Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1dhe1i0/uk_telegraph_the_toxic_legacy_of_lockdown_is/
The toxic legacy of lockdown is destroying our political system
Until politicians come clean about the devastating costs it inflicted,
we will be stuck in this cycle of failure
JANET DALEY
15 June 2024 • 2:16pm
Janet Daley
A sign which says "stay at home to save lives" on the A470
CREDIT: Matthew Horwood
I have never known a general election like this one. I cannot remember a
national campaign in my lifetime in which the only question for voters
was who they hated less.
There have certainly been moments in the past when a sitting government
was so loathed that its defeat was clearly inevitable, but on those
occasions there was at least some hope and optimism attaching to the
rivals who would displace them.
Now, from both the evidence of opinion polling, which shows almost no
enthusiasm for Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister in what is regarded as
a presidential contest, and the anecdotal, word-of-mouth currency that
is often more accurate, the conclusion is unavoidable.
Apart from vested interests in the public sector and the trade unions
(some of which appear to be making their support conditional on promises
of greater power), the electorate does not appear to much like the
Labour Party or its leader – but will still vote for them.
They are unaffected by the fact that the party’s policy statements are
evasive and its aims platitudinous, because they are not interested in
them at all. Labour’s sole function is to act as a blunt instrument with >> which to beat the Tories. This applies equally to Reform, which might as
well change its name to Revenge.
This fulminating rage must be acknowledged and will have to play itself
out through the electoral process, but before we enter that dark place
in which we are governed by people nobody wanted, it is important to
examine this phenomenon, because it is the most serious threat to
healthy democracy in the postwar era. What is happening in Britain is
not unique.
Virtually all of the Western governments who presided over the pandemic
years are being thrown out, sometimes with deeply disturbing
consequences that could never have been anticipated a mere decade ago.
Politics in the most advanced countries of what was known as the Free
World has become deranged. Populations once believed to have renounced
febrile demagoguery and nativist hatred, having absorbed the terrible
lessons of the 20th century, are once again infected by them.
What is going on here? In this country, the conditions of ordinary life
for most people – even those groups who consider themselves unfairly
disadvantaged – are surely not as bad as they were in, say, the 1970s,
when the lights were going out on a regular rota, public transport was
frequently shut down completely by national strikes, and my generation
had to cope with devastating interest-rate rises and soaring inflation.
Of course there is genuine hardship and frustration – particularly over
the possibility of home ownership, which is the key to independent
adulthood – but this overwhelming fury is surely disproportionate to the >> conditions of everyday life.
The crucial complaint is that “nothing works”, which applies almost
entirely to the public sector, and that no one in government seems to be
able to fix this. The assumption is that the governing party is either
utterly incompetent or indifferent to the needs of ordinary people.
This exasperation is exacerbated by the fact that neither the
Conservatives, who have been in power, nor Labour, which has been in
official opposition, can utter the truth. Government policies devised to
deal with the pandemic and the energy crisis created by the war in
Ukraine have tanked the economy.
Locking people up in their homes and paying them not to work destroyed
the possibility of creating new wealth and saw governments print
mountains of money that debased the currency. Energy bills were
subsidised by even more money from the Treasury.
But the governing party was not alone in its responsibility for creating
this disaster. Labour was not only complicit in these plans, it was
positively exuberant about them. Indeed, Sir Keir wanted earlier
lockdown, more lockdown and longer lockdown.
There was no respectable, mainstream political voice arguing that the
economic and social damage done by this decision to shut down the
country – and thus disable all the mechanisms of productive,
wealth-creating activity – might be catastrophic.
And there is still no one from the governing class prepared to say that
repairing this damage is going to require the kind of sacrifices to
which modern electorates are not accustomed.
More money cannot be poured into public services without raising taxes.
And raising taxes is a sure-fire way of killing any prospect of creating
new wealth, which makes a nonsense of Labour’s commitment to increase
growth.
Somebody is going to have to come clean about this if the democratic
process is to regain credibility. The Government, egged on by the
Opposition, was running on empty, spending funds that didn’t exist, for
the best part of two years, and the day of reckoning has finally arrived.
Now, as it happens this truth that dare not speak its name coincides
with a new era in public speech. Social media has opened channels for
the dissemination of what can be completely irresponsible, often false
and pathologically vicious content.
Troll armies, sometimes robotically generated, roam unchecked across a
landscape whose boundaries are largely unmonitored. Unverifiable and
untraceable sources fling out wholesale bile or blatant deception on a
scale that is truly overwhelming.
