Masks to Continue into 2022 – Vallance
The Government’s Chief Scientist, Sir Patrick Vallance, has said that people should still expect to be wearing masks next winter. The Telegraph has the details.
The public may have to wear masks for another year, despite a “watershed moment” beginning Britain’s national vaccination programme, Sir Patrick Vallance has said.
As hospitals across the country began administering jabs to the most vulnerable, the chief scientific adviser suggested that restrictions may remain in place long after its full rollout. …
Sir Patrick said: “It may be that next winter even with vaccination we need measures such as masks in place; we don’t know yet how good all the vaccines are going to be at preventing the transmission of the virus.”
The Government scientist also said it would take “quite a long time” to make sure everyone in priority groups receives their jabs, urging the public to “stick to the rules”.
Sir Patrick said that the public could not afford to “let our guard down” as the vaccine is rolled out.
What he doesn’t explain is why, once the vulnerable who wish to be are vaccinated, it is so important to prevent transmission of a virus that will hardly kill anyone or make them unwell. Begs the question: At what point will the scientific and medical advisers recognise that it is more important to let people get on with their lives and jobs?
Mark Harper, chairman of the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of Conservative MPs, yesterday urged the Government to set out how freedoms would be restored to those who were vaccinated.
“It’s really positive news that those most vulnerable to Covid-19 are now starting to get vaccinated,” he told The Telegraph.
“They will be wondering, once they’ve had their second doses and are fully protected, how quickly they can start seeing their children and grandchildren and getting back to normal. It would be a real benefit if the Government could set that out as soon as possible.”
Harper put similar points to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the Commons, who replied:
The House might be relieved to know that (Mr Harper) and I agree with each other on the need to ensure that as the vaccine is rolled out to vulnerable groups, so we therefore monitor the impact of the vaccine on reducing cases, reducing hospitalisations and reducing the number of people who sadly die from this disease, and taking that basis for the judgment of how soon we can lift the restrictions. He and I want to lift the restrictions as soon as is safely possible and the question of that judgment of how safely is one that we will have to monitor and debate in this House over the coming weeks and months.
This is similar to what he said on talkRADIO in the morning. He told Julia Hartley-Brewer that the Government could ease Covid restrictions once all of the most vulnerable people have received the vaccine, rather than waiting until everyone has been vaccinated.
So which is it? Lifting restrictions once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, or keeping it all going just in case? Given how it’s all gone since March we can probably guess what the Government will be pushed towards by its over-cautious advisers. Do we have any confidence ministers will have the courage and presence of mind to resist their “reasonable worst case” whisperings, backed up with shonky models and dodgy data? At least we can be grateful the CRG can bring something stronger than persuasion.
More Dodgy Data For Lockdown II
In another embarrassing revision of the data that backed up the Government’s lockdown case in October, the ONS infection survey which at the time indicated a spike in infections has now had its modelled estimate for the period revised to show an almost flat line. Ross Clark in the Spectator has more.
Each week, the ONS has produced two graphs: one showing the ‘officially reported estimates’ for the number of new daily infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days. Beside that, it also publishes a graph of ‘modelled estimates’ – which are adjusted for such things as false positives and false negatives and show a smoothed-out line of how the ONS thinks infections have changed day by day. Until last week, the two graphs broadly agreed with each other, as you can see from this edition published on October 30th.
I choose this edition because it is the latest one which would have been available when the Prime Minister and cabinet made their decision to place England in a second lockdown, a decision made the following day.
Both graphs show the infection rate doubling in the two weeks to October 17th, the latest date for which data was then available. The government has been criticised for basing its decision on the ‘dodgy graph’ which claimed that deaths could rise to 4,000 a day by December – an estimate which was already out of date by the end of October. But the ONS data could, on its own, have been used to justify a second lockdown.
However, look at the latest edition of the ONS’ infection survey, published last Friday, December 4th, and something very off seems to have happened. The two graphs – the ‘officially-reported estimate’ and the ‘modelled estimate’ no longer agree.
In fact, they show a very different picture. The modelled estimate now suggests that infection rates in October were much lower than previous thought – indeed, it suggests that the infection rate hardly changed throughout the whole month.
While the graph published on October 30th could be used to argue for an immediate lockdown, that published on December 4th suggested there was no emergency and that the Tier system might have been given more time to work. As it happened, the next edition, published on November 6th, showed that new cases had begun to fall even before lockdown was enacted.
Ross notes that this shows “modelling can be just as unreliable when it is used to try to tell what has already happened” as when predicting the future.
