UK Heading For Fourth Lockdown And Food Shortages?
Last week England celebrated the much-vaunted Freedom Day, though perhaps freedom is not the right word, and I suspect we will not be ‘celebrating’ for long.
While those in England (less so in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) saw the end to anti-social distancing, and no limits on numbers meeting indoors or outdoors, in reality, little else seems to have changed, with government guidelines being they ‘expect’ people to continue wearing masks.
Some shops have removed mask-wearing or made it optional, others have not. Many supermarkets have removed the signs and tape they put on the floors. My local bank on the other hand, said they will carry on refusing entry to anyone who does not wear a mask, and they still require people to stand six feet apart.
With the news last Saturday that Sajid Javid had tested positive for the virus, and would be self-isolating, those he came into contact with in Parliament will now have to do the same, which meant most of the politicians will be absent from the House for the next ten days at least.
The Track and Trace app told a record 857,000 people to self-isolate last week, while 194,005 tested positive, meaning more than a million people went into self-isolation, and if the casedemic increases, that figure will go up dramatically.
NHS bosses have “warned that mass isolation of staff is harming patient care”, with businesses and factories “also said to be on the verge of shutting down” amid the sudden spike in people being told to quarantine.
The number of new UK coronavirus infections hit 54,000 on the 17th, the highest number since mid-January and the start of the third lockdown.
The number of people being told to self-isolate is raising fears of a summer “pingdemic”, The Telegraph says, “with businesses, transport and schools brought to a standstill”.
“One in five workers in hospitality and retail are self-isolating” at the moment, the paper adds, with NHS hospitals already “reporting staff absences of up to 25 percent and bus and train services are frequently cancelled or delayed due to driver shortages”.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, has warned that hospital bosses are finding staff isolations are already “impacting on their ability to deliver care”, adding: “They’re particularly worried about the growth in numbers of staff isolating as the rate of Covid community infections rises.”
Government figures also show 624,000 school children had been sent home from school because others in their school “bubble” tested positive for Covid-19 in the first two weeks of July.
Suggestions that many people are being made to quarantine unnecessarily have also been raised after reports that “neighbours are being told to self-isolate because the NHS app is ‘pinging’ people through walls”, says The Telegraph.
Some of the individuals contacted by the app are “being forced to self-isolate for ten days despite never having come into face-to-face contact with a positive Covid case”, the paper reports, with a source close to the track-and-trace team saying that the Bluetooth signal used is powerful enough to penetrate walls.
It is also being reported many are ignoring or removing the app from their phones.
A Department of Health spokesperson is reported to have defended the NHS app, saying that it “is doing exactly what it was designed to do – informing close contacts of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19 that they are at risk and advising them to isolate.”
However, there are rumours ministers are considering options to avoid outbreaks of mass isolation, with some suggesting that the app should have its sensitivity turned down as vaccination rates increase.
As of the time of writing, the government has no plans to do that.
From mid-August, anybody who has received two vaccine doses will be exempt from isolating thanks to a ‘test to release’ scheme, and ministers have reportedly been looking at bringing this forward.
Last Monday, journalist Kay Burley reported neither Sajid Javid nor Boris will be self-isolating, yet another case of do as I say not as I do. The rules we make are for you, not us.
Later the same day, other news outlets were reporting Javid & Boris would be self-isolating, after a backlash of criticism.
Business leaders and MPs have piled pressure on Boris Johnson to end the ‘pingdemic’ farce bringing Britain to its knees. It is estimated around 1.8 million people are still self-isolating after being ‘pinged’ by the NHS Covid app or contacted by Test and Trace as pressure mounts on Boris Johnson to end the farce.
They spoke out as the Prime Minister was forced to perform a humiliating U-turn and self-isolate following contact with Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who has tested positive for Covid. Mr Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak had announced they would take part in a pilot scheme to avoid quarantine, sparking furious accusations of ‘one rule for them and another rule for everybody else‘.
Amid widespread outrage from politicians, business leaders and the public, they caved in within three hours and revealed, in a video posted to social media, they would join thousands of people who are having to self-isolate at home – in the PM’s case Chequers until July 26.
