London Threatened with Tier 3
While the news cycle is dominated by last-minute Brexit negotiations, The Telegraph reports that a “worrying” rise in cases in London may lead to the city being “plunged” into Tier 3 restrictions:
The Government must consider placing London in Tier 3 restrictions, scientists have said, after 21 out of the 32 boroughs showed worrying rises in cases.
The capital is now the second worst region in the country, just behind the West Midlands, with more than 15,000 people testing positive in the past week, a rate of 169.6 per 100,000 people, up from 150.9 a month ago.
It means London is now higher than many of the Tier 3 areas, such as the North East where case rates have halved from 330.2 per 100,000 to 160.4 since the beginning of November.
The case rate in the capital is higher than all but five of the current Tier 3 regions with the borough of Haringey seeing rises of 46% since last week, Bromley 40% and Kingston 33%.
Those “very worried” include Professor Paul Hunter at the University of East Anglia who said:
…it was “very worrying” that cases had continued to increase during the national lockdown and said a rise from Tier 2 must now be considered.
“There were more cases at the end of lockdown than at the start in London,” he said.
He did not offer an explanation why the recent national lockdown had failed to affect the case numbers or why, despite this, subjecting the capital to additional restrictions would be a wise course of action.
We Need to Talk About Sweden
The country which bucked the trend against the coercive measures we have come to loathe has been subject to an increasing amount of unfavourable coverage suggesting that its recent change of tack – bringing in greater restrictions – are proof of abject failure. The Daily Mail reports that “lockdowns loom” for the country:
Lockdown is finally looming in Sweden with coronavirus infection rates now more than double that of Britain, Germany or Spain and its death rate once again the highest among Nordic nations.
Some parts of Sweden have infection rates similar to the worst hotspots in Europe, and cases have yet to start falling after the second wave as they have in Britain, France and many other European countries.
After Sweden’s death rate fell to similar levels to Denmark, Norway and Finland over the summer, it is now once again the highest of the four, with 1,000 new deaths recorded in the last month.
After insisting that ‘cases’ are very high, and making invidious comparisons with Sweden’s Nordic neighbours , the article continues:
Sweden’s current average is 55 deaths per day, up from 12 only a month ago although still lower than the peak of 107 at the height of the crisis in April.
When adjusted for population, Sweden’s overall death rate is no worse than in the major countries of Western Europe such as Britain and France.
Not much is made of that last point, even though it essentially admits that there’s no correlation between economic shutdowns and death rates across Europe.
Ivor Cummins’s latest video update, “The Last Word on Sweden Viral Issue – Understanding the Reality“, digs deeper into the data. Despite avoiding draconian measures so far, the statistics still show nothing particularly remarkable going on in Swedish mortality rates:
Cummins also addresses the current plateau in ICU admissions as well as the ‘dry-tinder’ explanation for some of the variation in Nordic death rates – essentially those countries that suffered relatively low excess mortality during the last one or two winters were hit harder this time.
Kathy Gyngell at Conservative Woman today implored her readers to watch Ivor’s video, adding:
Ivor Cummins has produced another of his crystal-clear videos on lockdown, the science and the critics. This one… certainly ought to be the last word on evidence that neither lockdown nor testing mitigate Covid mortality rates.
That doesn’t mean it should be parked. The argument with the politicians is far from being won. It needs presenting and re-presenting until the whole country is made aware that the lockdown policies of Britain and many other Western countries have been based on a false premise. It is even more relevant now that we are being told the double lie that a vaccine is the key to ending the lockdown and the only way that we can return to a semblance of normality.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. A voluntary vaccine, if and when proved safe, might be a good thing. A vaccine in which vast swathes of the population understandably lack confidence, as the deus ex machina solution to the already misguided lockdown policy, is not. In answer to Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times, if you think a rushed-through vaccine about which there are credible doubts has vindicated the Government’s strategy, it is you who are not examining the evidence dispassionately. It is wishful thinking at best. And the idea that it might be made a condition of freedom surely should give you, once an open-minded critic of the intrusive and ever more authoritarian state, some serious doubts.
For confirmation that Sweden’s current death rate is nothing out of the ordinary, see Statista’s total mortality graph for the country for the last 10 years. It only runs up to November 27th of this year so far, but it seems implausible that in the remaining month and four days of this year it is likely to climb above normal levels.
Can you spot the pandemic?
Similarly, the Euromomo data show no excess deaths outside the initial peak, up to the end of November, with the rate for large parts of the year actually running near the lower end of the ‘normal’ range, and now on a downward curve, despite much more lax restrictions than most European countries even now.
Scottish Government Issues Cringeworthy Covid ‘Etiquette’ Guide
The Scottish Government has published an astonishingly patronising guide to avoiding “awkward situations” with fellow citizens. The eight-page document has prompted howls of derision, as reported in The Telegraph by Scottish Correspondent Daniel Sanderson:
Nicola Sturgeon said it was intended to be a “helpful” guide to dealing with awkward social situations brought about by the pandemic.
But Scotland’s First Minister has faced accusations that she is treating Scots like infants – while wasting taxpayers’ money – after SNP ministers published a coronavirus “etiquette guide” that was condemned as “the definition of patronising”.
Scots have been urged to frame remarks urging others to follow rules as “an offer rather than a request”, a tactic the guide states “will help to reduce tension or offence while still changing the outcome of an encounter”.
For example, if a stranger in a supermarket breaks two metre distancing, it suggests saying “I’ll step back and give you some space – it’s tricky in busy spaces to keep to two metres isn’t it?”
Meanwhile, if a friend attempts a hug, the ‘pandemic politeness’ guidelines suggest saying: “I so want to hug you! But I guess we have to wait until it’s safe. I don’t want to risk harming you or anyone else you are in contact with. I’m giving you a virtual hug.”
Nic Sturge-on, when quizzed about the document, stated that she did not know how much public money had been spent on it.
Back to Normal: Another Rallying Cry
After a positive response to his last announcement in Lockdown Sceptics several weeks ago, Geoff Cox from Back to Normal has got back in touch with a second call to arms, this one with the ambitious target of delivering one million leaflets through British letterboxes.
Staggered by the falsification of Covid data? Enraged by police bullying? Depressed by the loss of civil liberties? Frustrated that you can do little except rail and wail in your own bubble? Well, now you can do something – a little something, but something. Back to Normal is a well organised, public facing, grass roots organisation with the simple goal of delivering a folded postcard to people in the UK. The idea is that the postcard will:
- Dent the confidence of those who only get their news from the TV
- Convince those who are having their doubts about the Government message; and last but by no means least, it will
- Encourage sceptics to speak out who may currently feel they are alone or who have been “shamed” into silence
While we have a website and social media on MeWe and Facebook, they are purely back-ups for our main purpose of putting our case before the public. Our target is to distribute one million postcards and we have just gone past 80,000. We are also asking for volunteers to act as coordinators in their own constituency to ensure there is no overlap in deliveries and to bulk up orders. There is a proliferation of groups being set up in this country and all over the world to campaign against the current global madness. Back to Normal is just one of them. Therefore, we hope our coordinators will be joined by other like-minded sceptics from every campaign to act locally and as independently as they like. For more information about becoming a Back to Normal postman or a coordinator or both, please email me.
Welsh Border Pub Takes Dim View of Drakeford
A reader has sent us an exasperated mail-out from his favourite local pub, The Boat at Erbistock, situated just 50 yards from the border with England. Here is an excerpt:
We’re sorry to say that The Boat will be temporarily closing until further notice.
As a result of the frankly unfathomable, illogical latest set of rules laid down by a naïve, allegedly teetotal, Cardiff-centric, ex-social studies teacher – breathe and try not to use expletives! – staying open just isn’t financially viable. We had hoped to try and bridge the gap to Christmas as a quasi-riverside-café, open for food and soft drinks until 6pm, but by now making it legal for our Welsh customers to be able to visit pubs and restaurants in Cheshire and Shropshire for food and whatever they wish to drink until 10pm, understandably the vast majority of our regulars have, somewhat apologetically, told us that this is what they will be doing.
To be clear, we don’t think that open borders between the home nations is a problem – quite the reverse. That’s how it should be. The issue is the strategy of targeting hospitality as a whole when we have put so much time, money and emphasis on social distancing, sanitisation and supervision. The statistics and data quoted regarding transmission rates by sector vary hugely and are blatantly twisted depending on which body is trying to justify what point. But within our sector, which has proper Track and Trace, it is generally accepted they are significantly below most others sectors, like retail, offices, institutions and higher educational establishments.
The Welsh Government brought in restrictions last week which required pubs to close at 6pm and not serve any alcohol.
Stop Press: Just a month after the ‘fire-break’ lockdown in Wales, the Guardian reports that, extraordinarily, the Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething is considering yet another lockdown:
Describing the situation as “incredibly serious”, the Welsh health minister, Vaughan Gething, accepted more restrictions might be needed, possibly even before Christmas.
The figures come just a month after the end of a 17-day “firebreak” lockdown, which was believed at the time to have been successful and was expected to give the country a clear run up to the new year.
But the Welsh government has since conceded that it might have been better to bring in other curbs when the firebreak was lifted.
At a press conference on Monday, Gething said coronavirus cases were rising again across almost the whole of Wales. The country was the only part of the UK where infection rates were not falling at the end of November, he said.
Toby’s Interview with Unlocked
Lockdown Sceptics Editor Toby Young gave a wide-ranging interview to Martin Daubney at Unlocked that was broadcast yesterday, covering everything from the politicisation of the police to universities, cancel culture, the Free Speech Union, and of course, lockdowns.
Stop Press: Dr Arif Ahmed of Cambridge University spoke to Freddie Sayers at UnHerd about the current debate taking place about the university’s new academic free speech policy.
Poem from a Reader
A reader has sent in a short poem inspired by watching her granddaughter taking a Zoom dance lesson in the midst of Tier 3 restrictions, an experience she described as “heartbreaking”.
Chloe in Lockdown, aged 9
Chloe’s dancing in the kitchen,
lovely leaps and elegant toes.
Her teacher’s on the iPad screen,
and no-one sees the cancelled shows.Chloe’s writing at her small desk,
trying hard to solve her maths sheet.
Perhaps her teacher is at school
but doesn’t need or want to meet?Her desk is small but full of ‘things’.
Pens and pencils, Lego and toys.
She would swap these in a heartbeat
for hugs from everyone she knows.Chloe’s learning darker words now.
Furlough, COVID and Work From Home.
Keep Your Distance and Wear A Mask.
My dancing girl is still locked down.
Sick-Making Nativity Scene
A reader in one of the Gulf Islands has sent us a note about the above picture. She’s not happy.
Attached is a picture of a ‘Covid nativity scene’. This was erected on Mayne, off the coast of British Columbia.
You will see that one of the wise men has been replaced with our unelected health officer, Bonnie Henry. She has been elevated to quasi sainthood, and now takes her rightful position beside Jesus. This is the same woman who closed church services across my province.
I can’t even describe the disgust I feel right now.
Round-up
- “Technocracy and the Abolition of Man” – Lucy Wyatt in the Conservative Woman fears a sinister de-humanising future ahead
- “Why I fear the introduction of COVID-19 vaccination cards will lead seamlessly to us being forced to carry ‘immunity passports’” – Neil Clark in RT on the spectre of the ‘papers please’ scenario
- “Safety of in-person courses at Indiana University supported by new analysis” – American university finds fewer cases of infection among those that attended class in person than those that didn’t
- “The Coronavirus Wall of Shame: The World’s Biggest COVID-19 Hypocrites” – Author Anthony Colpo has compiled a detailed list of the most egregious examples of ‘do as I say and not as I do’ behaviour by various officials and politicians
- “Sky News’s Kay Burley apologises for 60th birthday party with workmates that ‘inadvertently’ flouted Tier 2 Covid restrictions” – And here’s an example of that very phenomenon
- “Down with the New Normal” – Sceptic stalwart Brendan O’Neill pulls no punches in spiked
- “Covid Dementia – The Real Virus: Our Diseased Thinking” – Lockdown Sceptics reader Omar S. Khan’s latest wide-ranging blog post
- “Live music loophole gets pubs round meal restrictions” – Pubs are getting creative in order to survive Tier 2, reports the Telegraph
- “The Tory Covid wars aren’t going away” – Isabel Hardman in the Spectator on the battles raging within the party
- “The Berlin authorities are waging war on Berliners” – Spiked‘s Germany Correspondent Sabine Beppler-Spahl on the mistrust growing between the citizens of the German capital and their leaders as draconian new restrictions are brought in
- “Britons back air travel ban for people who’ve not received coronavirus vaccine, poll suggests” – Sky News reports on another slightly implausible poll, the latest in a string of surveys apparently revealing public opinion as wildly in favour of more extreme restrictions
- “Pandemic Penitents” – John Tierney in City Journal compares lockdown strategies to the Flagellants of the Black Death and wonders why public health advice has avoided endorsing Vitamin D
- “Watch: vaccine minister rules out ‘immunity passports” – Nadhim Zahawi on Spectator TV promises ‘immunity passports’ won’t be brought in
- “Swiss stake slower, more cautious Covid vaccine path” – France 24 reports that in in Switzerland the authorities are in no hurry to approve a vaccine
- Roger Bowles, who’s making Unmasked, a sceptical documentary about the Corona catastrophe, has recorded a powerful interview with a care home worker
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Four today: “No Plans” by Novo Amor, “Poison Arrow” by ABC, “Have I the Right?” by The Honeycombs and “I Won’t Have It” by Pennywise.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. 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.
Sharing Stories
Some of you have asked how to link to particular stories on Lockdown Sceptics so you can share it. To do that, click on the headline of a particular story and a link symbol will appear on the right-hand side of the headline. Click on the link and the URL of your page will switch to the URL of that particular story. You can then copy that URL and either email it to your friends or post it on social media. Please do share the stories.
Social Media Accounts
You can follow Lockdown Sceptics on our social media accounts which are updated throughout the day. To follow us on Facebook, click here; to follow us on Twitter, click here; to follow us on Instagram, click here; to follow us on Parler, click here; and to follow us on MeWe, click here.
Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we’re bringing you an extract from a piece about Eton by a recent graduate that appeared in the Mail on Sunday.
One of the teachers promoted under Mr Henderson was Hailz Osborne, Director of Inclusion Education, who is keen to point out that she spotted the early potential of a young Eddie Redmayne when he had a non-speaking role in a school production of The Madness Of George III.
She was chosen as the school’s new director of inclusion education, charged with appointing a committee of boys to shape school policy around issues ‘focused on, but not limited to, race, faith, sexuality, gender, disability, age and outreach’.
Hailz says her greatest achievement at Eton is how proud she is of seeing the Pride flag being flown on the official flag pole above the school’s gateway.
Interestingly, when asked about her career goals, Hailz once said she’d like to see the BLM flag flying over the college gateway, too. I’m gay and I can say with certainty that Hailz’s interventions on sexuality didn’t help me.
In my early years at Eton, being gay wasn’t a big deal. Then we became a ‘protected’ community, singled out for attention. By my final year, a kid four years younger than me was running around calling us all ‘fags’.
Realising I was gay at the age of 12 was terrifying. It’s not that my parents are conservative – one’s a therapist and one’s a musician – but like most boys on the cusp of their teens, I felt as if the world expected me to grow up and have a wife and family one day.
That dissolved when I went to Eton. I found the boys in my year were more open and more liberal than I could ever have expected. I never heard them say anything homophobic in my presence.
This gave me the courage to be honest about my sexuality and by the end of my first year, aged 14, I was ready to come out.
However, by then the headmaster’s progressive policies were embedding themselves in the school.
As this culture consolidated, with the notion of ‘protected groups’, gay people at Eton became seen not as individuals who happened to be gay, but as part of a monolithic community with the same aims, the same politics and the same beliefs.
It was as if people in general are defined by who they choose to sleep with. Being brilliant at rugby, or music, or debating, or computer coding all seemed to take second place to this ‘protected’ characteristic.
As a result of this shift, and a sense of being labelled or categorised, I no longer felt able to come out, and ultimately I spent another miserable year and a half in the closet.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: John Jolliffe, a member of the Free Speech Union’s Legal Advisory Council, has written a great piece for the Critic about the free speech row.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop 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 (takes a while to arrive). 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. And, finally, if you feel obliged to wear a mask but want to signal your disapproval of having to do so, you can get a “sexy world” mask with the Swedish flag on it here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face masks in shops here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you will not be insisting on face masks or asking them what their reasons for exemption are, you can download a friendly sign to stick in your window here.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry. See also the Swiss Doctor’s thorough review of the scientific evidence here.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Great Barrington Declaration, a petition started by Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya calling for a strategy of “Focused Protection” (protect the elderly and the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with life), was launched in October and the lockdown zealots have been doing their best to discredit it ever since. If you googled it a week after launch, the top hits were three smear pieces from the Guardian, including: “Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including ‘Dr Johnny Bananas’.” (Freddie Sayers at UnHerd warned us about this the day before it appeared.) On the bright side, Google UK has stopped shadow banning it, so the actual Declaration now tops the search results – and Toby’s Spectator piece about the attempt to suppress it is among the top hits – although discussion of it has been censored by Reddit. The reason the zealots hate it, of course, is that it gives the lie to their claim that “the science” only supports their strategy. These three scientists are every bit as eminent – more eminent – than the pro-lockdown fanatics so expect no let up in the attacks. (Wikipedia has also done a smear job.)
You can find it here. Please sign it. Now well over 700,000 signatures.
Update: The authors of the GDB have expanded the FAQs to deal with some of the arguments and smears that have been made against their proposal. Worth reading in full.
Update 2: Many of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration are involved with new UK anti-lockdown campaign Recovery. Find out more and join here.
Update 3: You can watch Sunetra Gupta set out the case for “Focused Protection” here and Jay Bhattacharya make it here.
Update 4: The three GBD authors plus Prof Carl Heneghan of CEBM have launched a new website collateralglobal.org, “a global repository for research into the collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures”. Follow Collateral Global on Twitter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many JRs being brought against the Government and its ministers, we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
First, there’s the Simon Dolan case. You can see all the latest updates and contribute to that cause here.
Then there’s the Robin Tilbrook case. You can read about that and contribute here.
Then there’s John’s Campaign which is focused specifically on care homes. Find out more about that here.
There’s the GoodLawProject’s Judicial Review of the Government’s award of lucrative PPE contracts to various private companies. You can find out more about that here and contribute to the crowdfunder here.
The Night Time Industries Association has instructed lawyers to JR any further restrictions on restaurants, pubs and bars.
And last but not least there’s the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. You can read about that and make a donation here.
Stop Press: The Free Speech Union’s permission hearing will take place at the High Court on Wednesday.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Quotation Corner
We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
They who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions…
Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
Richard Feynman
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Necessity is the plea for every restriction of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels (attributed)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
Shameless Begging Bit
Thanks as always to those of you who made a donation in the past 24 hours to pay for the upkeep of this site. Doing these daily updates is hard work (although we have help from lots of people, mainly in the form of readers sending us stories and links). If you feel like donating, please click here. And if you want to flag up any stories or links we should include in future updates, email us here. (Don’t assume we’ll pick them up in the comments.)
And Finally…
YouTube comedian JP’s latest video, “Proof that Lockdowns are Working!”
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Oh, how nice to be first. Love the BoB cartoon!
Looking forward to 100 days of total maskage to save the Republic?
I don’t wear one. Never will.
Was banned from Costco last week for not having my bandana pulled over my nose. Long story…
What is wrong with Washington State (I think you once said that you were from there)? I lived in Seattle for a couple of years around 2001 and it was a bit strange, but I can’t believe what I’ve seen in news reports. Really, the whole West Coast looks dystopian.
Plus ca change!
Just the West Coast?
I know it’s more than the West Coast, but the Coronaparnoia seems to be somehow worse there. Perhaps too many ‘progressive’ people (or sheeple)….
Do you ever sleep Richard?
When McCartney is rolled out to promote the vaccine:
“We love you yeah yeah yeah,
We love you yeah yeah yeah,
With a jab like that,
You know you should be glad.“
An interesting article about the different vaccine regulators. I’d think anyone thinking of having it might wish to see what they all say as our approval was so rushed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/04/how-vaccine-approval-compares-between-the-uk-europe-and-the-us
Perhaps the Guardian is preparing to go vaccine sceptic since a good proportion of its paying readers will be women of child bearing age notably most of the teaching, nursing and care sectors.
The Grauniad doesn’t understand words like sceptical, rational, impartial, or human.
I wouldn’t even use that odious rag for kitty litter. How much does it get from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
I don’t know exactly how much, but the Guardian has long taken the Gates “shilling” just like the Beeb.
Does the Guardian have a paying readership, beyond that subsection of society that a) can afford a live-in servant from overseas to launder their clothes every time they shit themselves with confected self-righteous rage; and b) need such a service?
That can’t be many people.
I do know one paying Guardian subscriber. He used to be right of Kenghis Khan, but now he’s left of Karl Marx and perhaps, even Boris Johnson.
let’s see how mumsnet reacts as well
With Horror and Alarm probably
I don’t see the Guardian as being remotely sceptical and the article is nothing more than a smokescreen trying to give cover for the indecent haste, with which the MHRA has acted. Basically Pfizer said we think it’s safe and any we don’t care that much, because we’ve got a no blame clause. The MHRA replied with, that’s okay, vaccine approved.
No way is the MHRA independent. Look at this:
https://youtu.be/6bfhAe8zVf0?t=2478
The Government offer no leadership, everybody out there says bozo has screwed up. The opposition offers no alternative except more of the same failed policies.
Who would vote for either of them ?
If the centre cannot stand it leaves the way open for extremists.
Nice one bozo.
Covid Fatigue
Local Live (mirror group news)
Article 1. A person dies of Covid in major regional hospital. One person is news ?
Article 2. Five more deaths in County attributed to Covid.
What in a day? A week ?
No, five random dates going back to mid November.
Total Covid articles today = 5 (2 about rule breakers)
Total football stories today = 7.
At least the anger of woman who received an undersized portion of rice with her £40.00 KFC Family Bargain Bucket has been driven off the most read pedestal.
It’s been a while since I ordered a bucket. I had no idea KFC now offered rice with this. They should stick to what they know best i.e. lab-grown pseudo-chicken lengths.
Despite this, KFC offers more leadership than the government.
Our cat offers more leadership than this government and we ain’t got one (government and cat)
The government offers you the inspired leadership of Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab and you only mock.
Schwab’s a snab.
There doesn’t seem to be a centre any longer. The Tories have drifted further and further left, out in Labour land, and people just drifted after them. Now all centre parties are gone, and the only alternative is Reform UK. I wouldn’t call them far right, but they’re definitely not centre. And as long as people are allowing the Tories to drift to the left, the right will only drift further right.
William Clouston’s SDP.
I did not realise that the SDP still existed. Apparently a group resisted the amalgamation with the Liberals in the ’90s and are effectively now the only centrist party .
I looked at some of their policies and find myself more in agreement with them than with the shambolic and increasingly authoritarian Conservative Govt which seems to have totally torn up the Human Rights Act in response to a flu epidemic which leaves virtually all the population under 80 unaffected.
Only £10 to become a SDP member, not going to rock the foundations of Westmister but, speaking as long life tory voter, an individual stand against tyranny.
Will depend however on their policies re: mandatory vaccination are they for it or against it?. .
Good feature on them (pre covid) https://unherd.com/2019/01/a-party-for-the-politically-homeless/
The rebranded flu epidemic , if it is even that, also leaves most of those over 80 unaffected. Mandatory vaccination will cause ructions and most likely this utterly rotten government will instead go down the blackmail path.
It is also possible to persuade the LibDems to take a stronger stance against lockdowns and they can win an election based on the ‘lone warrior fighting tyranny’ and ‘Complicit in Tyranny’ slogans (They voted against the renewal of the Coronavirus ‘Enabling’ Act 2020 and abstained from the vote for Tiers)
I think Ed Davey is a sceptic but is afraid of saying so to avoid controversy.
The Tories are now left of the CCP, never mind the useless Labour Party.
Ha.. Labour land is now led by a f*cking knight of the realm and a Trilateral Twat at that. Another Sir at the head of the Liberals. Somehow I think things have gone astray!
You are all like generals fighting the last war.This is no left and right anymore.The fight is between tyranny and freedom.All the major parties have chosen tyranny.Anyone who opposes this gets my vote,that is if we allowed to vote again.
It is possible to persuade the LibDems to take a stronger stance against lockdowns and they can win an election based on the ‘lone warrior fighting tyranny’ and ‘Complicit in Tyranny’ slogans (They voted against the renewal of the Coronavirus ‘Enabling’ Act 2020 and abstained from the vote for Tiers)
I think Ed Davey is a sceptic but is afraid of saying so to avoid controversy.
Rice with KFC? Heresy.
You get that combination in the Philippines.
Fair enough. Embarrassingly, I must admit that whenever I’m on my travels I tend to visit a McDonald’s to sample the regional variation on the menu in different countries! Only ever had one KFC in Asia though at Changi Airport.
It’s good though – both the chicken & the rice must be hot and if you somther both in gravy, delicious!!!
McDonald’s in the Philippines serves a fried chicken & rice combination or fried chicken & spaghetti.
Ok I’m convinced, if the world ever gets moving properly again I pledge to visit a KFC in the Phillipines and try it!
You’ll like it!
Filipino food is vastly superior to anything that McDo makes.
It’s accompanying Dail Mail sad face photo that I miss. Family sat round said small portion looking as if they’ve lost a pound and found a sixpenxe.
Oh they had that, camera pointing down to enhance the pathos of her sad face.
I’d love to know what defines “extreme” in comparison to our so-called “centrist” government and so-called “opposition” who are terrorising and literally killing people with their policies.
What is extreme now, was common sense 30 or 40 years ago. That’s how left the centre of politics has shifted. We don’t have a right of centre party any more. The Tories are a mess, Labour is ten times worse and the Illib Undems – words fail me.
The elderly as a group have the least effective immune systems in the country
Take the most susceptible of them and lock them away and isolate them for ten months further compromising their immune systems
Then, yes you guessed it inject them with a virus
What could possibly go wrong
Inject us with an experimental cocktail which artificially stimulates our immune system in response to said virus in ways never yet tested on humans.
A glorious victory is assured for one side or the other. Both will suffer grievous injuries in the process. This is all or nothing.
At this point i wouldn’t be surprised if the vaccine is just a small dose of virus.
“At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the vaccine is just a small dose of virus.”
Or at least it contains something that will trigger the rigged PCR test. The vaccines will likely also contain something a lot more potent, which will kill many of us, a few months down the road. The deaths will be put down to a new mutated virus and so then yet more fake vaccine development will swing into gear, in order to be unleashed upon the survivors of the first mass cull.
They won’t get away with all this if there are too many refuseniks and so they will have to do everything they can so as to ensure a very high vaccine take up.
Why the hell should care home workers take it ? The manufacturer’s aren’t even claiming it stops you being infectious ?
Probably under pressure from their employers who themselves will be under pressure from local authorities and central government Social Services.
Who knows?! The BBCs explanation for why this might be the case is because you get the vaccination in your ARM and the virus lives in your NOSE. Not kidding, it was on the news! So maybe we should all be snorting it instead?!
Helpless old people are expendable.
Same as Jews in concentration camps. Use them for medical experiments.
And you can have lots of fun torturing them in the process.
And when you’ve finished with the trash, it can go to the gas chambers.
How nice to live in Auschwitz Britain under the rule of Boris Hoess and Matt Mengele.
We’re the new jew, the mask less. You know us not by the yellow star but by the free face.
unfortunately the initial reaction of a nervous giggle rapidly turns into a feeling of dread as you realise the truth in this statement
I’ve been thinking that a lot recently!
Adolf’s family name was Schickelgruber. Roald Dahl wrote a short story about his birth way back in the 1950s.
I’m not entirely sure the elderly do have the least effective immune systems – these elderly have only lived to be elderly BECAUSE they have great immune systems. Fantastic ones in fact. Those that didn’t succumbed to childhood illnesses.
Granted, their bodies are no longer strong enough to fight some illnesses and repair themselves but that’s not the same as immune response.
The group with the least effective immune systems is babies, because all they might have are the few antibodies passed on from their mother. And they seem to be largely unaffected by covid…
I’ve lived through the Asian flu of 1957/8 and the Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1967/8. I’ve lived through lord knows how many flu epidemics, and, through travel, have no doubt been exposed to all sorts of bugs, viruses etc. I’m probably more immune than my son and daughter. I also object strongly to the phraseology used by Hancock et al. “Don’t kill your granny” “hugging her may be the last thing she does” or some such. How DARE they? They can go to hell as far as I’m concerned – to make up for the hell they’ve put us through with their insane policies. I see Drakeford’s been banned from over 100 Welsh pubs -we need to do the same for every stupid MP or scientist who thinks by killing an entire economy they can remove this virus
Yes,Woodstock was in 68, not much ‘social distancing ‘ there methinks…
And a lot of rolling around in the mud.
I know a lady aged 100 who rarely gets colds and has never had flu. She takes the flu jab but never had it in her youth.
…and will they let old people go back to normal life and interactions after they’ve had their genetic update? No. Of course they won’t.
The genetic up date will be designed to kill them and they will be coming for the rest of us.
I worry that the elderly are being given a placebo to convince the rest of us it’s safe. After all, they won’t be around much longer anyway. The unemployed over-50’s are a different matter.
VERY good point; the history (including with the ‘flu virus) is that different batch numbers are used to identify where they are going to be used. The ‘flu vaccine is reputed to be much stronger for “the elderly”.
How very, very easy it would be to label everything with the same batch numbers but mix in ten percent of a hyper-adjuvanted version. So easy to claim is was “just a manufacturing error”, but with the effect of easy decimation of the target population.
Alternatively, “certain” batches get delivered to GPs in “certain” postcodes containing the less-desirables.
Pfizer’s so called vaccine does not contain the virus. They did not culture the virus. Instead they read the genetic code, which China had supplied to the World Health Organisation.
I was sent a YouGov survey yesterday. one question was “Are you concerned about the safety of the covid vaccine?” I selected “very concerned” from the list of answers. I’m worried about a friend who works in a care home being forced to have it or lose her job.At least I’m a lot further down the list by which time hopefully there will be more evidence to make a better informed choice
YouGov (which actually means WeGov) survey:
“Are you concerned about the safety of the Covid vaccine?”
Available answers: No/Don’t know.
Results: 85% of people know that the vaccine is safe and effective.
Oh well, all the polls in the world can’t magic safety into these innoculations, so I guess we will see.
I wonder if they even take notice of surveys if the answers go against their narrative…just a thought..
Well, to be honest,we don’t, do we?
True…on another note I was reading up on past and ongoing petitions to the government. Some of them were worrying especially the number of signatures . Some astonished by the high numbers others such low numbers.covid relatedcwas what I was looking for. I wonder how much public opinion has changed now…
The polls will say whatever they want them to.
And, of course, Mr Zahawi would know all about that, wouldn’t he?
If they try to get your friend to take the vaccine under threat of losing her job she can sue them. The day the Government tells us we must take this vaccine is the day they declare war and the day the revolution will start.
From the roundup Conservative Woman ‘technocracy and the abolition of man’
Some weeks ago I posted about a 20 year old documentary programme called
What happened to our dream of freedom
It’s all there, so much of what has happened this year and what looms on the horizon was foretold in that three part series.
Someone put back it up in YouTube 2 years ago. Episode one ‘The Trap’ is the key.
I think you’re talking about Adam Curtis’s documentaries. The fascinating thing is that they are/were on the BBC. At the time (in fact it was only 2007), it seemed perfectly normal for a BBC programme to suggest that governments and corporations were manipulating the population for their own ends using terrorism and health ’emergencies’ as the vehicles for this.
In its way, this was part of being ‘woke’ in 2007. But now, those programmes would be labelled subversive, ‘tin-foil hat’ and, according to the BBC and Guardian these days, ‘right-wing libertarian’.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PL4988545029EE748A
I have it. Just watched it a few months ago. A refresher course. There are 3 parts.
From yesterdays main piece.
Alex Belfied YouTube has
Millwall FC has announced that it will no longer be taking the knee
Alex also has Madam Tussauds putting plastic bozo in a Val Doonican woolly jumper emblazoned with
‘Tis the season
To be Jolly
Careful’
The rubber dummy will be doing less harm than the real dummy.
The rubber dummy is being stashed in 10 Downing Street.
The away team at tonight’s game are though, another way to incite the crowd. I predict all future Millwall home games will be behind closed doors.
That might be fair enough for the fans. As a lifelong football fan, I suspect it was the American import of “taking the knee”, with all its US political connotations that grated. I don’t think many Millwall fans had slave owners in their ancestry and our police don’t routinely shoot unarmed blacks. A British display of simple support for equality without the politics might pass. Though why they feel the need to do it, goodness knows, elite professional football is probably the most equal employer there is looking at the race profile and salaries of the players.
Millwall and QPR players will link arms .
and wear “kick it out” logos on shirts. Still annoying virtue signalling but at least getting rid of the political BLM stuff.
If they are linking arms, they are not social distancing. Just saying!
pretty good analysis in Telegraph today (and paywall seems to be down)
“Kick it out”. They’re continually drawing attention to something that had just about gone already, thus ensuring that it is perpetuated. In fact, it is now not even racism: it’s self-professed, virtue signalling anti-racists versus anti-anti-racists who cannot stand being patronised and lectured to.
Is there anything more vomit-inducing than Lewis Hamilton’s virtue signalling these days? As has been pointed out, he was outed as very much not ‘woke’ a couple of years back, and he’s been desperately trying to atone for it ever since.
I actually eyeballed the photos of Premier League players on the PL website and counted 120 ‘black’ (non-white) out of 306 total (in squads, I presume). That’s 39%, at least three times as ‘inclusive’ as required, basis the society ‘we are’ (‘BAME’ 13%; but since almost all the non-white players are black, a community enjoying a 3% share of our population, the over-inclusion is nearer 12 or 13 times!!). Now this cannot be virtue signalling, since football like all sports is Darwinian; only the fittest survive, or clubs would not. All good then. Who cares? To then argue (as the twitter twits like Barnes, Lineker etc etc plus almost all the MSM do) that zero black managers annuls this over-representation of blackness in the ‘player community’ is nonsense. Appointing management by colour of skin would obviously be pure virtue signalling given the paucity of qualified black applicants. Crap would be forcibly raised to the top. This would be suicide by signalling.
Can they just not run out on to the pitch and play the fucking game? Who cares what the players of Millwall think about anything other than their performance on the pitch which i have paid my hard earned cash to watch. If i tuned into PMQ’s and fat Boris stated playing keep-ee-uppy i’d be stop that and explain to me why you’re destroying our country for a virus that kills almost exclusively people over 80.
As a lifelong Millwall supporter I think the club shat their pants as they were heading towards a full on civil war with the fans which they know they would loose, leaving the club destitute. Unlike the business like Man U or Arsenal ( which also play football) most of their income comes from the fans in the ground. Add to this the fact that if they have not done this there would be booing again and again …Just imagine them trying to pull this if there was 14.000 Millwall in the ground. .I predict a riot. Politic has NO space in football because BLM are now a registered political party in the Uk so what next week, everybody wearing a Kier Starmer Tshirt?
Always liked Millwall. I’ve always preferred the smaller clubs in the lower divisions. The atmosphere is always tense, the beer flows and the football is in your face and ready. Much more entertainment that watching Liverpool or man u or up here Rangers or Celtic.
Not everyone can appreciate the greatest football team the world has ever seen.
Though I agree the lower leagues are good too.
Not much foot in their football matches. Lots of theatrics, diving, panto style shuffles and the idiotic celebrations.
But that’s me, an unashamed rugger bugger, playing Gods favourite game
Watch out for that concussion, Chris. Seems to damage the ability to appreciate class.
“Everyone hates us, we don’t care”, sound familiar? Just got to love Millwall (speaking as a Leeds fan).
Uptick for you
I lived round that way for a while and developed a bit of a soft spot for the ‘Wall.
I should bloodywell think so!
Knowing the sexual peccadilloes of footballers they will be making a daisy chain…
Good for them.
18th…
Anyone seen Children of Men, start getting used to the idea…
Watched last week on recommendation of sceptical friend. very good.
The book, by PD James, is even better (with quite a different ending and less preaching about immigration).
That the one fillumed in Hastings?
Another day, another ludicrous article in the New York Times.
This one: It’s time to scare people about Covid
Opinion | It’s Time to Scare People About Covid – The New York Times (nytimes.com).
With lots of idiotic postings like: I knew a 30 year old who died so everyone’s vulnerable, I knew a 4 year old who was really ill ……., blah, blah – no perspective, no sense.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, I’ve had a look at the age-adjusted death rate for France to see the number of ‘excess’ deaths from this ‘horrific’ pandemic, having done the same previously for the UK.
Using the latest available figures up to 16 November and annualising, a grand total of 20,491 for the whole year. And that includes all the people who’ve been scared out of their wits (like the NYT suggests is a good thing) and have died unnecessary deaths of cancer etc because they wouldn’t or couldn’t go to hospital. Pleased Macron saw fit to screw up the whole country because of that. Just like the ridiculous Boris did here.
And as for the New York Times: grow up and learn some elementary maths !
(btw, the UK figure is about 15,000)
THE NYT missed a trick by not finding the unlucky woman who knows personally at least three people who have been reinfected twice.
Maybe they’re saving that for another brilliant article !
From the main article.
The Turdgeons Pandemic Politeness tips.
Note Top Tip 5
Please do not ask a Scottizombie to act like a human being, as a refusal often offends.
She is trying to indoctrinate the young, turning them into virtue signalling automotons. Very worrying. As said before, if there was a real pandemic on the loose we wouldn’t need these kind of pamphlets.
24 hour mind control.
I was young for quite a long time, bombarded at school with risible Public Information Films warning of the danger from smoking, alcohol, promiscuous sex and drugs.
They generally had the opposite effect. I made up my own mind about drugs since they spoiled the booze and the promiscuous sex.
Me too, more I’m told not to do something the more i do it, well apart from heroin and Morris dancing.
When I was a kid the PIFs were about not playing with matches (there’s one I saw in the 60s where a kid accidentally immolates himself, yikes!), not going with paedos (the excellent ‘Charlie Says’ series), not playing with abandoned fridges and properly scary stuff like this, voiced by Donald Pleasance no less.
In fact the next time Nic Sturge-Un goes for a paddle in a loch I really hope the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water is waiting nearby.
Drill some holes in the bottom of her boat before she leaves.
Reminds me of the “spies” program for children in 1984.
Jesus wept. Yet again another reason why I’m so glad to be out of the Looney place that is Scotland.
Exactly. I’m hoping to be out next year. The constant virtue signalling is beyond annoying. The SNP thinks it is the ‘Scottish Moral Superiority Party’, though public services are going down the toilet.
Scotland at one time had a world class education system now it’s so dumbed down that a million people voted for Sturgeon. During the referendum i asked SNP supporters to name a single policy of theirs apart from independence and id give them fifty quid and not a single one of them knew a single policy. These numb nuts don’t know what they are voting for and do what all SNP droogs do and blame England. They are depressing.
Yes, I can see the problems with Scottish schools on a regular basis as a university lecturer. Students can’t write basic essays or follow instructions. What’s worse is that they lack initiative and they constantly worry about everything. I really wonder what they’ve been subjected to in secondary school here.
Agree. During our last 2 years living in Edinburgh, we were noticing how the tone was changing especially after the referendum.
Every year we go visit my father-in-law we notice how so many things are changing and not for the better.
Looks like something out of Viz
No advice then about how to confront someone when you see them throwing their used face nappy on the ground. I’m more than happy to threaten to ram it down their throat.
Is that numbering f*cked up? 1, 2,4,3,5?
2+2=5
Maybe already posted but Richard Tice of the ‘Reform UK’ party set out very concisely and coherently the case against current government covid 19 restrictions, demolishing them (at 24.30).
The faces of the other participants are worth watching
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000q5xg/politics-live-07122020
This is the first time that I have seen any politician obliterate the government approach while hosted by the state broadcaster.
I thought it was excellent.
All they had was emotional blackmail and a daft Hancock-esque claim that lateral flow tests bring down the infection levels, pat on tbe back for us.
Tice’s response : “Yeah, exactly”
Tice’s was excellent – but it was like 4 versus 1…..as heard as they all tried he held his own and from my perspective won the argument. How the claim of ’60k excess deaths in the 1st wave’ wasnt ‘fact checked’ is beyond me
And so it begins; from the society that brought us Health & Safety rules so strict that children were banned from playing conkers, people are now queing up to be injected with snake oil in what must be the biggest public health gamble of all time?
I was going to reply to some posts below but then gave up; the reason I discuss things here is to counter the arguments of the covid zealots. But it now seems that all the covid zealots have now stuck their fingers in their ears and are chanting vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. I dread to think what happens if this gamble fails! but if they get away with it they will declare their policies were right all along and the lockdown sceptics were totally wrong and all our arguments rubbish.
However many arguments we put up, however much clear data we present; at present the powers that be and much of the country are vaccine obsessed and we have to wait and watch as the vaccination programme unrolls. I do not think they are going to relax anything until they feel they can declare ‘it was the vaccine what done it’.
They may have a simple solution all lined up.
Inject the snake oil.
Stop testing, or change the lie about the results to a positive one.
Stop lying about the causes of deaths.
Pandemic gone,
If course, they could do the last two any time, but that would be sensible and they don’t do sensible.
How I wish you are right, but seeing how every single Covid death is treated as a worse tragedy than anything else I’m afraid it will run and run
I’ve just heard on Radio 4 that next year people will be given (shouldn’t that be offered?) a mixture of TWO vaccines. This saga is going to get more and more elaborate and twisted.
I’m also losing the will to fight now. Maybe going to the Keep Britain Free meeting tonight will fire me up, it’s usually jam packed ….
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed/?sh=616bdf375247
Very easy to read review in Forbes. Explains exactly what the vaccines do and don’t do, and how low the bar has been set for the trials to be effective.
Thanks for posting Marialta.
As you say, easy to understand and also in a publication that zealots would struggle to ignore. A useful link to send to people I think.
Best regards
Simon
If total infections, hospitalizations, and death are going to be ignored in the preliminary trials of the vaccines, then there must be phase four testing to monitor their safety and efficacy. This would be long term massive scale monitoring of the vaccine. There must be an indication that the authorized vaccines are reducing infection, hospitalization, and death, or else they will not be able to stop this pandemic.
I wish we had something locally I could attend like that. There is zero opposition to this stuff.
Check out the telegram protest everywhere goup.
