PCR Test Lab Chaos Exposed by Children’s Magazine
A feature in children’s science magazine How It Works has inadvertently shone a light on the wholly inadequate standards in the Milton Keynes PCR testing “megalab” in the spring. Among the accidental revelations of the interview with two lab workers, Beth and Ben, is that the quality control was so poor that the error rate was estimated to be around 30%.
A Lockdown Sceptics reader has summarised the key points (all points are his unless they’ve been put in quotation marks).
1) Long 12 hour shifts with inadequate breaks.
2) Adverse regimental discipline of time management that gravitated into bullying.
3) No Health and Safety training for a BSL2 facility as well as no induction in biohazards and the biology of contagion with a focus on SARS-CoV-2.
4) New starters rushed into a BSL2/3 environment in the absence of scrutiny of CVs/clinical assessment by an occupational health physician (e.g. personnel of unknown health/immunisation status/no determination of Hepatitis B immunisation status/no suggestion of or opportunity for Hepatitis B Vaccination).
5) Haphazard on-the-job-training by individuals with unknown expertise.
6) Recruitment of personnel with no proper assessment even of the most rudimentary skills for a biosecure laboratory.
7) PCR test error rate ~30%. Beth says: “I don’t know the percentage error at the moment, but when I was there I think it was a 30% error rate. That’s fairly high, but you have to remember that, in normal science, you do everything at least three times, whereas there you have one go at it. I do PCR tests a lot, and the threshold would usually be pretty high. But, in this circumstance it was low (i.e., high Cts) because they wanted to account for any detection of the virus. There are a lot of factors that can influence a test and I think when you do a test you should take it with a pinch of salt. You should definitely question a negative result if you know you have symptoms.” With high Cts to pick up any viral fragments you should also question a positive result, even with retesting.
What does this mean for the people working in the COVID-19 lab? Well, after each rack of 94 sample tubes have been processed, these tubes still containing unactivated biohazardous material (and now potentially contaminating the outside surface of almost every tube) are transferred in a plastic bag with a knot tied in it to a four degrees C cold room. Then, when a spurious COVID-19 test result comes back flagged by a biomedical scientist (safely cocooned in a positive-pressure room where the PCR machines inhabit), those at the sharp end have to go into the cold room and open up the plastic bags to fish around for the biosample tubes that need to be re-tested.
According to Beth this occurred 30% of the time – 30 out of every 100 samples. To venture into the cold room to perform this function is a really dangerous operation as the sealed plastic bags are like mini humidifying chambers, so when the bags are opened the aerosolised contents are released into the enclosed environment of the cold room. Therefore, air in the room over time will become contaminated with increasing concentrations of these aerosols, making just entry into this cold room very risky even if you don’t open any bags.
8) “Threshold for detection was low (i.e., high Cts) as they wanted to account for the detection of any virus.” This means the detection of signals in the samples being defined as positive when in fact they could be artefactual or due to cross-contamination between samples, or even picking up contaminants in the facility environment including personnel i.e., false positives.
9) Beth says: “There was no PPE a lot of the time when we were all together… There was less focus on social distance (and safety)” (and more focus on productivity). “I was surprised how little thinking I was required to do. I remember thinking ‘what if I don’t know enough?’ and ‘what if I’m completely out of my depth? But we just had to use manpower.”
This is completely unacceptable to put anybody in a situation where their instincts tell them they are operating in a very dangerous environment, but they are forced to carry on by people with little concern for the safety of their employees.
10) Ben says: “The application said that you would need a lot of experience, but I met one person who started who was a college student, and she didn’t even know how to pipette. That’s no insult to her, because I didn’t know how to pipette when I was a college student, but you don’t expect college students to be in a diagnostic laboratory working on the coronavirus. It was startling.”
This is a clear demonstration of the high incompetence of the UK Biocentre, Oxford University and the recruiters – REED. What these organisations have done is recruit individuals with no experience/qualifications whatsoever and have thrown them into a very dangerous setting, namely handling and processing biosamples containing potentially highly infectious dangerous contagion.
Read the full interview here.
Dr Mike Yeadon discusses the shortcomings of the PCR testing megalabs and their contribution to the false positive pseudo-epidemic for Lockdown Sceptics here.
When will the rest of the media catch on to this scandal?
Scotland Cancels Exams Again – Recovery Scotland Responds
A new group has been set up, Recovery Scotland (website not yet live), which will be lobbying for balance and a return to normal for Scotland. It’s an offshoot of Time For Recovery in England and is a collection of legal and scientific experts and local politicians. Led by Christine Padgham, the group has issued a statement responding to the Scottish Government’s announcement Tuesday that the 2021 exams will be cancelled.
We at Recovery Scotland were dismayed to hear of the Highers and Advanced Highers being cancelled for 2021, as well as the National 5s.
The Government has justified its actions on the basis of the disruption it itself has inflicted upon school children this year. Disruption to learning could easily be reduced by improving testing strategy and protocol, which would address the issues of the generation of false positives from this test – which is undoubtedly resulting in many being identified as infected and infectious with Covid when they are not.
Mr Swinney said yesterday he did not want pupils’ futures blighted through no fault of their own. We could not agree more.
This being the second year of exams being cancelled in Scotland, there can be no doubt our children’s futures are being blighted by the government for a virus which, according to the Scottish Government’s own data, poses virtually no risk to them.
