Happy Christmas!
For the next three days – starting tomorrow – I’ll be publishing a pared down version of Lockdown Sceptics so I can have a bit of time off over Christmas. Cartoonist Bob Moran has very kindly given me three original cartoons which I’m going to run on consecutive days and, below them, I’ll include a round-up, as well as an And Finally…, but little else.
Happy Christmas to all our readers. Thanks for all your links, stories and suggestions, as well as your comments below the line and in the forums. Lockdown Sceptics is really a collaboration between our small team, the commenters and the people who email us at lockdownsceptics@gmail.com – like Mitesh B. Karia, who sends us dozens of links to interesting articles every day. To date, we’ve had over 21,000 emails and we do our best to read every one.
Back in April, when I set up this blog, I imagined I’d be signing off about now. Turns out, that was a bit naive. God knows when this madness will end, but at least there are some comforts in this digital camaraderie. Readers often get in touch to say Lockdown Sceptics has kept them sane. The feeling’s mutual.
Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk join London and Kent in Tier 4
In a last-minute Christmas gift, Matt Hancock announced yesterday that West Sussex and those parts of East Sussex, Essex, Surrey and Hampshire not already in the top tier will enter Tier 4 from one minute after midnight on Boxing Day, along with Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. That’s 24 million people in total – 43% of England’s population. Not that other parts of the country have got off scot free. MailOnline has more.
Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Swindon, the Isle of Wight, the New Forest and Northamptonshire will go from Tier 2 to Tier 3, as will Cheshire and Warrington.
And Cornwall and Herefordshire will enter Tier 2, meaning only the Isles of Scilly remains in the lowest Tier 1.
An extra 50,000 business premises, including non-essential retailers, hairdressers and gyms, will be forced to close, according to new data from real estate adviser Altus Group.
A total of 168,448 businesses are already closed in Tier 4 areas, according to the data.
Additionally, a second new strain linked to South African arrivals has been identified in the UK, and Mr Hancock said all flights from the nation had been halted.
However, there are fears that a new nationwide lockdown for England is inevitable in January – when children are due to return to school.
In spite of these increased restrictions, a third national lockdown in the New Year looks all but inevitable, with various SAGE members lobbying the Government via the media with that object in mind.
SAGE experts have repeated their calls for tougher action, with behavioural psychologist Professor Robert West warning the Government’s current curbs were unlikely to contain the spread of Covid.
He argued the UK needed to bolster social distancing rules and build a test, travel, isolate and support programme similar to ones used in East Asia.
And the Mail understands that Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has warned the Prime Minister that the number of patients in hospital with coronavirus is on course to match the April peak by New Year’s Eve – and will continue increasing in January.
Downing Street yesterday tried to play down suggestions that a third national lockdown was imminent, but Sir Patrick said the new strain, which is thought to spread up to 70% more easily, was already present ‘around the country’.
Worth reading in full.
More Evidence Lockdowns Don’t Work
According to an end-of-year report by Neil Ferguson et al, introducing the first national lockdown a week earlier than March 23rd would have saved 21,000 lives. But would it? As we’ve documented many times on Lockdown Sceptics, the evidence that lockdowns significantly reduce virus transmission – or mortality – is threadbare at best. Which makes the Government’s strategy of constantly ratcheting up restrictions rather nonsensical.
I’ll give three examples to illustrate the point.
First, let’s look at the rise and fall in daily cases in North and South Dakota. Both states have imposed some of the least severe restrictions in the US, according to the Blavatnik School of Government’s stringency index. Yet in both states, daily cases have begun to decline organically as we head towards Christmas.
Next up is Switzerland, which has imposed fewer restrictions in 2020 than anywhere else in Europe, save for Sweden and Belarus.
The Swiss Doctor has provided a summary of this year’s mortality data in Switzerland compared to previous years and the overall picture suggests it has fared a good deal better than most of its European neighbours.
The 2020 annual all-cause mortality rate of just under 0.86% was last reached during the flu and heat year of 2003 and the flu year of 2000. The median age of corona deaths in Switzerland is 86 years, that of hospitalized patients 74 years. Approximately 50% of the deaths occurred in nursing homes, which comprise 1% of the population. In the age group below 65 years, no excess mortality is apparent – in contrast to severe flu outbreaks.
As for Switzerland’s ‘second wave’, daily cases are declining in spite of minimal restrictions. For instance, restaurants and bars, as well as sports, cultural and leisure facilities, were only closed on December 22nd.
