The issue of the Delta Variant aka #JohnsonVariant aka #ModiVariant is not a singular event.
It is part of a whole.
The whole is the deliberate policy choice to ignore the evidence, reject the epidemiology, set aside the best practice Public Health and allow the spread of this virus no matter what the outcomes are, only taking action to stop exponential spread when the adverse affects cause the NHS to be be overwhelmed with active cases and fatalities, a situation that threatens the optics of the political position of the English Government.
Update 20th June on the impact of the Delta Variant in the UK:
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.
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 🇬🇧 cases. I’m a big 2-dose vaccine advocate—but we still need strong precaution.🧵https://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.
What we can see is an attitude that reveals an approach that accepts externalised costs, accepts collateral damage where others (the population) pay the price - as long as the ruling faction retains Power, and can therefore continue to pursue policy objectives that are proven, beyond doubt, to absolutely undermine the fundamental duty of care and the trust inherent in genuine democratic Governance.
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?
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?
Not everyone pays the price! Some are maximising profits!
"Serco Group raised its 2021 profit outlook on Monday by 15 million pounds to about 200 million pounds ($282.18 million) as the British outsourcer expects stronger demand for its COVID-19 services in the UK.
The company has outperformed the wider UK outsourcing space, benefiting from its focus on the public sector, including the country's national test and trace programme related to the pandemic.
Serco said its testing and tracing contracts volumes in the UK have continued to be strong and expects demand for these services to continue for longer in the second half than previously anticipated."
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.
That evidence is incontrovertible. It cannot be denied. To deny it is insanity or psychopathy.
This report from The Lancet is instructive.
This report from The Lancet is instructive.
"The trade-off between different objectives is at the heart of political decision making. Public health, economic growth, democratic solidarity, and civil liberties are important factors when evaluating pandemic responses.
There is mounting evidence that these objectives do not need to be in conflict in the COVID-19 response. Countries that consistently aim for elimination—ie, maximum action to control SARS-CoV-2 and stop community transmission as quickly as possible—have generally fared better than countries that opt for mitigation—ie, action increased in a stepwise, targeted way to reduce cases so as not to overwhelm health-care systems."
Figure : COVID-19 deaths, GDP growth, and strictness of lockdown measures for OECD countries choosing SARS-CoV-2 elimination versus mitigation.
Clearly, on every measure, elimination strategies produce better outcomes, they reduce harms and they generate fewer variants.
What we see here in the behaviour of the English Government is the deliberate applied, studied practice of public lies, misinformation, disinformation, gaslighting, scapegoating, evasion, cronyism, corrupt contracting and more deceitful practices from within the English Government and echoed and supported by British News Media, in print and in broadcast.
In essence a wave of orchestrated avoidance that allows the adverse policy which is causing so much harm to be sustained.
How much more of this will we allow?
How many more deaths, each one an horrific event, on top of the 150,000 already recorded?
How many more cases of chronic disease, Long Covid, on top of the 1 million already recorded?
How many more shutdown/open up/shutdown cycles that destroy businesses, exhausts workers, disrupts Education at all levels?
We are allowing this to happen, make no mistake.
The position of Power of this Government is not inevitable.
What will it take?
Call for a general strike, a mortgage and rent strike?
Arrest them all for Malfeasance in Public Office, we have the evidence - place them on remand so that they cannot do any more harm - and install a government of National Unity, with those in SNP, Labour, Plaid, Greens and others who are willing to operate on the basis of evidence, who will put a sound elimination strategy into place, and when it is working, hold an Inquiry, and then let us hold an election.
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.
So once again, we are facing a surge of a new variant, a surge that absolutely could have been prevented at a number of points, where warnings were given and ignored, and we are left with inadequate mechanisms to control and eliminate community transmission and facing the possibility that this variant will have significant vaccine escape, we are unprotected. 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
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."
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