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Chris Whitty & Patrick Vallance @ 11.00 - what will follow?

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Riverwalk Mon 21-Sept-20 08:14:02

It seems we are going to be given the science with figures and graphs - live on TV but no questions taken, from what I've read. I'm not happy with the no-questions bit if it's true.

And then what? Seems all a bit stage-managed by the government …. I wish they would just say what measures we can expect instead of dragging it out.

Joesoap Mon 21-Sept-20 11:56:46

I think the Government are doing a good job in this very difficult siuation,I think it is the general public who are doing the damage by not adhering to the rules. Why cant people see it is up to everyone to do everything they can to help we are all in it together.

Tweedle24 Mon 21-Sept-20 11:59:48

Kate Same here although we are not in special measures (yet). I rarely go out unless I have to but, I do wonder sometimes if people are aware we have a problem.

Calender37 Mon 21-Sept-20 12:05:50

Having listened to today’s briefing on the Covid19 situation, I must say that I found the statistical details as presented, present a very clear warning to everyone. Hopefully the increase of infections in the younger age groups should be a wake-up call to so many of them who have chosen to the flout the advice/guidelines thus far. Some of those interviewed by the media have made it clear they will continue to ‘do as they please’, without any thought for the population or even an atom of concern for themselves.
One wonders if we were dealing with a pandemic of Small Pox or Poliomyelitis whether they would be so flippant.
So many of us are doing the right thing. Hopefully common sense and a sense of responsibility towards each other will prevail on the minority. As a country we are facing a bleak future in all respects. The system for Trace and Test is not fit for purpose. Testing is not being undertaken in the numbers as suggested by the Government and the system needs to be organised locally, regionally and Nationally- properly and quickly since many people are despairing over their inability to get a test. Apparently tomorrow the Prime Minister is to announce what further restrictions will be imposed. Life is precious - please let us all do the most we can to protect each other and our families.

Tillybelle Mon 21-Sept-20 12:06:22

MaizieD. So a direct quote of Bill Gates = "conspiracy theory"! He was on the BBC at the beginning of lockdown and I wrote down all he said from a recording I have. He has said other things too. He most certainly said about Governments having to indemnify the companies because there will be a "Trade off" by "getting it done in 18 months" and this was "we will have less safety testing than we typically would have" and then he said about governments having to decide whether they indemnify the companies in order to go ahead. Out of his own mouth he said he was sponsoring (and thus going to make a huge profit) the production of rushed production of 'vaccines' that would not be adequately safety tested so the makers would need indemnity for any bad effect that the vaccines might have, from death to major life-changing mutilations and effects on future generations (they are using RNA which will attach to our DNA and change it irreversibly) to small effects. He said that, about the indemnity.
Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralysed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2014, the #GatesFoundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by GSK and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died.
In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a trial of a GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions to 1,048 of the 5,049 children.
During Gates 2002 MenAfriVac Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Between 50-500 children developed paralysis. South African newspapers complained, “We are guinea pigs for drug makers”
Nelson Mandela’s former Senior Economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes Gates’ philanthropic practices as “ruthless” and “immoral.”

In 2010, Gates committed $10 billion to the WHO promising to reduce population, in part, through new vaccines. A month later Gates told a Ted Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population.”

You won't find these references on Google now because Gates is wealthy and is a crony of those few who run the internet owning You Tube, FaceBook etc and who censor everything, but you can easily find them on an ethically sourced search and in a proper library. At the moment. For the above I just used one source due to time constraints:
conservativedailypost.com/facts-shows-gates-vaccine-push-is-ruthless-immoral-basis-for-reducing-global-population/
another reference is
www.globalresearch.ca/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-win-win-pharma-mandatory-vaccination/5709493
and
www.naturalnews.com/055513_Gates_Foundation_vaccine_experiments_human_guinea_pigs.html

Or was it the subcutaneous ID with Mastercard that triggered your "conspiracy" switch?

Maybe the item from GAVI itself will open your eyes. See the link in my previous post above.

Jaxjacky Mon 21-Sept-20 12:08:14

Kate1949 no hugs here either, it grieves me, but there we are.

Kate1949 Mon 21-Sept-20 12:10:28

Yes Tweedle. We have been having groceries delivered but DH ventured into Aldi last week for a couple of things and when he came home he said 'I'd swear some people don't know there is a pandemic'.

Kate1949 Mon 21-Sept-20 12:11:15

It's awful Jax but it's necessary.

PauliLenney Mon 21-Sept-20 12:12:21

Absolutely. Thank you for a reasoned response! X

25Avalon Mon 21-Sept-20 12:16:16

I listened. The situation is just as many of us predicted it would be. I suspect it is to prepare us for whatever extra measures the govt will throw at us tomorrow so that we will be more receptive.

I think there are too many grey areas and it needs to be set out in black and white.

As I think it was Chris Whitty said it’s not just deciding what your individual risk is so you can decide for yourself but your risk to others.

Daisymae Mon 21-Sept-20 12:17:10

Distinctly odd. Hardly any mention of testing which is the key to managing the crisis. Why would that be?

3nanny6 Mon 21-Sept-20 12:23:12

Boris stop pussyfooting around the subject, all this doom and gloom about curfews etc;

Get to the point and let us know just what is going to happen is it semi lockdown, a circuit breaker (something they just keep going on about or a full lockdown apart from the schools and essential workers?
They cannot come to a direct decision as yet all because they say the test and trace system failed them.
I feel a yawn and headache coming on. !!!!!!!!!!!

