Holiday bookings have exploded on the eve of the Government’s “air bridges” announcement, according to the Daily Mail.
Over the weekend, Britain’s biggest travel websites saw inquires for some European destinations rise by 350 per cent and bookings were up by as much as 80 per cent on the week before.
Travellers are being tempted by promised savings of up to 76%.
The reductions mean it is possible for a family of four to save more than £500 on the headline price of a sunshine break.
Such was the surge in interest that the Eurostar website ground to a halt under the weight of bookings.
I looked at booking a family holiday in Santorini in July on Sunday, but when I checked Greece was still conducting port-of-entry screenings and insisting that new arrivals who test negative quarantine themselves for seven days. Doesn’t sound like a barrel of laughs.
Beware the Jabberwocky Second Wave
So how worried should we be about a second wave? Readers will know my answer to that question, not least because I wrote a piece about it for the Telegraph on Friday.
Let’s start with Sweden. At this point, I’m going to hand over to Freddie Sayers, the editor of UnHerd. UnHerd‘s coverage of the pandemic has been consistently excellent. Freddie had a good article in the Sunday Telegraph about his home country.
Sweden, my normally uncontroversial motherland, is again at the front of this battle between the Pollyannas and the pessimists. Because of its more laissez-faire strategy, it must be finally proven to be either a triumph or a catastrophe. The truth is somewhere in between. Charts of newly recorded cases in Sweden or maps of new cases per 100,000 population look bad, as if that country is suffering a plague out of proportion with the rest of the continent. But look at a chart showing admissions into Swedish intensive care with Covid-19 and you’d think the epidemic was pretty much over – sharply falling from its peak in mid-April to under 200 people nationwide today.
The answer to this confusion lies in testing. Starting from a low base, the Swedes have now doubled tests, and so have started picking up large numbers of mild cases that previously went undetected. Case numbers look bad, but hospitalisations and deaths continue to come down. They have no excess deaths compared with what would be normal for this time of year.
It’s the same story across the rest of Europe: no second wave.
The real story across Europe has been that, despite country after country opening up, none has yet been hit by a genuine second wave. There have been big local outbreaks, such as in a meat-processing plant in Gütersloh in Germany and in Lisbon, but while they have understandably caused concern and led to local lockdowns, there have not been national surges or significant increases in hospitalisations or deaths.
What about the United States? The bedwetters’ line is that states that re-opened early have seen a “surge” in infections, although that’s not actually true since several states that re-opened early – such as Ohio – have not seen an uptick in infections and infections have continued to decline in those seven states that never shut down at all. Another difficulty with this hypothesis is that infections are rising in 22 states, not all of which re-opened early.
Partly, the rise is due to more people being tested, as this graph makes clear:
However, there’s no denying that in some southern and southwestern states, case counts have been climbing in a way that can’t be fully explained by increased testing. Last Friday, for instance, 25% of Arizona tests were positive, up from around eight percent on Memorial Day, when the rise began. Florida had a record single-day case count last Friday, and about a quarter of Alabama’s total cases have come in the last week. Scary stuff, right?
No, not really, because there’s been no corresponding rise in deaths. The daily death tolls are continuing to drop in Texas, Florida and Arizona, as they are for the whole of the United States, as this graph from the New York Times makes clear:
And before you say, “But what about the lag time between infection and death?” let me point out that cases started to rise in southern and southwestern states five weeks ago, so if the rise in cases was going to cause a proportionate rise in deaths we’d have seen that by now. Why haven’t we? Because most of the people getting infected since those states re-opened have been young people. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says the median age for new cases in his state is 37, while in Texas Greg Abbott says a majority of new cases are from people under 30. And as we know, the infection fatality rate for people under 50 with no underlying health conditions is close to zero. A recent seroprevalence study in Sweden found that among 36,000 sero positive cases, only two deaths were detected, giving an IFR of 0.005%.
And in the extremely unlikely event of an infected young person requiring critical care, we’ve got a lot better at treating the disease – Dexamethasone really does work.
Another complicating factor is that Arizona’s rising death toll is partly due to deaths that occurred much earlier only just being reported. On Wednesday, for instance, it reported 79 “new” deaths, but they weren’t really new at all, according to azcentral.
The 79 deaths, while included in Wednesday’s report, did not all occur in the past day. According to the health department, 53 of those deaths were from “death certificate matching” for deaths that occurred previously and the department is just identifying as Covid-related. Arizona’s death total now is 1,463.
1,463, incidentally, is low. Worth remembering that over 17,000 people have died in New York.
Meanwhile, across America as a whole daily deaths are 90% lower than they were at their peak (see graph below). Weirdly, though, the British media isn’t reporting that story.
Will All Schools Really Re-open in September?
In spite of the Government’s expressed intentions, I’m sceptical that all schools will re-open in September, at least not in full. A reader passed on this email from the headteacher of Highgate Woods School in Haringey which I fear is pretty typical.
Planning for September return – an update
I shared the table below with you last Friday. You may recall that we are planning for each of the four scenarios below, but that we are particularly focused on scenarios 2 and 3 as we think they are the most likely.
Scenario 1 COVID-19 disappears completely over the summer and the risk of contracting COVID-19 has been eliminated. Full school return in September
Scenario 2 The risk level of contracting COVID-19 is lower than now but not eliminated. This would probably mean that we could have half the school in at any time
Scenario 3 The risk level of contracting COVID-19 is something like now. This is likely to see Year 11/Year 13 in school significantly more than other year groups, whose main provision would be remote learning
Scenario 4 The risk of a severe second spike is high. School would be closed to all students
Since then you will probably be aware that the Prime Minister has announced that the Government plan to open all schools fully in September (scenario 1). However, at the moment, this is just a stated intention and from experience, we have seen such statements alter and in some cases get retracted. There has been no official guidance.
My view is that this is a highly ambitious objective by the government and although I welcome this, I am also clear that we will proceed with caution. Until such time that we receive official guidance from the Government, we will continue to plan for all four scenarios. The emphasis for us at HWS is safety first. Irrespective of the Government’s position, I want to reassure parents that we will make decisions about how we re-open based on our ability to do so safely.
