Coronavirus – A perspective from Britain Part 12

Written by Andy Rowlands on October 7, 2020. Posted in Current News

This article covers the second half of September. Above is the chart for the number of new cases in Birmingham and Solihull up to September 30^th.

The BBC virus webpage is no longer being updated at weekends, so each Monday shows a huge number of new cases. To avoid large spikes on the graph, I am leaving weekend and Monday cases at zero.

As of 18^th September, the have been 1199 deaths in Birmingham, and 265 in Solihull. This is the most recent data available. Since August 14^th, there have been just two deaths recorded from the virus in Solihull, and only twelve in Birmingham.

This is the chart from the BBC virus webpage for the number of cases in the UK up to September 30^th.

On the 18^th, the RT News website said a second lockdown is not justified. It is rather a long article, so I will only quote a few salient points here:

The real problem is the swift turn towards authoritarian measures….the instinct of the UK’s four governments constantly turns towards legally enforced restrictions.

The result is one knee-jerk reaction after another with scientific advisers playing a defining role. There seems to be little urgency about dealing with the other accumulated health problems, the profound effect of new restrictions on mental illness and the damage done to the economy by such stop-start-stop policies. (Emphasis added)

The whole crisis has revealed the limits of public health advice, the underlying inclination to authoritarianism and the weak state of democracy, where new rules can be published literally minutes before they come into force. (The legislation introducing the ‘rule of six’ landed about 20 minutes before it came into force on Monday.) Parliament, having handed over emergency powers earlier in the year, is in no position to scrutinise the government. (Emphasis added)

It can be seen here:www.rt.com

The same day, the Evening Standard reported new claims people should isolate from their pets as well as humans, in case we infect them. A few weeks ago we were told to stay away from pets in case they infect us, now we are told the exact opposite!

It can be seen here: www.standard.co.uk

The following day was busy for virus news. The BBC website informed people how to snitch on their neighbours for ‘breaking the rules’.

It can be seen here: www.bbc.co.uk

The Daily Mail revealed a third of ‘coronavirus’ deaths were actually from other causes.

It can be seen here: www.dailymail.co.uk

The DM also carried an article saying we face a £10,000 fine if we leave the house when we have been told to self-isolate.

It can be seen here: www.dailymail.co.uk

Sky News reported Public Health England admit some virus cases could be detections of people having had a cold.

It can be seen here: news.sky.com

The Metro website says supermarkets are seeing panic-buying again as virus cases rise.

It can be seen here: metro.co.uk

The Mail Online heavily criticised the government’s virus strategy.

It can be seen here: www.dailymail.co.uk

On the 21^st, the BBC website carried an article asking when a virus vaccine might be available. It notes that most vaccines take years to create and test to prove safety. It says:

Researchers hope to achieve the same amount of work in only a few months. That would be a huge scientific feat, and there are no guarantees it will work. (Emphasis added)

It is worth noting that four coronaviruses already circulate in human beings. They cause common cold symptoms and we don’t have vaccines for any of them. (Emphasis added)

The article then claims vaccines are harmless, something many would disagree with, seeing as vaccine companies have paid out millions to those affected or killed by their products.

It can be seen here: www.bbc.co.uk

The same day, the BBC virus webpage said the UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action, the government’s chief scientific adviser has warned.

Sir Patrick Vallance said that could then lead to about “200-plus deaths per day” a month after that.

The repeated use of the word ‘could’ is quite deliberate, and many people will take that to mean ‘will’.

It continues:

However, the BBC’s Health correspondent Nick Triggle says other experts have questioned this projection and suggest the increase could be more gradual, in a similar trajectory to France and Spain. (Emphasis added in all paragraphs)

On the 22^nd, the PM announced various new restrictions, which came into effect on the 24^th. One of my friends has written a good summary of these new regulations:

“Working conditions
– Office workers and those who can work from home should now do so.
– Other workers who cannot work from home, such as construction or retail workers should continue to attend their workplaces, where COVID-secure working conditions should be in place.

