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I hope we get to see Lord Bethell prosecuted and squirming when confronted with the evidence of his corrupt dealings one of these days. Meanwhile we should get up a petition to ban him from advertising Chinese LFTs on Twitter.

To support the U.K. diagnostics industry

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/19/boris-johnson-and-staff-pictured-with-wine-in-downing-street-garden-in-may-2020.

Enjoy your Christmas circuit breaker folks.

Here you go Ripley, you can see how we get there

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/mediaviewer/rm3968072961/

“some manufacturers have struggled to provide sufficient evidence in time. As things stand, this would mean they would have to be temporarily removed from the market whilst they complete their validation. This would create an unexpected contraction in supply at the start of winter. This could be particularly problematic for testing returning travellers.”

Lucky we got all those Turkish tests passed at the last minute.

“Omicron has also been detected in 38 out of 2,437 wastewater samples collected between 26 November and 5 December 2021 from 477 sewage treatment works and sewerage network sites in England – the largest number of detections was in London, which aligns with clinical data trends.”

Do we know whether this could be Deepverge using affimers?

Share the link Ginge.

You obviously missed the post where Ginge confessed that he DID work for the Gov.
I’m fully expecting him to rush into work on Monday and claim brownie points for pointing out the NHS symptom checker is out of date. Not holding my breath for any mention of vitamin D though. They don’t seem to want the British public to be armed with this advice.

By the way, given that Ginge seems to be the Gov watchdog/mouthpiece on this BB, perhaps we should be asking HIM why the Gov has not been supporting/prioritising AffiDX?

Sounds just like Fauci’s “I am science”. We are now dealing with very over-inflated egos and god complexes amongst the scientific fraternity.

I have said a million times, I’m not anti vax, but anti vax coercion-especially for the young. I invested in Avacta, because I thought accurate testing would be an essential part of the response to the crisis. I still feel it’s criminal that it isn’t.

Equally criminal is the fact that our ever so helpful and caring Government has not even bothered to update the NHS Covid information website for about 18 months so it still shows the alpha variant symptoms of fever, new and persistent cough and changes to sense of taste and smell as being the main symptoms. Omicron presents completely differently - main symptoms are runny nose, headache, fatigue. Also, still no mention of the crucial role that vitamin D can play in boosting immunity.

I urge everyone to read that Spectator article - possibly the biggest journalistic scoop of the pandemic.

“In a note sent to clients, JP Morgan pointed out that in all of its scenarios. -even the 'optimistic' once - LSHTM had assumed that the Omicron variant is just as dangerous as Delta. Why? ‘Evidence from South Africa suggests that Omicron infections are milder,’ JP Morgan said. Adjust for this, it found, and the picture changed dramatically:-

“‘Bed occupancy by Covid-19 patients at the end of January would be 33% of the peak seen in January 2021. This would be manageable without further restrictions.’
So JP Morgan had spotted something pretty big; tweak one assumption (on severity) and – suddenly – no need for lockdown.

Why was this scenario left out? Why would this fairly-important and fairly-basic fact not be presented by modellers to ministers – and to the general public?”

Eastside, I have never read any utterances of Piers Corbyn. Anyway, he’s not influencing Gov decision making to the best of my knowledge - unlike Graham Medley who heads SAGE modelling department. In a Twitter exchange with Fraser Nelson he has admitted that they never model a best case scenario, only worst. Completely appalling and disastrous.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-twitter-conversation-with-the-chairman-of-the-sage-covid-modelling-committee

Imperial College epidemiologist Neil] Ferguson was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths.

In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.

In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.

In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a “reasonable worst-case scenario” was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.

Great record!

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/so-the-real-scandal-is-why-did-anyone-ever-listen-to-this-guy/

@JimBethell = anagram of Jim the Bell

He probably wrote his own Wikipedia entry. Needless to say, his reputation is not universally applauded.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-failure-of-imperial-college-modeling-is-far-worse-than-we-knew/

And only 23 hours for it to register!

That’s probably Ginge’s chat up line at office Christmas parties.

So can you show me your source and where we report ‘excess deaths’ in the U.K.? I totally agree that’s how we should be measuring the impact of Covid, but I don’t believe we see that from SAGE.

Wee, thanks to the scandalous decisions taken by Matt Han****, I’m sure the average age of our population has decreased considerably on the past year.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/south-africa
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/united-kingdom

South Africa population around 60m, 27% vaccinated. Deaths this month 758 compared with all time high of 15,695 in January.
U.K. population around 67m, 70% vaccinated. Deaths this month 3,798 compared with all time high of 32,745 in January.