QUESTIONS OVER THE GOVERNMENT’S AGENDA IN DEALING WITH CORONAVIRUS. THE CORONAVIRUS ACT 2020 – PANIC OR STRATEGEM?

QUESTIONS OVER THE GOVERNMENT’S AGENDA IN DEALING WITH CORONAVIRUS.

CORONAVIRUS ACT 2020 – PANIC OR STRATEGEM?

“Status of COVID-19

As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.

The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.

Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCID treatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPC guidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE)

ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.”

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19

I think it is worth considering the events leading up to the country being put into “Lockdown” and our civil liberties allegedly being legislated away under the “Coronavirus Act 2020”.

Up until the 13^th March, the Government had been making sensible sounding noises about what it intended to do and also about how it wasn’t going to panic and that things could go on normally, as much as possible, whilst immunity to the Coronavirus developed naturally within our population. 

This was against the background of hysterical and irresponsible reporting by the mainstream media about what was happening in other countries. 

There was also the statistical “modelling” being done by Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London, claiming that there might be a quarter of a million dead.  This figure is surprisingly similar to the quarter of a million UK dead in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 (228,000).

Then, on the 13^th March, the Government announced the first of a series of panic measures in which it, amongst other things, suspended all elections this year (without any legal authority to do so).

However, behind the scenes, scientists and medical experts were beginning to reconsider their prognosis of what would happen with the disease. 

One of the most radical reconsiderations appears to be that of the said Professor Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College in London, who has been advising the Government on statistical modelling on the development of the disease.  Professor Ferguson changed his view and reported, on the 16^th March, that the virus death toll could end up being “substantially lower” than 20,000 with most of the fatalities being of people who would have died later this year anyway.

Then on the 19^th March the above notice was published by the UK Health Authorities downgrading the seriousness of the Coronavirus.

Then on the evening of 23^rd March, Boris Johnson announced his UK “Lockdown”. 

The Government then pushed ahead with its “Coronavirus Bill” which they pushed through Parliament.  This gives Ministers very wide-ranging powers indeed and, in effect, suspends most of our civil liberties and side-lines Parliament, except for a remaining role to vote through six monthly motions to continue the effect of the Coronavirus Act. 

The Coronavirus Act received Royal Assent on Wednesday, 25^th March.

For anybody interested in reading its terms here is a link>>> http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/7/contents/enacted/data.htm

Given this sequence of events you might think that it was the Coronavirus Act 2020 which was needed to give legal force to Boris Johnson’s lockdown announcement, but in fact that is not so.

What actually happened was the day after the Coronavirus Act 2020 received Royal Assent, the Government passed through the Privy Council a series of new Statutory Instruments _______________ (2020/350) under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.  This was the Act which granted ministers the power to create the rules which gave legal force to Boris Johnson’s lockdown order!

It would appear that the Government did not need the Coronavirus Act to achieve “Lockdown”. 

What it needed was the Statutory Instrument which it published the day afterwards under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984. 

Obviously the Statutory Instrument must have been prepared sometime before.  You can see here it has taken a while to write and here is the link to it >>> http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/made/data.pdf

It is twelve pages and as it says brought into force at 1.00 p.m. on 26^th March 2020. 

So it looks like the Government has stampeded Parliament into passing legislation giving it Emergency Powers far more wide-ranging than anything passed in either the 1^st or either the 2^nd World Wars.  This was while it already had the power to pass most of the regulations that it wanted to enforce under legislation dating fromway back in 1984!

Only time will tell us what the reason for this is and what the agenda behind it was. 

I am suspicious that it may be a Brexit related agenda, as the Government will now be able to get past the end of October without having to go through the usual Parliamentary processes. 

We need to keep a close eye on what they are up to, in so far as we actually get any genuine information out of the mainstream media!

It also appears that people within the State have been anxious to use the Coronavirus to slip in new legislation which in some cases radically changes the existing law.  A very good example of which is something that Christian Concern have highlighted in their article of 25^th March “Coronavirus exploited by enemies of democracy”.  Here is a link to that article which you can see is an attempt to seek in significant alterations to our abortion laws without any democratic oversight whatsoever! >>> https://christianconcern.com/comment/coronavirus-exploited-by-enemies-of-democracy/