Comment: In an outrageous development that has not produced the appropriate condemnation and questioning, changes to the way UK hospitals collect data will correct the way covid cases and deaths have been reported. Unlike the last 14 months where anyone who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, or died with a positive test for SARS-CoV-2, were deemed to be "positive cases" or have died "from covid", regardless of whether or not that was the actual cause of death, the new method will clinically define covid cases and deaths. This will create the necessary appearance that the vaccines are working and make the impact of the virus on the NHS "look better".
Hospitals have been told to change the way they collect data on patients infected with coronavirus to differentiate between those actually sick with symptoms and those who test positive while seeking treatment for something else.
The move would reduce the overall number of patients in hospital for coronavirus as until now data from hospitals has included all patients who tested positive for Covid-19, regardless of whether they had symptoms or not.
NHS England has instructed hospitals to make the change to the daily flow of data sent by NHS trusts and told The Independent that the move was being done to help analyse the effect of the vaccine programme and whether it was successfully reducing Covid-19 sickness.
It has not yet committed to publishing the data but the change could prove crucial to the government's decision to end lockdown on 21 June.
Comment: This is nothing short of a cynical manipulation of data and shows, most importantly, that the covid "case" and "death" data that was used for the past 14 months to terrify the population and justify draconian lockdowns was inaccurate.
The Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, warned the government must not use the data to "massage" the figures as the 21 June decision nears.
Comment: The British govt. has been "massaging" the data since the very beginning of this faux pandemic.
One NHS source said the new data would be "more realistic" as not all patients were sick with the virus, adding: "But it will make figures look better as there have always been some, for example stroke [patients], who also had Covid as an incidental finding".
Comment: Only now, after a punitive and disastrous lockdown regime lasting more than 1 year, and which directly and indirectly caused a large number of unncessary deaths due to the denial of primary health care to many people, does the NHS decide to be "more realistic" about this virus. Where is the public outrage?
In a letter to hospital bosses on 7 June, shared with The Independent, NHS England's Covid incident director, Professor Keith Willett, said that from now on NHS England wanted a "a breakdown of the current stock of Covid patients into those who are in hospital with acute Covid-19 symptoms (and for whom Covid-19 is the primary reason for being in hospital); and those who are primarily in hospital for a reason other than Covid-19 (but for whom the hospital is having to manage and treat the Covid-19 symptoms alongside their primary condition)."
He added: "In lay terms this could be considered as a binary split between those in hospital 'for Covid-19' and those in hospital 'with Covid-19'. We are asking for this binary split for those patients newly admitted to hospital and those newly diagnosed with Covid while in hospital."
Comment: And finally, after more than 1 year of many, many people, including all of us here at Sott.net, pointing out the screamingly obvious FACT that there always was a massive difference between deaths "from" and "with" Covid, the NHS and British govt. admits the truth. Sadly, it comes too late for millions of people who suffered massively, and the many who became ill and died from the mothballing of the much of the health care system.
During the coronavirus crisis many patients in hospital were sick from the virus, with intensive care units forced to double or triple their capacity and the vast majority of patients needing oxygen.
It has always been the case that as the virus spreads in the community some patients would be likely to test positive.
One clinician said: "As the community prevalence goes up, the in-hospital rate will go up in line with that. But if a proportion of that younger cohort are in hospital for other reasons, then the story is completely different. This change will give a much better view of this."
Comment: Yes, being accurate about reporting on covid cases and deaths makes the story "completely different". Why was this not done from the beginning of the "pandemic"?
Professor Ian Douglas from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said: "I think there are good arguments for presenting these data separately - people in hospital 'with' vs 'for' Covid, as it does partly address the burden to health services due to the virus. Not completely though, because people in hospital with Covid will presumably also need to be treated differently to avoid further spread, which places some extra burden on the hospitals.
"I've got no idea what the split is like at the moment, and importantly we won't know retrospectively what the trend is. Following on from that, there are only a few days before any announcement about 21 June, which may not give us long enough to be sure about what direction the 'of Covid' numbers are going. What we shouldn't do is draw any inference about numbers being lower once the 'with Covid' numbers are stripped out."
Comment: Yes, it would be very unhelpful to governments who desire control through fear over the population to ever admit that the real numbers of people in danger from this virus are exceedingly small. So best to stay silent about that, even when the data is very clear.