At first glance, it’s hard to understand. He makes no attempt to explain why the school won’t re-open in full if there’s the slightest risk of the children contracting COVID-19, given that it poses less threat to children’s safety than a thunder storm. Mystifying. Then there’s a chink of light. He says he “welcomes” the Government’s objective of re-opening all schools in full in September but will only re-open his school if he receives “official guidance” to that effect. Well, of course. God forbid that a headteacher should take any initiative himself. That’s a bit clearer, I suppose: official guidance = school re-opening. But then the sky begins to darken again. He adds: “Irrespective of the Government’s position, I want to reassure parents that we will make decisions about how we reopen based on our ability to do so safely.”
In other words, he’s not going to reopen the school in full even if the Government orders him to do so.
My favourite bit is this line: “The emphasis for us at HWS is safety first.”
Forget about putting the welfare of the children first or, God forbid, their education. No, the critical thing is to put “safety” first.
Gawd help us.
Do Asda, Not As I Say
Got an encouraging email from a reader about how relaxed his local supermarket has become. I expect this is true of many shops that have embraced all the social-distancing bells and whistles.
My local Asda has all the lockdown features even the most fanatical virus paranoid could want: stickers, signs, screens, one-way lanes – you name it. No-one, not even the staff, now takes the slightest notice and there is zero enforcement. They’ve even stopped having a Brian Hanrahan on the door to count shoppers in and out. Nearby, the queuing lanes, once packed with the living dead waiting their turn, are empty with just the miles of tape flapping in the breeze.
Sceptic of the Week
A clear winner this week: Ralph Findlay, CEO of Marston’s, a pub chain that has 1,400 sites. He told the Mail that he will re-open 90% of his pubs on July 4th and not only will customers not have to register, he won’t insist on anyone having to wear face masks either.
The brewer will spend several hundred thousand pounds on personal protective equipment for employees who want to use it for “their own peace of mind” but not as a matter of course.
The Wolverhampton-based group, which owns the Pitcher & Piano and Revere chains, said it would leave pens and paper for customers to fill out their details if they wanted to.
It means this voluntary information, and potentially the records of those making digital bookings, will be the only data it can provide to help the Government’s track and trace efforts.
Unleashing the Welsh Dragon
For my Welsh readers, a crumb of comfort. Nicola Sturgeon, it seems, is acting even more ridiculously than your own First Minister. On Sunday it was announced that Scotland may introduce mandatory quarantine for those travelling from England if cases begin to rise once again. That won’t do much for the Scottish tourism industry. Bear in mind it’s worth £10.5 billion a year to the Scottish economy and employs approximately eight per cent of the working population.
A Rig Pig Writes
Got an excellent email from someone who works on a North Sea oil rig – sort of a Postcard from the North Sea. Sounds like he’s had to put up with less social distancing balls than most, but even in the middle of the North Sea there are still some face mask Nazis…
I work offshore in the North Sea, and work has continued as normal – we have gone to four weeks on/four weeks off instead of our normal 3/3 – ostensibly to reduce the amount of time spent in heliports and traveling. But the rig has actually been busier than ever, with more people on board than normal. Gotta keep the gas flowing! We have established token social-distancing: removing every other seat in the mess room, or spreading out in the locker-room for our pre-shift briefing instead of sitting shoulder to shoulder. We also don’t meet our back-to-backs face-to-face on crew change day (you used to get a quick ten minute chat while the helicopter was turned-round). All perfectly reasonable, and non-intrusive. We still work very (physically) closely, it just goes with the job – my mate is holding something in place while I bolt it up.
The “authorities” have come up with some rather daft policies, needless to say.
My first “lockdown trip” was just after the full lockdown started. After taking the crew of 12 in half at a time to watch a rousing video from our head honcho – “You may ask why you are still going out to work when the whole country is in lockdown? The answer is because YOU are powering the country” – we then went into separate departure rooms to get our survival suits on and watch the safety video. Six people together is surely safer than 12! Then all got on the same helicopter to fly out to the same rig to live and work together for four weeks! (No masks required that time.)
The following trip out (so eight weeks later) was much the same, but we had to wear these stupid snoods whilst on the chopper, which I found extremely annoying, and couldn’t help keep faffing with it and itching my face.
I do accept wearing this during the helicopter journey though, out of politeness to the pilots if nothing else. However…
Coming home from that trip, we were out on the upper deck, in the North Sea wind, 30 yards away from the helideck, waiting for the helicopter (with blades turning) being refueled. I had my snood around my neck, and was told that I MUST wear it right now. “If the pilots see you, we will get a snotty email from the helicopter company,” I was told. I asked: “Do you think viral transmission is likely in the middle of the ocean next to a running helicopter?” and was given a “rules are rules”-type reply.
The final stupidity was that we were explicitly told we were not allowed to remove these muzzles whilst walking across the Aberdeen tarmac, only when we were INSIDE the terminal!
All in all, I feel like one of the lucky ones. When offshore, things are almost completely normal, working away and surrounded by friends. But these completely random rules from the heliport did my head in, as did not being able to go straight to the Spider’s Web boozer for a traditional back onshore pint.
Is Anything Not a Symptom of COVID-19?
According to Fox News, the CDC has added yet more items to its already very long list of COVID-19 symptoms. It’s just as well the pubs are closed because everyone waking up with a hangover would think they had the virus.
Why Aren’t We Allowed to Go to Ethiopia?
A reader who went to Ethiopia recently on his hols got a heart-rending note from the guide he hired to take him round the Simien Mountains National Park. The advice from the Foreign Office is to avoid the country. But why? People are literally dying in Ethiopia because the tourism industry has collapsed. My correspondent writes:
To begin with, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Ethiopia has been 89 in a population of roughly 109 million. The peak was in April. The FCO is of course advising against all but essential travel to Ethiopia, and the Government is not planning to include Ethiopia in its initial “air bridge” scheme. It’ll probably be one of the last countries to get its tourism industry back. Yet the infection rate has been much higher in those countries that are part of the air bridge scheme. The only rationale for this policy (playing into perceptions of the country) would be that Ethiopia has under-reported deaths, or can’t properly test people so doesn’t know. But the reverse seems to be the case, and they are getting praise for their response (e.g., here and here). Is it that they are not screening people coming in to Addis Ababa? Apparently not. They seem to be doing screening and also requiring a 14 day quarantine in a hotel of their choice. So it seems that Ethiopia ought to be high on the list of countries with whom we could run an air bridge scheme. Apparently “some Caribbean islands” are high on the list, so it’s not like the GDP of the nation in question or the likely demand for flights is all that much of an issue – after all, demand for flights to Ethiopia was enough that Ethiopian Airlines was (until COVID-19) going to begin direct flights from Manchester to Addis Ababa (they already fly direct from Heathrow). It does make me wonder whether “some Caribbean islands” are on the list for other reasons.
