Oh, FFS!

September 7, 2021 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, Health and Fitness, misanthropy, Political 16

Can we hang them now, please?

England could face new Covid restrictions this winter according to alarming new reports.

The government is said to have drawn up contingency plans for a “firebreak” lockdown in October if hospitalisations continue to rise.

Boris Johnson’s government has flatly denied it is “planning” a lockdown around that time, but minister Nadhim Zahawi today repeatedly refused to rule one out.

And while it would be a last resort, SAGE member Prof Neil Ferguson warned this week: “I think we will see a difficult few weeks. We’re expecting numbers to tick up.

“We need to monitor what’s happening in the next few weeks, and if we start seeing something closer to the worst-case scenarios – case numbers at 100,000 or more – there may well need to be some course correction at that point.”

Right – that Professor Ferguson, wrong about everything Ferguson, is yet again making up scary predictions based on figures plucked out of his arse. We have an endemic disease that we need to learn to live with and yet here we go again, with demands for another lockdown. How long before the British people decide that enough is enough and lynch these bastards?

Britons face the highest ever tax burden in peacetime as Boris Johnson mounted a £12billion raid vowing that no-one will ever have to pay more than £86,000 towards social care.

In a bold package that could make or break his premiership, Mr Johnson laid out that national insurance rates will rise by 1.25 percentage points from April. A typical higher earner will be paying more than £700 extra.

Surely this blatant betrayal of their manifesto should do it? Boris needs to go and go quickly. Preferably dangling from a convenient lamp post.

16 Comments

  3. A comment I read somewhere yesterday (I forget where) said that an acquaintance of the commenter had received a contract to produce posters for a November lockdown. Now that’s just hearsay, but what if it’s true?

  4. “Prof Neil Ferguson warned this week” presumably based on his usual manipulated data streams with an added dose of scarey numbers.

  6. Now we are going to be paying for social care, as a social care worker can I give myself a pay rise?

    They need to take social care out of private ownership and in a not for profit system. The money made out of other people’s suffering is a scandal.

    • You mean like the NHS which isn’t in private hands and provides a wonderful level of service? I’m SURE that that will work out superbly well …

      My dog gets better medical care than my wife (who died of cancer, thanks to the NHS) from a PRIVATELY owned and operated vets practice. No waiting lists, no shortage of equipment (X-ray machines, scanners etc.) and prompt, efficient and excellent clinical treatment. But that should be banned, I suppose, because the vet makes an eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil profit. far better that we should reduce the level of care and service to that of the Sacred and Holy NHS.

      • The care sector is a bit like the wild west at the moment. There is a line between providing a service for a profit and profiteering. The environment in which it operates encourages the latter. The money is either coming from the state or the sale of assets. This, along with no real competitive element creates that situation so far as I can see.

        You can’t really compare it to the vet. Private hospitals on the other hand, yes. Perhaps because there is genuine choice between providers and they offer a quality of service that is superior to their immediate competion? I don’t know what the answer is. All I do know is that social care is a mess despite Private provision.

        As an aside to this, I have a private consultation tomorrow for my ongoing prostate problem. I’ve spent decades paying into a system that has let me down, so I’m about to pay again. I am not happy about it.

        • Agreed, private hospitals as so much better as they are competing directly for the customer’s business. My wife recently had a fairly major operation for which I changed jobs specifically to get private health care insurance. NHS waiting list 2-3 years. Private was 2 months, and only then because of the final covid restrictions. We had a choice of hospitals and surgeons all competing for our business. The service was first class and the hospital was more like a hotel.

          My (limited) understanding of social care is that it’s privatised in a similar way to the railways – just enough for the Govt to pass the blame for failings but so heavily regulated that it’s still effectively run by the state with no opportunity for innovation.

  7. Well at least in Florida there are some politicians who are with the good guys.

    “Florida will start issuing $5,000 fines to businesses, schools and government agencies that require people to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

    Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill earlier this year that banned vaccine passports. The fines will start Sept. 16 if people are asked to show proof of a vaccine.”

  8. Im sure ive seen tenders for advertising contracts through to 2023 for Covid. Doesnt look like its meant to end to me.

  11. Apart from the idiocy of sanitising the kiddies before swimming lessons, the gym seems to be the most unmasked place that I visit. They also have a table with hand sanitizer by the entrance that everyone ignores. In the supermarkets I think that the masks are down slightly but there are still a lot of them about.

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