The Centre for Policy Studies issued a report last week suggesting that
this could be the first “deepfake election”, in which simulated video
clips of politicians making damaging statements are being circulated online. >> Whipping up hatred and distrust is the whole point of this nasty new
game and there is only one way to stop its progress: some politician or
other is going to have to tell the truth.
We need a Churchillian voice to deliver the blood, sweat and tears
message, which would at least show respect for the intelligence of the
populace: there are no easy solutions to our current problems.
We are going to ask you to make sacrifices and accept some
disappointments. Remember that we have always survived as a nation by
facing difficult times with courage and resourcefulness.
But maybe it is too late for that.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1dhe1i0/uk_telegraph_the_toxic_legacy_of_lockdown_is/
The toxic legacy of lockdown is destroying our political system
Until politicians come clean about the devastating costs it inflicted,
we will be stuck in this cycle of failure
JANET DALEY
15 June 2024 2:16pm
Janet Daley
A sign which says "stay at home to save lives" on the A470
CREDIT: Matthew Horwood
I have never known a general election like this one. I cannot remember a >national campaign in my lifetime in which the only question for voters
was who they hated less.
There have certainly been moments in the past when a sitting government
was so loathed that its defeat was clearly inevitable, but on those
occasions there was at least some hope and optimism attaching to the
rivals who would displace them.
Now, from both the evidence of opinion polling, which shows almost no >enthusiasm for Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister in what is regarded as
a presidential contest, and the anecdotal, word-of-mouth currency that
is often more accurate, the conclusion is unavoidable.
Apart from vested interests in the public sector and the trade unions
(some of which appear to be making their support conditional on promises
of greater power), the electorate does not appear to much like the
Labour Party or its leader but will still vote for them.
They are unaffected by the fact that the partys policy statements are >evasive and its aims platitudinous, because they are not interested in
them at all. Labours sole function is to act as a blunt instrument with >which to beat the Tories. This applies equally to Reform, which might as
well change its name to Revenge.
This fulminating rage must be acknowledged and will have to play itself
out through the electoral process, but before we enter that dark place
in which we are governed by people nobody wanted, it is important to
examine this phenomenon, because it is the most serious threat to
healthy democracy in the postwar era. What is happening in Britain is
not unique.
Virtually all of the Western governments who presided over the pandemic
years are being thrown out, sometimes with deeply disturbing
consequences that could never have been anticipated a mere decade ago. >Politics in the most advanced countries of what was known as the Free
World has become deranged. Populations once believed to have renounced >febrile demagoguery and nativist hatred, having absorbed the terrible
lessons of the 20th century, are once again infected by them.
What is going on here? In this country, the conditions of ordinary life
for most people even those groups who consider themselves unfairly >disadvantaged are surely not as bad as they were in, say, the 1970s,
when the lights were going out on a regular rota, public transport was >frequently shut down completely by national strikes, and my generation
had to cope with devastating interest-rate rises and soaring inflation.
Of course there is genuine hardship and frustration particularly over
the possibility of home ownership, which is the key to independent
adulthood but this overwhelming fury is surely disproportionate to the >conditions of everyday life.
The crucial complaint is that nothing works, which applies almost
entirely to the public sector, and that no one in government seems to be
able to fix this. The assumption is that the governing party is either >utterly incompetent or indifferent to the needs of ordinary people.
This exasperation is exacerbated by the fact that neither the
Conservatives, who have been in power, nor Labour, which has been in
official opposition, can utter the truth. Government policies devised to
deal with the pandemic and the energy crisis created by the war in
Ukraine have tanked the economy.
Locking people up in their homes and paying them not to work destroyed
the possibility of creating new wealth and saw governments print
mountains of money that debased the currency. Energy bills were
subsidised by even more money from the Treasury.
But the governing party was not alone in its responsibility for creating
this disaster. Labour was not only complicit in these plans, it was >positively exuberant about them. Indeed, Sir Keir wanted earlier
lockdown, more lockdown and longer lockdown.
There was no respectable, mainstream political voice arguing that the >economic and social damage done by this decision to shut down the
country and thus disable all the mechanisms of productive,
wealth-creating activity might be catastrophic.
And there is still no one from the governing class prepared to say that >repairing this damage is going to require the kind of sacrifices to
which modern electorates are not accustomed.
More money cannot be poured into public services without raising taxes.
And raising taxes is a sure-fire way of killing any prospect of creating
new wealth, which makes a nonsense of Labours commitment to increase
growth.