The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution
I interviewed Professor Eric Kaufmann for the Quillette podcast on Friday. He wrote an absolutely spell-binding essay about America’s Mao-ist moment for Quillette last week and this was an opportunity for me to explore some of his ideas in more detail. Professor Kaufmann believes America may be going through something akin to China’s Cultural Revolution in which many aspects of American society, from the constitution to the name of the country, could change. I’m not quite as alarmist as him, but his argument is persuasive.
Propaganda Poem
A mum of two primary school children sent me this poem that was set for her 10 year-old in Year Five last week. The poor little mite was expected to learn this abominable propaganda by heart! She quite rightly told the school to get knotted. Message: The Lockdown has brought about a spiritual awakening that has made people realise the error of their planet-destroying ways.
Round-Up
And on to the round-up of all the stories I’ve noticed, or which have been been brought to my attention, in the last 24 hours:
- ‘Second national lockdown not needed – Neil Ferguson‘ – Some common sense from an unexpected source
- ‘Why Tearing Down Institutions is Almost Always Bad‘ – Good Medium post by AKA hollymathnerd
- ‘Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy‘ – Excellent summary of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of face masks in preventing infection (tl;dr: there isn’t any)
- ‘Weddings off until September, as councils are yet to make venues “Covid secure”‘ – Bad news in the Telegraph for those hoping to get married over the summer
- ‘UK on “knife edge” amid fears of second spike‘ – Bedwetting balls from Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Welcome Trust and a member of SAGE
- ‘Beach-goers are the new Brexiteers for Remainer snobs‘ – Nice piece in the Telegraph by my old mucker Julie Burchill
- ‘The double-think of the woke elite blinds them to their own ridiculousness‘ – Madeline Grant on Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge’s newly-appointed Professor of Wokeness Studies
- ‘Long periods of lockdown could weaken the immune system and leave people more vulnerable to dangerous viruses, Oxford epidemiologist warns‘ – Professor Sunetra Gupta with a piece in the Mail on Sunday. She’s said it before but it can’t be said often enough
- ‘Much-hyped contact-tracing app a terrible failure‘ – Cheer up, Matt. The contract-tracing app in Australia is a car crash too
- ‘City centres “face disaster” unless office staff return‘ – In 12 months time, city centres will just be lawless zones in which large groups of feral youths pass the time by lobbing bottles at police officers. Oh no, wait. They’re already like that
- ‘Britain’s childhood obesity crisis made worse by lockdown‘ – Depressing story in the Sunday Times
- ‘Stop Firing the Innocent‘ – Yascha Mounk in the Atlantic on the innocent bystanders being cancelled by the Woke mob
- ‘You Say You Want a Revolution?‘ – Andrew Sullivan with another must-read column in New York magazine
- ‘‘Volunteer’ Hawaiians Turn “Paradise On Earth” Into An Island Of Snitches‘ – Another bucket-list holiday destination gets red-lined
Theme Tune Suggestions From Readers
Just one suggestion today: “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M. Can’t believe we haven’t had that one before. Or have we?
Small Businesses That Have Reopened
A few weeks ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have reopened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you. Now that non-essential shops have reopened – or most of them, anyway – we’re now focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet. Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
Note to the Good Folk Below the Line
I enjoy reading all your comments and I’m glad I’ve created a “safe space” for lockdown sceptics to share their frustrations and keep each other’s spirits up. But please don’t copy and paste whole articles from papers that are behind paywalls in the comments. I work for some of those papers and if they don’t charge for premium content they won’t survive.
Shameless Begging Bit
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And Finally…
Jonathan Pie’s latest rant – about cancel culture – is well worth a watch. When he’s good, he’s very, very good.
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Two weeks into compulsory masks in Scottish shops and only one fixed penalty notice issued so far:- (headline is misleading)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53523574
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Supmaker-Knight-Halloween-Costume-Cosplay/dp/B07W9BQLBC/ref=bbp_recs_dp_dt_4/258-9206169-1208123?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07W9BQLBC&pd_rd_r=1bf62011-7a68-47c6-85f2-371246597a5b&pd_rd_w=d0FP4&pd_rd_wg=dctb9&pf_rd_p=57d1c56d-2d93-4bc8-bb83-227b58d2d6ab&pf_rd_r=MPFJ9HWYWF0YH2ENZHH8&refRID=MPFJ9HWYWF0YH2ENZHH8&th=1
I’m going to order one of these for next Friday!
If you still can’t understand what is behind the global shutdown, here’s the answer:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-2020-economic-crisis-global-poverty-unemployment-and-despair/5717157
Town is full of unicef posters in bus stops. Good they have a giant advertising budget. One wonders why the clevers at unicef dont just tap mr generous with his money himself Gates. Instead they decide fundraising from the scared hard up public is a better use of funds.
Im pretty sure melinda and bill both are all about children, maybe unicef have tapped them already.
The unicef posters state something similar to:
Cronona pandemic is the largest crisis to affect children since ww2.
I find it disingenuos since the government reponses to the virus are what had affected children. Children are not affected by covid in anything like a pandemic of illness.
Two short videoclips published I think today an interview with Prof John Lee eloquent with his usual very common sense approach about Covid-19.The full interview probably available on the web but found these two clips
Linked in two twitters
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1277952298262704129
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1277957580355076096
“Shut down the Guardian to save people from the devastating life destroying affects of virus fear porn”, says MSM expert Prof STD
The good old Appeal to Authority argument.
There’s been a lot of news stories purporting to make a single expert opinion the last word on a subject.
This is going to be a big, head-scratching puzzle for the BBC, normally so good at finding links between things…
(Hat tip to Digg at Biased BBC).
What’s the point you’re trying to make with this?
More Grauniad virtue-signalling/bossiness featuring a Gates-funding shill from the LSHTM. Why isn’t he isn’t wearing his beloved face-nappy in the photo if he’s so keen to parade his CV19 credentials to us lesser mortals?
As the quote from the prof says:
“I wear a mask wherever I go. For me, it is to remind people that there is an epidemic.”
So not for any medical reason
‘In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.’
https://bit.ly/2WtkDrD
Whatever individual perspectives seems a wee bit premature to rush through a Covid 19 jobby, particularly if they are planning to make it mandatory.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said there had been “an unusually high incidence” of coronavirus among children in Leicester since increased testing began in the city 10 days ago.