Hospitality restrictions
– From Thursday all pubs, bars and restaurants must operate a table-service only, apart from takeaways.
– All hospitality venues should close by 10pm (not just last orders), the same will apply to takeaways, but deliveries can continue thereafter.

Face mask requirements
– Face mask requirements will be extended to staff in the retail sector, users of taxi services or private hire vehicles and customers in indoor hospitality venues, apart from where seated for food or drink.
– The penalty for failing to wear a mask or disobeying the rule of six will double to £200 for a first offence.

Legal requirements and enforcement
– In retail, leisure, tourism and other sectors, COVID-secure guidelines will become legal obligations. Businesses will be fined, and possibly closed, if they breach the rules.
– Police and local authorities will be provided with additional funds to enforce rules, with more police on the streets and military support given where required.

(It should be noted the UK armed forces are obliged to conform to government policies, whether they agree with them or not.)

It continues:

Group restrictions
– From Monday, a maximum of 15 people will be able to attend weddings and receptions. But up to 30 can continue to attend funerals.
– The Rule of Six will apply to all adult indoor sports.
– Business conferences, exhibitions and large sporting events will not be allowed to open from 1st October as originally planned.

Future restrictions and government stance
– If actions fail to bring the R-rate below one, then the Government will deploy ‘significantly greater restrictions‘.
– Restrictions could be in place for up to six months.” (Emphasis added in all paragraphs)

The Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation Ken Marsh called these new regulations ‘absurd and a nonsense‘. Iain Duncan Smith has blasted the new regs, and Veteran MP Pauline Latham reminded Parliament we are supposed to be living in a democracy not a dictatorship. I think it’s now too late for that, we are effectively living in a dictatorship.

The same day, the Hubpages website carried an article quoting Dr Mike Yeadon, a former Vice President and Chief Science Officer for Pfizer for 16 years. He is quoted as saying says that half or even “almost all” of tests for COVID are false positives.

The article quotes “there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen.” The article quotes him as saying false positive results from inherently unreliable COVID tests are being used to manufacture a ‘second wave’ based on new cases.

It also says he argues that the threshold for herd immunity may be much lower than previously thought, and may have been reached in many countries already.

Those thousands of new UK cases rising each day are an artefact of something called the false positive rate i.e. they are not real cases. Every clinical test yields false positive results and the RT-PCR test is no exception. In a less corrupt world false positive results for SARS-COV-2 would be subtracted from the total number of positive test results to provide the correct figure. The UK government is not doing this. Should the proper evaluation method be employed then the number of new cases would fall to virtually zero overnight and we’d all be free.

It can be seen here: hubpages.com

Also on the 22^nd, Irish First Minister Arlene Foster announced that meetings between two households indoors across the whole of Northern Ireland will be banned from 6pm on the 29^th, and in Scotland, people will no longer be allowed to visit friends or family at home from the 25^th.

On the 23^rd, the Evening Standard reported the government had issued even more new regulations, which included telling motorists not to stop at petrol or motorway service stations “unless you really need to”.

Rather begs the question why else would we stop there?

The article also said the regulations tell us to keep the car windows open and face away from each other.

Keep the windows open at motorway speeds and with winter approaching? Are they extracting the urine?

It can be seen here: www.standard.co.uk

Also on the 23^rd, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that a second full lockdown by Christmas could be on the cards if Brits don’t obey the new rules, and former Metropolitan Police Commissioner and expert on international security Lord John Stevens, commenting on plans to deploy the armed forces, said “when you’re calling in the military on the streets then the police have lost the streets and it’s tantamount to martial law.” He further said “We don’t want martial law in this country…I think this is a dangerous escalation.”

The same day, he was interviewed by Kay Burley on Sky News, where he said the PCR test is only SEVEN percent accurate, a far cry from Matt Hancock’s claim of 99% accuracy.

It can be seen here: www.youtube.com

The image below was taken from The Times on September 23^rd, and shows the average daily breakdown of causes of death in the UK.

The image below shows that as of September 24^th, the number of deaths in the UK for which the virus could have been the ONLY cause stood at 1400.

