NHS chiefs call for masks return & limits on indoor mixing

Written by Andy Rowlands on April 18, 2022. Posted in Current News

A few days ago, the Daily Mail revealed health chiefs want Britons to go back to wearing masks indoors and limits on the number of people who can gather together to ‘fight record infection rates in the UK and ease pressure on the NHS.’

The NHS Confederation accused the government of having lost interest in the virus, and warned hospitals are set to deal with a ‘brutal Easter as bad as any winter’.

This claim of record virus cases in the UK is partly I suspect driven by the media. The BBC virus webpage shows this graphic of rapidly rising cases according, they claim, to a survey by the Office for National Statistics:

However, further down the webpage, we see this graphic, which does not show record case numbers, and shows rapidly falling cases:

We have to wonder whether the BBC webpage is being edited by more than one person who is not looking at what the other person adds, or whether it is being done deliberately, to cause more confusion and fear.

The Daily Mail article then states:

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.

Looking at the second BBC graphic, this is simply not true, and we have to wonder about the accuracy of the ONS survey.

The article continues with:

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.

“Although, figures also show thousands aren’t primarily ill with the virus.” Never a truer word spoken. The majority of people now in hospital are there for other reasons than being ill with Covid, and they just happened to test positive while in hospital.

The image below taken from the Daily Mail article, shows how few people are in hospital because they are ill from the virus (the thin blue line):

This shows the rapid and increasing number of people being taken into hospital with non-virus related life-threatening conditions, as a direct result of the NHS being turned into a Covid-only service in 2020.

The article continues:

Dr Derek Sandeman, chief medical officer at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System, last week pleaded with families to take their Covid-infected relatives home to free up beds as trusts battle a ‘perfect storm’ of pressures.

Take ill relatives home, so their entire family may be infected? Yes, brilliant advice.

The article says Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation said:

‘In our view, we do not have a “living with Covid” plan, we have a “living without restrictions” ideology, which is different. We need to put in place the measures that are necessary to try to alleviate the pressures on our health service while this virus continues to attack.’

Taylor appears to be advocating a return to mandatory masking, shop closures and lockdowns. Indeed, Boris Johnson quietly said last week he cannot rule out more lockdowns in the future, even though he had previously said the end to restrictions was ‘irreversable’ & there would be no more lockdowns in the UK, and senior medical professionals have stated lockdowns were the worst thing that could have been done, and should never be used again.

Johnson said it would be ‘irresponsible’ for the Government not to keep a blanket shutdown in its virus-fighting playbook. He added:

‘I’m not going to take any options off the table.’

In every other pandemic, the vulnerable and the ill were quarrantined, NOT entire populations. That has never been done before, and should never be done again.

The article notes:

NHS waiting lists for routine operations hit another record high of 6.1million in January, two million higher than before Covid, when NHS elective care was effectively frozen for months.

The number of people waiting over a year to start treatment increased to 311,528 in January, up from around only 1,400 before Covid hit.

Almost 24,000 have been waiting at least two years for treatment, up from 20,065 in December, and over nine times the 2,608 who were waiting in April 2021.

The Government and NHS England have vowed to eliminate all waits of more than a year by March 2025.

It has been forecast several times that the number of people dying as a result of cancelled or delayed medical treatments and operations over the next five years will be more than were supposedly killed by the virus.

A classic case of the ‘solution’ being worse than the ‘problem’.

Multiple ways of counting deaths

The BBC virus webpage gives three separate ways of calculating the number of deaths caused by the virus.

The first is ‘government figures’ – the ones reported each weekday – count people who died within 28 days of testing positive.

This method is deeply flawed as has been pointed out many times, yet still remains uncorrected.

It means that if I tested positive today, and 27 days later died of ANY cause; drowning, electrocution, heart attack, being run over by a bus, murdered, struck by lightning, eaten by a crocodile, my death would be listed as having been caused by the virus.

This number was 171,046 as of April 13th.

The second method is those deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, even if the person had not been tested for the virus. 

This means that if you were suspected of having the virus, but you were not tested, and it did not contribute to your death, you would still be classed as having been killed by the virus.

This number was 188,991 as of April 1st.

There have been numerous stories of nurses and doctors being instructed to write the virus on death certificates in deaths where it had no contribution, and the only reason must be to artificially inflate the figures to increase the level of fear, and justify more or extended restrictions on the population.

Some have suggested governments kept pushing their populations with more restrictions, so see how far they could go before people started pushing back.

The third method is all deaths over and above the expected number since the pandemic began. This number is sometimes referred to as ‘excess deaths above the long-term average’.

This number was 143,702 as of April 1st.

This number is of course rising, as those dying as a result of cancelled operations and treatments starts to mount up.

It is interesting to note the BBC uses the second figure as their official tally of deaths caused by the virus, which is of course the highest number of the three.

A deliberate deception?

Tucked away in a corner of the NHS website, is a page that shows the number of deaths for which the virus could have been the only cause.

You can find it here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/weekly-total-archive/

Click the most recent week, and it opens an Excel spreadsheet.

Click on Tab 3 – Deaths by condition. It should look like this:

Here is a cropped version to show more detail:

Look at the column headed ‘NO’. This shows the true figure of deaths where the virus could have been the only cause of death.

It stands at 5049 as of April 6th 2022.

All the other deaths were of people who had at least one underlying health condition, which they would probably have died of anyway. So we have had two years of economy and livelihood-destroying fearmongering for FIVE THOUSAND DEATHS.

Looking at the Worldometer website, we see there have been 21.7 million cases in the UK since the ‘pandemic’ began. That is 31.6 percent of the current UK population of 68.5 million. In other words, less than a third of the population has caught the virus.

Of those 21.7 million cases, 20.04 million have recovered.

We should remember at this point that Chris Whitty said right at the start that most people will not catch the virus, and that has been borne out.

So far, the government has not announced any return of restrictions.

You can see the Daily Mail article here: dailymail.co.uk

Header image: el pais

Editor’s note: PSI’s position is that our scientists believe COVID19 is merely influenza rebranded because the CDC, FDA and numerous national governments still do not show a gold standard isolate of the novel coronavirus and thus it is not proven to exist in empirical science.

About the author: Andy Rowlands is a university graduate in space science and British Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the new climate science book, ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘

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