Surely this is an actual admission of “seek and you will find”? How the f* are they getting away with this??
And why did they start testing so much in Leicester 10 days ago anyway? Since, by the BBC’s own admission, “local data suggests that coronavirus patient numbers are in line with the rest of the country”? Was there an increase in 111 calls or GP reporting or anything like that?
CF my shotgunned responses across today’s page. Yes, it’s an absolute admission that’s the situation has been deliberately manufactured so that the government can show that they _can_ do a local lockdown and lockdown works. We’re being lied to. It’s not even a clever lie – it’s completely obvious – but we’re lapping it all up anyway.
Matt Hancock must be laughing at us, the little worm. I bet there’s at least one bottle of veuve cracked open in the Hancock household this evening.
I can’t stand this – they’re playing with people’s lives, jobs, education, mental and physical health, all on a whim. I’ve still got half my life to go in this penal colony of a country, and as for my 6-year-old I’m genuinely frightened for her future.
We need to stand up for the rights of citizens now, they are being taken away from us and we are letting them do it.
I fear for future generations, what sort of lives are they going to have?
100% agree and I fear for my niece aged 9.
Waking people up to the fact is very slow, I see more people awake, but we need more, many more.
What a sad state of affairs.
I agree Dave.
Make sure she knows she’s loved, make sure she’s seeing her friends as much as possible. Never accept anyone telling her to ‘social distance,’ keep her from the worst of the madness and make sure she understands the world has gone mad around her but it’s not her problem.
Those of us who have kids and I’m sure also grand kids (I also have a 6 year old and an 8 year old as well) are more worried about them and their futures than anything else, as is normal. But this too shall pass.
My god, but I’m angry today, though.
She doesn’t social distance, we vetoed that right from that start. Doing my best to keep her sane, as much as I can at the moment given that my own sanity feels quite precarious. Fortunately we have a couple of friends who feel the same, but most are pro-lockdown and won’t let their kids go within 10 feet of another human being.
Today is my angriest day in a long while. I think the whole Leicester thing has triggered it. It’s made it apparent that they can and will continue to do this to us for as long and as often as they want, and on the flimsiest of pretexts. With 24 hours notice we can be locked up again at any time from now until the end of time. What an awful way to live.
Had to look up “veuve”, every day is a school day…
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin is a French Champagne house based in Reims, specializing in premium products.
The best Champagne in the world (in my humble opinion 🙂 )
That’s why I went for veuve!
Krug Grande Cuvee!
“How the f* are they getting away with this??”
The Coronavirus Act 2020 = we can do what we like.
Most comments on the national papers are pro the leicster lockdown.
It is going to be intersting if they are similar once we get in to winter and there are millions of job losses people will change their tune then.
Why can we see the economy is *uggered but others seem to completely blind to it.
The attached is a screen shot from the BBC News website today at 16:15 BST, which is it?
Agree I never listen to the bbc for obvious reasons
I love the optimism that thinks we’re heading for an unemployment rate of 3M. It’s touching that some people still believe in fairies.
The nationals are always going to be pro-lockdown (at least their editorials). It’s the usual bulshit: they’re not cases, they’re positive tests found by notoriously unreliable methods.
Spot on. The papers are still being bribed to shovel out this shit. There are no exceptions, no, not even the DT! Only the occasional tame op-ed to make us think they’re balanced. Cummings has been gunning for the BBC and wants to end the licence fee so, as ever, they will be asking ‘how high?’
We think it has been a brilliant move, a week before the lockdown is ‘eased’ (sick joke) that loads of testing units roll into Leicester (Labour Council, unusual demographic) with their next-to-useless PCR tests and find exactly what they’re looking for. Mostly children, all/most asymptomatic. I bet hardly anyone is even poorly there – it is so obviously fake news.
Yet nearly all today’s papers have similar front pages, I notice: lots of ‘spike’, ‘surge’, ‘cases’ and, more threateningly, ‘first local lockdown in Leicester’, I wonder what that tells us…..
My brother in law’s sister worked on a covid ward in the city until about a month ago, when she was transferred back to her old job.
PS: she’s had a blood test and tested negative.
“first” local lockdown, seems like time for people to form local defiance movements.
I thought the leader in Saturday’s DT ” Justify the loss of our liberties” was pretty anti-lockdown; it even pointed out that “the data … indicates that more activities should be opened” and that “schools need to go back in September without social distancing”.
Definitely, but not so much anti-lockdown content has been posted on there since after the early hour of Sat morning when they went up. And, maybe I’m misremembering, but I swear that a headline poster yesterday morning talking of “absurd rules” marriages will need to follow got changed yesterday evening to say simply “rules”.
Thanks, Edna, I’ll check it out. I don’t take the DT, only look at their website. I’ve seen a couple of good anti-lockdown op-eds by Allison Pearson and Janet Daley. However, there have been several recent posts on this site lamenting the proliferation of pro-lockdown pieces in the DT and, since the government has renewed the advertising partnership with the papers until July, it would be surprising if any newspaper went full anti-lockdown.
The Government were looking for a poster-child to showcase their new policy of ‘local lockdowns’ and Leicester drew the short straw.
Of course they are, they are nimby cowards.
What we don’t know is how much of this is genuine citizens and how much is 77th brigade.
It’s happening because they’ve artificially manufactured a ‘high number’ of positive test results (basically through a big testing push, including people who don’t have symptoms) so they can justify imposing a local lockdown to prove they can do it, to prove that they understand where the virus is and to prove they were right all along.
They’re lying to save their blushes and the people of Leicester are going to have to suffer for it.
The message it’s sending out (or should be) is don’t go to a test centre and get a test. If too many people do that your area might get locked down.
It’s funny because we SHOULD be testing more in order to understand the true spread of the disease and get a more accurate IFR but if governments are going to weaponise tests in order to impose local lockdowns then that’s a huge disincentive to do something which should be a good thing.
Quite honestly, I really couldn’t care less. I don’t spend my life obsessing over flu stats either.
Damn right. “Don’t get tested. Save your community. Screw Hancock”
See? I can do 3 part slogans too.
File under “I am not a conspiracy theorist, but…
I posted something along these lines the other day, but I was writing as Toby was posting the day’s update, so I’m not sure it was seen. Apologies if you’ve seen it. Also, Leicester has got me thinking about it again.
You could almost think that testing policy had been deliberately designed to maximise positive results throughout this “pandemic”, if you didn’t know better.