They have lots of local groups. New ones being added all the time.You might find one near you.
https://t.me/ProtestEverywhere
Personally i’m looking forward to all them people who take the vaccine getting sick. Fucking good. I hope these fuckers suffer like we’re suffering under the tyranny. Your middle class Karen always talks the talk but when it comes to getting this new world order vaccine that will prevent women from getting pregnant i have my doubts she’ll go for it. We’ll see the first few days where the real fucking morons line up to to be tagged but after that no one will take it. How the child fuckers and faggots that run the country deal with that i don’t know but i’ll tell you this the only way they’re sticking a needle in my body is when it’s dead.
Er Karen tends to not be a middle class name, that would be Emily or Olivia!
fuck off tosser
Biker,
I mostly enjoy your comments (they often make me laugh, which is nice), I admire your refusal to be cowed, and I am glad you are on our side.
But, please, is it necessary to be so rude? KBuch only made a rather harmless comment.
Could someone tell me why the name Karen has acquired such a pejorative meaning?
This is a genuine enquiry; I would really like to know!
I don’t think the name matters it’s just the kind of person who thinks they know it all but it’s obvious they know fuck all. The Karen tends to over inflate their own value while anyone within earshot just she’s some dumb fucker demanding to see the manager because she’s not 100% satisfied at all times.
As everything else, came from USA. So let’s ask them.
Yes, see above.
It comes from misogyny, and also snobbery. The Karen meme is a portrayal of a (working class) woman who has the audacity to speak up about not being happy about something, and therefore must be abused and/or silenced until she remembers her place and shuts up.
You have heard of it before because the problem is as old as time.
Yes; loads of videos of “Karens” either demanding to “speak to the manager” over some imagined slight, or marching up to someone she has never met before and demanding that the other person conforms to some Karen-related opinion or action.
Think ideal Covid marshal material. Nothing to do with misogyny, Karens tend to be female because a man would get punched.
Emo Philips had a good joke referring to this concept; “I went to hire a car the other day. The clerk said “Prove to me that you’re a citizen of New York”. So I stabbed him…”
https://twitter.com/NickTriggle/status/1336201069685334019?s=20
So the last week or two I’ve been going into my local Tesco (the one at Enoch’s square in central Glasgow) without any mask.
I never ever wore one to begin with (like I’d pay my own money for such Chinese plastic carcinogenic trash??). But I used to wear a Royal Stuart tartan scarf over my lower face. No longer will I deface such an ancient British symbol in the name of cringe to the false god of Covid.
Absolutely no one has challenged me.
Maybe I get filthy looks? I don’t really know or care because anyone in a mask to me is subhuman and I couldn’t give a flying French Connection UK what they think behind their slobbering wall of conformist shite.
Thanks to all you guys for the positive thinking and inspiration! Knowing if some wee gobshite has a go, I can just report it back here and we can all have a wee laugh about it makes such a huge difference.
No sceptic is alone. We all have each other’s backs and every transgression against their pish gives hope and inspiration to other sceptics.
And so anyone still wearing the mark of the beast across your face – go on and burn the thing! You’ll feel so much better not stooping low to match the standards of the scum out there! I swear my neck and shoulders were hurting from the scarf stoop. No longer.
Freedom is taken, not given.
Be your own person and take back control of your life
Great post.
Been walking around Fife since it started and never wore a mask, never washed my hands and never socially distanced. I’ve been confronted and i’ve laughed in the face of these fuckers. I don’t give a shit what anyone says. The very idea that such a useless fucker like Nicola Sturgeon can tell me that i need to block my airways is so insane as not to be worthy of me giving it a shit.
Excellent! Sturgeon is worse than useless.
I wash my hands, as I always have done. But I won’t use sanitiser that damages beneficial bacteria that we need to live healthy lives
Never yet worn a mask, it’s simply a show of submission and it only encourages the utterly corrupt government to further heights of folly.
Even after you’ve wiped your arse?
Well said and well done!!!
We sceptics need to support and encourage others.
So glad to hear this. I haven’t been to my Glasgow office since March. Stirling is fairly sane, fortunately.
People like you will lead us out of this madness. Thank you.
Giving you an enormous round of applause. Everything you say is 100% true.
Well said.
100% Every day I feel more empowered. No mask, walk straight, walk proud and SMILE, most people react so positively to seeing a REAL face. we might be in the minority but there’s an awful lot of sympathy towards us.
Keep battering on folks.
Arnie.
My eldest is 5 years old today, a welcome distraction from the cringeworthy “V Day” mass rollout of unlicensed, experimental vaccines.
I’ll be focusing on trying to remember the names of his favourite Pokemon rather than rage furiously at the latest pack of lies coming out of Matt Hancock’s mouth.
We all need to take a day off once in a while!
Enjoy!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55227325 90 year old is first to get vaccine.
Poor brainwashed lady, she says she feels very privileged.
Her only claim to fame in 90 years!
Look, I’m in the paper!
The clapping as she was wheelled back to ward was my moment to throw up. How many of those nurses are just doing that because they were told, knowing full well how much of a shambles this all is.
I guess if she dies within 3 months, which is likely, of natural causes, they will keep that very quiet!
Extraordinary and absolutely nauseating. Apparently, she said that she was taking the vaccine so that she would finally be able to see her family. Psychologically battered into submission by months of lockdown/isolation/media scaremongering. No way that is real consent.
Have been reading coverage of this in CH and CzR media, and it is generally very negative — because of speed of vaccine approval and decision to use elderly as guinea pigs. Many people viewing it as unethical (and dangerous).
So today is ‘V Day’ and frankly I’m feeling rather frightened about it. Our elderly population are taking part in a deeply unethical experiment and the government are taking a massive gamble with public health that could go either way. These are some of the weakest members in society who already struggle to mount an immune response to a wild virus, and there are still so many unknowns. This is completely new vaccine technology and we have no data on mass rollouts, only a very small sample in a clinical trial which is actually still ongoing. Full disclosure: I am pro-vaccine, I have had pretty much every jab going and even paid privately to have the flu jab this year but there is something about the Covid vaccine that makes me profoundly uneasy.
Even if the vaccine is a ‘success’ and causes minimal injury or damage, that’s not the end of the story, because vaccines don’t obviate the devastating damage from lockdowns that have scarred societies and people across the world. They don’t justify lockdowns and they can’t undo the harmful new social habits that will take months/years to reverse, such as social distancing, masks, people scared to leave the house, etc.
One observation I have had is that all the ‘national treasures’ who have offered to be jabbed as part of the PR campaign tend to be over 65. The vaccine is not (currently) being offered to anyone under 50. There is nothing about fertility issues on the patient leaflet for the vaccine (unlike the health professional leaflet) but for people over 50, infertility wouldn’t be a concern anyway.
Think about it. The fact that this vaccine is being targeted at the elderly once again hammers home that the government has trashed our young people’s tomorrow to cater for those who have already had a long, free life. I’m not saying we should write off the elderly, but they should have been proportionately protected from the very beginning in a way that does not unfairly burden the younger generations. Again, people say ‘But every country in the world has introduced restrictions!’ but, (very broadly speaking) the hardest crackdowns have been in rich Western countries with very elderly populations, with a few exceptions. Asian countries are doing very minimal testing (hence their apparent lack of ‘cases’ and ‘deaths’) and Covid has barely touched Africa, again perhaps due to a combination of no testing infrastructure to facilitate a pathological obsession with cases and a much younger population.
The West is obsessed with this new disease because it mainly affects their massive elderly populations. Western societies are unfairly weighted towards the elderly, simply because they vote more. But if the government really cared about the elderly, they wouldn’t be first in line to be injected with crap that could potentially harm them.
So governments have trashed economies and societies around the world to give the impression of caring for the elderly, but then use them as guinea pigs and treat them like shit if they live in a care home. This proves what I have thought from the very beginning: this is a massive political reputational exercise from governments in the West, who want to appear strong and caring but who shortchange pretty much every age group in the process.
The government responses have disproportionally penalised the elderly. The young have time and can recover and learn from their experiences. There’s no way back for tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of the elderly.
I agree, but they have also disproportionately affected the young. The young are not affected in any serious way by this virus but are being kicked before they’ve even started in life. Most of these folk haven’t even got careers or independence yet and will now find it much harder to do so, and when they do finally find work they will be paying for this folly for the rest of their lives. Children are also missing out on education which will have long lasting detrimental effects. I agree that these responses have been terrible for the elderly and never should have happened, but if countries spent more time investing in their young and allowing them a greater stake in our society, as they are our future, then lockdowns may not have even happened because govts would have acknowledged their disproportionate impact on the young, and lack of lockdown would have then in turn benefitted the elderly.
It is not a suffering olympics.Lockdowns are wrong for everyone.
Yes, I understand that the young have been very badly affected. Stuff like this always affects worst the most vulnerable people in society.
What I was trying to say that is there are always difficulties in life for all generations (1950s baby-boomers perhaps being something of an exception), and that the young have time. Many of the old people dying in care homes alone and denied visits will have grown up during the war – my guess (and hope) is that will prove a tougher paper round than the covid-response aftermath.
Time heals an awful lot, in ways that perhaps you don’t envisage or even imagine when young. Old people haven’t got time.
I’m neither young nor old, but have children so of course think about what the world has in store for them. More frightening for me than economic difficulties is the prospect of the dystopian society that the covid-response has given us such a disturbing insight into, and what we can do to ensure it never becomes a permanent reality.
One way I see this going, with all the economic pain yet to come, is society fracturing into competing groups: young v. old; property owning v. non.; white collar v. blue (to se old categories); public sector v. private; and so on. We can already see the seeds of this. I am sure it is something we need to avoid, as the damage caused through such fractures will be insidious and profound.
Completely agree Poppy. The damage done to the young who are at no risk from this virus is unforgivable. It is small things that add up over the months. Watching my daughter get more and more demoralised as every pleasure in live is removed or spoilt. But the young are the solution, if more of them could wake up and fight back the government would have no where to turn. This is why they closed schools and talked about asymptomatic spread and tried to blame and shame the young. We need the younger generation to revolt and seize back their futures.
Yes, quite right, depressing to see many of the young/youngish indulging in virtue-signalling (fancy masks and shaming sceptics on social media) rather than fighting back against this madness. I still hope there could be some kind of backlash on the way.
The responses have disproportionally penalised the young in relation to their risk though. They may have more time to recover but they may not even get the chance to live life with the freedoms that most have been able to take for granted. And economically they will be paying the price for decades. Lockdown is a tragedy for everyone but with the future that’s being lined up I’d much rather have had my life than be at the start of it.
Hi Achilles – please see my response to Poppy above, most of which I could just have easily written here. As I wrote, Time heals an awful lot.
My guess is that, rather than the young, it will be the economically inactive who will be most affected over the coming years and even decades. The young will better be able to ride the waves of change (bit clicheish I know, but can’t think of anything better right now) out of this
Establishment gotta punish them elderly Brexit voters somehow.
The government murdered thousands of elderly people by knowingly sending infected people into care homes and then denied them NHS care.They then used the pretext of protecting the elderly to keep everyone locked up.
Also some care home whistle-blowers cite removal of food, water, medicine protocols, hidden by lockdown rules that forbade relatives from visiting (witnessing)
Perhaps a repeat of the Liverpool Care Pathway scandal.
The evil on display via politicians, the media, friendly faces is beyond comprehension
I read Michael Yeadon/Wolfgang Wodarg’s concerns about the vaccine and had my concerns confirmed. Indemnification is enough of a red flag for me
To think that adequate levels of vitamin D, healthy diet, exercise, maintaining social connections, adequate sleep – and if succumbing to the ‘virus’ hydroxycholoquine and zinc as used around the world, is enough to protect someone and keep them healthy
But no – Pharma shareholders want the trough filling. This is the evil I cannot comprehend
I’m sure a lot of elderly people particularly those in nursing homes didn’t ask to be wrapped in cotton wool and basically had this forced upon them by an increasingly risk averse culture. The same people will ow have the vaccine forced upon them as will many people who work in the healthcare sector.
I’m 60 and am furious about being defined as elderly. Prior to Covid I was enjoying being an agency worker in a housing project after spending more than a life sentence working in the NHS. My second job was trying to re establish a career as an artist. Yeah I know I’m too old but I studied art to degree level but due to being working class struggled to get a job in the creative industries. I was actually doing quite well until March and had shown work in a number of exhibitions. I also had plenty of agency work which helped fund my art practice. Sine the first lockdown exhibition opportunities have almost dried up and my hours with the agency have reduced to the bare minimum.
I’ve lost the best part of a healthy year of my life where I’d planned to climb both Snowden and Ben Nevis. Many of my previous outdoor pursuits have been off limits due to both the lockdowns and now the equally ridiculous tier system.
My savings and investments have been decimated thanks to the massive fall in interests rates. I don’t anticipate I’ll ever recover from this as unlike a younger person time just isn’t on my side. I wanted to be able to do what I loved until it killed me. Now it feels unlikely.
I won’t be having the vaccine as I’d rather take the risk of Covid finishing me off prematurely than being protected, facing a poverty stricken old age and basically living a half life.
My sympathies.
Keep making art!!
I think they’re culling the expensive useless eaters. With the avalanche of unemployment that will hit after furlough, many over-50s will find it hard to get jobs …..
The young will be controlled via debt.
You are absolutely right.
But for many elderly people this has not been done in their name. No one asked them and they would rather live their lives as they see fit rather than ‘be protected’ by self-appointed (and basically cruel) ‘protectors’.
My mother is 86 and she does not support any of this nonsense. Quite the contrary.
The failure of the Church to provide either effective spiritual or temporal leadership over the last ten months has often been remarked on recently.
But in my opinion that commentary has come nowhere near grasping the scale of that failure, or the consequences which are by now surely baked in the pie.
Closed churches??? Dear God.
I don’t know if anyone on here with memories of the 1980s alternative rock scene recalls an obscure little gem by a band called 10,000 Maniacs, ‘Planned Obsolescence’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sVc8lkTfrk
Nearly four decades later, the lyrics seem almost chillingly apposite:
Science is truth for life
Watch religion fall obsolete
Science Will be truth for life
Technology as nature
Science Truth for life
In Fortran tongue the Answer …
In fortran tongue the answer?
Wow. Very 1980s of natalie merchant. (I think she’s a bit of a lefty)
It was back in 1982!
Aren’t climate models still fortran megamesses? Just askin. . .
As pointed out by CS Lewis, Francis Schaeffer and others back in the 50’s, the rejection of the Sovereign God leads to a science led tyranny. In the words of Randy Stonehill:
I can’t keep from mourning for this topsy-turvy world
with all its strife and pain
Mourning for the lost and the desperate children who can’t remember their name
And I can feel it in my soul
How the end is getting near
I can hear the devil laughing
And it’s ringing in my ears
Long ago he chose us to inherit all His kingdom
And we were blessed with light
But wandering away we disobeyed Him in the garden
And stumbled into night
and I can feel it in my soul
Now the end is getting near
I can hear the angels weeping
And it’s ringing in my ears
We are all like foolish puppetsWho desiring to be kings
Now lie pitifully crippled
after cutting our own strings
http://www.elyrics.net/read/r/randy-stonehill-lyrics/puppet-strings-lyrics.html
Daniel Chapter 2:
44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, 45 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%202&version=ESV
I have often been intrigued by your choice of name and I infer that you know at least some Greek. Would you care to join one of my New Testament Greek classes? I have three, Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced, so I think one of these would be appropriate, if I may say. Or do you run one yourself? Please get in touch via the form at http://www.eroumen.co.uk.
Done.
The church is finished. Even the Pope doesn’t believe the shite he talks. Science is the new religion and like the old religion is full of shite also. No difference between the two and both of these believers will force you to believe. The religious used to burn you at the stake but now they don’t so the fear of death from these people has gone so it’s dying , well the scientists will inject you with the fire against your will because they know best.
Science is the new religion and like the old religion is full of shite
Maybe they both had something useful to say until they were taken over by careerists.
I don’t know anything about religious careers, but science is driven by and almost entirely dependent on securing the next research grant. Hardly the path to truth and honesty.
That’s right. That goes for Junk Science as well.
Science has become corrupted by the gravity of Pharma and Bill Gates ‘funding’
See, Science Fictions, Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie..there is no ‘objective’ science, I’m not sure there ever was.
Some months ago a clergyman at our local church who organises meetings for local house group leaders rang me up.
After complimenting me on running a number of groups for New Testament Greek, saying that I was doing great job and so on, he then went on to the real topic.
I had, a few weeks previous to that, attended the nine o’ clock service (half communion) without a
maskface-nappy; no one had remarked on that at the time but apparently someone complained. Could I please wear amaskface-nappy next time? Naturally, I refused and pointed out there there WERE exemptions, something of which he was unaware. The conversation was not a meeting of minds.I pointed out (do bear in mind this was some months ago; the sins of the church hierarchy are now more numerous):
I rarely go to church these days as I do not have the right frame of mind for worship; I often think I ought to go to make a protest but that is not a good attitude. I also refuse to have communion in one kind only; I take communion in both kinds or not at all, hence the description ‘half communion’.
Since then the sins of the church in this respect have become worse:
I told this clergyman that if I had my way Welby and his useless bench of bishops should all be demoted the status of a trainee curate for seven years and I referred to Daniel chapter 5. It was C. S. Lewis who somewhere says that the ordinary communicant conceals his faith before his vicar because he believes so much more.
So I agree with TJN, the criticism of the church is too light and the failure of church leaders is gargantuan.
There are plenty of Christians on this forum, but where are the clergymen? Has anyone seen a clergyman at any of the protests?
Many churches are more like civil service or government departments. If they really believed, they would see something like Covid as negligible and hold their services.
I was baptised Catholic & went to Catholic schools but am not practising and somewhere along the line had lost my faith. However this is something that I would not readily admit in my home country because people there would react in horror. When I admitted that I never went to mass, never prayed the rosary, never observed any of the religious occasions, I was labelled an “atheist” (obviously didn’t know the real meaning of the word).
The reaction of the churches to this crisis has been both a source of disappointment and not a surprise really. This was an opportunity for them to provide real leadership in matters of the spirit but no, they closed the churches and denied the sacraments and service to those who needed them. They have been active enforcers of the government’s insane diktats and when challenged can only offer weasel words by way of apology.
Instead the CoE prefers to pontificate on the likes of slavery and matters pertaining to Caesar such as Brexit.
The Catholic church have been no better as well. Christianity has come a long, long way from the heady days of the early Christians and stepping into the power vacuum after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410AD. This time there is no-one to step in the vacuum after another group of barbarians have breached the gates of Western Civilisation.
When this shit show is over, perhaps we should also disestablish the CoE and remove the bishops from the House of Lords. They serve no useful purpose and would be better off putting their own house in order rather than to aid the further erosion of the history & heritage of this country.
Absolutely – Sweden disestablished its own state church in 2000 and I think Norway was going to do the same. I’m a member of the National Secular Society and oppose religious privilege. The bishops should have been removed from the Lords years ago; the only other country with this situation is Iran. It’s outrageous in a country that claims to be a democracy.
Exactly. That said there are other countries where despite the explicit separation between Church and State, the former holds a big influence – look at the Philippines as an example.
For a discussion about how the Church should respond to a hostile government see this video based on the Book of Daniel:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LVDa8DD4WLnH/
Good points Stephanos, which beg for answers.
During the Black Death a disproportionally high number of priests died. The Christian ethic is/was supposed to be one of helping the needy, not running away from them.
I don’t see how after the last 10 months the Church can claim much legitimacy. Yes, the criticism has been very light. And isn’t that very telling? Does the Church actually matter much to society any more??
I’m not one for revealed religion myself. You won’t find me in a church as part of a congregation, but you just might find me sitting in one on my own somewhere out in the middle of nowhere.
I read of one at a protest in Germany.
They are fine with my mask exemption at my church but the vicar seems to talk as much about covid precautions as about God. I still enjoy church though and sing quietly in defiance of the regulations.
https://avftt.co.uk/index.php?threads/sweden.12041/
Fake news surely?
Word on the street. Peeps need to be aware of the general chit chat
Sweden might have been more free but they also overreacted from the start. Very disappointing that they haven’t allowed large crowds yet.
When Sturgeon was asked how much the government had spent on it and said she didn’t know what she meant was she didn’t care, after all she stole the money from my pocket and like ALL SOCIALISTS spends the stolen money like a council estate lottery winner.
I already despise all socialists more than i can express but Sturgeon is particularly nasty.
It is easy for Sturgeon. Socialism that somebody else is paying for.
Re the London issue… obviously all “cases” and Tiers are bs but I’m kinda thinking it’s a good thing as Option 1 – letting them stay in Tier 2 is only going to peak more Midlanders and Northerners into not giving a monkeys about restrictions anymore.
And Option 2 – putting them in Tier 3 is only going to peak more Southerners into not giving a monkeys about restrictions anymore. If London’s streets are no longer paved gold then it might wake a few more up too.
It’s almost like pitting different regions against each other might backfire…
No chance that London will go into tier 3. Khan will not allow it -and when Khan and St Nicola tell Boris to jump, he asks how high.
I lose track of what Khan wants. He’s such a flip flopper. I thought he wanted stricter restrictions?
In terms of peaking more people into civil disobedience Option 1 is prob better of the two evils. This will be the way out of this mess sooner or later, more and more people will just stop paying any attention.
Apropos care homes, this clip was aired on yesterday’s UK Column News:
https://youtu.be/BVU0kslHCCI?t=2621
Makes DNR look positively tempting.
Seen elsewhere;
”I live on the edge of Central London and no one I know whether friends or family has the virus and the same with them. We have doctors in the family and friends who are doctors.
The r rate is a theoretical construct which is flawed as are the tests. A few more deaths from respiratory infections are sad but this is what happens in winter. We cannot and must not lock up people to prevent deaths. The only way is to protect the vulnerable which the government seems unable to do. This country is run by halfwits.”
And populated with halfwits
Good stuff from California with Dave Rubin.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9SKPyD_G0
Tom Woods brilliant today. What a hero.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1792-stanfords-jay-bhattacharya-on-the-lockdown-fiasco/
Liar in Chief lying on the Today Programme
Hancock’s quarter hour.
We have a new hero to worship, Margaret, the first person to be vaccinated
Next thing they’ll be setting her up with Captain Tom to do a double act.
Has no one explained to this lady that she won’t be able to see her family in the new year?
”it’s the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the new year after being on my own for most of the year.”
doormat said ‘peak immunity comes 5 weeks after the first jab’ so sadly Margaret will be lonely this Xmas
Margaret is appealing to everyone to take the wonderful vaccine, BBC R4 news, bless.
Saint Margaret of ScotlandFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to searchSaint Margaret of Scotland
Image of Saint Margaret in a window in Edinburgh
Queen consort of ScotlandTenure1070–1093
Bornc. 1045
Kingdom of HungaryDied16 November 1093
Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Kingdom of ScotlandBurialDunfermline AbbeySpouseMalcolm III, King of ScotlandIssue
HouseWessexFatherEdward the ExileMotherAgathaReligionCatholicismSaint MargaretQueen of ScotsVenerated inRoman Catholic Church and Anglican CommunionCanonized1250 by Pope Innocent IVMajor shrineDunfermline Abbey, Fife, ScotlandFeast16 NovemberAttributesreadingPatronageScotland, Dunfermline, Fife, Shetland, The Queen’s Ferry, and Anglo-Scottish relationsSaint Margaret of Scotland (Scots: Saunt Magret, c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called “The Pearl of Scotland”.[1] Born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile, Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of king Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected as King of England but never crowned. After she and her family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070.
She was a very pious Christian, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth in Scotland for pilgrims travelling to St Andrews in Fife, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland, or four, if Edmund of Scotland (who ruled with his uncle, Donald III) is counted, and of a queen consort of England. According to the Vita S. Margaritae (Scotorum) Reginae (Life of St. Margaret, Queen (of the Scots)), attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1093, merely days after receiving the news of her husband’s death in battle.
In 1250, Pope Innocent IVcanonized her, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost. Mary, Queen of Scots, at one time owned her head, which was subsequently preserved by Jesuits in the Scots College, Douai, France, from where it was subsequently lost during the French Revolution
Soon to be the Second Saint Margaret, blessed by Global Agent, Pope Francis.
Happy to say that almost every person I meet thinks this is totally bonkers now.
The Gov are just clinging on with the Vaccine.
That’ll all fall apart soon too.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
All fall down!
https://www.thecaterer.com/news/drinks-industry-makes-noise-hospodemo-protest
This is great but should have happened much sooner, ditto retail, entertainment, sport. They should all be hounding the govt en masse constantly.
Get a woman who will be 91 next week for a photo opportunity showing her having the “jab” at 06:45 this morning.
What ever happened to looking after”vulnerable” people?
Yes. A dreadful piece of propaganda pimping out the confidential medical details of anyone.
She would have been much better off with high dose Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C
Visited this site a number of times now, much appreciate what you do.
I’m down in Melbourne, where the most brutal measures were unleashed on 5 million people by the demented Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews.
Despite most restrictions being eased (for now, until next time) and facemasks only mandatory in supermarkets and on public transport, the majority of people walk around outside… still wearing facemasks.
In short, the level of absolute brainwashing here and inability of allegedly intelligent people to think rationally is bloody depressing.
A large number actually support what Andrews did – all to ‘keep the community safe’.
I’ve visited Melbourne twice and have a friend there. Sadly, he’s a Covidian and abandoned critical thought. ‘Chairman Dan’ Andrews is a demagogue and I wonder about his ties to the Communist Party of China (can’t believe he signed Victoria up to the Belt and Road Initiative and I hope the federal government will cancel it). Sorry to hear about all this.
I’m on a few anti lockdown, covid sceptic Facebook groups, but everyone I know in person is a covidian. Believe me, I’ve tried to wake them up. Like headbutting a wall. I even had someone today quite incredulous that I will refuse to get jabbed. They thought I was nuts!!
Yes, I have to avoid the topic completely or I’ll have a big row with my friend. He was deeply ideological even before all this, and one thing I’ve seen early on is how people’s attitudes on the Rona are influenced more by ideology than science or even general politics. It’s like a cult. I think Australia also suffers from not having a bill of rights or much of a culture of rights; there seems to be something of a ‘prison’ mentality, which allows for one hell of a nanny state.
Chinese money makes all the difference. Let’s call it blackmail. Or a bribe.
I have a four generation tribe of cousins in NSW. Started with a ten pound pom and my mums sister.
I met each of their four adult children as they came over travelling. Sturdy resilient types who I’d like to think haven’t fallen for the nonsense.
Their children however are in medicine and media so I hold no great hope for them.
A lot of people here in Australia have become frothing covid cult zombies Karen. Even people I thought would’ve seen thru all the contradictions and propaganda.
Nice to have you hear Gezzah. I was appalled at what you guys had to go through for effectively zero cases.
We’ve been watching Victoria going full retard, ugly business indeed. Plenty of Karens in our hemisphere too. Solidarity mate.
Dan Andrews is a fascist dictator
Or perhaps more of a communist (‘Chairman Dan’)….
Will this vaccine bring the dead back to life?
The Government, that is.
Positive tests in Camden & surrounding areas since before the Lockdown. Doesn’t look like it’s rising that fast to me.
Positive tests in Lambeth & surrounding areas since before the Lockdown. Doesn’t look like it’s rising that fast to me
PCR test results are meaningless. ‘We’re testing healthy people and declaring them unwell whilst refusing to treat actual sick people’
Just listened to David Salisbury (Former Director of Immunisation at Dept of Health) on Talk Radio. He was stating that because, in particular, the Astra Zeneca vaccine only had 60% efficacy all of us would have to continue wearing masks. He also stated that all the vulnerable and elderly wouldn’t be vaccinated (reasons not given) as similar reason why we ALL would have to remain masked? Great.
Masks deface, masks humiliate, masks degrade, masks dehumanise.
Of course the Fascist pigs still want them.
Also stops people saying, these vaccines don’t work, load of bollocks mate
Positive tests in Redbridge & surrounding areas since before the Lockdown. Doesn’t look like it’s rising that fast to me.
As a scientist involved with measurement I look at that data and see it jumping around and think statistical noise with no trends apparent. They are testing too few people in each district to have reliable data, often quoted to the first decimal place.
I think a lot depends on when/where they test. In my area they set up a test centre on a Monday & Thursday morning each week behind the Leisure centre, lines of people, on their own, in cars with masks on queue up, & hey presto our area reports 2 little spikes each week. The same crew go off to other towns on other days producing spikes there. I suspect lots of false positives of the worried well.
“often quoted to the first decimal place.”
I always knew my big toe was a treasonous part of my body!
Macron imposes stricter lockdowns and Parisiennes bugger of en masse to Charante or wherever else they can do exactly as they please for longer. Same in the US where Californians move elsewhere for simple pleasure of going to a restaurant or bar. Salopians chose to hop the Welsh border to shop before shopping got weird in Wales, and now we have the spectacle of North Yorkshire police trying to intimidate anyone travelling from tier 3 into tier 2 zones… Yet polling tells us that people want longer, harder, deeper lockdowns, that they’re mad for restriction, intoxicated by state orders… Something does not add up.
Polls are a tool for influencing opinions not measuring them.
When not chuntering on about the iniquities of lock-down much of my time is outdoors, gardening and nature conservation work. Watching how nature works, it is not sentimental, death is accepted as a fact of life, an owl family will have no compunction in eating the runt of the family, the sparrow hawk takes down in pigeon in a flurry of feathers but the rest of them carry on grazing my veg! How does the natural world answer death and loss? births, the whole of the natural world seems geared around birth and new life.
To me part of the problem this year is that we have lost this connection with the natural pattern of birth and death and so perhaps appropriately as we approach Christmas the ONS have just issued a summary of live births for the first 3 quarters of 2020,
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/provisionalbirthsinenglandandwales
I am no mathematician and so please feel free to check my figures but my analysis is;
Total live births Jan – Sept 2020 England & Wales 464,437
Total registered deaths Jan-Sept 2020 England & Wales 453,803
And so despite being hit by this ‘unprecedented virus’ despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over terrible deaths, so far this year we appear, on my calculations, to have had 10,634 more live births than deaths in England & Wales. Most of the natural world would consider this a good result and a successful year but our strange view of life means that much of the country is wittering on about deaths and vaccines. It is new life that matters! those 453803 live births are our future , we need to ensure we put our energy into nurturing them to a full and productive life, not locking them down.
‘Eating the runt of the family’
If the pig dictators family had followed nature we wouldn’t be in this mess
Would you have fancied eating that rubbish?
Nice. Very nice.
Born into the Covvie slave state.
Useful Covviefodder.
Sorry my last sentence should have said 464437 live births (the 453803 is the deaths figure! if my calculations are correct?)
The realisation that 99.9% of all creatures born into this world get eaten by something higher up the food chain was what startedme doubting how great Gods plan really was.
I understand your reasoning, but one of the previous Popes had a most excellent view on what to do about this sad state of affairs.
One of the Papal Legates is reported to have expressed a view similar to my own, if directed to certain section of our body politic; “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius”.
Jeremy Corbyn prevented me from learning Latin
Hear, hear!
Thank you!
I must say I am looking forward to that Nativity scene when it has been ‘improved’ by the locals
I do hope they step up and we are updated. Soon.
Note the CND logo under the seat.
Yes; the satanic “broken cross”. (I know it is actually is a combined semaphore “N” and “D”, but it is significant in this context.
P.S. Strangely, the previous Pope’s favourite walking crucifix was also a “crooked cross”. I wonder why he liked it so much? These people just love their arcane symbolism.
You may also examine, with advantage, the City of London’s corporate logo, but that is probably a coincidence.
And why aren’t they wearing masks? Covid deniers, the lot of them!
Cos they’re outside?
Vaccine Extermination Day
The new VE day
Professor Paul Hunter at the University of East Anglia said it was “very worrying” that cases had continued to increase during the national lockdown and said a rise from Tier 2 must now be considered. I have just emailed the bearded professor asking him for his scientific reasoning that if lockdowns cause an increase in cases, how can further restrictions decrease them. Proper scientific evidence please, not save the NHS voodoo!
Ask him how many shares he has in pharmaceutical companies.
Telegraph letter today
SIR – I respect Alexandra Seear’s right not to carry a vaccination passport (Letters, December 6) but I also want the right not to find myself next to somebody at a theatre, on public transport or in shops who carries a higher risk of infecting me with a killer disease.
I hope that businesses and establishments will be able to exercise their right to refuse entry to anybody who decides to take that risk.
Chris North
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
How about Chris just stays out of public places. We can all be satisfied.
But isn’t it true that the vaccine manufacturer isn’t claiming that it stops the spread of Covid? I.e. you could take the jab and still pass it on to Chris North from Wellingborough?
True. And if venues banned non- vaccinated people that could go to court. The venue would have to show the evidence that unvaccinated people spread disease and the vaccinated don’t. Tricky.
Chris North is a total fucking wanker. The very idea that he thinks he shouldn’t be infected by a virus is insane. This cunt shouldn’t drive or use public transport then because his right to go about burning fossil fuels into my lungs causing me lung cancer should be stopped. These people are so fucking stupid that it makes my blood boil
Should I know who Chris North is?
Yes he’s famous, he had a letter published in a newspaper
I doubt even his mother gives a fuck who he is. Sounds like a snivelling fucking weasel to me
Biker, for the first time ever, your post was in error. If you had been on YouTube for long enough you would know that the correct phrase (of which I am certain you would approve) is “shitweasel”.
Never mind, I liked your post anyway, and I am sure you will make up for it when referring to similar people in future.
This is dangerously close to Catweazle, who was brilliant, him and touchwood needed now..
If I can find him I’m going to snog him (including tongues)
‘The limit of my freedom is not determined by the extent of your fear’.
No snogging allowed?
That’s the happy ending
Hi Chris, if it was a proper vaccine it wouldn’t be a problem since it would make you immune but it isn’t and neither will you be, ain’t life a bitch.
Maybe he would be satisfied if theatres etc introduce different seating areas? Apartheid here we come…
How about Chris just fucks off and hides under the duvet while the rest of us try and get on with our lives?
Killer disease my arse: I personally know four people that have had it, all recovered and none went near a hospital.
The Daily Mail has it’s death stats for Sweden wrong. Worldometers.info shows deaths peaking there at 51 (7 day moving average) on 24 November, falling to 13 on 5th December. The curve is falling consistently since late November.
Catholic Priest dies after receiving Moderna Vaccine. No Autopsy will be performed. https://christiansfortruth.com/catholic-priest-dies-after-receiving-modernas-covid-vaccine-that-utilizes-aborted-fetal-tissue. Says it all really.
Me, I much prefer the Olderna Vaccine
Nietzsche.
Sorry , meant niche
Karma; oh sorry, mixing up the religions, there. God is not mocked.
Does anyone know anything about the York track and trace. I’ve been trying to persuade my Labour MP over to our side but he is currently sticking to Labour party line of doing what the government is doing but more so and somehow better. He was stating that York’s track and trace system has led to a drop in cases. I argued that they had the “second” wave earlier than other places and the local population is now becoming immune regardless of track and trace. I pointed out too that many other Northern cities now show a similar reduction in cases.
This https://www.york.gov.uk/news/article/366/york-launches-local-contact-tracing-system suggests it is simply a kind of local counselling service on top of the standard track and trace. So I can’t really see how it could make any difference apart from giving the people contacted more phone calls to answer.
Tracking n tracing has been devolved to local councils if the national T&T cannot contact “contacts” then the local councils take over tryig to contact the contacts. The theory is that people will answer the phone if they get called by their local council’s switchboard number.
Bastards
Cunning I’m surprised they didn’t think localising track and trace earlier. Where cases are going down you can claim track and trace success and where they are rising it’s because they aren’t doing it properly in that particular area and they should learn from the “good” areas. My (nice but dim) MP has fallen for it for sure.
At the onset, councils pointed out that they already had trained teams and that people would be more likely to answer a local code number. HMG had to line its friends’ pockets before that could be allowed.
University of Cambridge testing results – over 9,600 students tested 29th Nov to 6th Dec – zero confirmed positive cases.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/documents/pooled_testing_report_30nov-6dec.pdf
so it’s still a serious pandemic then !!!
Nah -it will be proof that muzzles work.
Doing what students do from the start of term despite the security nazis. Total immunity within a month.
This was posted yesterday, well worth a listen if a little too long, anyway at the end somebody asked how we can get out of this mess, the speaker replied we can’t all we can rely on now is god. Oh BOY we are FU***D
https://medicalkidnap.com/2020/11/30/covid-vaccines-biological-weapons-of-mass-destruction-says-wyoming-medical-doctor-and-manager-for-wyomings-state-public-health-department/
Here’s a screen shot of excess all cause mortality for the 4 home nations.
It always surprises me that so many people think that lots more people are dying than normal, they aren’t! The same number of people are dying as normal, they’re on average the same age as normal the only significant difference is that the State has privatised much of death with loads more just slipping away at home rather than bothering the NHS.
I am not allowed to
Go into a pub
Fly abroad on holiday
Go into a shop
Use public transport
Go to a restaurant
Visit a cinema
Go to a football match
As all of the above directly or indirectly raise taxes I am more than pleased to comply
Here’s a few more I won’t be doing
Pay my poll tax
Owning a car
Pay income tax
Paying any fines imposed
Lets see who blinks first
the worst thing of all and it never gets mentioned is we’re not allowed in each others houses. The media never say up here in Scotland but we’re now 9 months into not being allowed to go into others homes. Obviously most people ignore this bullshit but that is my number one concern. They are keeping everyone separate so’s not to question their fascism. I bought my fucking house, not the government and i’ll decided who comes in out out.
Correct!
Nobody comes into my flat because I like it that way, the other residents have friends and family visiting more than usual especially those prevented from working or attending organized social events.
I agree – it’s outrageous. For the most part, it’s not enforceable and I ignore it, but some people will have nasty neighbours who might snitch on them (though I doubt that police would bother unless the gathering is noisy). Still, the law should not apply to things like this at all.
The interview of Toby Young highlighted above, alongside yesterday’s piece by Peter Hitchens on TalkRadio, make an excellent pair of recent interviews which together describe and go some way to explaining the current state of our society and arguably our entire culture. Although these issues predate (and will most likely post-date) the coronapanic itself, I don’t by any means think it’s a coincidence that these two men have been two of the highest profile and most effective voices of resistance to the conformist stampede to panic over this virus.
Peter Hitchens, having been a student Trotskyist and moved to conservatism as he matured (the traditional path of human development – “if you aren’t a liberal/socialist by the time you are twenty years old you have no heart, and if you are still one when you are thirty you have no head”) has an unusually clear grasp of the path of politics in this country over the past half century, and of its prior context. On his weekly piece with Mike Graham yesterday he summarised some of the key issues that he has been writing about for years, that are at the root of our ongoing political and cultural collapse. The old communist loyalties of the key members of the Blair regime and of the long marchers who now control our key institutions, the harm they have done and continue to do, and the power they now wield in a country that relied on those institutions and their officeholders for almost all of its protections against tyranny:
Peter Hitchens: Belief in the ‘Covid system’ has ‘taken on shape of semi-religious cult’
And Toby Young knows better than perhaps any other commentator the issues surrounding the “marshmallow repression” described by Hitchens, because he has been there and been targeted and because he runs an organisation devoted to standing up for the victims.
Toby Young Unlocked
Of course, some of those most in need of understanding the points made here are perhaps the least likely to do so – those on the Corbyn left, who are deluded into believing that Blairism is somehow “right wing” (at root, this is because they have a grossly limited grasp of fundamental politics, believing that economics is all, whereas in reality it is a rather trivial part of what it means to be right or left, or radical or conservative). That failure of comprehension, of course, is why they constantly lose in their internal leftist schisms to the real revolutionaries, as Corbyn and his lot were tragically outmanoeuvred yet again by the Blairites over the past five years, because they naively refrained from purging them when they might have had the chance. They think that because big business is part of the revolution, it can’t be left-wing, but that mistakes means for ends. In fact corporate wealth and power has played a huge part in driving this revolution.
The radical, revolutionary basis for these events is the reason for many of the most noxious aspects of our modern societies: the outright hatred of dissent, the collective self-hatred that manifests in fanatic hostility to our history and traditions, on race and on religion, and also in a fanatic insistence that we have “ruined the planet” with all the drive for radicalism that goes with climate alarmism, and the splintering into aggressive self-centred identitarianism paired with administrative collectivism, the absurd self-destructive fantasies of self-realisation based upon sexual behaviour and “gender identity”.
Of course, this British experience is just the particular manifestation in this country of something that is playing out across the US sphere. It’s not called “eurocommunism” for nothing, and it has occurred in particular but overall similar style in the US as well.
Nope, there was nothing left-wing about Blair, especially in joining the Yanks on the accursed Iraq adventure.
There’s nothing about military adventurism that is inconsistent with being leftist. In truth, Blair’s collaboration with Bush’s war crime was more about opportunism and power than it was principle of any kind.
Alongside a right-wing American regime? Unless that cretin Dubya was a crypto-Communist. Most people vocally against the war were left-wing, as I recall. I remember that period very well.
That’s the point of opportunism. It doesn’t care who it uses or collaborates with. Just because Blair was fundamentally revolutionary and leftist doesn’t mean he was a good or noble person – he wasn’t either of those.
I remember that period very well, as well. There have been two issues in my lifetime where my country’s government has gone absolutely beyond the pale in its criminal, self-destructive dishonesty – the Iraq War and the coronapanic. Perhaps three if you include Libya.
I was very active in opposing the former, even going on my one and only protest march (conservatives don’t do protest marches generally – the absence of any real result rather confirmed me in that view). At the time there was plenty of opposition on the right just as there was plenty of support on the left, though the “Conservative” Party hierarchy was, as usual, as sold out as that of the Labour Party.
The left was bought by fearmongering and the pretence of principle, which most of them either persuaded themselves to believe or pretended to believe out of a desire not to undermine one of their own in power, in dressing the war up as motivated by “internationalist” collective defence, and even after it was no longer possible to pretend that it had not been a war of aggression justified by lies, most of the Labour Party continued to support Blair, and the vast majority turned out to support him – a proven war criminal of the worst kind (the crime of aggression) – at the next election, to be our Prime Minister again.
Excellently stated. Hitchens has been saying for years that this country is dead. These last few months are proof.
Not dead yet, I think, but badly poisoned and deeply unwell.
I’ve gone full Hitchens! I thought the same as you but this has opened my eyes to the truth.
When a large whale comes onto a beach to die it takes the scavengers a year to clear the carcase, so far they’ve had 9 months.
“Meanwhile, if a friend attempts a hug, the ‘pandemic politeness’ guidelines suggest saying: “I so want to hug you! But I guess we have to wait until it’s safe. I don’t want to risk harming you or anyone else you are in contact with. I’m giving you a virtual hug.””
Any such friend using that line on me would cease to be a friend immediately.
Telegraph : Live music loophole gets pubs round meal restrictionshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/07/pubs-encouraging-drinkers-purchase-tickets-live-music-nights/
Dylan again: They all play on the penny whistle, you can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough from Desolation Row
And the riot squad they’re restless, they need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight, from Desolation Row
He sold out:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/bob-dylan-shrewd-businessman-sale-universal-inevitable/
(Only joking)
I love those penny whistle lines.
