This little story epitomises why Boris Johnson is unfit for office.
The prime minister and chancellor will now self-isolate after contact with Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who tested positive for coronavirus.
The reversal comes just hours after they said they would take part in a pilot scheme involving daily testing instead of self-isolation.
Opposition parties had said it suggested there was “one rule for them and another for the rest of us”.
The opposition were correct on this occasion, but that is not the issue here. Cast your mind back just over a year when there was a series of scare stories about a new plague sweeping the globe. The government’s line then was to follow a fairly standard approach – advise the vulnerable to shield and let the thing do its worst (it was going to anyway, despite the moronic rules subsequently introduced).
What followed is what has just happened. A U turn. Now, I don’t necessarily go along with the Thatcherite opposition to U turns. Sometimes, you have to admit that you got it wrong and need to change tack. However, with this lot, they U turn at the drop of a headline regardless. We have a government that operates at the whim of the media and it is painfully obvious. We have a prime minister with no spine and lacking in any integrity. The man cannot lay out a course and stick with it when things get stormy. Instead he fold and folds again. He does this when it is fairly obvious before the announcements what the media reaction will be. That they have rightly highlighted his hypocrisy on this occasion does not absolve them from theirs, which is far greater.
There is no leadership here. There is no integrity, honesty or even any hint of belief in what is right and proper for a government to be doing despite it being fairly simple: Govern. Do as little as possible – that which cannot be achieved as individuals. Otherwise keep out of our lives and leave us alone. Had this half wit followed the Swedish model last year as originally planned we would all have been in a better place and the population would not be bedwetting scaredy cats afraid of the big bad virus. And, importantly, do what is right regardless of the media backlash. That is what leadership is about.
Thatcher was opposed to doing a U turn in a specific case. Everyone else was telling her that she was wrong but she knew that she was right.
On the testing and isolating business, if people are now testing positive in large numbers without actually being Ill, that strongly suggests that it is really mild versions of the virus that are now most prevalent. Not only does that mean that it’s nothing to worry about, it also means that being exposed to it is a good thing.
Of course and although I was not a supporter at the time, I recognised this. Unfortunately, it has morphed into never changing your mind in the face of the evidence.
As for isolating, we no more need to do this than we do for seasonal flu. Never did.
There is also the issue of the vaccine. Why is it so important that everybody has it when apparently it doesn’t work? Pretty much everyone who wants it has had it now and yet we are still all wetting our pants, why?
It does work. It’s just not a magic bullet.
“It does work”
I’m at a loss, wondering how you can say that. From official sources we are told that the jab neither prevents the spread or protects the jabbed person from getting the virus. It does not provide immunity. All it does is to ease symptoms. Therefore it is not a vaccine by the standard definition, and it certainly doesn’t work as one. Meanwhile the jab death/injury count is still rising.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aOMGAsy1coFx/
It might work a bit too well on your blood vessels.
Prof Sucharit Bhakdi explains in laymans language how your immune systems operates, the last 5 minutes of this video are a must see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlVYuKTWUdQ
I think Dr Bhakdi may be being a little pessimistic over the effects of the COVID vaccine. The mass vaccination programme has been going since late 2020 and like with SARS/COV-2 itself bodies are not piling up in the streets.
If this vaccine does not prevent a SARS/COV-2 infection, or even prevent the spread, said vaccine is little better or worse than a placebo, with a similar risk factor.
The real answer is that we hit herd immunity some time ago, but everyone’s been so fixated on the constantly shifting goalposts of reported figures to notice and ascribed the rapidly shrinking death count to the vaccine, when the vaccine provides little or no protection for up to three weeks post jab. Anyone with an eye for the figures will notice that we’ve been seeing below seasonal norm deaths since before the vaccination programme got into it’s stride.
It depends what working means.
I don’t think we are given the actual data on the vaccine, and I’m pretty sure that there is a link between the increase in positive cases and the increase in vaccinated sheeple.
Oh, and Johnson and Co are a bunch of twats. Nothing new there for politicians but until now, they were not interfering in our lives and our children’s lives to that extent.
What I don’t understand is that if they are all vaccinated, why are they behaving like the vaccine doesn’t work? (Probably because it doesn’t really…)
If that video disappears, and it will, the identical video i watched only yesterday has gone, suggest you find it on Bithcute Rumble or similar.
In the Astrazeneca trial 98.4% of group one did not get the virus. 99.4% of group two did not. Both groups had around 4400 participants. Group two had been given the jab. And it is apparently even less effective against this weeks variant……
Plus, this from the US: https://twitter.com/i/status/1416932730571399170
This is much like the flu vaccine. If you didn’t get the flu was it because you were vaccinated or because you just didn’t get it anyway?
This is a link to a vid by a professor who demonstrates that many people will have an immune system response to covid. In other words, people have seen it before, so it is not ‘novel’ and therefore, far less scary than the government(s) have led us to believe: https://odysee.com/@OracleFilms:1/Dr.-Sucharit-Bhakdi-Oracle-Films-Message-HD:1.
Also, how many are testing positive due to the ‘vaccines’?
I’ve done my grocery shop at Asda today (19/07/2021), as a rough estimate around 75% are still wearing masks. Ongoing, I will be interested to see how many people stop when they see that others are not wearing them.
The Total Fitness Gym had a rather pointless one way system on the poolside which has now gone. They still have signs up about masks sanitisers and social distancing but everyone is ignoring them.
My recollection may be incomplete or faulty, but didn’t the disastrous decision to lockdown come just after an infamous Mumsnet-inspired petition (IIRC signed by 600,000 hysterics in a single afternoon) calling for schools to be closed to ‘save the cheeldren’? If he can’t withstand criticism from screeching harridans, what use would he be in a genuine crisis, Churchillian pretensions notwithstanding? It seems he blows not only with the wind but the tamest of zephyrs too.
We all realised the weakness of Boris when he caved in to the bedwetters and “think of the bad headlines” merchants and ditched the carefully planned ‘how to properly deal with a pandemic’ plan after ferguson turned up with the horror story numbers from his model. He makes the old tory wets look like the Russian mafia.
As somebody pointed out on either LDS or CW, they are not U-turns. They are lies. They said what they needed to say at the time to get out of the conversation – there was no link to any underlying belief, either scientific or moral.
There was a very brief moment in early 2020 when I felt a bit of pride – “hey, us and Sweden against the world – screw you guys we’re doing it the viking style.” That didn’t take very long to dissipate.
Boris – worst Prime Minister ever. That said, does anybody actually want Gove or Hancock as Prime Minister? Because that is what you would have got. Hancock is gone thankfully, and I keep hoping that Gove will get caught up in a rent boy scandal.