Starting from a very limited number of tests:
– first, you test only those who are very sick, with the symptoms of the virus you’re testing for
– then you add in those people who must have been exposed to the virus in a nosocomial setting and have symptoms (clinicians)
– Then you surge testing capacity and as you do so, you add in first other people with symptoms who must have been exposed in a nosocomial setting (care home workers) and second, people who will have also been exposed to them in a closed environment (family members)
– Then you include the portions of your society who have been circulating most freely (key workers) and therefore most likely to have been exposed to the… Read more »
@matt you have it spot on. I know people who want to get tested just to see if they have cv19, but cannot get an NHS test as they are not showing sympoms.
I would have thought the best thing for people having any of the symptoms is to stay at home away from everyone, not go out to a testing station, not as if the test leads to any specific medical care.
My worry is that they could be keeping the DNA of those who get tested..
Exactly. It’s all a complete nonsense.
A minor triumph but mine own – yesterday I emailed a fashion clothing company planning to launch a range of ‘face coverings’ to suggest they should put a health warning on them: do not wear if you have breathing difficulties or asthma. Today they replied saying their legal department have said it would be ‘prudent’ to do as I suggested.
Well done!
That is a significant triumph, bluemoon. Well done indeed.
30th June 1984:
I’m a bit late with today’s diary entry as we had an extra two-minute hate today for another lockdown sceptic, I’ve figured out that if we keep doing this no one will actually question whether or not the sceptics are right. I can’t actually remember his name, yet oddly I do remember his street name, NuvvaView.
I chanted the hate with no expression on my face but secretly wondered what NuvvaView had done wrong?
The Ministry of Truth said that he was spreading lies about Leicester.
Anyway, NuvvaView simply questioned some numbers, which he found to be terribly confusing and misleading.
The Ministry of Truth said in a statement: “The latest figures obtained by the city council show that 3,216 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Leicester since the start of the epidemic. Of these, 944 cases were reported in the last two weeks. These figures include the number of patients and staff testing as positive in hospitals… and positive cases identified in testing centres.”
NuvvaView wasn’t surprised by the figures since Matt Hancock had said that, ‘We have sent in a lot of extra testing into Leicester over the last 10 days’, and that would pick… Read more »
No Extension is now officially over the line. We’re leaving properly in January! – I can’t quite believe it yet. I had imagined a scenario in which the Establishment would have clung to the EU like shit to a blanket and I truly believe that but for The Crisis, enough Tory wets would have kicked off to get Brexit frustrated yet again. Instead, the riff-raff currently masquerading as Her Majesty’s Opposition meekly assented to the suspension of Parliament that they had fought against tooth-and-nail last year. Credit to Dominic Cummings for using the virus as a human shield for getting the job done. We Are Not Worthy.
And with perfect timing, even the BBC reports that death rates are now back to normal.
Strap in dude, you will get some flack now!😉
Bbc last night running news of “no deal brexit”. Not a peep about the “cost” of no deal over a 5 yr period is about 7 days of the current nonsense spending
We’ll get a deal, Steve. It’s in our interest and it’s in the EU’s too.
We may well be better out:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10006992/The-debt-ridden-EU-stares-bankruptcy-in-the-face.html
EU is irrelevant now. We’re part of a new international club and all EU member states are in it too. There is not even the pretence of parliamentary democracy in this new club and there certainly wont be any referendums. Therefore people can have their brexit if it helps keep them pacified a little longer. In case of any doubt I did vote leave and think we should have left with no deal at the original deadline.
Slightly off topic but does anybody else see the hypocrisy in the UK criticsing this?
Hong Kong: UK says new security law is ‘deeply troubling’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53235361
I see the hypocrisy, but I’m still glad we’re doing it.
Wish the UK would do mroe than criticise, if only we had a navy that could do some posturing against the crooks running China. Failing that maybe resurrect some of the methods we used to help france throw of the Nazis, an give the HongKong protest movements the kind of logistical support they need to kick the communists out. Since the security “law” was passed Hong Kong has no longer been under-rule-of-law, but under dictatorship, so I don’t see how the rest of the world would be violating in international laws if they aided that city’s proud people.
Boris said today that we weren’t a military superpower any longer. Shows how out of touch he really is; the rest of us realised this in 1956 immediately after the Suez debacle.
If the navy could take care of the crooks running this country first that would certainly be appreciated.
Coronavirus lockdown ‘avoided thousands of deaths’ in Scotland
A study has suggested between 7,000 and 40,000 people could have died from coronavirus in Scotland if the country had not gone into lockdown.
Scientists have tried to estimate would have happened if Scotland had copied the approach taken in Sweden, where a lockdown was not imposed.
https://bbc.in/3igOcqx
There we have it, definitive proof that as many as 35k lives were saved in Scotland due to lockdown based on modelling.
I think I should have taken Epidemiology at University instead of Engineering. Doesn’t seem that hard to input some numbers into an SIR/SEIR model. The output doesn’t even have to reflect reality because it will always be correct and reality wrong.
The correct word is ‘averted’, not ‘avoided’.
The correct response is: bullshit.
I did pose the question what would the same modelling show for Sweden as a test for accuracy but don’t think I’ll get a response.
Toby et al., could someone do a review of this study by the university of edinburgh? Sweden overall has a lower death rate per 100,000 population than the uk (scotland having a slightly lower death rate than england due to it being less densely populated), so how can it be that the swedish approach cost significantly more lives as implied! A 50/50 gamble!
Apart form the obvious poor conclusions, this study has manipulated the transmission rates (not the actual death rates), to spin a story which I am sure the scottish government will keep on referencing over the coming months. All we needed to do was lockdown 2 weeks earlier – blah, blah, blah!
These epidemiologists really do make it up as they go along. Sorry the computer says no, well simply make it say yes! Unbelievable.
Ha, I wish these “academics” would employ a little common dog here. Sweden, which adopted the Swedish approach, has suffered 5,310 deaths from covid 19 from a population of 10.23 million. Scotland has a population of 5.45 million, which is 53.3% of Sweden’s. 53.3% of 5,310 is 2,830
I think we can call BS on this one. Do these people think we’re thick, or are they thick???
Oh, and for the record, Scotland has had a total to date of 2,485 deaths (after a positive test). I think we can safely say lockdown hasn’t worked in Scotland either. No surprise there.