Interesting article from Mark Pickles – not heard of him before but challenges the numbers and is rather sceptical
https://markpickles.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/covid-19-20-21/?fbclid=IwAR2K9MaHo67VKFLDYYxIDq8KazlJ5YVe8MUw3UUe_SHZ56OlWF3O7BethD4
DOUBLE IMMUNITY I just realised that the Covid19 Vaccinations are “Two In One”
Immunity Against Covid19
Immunity Against Prosecution.
Any Company that can’t stand independently over its own Product is very worrying..
Great Scientific Achievement without Liability.
Reamonn
Well, consider my ghast flabbered. I genuinely did not think it was possible for Matt Hancock to sink lower than he already has.
https://video.dailymail.co.uk/preview/mol/2020/12/08/9074785954944299303/964x580_MP4_9074785954944299303.mp4
Matt Hancock sobbed on live TV today after a 90-year-old grandmother from Coventry and a Warwickshire pensioner called William Shakespeare became the first people in the world to get an approved coronavirus vaccine as the country took a gigantic step towards ending the hated pandemic on ‘V-Day’
I watched it live and I think he was attempting to cover up/disguise a laugh response.
duper’s delight boo hoo sniffle sniffle
what a cunt
fucking virtue signalling twat
What a scum bag. Mind you, if it hadn’t been completely made up this might have saved his step mums ex stepfather for a week or two longer. So maybe he’s justified for looking a complete Cnut ?
Is Cnut A plural Princess?
Cnuts
Perhaps Margaret will be buried in Westminster Hall.
He’s crying with relief because he thinks that his bacon has now been saved. Oh no, we won’t forget.
Why doesn’t this fucker crawl away and die .
I was watching Sky News this morning. A professor (whose name escapes me)
admittedboasted that they had developed the Pfizer vaccine without having cultured the virus; they had instead just read the genetic code.… the alleged genetic code.
It’s official: The jab does bring the dead back to life!!!
William Shakespeare (honest!) is the second person to have the Covid vaccine.
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”
Well, the second person outside testing.
Looking forward to his next play.
just caught up with the late posts from last night. Totally shocked by this about Bob our favourite sceptic cartoonist so repeating it for the rest of you who also missed it
Bob Moran
@bobscartoons
You can vote for the best political cartoon of 2020 here.
I was denied the opportunity to participate by the event’s organisers. I presume this is because of my stance on current events.
Good luck to all the other cartoonists.
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1336076432984961028
That is outrageous.
Censorship, propaganda, policing.
The gloves sre off, as the system goes all out on Operation covid.
Censorship is completely open and blatant now. And not a word of protest from the academics and luvvies etc – they are part of the problem.
TOBY, this is a case for the Free Speech Union
Just so I am clear. The last lockdown resulted in more cases in London. So the answer is more lockdowns in London. Is that right ?
Usual shite.
“Cases” falling – lockdown working!
“Cases” rising – more lockdown needed!
Theatre of the Absurd.
see my earlier post. I emailed the bearded one directly to ask him how come that if lockdown caused increasing cases, how will more lockdown reduce it. I put it to him that its a natural cycle. And I asked for ‘real scientific evidence’ not saving the NHS who are currently totally under normal load with the nightingale hospital standing empty
it goes back to the age old questions
if lockdowns work why do we need another one?
if lockdowns dont work why are we having another one?
Who funds WHO?
US 14.67% (before Trump stopped funding)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 9.76%
GAVI Alliance 8.39%
UK 7.79%
Germany 5.68%
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) >5%
World Bank 3.42%
Rotary International 3.3%
European Commission 3.3%
Japan 2.7%
rance 0.5%
India 0.48%
Pakistan 0.36%
China 0.21%
https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/who-funds-who-1667273-2020-04-15
The most interesting thing about this list, given the size of its economy relative to the others, is Britain’s outsize contribution to the WHO’s budget.
The UK also contributes over-proportionally to GAVI.
The pharmaceutical companies are absent from the list.
The pharmaceutical companies are absent from the list. Strictly under the table payments only, cash unmarked notes
Black Market.
And by far the biggest donor to GAVI is…. you guessed it, good ol’ Bill & Melinda
The World Health Organisation changed the definition of the word ‘pandemic’ in 2009 after pressure from Pharma companies. This is crucial information and I’m dismayed more people who profess to care about truth and facts are not interested in it
That’s the Rotary Club off my Christmas list !
Shame, they usually do a barrel organ at the shopping precinct.
Vaccines…from Mike Yeadon and another.
bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2268/rr-0 …Please read & ask yourself are you content with a system intended to detect new ‘unwanted effects of a vaccine’ explicitly excludes these? Not my opinion, but of a medical doctor know understands past issues & their detection. (Source: https://threader.app/thread/1335966428881629191)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed/?sh=31d5f7785247
As expected the MSM has gone into overdrive at the news that a nearly 91 year old lady (guinea pig) is the first person to receive the experimental vaccine. I sincerely hope that she suffers no harm.
From the Daily Mail website
”At 6.30am, wearing a bright blue ‘Merry Christmas’ T-shirt, Mrs Keenan, known as ‘Maggie’ to friends and family, could be seen smiling under her mask as the nurse May Parsons at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire injected her with the life-saving medicine.” My emphasis, life saving?
Dylan again:-
Now, his nurse, some local loser
She’s in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
“Have mercy on his soul”
“known as Maggie to friends and family” what? you mean they dont all call her Mrs Keenan. ffs its her christian name. wtf are they going to call her?
journalists are such ignorant numpties
I’ll be very surprised if Maggie sees out the winter of 2021.
Why are the elderly at the front of the queue? “Plausible deniability”, that’s why.
When i’m 91 i won’t be taking their fucking vaccine, just because you’re old don’t mean shit. Probably been a dumb shit her whole 91 years. Sorry if this upsets anyone but we’re talking about the total destruction of our lives here and if your 19 or 91 and you go along with it then fuck you.
I wouldn’t want my 91 year old mum taking a vaccine against her will and on TV. Over my dead body! Or the nurses dead body.
My mum (RIP sadly) had a wicked sense of humour. If she had been given the vaccine live on TV I’m sure she would have hammed it up and faked an eye rolling gurn before dramatically throwing herself to the floor. If only!
If this virus is so deadly and if these vaccines are so good why aren’t the Government giving priority to the 18-45yr age groups so the country can get back to work and restart the economy ? My belief is because they know there wouldn’t be the uptake they need to satisfy their egos
I have been thinking on those lines myself – give it to younger people who want to get back to ‘real normal’ – pubs, cinema, live music events, sports spectators, holidays, flying, going to church etc; – which gets those businesses working at last. I’m 73, I don’t have any much desire to do any of those activities – last time I went to the cinema must have been 15 years ago.
Obviously a great number of older people will want to get out and participate in activities like these but if I am contacted by NHS and asked to choose a date for my jab, I will say ‘no thanks – give my dose to a younger person or a key worker’.
i know it is cynical of me …. but i would like her to suffer some vaccine related illness.. or indeed catch covid (even though we all know how unlikely this is). just to spoil the MSM and wancocks euphoria
As expected the MSM has gone into overdrive at the news that a nearly 91 year old lady…
Which suggests that there is a lot of confidence in this vaccine, The media & government are not stupid. They are not likely to go to this much trouble to drum up publicity if it’s likely to leave them with egg on their faces at a later date.
I suggest that the LS readers who are expecting this to fail are going to be disappointed. The technology used in the Pfizer vaccine has been in development for 15 years. It’s ridiculous to think that the potential adverse effects haven’t been fully considered.
The point of the above link to the BMJ article “The New WHO casualty assessment algorithm needs revision to restore public trust” is precisely that such adverse events following vaccination will be excluded from consideration.
In the new causality assessment, only reactions that have previously been acknowledged in epidemiological studies to be caused by the vaccine, are classified as a vaccine-product–related-reactions. Reactions observed for the first time during post-marketing surveillance (Phase 4 clinical trial) are not considered as ‘consistent with causal association with vaccine’. All new serious adverse reactions are labelled as coincidental events ‘inconsistent with causal association,’ or ‘unclassifiable’ and the association with vaccine is not acknowledged. (5). It has, in effect, made phase 4 trials redundant
In other words, if your illness/reaction/ death did not occur to a volunteer in the early phase trials prior to the authorisation of the vaccine for use on the unsuspecting public, then it is by definition not due to the vaccine.
Clever, eh?
This means that however many of the public now go on to develop previously unrecognised illnesses due to the vaccine, they are not due to the vaccine.
No compensation, no need to halt the population wide vaccine programme, no liability.
Back on the week shift ? Oh goody.
You have proof this old woman was given the Pfizer jab ?
https://www.ssi.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/2020/sars-cov-2-igen-pavist-i-minkfarm-som-var-fritestet-for-covid-19
https://dkvet.dk/raadgivning/raadgivningssvar/covid-19-i-mink/Vurdering_af_PCR_positive_resultater_for_Covid-19_i_mink_p__tidligere_fritestet_farm_18-11-2020.pdf
There was one mink farm in Denmark where there was no mass slaughter. The infection in the mink farm seemed to have subsided after a brief outbreak in Aug with 6 of 24 PCR tests of minks were positive. They then tested 30th Sept 300 minks with PCR with all negative. They had already tested with blood samples serology 60 minks in August with antibodies pos immunity and further 60 with serology with immunity in the beginning of Oct. The farm was now allowed to work as normally with monitoring of naturally dead minks examined. The vets decided that the repeat 300 neg PCR tests and pos serology indicated that the outbreak was over.
But in the beginning of Nov one of the routinely sent in natural dead mink came back as C-19 pos.A new test of 35 minks found 26 PCR pos and high viral load.30 of them were also serology pos.
This was the same strain as in August. It had returned again in the so called cleared mink farm.
From the vet expert report:
“The virus with a spike-mutation (A22920; Y453F), spike deletion in the N-terminal domain(H69/V70del), together with two deletions in ORF1a. In the new sequencies there are no further changes in the amino acid in the spike protein but there are further 5-7 mutations distributed over the genom. Of these, there are two amino acid changes which was seen on the farm in Aug, so it is a possible link between the virus in Aug and Nov.”
This time the minks did not reveal the same mild symptoms as before in Aug. Either this strain was circulating undetected under selective pressure or the strain was reintroduced from outside again but less likely as it seems so similar to the Aug strain which was different from the other mink clusters. Bad news.
Why this fuss about the minks? This strain is the one which might spell trouble for the vaccine. Just shows how difficult it is to eradicate from the nature this virus which seems to pop back quickly and can potentially cross over to humans again. Awfully difficult the zero C-19 policy.
Seen censorship on Arsebook first hand – a friend posted a photo of thalidomide victims together with a brief history of the drug, what happened and a plea to think and be careful. I managed to see the post but there was something below that said that this was “fact checked” and the claim that the Covid vaccine was not rushed like thalidomide.
It made me angry and I liked the post as a gesture of support for her.
On a different note, as some of you might remember I have been posting here my long running saga of redundancies at work, I will have my individual consultation this afternoon so please wish me luck.
Best of luck with the consultation Bart.
Last week, several of my posts btl, in my local paper, were disabled. They contained facts and figures which could be easily verified- maybe on one, the word “swine-flu” triggered ( or whatever it does) off the algorithm.
I wrote to the paper to complain and had an e-mail back today, saying that it is being investigated for me. Progress!
Good luck this afternoon Bart. My eldest son was amongst those made redundant by his firm in August. He spent a few weeks in schools, doing cover supervising. while he was looking for another job, which he really enjoyed. He’s been lucky and found a new job which suits him far better than his previous job. Never give up hope!
Thanks to you, Sarigan & kh!!!
We won’t know for sure until January who will get the chop. I saw this coming months ago when others were still in denial and I’ve reached the point now where what will be will be.
Best wishes for your consultation, Bart.
Fact checking is the new censorship.
So we have our Victim Zero.
No way they gave her the vaxx. They found someone who had survived the big scary cold and gave her a saline
Went out for dinner with two friends in tier 2 last week, mid and late twenties wanting a family one day. Both of them reasonably anti-lockdown and fairly blasé about the rules. Got onto the conversation of vaccines and they were both adamant that they were taking it because “they didn’t want to pass it onto to anyone and it meant they could get back to normal”. I mentioned the fact that the vaccine didn’t stop transmission, and they were surprised, but ultimately didn’t care. They were more worried about going on holiday etc. and getting back to normality. I’m torn because I completely understand their views, but I’m also sad that this is how the general populace will view the vaccine, despite the fact that there will be no “going back to normal” – it’ll still be masks, social distancing and other regulations for years to come.
Yip, plenty of people have believed the carrot of the vaccine. Nothing will change, only large scale civil unrest and the overthrow of the government will put an end to this. This is only the start I’m afraid.
Can’t wait to see the faces (only half though) of people who have welcomed the vaccine with open arms, only to find out they have been duped once again.
They’ll feel like the students did when Clegg promised “no tuition fees” then raised them.
They won’t have the sense to realise they’ve been duped, they’ll just be duped into believing that the ‘vaccine hesitant’ are responsible for ruining their lives.
Sadly, FQ, they will decide that it’s worse than we thought, even a vaccine doesn’t work. Then they will ask for more lockdown.
They might want to rethink starting a family one day. Big decision, 2 weeks in the Algarve or a wonderful family.
Get the jab and get your life back. Typical positive reinforcement training. It seems the herd are receptive. Good mammals, have a belly rub from Uncle Bojo.
Let’s get
testedjabbed and get back to what we love…Well, the sad reality is that this is the mindset of most people., including my wife and her entire family. I have given up on trying to change their mind, but I have put my foot down on my 6 year old daughter getting a vaccine. It’s something we do not talk about anymore because it turns into a massive shouting match every time. My wife blames my CPTSD for this and thinks I’m being irrational. My policy now is if people want to take the vaccine, let them , if they want to wear mask everywhere, let them. I’m done trying to change anyone’s mind, people who do not want to be awake do not deserved to be . end off,. I suggest the same with your friends, keep them as your friends and enjoy their company but everybody who is an adult needs to male their own decisions. You can be there to support them but they need to live their own life’s.
Agree, Thomas. We’ve had a thing for centuries, where people make them selves look a dick because lots of other people are doing it – it’s called ‘fashion’. But legal enforcement is a whole other ball game.
Couldn’t agree more Thomas and you are absolutely on the money regards your 6 year old daughter. If only we had more strong father figures like yourself. I do feel obligated if it’s a young woman to tell them about the risk of infertility. Other than that knock yourself out to the rest of them.
Thomas, disagree you need to keep fighting as these brainwashed people will take the rest of us down. I’ve gone past the stage of saying this doesn’t make sense anymore to asking what are the end goals. All the answers I find are scary I do not want to go there nor do you and your family. Resist at every level the only way out of this is to unite.
They may pay a price for their lack of research. Hopefully not..
https://2020news.de/en/dr-wodarg-and-dr-yeadon-request-a-stop-of-all-corona-vaccination-studies-and-call-for-co-signing-the-petition/
Bad day today.
This is a religion that cannot tolerate non-conformists.
Help cheer me up, LS!
Do you think Freddie Mercury regrets playing Live Aid?
New Tier 3 Regulations from New Year’s Eve:
Stay at home unless you have a large yacht, a second home in the country or a private jet.
See the post on covid hypocrites, so it goes as ever..
Or you are Kay Burley on her 60th birthday.
One thing, thank God if you so believe for this site, the personal anecdotes and experience , the analysis of the data, hello Mr. Pinch and tough common sense and humour is worth it’s weight in gold, if that is the currency, cheers!
My daughter was explaining to me yesterday how her and her friends mostly just pretend to use the hand-sanitiser at school. They also used to take their masks off on the bus until someone snitched on them. Anyway it’s good to see not all kids have been brainwashed in to fear and it’s also probably good that they get their hands a bit dirty so they can build up their immune system for fighting Covid 50 when they’re 60 years old. Common sense innit?
Neoptolemus was Achilles‘ only child
Despite rumors of his homosexual tendencies, Achilles did have a child—a son, born from a brief affair during the Trojan War
Ah, you’re getting me confused with my cousin with the same name. My daughter was born from a brief affair during Gladiators. Awooga!
They seek him here
They seek him there
Sir Patrick Vallance
They seek him everywhere
Was on Sky News this morning.
Wanksock was on and I won’t give him credit for much, however he was very clear that there won’t be immunity passports. The cards being dished out are standard appointment reminder cards that can be discarded following the second dose (or sooner if you don’t need it to remember).
It is the media driving this immunity passport lark!
and the more timid folk on here, some of whom see it as ‘inevitable’ …
I do not see them as ‘inevitable’, but there are certainly powerful lobbies pressing for them. And they need to be vigorously opposed.
The media seemed to drive the mockdown lark!
Don’t worry the little ray of sunshine is here https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1369702/Patrick-vallance-Covid-vaccine-news-face-masks-coronavirus-update-latest-vn
Considering masks are useless against vaccines, it’s a bit of a reveal.
It is like Pinochet’s Chile, he is one of the disappeared, also there used to be a lady around Harries or something, she reminded me of the school nurse and was a bit less mad than some of them, she seems to have gone as well.
Jenny Harries seems to have been unpersoned, presumably because she was too nearly sane, and had the audacity to point out problems with Operation Moonshit.
She told us masks were a bad idea.
Sorry if I am going over old ground but just want to run it past everybody to make sure my thinking is correct.
Putting aside the issues of incorrect definition and false positives the case rate per 100,000 on which so much of the tier division is based is calculated thus;
No.cases in 7 days
Population. x 100,000
Is this correct because if so it seems blatantly obvious that if double the amount of tests were taken in one of two similar areas then the rate would end up double and likely end up in a higher tier.
I cannot believe that the results are not weighted to take into consideration the number of tests carried out.
Am I being thick or is it the brains behind the system?
Whoops, not come out properly! The result of cases divided by population and then multiplied by 100,000.
Technically they do consider the positivity rate as well. So the WHO recommends that anything over 5% positivity rate coming out of your PCR Tower of Doom is an epidemic that is out of control.
So with a sprinkling of rabbits foot, eye of newt and virgins blood, we can get that R0 number down and save lives (sorry, not all lives just Covid symptoms that might lead to lives being lost, but not counting other lives due to the destruction of Health care and people’s wellbeing)
Just saw that hospitals aren’t putting up decorations because Covid. I assume the science is that they can’t be cleaned. Presumably the virus will float up and land on the decorations waiting for it’s moment to jump on some passing victim like a Ninja. Imbeciles.
(PS. I want credit for my restraint in not using the Tinesellitis joke)
Fine. I congratulate you on not using Tinsellitis. Must have taken considerable baubles to pull a cracker like that one….. I’m so sorry.
Cecil B has implied that Achilles is a fairy. If so, the top of the tree awaits!
The old people receiving vaccines today, from NHS staff who refused to have it themselves, are guinea pigs. Let’s face it.
Forget Dangerous Infertility Causing Vaccines, Covid-19 Is Prevented By The Humble Pineapple (Say Researchers)
Can you believe Mad Wankok? Blubbering because his gran or was it someone elses gran is to get the vaccine?
Proof if any were needed that he is a madman
Psychopath!
Blubbering -he’s struggling not to burst out laughing https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1369707/Matt-Hancock-break-down-tears-crying-Good-Morning-Britain-coronavirus-vaccine-ITV-video
Our health minister is a crisis actor? Well, that explains a lot.
He’s a sociopath. I don’t think it could be any plainer.
The cunt must die
Not a fan, then?
True, it looks like laughing to me too.
I’m guessing it’s his wife’s stepdad’s second wife’s foster daughter’s grandmother (or something similar that changes with every interview) again.
Madcock.
That interview with the daughter made me cry.
And then there is the horrible Barclay’s advert how they helped care home residents. Well, all of those do Not seem to have dementia. And most care residents will be in that group. As we saw here, a video chat is not the same as an in person visit!
Dear Doctor,
Re your last letter, thank you for your offer of a covid 19 vaccine.
I realise that with the practice telephone number now permanently redirected to Co-op Funeral Services, and the notice outside your surgery in foot hight letters enjoining everybody to “GO AWAY!”, you must have been overwhelmed during the past year, and thus will not have been aware that throughout this period I have suffered with a chronic and debilitating attack of common sense. In a world beset with rampant self-destructive madness, this has taken a lot out of my body and mind, and I feel that adding the extra strain of an innoculation on top of this will be too much for me and therefore decline your offer.
However I feel that the vaccine should not go to waste, so instead of vaccinating myself, why not use a potato?
Leave it for a week and then PCR test your chips, this will provide several positive tests for which the government will, I am sure, be most grateful and will credit your account with extra social responsibility points which will no doubt prove useful to you in the future. There will of course be a downside, as your vegetable rack and frying pan will need to self-isolate for two weeks.
Yours Sincerely,
Old Bill
Ha. Excellent
That’s made me laugh
good stuf. provided a much needed chuckle
Many a true word …
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/coronavirus-tanzania-test-kits-suspicion-goat-pawpaw-positive-a9501291.html
That is fantastic and gave me a much needed chuckle.
Cracker !
Brilliant!
class, mate!
This is from AP hardly a conspiracy source. China lost 2 weeks of the spread in Wuhan due to this corruption. Richard Horton, Lancet and all China apologist incl.WHO, what do you think of this?
https://apnews.com/article/china-virus-testing-secret-deals-firms-312f4a953e0264a3645219a08c62a0ad
“In the early days in Wuhan, the first city struck by the virus, getting a COVID test was so difficult that residents compared it to winning the lottery.”
The flawed testing system prevented scientists and officials from seeing how fast the virus was spreading — another way China fumbled its early response to the virus
China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention gave test kit designs and distribution rights exclusively to three then-obscure Shanghai companies with which officials had personal ties, the reporting found. The deals took place within a culture of backdoor connections that quietly flourished in an underfunded public health system, according to the investigation, which was based on interviews with more than 40 doctors, CDC employees, health experts, and industry insiders, as well as hundreds of internal documents, contracts, messages and emails obtained by the AP.”
“Things will be different in the middle of a crisis,” said Lesli Ligorner, a Beijing-based attorney specializing in anti-corruption law. “Anything affecting the national interest can be deemed to be of utmost importance for special regulations… I wouldn’t be so quick to rush to judgement.”
This will be the standard excuse for the biggest heist in human history. You’ll see it everywhere in 2021
So softer laws for me, because of the pandemic, harsher laws for thee, because of the pandemic
I doubt the whole story out of China.
We are sold the story of a virus spreading from around November 20th 2019 at the latest.
There were no restrictions imposed on travel to the rest of China until mid-January, and yet whereas 4500 people died in the Wuhan area ony 7 people died in Shanghai – a metropolis of 24 million people.
This is simply not credible.
I would not be surprised if the supposed covid deaths in Wuhan were pollution-related.
One point which came out of the interview with Rainer Füllmich – the link to which I posted yesterday – is that China does not use the Drosten PCR test
They’re all ‘conspiracy sources’. As and when it suits.
was one of them in China called Han No Cock? Sounds vaguely familiar to me
People are so brain dead, a neighbours and former work colleague just said to me ‘I presume your one of this anti vaxxers then’ because I told him I turned the testers away when they came on Sunday. I said no but I don’t think we need a vaccine as there’s no pandemic, ‘tell that to the 60000 who have died then’, to which I replied ‘tell that to the hundreds of thousands dying because of lockdowns’. What an idiot! Yet he probably thinks I am! I still can’t reconcile in my head how people actually believe this nonsense. It makes me so angry and sad.
Average IQ is 100. Average. Think about how that would look on a gaussian distribution. Let it really sink in. There’s your answer.
Love the moniker by the way!
And if you are of average intelligence, half of all people are less intelligent than you.
Which is scary.
And studies also show people grossly over estimate their own intelligence. Maybe why we are so easily manipulated
Not for nothing is arrogance held to be so deadly; and why humility is so important.
even if it was 60,000 that’s just a bad flu season. not worth destroying the country for
Exactly.
As sure as we can be with dodgy data, it’s not 60000.
Exactly. Show him this from 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46399090?ocid=wsnews.chat-apps.in-app-msg.whatsapp.trial.link1_.auin
On the first day of the Somme the British army lost 60,000 men.
of bullet wounds or with bullet wounds?
Mostly bullet wounds. The actual death toll was about 21,000. The rest were wounded for the most part, with about 500 POWs.
Even if it’s true that’s still only 15% of all the people that have died since Covid came along.
and they would have died soon anyway. in care homes, no idea what day it is, being fed by hand, multiple comorbidities
the number of people ‘cut down in their prime’ you can probably count on the fingers of one hand
Pro choice and making an informed decision
Nothing to do with IQ it’s about being brainwashed. SAGE have employed behavioral therapies and it’s working, add in all the fake data and powerful images of the mainstream media and now you see how it all works.
So the fish wife in North Britain has a ‘lump in her throat’. Perhaps it’s malignant and she needs help from the NHS….
I don’t think she’d lower her precious self to visit her local NHS hospital. She’s got private health insurance and very probably a room set aside just for her for any time she or her family may need it.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/nursing-home-residents-ahead-of-health-staff-in-queue-for-covid-vaccine-39838565.html
Ireland is to copy its neighbour and prioritise the elderly for the “vaccine” over health staff.
Looks like Irish health workers are no more keen on being guinea pigs that those in the UK.
(Does the ruling class want to get rid of the economically unproductive?) That thought just popped into my head for some reason
My other half met an old school friend yesterday. Her daughter, a Sister in the local mega-hospital was there (yeah – I know). She works in a covid ward. She said they’ve had to draft in extra bods. “That busy?” said MOH. “Not really” she said, “it’s just that they’re almost all clinically obese with Type 2 diabetes, and we need help in turning them all the time because they have difficulty in breathing, even lying down. That or they’re BAME. We still haven’t worked that one out”.
Bear that in mind as your country is being flushed down the toilet.
I’m encouraged to hear that there are so many obese people with health issues. When we finally slide into the abyss and civil war breaks out they will make excellent sandbags.
LOL.
Unfortunately, as food supplies become interrupted their utlility as sandbags will quickly diminish.
Perhaps, but that just means we can use their hides as marquees. I know the future may seem bleak now, but focus on all of the opportunities we’ll have to exercise our creativity!
fava beans and chianti?
Happened by chance to tune across the Channel 5 programme Feeders last night. Group of mostly women who get paid to gorge on camera and display their bodies. Crikey, they were fat. Couldn’t bear to watch more than a couple of minutes of it.
Ah, so you were hooked for ‘a couple of minutes’, eh, Dave ?
I am happy so that they can see that by ‘fat shaming’ them, we were actually showing them the greatest concern and care.
Exactly. If Darwinism was ‘the Force’, we’d all be Jedi.
Is that the nurses or the patients?!
50/50 from my observations
Most predictable headline of the day – SNP ‘fury’ at the Will and Kate visit. Whereas the High-heeled haggis can travel around as she likes. I quite like seeing the royal train getting a rare run out. It’s retro 70’s stock and not at all grand.
Welsh health guy has got in on the act as well
What is the current status of the Back to Normal postcards? The one on their website has filler text in it.
Worth reading The Hexagon of Tyranny | (asenseofplacemagazine.com)
The publication is an Australian one and talks about the experience here. They don’t mince words.
Handy Grammar Tips, #371:
‘Fact checked’ is an expression you will see more and more. It is very similar to ‘Independent’, in that they both mean fuck all.
A bit like the word “Pro” in a lot of sports products
and “conservative”, “labour” and “liberal” in the names of political parties
No apology for repeating what I said in a previous comment: Fact checking is the new censorship.
Absolutely. I read a book a while back (written by 2 mainstream academics about post-1989 central-eastern Europe) which contained the sentence: ‘And who could possibly be against fact-checking?’
Me, I thought, and how.
In Germany popular fact-checker Correctiv has lost several legal cases.
I see Candace Owens also got an apology out of one of them recently as well.
You might find this amusing:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/10/28/video-meet-the-fact-checkers/
also see (but in German): https://www.achgut.com/artikel/correctiv_und_seine_pappkameraden
Prof Steven Pinker withdraws support for Eton teacher after watching ‘tendentious’ video
‘This went well beyond citing science and instead was a polemical defense of masculine virtues’
Well, we can’t have that, can we?
When did virtue become a bad thing?
I would tend to agree with you. Have you seen the video?
No, I haven’t and I have no plans to. My issue here is not with the content of the video, but with freedom of speech generally. He’s entitled to express his views.
In any case, if the video was actually bad we’ve have heard all about it by now. If the worst they can say is that it’s a ‘polemical defence of masculine virtues’ then it must be fine.
Exactly! That is exactly what Toby has said in the Unlocked interview above (a MUST WATCH interview)
MI5 are embedded in No 10 directly advising the PM – over a health problem! I guarantee you they’re advising him about phone usage and travel as indexes of resistance. If London goes into Tier 3, it will be because of non-compliance, not a higher infection rate. After Christmas is safely out of the way, HMG will return to scaring everyone to death with bogus data to bring us back under control.
The time to say “no” is now. It won’t get any easier down the line.
I’ve been saying “no” since March. You?
Regarding your “guarantee” is this your opinion or have you connections to the security services that give you this insider knowledge?
if London goes T3 there will be serious non compliance and disobedience. Guaranteed
This is encouraging. A set of tweets from a mainstream broadcasting journalist Robert Peston who was shocked by a recent downwards revision on coronavirus incidence:
“When shaping policy to protect us from Covid-19, the government relies on data from the Office for National Statistics to provide the scientific basis for its actions. The weekly ONS coronavirus survey is supposed to be the information gold standard – and in particular it
underpinned Boris Johnson’s controversial announcement at the end of October to put England back into national lockdown.
No other course of action seemed sensible, given that the ONS survey on 30 October showed the incidence of coronavirus in the community in England had surged from 4.3 per 10,000 people on 2 October to 9.52 on 17 October, the latest date for data then available. This was a terrifyingly fast doubling rate.
So the advice from Sir Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty to the PM was unambiguous: lockdown was the only reasonable course of action. Guess my surprise – indeed shock would better describe it – when I saw in the latest ONS survey, dated 4 December, that the national statistician has downgraded its estimate of coronavirus in England on 17 October to just 4.89 people per 10,000. And it now says the the incidence of coronavirus in England barely increased until after the start of lockdown – and even during lockdown it says the prevalence never got above 6.62 per 10,000 (on 12 November).
Just to be clear, I am not saying national lockdown was a mistake. I don’t know whether it was. What I am saying is that it is hard to make momentous decisions like whether to go into national lockdown in a rational way if the data informing those decisions is subject to such massive after-the-event revisions. And just in case you think I have gone mad or am making this stuff up, I attach screenshots of the ONS’s data spreadsheets for coronavirus incidence per 10,000 people for 30 October and 4 December. I have highlighted 17 October rate in both cases.”
That mainstream journalists are beginning to question the data can only be a good thing. Hopefully more will follow suit.
And Peston too. He’s the archetypal ‘educated yet idiot’. Encouraging.
Shit scared the party he’s booked for all his tip off people will be cancelled. https://order-order.com/2020/12/08/watch-kay-burley-beth-rigby-grill-each-other-over-covid-lawbreaking/ take a look at these two fools then you completely get what they are at. For the many not the few.
Wait till he hears about PCR.
The Guardian can go flip itself. Archive link so they don’t get more clicks. I get defensive when they put down Profs. Sunetra Gupta and Carl Heneghan.
We need scientists to quiz Covid consensus, not act as agents of disinformation | Sonia Sodha | Opinion | The Guardian (archive.is)
Yes, a typically gross piece of government supporting propaganda from the Guardian.
Sonia Sodha would know all about this having a PPE, the degree of choice for political careerists: the one that trains them to sound like the know all about a subject after a cursory glance about someone else’s brief summary.
It’s great when she is on the Sky paper review with the wonderfully acerbic Isabel Oakshott – Isabel takes her apart pretty much every time!
UK trial to mix and match Covid vaccines to try to improve potencyPilot planned for January will give subjects a shot of both Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech versions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/covid-mixed-vaccine-trial-likely-to-begin-in-uk-next-month
A trial is likely to go ahead in January to find out whether mixing and matching Covid vaccines gives better protection than two doses of the same one, the head of the British government’s taskforce has said.
———————————————————————————————–
My alternative title would be: “World leading UK decides that risk of one vaccine is insufficient and needs to be increased”
I can’t believe the stupidity (or brazenness) of these people.
If something goes wrong then you won’t know who to blame!
That makes it a good insurance policy for them. Make it so complicated, that no one will be able to figure out who to blame.
It does if they can get away with it. Hopefully someone will notice the problem.
They’re thinking that they know better. Hubris.
Well they don’t know better. The idea of mixing vaccines is at best ridiculous and at worst criminal.
I do love a pick and mix. We could serve the vaccine up with a 2 for 1 at the movies. Date night.
Great idea – “Roll up roll up – vaccines 3 quid each or two for a Pfizer”
nice one godown
What about the fallacy of composition? Two vaccines together don’t necessarily produce a simple combination of their supposed effects.
jesus they’re determined to kill us off – not just one vaccine but two!!
i have a spare vaccine if anyone wants to use it!
You could try asking your GP.
I am pretty sure all the GP’s in my practice are brainwashed bastards.
Well if they’re that bad I suggest you get another GP.
To get a clue of what people are thinking watch what they do.
If this situation were all it was portryed to be, then NHS staff would be clamouring for a vaccine, quite righty, since they would be most at risk.
The silence from NHS staff on this tells you all you need to know.
What do I need to know? I don’t like this sort of “be scared” comment tbh.
NHS staff have been generally silent since March as their jobs are under threat if they speak to the media. I would think that policy was put in place originally to protect patient privacy. Nurses and medics can’t go around openly discussing individuals medical histories.
Nevertheless if you are interested in guaging the opinions of medical staff you could try asking them what they think.
The NHS employs thousands of people. I’m sure you can get an informal opinion from some of them.
Indeed, Allison Pearson regularly publishes comments from an insider.
No, If I want to know what somebody ‘really’ thinks, then I watch what they do.
If yiu ask somebody what they think about something, then they tell you what is socially acceptable etc etc.
Talk is cheap.
I watch to see if they are pushing themselves forward for the vaccine.
They aren’t, despite their theoretically vulnerable position.
If anything professional pressures, such as you mentioned, would tend to push them towards taking the vaccine,
You cannot get inside somebody else’s head.
You do not know what anybody else thinks.
You either trust what comes out of their mouths or you don’t.
Rather than downvoting why not explain why you disagree. Not that I am going to change this! It’s so bloody obvious.
People have explained that actions speak louder than words i.e. are a more accurate barometer to people’s true beliefs.
“If yiu ask somebody what they think about something, then they tell you what is socially acceptable etc etc.”
Oh really. Nobody ever tells the truth except you?
Some people may tell you lies, but some people may be open and honest. It depends who you ask and how you ask them!
“That’s not how the psychology of man works.”
The is subjective opinion – not objective reality. I am entitled to disagree with you.
I do understand that people in our modern world are continually manipulated by advertisers and governments and I don’t like it either.
But none of that invalidates what I said.
Lots of pictures of Hancock in the media today. If we had an independent media, maybe they’d print this one?
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattHancock/status/956851034797891584
Where’s the health secretary? All I see is Blofeld and his pet pussy.
re Simon Dolan Court case
Legal team officially submits our application to take the case to the Supreme Court.
https://www.keepbritainfree.com/post/legal-team-officially-submits-our-application-to-take-the-case-to-the-supreme-court
Anyone else depressed by the vaccine propaganda? I honestly naively thought people would’ve come to their senses by the end of April at the latest but it’s just getting worse! For me this whole thing is a no brainer, it’s always been blatantly obvious things are nowhere near as they’ve been made out. I don’t know what’s worse, knowing that people have been lied to and bewitched by the covid spell or seeing people I thought were in their right minds actually believing this nonsense! I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to recover the way I see some close friends and family, I just don’t know how they can be so gullible.
Yes – and I now have the task of trying to persuade my elderly parents to avoid being coerced into taking the vaccine. They trust the NHS and their government. It’s going be tricky.
Coercion is definitely unacceptible, but be careful to remember that either way it is their choice if they are offered it.
Ensure that you give them proper information. Then leave it up to them.
Absolutely – I want them to make an informed decision. Their only “news” comes out of the TV which means they are not informed.
I’m in the same boat. Last week I gave my parents a photocopy of Mike Yeadon’s reservations about the vaccine, but said I wouldn’t try to persuade them either way.
The key is informed consent or for that matter informed refusal.
The key, in the first place, is the competency to make a serious decision.
i have similar issue with mine. However my step father is a cynical bugger who checked himself out of hospital this weekend after going in due to angina attack so i dont think he will coerced
It’s definitely opened my eyes to some things.
I actually am dreading next time we see my MIL, her messages and voice calls all about covid are obsessive, makes my ears bleed. I am more angry that she is wary of seeing her own flipping grandchildren. She is only in her 60s and healthy but just petrified of the whole thing.
Its even caused arguments with my husband, he isn’t quite as sceptical as me and kind of ignores the whole thing, not having much of an opinion on it. I am looking forward to when this all comes out in the wash as to how much of a farce it is and I can say ‘I told you so’.
Back in March despite reading the infamous Imperial College model, I didn’t think it would last this long and thought that it might be over in June. It was all obvious to me back then that covid wouldn’t be drastically worse than the flu and that lockdowns caused the issues in Italy. I was just bemused all through March and April about the panic. I don’t mean to be snarky and the media was awful but what exactly did they not know back then.
I too thought it would be over in June
we would look back and say we panicked
i couldn’t conceive of a mild uptick in cases this winter leading to lockdowns
I didn’t think it would be over by June – the Spivs had invested too much in the propaganda.
But I did reckon that, by this time we would be doing the usual seasonal concerts (having cancelled the summer ones), and I’d be playing Yorkshire carols in the pub. I wasn’t certain – but that’s where by bets were placed.
Like everyone else, the degree to which the public has swallowed one bowl of sick after another because ‘it’s good for you’ has taken even cynical me by surprise.
The retreat to a pre-modern standard of general scientific insight has been truly startling. I know that there is evidence of people becoming more casual about the restrictions placed on them – but I really didn’t expect that the propaganda would have such a hold that people would be accepting a police state well into 2021 on the basis of a fairy tale.
Same. I will never view others in the same way again. I will need to establish where people stand in relation to COVID BOLLOCKS. If they show any hint of believing it it,
fuck them for ever.OK perhaps not for ever but it will be time for me to disengage from them.
I have been following the global warming scam right from the beginning (when I briefly believed there was something behind it and so, as a physical scientist, started to read round about it). For probably the first ten years of fudged data, meaningless waffle, worse-than-useless counter-measures and cod science based entirely on useless and hopelessly incomplete models, I thought that people would soon cotton on to the mass fraud occurring for the enrichment of the already filthy (sic) rich scum behind it. Nope, still no sign of that: don’t expect the covid story to be debunked for the masses any time soon!
Count me in!! Its depressing to see a lot of people thinking this is a magic bullet but not questioning the inconsistencies and contradictions in the narrative that the public is being fed.
For the record, I’m not anti-vaccination, had all the requisite jabs as a kid but have never had the flu vaccine and I don’t see why I should be inoculated against something that has a 99.9% survival rate. I’m also concerned at how this was all rushed.
Like you, I don’t think I’ll ever look at certain family, friends and colleagues the same way again. It’s as if this crisis has revealed a lot of people for who they truly are and what they can be.
William Shakespeare must be turning in his grave – he wanted to be first to be vaxxed not second.
Shaky had more sense:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.
He might have been one of us?
While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take.
If of life you keep a care,
Shake off slumber and beware:
Awake, awake!
I’m sure he would have been.
Regional charts are very informative.
Here is my chart of English regional covid-19 positive hospital deaths (7 day running average) expressed as a percentage of the first wave peak.
If we remember SAR-CoV-2 is the virus and covid-19 is the illness it causes, then these are really deaths with a positive test (genuine positives and false positives) for SARS-CoV-2. The majority since May are probably not deaths from covid-19 but deaths with SARS-CoV-2 or deaths with covid-19 but where another illness has really been the main factor in the death. Some of the deaths are nosocomial in nature. Official statistics aren’t available to precisely identify the split into these categories.
That important caveat aside, let’s look at the regional variation in covid-19 labelled hospital deaths.
The deaths are by date of death (not registration) and make allowance based on national reporting delays for the latest days, and the chart misses off the last few days where estimates could be materially unreliable. So the falls at the end are genuine falls not falls because of deaths that have occurred but not been reported.
For the moment let’s just look at London vs the North West and try to explain it
North West
What we see is that in the North West there has been an autumn increase which is a much higher % of the first wave than in London. It looks like the first wave in the North West didn’t fully take hold and now is finishing off. Having finished off it looks like the North West has passed the autumn herd immunity threshold and because of the autumn overshoot covid-19 labelled deaths are now decreasing rapidly because the overshoot provides significant protection against further seasonal changes to the equilibrium point.
London
By contrast London appears to have reached/approached herd immunity in April. This explains London’s a) earlier peak in April, b) higher relative peak in April, c) much faster community immunity driven fall off the April peak, and d) smoother fall off the April peak. Note the faster fall still exists even if you allow for London having peaked a week or so earlier than other regions; imagine the London curve being translated over a week or so to the right it’s still falls more quickly than other regions.
However herd immunity isn’t a single threshold that is passed and covid-19 goes away. It is an endemic equilibrium and that point of equilibrium changes as the seasonal effect of SARS-C0V-2 comes into play. London has taken a lot longer to start off in the autumn which may be down to the protection from the April overshoot. However the seasonal affect does eventually kick in as the autumn equilibrium point is reached. Consequently that is why the London autumn increase is a much smaller percentage (13%) of the April peak. London hasn’t ‘benefited’ from the autumn overshoot in the North West, so it means that autumn covid-19 labelled deaths continue to increase, after the North West reduces, but at a slow rate due to the seasonal equilibrium change, and this increase has been, and should remain at most a slow one, and will never approach anything near the increase seen in the North West before deaths fall away.
This is just my own basic analysis. Can anybody else add to this, or suggest what this implies for suggestions that London be placed into tier 3? (although all tiers and forms of lockdown are nonsense in my view)
Yes, the data that these graphs are built from is so faulty that they are what statisticians would call ‘complete bollocks’.
Trying to extrapolate anything meaningful from them, save proping up the appallingly transparent propaganda narrative that they are designed to support, is a complete waste of your rapidly diminishing life.
Your time would be more fruitfully spent masturbating, picking your nose, or trying to contact your dead pets with a ouija board.
“Your time would be more fruitfully spent masturbating, picking your nose, or trying to contact your dead pets with a ouija board.”
