A Ferguson Worth Listening To
James Ferguson, who runs a financial research company called the Macrostrategy Partnership, has produced a research paper on the FPR (False Positive Rate) of the PCR test in which he explains why the PCR test is a poor diagnostic tool when the prevalence of COVID-19 in the general population is so low. (The lower the prevalence, the more likely it is that a positive result is a false positive).
Here’s the opening section:
The UK has big problem with the false positive rate (FPR) of its COVID-19 tests. The authorities acknowledge no FPR, so positive test results are not corrected for false positives and that is a big problem.
The standard COVID-19 RT-PCR test results have a consistent positive rate of ≤ 2% which also appears to be the likely false positive rate (FPR), rendering the number of official ‘cases’ virtually meaningless. The likely low virus prevalence (~0.02%) is consistent with as few as 1% of the 6,100+ Brits now testing positive each week in the wider community (pillar 2) tests actually have the disease.
We are now asked to believe that a random, probably asymptomatic member of the public is 5x more likely to test ‘positive’ than someone tested in hospital, which seems preposterous given that ~40% of diagnosed infections originated in hospitals.
The high amplification of PCR tests requires them to be subject to black box software algorithms, which the numbers suggest are preset at a 2% positive rate. If so, we will never get ‘cases’ down until and unless we reduce, or better yet cease altogether, randomized testing. Instead the government plans to ramp them up to 10m a day at a cost of £100bn, equivalent to the entire NHS budget.
James has kindly given me permission to republish this research, usually only available to his paying clients. This is a masterly skewering of the current nonsense about cases rising “exponentially”, exposing the poor maths and misunderstood science underpinning the second wave hysteria. (For an example of this hysteria, read this article in today’s Sunday Times.) It makes a great companion piece to the paper by the three eminent scientists that Lockdown Sceptics published last Tuesday.
Very much worth reading in full.
It’s quite long, but it’s written in lucid prose and the maths is easy to follow if you have half a brain cell – which, apparently, Matt Hancock does not. You won’t read a better piece on this whole fiasco today.
Stop Press: My financial journalist friend has an interesting observation about the Prime Minister: “Boris reminds me of a hereditary king – Edward II or Henry VI – who is so staggeringly incompetent that he must be removed before doing too much damage. I felt the same way about May but Boris is worse. Your idea of a ‘pop-up’ party to fight the next local election might concentrate the minds, just as the Brexit Party put paid to May.”
Will Boris Cancel Christmas?
We’re worried that Christmas will be cancelled this year. But the Telegraph‘s Parliamentary sketch writer Michael Deacon thinks there’s no cause for concern. Won’t happen, according to him.
Not even Agatha Christie could have dreamt up a twist like this. Before he entered Downing Street, Boris Johnson was, above all else, a vigorous defender of personal liberty. A tireless opponent of the nanny state. An implacable foe of bureaucratic bossiness. If he believed in anything at all, it was freedom.
And what does he do when he gets into power? He makes Christmas dinner a criminal offence.
No one could have seen that one coming. The man himself certainly didn’t. Only a couple of months ago, he told the country he was looking forward to a “more significant return to normality” by the end of the year, and declared that “the good solid common sense” of the British people would see us through.
Yet now, it seems, his faith has wavered. His resolve has shrivelled. Because here he is, just a couple of months later, banning all social gatherings of more than six people. So unless this new law is lifted soon (unlikely), the traditional family Christmas is cancelled.
Or is it? Actually, I don’t think it can be – whatever the Government says. In practice, cancelling the traditional family Christmas would be impossible. It doesn’t matter what laws the Government lays down, nor how many Boris Busybodies – aka “Covid marshals” – it recruits. The fact is this. Every Christmas, around 12 million people travel across this country to visit their families. And if, this December, 12 million people – or half that, or just a quarter, or even a sixth – decide that, to hell with the new limit, they’re going to spend Christmas with their families anyway, there are no practical means by which the Government can stop them.
