntary basis. If a test or a vax is required I don’t do it. As for masks, I have never bothered with this dangerous nonsense and only one person has ever bothered to ask. I told her to mind her own business and she left it at that. Masks are clearly a health hazard and when discarded also a disgusting environmental eyesore. A worrying problem is discussed here:- https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/intracranial-infection-cases-up-60
Same here. I never used them at all. Only one occasion in Aug 2020 when dropping my car in for it’s MOT/service, when I had to declare that I’m exempt, and nothing more. I was even allowed to ‘wait’ in the dentists waiting room during last year. No doubt you’ve come across a lot fly tipping with them as well.
Where is fucking Ferguson? Grade A fear festering twat. Sorry for my language.
Did Guy Fawkes know about University College London? … No? … What a pity!
“Professor” Pantsdown Ferguson is employed by
Imperial CollegeBill Gates.I just noticed that I’d used “University”. cr*p PIMF
If he is actually employed by Gates, then they’re two of a kind.
(There were rumors in the industry about Gates back in the late-Eighties, early-Nineties. If they were true, then the recent exposures only go part-way. Let’s just say that Gates is a compartmentalized little boy, with a little boy’s ways of behaving toward others, and a little boy’s very-hidden desires.)
Gates’ foundation funds Pantsdown’s “research”. In that sense he is
employed bybeholden to him.Gates also funds the MHRA
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-awarded-over-980000-for-collaboration-with-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-and-the-world-health-organisation
With a little support from the CCP!
Counting his money?
Congestion data sounds like pure autism.
I have mostly been eating pot noodles, and am 78% bored of covidianism.
Stick with the ubiquitous pot noodles and Covid “poison death shots.”
Do the tests we’re using (such as PCR) actually measure “infections“?
If so, how has the definition of “infection” changed since the 70s, when I was in biomedical engineering at a major American university’s teaching hospital.
Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, who was inventor of the PCR test, was adamant that it could not and should not be used to diagnose infection.
Mullis would have been a real thorn in the flesh of the Covid plotters and so perhaps not too surprisingly he died suddenly, just a few months before the Covid scam really got going.
Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, who was inventor of the PCR test, was adamant that it could not and should not be used to diagnose infection.
As far as I am aware the only evidence for this was an off-the-cuff remark in an informal context where he appeared to be exaggerating for effect. Anyway PCR tests have been used to diagnose infection for a wide range of diseases from HIV to Flu for many years.
Mullis’s main beef was about using PCRs to detect HIV. Apart from that, until this pandemic PCR was always used to back a clinical diagnosis, or at least (in WHO guidelines for other pandemics) required a confirmatory test of another sort, or at a pinch from a different lab.
Never before, to my knowledge, has a positive PCR been used as the definition of a case.
Your knowledge of Mullis is that extensive, now that really is a big claim?
Watch the video and tell us again that Mullis is not saying what he believed. I detect no exaggeration here or showing off, quite the reverse in fact. Mullis is simply telling us about the limitations of his PCR invention.
test.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXm9kAhNj-4
To confirm a diagnosis (presence of disease) in symptomatic patients, no?
You are obviously not aware.
Thank you. I’d forgotten his name.
The PCR tests for a virus which shows current or previous infection.
It cannot tell if someone is still infectious or about to be infectious, only cell culture can do that.
Many people test positive but don’t have any symptoms and are unlikely to be infectious.
“Infections” and “cases” are pejorative to coax people into believing SARS-CoV-2 is worse than it actually is.
The way it’s being done now … it tests for the presence of (alive or dead) a viral body in the nasal mucus.
That in no way indicates “infection” of the person him/herself.
The person’s immune system might be long-since inactive, or it might be ready to kick-a** on the virus it too just detected. The PCR test hasn’t a clue about any of that. Anyone who says that, in fact, yes it does…obviously takes me for a fool.
Anyone trying to give me a PCR test to determine if I’m a “case” or not will wind up testifying against me in court.
When amplified by 45 cycles as practiced by Health Authorities and testing agencies instead of the recommended 25 cycles, it can identify the trace of a dead cold virus you had a year ago.It cannot tell the difference between Covid and Flu.
It seems that the test is perhaps being used deliberately to exaggerate Covid infection rates.Surely not?
And that’s the giant elephant in the room.
This thing acts like flu and kills the same number of people as flu. The test kit doesn’t even know the difference.
Eventually we’re going to have to come to terms with the very real likelihood that this whole time the public have been shit on from such a great height that they’ve lost all sense of direction.
Commonsense dictates that this thing has been seasonal flu and common cold/coronavirus from the very start.
It’s with this mind that the “vaccine” becomes even more absurd and unjustifiable.
The only thing that escaped China was a very potent and nasty flavour of politics. It’s a type of politics that has never been dealt with so has been allowed to evolve after every time it fails.
