NHS Panjandrums Demand the Return of Masks and Re-Imposition of Covid Restrictions
Health chiefs want Britons to follow a string of new Covid measures to fight record infection rates in the U.K. and ease pressure on the NHS. MailOnline has more.
The NHS Confederation accused No.10 of “abandoning any interest in Covid whatsoever”, warning that hospitals are set to deal with a “brutal Easter as bad as any winter”.
The group, which acts as a representative for hospitals and ambulance trusts, called for “mitigating actions” to stop the spread of the virus, such as not meeting people indoors and wearing masks in crowded spaces.
It comes just weeks after Covid restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate, were scrapped under Boris Johnson’s ‘living with Covid’ plan. And England’s £2 billion-a-month mass-testing scheme was scrapped at the start of April.
The easing of rules has coincided with infection rates spiralling to the highest levels seen throughout the pandemic, with one in 13 people estimated to be infected at the start of the month.
Health bosses say the situation – fuelled by rising Covid rates and staff sickness – is impacting its ability to tackle the record backlog of patients needing care.
Millions of patients have already been told to stay away from busy A&E units unless they are genuinely dying, while ambulance services have urged some to make their own way to hospital.
The number of virus-infected patients in hospital last week breached 20,000 – the highest since February 2021. Although, figures also show thousands aren’t primarily ill with the virus.
“The brutal reality for staff and patients is that this Easter in the NHS is as bad as any winter,” said Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation.
“But instead of the understanding and support NHS staff received during 2020 and 2021, we have a Government that seems to want to wash its hands of responsibility for what is occurring in plain sight in local services up and down the country. No.10 has seemingly abandoned any interest in Covid whatsoever. NHS leaders and their teams feel abandoned by the Government and they deserve better.”
“Mitigating actions” – including not meeting people indoors and wearing masks in crowded spaces – were needed to prevent the spread of the virus, the group said.
Worth reading in full, including the sidebar suggesting infections have peaked, based on the latest ONS infection survey.
For a less hysterical take on the ‘perfect storm’ currently afflicting the NHS, see this piece by the Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor from yesterday.
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They need to be told in no uncertain terms that there is no science behind their suggested measures and that we ain’t in the business of pandering to those who believe in rain dance mythology.
Anything less is not going to help anyone.
I would just ask them how it’s possible to have so many hospitalisations when so much of the population has been given COVID jabs? Aren’t they supposed to reduce the chance of hospitalisation? And the so called variants going around are milder, aren’t they?
The NHS has become a threat to society.
The last group of victims these people may force-test to the heart’s content in order to manufacture as many so-called COVID cases as possible are hospital patients. As we know from people posting here, everybody in hospital is routine-tested at least once per day, possible even several times per day. The NHS finally resuming its job of caring for the health of the population instead of dancing the Corona all day must obviously result in an influx of new patients who have been in dire need of hospital care for quite some time. Even an increase of COVID deaths could be engineered in this way as someone with, eg, terminal cancer due to it not getting treated in time, can be assigned to this category if one manages to get a couple of positive test results from him before he dies. One should also take into account who this comes from: Not from the clinical NHS itself but from a professional lobbying body claiming to represent the NHS as such (the NHS Confederation), to ensure that systems and organisations work in what claims to be its interest and – as can be gathered from keywords in its website, eg reducing… Read more »
“The NHS has become a threat to society.”
This will soon become the Big Issue of our time!
I can’t see it ever happening but we need to ask why Spanish flu was over in 18 months to 2 years and we’re still floundering with this disaster at the 2 year plus mark. I wonder whether it could be anything to do with mass vaccination in a pandemic with a non-sterilising vaccine that is likely to muck up people’s immune systems? If only we’d actually thought through the problem before rushing in all guns blazing and stuck with what we’ve always done. But, of course, if you’re of the view that chaos was always the end-point then I suppose this could be called success!
They did think about it. It’s a Pfizer money making scam. What other drugs are available? Only Pfizer, AZ has been overshadowed, and Novavax etc are not available here. SAGE and our government promoted this and signed contracts that they will not publish with Pfizer.
