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OK Smithy, it was a fun aside with the bash the elderly. But it is an old joke now and I think you will find it is a minor consideration. Find a new tack or bow out gracefully.

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/boris-johnson-introduces-new-covid-rules-as-omicron-variant-arrives-in-the-uk/166245

OK, all bets off, 25% drop in sector Monday.

I've been very generous with the unique circumstances and decisions made previously. Now, they've blown it. 100% UNNECESSARY. Masks, guaranteed return to general lockdown exactly as before. Exactly the wrong direction. Not a single benefit will come out of these stupid idiot policies.

I don't normally join in depose the leader chants. This one is now different. Remove him from office before the end of next week. He is no longer a leader, he is being led.

Truly terrible and awful news. What a total mess. Back to general lockdown then and this time the variant is even more contagious so mask wearing super spreaders at the height of Christmas shopping congestion will be sending the numbers in to orbit. Utterly stupid. I am just in disbelief. How can the exact same errors be made again. Looks like I will be writing off 100 grand and not retiring with such a smug face as I anticipated. Back to tarting up the CV and knocking on doors. Engineer for rent, ooooooh needs an engineer.

OK Smithy, aka Dr Shipman

111 points up, wouldn't be surprised, the momentum behind the narrative is toning things down to the real world. Sunday news will be a big indicator.

So, with that in mind - me thinks it is time for a cheeky red with the spag bol!

PCR £20
https://www.expert-medicals.co.uk/products/green-list-day-2-testing-package

Simples.

You know, the narrative is developing as the weekend is going on. The editorial slant in the mass media will set up Monday, I said that on Friday I think. I am 'feeling' a lot of the hysterical reporting is being answered and toned. Whilst I haven't seen the tone of the mass media tomorrow yet, I suspect there will be a lukewarm opening, a small sustained rise, the mega rich pis who took millions after hours begin a slow sell off and over at least the first half of the week a steady 2-5% above Friday close which will either creep up towards the end of the week as the news about omicron improves or slightly declines as the mm have to tempt poorer pis to buy so the transfer of wealth to the richest pis can be completed. By the next weekend, we might even be restored to last Thursday, the day I cashed in my £15 quid to much derision in case there was spook news on Friday. mmmmm... tell me how to suck eggs why don't you.....

The masks! If we are to repeat the same mistake again, then back to lockdown by January. Complete madness. These humans and their comfort blanket - at any cost!

all4UK, that only works if people follow their isolation instructions. There is a significant kickback against impositions on people's freedom of movement. It was being said back in the summer that most people ignored the instructions to isolate, most had deleted the app. The app had to be changed and much stricter enforcement introduced. Test and trace had a limited effect and was next to useless in the end.

In my experience those will be 'family' funds and very rich people given the nod by their financial advisors as pis rather than iis. Those pis have the credit lines to buy in those big chunks and then release over 10 days. They will immediately start selling batches Monday up to the T+10 settlement date. If anything, unless there is high volatile volume, the sp will not rise much for a week or so while those little chunks are worked through. mm have probably already been informed there are x million shares to move at x thousand per hour rate. When dealing in millions, you only need a couple of % gain to make it worth your while. 1% of £3mil is £30,000. As a 10 day return, that'll fuel the Lear for a few trips to the the Villa on Gran Canaria.

The truth is out, its aliens!

https://www.indy100.com/news/covid-variant-omicron-futurama-lrr-b1965239

oohhhh..., don't know, market might struggle. Left the money in TUI as a little average down.

I suspect over next week we will hear whether bookings are badly affected, whether government help is promised now, how quickly the panic narrative is backpedaled and perhaps a backlash against big pharma who may have questions to answer about their involvement in fanning the flame of the story. If you put your chips on the right square, it could be nice little earner, but there is a probability of a significant collapse in the sector if this us not handled properly. I don't think I'll be in heavy for a while and might just punt with the playtime money for lunches and restock the booze cabinet.

"billions of years of stored energy" Billions? The earth is only 4.5 billion years old!!!! If the release of co2 from deliberate burning of refined fossil fuel [we'll forget the natural infernos in gas and tar pits and the billions of tons of underground coal burning every year] was to have any impact, it would be to supply more photosynthesis product to be turned into sugars. co2 levels have fluctuated wildly over millions of years and the correlation with temperature is well established, temperature change preceeds co2 change. It is one of the facts that has had to be suppressed by having a completely one-sided narrative by the mass media. It is one of the 'inconvenient truths'.

As far as clean air and respiratory issues are concerned, that all comes down to how clean the burn is. Poor burning will add to natural pollution. Before fossil fuel burning, the air was still full of pollons, microbes, bugs, dust, mites, sectreations, resins and water. If anything, an old carpet is as bad as a hot dusty city with old lorries still being driven around.

AimMaster, you forget that the timescale vaccinating young to old stretches out over the year. Therefor the younger the group the more recent it was since their jab. I applied and got my first jab within a couple of days of the announcement the over 50s group could get jabbed. The earliest I am allowed to get a booster is 15th December. Younger age groups will be well within the 6 month decline window, And the efficacy declines, it doesn't disappear. EU is putting a 9 month rule on the vacc window. I don't know to what level the efficacy drops at 9 months, but vaccinations leave antibodies for life. So even after 9 months, many healthy people will still have full protection. It is those with weaker immune systems that are at greatest risk. Hence flu
jabs only for older people and the big debate about whether to bother vaccinating the younger people.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/08/17/does_climate_change_cause_extreme_weather_now_heres_a_scorcher_of_a_reality_check_789878.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=mixi&utm_campaign=realclearpolitics

Want the alternative view point, take a little dose of 360? The other side of the so called 'science' is out there, very well hidden and subducated but it is there. 8 years and counting to go before you are forced against your will and bank balance to use very limited range [real world] ev cars.

still.... things could be a whole lot worse, pity this poor chap.....

https://www.rt.com/sport/541441-bodybuilder-sex-doll-honeymoon/

and even if there was a need for further lockdown, what will the reaction be......

https://www.rt.com/news/541490-australia-massive-protests-mandates/

alternatively, big pharma has seen the end in sight of the gravy train for jabs and boosters, in Japan when the virus mutated itself into extinction. So they have jumped on something that can be claimed as significant and rush to establish a doomsday narrative before virtually anything is known about it. The more I read about it and little bits of info emerge, the more I am getting suspicious that there is an 'undercurrent' behind this.

“Young people, in their 20s to just over their late 30s, are coming in with moderate to severe disease, some needing intensive care. About 65% are not vaccinated and most of the rest are only half-vaccinated,” she said.

That is so ambiguous it is practically meaningless. How much is some? Are those 'some' the unvaccinated group? In Africa, do they also have AIDS complications?

Call me cynical, but, this is a money spinner for the pharma isn't it? I mean, urgent panic knee jerk response to get a modified vacc and booster to market. mmmmm...... one ponders the 360 and frowns..........

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/botswana-says-new-covid-19-variant-was-found-in-four-people-who-entered-country-e40eeda5-2802-5741-999a-d1adebd8672f

and

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/south-africa/omicron-variant-europe-belgium-south-africa-first-detection-breaking-27-november-2021/

The plot thickness....................