On the 26^th, the Mail Online had an article saying the SAGE group is again looking at a plan to order everyone over the age of 45 in the UK to shield at home, a move which would affect two-thirds of households. It can be seen here:

www.dailymail.co.uk

On the 27^th, the Mail Online carried an article where government advisor Mark Woolhouse said we should expect a third wave of virus cases next year. You know how this is going to go. After the ‘third wave’, we will be told there will be a fourth, and on and on. An endless succession of excuses to keep us under ever increasing restrictions.

And people said talk like this was a conspiracy theory. It can be seen here:

www.dailymail.co.uk

On the 28^th, The Times revealed Parliament’s bars will not be subject to the 10pm closing the rest of us now have to adhere to. The article states:

Facilities serving alcohol on the parliamentary estate are understood to be exempt from the earlier closing time and the rules on wearing masks, on the basis that they fall under the description of “a workplace canteen”. The regulations announced by Boris Johnson last week state that ‘workplace canteens may remain open where there is no practical alternative for staff at that workplace to obtain food’.

Later the very same day, it was announced the bars in Parliament will close at 10pm!

Also on the 28^th, the Lancashire Telegraph carried an article saying the only way to solve both the pandemic and climate change is for the world’s human population to be reduced to a ‘fraction of what it is now’.

It can be seen here:

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

On the 30^th, Sky News ran an article with the headline Coronavirus: Government accused of trying to ‘terrify’ public over COVID-19. It says in part:

MPs will vote on Wednesday on whether to renew the powers in the Coronavirus Act, with Downing Street battling to avoid what would be a damaging rebellion on the issue.

An amendment put forward by Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, has gained the support of dozens of Conservatives.

More than 50 Tories have signalled they could rebel against the government if the amendment is put to a vote, which would be enough to hand Mr Johnson a high-profile defeat if opposition parties all throw their collective weight behind it.

A senior government source has told Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby that Number 10 is confident the Brady amendment will not be selected by the Speaker for a vote. (Emphasis added)

Sir Desmond Swayne, a former minister was quoted as hitting out at the government’s chief scientific and medical advisers for warning that 200 or more people could die each day by the middle of November if no action was taken to drive down the rate of infection “It was project fear, it was an attempt to terrify the British people, as if they haven’t been terrified enough,” Sir Desmond claimed, adding that the government’s response during the pandemic has been “disproportionate”. (Emphasis added)

Telford MP Lucy Allan also criticised the briefing, saying it had “undermined public trust” by “pushing” a worst-case scenario without explaining the chances of it happening. Ms Allan asked: “Was it designed to instil fear in order to control the public? Is that how we want to govern?“ (Emphasis added)

It can be seen here:

news.sky.com

This is the chart for hospital admissions up to September 30^th

Notice it says Welsh figures include suspected cases, not confirmed ones.

I very much doubt the increase in hospital admissions is solely due to virus cases. The weather has turned noticeably colder in the last couple weeks, so I think we are seeing mostly the start of the usual respiratory illness season. The media will of course tell us this is purely new virus cases.

This is the chart for UK deaths up to September 30^th.

It should be noted there are three different ways to count virus deaths in the UK.

1. Deaths anywhere in the UK are now included in the coronavirus total only if they occurred within 28 days of a positive test.
2. Deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, even if the person had not been tested for the virus. The most recent figures suggest there had been nearly 57,000 deaths by 11^th September.
3. All UK deaths over and above the number usually expected for the time of year – known as excess deaths. This measure says the death toll was above 64,000 by 18^th September.

18^th September is the latest information available.

What constitutes ‘excess deaths’ and who decides what deaths are excess is something of a mystery.

I rather suspect governments, acting under instruction from, shall we say, outside agencies, will continue to add more and more restrictions, and unless those that have been made law are specifically repealed, they will remain on the statute books permanently.

One of my friends commented a few days ago that we are effectively now in a war. A psychological war, waged by the globalists to reduce social interaction and isolate us from each other by telling us to face away from people, thereby stopping us talking, dehumanise us with ever increasing rules and regulations like facemasks, excessive handwashing, portraying people as potential killers if we have contact with them, and forcing many thousands out of work.

This is how democracy and freedom dies.

About the author: Andy Rowlands is a 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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