Okay, I’ve got the first two covered. Where do I get a ouija board?
Tenner on Amazon. Beat the post vaccine rollout rush, you’ll look like a genius after the vaccine drops the boomers.
lol, a downvote for this. Am I not allowed to make a joke now? (I liked the comment btw).
More fun if you try to do them all together…
I bow to your superior knowledge BobblyBob.
Good work, Freecumbria.
I think my takeaway is not so much the regional differences – although theses are interesting at the extremes – but the essential commonality of the data. This fits in well with the overall analyses that Ivor Cummins has been making at the international level.
As others have said, the term ‘Covid deaths’ is a distortion – they are PCR+ results, which may have some general relationship to the prevalence of live virus – but the ratio is uncertain. The idea that actual infection levels are close to the April peak is absurdity on stilts.
Clearly, the public narrative can now be seen to be total, utter bollocks to anyone with a brain – we are in a normal period of seasonal infection, with the south and south-east and London in particular, showing less of a spread (the latter because of the greater impact earlier in the year).
Thanks.
On the subject of Ivor Cummins I think the regional analyses that Joel Smalley did in this video were very interesting. I like it that he went into sub-regional analysis also to show least affected in Spring = most affected in autumn. And it was all put into context which is a reasonable criticism that any regional analysis gets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m121hAiREvc
The ONS release today ‘Deaths registered in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 27 November 2020’ shows all cause London deaths are running at just 5.5% above the 5 year average. Once you allow for population increase and age profile this excess probably disappears. And that’s before you allow for all the extra home deaths that are due to the deaths caused by lockdowns and economy meltdown. So completely normal period of seasonal infection as you say.
Forgive my lack of excitement
Who do these bloody people think they are.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LSHTM/status/1334100776910802945
This guy basically says expect heart attacks but don’t blame the vaccine. Bit early for excuses?
At best it’s just an example of rolling this out to people who might get a very small extension to life. At worst, it’s giving up a small window of life to a medical experiment
Stephen.Evans@lshtm.ac.uk
Let him know what you think …
Heh, Also this –
(My bolding).
Well-paid apparatchils of a technocratic state.
Coincidental? Like the 98 year olds with cancer, heart failure and Alzheimer’s who coincidentally die of Covid?
Exactly, if you apply the same criteria for a vaccine death as you apply to “Covid” deaths (death for any reason within a couple months of being injected), next year Worldometer will show 1.5 million deaths caused by Covid vaccines.
Good to know at this stage that all adverse effects will be coincidental, what a relief. I assume therefore for the first time ever there will be no need to include a list of side-effects in the box.
My Mum has to take a lot of medication and always jokes that everything down to paracetamol lists possible side effects that include an exploding head and spontaneous combustion.
They don’t know what they are yet, so they can’t include a list.
What beats me is that such morons (and, yes, I am choosing my words carefully – such statements are moronic) travel under the flag of ‘Scientist’
… when they can’t even employ the most basic tenets of empirical scientific methodology and the process of falsification.
…
They are selected and screened for their views. Stage management
Yep. They are labelled as scientists, but their function is more ‘this is how it must be’ shills.
Another one who is neither a scientist nor a doctor. What a strange CV – and how old is he if he ‘retired’ in 2002?:
Stephen Evans | LSHTM
Like his covid thinking the “CV” is all over the place. He also later claims to be now “semi-retired”.
Trying to resurrect a career at this late stage….
Big pay day looming for all of these scripted characters, might even get an Oscar nomination
There must be a new category for worst actor? After all, ‘best’ is just so yesterday.
It’s called the Hamcock.
I think this is a new reality TV show and one that provides platforms to has been and ageing scientists.
Another one who wants his 15 minutes of fame and some more.
Ahhh, the smiling face of a fascist
No such thing as a coincidental adverse effect, surely?
It’s either an effect or it’s a coincidence.
If anyone didn’t see the graph on Swedish all cause deaths from 2010 up to November 26 this year it’s here:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/
No difference. None. The level of frustration and stunned horror I feel at this ongoing madness is indescribable.
Just a shout for one of the external items listed today :
… an excellent and coherent overview for those wanting an effective summary of issues.
He may as well laugh now. Eternal hell awaits these people.
Superb piece – thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Lots of this. Calls for schools to close now or parents to pull kids out to be safe over Christmas.
Of course a little sprinkling of non contextual fear to add to their call. My own little girl, 3 at the time, was hospitalised two years ago with respiratory issues at Christmas. A night in, nebuliser and she was as right as rain. It happens. Often. The ward was full of kids in the same boat at various levels of distress.
Schools near myself have already decided kids will be working remotely for the last week this year.
This is never ending.
500 kids hospitalised with what? What a crock. (Oddly enough BeBop my youngest daughter had exactly the same experience at the same age, no problems whatsoever since).
The nurses definitely said it was going around moreso than previous years.
I must have missed that lockdown however. The Schools closed though did they? Masks at least I’m sure.
Mine is a teenager now so this was a good few years back when she was 3.
I bet the majority of teachers will be pushing for this so they can get off for their Christmas break early and ‘teach remotely’.
From what I saw in the comments about this on facebook the other day when it was suggested, most parents outraged at the idea but of course some saying they were pulling them out anyway so they can isolate before spending it with grandparents.
Such shite.
Sebastian Rushworth, a doctor, has presented useful information on Sweden may have had a higher death rate than the other four Nordics.
See too Dr Malcolm Kendrick’s blog.Superb.
Norway and Finland have reportedly had an even free-er society than Sweden since the spring, when they briefly brought in quite tight restrictions, only to relax them and Norway apoligised to its people for the lockdown.
As has been said before on this website I think this needs to be presented as an all-party issue, not one for the Torygraph or Spectator to promote. There are lots of liberal lefties or centrists who don’t believe the state has the right to suspend civil liberties for a disease no worse than a bad flu season … of which I’ve lived through quite a few as I’m 67.
In 2010 (to pick a year at random) over seven hundred thousand children were admitted to hospital. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21415142
I increasingly feel like my head is going to explode pointing out obvious stuff like this to people who simply cannot deal with numbers, facts, logic or context. It’s maddening. Literally, I fear I am slipping into mental illness from it.
Blind fear does bad things to people.
It is amazing how people will parrot the death figures they get from the news and look blank when informed that excluding the virus seventeen hundred people die daily in the country.
Matt Hancock’s performance this morning on Good Morning Britain, where he pretended to cry in order to disguise a laugh response, shows just how gullible the political media elite think we are. They think we will believe anything they tell us.
That little shit has one of the worst cases of ‘duper’s delight’ I’ve ever seen.
I have to laugh. Another example of duping delight is Bill and Melinda Gates after saying ‘just wait for the second wave’
Emotional is the word – or order – of the day. Matt got a bit emotional. JHB got a bit emotional. Even the guy she was interviewing confessed to getting a bit emotional.
When politicians and media presenters “get a little bit emotional” I get a little bit cynical. Where has the emotion been for the people whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed by the lockdown. Where is the emotion about our horrific loss of liberty, or turning us into a nation of fearful masked zombies?
They chose the fittest, most compos mentis 90 year old in the country to receive the vaccine as part of media manipulation. This shouldn’t be about the optics, but about the substance.
You know, I think I’m beginning to get a little bit emotional as well – about all the relentless lies and deceit.
‘tired and emotional’ just means drunk
Unfortunately most people will. Lot of people still read The Sun.
I can only hope Karma gets him someday for all he has done.
Ask the experts:
https://is.gd/QTc8Xa
Went to the pub last night which offered “substantial meal” vouchers. Basically a piece of paper that you hold on to confirming you will be getting a substantial meal whilst you order however many drinks you’d like. Nothing is stopping you from drinking up and leaving without cashing in your voucher. Went during the football so everyone was cheering and hugging and having a great time. Felt very normal.
My life is effectively back to normal. I won’t be losing any more time to this and it looks like many people and businesses are the same. All we can hope for is that all the security theatre gets forgotten.
I’ve stayed ‘normal’ throughout this in my personal and social life, but I’m still waiting for them to stop forcibly ruining my livelihood. I’ve got a lot to do to my house, but I’m struggling to muster up the enthusiasm with the constant nagging worry that if this drags on for another year I’ll end up struggling to keep paying for it.
Let’s hope it all ends soon. I wish there was a pub like yours near me!
I go to Wetherspoons regularly. Mainly for coffee and a snack. I like to support them as they’ve been sceptic. Their Winter magazine is excellent sceptic material. Might open a few eyes
pdf of it here
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/news/2020/11/wetherspoon-news-do-lockdowns-work
Thanks. Their magazine is great
Just stayed in a Wetherspoons Hotel in Whitby , good all round, food and all, From Tier 3 to tier 2, and back, such rebels!
Luxury -I can only dream of being in tier 2
Nice!
“There were 150 of us vaccinated in a cardboard box.”
He thought he could act on live TV in front of millions of people, even though, as is obvious, he has no previous experience or training. Tells you a lot about the man
So if Margaret Keenan happens to keel over within the next 28 days
Will it be with vaccine, or from vaccine ??
there are 600,000 people in the UK within their last year of life. it doesn’t take much to knock them over. a cold, touch of flu, a fall, depression, being injected with something straight out of the lab that gives healthy volunteers localised pain and migraines
The Undertakers are going to be overwhelmed. Are they on the stock market?
However if she becomes unwell or die 6 months later they will DENY that it is due to the untested vaccine
This is what’s shocked me the most – the immorality and dishonesty of the mainstream media. In the Corona Scandal they are complicit in crimes against humanity
What about the immorality and dishonesty of government officials?
If Margaret Keenan keel over within the next 28 days, then she will never have existed.
There was no “Margaret Keenan” comrade. You are clearly mistaken.
My wife is a Pharmacist for the NHS. She wouldn’t touch it with a shitty stick as she knows full well what the development of a new vaccine entails. She has a PHD in pharmacology and vaccine development life cycles was part of her thesis. My wife has tried to find out what the vaccine actually does but cannot find any information on what it does or does not do.
The nurses in her practice have also stated that they won’t take it and won’t even administer it
‘Makes you proud to be British..’ Churchill drily made the same remark to his PS on being informed that two guardsmen had been apprehended by the Met while engaging in (then unlawful) sexual activity in Hyde Park. Mad Hancrock evidently enjoys the same proclivity for buggery but with a promiscuity that beggars belief.
This is an interesting development. Could be a non story, but it seems that one of Floridas Covid tracker team, went all independent Sage and is now having her house raided.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-police-raid-home-of-fired-data-scientist-who-built-state-covid-19-tracker
Is Florida the only place in the world that has a functioning democracy? Oh how I wish I was an American and could go straight there for the rest of my time.
Well they’ve just begun reducing test cycles to 25. It seems this lady is running her own independent case track site, mainly aimed at school monitoring!?? But is receiving a lot of praise from the zealot media.
It seems that anyone can add data to this site, so not all dodgy then..
https://www.thecovidmonitor.com/methods
Boris Johnson this morning – get the sick bucket:
Johnson said it was “very, very exciting” to meet some of the first people to be vaccinated against coronavirus.
The prime minister said it was moving to talk to Lyn Wheeler, who was the first to receive the vaccine at Guy’s hospital.
To all those who are scared [of getting vaccinated] – don’t be […] You have seen people take the vaccine this morning in large numbers. There’s nothing to be nervous about.
What I would say is that there are those obviously who feel that a vaccine is something they object to politically or for ideological reasons.
I think they are totally wrong. It’s safe, it’s the right thing to do, it’s good for you and it’s good for the whole country.
————————————————————————————————————-
So a whole bunch of people have had a vaccine and should survive until lunchtime – That’s the criteria for “safe”???
Lyn Wheeler is “helping to protect the entire country” – the efficacy of that vaccine is even better than we thought!
I hope they try to eat his brains. I’ve seen I Am Legend, I know where this is heading.
Well, if anything does go wrong with Pfizer’s potion then Boris’ head is going to be the first out of the guillotine.
I’m not anti-vax, I am pro choice.
All vaccines have a potential downside and if Johnson fails to properly inform the public of the potential downsides to the Pfizer vaccine then he is criminally liaible, IMO, if anything goes wrong.
It’s good for me apparently. I presume it’s just like eating an apple. I’ll need to nip down to get my vaccine 5 a day shortly.
And, we still don’t know what it does or does not do. How the hell can the Slippery Pig be saying its great for the country when we don’t know what the vaccine does. Is nobody asking him? Arrrrrrgh!
Are we not allowed any individual political or ideological beliefs any more then?
And since when did we name and publicise people having medical treatments? I’m not in the papers every time I take a pill. What’s it got to do with anyone else? I’m at surprised 80- and 90-year-olds for going along with such nonsense.
Where is Maureen when we need her?
They think we buy this utter crap. Those of us who have seen how governments in the past 20 years have started to treat us like children, want nothing to do with their ‘state is mother, state is father’ shite.
Toby was awarded the Free Speech Man of the Year award. Well done Toby!!!
Loved this interview.
Mainly females that gets deplatformed.
‘Not defend what they say but defend free speech’.
Bullies hunt in packs, stand up to them in numbers
Mental note to self to join the Free Speech Union that will defend me against any wrong speech accusations at the workplace or online
Definitely. Everybody here should be a member, after experiencing the coronapanic nonsense.
Currently the FSU is fighting the disgraceful Ofcom ‘coronavirus guidance’ that has been used to suppress reporting of truth about the coronapanic:
The Free Speech Union Fighting Fund
Can one join even if one’s tie is properly knotted ?
These are trying times, I know, but standards are standards …
People who say they wear a mask to protect others are lying. Always. In every case. They wear them because of a hysterical, completely unreasoning fear of being killed by Covid. Or because they’re bovine, or stupid (I know these things are not mutually exclusive).
Exactly the same goes for the vaccine.
I think the real reason is they are cowards. They know they do not work, however to take it off would leave them out with the social acceptance of the herd. They would rather live under a lie than break a social norm.
That’s a fair point as well. Berating the maskless probably gives them a self righteous tingle and also there’s the issue of projecting their own resentment of the rules onto anyone who defies them.
Now I understand how Nazi Germany happened. There are too few Sophie Scholls in this world unfortunately
I was going to post a very similar comment. I despise all this socialisation of the situation: The adverts that make out that other people are taking action on my behalf to protect me, “I was my hands to protect my colleagues”, “I wear a mask to protect you”. No! Fuck Off! You wash your hands to protect yourself, you wear a mask to protect yourself. What you do has no bearing on what I choose to do.
Any precautions that I do or don’t take are based solely on my personal risk assessment to take the measures necessary to protect me and my family not “you”.
Exactly, I agree. I hate the fucking virtue signalling more than almost any other aspect of this shitshow. It’s bad enough that we have an authoritarian government supported by so many authoritarian (hysterical, irrational and stupid) people; don’t insult me further by proclaiming how morally superior you are. Arghhhh!!!! Fuck ’em!
Morally superior granny/granddad killers.
Exactly. I’ve never worn one anywhere but plenty of muzzled zombies get really close whenever I’m in a shop!
It’s not the ‘virus’ that’s threatening to put London in Tier 3 – it’s politicians
It’s not the ‘virus’ that’s destroyed the economy, cancelled medical treatments, created an upflow of wealth to the rich, created an epidemic of suicide and despair, stolen freedoms and civil liberties – it’s politicians
Likewise around the world, it’s not the virus that’s pushing Indian farmers to suicide – it’s politicians
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/indian-farmers-are-staring-suicide-modi-government-looks-other-way/
That article is heart-breaking to read.
This is what the Sikhs demonstrated about on Sunday.
That report from India is heartbreaking. You can bet the same is happening all over developing countries.
Virus prevalence has NOT risen in Tier-2 London, it is falling. Instead, what has happened is that prevalence in various Tier-3 regions has fallen faster than in London. That is why the virus level in London is now higher than in some Tier-3 regions. So the logical thing to do is put those Tier-3 regions down to Tier-2, not put London into Tier-3
Here’s the evidence (see graphic)
Virus Prevalence as Positivity Rate (i.e., % positive tests) for England regions
I trust that Ma’am will be taking the jab and setting an example to us all.
They think we’re idiots if we believe they’ll be taking a rushed-through, experimental, indemnified vaccine predicted to cause side effects
No doubt politicians, celebs, journalists, civil servants will receive their own special vaccine.
A lot of the focus this year has been on death rates, but I will soon be looking at birth rates.
‘Covid’ has had little influence on deaths, apart from lockdown deaths.
I predict that it will have much more influence on the birth rate.
We are now on the verge of seeing the first babies born, who were conceived after the beginning of lockdown.
I predict a crash in already low birth rates.
Economic suffering, social isolation, who wants to bring a child into this world?
Who the fuck would be crazy/selfish enough to subject another human being to this shower of shite of a world.
“I know dear, lets have a baby during the authoritarian take over of our country. Where the future outlook is totally bleak and life is over as we have known it”. Great idea!
People don’t have children, they’ve already won. Ffs.
Or you could bring up another rational, moral, and free-thinking human to help counteract any further nonsense. If only sheeple have children, then the world will be full of sheeple.
Too late.
I’ve been thinking of this from the off. How the hell can people form romantic relationships in this dystopia?
They did make having sexual intercourse with someone outside one’s household illegal.
I posted about this earlier this morning, the registration of births was suspended for a while but the ONS has now been able to publish figures for live births in England & Wales for the first 3 quarters of 2020
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/provisionalbirthsinenglandandwales
These show that ;
Total live births Jan – Sept 2020 England & Wales 464,437
Total registered deaths Jan-Sept 2020 England & Wales 453,803
And so despite being hit by this ‘unprecedented virus’ despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over terrible deaths, so far this year we appear. by my calculations to have had 10,634 more live births than deaths in England & Wales.
The Black Death and the Spanish Flu caused population decreases but Covid is the only pandemic ever known to have caused an increase in population!
He’s just plain Matt Han now; apparently the other bit fell off 5 minutes after the jab, although there’s some dispute as to whether it was ever there in the first place.
Unlike Boris, known as the Ghost Shark because his reproductive organs are situated on his head.
From a personal perspective, it feels like they’ve been situated up my back passage for the last 9 months. Locomotion has thus been severely compromised to say the least and I’ve noticed a lot of other sufferers ‘walking funny’ with similar symptoms.
His cock fell off?
LMAO
So we’re led to believe but whether it was the vaccine or over-handling hasn’t yet been established. No doubt the BBC won’t cover it which could lead to charges for indecent exposure.
They’ll need good luck finding it
It seems they’re planning to use the PCR (Prosthetic Cock Retrieval) test so, yes, it’s anyones guess.
Good news then.
He will have to stop fucking us.
Stefarm and others were on this case yesterday. Do not pass up the chance to listen to Allen going through a few msm interviews. What has been admitted about the deaths they *expect* to see after the vaccine is administered is unmissable. First 30 minutes of his radio show, the worst is saved til last. Dr Vernon Coleman is then his guest for the rest of the show.
Astounding admission – https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2020-12-07T11_21_54-08_00
Absolutely. This is essential.
Robert Peston (@Peston) Tweeted: Did Boris Johnson order England’s coronavirus lockdown based on false data? https://t.co/Cf78tDMvc3
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1336256704716136448?s=20
Has Peston become one of us now?
You beat me to it. Sorry I posted before seeing your comment.
Not at all. It is worth repeating anyway!
Fair enough, but would you have posted had you known I had already done it here about an hour ago and reproduced Peston’s comment in full?
The P stands for Pedantic?
No John, I wouldn’t have rained on your parade.
I beat you both to it.
And I reproduced Peston’s comments in full.
Sorry John, so you did. That’s the problem with the comments section-you read some of them, then go away. When you return, you end up scrolling through them again to check what you’ve missed. Sometimes it’s too much trouble!
Sometimes I read the comments from the oldest first, and sometimes from the newest first, and if there are a lot I might miss a bit in the middle. Nothing wrong with a bit of repetition. “Repetition Repetition Repetition” to bring in a gratuitous reference to The Fall.
Sorry to you and all those further down the blog who might have posted it.
He’s doing well. Most of us came to the conclusion that lockdowns don’t work, the “science” was lies and the infection numbers are likewise lies, months ago. But you wouldn’t expect Peston to recognise the truth if it got up and bit him.
Penny f@cking dropped has it Robert?
Why has he only just realised this now? Where’s he been for the last 6 weeks?
Last six weeks? You mean months shurely?
No he’s shitting himself incase his fave gastro pub will be shut in tier 3 in the run up to xmas, its not through care for his fellow citizen.
Bloody hell! The idiot Peston is actually questioning the exaggerated infection numbers put out by SAGE & the government
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-12-08/covid-did-boris-johnson-order-englands-coronavirus-lockdown-based-on-false-data
If Peston sees it, the jig is up. Jesus.
I trust nothing.
Why has he discovered this now?
They have no integrity, they’re just professional panderers. With that in mind, hopefully he detects shifting public opinion and is trying to get ahead of it.
It’s amazing isn’t it. The sheer shock of the Politics Live presenter yesterday when Tice mentioned that a loaf of excess deaths in the ONS numbers were of people dying at home, non covid and all sorts of other non covids.
“Oh my God! Where did you get this information!?”
“ONS love.”
Maybe Boris put his hand on HIS knee.
That is the ?
He’s 60. Suddenly decided the vaccine might be problematic now he’s in the firing line.
Yes, it has been retweeted by JHB.
Who is Preston and how does his scepticism help us?
spooky ‘journalist’ in gulag uk
used to be abbc
How long would have this lasted if the media had done its job instead of being Government mouthpieces
Peston is a tool of the establishment. He will only go so far
You only needed the first four words, the rest is a waste of ink
What were the figures that Bojo used to justify lockdown,please?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.22.20236422v1.full.pdf This is from Prof Hunter who made the statement about London going to T3. I had an email chat with him this morning. He was very nice and answered most of my questions. The data is the same pretty well as Imperial who’s data got Boris to lockdown. He said his came out after imperials. He did say he opposes lockdowns but nbacks the hardened tiers, I quizzed him on how come the cases went down during lock down.
Quote ‘If lockdowns and severe restrictions are effective as you claim, why then did the cases increase during lockdown, as because of the increase you are now asking for further restrictions. This makes no sense whatsoever. Restrictions increase infections, therefore, we need more restrictions. Can you, besides the evidence provided by NHS and the publicly available data, offer your reasoning that because restrictions cases increased, we need more restrictions. The NHS in London is running well below normal capacity, the Nightingale hospital is empty, so please don’t quote saving the NHS. I put it to you that your reasoning is a busted flush and has been shown so by the fact that in most areas during the second lockdown cases were decreasing before and continued to decrease during lockdown. It is a natural virus cycle that measures have failed to stop including during the first lockdown.
Answer ‘Firstly I did not say that restrictions should be tightened in London, but that “we do need to reconsider the Tier allocation in these areas”. Is what I actually said.
Secondly it is nonsense to suggest that restrictions increase transmission and I certainly did not suggest this. Across the country the National lockdown was associated with a fairly dramatic decline in cases (see graph below), but the benefit was undermined in many areas because of a surge of cases in early November. This was most obvious in London.’ I said the graphs showed a small spike not a surge, as indeed they do.
I have come to the conclusion that they are all looking backwards to see forwards, without ever checking reality you know as that might spoil the outcome of their study. They have to produce to get paid, so they never add an addendum that says, by the way it was all out of date before it was published and it didnt go as promised, so its worthless.
I finished my last missive with
Him ‘”In around half of the local authorities in Tier 2 were still seeing exponential growth”.
Me I have looked at graphs for the term expotential growth, I found lots of medical ones they all look like the one attached, which is the trajectory of the infections in March/early April. We have seen no expotential growth (f(x)=2x.) since then, only self limiting growth curves nowhere near f(x)=2x. in cases and certainly not in deaths. If you can point me at anything since April that shows an expotential curve I would appreciate it as I cannot see one anywhere in the available data. The word expotential should only be used in exceptional circumstances, yet it is tossed into statements all the time again without context, unless of course it is used to illustrate Professor Fergusons death charts, where 4000=400 in the real world.
The public would be far better informed and less terrified if context was used in all statements and graphs overlaying current figures over past years etc, unless it is being used to frighten gullible people to death, (which in many thousands of cases has been literally true).
I am counting the days till freedom arrives because it will soon. We cannot be defined by this endemic virus, no more than we can be by flu. I think scientists like yourself should start to think about changing the message to something like this and enlighten the populus. Risk assessment is an everyday part of life as is being informed, it is an indivdual’s responsibility, not that of well intentioned (or perhaps not?) senior health advisors and this excuse for a government( I’m a life long tory voter).’
[Covid] Not the First Hoax — Practice Makes Perfect
Pandemics have come and gone around the globe for centuries, but in recent history they’ve been used as points of manipulation that have profited corporations, particularly pharmaceutical companies.
The 2005 bird flu epidemic, for example, was predicted to kill from 2 million to 150 million people. It killed just 98 people, globally, in 2005, 115 in 2006 and 86 in 2007. No one in the U.S. died from this infection. The brazenness of the hoax prompted me to write my New York Times best seller book “The Great Bird Flu Hoax.”
In 2006, 2007 and again in 2008, hyped warnings over the bird flu were repeatedly exposed as little more than a cruel hoax, designed to instill fear and line the pocketbooks of industry and various vested individuals. In 2009, there was the swine flu hoax, the vaccination campaign for which, as mentioned, turned into a disaster.
The summer of 2012 was again filled with dire predictions of bird flu sufficiently mutating to cause a human pandemic, immediately followed by urgent calls for fast-tracked vaccines. None of these pandemics ever turned into global killers, and COVID-19 is no different. As mentioned earlier, there’s no evidence of excess deaths due to this novel virus.
The COVID-19 pandemic differs from previous ones, however, in that it’s being used not just to enrich drug companies and justify the existence of gain-of-function research, but also to usher in a “reset” of the entire global economy by the technocrats. While failing economies around the world are blamed on the pandemic, the central bank system has been faltering for some time and is now on its last leg.
The global debt load is now so high, countries cannot even pay off the interest, and thus the system no longer works. It needs to be “reset,” but rather than ditching the central bank system and resetting it to something stable (such as returning to a gold-backed system), the technocrats in charge are ushering in an all-digital centralized currency that will give them total control over the finances of every human on earth.
What’s more, the economic reset is only one part of this all-encompassing totalitarian takeover. The COVID-19 vaccine fits into the scheme by providing an excuse to track and trace everyone’s whereabouts, and connect this medical surveillance together with the digital economy. You can learn more about this in “What You Need to Know About the Great Reset.”
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/08/coronavirus-vaccine-side-effects.aspx
There was also a similar ‘Plandemic’ in the 70s in the United States. There are videos on YouTube. The same play book was used. Claims for injury etc.. Quite astounding how short collective human memory is
Took my car to my usual garage this morning for an MOT. The owner said I wasn’t allowed to wait in the waiting room because covid but I was welcome to sit in the unheated (it was 3 degrees outside) plastic “pod” on the forecourt. There were no other customers or workmen in sight. This pod looked like a cross between a small Wendy house and a dog kennel.
After a brief exchange during which I told him that this was the mentality that was keeping the current hysteria going I told him I was taking my business elsewhere and left.
Good for you!
Yes, good for you!
It cannot just be administered, it HAS to be individually prescribed by a physician or other prescriber as it is not licensed. Each patient has to be individually assessed for suitability to receive the vaccine, full disclosure of possible side effects and risks versus benefits. If the prescriber decides that the vaccine will benefit the patient then they can either administer it themselves or issue a Patient Specific Direction for someone else to administer it. Failure to discuss with the patient risks v benefits by the person administering the vaccine and when something goes wrong it will be the PRESCRIBERS responsibility.
Good summary
Today’s experience of visiting an out of town retail outlet:
I only went as I had a voucher needed spending in build a bear before they end up going bust. Avoiding shops as much as I can as feel like I’m in a horror film.
So off I went.
Molten Brown: no mention of me being bare faced but masked staff keenly sanitising everything at all times.
Yankee candle: no mention of my bare face. Staff pleasant despite being masked.
Costa for a takeaway coffee: not good as told to maintain social distance to the person in the queue in front of me, not by the person in the queue but by a masked gestapo staff who’s sole purpose was that. So I walked out.
200degree coffee shop: Great! Staff unmasked (behind Perspex) happy to serve me and happy unmasked faces! It meant so much after the whole rest of everyone else in the entire park was masked permanently even outdoors.
Build a bear: sign saying wait u till staff come and get you from the door! So I just walked in as only 2 customers in the whole shop. The staff wear teddy bear masks!! I didn’t know whether to laugh or weep.. but no mention of mask or sanitizer and got the voucher spent.
Adidas: dreadful as I committed the crime of walking in the out door! So I was chased by the door gestapo. Asked wear my mask was (first and only shop to ask ) and told that I’d walked through the wrong door. She said can I ask that you put hand sanitizer? I said yes you can ask and then I walked out.
Joules: dreadful. Not allowed entry without the hand sanitizer that the door gestapo puts on the customer! I said I’ll politely decline as I have an allergy to it. She said well you can’t touch ANYTHING then. I said so I’m not allowed in then if I don’t allow you to put it on me then? Even though I’m allergic to it? That flummoxed her as no doubt every else lets her ‘do her job’ of sanitising their paws. She said ‘it’s joules policy’ I said well you’ve just lost a customer.
Back to online shopping.
This report really vindicates my reasons for not wanting to shop over the last 9 months. Sounds like a miserable experience.
Same here, as luck would have it have mainly shopped online for groceries for years ( working long hours and find it better for sticking to a shopping budget). But I will not shop in any store that treats me like I have the plague , I suspect there are a lot like me and the only reason shop sales haven’t dropped off a cliff is the extra Xmas boost. Wait til the new year and see reality hit retail management.
IMO you should shop regulary in public without a mask.
Those of us with balls could do with a bit of support from fellow sceptics.
I’ve done it a couple of times only ( just some family stress going on at the moment) intend to be braver about it in the new year. I’m frankly so pissed off with some of my family and friends I’m at the point where I no longer care.
It’s not so bad once you’ve done it a few times.
As I said, nobody has ever said anything to me – at least not so far.
I live in an area with a large asian population. Thankfully none of them give a shit, so it isn’t unusual to see loads of people without the duncemuzzle in the shops.
Alternatively, wear this:
It is a miserable experience, but that is no reason not to do it.
I think it is important to regularly show your face in public.
I have never been prevented from entering a shop, never been forced to hand sanitise and I have never been stopped or questioned for not wearing a mask.
I still go to the suppermarkets but can’t deny i’ve not limited my frequency generally. Moreso, I don’t have much to buy being locked down.
I carry a 2 metre tape measure with me. When anyone starts on about social distance I offer them to hold one end of tape and extend it and ask if that satisfies them? Strange, they never seem to accept.
I still go out shopping as I work in C London and sometimes I just like to see things in person and not provide Amazon with additional profit. Any shop I ever go to and get challenged for a mask, I stop going there immediately. Luckily so far I had good experiences and the tailor I go to wears a mask himself but has an attitude as the sir prefers. And that is why he gets my custom .. So far on my Blacklist are Zara, The Ginger Pig in Borough Market plus other but I can’t remember right now.
Never give up, never wear a mask as it needs to dawn on them that THEY ARE the ones that look weird and abnormal, not you showing your face. Fuck them
This is my policy too. I don’t go back to places that are discriminatory. I take my cash elsewhere.
Not surprised about Zara. They’re Spanish owned and they seem to be very evangelical about the muzzles.
Ditto the likes of Bimba y Lola and Mango.
Fuck all this covid bollocks, fuck these shops. They were shit anyway.
I’m sure Jeff Bezos agrees.
I don’t buy from amazon. ever
Big garden?
whats that got to do with anything? and no, its a small garden, packed with things to eat in the summer
I do unfortunately. I just can’t help the pull of it bit like the below:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq7ysA7agNE&ab_channel=CartoonCentral
Thanks for the link that mad me laugh too.
“haha that’s 10 bucks you owe me!”
Looks like a mixed bag. Have been avoiding Costa, from my experience Caffe Nero has been better – no problems with me being not muzzled and they’re not anal about antisocial distancing and santising.
I received an email from our local bridge club this morning –
“Stay safe through the (un)festive season, and please accept the vaccination when it’s offered.”.
Suggestions re nature and content of reply appreciated …
I think you’ll only require two words.
Biker could probably help with this.
Arkell vs Pressdram…
Now that came from the days when the Eye really offered an alternative voice. Nowadays it just reads like another Establishment mouthpiece. The veneer has worn very thin.
As someone involved in managing a business, I have strongly pushed the line that as an employer we should not get involved in the personal health decisions of our employees. I think the same would apply to anyone involving in running a club or any other organisation. It’s none of their business, and a potential minefield.
ask them how much bull gates bunged them
Ask them if a vaccine is taken by a member on foot of that suggestion and said member is injured, do they have an insurance policy to cover the costs of that bad advice?
Maybe something like if I experience debilitating side effects from this vaccine I will surely take you to court for coercion as you told me to take an unlicensed vaccine that was not properly tested
Excellent
The other option is to brazenly lie – I’ve had the virus, had the test, so I don’t need the vaccine (IMO fortunately). I don’t lie as a habit but I could see myself in certain situations becoming more economical with the truth. What do you think?
Of course, even if you’ve had the virus it’s now expected you need to get the jab which is clearly mad from a biological perspective.
‘Thank you bridge club, but I’d rather live my life whilst I’m alive than to stay in a health destroying prison of safety. And I have no intention of taking an indemnified vaccine. Thanks all same’
‘Fuck all to do with you sunshine.’
That’s to your bridge club John, not you!
Shan’t.
Thank you all.
The thing is, I know the guy who sent it is (a) intelligent and (b) in normal times, a good guy.
From a stranger, ‘make love elsewhere’ would be automatic.
From a half-way entity, e.g. employer/council/neighbourhood organisation, my response would be formal, awkward, and legalistic.
I think I shall be going with something along the lines of “Thanks ****, but I don’t see an experimental vaccine for a completely overblown respiratory virus as in any way sensible. More concerned about the police state, shattered economy, and traumatised fellow citizens.”.
North, West, South and East
I will not bow before the Beast.
What’s that coming over the hill?
Is it a monster? Is it a monster?
No it’s our favourite from the WEF Klaus
BarbieStrangelove looking into his crystal ball.“Ze cloudz are parting und zumzing is forming. Ah yez, I zee it all now. It iz a chriziz of unimaginable size that makes ze kurrant virus pandemic a valk in ze park. Vich, inzidentally you are not allowed to do. Koming zoon to a vorld near you.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7jdzaIvviv0x/
The Iceage Farmer shows the next phase in the demolition of the West.
Also showing, the coming food shortages.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vOcT1hozYX8X/
Smile they said, for things could be worse. So I smiled and they were.
vezy interezting
“… but stupid”
One for the real oldies.
Rowan & Martin- yes?
I used to watch it with my dad.
I want some milk and cookies.
(same era)
More fearmongering
Re. the lead story above the line about London going into Tier 3:
“The Government must consider placing London in Tier 3 restrictions, scientists have said, after 21 out of the 32 boroughs showed worrying rises in cases.”
I posted on the 11th of November about the mass testing to begin in London and listed the 20 boroughs where mass testing was to be carried out. https://dailysceptic.org/2020/11/10/latest-news-189/#comment-240241
I wonder if the places with the biggest increases leading to the calls for Tier 3 are anything like the list below.
Set up!
It’s all about comoliance now. The selective tactics of police is another example.
Leicester was the template for this and they rolled it out across the country.
Anyone who believes this is down to incompetence please explain this.
Not incompetence (though thankfully they are less good at this than their Chinese inspiration) – dishonesty, greed, cowardice, lust for power – really just fairly standard politics except they are getting away with much more serious wickedness because of the fear-induced compliance instilled in the population by their only truly competent arm – the propaganda unit.
It was a way of maintaining fear until the rollout of the vaccine.It shows the the governments intention was never benign and they are prepared to sacrifice lives and livelihoods in pursuit of their goals.
Rates down in Camden and Islington. There has been no testing in either. I live in the borough of Camden and on of my sons in Islington. The other son lives in Hackney and is not aware of any of his friends who have had the virus.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map zoom in to London and click on the boroughs you can see where the miscreants are hiding.Most areas are already going down, the peak as a week + ago.
Yeah, I know about that; thanks, ian.
Whole thing is just a piss-tske.
I have type2 diabetes (controlled by diet) and the other week I had (or didn’t have) my yearly check. Got to the door of the doctors to have my temperature checked but refused to wear a nappy. The receptionist lied and said it’s mandatory to wear masks so I showed my exemption card. The nurse came out and said I couldn’t be seen without a mask, so I walked out.
Had a call from the practice manager, asking why I was rude to the nurse. Said I wasn’t rude but won’t wear a mask and I was wearing my exemption card. Anyway I got another appointment but in the “hot room”.
This morning I had my appointment but had to go through the side door into an “isolation” room. The experience wasn’t too bad, nurse masked, gloved and aproned. I was expecting worse.
However, I noted the waiting room was virtually empty again. The last time I was there I was the only person in the waiting room for 20 minutes at 9:30 am midweek. Back in July and August I had 2 appointments in the counties largest hospital and on both occasions it was virtually deserted.
The NHS is not being overwhelmed, it’s keeping the fear going.
It’s the lack of NHS staff blowing the whistle that really sickens me. They are just as culpable as the government.
No they aren’t. It’s much more complicated.
If anything the are more culpable. Without their enthusiastic order following the government simply would not be capable of making this a reality.
Possibly – but please elaborate. The NHS and its place in our lives and in politics has played a central role in this, would be interested in your thoughts on it.
Professor Powiss, NHS Medical Director, was on the news this morning. He stated that the NHS staff have been working flat out throughout this pandemic.
Flat out insisting on unnecessary testing, pointless PPE and turning away people in need of medical care. Next amazing feat to be rolling out unnecessary and potentially harmful vaccination while doing their part to ensure people are sufficiently well terrorised to take it.
Yep. All possible because a big chunk of the human population is scientifically illiterate and/or too intellectually lazy to investigate. They trust that nice woman on the tele
Well said, I too am upset by the anti NHS rubbish here.
I think much of the disappointment towards the NHS is directed at its executive and senior management. My own view of the NHS has been shattered.
You must report this to your local PALS. Other people are being denied much more vital health services. It needs to stop, pronto.
Snap! Got same treatment for eye screening last week. NHS are offering an appalling service. They have succumbed to the Covid hysteria big time. Dunno if it’s because they’re closer to the front line and therefore hermetically sealed in the bubble, but they seriously need to look beyond cv19.
NHS dental treatment a joke at the moment. OTT on precautions eg leave your handbag in a box outside the surgery door. However private dentistry, proportionate, hanger for your coat and unintrusive.
My son was referred in March to Speech and Language. We had one assessment over the phone in June where the girl concluded that he simply has a mild speech delay and asked us to ring in a few months time. Sons speech not getting much better so rang her in November and we had a Zoom assessment with my son present which lasted about 20 mins. It was complete and utter bollocks and she couldn’t provide us with any sort of help or assistance at all. He is only 2 years and 9 months and needs face to face assistance for his speech, none of this zoom shite. But of course because of Covid he can’t get it. So angry.
Obviously I can’t know your son’s problems, but quite a few boys don’t start to talk until they’re 4 or 5 years old.
Thanks Bluemoon, I am not overly concerned to be honest and he is trying to talk, understands language, follows instructions, he actually knows his colours but can’t state them clearly. I do think it will be a case of delayed speech, but know that some face to face professional assistance with help him.
What annoyed me the most was she said it could be one of 3 things, 1 of which is autism and asked where we concerned about that, to which we replied not at all. I will be furious if she tried to label him and refer him on because of a 20 min zoom call.
Absolutely ridiculous. They don’t care really.
I know how demoralising this Zoom service is as I care for my grandson with cerebral palsy. First it was a Zoom special educational needs assessment (EHCP) in the spring (3 hrs with 7 professionals online!) The Zoom physiotherapy is pathetic. His therapy centres all closed and even his nursery refused to open for months even for the SEN children. It is an absolute scandal how poorly parents of children with special needs are being treated. I suggest you make a complaint through PALS and ask for a different SALT person.
The other way to go is private if you can afford it as children cannot wait indefinitely – every month matters at this crucial age of development.
Ok here goes. I have a relative given an urgent referral to our local hospital for IBD treatment. He can’t eat anything as the symptoms are so severe. Hospital website says they process you within 5 working days. Over 2 weeks later he gets a message to contact an IBD information line. He doesn’t need information, he needs treatment.
Last time he was ill he had to be blue lighted to hospital and had 2 weeks on the cardiac ward, his potassium was so low it affected his heart. This could easily happen again, or he’ll just die slowly of starvation. Clearly his life doesn’t matter.
He is now so worn down he can’t fight the system any longer. He is in constant pain, shitting blood and they want him to phone a fucking helpline. This is my son. I am so angry I hate the NHS. Fuck them all.
I wonder if they feel silly, in their NBC/hazmat get-up, knowing (as surely they must) that this virus is not only mild but also fast-vanishing?
Douglas Ross on the FT podcast (at about 18:30) thinks the daily Seaweed show will stop in the new year…
I’m not so sure. How about the lectern replaced by a sofa.. a few z-list guests – it could be “This Morningside” or “Peebles Mill at One”
Did anyone see wancock crying on tv …that has pissed me off beyond belief. Filthy virtue signalling , life ruining cxxx.
Only saw the stills. Couldn’t bear to watch.
I don’t know how anyone can see that and think ‘this man is genuine’?
You only have to look at him to know he’s not genuine
Definitely crying with laughter:
https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/08/body-language-expert-gives-her-verdict-on-matt-hancocks-tears-13718879/
“It’s been a tough year for so many people hahahahaha!”
Watch UK Column tear his performance to shreds last week:
https://youtu.be/6bfhAe8zVf0?t=89
He was pretending to cry in order to disguise a laugh response.
Clearly laughing. As they have been throughout.
I had the subtitles switched on and managed to get a screenshot.
The tears of a clown.
If he is willing to lie to the House of Commons about his dead “relative” then a fake tear on tv is no problem.
Just when you thought vaccine mania couldn’t get any crazier:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/covid-mixed-vaccine-trial-likely-to-begin-in-uk-next-month
Those who take part in January’s trial will get one shot of AstraZeneca’s vaccine and one of the Pfizer injection. A vaccine from US biotech firm Moderna will also be included if it gets approval.
At least then we will not be able to prove which of the two vaccines caused the disablement or death….
It was the cytokine storm that did it your honour.
No, covid did it of course
Like the shell game.
Er, what now? We’re not supposed to stop taking antibiotics halfway through a course, but it’s OK to chop and change between barely-tested experimental nano-tech government injectables?
You put your pfizer vac in,
Your pfizer vac out:
In, out, in, out, shake it all about.
