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Calling for the UK’s self-isolation period for those infected with COVID to be reduced to five days, UK Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday: ‘I hope we will be there ‘one of the first major economies to show the world how you get over an endemic pandemic, then handle that for as long as it stays with us, whether it’s five, six, seven, 10 years.
Zahawi’s comments came a day after the UK became the first country in Europe and the seventh in the world to reach the horrific milestone of 150,000 deaths from COVID-19. Only the United States, Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico and Peru recorded more deaths. The UK has a population of just 68.4 million. With the exception of Peru, the other countries with more deaths than Great Britain all have significantly larger populations.
The deaths are the responsibility of the Conservative government and the result of a deadly collective immunity program, aimed since the start of the pandemic at mass infection of the population.
The decision to reduce the self-isolation period, already reduced from 10 to seven days, is criminal, given the UK Health Safety Agency, which still supports the reduction, admitted that between 10 and 30% of people are still contagious. the sixth day.
Zahawi spoke while denying reports that the government planned to end the free provision of lateral flow testing, a move that would lead to an end to all monitoring of the spread of COVID. The tests are in any case more and more difficult to obtain already.
The government openly said herd immunity was “desirable” when the pandemic first struck, only imposing a nationwide lockdown in late March 2020, weeks after the virus circulated within the country. population, under mass pressure.
After the economy reopened in late spring and early summer 2020, more deaths piled up during the second wave of the pandemic. Prime Minister Boris Johnson made his infamous statement at the end of October 2020: ‘No more f ** king blockades, let the bodies pile up by the thousands’. The premature end of the first containment and the delayed and even more limited nature of the second resulted in many more deaths in January and February 2021 than at any other stage of the pandemic.
At the end of July last year, Johnson declared “Freedom Day” with the opening of the economy and schools. The then-dominant Delta variant was allowed to continue its unhindered spread, with the government saying the UK aimed to be the first country in the world where COVID was endemic in the population.
The vast majority of the 150,000 official deaths are attributable to earlier variants of the disease. It’s unclear exactly how many deaths can be attributed to the new Omicron variant since it became dominant in Britain last month. However, since Omicron was first detected in Britain on November 27, 5,230 more people have died from COVID.
The Johnson government’s COVID death tally is highly manipulated, with deaths only recorded if they occur within 28 days of the person recording a positive test. According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of death certificates in the UK mentioning COVID-19 now exceeds 174,000.
Since Omicron was detected, populations internationally have been pummeled by relentless propaganda from governments that it is gentle and will pass soon. But hospitalizations and deaths are increasing daily. The total of 150,000 was reached with the 313 deaths announced on Saturday, the third time in the past 10 days that more than 300 have died in a 24-hour period, resulting in a tally of 1,271 over seven days.
There were 18,456 people hospitalized with the disease on January 6, the latest date for which figures are available. The NHS is overwhelmed. Friday the Financial Time reported that in Greater Manchester, with a population of around 3 million, hospital COVID cases have already passed the peak of last winter’s wave – 1,229 from 1,000 last January. “Meanwhile, separate data showed that one in seven staff in acute trusts in the region was absent on January 2, along with more than 3,000 staff sick or self-isolating from Covid. “
Letting schools be inundated with a more communicable variant than ever before produces a disaster.
Education staff continue to suffer and die from COVID. On January 2, Nick Stone, just 55, who taught modern languages ​​for 30 years at the City of Norwich School in Norfolk, died of COVID.
In just one local authority, Suffolk, the county council reported that there were 1,842 cases of coronavirus among 5-19 year olds before they even returned to school on January 5. The council did not disclose the number of schools affected.
In East Lothian, Scotland, hundreds of high school students had to relocate to learn at home just two days after returning to their classrooms. the EastLothianCourier reported that “five of the county’s six high schools have made the decision to ask certain age groups to work from home due to crippling levels of staff absences linked to Covid-19.”
The ruling elite’s indifference to life was reflected in the headlines reporting the 150,000 mark with a collective shrug. the Daily mail Headed his article online: “Boris Johnson acknowledges’ terrible toll” of pandemic as numbers hit grim milestone … but data shows death toll stabilizes amid hopes Omicron is LESS deadly than influenza”. the Telegraph didn’t even report the grim tally of COVID deaths in its Sunday edition, dedicating its front page and a full inside page to photos of new dresses worn by the Duchess of Cambridge.
The labor party Daily Mirror wrote: “Covid has now killed 150,000 people in the UK, but new cases drop to their lowest level in 10 days”.
Many articles note that it is not known exactly how many died from COVID or some other condition with COVID .
They write as if it is not well established that among the dead are people, especially the older generations, already suffering from other deadly diseases. Everyone knows that co-morbidities are a big factor in many deaths from COVID and that the elderly and the critically ill are particularly at risk. The real problem is that nothing was never done to prevent the most vulnerable from catching COVID, as was horribly demonstrated last year when the disease was allowed to flood nursing homes with the loss of 20,000 lives.
This attempt to minimize the danger of COVID takes place under conditions where no one knows the long-term impact of Omicron. It appears that the variant does not attack the lungs with the same degree of severity as Delta, which could explain the lower death rate. But as with all variants of COVID, it attacks organs throughout the body and causes long-term damage. This is of particular concern because the latest statistics on Long COVID from the Office for National Statistics show that the number of people with the disease has increased by at least 100,000, from 1.2 million to 1.3 million.
the SundayTimes summed up the attitude of those in power who see saving lives as an intolerable burden on businesses and billionaires in an article titled “End Free Lateral Flow Tests As Country Says Live With Covid”.
Written before official denials were issued, the article complains: “More than £ 6 billion of public money was spent on mass testing using the [LFT] devices. “
It included a graphic showing ‘The cost of Covid: How the additional £ 370bn spending on Covid measures breaks down’.
Among the lamented costs were ‘£ 84bn for health and social services’, £ 69.5bn for the coronavirus leave-for-jobs program,’ £ 67bn for utilities and services ’emergency’ and ‘£ 60bn for individuals’, including £ 10.3bn for the £ 20 universal credit, a weekly mark-up for the unemployed and the poorest working people.
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