The new estimate may still be some way out, however, as it disagrees significantly with the King’s College ZOE app, which is perhaps the most reliable of the surveys, being the only one to rely on reported symptoms and not just PCR tests. The ZOE app shows the infection peak on November 4th, just before lockdown, and falling since, unlike the (current) ONS modelled estimate which puts the peak a week or so later.
Hard to follow “the Science” when the compass needle never stops moving.
No Excess Deaths in Sweden This Year – Study
A team of researchers from the Clinical Effectiveness Research Group at the University of Oslo in Norway has looked at all-cause mortality for Sweden for the past five years (July to July) and found that it barely increased in 2019-20 despite the coronavirus epidemic in the spring. The pre-print study compared the no-lockdown country to its neighbour (and home country of the research team) Norway.
Our study shows that although Covid-19 associated mortality rate was almost 15-fold higher in Sweden than in Norway during the epidemic, all-cause mortality was not higher in Sweden compared with three of the four preceding years. An increase in all-cause mortality was only observed in comparison to the immediately preceding period (2018/19), because mortality was lower than in the previous years. The excess mortality was confined to individuals older than 70 years. In contrast, mortality rates were lower than expected for all ages in Norway and individuals younger than 70 years in Sweden. …
Our study shows that all-cause mortality was largely unchanged during the epidemic as compared to the previous four years in Norway and Sweden, two countries which employed very different strategies against the epidemic. Excess mortality from Covid-19 may be less pronounced than previously perceived in Sweden, and mortality displacement might explain part of the observed findings.
Most significantly they found that the mortality rate among over 80s in Sweden rose only slightly in 2019-20 on the five-year average, from 201 to 204 per 100,000 people, which is a ratio of just 1.01. In other age groups it was at the average rate or below.
1.01 mortality ratio among the over 80s – that, my friends, is all the difference Covid made in a country that stayed open and free with few restrictions on daily life. And in a way that’s the only number that matters in this whole debate. Not exactly worth crippling an economy over and destroying millions of lives and livelihoods.
Read the full study here. News Medical covered the findings here.
More Evidence of a Pseudo-epidemic?
The latest ONS figures out yesterday show total deaths in England and Wales in week 48 (ending November 27th) down by 79 compared with the previous week. However, Covid deaths are up by 343. Meanwhile, non-Covid deaths are right down at 941 below average. This mismatch between Covid deaths (up) and overall deaths (down) and the sharp reduction in deaths attributed to other causes are classic signs of a pseudo-epidemic resulting from mass PCR testing, as described by Dr Mike Yeadon for Lockdown Sceptics here.
It’s important to appreciate while digesting this counter-narrative which, unlike the official line, is at least internally consistent, that the only data suggesting a ‘second wave’ is upon us are PCR results. Everything is dependent on this. A “case” is a positive PCR test. No symptoms are involved. A “COVID-19 admission” to a hospital is a person testing positive by PCR before, on entry or at any time during a hospital stay, no matter the reason for the admission or the symptoms the patient is presenting. A “COVID-19 death” is any death within 28 days of a positive PCR test. If there is any doubt about the reliability of the PCR test, all of this falls away at a single stroke. …
The pandemic was over by June and herd immunity was the main force which turned the pandemic and pressed it into retreat. In the autumn, the claimed “cases” are an artefact of a deranged testing system, which I explain in detail below. While there is some COVID-19 along the lines of the “secondary ripple” concept explained above, it has occurred primarily in regions, cities and districts that were less hard hit in the spring. Real COVID-19 is self-limiting and may already have peaked in some Northern towns. It will not return in force, and the example again is London. Even here, certain boroughs, e.g. Camden and Sutton, have had minimal positive test results. I’ve explained a number of times how this happened – the prominent role of prior immunity is often ignored or misunderstood. The extent of this was so large that, coupled with the uneven spread of infection, it needed only a low percentage of the population to be infected before herd immunity was reached.
That’s it. All the rest is a PCR false positive pseudo-epidemic.
What’s the evidence for this?
The key sign of a PCR false positive pseudo-epidemic is the relative paucity of excess deaths equal to the deaths claimed to be occurring as a result of the lethal infective agent. This key sign is present.
It all comes back to the questions sceptics have been asking throughout this epidemic: How many “Covid” deaths are actually caused by the disease? How many “cases” are genuine infections?
Read Mike’s brilliant piece here if you missed it last week.
US Senator Rand Paul: Why Aren’t We Using Proven Covid Treatments?