“It is safe. It is fair,” Mr Swinney said of cancelling exams. We fail to see how blighting the future of our children is safe, nor how it is fair to put them at such disadvantage when there is almost zero Covid risk to them individually or as a group.
Follow Recovery Scotland on Twitter: @T4RecoveryAlba.
Stop Press: Stephen Daisley agrees, writing in the Spectator, that “There’s nothing ‘fair’ about the SNP cancelling exams“.
School Forces Children to Eat Mashed Potato With Hands – Because Covid
In the latest loony rule to emanate from Covid world, a primary school has forced its pupils to eat meals with their hands after knives and forks were banned. Metro has the details.
Pupils at Edgar Stammers Primary Academy in Walsall are having lunch delivered to their classrooms to ensure they do not mix with children from other bubbles during the coronavirus pandemic. The school has also stopped issuing pupils with knives, forks and even plates over fears of spreading the virus. Hot and cold lunches are dropped off to each class in ‘grab bags’ and children are told to wash their hands before and after eating. However parents were unhappy to discover youngsters were expected to eat “a small amount of mash served in a Yorkshire pudding” without cutlery.
One father was not impressed.
We’ve been telling our son to keep his hands away from his mouth because of coronavirus and now the school tell him to eat with his fingers. It’s utterly ridiculous. Have the school not heard of dishwashers?
The Academy Trust CEO, Professor Michelle Shaw, commented:
We have ensured that we keep our children safe by limiting the use of hard utensils which may spread the virus, and continue to monitor the situation following all available guidance. We cannot transport plates, hot food and utensils around schools safely, as some have steps, nor can we keep that food at the required temperatures to serve it. Therefore we have chosen to provide brown bag, picnic lunches in classrooms. These consist of healthy choices, devised with our caterers. We have risk assessed all of our Covid practices using an external health and safety specialist company and our practices are robust.
Yet all the other schools seem to manage. This is off-the-charts insanity. Yet another example of a head teacher enthusiastically aligning themselves with the authorities for self-important, vainglorious reasons.
Stop Press: A reader writes to tell us that the supposedly open schools nearby to him have sent most of their children home.
Have a look at this local grammar school’s latest news. All year groups closed except Year 11. This is the second local secondary school I’ve read about which is mostly closed. How on Earth can the government square this with their claim to have kept schools open?
Completely unsustainable, you’d have thought – but luckily with so many parents furloughed or made redundant, they are on hand to help their kids self-educate at home. Who can fault the government’s brilliant joined-up thinking after all?
Swedes Warned to “Stay in Bubble” – But Still No Excess Deaths
The Swedish Government has recommended citizens to avoid socialising outside their family over Christmas in anticipation of a Covid spike over the festive period. The Local SE reports.
“Stay in your bubble,” Public Health Agency director Johan Carlson urged people as he and the Swedish government presented new coronavirus guidelines for Christmas.
Sweden’s ban on public gatherings of more than eight people will remain in place through the Christmas holidays, and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven reiterated that eight is also meant to set the standard for all social gatherings.
“Avoid new contacts, meet as few people as you can and meet them as little as you can. Meet them briefly and keep a distance. And preferably meet them outside. Avoid travelling by train and bus,” said Löfven.
However, the country remains much lighter touch than elsewhere, with very few measures enforceable in law and no mask mandate.
Carlson urged people to stay in their current bubble of social contacts if possible. But he said that if people have to travel, and if they think it is necessary to for example meet their parents or grandparents, they should try to travel responsibly, by for example travelling in the same care or use public transport with bookable seats.
“But of course both adults and children have a need to go home to their parents. Middle-aged parents want to go home to grandma, who has perhaps been sitting home alone all of this year. And then you have to make preparations,” he said, adding that people should then take extra care to follow all the social distancing recommendations around ten days or so before they see anyone outside of their usual social bubble.
Lockdown Sceptics reported yesterday that Sweden has seen almost zero excess deaths for 2019-20 (July to July), with just a tiny 1% increase in mortality among the over 80s but below average mortality in other age groups. In the autumn so far, despite the surge in Covid “cases” and deaths the latest EuroMOMO figures show no excess mortality.
Meanwhile Germany has reported its highest daily death figure so far: 568 compared with a peak of 510 in April (Germany was not strongly affected in spring). “Cases” have also jumped despite a lockdown-lite since early November that closed bars, restaurants, gyms and cinemas and (through guidance) limited social contact to two households meeting outdoors. Surging cases, record deaths – you’d be forgiven for thinking Germans are dying in unprecedented numbers. Yet in the German states of Berlin and Hesse at least (the only two for which EuroMOMO has data) there is no excess mortality at all to the end of November.
More evidence of a pseudo-epidemic?
A Pharmacist Writes…
Pharmacist and Lockdown Sceptics reader Dr Rachel Airley has alerted us to what may be a fatal flaw in the Government’s plan to involve pharmacists in delivering the Covid vaccination programme.
We’ve looked into providing the AstraZeneca jab when it arrives but as per usual it’s a typical (Han)cock up. We understand the logistical issues with the Pfizer vaccine but we would be perfectly placed to provide the Oxford vaccine if and probably, when, it finally gets approved.
