by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:

The fear-mongering over COVID is still going strong too, even as we stare down the barrel of another world war. The media laments that people are no longer fearful enough of the common cold and its “variants” so there should be more totalitarian control over the public, such as monitoring and testing.

Cases in England are rising again, with a 10% rise overall in hospital admissions and the greatest increase in the north of England. With testing reduced, and national monitoring paused (the ONS infection survey paused since spring and only recently relaunched) the ruling classes “have much less data about Covid than we ever had before,” according to a report by The Guardian. What the rulers have decided is that COVID hasn’t stopped evolving, and they claim to have a good idea about what sort of situations might result in new and dangerous mutations, but with less surveillance of emerging variants and spread, we are losing what used to be a near real-time picture of the situation.