You do the vacey cokey,
And you turn around.
That’s what it’s all about!
Oh, the vacey cokey, cokey.
Oh, the vacey cokey, cokey.
Oh, the vacey cokey, cokey.
Knees bent, arms stretched rah, rah, rah.
You put your astra vac in,
Your astra vac out:
In, out, in, out, shake it all about.
You do the vacey cokey,
And you turn around.
That’s what it’s all about!
BOGOFF!
This is just a pharma cash grab
Yes I mentioned that early this morning as it was on Radio 4. They’re taking the piss – why not try x3 flavours at once? One might ‘work’ on your mild symptoms ….
Yay! Vaccine potluck! What could go wrong.
they havent got enough of the pfizer stuff due to a QC problem reducing the first batch by half, so mix n match will do, as of course its all been carefully tested for comaptibility, hasn’t it, especially the bit where it says not to be taken with other medications on the label. These fuckers are all criminally insane
3 for the price of one? No thanks. Don’t dig your McDo style value meal.
Note the latest ONS all-cause mortality figure (Week 48)
As predicted – the autumn surge looks to be levelling off – at just a bit more than 1/4 of the Chuckle Brothers Fear scenario. I predicted a weekly mortality rate of ~12,500 without a GI>GO bit of code. ‘Nuff said.
… and yet this bunch of SAGE/Imperial clowns still gets listened to
They get listened to because of the mass brainwashing undertaken by the government and other forces of evil, which enables the government and their advisors to get away with lying to us
Any death from/with covid is now deemed one too many, regardless of whether it represents anything unusual
People need to be unbrainwashed by a huge campaign of simple, basic, well chosen information showing mortality and your chances of dying of anything but covid then your chances of dying from covid
The consortium of rich and powerful people I had hoped would form to fund such a campaign has not materialised, and all the efforts are amateur and doomed to fail because we are so badly outgunned.
I think it’s too late now – the vaccine has given them the cover they need
I fear that you are right, Julian. I know some posters here express optimism re. a changing public response – but at the very core of the belief that the SPI-B stuff has inculcated, I don’t see any massive change, I’m afraid – and the vaccine propaganda is coming on strongly now.
Ivor Cummins did a good round-up of the figures a couple of days ago.
Ivor Cummins is a real hero too.
‘Cancel Culture’ has never been more evident than in the nazi-esque, book-burning glutton fest removal of content from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Guardian comments
My memory of 2020 will be of blank screens on YouTube
All of these entitled corporations seem to think that customers are a right, not a priviledge. Besides that, many of them have very close links to government, so they pump the Kool Aid relentlessly.
Did you know that US intelligence services used Facebook to train facial and relational recognition software? Hard to believe for some, so it’s just as well they admitted it themselves. Not to mention the advertising algos that get fed data from social media.
Remember, if a service is free, you are the product.
It’s a shame more people haven’t read ‘Propaganda’ by Edward Bernays.
Jacques Ellul wrote a book titled ‘Propaganda’ in 1962.
We should call it GoogleTube. Or CensorTube. Or …?
Why is it that no one seems to be at all concerned that the Pfizer vaccine was developed without having cultured the virus? The silence on this is deafening.
It’s a very technical issue. Many Epidemiologists and Virologists, sceptics of course, will say it has been. Others say it doesn’t have to be exactly as its a virus we are dealing with and the Koch postulates are not required, or can be loosened. I simply cannot understand how you can get to the bottom of it due to not being versed in the science. Have you any good articles that explains it?
Just trust the science guys. that is the new religion after all.
Pfizer said they developed their vaccine without having cultured the virus. They said they simply read the genetic code, as provided to the World Health Organisation by China. This has nothing to do with Koch’s postulates. A vaccine is the infectious agent in an attenuated form, which enables the individual’s immune system to recognise the infectious agent and create defences without the individual getting ill. What Pfizer’s admission means is the whatever their claimed vaccine is, it is not a vaccine.
I reckon most of them haven’t bothered reading up on it.
all of them*
I suppose its just a matter of time before someone dies after being vaccinated – whether its the vaccine, old age or whatever. Being what they are, people will blame the vaccine
Quite
How about he wears his mask and I use my common sense and we both say no more on the subject ?
I don’t mind vaccines when used appropriately. Just forget about mass vaccination until you have 20 years of data. Hopefully there will be some hoohah about people dying ‘with’ or ‘of’ the vaccine and they will just limit themselves to offering it to the most vulnerable.
They are like children – next big thing, T&T, lockdowns, vaccine – what’s the 1 thing that will save the planet.
Turns out the best thing to do is wash our hands a bit and keep a bit of distance if you are old or ill
So how is it necessary, you utter bellend, to keep wearing masks if your poisonous vaccine actually works? You stupid, lying, twat; you clearly take us for fools.
P.S. I suppose this idiot actually does take us for fools.
Have I missed summat? who is this twot?
re reliability of PCR tests
Has the UK’s Covid strategy been based on false positives and dodgy data? We challenge the Government to test the accuracy of its PCR tests:
https://twitter.com/brexitparty_uk/status/1336222569553342464
if they aren’t already doing this as a matter of course then its criminal negligence. Maybe they are but aren’t releasing the results
They have to. There needs to be an enquiry specifically on who has kept the momentum on PCR knowing that it was awash with the FPs and high CTs
Results and what’s released are two very different things.
It’s really a no-brainer, isn’t it? If they don’t rise to the challenge, then we’ll know they know we know.
100% positive for sure.
I wonder if any of the regulars on here remember my plan B blackout stunt in M and S well today it was the turn of Iceland, manager gave me some greif about not wearing muzzle, told him I was exempt etc etc so warned him and doned the muzzle then proceeded to blackout and demolish the Ltd edition Xmas cornflake display…utter chaos ensued staff running everywhere,that’s one in the eye for the ignorant prick…
Good work BR!
Would you please autograph my cornflake packet?
You are a legend, sir.
You are obviously a cereal offender!
It’s a great way to start your day!
Reading this has been the first thing to put a smile on my face all day!
needs videoing really
My solicitor will certainly be asking for the CCTV footage…
I fukin love you man
That is brilliant. Wish I had ideas like that or the guts. Now demand CCTV and threatento sue for your injuries, make the basterds sweat .
I’m in the process of doing just that, solicitor is already in place.
Ooooh – good one! Did anyone apologise?
Yes but I’m not accepting need to nail the sob.
So in short, your wore a muesli and bran-flaked out.
I an otherwise totally miserable and ragingly angry day in psy-op la la land surrounded by face nappy cunts, you really made me laugh. Nice one!
ooh you are awful…
Has the Corona dashboard not been updated or is just my link?
It still shows Sundays data.
On BBC Tech page ( I know, I know). American police raid woman’s home for allegedly inflating US dashboard.
Which dash board do you mean? this one is dated monday
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
But it is often not up to date in every category for every nation, it depends if they managed to get the figures in on time, it usually catches up the next day.
Yes, but part 1 Daily update still shows Sunday. all the other sections are Monday. How strange.
https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2268/rr-0
The point of the above link to the BMJ article “The New WHO casualty assessment algorithm needs revision to restore public trust” is precisely that such adverse events following vaccination will be excluded from consideration.
In the new causality assessment, only reactions that have previously been acknowledged in epidemiological studies to be caused by the vaccine, are classified as a vaccine-product–related-reactions. Reactions observed for the first time during post-marketing surveillance (Phase 4 clinical trial) are not considered as ‘consistent with causal association with vaccine’. All new serious adverse reactions are labelled as coincidental events ‘inconsistent with causal association,’ or ‘unclassifiable’ and the association with vaccine is not acknowledged. (5). It has, in effect, made phase 4 trials redundant
In other words, if your illness/reaction/ death did not occur to a volunteer in the early phase trials prior to the authorisation of the vaccine for use on the unsuspecting public, then it is by definition not due to the vaccine.
Clever, eh?
This means that however many of the public now go on to develop previously unrecognised illnesses due to the vaccine, they are not due to the vaccine.
No compensation, no need to halt the population wide vaccine programme, no liability.
We have to assume this is a criminal conspiracy which will not stop by itself.
Yes, saw the video a couple of days ago about this. I think the old version, which would have picked up problems, was replaced a small number of years ago. Make of that what you will.
So the cover up continues. If you have a relative who dies within a few months of the vaccine insist on an autopsy because apparently that will reveal it. The problem is they have pretty much stopped them I think, using Covid and infection as an excuse. You start to think might it be because a great many deaths ticked as Covid will actually be revealed as a death from some other cause if an autopsy were carried out..
Like this?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(20)30180-8/fulltext
It’s hiding in plain sight.
I have an FOI request outstanding at the conroners office, they acknowledged receipt promptly , so I expect an answer in the alotted time. I have been writing to Prof Paul Hunter today regarding his interjection yesterday about London going into Tier 3. 4 emails from him, I asked him in the last one to show me any graph that showed expotential growqth (f(x)=2x.) since the first infections in March/April and suggested the word not be used unless it was describing a rate of f(x)=2x. in any scientific or government statements.
So when “big data” could tell us all sorts of things, we stick our fingers in our ears and say “Nah nah nah, we’re not listening!” in case it tells us something uncomfortable.
Emergency COVID-19 Vaccines May Cause Massive Side Effects
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/08/coronavirus-vaccine-side-effects.aspx
Many thanks Toby, for the billiant interview on ‘Unlocked’. It was wonderful to see you, in all your full articulacy, putting the boot into the witch hunts carried out by the wokesters.
Bill Gates, Bill Gates, Bill Gates. Everything is Bill Gates. The world is owned by Bill Gates. Thought is owned by Bill Gates. Humanity is owned by Bill Gates. There is only Bill Gates
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1336285772585066498?s=20
He is the real virus.
Shoot down his private jet next time he visits the U.K.
Good idea!
https://twitter.com/simondolan/status/1336283440883392513
He’s a bit slow; I made this one a week ago. Posted previously.
It pays to pay attention!
I said it was Simon who was a bit slow.
He should come and read LS; he’ll learn a thing, or two.
And I meant that SD and Me should pay attention to you. Talking through text is a bit like talking through masks!
Love it! So true. Can I pinch that?
Bit late from me, but yes of course.
Ian Collins TalkRadio has gone full on Wanksock BBC with his support for the vaccine…
I cant listen to Ian Collins anymore. The only one who is remotely on our side and has been for months is Mark Dolan…from the time he cut his mask on air ( I hear he got a lot of shit for that) and his last weeks NO,No, No video..Let’s hope he stays with us..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?edufilter=NULL&v=dq0sZ9swPRM
https://www.seriousair.co.uk/pages/serious-technology
I remember once seeing on TV someone with OCD vacuuming the air to get rid of dust specks. This enterprising firm are now selling an air sanitiser, alledly destroys 99.9% H1N1 virus which is “smaller and harder to capture and destroy than the Covid19 viral strain”.
I protest. My immune system needs virus exposure. How am I to know if this dangerous new money spinner is in use in cinemas, theatres and pubs- I never want to cross their threshold?
If even one of those sweet old ladies having the jab develops nasty side effects and dies in the next week or so, it’s going to look really bad isn’t it?
At that point, old age will suddenly become a cause of death again, I suppose.
28 days after test, definitely Covid.
28 days after jab, oh dear, old people die.
Yeah, they die of all sorts of things, you can’t prove it was the vaccine, they were on their last legs anyway, no one lives forever.
28 Days later, huh? Oh boy.
They’ll blame it on ‘CoViD’
Bringing an old person , previously isolating into an NHS hospital awash with covid for a jab that may or may not reduce symptoms in a months time.
My thoughts exactly, they’ll probably catch it in the hospital while getting their jab FFS.
The answer will probably be, “We didn’t get to her in time; another senseless victim of this terrible scourge. We have let her down. We must redouble our efforts. National lockdown 3.0 is the only answer whilst we wait for more vaccine doses to be delivered.”
Are they really having vaccine or just saline for show? They’ll all be fine I’m sure, it’s theatre.
What is wrong with that joyless piece of shit Vaughan Gethin? He and his Marxist mate Drakeford have sucked every last drop of joy out of our lives. If seeing William and Kate cheers people up, then it’s a good thing.
Here are some interesting data. Trustworthy sort of company aren’t they.
https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/pfizer
Yes, and twinned with the MHRA, we can all rest easy in our beds (which we have taken to after the vaccine)
https://thenhf.com/the-anti-mhra-campaign/
Joking – no way I’m having it. Never.
Did anyone else find the BBC interview – 4 against 1 – with Richard Tice profoundly depressing? Looking at their purse-lipped stony faces made me feel sick. And that the false positives in PCR tests was even being doubted! I first heard Carl H talking about it on the radio in June! And since then, myriad mainstream articles including a really good one in the Lancet by three doctors, back in about Sept or Oct which I sent to MP, about the problems of the false positives, impact on society and in particular health care workers having to self-isolate for no reason.
It seems with so much knowledge now, we have made so little progress.
I heard Toby’s interview re free speech union and he said at the end that he felt there was light at the end of the tunnel because there were a few more MPs voting against the Govt. And look where that has got us! Threats of London to Tier 3? There is no chance we are ever going to be free again. I am dreading the debate next Monday.
PCR false positives were in documents from SAGE in June. I don’t know what they are all debating about when the Governments own scientific “experts” already said what we all know around 6 months ago.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895843/S0519_Impact_of_false_positives_and_negatives.pdf
Quite. It is mainstream. It isn’t controversial. Is it because it’s true?
It’s because it’s true. The false readings either way mean the test is not fit for the purposes it’s being used for. This is from the document “ Unless we understand the operational false positive rate of the UK’s RT-PCR testing system we risk overestimating the COVID-19 incidence, the demand on track and trace, and the extent of asymptomatic infection”
Basically it’s fucking the world up keep using the PCR like this.
‘It seems with so much knowledge now, we have made so little progress.’
I heard an interesting term the other day, can’t really remember where but it went like this; ‘there are to many Spocks and not enough Kirks’.
I think that may actually sum up our situation. As much as I don’t like hero worship or following individuals, it seems to me we are lacking ‘Kirks’.
In general the vast amount of knowledge that is now out there is being put forward by very clever, pleasant people, scientists, medics etc. Unfortunately for the masses, people who have been conditions for years to follow what a celeb or leader tells them to do (Kirks), listening to an eminent scientist (Spocks), without the backing of some great public figure just does not have any impact.
I’m sure most of us have had the experience of providing links to people we know for journals, articles, scientific papers, heck even newspaper articles and the majority of people can’t even be bothered to look at a single one. Its too much like hard work and they don’t need to do it as some one in power or with influence will tell them what to think anyway. They are better/smarter than them so who are they to argue.
But the other side to this farce don’t need to do that. They can wheel out a charlatan, put them on a pedestal and give them the backing of the media. It doesn’t even really matter what they say, its just that they are a seemingly powerful or famous figure. Isn’t that what they are proposing for the vaccine roll out…get a few famous people to take the jab to show it really is safe…
All the information in the world won’t make any difference if we can’t combat this system.
Great post. It’s beyond depressing when it’s close family who just won’t read anything. Whatever people say here outside things do not seem to changing. The euphoria over this new vaccine tells us that no one has bothered to check out the details because if they did they would see it is a glorified Lemsip.
I’ve been looking forward to a nice quiet Christmas with my parents, both on the sceptical side (or at least not willing to stop seeing their children and grandchildren on the off chance that we’re carrying the bug).
However I have just discovered that my brother and wife will also be visiting for a couple of days. They are both petrified of said bug (she’s in her 30s FFS) and to say that we’re on a different page about this would be a massive understatement. She is a musician and used to run a choir, which now meets occasionally over zoom (Yay! It’s great!). She has just posted on Facebook a jolly lockdown version of While Shepherds Watched to be sung at their virtual carol event next week. Here are some choice excerpts – it’s going to be a fun Christmas, not.
While lockdown kept us in our homes
We still could meet online
And made too much banana bread
Expanding our waist line
We washed our hands, made masks, more space
And clapped on Thursday night
The daily walks that kept us sane
Sometimes it was alright
All hail the news in recent weeks
The vaccine’s ready soon
Though Christmas this year’s not the same
It’s not all doom and gloom
Yuk!
And I hope she is a better musician than poet.
But does she know it?
Vomit.
You need a good medley of alternative rude lyrics, I’m sure LS readers will provide!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Stop being a pussy,
It’s just the flu.
Your name made me laugh. Good job, I am so fucking angry.
While Pfizer watched their stocks go high
All seated in their lab
Matt Hancock gave them loads of dosh
And they gave us their jab
Fear not said he for mighty dread
Had seized our troubled minds
It’s only made of harmless things
Like cheese and bacon rinds
To you in London Town this day,
Is given a wondrous sign
If you don’t wear your mask as well
We’ll give you a big fine.
Thus spake Matt Hancock with a grin
His pals all joined in too
With Whitty, Valance and Bozo
To name but just a few.
All glory be to them that rule
Us with their dodgy data
Their day of reckoning will come
Not now but sometime later.
Much better!
Brilliant!
Sorry to hear that. We won’t be seeing our bedwetting family. My fearless 87 year old Mum is coming to stay instead.
It’s the sceptics’ dilemma, sadly quite common. A fuller lockdown where they couldn’t possibly visit (as they would say) would actually be beneficial to you.
I am sure we could make a more appropriate version of While Shepherds Watched on here… I think my brother and his wife are mildly sceptic but regardless I have decided to spend Christmas here by myself, since I live alone anyway it is no big deal.
Sorry mate… blimey.
Immunologist and toxicologist, Prof. Stefan Hockertz, gives evidence to the German Corona Committee, which includes lawyer Reiner Fuellmich
https://twitter.com/lyne_ian/status/1336102189551403009
Scary
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3538264059592239&id=248258601926151&fs=1&focus_composer=0
Being someone who has Ulcerative Colitis I follow this group on FB. These are people with auto immune issues and many will be jacked up on some pretty heavy medication, which further weaken the immune system. Glad to see it is about 50/50 split of whether they’d take the vaccine. I would day those saying no have done way more to consider matters. The yes group just do whatever the doc tells em. Full faith.
Someone we know, who is very ill, was offered the vaccine in the last few days. When they couldn’t tell him how it might affect his existing meds, he declined. I suspect/hope that the roll out won’t be as easy as they thought …
A smile and an insult left him speechless!
Coming out of my favourite Otley butchers after having had friendly words with those serving I was waiting to cross the road. ‘Hey you…you’re supposed to wear a mask in shops… it’s the law’ said a wailing voice from behind. I ignored it. Again, he shouted even louder this time: ‘It’s the law to wear a mask in shops’. I turned around and saw, out of the four or five masked up people waiting to enter the shop, this lanky streak of misery with his beady eyes fixed on me. What to do? What to say?…what an opportunity? which I hasten to add I grabbed with relish.
I fixed him with a broad smile and looked directly into those bready eyes and said, loudly so that the whole queue could hear:
I’m the only normal person here, you are the Zombie, not me’.
He was speechless and I kept up my smile. He averted his gaze and said not a word more. it was interesting also that the other onlookers, all masked, dropped their eyes also and said not a word. I crossed the road when it was clear and felt great.
I hadn’t lost my temper, didn’t feel threatened and took this opportunity to stand my ground and with a smile and an insult make the best response i could. If I say so myself I was pretty pleased with myself.
It’s reinforced something I have long felt to be the case. Aggressors don’t like it when you face them down with a smile. And they hate the word ZOMBIE which is why I will use it if I’m accosted like this again—–with a smile of course!
Dignity intact. Nicely done!
Great Harry. My problem is that I tend to get really wound up and get either extremely angry or upset (depending on the day). As far as I’m concerned, too many people are too stupid for this world. The sheer incompetence and lies that have come from our despotic leaders and still some people believe they are going to die.
Cool, I MUST remember that one. Smooth moves Harry
My frail but feisty 83 yr-old friend asssures me that if she’s challenged about not wearing a mask, she’ll tell them to just concentrate on eating their grass.
That’s a good one. I just say “I’m sorry I can’t make out anything you are saying except baaaa”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55216347
This vaccine news is going to be some next level sick bucket patriotism.
Why would a 28 year old at negligible risk of the virus get a vaccine when there is no evidence it stops transmission. What is the actual point?
Also if I were her and wanted children in the future, there is no way I would be taking it if there was a slim chance it affected my fertility.
Because Pharma shareholders will get rich (indefinitely, since vaccine boosters will be required every year) and it increases the likelihood of immunity passports coming into being, which makes tech shareholders rich too
It also allows governments to impose Chinese style social credit systems of control on their citizens
This has never been about a virus
She can’t wait to tell her child. My whole effort this past 10 months is trying to counter the propaganda that my daughter sees and hears, making sure she knows there is nothing to worry about.
Not have them waiting on some magic beans.
she can’t wait to post on social media and receive her validation hit is what she really meant.
What You Can Expect From the COVID-19 Vaccine
An October 20, 2020, article in the Observer lists the known side effects that have emerged in the various trials. Chills, fever, body aches and headache are the most commonplace, but at least two cases of transverse myelitis — inflammation of the spinal cord — have also occurred.
Even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that the vaccine’s side effects are “no walk in the park,”
and Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, has stressed the need for a broad-based outreach campaign to discuss the reality of side effects, as patients might not come back for the required second dose if the side effects take them by surprise.
Dr. Eli Perencevich, a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at the University of Iowa Health Care, has suggested essential workers should be granted three days of paid leave after they’re vaccinated, as many will feel too sick to work.
A December 1, 2020, CNBC article, which looked at the frequency of adverse reactions, noted that 10% to 15% of participants in the Pfizer and Moderna trials reported “significantly noticeable” side effects.
Buried way down at the bottom of the article is a suggestion from a past advisory committee member, who proposes the nomenclature of “serious adverse reaction” be changed to “immune response,” so they can reprogram how people think about these side effects, even if they end up having to stay home from work because of them.
The article also admits they have no idea what, if any, long-term reactions there might be, which means (as we already knew) that this is a great big public health experiment and, of course, anything that happens post-marketing will be labeled a “coincidence.”
In related news, a participant in India’s AstraZeneca trial is now suing the company claiming the vaccine caused “serious neurological damage,”
and a group of researchers warn the COVID-19 vaccines could potentially increase your risk of HIV infection.
Then there are the concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine permanently altering your DNA, effectively turning you into a transhuman.
As you can see, there’s a lot to consider before taking this vaccine.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/08/coronavirus-vaccine-side-effects.aspx
~ Pro Choice and Informed Decision ~
This is an important article too. I’m bemused by people’s indifference when it comes to taking responsibility for their own health
https://2020news.de/en/dr-wodarg-and-dr-yeadon-request-a-stop-of-all-corona-vaccination-studies-and-call-for-co-signing-the-petition/
Sheila Fogarty at it again on LBC:
“If you are anxious about the vaccine, think of this. If covid was as fatal to kids as it was to elderly people and we had 60,000 deaths of those under 14 say. Would you still not take the vaccine?”
So much wrong in those small sentences. She spends her whole afternoon shilling it. Don’t worry about your own worries, take some emotional blackmail, shame, misread stats and warped thinking about Covid when elderly are more prone to all other respiratory deaths. Jesus. She needs a boot.
If the moon was made of cheese and pigs could fly, strawberries would still be expensive at this time of year..
The analogy is beyond stupidity an intellectual brainfart of an argument.
It’s just meaningless noise, nothing of value whatsoever. She’s just regurgitating what she’s read in the papers so the station can continue cashing cheques from ad agencies based of the number of people daft enough to give them any attention. Treat it with the cynicism it deserves and tune out.
It’s always around this time I pick my daughter up and so I catch 5 mins of her show. Her whole approach to every issue is so surface level it makes we wonder what her job actually is. But I think you’ve nailed it.
Sadly so, you can sell anything to anyone these days, and these pricks are doing nothing but making a buck or two from the world’s misery. It’s not journalism, it’s reality show infotainment. The last honest journalist got thrown in Belmarsh for his trouble.
Jon Rappoport is still up and running.
“She
needsis a boot.”Fixed!
I’m not under 14 and as a 46 y.o. single male, hanging around 14 year olds would likely get me arrested so I don’t do it!
That’s the whole point for crying out loud; 60,000 under 14’s HAVEN’T died from Covid; plus; it’s extremely unlikely that many old people have, either.
If my Mum had gills she’d be a fish. So take the vaccine!
Sheila Foghorn. Annoying woman. What a stupid train of ” logic”.
A boot in her fat gob.
My wife was challenged by a customer in a coffee shop today for not standing on her ‘social distancing marker’, conversation went like this:
Customer – can you stand on your box please, just because YOU can’t wear a face covering doesn’t mean you can’t do that!
Wife – no.
Customer – We’re doing this to protect people like YOU you know!
Wife – no you’re not. You’re doing it because you’re scared.
Customer – silence.
Wow nice!
Brilliant and un arguable comeback!
spot on. Simple and to the point
Wonderful.
BRILLIANT, well said.
Like Jonathan Sumption said this morning on TR: “Some people are scared of life”.
As ever they are misinformed cowards. Well done.
Brilliant. I’ll borrow that response, if I may please?
I walked into Outfit this morning, past the signs that said “No mask, no entry”. A minute later, a member of staff approached and asked me if I had a mask. I showed her my badge which said I was exempt and suggested to her that she changed the notices on the door to say that exemptions apply, otherwise she might be faced with legal challenges. No response.
Paying for my purchase in Next, the lady cashier was speaking to me. I had to apologise and say to her that I hadn’t heard a word she was saying.
”Yes these things are awful aren’t they?” said she through her mask AND visor.
”They certainly are,” I replied “and dangerous too with all the bacteria and mold they collect”
I think a light came on somewhere.
Please go ahead and use it. I’m still waiting for an opportunity to, my wife seems to get picked on by these zealots far more often than I do, which is about right for bullies I suppose.
The strange thing about this woman was that she was so bothered by COVID that she chose to go into one of the smallest coffee shops in Guildford when there’s another much larger one of the same chain just across the way!
Good for her. I said the same earlier. Anyone who says they’re doing any of this to protect others is just flat out lying.
Great!!!
Stealing that comeback for future use!
So I went into a Coop today without mask. I must admit I didnt stare at anyone I just got in, picked up a couple of items, paid at a self service and got out. As soon as I got in through the door my heart was racing. I think this was because i didn’t know how i would handle a confrontation if it had occurred.
Seems almost stupid how I was nervous going into a shop maskless but that’s what I had been doing for years. While in the shop it actually seemed strange seeing people in muzzles. Once I came out the shop it felt amazing.
I’m definitely going to do this again but i think it’ll take me time to become 100% mask free. I’m slightly stuck between a rock and a hard place. I’m the sceptic but my wife works at the local hospital with Covid patients. So she is quite pro mask. Her parents are totally freaked out to the point that her mother wipes down all the shopping when they get home.
They do know i’m more sceptical but i wait for the day when they see me in a shop without mask.
well done!
Why have you been wearing a mask for years?!
DavidC
I would recommend a snood rather than a mask then. You can tuck it under your jumper neckline and if confrontation comes your way, you can always, if you really are worried, use it. I did this at the start in some places but rarely challenged anyway.
No! No masks, no face coverings, no compliance!
I’ve never worn a mask since this global insanity. I’ve challenged 3 times; once in the pub on my way to the loo, once in the hospital by another patient and once on the way in to Tescos by a member of staff.
Good for you. Every time you do it, it will become easier.
We need groups of peoüle doing this, not because it makes it easier which it does, but because it encorages others, who woukd never consider it, and going in larger numbers helps to de-normalize muzzles.
wow, it’s poison isn’t it? This is just killing me. The Psy-op that just keeps on giving.
BASTARDS
Masks for the next 12 months https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9030263/Brits-wearing-face-masks-winter-Patrick-Vallance-warns.html?fbclid=IwAR3g0FQ4x2x37rtdVrLqxCWVWArpVvdijFynmRkNX1JCnUs7U2hd-QYPtUo
He can fuck right off. I sincerely hope more and more people stop believing this crap.
What if you’ve never worn one?
You go on not wearing one.
You remain a member of an elite group called the human race.
It would be amusing if we all jumped onto the DM comments with extreme pro-vaccine views and made them look like the insane fascists they truly are.
Thats quite a good idea. problem is the sheeple would love it and not see the irony or anything…
In Ireland, they are also touting another year of restrictions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzwdMB7xzk
Thankfully most of the comments under the video are sceptical.
..and then another 12 months after that, and then another 12 months after that, ad infinitum. It is the inevitable outcome of a precautionary principle that has no sound scientific basis.
In that case plenty of time for proper trials to find whether they do any good (or any harm).
To quote from the article “scientists still don’t know whether the jab can stop people spreading the virus.” We don’t know that about masks either.
MOTHER FUC%^
Just some thoughts. This vaccine isn’t (yet) for children and advised against for pregnant women, etc. Therefore if the notion transpires that you may not be permitted to travel, eat out, shop or whatever without the vaccine, this would mean a huge proportion of society have to stay locked in their homes? For example no more family holidays or meals out because the children don’t have the vaccine?
Maybe thinking too much into it but I am hoping it doesn’t become as far fetched as this.
This assumes there are no lifelong debilitating side effects from the vaccines and that people are OK with regular boosters and vaccine passports whereby they’ll need to present QR codes to gain entry – in effect handing over their privacy to the State.
It’s a forced moral choice unfortunately
This whole pantomime has been one of the worst examples of headless chicken management that I have ever had the misfortune to see. Nobody has got anywhere near thinking this through to that level of detail. I do not have a smart-phone and will need some sort of paperwork, I am hopeful that some clever wizz kids in Lagos or Mumbai will be able to furnish me with fake documentation, you can already get fake Yellow Fever Vaccine cards and fake PCR test results, they will probably have to fake some sort of QR code but I expect they will be able to manage that.
A black market area I am willing to support.
I’ll be a customer.
Great point – If there is any common sense left in this world, then surely this will stop the immunity passport idea in its tracks?
I’d guess that even if it does get that far, any group specifically advised against taking the vaccine would not be included in restrictions, but who knows.
Hilarous! How often do we find here that a cartonist says it better than a phalanx of scientists can!
Why do ‘Little People’, have to wear a mask to get into restaurants, because even when sitting I was taller than the ‘little person’ standing near me while I was sitting and he was wearing a mask. So it got me thinking about how high Covid goes or even how low. These are things we need to know.
VAX ATTACKS: The new mRNA coronavirus vaccines will likely cause immune cells to attack placenta cells, causing female infertility, miscarriage or birth defects
Doctors warn that coronavirus vaccines will cause autoimmune issues and infertility in women
Vaccine study designs use false positive PCR results on controls to boost vaccine
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-07-mrna-vaccines-may-cause-body-attack-placenta-cells.html
It involves the immune system attacking Syncytin-1 which is responsible for placental development.
It seems even the scariest conspiracy theories are coming true now.
Simon Dolan #KBF (@simondolan) Tweeted: All those people who were ‘protecting granny’ last month, now seem ecstatic that granny is being jabbed with an untested (for her age), experimental vaccine.
How does that work?
https://twitter.com/simondolan/status/1336297332124561409?s=20
The irony!
The hypocrisy!
The inanity!
The final front ‘ere
All together now: “Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got ,etc,etc”
Yes, we’ve been told for months that our reckless, selfish behaviour means we are granny killers. Now the tide has turned and the glove is on the other foot.
Funnily enough, the Dutch call gloves ‘hand shoes’.
Do they call grannies ‘guinea pigs’?
Looks like wikipedia are all up to date.
AMERICAGHAST
“You may not like it, you may not like him- but Trump’s fight is your fight.”
“If they can steal an election they can steal your liberty.”
“To turn a blind eye to electoral fraud is to participate in that fraud.”
::::: Jon and Emily, together with the rest of their nonjournos at the BBC, refuse to do the basic job of a news reporter, so forget their Trump-hate-fest and check out the alternative podcast:::::
1. We are learning more and more about the “secret count” fraud at Fulton County. The “USB guy” involved in the palming of a voting machine USB has been identified. He can also be seen in another video examining the bogus ballots (the huge haul of manufactured pro Biden votes hidden underneath a table and later put through the machines during the secret count) and doing a double fist pump in celebration! The pieces of a very suspicious jigsaw fit together.
2. Forensic IT experts representing a private complainant have been examining Dominion voting machines in Michigan under a court order.
3. Using a specialist data services company (expert in removing the names of dead people from mailing lists), Gateway Pundit found that 2060 dead people had submitted absentee ballots in Wayne County in Michigan. This is huge number.
4. A machine in Ware County, GA flipped 37 votes from Trump to Biden. The claim is disputed with officials now stating it was a human tabulation error but the local voter integrity group maintains it was an electronic error, and they were informed that was the case.
5. Texas is taking legal action against the contended (electoral fraud) states. This means the case will have to be heard in the Supreme Court.
6. The Chinese government has deleted a video of a lecture by a Chinese professor at an elite educational institution during which he crowed about China’s influence having produced the
right result in the US election. He stated that China “has people at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence. ”
7. Dems and corrupt Republicans across the US are using Covid rules to close down legislatures and divert from investigations into electoral fraud, just as they used them to prevent effective observation of count processes by party monitors.
SUMMARY: There is now massive evidence of electoral fraud and malpractice on a colossal scale in the US election. The ostriches at the BBC, Sky and ITV are pushing their heads deeper into the sand. The fraud appears to have been a combination of voting machine fraud, locally organised manual fraud and “private enterprise” fraud permitted by criminally lax vetting procedures.
The moronification of politics is complete. What an utter phoney Hancock is. Beware, may induce vomit…
https://youtu.be/MnV9LumDxZk
The end game is simple. Big Pharma wants to replace the human immune system so that we are perpetually reliant on drugs and vaccines to live while they pocket trillions. The politicians like it because it gives them more control over people.
this exactly
Just back from the dentist (private) for my delayes ‘six monthly’ checkup. Not as bad as I feared. Loads of covid scenery around, perspex screens, notice to sanitise and mask. Receptionist and some other staff unmasked. Asked if I had a mask, showed lanyard and ‘fine’, nobody else queried it. Without having a jet of water in my mouth with the hygienist and just scraping the crud off my teeth it was actually relatively painless – I hate hygienists. Half the seats in reception blanked off and the ones you are allowed to sit on covered in plastic – guess which seat I sat on, whoops… So £85 lighter my teeth now declared fit for another six months.
There are about 25 million or so other folk in front of me for this vaccine that i do not want.
What is the point if they have no intention of life getting back to normal. Those paid for corrupt Gates placemen at WHO already saying masks are here to stay.
Non of this smells right it has been like this since March.
“paid for corrupt Gates placemen at WHO already saying masks are here to stay” They may or may not be paid for or Gates placemen, but it doesn’t matter – if you’re in the pandemic business, in the public health emergency business, why would you want it to end? As long as the emergency continues, you are important, people listen to you and give you money. A fake emergency is ideal because you don’t even have to worry too much about things going badly wrong and you getting lynched, because you know the emergency is not real.
The face nappy business must be worth trillions.
“There are about 25 million or so other folk in front of me for this vaccine that i do not want.”
Anybody want mine for a reasonable sum? I’ll donate the takings to charity.
Nicola Sturgeon: “I got a lump in my throat watching the first vaccines being given.”
No you didn’t Nicola, because you’re a vile, despotic reptile incapable of human emotions. While we’re at it, where’s the tears for the thousands of innocent Scots who have had their livelihoods destroyed or have been killed off by your tyrannical, pseudoscientific lockdown policies?
Nicola Sturgeon: “I got a lump in my throat watching the first vaccines being given.”
I’d get that checked out Nicola – it is probaby a cancerous growth missed due to the lack of NHS cancer screening services since March.
Maybe it was her brains dropping through her sinuses…?
It certainly wasn’t her heart coming the other way.
I’m wondering if she’s fallen into a trap with the Will/Kate business. Very rare misstep from her. It throws a bone to republicans, but those votes are in the bag anyway. Upsetting moderate swing voters is the only obvious result, if unionists can be bothered to exploit it
She is a cancerous growth
Nick got a lump in its pants, the disgusting tranny.
Fat uber bitch Sticky Nurgeon has a lump in “her” throat EH?
THAT WILL BE “HER” FUCKIN ADAM’S APPLE!
““What we know about coronavirus from 30 years of experience is that a coronavirus vaccine has a unique peculiarity, which is any attempt at making the vaccine has resulted in the creation of a class of antibodies that actually make vaccinated people sicker when they ultimately suffer exposure to the wild virus.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
And there you have COVID 21
This may not go down very well, but I had a conversation with an actual virologist today. She was really excited about the Pfizer vaccine, because IF it works (provides long term resistance – she doesn’t like the word ‘immunity’) the technology would provide us with both a faster way of developing vaccines in the future and an enhanced possibility of developing successful vaccines for very difficult current viruses like AIDS.
Apparently the fundamental difference between the Pfizer vaccine and traditional vaccines is that instead of injecting you with a neutralized version of the virus, the Pfizer vaccine gets your own body to generate the neutralised version and then of course fight it as it would a genuine infection.
She had nothing to say about potential long term effects. But given I’m 65, I’m now a lot less hostile to the vaccination than I was yesterday.
Why don’t you go ahead, make your appointment and give us daily updates?
Thanks in advance.
Let the virologist have it first.
Money where mouth.
But are you reasonably fit and healthy? if so, just let your body “fight it as it would a genuine infection” IF you catch covid? It’s what healthy bodies are designed to do
I prefer my own immune system, thanks.
The word technology is significant. Whatever the Pfizer product is, it is not a vaccine. A vaccine is the infectious agent (in an attenuated form), but Pfizer did not culture the virus, so the infectious agent isn’t in the product. What Pfizer say they did is read the genetic code of the virus, as provided to the World Health Organisation by China.
The way I understand it, the problems associated with a dna altering vaccine are likely to be years or even decades in the future. For example many cancers can form and grow undetected for over ten years. Of course, it is possible there may be no problems from the vaccine. It is a very difficult decision for old people and other covid vulnerable people to make as they are comparing a specific known risk with Covid against the unknown risk from the vaccine. For everyone else I would have thought the decision is simple.
Why exactly are you less hostile than you were yesterday?
In the abstract, vaccines almost certainly have their uses, as does most medical technology, treatments etc.
But vaccines are not always safe/desirable/needed and over-use of vaccination as a public health intervention may have unintended consequences.
They are one of many approaches to health, that should be debated dispassionately and not abused for commercial or political gain or ends.
Can you honestly say with things as they stand that we have any chance of a grown up debate on vaccines, or that you trust governments and public health authorities not to abuse their power?
I’ve heard this also. In an ethical world we would experiment on terminally ill cancer patients. In an unethical world we are vaccinating healthy people at no risk of the virus with unknown understanding of the consequences.
There are hundreds of virologists, doctors, other scientists out there who are in favour of the vaccine. I don’t hear a single word in your post that would challenge the concerns of Yeadon, Bhadki et al. I listened to an American guy who has worked in vaccines for 45 years talking positively about it. But for all his knowledge, he contradicted himself on various levels, saying eg he could not think of one case of vaccine harm that he hadn’t spotted after 2 months of trials. What about that narcolepsy with swine flu vac? But they all buy in to this dogma – it is like all the psychologists who continue to believe their branch of psychology works, without evidence. Once you have invested your whole career in one branch of something or other, it takes a very special person – and they are in the minority – to be able to stand outside and say – hang on, there isn’t evidence that this works. Very few people have said about this vaccine that it definitely doesn’t work – what they have said is that a) there is as yet limited evidence it does and b) more importantly, you cannot rule out harm for all the reasons already cited.
Three letters to keep in mind: ADE (antibody-dependent enhancement). There are two kinds of antibodies — binding antibodies and neutralizing antibodies. Just because a vaccine manufacturer touts that their vaccine creates an antibody response doesn’t mean it’s the response you want. Only neutralizing antibodies block the entry of a pathogen; binding antibodies can lead to ADE such that when someone is then exposed to the wild virus the binding antibodies enhance the pathogen’s entry into host cells. ADE leads to the cytokine storm that is most likely to lead to a bad outcome. In every single attempt to create a vaccine for a coronavirus, the only kind of antibody response has been binding, and in animal trials the animals became extremely sick and died. So I’ll take a pass on this vaccine and sit on the sidelines and see how it pans out.
Sheesh. Something I will have a read about, thanks.
I think it was Dr Dolores Cahill who I saw explaining this very real risk three or four months ago. She warned that the period between the two jabs could be particularly dangerous if the recipient comes into contact with any coronavirus or flu virus that stimulates the immune system.
Pro choice and informed decision – if that is your choice, go for it
sorry to hear that redbirdpete. We’d like you to be around a little longer. won’t you reconsider?
““There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic… You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a disease. You also don’t set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn’t been extensively tested on human subjects.” Dr. Mike Yeadon PhD, Pfizer’s former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory Disease “
I have just posted a quote from Hancock, above, which sounds like it fits with this idea. Not sure why he has a change of heart.
Because their private polling says that most fit people have said they won’t touch his vaccine with a bargepole?
I have a horrible feeling that Hancock knows that HE doesn’t have to push the vaccine because his big corporation mates will do by the back door. You want to get on a plane, go to a concert, travel to Scotland, keep your job etc., etc………….
May well have been posted earlier with reference to talkRadio – Spectator daily COVID-19 update contains the following:
‘Once we’ve protected those who are likely to end up in hospital, those who are most likely, if they get it, to die from coronavirus, then obviously we can rely on people’s personal responsibility to protect themselves rather than the current rules that we have in place.’
– Health Secretary Matt Hancock tells talkRADIO that the government will not wait for every UK resident to be inoculated to get life back to normal.
Sounds good to me.
What he means is that if you refuse the snake oil, the wrath of the zombie swill be turned on you.
Due to the fact that he couldn’t lie (pun intended) straight in bed. I’ll take that with a rather large pinch of salt, thank you very much.
Given the mendacity of the government so far, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Of course it’s meaningless as he can just contradict it tomorrow and no-one will care or take him to task for it but interesting that he said taking responsibility to protect themselves and not others considering the entire campaign has focussed on protecting others and not yourself.
Focused on a vile pretence, that is.
No, he said some restrictions could be ‘eased’. What does ‘ease’ mean? It doesn’t mean ‘overturn’.
Ahh Mattie, we protect ourselves by improving our immune systems – that is the thing that allowed us humans to survive since forever.
Sun headline:
TAMING OF THE FLU William Shakespeare, 81, … is 2nd Brit to get Covid jab
And isn’t that the truth? Everyone ‘gets it’ because everyone – deep down – knows it’s another variant of flu.
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
An interesting take on how all this started…
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/12/07/the-china-lockdown-sun-tzu-and-the-art-of-war/
Fox News on China’s links to incoming U.S. administration.
China, with WHO in its pocket and in concert with The Democratic Party, leveraged a minor coronavirus common cold epidemic to advantage……..
