Staff at the Mater Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland, observe a minute's silence in tribute to the NHS staff and key workers who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 28. The U.K. is on the verge of suffering the worst outbreak in Europe. (Peter Morrison/PA via AP) Source: CBC |
By Harry Hutchinson
Labour party NI (EC member), Tyrone Peoples’ Assembly/Dail
May 11, 2020
With
the highest number of deaths in Europe from the coronavirus and the
second highest in the world, the British Establishment continues with
the same genocidal strategy of ‘controlled herd immunity'. The virus has
overwhelmed hospitals, killing over 30,000 patients including over 200
staff. The government now intends to allow the virus to ‘run wild' in
care homes, according to Age UK. Next the virus will be allowed to
spread though the population at large as restrictions on the lockdown
are gradually lifted. With next to no testing and tracking in place,
thousands more people will die unnecessarily.
The
SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) group, which was set
up to advise the government on the Covid-19 virus is described as a
‘black box’s by the New York Times. Most of its members remain
anonymous. The group is led by chief scientific adviser, Patrick
Vallance and half the group are scientific advisers from government
departments. The other half are unknown and wish to remain anonymous.
Against scientific advice
Included
in SAGE is the Prime Minister's chief political adviser, Dominic
Cummings, and Ben Warner of the Vote Leave campaign. According to
members of the group Cummings influences decisions and participants feel
powerless to prevent and oppose his strategy. This influence goes
against scientific advice from experts on the coronavirus.
Meetings
are held in secret with no direct input from Northern Ireland, Scotland
or Wales. Any published reports to date from SAGE have been heavily
redacted.
The
government wish to avoid any attention to their herd immune strategy.
After most deaths of (mainly) the elderly in hospitals, care homes are
now recording higher daily fatalities of the virus. The next target will
be the majority of the population, perhaps 60%, which will cause most
deaths, again amongst the elderly and sick.
Reducing the ‘R’ rate
The
government’s aim is to reduce the ‘R' (Reproduction) rate to below 1,
which would mean each new case, on average, infects less than one other
person. Currently it is between 0.7 and 1. This reduces the burden on
the NHS, however, an allows the virus to spread through the population
once lockdown restrictions are lifted.
Although
the lockdown restrictions are to remain for another 3 weeks,
restrictions are now being lifted in rail services and other industrial
and commercial outlets. Food franchises like McDonalds already plan to
open drive-through take outs. Other businesses, like construction, are
likely to follow suit, despite the lockdown. Airports remain
unrestricted with vertically no testing of travellers arriving at
British terminals. Airlines have not put in place safeguards for
travellers as the packed Aer Lingus flights have demonstrated.
The
government refuse to encourage people to wear masks, claiming masks are
not proven to be effective against Covid-19 and because it would put
hospitals under pressure to source masks. Countries who have brought the
virus under control, like S Korea, insist on people wearing masks, as
it is proven to restrict the spreading of the virus. Contrary to the
government’s claim about the lack of supplies, according to Prabhu, a
British based company, global demands for equipment is high, but there
is no lack of supplies.
Botched contracts and tests
The
government is handing out huge contracts to Deloitte, Serco, G4S, Boots
and several other major corporations. The most recent are the many
botched contracts to test and monitor the spreading of the virus. A
catalogue of errors include labs using substandard chemicals and
reagents which led to the misreading of tests; millions of antibody
tests were dumped, due to unapproved and dubious testing equipment; PPE
equipment out of date and claimed to be unusable, like the consignment
from Turkey, which did not pass standards regulations. The tracking App
which was successfully used in Taiwan to warn people of cases of the
virus, is introduced by the British government in the Isle of Wight, but
with no intention of expanding tracking throughout the country.
Despite
many countries having brought the virus under control, like New Zealand
who have now zero deaths from the virus, the British government are
intent on allowing the virus to spread throughout the population for
months ahead. Countless thousands of avoidable deaths will occur.
The true extent of the spread
What
is now perfectly clear, is that the British establishment have since
the outbreak of this pandemic, refused many company and other government
offers of all medical supplies to fight the virus. The government
attempted to suppress the true extent of the spread of the virus from
the public, by not including Covid-19 deaths in care homes, hospices and
residential areas; outlandish targets in testing with no desire
whatever of carrying out a mass testing programme to take control of the
virus, as many other countries have managed to do.
The
evidence now clearly shows the British establishment are fully intent
on killing tens of thousands of the most vulnerable, and in their eyes,
‘unproductive’ people in Britain and Northern Ireland, namely the
elderly and sick.
Who
is orchestrating Government policy? It is not Johnson and his ruthless
ministers. These ministers implement the directive of an upper caste of
influential corporate and banking masters, which the secrecy of SAGE has
shown. Government ministers have been found out continually lying in
what can only be described as propaganda and misinformation to cover up
the true nature of the ruthless strategy of the establishment.
It is now time for workers to take direction, as other individual sectors have done, like the Underground workers in London. These workers took control of bus stations from managers, which had imposed improper safeguards for drivers. Trade unions and socialists must organize with the aim of taking control of the pandemic out of government and corporate control.
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