Somebody is going to have to come clean about this if the democratic
process is to regain credibility. The Government, egged on by the
Opposition, was running on empty, spending funds that didnt exist, for
the best part of two years, and the day of reckoning has finally arrived. >Now, as it happens this truth that dare not speak its name coincides
with a new era in public speech. Social media has opened channels for
the dissemination of what can be completely irresponsible, often false
and pathologically vicious content.
Troll armies, sometimes robotically generated, roam unchecked across a >landscape whose boundaries are largely unmonitored. Unverifiable and >untraceable sources fling out wholesale bile or blatant deception on a
scale that is truly overwhelming.
The Centre for Policy Studies issued a report last week suggesting that
this could be the first deepfake election, in which simulated video
clips of politicians making damaging statements are being circulated online. >Whipping up hatred and distrust is the whole point of this nasty new
game and there is only one way to stop its progress: some politician or
other is going to have to tell the truth.
We need a Churchillian voice to deliver the blood, sweat and tears
message, which would at least show respect for the intelligence of the >populace: there are no easy solutions to our current problems.
We are going to ask you to make sacrifices and accept some
disappointments. Remember that we have always survived as a nation by
facing difficult times with courage and resourcefulness.
But maybe it is too late for that.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1dhe1i0/uk_telegraph_the_toxic_legacy_of_lockdown_is/
The toxic legacy of lockdown is destroying our political system
Until politicians come clean about the devastating costs it inflicted,
we will be stuck in this cycle of failure
JANET DALEY
15 June 2024 2:16pm
Janet Daley
A sign which says "stay at home to save lives" on the A470
CREDIT: Matthew Horwood
I have never known a general election like this one. I cannot remember a >>> national campaign in my lifetime in which the only question for voters
was who they hated less.
There have certainly been moments in the past when a sitting government
was so loathed that its defeat was clearly inevitable, but on those
occasions there was at least some hope and optimism attaching to the
rivals who would displace them.
Now, from both the evidence of opinion polling, which shows almost no
enthusiasm for Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister in what is regarded as >>> a presidential contest, and the anecdotal, word-of-mouth currency that
is often more accurate, the conclusion is unavoidable.
Apart from vested interests in the public sector and the trade unions
(some of which appear to be making their support conditional on promises >>> of greater power), the electorate does not appear to much like the
Labour Party or its leader but will still vote for them.
They are unaffected by the fact that the partys policy statements are
evasive and its aims platitudinous, because they are not interested in
them at all. Labours sole function is to act as a blunt instrument with >>> which to beat the Tories. This applies equally to Reform, which might as >>> well change its name to Revenge.
This fulminating rage must be acknowledged and will have to play itself
out through the electoral process, but before we enter that dark place
in which we are governed by people nobody wanted, it is important to
examine this phenomenon, because it is the most serious threat to
healthy democracy in the postwar era. What is happening in Britain is
not unique.
Virtually all of the Western governments who presided over the pandemic
years are being thrown out, sometimes with deeply disturbing
consequences that could never have been anticipated a mere decade ago.
Politics in the most advanced countries of what was known as the Free
World has become deranged. Populations once believed to have renounced
febrile demagoguery and nativist hatred, having absorbed the terrible
lessons of the 20th century, are once again infected by them.
What is going on here? In this country, the conditions of ordinary life
for most people even those groups who consider themselves unfairly
disadvantaged are surely not as bad as they were in, say, the 1970s,
when the lights were going out on a regular rota, public transport was
frequently shut down completely by national strikes, and my generation
had to cope with devastating interest-rate rises and soaring inflation.
Of course there is genuine hardship and frustration particularly over
the possibility of home ownership, which is the key to independent
adulthood but this overwhelming fury is surely disproportionate to the >>> conditions of everyday life.
The crucial complaint is that nothing works, which applies almost
entirely to the public sector, and that no one in government seems to be >>> able to fix this. The assumption is that the governing party is either
utterly incompetent or indifferent to the needs of ordinary people.
This exasperation is exacerbated by the fact that neither the
Conservatives, who have been in power, nor Labour, which has been in
official opposition, can utter the truth. Government policies devised to >>> deal with the pandemic and the energy crisis created by the war in
Ukraine have tanked the economy.
Locking people up in their homes and paying them not to work destroyed
the possibility of creating new wealth and saw governments print
mountains of money that debased the currency. Energy bills were
subsidised by even more money from the Treasury.
But the governing party was not alone in its responsibility for creating >>> this disaster. Labour was not only complicit in these plans, it was
positively exuberant about them. Indeed, Sir Keir wanted earlier
lockdown, more lockdown and longer lockdown.