What are the Boris Busybodies going to do? Erect a police road block at the end of every street? Ban the sale of petrol? Spend the whole of December going from house to house, slashing the tyres of every Volvo in Britain? It can’t be done. If people want to visit their sister Muriel or their uncle Clive, they will visit their sister Muriel or their uncle Clive. Not because they’re selfish and reckless. They aren’t planning an all-night rave for 400 people. They’re planning a turkey lunch and a game of charades. Because they’re responsible, intelligent adults who have spent the best part of a year dutifully following all the necessary precautions, and are now well capable of assessing the risks for themselves, and acting sensibly.
Top stuff from one of Fleet Street’s funniest writers. Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Daily Mail‘s Bel Mooney says nothing is going to stop her having a Christmas dinner for 14. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to cancel Halloween.
Covid More Divisive Than Brexit
According to some polling in the Guardian, Covid is causing even more acrimony and division than Brexit!
Mask-wearing and lockdown rules are now causing deeper social fractures than Brexit, according to a UK-wide study which suggests that the solidarity of the early weeks of the pandemic has given way to distrust.
Polling of 10,000 people found that half of mask-wearers in Britain (58%) have severely negative attitudes towards those who do not wear a mask, and the majority (68%) of people who did not break lockdown rules have strong negative views about lockdown rule-breakers.
Significant minorities of people who stuck to rules said they “hate” or “resent” people who do not. Twelve per cent of mask-wearers said they hated those who did not wear face coverings, and 14% of lockdown adherents hate rule breakers, the survey found.
Here’s the table that accompanies the story (see below) – although, annoyingly, the pollsters haven’t asked the “rule-breakers” how they feel about the “Lockdown Adherents”. And come on, guys. Talk about a leading question! If you describe those who are sceptical about the need for absurd, illogical laws and regulations as “rule-breakers”, I think you know what people’s attitude towards them is going to be.
You can read more here.
Why do maskers still have such animosity towards non-maskers six months into the pandemic? Shouldn’t the non-maskers all be dead by now?
Corona Daze
A reader called Alice Bragg has been in touch. She’s an apostate – a lockdown enthusiast turned sceptic – and she describes her personal journey in this excellent blog post, called “Lost in a Corona Daze”.
Here an extract in which she learns for the first time that children are susceptible to COVID-19. I’m sure her reaction mirrors how many readers of this blog reacted.
Waking up one morning and glancing at my phone, I saw a notification flash up on the screen, ‘No reported case of a child passing coronavirus onto an adult exists’. Hallelujah! I cry. At this point, we were five weeks into lockdown and, for my partner’s twelve year-old, the days were becoming repetitive and dull. School work done remotely is just homework, and we were running out of new places to take our daily exercise. That said, we were grateful she wasn’t still at primary school. Reading a survey of 10,000 parents put together by Oxford University, I discovered that the vast majority of parents with children under 12 reported increased emotional difficulties, behavioural difficulties and attention difficulties because of lockdown. When you spend your early parenting years sticking rigidly to routines or paying dearly for the consequences, it seems obvious young children would struggle to cope with a change of such magnitude.
So the fact that children do not spread the virus is a cause for huge celebration! Fantastic. Children can go back to school for their final term, catch up on the work they have missed, swap lockdown stories, relax back into their routines, and learn from professionals rather than overwrought parents with vacant looks trying desperately to wing it. They can also hug their grandparents now, like the Swiss! I click around Google to find a bit more information. Oh… That’s odd. It seems this game-changing report is not all that newsworthy. Instead the BBC has chosen to focus that day on the UK death toll passing 26,000 cases. Coronavirus, we are told by our national broadcaster, is ‘as deadly as Ebola in hospital’. Our Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, warns us the UK is at a ‘dangerous moment’. Although, it seems, not for the nation’s children, which would provide some relief for its citizens, should it be reported beyond a single newspaper.
In the weeks following the report, the prospect of children returning to school, rather than brighten, seemed to diminish. Despite learning that primary schools were reopening in quite a number of countries: Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Germany etc, our education unions blocked it. I am in favour of unions, so I was interested to see what new evidence had come to light. When UNISON published a statement, in partnership with a host of other unions representing the adults in the education sector, I read it with care. ‘We all want schools to re-open’ began the statement. Well, that’s a good start, I thought.