Instead of allowing all pharmacies to provide the jab in the style of our hugely successful flu jab campaign, they are putting totally unworkable criteria on us which means that most community pharmacies will be excluded.
The criteria mean that community pharmacies would have to provide at least 1,000 jabs a week as a 12-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week service alongside the normal NHS pharmacy contract. That’s five minutes per jab alongside all other services! There would have to be additional funding for a second pharmacist or suitably trained pharmacy technician and probably an additional support staff member. Of course, this won’t be happening. Without these unworkable criteria, the approximately 13,000 community pharmacies in the UK could make real headway in the timely vaccination of the vulnerable. However, these ridiculous criteria mean that all but the largest city centre corporates will be able to provide the staff, space and throughput to do this.
Just why? It’s not just a slap in the face for pharmacists who have continued to see patients face-to-face throughout the pandemic as well as supporting the shielded, but to patients, who will now not be able to have the all-important accessibility that vaccination at a pharmacy provides. This has proven to be so efficient with the flu jab. No one understand the logistics of procurement, storage and administration of medicines like a pharmacist, it’s what we are trained to do. So just why have they done this?
Does anyone feel another letter to their MP coming on?
GMC Pressures Doctors to Have Vaccine
A concerned doctor has written to us about the new vaccine guidance received from the General Medical Council.
My wife was circulated this info from the GMC – which strongly seems to imply a moral duty of doctors to be vaccinated to prevent spreading coronavirus to vulnerable patients. The wrong implication is that you have to prove very clearly why you shouldn’t have the vaccine, and even then you will be causing a lot of problems for colleagues and patients.
Since a) there is as yet no evidence whatsoever that vaccination prevents transmission and b) the whole point of vaccination is surely to protect those vulnerable patients in the first place, why such need for fit, working doctors – who will all be in much younger age groups than the elderly and vulnerable – to be vaccinated to protect anyone other than themselves if they wish to do so.
Will vaccination soon be required for registration with the GMC? Given that a recent poll suggested 40% of doctors wouldn’t want to take the vaccine, I suspect there will be an even bigger rush for the exit from the NHS.
Hold Your Local Authority to Account Over Lockdown
Lockdown Sceptics reader Philip, who runs Unlock Surrey, has written to tell us about an effective way of taking action on a local level. Over to him.
I would like to alert my fellow sceptics to another possible front and forum in which to air our grievances, especially now that we are under a “local” lockdown regime. Local authorities on the county council and city council level across England have been given additional powers and responsibilities such as closing non-compliant businesses and venues without recourse and handing out fines. They also have to find the money to fund vastly greater levels of expenditure, from disseminating propaganda and deploying additional lockdown enforcement and compliance squads in local police forces, to mass testing programmes and even paying people to self-isolate. We can expect mass vaccination programmes to be added to these in the coming months.
In many cases a new committee is supposed to oversee these activities, often called the Local Outbreak Engagement Board (LOEB). According to the webpage of my county’s LOEB (Surrey County Council) it was “established to provide political ownership, public-facing engagement and communication for outbreak response”, as “each Upper Tier local authority is expected to develop Local Outbreak Control plans by the end of June. Local Outbreak Control Plans are designed to clarify how local government works with the national Test and Trace service, so that the whole local system is geared up to contain the virus.”
Anyone who has ever tried to complain to a council about something will be aware that they are not the most responsive of bodies. However, a great many of their meetings have been moved online – meaning that it has never been so convenient to hold these people to account. Unlike PMQs or opportunities to submit a question to a cabinet minister, not many people know about or care to engage with these local bodies making it possible to pack the allotted time for questions and petitions with scepticism which the officials must respond to. Petitions require numbers of signatures on the order of hundreds, not hundreds of thousands, so more can be produced with far less effort. The constitutional norm is usually for the questioner, should they wish to (virtually) attend the meeting, to have the right of reply and ask follow-up questions. Of course this does not guarantee a useful response, but if we take a page out of YouGov’s book for instance a carefully phrased question can back anyone into a corner and cause embarrassment!
If nothing else these local arms of government oppression should be made aware that there is a real opposition out there, that people are motivated, getting organised and paying attention. We ought to pressure local government to intervene on behalf of the people it is supposed to represent. Central government should be made to answer why it will not properly justify or explain its methods even to the people who are supposed to carry them out. If nothing else, the general public ought to have an opportunity to watch the videos of these meetings and see who is ruling over them so disastrously without remorse or repentance.
The Surrey LOEB had taken no questions from the public at all for several months until its latest meeting in November. Thanks to the efforts of Unlock Surrey, a support group and activist organisation (using the term loosely!) for sceptics, it had more questions to answer than it can address in a single meeting. All any interested reader has to do to accomplish the same is go to the “Democratic services” or “Meetings” or “Committees” section of their local Council website and find either the LOEB or in absence of one the public health committee, where they should be able to find the details of the next meeting and how to submit a question. Readers who wish to find out more about holding their local authorities to account are welcome to contact Unlock Surrey and we may be able to point them in the right direction. All Lockdown Sceptics in and around Surrey are of course welcome to join!
A few illustrative examples of webpages for these committees across the country are: Surrey, Cornwall, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Devon, Bedford, Oxfordshire and Newcastle.
They Lied
A poem by Lockdown Sceptics reader Mike Smelt.