Watch MEP Christian Teres speaking about the contracts that were signed by Frau Von Lederhosen (or ”Fonda Lyin” as he calls her) – and look at the papers and how heavily they’ve been redacted.
Maybe, but the absence of ‘science’ didn’t stop them before.
They keep re-running the same narrative – any alternative would bring down their house of cards on all their heads .
Surely the Media dam holding back the sordid truth must eventually break?
Muzzles are still mandatory in hospitals, yes?
Then if they work, why are so many people catching the coofs in hospital, while under professional health workers’ supervision?
Is their contention that untrained members of the public do a better job of muzzling up on the bus?
Simple answer: It’s not about health or a virus. It’s about preventing the collapse of Zero COVID in China and the presumably less-than-fortunate effect this will have on Xi’s future political career. These people are nothing but Chinese fifth-colummnists and ought to be treated as such.
Shocking images of nightmare suppression, incarceration, suicides and starvation now leaking out of “Zero Covid” Shanghai China!
Good to know that Johnson has ‘not ruled out” more lockdowns to (as he bizarrely claims) “save lives” (!)
The derangement disconnect, based on compounded lies, is growing by the day.
Pour encourager les autres, peut etre?
They might try to pretend that face-nappies are ‘mandatory’ but I have been to two different hospitals recently (last visit on Friday 8 April) and I have not worn a face-nappy. On the second occasion there was no challenge to this.
This illustrates, if illustration were needed, just how divorced NHS bureaucrats are from reality.
What is more, the object of these idiotic and petty one-way systems and all the other covid theatre has nothing whatever to do with health or even safety, but enabling jumped-up jobsworths to order people about and put them in their place. Similarly, the object of these accursed perspex screens is to transform customers into suppliants.
I always collapse with giggles, imagining all the zillions of half-micron coronaviruses desperately struggling to get round a two-foot square of plastic, and falling back exhausted.
I accompanied my OH to a hospital visit yesterday. Got to the front door where we were asked to put on a face nappy. We refused, “no problem” said the NHS ‘heroe’. We have a family member who has just been diagnosed with the big C, which would have been caught early 2 years ago, had the NHS ‘heroes’ not cancelled the appointment in favour of TikTok routines. I was itching for a confrontation, but they seem to realise that some people aren’t going to stand for this bullsh*t anymore.
Just say ‘No!’.
It’s superstition, and we shouldn’t pander to it!
Are they also proposing that everyone wear crucifixes to stop the spread of a cold?
They’d be better off suggesting that people wear garlic cloves around their neck. (And I’m only half-joking – garlic definitely provides a better health boost than the clot shot)
Garlic has eal antimicrobial properties and doesn’t kill.
You sure about that? My husband has a penchant for garlic & his breath afterwards has nearly killed me, I’m sure
Eat it yourself. It’s the only way.
No they’re proposing “…not meeting people indoors and wearing masks in crowded spaces…” you know ‘The Science’. The last thing an organization like the NHS would do is promote Christianity.
Yet Science and Christianity are both founded on Faith.
Science makes many assumptions that have not been proved, and in some cases CANNOT be proved.
If would work just as well
You’re either required to wear a mask, or failing that a lanyard to show that you’re exempt from wearing a mask.
Either way, they’re as effective as wearing a crucifix.
Do these people have any scientific evidence that they can bring to the table to support their request? It isn’t as though they’ve not had enough time to actually do the research.
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Almost as if they were not interested.
One needs to consider the incentives for finding the truth vs the disincentives.
Well accepting the truth (that there isn’t much you can reasonably do to limit the spread of this virus) would mean they’d have nothing to whinge about I suppose… are there other disincentives?
Being the first to step out of line and admit it was all nonsense – bit of a career-ender. They are all in it together.
Why bother with with science, evidence or research when you can impose any kind of mandate you like, with as little parliamentary scrutiny you like, under emergency legislation..