At a US Senate hearing yesterday on “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution” before Senator Rand Paul and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee a number of doctors advocated the use of various treatments that studies and clinical practice have shown to be effective. They included Vitamin D, Ivermectin and HCQ.
Fox News posted this video from the hearing showing Dr Pierre Kory, Associate Professor of Medicine at St. Luke’s Aurora Medical Centre, titled “‘I CAN’T KEEP DOING THIS’: Doctor pleads for review of data during COVID-19 Senate hearing”. A report on Dr Kory’s contribution from Newswise is here.
The resistance to the use of cheap and proven safe and effective therapeutics such as Vitamin D, Ivermectin and HCQ in this epidemic has been one of numerous mysteries that has cost many lives. Still the Government is not following the evidence on this.
A comprehensive overview of the scientific and clinical studies relating to Ivermectin, Vitamin D and other treatments can be found here. The Swiss Doctor’s page on recommended treatment is here.
Round-up
- “Scaring Ourselves to Death” – Keith Gandal on the AIER blog explores the evidence on how panic and stress increase deaths in an epidemic
- “V-Day must mark the beginning of the end for controls on people’s behaviour” – Telegraph editorial that argues “once the elderly and vulnerable are vaccinated, limiting fatalities and pressure on hospitals, there can be no justification to continue with controls on people’s movements and behaviour”
- “Oxford vaccine results leave regulators with ‘dilemma’, warns scientist” – Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph on the continuing challenges and disappointments with the Oxford vaccine now that the results have been published in the Lancet
- “The Vicar of Dibley taking the knee for BLM makes one thing clear – the BBC has lost the plot” – Good comment from Allison Pearson in the Telegraph on the latest knee-taking shenanigans
- “Covid blood test can predict patient survival chances” – Guardian report on a remarkable blood test for proteins that has so far correctly predicted the outcome for 18 of 19 severely ill patients who survived and five of five who died. Sounds very much like confirmation of the importance of pre-existing immunity…
- “Effect of internationally imported cases on internal spread of COVID-19” – New Lancet study showing that restrictions on international travel “have little effect on COVID-19 epidemics if there are many more cases resulting from local transmission compared with imported cases”. Be warned though: it is a model
- “FDA announces deaths of two Pfizer vaccine trial participants” – One was immunocompromised, says the Jerusalem Post. The FDA Briefing Document states one died of a heart attack 65 days after the second dose, while the other died from arteriosclerosis three days after the first dose. Both have been deemed unrelated
- “People advised to put off Christmas get-togethers” – New advice for the people of Wales from their killjoy scientific advisers, in BBC News. They are “strongly advised” to consider “postponing celebrations until later next year”. So, next Christmas then?
- “Why Did the U.S. Copy China on Virus Control?” – An excellent question from Stacey Rudin in AIER
- “Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya on the Lockdown Fiasco” – Tom Woods interviews the Great Barrington Declaration co-author in his latest podcast
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Four today: “Come And Get It” by Badfinger, “You Can Have Mine” by Augustana, “Someone told a lie” by Steppenwolf and “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” by Manic Street Preachers.
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.
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we bring you a branch of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which tweeted on Sunday (and subsequently deleted) a tweet that read: “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” Breitbart has the story.
Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation Corey DeAngelis noted Monday CTU “filed a request for an injunction to stop in-person instruction that is supposed to start January 11th” – the day after it deleted its tweet condemning the reopening of schools.
DeAngelis further observed the “reopening” scheduled for January 11th in Chicago is “only for ‘students in pre-K and cluster programs.’”
Elementary and middle school students are scheduled to return to in-person instruction in February.
He continued that, while CTU quoted Dr. Anthony Fauci in its request for an injunction, it omitted Fauci’s quote in which he stated, “The default position should be to try as best as possible within reason to keep the children in school […] the spread among children & from children is not really big at all.”
On this issue at least the CDC appears to be taking a sensible line.
On Wednesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also repeated his call for schools to open for in-person learning, stating that schools are not a major cause of coronavirus contagion.
“[W]e now have substantial data that shows that schools’ face-to-face learning can be conducted in K-12, and particularly in the elementary and middle schools in a safe and responsible way,” Redfield said.
The CDC director explained infections that do occur among teachers and students are largely due to the spread of the virus within communities or in homes.
“We’re not seeing intra-school transmission,” Redfield affirmed, adding: “I just think it’s healthy for these kids to be in school. That said, they got to do it safely and they’ve got to do it responsibly. And when this was started over the summer, no one really knew for certain. They thought that these public health measures would work.”