Finally, there’s Spain. Admittedly, Spain imposed some of the most severe restrictions in the spring, but the Spanish Government has been much more lackadaisical this winter. Its current restrictions resemble those of a Tier 1 area. Yet in spite of this, daily cases have declined in Spain, too. (Although, there has been an uptick in the last week or so.)
In short, daily cases in all three regions have begun to decline quite naturally in spite of the relatively modest social distancing measures in place.
Stop Press: The staff of the American Institute for Economic Research have pulled together a compilation of the best studies showing how ineffective lockdowns are. Viewers of Ivor Cummins’ YouTube videos will be familiar with most of them, but it’s useful to have them all in one place.
Canaries in the Mine: Seasonal Peaks
Today, we’re publishing the latest instalment in the ongoing series by Dr Rudolph Kalveks, who has a PhD in theoretical physics, in which he uses a simple epidemiological model (an SIR model) to look at Covid mortality across the globe in an attempt to isolate the factors causing deaths to rise and fall. His conclusion is that lockdowns don’t have a big impact. Here’s an extract:
It is notable that Sweden, which introduced few lockdown restrictions, enjoyed a summer lull followed by a small autumn peak, while other European countries, which implemented many and varying lockdown restrictions during the year, have found themselves faced by larger autumn peaks. The models indicate that the overall susceptibility in Sweden, taking spring and autumn together, may end up relatively low within Europe.
The key question is what has driven the summer lull followed by the autumn peaks in Europe. It is implausible that lockdowns were responsible for the summer lull, since the subsequent tightening of lockdown policies has not prevented the autumn peaks. Is there any plausible mechanism other than the commonplace observation that there is a high level of natural seasonal variation in (the susceptibility to and transmission of) respiratory infections? As Prof. Ioannidis notes, “Seasonality may also play a role in the dissipation of the epidemic wave.”
We should recall the findings in the Lancet,1 that even the most draconian (and impractical) combinations of lockdown policies only reduce R to around 65% of its initial R0 value after seven days, and to around 48% if continued for a month. Once lockdown restrictions are limited, the R values revert.
Coronaviruses can start with an R0 in the range of five to ten times, so that a much greater reduction of 80% – 90% would be necessary to reduce R to below one. Simple arithmetic shows that for readily transmissible viruses, lockdown restrictions are insufficient, and that the spread of infections can only be halted by some combination of herd immunity (whether by vaccination or by recovery following infection) and seasonality.
Worth reading in full.
Triple Strength Super Mutant Ninja South African Virus Found in UK
If you thought our “mutant super strain” was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet. At yesterday’s Downing Street presser, Matt Hancock upped the ante once again by revealing that a new even scarier variant originating in South Africa had been detected in the UK. Ooh, mother! Better shove some more areas into Tier 4, eh?
But this does beg the question: Is Hancock going to conjure up a new strain every time he wants to tighten the lockdown ratchet?
Needless to say, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps shut the stable door as soon as he discovered the horse had bolted. The Mail has more.
In a series of tweets described as an “urgent update”, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps wrote: “I’ve taken the decision to temporarily stop flights and arrivals entering England from SOUTH AFRICA from 9am tomorrow following an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus.
“British & Irish Nationals, visa holders and permanent residents arriving from South Africa will be able to enter but are required to self-isolate for ten days along with their household.
“Visitors from South Africa will not be permitted to enter, to stop the spread of COVID-19.”
Worth reading in full – unless you were planning to go to Cape Town this Christmas, in which case I suggest you lie down with a wet towel over your head.
Stop Press: A Philosophy Professor who has written for Lockdown Sceptics before has written a short squib about the mutant Covid strain.
The former Covidian Cult, known globally for its practice of worshipping a respiratory virus by shutting down entire countries and making their populations wear face coverings, has mutated into a more dangerous form. The Newstrainian Cult emerged remarkably quickly in December 2020, shortly after the Covidians had locked down the entire English population for four weeks. Several cult members had noted that, although cases of the virus had plummeted in the North of England during their lockdown, cases had continued to rise exponentially in parts of the South. Faced with this striking contrast, the Covidians proved constitutionally incapable of entertaining the possibility that lockdowns are not only destructive but also ineffective and that other factors, such as differing levels of prior exposure and immunity within populations, have considerably more influence on the trajectory of the virus. Instead, so as to preserve their belief system, they seized upon a “new strain” (one that has in fact been around for some time), which has now become the principal focus for their various bizarre rituals.