They think we are all thick! Unfortunately, this study is going to be used by disclosure scotland to undermine the swedish approach and say all we needed to do was lockdown two weeks earlier. There is a cartel at work here between the scottish government, bbc scotland and the reputation of epidemiology / public health.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-derbyshire-53190455?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5efb44e881e2240653d70ce1%26Hospital%20services%20%27not%20under%20significant%20pressure%27%262020-06-30T14%3A36%3A07.529Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:63faeb15-5899-4677-a71d-477a4e8da480&pinned_post_asset_id=5efb44e881e2240653d70ce1&pinned_post_type=share
Particularly like the part
But local data suggests that coronavirus patient numbers are in line with the rest of the country.’
So why the lockdown.?
I was searching for some Leicestershire NHS hospital figures last night when the lockdown was announced. As I though they are not seeing an increase in hospital admissions.
This is just another stage of the re-engineering of society.
My worry…
BBC Leicester are already talking about blame for the increase being put onto the various communities, (I assume the BBC are referring to the asian community? although they are being vague about which communities).
This could result in social unrest, just what is needed to take the edge off cv19.
Interesting that the Leicester hospitals felt that they needed to issue a statement to the effect that they were not in any danger of being swamped.
I hope that all those employed by the health authorities in Leicester are fuming with Hancock for imprisoning them for a further two weeks when they must know what he is saying is utter rubbish. Let’s hope some of them speak out!
If they are not swamped then these positives are people with only mild symptoms…or possibly even asymptomatic. A question: if you take a test, do they get your DNA and if so can they under the coronavirus law keep it on file?
I think they are doing nasal passage swabs, so I assume they will collect some samples which could be used for DNA collection, are they doing this? Who knows.
Yeeeees they are and then they’re cloning you.
They’re not. My brother in law’s sister worked on a covid ward in the city. She went back to her old job about a month ago. And she’s had a blood test and was negative.
I don’t think she’s very impressed. Her brother agrees with me.
Boris Johnson said in Dudley today, ‘I’m not a communist’. So why does he act like one? Why did he follow the example of a Chinese communist dictatorship into lockdown? Why has any effective debate and questioning of his lockdown policy been squashed and censored? Why is legislation implemented without due process? Why has he imposed an unnecessary lockdown on Leicester? Why have schools remained closed? Why have so many people been condemned to death in care homes? Why is wearing a face mask compulsory on public transport and in hospitals, effectively dehumanising and identity stripping and subjugating thousands? Why such heavy handed involvement in the running of the country, of businesses, of homes, etc.? Why the campaign of fear? Why the double standards? Why enforce rules that are nonsensical and impossible to follow? Why fine people if they’re not anti-social distancing? Why do you ignore the people? Why doesn’t the media ask relevant and probing questions? Why doesn’t parliament do the same? Why the draconian restrictions on weddings? The list goes on and on and on. It all sounds pretty communist to me mate!
Good questions – to which there are no good answers!
Boris Johnson said in Dudley today, ‘I’m not a communist’.
“never believe anything until it’s been officially denied”
attributed to Otto von Bismarck.
Good point!
I was thinking about BLM last night after I posted on that subject yesterday and then the Jonathan Pie clip above in Toby’s update got my creative juices flowing towards a conspiracy theory or two. Quite a few people acknowledge that BLM has a communist/Marxist agenda, and I can’t see that they deny this. They certainly want to annihilate capitalism. I then wondered about the timing as this kicked off big time after George Floyd’s death on 25th May. From there my jumpy thoughts (and I hadn’t had a drink) took me to the fact that part of BLM’s ‘uniform’ seems to be the wearing of masks. Now I’ve banged on (as have others) about the wearing of masks being a symbol of subjugation , and many agree which is why we also call them muzzles. So is it such a David Ickian leap to wonder if BLM are (or about to be) the foot soldiers for a more sinister force as were the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China in 1967 – and they were a barrel of laughs. If you didn’t say the right thing or conform to right thinking, or denounce who they wanted you… Read more »
Double drop some vitamin C’s. Communitarianism is a hybrid of Fascism and Communism, of which we have plenty of in spadeloads right now.
Yes,Vitamin C. Ta
BLM don’t need a physical army of masked foot soldiers. They have coopted a virtual army of faux-outraged woke twitter-warriors, who have willingly taken the opportunity to carry on doing exactly what they’ve been doing for years now – which is to generate a storm of “overwhelming public opinion” (in reality, none of those things) to make people simply cease to exist. The phenomenon isn’t new and the cause isn’t new, but the direct link to BLM is new and the genius is twofold:
First, it’s in the name. You can’t put up a morally justified argument against the simple statement ‘black lives matter.’ Therefore you must not question Black Lives Matter. The name sounds like a manifesto in and of itself, so nobody is encouraged to dig into the rest of the manifesto. We saw this here last night with that bloke GrantM – “your against BLM you racist.” No questioning, no interest in looking, because obviously black lives matter.
Second, BLM has positioned itself as the single voice for the racial equality and civil rights and anti-racism movements. They’ve done this because the “black lives matter” slogan came from the grass roots, so by adopting the… Read more »
My email to the National Gallery:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have just received an email from you regarding your plans to reopen on 6 July and having read the email and following the link to your website. I am dismayed at the measures you have put in place such as pre-booking, timed tickets, social distancing and one way systems. I am a member and regular visitor, part of the joy of coming to the National Gallery is having the ability to drop in when I am in the vicinity to view my favourite paintings in the collection and the thrill of discovering something new. This will not be possible under the “safety” measures that you have put in place.
Contrary to your claims, these measures will neither be “relaxing” nor “enjoyable.” I fail to see what is so relaxing and enjoyable going to the National Gallery when, your measures are redolent of what shops have been doing to make shopping joyless and reminiscent of the Soviet Union and East Germany.
I read the plan for members visiting and it is written that face coverings are “encouraged”. My husband and I are unable to wear one for health and psychological… Read more »
I can almost see the reply already,lots of platitudes about visitors wanting to be safe and if you don’t like it you can get lost and by the way,we don’t care about your support of us in the past.
Unfortunately I think it will go that way. That’s OK, Mr Bart Simpson has decided that we will not bother to renew.
Anybody been to their local post office recently?
My other half had to go this morning and was given the full toxic waste treatment. Are they all like that?
My little local one (part of a corner shop) is fine. Restrictions on the number of customers but otherwise normal, apart from a cobbled together plastic screen – no mask, gloves or other madness, I was even handed a till receipt like you used to get back in normal times!
Yes, mine is similar.
Same here.
