Responding to the Department of Health rowing back on the Prime Minister’s promise for everyone to ‘get their booster before the New Year’, Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
Boris Johnson’s panicked announcement has once again caused chaos and confusion. Last night he promised people they could get a booster before the New Year, now ministers are moving the goalposts and saying people will only be offered one by then.
Their failure to prepare properly now means that NHS websites have crashed, lateral flow tests are running out, and everyone working to get people vaccinated have been left scrambling to fix a mess of the government’s own making.
Many patients are worried about what this means for their treatment in the coming weeks and whether they’ll actually be able to get their jab by New Years, or simply be left waiting in a queue for an appointment.
This is yet another botched booster announcement from the Prime Minister, who is desperately trying to claw back some political credibility.
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Prepared? Everything about the crisis has been kneejerk and OTT. Sensible mitigation measures were needed from the beginning not extreme overreaction and a lurch towards senseless authoritarianism. The Lib Dems may be rewarded for Conservative incompetence in North Shropshire but will it be morally deserved? They have embraced the socialist approach to safetyism . I am genuinely fearful of what a potential Lib-Lab Coalition Government would mean for civil liberties. Sweden is the place to live and before anyone spouts the usual tripe about not having done as well as its neighbours, Norway is currently being overwhelmed by Omicron. Lets see who comes out on top now.
Martin Frost 14th Dec ’21 – 10:38am………….. I am genuinely fearful of what a potential Lib-Lab Coalition Government would mean for civil liberties…………
What? The toxic combination of Patel and Raab means that, unless things change, there won’t be much left of our civil liberties when the next GE comes around.
When Boris Johnson cut into Sunday evening scheduling after Strictly to announce the mass booster programme for Omicron, my first thought was that he had been shown some early data or informed medical speculation that it was going to be bad, perhaps very bad and had concluded that an emergency response was urgently needed.
And perhaps he had.
But then I had a second thought. After all this is Boris, and he is said to be driven mainly by self-interest. So, could this be primarily about diverting the ever-fickle media away from the ‘Partygate’ story with the irresistible drama of can they/can’t they achieve a million jabs a day? In this interpretation, all the ensuing chaos Daisy Cooper mentions is grist to the mill – more stuff to keep the media occupied while ‘Partygate’ falls into the memory hole.
If that was the plan, it’s working brilliantly. The few media recent items on ‘Partygate’ have been swamped by jab-fest stories.
FWIW, I suspect Omicron may not be as mild as many hope. Remember, Covid has quite long delays between infection and hospitalisation and then again to death or recovery. Moreover, South Africa, which has the longest experience of Omicron, has an exceptionally young population with an average age of 27 compared with 40+ in the UK so they would expect less severe outcomes on that basis alone.
Meanwhile, something weird is going on. Remember the terrible news every day from India a few months back as Covid tore through its unprotected population? And then, over just two or three days the story fizzled out as the media stopped reporting the outbreak.
Could that be linked to the deployment in many Indian states of a pretty effective and cheap prophylactic treatment protocol that reduces the seriousness of individual cases and also transmission? So, why aren’t we using that in Britain? And by what authority do the tech giants take down posts by doctors and researchers discussing it?
The jury is arguably still out, but it looks like there is something much more serious than “chaos and confusion” for Daisy Cooper to get her teeth into. All power to her.
https://covid19up.org/peer-reviewed-study-ivermectin-covid-19/