Having projected magical powers upon this strain of the virus, the “Newstrainians”, as they are now known, have started to advocate even more extreme and harmful measures. Worryingly, they are increasingly turning their attention to children, who their Imperial Priest has declared to be more susceptible to the new strain. Concerns have been raised by opponents of the cult that this will further fuel earlier Covidian demands to conduct mass virus testing in England’s schools by poorly trained volunteers recruited at random without adequate background checks, inflict numerous other psychological harms on children, and ultimately ruin the education and life chances of an entire generation. When these concerns were put to cult leaders, they refused to comment and instead chanted the words “protect the NHS” and “the third wave is coming”.
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Today we’re publishing another original article by veteran journalist Neville Hodgkinson, a former medical and science correspondent of the Daily Mail and Sunday Times and the author of AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science. When he heard Boris talk about the new variant on Saturday, it reminded him of something. The AIDS pandemic occurred on his beat and he covered it extensively for the Sunday Times. Turns out, scientists warned of a deadly new HIV strain too. I’ll let Neville take up the story.
An awesome, sinister sense of déjà vu grows by the day. Suddenly, a second variant of the COVID-19 virus is said to be rampaging across Britain, just in time to create utter seasonal chaos and ensure that the loving spirit of Christmas does not obscure the fear we are all supposed to be experiencing.
It was much the same 35 years ago, when a panic over AIDS was being talked up by scientists to global proportions and an HIV variant, HIV-2, suddenly caught the headlines. The new purported villain added to the fear and led to an era in which any ideas or evidence as to the cause of AIDS that did not keep HIV centre stage were ruled out of order.
That was despite some experts, including top-ranking Nobel prize-winning scientists at the heart of the fight against AIDS, trying to let us know that HIV had never been established as the cause of the syndrome. They showed that both predictions of spread, and tests claiming to show infection with the virus, were invalid.
As now, an epidemic of inappropriate testing led to a false impression of a pandemic. Models predicting near-universal spread bore no relation to actual illness and death, which remained confined to relatively small sections of the population who had other risks in their lives.
The illusion was boosted by widespread use in “HIV-positive” patients of lethally high doses of a toxic drug, AZT, at a time when no other approach to treating AIDS was permitted. Doctors who dared challenge the zeitgeist were struck off the medical register.
After several years, AZT was proved useless, at best, in a major Anglo-French trial. It fell out of favour, and AIDS deaths dropped dramatically.
Yet a generation of young people was falsely led to equate sex with death by Health Department propaganda, supported to the hilt by mainstream media (with the notable exception of the Sunday Times under the editorship of Andrew Neil).
Billions of dollars (mainly American taxpayers’ money) went on a fruitless search for a vaccine, still, incredibly, continuing to this day.
Having reported AIDS conventionally for several years, in the 1980s, before realising the virus theory was fundamentally flawed, I know from experience how hard it can be to change direction. It is as though a kind of “herd insanity” takes a grip on one’s mind.
Worth reading in full.
Is the BBC Making People Ill?
A reader has followed up on our post from yesterday about a doctor suggesting to a reader that if he wanted his tummy ache to get better he should stop listening to the Today programme in the morning and read Lockdown Sceptics instead.
I just read your Gaviscon item, which reminded me of my experience.
My Chiropractor advised me if I wanted to cure my neck problems I needed to stop listening to the BBC and shaking my head in disbelief.
Ode to a Nightingale
According to the Telegraph, London’s Nightingale Hospital has no intensive care beds. And not much else, either.
Staff shortages have left London’s flagship Nightingale hospital empty without any equipment or its 4,000 intensive care beds, despite Covid cases doubling in the capital.
One of seven built at the start of the pandemic at a cost of £220 million, the Nightingale hospital, at the ExCel Centre, was shut and placed on standby soon after, although 90% of the building has returned to how it was previously.
The Nightingale at Birmingham’s NEC and the one in Sunderland are also empty but on standby, while Manchester’s was open for “non-Covid care”, with those at Exeter and Harrogate being used as “specialist diagnostics centres” and Bristol’s deployed for “local NHS services”.
The Royal College of Emergency medicine said: “With regard to the Nightingale Hospitals, the challenge is safely staffing them. A bed requires nurses, doctors, pharmacists, anaesthetists in some cases, porters, cleaners.
“The health service already faces staff shortages in many hospitals and some staff are also self-isolating or off sick due to COVID-19.”