Reading on, I was quite surprised to discover the 10 tests set by the unions, which the government would need to pass in order to gain support for reopening schools. These included a call for ‘clear scientific published evidence that trends in transmission of Covid-19 will not be adversely impacted’. Had they not read the report? Hacking through the remaining nine tests felt like entering a thick undergrowth in which no path could ever be cleared. Not only would the entire national track and trace system need to be in place before children could return to learning, but every school must prove to the government, unions and employers that it meets the required standards through robust risk assessments. But before this can happen, the standards must be agreed. This would be done by a ‘National Covid-19 Education Taskforce’ comprising the government, unions and ‘other stakeholders’. It is not specified how the decision to appoint a stakeholder would be made, or by whom. Perhaps it may require a further taskforce to decide.However, once these standards are in place, schools can open, right? Nope. Schools must then show they have considered how they will achieve ‘equitable outcomes’ for the disadvantaged. As the pool of disadvantaged children may have widened quite considerably since children were deprived of the stability of going to school, those who meet this criteria may need to be assessed. However, the additional time could be advantageous, giving plenty of opportunity for the tenth test to be carried out: assessing the impact of reopening schools on all other public services. With all that to do, it seemed unlikely unions would support children returning to education this side of Christmas 2021.
Not only is Alice’s post worth reading in full, but she’s also created a web-based TV series called Covid Daze about a woman much like herself who starts out as a bedwetter but gradually realises that everyone has massively over-reacted. You can watch that here.
Africa Copied the West’s Lockdowns – With Disastrous Consequences
Ian Birrell has written an excellent piece for UnHerd about the disastrous impact of the lockdown policy in Africa. Given how young Africans are – median age 18 – the population was never at risk and, indeed, the continent of 1.3 billion people has seen fewer confirmed virus deaths than the UK. Yet millions may die as a result of the draconian measures that numerous African countries have imposed. Birrell spells it out.
Take Uganda, where borders remain closed, the curfew is still in place, and half the citizens are under 16 years old. On the plus side, there is thought to have been a fall in traffic fatalities as people stayed at home. But a new study by Bell and five other researchers indicates restrictive measures led to plummeting detection of new HiV and malaria cases, along with treatment of highly-infectious tuberculosis, while maternal mortality instantly surged from 92 deaths in January to 167 fatalities in March. “The fear is more people will die from other conditions,” said Agnes Kiragga, head of statistics at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, and co-author of the paper. “This has been a learning curve. Governments in Africa must consider not just Covid but other diseases that are more dangerous in a young population.”
One medic said the nation’s health budget had been depleted in three months, storing up problems. Another told me of children missing critical immunisations and a surge in suicides amid economic downturn so fierce the BBC recently showed a school teacher who lost her job selling maize on the street. “I had to look for a way of surviving,” said Harriet Agasiu. “I was eating my savings, which I finished.” There is little safety net in such places. Many people also live in crowded conditions lacking basic services that make social distancing impossible. And in countries such as Angola, Kenya and Uganda, people have been killed by security officials enforcing lockdown and others beaten and shot, exposing how thugs in uniform may be more dangerous than the disease.
Malawi was among the handful of African countries that did not impose such rigid measures after its pandemic response became ensnared in electoral politics. Human rights activists, fearing the government was using the virus to wriggle out of a re-run presidential contest, won a court battle to stop lockdown on the basis there was not sufficient provision to stop poor people going hungry. Even big campaign rallies went ahead, although schools and later bars were shut down. Predictive modelling warned that inaction would lead to 16 million infections, 483,000 hospitalisations and 50,000 fatalities in this southern African nation of 19m people — yet there have been just 176 confirmed deaths to date.
Worth reading in full.
Round-Up
- “Coronavirus cases in care homes spiral again” – Are there really, though? Or are they false positives?