“But now the data clearly shows us that you can operate these schools in face-to-face learning in a safe and responsible way,” the CDC director said.
“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.
Stop Press: A sharp-eyed reader spotted that in the Scottish Government’s fatuous “COVID Guide to Etiquette” that we highlighted yesterday the woman shown on page five isn’t wearing her mask over her nose – contrary to official guidance.
Sloppy graphic design and an own goal from the mask zealots.
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.
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…
Stop Press: The polls are now open for the best political cartoon of the year. But one cartoonist found he’d been left out of the party: the Telegraph‘s Bob Moran, a lockdown sceptic whose work regularly features on this site. He took to Twitter to highlight this injustice.
Toby has already been in contact to ask Bob if he’d like the Free Speech Union to take up his case, but he is too gracious to pursue it. Shame. If he was allowed to enter he would surely win the competition hands down.
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Our brave policemen
https://youtu.be/fbt1jFWskd8
What a fucking wanker!! From the man who is a big cause of all this shit!
Yes, because we can see through your fucking gobshite mate, we are all “weird”
You baldy cunt.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/anti-vaxxers-professor-chris-whitty-vaccine-162145820.html
Fucking wanker comes out with fucking wankerisms. Who’d a thunk it.
We need the tumbrels to roll and pretty damn soon.
What a knob! He’s an arrogant cunt, he is.
James Delingpole said he was at school with him and said he had no mates. I can see why.
This is a typical smearing tactic to make it seem like anybody that questions the orthodoxy is an anti-vaxxer.
If I say stupid people can’t read it doesn’t automatically mean that people who can’t read are stupid but some people might make that assumption.
Him and Hancock especially need a a good pasting if you ask me. A proper shoeing in the car park would settle their hash!!!
Hahahaha! ‘Anti-vaxxers’ – desperatly shaming and dismissing dissenting views as they grow increasingly scared that their corruption will be revealed. Keep sweating Whitty, we’re on to you and your pals. You’ve got blood on your hands. Hope you like porridge.
Far too many people here not jiving.
If you view articles/blogs/sm etc. through the lens of alcohol then you can see what’s going on. I’m particularly taken with reading any msm drivel through the bottom of an empty glass. The glass protects me from lunacy, covid mania, lockdownitis et al.
I am immune to all their herbicidal battering (bonus points for anyone that gets that reference).
Life in the red funk of littered bottles is sublime but don’t take my word for it, here’s a word from our local sponsor… Drink more cobber and don’t spare the horses.
There are times when I’m pissed and times when I’m even more pissed. To me there appears little difference. I’m in my 60s with a ton of comorbidities but I’m going out with a bang. I’m going to put a rocket up my arse, light the blue touch paper and retire. Albeit I retired at 50.
Anyway what I meant to say is… well I don’t rightly remember but I’m sure it was profound.
You gotta laugh… no I mean it, laugh damn you otherwise you’ll end up like my mate Marvin the paranoid android. ‘Life, loathe it or detest it, you… Read more »
What load of Giant Hogweed; giving your age away, mate. 😉
Congratulations, you win a Kewpie Doll. Pick up at Coney Island. Plus 1,000,000 points. You can spend it on a certificate of vaccination at any walk in centre of your choice.
My age has little to do with anything. Listen to this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdyI1VfXf1I
We rock through the night at CIAS.
More likely me giving my age away. 😉
Thanks for the link; I enjoyed that. 👍🏻
You are one of the good people, without you (and others) I’d have gone postal a long time ago.
Keep on keeping on.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/09/watch-ask-the-experts-covid-19-vaccine/
A few commenters here saying scepticism is growing – possibly because of the vaccine.
My thoughts exactly. Watching the ever super UK Column today my thoughts were ‘Why, if the ‘vaccines’ are so good, does it require all this behaviour manipulation or ‘pushing’ to make people take it? It doesn’t make sense, UNLESS…’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2PIBZ_ugvc
DavidC
Maybe a pregnant pause, but if they get ADRs and the information reaches the public we could see more deserters.
Grossbritanniens Terrorabwehr überprüft die Einhaltung der Covid-Regeln Corona Transition
Great Britain’s anti-terrorism agency checks compliance with Covid rules
Published on 9 December 2020 by Red.
Secret Service has vaccination and action critics in focus and disrupts their communication – with methods that were used against the IS.