They lied about their modelling
They lied about the deaths.
They lied about immunity
They lied about the meds.
They lied about PPE contracts
They lied about shutting schools.
They lied about pathology
They lied about the rules.
They lied about effects on cancer
They lied about Vitamin D.
They lied about track and trace
They lied about its fee.
They lied about susceptibility
They lied about asymptomatic spread.
They lied about false positives
They lied about hospital beds.
They lied about the cases
They lied about the second wave.
They lied about hospitality
They lied about how to behave.
They lied about the testing
They lied about the forecasts.
They lied about conflicts of interest
They lied about the masks.
They lied about the care homes
They lied about data seen.
They lied about absolutely everything
Now they want us to trust them with the vaccine.
One in Five UK Adults Do Not Think Covid Vaccines Are Safe
A new poll from Opinium reveals the high levels of uncertainty and distrust among Brits when it comes to the Covid vaccines. Hardly a surprise when they’ve been developed and approved in lightning-fast time.
Younger generations are most likely to be opposed, with over a quarter (27%) of those age under 45 thinking an approved Covid vaccine is unlikely to be safe, compared to just 14% of those aged 45-64, and 7% of those aged 65 or above. Young men are also more likely to be opposed, with 32% of men aged 18-44 saying they do not think an approved vaccine would be safe. Young women are more likely to have more general concerns, with 36% of women aged 18-44 feeling uneasy about the vaccine – partly a result we can probably assume of the uncertainties around the effect on pregnancy and fertility.
Round-up
- “UK regulators warn people with history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions not to have Pfizer/BioNTech jab” – Report from Sky News that two nurses (who suffer with allergies) have experienced an allergic reaction to the vaccine on the first day, prompting an immediate reaction restricting who should have it
- “What the Lancet study tells us about the Oxford vaccine” – Ross Clark in the Spectator digs into the findings and is not hugely impressed
- “‘We Hadn’t Really Thought Through the Economic Impacts’ ~ Melinda Gates” – Shocking confession from the philanthropist discussed by Jeffrey A. Tucker in AIER
- “YouTube to Delete Content Alleging Presidential Election Fraud” – More Big Tech censorship, despite the ongoing legal action, in the Epoch Times
- “Covid used as pretext to curtail civil rights around the world, finds report” – Guardian story on a report from civil rights group Civicus Monitor that will come as no surprise to lockdown sceptics
- “CRUCIAL Viral Update Dec 7th – Europe and USA Explained!” – Watch the latest from sceptic legend Ivor Cummins
- “Yes, the Covid rules are crazy aren’t they, Kay Burley?” – Allison Pearson on the latest Covidian hypocrisy in the Telegraph
- “NJ’s Murphy Complains Non-Compliance With COVID Contact Tracers Hits 74%” – Tyler Durden in Zero Hedge on the familiar non-compliance woes of contact tracing in New Jersey
- “New York lawmakers introduce bill to make COVID-19 vaccine MANDATORY. What about ‘my body, my choice’, critics wonder” – No indication yet of support from the Governor, but the highlighted clash with the standard abortion slogan beloved of New York lawmakers is striking
- “Now wokeness can make you sick” – Peter Franklin in UnHerd on some Covid-related gobbledegook from Cornell University
- “Revising the figures is easy. Repairing the damage done by lockdown is not” – Michael Curzon in Bournbrook on the damage wrought by the Government’s dodgy data
- “PREVENTING COVID-19: Dr. Pierre Kory Pushes for Approval of Ivermectin Treatment For Covid-19” – Fox News interview with the medic featured in yesterday’s update for testifying before the US Senate about under-rated therapeutics for COVID-19
- “Vaccine Documents from the UK Medical Freedom Alliance” – Useful templates and resources for medics and others for ensuring rights are upheld and consent respected during the vaccine programmes
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Two today: “Planet Hell” by Nightwish and “I want to be free” by Toyah.
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, some good news. Cambridge University’s academic staff have successfully rebuffed the vice-chancellor’s attempt to impose a woke code of censorship on the University.
A vote on free speech at Cambridge University has strongly rejected guidelines requiring opinions to be “respectful” – after warnings this could limit freedom of expression. Instead the policy on free speech will support “tolerance” of differing views.
The proposed rules would have required staff, students and visiting speakers to remain “respectful” of the views and “identities” of others. But there were claims this would block controversial ideas and debates.
The university’s governing body, the Regent House, has voted by a big majority in support of amendments from those worried about a threat to academic freedom, introducing a commitment to “tolerance” rather than “respect”. The revised wording on free speech ensures the right to express “controversial or unpopular opinions within the law, without fear of intolerance or discrimination”.
The guidelines, adopted after the vote, will expect “staff, students and visitors to be tolerant of the differing opinions of others”. There is also an assertion of the need to hear from outside speakers, even if controversial, as long as they remain within the law.
Let’s hope this draws a line under the questionable decisions and double standards from Cambridge in recent years. 162 voted for the vice-chancellor’s “respect” proposal; 1316 voted for the “tolerance” alternative. Quite a victory. Congrats to Arif Ahmed, the leader of the resistance and member of the Free Speech Union’s Advisory Counsel.
“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: Whose bright idea was it to put Santa in a big plastic bubble?
Wrong on so many levels.