- “And lo, Mary bore a son, all swaddled in PPE” – Giles Coren retells the story of the birth of Christ, except Bethlehem is under lockdown
- “With this irrational crackdown, the Government has undermined itself” – Janet Daley on cracking form in the Telegraph
- “Oxford’s Sir John Bell: ‘We’re not going to beat the second wave’” – Unfortunately, one of Britain’s most eminent and influential scientists actually believes in the second wave hypothesis
- “Belgium hasn’t ‘flattened the curve’ – and should not be used to justify UK curfews” – Charlotte Gill in Conservative Home says the Government shouldn’t look to Belgium for inspiration
- “Could anti-vaxers hinder a potential coronavirus vaccine?” – The Times reports that the number of people who say they won’t take the Covid vaccine has tripled
- “Hospitality and retailers hit for six by latest diktat” – Limiting social gathering to six people at Christmas will wipe “billions” from the economy as office parties are abandoned, hotel and restaurant bookings cancelled and farmers have a glut of unsold turkeys, analysts warn
- “‘Shambolic’, ‘baffling’ and ‘crazy’ – views from around Europe on the UK’s Covid rules” – That’s putting it mildly
- “Rousing renditions of Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia are belted out on the last night of the Proms” – Well done to Laurence Fox, who almost single-handedly forced the BBC to do a U-turn on this
- “Our children are being brainwashed by a divisive new dogma that I fear will stoke, not heal, racial tensions” – Excellent piece by Andrew Doyle in the Mail on Sunday
- “How the Government is wading into the swamp of despotism – one muzzle at a time” – Peter Hitchens’s latest column
- “Boris Johnson needs to bin the rule of six” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson lay it out in the Spectator
- “HSE rejects senior doctor’s comments COVID-19 is ‘less severe’ than annual flu” – The Clinical Director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group says COVID-19 is “much less severe” than the average annual flu
- “Rowling poster removed from Waverley station despite zero public complaints” – Shock! You mean the public weren’t actually outraged by a poster wishing JK Rowling happy birthday?
- “Face-mask follies grow ever loonier” – Gary Oliver in the Conservative Woman on face masks becoming mandatory in Wales
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Only one today: “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums that are now open, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We’ve also just introduced a section where people can arrange to meet up for non-romantic purposes. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
Small Businesses That Have Re-Opened
A few months 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 re-opened, 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 re-opened – or most of them, anyway – we’re focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. As of July 4th, many of them have re-opened too, but not all and some will have to close again tomorrow! 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 – particularly if they’re not insisting on face masks! If they’ve made that clear to customers with a sign in the window or similar, so much the better. Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a permanent slot down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (now showing it will arrive between Oct 14th to Oct 23rd). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from ebay here and an “exempt” card with lanyard for just £1.99 from Etsy here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face nappies in shops here (now over 31,500).
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
And here’s a round-up of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of mask (threadbare at best).
Stop Press: Face masks will be mandatory in indoor spaces in Wales from tomorrow. Guidance here.
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Interesting that Israel also turns out to have a pathetic government:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-54134869
The country’s second lockdown begins on Friday and lasts at least three weeks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the measures would “exact a heavy price on us all”, but the country faced a surge with 4,000 new daily infections.
I thought they were made of sterner stuff.
Edit: not only that, but are we, here on this web site, the only people who see “4000 infections” and immediately think “PCR tests; false positives; viral fragments; how many tests are they doing? etc. etc. Surely these people cannot be that STUPID!!!!”
I thought Netanyahu was in jail.
I have heard nothin SARS CoV 2 related from Palestine. Israel seem to be making a meal out of it.
Netanyahu is made of very stern stuff.
Just saw this on my Twitter feed. Can’t verify the source but would be good if we could. Not one frontline police officer has died from COVID19 according to this:
https://twitter.com/dalcon02/status/1304823744599396352
PS the response is for Met Police only
I believe they’re immune. This is just based on the fact that I’ve seen loads of them ignoring distancing and mask diktats while telling other people to follow them, which seems miraculous given it’s such a deadly virus.
Is anyone aware of a petition calling for a televised debate on the justification and efficacy of government restrictions ? I’ve seen calls for it do wondered if anyone had started a petition on the gov website?
I still think that someone has some dirt on PM Johnson’s past life. Did we really expect him to go this far? Well he has now and there’s no turning back.
I know people who have had their children’s lives threatened over business. Two different incidences.
So I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if one, or all, of the cabinet have had credible threats against their children or loved ones.
