Update 20th June on the impact of the Delta Variant in the UK:
10% of all #COVID19 hospitalizations last week were among fully vaccinated, despite >50% adults fully vaccinated in the UK— ➡️ this is the #DeltaVariant, which is 99% of all ๐ฌ๐ง cases. I’m a big 2-dose vaccine advocate—but we still need strong precaution.๐งตhttps://t.co/zeelo0BLhv pic.twitter.com/0W1WHXagrQ
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 20, 2021
One more example of a repeated and thus a deliberate policy choice that runs against the evidence, in spite of ample warnings, is the recent Governments order to eschew masks in School settings across England, when it was established that aerosol transmission is a primary path of spread of infection, when no funding or advisory has been made available to schools to improve ventilation, reduce class sizes or enact a number of proven protocols that reduce risk of spread of the virus.
Elimination strategy is proven beyond any doubt, incontrovertibly, to deliver better outcomes for the population and the economy on every measure used. This Lancet report summarises the evidence quite well.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00978-8/fulltext
However, elimination strategy precludes cornyism, grift, corruption and dogged enhancement of political hegemony because at root it is a co-operative strategy - government and people working openly and transparently together to stop transmission of the virus, to prevent variants emerging, to protect health systems.
Profits at what cost?
Profits made operating a failed contact tracing system, a failed testing system, within which off shore contractors are channeling our taxes away to evade taxation, when back in February 2020 the NHS had an efficient, trained contact tracing hub that could have been expanded locally but that was shut down by the English Government even as the virus was being seeded into England from Northern Italy and Spain, via Ski Tourists!
And then this travesty of an operation was contracted out to SERCO, via Dido Harding and other inexperienced cronies.
What is that?
We are subjected daily to a deliberate policy choice that ignores the evidence, and is being maintained even as the experts advise all governments globally to assume elimination of community transmission, because they know that elimination strategy is working for 1.8 billion people and their economies across East Asia and Oceania, in Nordic Europe and elsewhere.
This report from The Lancet is instructive.
Clearly, on every measure, elimination strategies produce better outcomes, they reduce harms and they generate fewer variants.
Grenfell Towers
This week is the anniversary of the Grenfell Fire, a catastrophic fire that was forewarned, a fire that happened because officials aligned with the Government ignored residents calls to look at shoddy work, inadequate provision of fire safety resources.
72 people were burned alive, some jumped to their deaths from the towering inferno.
Hundreds of families were made homeless, men, women and children who were traumatised and then treated with contempt by officialdom in the aftermath, as the officials sought to protect themselves. Hillsborough, Orgreaves, Iraq. The same dynamic where the powerful protect their interests and the ordinary citizens are forced to pay the price.
The image, status and reputation must be protected above all other considerations.
4 years ago we woke up to the terrible news that Grenfell Tower was on fire. For years before, residents had been raising the alarm that the building was unsafe.
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) June 14, 2021
They were ignored. The result was that 72 people lost their lives. It still breaks my heart.pic.twitter.com/nigLovsGnz
We are looking at the likelihood of a serious surge of infection that will impact the NHS and other services, in a repetition of Government inaction that 'goes beyond what is medically rational' to quote an infamous speech, given by Johnson on February 3rd 2020.
We are face with the consequences of gross reckless behaviour of Government, which can best be described as lethal malfeasance in public office, and it would appear that no one in positions of power or responsibility will take any measure to attenuate the situation.
What is the point of Parliament, The Opposition, the Judiciary, the News Media, the Police, The Church of England or even The Crown in this situation?
How much more abuse must the people endure?
Kindest regards
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