Immediately after covid restrictions were lifted in the UK, cases fell by 40 percent
Thursday, August 12, 2021 by: Ethan Huff
Tags: coronavirus, COVID, freedom, freedom day, health freedom, infections, lockdowns, masks, pandemic, Plandemic, Restrictions, Tyranny, United Kingdom
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(Natural News) The sky has not fallen in the United Kingdom now that the nation’s draconian Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions have been lifted. To the contrary, new “cases” of the Chinese Virus have plummeted ever since the lockdowns were lifted.
With about 87 percent of
its population at least partially “vaccinated,” Great Britain eased up on the
stay-at-home orders and mask mandates. The move conjoined with the U.K.’s
“Freedom Day.”
“We want people to take
back their freedoms as they can today,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced
on July 18 in a bizarre speech.
It was on that day that for
the first time in 18 months, Brits were allowed to return to bars and night
clubs. Many were seen partying in the streets and celebrating the transition
into a “new normal.”
CNN was, of course,
outraged. The floundering fake news outlet called the celebrations a “huge
gamble” amid media reports about the scary new “delta variant” that is
supposedly spreading.
Labour Party leader Keir
Starmer called the parties “a reckless free-for-all,” which prompted Imperial College London mathematical biology Prof. Neil Ferguson to declare that it was “almost
inevitable” that 100,000 new daily cases of Chinese Germs would emerge in the
aftermath.
“The real question is do we
get to double that – or even higher?” Ferguson fearmongered to BBC News.
“And that’s where the crystal ball starts to fail. I mean, we could get to
2,000 hospitalisations a day, 200,000 cases a day – but it’s much less
certain.”
Lockdowns
and masks are a failure
Well, Freedom Day came and
went and none of Ferguson’s predictions came true. Cases of the Wuhan Flu are
on the decline all across the U.K. In fact, cases dropped dramatically the
moment the restrictions were lifted – see the tweet below:
“Daily #COVID cases are down 40% in U.K. since ‘Freedom Day’ when the government lifted restrictions,” one person tweeted. “This isn’t what experts predicted.”
“Neil Ferguson said it was
‘almost inevitable’ cases would increase 100+%. MPs called it ‘reckless.’
@Reuters & @AP decried a ‘surge’ on Day 1.”
As of August 8, the
seven-day rolling average of new Chinese Virus cases is around 27,000, a mere
fraction of what Ferguson and the mainstream media predicted.
“On the basis of the spread
of the delta variant, and the U.K. government’s decision to lift all legal
restrictions on individual mobility, mixing and adherence to nonpharmaceutical
interventions, we expected new COVID-19 infections to rise very sharply,”
announced JPMorgan economist David Mackie.
“Possible additional
explanations are a seasonal weather effect and an early arrival of the school
vacation effect. But it is hard to fully explain the dramatic collapse in new
infections.”
Many others expressed
similar confusion over the drop, as they were just sure that never-ending
lockdowns and mask mandates would “cure” the Fauci Flu and lead to no new
cases.
“The drop is much faster
than we’ve ever seen in previous waves,” added Prof. Tim Spector from King’s College London. “Even
after full national lockdowns, leaving the accuracy of the official tally in
doubt.”
It would appear as though
there is a direct correlation between the restrictions and an increase in
new cases – meaning the more the government imposes tyranny, the sicker people
get. The best way to fight scary viruses, in other words, is to simply let them
run their course.
“We must acknowledge that
restrictions aren’t
all that effective in
Western countries,” says Youyan Gu, an MIT-trained engineer and data scientist.
“It’s interesting that some experts would rather question the accuracy of the
data than acknowledge this reality.”
To keep up with the latest
Chinese Virus news, be sure to visit Pandemic.news.
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COVID Cases Fell 40% in the UK After Restrictions Were Lifted, Proving the Experts Wrong Yet Again
Three weeks after 'Freedom Day,' COVID cases in the
United Kingdom continue to fall.
Tuesday,
August 10, 2021
Image Credit: Worldomters
On Sunday July 18, people across the United Kingdom
celebrated when the clock struck midnight. It was “freedom day.”