Having “dirt” on someone is not reliable. Not everyone has a secret but everyone has family they care about. They might even “do the right thing” and confess or maybe top themselves but threatening loved ones is a reliable way to influence people.
People kill each other for ten pounds. What would some people do when trillions are on the table?
https://youtu.be/EjJeQSfFhj8
A whip speaks to the bbc
Yep, hard to see Johnson being ‘persuadable’ via a mere affair.
Okay, let’s call it blackmail. Or extortion. Or domestic terrorism without bombs.
There is a rumour in the Twittersphere that Johnson has been having an affair with a Russian violinist and the media have been given a D-Notice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMA-Notice
In the United Kingdom, a DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security. DSMA-Notices were formerly called a DA-Notice (Defence Advisory Notice), and before that called a Defence Notice (D-Notice) until 1993.
I like it. Anything to do with this?
https://order-order.com/2020/02/26/carrie-gave-boris-black-eye-rumour/
(note the comment after the post)
It looks like PM Boris Johnson is all in now. No more excuses for him. He’s beyond hope.
How’s our PM doing these days Richard? I haven’t tuned into Canadian MSM in months but I imagine it’s a s**tshow but with a lighter touch.
Check Lisa of Toronto for the Ontario news. Protestors were out in force in Montreal yesterday. Finally! The word they shouted the most was Liberté!
PM Trudeau professes to be a Liberal but I don’t believe him. I don’t like him or his finance minister. I think that he’s a Fascist in Liberal clothing. Harper was very hard assed in his authoritarian style, Trudeau’s style is cheerful and dogooding, but is authoritarian just the same. I think that he watched too much Sesame Street when he was a child. This summer he took a knee for Black Lives Matter. In doing so, he signalled allegiance to what has been called a Marxist political movement that wants to rewrite human history. That was an act of treason and an unpatriotic gesture. He should have been soundly denounced and requested to resign as Prime Minister months ago. He embraces to the New World Order group. I don’t.
This is like a scene in Spartacus (the TV series) where the romans have the slaves surrounded in an epic final standoff.
It’s a video of Australian police surrounding a market full of protesters chanting for freedom.
https://twitter.com/DarrenPlymouth/status/1305183875828768768
Cannot write what I want to about this.
Support to every one inside and out who were cheering for freedom. See the support for tge market beyond the police line.
Each one of those police are not welcome in my life. Words are enough to express what those police are and how far from humanity they have fallen.
It’s a great video because it suggests that the majority of ordinary people in a market (of all places) are against the totalitarian lockdown. How I would love to believe that that were true…
To the down-voter, I’m saying that I support the people chanting “Freedom!”. I just hope that it’s the majority of people there – and by extension the whole of Australia. Or maybe that’s what you don’t like…
I support all demonstrators against covid-induced tyranny. Doesn’t matter to me whether they’re called far right, far left, crazy conspiracy theorists or whatever, they’re doing the right thing.
Am I alone in looking at this article and thinking that these people are our last hope?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8728477/Bars-beaches-parks-packed-revellers-enjoy-one-day-sun-new-Rule-six.html
They don’t give a f*ck about ‘social distancing’, and I, for one, salute them.
Like the proles in 1984?
The proles are always right.
With you in supporting people celebrating life by living it as they please and not harming others. As it always was.
Heroines – love them.
Indeed, some still believe in human spirit.
They will all be dead by this time next year if the Covid Cult goes all the way.
These wonderful people are our only hope!
Having sat through another FIFA / Sky Sports football match today I am left wondering how the major clubs are not screaming their lungs out at the lack of fans. It’s got to exceed £1m per match in lost revenue. Are the Government paying them compensation for shutting down their stadiums to fans ???
Excellent PSG v Marseille game on earlier: some supporters allowed there, amazing considering that Paris is a massive hotbed of la bedwettery.
Even funnier were the seven (?) sendings-off at the end. 🙂
I think I’ve discovered a new phobia – “immunophobia”.
Immunophobes hate the idea that 99% of us can see off Covid by ourselves with no medical intervention. They don’t want us to achieve mass immunity. They want to declare “war” on the virus, indeed all viruses, heedless of how humans and viruses havd evolved together.