The PCR test works in Real Time and stops when it goes positive. If it’s positive after 15 cycles it stops at 15 cycles. In the UK the vast majority of positives are well before 35 cycles and rarely goes anywhere near 45 cycles. If the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test is done properly it cannot pick up the cold and flu viruses which have a similar but different gene sequence, It can pick up the SARS-CoV-2 virus 12 weeks later NOT a year later. People have misread the CDC announcement that they are replacing the current PCR tests with a different PCR test where they are asking labs to have an assay to detect both SARS-CoV-2 virus AND the flu virus. This is purely to save time by using one test for both and not two separate tests. PCR tests are a highly accurate and specific lab tool used since 1985 invented 2 years earlier by the late great Kary Mullis who is often misquoted. The mass testing Lighthouse labs have poor Quality Control and produce many false positives. Governments are mass testing for SARS-CoV-2 which in the vast majority of instances is a virus producing no or mild symptoms to… Read more »
Can you provide proof there has been a pandemic with a major change to mortality rates over the last two years? Can you explain why covid stats perfectly replaced flu stats?
We all saw the 100,000 milestone (a figure gathered over more than one year, unprecedented in itself), and yet, besides lockdown deaths and the care home murders, mortality rates practically remainded the same.
There has been a new virus, with a different gene sequence to flu, which has been uploaded to GISAID over 7 million times. Therefore we know for a fact that the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus is NOT the flu. Similar viruses compete with each other and the dominant SARS-CoV-2 displaced any flu viruses and that’s why flu temporarily disappeared (it had nothing to do with lockdowns). I agree with you that Covid is not that serious for the young, fit and healthy. The average age of Covid deaths is around 82 which is close to normal mortality. Covid has killed many frail and elderly maybe a few months sooner than they would have died and we as sceptics have to show compassion for those who lost their lives earlier than expected. However, I also agree that lockdowns, midazolam, forced ventilation etc. etc. killed many people. The overall death rate is similar to a bad flu season and has been blown out of all proportion to bring in measures favourable to the Global Elite. I don’t see it as a “pandemic” but it helps the Global Elite if the vast majority do see it as a “deadly pandemic”. Some alternative media sites… Read more »
Just about everything you can name has undergone a change in definition since the 1970s. And major US teaching hospitals substitute indoctrination now for teaching.
I’m a big fan of punning, and the first thing I noticed was “indoctrination”. Heh.
The use of the word ‘cases’ by the MSM is deliberately left undefined, ambiguous and as such meaningless .
No, and the manipulation of the term “infected” presumably took place in 2020, when the panic broke out. With regard to screen tests of one sort or another, in the past those involved were rather cautious about what they say. E.g. in 2020 just before the troubles arose, I had a bowel cancer screening one done via part of the NHS. The result was fine, but their somewhat circumspect letter was along of the lines of “we didn’t find anything, but that doesn’t prove it doesn’t exist”, and a long list of dietary recommendations etc.
The mass use of a flawed tactic looks pretty close to fraud, or at least a strong degree of opportunism by some.
London and the country might return to normal, but some of these scuzbags in the MSM should never be allowed to return to normal.
This is a recent headline by the Express’ Paul Baldwin:
How can any cretin write such tripe as what’s in this headline and the underneath article, and allege at the same time that those who assert their God and Nuremberg predicated rights to bodily autonomy are “dumb”?
What’s really laughable is that the day before publishing this Nazi tripe, Baldwin wrote an article worthy of a 10-year-old girl on shapchat. In this piece he was all wishy-washy about Kate Middleton and viciously bitchy to Meghan Markle.
Man, what a jackass.
People like the imbecilic Baldwin are what makes the MSM so dangerous. They have a great deal of influence, but no brains worth talking about and a complete incapacity to feel shame, no matter how dreadful the idiocy they have just spurted out.
Disgusting Gutter Press propaganda, sponsored by our own Government and Bill Gates .
Let us hope these garbage ‘publications’ go to the wall and close down for good – they now pollute our national life.
It’s kind of you – but I don’t think the Express has had any influence for at least 20 years.
The evidence is plain to see. The narrative is falling apart. Call the whole thing off and do the humane thing and treat those who have complications from the ‘vaccine’.
Definitely not. Let the self-righteous, smug, condescending cunts suffer everything that’s coming their way.
I honestly don’t think the majority know what they have done to themselves, particularly the elderly and those who unquestioningly trust authority.
As for those who planned and implemented this assault on humanity, let them receive just rewards for their evil ways.
Perhaps some don’t but they equally deserve it for being so thick. It is the equivalent of falling for a Nigerian lottery win.
The ones I truly wish karma on though are the spiteful virtue signallers who are happy to exclude others from society based on their health choices. If we could filter that the bad outcomes that way, that truly would be justice.
Stupidity will be the end of us!
That’s pretty uncharitable. Many amongst the jabbed were misled, frightened to death, or coerced.
They could mislead us right into the camps
It has been done before! Nice hot shower anyone?