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-elites-china-collusion-di-dongsheng
All too believable but did anyone do anything illegal?
China does not have WHO in its pocket:
0.48% of WHO’s funds come from China.
From the UK – 7.79 %
Germany : 5.68%
Other contributions see here:
https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/who-funds-who-1667273-2020-04-15
brown envelope type pocket is the most effective means
You are entitled to your view. It is not one that I share.
China has made big investments in Ethiopia and elsewhere in the developing world giving it a major influence in international organisations via the voting power of these many Chinese aid dependent countries. We used to do the same thing……but then we made it illegal for ourselves……..and now we see the results of this idiocy.
‘China’s influence in the WHO started well before the pandemic. Back in 2017, Tedros touted the Belt and Road’s role in advancing access to high-quality health care and parroted Beijing’s call for the creation of a “Health Silk Road” to promote China’s health care model in Belt and Road countries. This was just months after representatives from Tedros’ home country, Ethiopia, attended China’s first Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, marking the culmination of years of heavy Chinese investment in Ethiopia.’
‘Beijing’s leverage over the WHO cannot be understood independently of a much longer and broader campaign, one that aims to bend the arc of global governance toward a more illiberal orientation that privileges the interests of authoritarian act. Over the past several years, Beijing has systematically positioned Chinese nationals at the head of a wide range of U.N. agencies. Since 2019, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency has been led by Qu Dongyu, formerly China’s vice minister of agriculture. This followed the 2018 reinstatement of Zhao Houlin, who began his career in China’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, for a second four-year term as the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, a crucial body that sets technical standards for communications networks; Zhao has used his position to advance Huawei’s standing as a vendor of 5G telecommunications equipment worldwide. The previous year, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Liu Zhenmin, formerly China’s vice minister for foreign affairs, to a key position in the U.N.’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs — a body tasked with advancing the U.N.’s hallmark program to promote development, combat climate change and reduce inequality. Even the International Civil Aviation Organization, the U.N. agency that regulates global air travel headed by Fang Liu, a Chinese national, has been accused of keeping Taiwan out of the loop on Covid-19 protocols.’
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/15/its-not-just-the-who-how-china-is-moving-on-the-whole-un-189029
And yet… if it makes the f**kwits happy…
They will doubtless applaud round the coffin.
Yes, it was a big scandal
Tetanus vaccine may be laced with anti-fertility drug. International / developing countries
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12346214/
Just doing a YouGov survey and this question has just popped up..
Once people start receiving vaccinations for COVID-19, do you think those who have been vaccinated should no longer be subject to coronavirus restrictions (e.g. having to stay at home, having to wear masks, etc) or should everyone still be subject to the same coronavirus restrictions until most people have been vaccinated?
Option 1. Those who have been vaccinated should not be subject to any more restrictions.
Option 2. Everyone should be subject to the same coronavirus restrictions until most people have be vaccinated.
Option 3. Don’t know.
I’m going to have to select don’t know. But no wonder these survey results are skewed.
That’s why sceptic organisations or parties need to design some proper surveys to find out what people really think, and use it to inform a mass media campaign to un-brainwash people
Quite clearly they have no interest in collecting information or learning anything, just another figure to to wave in front of people when implementing a policy.
So the assumption is that there should be at least some form of restriction regardless?
Wankers.
Option 4 – None of the above – give us back our freedom
As far as we are concerned, that’s the only option.
What horseshit. How about “there should be no restrictions and if that scares the crap out of you, then get a bloody vaccine”
Interestingly, answer 2 is the most ticked one.
(did the survey, too\)
Hahahaha! They are so desperate to sell this shit to the public that the propaganda is descending into extreme comedy farce. I recall a good number of years ago some North Korean propaganda videos surfaced on the internet. This seems amazingly close to that NK propaganda, just utterly absurd and very very funny.
“The teams of psychologists who worked with governments (to sell the Covid terror) and who figured out that mundane reality must be turned on its head– through social distancing, masks, shelter-in-place orders, the closing of schools, businesses, public gatherings, and religious services– in order (to create a disorienting and terrifying environment) to usher in a new authoritarian system in which personal freedom extends no further than selecting one’s online purchases from either Costco or Amazon. These psychologists deserve much of the credit for the transformation of the western world into a lockdown police state ruled by scheming miscreants who will now decide our future for us.”
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-goal-immunity-or-depopulation/
Nice to see someone at unz waking up. Steve Sailer, who normally has a good nose for bullshit, seems to have swallowed the covid narrative.
Shouldn’t “psychologists” read “psychopaths”?
In my experience most people working in that field are deeply mentally disturbed.
I think they missed a trick – they should have done a choreographed dance routine leading up to the person being wheeled down the corridor.
I wonder how Bill Gates is going to spend his first day in control of Margaret Keenan, 90, from Coventry.
https://twitter.com/ConMend/status/1336249743182327808
Probably a whole bunch of Windows Updates to catch up on, she won’t be able to move for hours.
And she will get even slower with updates!
Isn’t it a bit dangerous to have to re-boot someone of that age?
She’ll probably get a virus.
Installing a Windows Update. She’s gonna be out of action for days
We now have a world run by tech nerds and scientists. No doubt these people have their place in society but it was never as leaders.
The “public health” (a misnomer if ever there was one) fanatics are having the time of their lives. They’ve been building up to this for years. Revenge of the weird, spotty kids against the confident, outgoing people.
It feels a lot like that. Just looking at Whitty and Vallance you get the impression they’d have been bullied at school by the boys and overlooked by the girls.
Bullied by the girls and overlooked by the boys?
that’s prob more like it actually
There’s a line in the film ‘Enigma’ (about the development of the first computers at Bletchley Park) where some aristocratic type has a go at the boffins, saying that they love the war because for the first time in their lives they get to feel important.
As a coder myself, I can assure you that the very last thing you should do is give techies any power at all. The dominant personality type is the borderline autistic; other people are just hollow shells to us, objects to navigate around, not people with feelings and lives of their own. The real world is just another computer game and is treated as such, as though we can just reboot it at any point and erase our mistakes. Nothing needs to be thought through, no one else’s point of view matters, everything is reduced to idiotically simplistic models.
To the extent that I’m in favour of politicians at all (which isn’t very far), I actually think they are better off being humanities graduates because at least then they might have some idea about the human condition. However, the problem comes when they allow themselves to fall under the spell of The Science(TM) and forget that it’s the people who matter, not the atoms that those people are made from.
The whole problem started with Cummings’s tech fetish.
Mrs T? (Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist, before becoming a barrister.)
Sorry if previously posted. The FDA have given their initial appraisal of the Pfizer vaccine.
In amongst the findings is this passage;
”Severe adverse reactions occurred in 0.0-4.6% of participants, were more frequent after Dose 2 than after Dose 1 and were generally less frequent in older adults (>55 years of age) (<2.8%) as compared to younger participants (≤4.6%). Among reported unsolicited adverse events, lymphadenopathy occurred much more frequently in the vaccine group than the placebo group and is plausibly related to vaccination.”
It doesn’t say what % have lymphadenopathy, but if its greater than the % of people dying from covid, this should be stopped. Lymphadenopathy is very variable, some can last for years with no chemo, others die quickly; its cancer, too many B cells, not enough T-cells caused by over-stimulation of the immune system.
long Lymphadenopathy
Peyrole, isn’t that simply swollen lumph nodes, and wouldn’t that occur anyway if one is fighting off an infection of some sort?
At one end of the spectrum it can be, at the other end its severe cancer.
Indeed. My elderly dog was found to have swollen lymph nodes at a routine check up about two weeks ago. Subsequent blood tests have confirmed she has leukaemia.
Of all the conspiracy theories I’ve read I think this one could be believable. The communist have infiltrated every aspect of life in every country and the vaccine is a form of biological warfare. Certainly ties in that we’ll own nothing in ten years time, in line with communist ideology. I think this video was done in the summer and he talks about fertility issues and control bought about by this vaccine. One thing for sure is all nations can’t be as dumb as each other in handling a non existent pandemic.
https://medicalkidnap.com/2020/11/30/covid-vaccines-biological-weapons-of-mass-destruction-says-wyoming-medical-doctor-and-manager-for-wyomings-state-public-health-department/
Certainly Wales is being run by Marxists
“The communist have infiltrated every aspect of life in every country”
FFS bang another drum. It’s the neoliberals who have created this shit-show.
The neo liberals ARE the marxists.
That ties in with what Tucker Carlson is saying here. More to the point, what the Chinese lecturer is saying.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6214769762001#sp=show-clips
There are a lot of people in the West on the CCP payroll.
That should be obvious from the behavior of Western pols alone.
Just read the “Pandemic Penitents” in the list of articles above the line and came across this (below). I was particularly angered by the last line – how sad that an easy solution must be discounted. That what all of this has been about – intervention on a grand scale, government seen to be doing something.
“Consider two strategies for dealing with the Covid-19 virus: urge the public to spend time outside in the sun to build up their vitamin D, and to take supplements of the vitamin, repeatedly demonstrated to protect against viral infection; or shut down most businesses, deprive children of classroom education, and order everyone to stay home, a strategy never previously tested and yet to prove effective.
Which strategy would you try first? If you chose the vitamin D, you have no future in the public-health establishment. While a few researchers are touting the vitamin’s potential and advocating government programs to distribute the supplements during the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control can’t bring itself even to suggest that people take the pills on their own. In its Covid-19 guidelines, the CDC declares that “there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of vitamin D.””
City Journal has some great articles generally. This one from a few weeks back is worth a read if you can, speaking against fear and safetyism.
https://www.city-journal.org/trump-coronavirus-diagnosis-models-positive-masculinity
No Big Pharma profits in sunshine and bit D, mate.
The spoofs didn’t take long:
First vaccine patient Margaret Keenan strangely compelled into shopping spree for Microsoft products
Margaret Keenan has been un masked. She is Margarethe Pfizer! This has been confirmed by BBC fact checkers.
Anyone have any knowledge on whether GDPR still exists? I was in my bank branch at the weekend and they had a sign up that told me if I was suspected of being within 2 metres of somebody with cold symptoms they may “pass on my contact details to test and trace”.
Now they presumably meant the contact details on my bank account that I gave them for banking. Can they really pass them on for another reason without my consent?
I did one of those surveys they email you afterwards and expressed my concern and just received a phone call. Some of it was just absurd:
“I think if we’ve put that sign there that must mean we can do that”
“But that’s not what I gave you my details for and I don’t consent to that, surely that’s a breach of GDPR”
“Well the government can authorise us to do it”
“Have they authorised you to?”
“Well I don’t think we’d have put the sign up if they didn’t”
“You don’t think?”
“I’m certain”
“You’re certain? You weren’t 30 seconds ago”
Anyone know whether they can actually do this!?
You should have told her that cold symptoms are not a symptom of COVID.
I was being facetious. It said “symptoms of covid”. But we all know anyone with a cough or the sniffles is considered to have “symptoms of covid”. Being perfectly healthy is the main “symptom of covid”
Too true :).
But coronaviruses include the common cold and flu
from memory, GDPR can be ignored in a health emergency
No sure, anyone know whether the law in general still exists?
Take it up with the ICO: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
I’ve called them up. The guy didn’t seem to know for sure but said he thinks they can’t do that. Advised me to email them and I’ll get a fuller response. Will be emailing them tonight
Make it a formal complaint. The organisation is required to be able to explain its privacy policy to you, and clearly failed to do so.
Yes, of course it does. It is an EU law which the UK is signed up to after Brexit as far as I am aware.
ico.org.uk
This. The rule of law left town some time ago.
My point exactly
Excuse me if I’m being thick but how could your bank know you’d been near someone with ‘symptoms’? Are they referring to customers who scan the T&T QR code inside the branch or are they routinely sending on everyone’s details who used the branch that day to T&T? Whatever, this sounds dodgy!
For what it’s worth GDPR is now meaningless – the Government overrode this at the beginning of the scam and, as far as we know, nothing has changed.
Hancock issues six-month order for NHS to share confidential patient data
Usual limitations relaxed as organisations across the NHS are told to share data in fight against coronavirus
Sam Trendall Civil Service World, 7 April 2020 MW
From what I can tell, they are saying that if a customer got in touch and said they were symptomatic, they could go back and see which customers were in the branch at the same time then pass on the contact details directly from your bank account to T&T. It sounds so wrong to me but who knows, every other aspect of law is now irrelevant, why not GDPR?
Yes, this is just one type of info they could use for this.
Back in 2003 the Milanese police rolled up a CIA rendition team and site with nothing more than the cell tower logs of which SIMs had connected over a one hour window in the block where the kidnap happened.
The Italians were chuffed at the violation of their national sovereignty, rightfully so.
Thanks, this makes sense. Another way of hastening the closure of branches by the sound of it. MW
The NHS has also over-ruled privacy – if you opt out of your personal data being shared for medical research, this does not apply to anything ‘Covid related’ – quite shocking really.
The one time I had sympathy for Jeremy Corbyn – remember when Virgin trains completely ignored their own endless signs about what the cctv is for in the saga of him sitting on the floor. The legality or otherwise was completely ignored by everyone in gleeful Corbyn bashing.
The logic seems to be ‘if we’ve put up a sign, then we must be able to do it’.
St Nicola dispenses joy to her grateful subjects https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-11-areas-of-scotland-with-toughest-coronavirus-restrictions-will-move-down-one-level-12155240
To be fair though she has saved some of the Hannukah period which was the main priority of the current three week short and sharp thingy:-
“Lifting the Level 4 restrictions then – as we will do – also means that they will not be in place for most of the Hanukkah period – so again, while celebrations may be different, there will be a greater degree of freedom.”
She added: “We will assess nearer the time the level that will apply in each area when the Level 4 restrictions end on December 11.”
The First Minister said she hopes affected areas will be able to move to Level 2 “much more quickly than would otherwise be the case”.
Where is that printed for I don’t see it on the above link
Coronavirus Scotland RECAP: Nicola Sturgeon confirms Level 4 lockdown for 11 councils | Glasgow Times
was from weeks ago when she gaver her justification for doing it
Interesting that she mentions Hannukah…in Scotland
it’s a real worry at the moment. the talk of the town in Glasgow.
The postbox on my estate is now wearing a big sticker that says ‘Priority Postbox – Supporting the NHS’.I don’t know what the bloody hell that’s supposed to mean,apart from the usual virtue signalling,there isn’t any NHS location around here.
Would be awful if some overenthusiastic dissenter were to deface it…
Yes it would,truly awful,I can’t imagine the sort of person who would do something like that…
Nothing means anything in Clownworld.
I’ve seen quite a few of those. The first one I saw was adjacent the commercial/industrial estate on the edge of town, which seemed odd. Then last week I saw half a dozen young women close by there, all wearing “Track and Trace”-emblazoned hi-viz coats, so maybe they have offices thereabouts. Who knows what locations NHS have now after the mega spending splurge?
What you have probably missed is that the acronym NHS has been redesignated to stand for ‘Notional Health Service’. The National version died years ago.
I asked this on here ages ago, apparently it’s something to do with being able to post your covid swab samples back for analysis from the home testing I guess, presumably they actually send on the mail from those postboxes rather than chucking it in the bin like they normally do.
‘Ask the experts’
Banned on Utube but available here:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/ask-the-experts-covid-19-vaccine-now-banned-on-youtube-and-facebook_qIsNohSIeSgfz2J.html
Thanks I had put the youtube link in my FB and that got taken down as well.
ANYONE REMEMBER TRAIN TICKETS?
Well I am hopeful that some might. The humble paper ticket has been getting hammered by first being made of poorer quality stock then shifted to a ‘smart’ card and next to your phone as a QR code and from there who knows.
The reason I bring this up? Because these ‘covid passes’ will go exactly the same way. Frog in boiling water stuff.
Glad to see the link to Conservative Woman talking about transhumanism. For this is part of the plan in store for us.
THIS IS WHY RESISTANCE TO EVEN THE TINIEST OF INFRACTIONS MUST BE SWIFT.
PUT ON YOUR ARMOUR AND REMEMBER WHAT MILLIONS GAVE OVER HUNDREDS OF YEARS FOR YOU TO EVEN BE HERE.
The only people who will win in this proposed dystopia are pharma and tech shareholders
https://twitter.com/NeilClark66/status/1335999707424972806?s=20
Why would one need proof that one had been vaccinated?
Why does China have a social credit system.. Why do shareholders own shares..
Are you implying that one would need proof of vaccination for social control and profit, rather than health reasons?
Kind of seems that way doesn’t it? Otherwise why go to all these lengths over something not much more dangerous than common or garden flu?
well obviously
Logically of course you are right.
If each person gets vaccinated to protect themselves then you shouldn’t need proof for anyone else.
The fact that we are talking about this shows that the issue here is not health but control.
Is it not revealing that the discussion of this in the media and politics resolutely ignores the logic?
Of course.
Even though, daily, it’s screamed loudly BTL.
Just seen that the fella who picked up the EDL protestor “covidiot” who was getting his head caved in at the anti-BLM march has won Humanitarian of the Year from GQ – the hypocrisy is enormous.
Staged. The ‘EDL protester’ just having been a ‘former’ undercover cop working in penetrating the ‘far-right’ football gangs.
Who’d a thought…
He was wearing fighting gloves as well and Reuters top photographer just happened to be there to take the picture.
Yes Reuters award winning photo journalist just happened to catch it – as Harry Hill would say ‘what are the chances!’… lol
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseknutsen/2013/01/28/israel-foribly-injected-african-immigrant-women-with-birth-control/?sh=132a5c8567b8
Last night to get reliable info on COVID I typed in “yeadon COVID” (for Mike Yeadon). Up came scary graphs of accelerating COVID deaths with side bars that told me numbers for England and the UK. The cases were so many million. The deaths were so many thousand. The number of “recovered” was 0.
I clicked on “more info” and was confronted by line after line of horror from every area in the UK.
On the eve of their wretched vaccine assault they are shitting themselves that people will just refuse and they are pulling out every stop. Accelerations of terror statistics, the grinning corpse faces of viciously servile celebs, increase in number of sepulchral ominous news intonations.
It’s as if the Mafia or the Nazis had taken over every branch of the entire planet.
And then I thought again about that figure of 0 for the recovered. Not likely. And then I realised they would say they can’t assume that those who had SEEMED to recover really had. Or they would say they hadn’t yet had time to be sure. But there’s a big difference between that and NO recoveries.
They are so fucking desperate to push this vaccine.
Yet many test centres are fairly empty. They wouldn’t make numbers up, would they?!
Why not?
I think so much is now at stake, that it wouldn’t surprise me.
How can we check?
If there’s no way anyone can check, then why not.
I’m not saying they are – just not discounting the possibility.
i’ll make the leap and say i don’t believe they tested hardly anyone
Who are these spanners?
How can something be worse than he worse case scenario?
Fecking idiots
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-55229528
So the firebreak worked.
Just like masks, space, e.t.c. all worked eh?
It did unemployment is up, other deaths are up, everyone is miserable what more can a lockdown achieve
gonna need a bigger worst case scenario
It’s the technical advisory group =TAG they report to the technical (Wales) advisory team – science =TWATS
I see Git Gething is blaming the people.
What have I just done to my eyes. Watched the Matt Hancock act cry/laugh clip about the vaccine. One of the most weirdest and cringeworthy things I have ever seen. Boke
Like the vaccine, he’s just a little prick.
Chuffing heck! How low can Matt Hancock go? To disguise himself as a 90 year old woman, calling himself Margaret Keenan, just to get the first vaccine is outrageous!
Wankok won’t be having the vaccine.
Wamkok knows what’s in it.
I thought he’d had covid? He’s immune already.
There’d be no point unless as a publicity stunt.
They’ve all said they’ve had to it avoid taking the vaccine. If Boris handn’t pretended to have been ill he’d have been forced to let Philip Scofield stick him with a little prick live on tv
A sinister letter in today’s Telegraph:
SIR – Vaccination certificates will almost certainly be required when travel again becomes possible for the general public.
However, for these certificates to be reliable, their issue will need to be at least as secure as it is for national passports, to ensure that the people presenting them are the ones who were vaccinated. Impersonation and forgery are common.
Anyone who plans to travel should ensure that they have a clear record of their vaccination, so that a secure certificate may be issued retrospectively when it becomes compulsory.
William Fleming
Former Border Force Senior Officer
Frimley, Surrey
I think the author is this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5hNZkvQ_yo
(There are a few other letters in a similar vein. Website here – paywall):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/12/08/lettersshops-should-soon-bar-entry-anyone-without-vaccination/
“Former Border Force Senior Officer”
So, some retired ex mid level penpusher who reads the Telegraph.
EDIT – Just clicked the youtube link
Put him on the list.
Done
Black Book! (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/)
Poor lad has waited all his life to get a letter published in the DT signed as ‘Former Border Force Senior Officer’.
Lol! What a silly cunt.
Yes, let’s listen to him because Border Force have done such a great job over the years.
Suppose future air passengers require vaccination certificates . They will be sharing the same space and recirculated air as the air crew, some times for 8 hours. Many of the aircrew are young females. Given the worry about the effect on fertility, will the female contingent of the aircrew consent to vaccination to keep their jobs?
If the airline insists on examining the vaccination credentials of the passengers, should not the latter demand the same information of the aircrew. Otherwise you have a mixture of vaccinated and unvaccinated in the same plane for many hours, which the advocates of vaccination certificates are zealous to prevent.
Good point. And reassuring to think that it could be nigh-on impossible to implement a working system.
‘former’
promoted to the seventy seventh perhaps?
Sounds like N Korea, clap or else
AstraZeneca vax only 62% effective:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/astrazeneca-vaccine-only-62-effective-impact-elderly-unclear-more-data-needed
Does that make it just the flu vax, bro?
Uncertain if this message is aimed at Piffle Johnson or Foot Penis… It does mention a trough, but I believe this is actually a spelling mistake
Been done better and with more style.
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you
Robert Burns did it first. To see ourselves as others see us.
We have escaped Wales and arrived in Madeira! Warm and sunny, everyone pleased to see us. Free covid test at airport here unless you have a -ve test within 72 hours cert. from UK – run on a sensible number of cycles I suspect as not many +ves. We were pleased to test -ve- results after 6-9 hours- and not have to isolate for 14 days. Travel corridor to UK so no isolation at home on return either. Flew from Bristol (tier 3) but no problem driving down M5 from Gloucestershire, tier 2. Highly recommended although the masks in public spaces indoors is a pain. We scuttle into our favourite restaurant and sit down quickly near a door!
So jealous! Enjoy
There is some great silly humour on here today. Perhaps it’s a measure of the level of insanity going on? Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate all the serious postings too. With me, it’s a case of preferring to laugh rather than cry and I have a tendency to revert to dark humour when things are tough.
I genuinely wish all the grandmas and grandpas the very best of luck in this first mass trial. NB No guinea pigs were harmed in making this posting.
I was thinking the same, if you didn’t laugh, you would cry. My mental health can be low at the best of times but I have actually been perked up today here with some of the humour going on…..especially about the poster blacking out at the cornflakes in Iceland after putting a mask on.
I agree. I think we need the humour.
One of the reasons I post the webpages I edit, then post are just to show the absurdity of the crap the sheep are lapping up. An example below is one I done the other day; I reckon the beeb could have posted this and no-one would have batted an eyelid. Hope it gives you, and others here, a giggle.
Spot on – let’s keep going!
Here’s an interesting one. Seems the FAA are still deliberating whether having the vaccine would invalidate pilot medicals:
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-reviewing-whether-pilots-can-take-covid-vaccine/
No such statement from the CAA or EASA that I can see, despite the fact that the jabathon is already under way here.
Ahh interesting
Very
It will be ironic if pilots aren’t allowed it but passengers can’t fly without it!
The reply to my ‘vote against mandatory vaccination’ letter. At least this time I hope he (and his colleagues) don’t abstain in any vote.
Dear Mike,
Thank you very much for your email.
The UK’s medical regulator – the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) – has issued clinical authorisation for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This is fantastic news and I congratulate all those involved. Throughout this pandemic, we have rightly paid tribute to health, care and other key workers for their selflessness and dedication on the frontline in the fight against this virus. It is right that scientists, who have been working incredibly hard on a vaccine, are afforded the respect, admiration and recognition they deserve.
As you note, we have a successful history with vaccinations but we do not have any history of mandatory vaccination. The Government have confirmed that they will not be compulsory while strongly urging everyone to take up the offer of a vaccine.
Vaccinations save lives and I believe we must do everything possible to promote uptake. The UK has the highest regulatory and medical safety standards in the world. However, I know that people in our constituency and across the country will have legitimate questions. It is important that the Government launches a public information campaign to answer questions and encourage uptake.
Best wishes
Jonathan
Jonathan Reynolds MP
Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Scary!!
I was sitting in an Italian restaurant at noon (they were made to close at 1 o´clock) here in Campo de Ourique in Lisbon and the Matron came to us and said: “What are they doing, this does not make sense.” I said, “my dear this is all lies”, and she said “yes it is all lies, is there this “reset thing” behind this or what.” “I don´t know I said, but we will prevail.” And we agreed on that.
Good to see that the Telegraph are beginning to look at the data that’s been hiding in plain sight for weeks https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/08/data-showing-rising-cases-second-lockdown-quietly-revised/ showing that the key indicators were flatlining & not rising when we locked down. What are the chances that anyone’s going to issue an apology to the 1/2 m or so poor schmucks who got thrown on the dole as a result?
Not sure whether any Swedish person commented on the the article about Sweden, but the Daily Mail is obviously spreading misinformation. The covid death cases there are quite low at the moment – nowhere near 55 per day. Yesterday they had 2 death cases. The peak was on 24 November with 65 death cases, but they have been falling rapidly ever since – 15 on average last week.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa
The Swedish data is difficult to follow day to day. They usually report deaths in a batch reported deaths but not every day. Today 133 deaths reported from 4th Nov. Cases are also reported in batches often not from all regions the same date. Then the reported deaths are distributed to the day of death which you see with some delay on your link.
The best information about the Swedish situation report is usually
https://twitter.com/HaraldofW/status/1336334019265380353
https://twitter.com/HaraldofW/status/1335922963233853440
The first twitter thread describes the current situation. The second more about deaths. He has usually extremely reliable information. Sweden is a bit after the other European nations and has still not reached the peak of deaths but ICU admittance might have stabilized.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9030715/More-questions-raised-data-used-send-England-second-lockdown.html
Ooh – ONS revise figures once again!
Just realised this might not be good news, based on the commentary:
“So a peak in deaths almost three weeks into the national lockdown – in the week up to November 20 – shows that the outbreak was at its largest and most rampant at the start of November, just before the shutdown started. Scientists at the time estimated that between 50,000 and 100,000 people were getting infected each day.
And it suggests lockdown worked, bringing infections under control around a month ago which is now translating into fewer people going into hospital and dying.”
Deaths were coming down 2 weeks before there could possibly have been any impact from the lockdown!
The same, of course, was true in the 1st lockdown. Counting back from deaths a month later it was clear that cases peaked the before the March 23rd Lockdown started.
Whitty admitted this on 21st July in a parliament committee hearing.
I’ve posted the link to the video on here a few times, if anyone new wants it post a comment and I’ll put it up again when I get chance in a day or two.
Aye, please put it up again. Thank you.
Ok look out for it probably Thursday when I get back to my laptop again.
Thank you
While you wait for the video, you can find the transcript here, Ned: https://committees.parliament.uk/event/1701/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/
Even just reading it, you can see how arrogant and rude a man Whitty is.
Q.608 is what you want; towards the end of his answer, he says:
Thank you
Late reporting can increase the height of the columns in your graph – but I’d say if they are a week old they will not change much now. On that basis the back line (the seven day average I presume) is a strong (possibly indisputable) indication that mortality figures began on the 21st – sixteen days after the lockdown.
Would Professor Whitty himself claim this was due to the lockdown? I don’t think he would. Ergo the lockdown wasn’t needed – or can he come up with another justification?
And we have Drakeford going all out again, Sadiq Khan warnings for London, First Minister Michelle O Neill softening us up in Northern Ireland for post Christmas fuxkery, and Sturgeon just loves outdoing them all.
The answer to Lockdowns that don’t work seems to be more Lockdown.
If anyone is still reading I should have written;-
mortality figures began to decline on the 21st
I’m conscious of being dyslexic but an inability to perceive words are missing in something I’ve written seems a new development.
They were probably there when you wrote it. They have an uncanny tendency to disappear when you press the post button.
Probably The Rona. Get a test.
~ Anthony Samsel ~
Have you seen this shit (apologies if already posted)?
What the bloody hell is she apologising for – for going to the toilet? FFS! Who are these “holier-than-thou” wankers who are taking her to task over it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55227470
She’s actually making it worse by apologising. She’s apologising for living, for doing normal things.
The day I have to apologise for ‘being alive’ is the day this happens.
She is part of Sky who along with the rest of the media have been massive cheerleaders of this.Reap what she has sown.
BBC says
“She later “popped into another” venue to use the toilet. It’s not clear what rule was broken through this action.”
so even the BBC dont know what was wrong. If the covid propaganda arm doesnt know , God help the rest of us
I smell a smoking red herring.
Whatever did she do wrong? Did she snog everyone on the way to the loo?
Error of judgement? I suppose she should have been covid compliant and peed in the taxi?
She’s been sent from Coventry.
It wasn’t just a toilet break, she likely spent a couple of hours in there then hosted an after-party at her flat. Nothing wrong with that, but if you’ve spent the last 9 months moralising about the virus in the mainstream media, it does make you a hypocrite.
BREAKING: FDA announces 2 deaths of Pfizer vaccine trial participants from “serious adverse events”
https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/breaking-fda-announces-2-deaths-pfizer-vaccine-trial-participants-serious-adverse1
They died “with” the vaccine not “of” it.
One was a cardiac arrest 62 days after the jab. The other died sooner but from arteriosclerosis. There’s no reason to think their deaths were related in any way to the vaccine.
Four people died with the placebo by the way.
Are you a vaccine-denier?
..
Sounds like it
But I like Andrew’s suggestion that any death within 28 days of a vaccination should be classified as murder. Otherwise it’s a bit of a double standard.
I hope that’s satire
One of the two seemed to have been immunosuppressed according to this Jerusalem post report
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/two-individuals-die-from-pfizer-vaccine-651488
“Ahead of the Thursday meeting of the FDA on the Pfizer vaccine, the administration announced Tuesday that two trial participants have died after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. One of the deceased individuals was immunocompromised.”
“The association noted that in large trials of tens of thousands of people, death can occur without any connection to the trial, but that companies like Pfizer are required to report those deaths.“According to the published data, six of the participants in the experiment died, two of whom received the vaccine and four of the control group,” said Dr. Uri Lerner, the scientific director for Midaat. “After an in-depth examination, no connection was found between the experiment and the cause of death.”
If only Covid deaths were given the same respect. Bastards
Exactly. If anyone dies of anything within 28 days of a positive PCR test and gets labeled a Covid death then the same standard should be applied to the vaccine — any death, no matter what from, should at least have the vaccine as one of the causes of death if not the cause of death.
Did you see the FDA briefing document linked to from that article. Interesting reading.
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
Both vaccine recipients were >55 years of age; one experienced a cardiac arrest 62 days after vaccination #2 and died 3 days later, and the other died from arteriosclerosis 3 days after vaccination #1. The placebo recipients died from myocardial infarction (n=1), hemorrhagic stroke (n=1) or unknown causes (n=2); three of the four deaths occurred in the older group (>55 years of age). All deaths represent events that occur in the general population of the age groups where they occurred, at a similar rate
The document also says
The Sponsor plans to offer vaccination to participants ≥16 years of age who originally received placebo and who become eligible for receipt of BNT162b2 according to local or national recommendations. The Sponsor proposes that these participants will be unblinded upon request and will have the opportunity to receive BNT162b2 as part of the study. The Sponsor also proposes that all placebo recipients ≥16 years of age will be offered BNT162b2 after completing 6 months of follow-up after Dose 2, if they did not request and receive vaccine previously.
So is that saying we won’t know necessarily the long term affects (only 6 month short term affects) because those receiving the placebo will be offered the vaccine and so the trial won’t run its course?
Yes and I don’t think they should have done this. It’s a trial and the people who signed up for it knew what they were getting themselves in for. It’s not such a hardship not to have the vaccine given the low risk from the disease.
Assuming that the placebo wasn’t saline, isn’t that a lot of adjuvant over a short period?
Yes I only read enough of the article to find that link and then looked at that. This is usually the best way to treat news stories.
Ha ha. I did exactly the same!
Immunocompromised people should never receive vaccines. There’s absolutely no point since vaccines are supposed to stimulate the immune system. Immunocompromised people did not receive the smallpox vaccine in the 1970s.
Referring to the cause of death of these people:
“One experienced a cardiac arrest 62 days after vaccination #2 and died 3 days later, and the other died from arteriosclerosis 3 days after vaccination #1.”
The vaccine caused hardening of the artieries? In three days. Bet they didn’t expect that.
As for having a heart attack two months after receiving a second jab. Do you expect anyone to take this article seriously? I’m not a fan of the vaccine. I don’t intend to take it, but trying to link the vaccine to this person’s heart attack is plain stupid.
I don’t disagree, but they then try to claim that transverse myelitis and MS in trial participants couldn’t possibly be related to the vaccine and, therefore, resumed the trials. They oughtn’t be able to have it both ways given that transverse myelitis is a known adverse effect of vaccines. I’ve always said that unless someone literally drops dead or has some serious event occur between receiving the injection and walking to their car, they will always claim any adverse event is merely a coincidence.
Pfizer shareholders: ‘I hope this doesn’t affect my share values’
Most of us would certainly call death a serious adverse event.
The Mail & the Telegraph have finally twigged that ‘cases’ were flatlining prior to the lockdown, haven’t we been saying that for months?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9030715/More-questions-raised-data-used-send-England-second-lockdown.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/08/data-showing-rising-cases-second-lockdown-quietly-revised/
Reiner Füllmich interviews Prof Hockertz regarding the vaccine:
https://vimeo.com/487879592
‘human experiments’ says Hockertz.
10 minutes
Fucking Hell.
Some people are surprised by the events of the past ten months
I’m surprised that they are surprised
People who work in McDonalds (other low paid work is available) are required by law to donate part of their earnings to a multi billionaire German
The German has a string of race horses and lots of castles and palaces
Apparently, she is entitled to this money because her ancestors said they were sent by God
In a few weeks she will lecture us on how we dun this year and what she expects from us next year
We have burnt witches. We have even managed to get young women to confess to being witches so we could burn them
We’ve murdered Catholics and Protestants alike all because some fat fucker was fed up with the current Mrs (six times)
People believe that a man once walked on water
People sold their homes so they could buy a single tulip bulb
People say a man died and then came back to life three days later. He currently lives behind a cloud up in the sky. This is despite planes flying above the clouds and never reporting a sighting
The National Debt was once loaded onto a Company that had never traded. People spent everything they had buying shares in this giant ponzi scheme and lost their shirts
A woman who was pregnant said she was still a virgin
I won’t say anything about the religion of peace and love because they will cut my head off
People believe that the first two humans on this earth had only two sons with no explanation as the how the generation that followed came into being
People knock on my door and tell me if I join their clan (no not the SNP) they will let me know in advance the date of the end of the world, and I will therefore survive it (I think)
I’m not at all surprised
(tnodvwpmp)
Quite the anti-Christian sentiment. Sharpening your guillotine yet, Marx.
Did the Marx brothers have a guillotine?
These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
if you are going to rant get your facts right
the fat fucker was only dissatisfied with 4 wifes. One died in childbirth and he is buried with her. the last wife outlived him/
also the first two humans on earth (as you describe) “Genesis 4 narrates life outside the garden, including the birth of Adam and Eve’s first children Cain and Abel and the story of the first murder. A third son, Seth, is born to Adam and Eve, and Adam had “other sons and daughters” (Genesis 5:4).”
Curious about the german workers bit .. whats that about?
German women is The Queen, gawd bless er.
Rather a stretch to call her German. Her mother was Scottish and her great-great Grandfather on her father’s side was German. By that logic most of us are probably German as well.
Angles, Saxons and Jutes I seem to remember.
Back off from Christianity.
If someone dies by any means within 30 days of testing positive for covid they are classed as a covid death.
If someone dies by any means within 30 days of having the vaccine are classed as murdered?
Or manslaughter
Nah, just coincidence mate.
Just seen the BBC schedule – 20:00 tonight. Some Mother’s Do Ave Em – Starring Matt Handcock as Wank Spencer.
Scene 1
‘OOOoooohh Betty, the doggy done a whoopsie on the carpet’
‘Oh wank’
‘Betty, I done it, I rolled it out Betty. We are rich’
‘Oohhhhh wank, come here, my hero’
‘oooooohhhhhh Betty, that’s nice…….’
Coming up next on BBC2, ‘Open All Hours.’
‘Now then, Ggggggggggranville, what have ye done, I said what have ye done, with all them b-bottles of h-hand s-sanitiser?’
‘They’ve all sold out, Arkwright. There were a spate of panic buying when t’Third Wave were announced.’
‘Th-th-th-Third Wave? By, I thought that were the c-c-c-c-classical music programme on’t wireless! Anyroad, I’m glad you’ve s-sold all the b-bottles, because it weren’t sanitiser.’
‘What was it then?’
‘It was anti-radiation paint, left over from the c-c-c-cold war. You were supposed to p-p-p-paint it on your windows to protect against radiation in the event of a nuclear h-h-h-holocaust. But it never h-happened, more’s the pity, as I’d h-hoped to have to re-p-per-per-per populate the human race with n-n-n-ner-ner nurse Gladys Emmanuel’.
“17:22
No problem, have a good day and stya safe!”
Fuck sake I am just trying to buy a guitar online
My new sign-off is Stay Sane (not a typo). I despise complete strangers telling me to “stay safe” as if they give a crap about me. Now if they want to tell me to “stay safe” every time I get into my car, I can live with that since my risk of being injured, or worse, is infinitely higher. Shopping online is unlikely to put me at risk for anything other than a computer virus, so bugger off with the “stay safe” nonsense.
That is a cracker. Yes, it’s absolutely bizzarre. The presumption being that we want to stay safe. I’d quite like to go sky diving actually after this prolonged period of utter boredom but the powers that be won’t let me. I’d like to go back to being ‘unsafe’.
I agree entirely. This really irritated me early on (May? April?) and I would retaliate by saying ‘stay sane’. I’m hardcore anti-Covidian.
I’ve never said ‘stay safe’ as yet. I have however offered the encouragement of ‘let’s stay human’ on occasion, as a salutation to someone who has shown impulses in that direction, in conversation or i.e. mask free on the transport grid. We do seem to be drifting toward involuntary transhumanism.
To be fair, string breakages can cut you. Also, if a bridge comes off it can hit you in the eye, pretty nasty actually. Stay safe with that there axe dude!
:-p
The High Peak ‘Dandelion’ (actually, Wanker) of the Month Award: Goes to a certain shop-keeper (late 30s) who has just brought round a delivery of wholefoods. We used to use his shop but, after several successive visits where AlanG stood outside in the sideways rain/wind etc for ages while the one customer painstakingly filled their containers and, finally, when he was the only shop-owner who has ever obliged me to sanitise my hands (I used my own non-gunk version) we asked him to deliver instead.
When he arrived today it was pissing down so we invited him into the porch. He won’t take cash, bringing a mobile card-reader with him. He refused to come in, keeping us standing in the cold, saying ‘My wife is pregnant’. (We know her well and by name!) We couldn’t help bursting out laughing and I said ‘we’re not infectious’ whereupon he became angry saying ‘I’ve got my opinions and you’ve got yours so don’t be critical!’
He must have realised that he was in danger of losing good customers because he quickly allowed AlanG to get away with ‘Oh X, you’re such a silly billy!’ AG asked him if he was ever going back to cash and he said he wasn’t sure. Hmm.
Now this guy has higher degrees in IT, having given up a lucrative career to run a shop. His mate runs our local PO and is even more highly-qualified and, if it were possible, a more highly-advanced superstitious idiot than he is.
AlanG’s parting shot was, ‘If we get pneumonia, it will be your fault!’ He said this jokingly and Mr ZW managed a nervous giggle but actually we are both elderly and AlanG is ‘extremely vulnerable’ That is why I am very happy to call this man a wanker.
Earlier in the day we got a visit from the letting agency. The chap was at least late-60s, cheerful (we’d already established our no-mask house rule!) and chatty. His wife is a nurse and he says that her hospital has a lot of ‘C19’ patients but he was quite happy to be rational about this and he doesn’t agree with lockdowns and understands the terrible damage they’re doing. We had a good chat with him even though he thinks the vaccine is a great thing (!)
Make of it what you will but we’ll have to think about using Mr ZW again. Online is probably the only real alternative which would be a pity. MW
I’ve been with Abel&Cole for 4 years and can’t fault them.
Riverford are a wonderful, organic company and I’m very much in favour of their policies but I needed A&C’s greater flexibility.
Hi, thanks for this. We already use Riverford. Our local ‘hub’ is fine but Guy Singh-Watson has gone a bit ‘woke’, of course and they were quick to jump on the BLM band-wagon.. We’ve used Wholefoods Online and they were OK (no fresh) and we’ll check out Abel and Cole. We’ve heard good reports of them.
The thing with this shop is it’s a local zero-waste outfit and we liked that and we wanted to support a local business. However, being treated as lepers in our own home is not acceptable and actually it has quite upset us. We were not actually critical of him and our laughter was more a kind of nervous giggle rather than outright scoffing.
We do realise the man is mentally ill – something we’re having to conclude about so many people of our acquaintance, unfortunately. How are these people ever going to recover? We worry for their young son and the new baby. MW
Not sure if this has been posted before. The FDA’s working list of possible adverse event outcomes:
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Transverse myelitis
Encephalitis/myelitis/encephalomyelitis/ meningoencephalitis/meningitis/ encepholapathy
Convulsions/seizures
Stroke
Narcolepsy and cataplexy
Anaphylaxis
Acute myocardial infarction
Myocarditis/pericarditis
Autoimmune disease
Deaths
Pregnancy and birth outcomes
Other acute demyelinating diseases
Non-anaphylactic allergic reactions
Thrombocytopenia
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Venous thromboembolism
Arthritis and arthralgia/joint pain
Kawasaki disease
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
Vaccine enhanced disease
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-10/COVID-Anderson.pdf
What was that about the cure being worse than the disease? Think I’d take my chances with SARS-CoV-2 thanks.
Tptb want us to have these
I’m not sure that’s not just a list of all the things that could possibly go wrong with any new drug or vaccine.
I’ve no intention of taking this “vaccine” but I am unsure of what point you are trying to make with this.
These are possible adverse reactions to the vaccine. I have to wonder about the wisdom when the side effect of a “medicine” can potentially be death.