The British newspaper Telegraph (Paywall) reports that spies from the British intelligence agency “Government Communications Headquarters” (GCHQ) have set up a department at the Prime Minister’s headquarters to provide him with real-time information on “the emerging and evolving threat” posed by Covid-19.
The GCHQ, normally charged with spying on terrorists and foreign powers, is charged with determining whether or not people are abiding by the “Covid rules”.
An informant told the Telegraph newspaper that the intelligence work should contribute to a “better policy” regarding the Corona pandemic and provide a basis for decisions on whether or not to extend the lockdown.
The agency will also be used to combat “anti-vaccination conspiracy theories” spread in social media in connection with the pandemic.
In an anonymous interview with the London Times in early November, a source said GCHQ should turn off vaccination critics online and in social media. There are ways they have used to… Read more »
More Ivermectin suppression, this article is from APRIL:
‘Ivermectin can kill COVID-19 within 48 hours’, Monash University study finds
https://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/ivermectin-can-kill-covid-19-within-48-hours-monash-university-study-finds
4 volunteers develop FACIAL PARALYSIS after taking Pfizer Covid-19 jab, prompting FDA to recommend ‘surveillance for cases’
https://www.rt.com/usa/509081-pfizer-vaccine-fda-bells-palsy-covid/
So, that’s why we have masks, is it?
Ellwood Atfield – banning a political cartoonist, Bob Moran, from a political cartoonist competition for being too political
May I suggest Ellwood Atfield are an embarrassing, irrelevant organisation who nobody’s heard of because they have no actual talent of their own – unlike the talented cartoonists they piggyback on
Well, how about that!
https://mobile.twitter.com/inkmequick/status/1336761493300326400/photo/1
Indeed.
How old is she supposed to be anyway?
She was 27. But post vaccination looked a lot older.
Naughty but funny!
DavidC
delete
Is that verifiable?
Hi Leemc23, I’ve just commented above.
DavidC
Not looking real based on this
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/22/health/covid-response-deaths-columbia-report/index.html
No, the actual CNN page on that date looks completely different. It’s totally fake!
Will say though: she doesn’t look 90. I also want to know why her family are not all over the TV doing interviews and have supposedly put out a statement asking people to respect her privacy.
Why? She’s the most famous woman in the world.
https://westbridgfordwire.com/family-of-first-covid-vaccine-patient-margaret-keenan-issue-statement/
Hmmm, I’ve just been to the CNN.Com web site and dug out the day and story – there is no picture like that displayed. The author(ess) is Maggie Fox and the headline is exactly the same as that shown in the twatter (sic!) message.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/22/health/covid-response-deaths-columbia-report/index.html
I’m as sceptical about the lockdown/masks/vaccine as anyone but we have to be diligent. Fake news doesn’t work just one way.
If anyone has a link which shows what the twatter purports to show, please do let us have it.
DavidC
Yes, I’ll happily acknowledge that deceptions can go either way. I was going to follow up a similar investigation this morning to yours. From your findings, I would agree that the BBC pic could be legit. If so then all the UK media shots of the same old biddy are likely legit. I guess the shots would have been syndicated from an agency somehow, rather than all the media photographers being there to witness the event.
But that in turn makes me think they could be generic library shots….
If that’s the case, and then someone rumbles them, it’s easier to take down the first single use of the shot, than to get all the UK media to take down all of their later shots!
So the jury is out for me on this, and I don’t consider it settled or resolved.
I don’t do Twatter, so can’t follow up on that platform.
And I’m still curious on whether this can be settled one way or the other.
(Something doesn’t look right to me…)
I’m thinking it’s a powerful synchronicity that I started watching The Handmaid’s Tale on the day they launched the “vaccine” of doom.
Tonight, episode 3: The women all simultaneously being made redundant. “Is there really a war?” and ” I don’t think those are normal soldiers.”
Prophetic stuff.
Are we at Gilead yet?
Have we flattened the curve yet?
I think that was The Canterbury Tales.
Not all guinea pigs are push overs so don’t underestimate them.
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“ In England you must wear a face covering in the following indoor settings (examples are given in brackets). Until 2 December, see the national restrictions to find out which of these settings remain open to the public…”
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
2 December ?
Politicians don’t wear them in the Houses of Parliament. They should lead by example
Indeed they should and certainly they won’t. But today is the 9th so I assume masks have not been necessary any more for the past 7 days, Gov said so.
When you see people around you welcoming the vaccine, understand the following.
The people who want the vaccine, want it because they yearn for a return to a human life.
