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So 17371 people died " from " covid, the rest died from covid plus other health problems. We spent half a Trillion Pounds, over 3 years of NHS budgets on a host of maily futile measures. The Ā£ 4.5Bn that may have been defrauded is less the 1%, a drop in an ocean of wasted money. The average age of people who died was 82.5 and those 17,371 " from covid" deaths cost about Ā£29 million each! Male life expectancy fell by 7 weeks. Female life expectance rose by 3 days!
LLass - ouch GBP 4.5 bn - I guess that's the PPE issue ? Re. FtS I thought it a 'cop out' to 'escape' responsibility. I'd guess the money 'wasted' was part of that wild scramble - shocking.
BOJO - re. JVT maybe so. The Scientists are quiet but I wonder what their views are right now, I'd really like to know ! Not much from the 'Podium' or SAGE atm
WTP - ouch ! (but hard to disagree). IMO if Covidity or another 2nd/3rd generation vax looks good, it will be very hard for the Govt. to ignore.
Taverham - re. Partygate, there's more coming for BJ this week I fear. Shocking stuff. Just what we need as the 'Bear' flexes muscles.
Thanks all for the replies - wishing us all a nice Scancell week !! ATB
TF (YAWN)
|""Not to be too 'Gove-ish', but I think the Govt. have been a little early in releasing all Covid measures UK wide, (cases yesterday a massive 76,807). I doubt that many in the NHS will welcome that.
So are we still 'following the science' ? If so, whose science is it ?"""
Well you are certainly still stuck on politics.
Meanwhile the massive 76k you state is a whole lot less than over 200k a day just a week or two ago.Yes I do believe on many grounds to get this country back to a ""new normal|".
Once again TF you fail to acknowledge that Covid was/is and will be a worldwide problem, and I am pretty sure that science has taken positives from findings across the planet in the battle against the virus, how easy and forgive me..childish it is just to focus on blame. Their will not be a world leader who would have not broken the bank to have known in hindsight the very best course of actions to have dealt with this. IMHO
In addition to Bojo being sacked , I think every civil servant who attended the drinks party should be sacked . They knew it was wrong and there was no justification (like a dying relative) . They all broke the law .Some of the invitees had the integrity to stand up to the boss and not attend and that must have been tough because we all know how pressure to follow the leader works in organisations.
And previously infected people have correlates of protection against reinfection with later variants [of b-cell memory to epitopes?]. So now the CDC has released the paper below, will the NHS "follow the science" and reconsider sacking unvaccinated but infected workers?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7104e1-H.pdf
This is from the latest 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report' so is still "warm off the press".
I'll start with IMO.
Lifting the restrictions early is all part of operation red meat/operation "Save Boris the clown". The barage of news releases such as the BBC licence fee/navy boats for the migrant crisis the day after he was found out attending the party(s) was simply nothing more than to deflect from partygate and the short comings of our useless self serving leader.
Boris lifted the restrictions as another way to help save his job and to deflect, a (huge) piece of feel good news. He would rather ignore the science (which I'm feel sure he is doing) and potentially risk the health of the UK public, purely to try and save his own bacon.
And I do feel this is relevant as he/the government are/were making decisions about vaccines. I feel the narrative from the government will be (and is currently) things are looking rosy/covid is behind us etc...again purely to deflect/save Boris. Incredibly dangerous and reckless IMO. It may or may not affect how covidity is approached. I feel UK Gov/Boris will try to now play down all aspects of the pandemic and pretened everything is hunky dory.
If he had a ounce of integrity he would have quit months ago. But we know he doesn't have any, I hope his supporters can see this now too.
Again IMO.
Maybe JVT saw the direction of travel and did not like it..:
The other scientists that remain in an official capacity have a voice on the inside and donāt have to shout to be heard from the outside.
I think all politicians are all the same no matter what colours the pin to the mast. I just donāt like them.
Itās a necessary evil for scientists to be involved with politicians but it was never going to be a good mix. Fact vs spin and all the other bull.
Re lifting the restrictions - yes I think itās too early, or at least people seem to be interpreting it as Omicron is nothing to worry about (What ever happened to covidā¦)
Johnson and the CONs have done what he liked at the time, following the science when it was profitable- Ā£4.5bn of fraud accepted is just the latest of atrocities.
Good morning Krafty. As you say, the UK seems to face problems on many fronts. What did you think about the Govt. rescinding the Plan B restrictions? Myself I thought the move was a few weeks early than it should have been . . . I wondered if they were still 'following the science'. That's all.
Well TF lucky you don't live here isn't it. Different countries, different culture. Every stage of lockdown has to be paid for and then no one wants to be the one paying for it. So many cases of Covid happening in hospital and so many unvaccinated who work there passing it on. Then massive demonstrations against sacking the unvaccinated. Putin will invade Ukraine soon. At least that will change the news. Then of course, Gas prices will surge further again and everyone will moan about that blaming the government as usual.
Not to be too 'Gove-ish', but I think the Govt. have been a little early in releasing all Covid measures UK wide, (cases yesterday a massive 76,807). I doubt that many in the NHS will welcome that.
So are we still 'following the science' ? If so, whose science is it ?
JVT has departed for his own good reasons no doubt, but Chris Whitty, Patrick Vallance and SAGE atm seem to be either absent or quiet ?
Have the Whips had a word with them (wink) ?