Posted on 12/22/2020 6:25:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On December 20, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced an unprecedented Tier-4 lockdown due to a new strain of COVID-19. This will increase the rules for the Christmas holiday and completely shut down some areas of the country. Travel restrictions are in place inside the U.K., yet international travel has not been restricted from other areas.
The purported reason: This new strain of COVID-19, discovered in September, is 70% more contagious than the previous version of the virus. According to Sky News:
The action was prompted by the government’s fears over a new strain of coronavirus – known as VUI 2020/01 – which is believed to spread more quickly than the original strain and is judged to be the reason for rapidly rising infection rates in the South East.
Mr. Johnson said an analysis by the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) suggests the new strain could increase the R rate by “0.4 or greater” and might be “up to 70% more transmissible”.
“While we are fairly certain the variant is transmitted more quickly, there is no evidence to suggest that it is more lethal or causes more severe illness,” the prime minister said.
“Equally there is no evidence to suggest the vaccine will be any less effective against the new variant.”
The fact that viruses mutate is not news. It is why a new vaccine for influenza comes out every year. It is also why its effectiveness is not extremely high. Sometimes the forecasted mutation is not the one that circulates. However, the prime minister’s pronouncements have some health experts scratching their heads.
Carl Heneghan, professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care, is skeptical. Following Johnson’s announcement, Heneghan made a call for the government to release the data
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Prof. Heneghan and his colleagues are calling for evidence that this new strain is truly more transmissible, especially since the government agency is only moderately confident in the assertion regarding transmissibility:
I would want to have very clear evidence rather than “we think it’s more transmissible’”so we can see if it is or not. It has massive implications, it’s causing fear and panic, but we should not be in this situation when the Government is putting out data that is unquantifiable.
So what if its more contagious. Is it more deadly? If its more contagious but has the same mortality rate, or less, then its a non issue.
A record 4.4 million people are waiting to go into hospital in England for a planned procedure, such as a hernia repair or cataract removal. But many trusts are finding it impossible to treat 92% of those patients within 18 weeks, as they are required to do by the NHS constitution, because of bed shortages and staffing problems, which the doctors’ pensions problem has exacerbated – senior doctors have been reducing their hours and turning down extra work, to avoid large tax bills on their pensions.
By November 2019, nearly 79,000 elective surgeries had been canceled due to staffing and bed shortages as well as inoperable equipment. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the NHS had canceled 2.2 million surgeries as of the end of April. Health experts were already worried about the backlog, which included cancer surgeries and other lifesaving non-emergent treatments.
Despite the obvious capacity issues within the NHS, Heneghan is still skeptical. With 25 years of experience, he says this type of information could not have been quantified and verified. He asserts that the data is being made to fit the evidence.
He also states that if the government truly believes what they are saying, the entire country should be shut down. People were fleeing the affected regions before the Tier-4 restrictions went into effect. According to Heneghan, crowded train stations and increased automobile traffic will spread the new strain throughout the country.
At this point, I’d be more likely to trust the first 10 people in the Queens phonebook than the so called “health experts”.
And so... another vaccine will be needed. Meanwhile, HCQ would cure this new strain, too, along with the other flues,etc.
That is the objective. The "new strain" is the excuse. You can se it is an excuse even in this hysterical article because after saying it is 70% for infectious, they qualify that, then lastly mention that although more infectious it is likely not more deadly, and in fact the vaccine will likely work to protect you. The purpose is to keep the government boot on the public because these bastards are now addicted to the power.
Well if they had simply followed orders and worn their masks this wouldn’t have happened. Oh, and don’t stick your head out your front door. And stay 6 feet away from family members and wash your hands in scalding water for at least 20 seconds using anti-bacterial soap and gargle with hydrogen peroxide and.......... New flash. This is what viruses do. And, it is never going to be completely gone until someone with higher power decides to remove it. And I don’t mean fauci either.
Just as I said on Sunday, this entire story sounds like B.S. to me, and will likely be forgotten by next Sunday.
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