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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I saw my parents on Wednesday. I live alone, so I am in their “bubble”.
My dad likes to do the cooking, so I was chatting alone with my mother. The subject of lockdown sceptics arose and my continued frustration at the number of conspiratorial types on here. “They sometimes wind me up nearly as much as the government.” I complained. It’s a bit like that old song, “clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”.
Anyway, I got a typically strong rebuke, “Well, I wouldn’t go on there …” to which I angrily interjected, “Mum, I am grown man and I’ll do what I want!”
(She can’t help herself. Apparently it’s a parent thing. Your brats never truly grow up in your eyes. Many on here will I daresay appreciate that.)
I do wonder sometimes why I bother though. There’s people on here that can’t even use a dictionary to look up what a vaccine actually is. How then are they going to know when they are being lied to?
And of course, if you disagree with the conspiracy nuts too much they will accuse you of being in league with the devil (Bill Gates).
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Catherine Calderwood. Ferguson. Cummings, Angus Robertson . Sky news presenters. Glasgow mp.Either they think they are better than us, or they know the truth. It’s all bullshit. They know it. Why would a CMO endanger her family by driving to Fife.Because she knew there was no danger.Apart from it being Fife., of course.
Is the correct answer!
I often think of the Monty Python “nudge” “nudge” sketch when this comes up.
As some of you know, I don’t buy into this paranoid “they’re all in it together and have got it in for us” meme that does the rounds on here.
So yes, I agree, there’s no danger, but no, I do not agree that they “wink” “wink” all know it.
lol, “wink” “wink” … say no mooah! (yes i am taking the mickey ceriain).
No tough guys in the state of Wyoming, who just became the 38th state to issue a mask mandate:
Wyoming 38th State to Issue Mask Mandate, Sheriff Warns ‘Unenforceable’ (breitbart.com)
FFS, I thought there were a bunch of tough guy cowboys out there.
Guess not.
Ok, guys, we know our government and no governnent in Europe or North America is following the “science”. They are just acting very weirdly. So WTF is really going on?
I have two conspiracy theories for you. Not saying I believe them just putting them out here for review, because we all know where we are now is nowhere normal. Very clearly the people in control of our lives are not acting normally. Why?
1. Haim Eshed…look him up on on Wikipedia. He was head of the Israeli space security programme. He is a many times decorated hero of Israel in the civilian field. He’s 87 but there is no doubting the validity of his CV.
He is now telling us that aliens have made contact with us and are active on Mars and Earth!! He suggests the aliens were concerned that Trump was moving to full disclosure. Trump certainly made noises in that direction (of disclosure) and we had the release of those amazing US Navy “tic-tac” UFO videos.
Since then, nothing.
Obama has admitted he was briefed on alien presence on Earth and stated he could not comment. That’s odd when you think about it.… Read more »
And…?
You believe that?
My “and…?” was because I was expecting a further explanation. See my later post in this thread.
ummm, UFO’s, that’s a whole new kettle of fish. So China wants to get Biden in so that he can get back on message and say that UFO’s aren’t a thing? Or china wants Biden and his well established “team” to be in place when *somebody* announces the presence of “ET’S” and then “The world” can control the narrative as the Alien’s are rolled out to meet us?
I don’t quite get what you are saying.
I am aware of UFO stuff, I have been following the subject for a long time. However I am not a geek in anyway about the subject, just generally interested. Do “ET’s” exist. Probably. Do we know they exist, yes I think we do. Have we worked with aliens? Yes I think we have.
Do we have Alien technology, yes I think we do. Can we make it work, yes I think we can. Do we have an off planet space force, yes possible. Have people on the space station seen UFO’s, yes I think they have, does the UK government track UFO, yes, I think they do.
Is there a lot we aren’t being told about in terms of what is out there….I… Read more »
“Is there a lot we aren’t being told about in terms of what is out there”
I very much doubt it.
However, there are some people on these threads who are visited by aliens every night.
If Trump’s a problem, why not just bump him off? Okay, might be a lot of unhappy people in the States, maybe even riots; doesn’t explain the virus.
Are these aliens friendly? If so, why the virus?
Are these aliens not friendly? If so, why the virus? Why the vaccine? Why not just bump people off!
Are Matt Handjob and Chris Whitty the aliens (him I could believe)?
If it is aliens, why is the NHS app so shit? Surely their technology can’t be that bad!
Re: Point #2, economist Danielle Booth recently gave an interview in which she stated that the US-China trade deal contained a clause that nullified China’s purchase requirements under the deal if they were afflicted by, “….an Act of God.”
I’d love to get better confirmation on this comment.
For the sleepless, a few things to keep you busy.
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_guest_menu.php?person=20
Fun fact – world war death tolls – estimated mean (low v high estimate):
WW1 – 23m (17-40m)
WW2 – 84m (60-118m)
WW3 – yet to be decided
I find it hard to understand how many deaths can be unknown. Maybe its’ because human life has so little value that we are not even worth counting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll#Wars_and_armed_conflicts_with_highest_estimated_death_tolls_of_100,000_or_more
WW3 has yet to be started. Or (I roll my eyes) do you have information that suggests otherwise?
Delighted to be a regular visitor to Lockdown Sceptics. It’s fair to say I have been a sceptic from day 1, unlike the sheeple I’m surrounded by.
