Here we go in the UK - a dry run for mass testing and mass incarceration, using Liverpool as the guinea pig city - it's al voluntary at the moment although the army is out in force to "assist" with the £500 carrot being dangled in front of the population. Naturally it won't just be those who "test positive" who will have to isolate but also contacts.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... 9-19210041
The pilot will help to inform a [color="blue"[blueprint[/color] for how mass testing can be achieved and how fast and reliable covid-19 testing can be delivered at scale.
If successful in Liverpool, the programme will be rolled out across the rest of the city region and then in other areas of the country.
It is hoped that the mass testing programme will give cities, like Liverpool in this first instance, a much clearer picture of the number of cases in any one area, enabling local leaders to make informed decisions to manage the spread of the virus and support local people.
Anyone who tests positive, using either a lateral flow test or an existing swab test, must self-isolate along with their household immediately and their contacts will be traced.
Those who test positive – and contacts who are required to self-isolate - will be entitled to the £500 Test and Trace Support Payment in the same way as a regular swab test ordered through NHS Test and Trace.
actually, it would be quite easy to shut down the whole city with everyone isolating based on these mysterious 'tests' - and hey presto, you have UBI by the back door.
BBC report, Nov 3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54786130
Liverpool has one of the highest rates of coronavirus deaths in England.
which may be due to a less healthy, poorer **, older population than many towns and cities.
** for whom £500 is a large amount.
Here comes Sir John Bell of Oxford University stoking up the fear
Sir John told BBC Radio 4's Today that "there are risks" that people who get a negative result from the rapid tests will think they are in the clear - and that is an "inappropriate conclusion".
"We believe that we can identify the majority of people who are likely to spread the virus and all the people who are likely to be super-spreaders or substantial spreaders - but we will not be able to identify everybody with the virus."
So, in other words, we are all super spreaders. We are all potential bio terrorists at all times. Even all those top sports celebs who are above all this circus.
A doctor [or several] writes - [taking their clue from Northern Italy this spring
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54777741
"We are hanging by a thread," says Dr Oliver Zuzan, divisional medical director at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
"If you don't listen to us, if you don't adhere to those restrictions, you will harm your friends," says Dr Zuzan. "You will harm your family, your neighbours, and you might even harm yourself."
We're very close to the limits of what Liverpool hospitals can cope with - Dr Tristan Cope Liverpool University Hospitals Trust medical director
i.e don't kill granny.
Is that scary enough> No, here come the plastic domes used to excellent effect in northern Italy, as ridiculed by JLB in his excellent, groundbreaking take-down of this garbage back in late March.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/StFK8QDxmg2f/
In Liverpool, the only ICU patient who appears well enough to talk is Douglas Thom, a former bus driver and crane operator. The 73-year-old is sitting up in bed, his head covered with a domed plastic hood that enables oxygen to flow into his lungs under pressure. It looks like something out of science fiction, but he is stoical.
"It's a bit claustrophobic but it's doing the job, so that's all that matters to me."
Douglas's wife tested positive at the same time as him but recovered.
He takes a dim view of those who dismiss coronavirus.
"All these people who go around saying it's a hoax or a bad cold, they need to get their heads straight because I have never ever been so ill in all my born days.
"This is an absolute crippler."
verdict - an excellent piece of state propgaganda. Is "Doug" chatting away while wearing his dome?
