SAGE Stood Down, Signifying End of Pandemic
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has been stood down in a clear sign that the Government believes the Covid crisis is over. The Telegraph has more.
Although the group “stands ready if required” it will no longer meet regularly, the first time it has halted its ongoing response since January 2020.
The decision was taken after the Government acknowledged that Britain has entered a new phase of its response, and follows the lifting of all remaining legal restrictions in England as part of Downing Street’s Living With Covid plan.
The devolved nations have their own scientific advisory groups and are emerging from the epidemic on slightly different timelines.
The Telegraph understands that the Government will continue to receive Covid advice from other expert bodies, such as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), as well as from Sir Patrick Vallance, the Chief Scientific Advisor and Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer.
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford said:
The standing down of SAGE signifies the end of the pandemic in the U.K. This is a remarkable turnabout of events given that just before Christmas, SAGE advisors were warning infections could hit two million per day and were pushing for further restrictions. The Government will need to review whether SAGE is fit for purpose when it comes to pandemics. Particularly given its lack of clinical input and its overreliance on modelling – which we now know is no more than ‘guesswork’ – and its tendency to fixate on a particular set of assumptions.
In mid-December, SAGE models predicted hospitalisations could peak between 3,000 and 10,000 a day and deaths at between 600 and 6,000 a day, and the advisers said the Government should reintroduce lockdown restrictions “equivalent to those in place after step 2 or step 1 of the roadmap in England”.
However, the Government took advice elsewhere and declined. Deaths peaked at 306 on January 21st, while daily admissions never rose beyond 2,615.
Good to see the back of those guys. One more tick on the ‘pandemic over’ checklist. Next time we’ll need better advisers, and that will mean changing the person who picks them. We can’t afford to face another pandemic with Witless and Unbalanced heading up the advisory team. There needs to be change at the top.
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How timely.
Quite
I don’t know about “stood down”. “Locked up” or “hung out to dry” would be my more charitable preferences.
I wonder what the bill was for SAGE, and can we have a clawback clause in any future contracts!
There must be some law we could get them with, gross negligence, malfeasance…
We most definitely need retribution. They should be hung out to be shamed, fined and imprisoned. What’s going down in the US also applies here…
Peter McCullough and Robert Malone call out corruption in the CDC , FDA , Pfizer and Military medical reporting of data to hide vaccine harm.
Perhaps a free trip on a tumbril?
They’re not dead yet.
Is that a permanent standing down or a suspension, so that SAGE can be “re-activated” in the future should the need arise?
Whatever it is – it is LONG overdue. Their pronouncements were just harmful most of the time – they should never have been given the prominence they acquired.
Once the worm is in the apple, it’s hard to be rid of. Crushing it, boiling it or chopping it up are ways to go.
It’s probably best to regard SAGE as endemic, unless we can achieve Zero-SAGE.
We cannot live with endemic SAGE, hence, Zero SAGE is the only viable option! 🙂
The clowns get in their clown car. Just as the vaccine wheels are about to fall off.
Off topic, but Rod Marsh, 74 and Shane Warne, 52 both die of heart attacks.
Has anyone in the MSM mentioned the possibility of vaccine side effects?
This is one of your legacies, Gates, Fauci, Johnson et al.
They should do a post-mortem on Warne and see if he had tell-tale Covid complications.
Telegraph readers appear to be on the case, though it would be a miracle if any legacy media said anything about it.
As soon as I saw the Warney news my first thought was – jabbing injury.
For all his hard living and partying ways he was a very fit sportsman in his latter years, having been ‘made over’ when he was dating Liz Hurley.
Both died on the same day
What does this tell us?
1 There is nothing to see here
2 Please move on
3 Coincidences happen
They died one day apart, actually, because Warne actually commented on the death of Marsh.
He commented on it 12 hours before he died, didn’t he?
No-one will mention vaccines, other than places like here. They are the ‘thing that must not be mentioned’ in the MSM, just like when a terrorist outrage happens the ethnicity/religious ideology of the perpetrators must not be mentioned either.
I said when the vaccination started that the powers that be would sweep everything under the carpet if it turned out badly. Only if people had been dropping like flies in the vaccination centres would they have been forced to stop. Once you get home everything is capable of being denied. Oh yes 52 year old men in the prime of life quite often suddenly have massive heart attacks. Move along, nothing to see here.
just try posting that Sky Link
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/get-vaccinated-and-learn-to-live-with-it-shane-warne/video/9d147b8b2485b98ed164612d2468d6a4
on YouTube the video streaming arm of censorship engine google to see it auto deleted.
‘Get vaccinated and learn to live with it’: Shane Warne
July 27, 2021 – 10:18AM
“Former cricketer Shane Warne says it’s now a matter of “getting on with it” and learning to live with COVID-19 by getting vaccinated.”
But of course video has vanished.
They can’t admit they were wrong now. Not with carnage on a massive scale. They all know they “Must hang together …. lest we all hang together.”
