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Andrew Pfell Boris Johnson must be feel that heaven has come to his aid (once again), to take our minds of the horrific legisilation he is pushing through the Commons, as well as all the lies and corruption taking place in the government. No wonder he feel that he has a 'divine right to rule'.
The most appalling things are happening to limit our individual freedoms (and I DON'T* mean face masks) but the media are mostly giving him a free ride.
Well we are not distracted and the pandemic is far from over.
What do you think we are 'not distracted' from, Maw? Genuine question.
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Are we being deliberately panicked to stop us seeing what is happening
(89 Posts)It’s not just Johnson though is it? Scientists are warning us too. Until time passes and we have more statistics and data better be safe than sorry.
See you later Alegrias.I’m looking forward to seeing what you have to say.
Iam you’re right, GP services are really struggling.
All European and western countries need to do more to get the rest of the world vaccinated. Obviously this is not an easy task, with vaccine hesitation in some communities and the difficulties of transportation of the vaccine, but it cannot be beyond the wit of man/woman.
I do feel that that we are not being given any information about the one person who has sadly died with this new variant. I really feel that the public should be able to know whether this person was unvaccinated, or extremely old with comorbidities, or died with rather than from this variant. People are unable to understand the risks properly when they’re not given the facts.
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You said it all. ?
A bit of a rant OP , you sound as if you feel the pandemic is over and any “news” just a conspiracy to distract the public from the other shenanigans.
Well we are not distracted and the pandemic is far from over.
And without any allegiance to the PM his name is not Andrew Pfell Boris Johnson but for what it is worth Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson - so if you wanted to make a point about his name, it helps to get it right.
And yes, that numpty Dominic Raab misspoke but the fact that there are already 10 patients in hospital with the Omicron variant is surely bad enough?
I would like to see the figures for hospitalisations and deaths divided between those who were vaccinated and those who weren't.
I've got to go out today. But I have a lot to say!
See you later 
The pandemic hasn’t gone away. The rich countries need to help vax in poorer countries. Stopping news reports may be appealing but would be unhelpful. The conspiracy theorists would rule with misinformation
What would help is having government ministers, especially the PM who we could believe
Yes more money and stop privatisation. GP services are not coping.
I am not a scientist but I wondered if the reason for the panic was that they may be concerned a new variant appears from this one. I don't know for sure, it's just a thought. Mind you are South Africa's statistics accurate? It's a country I know nothing about. Perhaps someone in the know could comment. Mind you, if the hospitals become full, especially at this time of year, then that would be a worry. What I don't know is, how dangerous is this Omicrom?
I'm not sure the pandemic WAS dreadful. It hasn't gone away. It IS dreadful.
Sadly once someone starts lying I’m unable to believe anything they say.
A very long post but I esp agree with paras 3 to 5. I commented somewhere yesterday that the only person panicking was the prime minister.
On the 10 o'clock news last night BJ telling us that we can't assume that Omicron doesn't cause severe illness was directly followed by an item on its progress in South Africa where the prognosis of mild illness is borne out so far.
This is the result of having a government no one can trust.
I agree we are being panicked but I think its about getting the vaccine and when appropriate getting the booster which is not a bad thing. Unfortunately there are knock on effects for the economy. As usual I shall wait for the scientists to report the data.
Yes, I know the pandemic was dreadful. Yes, I know tens of thousands of people lost their lives. Yes, I am extremely grateful to the scientists who produced the vaccine and Yes, I am triple jabbed.
I am horrified at the amount of conspiracy theories around the vaccine which is preventing more people getting their jabs.
However, I am also very disturbed at the amount of mis-information going around about the latest variant to Covid. Think this came at a really good time for our government who were so deep in the mire with their own antics with parties, use of public money for private purposes, billions of pounds of contracts handed out to 'mates' who could not and did not deliver, etc. etc. A wonderful, diversion - just at the right time.
Whilst we are all so worried as to whether they will try to impose a lockdown for Christmas (they will not), and spend hours trying to purchase LFTests, and queueing for more hours for the booster, we really do not have the time of energy to see what is being pushed through parliament, which is going to effect us all for decades to come.
There is so much mis-information around, I got told that well over a hundred children have died in South Africa from the Omicront Covid. Cannot find any actual reporting of that figure and all information I can glean states that whereas it is causing sickness amongst young children, no deaths, and most who are hospitalised come from families that have not had any vaccinations amongst the adults.
This morning on UK BBC tv we were told that there were now 250 people hospitalised with this variant, within less than hour this figure was changed to ten (10)!!! Even the sad death nothing has been given as to age, other health problems, vaccination etc. etc.
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Andrew Pfell Boris Johnson must be feel that heaven has come to his aid (once again), to take our minds of the horrific legisilation he is pushing through the Commons, as well as all the lies and corruption taking place in the government. No wonder he feel that he has a 'divine right to rule'.
In the meanwhile, the NHS were not informed before the announcement about all adults getting an appointment for the booster before the end of the year (mind you that appointment is likely to well into 2022).
Also, thousands have been sentenced to death from other illnesses that will either not be diagnosed until too late, or not be treated due this booster programme. Tens of thousands more will have to continue to trying to live with serious and painful medical conditions for which they require operations, etc. But no figures on these are given out daily!!!!
Do think the time has come to stop daily reporting anything to do with Covid and a start to campaigning for lots and lots more money to go to NHS and privatisation of its services stopped
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