StephLP Mon 21-Sept-20 12:25:28

DaisyL

Am I the only person who is getting more and more confused by the rules? Sheilding - that's over isn't it? Self-isolating - that is when you have been in contact with someone who has the virus? Quarantine - when you come home from abroad? Social distancing - what we are all supposed to do? Bubble - with one other family? Rule of 6 - for indoors and out but what if you are a family of 7? My poor old brain would just like to see it set out nice and clearly.

You've described the rules perfectly - you do understand!

StephLP Mon 21-Sept-20 12:26:17

Daisymae

Distinctly odd. Hardly any mention of testing which is the key to managing the crisis. Why would that be?

The figures they quote are from the testing surely?

railman Mon 21-Sept-20 12:35:40

I agree with the sentiments you express in the last part of your post Kate1949 - but disagree with blaming people.

Johnson and his team have done nothing but focus on gimmicks and slogans until now - and now with Whitty & Co the details are being produced in adult form. The UK Government made fundamental errors of judgement from the beginning - no, that's not hindsight, the pattern was clear from Asia, and as it spread to Europe, and following the WHO's mantra about testing and tracing, and a lockdown imposed when it was needed (before Cheltenham!!) would have been the right actions.

It's the UK Government that has failed to follow rules and guidance, and they have attempted to blame everyone - now it's the people - based on their own confused slogans and messages - but themselves.

Nvella Mon 21-Sept-20 12:37:53

lemongrove

The public are likely to take more notice of Whitty than of any politician.

Please tell me you are joking - the man is a complete laughing stock - everything he touches turns to dust!

OmaforMaya Mon 21-Sept-20 12:40:28

Joesoap

I think the Government are doing a good job in this very difficult siuation,I think it is the general public who are doing the damage by not adhering to the rules. Why cant people see it is up to everyone to do everything they can to help we are all in it together.

I am in total agreement with you. I too think that the UK Government is doing just fine. I am in Scotland where we have had daily briefings from the Furst Minister which became daily political broadcasts. At first in the early weeks she waited to see what Westminster was doing and then somehow managed to get her Covid broadcast televised first. Now whatever is broadcast from Westminster she waits a week or so then follows suit. So we are usually a week behind England in any closures or such. The Scottish First Minister and her SNP followers are under the impression that she is doing a great job yet Scotland has had more deaths from Covid than anywhere. It's a farce that she's done well and I like many here in Scotland take instructions from the UK Government and not from the Scottish Government...which to be correct is the Scottish Devolved Assembly.

Harris27 Mon 21-Sept-20 12:42:01

We’ll be out in to two week lockdown across the country this means everyone will have to follow the science till they get this vaccine sorted it was said today that a vaccine could be in effect by end of October and they were working flat out To get this. Never before have they worked as hard to get a vaccine as it’s effected the whole world. So fingers crossed. We’re in lockdown now nothing has changed for me except I didn’t see my boys this weekend and their families but that’s ok as long as we all pull together, I am on a rare day off work and spending it in the garden pottering.

Nvella Mon 21-Sept-20 12:46:46

Nvella

lemongrove

The public are likely to take more notice of Whitty than of any politician.

Please tell me you are joking - the man is a complete laughing stock - everything he touches turns to dust!

Really sorry - terrible toothache- it was Chris Grayling I was thinking of not Chris Whitty (who I have time for!)

Lucca Mon 21-Sept-20 12:46:49

SusieCook

I agree lemongrove, and not all of us have or want to look at YouTube

If you have the internet you have you tube

growstuff Mon 21-Sept-20 12:47:18

OMG! The lizards have landed! shock

I'm off to tend to my tomatoes and remaining cucumbers.

vegansrock Mon 21-Sept-20 12:47:24

Very few people trust the government and their mixed messages. They haven’t done brilliantly so far with only world beating death rates to boast about. The rule of law has broken down in many areas.

Alegrias Mon 21-Sept-20 12:47:53

OmaforMaya Deaths in Scotland, 2505 using the 28 day cut-off standard. Approx. 34 countries have a higher figure than that. Deaths per million in Scotland, 458. Approx 18 countries worse than us. So our numbers are far from good but its hardly "more deaths from Covid than anywhere"

If you are taking instructions from the UK government and not the Scottish government, while living in Scotland, you do realise that you are probably breaking the law?

ReadyMeals Mon 21-Sept-20 12:49:23

For those who say this is scare-mongering, can you say what you think the motive could be? Since the more they scare us, the worse the economy will fall. I'd have thought if there was any bias at all it would have been in the direction of being over-reassuring.

Gwyneth Mon 21-Sept-20 12:52:08

Joesoap I agree I think it is about time the public started taking some responsibility and stop blaming the government for everything. Whilst many people have been careful, others really don’t care and have done what they like. I read somewhere that we have been and still are one of the worst countries in Europe for completely disregarding the guidance and rules. All people do in this country is complain and try to foist the blame on someone else. It’s evident throughout our society.

NannyC2 Mon 21-Sept-20 13:08:37

Well done, Taliya - I agree with you.
My husband thinks I should send this as it reports the facts about Trafalgar Square and not the statistics put out about by the media,
youtu.be/UyUd_Qyl76M
Like the chap says at the end - any troublemakers will be dealt with as they should, but everyday people were putting across their views including hospital staff.
See Anna Brees' reporter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWPXcRRUuI

Meanwhile, I'm off to watch UK Column news which is more reliable.