Immunophobes gaslight people who trust their bodies claiming they irrationally oppose medicine. Immunophobes indulge in a lot of hate speech against the human value community calling us anti-Vaxers, granny killers, selfish, ignorant and so on. If any of their own are criticised, they claim they are being trolled. Immunophobes pose as a persecuted minority speaking truth to power. The reality is they are supported by the Chinese government, the EU, the UN, World Bank, IMF, WHO, all political parties in the UK and nearly all billionaires.
It’s amazing how a lot of people feel the need to ‘take something’ as soon as a bout of illness or feeling unwell comes along. I like to suffer and take nothing, and have been doing so for years. I feel truly connected to my immune system through the use of powerful mental exercises and I never had a bit of worry over contracting this particular cold…never stopped chewing my nails either!
Loads of vitamins in nails …
I like to think that I know my body better than anyone else, whether I’m correct in that or not. That’s one of my reasons for hating face masks – I know they would do me harm (though the more fundamental reason is about freedom of choice).
Just posted on Mail online – article from Dr John Lee. Oh, if only he got the headlines tomorrow morning rather than scaremonger Prof Peter Openshaw.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8728845/Dr-JOHN-LEE-argues-coronavirus-lockdown-cause-long-term-harm-illness-itself.html
Re post tomorrow if this isn’t on Toby’s round up. Plus lord sumption in Sunday times. Probably been flagged on here already but been trying not to spend all day in Sceptic land. Was called a Flat Earther today
The mighty Lord Sumpton doing away with a bbc ‘reporter’.
https://youtu.be/SJPF5j129QQ
This weekend.
“More and more people are starting to wake up to propaganda…”
Maybe already posted?
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/fauci-takes-recommends-vitamin-d-and-c-supplements-immunity-boost-2020-9
“Dr. Fauci says he takes vitamin D and C supplements and that they can lessen ‘your susceptibility to infection'”
Of course he does because he’s a hypocrite of the first order. Wouldn’t surprise me if he took HCQ prophylactically as well.
That would be pleasant, specimen analysis of these people. Einstein’s was cut into little cubes like Jelly/Jello and sent off to universities for study. Perhaps geniuses of our time should have the same thing happen.
See another video of this market higher up.. the storm troopers with shields and sticks were tge less protected ones – storm troopers on horses attended too.
How long before sites such as this are shutdown because we are not abiding by the message.
The big internet purge is coming (Richie Allen got a heads up from people he knows who work at Google) right about the time the vaccine is due to be deployed.
My guess is it will be accomplished in tandem with nationwide power outages at some point during the forthcoming Darkest Winter.
Scary 🙁
I expect food shortages as well (among many other things). We are dealing with a Satanic force here that will stop at nothing to get its way. If you are starving and without power in sub zero temperatures are you going to give a shit about access to the internet?
Well I’m also in Sweden so it will be cold whatever..
I don’t even discount geoengineering to guarantee a much colder winter than normal here in the UK. Weather modification technology has existed and been used by the military for decades.
If we’re being ultra-pessimistic here, then I expect ‘control arm’ Sweden to be finally brought in line.
I do not follow a formal religion, but a friend bought some crosses on a chain (Christian) my sceptical friends and I now carry them, I carry mine in my purse. I’ve always believed there was a higher force – just didn’t know personally what it was. The more I look into this, I feel that satan, satanic forces is/are a threat.
I am not a Christian, but 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 caught my attention:
“For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgement may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.”
How long is he reckoning the internet is going to be down for?
That’s anyone’s guess. With A.I. technology at their disposal I would guess it could be accomplished in a couple of days. He posted this update on 23rd July (not sure on which platform, it was picked up by one of our fellow commenters here):
“Howya friends. Little bit of news. I’ve a couple of mates who work for Google. They both must remain anonymous of course. They drip feed me bits of information from time to time. Around four years ago, one of them told me that the demonetisation of alternative news channels would become standard. He was right as I learned when my original YouTube channel, which had nearly 100,000 subscribers, was deleted for no reason, three years ago.