Layla Moran told The Independent: "If this provides a more accurate picture of the impact of Covid on our hospitals then that should be welcomed. However, we need to be cautious about the government using this as a way to massage the figures as we approach 21 June.
Reader Comments
Found the following info re the 3rd wave of Spanish Flu interesting - it seems to be an excellent example of the futility of a quarantine or lockdown
e.g. this article from 2012 - [Link]
The article refers to obtaining the 1918 virus from frozen bodies in the Artic Circle ... or what I would call "looking for trouble" .
Which is to say.. it wasn't realistic before. No shi...
Surely such a deadly pandemic would be bad enough without having to jack up the death count. Can't believe the world apparently fell for it.
R.C.
It's part of psychological torture and conditioning. Small indulgences (masks off) must be doled out from time to time. The narrative goes on but a parallel theme emerges. Reinforces their authority while keeping the fear effective when the Lirus re-emerges in the Fall.
So Billy is resting in the dressing room for this Act, probably blowing a small child.
Calm, storm, calm, storm.... Keeps people in a constant state of stress willing to accept a respite dolled out just to eliminate the roller coaster stress ride.
At least SOTT SOTTites saw this and called bullshit on it early. Last bastion of sanity in a world ever more inane and insane. I'm confident that a huge percentage of the poor suckers who should be realizing that by now have adopted an institutionalized (wrong word) hesitation to acknowledge that because they've gotta be not just feeling silly and stupid, but also scared, and that would and does maximize cognitive dissonance and actions pursuant to it (CD) rather than to reason.
RC
So true, so true,so true. CD is so bad in the pop. that they can't even, for one instance, say that these people who ran this scam should be going to jail. Hence no one is going to go to jail (except maybe anti-vaxers) over this. They might be shamed into stepping down (booho) and into a nice cushy, thanks for your work, job. The price people are willing to pay the devil for status and money. Look At Me!!!!
I can't stand it, it's so fake and phony.
Absolute insanity, but right in our faces? Why advertise this?
They stop thinking!
And they imagine that others are also sick and do not think :-)
RC
I get a wide berth too JTFT 🐩
This nurse says that her hospital in the U.S. is overrun with people experiencing "adverse reactions." [Link]
Did I say vaccinated people testing positive for Covid would invoke too many questions? Uuuhh. I may have misspoken. From New York, why are you wearing a mask outside, where no possibility of transmission exists, and when you're fully vaccinated? Begins with a brief second of the guy in the pool swimming with his mask on. [Link] Stay tuned at 3:36 for the young lady who's finally "seen it all. I can't take anymore.... I'm losing the will to live with humanity." Me, too, darlin', me, too.
*
There was no ship and no landing.
The ET just coalesced as a shining stick figure in the living room of James Smyth III, the chairman of the International Association of Art Museums. It was late in the evening, and Smyth was alone.
The chairman registered no shock. The ET said, “I chose you as my initial contact, because you have connections in politics and media.”
“I might be able to sponsor a conference.”
“I want private talks.”
“Oh. Yes. Of course.”
Then this interchange occurred:
You know, Mr. Smyth, the most significant subject I could broach is Reality.
I’ve often thought about it while walking the lonely halls of an empty museum late at night---
Reality is elastic. But in order to see that, a person has to deploy his imagination. Otherwise, Reality can appear to be a block of steel.
You know, I’ve seen and talked with very famous celebrities. Some of them seem to have a glow around them. Is there a way to change my DNA so I can emit that glow?
Mr. Smyth, if Reality had a plan, it would be to stay where it is and say it can’t change. Reality is a form of propaganda. The deeper you drill into the propaganda, the more you realize the very basics---for instance, space and time---are provisional.
One of our former presidents, Bill Clinton, was very interested in UFOs. I know Bill. I might be able to arrange an event at one of the museums here in New York. The publicity would be enormous. I could introduce you; make a short speech. It would be a charity fundraiser.
Some of the most convincing and oppressive Realities, Mr. Smyth, are built on nothing. That’s what you find at the bottom of your search, if you go deep enough. When you expose this, people have a chance to wake up. The hypnotic trance they’re in tends to dissipate.
I visit my barber every week. I have a standing appointment. My tailor has made several different kinds of British suits for me. But something in my persona is lacking. Are there any tricks you could teach me? I want to convey a sense of…I want people to come to attention when I enter a room.
Humans specialize in Reality-addiction. They’re convinced that what they see and feel is all there is. The One Reality. But there are a potentially unlimited number of Realities that can be invented. The individual invents them.
