A goose-step too far?

The bumbling bag of wind we have for a Prime Minister in the UK yesterday announced more restrictions, vaccine passports in some places, and ushered in the spectre of mandatory vaccination for the UK.

It’s Omicron, you see. Although Omicron now has a “sister” according to some news reports. Apparently, we weren’t frightened enough by Omicron itself so they doubled down. I reckon it should be called Omicron-B - which is an anagram of “no Crimbo”.

The words he spoke were in English, but he sounded like the pianist who plays all the right notes - just in the wrong order. I’m sure if I took his speech yesterday, and jumbled up the words, there would be some order I could find in which his statements made sense.

It didn’t start too well. Right off the bat, at least in the clips I saw, he was talking about “the relentless logic of exponential growth”.

The only word that’s actually true in that statement is the word “of”

Once again, we see the utter disregard for natural immunity, infection-acquired immunity, and, God forbid, even vaccine-acquired immunity (should such a thing ever be shown to exist).

Exponential growth, my arse

(For those of you not familiar with UK vernacular - when you put “my arse” at the end of a statement like this, it is equivalent to saying “exponential growth? That’s nonsense”)

You do get something that looks a bit like exponential growth in the very early stages of an outbreak, but it quickly dampens down and is self-limiting. Here’s why.

Let’s imagine a gas inside a container. Let’s suppose all the gas molecules are blue. We’re going to introduce a red molecule which has the property that if it hits a blue molecule it turns it red. The molecules are whizzing about, as is their wont, and they will keep colliding with one another (you can work out how often this happens based on things like the density and temperature).

To start with there’s going to be one red molecule and squillions of blue molecules. Pretty much everything the red molecule hits will be blue. The new red molecules generated by the collisions are also pretty much going to find themselves in a mostly blue world. So, to begin with, you’re going to see a rapid increase in the number of red molecules which looks very close to exponential.

As time goes on, however, the red molecules will start to collide more and more with other red molecules - the frequency of conversion will start to dramatically change. The red molecules will find it harder and harder to find blue molecules to collide with. The rate of red/blue collisions (i.e. infections) decreases.

Now obviously this is a very simplistic model that doesn’t properly capture the intricacies of population dynamics and infections (or recovery and immunity) - but as a broad model to understand how things slow down because of community immunity, it’s quite good.

The words “relentless logic of exponential growth” were designed to sound suitably technical and scary - but it’s really just meaningless techno word salad.

After 2 seasons of this thing, coming into a 3rd, we are definitely not living in a blue world anymore. But, of course, for some inexplicable reason they want everyone to be injected with the Glorious Goo - even though many (most?) don’t actually need it.

Once again - we see the complete disregard for natural and infection-acquired immunity.

Not a good start Johnson - you absolute condom-full of rancid jizz. Although, given his ability to increase the population of the UK with his various dalliances, I think a condom would have been historically advisable. He wasn’t clapping for all the nurses in the NHS, he was probably giving them the clap.

Here’s another historical event that could have been so different

That was our previous Health Secretary who was captured on camera being an anti-social distancer with his aide, and had to go.

I’m going to miss out on the restrictions Johnson mentioned - and the unscientific claptrap that are “passports” (which don’t have any beneficial health outcome) - except to show this chart on the situation in Germany who seem to have gone all “Ihre Papiere, Bitte” again too.

The vaccines and their bastard love child, the vaxxpass, are working spectacularly well aren’t they?

After tightening the screw, and indulging in his favourite pastime of screwing people, the Johnson of Delight then dropped a bombshell.

He said that at some point we may need to have a “conversation” about mandatory vaccination in the UK. The translation of these weasel words is “we would very much like to introduce mandatory vaccination in the UK and will do so when we judge the time is right”.

This is the guy who once said that if mandatory ID cards were introduced in the UK he would eat his with his breakfast cereal. That’s how much he objected to a mandated piece of plastic.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably already horrified at this sort of thing happening all over the world right now - so I’m not going to bore you with another diatribe. Suffice it to say we must resist, and continue to resist, the imposition of the Glorious Goo.

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