I heard from him this morning. He told me two things. He said that when the covid vaccine is ready, or shortly before then, Google/YouTube is planning to take down thousands of channels that have traditionally hosted open discussion around vaccine safety. They will do this he said, in tandem with Facebook and Twitter. According to him, discussions between all three have already taken place. He reckons it’ll be the biggest culling to date, of content creators and independent vloggers/commentators.”
I’m scared as hell – the last 10 minutes of this is keeping me going at the moment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3iVEK1USe4 all of this guy’s stuff is worth a watch, but the last 10 minutes…there may be a chance?
This guy is great, he’s been right on the money throughout the whole thing.
I agree. Excellent guy.
Thank you for this, I was unaware of this chap. The video of Gates, the last caption where he looks into the camera actually turned my stomach, primeval reaction ?
Ivor Cummins’ 8th Sept video is now at 500k views on YouTube, an increase of more than 100k since this time last night!
I would like to think Prof Whitty and colleagues are considering their response.
Facts do not matter to these government advisors, they have a path to follow and they are going down that path no matter what.
It is brilliant, clear, concise and damning. That the guvs haven’t ever come even close to producing information as useful and factful is a dire reflection on marianna spring and her ilk.
Ivor Cumming literally embarrasses governments with his work.
https://youtu.be/8UvFhIFzaac
It’s a truly brilliant video. A bit like the moment when the herd of water buffalo decide they’ve had enough of the annoying predatory pride of lions and heads off to sort them out, trampling them to death. In this case the facts stand in for the lethal hooves.
Excellent easy to understand video.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/09/13/australia-goes-full-fascist-state-issues-ankle-tracker-for-quarantine-violator/
“This week, Australia took its burgeoning fascist police state to a new level, with officials in Western Australia now issuing electronic ankle bracelets and forced isolation in specially designated hotels to anyone it believes has violated the new raft of controversial new ‘COVID laws.’”
Melbourne market sees platoon of drooges tool up and fight for totalitarian, oppression death and all things dark and sinister.
https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/1305105167705145345?s=20
Perhaps one of the images on 2020, a year of images.
What were the shields for? Were they afraid people might pelt them with fruit and veg?
Really crazy the whole thing. Like images in the prequel to the Hunger Games.
I believe that did in fact occur.
https://twitter.com/MsCheeks/status/1305181720879271936?s=20
More plastic signs zip tied to our environment by council in desperate bid by them to alter our experience of street. Stockton on Tees warning of narrow walkway ahead with the measure of turning head away from others when breathing.
Fuck off isn’t enough. I never was likely to find myself in Stockton on Tees, less likely now.
Breaking….
Telegraph with a U-Turn and beginning to get the message.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/hopes-flicker-britains-second-wave-will-see-lower-death-rate/
and not behind a paywall!
I’m wary of experts who look at cases at the start (mostly people sick enough to be in hospital) and cases now (mostly people not that sick) and think they are the same thing.
That the Telegraph is publishing some articles that are NOT behind a paywall is encouraging..
Sadly I expect they’ll be back to doom prophecies tomorrow, given how well the Torygiraffe blows both ways.
LBC does appear to have turned.
Listeners are unlikely to be members of this forum so good to see such widespread scepticism.
Sweden being held up as the standard.
At last.
Excellent news. Hopefully other MSM outlets will follow suit, though I’m not holding my breath. (I know TalkRadio have been fairly sceptical but I feel they may be preaching to the already converted.)
Are they sceptic though? Do they really understand how much of a hoodwink this whole thing is and that they have further plans in the pipeline?
– mass vaccination
– mass surveillance
– mass compliance
– corporate rule
Exactly. All of the above will be firmly in place and unstoppable long before enough awaken from the brainwashing.
Individually they may be aware, but would never voice it on air as they would be pulled off air within minutes. Best we can hope for is them chipping away at joe public and making him think for himself.
We need the written stuff this girl is producing, then we can drop it through people’s letter boxes: https://twitter.com/befree200
The posters are great too!
Maajid did a detailed analysis using Anders Tegnell experience in Sweden,Nick Abbott is currently doing the same right now. Quoting figures in the same way Sky Australia were doing last week
France 24 have a great interview with Tegnell on youtube – 13 minutes long.