I once contemplated a run for a seat in the Senate. I had financial backers. But in the end, our team decided I just didn’t have the name recognition. We had Jimmy Carter come in and talk with us. He said he didn’t think I was a good fit for politics. It would have been quite a different career path than the one I finally chose. I think my family was disappointed. Our daughter had taken a tour of the White House as a child, and she was in love with the idea of actually living there…
Some of the biggest discoveries a person makes come from imagining how Reality could be, contrasted against how it is. Seeing both, side by side…then perception and thought change.
Sixty years ago, the Metropolitan Museum bought a minor Rembrandt. It never drew the crowds the Board expected. Now the most important donors want to sell it. They’ve asked for my opinion. Rather than write a report, I’m going to make a video presentation. I’m trying to decide whether to bring the film crew here to the house, or speak against the background of the River and the majestic skyline of the city.
Inventing new Realities causes radically positive changes in chemical processes of cells of the body, hormonal levels, and other less-noticed energies. We saw this happen with Rodin.
On the second floor of the Metropolitan, we have a lovely Rodin. I wanted to move it down to the lobby, but I was outvoted. Basically, the Council was launching a little power play against me.
At a deep level, most humans are programmed with crude concepts of symmetry, balance, harmonization, and organization. They automatically reject anything outside those parameters as dissonance and noise. They ignore whole universes.
My good friend Melania Trump came to me with a proposal to launch a traveling exhibition of the history of Western fashion. I thought it was a bold notion. But the political atmosphere was poisonous. We just couldn’t raise interest. The New York papers went after me hammer and tongs. One reporter called me “a fascist in sheep’s clothing.” Can you believe it? We were just talking about hats. Hats and dresses. And suddenly I was Mussolini.
In Tibet, fifteen centuries ago, before the priest-class moved in with their metaphysical baggage and set up a theocracy, adepts lived up in the cold mountains and practiced exercises designed to make them see, once and for all, that universe was a product of mind. From that point on, an individual could alter space and time. He could make a forest disappear and reappear.
I hate to cut this short, but I have to take a call from Japan. We’re bringing over several Hokusai drawings next month. The minister of culture is an old friend of mine. His son and my daughter went to Princeton together. But anytime you’d like to come back---
---The extraterrestrial made a slight motion and changed Mr. Smyth into a large pig.
The pig wandered around the room sniffing the furniture.
The pig said, “I forgot to mention that one of President Biden’s advisors on foreign policy is a former member of the Museum Association. She has a summer cottage just outside Brattleboro. Perhaps I could make arrangements for you two to sit down and have a chat. Many years ago, when she came to work for us, I mentored her on fundraising and prestige. Donors want be connected to their gifts in a variety of public ways.”
The extraterrestrial dropped an ear of corn on the floor and vanished.
Several months later, after appearances on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and the PBS News Hour, the pig announced he was running for a seat in the US Senate. His opening poll numbers were through the roof.
However, since he was on the ticket as a Republican, New York Democrat party leaders were alarmed. Kamala Harris flew up from Washington and huddled with PR pros at the Rockefeller Institute.
Two days later, Anthony Fauci retired from public life, and President Biden offered the pig the vacant position of White House chief coronavirus advisor.
Pledging to serve the nation in a time of crisis, the pig accepted. He told reporters, “I follow the science, just as my good friend Dr. Fauci did. The vaccine is remarkably safe and effective. It’s the only way out of the lockdowns and the trough of government bailouts. It’s how we get to herd immunity and the blue sky of freedom again.”
Oh, a suggestion: The alternating voices? It would read better if the alien/ET's words were all in italics.
RC
But now I'm really craving ribs...
'The Extraterrestrial and the important Earth person' by Jon Rappoport [Link]
*
There was no ship and no landing.
The ET just coalesced as a shining stick figure in the living room of James Smyth III, the chairman of the International Association of Art Museums. It was late in the evening, and Smyth was alone.
The chairman registered no shock. The ET said, “I chose you as my initial contact, because you have connections in politics and media.”
“I might be able to sponsor a conference.”
“I want private talks.”
“Oh. Yes. Of course.”
Then this interchange occurred:
You know, Mr. Smyth, the most significant subject I could broach is Reality.
I’ve often thought about it while walking the lonely halls of an empty museum late at night---
Reality is elastic. But in order to see that, a person has to deploy his imagination. Otherwise, Reality can appear to be a block of steel.