Yes, I know they are misguided – but they are also suspicious. People are much more sceptical about the vaccine than the media are telling us – for obvious reasons.
The fact that people want to believe in the vaccine shows that they hate this life.
That, my friends, is the true message.
And we know that the “human” world they yearn to return to is never coming back, even if all the restrictions were abolished with immediate effect. The damage already done is irreparable. By being obedient they themselves have destroyed this world, and that’s even before they’ve taken the vaccine.
Sadly I agree
We are dead unless we fight back
Die on your feet or live on your knees was never truer than it is now.
At the moment it feels like I’m dying on my knees, so a double fail.
Feels the same here brother Richard.
If you lose your appetite for risk, you have lost your appetite for life.
I’ve seen Kary Mullis talking about PCR, but check this about Fouchi. Wish I knew the source.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TruthandFreedo8/status/1336767749012541443?s=04
Judy Mikovits isn’t exactly complimentary about him either, he’s as bent as a nine bob bit.
It was bloody convenient that Mullis died last year, wasn’t it?
I’m going to have to find out some more about the circumstances if I can.
Very convenient. It’s a tragedy that we lost Paul Flynn last year too. You might recall he authored the Council of Europe report on the H1N1 “pandemic that never was” referred to in this letter.
https://www.dawn.com/news/866823/h1n1-flu-pandemic
Brilliant find.
Police FORCE Man Turn OFF CHARITY Christmas Lights Or He’ll Get 10,000 FINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BJz7L7HjjA
Just when I thought the UK police could sink much lower. People keep on saying there are lots of good police officers, they must have been in hiding for most of this year, as everyday multiple incidents like this are coming to light. Pure evil, they should all be ashamed of themselves.
Psychologically reframed to a man, I doubt there’s one left untouched.
I don’t want to create a North/South divide here at all. But in a way London going Tier 3 might just disrupt (nudge) enough people to bring this whole scam to a head. Here in Manchester we’ve been under the cosh since the end of July (no house holds mixing, even in gardens, no up to six people dining in restaurants etc), and I honestly think Boris has no idea or has forgot or doesn’t give a tosh. We’re T3 again now but it’s worse than before L2 – we can’t even go to any pub/restaurants/hotel or our caravan on Morecambe Bay or mix with family/friends; it’s basically total lockdown but with shops and schools open. Over 4 months of some variety of this torment and businesses dying all around us. Perhaps if the echo chamber around the architects of this scam start being inconvenienced by T3 restrictions like the rest of us then this house of cards will start to fall? Alternatively leave London in T2 and bring us down to T2 too for some f’ing respite to this nightmare.
I am so sorry Andrea. I am in London so “grateful” for bit of freedom *NOT*. But you know… last time I checked you / we are a free human beings by definition, you / we are sovereign by definition… unless you give consent that you are not. So remove your consent from any and all policies and stop being a polite Brit hampered in their expression of the true human self by their own mannerism of being endlessly polite and respectful. Be true to yourself, be sovereign, be free. Write to your MP too ahead of Monday’s vote.
I do agree that bringing London back into tier 3 may help wake up the sleepy comatose masses a bit more… that are self-medicating in pubs as we speak and think we’ll be back to normal in Jan. Coz we won’t…
thinking of the North. But it is TIME to remove consent. How many of us can they put in prison…!?
Hi Pebbles. Believe me I am expressing my freedom wherever I can. But really difficult to do much where pubs, restaurants, bowling, scating blah blah blah https://www.gov.uk/guidance/local-restriction-tiers-what-you-need-to-know#very-high-alert. And other very honest and genuine people are committed to the rules 🤮.
Including my husband, son and brother. Their take is how selfish I am to refuse to wear a mask or accept the vaccine. That is how insidious this government campaign has been. 😢
Allergic reaction possibility
https://2020news.de/en/dr-wodarg-and-dr-yeadon-request-a-stop-of-all-corona-vaccination-studies-and-call-for-co-signing-the-petition/
Dr Mike Yeadon for Prime Minister. He is now the our main hope! Lets hope those evil bastards who have been planning this for years don’t take him out.
Just think there are probably about two hundred people posting, everyone else thinks this is real. We are royally fucked. Seriously it would take the state minutes to round up everyone who posts here. We live in a world where a virus that isn’t killing any more than the flu has resulted in life being changed forever. The media spew nothing but woke shite about blacks resulting in virtually no one watching them, Parliament is a joke and does nothing, Labour are sitting back and watching working people be fucking destroyed and they do nothing. They’re planing on making you prove you’ve had a vaccine every time you got to the shops, step out the door, fucking breathe. it’s utterly surreal. They could take me out in a second. I don’t know what is happening here but somehow we’ve arrived at a place where even your rights to decide what you put in your own body have been taken from you.