Was just about to post that Carrie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZh84fOwvWY&feature=youtu.be
hears an article about Tegnell from the FT Friday. Again not behind a paywall
https://www.ft.com/content/5cc92d45-fbdb-43b7-9c66-26501693a371
The poll above – it would be very revealing to get under the hypocracy of so called adherents. Questions such as
How many times do you reuse you mask between high temp washings?
And how many family gatherings have you attended inspite of current lock downs restrictions?
Are you an SNP supporter?
I added that last question since the hypocrisy of those in my area is directly linked to political leaning. Those with biggest voice about how great “we are being looked after” (really!) by the ministers are also those who apparently don’t realise they break every diktat going. Makes me puke.
Quick way to cut through: should we maintain the same measures and restrictions to prevent the old and the vulnerable being exposed to the risk of dying from flu and cold viruses? If not, why not? Most Covidomanes will hesitate at that point…
These people are either schizophrenic or evil sadists.
It’s very interesting reading this, which was largely written before this mask nonsense was introduced !
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law
surprised to read about the Black Act 1723. Maybe the government will bring this back as a distraction
LBC is turning sceptic-currently listening to Nick Abbott re the joy of six
I thought Nick was on Friday & Saturday nights at 22:00 seems to have been a reshuffle. The new LBC normal.
the presenters switch round quite often. Today has been enlightening,presenter after presenter challenging the narrative using the sort of detail we are used to in this forum
Stop volunteering for tests. No tests, no cases. No more fun for the government.
Anyone really wish we had some actual good news?
Mo Salah hattrick on the first day of the season ? There’s just no pleasing some folk …
2 penalties … not a proper hat trick
Meh. Three goals = a hat trick. (Did you see his 2nd ? 🙂 ).
I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all those who didn’t put Mo in their last year’s team of the season. Excellent motivation.
Arsenal top of the table?
Ergo anything is possible. 🙂
Just been looking for some. Not a lot happening, weather forcast say Tuesday might be brighter.
Here’s a glimmer!
Local rag with useless readership in an article about a cop college having 7 cases says –
“Seven people with links to the driving school at the Police Scotland Training College in Tulliallan have now tested positive for the bug”
Bug.
This was a good speech, doubt it will stay on YT for long.
Just been on YouGov to answer questions after someone mentioned it on LS. The lockdown, second wave and curfew questions are disturbing in the way they have been answered. Majority think curfews are a good idea and that lockdown rules not strong enough. We need more LS readers responding to these questions. Does anyone know how influential YouGov is?
Too influential, it’s nonsense web polls often end up forming the entire basis for media articles.
If a majority think curfews are a good idea, then so it shall be.
The abyss is bottomless.
The ‘majority’ is likely to be 77th, or their bots. No point making the abyss deeper than it really is. 🙂
this is not a scientific survey. Anyone can go on and answer the questions as many times as they want . Which means that it can be manipulated and no doubt is. 77th brigade or others will be happily answering – it may be even be bots doing it … to show the result they want
#VictoriaPolice brutally detain a person and kick his head while the man is on the ground.
https://twitter.com/GlbBreakNews/status/1305240587344412673
Shocking and barbaric. When is this going to end?
Victoria, Australia has slipped so far into a totalitarian police state now, it will never end unless those responsible are removed from office and charged with criminal offences
wow , kicking the head. of course MSM wont care,,, victim does not have the “correct” characteristics . Maybe Ashley Banjo and Diversity will do a dance about it
I really feel for our fellow sceptics over there.
MSM is paid to keep up the anti and they are getting more bizarre every day, not even a pretense of reality.
I am increasingly of the opinion that the world went through some kind of downward dimensional shift in early 2020 and we are now living in a purgatory which bears no resemblance to the previous reality. Only a handful of us remember the old normal. For everyone else who has totally synchronised with the shift, there is absolutely nothing wrong.
Sounds a bit like the plot of the movie “Yesterday”.
“The truth is stranger than fiction”. Except that what we are living in now is like a surrealist painting. A twisted, warped, corrupted, synthetic version of the former world. A very poor quality copy of the original.