Saffron Cordery, the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, said: “The Nightingales are on standby as a last resort. They do not have the same resources and facilities as purpose built hospitals so can’t provide the same comprehensive care in every circumstance.
“They would also draw on the staff who are currently working in NHS trusts, so diverting them would also impact on the standard of care patients would receive.
“The fact that the Nightingales have not yet been deployed does not mean they are being ‘wasted’. They are there as a backup, and that’s how they will and should be used.”
Not as useful as “purpose built hospitals”?!?
Weren’t the Nightingales built with the express purpose of providing critical care to Covid patients to relieve the NHS?
Twitter’s New Censorship Rules
On December 21st, Twitter announced it had tightened restrictions on what people are permitted to say on the social media platform. To date, it hasn’t been quite as censorious as YouTube and Facebook, but it sounds like that’s about to change.
Our expanded approach
In the context of a global pandemic, vaccine misinformation presents a significant and growing public health challenge – and we all have a role to play. We are focused on mitigating misleading information that presents the biggest potential harm to people’s health and wellbeing. Twitter has an important role to play as a place for good faith public debate and discussion around these critical public health matters.
Under our current policy, we already require the removal of Tweets that include false or misleading information about:
- The nature of the virus, such as how it spreads within communities;
- The efficacy and/or safety of preventative measures, treatments, or other precautions to mitigate or treat the disease;
- Official regulations, restrictions, or exemptions pertaining to health advisories; and
- The prevalence or risk of infection or death.
Moving forward and beginning next week, we are expanding the policy and may require people to remove Tweets which advance harmful, false or misleading narratives about COVID-19 vaccinations, including:
- False claims that suggest immunisations and vaccines are used to intentionally cause harm to or control populations, including statements about vaccines that invoke a deliberate conspiracy;
- False claims which have been widely debunked about the adverse impacts or effects of receiving vaccinations; or
- False claims that COVID-19 is not real or not serious, and therefore that vaccinations are unnecessary.
Starting in early 2021, we may label or place a warning on Tweets that advance unsubstantiated rumours, disputed claims, as well as incomplete or out-of-context information about vaccines. Tweets that are labelled under this expanded guidance may link to authoritative public health information or the Twitter Rules to provide people with additional context and authoritative information about COVID-19.
What’s next
Using a combination of technology and human review, we will begin enforcing this updated policy on December 21st, and expanding our actions during the following weeks. We will enforce this policy in close consultation with local, national and global public health authorities around the world, and will strive to be iterative and transparent in our approach. We remained focused on helping people find credible health information, verifying public health experts, and updating our policies in an iterative and transparent approach.
The best way to avoid being censored on Twitter, according to my sources, is to always include one of the following along with your tweet: (a) a link to a scientific paper in a respectable journal like Nature or the New England Journal of Medicine; (b) a graph/chart from a reputable source, such the WHO, CDC, Johns Hopkins, PHE or the ONS; (c) a link to an MSM news article. This should fool Twitter’s AI into thinking you’re a Covid conformist and, hopefully, your dissident Tweet won’t be flagged for “human review”.
Big Tech’s justification for censoring scientific debate about the virus and the vaccines is that “misinformation”, by which they mean any dissent from the prevailing orthodoxy, can be harmful to public health. But that is tantamount to taking sides in the ongoing scientific debate about everything to do with COVID-19, rather than acting as the keeper of the ring. After all, it’s only if you take it for granted that, say, mask wearing reduces transmission that it makes sense to claim that any information casting doubt on the effectiveness of masks is potentially harmful. Which begs the question, why has Big Tech decided to side with government officials and public health panjandrums instead of remaining neutral? James Delingpole would say it’s because they’ve been enlisted by the architects of the Great Reset (see today’s And Finally…), but my view is it’s probably just a combination of rank opportunism (governments are less likely to regulate the Big Tech companies or look into their creative tax arrangements if they behave “responsibly”, i.e. toe the line) and status signalling (among the Silicon Valley Brahmin caste, being a lockdown zealot is a high-status indicator).
Stop Press: Whatever you do, don’t Tweet about this FDA investigation into allergic reactions to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
The Travel Ban Myth
David Mackie, Head of Philosophy at d’Overbroeck’s, Oxford, has written a guest post for today’s update about the travel ban – or lack of it, even in Tier 4 areas.
