The Guardian reported today:
"Nearly 23% of pubs, bars and restaurants said they expected to fold within three months without a financial package for the sector, according to a survey commissioned by the British Beer & Pub Association, UK Hospitality and the British Institute of Innkeeping.
One in eight hospitality staff have already been made redundant, with more jobs are expected to be lost for good when the furlough scheme ends in October.
On average, businesses believe their workforce will be 25% smaller in February 2021 than it was a year earlier – a decline of 675,000 jobs."
We are being lied to on a grand scale. We're told that "the number of cases is doubling every 8 days". Well, that's simply not true. At that rate, by Christmas, the entire population will have been infected and there will have been 11 million deaths. Matt Hancock can't do maths as Peter Hitchins pointed out.
What's the truth? The count of deaths from Covid-19 has been near zero for the entire summer. There is an uptick of positive tests ("cases") as more testing is done, but there is no simultaneous uptick in the number of hospital admissions or of the number of deaths recorded. I remind you that NHS hospitals were largely empty throughout the peak from March to June 2020, the "Nightingale" hospitals were unused and the extra refrigerated containers placed at morgues throughout the country were unused. The bodies did not pile up because of Covid-19. The actual deaths for 2019/2020 are equivalent to what happens where there's a bad seasonal flu. Meanwhile, the backlog in treating cancer and many other conditions will result in at least 30 000 unnecessary deaths in the coming months, as has been widely reported.
I remind you too that Boris Johnson's "Moonshot" proposes giving £100 billion to private companies to build testing facilities. Money that will not be subject to oversight by Parliament or follow normal procurement processes. That's nearly £2000 per every man, woman and child in the UK. Then, on top of that, you will be required to pay for a test. If that £100 billion was spent on upgrading the NHS testing labs and on measures to deal with future pandemics, that's one thing, but this is like giving channel ferry contracts to companies that have no ferries.
Would someone care to explain to me what's really going on in the UK?