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
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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 [email protected] 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
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And Finally…
YouTube comedian JP’s latest video, “Proof that Lockdowns are Working!”
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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.
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
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“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.
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.
William Shakespeare ?
Seriously?
The people running this op are just rubbing our noses in it now.
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.
UK front pages for 9th Dec – holy shit – get me out of here.
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
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.
Hear, Hear! Just passing it on. May have landed around these here parts already
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.
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
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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This is from September but worth revisiting, the German Drs calling the scam:-
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7fNktXpDXlav/
It is time to scare the @$@!#$ out of Matt Hancock. Nuremberg is just around the bend, Matt.
Messenger RNA.
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.
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UK Column had her in their sights a few months ago.
(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
“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/
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.
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
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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.
“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