This is open warfare on the British people and if Boris can’t stand up for us he needs to go. He knows who’s behind his and could go on tv right fucking now and lay it out promise to… Read more »
I saw a poll months ago, according to which 20% of people thoght this was a hoax.
I think this can only have grown since then.
The media has an interest in making all of us think that it is monolithic covidianism out there.
It isn’t. Most people go along to get along.
This whole nonsense has been imposed in the vain hope of trying to control the economic and financial collapse which is inevitable.
It won’t work.
When the collapse begins, public sentoment will turn on a sixpence.
We shall prevail.
In my experience a lot of working blokes and probably a majority of tearaway types know this is absolute bollocks but just grumble about it for now. Look at how many people went to the beaches in the summer. My local boozer was rammed every night in July through to September.
Agreed mate
Fight.
No more letters, e-mails
There is no getting away from this.
Perhaps a bunch of white old people can make a difference, perhaps not
I would rather go down fighting
There are a lot more than you think mate. Some of us are just lurking atm as months of posting here and Facebook may be affecting our heads.it was for me. Head needs to be ready for the main event. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/covidconspiracy?fbclid=IwAR2vxwx3MC7KqeKzWuUd8pk1-0pr9GMmmPoD4xBkt4bXoFw6_zh9bWoLX4g
“Will i be forced to take action to save my family from forced vaccines, denial of my right to go where i want, my right to shop for food, travel, access the piss poor NHS. “
Yes you will and you know it. So will I and anyone else who values their freedom. No one can be forced to do this if they have strength to prevent it.
Yup. I do hope we all get to meet up in real life if this colossal shit show ever ends. But I will draw the line at going to Scotsland, Been drinking heavily, by the way. Your uniquely sweary posts give me hope and inspiration.
I used to love the blogs of The Devils Kitchen and Old Holborn years ago. They were proper swearyblogs.
World COVID policy
Thanks, that gave me a much needed laugh. If it is a front-wheel drive then I’m sure it will keep on going for miles and miles.
Pity the poor sods in the car behind… that’s us.
Just been watching this from Sky News Australia. Yet another useful theraputic treatment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LbYYWvotAg
Go right to the end – and hear what he has to say about our experimental vaccine. Are we being used as an experiment for the whole world to watch?
Mandatory vax bill introduced in NY State assembly:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-state-assembly-introduces-bill-mandating-covid-19-vaccine
It’s simple..
If people become injured or if they die as a result of mandatory vaccinations, then the State will have committed the crime of grievous bodily harm or murder, and relatives will be able to sue
Politicians will go to jail. People will not forget the death of a loved one
“Politicians will go to jail.” Hope you’re right. Thus far this year in NY they’ve seen hundreds of thousands of people flee, at one point it was a rate of 400,000 leaving within little more than a few months (many almost certainly never to return); crime soaring, many times reports of a dozen or more shootings in a 12-hour period; flagship department stores employing security guards with attack dogs, in scenes more reminiscent of downtown Baghdad than midtown Manhattan – & the Governor goes on TV and gets an Emmy.
Kim-Jong Nik continues her campaign to isolate the SNPeoples’ Republic from the rest of the world:
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/nicola-sturgeon-scotland-holidays-abroad-19426760
It would appear that the quarantine measures she imposed have been completely ineffective, but rather than admit that she blames anyone who wanted a few days away from the drizzle for spreading the ‘killer virus’.
More SAGE bullshit! This lot need shooting!
What a cunt*. It’s getting silly now.
*Another 50p in the swear box
Any medical practitioner who supports lockdowns and the Govt narrative has re-scripted the Hippocratic Oath in their mind as: ‘First do no harm to yourself.’
DT (paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/09/boris-johnson-told-ursula-von-der-leyen-not-wearing-face-mask/
Dozy mare!
Looks like Santa is becoming a repeat offender:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/cops-ban-much-loved-santa-23142588
As fellow kindred spirits…
party feas two at DuckDuckGo
one of my favourites, in these dark times
https://cormandrostenreview.com/retraction-request-letter-to-eurosurveillance-editorial-board/
In the discussion about the retraction letter sent to EuroSurvilllance to have the Drosten paper about PCR to be retracted ,there was a question why this was so important as there were more reliable PCR tests around.I think the answer to this question from the authors of the retraction letter is interesting as they explain the scale of the whole problem with the Drosten paper and the accompanying suspicion of inside dealing.