Maybe Boris will get a second chance at his Thatcher Moment, and grow the balls to tell the NHS experts to get stuffed.
Tell them the NHS (and the BBC) is going to be de-extorted.
Johnson’s great strength is that he flips and flops so regularly that you can always project your hopes onto him and say “Maybe now…”
It’s never now though, not in any substantial, sustained way.
Don’t hold your breath.
The only thing I have ever held is my nerve.
There are two things you can control – your emotions and your expenses!
No chance! He needs to tell his globalist mates at the WEF etc. to do the same and he shows no sign of doing so.
Eleven Plus Question
Q. With a staff of 1.7 million it takes 100 phones calls to speak to a rude GP receptionist. If the NHS had 3.4 million staff how many phone calls would it take
Cecil you above all should know that work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
About 300
Presumably, about 250 – 300 due to the exponentially growing management overhead.
So many imbeciles in this country, many of which seem to work for the NHS. When will they understand that there is no science at all behind their hysterical superstitious claptrap? I mean what will it take?
I guess it wouldn’t help much, but someone could do a decent study and see what difference different restrictions in different British countries and regions had, and then there’d be something tangible to point to to show these things don’t work.
Same old story though – it seems to be more in people’s interest not to have such evidence lying around. Might expose an awful lot of expensive, unjustified and harmful policymaking.
It will take a full scale war with Russia for these people to open their eyes and understand what government and our bloated bureaucracies tell utter porkies
What is a “covid hospitalisation”?
Apparently that’s like asking a politician to define what a “woman” is.
My understanding is a woman is someone who has, or does not have a penis.
Many women have a penis, but not their own….
Some have a large collection. Ask any prostitute.
Adult female human with two X chromosomes. Every cell in a woman’s body is female.
True, but. . . there seem to be an increasing number of cells containing men masquerading as women.
If the NHS tried telling the truth then we may, just maybe, listen. The NHS and Government have been lying for over 2 years and I think most people now know they were lied to but they won’t say anything because they were stupid.
The latest excuse for the massive rise in heart attacks is “It’s Covid” which is a blatant lie; it is the “vaccines”. I wouldn’t mind taking a bet that most of those on ventilators have had heart attacks.
The ventilators have been used throughout to enhance the case fatality rate. Getting SARS-CoV-2 is pretty risky if you are in hospital. Most NHS staff have been involved directly or indirectly in ventilating people because they had a cough. They have to keep believing the lies, otherwise it may occur to them that their complacency and unthinking compliance caused their participation in mass-murder.
I believe those at the top of NHS management should be sacked. They failed to plan correctly and then wasted OUR money buying non compliant goods from their mates.
Far too much waste in the NHS is as a result of their incompetence.
GP surgeries should also be returned to the main body of the NHS as a lot of the doctors now are only interested in the cash, not patient health.
80% of staff ruin it for the other 20%
Warehouses full of ventilators that were (urgently needed), PPE which is expired…..
The NHS is an unmanageable, ungovernable behemoth.
It was a nice idea for a while, but it’s time has come.
The NHS needs massive reorganising or disbanding altogether as it is no longer fit for purpose. Like all nationalised industries it is a self-serving bloated bureaucracy and bottomless money pit. The NHS is part of the problem and is being used against the very people it is supposed to serve and who fund it.
I feel sorry for those who work within the NHS and whose intentions are sound.
Its because they are so massively incompetent that they want everyone else to suffer to make their lives easier.
NHS: Vaccines are safe and effective
Also NHS: we are about to deal with an easter as brutal as any winter
Just look at that graph comparing this time last year and now, it’s laughable how these morons won’t just give up the ghost.
First, GPs want to get rid of patients, and now the hospitals!
Defund the NHS!
I think it was Eugyppius who predicted something along the lines of ‘third rate self-appointed ‘experts’ not willing to disappear from the limelight’.
“No.10 has seemingly abandoned any interest in Covid whatsoever.”
About bloody time.