It’s got to the point that I am having to quit my job over masks. They weren’t at all accommodating when I said I was exempt and basically said I needed a doctor’s letter. It’s all coercion, bullying based.
To Toby, James et al, keep being sceptical.
in my case, not so delighted to be a regular contributor on LSD, which is probably more like it for some of my peers.
I was a sceptic from before day one, but I am probably not popular with the conspiratorial types here who seem unable to comprehend that most politicians are stupid, cowardly self serving imbeciles. No, to them, politicians are all extremely clever and bent on destroying us all for their malevolent enjoyment.
And that human beings are not – on the whole – very clever or logical, despite the fact that millions of them are currently wearing face nappies to protect themselves from something which will probably not harm the majority of them.
Is anyone else on here a fan of Eric Ambler’s 1930s novels? The culture of fear and suspicion he portrays in his books feels quite similar to what we’re experiencing today, as well as the sinister, powerful yet fallible forces at work.
Never heard of him but will look him up! Anything that helps understand what we are going through is of interest
More conspiracy bull.
“One aspect of narcopaths (narcissistic sociopaths) that is important to remember is that they live in their own little world in which their desires and bizarre dysfunctions are normalized. They believe themselves superior to most people because they are predatory, and don’t suffer from annoying hang-ups like empathy and conscience. They generally tend to believe they have pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes the majority of the time. They think that you are a submissive idiot, and that when they bark an order, you will simply jump to attention because you “believe”.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/globalist-reset-failing-elites-may-have-overplayed-their-hand
Unfortunately, all I see most days is weak and submissive broken people around me. It doesn’t make any difference whether they are strong rugby players or pensioners, they all have a weakness to propaganda, brainwashing and a fear of death.
The globalist have soften up everyone using the media for decades, just think of the death counts in previous wars, and now we have people saying we should lockdown to save a single life.
I thought they were the way in to the dealer’s house ?
Wow Mike yeadon must be a right pain in the backside for the Elite if he gets referenced in a Zerohedge article which is a totally right wing website.
I’m afraid they might be right a lot of the time.
They inspire people to get sick
Influenzers
Dear Mr Whitley
There is a parliamentary review of the tier restrictions next week. I trust you will be backing the people of the Wirral’s hard work in reducing the incidence to what will be TIER 1 level as it is almost there now. I trust that you will be making your voice heard and pushing to ensure that the Wirral is not stuck in the Liverpool metro area. Your voice is totally absent in the house on all issues at the moment. This is important to all of us on the Wirral that the hospitality industry is on its knees. You claim to be the voice of the working man, as far as I can see and hear, you are the voice of the invisible and deaf man.
Get your finger out and start speaking up for your voters.
Others please do the same or similar get up their arses every day
Will our society survive?
To answer that one, answer the following question:
Does it deserve to survive, given what 2020 has revealed about it ?
If this, in any way sums up society, then the answer is no.
It’s a good question.
UNICEF wasting money on a Covid 19 vaccine advert, no doubt tens of thousand of dollars to some advertising agency for this 30 seconds.
UNICEF SALIVATES IN THIS COVID-19 VACCINE AD https://www.bitchute.com/video/C9RFwXvNm1Bg/
She’s demonstrating the u-turn principle.
I suspect talkradio has had “the hard word” from its sponsors.
Question Time:
Julia Hartley-Brewer says she is in favour of masking. Why? There is no more evidence for mask efficacy than lockdown efficacy, and she says she opposes most of the lockdown legislation.
Because as a public figure who wishes to retain her position, status and income, she can’t afford to dissent too much. Otherwise, she sets herself too much apart.
Peter Hitchens already established himself as a ‘curmudgeonly maverick’ years ago, and can thus get away with more dissent.
I agree with you, and I have to say that in spite of what I wished she would have said, I anticipated exactly the way it went.
That is exactly it! She knows it’s all bullshit, just like Burley, Rigby, et al know it’s bullshit.
Well you know it’s all bullshit too don’t you?
Am I going to disagree with you? Hold your breath…no.
Until these media refuseniks say “We are going to organise and head up in person a
huge demo in central London against lockdown-masking and are happy to be arrested” then sadly I can’t take them seriously. Getting arrested would have very little negative effect on their lives, unlike the average a
Joe or Jane.
Hitchens has been a disappointment.He called this from the start but has steadfastly refused to countenance anything deeper than government incompetence.On Talk radio the other day he blithely ignored the vaccine question.
Twice I’ve posted on his blog mild criticism of him and twice they never appeared.
lol, I can’t speak for Peter Hitchens, but I share his view.
Which differs from yours Mr Palmer.
I don’t have to agree with you do I? I mean, you don’t agree with me do you?
Maybe she just agrees with mask wearing.
She had an opportunity to raise the issue of cases v .infections, hospital admissions for other causes being classifed as Covid19, dodgy PCR test, normal waves of seasonal flu, evidence that hospitals are no more overwhelmed than every year…. All right I wouldn’t expect her to raise all these points but all she did was argue about freedom of choice and, effectively, support the vaccine and touch on the peak of infection occurring before lockdown.
Having heard all that Mike Yeadon has said to her on a regular basis and agreed with him, she seems to have completely ignored the fact that there is no ‘pandemic’ on the scale we are led to believe over and above what has happened with flu in previous years.