Every weekday morning, between 7 and 7.30am, I cycle along Cornmarket Street in Oxford on my way to work. On most but not all days, I am shouted at by at least one enthusiast for law and order. The personnel detailed to harass me in this way changes from day to day, but the selection criteria seem to demand that all candidates for the role be male and obese. ‘No cycling!’ they don’t shout. The meaning of what is shouted is nonetheless clear enough. I’m breaking the law.
Except that I’m not. Cycling is banned on Cornmarket only between 10am and 6pm. But, of course, these people think that cycling ought not to be allowed there at 7am; and they are aware that there is some sort of legal restriction on cycling there. And so, understandably enough, they invent, and seek to enforce, a law that does not exist.
The situation has a close parallel in the world of lockdown. On weekends, I often drive to London to pick up my children. ‘Essential travel only’, say the motorway signs. Every day, virtually every newspaper refers to the ban on travel to and from Tier 4 areas. Social media are littered with apparently sincere assertions to the effect that travel into and out of Tier 4 is forbidden, in reply to queries about the legality of travelling for purposes such as renewing passports, transferring children between separated parents, and taking exercise.
Nonsense. All of it. The legislation concerning tiers makes no provision at all concerning travel between areas in different tiers. The imagined travel ban is as unreal as the non-existent local cycling prohibition.
The mechanism that the Government has chosen to limit movement is simply to restrict the right to be outside one’s home (for residents of Tier 4 areas), to restrict the right to attend ‘gatherings’ (for residents of all areas). and of course, to reduce the attraction of leaving home by requiring (differentially, depending on tiers) the closure of many of the businesses that people might have wanted to go out to visit.
But where a legally permitted reason for being outside one’s home exists, which may take the form of any reasonable excuse, or where a legally permitted reason for attending a gathering exists, the location is irrelevant.
Oxford will be in Tier 4 from Boxing Day; but if I could not work from home and my work required me to be in, say, Penzance, then travel to Penzance would be entirely legal. Similarly, I am permitted to travel wherever necessary for the purposes of contact arrangements with my children, to view a residential property, to attend a place of worship, and so on. The law does not care where. Nor does it require my reason to be ‘essential’.
But the Government has chosen, disgracefully in my view, to supplement the law that it has actually introduced by means of unenforceable ‘guidance’ that goes far beyond the legal restrictions, and by means of well-publicised criticism of free citizens (such as Matt Hancock’s condemnation of the recent exodus from London) for doing things that they are perfectly legally entitled to do.
Depressingly, the public and much of the media, in misrepresenting the law as restricting behaviour that is perfectly legal, have become complicit in the dirty work of constraining people’s behaviour still further than the Government has so far dared to do by means of secondary legislation.
As the Government is doubtless aware, and as it presumably foresaw, the dishonest policy of misrepresenting to the public the content of the laws that bind them is now being furthered by the millions of well-meaning lockdown zealots who don’t bother to consult the legislation any more than the rest of us routinely do. Such people reason that, ‘surely’, the whole point of a system of assigning regions to different tiers ‘must’ involve restriction of movement between regions in different tiers. And so they invent, publicise, and seek to enforce supposed laws that simply do not exist, just like the fat wannabe policemen who confront me every other weekday morning.
When our liberty is being stolen, we owe it to ourselves and others to be informed, and to refuse to be bound by restrictions of our own invention.
South Western Railway Hits New Low
A reader has been in touch to reveal the latest horror that South Western Reailway inflicted on her today.
I have just caught a train from Clapham Junction Station to make an ‘illegal’ journey out of Tier 4 London to, soon to be but not quite Tier 4 Hampshire. I have got used to the usual station Covid propaganda that gets blasted out, but am used to zoning out while waiting mask free on the platform. However today there was a new announcement, one I haven’t heard before and one that really hits a new low on the propaganda levels.
The new announcement is done using a kids voice, and went something along the lines of, “Hi I am Evie, my mum, dad and grandad work for South Western Railway. Please socially distance and wear your face masks so they stay safe and I can hug them soon.”
Pass the sickbag.
Free Speech Union Uncancels Julie Burchill’s Book
Julie Burchill’s book on cancel culture – Welcome to the Woke Trials – was cancelled by its publisher last week after she got into a Twitter spat with Ash Sarkar. But it has now been uncancelled, thanks to the Free Speech Union. Guido Fawkes has the story.