To any vaccine. It’s just a list. It’s meaningless unless these reactions have actually been observed in the trials.
Trials?
Reads like a kill list!
I think your right John it does look like a exhaustive list of potential qualifications. However that is pretty damning in itself that they have been absolutely unable to narrow down all of the side effects.
It might be popular on these threads, but it’s no good if mainstream journalists can just shoot it down.
What’s ‘no good’? Spelling out the truth?
AG
Most of these are long term conditions associated with infections, both bacterial and viral. Typically as a result of of overactive immune systems leading to autoimmune disorders. GBS can follow gastroenteritis. Thrombocytopenia I’ve seen in a patient two weeks after a “simple” upper respiratory tract infection.
Alternatively the infective agent manages to reach other organs Endocarditis from tooth decay. Pericarditis and myocarditis likewise. Encephalitis from measles. Male sterility from mumps. Death from sepsis.
There is this too, but no one seems interested, bizarrely enough
https://2020news.de/en/dr-wodarg-and-dr-yeadon-request-a-stop-of-all-corona-vaccination-studies-and-call-for-co-signing-the-petition/
The syncitin-1 thing is nonsense. Vaccine enhanced disease (not necessarily ADE) is a valid concern.
Nothing to worry about, then.
Good link. Thanks.
Quick update, got a reply from that metropolitan mayor.
“Whilst he does appreciate your concerns, I must advise that xxxxxxxxx has full confidence in the Government’s provision of testing for Covid-19 and the science which informs it. In his capacity as a local politician however, the Mayor is not responsible for decision making of this kind and as such, I recommend contacting your MP, should you wish for them to challenge this on a national level”
I think a shit stirring reply is in order when I get time later in the week. Wonder if he will supply the science he has faith in?
On a different note, delivering to a hospital today – lot more staff with no masks, many masked staff coughing almost continuously, no social distancing observed, lots of pissed off faces so NHS morale at this place down a lot from last week. Vaccine related?
Posibly enforced nappy related!
Consciences pricking?
I made the mistake last night of watching Hospital on BBC2. The programme as good as claimed that two patients caught Covid-19 because of people not wearing masks on public transport or when going into shops. Of course, there was not a shred of evidence to back up that claim but the BBC just can’t help pointing the finger in it’s sanctimonious way. It really is time someone organisde an effective campaign to bring about mass non-payment of the licence fee. I know ITV, Chanel 4 and Sky are no better when it comes to reporting on Covid, but at least we’re not obliged to pay for their biased reporting.
This drives me crackers. There is simply no way in the world they can identify where anyone picked up a common virus, though “in their filthy hospitals” is usually a good bet.
https://www.defundbbc.uk/
Thanks for the link, but you should add that this tells you how to do it legally.
Good point, but you’ve done it for me, thanks.
Not sure even masks help when the Asymptomatic Superspreader is abroad.
As you can see he is shedding virus copiously through the soles of his feet in spite of wearing shoes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52840763
The only sanction we, as individuals, have against the BBC is to withhold payment of the licence fee. Simply stop paying, and sell/give away your TV. It is legal to watch free non-BBC catch up services (ITV, C4 and many others) online, and to listen to BBC radio either via one’s wireless set or internet. Whilst I support campaigns to defund the BBC, realistically this is not going to happen before the renewal of their Charter, which is several years in the future.
I “believe” that on average, people pay more in increased prices that are added to the prices of goods to pay for the cost of advertising on the commercial stations than the cost of the BBC Licence.
It’s as simple as that. Done long since. Life is better without it.
I wonder what the fatal dose for bullshit is, I feel I’m getting close.
Wonder whether they’ll put Bullshit overdose on your death certificate?
No, it’ll probably be covid!
long bullshut covid
Lol. You’re on form today
Very funny
Have they arrested the bloke who squirted acid into Matt Hancock’s eyes yet?
I believe a small prick (his) bought a tear to his eye
Give him the George Medal.
I’d love to fucking gouge his eyes out!
The appeal should reach five figures at least (the lass deserves it).
https://www.gofundme.com/f/quinn-blakey-hairdressing-legal-battle
Never forget this.
“Amnesty reveals that in March the Johnson govt dumped 25,000 vulnerable hospital patients in care homes, including those infected with Covid-19. At least 18,500 died. Eugenic slaughter. Now read the following shocking story. This is lawless Britain 2020.”
Starmer has been relentless in pursuit of this crime against humanity of course.
Take the word “eugenic” out of this post and I am in complete agreement.
Another child posting. Come on then Mr downvoter – argue with me about this.
Prove your point.
Research the Liverpool Care Pathway
No.
I don’t agree with you Ben. Convince me that you are right or live with that.
You’re the child I’m afraid. I could supply you 100 links to evidence but you’d ignore them
I think the point is to be careful with language.
Hyperbole is what we suffer from at the hands of the Covid myth-makers. I see no virtue in responding with alternative exaggeration, however much you despise the narrative.
The one thing we have on our side is accuracy and proportionality.
For instance, Hancock is a twat, and any other insult you care to aim at him – and he is guilty of promoting policies that ha be hastened death for many. But he isn’t a ‘murderer’ in any accurate sense of the term.
It’s true that it’s a somewhat clueless eugenicist who goes around killing 85 year olds. But nothing surprises me any more about the quality of the government’s scientific advice.
‘Clueless’ eugenicist? Just a novice getting the hang of it. Practise with the elderly and infirm. Since we are told that we are on a ‘war footing’, then Hancock is a war criminal.
I was there and probably complicit to a degree due to misinformation and Hysteria.If I had any feelings left it would be remorse because I didn’t speak out and was hoodwinked into using palliative care tools without even allowing the residents to make a recovery.Blanket DNARs large consignments of Anticipatory drugs all residents were prescribed just in case!Those fuckers need hanging.
GPs are more superfluous than ever.Will consult a Vet next time I require medical attention.
Do you have a link for this figure of 25k and the death rate please?
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2020-10/Care%20Homes%20Report.pdf?kd5Z8eWzj8Q6ryzHkcaUnxfCtqe5Ddg6=
How did they find the time? They’re overwhelmed, aren’t they?
Well some people have had a good day.
Oxford vaccine trial results formally published in The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140-6736(20)32661-1
“The development of safe, effective, affordable, and deployable vaccines against COVID-19 remains paramount in solving the pandemic crisis and re-establishing normality.”
Does it? Bullshit.
They even say “pandemic crisis”. Is it still even classified as a pandemic?
This is a good post Richard as it demonstrates that vaccine development is only really essential in the eyes of those who wish to promote vaccines. I note the usual suspects are funding this.
‘Pandemic’ simply means ‘widespread’. The WHO removed any reference to severity or mortality.
An outbreak of head lice can be ‘pandemic’.
Telegraph isn’t too impressed.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/08/oxford-vaccine-may-leave-large-proportion-britons-unprotected/
Start of article:
The Oxford vaccine may not be as useful as first thought, after published results showed that high efficacy rates cannot be substantiated.
At the end of November, Oxford and AstraZeneca announced they had efficacy rates of 90 per cent when people were given a half dose, followed by a full dose several weeks later.
However when people received two full doses, efficacy fell to just 62 per cent, far lower than the mid-90s results shown by Pfizer and Moderna. …
Goes on:
Dr Julian Tang, Honorary, Clinical Virologist, Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, added: “A lower vaccine efficacy does run the risk of leaving a large proportion potentially unprotected despite being vaccinated.
“Those who have been vaccinated and think they are immune may behave more freely which may serve to spread the virus further if they do become infected.
“Those who have been vaccinated and think they are immune may behave more freely which may serve to spread the virus further if they do become infected.”
This is what some of us have been pointing out here. It is the vaccinated who should be denied entry to shops,travel , pubs etc because they can transmit the virus without being aware of doing so . The unvacinated who are infected usually have sufficient symptoms for it to be obvious to themselves and others and can take precautions for their own and other’s safety..
The vaccinated should be obliged to wear masks or carry a small bell or perhaps a yellow V to warn us of their presence whilst the rest of us continue with real life unimpaired and unrestricted.
This is insanity
This is fascism
.
If the vaccine works they will be immune.
And if they’re not immune it’s a useless waste of money. Even if safe.
Sorry you’re confusing me, are you being straight forward or sarcastic?
Straightforward.
The purpose of vaccines is to confer immunity.
Not really a vaccine then
I’m not sure why I am having to repeat this:
The purpose of vaccines is to confer immunity.
(BTW, that does not make me a fan of this one).
I don’t think any of the miracle 4 could accurately be described as vaccines.
But of course, this isn’t about immunity to a bad cold, it’s about social control.
Ooh, ooh a down vote, never had one before. How exciting. Wonder who it was
Ta, but in that case surely making people immune was not one of the parameters of the vaccine trials, merely reducing severity.
If it wasn’t then they are taking the piss!
I repeat again:
The purpose of vaccines is to confer immunity.
Thanks for clarifying your view, I understand and agree with your statement.
Not being difficult but I sometimes have trouble online with nuance and meaning. I’m better face to face, but still ask some bloody stupid questions at times
It’s not a view!
That’s the fucking purpose of vaccines. (If they work!)
Ok, I’ve tried to explain but you, sir, are an arse.
Ps there is no objective reality so it is just a view.
If a product with a traditional definition of a vaccine is administered, then the recipient will almost certainly be immune.
What is on offer does not meet the traditional definition of a vaccine and as such, immunity should not be assumed.
If you’ve done any reading about Bill Gates and Pharma and the huge investment in vaccines you’ll know a future of indefinite vaccines and regular vaccines boosters is planned. This dovetails with immunity passports, which are owned by the tech industries who’ve also invested huge amounts of money.
This is a long term investment at our expense. Shareholders get rich and governments control us
Yup.
Financially the vax will be another eternal tax on is serfs.
Good point.
Findings Between April 23 and Nov 4, 2020, 23 848 participants were enrolled and 11 636 participants (7548 in the UK, 4088 in Brazil) were included in the interim primary efficacy analysis.In participants who received two standard doses, vaccine efficacy was 62·1% (95% CI 41·0–75·7; 27 [0·6%] of 4440 in the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 group vs 71 [1·6%] of 4455 in the control group) and in participants who received a low dose followed by a standard dose, efficacy was 90·0% (67·4–97·0; three [0·2%] of 1367 vs 30 [2·2%] of 1374; pinteraction=0·010). Overall vaccine efficacy across both groups was 70·4% (95·8% CI 54·8–80·6; 30 [0·5%] of 5807 vs 101 [1·7%] of 5829). From 21 days after the first dose, there were ten cases hospitalised for COVID-19, all in the control arm; two were classified as severe COVID-19, including one death. There were 74 341 person-months of safety follow-up (median 3·4 months, IQR 1·3–4·8): 175 severe adverse events occurred in 168 participants, 84 events in the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 group and 91 in the control group. Three events were classified as possibly related to a vaccine: one in the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 group, one in the control group, and one in a participant who remains masked to group allocation.
Interpretation ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 has an acceptable safety profile and has been found to be efficacious against symptomatic COVID-19 in this interim analysis of ongoing clinical trials.
Funding UK Research and Innovation, National Institutes for Health Research (NIHR), Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Lemann Foundation, Rede D’Or, Brava and Telles Foundation, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Thames Valley and South Midland’s NIHR Clinical Research Network, and AstraZeneca.
A big care company’s advice to their employees is to listen to the BBC to have their fears or hesitancy about the vaccine allayed. They are directing their staff to find answers to any questions they have about the vaccine to go and look at the BBC web site.
The company believes in encouraging wide spread uptake of the vaccine. It also seeks to calm fears about the vaccines safety to ensure wide spread uptake.
There is no company policy currently on how those who will not have the vaccine will be treated. They need to have a meeting about it. Don’t worry they get all their information from the BBC so I am sure they know what they are doing.
De. Find.
And after you’ve done that, de-fund them!
Lol, bloody phones.
I thought it was German for The Enemy
Bollocks. I meant “Fund”, obviously.
The bbc, that well known medical advisory group!!!
As my brother said
“That 90 year old woman got the jab in the morning and spent the afternoon caving in to Brussels”
Am I missing something, this ‘disease’ it is in the same bracket as a mild flu, right? I will repeat that, a mild flu………………
Is my end neigh?
I have this evening been to the modern plague pit known as a Royal Mail Post Office. Where I have stood in a socially distanced cue for 45 minutes to post an item to someone I am legally banned from seeing.
In all this time I was the only member of public not to be seen in a magical gimp mask. I also had no rabbit foot, copper bracelet nor a gypsy flower to save me. I left my teddy bear in the car.
And although I had the super power of an “exempt” lanyard it is rather obvious that I, and the staff of Royal Mail none of whom were masked – will be murder victims to all those in a proper (made in China) masks. That’s how this works right? They might kill me so we all need a mask…..
So must I assume that all these other people have got COVID 19 or they must have a reasonable sense that they have it and might be spreading it to us poor mask-less fools. Otherwise why are they all so completely hooked on this bogus bullshit ?
It’s so depressing to walk through a lovely town and see people in fresh air wearing shite non sterile masks made in China and coated in god knows what……
“Is my end neigh?” – I whinny thought so. You’ll be alright after a gallop and bag of oats.
The op should consider using the Pony Express instead of the Royal Mail …
At least a Parliament of horses would vote “Neigh” to a lockdown.
Yes – horses are very intelligent animals.
Keep on trotting in the free world
Lol
It’s not about a virus
This meme again. I know you think it’s clever to keep repeating this phrase, but it really annoys me.
Be straightforward. Say what you mean. What is it about then? In your opinion.
What is it about then?
I believe you said in a previous post that you were an accountant/had accountancy training.
If so, from someone who is an accountant, why aren’t you questioning the holes in the official narrative and assuming that an inability/unwillingness of the Establishment to sufficiently explain them is indicative of something else going on. That is what my training as an accountant has led me to.
Okay. I ask a question and all I get is childish downvotes.
Some people here are real pricks.
Do you your own research and stop expecting to be spoon fed. The comments allude to what’s happening with their own links to articles. Ie. The WEF’s Great Reset, Pharma and tech corruption etc.
Or you can believe it’s about a virus, which is much more comforting (though no data supports it)
It never has been.
What is it about then?
In your humble opinion.
A good question, as this particular virus has not been proven to exist.
Maybe us sceptics should all wear a Rabbits foot or lucky white heather, so when challenged by a Branch Covidian, we can say “no I don’t have a mask but I’ve got this though”, pointing at the totem or protective amulet.
I want to get a dark cloak and a bell and walk about town on Market day. I don’t think it will go down well though.
agree totally. Myself and 2 of my girls were the only unmasked in our post office yesterday. There was an elderly gentleman behind us who I had high hopes for, he was unmasked in the q, but as soon as he entered the building he pulled out a face rag. It’s all so very depressing. I always hope to meet someone like you Leemc23 !
I’ll keep looking for you for the necessary support – we need it.
Excuse the horsing around folks.
Never mind, you’ve got this to look forward to
Crusaders Strikers v Glentoran Women
Northern Irish Women’s Premiership
19:30
BBC Sport Website
It doesn’t get any bigger than this….
Dear BBC, I strongly object to the use of the term ‘Crusaders’, bla bla bla, yours, disgusted of Islington.
Just when you think things can’t get any worse…
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/birmingham-council-s-trendy-new-street-names
Equality Road
Respect Way
Diversity Grove
I’m not sure I can take much more. Let’s just hope we don’t start to get Covid road names:
Vaccination Place
Distancing Drive
NHS Hero Avenue
etc etc.
Perhaps a bit cheesy, but I don’t have a problem with a street named “respect”. Respect for oneself and others is not woke.
No, it’s just the favoured term of address for violent street thugs, extracted via intimidation.
Not when I use it.
I’ve heard it far too often in the sense I cited. I’ve seen people hospitalised and permanently injured by those who demand it. It’s soured my view of the term.
You use it how you want to. I don’t keep the company of violent offenders.
I have no problem with the word respect as used in its conventional sense.
In fact I very much like the word.
It’s a term that’s been hijacked, like another three-letter term I could mention.
Matt Hancock Way, formerly Cemetery Road.
No! Please, let nothing be named after him, please!
Any relation to Quality Street (where I presume the gentry lived)?
Desolation Row more like.
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row
One of my children just had an operation and had to have a test three days before, and they also had to isolate for two weeks. Anyway we didn’t get the “result” of the test and they did the operation anyway. So what was the point of two weeks off work and a test? I think they are pissing us about really
Do they have to SI for two weeks after the op too? Hope it went well.
Same for my son. No isolation as this is all bollocks but did the test. No results and they barely swabbed his tongue. Had the routine appointment anyway.
P19 table 3 180 withdrawn from study (1% of total in trial)
Adverse event = 8
Death = 2
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
Apologies if posted already
It’s amazing just how many seemingly intelligent people think that vaccination and immunisation are the same thing, to say nothing of inoculation. They’re in for a shock!
The purpose of vaccines is to confer immunity.
Pfizer have produced a vaccine but make no claims that it confers immunity. Like malaria medication it suppresses symptoms
Just received this via email from my employer. It’s a letter from the chief medical officers of the four nations.
Dear colleagues,
We wanted to write you about winter, vaccines and research.
Winter is always a challenging time for the NHS and wider health and social care service. This year will be especially hard due to COVID-19. Doctors and other health professionals throughout the system have responded magnificently throughout 2020 to this epidemic. Although the very welcome news about vaccines means that we can look forward to 2021 with greater optimism, vaccine deployment will have only a marginal impact in reducing numbers coming into the health service with COVID over the next three months. The actions and self-discipline of the whole population during lockdowns and other restrictions have helped reduce the peak and in most parts of the four nations hospital numbers are likely to fall over the next few weeks, but not everywhere. The social mixing which occurs around Christmas may well put additional pressure on hospitals and general practice in the New Year and we need to be ready for that. Many of you will be working exceptionally hard to manage COVID on top of other medical problems and have been doing so for a long time. We think it likely that by spring the effects of vaccination will begin to be felt in reducing COVID admissions, attendances and deaths significantly but there are many weeks before we get to that stage. We must support one another as a profession as we go to the next, hard months.
Deploying vaccines safely, rapidly and in a sequence which is most likely to reduce mortality and morbidity is going to be a very considerable logistical exercise for all of us. JCVI has recommended that health and social care workers are a high priority once the most vulnerable who are at highest risk of dying have been vaccinated. This is to provide some additional protection against nosocomial spread to the vulnerable. We do not however yet have firm data on the effects of these vaccines on transmission. It is going to be essential that people continue to maintain current PPE and other measures to reduce transmission even after vaccination as we accumulate that data. All healthcare workers would agree that the principal aim of the initial vaccination programme should be to protect the most vulnerable and those at highest risk of mortality.
Medical science is the engine that will bring down the impact of COVID. Colleagues across the entire health system have been remarkable in their contributions to researching this new disease. Drug trials, vaccine trials, testing new diagnostics, clinical studies and observational data have all been essential. We do not expect COVID to disappear even once full vaccination has occurred although it will be substantially less important as a cause of mortality and morbidity. It is therefore absolutely essential that we use the next months to learn as much as we can as we expect COVID to be less common in the future. This will allow us to have the best chance of a strong evidence base for managing it over the coming years. We would therefore strongly encourage colleagues to continue to recruit to or participate in drug trials such as RECOVERY, vaccine trials, and observational studies such as SIREN. We will all be very grateful for the results this will lead to in future years.
Once again we want to thank you for all your work. We are full of admiration for what all of you have done and continue to do.
Your employer being whom? Why would they send you this propaganda?
DHU, provides 111 service and urgent care centres in the East Midlands. As to why, your guess is as good as mine!
Extraordinary self-righteous regurgitation of the Official Narrative.
The NHS is unfit for purpose.
It’s not the NHS – it’s the political control and the hidden agendas.
What a bunch of absolute shysters.
yes, because you cannot stop/eradicate a virus – need to learn to live with it
What a load of old bollocks. You have my support in phoning in “sick” over the festive period. Go back sometime in January when you can be bothered. Basically treat them like cunts. That’s what they deserve. They don’t deserve your time.
In case anyone needs cheering up
https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1336355293995933697
“When the NHS invites you to get a #coronavirus vaccine, we have one request:
Please step forward for your country.”
Comments overhwelmingly negative, many quite vitriolic
He hasn’t gone down well, has he?
Good. He deserves to roast.
Sounds a bit over the top
I was just thinking that. Will Hancock be leading the charge, like a doomed 19 year old second lieutenant, or will he be comfortably behind the lines quaffing vintage port in a chateaux?
Do NOT compare him with a 19-year-old lieutenant – I presume you are ignorantly referring to the First German War.
They were young men who put their lives on the line for their country – and you can denigrate their reasons as you shallow-minded people will.
They were brave, self-sacrificing, committed and honourable. And I hardly think you should compare someone like this self-serving, arrogant, ignorant, patronising and unqualified idiot Hancock with one of those brave lads.
Please withdraw your comparison.
(Also, perhaps you should do some research as to how many top-ranking officers actually died on the front line. Ignorance is no doubt bliss – but it does you no credit.)
Er, I think it’s Hancock comparing himself to those lads, not Cranmer…
By the way – it is a ”chateau”. Singular.
Ah yes – it didn’t look quite right to me, but the old Franglais is a bit rusty. BTW I share your sentiments entirely about junior officers in the first show – my comparison with Hancock was intended to ask whether he was willing to have the courage of his convictions and take the vaccine himself.
Anyone on here in his constituency? Where is it and what is the general opinion of him? I have to assume its a Tory safe seat as I just don’t know how a snivelling rat like him garners any respect
“Please step forward for your country.”…. and chuck it in the bin with other potentially toxic waste.
“Please step forward for your country”
It’s not ours any more.
Confirms what Dr Johnson said about the appeal to patriotism being the last refuge of a scoundrel.
He just gets worse and worse and worse, doesn’t he? Is there nothing he wouldn’t stoop to? Just vile.
That Twatt Mancock parody account made me chuckle!
I apologise for this being a long comment but Rose asked yesterday for population and mortality figures which I have recollated and recalculated, using the latest ONS figures today, to show that this has been a NORMAL year for deaths. I can provide all the source links if desired. The total REGISTERED deaths to date this year are 554,919. This is for ALL causes, hence takes out any attributions of with or from Covid. I’ve had to make one or two assumptions. The most up to date death figures are for England and Wales. The UK population figures are estimates up to 2018 and projections for 2019/2020 (as per the ONS web site). The ratio of E & W deaths to UK deaths is more or less in line for the whole data set (around 1.14) so I’ve assumed the E & W deaths in relation to the UK population is consistent (in fact the population has risen in E & W more than Scotland and Ireland since 2000).
NOW! If we have a recurrence of the peak deaths of around 22,000 per week (unlikely!) taking the total for this year (with 5 more reporting periods) from 554,919 to 664,919 (around 0.99% of the UK population) this still only ranks at number 40 out of the last 70 years! It’s not even in the top half!
Assuming a more realistic but still generous 15,000 per week for the next 5 reporting periods will take the total deaths up to 629,919, or number 50 out of the last 70 years, even lower!
Data below should anyone want to copy to Excel (percentages are to only 2 d.p. – you will need to recalculate for the accurate percentage figures). If I’ve got anything wrong I welcome being corrected. Apologies for the formatting!
DavidC
———————-Deaths—-Deaths———–
Year UK Popln. UK———E & W–% E & W
2020 67,254,500————664,919 0.99%
2019 66,867,400————530,841 0.79%
2018 66,435,600 616,014 541,589 0.82%
2017 66,040,200 607,172 533,253 0.81%
2016 65,648,100 597,206 525,048 0.80%
2015 65,110,000 602,782 529,655 0.81%
2014 64,596,800 570,341 501,424 0.78%
2013 64,105,700 576,458 506,790 0.79%
2012 63,705,000 569,024 499,331 0.78%
2011 63,285,100 552,232 484,367 0.77%
2010 62,759,500 561,666 493,242 0.79%
2009 62,260,500 559,617 491,348 0.79%
2008 61,823,800 579,697 509,090 0.82%
2007 61,319,100 574,687 504,052 0.82%
2006 60,827,000 572,224 502,599 0.83%
2005 60,413,300 582,964 512,993 0.85%
2004 59,950,400 584,791 514,250 0.86%
2003 59,636,700 612,085 539,151 0.90%
2002 59,365,700 608,045 535,356 0.90%
2001 59,113,000 604,393 532,498 0.90%
2000 58,886,100 610,579 537,877 0.91%
1999 58,684,400 629,476 553,532 0.94%
1998 58,474,900 627,592 553,435 0.95%
1997 58,314,200 632,517 558,052 0.96%
1996 58,164,400 638,879 563,007 0.97%
1995 58,024,800 641,712 565,902 0.98%
1994 57,862,100 626,222 551,780 0.95%
1993 57,713,900 658,194 578,512 1.00%
1992 57,584,500 634,238 558,313 0.97%
1991 57,438,700 646,181 570,044 0.99%
1990 57,237,500 641,799 564,846 0.99%
1989 57,076,500 657,733 576,872 1.01%
1988 56,916,400 649,178 571,408 1.00%
1987 56,804,000 644,342 566,994 1.00%
1986 56,683,800 660,735 581,203 1.03%
1985 56,554,000 670,656 590,734 1.04%
1984 56,409,300 644,918 566,881 1.00%
1983 56,315,700 659,101 579,608 1.03%
1982 56,290,700 662,801 581,861 1.03%
1981 56,357,500 657,974 577,890 1.03%
1980 56,329,700 661,519 581,385 1.03%
1979 56,240,100 675,576 593,019 1.05%
1978 56,178,000 667,177 585,901 1.04%
1977 56,189,900 655,143 575,928 1.02%
1976 56,216,100 680,799 598,516 1.06%
1975 56,225,700 662,477 582,841 1.04%
1974 56,235,600 667,359 585,292 1.04%
1973 56,222,900 669,692 587,478 1.04%
1972 56,096,700 673,938 591,889 1.06%
1971 55,928,000 645,078 567,262 1.01%
1970 55,632,200 655,385 575,194 1.03%
1969 55,460,600 659,537 579,378 1.04%
1968 55,213,500 655,998 576,754 1.04%
1967 54,959,000 616,710 542,516 0.99%
1966 54,642,700 643,754 563,624 1.03%
1965 54,349,500 627,798 549,379 1.01%
1964 53,990,800 611,130 534,737 0.99%
1963 53,624,900 654,288 572,868 1.07%
1962 53,291,800 636,051 557,636 1.05%
1961 52,807,400 631,788 551,752 1.04%
1960 52,372,500 603,328 526,268 1.00%
1959 51,956,300 606,115 527,651 1.02%
1958 51,652,500 604,040 526,843 1.02%
1957 51,430,200 591,200 514,870 1.00%
1956 51,183,500 597,981 521,331 1.02%
1955 50,946,100 595,916 518,864 1.02%
1954 50,764,900 578,400 501,896 0.99%
1953 50,592,900 577,220 503,529 1.00%
1952 50,429,200 573,806 497,484 0.99%
1951 50,286,900 632,786 549,380 1.09%
That’s great, but the problem is, people used to be allowed to die from whatever they liked. Now, you can still die as long as it’s not from Covid. If there are any deaths at all from Covid, then we need to Take Action. And on it goes.
Thank you David that’s brilliant
Thanks Rose.
There’s a very good chart at
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/death-rate
although a) it’s based on the death rate (deaths per million) rather than showing the absolute numbers and b) annoyingly it projects, as a default, out to 2041! Set the last year to 2020 and it’s very evident how the rate has been falling from the 1950s into 2013 or thereabouts, rising slightly since then.
DavidC
Interesting but I think one factor that skews the data will be East European migration from the early 2000s. I haven’t seen any data but I guess the average age of residents dropped significantly.
But your point is still a strong one.
Hi Nick,
The demographic split might be different but total deaths are just that – total deaths. It doesn’t matter what the split is. Interestingly the big supermarkets think that the current UK population is 10 to 20 million MORE than the estimated figures based on their food sales. That would have the effect of lowering the death rate (deaths per million or deaths as a percentage of the population) even further.
DavidC
this is a must watch, German experts debunking vaccine BS and UK roll out :-
https://vimeo.com/487879592
Just watched. What an absolute scandal.
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/12/02/2015954117
Another mask study. Saved 45% of infections in Germany. 90% confidence level. Any stats guys tell me why they’d not go for 95% and what the Danmask study would have shown if it too had been so loose?
I haven’t gone through this much but would be interested to hear people’s thoughts. Not a RCT of course and makes a lot of noise about how masks saved lives.
Made big news in South Africa today, too. Please stats guys – take it apart for us…
90% confidence level is considered too low for secure findings.
The other question has to be about the methodology used to establish the 45% of infections not acquired. That is what sounds most dodgy, especially in light of any inflection in curves of infection and mortality after mask wearing at higher levels of aggregation.
Saved 45%. But 55% got through ? How convinced am I now….
I wouldn’t get too hung up about the CI without the context of the effect size. 95% is a convention, but there is nothing magic about it. you might end up using 90% when your sample size turns out to be small and more research is needed – though I don’t think the sample was in any way small here. Or it might be that 90% gives a narrower, more helpful range for decision making (I see the the CI is one-sided). Sorry I’m too tired to read the article properly – it’s presentation seems very bizarre and difficult to read, but then it’s definitely not my field.
A lot seems to hang on single location Jena which introduced a mask mandate in early April. It’s clear that COVID-19 transmission is seasonal but they don’t seem to account for this at all. I got these temperature charts for March and April from Accuweather https://www.accuweather.com/en/de/jena/07743/april-weather/171709?year=2020 . Notice that early April is start of a period of warm spring weather. Could it be the quite sudden warm spring weather rather than the masks that reduced the cases in Jena? (Yes!)
Thank you. Do you think that it’s publishing a little early then? There was a similar study in the US which was withdrawn once the seasonality kicked in and cases went up.
You would also have to wonder how they would explain the countries where compliance is high, such as the US and across Europe where it hasn’t prevented more lockdowns in any way
Yes. The way I see this paper is that in effect they are testing a very simple model of the infection rate where the only variable is mask or not. They have managed to find a short time period and a location (Spring, Germany) where the model fits the data. I wouldn’t pay attention to the statistical significance / confidence level that is just another way of saying they are getting a good fit of the data to their “model” but given they have been very selective about the data it is pretty much meaningless.
With vaccines now rolling out I’m expecting the number of new long covid sufferers to drop dramatically or will they just find something else to blame it on, long vaccine perhaps?
Long lockdown. I’ve been suffering for months. Insomnia, depression, irritability, fatigue, lack of motivation, brain fog… you name it. No one gives a monkeys.
That’s an important point, one even I am sometimes lulled into forgetting. Lockdown is an underlying health condition, and we all have it. That includes many who sincerely disagree with us about the benefits of lockdown and the threat of Covid.
A lot of us are suffering from Long Mushroom Syndrome. It’s caused by being kept constantly in the dark and fed horsesh*t.
So sorry to hear that. I urge you to write to your MP spelling out how bad this lockdown has been for your health and you want it to stop immediately.
Help needed please. In local costcutter last week and ignoramus shop asst told 2 people in queue they must wear masks or she will refuse entry. They said nothing so I had to remark they may have a medical exemption and pretty sure she cannot refuse entry, cue argument. I complained to costcutter, they fob me off. I go to council asking what is their responsibility (adding lots of smaller local shops have signs saying ‘no mask no entry’). Someone from council rings me, another argument as she tells me shop is right, Equality Act 2010 means fuck all apparently. I request council email me their response do I can take it further. So, I have looked on laworfiction website and it says it’s against the Equality Act for shops to refuse entry, but some of their content is dated September regarding face coverings. Can someone categorically share info / links so I can tell the council to stop being ignorant twats. Thanks.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own
Look at the exemption cards section John. I carry a lanyard (in my pocket, not on display) with the link and exemptions section printed out on the back but I’ve never needed to show either.
Bottom line, as far as I know, the shop cannot (according to the Equality Act) LEGALLY prevent you from entering the shop, and you do NOT need to display an exemption card, neither are you under ANY obligation to have to explain what your exemption is – it’s between you and your Doctor. The police cannot legally ask you to explain your exemption either.
DavidC
It’s not even Equality Act. It’s the statutory instrument on face coverings coupled with the government’s guidance.
This fantastic letter was published by another contributor earlier this week – might be helpful
Breach of the Equality Act 2010
Dear Mr XXXXXX,
On Sunday xxxx 2020 I was refused the opportunity to purchase food, given my inability to wear a face covering, despite having a disability exemption, in clear breach of Section 15 of the Equality Act 2010.
At approximately 2.20pm I entered the premises, but was immediately challenged by a member of staff, who demanded I wear a mask, otherwise they would not allow me to purchase food. I explained that I had a valid exemption due to my disability, whereupon I was asked to prove my disability with a lanyard. I explained that wearing a disability lanyard was not a legal requirement and that I was ostracised enough without displaying to others that I was disabled. However, he still refused, leaving me to request to speak to the manager.
XXXXXX subsequently appeared, along with three other members of staff, which your CCTV images will confirm. I felt it was tantamount to harassment. In front of other customers, increasing my anxiety levels still further, I explained the situation twice, but she completely refused, blankly stating that it was “their policy”.
I went on to state that she personally was in breach of the Equality Act 2010 for disability discrimination and was liable to a significant fine and claim for damages if she refused to serve me due to not seeing evidence of my disability, thereby treating me less favourably than a non-disabled person. I said that I would take matters further and asked for her name, which I obtained by taking a photo of her name badge. As I left, the staff proceeded to mock me with comments such as “have a nice day” and “bye bye”, in an over-exaggerated, sarcastic tone.
Aside from being a breach of the act, the whole experience was intimidating and humiliating and totally unnecessary.
The incident was reported to Thames Valley Policy at 2.49pm and a full statement given. They confirmed officers would be in attendance.
As the owner of the business, you are responsible for instructing your employees that the new face covering regulations do not supersede other critical rights, protecting against invasion of privacy and disability discrimination and that the Equality Act 2010 trumps the face-covering law.
This is the reason government guidance states: ‘Those who have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering should not be routinely asked to give any written evidence of this, this includes exemption cards. No person needs to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional about their reason for not wearing a face covering’.
My purpose in visiting McDonalds xxxxx was to buy food for my young, severely disabled son, eagerly waiting in the car outside with his mother. Given his condition, his diet is extremely limited with McDonalds food being his favourite. Needless to say, the trip didn’t turn out as expected, leaving me in shock and him – distraught.
If I don’t receive a response within 14 days of the date of this letter, I will have no alternative but to instruct my solicitor to commence legal action against your employee xxxxx and possibly yourself.
Yours sincerely,
xxxxxxx
This equally fantastic letter was published by another contributor (think ex lawyer) earlier this week – might be helpful (2 parts)
I have been a long-time supporter of your shop, and have always shopped with you in preference to buying music from anywhere else, believing strongly that we should support local independent businesses. My husband has purchased a piano from you, and a few years ago, we ordered a double piano stool. However, I regret to say that I will not be buying from your shop again because of the experience I had when I visited your shop on Saturday, 6th December.
At about 11.15am, I walked into the store to browse the piano music section for a Christmas gift for my husband. When I was nearly at that section, a young girl came rushing over to me and asked me to return to the store entrance to put on some gloves. I explained that my hands are very sensitive, and I couldn’t wear them . She then challenged me as to why I wasn’t wearing a mask, and I explained that I was exempt. She then demanded to see proof of my exemption. I said I didn’t need to produce this, and I asked her if she had read the government’s guidance on this point. She assured me that she had, but clearly this wasn’t the case, as she would have been aware that there is no requirement to produce any proof of exemption. She tried to tell me that it was “against the law” for me to enter the shop without wearing a mask. I said I would be more than happy to discuss this with the manager if she would like to call him or her, but she muttered something which I couldn’t hear, because of her mask, and told me to keep “socially distanced”, despite the fact that there was only one other person on the ground floor at the time. I started to reply, but she turned on her heel and walked away from me. Her attitude was belligerent and off-putting in the extreme, a point I made to the lady who served me at the check out, and who apologised on behalf of her colleague.
I used to be a lawyer and have carefully examined both the statutory instrument that introduced the wearing of face masks (The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) Regulations 2020) and also the government’s own guidance in this regard, which you can find here. I draw your attention specifically to the section marked “Exemption cards”, which I quote as follows:
Exemption cards
If you have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering:
This means that you do not need to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional about your reason for not wearing a face covering.
However, some people may feel more comfortable showing something that says they do not have to wear a face covering. This could be in the form of an exemption card, badge or even a home-made sign.
Carrying an exemption card or badge is a personal choice and is not required by law.
I would strongly advise you to make all your staff aware of this point, as demanding that either a face mask is worn, or that an exemption card is produced, is not a legal requirement, and could even leave your business open to a claim under the Equality Act 2010. If you want to look into this point further, I recommend visiting the website, Law or Fiction. This website is run by qualified lawyers who volunteer their time and expertise in an effort to provide some in depth analysis of the government’s measures. In particular, please note the following important quote from this article:
The regulations do not and cannot trump discrimination law
Anti-discrimination laws in the Equality Act 2010 cannot be overwritten by these regulations. The Equality Act provides fundamental protections for citizens with disabilities. These also overlap with rights to privacy and autonomy having to be treated with reference to their disability (or, for that matter, their gender, race, sexuality etc.)
What should businesses do?
Businesses and their staff are best advised not to challenge those who refuse to wear a face covering. Otherwise, at some point in the day there is likely to be a time when someone with a disability is challenged. Depending on how the situation develops, and this could be within minutes or seconds, a situation may arise when the business, and the person conducting the challenge, may find they have committed:
—– Part 2 to follow
—- part 2
With that in mind, consider the following.
Standing up for others
There will be real concern that those who are already vulnerable will be subject to harassment from those who do not appreciate their disability and who misunderstand that law. They may live to regret it since ignorance of the law will be no excuse when they find themselves in Court.
Those who support and stand up for the rights of others do not have to have a disability themselves in order to be protected. The Equality Act 2010 provides protection for those who are treated unfavourably because of someone else’s disability, just as if the disability was theirs.
I presume that you also require your staff to wear face coverings whilst at work. It would therefore be also worth reading this article to consider what your rights and obligations are under employment law and Health & Safety Laws. You will note that there is no legal requirement for staff to wear masks at work, and this is a matter entirely for employers. You have presumably carried out risk assessments into the wearing of face coverings for your staff, as a failure to do so could leave you vulnerable to future claims, particularly as the evidence to support their effectiveness is weak at best, and there is at least equally strong evidence to suggest that they may cause physical and psychological problems through prolonged use (see this article for further information). You will of course remember that at the height of the pandemic in March/April, the government’s advice was very much against the wearing of face masks by the general population.
In light of what the legislation actually says about the wearing of face coverings and exemptions thereto, I believe you, as a local business, have a great role to play in setting a kinder and more understanding tone for your customers and staff, which I believe would actively encourage more people to shop with you. However, whilst you continue to have staff who are ignorant of the law and belligerent in attitude, I am sorry to say that I will not be returning to shop with you.
Yours sincerely
It’s against the law to refuse service on the grounds of disability and if you are exempt technically you are ‘disabled’. They can refuse to serve you if they don’t like the look of you but not if you can’t wear a mask because you have a hidden disability. Whatever the SI is, they haven’t changed the 2010 Equalities Act so it stands.
I can imagine that the first person from the council that you spoke to do asked if someone could get back to you. The person who then contacted you probably had no understanding of the law and just trotted out the party line. Always worth asking what their job title is. Good luck and let us know the outcome in due course.
Thanks all, very very helpful info that is now pasted into a word document. I disagreed with virtually everything she said, and laughed when she trotted out the ‘we are in a worlwide pandemic’ line. I asked the council person to email me what she said, no reply yet. Hope she does as your replies are fantastic. Will post back here updates if they do.
I like my T shirts:
http://www.artillery-voo.co.uk/
Arnie
Good evening sceptics. I’ve been on here less lately as the tone was getting very depressing and was already down enough but I can offer you all another positive report.
Yesterday I went to the Post Office to send some Christmas post. Getting there and queuing up was a miserable experience with the sheeples out in force. One fully zombified guy was just standing out in the open completely dead eyed. But I got in to find two other customers and all staff were unmasked, must be optional for them having glass counters. One customer was already at a counter and we shared a nice smile as they left. I was served by the same lovely woman and it felt really good to interact with an actual human. She also responded postively to be serving the second unmasked customer of the day. I strode out with a genuine smile that turned at least two muzzloids’ heads.
Later that day I walked along the main road to the train station and saw a group of four
unmasked young women getting off together, probably local College students. Not sure what’s going on with that but that’s the second time I’ve seen this from that local demographic after shopping at the weekend. Emerging pocket of resistance maybe? Good to see, especially from us generally sheepish youngsters.
I am encouraged by the sub-100% mask compliance and am now going out more to keep it that way. Understandably many here have given up with shops given all the silly theatrics but I like to think these little interactions go a long way in not only supporting other unmasked shoppers, but also potentially turning any wavering sheep into fellow goats. Mabel Cow has done this, and you just might too.
Post Office Staff are good – 100% unmasked in my town. I will continue to support my local Post Office.
My local PO is a larger one but it’s still one of the better venues.
If behind a perspex screen they don’t need a muzzle
Great stuff, DRW! Thanks for sharing a positive report.
Thanks for your response Charlie. Positivity always goes down well here.
Great news, glad you had a positive response. Yes vitally important to be seen persuade others. I’ve found Aldi to be friendly to me being maskless.
My local Lidl is fairly relaxed. Those two are certainly less obnoxious about “safety” than the big chains.
My Aldi is good with people being maskless. The security guard we have is maskless as are several members of staff.
Most of the shops I frequent never ask , it’s the customers that seem to have a problem with me being maskless.
You could be right about undergraduates – I was pleased to see rent strikes are being organised in several universities because of the lack of proper teaching this year.
I’m a final year undergraduate and can confirm Zoom University is very unpopular. I think those young women are at the local further education college though not said university.
Great I have also stopped wearing the mask in shops and on transport and its very liberating. We all need to do this.We need to be fighting back against these stupid rules.
Indeed Janette, I’m proud to say I have never worn one. Want normal, act normal.
Exactly but how de we get the masses to do likewise when they have been brainwashed for months about wearing the damn things?
I’d say keep setting a good example and we might eventually reach them. We’ve heard stories on here proving herd mentality works both ways.
This morning I posted the below..
University of Cambridge testing results – over 9,600 students tested 29th Nov to 6th Dec – zero confirmed positive cases.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/documents/pooled_testing_report_30nov-6dec.pdf
…and wanting to know more, I dug a little deeper. It seems University of Cambridge have developed their own PCR tests (possibly in partnership with AstraZeneca) in their Anne McClaren Laboratory – they seem to have a four hour turnaround and be quite accurate. They generate very different results from other PCR tests that create masses of so called new cases and might be about to tip London into Tier 3.Ouch..