She isn’t real opposition, unfortunately she has always backed a large proportion of the tyranny. You wouldn’t be on regulated Television or Radio unless you stuck to the establishment line on issues. A bit of token opposition is allowed to fool people. The BBC have said from day one they won’t allow people like Piers Corbyn on air.
We’re losing a lot of “friends” here – by Xmas there will be none left.
By next Christmas, there will be many many more.
By next Christmas, how do we know all religious festivals won’t be outlawed by then.
For a brief moment in time JHB rose in my estimation of her, now she is sinking fast. That’s a shame.
They go so far.She knows the government position is lies but they don’t seem to want to know why.
As I say every time I see her name: she’s just a bit dim.
Regret to say I have to agree. I remember her saying at the start how fun lockdown was going to be and how there was going to be a baby boom etc. In her North London bubble she is utterly out of touch with poorer people. Her choice of films and TV viewing is pretty moronic too, I remember her reviews on friday morning. Mike Graham was pretty bad at first too but he ended up more or less agreeing with Hitchens. The talk radio hosts are better than the BBC but always expect them to ultimately disappoint you.
Dear Julia, all or nothing at all.
Short – punchy summary from Off-Guardian
Is the vaccine safe?
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/10/coronavirus-fact-check-9-is-the-vaccine-safe/
Watching question time, for the first time in many months, the lesson I am taking away is that almost everyone is too fucking lazy/stupid to do any of their own research at all. Even people that are appearing as guests on the show are taken aback at JHBs concept that cases were going down before lockdowns. Again this is incompetence, incompetence everywhere – the true pandemic.
None are as blind as those who will not see
It’s so glaring at times I have to check my own sanity.
Here’s a short but interesting piece about Germany’s Covid exemplar town of Tübingen:
https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/corona-deutschlands-corona-muster-staedtle-macht-es-doch-wie-tuebingen-74349834.bild.html
How did they manage to do so much better than elsewhere? According to the mayor: ‘If you protect the elderly it’s not a big problem’. It’s almost as if the Great Barrington Declaration works…
Yes, Boris Palmer, the mayor of Tübingen is a maverick Green who thinks for himself.
As was insisted upon in the Edinburgh study as well
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2020/shutting-schools-increases-covid-19-deaths-study-f
I got called a conspiracy theorist by a PhD in Molecular Biology for sharing that study tonight by the way.
U.K. regulators issue warning for BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine
Published December 10, 2020 by VG.
Two vaccinated people alreadyBritische Aufsichtsbehörden sprechen Warnung für BioNTech/Pfizer Impfstoff aus
Veröffentlicht am 10. Dezember 2020 von VG.
Zwei Geimpfte erlitten bereits allergische Probleme.
Britische Aufsichtsbehörden haben eine Warnung für den Corona-Impfstoff von BioNTech und Pfizer ausgesprochen. Das berichten britische Medien, darunter die BBC.
«Personen, bei denen signifikante allergische Reaktionen gegenüber Medikamenten oder Lebensmitteln bekannt sind, sollten die Impfung derzeit nicht empfangen», schreibt dazu das Portal 4investors.
Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
How many “parents” removed their offspring from that school?!
Here are the two graphs combined, there is a months worth of data from February missing, but I don’t think it causes too much of an issue. What is clear is the number of respiratory cases at the tail end of last year compared with the number of positive tests in March, April and May. Last year’s data appears to be what Ivor Cummins suggests is a normal corona virus curve. If so does this mean that we do have an immunity to SARS-CoV-2 ?
Apologies for the x-axis, I’ve imported an Excel workbook into Numbers on my iPad.
Yes – the Iceland data I linked to just below would suggest that too.
Is that for Ireland?
This is interesting. Ireland all cause deaths for 2015-20. Nothing beyond normal.
I’ll add the follow up pic below.
Then we have Covid deaths taking up 6% of those deaths for 2020. The interesting, shocking, part is that all other respiratory deaths are DOWN by almost the exact same level.
That’s not shocking at all. It’s the first thing you’d look for. Changing the label of something.
It also does a disservice to those who appear to have actually had Covid-19 as you could have specialised services to understand it without all the idiotic PPE in hospitals.
Respiratory deaths down and covid deaths up, Why?
No flu for one. Its pointing to misdiagnosed Covid or the same cohort who would pass form respiratory got Covid instead.
Dry tinder
I used to follow the graphs and follow the science. I now think this is all about politics and ideology.
The government is impervious to logic and reason. Worse than that, they present fake graphs as meaningful projections. They pick and choose their science and they invariably choose the most rickety science.
Apologies if already posted but if something doesn’t work the first time, do the same again as the result could be different ….
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/welsh-government-planning-second-firebreak-lockdown-28-december-wales/
I often think that the best way to bring this nonsense to an end would be to take it seriously.
We should simply all stock up with a month’s worth of food etc and then everybody should refuse to leave the house for four weeks.
Where argument fails, perhaps complete and utter destitution will succeed.
Stay at home and every single one of you phone drakefords office every 10 minutes. Post on his twitter feed every five minutes. Write a letter every day. Do the same with every politician and councillor. Your work will be to plague the life out of them. In fact plagues might work. Got any locusts, frogs?