Julie Burchill’s publisher has agreed to pay her in full and relinquished all rights to her manuscript, following an intervention by the Free Speech Union. Last week, Little, Brown announced it would not be publishing Burchill’s book, Welcome to the Woke Trials, after she got into a Twitter spat with literal communist Ash Sarkar. The hard left pundit had attacked Rod Liddle for making light of child rape, having dug up an eight-year-old Spectator article in which he said he had avoided becoming a teacher because he couldn’t trust himself not to try and have sex with his teenage pupils. Burchill told her that was a little rich coming from a Muslim, given that Mohammad’s wife Aisha was a child when he married her. “I don’t WORSHIP a paedophile,” she said. “Lecturer, lecture thyself!” Little, Brown promptly cancelled the book.
As Brendan O’Neill commented: “Julie Burchill was hired for being Julie Burchill – and then Julie Burchill was fired for being Julie Burchill.”
Guido doesn’t like to criticise other people’s faiths, however it should not be an offence to be blasphemous…
Luckily for her, Burchill is a member of the Free Speech Union and reached out for help. Following an intervention by the FSU’s legal team, Little, Brown has now agreed to pay Julie’s advance in full and returned all the rights in the book to her so she can take it elsewhere. According to her agent Matthew Hamilton, several publishers have contacted him expressing an interest in the book.
Toby Young, FSU General Secretary, says: “For a publisher to cancel a book on cancel culture because a self-proclaimed communist has denounced the author is completely unacceptable. This is Great Britain, not Stalin’s Russia. I’m glad we were able to help.” Julie is unrepentant. “I’ve been upsetting bourgeoise bed-wetters since I was 17 – now I’m 61 and nothing has changed. Last time I checked, that wasn’t against the law. I am indebted to the Free Speech Union for stepping in to protect my rights.”
They would have got away with if it weren’t for that pesky Free Speech Union…
Anything thinking of joining can do so by clicking here.
Round-up
- “Why are ministers causing irrational panic about the mutant Covid strain?” – Philip Johnston asks a good question in the Telegraph
- “Rapid Covid testing sites for people with symptoms shelved amid accuracy concerns” – The Government has shelved plans to roll out rapid testing centres across England after lateral flow tests failed to turn up more positive “cases”. Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina says that’s because the tests are doing their job, not because they’re insufficiently sensitive
- “Tony Blair calls for the UK to use up ALL coronavirus vaccine supplies to get at least one initial dose of the jab to millions of people as NHS doctors are ‘frustrated’ with slow roll-out” – Unhelpful intervention from the former Prime Minister. Apparently, giving people the first dose with no guarantee of the second hasn’t been approved by the MHRA
- “Lockdown money-printing sets us up for an even greater Covid collapse” – Liam Halligan is pessimistic in the Telegraph
- “COVID-19: new powers for ‘stay at home’ message” – The Stormont executive’s stay-at-home lockdown message in Northern Ireland was made “legally enforceable” last night, granting police the power to force people to return home if they’re out between 8pm and 6am between Boxing Day and Jan 2nd
- “Calgary AB youth arrested for playing hockey” – George Dance blogs about an unpleasant incident in which a young man in Calgary was assaulted by the police for the crime of playing hockey
- “A vaccine won’t protect us from the economic disaster of further lockdowns” – Ross Clark in the Telegraph says we cannot afford to lockdown until most people have been vaccinated
- “Could 30% of Brits have some Covid immunity?” – Yes, says Philip Thomas in the Spectator
- “NHS office staff ‘given Covid vaccine before doctors’” – Doctors are very upset about this – but for status rather than health reasons
- “Travellers into Scotland may face stay in quarantine hotel” – Gawd help us. But cheer up – you might see a maskless Nic Sturge-On in the lobby
- “No situation BoJo can’t make worse” – Alistair Osborne in the Times says the last few days have seen a fresh high for No 10’s chaosometer
- “Lockdowns have become the default Covid policy – but do they actually work?” – Good review of the evidence by Kai Weiss in CapX
- “Thérèse Soukar Chehade: COVID Wars” – Article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette making the case for the Great Barrington Declaration
- “‘Tier 4 has left me stranded in university accommodation for Christmas’” – A poor student at UEA is going to be stuck self-isolating in his dorm room tomorrow
- “Christmas with family isn’t irresponsible – it’s a human right” – Allison Pearson’s column in yesterday’s Telegraph
- “Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany” – Good piece about the mounting doubts surrounding the Eurosurveillance PCR paper Dr Christian Drosten and colleagues
- Tim Spector on Spectator TV is unimpressed by the Government’s constantly changing restrictions
- Roger Bowles has interviewed his local publican for his forthcoming documentary about Covid madness. Must watch
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Five today: “Christmas Convoy” by Paul Brandt, “Cross the Border” by Marlon Asher, “Let Me Be Free” by Yvonne Chaka Chaka, “New Age” by Softer Still and “All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray” by Handel.