The questionThis was a very early publication. Tests have now developed over the past 11 months and would have all been subject to sensitivity and specificity verifications to ensure for for use. Rubbishing “PCR testing” as a whole, based on one paper, is ridiculousThe answer:Does not matter, it has to be retracted for various reasons, primarily for:
a) weak primer design / overall low-tier-protocol quality / severe scientific flaws,
b) the protocol recieved the official WHO recommendation, and is still recommended at their site as one of only a few protocol recommendations there; at the beginning of the pandemic it was even the only official WHO recommendation even though Zhu’s lab had also submitted a protocol design to the WHO of their own (why is that the case… Read more »
So far only Florida and Portugal have (publicly) recognized this (PCR and Ct cycles etc.) Why would anyone else let this info out and ruin the narrative?
Repeats that anything over 30 cycles is 97% false positives. Also never even tested on actual virus.
https://bretigne.typepad.com/on_the_banks/2020/12/wtmwd-50-kevin-.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Whenever you feel despondent and like this is never going to end – never, ever forget that there are lots of us. How and when it starts turning in our favour, who knows, but everything that’s happening is unnatural, and try as they might, they won’t be able to overturn nature.
The Guardian (lol) state “one in three unlikely to take vaccine” in the UK. Based on the fact that this is a mainstream poll, the actual number unwilling to take it will be far higher, but even with one in three not taking the vaccine, that’s over TWENTY ONE MILLION PEOPLE.
And the people who will take it, what beliefs do they have? None. They’ll float along with the wind, like they always do. They’re weak and lack moral courage. Once they’re challenged they’ll completely cave in. They’re no opponent at all.
Thanks I appreciate your positivity
I’m struggling a lot now,
I have very dark thoughts about fucking shit up, I am trying hard to keep it together
Dear Boris , you fucked up
We are many, you are few
Since this has started I’ve veered from negativity to positivity and back on a regular basis, but lately I feel very optimistic.
This vaccine roll out is going to be a farce of the highest order. Even people who have never had a sceptical thought for the entirety of this nonsense are going to start thinking “what on earth is going on?” I think once the leaders realise that a hell of a lot of people aren’t going to take this thing, they’re going to start panicking and showing their hand more than they’ll want to. It’s at this stage that things will start to turn.
I hope you keep it together, my friend, don’t lose hope.
John, that’s a great post; thank you. 🙂
I completely agree.
there is a quality of irreversibility about taking a vaccine that is completely lacking with everything else so far in this hoax.
I am certain that most people know in their bones that there is something not quite right about the vaccine, and indeed about all this in general.
Great post.
And when we crash out of Europe and the lorries start stacking up and the supply lines fracture, it’ll lead to a loud chorus of ‘what the hell are they doing?’
You are right. Things are shit at the moment. But you always have to look for the positives. This shitshow has given us a reason to get together, to fight for what we believe in and to say to the twats who think they can control us, NO we will not do as you say
NO we will not do as we are told and
NO you will not rule our lives.
Stay strong and stay safe.
Jonny S.
Lots of sheeple will have heard from people like us recently, that this vaccine is experimental and inadequately tested. They will have parked this information securely into the back of their little brains, filed as conspiracy theory. However, the MSM publicity about allergies today will have woken some of them up, and they may link it together. I’m quite surprised that the MSM ran this story, and am somewhat suspicious of it. The orchestrators of all this, may think that they are masterful at psychological manipulation, but they are not – they just got lucky. They are over-confident and in for a shock when the inevitable happens and the flock turn against being guinea pigs. Half the population seem to think they have allergies (gluten fads etc) and they may be about to have a change of heart about their vaccine saviour. Of course the reaction of some of them may be that they need more lockdowns if the vaccines are dead on arrival. But a lot of them may just become totally disobedient.
Listen/look – a video from Sky News Australia. It’s interesting about the vitamin C, of course – but hear what he has to say at the end about our vaccine. Is the whole world watching us to see how we fare?
if masks don’t protect the wearer but others, why don’t wearers just turn them inside out and they can stop having to carry the burden of my health?
Because they’ve had their heads turned inside out.
Found another I’d saved from last August – because at the time it seemed as if it might be important….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jI7Gl3yic
Couple that with the video of the American doctor discussing it yesterday (?), it’s very powerful.