I had a frog in my throat when I realised that my belief in anything the Govt say had croaked.
I had a lump of hard anthracite down my throat – that’s how unaffccted I was by Hancock’s “tears”. Sadly I am affected by his tiers.
The fuckers would plough up the roads and blow up the pubs in our absence.
An extract from the report:
While half of all schools in Wales have had zero coronavirus cases since September, the Welsh government said education settings “can contribute to wider social mixing outside the school and college environment”.
When you read this sort of abject bollocks (as a reason for closing schools) you just despair, do you not?
Oh so closing schools does what exactly? Shifts the socialising? Yeah see WHO guidance in 2019. They decided to change this for 2020 of course.
Works something like this
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iceland/
Interesting to see Iceland still reporting cases.
How is it possible to eradicate a virus in a country of 1,4 billion people within a couple of months, where previously it had been spreading uncontrolled for two months, while the same virus seems to be proving almost impossible to get rid of on an island of 300 000 people?
I thought trying to get rid of viruses was impossible and a fool’s goal, and that learning to live with them was the most logical solution – as life pre 2020
last year we didn’t have The Science
Yep! ! And those 300k Icelanders have virtually the same genetic profile compared with most countries that have a lot more genetic variation .
CDC is getting more ridiculous by the day. See below picture and mask propaganda.
“Look at those viral particles, each the size of a human tooth! They must hurt when they bounce off the mask fabric. It’s science! Sssssscience”
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1336791837353381888
Let’s see an analysis of the mold spores and the bacteria that have accumulated in the masks and caused some to develop bacterial lung infections
what is that actually trying to say? I have no idea.
I’m sorry but how fucking stupid do they think we are?! Hang on, a lot of people ARE that stupid!
DavidC
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/five-minutes-from-20-feet-away-south-korean-study-shows-perils-of-indoor-dining-for-covid-19
https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e415
Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow in a Restaurant in Korea
“The index case was infected at a 6.5 m away from the infector and 5 minutes exposure without any direct or indirect contact.”
I think it is good that such articles are produced. Airborne transmission must play a role and most likely much more than the current fixation with droplet spread. Just shows how impossible to stop the spread and even SAGE would probably not discus a 6 m distance in the future.
If I remember correctly, the Salisbury study of common cold many years ago came to the o conclusion that to avoid common cold was to keep 6 m distance.
Or maybe we should just catch colds and recover as we’ve always done
I don’t fancy living in a socially distanced dystopia thank you very much
I used to quite like getting the cold, a good excuse to drink too much brandy and orange juice and get some well needed sympathy from the nearest and dearest.
I think you’re right. The reason why they went with 2m was because they didn’t believe people in the UK could stick to 6m. So they made it up.
Droplets Smoplets
Schmoplets even.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/07/science.abe9728
Three-quarters attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in the Brazilian Amazon during a largely unmitigated epidemic
“Correcting for cases without a detectable antibody response and antibody waning, we estimate a 66% attack rate in June, rising to 76% in October. This is higher than in São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, where the estimated attack rate in October is 29%. These results confirm that, when poorly controlled, COVID-19 can infect a high fraction of the population causing high mortality.”
This has recently been circulating as showing that herd immunity would require a very high attack rate and therefore this article has been used by Project fear.
But there are problems with the article starting with a modelling assumption as we can see in the abstract above. Wes Pegden has sharp eyes and goes into details of this article and show some serious problems with the methodology and perhaps precautions of some of its conclusions.
https://twitter.com/WesPegden/status/1336801382955933697
Attack Rate.
Never in these months have I come across that term. I am out of my depth on this one.
I am from the government and I am here to help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
A reminder of how evil has lurked behind men in uniform
Wow! So the United States colluded with Japanese crimes against humanity
WOW, a proper horror show. The stuff of nightmares.
Why are MSM celebrating the death of a mother found by her 9 year old child. Cause of death unknown. Just shows how evil journalists are.
VACCINE WHISTLE-BLOWER FOUND DEAD AFTER SAYING SHE WOULDN’T COMMIT SUICIDE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aSG2UeVr9wQP/
Clear message seems to be don’t question big pharma, we won’t investigate your death and the media will do a hack piece.
I watched the video of Candy herself talking about the disturbing ‘visits’ that were being done to send her ‘the message’. Unfortunately the seriousness of it has got lost in the particular link you’ve provided because of the idiocy of the presenter. A shame.
DavidC
I captured a snapshot from tonight’s press conference.
Chris Whitty says: “Take my vaccine, or…”
Just a reminder that those we think are leading us are small fry:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/group-overseeing-10-trillion-called-guardians-inclusive-capitalism-signs-partnership
That is utterly insane.
Isn’t it just? I had forgotten the Rothschilds existed during all this, in all honesty – this is a great reminder.
Broadly speaking is that not the plot for Godfather 3 ?
There’s a new World Socialist Website article (and I won’t even bother linking since no-one cares anyway) but it offered a bit of a larf! The title of the article is “Capitalism’s winter of death” The content can be summarised thus:
“And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.”
But the funny bit comes in the comment section – a post from one “Steve”:
“Oh my god, workers must mobilise immediately, in the US and around the world. The future of mankind is in the balance. Please study the wsws.org every day.”
Could you have a more shameless advert than that?
It reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lzS8yW8INA