Love in the Time of Covid
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we bring you the story of Steve Finn, a Coronation Street director who has been dropped by ITV for wrongthink. The Huffington Post has more.
ITV has dumped a regular Coronation Street director following a series of online posts rubbishing concerns of racism in the media industry, HuffPost UK can reveal.
The broadcaster said Steve Finn, a freelancer who has worked on the soap over the last two years, made social media posts that were “inconsistent with the values of both Coronation Street and ITV”.
In one of the posts, all of which are public and still available to view, Finn poked fun at David Olusoga after the TV historian told the Edinburgh TV Festival that being marginalised in his career had left him feeling “crushed, isolated” and “disempowered”.
Finn wrote in response on his Facebook page: “Oh poor dear, so crushed by his success on the unenlightened British media. Could I get just a tenth of his salary for making programmes which people actually watch, as he is so crushed.”
Around this time the historian also delivered a lecture on his own experiences of racism.
Finn claimed that he had never seen any racism during his four decades working in TV and dismissed concerns as the “fabrication of fashionable claims”.
He said: “I have worked in this business for over 40 years and I have not seen one instance of racism. I’m afraid I find people like him [Olusoga] beyond contempt because he has made a very nice earner out of his niche abilities, but now wants to ride the racism high-horse to maximum effect.
“I am a product of the white working-class, and have often felt alone and isolated, and yes unwanted, especially in the BBC, but I would never have made such a shameful parody of myself just to further my career.”
In a separate comment, he said: “People like Olusaga [sic] are victim-making frauds and need to be called out.”
When BBC Bitesize published an interview about white privilege with psychologist and author John Amaechi in August, Finn wrote on Facebook: “This is on a BBC ‘Education’ website. Is it not ‘re-education’, a la Soviet Union or China?”
The same month, actor and director Noel Clarke told BBC Radio 5 Live about what happened when he asked for a more diverse production crew when shooting a TV show. Finn branded Clarke a “fucktard” and said: “You got some white people ‘let go’ to assuage your own agenda”.
There’s more in this vein. Sounds like a case for the Free Speech Union.
Steve Finn, if you’re reading this, contact me on info@freespeechunion.org and I’ll see if there’s anything I can do. I imagine some Red Wall Tory MPs might want to take up your cause.
“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. Another reader has created an Android app which displays “I am exempt from wearing a face mask” on your phone. Only 99p, and he’s even said he’ll donate half the money to Lockdown Sceptics, so everyone wins.
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: The Mexican authorities have started employing wrestlers to enforce outdoor mask wearing. RT has more.
Así promueven el uso de cubrebocas en Irapuato, Guanajuato
— Alex Ramblaspic.twitter.com/mNIS3tblY7
(@alexramblasr) December 22, 2020
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 over three quarters of a million signatures.
Update: The authors of the GBD 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.
Stop Press: Great Twitter thread by El Gato about the heavy price paid by Covid dissidents – and why it’s worth it anyway.
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. Alas, he’s now reached the end of the road, with the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear his appeal. Dolan has no regrets. “We forced SAGE to produce its minutes, got the Government to concede it had not lawfully shut schools, and lit the fire on scrutinizing data and information,” he says. “We also believe our findings and evidence, while not considered properly by the judges, will be of use in the inevitable public inquires which will follow and will help history judge the PM, Matt Hancock and their advisers in the light that they deserve.”
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’. A High Court judge refused permission for the FSU’s judicial review in December and the FSU has decided not to appeal the decision because Ofcom has conceded most of the points it was making. Check here for details.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Quotation Corner
We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
They who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions…
Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
Richard Feynman
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Necessity is the plea for every restriction of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels (attributed)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Thomas Paine
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And Finally…
In case you missed it, James Delingpole and I recorded a final episode of London Calling before Christmas earlier this week. Some listeners don’t like it when we fight – “It’s like listening to your parents arguing,” said one – so this may not be to everyone’s taste. We have our usual argument about whether the Covid-fuelled dystopia we’re living in is cock-up or conspiracy, but James is more than usually annoyed with me for refusing to take the Great Reset seriously. Happily, we do discuss some other, less fractious topics, such as what we’ve got our wives for Christmas.