Here are a couple of links.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-52212777
https://covid19.medschl.cam.ac.uk/2020/04/09/cambridge-researchers-develop-new-coronavirus-test-for-frontline-nhs-workers/
The main points coming out of this seem to be that:
People with more knowledge / time than I might want to delve deeper into some of this. Might also be worth analyzing impact on Cambridge hospital stats vs others..as this Cambridge PCR test will be used on local patients I guess?
delete.
Asymptotic spread is a myth. And PCR is fatally flawed. Great to see Cambridge prove both these points.
Indeed.
~ Dr Michael Yeadon ~
Personally I think the term asymptomatic as regards to covid or flu in general is what we used to call people who haven’t got it.
So true.
Looking at the first link, I read that as 10 positives, all confirmed to be false by further tests
Yep
Thought so. I make that 100 % of positives are false positives then.
Yep – I even suspect Cambridge Uni are showing off because they want some of the millions in funding that London Imperial get. Higher standards might be a way to do this after we get over the current lunacy.
It works and is cheap, so why is it completely ignored by our doctors and health service?
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-and-treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf
Passionate endorsement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8SXOBy-4w&feature=emb_logo
sadly because it is cheap and cant generate billions for the pharma companies – all about profits not saving lives
And more seriously for them, if there is an effective treatment (which this appears to be) it removes the grounds for emergency authorisation of vaccines.
Think you answered your own questions there.
Rather than trying to direct the dense to a website I thought I would get out my old Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1996 edition) in order to find a working definition of what a vaccine is (or is supposed to be). I quote, page 1567:
“vaccine. noun. 1 (medicine) A preparation containing killed or weakened (attenuated) bacteria or viruses, or serum containing specific antibodies, used in vaccination to confer temporary or permanent immunity to a bacterial or viral disease by stimulating the body to produce antibodies to a specific bacterium or virus.”
Simple. Vaccines have bugger all to do with reducing symptoms. That’s the job of drugs. Page 404:
“drug. noun. 1 any chemical substance which, when taken into the body or applied externally, has a specific effect on it’s functioning”
Note the difference. Try to get your heads around it!
And next time someone in the media, government, in big pharma or even on these threads tries to spin you any bullshit about vaccines reducing symptoms you will know what to say to them.
We discussed this in the office today (1st class degree Biologist with a 2.1 Chemist (from nearly 28 years ago) with 2.1 math guy in the background) today and agreed definitions had suddenly this year all seem to become a bit fuzzy. Bastards are trying to change the definitions to make more money!
They have been playing with semantics all along to create uncertainty i.e fear. Either that or just demonstrating their scientific ignorance.
I agree with you about the definition, but why do you keep posting this? I don’t quite understand what you’re arguing against. Can you explain?
An email from 38 degrees! I’m tempted to press the button to say I’m in so I can leave my “message of encouragement” I don’t suppose they would leave it there for long though
38 degrees
Blimey, mindblowing world public health as an advertising campaign
get me a bucket!
I remember reading an article years ago by a psycholgist I think it was.
He said that your personal happiness depends on three factors:
Genetics
Social relationships
The degree of control over your own life.
He also mentioned several ways to immediately improve your own mood:
Go outside into the freh air
Meet with friends
A celebratory activity with good friends in the open air with good food and drink, dancing, singing, storytelling
That is the way life should be lived.
It is the way human beings have always lived.
It is the picture we hold in our minds and hearts.
And we haven’t truly had it for decades.
The cancer at the heart of our society.
Agrred.
In other news it was 40 years ago today that John Lennon lived his final day:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=John+Lennon+40+years+&ia=web
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”
John Lennon
What would he say today?
Nothing has changed?
It’s still the same, I’ve got nothing to say but it’s okay …
“What would he say today?”
I told you so!
you will own nothing and you will be happy?
Imagine!
MK Ultraed
And coming up next on BBC1, classic comedy with Perry and Croft’s ‘Are You Being Vaccinated?’
Captain Peacock: Now gather round everyone. Today the Grace Brothers department store has been privileged by Her Majesty’s Government to be the first retail outlet licensed to give out the new anti-Covid vaccine.
Mrs Slocombe: Oh, Captain Peacock, that’s wonderful. Can I be the first in line?
Mr Lucas: Steady on Mrs Slocombe, the first lot are supposed to be the over 80s…but then again, maybe you’re right.
Mrs Slocombe: Oooh, shut it you. Anyway, the vaccination is not for me. It’s for my pussy.
Captain Peacock (coughing): Er…I don’t quite follow, Mrs Slocombe.
Mrs Slocombe: Well, you see during this lockdown, my pussy’s been shut up and hasn’t seen daylight since March. He’s looking quite peaky.
Captain Peacock: I think not, Mrs Slocombe. The vaccine is at present for humans only. We need a volunteer for demonstration of how to apply it. Is anybody free?
Mr Humphries: May I ask Captain Peacock, is the dose administered via the arm, or…somewhere else?
Captain Peacock: Ahem. Somewhere else.
Mr Humphries: I’m free!
That was funny, I did the voices too.
how on earth did they get away with it…!
Another Nail in the Coffin for Asymptomatic Transmission?
https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1336385958300749828
“I feel bad about how this went but I don’t think anyone is at fault here” said Christian Drosten, an important contributor to the notorious paper which first claimed that Asymptomatic transmission occurred. This seemed to involve ‘un-interviewed’ German people doing business with China and can be read about here.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468
This is the foundation paper that the media picked up which started the asymptomatic ball rolling and led to my Physio being terrified in my presence. We all know what other horrors this has led to. Jeez….how can nobody be at fault? Profiteering?
The logic:
‘Oh no! I’m asymptomatic. I might pass an’ infection’ on to somebody else and they might become asymptomatic too.. And they might pass it on to somebody else who also becomes asymptomatic. What a nightmare! ‘
Phlogiston in the miasma. What a scam.
That was brilliant Two-Six. I had to look those two words up. Respect.
Pretty sure the average medieval peasant had a better understanding of disease transmission than the typical sheeple here in 2020.
Post of the day!
How dare you say that Phlogiston is a scam? Are you an expert? No! So let the experts do their job and be guided by The Science!
Exactly. Phlogiston is as real as the ether, the humors or spontaneous generation. These anti-science guys are crazy, they really need to listen to people who know better than them.
All promoted by Royal Society at the time probably.
It was indeed.
It’s how science (real science) proceeds though. Don’t slag off those who went before.
With these wonderful new gene probes and virus editing tools, a whole industry has sprung up to create new diseases, and then profit from ‘curing’ them.
It’s not about science per se, it’s about making money. Without scruples. But the scam is clear, the waters are receding, and the guilty actors are revealed as the swamp drains.
Now they need to be dealt with.
BTW, Lavoisier, one of the key scientists of the day, was eventually guillotined.
230 years ago. A few seconds in human evolutionary times.
Anything can happen. Something will.
Every little helps.
It it’s also how we have proceeded, during this situation, iterating through various ideas about what is going on, gradually honing in on more accurate conceptualisations and “rules of thumb”.
It’s the sincerity or lack of sincerity of the endeavour which marks out the “scientist” (or investigator) from the scammer. Scruples is all.
Am I reading that right? They based the whole asymptomatic transmission bollocks on ONE woman!
Yes, this case is very famous and known by every sceptic in Germany.
Drosten needs to swing.
This is great news. Had a low day today. So many good nuggets in the thread.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/paper-non-symptomatic-patient-transmitting-coronavirus-wrong
This was written in February.
And there is also this. Dorstens hands are all over this fear machine.
We do not have much to smile about these days, but today was different. 1. Standing in a que at a national cheap shop (in my local City) dressed up as Buzz Lightyear (shield) a young mum and her child just behind me in a pushchair looked up and gave me a beautiful smile and wave, waving back I said that’s a lovely smile you made my day, the mum then gave me and equally lovely smile. 2. Another que, another well known shop where we had to negotiate airport style entry, I remarked on this and standing behind me was a young woman with a huge smile, she said I know you should work where i work it manic and stupid. When asked where she worked she said it was at our local hospital as a nurse, more huge smiles.
Yes, folks, there are some lovely people out there. (Not all lunatics).
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=67735
God new piece on Sweden in German.
Pure casedemic, because they are
now testing twice as much as Germany!
Driven by politicians who want to take credit for “beating” the virus to cover up their disgraceful sacrifice of the elderly.
Whilst YT is removing videos that go against the official COVID19 narrative, I am glad to see that GMail just routed an email offering rapid COVID19 tests to my spam folder.
Sorry if already posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPDkCOJO3pc
Simon Cowell missed a trick. This album would have definitely made Xmas No1
Small town win the south Wales valleys has just had three shops closed because of positive Covid tests. One cafe, one jewellers and one clothes shop. This is insanity.
This is Dungford.
Dungford is insane.
His next location will be Broadmoor.
He just doesn’t know it yet.
What cretins went for a test?
The local authority (Rhondda Cynon Taf) did a mass test of asymptomatic people last weekend.
Did the shop owners/staff consent to be tested? If so, more fool them
Sorry to say I completely agree.
Tests simply feed the machine.
Starve the beast.
Do not get tested. The tests show nothing. They are an enabler of the continuing BS.
If you’re in the mood for an anti-lockdown song, here you go:
https://youtu.be/QgO3_NNbz3o
Pierre XO is an American who lives in the Czech Republic.
My day just got a lot worse. It’s a good think we moved to our 60-acre property permanently because I may not ever be able to leave it again. I know there are a lot of us who will fight this, but I’m on the verge of tears.
Ontario’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Christine Elliott, revealed Tuesday that the province will issue a proof of vaccination card to people who receive the COVID-19 immunization. “That’s going to be really important for people to have for travel purposes, perhaps for work purposes, for going to theatre or cinemas, or any other places where people will be in close physical contact when we get through the worst of the pandemic,” Elliott told reporters. “Yes, that will be essential for people to have that.”
Nothing less than blackmail.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot would envy the level of control Western pols have achieved.
Forgeries will be rife.
Working on them as we speak… There are many other individuals and groups doing the same.
Arnie.
I really do hope so. That would be money well spent. While I’m upset for myself, I’m truly afraid for my children. They will want to travel, go to the movies, cinema, etc., and one is going to be a teacher and I truly fear she will be forced to take the vaccine in order to work. I am so full of rage and hate right now and won’t apologize for hoping the vaccine is an unmitigated disaster of adverse reactions and worse.
Same. Though If they are young then they will probably be at the back of the queue so hopefully spared long enough for bad side effects to emerge. I’m equally worried for my older relatives.
It’s not even proven it immunises.
62% effective’, whatever ‘effective’ means.
My immune system has proved 100% effective so far, no costs, no side effects.
Nah what good is that, we just get lucky to keep surviving as a species.
I think this is authoritarian willy-waving. Just bullshit. The vaccine story is bullshit, it does not confer immunity. Trying to base restrictions on what people do on the basis of this bullshit is insane.
I strongly suspect it is one of those “nudge” things. In the UK at least. Australia has a history of mandatory vaccination, I’m not sure Canada has though. Or is this something individual States control, as is the case in Australia and the USA?
Dag burn it, and I thought we had a bad government in GB, I guess we’re relatively lucky so far. I don’t know if Elliot is connected to Trudeau (I wouldn’t be surprised), but his lot don’t care much about human rights do they? Involved in the great reset too from what I undestand.
I’d say think about emigrating (though for myself intend to stay and fight it however bad things get), but perhaps they won’t let you do that by now anyway. We really do need to get an underground movement going. I think of those people who tried to escape Hong Kong in a leaky boat – and were stopped by Chinese officials. Coming soon to the West… Time to dig out those “Allo Allo” videos?
In the mean time, take some advice from Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) – it is not ours to decide what times we live in, only to decide what to do with the time that is given to us!”
Don’t give up, we’ll beat these rotters yet!
Over to the experts?
Surely there must be some political opposition there? In Portugal, when the government was going to make it compulsory to have the anti-Covid app (not sure how this would have worked in practice – nothing about those without smart phones, etc), opposition parties said it would be against the constitution and the government backed down fairly quickly. This proposal in Ontario must be against the federal Charter, at least in some way? If parties don’t oppose it, surely the legal community will. Even if a card is issued, I suspect it won’t have much use in practice.
I think the announcement is probably what the British would call a ‘kite’ – you fly it and see what the reaction is. The American equivalent is, I believe, ‘run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes’. People need to shoot it down now.
There’s opposition, but very little of it is political and none at the party level. There is a petition by Conservative MP Derek Sloan around mandatory vaccination and he’s, of course, being smeared as an anti-science, anti-vaxxer. There’s Randy Hillier at the provincial level, who has been great. The Ontario government is (so-called) Conservative, so not tied to Trudeau. We have a constitutional lawyer, Rocco Galati, who has filed a massive Statement of Claim against all levels of government but it’s going to take time. There are also class action suits being prepared by him on behalf of Parents for Mask Free Education and I think some restaurant owners as well. So I do think there will be pushback and I know there will be legal challenges, so I’m trying not to freak out too much.
Thanks for the information. I lived in Vancouver in the late 1990s and did used to follow Canadian politics, but I’m out of the loop. Really sorry to hear about what’s been happening lately in Ontario and in Toronto in particular (not to mention Trudeau; last I remember about him from my BC days, he was a snowboard instructor at Whistler, I think?). Funny how family connections can help those who might not otherwise manage…
Keep pushing back. All the best. I live in Montreal. Much the same.
Sorry to hear that Lisa. I had a similar day yesterday too. I cried most of the day, the first time since this awful lockdown happened. I am just struggling to get my head round this whole awful nightmare. Just remember you are not alone.
Thank you Janette. I wish I could say it was the first time I cried since this started! I was about as depressed as I’ve ever been (had post-natal depression after both kids) in the late spring/early summer and really broke down when masks were mandated. I’ve been pretty good for months now as we sold our Toronto home and moved to our country place permanently. I have come to terms with leaving the city I loved — couldn’t stand to see it go to shit — and have embraced the quiet and rather insulated life in the country. But I was certainly hoping to re-enter society again if/when things are (old) normal and had hoped to travel again someday. I’m really more angry and upset for my kids and for all the young people who are at virtually zero risk and who might eventually be blackmailed to take the vaccine in order to work and live like proper humans.
Ok Lisa,
I get it.
But we need to pull ourselves together and get this sorted.
There is no value in feeling sorry for oneself.
I know that is harsh.
We know that we will win.
I feel it’s easy to say that (and don’t take this the wrong way), but in practice, everything feels against ‘us’ as a community.
I understand.
You have the power in yourselves.
Be brave and use it wisely.
Best.
That’s fine, I hear you. I generally allow myself a short period of time to be upset and then pick myself up and carry on. Today was my wallow day! I believe we will win as well and I will be on our always inspiring Vaccine Choice Canada call tomorrow night with like-minded people who will fight to the end.
Are you in what they call ‘Cottage Country’? I remember a family trip to Ontario and how nice both Northern Ontario and some of the southern cities (like London) were.
In the UK we’ve had the TV show ‘Cardinal’ on (just came to an end a few months ago) and it was set around North Bay. It was very popular here. I think Billy Campbell’s Canadian accent was spot on, even though he’s American (though he has lived in Canada, I believe). The winter scenes sure did remind me of growing up in Minnesota, though.
I’m just southwest of cottage country near what passes for skiing in Ontario, so there are a lot of people with second homes in the area. Many weekenders moved up here in the spring when the first lockdown happened and some, like us, have moved up permanently. We’ve had a second home here for almost 20 years and never intended to live here full time, but I had to get out of Toronto so now it’s our permanent home. I was very anxious being in the city and it has completely lost everything that made it a great place to live, so we sold before our place lost even more value and I don’t regret it!
Fascism. Canada’s politicians are a disgrace
As you recognise, there is resistance and I suspect that resistance will grow. Vaccination certs etc will prove a damp squib. It’s probably a lot of political posturing which when it comes up against the real world won’t amount to anything.
Try to forget it for today, go out and enjoy your land, breathe the fresh air, (doubtless fresher than the city air) look at the sky, look at the birds, look at the stars tonight. And if the stars make you feel small, remember that the political gobshites are no bigger than any of us. Our humanity will prevail.
Just think how much you’ve achieved this year in getting to where you are – you have strength.
Tell Ms Elliott to shove it up her Fascist Nazi asshole.
Bit of solidarity needed here. Don’t have the vaccine and eschew all businesses who insist on seeing proof before you traded with them. If enough people did it they’d go broke.
Matt Hamcock communicates to the plebs:
https://twitter.com/MattHamcock/status/1336360796008423425
This from the Twatt Mancock account made me chuckle:
Have to laugh in these God-awful times :o))
And I think this one is a spoof too. Surely??
https://twitter.com/KP24/status/1336231077963165697
Christ. Hope that’s a script. Surely he doesn’t mean that? Does he?
Good evening Nick
Pretty sure Pietersen has been a skeptic for sometime now, so hopefully it’s a mickeytake!
Best regards
Simon
:o))
Dunno, looking at his twitter feed KP seems pretty excited about the vaccine. He does also mention that everything should open up as soon as the ‘most vulnerable’ have been offered it.
So neither a zealot nor a sceptic really.
Lots of the positive comments underneath are trolls and/or bots with 2 to 20 followers. Probably the 77th Brigade hard at work.
Join the British Army – it’s a political career.
Will a campaign medal be issued?
Will there be citations for gallantry?: “Single-handedly entered the Lockdown Sceptics Forum and engaged the enemy on the efficacy of masking with absolutely no evidential support and, under intensive fire, managed to lay down a granny-killer accusation that impeded the enemy’s advance into the moral high ground.”
There is a god. Two down a lot more to go. Well done Guido https://order-order.com/2020/12/08/watch-kay-burley-beth-rigby-grill-each-other-over-covid-lawbreaking/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9030943/Four-volunteers-got-Pfizers-vaccine-developed-Bells-palsy.html
Of course they should keep an eye on this but incidence in the study population does seem to be consistent with incidence in the general population.
‘the cure is worse than the disease’ but the vaccine isin’t even a cure.
That would mean something like 32,000 cases of Bells palsy per annum in the UK. There are only 2473 cases in the UK in one year. If you factor in that the people taking part in vaccine trials are likely much healthier than the general population, I would say this highly significant.
Why do you claim the incidence isn’t high?
Just been watching an online documentary about the arctic convoys.
Almost as courageous as door Karens enforcing the one way systems at Tesco.
From Dan Wootton on Talk Radio.
Good news. Nadhim Zahawi, minister for Covid vaccine deployment, tells me:
“Categorically, there will be no immunity passports in the UK. They are discriminatory and wrong.”
https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1336389924032045063
We shall see.
No new taxes, wmd, 45 minutes, three weeks to flatten the curve, we respect the leave vote, peace in our time, pound in your pocket, no further territorial demands in Europe…..
“Categorically, there will be no immunity passports”, says he.
But that doesn’t rule out vaccine certificates.
He really sounded like a man way out of his brief at that point – waffling and stumbling.
I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could swing a prize bull by its tail.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman
Watch my lips.
…as I have sexual relations with that woman!
The new BAME, white covid antivaxxers
No need, as we see with social media and the “cancel” culture, law-like social control can be exerted by agencies other than government.
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1336368512089141248
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-Ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-and-treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf
This is an amazing video of Dr Kory in the Senate hearing today. Ivermectin must be used now in all patients with C-19. It is also extremely useful in prophylaxis. It is a scandal if this is not commented in BBC/MSM.These are multiple RCT showing effectiveness of this safe drug in all phases of C-19 and including prophylaxis.An absolute view
check the stuff about bromelain thats going to put the drugs companies out of business. Del Monte Pineapple cubes all round please
Ivermectin was spoken of weeks ago on Sky News Australia as an extremely effective, safe drug. Unfortunately, it’s cheap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbIkGbriJXI
Something else that’s cheap and effective against viruses is hydrogen peroxide, used as a mouthwash and gargle. Worth a look.
2 dead after Pfizer/BioNtech -vaccination: https://www.jewishpress.com/headline/fda-2-participants-4-controls-died-in-pfizer-vaccine-trials/2020/12/08/
But: no problem!
But 4 of the dead did not receive the vaccine!
See, even being just a control is dangerous.
Seriously, I trust nobody.
How were the controls selected?
Randomly?
That’s what the drug company say, I don’t believe that for a minute. They will say anything to get this drug through. This needs further investigative journalism which is not going to happen. The Brazilian Doctor who died in the Astra Zeneca trial was reported in the western world as having been given a placebo but it was a whole different story in the Latin American Press. Yes, he had been part of the vaccine group. When he died the drug company said it might be because he was a doctor working with vaccine patients and nothing To do with the vaccine. But he was given the vaccine and died. I strongly suspect this is the same with the Pfizer one. They will say anything to promote their product. What I do know is that these people were alive and healthy before the vaccine and died shortly after it. That’s a fact. There are so many lies and cover ups now that I do not believe a word these drug companies say. They want their billions and they will get them.
I eagerly await delivery of my large and colourful “I’m NHS Covid vaccinated” pin badge and my “I recovered from Covid” metal pendant. Also my “snood” gangsta style lower face and neck covering, which will keep my throat warm and help prevent cold or ‘flu infection.
Thus equipped, I shall be ready for all eventualities.
There’s been plenty of talk about asymptomatic transmission, but what about presymptomatic transmission? Even if there is little or no chance of asymptomatic transmission, could someone who will shortly show symptoms but has not done so yet have a significant chance of transmission? Presumably there is no way of distinguishing between someone who is asymptomatic and presymptomatic?
One would imagine that the window for any presymptomatic shedding is small.
Is there presymptomatic transmission with known viruses?
No idea. If there is, must be a tiny effect compared to having full on man flu.
I’d assume so. Basically what I’m getting at is, do those people who say I don’t care about others if I don’t wear a face covering – despite having no symptoms, and despite there never being an issue until 2020 (and for that matter until about June 2020) – have any sort of a point?
No, it’s a cult, and mask-wearing symbolises membership.
You care about others by not wishing to spread alarm, fear and hysteria.
Yep there are trillions upon trillions of viruses circulating all the time. You’d have to wear a mask pretty much 24/7 on the back of Fauci-Fergusonism. We can’t be held responsible for passing on viruses when we don’t know if we’ve got them. We should encourage and follow reasonable standards of hygiene eg catching sneezes and these days with the potential for home working, there’s no need for “flu martyrs” to limp into work.
Yes, a ”cult”. It certainly seems as if many of the world’s leaders are in thrall to something of that kind, since they’re all chanting the same mantra.
No, especially some old filthy sock which is the minimum requirement. If they made a difference there’d be a spec and public health instructions on use.
And there’d be hazardous material disposal points.
From what I understand, very similar to other Rhino and Corona Viruses:
“ Pre-symptomatic transmission (i.e. when the infector develops symptoms after transmitting the virus to another person) has been reported [29,46,47]. Exposure of secondary cases occurred 1–3 days before the source patient developed symptoms [47]. It has been inferred through modelling that, in the presence of control measures, pre-symptomatic transmission contributed to 48% and 62% of transmissions in Singapore and China, respectively [48]. Pre-symptomatic transmission was deemed likely based on a shorter serial interval of COVID-19 (4.0 to 4.6 days) than the mean incubation period (five days) [49]”.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/latest-evidence/transmission
So do face coverings outside of medical settings make any difference to this? And from what I understand, the only ones which might make a noticeable difference would be so tight as to cause difficulty breathing. And besides, I’m exempt, a I understand the rules. (I just want to have my story straight and watertight, you understand – I mentioned the Danish study, that they don’t work with a beard – is that enough?)
It seems highly unlikely or, rather, totally improbable, when you factor in how often mask wearers fiddle with their filthy face rags (pulled out of pathogen-laden pockets and handbags) and then touch surfaces in shops and other crowded environments. Even in a medical setting their value for anything other than very particular procedures has been disputed (contradictory reports in the literature).
one’s got it and the other one hasn’t got it yet, thats according to some other vaulable post I saw just now on facebook, yeah really its that good.And apparently wth a PCR test all three could be anything you want them to be. It just depends if you dipped the swab in fresh water or beer.
I’m presymptomatic asymptomatic. It means I’m healthy
Strewth, it’s coming to something when you’re expected to act as if you’re unhealthy despite showing no signs of ill health, just in case. I suppose there’s no presymptomatic lepers?!
There certainly are I believe.
Does it really matter if it’s no more deadly than seasonal flu!
If you ain’t symptomatic, snotting and coughing etc and clean, how can you spread anything? It is a nonsense. Some magic miasma. Just breathing?
NO
The self satisfaction of a man as patently inadequate as Mancock has to end in an appalling crash to earth. The vaccines look like they are unraveling. Can the UK really keep jabbing people if the EMA and the FDA reject the same vaccine?
I don’t think so.
I wonder how many they can jab by the time that happens. Should it happen.
“It’s also the latest indication that public health officials are anxious that the vaccine won’t have enough credibility to convince enough Americans to accept it. With so much at stake, it makes sense that some other “incentives” might be considered.
Others, including some industry leaders and lobbyists, are even threatening to make accepting the vaccine mandatory for employees to return to work. Presumably, those who refuse won’t be allowed to return, effectively tying their ability to earn a living to their acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine and/or their ability to get one (since a “black market” for doses is almost assured, particularly after Pfizer and Moderna have warned they won’t be able to deliver any additional doses until mid-2021 (this, just days after Pfizer cut its end-2021 delivery target by 50% due to issues with raw materials).”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/democrat-proposes-tying-15bn-stimulus-checks-covid-vaccinations
They know there is no enthusiasm for a vaccine.
Downgrading supply is a classic way of getting both higher contracted prices, plus expectation management so you can claim success from “delivering above target”
Is that in the US? Supreme Court has to strike that down. If the Dems take Georgia and the senate through fraud we are in hell, permanently
Based on what has come out in the past 24 hours the US is far more compromised by China than even my cynical soul had suspected.
“According to recent reports, the first federal state in Germany has agreed on forced admissions of citizens who had refused to quarantine themselves. Hospitals are being specifically set up for this very purpose. The global pandemic is making matters worse in Baden-Württemberg, the patients number appear to be higher in the German state. Therefore, difficult decisions need to be made to curb the spread of the deadly virus. The government is to set up two or three forced quarantine hospitals in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-12-08/german-state-agreed-forced-hospital-admission-citizens-who-stubbornly-refuse
I am increasingly worried about how dark this is getting. There is just a real sense of drift for me towards the worst outcomes.
I know what you mean.
However, the worst thing I think is if the situation stabilizes.
I don’t care how well the planners have gamed this. Reality is inherently unpredictable. At some point they will lose control. Indeed that may already be happening. There are just too many variables I am convinced that this is all a bit of a ‘Hail Mary Pass’ as the Americans say.
The best laid plans of mice and men.
Heh, the Jerries, always with the camps.
Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen would be useful models.
Canada’s in good company it appears. I knew we weren’t the only country talking about “isolation centres.” New Zealand seems to have a working model based on the Postcards bit the other day on LS. Just another country to cross off my list…not that I’ll be able to travel anywhere given I won’t be taking the dodgy vaccine.
I’ve been to New Zealand several times (paid for by others) and while it is very beautiful, it’s unbelievably expensive (some groceries cost two to three times what they do in the UK or US), people are not paid all that well, housing in Auckland is up there with Vancouver and Toronto (yet both of the latter have much more to offer), lots of social problems, and it’s a long way to fly. Plus, the people seem to have fallen for their own version of the Dear Leader….
I read about a New Zealand woman who tested positive, was placed in an isolation centre and who tried to kill herself. She was let out before the two weeks had finished
Crime against humanity locking up healthy people against their will. I want to know how many PCR tests Jacinda Ardern has taken and if she has had to stay in a ‘detention centre’
Such a transparent crime how politicians, the media, police, the rich are exempt whilst everyone else suffers
Jacinda actually scares me. I saw through her wokeness and superficiality early on but had no idea she would become this dangerous. Well, she was saved by the Rona – her government had failed on nearly all its goals by early 2020 and I had expected the opposition to win the 2020 election until the arrival of the Rona, which has provided so many failed, mediocre politicians with undeserved opportunities. Glad I turned down that job offer in Auckland several years ago!
I was surprised and alarmed to read this report, but here it is (in German) on the SWR website:
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/polizei-bringt-quarantaene-verweigerer-in-corona-krankenhaus-100.html
A similar proposal to lock up quarantine refuseniks in psychiatric hospitals in Sachsen was abandoned earlier this this year due to the understandable public outcry:
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/quarantaene-verweigerer-wegsperren-sachsen-stoppt-plaene-zur-unterbringung-in-psychiatrie/25735202.html
Hopefully the same will happen this time.
Is this true? God help us
.
I have a feeling that all these institutions have a tin ear to peoples concerns, the managers are all Guardian readers and watch the BBC propaganda and believe everything the MSM and government tell tell them.
People should stop funding these organisation if they disagree with them, money is all they care about.
If only money was all they cared about! The people at the top are totally committed to the PC globalist ideology.
And yet Another Nail in the Coffin of Asymptomatic Spread ?
The great Alan McNally, defender of PCR accuracy from Uni of Birmingham senses the tide has turned and is grasping at straws?
https://twitter.com/alanmcn1
Looks impressive in his profile but to me he is a lockdown PCR pro knob who is now starting to see the light in the face of evidence. What takes these people so long to turn? Self interest? Future hope of funding?
3791 tests …only 2 positive…in Birmingham Uni….so the students can go home.
Alan is left with zero ammunition and zero prospect of future funding from Covid. I hope.
https://twitter.com/alanmcn1/status/1335882684523044864
I wonder if PCR coming under fire from the legal challenges might have something to do with it.
This really is the best avenue of attack currently.
Reiner Füllmich is really on the ball.
Very clued in.
By the way China does not use the Drosten-PCR.
…and has virtually no cases since March, when I think they probably decided to end the nonsense.
Well said calchas. I agree.
This is a European /US problem. Lets all attack Drosten methodology PCR. Now. Evidence is overwhelming. Nothing to lose.
China moved on from Covid months ago.
Interesting that the Chinese don’t use PCR. What do they use?
This may have been posted elsewhere but in case you haven’t seen it this is a recent discussion between Reiner Fuellmich and Dr Stefan Hockertz about the roll out of the Pfizer vaccine. Shocking take on it.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/487879592
I wonder if Matt Hancock is trying to emulate Andrew Cuomo and get an Emmy award with his cringe worthy appearance this morning.
Don’t think any of the UK actors are anywhere up to the standard of the likes of Fauci and Cuomo in the US – they have taken lying, manipulation and theatre to another level.
Surely AG Barr deserves the Oscar.
For Best Actor in a supporting role.
And the Oscar for best director of a movie goes to John Brennan for “The Russia Hoax”.
Commentator: No surprises there – it was a truly stunning work of artifice, myth, fiction and camerawork all rolled into a compelling drama. The media absolutely loved it. Some critics said the resolution was a little weak. Maybe, but overall it was undoubtedly the big hit of the year . And I think we could well see John Brennan back here next year receiving an Oscar for his latest epic: “To Steal an Election”.
Jason Goodman at ‘Crowdsource the truth’ on YouTube covers the situation in the US well.
I have been watching him since March, excellent coverage of the madness going on in New York. Reality on the ground is completely different to that portrayed in the fake news media.
‘Lincoln Karim’ also did a great job exposing the fraud that was the empty Central Park hospital, the empty hospitals and the unused Javits Center.
“Considerable debate has always persisted about the religiosity of the Cult of Reason.[6] It was a hodgepodge of ideas and activities, a “multifarious phenomenon, marked by disorderliness”.[7] The Cult encompassed various elements of anticlericalism, including subordination of priests to secular authority, wealth confiscation from the Church, and doctrinal heresies both petty and profound.[7] It was atheistic,[8][9] but celebrated different core principles according to locale and leadership: most famous was Reason, but others were Liberty, Nature, and the victory of the Revolution.[7]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason
I think that we in a period similar to that of the French Revolution, which was alsosparked by collapsing public finances and a growing gap between rich and poor.
It also went into hyperinflation, which is where we are also headed.
https://www.usagold.com/cpmforum/fiatmoneyinflationfrance/
(With apologies to Padraig Pearse)
“Ruiners and Despoilers of Realms had need to be wary if they would guard against such processes. Life springs from death, and from the graves of sceptic men and women spring live nations. The despoilers of this realm have worked well in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Earth. They think that they have purchased half of us, and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything. They think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! they have left us our care home dead, and while the land holds these graves, Earth unfree shall never be at peace.”
Yes, I have been saying for a while that one of the big drivers of this so-called pandemic is the inability of modern western people to confront their own mortality.
You and me both. People have reached a point where they genuinely don’t believe they’ll die, ever.
As Yuval Noah HararI wrote – people will come to see death as a technological challenge to overcome.
YNH is the greatest thinker of our times I would say. I was pleased to see that Organ reads him.
That’s Orban! Lol
For anyone still wondering what’s the motivation behind Hancock :-
https://vocal.media/theSwamp/the-epstein-associate-nobody-s-talking-about-the-idf-linked-bond-girl-infiltrating-the-uk-nhs
That was interesting. thanks.
This is more than interesting, but underpins the whole Hancock rationale. I have found associated links from his conference in 2018 and it is all about reducing the workload on the NHS. What the blazers do you go into healthcare for, so you can sit on your fat arse doing nothing. It struck me as a strange end philosophy of a health secretary that it was of course to have some world beating care service but slways to reduce the work on NHS staff … poor babies.
Honestly, read a few links to Hancock and Junkermann and this whole redponse to Covid stinks even more. This link should go to Toby … actually now sending.
,
UK Column had her in their sights a few months ago.
Messenger RNA.
It is time to scare the @$@!#$ out of Matt Hancock. Nuremberg is just around the bend, Matt.
This is from September but worth revisiting, the German Drs calling the scam:-
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7fNktXpDXlav/
Somewhere on the web is the 3-hour interview between Mike Yeadon and Reiner Fuellmich of a day or so ago (I believe).
I was half-way through and shut down my browser; I can’t find it again despite fruitless Google searches. Do any of you have a link?
Not sure where I got it from in the first place, as searching the comments from the past 2 days doesn’t link me to it.
It should be on Oval Media, it was about a month ago.also covidtruths.co.uk
Reiner Fuellmich interviewed Dr. Mike Yeadon – former vice president for Pfizer about PCR Tests, 2020-11-14
Great, thanks MC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kANkpqtWLN4
//:0
CTRL+H
then search your history
The Scottish Government’s odious ‘Etiquette Guide’ is another very sinister imposition by the Tartan Taliban.
It’s no longer enough for them to tell us what to think – now they are actually giving us a script with officially-approved dialogue… Thank you Dear Leader!
It’s almost satirical and I suspect some people will think it really is. Amazing how the Scottish Government can devote resources to this while public services go down the toilet. It’s beyond insulting.
Nothing independent about Nicola Sturgeon. She’s a globalist shill sucking up to Bill Gates like all the other countries. I feel sorry for the Scots who are suffering under her tyranny
Thanks – I’m hoping to become a refugee elsewhere as soon as possible!
Don’t bother coming to Wales, it’s less fun than North Korea.
At least in North Korea you can keep warm by clapping enthusiastically with ten thousand others.
Just don’t be the first to stop.
First to stop wins a trip to the beach where they can witness close up an impressive display by the DPRK’s latest AA batteries.
I don’t feel sorry for them. They should wake up, storm government house, abduct her and throw her in a peat bog.
Tempting!
Ah yes -the old remedies.
5000 years on, archeologists will pull her out and remark upon her resemblance to an idol from the same period, believed to be a possible fertility symbol named Wee Krankie.
It’s been nine months of fucking torture living in the central belt.
It’s been bloody awful in the English West Midlands too, believe me.
I remember seeing a tweet by a Scottish woman whose mother had killed herself because of lockdown. #hernamewasyvonne
Has she been placed in an internment camp near Fort William?
I was born in Glasgow and lived the first 20-odd years of my life close to the Govan area. I can just imagine this actually happening. From the Telegraph:
Unfortunately, that’s not quite accurate; I ran it through Google Translate to translate from Krankiespeak to Glaswegian, and got:
“Get tae fuck ootae ma way, or ah’ll fuckin’ stick wan oan ye, ya Orange/Fenian* bastard!”
*delete as appropriate, depending on the other chap’s favoured local football team.
Are yiz a Prod or a Fenian ya fuckah?
Ah’m Jewish FFS!
But are ya a Proddy Jew or a Fenian Jew?
Oh, yes indeed!
Lol!
I can also translate into Landanese:
“Get out of my fokking space or I’ll merk you man.”
Spot on!
Yes, I can see a few Glasgow kisses if the locals get a tad riled.
Dr. Francis Boyle on Alex Jones today, middle of hour 2 and most of hour 3. If you’re worried about the vaccine you will be even more concerned when you finish listening to their exchange.
Frankie Boyle?
The very same.
LOL! No.
Most of the data coming out now suggests the vaccine/s is/are both safe and effective. While I’m still not yet totally convinced, I’m gradually coming round.
I think the sceptic argument on vaccines is likely to be lost
Mayo, you’re such an expert. So one 91 yr old hasn’t died in the spot and you declare the whole thing a success. Did you read about Bells Palsy incidence below?
I know someone who’s had Bells Palsy for at least 5 years and has got worse instead of improving.
From my rough calculation it looked like incidence of Bells Palsy in the vaccine trial was something like 13x normal. Happy to be corrected if wrong. As previously suggested, I think volunteers in vaccine trials are generally going to be a lot healthier than the general population kess likely to suffer negative consequences. Also my concern remains the trials do NOT pick up weakly negative effects eg slight diminution in fertility, lower energy levels or development of new food allergies.
The one silver lining in the Covid cloud is that at last we have a light, albeit a dim one, being shone on vaccine safety.
They may turn out to be safe; they may turn out to be effective. They must be a matter of choice as to whether you accept the offer.
9 months data.They don’t even know if it protects you or others yet.We will see how the NHS staff get on with it,if at all before we concede defeat over the vaccine.
Does anyone else think, watching the way he’s been supporting this shit, that Piers Moron is after the Lewis Prothero gig in Johnson’s version of V for Vendetta Britain, should Johnson gets his way?
Here’s hoping he meets a similar end.
Robinson Crusoe eventually escaped from his desert island and returned to England. If his adventure was in 2020 he might have decided to stay there.
Thought of my own Wanksock parody tweet:
“The Covid crisis has revealed the catastrophic consequences of accepting mortality. Annual vaccine rollouts will be crucial in saving the 500,000 lives tragically lost every year. Flu is only the beginning, together we will beat death by 2022.”
Look, see what Mrs Farris has been doing. Shame she isn’t wearing her little blue face nappy, it suits her. I would imagine military SD is pretty disciplined and I would imagine they are all tested before breakfast everyday anyway. Before checking in for a hard day of Psychological warfare, on the front line.
https://twitter.com/Laura__Farris
From The Outlaw Josey Wales.
“What’s in it?”
“I don’t know, various things, I’m only the salesman.”
“You drink it.”
https://youtu.be/eUh5IShNwXo
Great film, great clip!
DavidC
The p*dcastwascancelled (not by me) but the fact remains that the stolenelection is probably the biggest single political event since the fall of the Berlin Wall and will have huge (bad) implications for us in the UK and for the struggle against the oppressive, totalitarian lockdown ideology. So sad that”cancel culture” reaches everywhere now.
Hear, Hear! Just passing it on. May have landed around these here parts already
Newspaper front page that might be regretted in future.
For some reason the Nazis’ Nuremberg Rallies comes to mind
Pretty sure theres over 66m population in the uk. Good to know the mirror can’t count
That’s the English Mirror. I think the ‘colonies’ get their own version.
Krankie and Dungford would never allow a booze ad on the front page, silly.
Current 2020 ONS estimates are 67,254,500 – the big supermarkets (Tesco et al) think it could be 10-20 million more based on food sales.
DavidC
Why is Ursula von der Leyen in a wheelchair?
They did not clap her out of there, did they?
The final solution to the British problem.
Daily Mail: A croak, a cough, then hot tears of joy… HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary weep on live TV.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9032327/A-croak-cough-hot-tears-joy-HENRY-DEEDES-watches-Health-Secretary-weep-live-TV.html
UK front pages for 9th Dec – holy shit – get me out of here.
Will Wanksock ever give this gig up? He’s having far too much fun.
And so are we.
We certainly are.
I am convinced he is a psychopath and also convinced Pfeffel knows it. What a torrid state of affairs.
William Shakespeare ?
Seriously?
The people running this op are just rubbing our noses in it now.
I was a bit of a part time tearaway as a lad. Nothing nasty but I had a few punch ups, bit of blood and a couple of stitches, silly stuff really. Been fishing for the opinions of some lads who I know that are still very much at that lark.
Suffice it to say that if it comes to blows then the street muscle is ours.
“If there really were a dangerous virus on the loose in China, NOTHING could have stopped it. We would be seeing huge numbers of deaths in China to this day. Instead, the country has long been back to work, the economy is wide open, and the Chinese regime is looking, with great satisfaction, at Western nations, where its lockdown model has been laid on, wreaking havoc.
This is called a clue”
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/12/07/the-china-lockdown-sun-tzu-and-the-art-of-war/
It is really so damned ovious.
A virus is supposed to have been spreading for two months before any restrictions were imposed and yet …..
Wuhan 3500 dead from population 10 million
Shanghai 7 dead from population 24 million.
Utter nonsense !
But they were dropping dead in the streets! It was on the tv
Consistent with a pollution incident in Wuhan I’d say.
The context here is the US trade war on China…a certain President was looking for any excuse to close down trade and the Chinese were terrified they might find it in a certain virus…my best guess is that when that threat came along, they used every means at their disposal to turn it from a defeat into a victory. Key to them achieving that was the already bought and paid-for WHO who adopted policies that suited China.
https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/who-funds-who-1667273-2020-04-15
The problem with this argument is that China contributes only about 0,21 % of WHO’s funds, compared to say the UK which pays about 7.79% – very outsize for its economy.
The UK is also a major sovereig contributor to GAVI.
Perhaps the UK saw a different sort of victory on offer in parallel: a Europe/China united against the US, with a corresponding unification in the modes of social management.
It’s a low-risk, high-reward op for the CCP/globalists.
If it doesn’t work, just take a mulligan for much ado about nothing and wait a decade for the next attempt.
If it does work….pure profit, baby.
delete
If you want to weep for the future, read the responses to this story about a farm that is standing up against lockdown in the US:
https://www.facebook.com/13642915529/posts/10159371198695530/?sfnsn=mo
What about helping that pub redraw the border to run along the other side of it? With enough local refusla to obey diktats a popular declaration that “this area is now England” wouldn’t be something Drakeford’s SS would have any means of stopping.