Same here
Ours is fine.
Yes I think so,ours is in WH Smith and for weeks it had been a small haven of normality but now it has gone into full chemical and biological warfare mode.
Mine is quite normal thankfully. One place I enjoy frequenting. I even take the kids and they are also welcomed.
Our local one is perfectly normal, apart from the queuing outside rather than queuing inside.
Thanks, everyone. Looks like we have a little local Hitler.
Not to rock the boat intentionally but.
Queuing in the street isn’t fine. Give it a November gale or a December freeze and frail customers are really going to be hit hard. A summer rain is bad enough.
Pointing this out because the concept of any of this being fine isnt okay with me. I don’t mean to be argumentative, just add my opinion. Post office staff generally do a great job I think. Ours is as others say.
Got sent this from a non LS with just a question mark:
https://twitter.com/richdavisphd/status/1276629360212979712?s=21
Is it relevant as the experiment is bacterial and therefore larger than virus?
Just want to debunk it and would appreciate any help!
So, this is how I see it. Surgeons wear masks so that they don’t dribble, sneeze or drop bits of hair into your open body cavity. They stop large bits of stuff from exiting your nose and mouth. Of course a mask will stop large droplets from a cough or sneeze – at least from travelling forwards (positioning the petri dish to the side, top of bottom of the mask would probably give an entirely different result). But even so, this is only relevant to symptomatic people who are coughing and sneezing, and should be staying at home anyway. If you are asymptomatic (which is why we are told we need to wear masks everywhere) it doesn’t hold up. If your breath itself is full of virions, without coughing and sneezing (unlikely IMO), then surely they will just escape through the mask material and out of the top, bottom and sides and mix with the surrounding air the same as if you weren’t wearing one at all. Hence the original (and more sensible) WHO recommendation that you only need to wear a mask if you have symptoms, or are caring for someone with symptoms…
Methinks he’s trying too hard (all those tweets) so I’d wonder what his real agenda is. This is propoganda pure and simple. I have five papers in my bookmarks saying the exact opposite. As someone replies, we’ve gone without masks for millions of years let’s go another million. It’s a muzzle designed to say you are silenced.
I know he is a supporter of this site:
https://masks4all.co/
Shame we can’t leave comments!
Most important question is what mask was used? Difference between an old t-shirt and an N95 is significant.
Viruses are a lot smaller than bacteria so aren’t visible to the naked eye – he’d need to use an electron microscope to look at how many virus and water droplets made it through. This “experiment” is primary school stuff.
The problem with a lot of these demonstrations (which is what he calls it himself) is that they’re highly specific for a given situation. In this case a single incidence of talking, singing, coughing etc.
What happens if the mask is saturated after prolonged use? Do the virus particles seep through the material eventually and get propelled outwards once there? Notice how the singing and talking doesn’t stop the droplets completely, there is only a slight difference. Even after one minute of talking/singing the particles eventually seep through. The efficacy of the mask is likely to deteriorate over time.
Due to the extra force generated from sneezing it is likely the droplets are merely redistributed in other directions. A bit like shooting a bullet into water. It would be easy to assume that a mask catches everything but that is not tested in the demo. If somebody turns to sneeze away from another person, which is the norm, would the mask actually make it more likely that they infect the person they are turning away from?
So the demonstration is not comprehensive enough to be considered definitive proof that masks work.
Sometimes better not to engage in these things. You will never change their views. It takes a lot of time to investigate, then they just ask another question.
Direct link at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=-ZIX0ymg6wk&feature=emb_logo
That is a truly excellent video. Save a copy of it before any censorious b*stards try to suppress it.
Oops, posted this next to the wrong twitter link.
Well I think the guy has earned his PhD in the bleeding obvious.
To be fair he does explain in the thread what his experiment does and doesn’t show.
I would say probably the biggest problem here is that a dish of agar is not much like the lining of somebody’s nose. At least one hopes not.
Of course a mask will reduce transmission in some cases. But it can also make matters worse for the wearer especially if they already have an infection.
Big brother is watching: lockdown bullying causes pensioners to miss medical appointments
I thought I would share with you some disturbing news I had from an elderly couple who I delivered some shopping to. Both had been on the bus, wearing face masks, to attend a non emergency medical appointment, and used their pensioners bus pass to travel there.
West Midlands transport authority had their details and the bus pass, rather like an Oyster Card in London, recorded the journey. The next day they received emails from West Midlands transport authority which they described as intimidating and upsetting. They were informed that they must ‘stay at home unless absolutely necessary.’
As a result they will not be attending their follow up appointments. I do not know the medical circumstances but there will be others, including such like appointments as cancer screening.
For me, such communication makes me livid. But I have the choice and can use my car. Others can’t. Politicians and local officials need to stop treating the public in such an awful way and restore our rights to make personal, informed decisions.
That is appalling, disgusting, vile. Tell Peter Hitchens, for starters.
Tell Simon Dolan too – will be of use in his judicial review..
In a similar vein.
My local GP surgery sent out a blanket text yesterday. Mind in the middle of one of the most destabilising times for people used to depending on health care. The text read thusly:
Medical Centre. Please click on the link below to register for our Online Services. This will be the new way to order your repeat prescription. http://www.medcenlink. Ordering through our website will cease on the 3rd August.
This is the gold standard of how medical centres should act in a pandemic. You switch about relied upon services to cause as much chaos as possible. You don’t delay and make change when things are back to normal. You deliberately increase anxiety of those who depend on prescriptions.
I received a letter from a company called Livi – See your GP Remotely yesterday.
This is what we are are being pushed towards.
Some links here….
https://www.livi.co.uk/
https://www.nhsforsale.info/private-providers/livi/
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/03/exclusive-11-suppliers-chosen-to-provide-video-consults-during-covid-19/
Bloody disgusting,this intrusion into every part of peoples lives is out of control,the East German authorities would’ve have been proud of WMTA.
The fear that is being forced onto elderly and vulnerable people is psychological abuse.
In a similar incident,an elderly friend of ours refused the insistent offer of a mask from a little Hitler as she entered a shop only to be told that ‘she should be at home,not out shopping’ !.
I shared your outrage initially, but could the email have been a generic one sent out to all their ‘customers’ and simply coincided with their journey? Perhaps the transport authority have routes running into Leicester. Anyway, medical appointments are absolutely necessary and I hope you are able to encourage them to attend any follow ups.