A senior Tory said: ‘They ought to have said last week that ‘We’re bringing the August 16 date [on easing the isolation rules] forward so that people who are double vaccinated and have a negative test can go out and do as they please’. If they’d done that, the Prime Minister wouldn’t be having to self-isolate now.‘
Mike Cherry of the Federation of Small Businesses questioned why a system to avoid self-isolation was open to politicians. ‘Small firms have been struggling to get across mixed messaging regarding the reopening for weeks now, and this is no different,‘ he said. ‘Thousands of small businesses will now be left wondering why the testing pilot is only open to those at the top of government and a handful of big corporates and organisations but not them.‘
On July 19th, the government passed a law that requires ALL care home workers to be fully vaxxed, or face dismissal.
The following day, Boris said that from September, having a negative test will no longer be good enough, and anyone who attends a ‘large event’ must show proof of full vaccination or they will be refused entry.
What was dismissed only months ago as a ‘conspiracy theory’ is now turning into reality, just as was predicted.
An article about this can be seen here: news.sky.com
On the 21st, the SAGE group warned the government it may have to re-impose another full lockdown if cases carry on climbing as they are.
July 22nd, a busy day
It was announced that ‘Critical workers‘ will be exempt from pingdemic, with the government announcing 16 sectors from transport to police and food suppliers where key staff WON’T have to isolate – but ignores business pleas that the app is crippling economic recovery.
The same day, Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, said cases will rise ‘exponentially in the next few weeks after Freedom Day’.
The ‘pingdemic’ is starting to affect food chains, and the Police and railway signalling staff are dragged into the crisis caused by self-isolation rules. Business leaders joined the cry to Boris to save the UK from the paralysing effects of the pingdemic.
Companies and organisations representing thousands of businesses employing millions demand an end to the quarantine of the healthy. They speak for hospitality, retail, food supplies, manufacturing and transport – the foundations of the economy.
Boris is accused of misleading the nation by claiming people who are told to self-isolate are five times more likely to be infected. He made the assertion in a press conference, saying it was ‘essential‘ to maintain home quarantine for ten days.
But the Public Health England research he cited was six months old and carried out before the vast majority of the public had been vaccinated against Covid.
It also involved only those who had been alerted by NHS Test and Trace as close contacts of positive cases.
The Prime Minister implied it covered the NHS Covid app, which had not been rolled out at the time. The app tends to be less reliable at identifying close contacts than Test and Trace and can ‘ping’ people through walls.
This is already having an effect on deliveries to supermarkets, with some running out of basic foodstuffs like vegetables, milk and bread. On the 25th, it was reported leaders of the UK’s biggest unions, including the RMT, Unison and Usdaw, are telling critical workers in transport, food and border control among other sectors to quarantine if they are contacted by the app.
This immediately raised serious concerns it could lead to empty supermarket shelves and another round of panic buying.
Official figures on the 21st through the 25th showed a rapid fall in the number of new cases, and that is contining, as the chart below from the BBC virus webpage shows –
So at the moment we have a glimmer of hope we will escape another lockdown. Time will tell.
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sir_isO
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Logistically, transport, suppliers have been TOLD to not distribute food and let it rot.
Even worse than before (before covid, enough food for around 12 billion people consistently wasted).
Agriculture’s Greatest Myth
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/agricultures-greatest-myth/
“Nevertheless, this purported flaw in sustainable and local agriculture represents a curious charge because, no matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus.
Often, they are in huge surplus, even in the hungriest countries. Farmers will tell you they are going out of business because, as a result of these surpluses, prices are low and continuously falling. ”
…
“Using peer-reviewed data, the discrepancy between food availability estimated by GAPS and the underlying supply is calculated in the paper. Such calculations show that GAPS and other models omit approximately enough food annually to feed 12.5 billion persons. That is a lot of food, but it does perfectly explain why the models are so discrepant with policymakers’ and farmers’ consistent experiences of the food system.”
And you know all of that artificial scarcity is corporate govt, industrial policy.
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Andy
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Add to that the climate alarmist claims that rising temperatures are devastating food production, while the actual data shows record crop production year after year.
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sir_isO
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Personally, I hope for co2 levels at 400+ ppm.
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Andy
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The official level of CO2 as of yesterday was 416.08ppm, but it varies monthly and seasonally, and went up to 420 earlier this year. The work of Craig & Sherwood Idso at CO2science shows the optimum level for best plant & crop growth is 1200ppm, which scares the alarmists to death, but gladdens the hearts of those who know CO2 does not drive temperature.
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sir_isO
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Well, 420 hey.
But yeah, I j ust said 400+.
When you start getting to around 800pm it gets dodgy unless the balance (probably mainly nitro and hydrogen) is good, and of course, it depends quite a bit on temperatures.