There was no respectable, mainstream political voice arguing that the
economic and social damage done by this decision to shut down the
country and thus disable all the mechanisms of productive,
wealth-creating activity might be catastrophic.
And there is still no one from the governing class prepared to say that
repairing this damage is going to require the kind of sacrifices to
which modern electorates are not accustomed.
More money cannot be poured into public services without raising taxes.
And raising taxes is a sure-fire way of killing any prospect of creating >>> new wealth, which makes a nonsense of Labours commitment to increase
growth.
Somebody is going to have to come clean about this if the democratic
process is to regain credibility. The Government, egged on by the
Opposition, was running on empty, spending funds that didnt exist, for
the best part of two years, and the day of reckoning has finally arrived. >>> Now, as it happens this truth that dare not speak its name coincides
with a new era in public speech. Social media has opened channels for
the dissemination of what can be completely irresponsible, often false
and pathologically vicious content.
Troll armies, sometimes robotically generated, roam unchecked across a
landscape whose boundaries are largely unmonitored. Unverifiable and
untraceable sources fling out wholesale bile or blatant deception on a
scale that is truly overwhelming.
The Centre for Policy Studies issued a report last week suggesting that
this could be the first deepfake election, in which simulated video
clips of politicians making damaging statements are being circulated online.
Whipping up hatred and distrust is the whole point of this nasty new
game and there is only one way to stop its progress: some politician or
other is going to have to tell the truth.
We need a Churchillian voice to deliver the blood, sweat and tears
message, which would at least show respect for the intelligence of the
populace: there are no easy solutions to our current problems.
We are going to ask you to make sacrifices and accept some
disappointments. Remember that we have always survived as a nation by
facing difficult times with courage and resourcefulness.
But maybe it is too late for that.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1ikeutk/flu_levels_now_highest_since_2009_pandemic_cdc/
Flu levels now highest since 2009 pandemic, CDC reports
healthwatch
By Alexander Tin
Edited By Paula Cohen
Updated on: February 7, 2025 / 10:44 PM EST / CBS News
Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been
since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according to figures
published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amid >>> this winter's second wave of the virus.
Close to 8% of visits for respiratory illness to outpatient providers,
including urgent cares and doctors offices, reported to the CDC this
week were people sick with influenza. That is the worst on record in the >>> CDC's influenza surveillance network since late 2009, during the swine
flu pandemic.
While most flu seasons usually see a resurgence of infections after the
winter holidays, this winter's flu wave has now reached unusually high
levels compared to recent years.
That has driven overall levels of respiratory illness to "very high"
levels for the first time this season, despite a smaller and
now-decreasing wave of COVID-19 in recent months.
Other influenza metrics are also far above recent peaks nationwide,
including in emergency rooms and from testing laboratories. Data
collected by the CDC from labs found 31.6% of tests last week were
positive for influenza, close to double the 18.2% at last season's peak. >>>
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The CDC says that most states are at "high" or "very high" levels of
influenza activity, though some states may have now reached their peak.
CDC flu map
As of Feb. 6, 2025, most states have "high" or "very high" levels of
flu-like illness. This map from the CDC uses the proportion of
outpatient visits to health care providers for influenza-like illness
(ILI) to measure the level within a state.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Influenza infections are "likely growing" in 15 states, the agency's
disease forecasters predict, and are either now flat or starting to
decline in most other states.
One of the states where influenza is "likely growing" is Kentucky, where >>> pediatric infectious specialist Dr. Kris Bryant says she's seeing
"extraordinarily high numbers" of positive cases in children. At Norton
Children's Hospital, there were 3,000 positive cases just last week, she >>> said, calling the uptick "worrisome."
"We tend to focus on flu as a respiratory viral illness, but some
parents don't realize that it can cause seizures, even rarely an
inflammation of the brain, and pediatricians are reporting cases of that >>> across the U.S.," Bryant said.
Flu vaccination rates in children is at its lowest level in six years,
according to the CDC. This year, fewer than half of Americans have been
vaccinated. Bryant suspects "vaccine hesitancy" could be playing a role
in the trend.
Unlike the 2009 pandemic, lab tests around the country suggest cases are >>> still from the usual seasonal variants of the virus, and not a new
strain that has spilled over from animals.
While farms have been grappling with a record surge of H5N1 bird flu in
poultry driving up egg prices, and a new potentially lethal strain in
dairy cows, only a handful of human cases have been confirmed from bird
flu in the U.S. Investigations have linked cases to direct contact with
sick animals, not human-to-human transmission.
Janet Shamlian contributed to this report.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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