You know, I’ve seen and talked with very famous celebrities. Some of them seem to have a glow around them. Is there a way to change my DNA so I can emit that glow?
Mr. Smyth, if Reality had a plan, it would be to stay where it is and say it can’t change. Reality is a form of propaganda. The deeper you drill into the propaganda, the more you realize the very basics---for instance, space and time---are provisional.
One of our former presidents, Bill Clinton, was very interested in UFOs. I know Bill. I might be able to arrange an event at one of the museums here in New York. The publicity would be enormous. I could introduce you; make a short speech. It would be a charity fundraiser.
Some of the most convincing and oppressive Realities, Mr. Smyth, are built on nothing. That’s what you find at the bottom of your search, if you go deep enough. When you expose this, people have a chance to wake up. The hypnotic trance they’re in tends to dissipate.
I visit my barber every week. I have a standing appointment. My tailor has made several different kinds of British suits for me. But something in my persona is lacking. Are there any tricks you could teach me? I want to convey a sense of…I want people to come to attention when I enter a room.
Humans specialize in Reality-addiction. They’re convinced that what they see and feel is all there is. The One Reality. But there are a potentially unlimited number of Realities that can be invented. The individual invents them.
I once contemplated a run for a seat in the Senate. I had financial backers. But in the end, our team decided I just didn’t have the name recognition. We had Jimmy Carter come in and talk with us. He said he didn’t think I was a good fit for politics. It would have been quite a different career path than the one I finally chose. I think my family was disappointed. Our daughter had taken a tour of the White House as a child, and she was in love with the idea of actually living there…
Some of the biggest discoveries a person makes come from imagining how Reality could be, contrasted against how it is. Seeing both, side by side…then perception and thought change.
Sixty years ago, the Metropolitan Museum bought a minor Rembrandt. It never drew the crowds the Board expected. Now the most important donors want to sell it. They’ve asked for my opinion. Rather than write a report, I’m going to make a video presentation. I’m trying to decide whether to bring the film crew here to the house, or speak against the background of the River and the majestic skyline of the city.
Inventing new Realities causes radically positive changes in chemical processes of cells of the body, hormonal levels, and other less-noticed energies. We saw this happen with Rodin.
On the second floor of the Metropolitan, we have a lovely Rodin. I wanted to move it down to the lobby, but I was outvoted. Basically, the Council was launching a little power play against me.
At a deep level, most humans are programmed with crude concepts of symmetry, balance, harmonization, and organization. They automatically reject anything outside those parameters as dissonance and noise. They ignore whole universes.
My good friend Melania Trump came to me with a proposal to launch a traveling exhibition of the history of Western fashion. I thought it was a bold notion. But the political atmosphere was poisonous. We just couldn’t raise interest. The New York papers went after me hammer and tongs. One reporter called me “a fascist in sheep’s clothing.” Can you believe it? We were just talking about hats. Hats and dresses. And suddenly I was Mussolini.
In Tibet, fifteen centuries ago, before the priest-class moved in with their metaphysical baggage and set up a theocracy, adepts lived up in the cold mountains and practiced exercises designed to make them see, once and for all, that universe was a product of mind. From that point on, an individual could alter space and time. He could make a forest disappear and reappear.
I hate to cut this short, but I have to take a call from Japan. We’re bringing over several Hokusai drawings next month. The minister of culture is an old friend of mine. His son and my daughter went to Princeton together. But anytime you’d like to come back---
---The extraterrestrial made a slight motion and changed Mr. Smyth into a large pig.
The pig wandered around the room sniffing the furniture.
The pig said, “I forgot to mention that one of President Biden’s advisors on foreign policy is a former member of the Museum Association. She has a summer cottage just outside Brattleboro. Perhaps I could make arrangements for you two to sit down and have a chat. Many years ago, when she came to work for us, I mentored her on fundraising and prestige. Donors want be connected to their gifts in a variety of public ways.”
The extraterrestrial dropped an ear of corn on the floor and vanished.
Several months later, after appearances on Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and the PBS News Hour, the pig announced he was running for a seat in the US Senate. His opening poll numbers were through the roof.
However, since he was on the ticket as a Republican, New York Democrat party leaders were alarmed. Kamala Harris flew up from Washington and huddled with PR pros at the Rockefeller Institute.
Two days later, Anthony Fauci retired from public life, and President Biden offered the pig the vacant position of White House chief coronavirus advisor.