Like, higher co2 is great if temps are also higher, typically huimdity too.
Above those sort of levels, you might start getting strange effects it the balances aren’t very good.
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Personally, I hope for CO2 concentration between 1500ppm-1700ppm .. that is the “Goldilocks” of CO2 concentration. Just look at planetary history. No amount of CO2 concentration can cause “heating”, that is IMPOSSIBLE in this universe as it violates physical laws that cannot be broken. If it were possible, we simply could not exist.
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sir_isO
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Dude, they all failed at thermodynamics.
Even nuclear fusion is fundamentally a contradictory failure.
So what exactly is going on?
Anyway, so these people think a little more than 300/1000000 fairly essential components, with not particularly impressive energy and thermal properties (compared to say super volatile and dense plutonium)…manages to completely override the other 9997000 components, including the majority of what are rather well known to be particularly good elements for thermal transfer (nitrogen, as an example)….and, those 300/1000000 components, happen to be essential for life…so less of it please. But then also, oh yeah, that atmosphere and the earth happens to be connected. In terms of material, energy, thermal capacitance, the earth dwarfs the atmosphere due to density. So it’s also the rather completely overriding heatsink (for the sun).
sir_isO
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I’m just gonna remind people about all those “runaway” exponentially heating exploding greenhouses when cultivators for instance, use co2 temps above 400ppm.
sir_isO
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Sorry, I haven’t had alcohol in a month so I’m indulging in the cheapest beer I can’t afford.
Run away co2 levels.
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Kay Burley is probably many things but journalist is not one of them.
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Protestant
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Years ago, British nursing staff were forced to be vaccinated against “swine flu”, and many of them were permanently damaged by narcolepsy, which is why they are unwilling to trust the government again with the covid vaccine.
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Karma Singh
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Have you taken the “Covid-19” test? If not, you can try it here and see how much you really know and how much is fictitious belief:-
https://www.harmonyenergyconsultants.com/web/en/the-end.html
and your check-box “pandemic” answers are here:-
https://www.harmonyenergyconsultants.com/web/en/test-and-talk.html
Short summary:-
Covid-19 does not exist and Sars-Cov-2 is a normal micro-protein in the human genome and that of many, many other creatures as well. Originally discovered in 2004, it was especially re-named to promote the plandemic.
The one essential point which I do not understand is why, so far, no-one has issued writs of Habeas Corpus which would permanently end this whole hoohoorah.
Simply expressed, Habeas Corpus is a law requiring any “authority” imposing any punishment of any sort, e.g. “house arrest” or restricted breathing to prove absolutely that the “crime” justifies the punishment.
As all of the scientific evidence shows that the “pandemic” is completely fake, the court must rule all such “punishments” to be unlawful and to be immediately ceased.
Why is nobody doing it????
Blessed be
Karma Singh
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sir_isO
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Well, I’ve stated many times that my belief is that all of these “pathogenic, contagious” viruses are conflated, misattributed results, and not causes.
Such as when genetic material breaks, it is known that for instance, DNA breaks to RNA, DNA truncations, proteins get ejected, proteins misfold, etc. Constantly (as a result of whatever stressors). And that those results (“viral signatures”) would be dictated by those processes and factors.
“Covid-19 does not exist and Sars-Cov-2 is a normal micro-protein”
There’s one problem with that. It was suggested from an in-silico template. The test makes shit up to try and “validate” that template. The spike protein, also happens to include significant homology to say, entirely synthetic components (such as Nagalese)…OTHER than the generally significant homology to your innate functional proteins and genetic material.
The believe in covid, is the belief that you are a virus. The belief in the vaccines to “attack” that in the “war on covid” is an attack on your own body.
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sir_isO
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Let me put it this way.
They used to say things like “Don’t do drugs”…
Now, toxicologically, systemic effects, I compared heroin to a covid vaccine and I found covid vaccines to be around a minimum of 3-4 orders of magnitude more toxic than heroin.
Yup. Think about it. I know guys who’ve injected themselves with heroin, daily, numerous times…for years. Thousands of injections. They’re still okay, somehow.
And at least, that heroin probably made that guy feel good, aside from being immeasurably safer, unlike a covid vaccine.
So here’s a challenge for anyone. I’ll take 100 shots of heroin (I’ve never had any, btw, but I feel like the world is shit, I’ve lost all belief, hope… so I may as well) in say, 3 months. And you can take 100 shots of pfizer vaccine.
After that, we’ll compare who’s healthier AND had more fun.
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