2:26:15 Well now to avoid a tough winter and stem a rise in Covid cases, the outgoing German Chancellor is keen to activate the country's 3G rule which basically means vaccine passports, mandatory masks and if you're part of that 33% of the German population which has refused the vaccine, you're not getting into anything. You are banned from from living a basic, normal human lifestyle. We're going to come back and talk about what's happening with COVID cases in the UK. Summit.News. We'll be right back. We are back and we continue to see the drumbeat for another lockdown in the UK being rolled out by the media. Sky News reporting, quote, we've got a clip here which is going to play in a second, with the UK's coronavirus epidemic escalating by the day. It's not escalating by the day, it's been going down for the past two weeks. It's no longer a case of if plan B will be triggered, but when, say experts. Well, those experts obviously aren't looking at the frigging numbers.
2:27:16 Economic Secretary to the Treasury John Glenn, however, declined to give exact dates for when restrictions may return. So they're just openly saying that they're going to return despite the fact that the numbers day by day prove them wrong time and time again. We've talked about it many times before. The same people trotting out these demands for more restrictions have been proven wrong time and time again, yet they're still being platformed by the mainstream media to say the exact same thing. Let's go to this clip from Sky News and I'll come back and talk about it. Here's the clip. What point do hospitalisations or the mortality rate get insufferable, so much so that we move to plan B? When does that happen?
2:27:56 Well the data points vary across the country and the committees of government ministers that meet to discuss it take advice from public health experts and the wider health community as to what is the best way forward. But there are a number of things to consider with respect to how we move forward and those matters are under review constantly. Would it not be better then to be absolutely crystal clear with the public and explain to them at what point they should expect, and there is an expectation building now that plan B will come, it's just when it comes, that they will have a clear idea as to when they should expect these further measures to be reintroduced? Well, as I said, the imperative for the government at the moment is to get this booster rollout accelerated so we can be in a position
2:28:50 where as many people are in the best place possible. We look at these things across a number of data points and we will make decisions in due course, as we have done throughout this crisis. So again, now you see it, they're talking about the expectation, the inevitability of these restrictions being brought back into place. While the COVID case numbers have been going down for the past two weeks, again, the last time COVID cases were the highest after the last January spike, were two days before the so-called freedom day when mask mandates were in place and had been in place for the past 10 months. That's the last time we had the highest case number this year after the January lockdown. So they're saying these restrictions are going to be brought back. Everyone believes they will be. It's inevitable.
2:29:41 Sky News reporting this, by the way, then today the same news organization reports this, COVID-19. UK reports another 37,269 coronavirus cases, 214 deaths. says it compares with 41,299 COVID-19 cases and 217 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Wednesday and 39,842 and 165 this time last week. So compared to a week ago, compared to a day ago, the COVID cases of while out the other side of its mouth it's saying, oh, COVID cases just keep increasing. The pandemic's getting worse. We need more restrictions. Your own news organization is reporting the figures from the official government dashboard that the cases are going down, and you are telling the public that they're going up. They're not going up. I've been talking about this for the past two, three weeks. And in fact, Andrew Lilicow writes an article for The Telegraph in which he lays all this out.
2:30:57 Headline is, why won't the broadcast media accept that COVID cases are going down? Says on COVID, the good news just keeps coming. Relative to seven days before, official cases have fallen for 11 straight days and the seven-day average is now down about 18% from its peak. Cases in kids start falling at about October 18th, a full week before half-term started. So of course you had the mass testing with the kids going back to school in September, with the university students going back to university at the end of September. That created all these positives again. The vast, vast majority of those kids and students symptomless, not getting ill, not going into hospital, but the fall had actually begun before that, proving again that the fall, the rising cases has nothing whatsoever to do with restrictions.
2:31:51 But the media will not tell you that. He goes on to say a new treatment has been approved, a drug in the UK, and that SAGE modelers now expect cases and hospitalizations to fall this winter. But we've been told that they're going to exponentially increase, and that's why we need new restrictions while their own models say they're going to go down, and while the day-to-day and week-on-week numbers continue to go down. He goes on to say, indeed, in some of their models, cases fall as low as 5,000 per day. Those who even just a couple of weeks ago were demanding an immediate shift to plan B, which is the reintroduction of mask mandates and lockdown measures, have been proven demonstrably wrong. And yet it's the same people that they try out time and time again. He continues to say, yeah, if you watch the main television channels, you would have precisely the opposite impression.
2:32:44 Yesterday, CNN released an interview with the Prime Minister in which he was challenged on why Plan B had not been implemented, given that as CNN's chief international anchor, Christiane Amanpour, tweeted, case numbers are spiking. They're not spiking, they're going down. They've been going down for the past two, three weeks. Then he talks about the same narrative being pushed by the BBC. And he says, I find this incomprehensible. Early on in the epidemic when data was difficult to come by or even when it was more abundant but non-specialist journalists had not yet learned to find it, one could have understood. But it's been 20 months. Every serious broadcaster must know how to obtain timely data. When the data contradicts their narrative, they just ignore the data.