If an abnormally large number of well known people start having hart attacks and strokes people are going to notice.
“They can’t admit they were wrong now” True, but they’ll find some scapegoat.
I love to make predictions but I was spectacularly wrong on one of them. Before the vaccines were rolled out, I predicted that the PCR tests would be “adjusted” to show far fewer cases of COVD (once lots of people started to get vaccinated). My thought was that it would be a disaster for the vaccine narrative if 70 percent of the population got vaccinated … and “cases” were still sky-high.This would prove that the vaccines don’t work.
Well, 70 percent of the country dutifully got vaccinated and “cases” doubled – deaths and hospitalizations also remained high.
And, lo and behold, the push for mandatory vaccines became more strident and authoritarian. Somehow the very thing I thought they couldn’t allow (undeniable evidence the vaccines don’t work) did happen. And this was spun to mean that the vaccines were more important than ever.
When I made that prediction, I didn’t know I was now living in Alice’s Wonderland.
Most people will never admit it’s a problem because nobody wants to live with the feeling that they are at risk of a heart attack. They’ll convince themselves of any other explanation to live more at ease.
…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ej6PIVnHeQ
Hypothesis for the post vaccine myocarditis and the possibility of hidden myocarditis.
Thanks for link. Fascinating!
According to the Hindustan Times Warne had Covid a few months ago and was double jabbed.
‘Get vaccinated and learn to live with it’: Shane Warne
July 27, 2021 – 10:18AM
Former cricketer Shane Warne says it’s now a matter of “getting on with it” and learning to live with COVID-19 by getting vaccinated.
These people have blood on their hands.
Right, they’re no longer controlling policy.
Next step is making them the subjects of criminal investigations and putting them where they belong.
https://www.thebernician.net/pcp-update-judge-assigned-to-midazolam-murders-case/
What are the odds he/she/it is a ‘safe pair of hands’?
Do you mean six feet under?
Knighthoods all round for services to gouging the taxpayer.
Nothing has really been lifted, its just been shifted…out of sight. Check out the UKHSA “new guidance”. Nothing has changed that much. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-reminded-to-stay-safe-as-covid-19-england-restrictions-lift
Correct. All part of the overall reset plan.
Great question! The only reason they might stop is if they were worried about being exposed and faced consequences. But they know they are not going to be exposed and will never face negative consequences.
For this, they can thank their friends in the mainstream media “watchdog press.”
Something has quite significantly changed here (there’s also a good TCW article on this in the overview, BTW): While we’re not definitely out of the woods yet, at the moment, these people are fuming on the backseat and/or preaching to the choir of true believers. If all goes well, they’ll become progressively less important until they’re just petty sects with weird ideas nobody cares about.
They won’t ever really stop.
Great news. Now we can all get back to our normal lives. All seems like a bad dream now.
Put ‘em away like sage and onion stuffing balls
They’ll be back. There’s still huge mileage in the “Follow the Science” cr*p.
Of course they will be back. Every one of these “public health agencies” now has more employees and much larger budgets. They are not going to suddenly retreat into the background.
Promoting vaccines – from the flu vaccine, shingles vaccine, pneumonia vaccine to the COVID vaccine for children 6 months and older – is what these agencies do. And they use tax payer money for all their advertising, on top of the billions of dollars in free advertising they get from their media partners.
Funny how a big rise in so-called “cases” means “Panic!” in December, but then in March (when they want people to get ready to spend lots of money on leisure and flights and holidays) it can be disregarded and doesn’t mean shee-yit.
Meanwhile, the FTSE100 is 3.5% down today as I type…
…and if anyone thinks NATO could win a war against Russia, I suggest they click here. Keti, by the way, is Georgian and she sings for a group with its roots in Kazakhstan. Many other links could make the same point. Morale is higher in Russia. It’s down the toilet in the west.
Morale is down the toilet because we have had two years of being well and truly f*cked over by our own government.
That’s historically usual, the difference recently is they haven’t tried to hide how much they rob us!
There is no war between NATO and Russia and it’s seriously unlikely that there’ll be one. Putin has enough troubles subdueing Ukraine. Why would he voluntarily open a second front with a stronger opponent?
There’s also no big rise in cases (of positive test results). Unfortunately, Johnson was talked into letting the testing free-for-all go on for another month. Hence, we’ll be looking forward to another month of meaningless numbers.
May be worth a watch?
“Putin‘s Power & Western Impotence”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he25Rl0fE1c
I managed until 01:42 of idle babbling when the
We believe that everybody should have the same values as a nice, woke public school girl, age 16. No, it ain’t true!
came. I’m not American. And I don’t have time to waste on American nonsense of this kind. Neither the counter- nor the pro-nonsense.
Great. Now can I visit my Mum in her care home without shoving a stick up my nose and reporting the result to the state? Oh, and paying to do it?
It ain’t over by a long shot.
