There is no proof of these incredibly long Pinocchio nose lies ..... the stories are getting crazier and crazier as the parasites become more and more desperate.
Sajid Javid, the health secretary, received a presentation from the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) on Tuesday warning that even if the new Omicron variant leads to less serious disease than Delta, it risks overwhelming the NHS with 5,000 people admitted to hospital a day.
Comment: UK hospitals weren't overwhelmed last year, during some months they had 15% less patients than previous years. Nightingale Covid hospitals across the country closed due to a lack of patients.
In an interview with the Guardian, the epidemiologist Prof Neil Ferguson said the total could be double that number.
No 10 insisted there were no imminent plans to bring in more measures after plan B measures were announced for England this week but cabinet minister Michael Gove, who chaired a Cobra meeting on Friday, said the government had been presented with some "very challenging information" about the speed of the spread.
Comment: The government had no reason to enforce the first raft of lockdown restrictions, never mind any more.
The Guardian has seen leaked advice from UKHSA for Javid marked "official, sensitive" saying: "The key point is that under a range of plausible scenarios, stringent action is needed on or before 18 December 2021 if doubling times stay at 2.5 days. Even if doubling times rise to around 5 days, stringent action is likely still needed in December."
Comment: None of the 'plausible scenarios' that necessitated lock downs have ever come to pass.
It adds: "The rapid spread of Omicron means that action to limit pressures on the health system might have to come earlier than intuition suggests."
Comment: It's well known that as viruses mutate, and they tend to cause milder illness. And indeed the doctor who discovered Omicron has documented just that, therefore the 'rapid spread' does not justify any restrictions. It may instead be beneficial because it will likely confer immunity against any other variants.
Its calculations suggest that even if Omicron causes a less severe hospitalisation rate of 1% or 0.5% compared with Delta's 1.5%, then "stringent national measures'" would be needed by 18 December at the latest.
On the current trajectory of 2.5 days doubling time, and without any further restrictions, the document warns that Omicron cases could be at 248,000 cases a day by 19 December. It also stresses that the figures are not a projection but an estimate of Omicron prevalence and doubling times seen in the UK so far.
The document does not detail what the necessary curbs would be but defines "stringent national measures" as those that bring the R (reproduction) number below 1.
Boris Johnson triggered plan B this week including more wide-ranging mask mandates, asking people to work from home and Covid passports for big venues but a senior Whitehall source said few inside UKHSA believe this will have much effect on slowing the spread of the variant.
Comment: Which basically confirms that mask wearing and Covid passports don't work at containing a virus....<<<Read More>>>...
