Starmer has no choice. We do have a choice.

Starmer has no choice.

We do have a choice.

It is delusion to think he has any choice, other than he chose to follow the pathway laid out for him by the British Colonial Wealth-as-Power Establishment and Oligarchy.

He was groomed for this role, he is a willing mercenary. He has his orders.

Those orders stem back to the decisions made by Balfour, H.H. Asquith (1908–1916), who led at the outbreak of war, and David Lloyd George (1916–1922) Bonar Law, (Oct 1922–May 1923) Stanley Baldwin, (May 1923–Jan 1924) Ramsey McDonald (Jan 1924–Nov 1924), Stanley Baldwin (Nov 1924–Jun 1929) and Ramsay MacDonald (Jun 1929–Jun 1935) and followed through with ever since, in a singular determined continuity.

The core of those decision is this - the creation of "a loyal little Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism" as Sir Ronald Storrs the first Governor of Mandatory Palestine put it. A British Wealth-as-Power Empire weapon of Partition, that would be in the field for hundreds of years.

A colony of Europeans with an insane pseudo-religious claim to colonise lands already inhabited by Arab peoples for thousands of years. The plan for a greater Israel, and exclusively Zionist Jewish State, was always part of their ideology. The insertion of a violent, enraged frontier buffer colony top thwart Arab speaking populations aspirations for unity, solidarity and self determination.

At the time Socialism was a hot topic amongst the workers and artisans of the entire world, and that included the Arabic speaking world.

The British and French feared the loss of Suez and the loss of Persian Oil would undermine their dominance, cut off their access to cheap resources and cheap labour and worst of all, enable the Global South to build a competitive industrial base that would outstrip the Europeans simply because the populations were so much larger - they knew that industrial development can happen at pace. They were adamant that that would not be allowed to happen.

Anglophone Billionaires

The current crop of British Wealth-as-Power or Anglophone Billionaires remain committed to that cause, not matter what cost to ordinary people anywhere and Fascism is their rear guard action as accountability for Climate Disruption and War Mongering looms large in the consciousness of those born after 1999.

Naivety, no more.

The expectations of British people indoctrinated into the mythical promise of British Democracy defeating the forces of Fascism in the last century while it still maintain a violent and cruel control over much of the 'ex-colonies' through political corruption, overt and covert violence are a trap. Waiting for the BBC to speak truth to power is futile. Waiting for the English Judiciary to hold any English War Criminal accountable is nonsense.

We must choose.

The only way forwards for the ordinary people is mass solidarity, general strikes aimed at disabling the Establishment, followed by elections of decent, honest people who will use the full powers of the State to hold the old sordid Establishment fully accountable all the way to The Hague.

It's a big ask, but the costs of not going for it are beyond imagination.

Ask anyone living in Southern Lebanon, in Gaza, in the West Bank, ask any survivors of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars of the past 26 years in Western Asia. They know what the true cost of British Democratic Power really is.

We do have a choice.

We need to unleash our fury and direct it into sustained political action, robust enough to make every effort of the billionaires to hold onto their political power a pointless exercise, a dead-end, a self incriminating campaign of constant failure. Accountability matters. Prevention of further harm to ordinary people matters.

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Eradicating a virus. 'Protecting the Hoard, not the Herd': a political economic choice, not a health and medical choice.

By slowing down rather than stopping the spread of infection the UK government are guaranteeing that the bulk of the population will become infected and the mortality rate for vulnerable people will stay the same, it will just happen more slowly.

The 'shut-down' policy was sold as an attempt to ensure NHS and other health services do not collapse under a 'short term' burden.  They ordered the isolation of all elderly people and known cases of immune compromised chronic conditions, without any provision to protect them from the spread.

That theory was destroyed by the lack of PPE, shortages of trained staff, lack of other supplies, kit and logistical support which the Government was warned about, in detail, from Operation Cygnus in 2016 and throughout January 2020. All deliberate choices by this Government and it's predecessors.

The UK Government had time to prepare, they had the time to stop and check and quarantine the inflow of infected people from abroad,  via air travel and cruises, and land be they immigrants, returning holiday makers or business travellers.

Merely slowing down the spread of infection is exactly what the Chinese, Koreans , Singaporeans and Taiwanese did NOT contemplate - they went for eradication - find every case, quarantine all contacts, treat everyone who is symptomatic in isolation hospitals, maintain vigilance, deal with outbreaks rapidly until no new cases emerge after two months.