Similarly, can I go abroad and then return to Britain without being under the same obligation?
I’ve decided that SAGE is a good collective noun for parasitic w***ers.
“itS tHe EnD oF tHe pANdeMic”
There. Never. Was. A. Pandemic.
I wouldn’t want to have SAGE on my CV or be connected to any on Linkedin when the die-off picks up pace.
In the first couple of weeks of Lockdown Number One, I was getting at least three enquiries a day from recruiters wanting me to “work at the forefront of medical technology”. I ignored the lot.
Good man.
A shop in the local mall has a sign reading We train our staff to be experts. Whenever I’m walking past that, I can’t help thinking about the possibilty of angry members of the public storming in there, So YOU are these experts I kept reading about!, followed by an outburst of violence.
🙂 🙂
I certainly wouldn’t want to be called an expert on anything at the moment, regardless of my expertise.
‘SAGE’
The mother of all misnomers
Or maybe not: That’s what they aspire to be: Soothsayers, sorcerers and witches of outstanding experience, ability and wisdom. Just the irrational, anti-science lot they happen to be.
But doesn’t SAGE stand for Stupid Ars*holes Generating Excrement?
Stung And Got Everyone
State-sponsered Antagonists Guiding Etiquette
Well, they sagely conned a lot of people and filled their own bank accounts, so perhaps it was an appropriate tag after all?
They’ve been totally discredited so probably best they go.
So if the “pandemic” is over, does that mean the jab juices will be suspended as they only have Emergency Use Authorisation?
“Next time we’ll need better advisers …”
What about NO advisers? Let citizens decide for themselves what they should or shouldn’t do to protect their own health.
In America, we should disband the CDC, NIH and all 50 State Health Agencies. Can anyone make a convincing argument that, in the net, these agencies have saved lives? It would be much easier to make a compelling argument that the policies and “guidance” of these agencies have contributed/caused the unnecessary deaths of thousands of U.S. citizens.
In his book “The Real Fauci,” RFK, Jr. makes a persuasive argument that “public health” has become far worse since these agencies became far larger and more powerful.
Perhaps if they only got paid for medicine 5 years after treatment ?
The regulator is there to increase the profits of patent rent-seeking business at the expense of patients.
Until they call an official end to the emergency, and stop coercing people into being jabbed and tested, both pintless activities (or worse)it isn’t over.
Covid’s over – there’s a war to promote now.
Until the emergency is ended, and they stop coercing people into having pointless jabs and tests nothing is over.
Gird your loins, I’m afraid there will be no Victory Virus VV day since a new Variant is due in the next week or two, the PI variant. It will be ten times more transmissible than Omicron and 100 times more deadly than Ebola.
Yep. For example, I don’t think Austria has rescinded its Mandatory Vaccine (and mandatory Vaccine Passport) Law. This is the one where the government can fine you $4,000 for not getting an experimental “vaccine.”
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SAGE rickly deserve much Profanity and abuse. At least let me say, good riddance to bad rubbish, now ban me if you wish.
As the ‘pandemic’ is over, shouldn’t the so-called ‘vaccines’ be withdrawn as they were only given Emergency Use Authorisation and have not been formally approved
But that would imply the jabs have nothing to do with health?!?
Logically yes. Followed by an outbreak of suits for damages caused by it, if it’s use continues.
I’m wondering when they will be stood up…against a wall.
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Professor Carl Heneghan says it all.
Whitty and Vallance aka “the Chuckle brothers” can go and perform their miserablist act elsewhere. No doubt it made them feel terribly important but most of us got their number and sussed their association with Big Pharma.
Bye boys, stay safe – not. Take a long walk on a short pier, preferably with the overgrown computer nerd Prof. Pantsdown and his German floosie.
“Professor Neil Ferguson’s married lover declared she was enjoying home-schooling her children and spending more time with her husband while secretly leaving their £1.9million home for liaisons with the eminent scientist, MailOnline can reveal today.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8293057/How-Neil-Fergusons-married-lover-enjoys-perfect-family-life.html
Two slags
So basically two winters and then went into decline, just like the Spanish flu and all the other pandemics.
It will probably be back in next year’s “cold and flu season.” It’s so obvious this is a seasonal disease/virus. Of course next year they will probably do away with testing and/or reduce the PCR cycle threshold number to 22.
So what comes next?
No prizes for your prediction.
BTW, thanks to The Daily Skeptic and its brave and smart contributors for highlighting so many of the findings and issues that probably helped lead to the end of this Adviser Group and a change in policy.
See? Dissent matters and is kind of important … Which is no doubt why dissent is now being criminalized and free speech attacked and abolished. Sigh.
Good point. If everyone in the country had knuckled under without a whimper and stayed in thrall to this bunch, does anyone have any doubt that they would have remained ensconced in place, and no doubt piling on an endless stream of “recommendations” to keep us under their thumbs where they think we all belong?
Right get the duckin lot of them in court for crimes against humanity.