It’s all “Ukraine” at present. I saw somewhere that Ukrainians fleeing to the West (Germany or perhaps Austria) were, to say the least, reluctant to accept their interim hosts’ kind offers of “jabs”.
If the NHS cannot be made to work despite the enormous amount of ressources which are being put into it, it must be dissolved. Punishing the general population for that, eg, by prohibiting people from receiving visitors in their own homes, reclosure of hospitality and entertainment industry and forcing people to wrap Chinese throwaway products around their faces is not acceptible.
NHS staff who think their jobs is too brutal for them are free to quit and find something else to live on. NHS managers on six figure salaries who envision themselves as tinpot dictators (on behalf of China(!)) while abjectly failing to do their job ought to be kicked out immediately and preferably, put to trial.
The typical sort of “person” working in the NHS
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-useful-hospital-beds-says-ex-official-a4380911.html
It would be perfect except for annoying ill people disturbing the tiktok
Yes, Minister:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAk448volww
I think many recognise that the NHS is, let’s be charitable, ‘in trouble’.
As with so many challenges we face today though, the issue is how we can get from where we are to where we would like to be?
The answer, for the last 50 years or longer has been to kick the can even further down the road and let tomorrow’s politician’s carry the burden. Unfortunately, we have run out of road… and, to compound the problem, fixing things is going to cost at least twice as much.
“Technical debt”* applies everywhere not just IT.
*Not fixing something now accrues interest.
I’m not so certain about that, ie, I was partially implying a rethorical question: The NHS worked, more or less successfully, from its foundation up to end of March 2020 without imposing anything on the general population except somewhat annoying and patronizing guidance on all kinds of topics nobody ever asked it anything about. As nothing material has changed since then, assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, it still ought to work as good or bad as it always did, ie, with NHS-problems in need of being addressed (the eternal state of imperfection of any complicated human endeavour) but without enforced, population wide behaviour change which happens to be eerily similar to certain, WHO-endorsed Chinese public health innovations and which certain people badly want for reasons entirely unrelated to any pandemic.
Examples of that would be the Scottish teetotaller-in-chief (Devi Isthisaword) again closing down the hospitality industy or the Michie/ Greenalgh drive for enforced face masking as general public health measure.
I work in the NHS; “my” Trust has 119 patients testing positive with covid apparently, of which 2 are in ITU (over 2 acute hospital sites). However, at least 108 of these are part of hospital outbreaks – they didn’t necessarily come in with it.
NHS Confederation is yet another quango-type outfit with definite Left Wing political aims; probably because its grossly-overpaid Chief Executive was head of Blair’s Policy Unit. I think that just about says it all.
Have they tried vaccinating harder?
They damn well should! If two masks are the bare minimum to ensure survival!
Self indulgent pettiness.
always an excuse to not provide.
Mathew Taylor has no medical training and is an ex aide to Tony Blair and therefore knows how to lie for a living.
All roads to ruin lead to Blair
Sorry but I think you Bliar
Reform the NHS to run on performance related pay. Quantity and quality of service rewarded with higher pay whilst simultaneously penalising those who sit on their hands whinging
Break it up completely. Carefully, but immediately.
Transition to private providers of healthcare and a state provided health insurance with a small, almost symbolic co-pay so that people use it when they really need to.
I don’t entirely disagree with what you say, indeed I’d be happy to pay, but… there is a real and significant part of our population who cannot simply put their hand in their pocket and come up with £20 to ‘see the doctor’. Or, even a fiver, possibly… how do we manage them?
The insurance based systems in much of Europe, which have far better outcomes than the NHS, all have safety nets for the poor.
But the Grauniad is ever worng.
The problems of the NHS are systematic.
1) Subsidised poor health choices and lifestyles
2) funded by punishing people for working
3) Rations treatment based on how much you bother staff/ how much staff are scared by not treating you (celeb health service).
The only poverty in this country is cultural.
Tell them to piss off to a country that will pay for them
I agree. Performance related pay in the public sector is badly needed. Far too many of them scam the system, it’s easy to do when your job is safe.