Charity doesn’t get me into a nightclub, football ground or on a plane. I have zero sympathy for anyone injured by these vaccines.
There are places far more important than nightclubs, pitches or aircraft cabins.
Of course, I’m just an old jackass for even thinking about those.
Surely all of them?
A traffic congestion level measurement is an indication of “London Returning to Normal?” Seriously?
If Bunter hadn’t been caught out protecting the crook Paterson and with the partygate scandal he would have imposed another lockdown.
He would now be proclaiming this reduction in case numbers as a lockdown policy success.
Annoyingly he is the best choice right now as he is the most compromised in the public eye, probably why they are so determined to replace him with a bigger stooge.
Exactly. We’ve got him where we want him. Don’t let them whisk him away and re-impose Dominic Cummings.
My only takeaway from this is that the congestion charge and Ulez charge obviously doesn’t cut traffic. It does hit a lot of workers and tradespeople though.
So within the space of a couple of months where the government decided to not interfere any further and not impose further ridiculous restrictions (unlike Wales and Scotland) we see things settling down and going back to normal rather rapidly – proving that every single previous government intervention in the past (mask mandates, lockdowns, testing, restrictions, vaccination rollouts) – all this was completely uneccessary and only served to prolong this entire madness longer than it really needed to be – whether there was an ulterior motive at play here or this was just gross incompetence of a magnitude never seen before in the history of the entire western world, one thing is for sure – Sweden and places like Florida etc was absolutely right and the rest of the world was totally and utterly wrong – protect the very elderly and the most vulnerable in society but let everyone else continue as much as normal and basically let nature take its course building natural herd immunity – this should have been the approach from day one – the very idea that governments thought that they could actually take-on and defeat an airborne respiratory virus (zero covid) was insane from the… Read more »
There’s a Polish saying: ‘Nie miesci sie w glowie’ = ‘It doesn’t fit inside your head’. The enormity of it all is mind-blowing.
This whole show has been a blow to faith in reason, and has revealed that all the people we were too kind to regard as normal and basically benevolent, were crypto-psychopaths at worst, and dumb-ass conformists at best.
However, justice will prevail: you CANNOT gaslight the whole world, nor get away scot-free from harming 1m+ people in this country alone.
Justice may not be swift, but it will ultimately be DEVASTATING.
“Justice may not be swift, but it will ultimately be DEVASTATING.”
The house of cards is collapsing!
They know it’s all over.
Nuremburg 2.
Nanobots in the vaccines!
The lawyers are coming!
There’s no justice coming, just as there hasn’t been for Tony Blair and his Government. Everyone is too scared to even go round to Mark Drakeford’s house in case he is in and shouts out “Boo!”
In this world or the next.
You do know that what criminals desire most is to be caught?
So let them stew in the disappointment of apparent calm until judgement day.
VG – “Historians will look back at this period in time scratch their heads and think wtf happened?”
Not wtf, WEF.
Using congestion data could be misleading. A lot of roads have been altered since the start of the madness to reduce road capacity and consequently increase congestion, wonder why.
I suspect less people are using public transport for a start
Yeah. Nah, they’re not going to work cos cases have fallen. Here in London we have stretched out time at home after the holidays as long as we can, but now we have had to begin to show face at the office in case bosses forget who we are, or in case some office plot has started of which we are not part.
Test kit shortage?
Not sure if there is still a shortage but it seemed obvious to me that the recent dearth in kits would lead to a reduction in ‘cases’. After all, we’ve seen what happens when there is a testing frenzy.
Testing kit shortage ???? https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing
End the fraudulent PCR tests and the number of ‘cases’ would drop to zero.
Why end the fraud when it lines the pockets of so many? Especially when there’s no real resistance. OK, some people said they were going to boycott Tesco…. but they didn’t.
Phew just in time… Oh wait
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/17/nhs-will-start-sacking-unvaccinated-staff-early-next-month/
Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
“Cases”.
Yawn. Mainly a function of testing. Loose correlation with disease. How often does it have to be said?
Apparently once more. I work with “data scientists”, and even they are having trouble grasping the simple proposition that fewer actual cases of disease + more mass testing using an over-sensitive binary test = more reported “cases”.
I even got blocked by some ostensible stats PhD on Twatter today for noting this. Two years in and he’s still chuntering on about “interesting case numbers”.
The real disease here seems to be brain rot.
… and, at root, this isn’t essentially a ‘stats’ problem. It is a problem of measurement and practical outcomes :
And the vast majority are not ”cases”. Why is the enemy’s manipulative language still being used?
The ‘case’ decline rate also looks steeper/faster than in the previous waves, presumably as herd immunity is being established.
Sage’s Professor Andrew Hayward said the drop in Covid cases was ‘very encouraging’ and ‘optimistic’. IOW, “according to our models, that can’t happen, so it hasn’t, the data must be wrong and we are still right – restrictions must continue”.
You can do many interesting headlines with this percentage game. Did you know cases have gone up 25% in the last 2 days?