Pledging to serve the nation in a time of crisis, the pig accepted. He told reporters, “I follow the science, just as my good friend Dr. Fauci did. The vaccine is remarkably safe and effective. It’s the only way out of the lockdowns and the trough of government bailouts. It’s how we get to herd immunity and the blue sky of freedom again.”
that is a quote from your buddy. Parzival.
*
Taylor Hudak interviews Willem Engel "to discuss his ongoing legal efforts to fight back against what many are referring to as ‘crimes against humanity’ being committed under the guise of fighting COVID-19 – and rightly so – as well as what’s at the center of this battle, and that is the fight for humanity itself."
that is a quote from your buddy. Parzival.
The baseline is mush. This question will never be decided properly because the original data is garbage.
I hate it when that happens...
[Link]
probably cool etc, but it does not ring any bells with me.
(i do not know if reality is elastic, only have average imagination, etc).
(i do have a fair amount of knowledge about steel, concrete and mortar, but i suspect that was not part of the equation here) (?)
hmm. i was actually midst in browsing some music; [Link]
how is it going?
RC
same song, 2 versions... the first is in response to your link.
[Link]
this one is the first one I noticed. same song.
[Link]
yes, that is certainly the same phenonema 👍
your second link was to one of my ultimate favourites, but i was not aware of the (even) better original
Big thanks
Here's one of my current songs I can play over and over by a bluesman called R. L. Burnside. [Link] He talks about a .357--which is a gun, Brakar. He moved to Chicago for a while where he had relatives who had moved from Mississippi. During the years he lived there, like today, actually, he lost three of his relatives to shootings. Here's "Rollin' and Tumblin'" done by nearly anyone who's played blues, but R. L. was "north Mississippi country" blues. [Link] He carried on the legacy of those "north country" (from out of the U.S. "Delta region" down south where the Mississippi River enters the Gulf of Mexico) bluesmen like John Lee Hooker who became more famous and played with many of the British blues boys.
You either have blues in your soul or you don't. For some reason, I do. Maybe a past life.
P.S. The scene in the first link where the women are dancing are what a real live American "juke joint" looks like. I've frequented my share when I was younger. You can get up and dance just by yourself like the ladies are doing in that scene.
P.P.S. The drummer in the second vid is his grandson, Cedric Burnside.
then, i should probably also admit; i "know" what blues is - but i do still not really understand the beginning/end, or depth of it 😕
RC
Lighten up already! ;>
Let's all sing:
[Link]
Also, it's Friday night. . . at least here, and I don't think it's Saturday Night anywhere, but I do love that song.
RC
[Link]
that was a statement. if it is incorrect I am SURE he will correct myself.
It's been "Blursday" here for far too long...
How about:[Link]
(You can't dance & stay uptight...) ;>
S: Sam Cooke was great, although I only got to like him in my thirties. (It was 'prejudice world' down here where/when I grew up .(All grades from 7 - 12 were fully hell. . . see the AB ) BUT I was so fast that I was on V. track in 9th grade, the #2 100 m sprinter. I surely first heard Sam Cooke riding on the bus to a track meet. We only had three white guys on the team, so the black guys generally would prevent us in particular from getting beat to a pulp in the four years of constant 'race riots' as they called them at CHS. (Another reason why I never got beat up/lost a fight there was . . . again, because I was the second fastest guy in school and I ain't joking. Call me Forest Gump, I guess. )
HVAC: I Kant say he's my favorite or anything. I honestly don't have an opinion on him, I do like (for their times) Erasmus, Voltaire, Jefferson JS Mill, and those old Greek guys moreso. (Just the other day, I started, for the first time, reading some Nietzsche. I learned that I DON'T like him. I appreciate how his works were in funny scenes in A Fish Called Wanda.)
RC
*We had a discussion a year? ago where I kept asking for definitions, etc. I'll defer to the record. I've always had a tough time holding a grudge, especially online.
Launch going off right now it sounds like. Yup. See it here. [Link] (Skip to 52:00) (It wasn't loud but it was fast.)
rc
as a Lawyer, can you deny that you have an ambient philosophy ?
all s good bro..
[Link]
denythat you have an ambient philosophy ?I should have wrote confirmed.
[Link]
Intro kinda reminds me of [Link]
Time for some Susan Cadogan
Hurt So Good - [Link]
Do It Baby [Nice And Easy] - [Link]
Fever - [Link]
In The Ghetto - [Link]
Shame on you - [Link]