With 87 percent of residents at least partially
vaccinated, the government was lifting its remaining restrictions. No longer
would mask wearing and social distancing be mandatory in England.
"We want people to take back their freedoms as
they can today," Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
The Associated Press reported that for the first time in nearly 18 months,
night clubs were permitted to open “and from London to Liverpool, thousands of
people danced the night away at ‘Freedom Day’ parties starting at midnight.”
‘A Reckless Free-for-All’
The decision of Johnson’s government was not without
controversy.
CNN described it as a “huge gamble,” while Labour Party leader Keir Starmer criticized
the move as “a reckless free-for-all.” Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology at
Imperial College London, said it was “almost inevitable” the decision would
result in 100,000 daily cases and one thousand hospitalizations per day,
despite the presence of vaccines.
“The real question is do we get to double that – or
even higher,” Ferguson told the BBC. “And that’s where the crystal ball starts to fail. I
mean, we could get to 2,000 hospitalisations a day, 200,000 cases a day – but
it’s much less certain.”
At the time, daily cases stood at roughly 45,000,
which meant Ferguson was predicting it was “almost inevitable” cases would more
than double.
The Actual Results
When Freedom Day arrived, Reuters noted the occasion
was marred by “soaring cases” and chaos. The AP had a strikingly similar take.
Weeks later, however, we have an abundance of
empirical evidence that show the prognosticators were once again wrong. Cases
did not double or quadruple as Ferguson had predicted. Nor did cases “surge,”
as many had warned.
On the contrary, cases fell—a lot.
As of August 8, the 7-day rolling average of COVID cases stood at just under
27,000. That’s a 40 percent drop from where they
stood when restrictions were lifted. Again, this was not what was predicted.
“On the basis of the spread of the delta variant, and
the U.K. government’s decision to lift all legal restrictions on individual
mobility, mixing and adherence to nonpharmaceutical interventions, we expected
new COVID-19 infections to rise very sharply,” said David Mackie, an economist at JPMorgan.
The opposite happened, and Mackie admitted it was
unclear why.
“Possible additional explanations are a seasonal
weather effect and an early arrival of the school vacation effect,” said
Mackie. “But it is hard to fully explain the dramatic collapse in new
infections.”
Ferguson, too, admitted his prediction was wrong. (And many readers likely recall this isn’t the first
time the oft-cited Ferguson’s “crystal ball” proved wildly inaccurate.)
Others, however, simply couldn’t believe that cases
fell after the mitigations put in place by the government were rescinded. They
suggested the numbers were inaccurate.
"The drop is much faster than we've ever seen in
previous waves," said Professor Tim Spector, from King's College London.
"Even after full national lockdowns, leaving the accuracy of the official
tally in doubt."
The Poor Track Record of Restrictions
Spector’s response is almost a textbook example of
cognitive dissonance. Just like some people cannot be convinced the Loch Ness Monster or UFOs
don’t actually exist—regardless
of what evidence is presented to them—some proponents of COVID mitigation
efforts can’t seem to accept that government restrictions do not achieve the
intended results.
Yet even before the UK’s most recent experiment, we
had an abundance of evidence that showed government interventions—while often harmful to economic and mental well-being—did little or
nothing to slow the spread of the virus.
“We must acknowledge that restrictions aren't all that
effective in Western countries,” said Youyang Gu, an MIT-trained engineer and data
scientist. “It's interesting that some experts would rather question the
accuracy of the data than acknowledge this reality.”
It is indeed interesting; but it’s hardly surprising.
In his great work The Fatal Conceit, F.A. Hayek noted that many people simply cannot
fathom that local decision-making can lead to more efficient outcomes than
central planning.
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to
men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design,” the
Nobel Prize-winning economist observed. “To the naive mind that can conceive of
order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in
complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more
effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will
actually extend the possibility of overall order.”
Recent events in the United Kingdom provide yet more
evidence that the fastest way to wind down the pandemic is to remove
decision-making from politicians and bureaucrats and return it to where it
belongs—with individuals.