This is an imperfect method, in that it cannot find every single case in one swoop. It is a method that takes time and resources, and importantly must be very well understood by the population that is infected and engaged with as such. Communication must be clear, exact, honest and 100% evidence based. Support for everyone affected must be provided by the State, in terms of resources, living wage income protection, treatment facilities and social welfare. It includes maintaining vigilance, so that even after a two month period of no new infection, the readiness to respond to a new infection remains active and agile. When we know the virus has no new hosts, say after 6 months, then we know that that particular virus has been eradicated. This is entirely possible. The only barrier is economic or political will."

Then we know the virus has no new hosts, and is eradicated.

Maintain vigilance, and maintain capacity to respond rapidly to every new outbreak to isolate it and eradicate that infection spread in that locality.

Slowing down was merely always a staging step towards eradication. It should never be set as a move on it's own.

The UK Government has no intent or policy of eradication of the virus in the population - this is insane, especially on an island.

Their decision is not based on epidemiology or public health - it is a purely economic political decision. Slowing down the spread, and what it means. Data modelling and behavioural sciences!

Slowly is ten thousand preventable, horrific deaths in two weeks and rising.

Slowly is grinding on in spite of avoidable shortages of PPE for front line health workers, and the attrition rate that has on frontline staff.

Slowly is interminable when there is no contact tracing, and no testing happening in the UK.

This is eugenics by default, straight up.

It is not intentional eugenics. They are not that evil.

It is not that they want us dead, it is that in order to protect their status and their material power and wealth (their assets) they will abandon the most vulnerable. (everybody else).

As in The Vatican hiding away abusers to protect their status. This is a well known pattern of behaviour.

The 'wanting us dead'  narrative is hype, beloved of conspiracy theories and it tends to undermine effective understanding of the situation.

The reality is much worse, far more chaotic and random, and thus more tractable because the illusion of total control is an illusion - a theory if you will.

What does slowly mean, in a conservative estimate?

In the UK 10% of known immune compromised people  (about 5 million) still means potentially 500,000 horrific deaths. slowly over a year. 10, 000 a week, sustained.

Is that acceptable?

No.

Is this a viable long term solution?

No.

Stopping the spread dead where ever it emerges, rapidly, is the correct protocol, at every stage of the spread of the infection - chase down every infection, trace and quarantine all contacts, offer treatment away from home, in isolation hospitals ,etc. until there are no new cases, and the virus cannot find any new hosts and it dies out.

THAT is the only viable solution - it will demand that full logistical and resource commitment to do that.

Is it worth a years GDP to do this?

I say it is.

Easily, It's worth ten years GDP.

Everybody's life matters.

Eradicate the virus by robbing it of new human hosts.

The PM, and the entire Cabinet needs to be arrested for malfeasance in public office and held on remand for the duration. Fired.

We need a government that will pursue stopping the spread, eradicating the infection from these islands, by robbing it of new human hosts, informed by epidemiology, public health practice, social welfare and trauma informed approaches. And that must exclude Keir Starmer, for obvious reasons.

We do not need a government operating on the basis of data modelling and behavioural sciences.

We need a Government that will pay the people to stay at home, no questions asked, for the duration. A government that will give the people clear, accurate, scientifically grounded information that the citizens can engage with as equals, as adults who are working together.

There is no vaccine. It is not on any horizon.

The infection and disease cannot be allowed to slow spread - in the UK there are 5,000,000 people with known immune compromised health conditions, the cost to those people is intolerable - if it costs three years GDP it would still be cheap by comparison.

It doesn't have to cost that much.

Eradication, if fully resourced, will take approximatley three months - the slow spread will take much, much longer.

Eradication is better for the people and the economy by all measures.

Ensure that in future outbreaks of a novel virus similar to this, the protocols to stop the spread, and
eradicate the virus by depriving it of new hosts, are implemented at pace, from the start.

I do not oppose Vaccines, and I do not accept that they are anything but a very last resort in cases such as the SARS and SARSCOV2 viruses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_diseases

Selection of infectious diseases for eradication is based on rigorous criteria, as both biological and technical features determine whether a pathogenic organism is (at least potentially) eradicable.

The targeted organism must not have a non-human reservoir (or, in the case of animal diseases, the infection reservoir must be an easily identifiable species, as in the case of rinderpest), and/or amplify in the environment. SARS and SARSCOV-2 fit into this criteria.

This short paper discuss's the success of the shutting down of the SARS 2002-3 epidemic.

https://biomedgrid.com/pdf/AJBSR.MS.ID.001017.pdf

To not do it is a political /economic decision, not an epidemiology clinical practice decision.

Let the Herd take it on the chin, protect the Hoard, or deploy the Hoard to protect the Herd?

That is the basic honest question here.

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Corneilius

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All we need to do is be really honest, responsive to the evidence we find,and ready to reassess when new evidence emerges.

The rest is easy.