I don’t know what’s going on in the W Midlands but here in the High Peak, we have travelled on our bus passes throughout without harassment, electronic or otherwise. We are now boycotting PT because we will not wear a face-nappy and we’re avoiding the New Abnormal as much as possible. (Getting very fit now we have to walk or cycle up and down the hills 🙂 )
Check the email they got and if this is true, write to your local councillor and complain. It is surprising that they are getting non-urgent medical appointments at the moment. If they are, this is essential travel and they mustn’t miss out because a jobsworth or an algorhythm triggered by a bus pass triggers this kind of diktat, generic or not.
https://twitter.com/gummibear737/status/1277911544328790016
Look at this 7 min video from a furious Prof Levitt Stanford Israel about the total fiasco of the epidemiologists esponse to Covid-19 and not reviewing data.Brilliant
This is excellent.
I’ve never seen Levitt so angry, not ever. This is pure gold.
This is brilliant. How do we get those who are currently making and influencing decisions to engage with this?
Ye gods, if only the BBC would show that!
Wow he’s furious and understandably so. Pitt this video can’t be shown in court for Simon’s judicial review.
Interesting he says herd immunity is 15% not 80%. We can’t be far off 15% in the U.K. surely? Considering the amount of asymptomatic cases.
He’s much angrier than he was a few weeks ago. Great stuff.
Enlightening excellent video.
Science as a field of human endeavour has completely failed, and failed the young people most.
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I have seen nothing from those proud graduates coming out of british universities who are supposed to be brain engaged critical thinkers. Are there any exceptions to my broad statement?
I am 21, graduated in 2019. I have a graduate job due to start next year in a sector that is supposedly ‘recession proof’ but we have never seen a recession like the one we are about to tumble headfirst into off the back of this ruinous lockdown, so who knows what could happen? I scroll through my social media feeds and see all my peers virtue-signalling about BLM and wanting so desperately to usher in Marxism and communism and I despair if this generation is the future. None of these young people have any living memory of the USSR, particularly if they and their parents are from the West.
I really wish there was something I could do, I feel quite powerless. I have debated starting up a blog but I don’t see what good that would do, given that we already have the wonderful LS anyway and there is so much information online today, my writings would get lost amongst the sea. I wish I had some kind of platform as well but sadly I don’t, I’m just pleb Joe Public.
Hi Poppy, if it is any consolation you are doing a great deal to raise the morale of us older LS readers by affirming that there’s a younger generation coming up who are sensible and thoughtful enough to question the lockdown.
Hi Poppy
You are welcome to post on my site Lockdowntruth I want it to be a group thing as I don’t have time to do it all myself.
In an ideal world it would be a central place for people to post stuff that can be browsed by anyone rather that comments here which essentially get lost the next day despite being really worthwhile.
Regards
LT
Just resd Poppy, you are the exception proving my grumpy rule. Thank you for posting.
Levitt is right to be so angry. As the data have come in, the case is increasing clear that not only is lockdown irrelevant (consider any number of data sources from cruise ships to US states with mild mitigation strategies in addition to Sweden and Japan etc.) but lockdown is extraordinarily destructive and possibly deadly. That devastation will unfold for the coming year and beyond. In the US for example, one metropolitan area New York is responsible for a huge percentage of deaths. Four months in, and we can say conclusively, following the data, that it was not a virus that killed 10s of thousands in the span of a few weeks in that one region. Why? It has not happened at that scale anywhere else. Conclusion: policy and bad medicine killed those people The data are absolutely unequivocal on this point. Yet, scientists are nearly universally silent as they hide away in their homes enjoying a holiday that now will likely extend into 2021.
Again, Levitt is right to be outraged and a movement to reign in and possibly defund the crappy “scientists” is now needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=-ZIX0ymg6wk&feature=emb_logo
There’s a direct link, truly excellent and ell worth downloading a copy before any filthy censors intervene. This will be some of the evidence we need to put the pro-lockdownists on trial for criems against humanity.
Wonder if this is Hancock’s master end-plan?
Apple And Google Admit Ethereum App To Let Employees Prove They’ve Been Vaccinated https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/06/16/apple-and-google-admit-ethereum-app-to-let-employees-prove-theyve-been-vaccinated/#43a6fc6840f7
Virginia Legislature Gives CDC, Board of Health Power to Mandate Vaccines for School Childrenhttps://thevaccinereaction.org/2020/06/virginia-legislature-gives-cdc-board-of-health-power-to-mandate-vaccines-for-school-children/
“The bill’s passing is even more concerning in light of the current race to develop COVID-19 vaccines, which are being fast-tracked and will likely be mandated despite legitimate concerns about potential risks and concerns about effectiveness.
While it normally takes 15 to 20 years to develop a vaccine, a vaccine for COVD-19 may be on the market by this September and federally recommended for use by all children and adults in 2021.”
Now that Virginia has handed over its vaccine law-making power to the CDC and ACIP, others are likely to follow, just as more employers are likely to adopt Civic Technologies’ proof-of-health verification app and others like it.
This is truly frightening..
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mass-tracking-covi-pass-immunity-passports-slated-roll-15-countries/269006/
https://www.covipass.com/
Zara and Mike Tindall are ‘ambassadors’ and Theresa May previously endorsed this company.
“Moolti-pass”. Will never fly.
Agree – it is seriously scary.. Wasn’t Prince Charles at Davos talking about a global reset too?
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/06/11/covid-now-comes-the-davos-great-reset/
Horrifying…
Thy figured that, despite people’s general tendency to laugh at David Icke, he had been successful enough to make ‘New World Order’ unusable.
Great Reset, now, that’s a phrase to warm the cockles of authoritarian hearts worldwide.
yes various pieces over the last few months have touted the covid pass … i find it very scarey! What i think they do is put it in the media casually, everyone thinks nahhh that won’t happen … then more mentions over the weeks/months to socialise everyone to the idea gradually and then wayhay guess what everyone you can do “your civil duty” and get a covid pass and do x, and go to y if you are in the correct medical category!!! Truly horrifying and cause huge divisions in society.
Scotlands Coronavirus Strategy Complete Failure.
Scotland today announced 3 deaths from coronavirus, an infinite increase on the previous 3 days and the biggest one day rise since the last recorded rise.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tried to downplay the significance insisting that it is important to focus on trend. A likely nod to the recent pictures of her “trendy” tartan facemask.
The names of the deceased were not released out of respect for the families but a memorial is being considered unless somebody else dies before the decision is made.
OOps wrong post