{"id":52496,"date":"2020-04-14T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52496"},"modified":"2020-04-14T19:08:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:08:48","slug":"leaked-home-office-call-reveals-government-wants-economy-to-continue-running-as-we-will-all-get-covid-19-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52496","title":{"rendered":"LEAKED HOME OFFICE CALL Reveals Government Wants Economy to \u2018Continue Running\u2019 As \u2018We Will All Get\u2019 COVID-19 Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2020\/04\/09\/leaked-home-office-call-reveals-uk-government-wants-economy-to-continue-running-as-we-will-all-get-covid-19-anyway\/\">LEAKED HOME OFFICE CALL\u00a0Reveals Government Wants Economy to \u2018Continue Running\u2019\u00a0As \u2018We Will All Get\u2019 COVID-19 Anyway\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NHS-HOSPITAL-scaled-1-910x0-c-default.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nafeez Ahmed reports on Home Office private advice suggesting a \u2018zombie herd immunity\u2019 policy risking hundreds of thousands of deaths.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaked recordings of a Home Office conference call on Tuesday, exclusively obtained by&nbsp;<em>Byline Times<\/em>, reveal that the Government has all but given up in its fight against the Coronavirus and is intent on simply finding \u201ca method of managing it within the population\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recordings show Home Office Deputy Science Advisor Rupert Shute stating repeatedly that the Government believes \u201cwe will all get\u201d COVID-19 eventually. The call further implied that the Government now considers hundreds of thousands of deaths unavoidable over a long-term period consisting of multiple peaks of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Premature Defeatism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While urging the importance of reducing the burden on the NHS by staying at home, Shute downplayed the risk of people contracting the virus at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cIt\u2019s perfectly okay to carry on around your business. And it\u2019s vitally important that you do as there\u2019s a whole bunch of supply chains and the economy that needs to continue running\u2026 So carrying on with your normal work is not putting you in harms way anymore so than staying at home or going out shopping. So I keep coming back to this point that we are all going to get this at some point. And it\u2019s about making sure that we have a really strong NHS there to support us when we do get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy being communicated by the Home Office privately among Government staffers is at odds with Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s statement at a press conference three weeks ago that the next 12 weeks could \u201cturn the tide of this disease\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEAKED HOME OFFICE CALL\u00a0Reveals Government Wants Economy to \u2018Continue Running\u2019\u00a0As \u2018We Will All Get\u2019 COVID-19 Anyway\u00a0 Nafeez Ahmed reports on Home Office private advice suggesting a \u2018zombie herd immunity\u2019 policy risking hundreds of thousands of deaths.\u00a0 Leaked recordings of a Home Office conference call on Tuesday, exclusively obtained by&nbsp;Byline Times, reveal that the Government has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[29438,3263,14695,6948,29439,855],"class_list":["post-52496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-byline-times","tag-herd-immunity","tag-naffed-ahmed","tag-uk-government","tag-uk-home-office","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52497,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52496\/revisions\/52497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}