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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
Well, after the last year I don’t trust this Government as far as they could be thrown, whatever their ‘agenda’ is.
But, at the predictable risk of being branded a conspiracy theorist, these are just a few questions the answers to which remain ‘hidden’ to me.
Why has a Govt of a country with 54 million adults ordered 457 million Covid vaccine jabs?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...red-by-the-uk/
Of course, it’s to make up for the cut to foreign aid?
Why, in March, having previously said he wouldn’t do it, did Rushi Sunak extend the Furlough Scheme to September when, at that time, June 21 was being peddled by Johnson as the ‘end’ date of all restrictions?
https://www.blakemorgan.co.uk/extens...eptember-2021/
Clearly, Rushi just thought everyone should have the summer off work?
Why, also in March, did the Govt ‘call for evidence’ on the possibility of vaccine passports when it had already signed a £21m contract with HH Global for….vaccine passports.
https://inews.co.uk/news/government-...ntract-1023897
Gove forgot to tell his boss that it was a done deal?
Why are Councils advertising currently for Covid Marshalls with contracts to March 2022?
https://order-order.com/2021/06/15/l...l-spring-2022/
If they don’t, there’d be a lot of peaked hats and hi-viz jackets to send to land-fill?
Btw, the Workdometer itself clearly states that “ For the COVID-19 data, we collect data from official reports, directly from Government's communication channels”.
https://www.worldometers.info/about/
As someone smarter than me once said, “ “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” |
Erm..I don’t have ‘blind belief’ in anything, least of all a conservative government. I think I stated many years ago on this site that Boris was a buffoon, but god alone knows what would have happened to us with Corbyn and Abbot at the helm.
Lets give an alternative view to each of your points, assuming that they are true facts.
A. 450 million jabs for 54 million….this government ordered vaccines from almost every pharmaceutical company that was developing a vaccine ensuring that the UK was statistically likely to back a winner….surely better too many than not enough, isn’t it?
B. Extending furlough….lets suppose you have a small company that’s part of a supply chain, you need materials to refine before you can sell them on… you work with minimal cash flow..there’s a shortage of these materials because the company that provides them is not yet back up to full production or is in a country that is still in lockdown etc. Do you force me to make my staff redundant, putting workers on the dole and then cause me additional costs to go through recruiting and reskilling a few weeks later, possibly causing me to go out of business because of cash flow or do you extend furlough for a while enabling me to have access to experienced staff when things start flowing again?
C. Vaccine passports..again, as in ordering too many vaccines it’s a case of hedging bets, if other countries decided (especially the vindictive EU) decided to go down this route we would be prepared and although £21million is life changing for me and you, it ain’t in national terms, spending this money to find out if other countries of the world are looking at protecting themselves using passports seems logical to me, doesn’t it to you?
D. Covid Marshalls…considering that this virus will be with us for a very long time, and there will be testing and quite possibly booster vaccinations necessary from early winter onwards why would you not give people 12 month contracts?
E. Not arguing about worldometer…this website has been going for years giving information on a variety of things…..in fact you actually evidence what I said which was …’our government has been more honest than most.’ Personally I believe they have erred on the side of caution by using anyone who died within 28 days of receiving a positive in their calculations (which is clearly an overestimation)…Do you honestly believe the figures from China, Russia or even Germany?
And yes I agree that people with alternative views are being stifled and cancelled by both social and mainstream media and that’s just plain wrong.