For 5 months or so last year England was the only country in Europe without a mask mandate until the government panicked over Omicon and brought in 'Plan B' reinstating the mask mandate.
Most other European countries had much stricter restrictions than England. France for example, a comparable country with a similar population had a mask mandate much stricter. People even have to wear them outside! So you'd think that their infection rates would be much lower than England's. No?
For the last three days France has recorded over 400,000 new infections each day, and they are doing about half the amount of tests that we do here in the UK.
18th Jan - 464,769
19th Jan - 436,167
20th Jan - 425,183
So yes masks work..............
The French are doing loads more tests, and even more so since the Buffoon is trying to deflect attention, and tell its all over, and winding down PCR testing, and suggesting that LFTs will also be gone in a few weeks.
And, what a surprise, the UK official daily infection rates have plummeted.
The scientists have proven that the Omnicron variant is 3 times less likely to put you into intensive care than Delta variant. Which is good
. But, we were running at over 3 times the previous peak of daily infections. Obviously, we also have the added advantage that more of the population have been vaccinated.
Another risk of running at such high levels of infection is there will be more mutations. They could be milder, they could be more dangerous. If they manage to escape the vaccines, even the mild ones can be dangerous.
So our leaders are playing Russian Roulette with the population, because he'd already lost his party before the last month's worth of revelations.
As for GB News, its started out promising, but sadly has become just like the BBC/CH4 news, going for sensationalism rather than journalism, albeit it with a more palatable middle right bias.