If they start pointing to Daniel Andrews and Masky Mark as role models, you’re in trouble.
Look at the graph.
How many people are vaccinated up to April 2022 compared with up to April 2021?
How many people are in hospital in April 2022 compared with April 2021?
If the vaccines are ‘so great’, why are we where we are?
From the BMJ, an article explaining the use of modelling during the “pandemic”
https://jech.bmj.com/content/76/5/512?_gl=1*1qylxdd*_ga*MTcwODQ2NDE4My4xNjQ5MDc4NTI0*_ga_EXTSVLH45V*MTY0OTY3MzQ4NC4xLjAuMTY0OTY3MzQ4NC42MA..*_fplc*MzM2a2pRbGRiJTJCNXpmUXFuVlRwV0d1OEFlVmFCNU1VYTRGcVBqRGxMUUswNlMlMkZEJTJGaFhIVW5VNiUyQlBXSFhsVFFMcFVYRE5FQXRzNXVJYk9tJTJCWDdyNFZKcFhUZXJBYTBoMFI4VUZwcFolMkJtYm9vcEkyY0NCVEYza3drSCUyQndHWWclM0QlM0Q.
It’s a rather a long essay, but essentially points out just how flawed and unscientific the modelling is, not only with “the most deadly pandemic ever”™ but also “climate crisis”™
The only thing it leaves out of the equation is the amount of funding and steering of “the science”™ by the big corporations that control it.
This article also from the BMJ does explain the amount of funding by big corporations and the corruption of science at its very core.
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o702
I seriously doubt the population is up for a return of COVID restrictions and masks.
They’re going to have to sort this one out themselves. i.e. do their jobs properly for a change, which they won’t though because they are incapable.
And then maybe, just maybe, the population will wake up to the fact that the problem all along was a dysfunctional health service that abused the population with lockdowns and restrictions to cover up their dysfunction.
I’m not so optimistic. The vast majority of the public have proven themselves to be compliant in the extreme – far greater than I ever envisaged. If Johnson said that masks are to be worn again in shops etc from tomorrow I fear that a huge percentage would don them in an instant once more.
And I fear you are dead right. People have been conditioned to the extent that next time the government wouldn’t even need to give a reason for the masking. They will obey without question.
Up in Durham there are hundreds of young chinks still wearing them anyway
And it just seems to get more dysfunctional. I have a friend who has been in hospital almost continuously since the end of Jan. Am I allowed to visit? No. He is a classic bed blocker too as he really needs to be in a care home now, but nothing at all is happening. He is not even ill, just falls over all the time when home alone.
I have no doubt the pressure on A&E is due to the difficulty in seeing a GP in most areas. At our surgery if you ask for an appointment it’s a case of ‘computer says no’. I complained to my MP and to my surprise she it taking it up with the local health authority. Nobody has a good word to say about our local GP s now.
And still they all maintain that the vaccines work. Beyond stupid.
They are working beautifully, if keeping the narrative going is your thing. We now have a ‘pandemic’ of cases in the vaxxed. No vaccines and instead use of hcq etc and this would have been over months if not years ago.
It does work. It increases infections, hospitalisations and deaths as data from UKHSA shows, and these are higher among the boosted compared with double dosed and significantly higher than unvaccinated – which is why they have decided to stop publishing the data.
Talking of ‘sheep’, has anyone noticed that as soon as another ‘article’ comes up, there they all are pouring through the gate, some in an attempt to be ‘first’?!
Baaaa!
Well, it was a thought!
And your thought is… …what exactly?
It was just a random thought… with the word ‘sheep’ being bandied about so much these days, it struck me as an amusing thought that as soon as The Shepherd opens the gate to a new article it’s a rough ‘n’ tumble to get through to make the first posts!
hospitals are set to deal with a “brutal Easter as bad as any winter”.
So deal with it like you would in any winter. Stop being drama queens and just got on with your jobs. We don’t need histrionics. The show’s over.