Omicron infections plunging in Britain, so of course, it’s really just beginning!

Admitting that a good panic is too valuable to waste, Britain’s non-Scientific Advisory Group, who kicked this whole thing off to begin with, now claims that there will be “second wave” this summer.

Despite the encouraging data, official modelling made public today has warned there may be a massive rebound in Covid cases and hospitalisations this summer.

In a research paper submitted to No10's scientific advisory group (SAGE) last week, the team at Warwick University projected up to 10,000 daily admissions in an absolute worst-case scenario.

The modellers admit that they cannot predict the summer wave 'with any certainty', but they are confident there will be a resurgence between May and July 'due to increased mixing and waning vaccine immunity'.

They add: 'Precise timing and magnitude of this exit wave is highly dependent on both population behaviour and the scale of the current wave and cannot be predicted with any certainty.' 

Government modelling has been criticised throughout the pandemic but there has been intensified scrutiny this winter after several gloomy Omicron projections.

The UK Health Security Agency was censured by the country's statistics watchdog over a model which had up to a million Britons catching Omicron per day at the peak. Another model, by Professor Lockdown Neil Ferguson, suggested there could be 5,000 deaths from Omicron per day without tougher lockdown curbs. 

Ferguson is the same “scientist” who predicted 2 million deaths in Britain, 200 million worldwide, from Avian flu — there were 4 — claimed that EBOLA would kill millions more — there were none — and set the country and the world afire with his shrieks about SAR. He is the one whose wild claims in January, 2020 that the US would see 22 million deaths by the summer set off the panic and disastrous lockdown, and he’s still at it. If his panic mongering were confined to just Britain, the harm he’s caused wouldn’t be all that significant, but until recently, his word has been accepted as authoritative, and spread across the world as gospel. À la lanterne!