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Merry Christmas all
When I were a lad Xmas Eve was a normal working day except that everyone went to the pub at lunchtime so most bosses said don’t bother coming back for the afternoon.
Luxury!
Merry Christmas All, may Father Christmas empty his sack in your living room
I don’t like the sound of that!!
He only comes once a year.
But when he does, he fills your stockings up!
Toby’s headline put me in the mood. Until I read anything below the headline. the German llamasauruses side of our family celebrates Eve primarily. This ll-Rex will be working till going out for a Chinese meal this evening, before the restaurant shuts down.
My family in Germany is very depressed this year. Usually very active retirees, all cultural and sport opportunities have been closed since November.
With Germany shutting down at noon today, 2 BH and Sunday, it gets very boring indeed. There are only so many walks one can go on, and TV is abysmal .
I know, it’s awful.
Netflix
My parents do not have an answer phone, microwave, never had a video recorder or dvd player, no computer or mobile phone.
They just about manage to switch on the tv.
If it was not winter, my 80y old father would rather dig his allotment.
Are they showing those Sissi films again? From what I heard they do it over Christmas.
DJT has a 0730 press call today (just to spoil their day mainly probably).
Lol love the way he plays them!
Those by-the-helicopter press conferences are particularly funny.
When I were a lad my mother worked on Christmas Day because she was a post woman.
WE lived at the bottom of a lake and ate gravel. <sorry>
Soft gravel, you were lucky!!
.. but we had to pick it up with our toes.
Our parents came home every evening and stabbed us to death. Yes life was hard in those days….
And going to kiss all the ladies working in the typing pool, even the directors secretary who the rest of the year frightened the beejezus out of me….
I remember those days. Pubs would remove all chairs and tables to get more people in – no social distancing allowed. Very busy as they weren’t allowed to stay open all afternoon. I think they wee a bit less strict on last orders though.
Merry Christmas, but it looks like mine’s been cancelled. Aside from just finding out that my county is going into Tier 4 on Saturday, MOH has a kidney stone on the move, which can be horrendously painful.
So, we won’t be going to my sister’s house for Xmas day. If MOH is still suffering, I’ll be having beans on toast or something…
Oh, well.
Same s***, different day.
Kidney stones easily tx’d with IV medication to dilate the ureter. Go,to,A&E they aren’t busy right now. Seriously.
Hope they de-stone MOH right away. God bless.
Talk about timing! Your poor OH. My sympathies to her.
The latest london calling is worth a listen…as always. I’ve crossed the rubicon some time ago, and am with James on this one.
The Great Reset (aka Ze Grrate Reezet) is a real plan it’s just if the fat Emperor of the Middle Kingdom and Dr Strangelove can pull it off or not.
Elsewhere James said it’s irrelevant whether it’s a co-ordinated plan or an elite consensus. He’s right. He also asserted “but it’s what’s happening right now”. The framing of this as a reset, conspiracy etc is distraction.
you don’t need to send orders from a bunker if lobbying, corruption, erosion of democratic balances, concentration of media ownership (inc big tech) means that elite agendas rule the day. The population is getting dumber and more addicted, atomised.
That was Hitlers speciality, letting it be known verbally the direction he wanted to go and leaving it to his underlings to fight between themselves to produce and put their names to practices that best pleased their master.
The principle was called working towards the fuhrer.The underlings would try to figure out which policy or action would please Hitler.It was encouraged because it negated any challenge to Hitlers position.it also made the governance of Nazi Germany extremely inefficient.The parallel is probably all these academics constantly appearing on tv and the press constantly calling for more harsher lockdowns.
Regarding the new mutant strain I believe that it isn’t part of the plan,yet,it is the sign of a desperate government trying to negate any opposition to the deeply unpopular Christmas decision.
You’ve got to be right there.
i.e. delegation ?
Not putting his name to or signing off on policies he knew to be criminal.
Well One thing Boris has managed to do that Hitler couldn’t and that’s closing the Café de Paris.
other resets are available: CCP
Hence ‘Middle Kingdom’.
Morning from sunny South Africa, where rumor has it that alcohol prohibition will soon be introduced again. Beach closures has done nothing to slow the spread of our particular mutant. Mothballed Nightingale hospitals (tents with oxygen points) are being resurrected and the populace are thankfully ignoring the “mask up when outside your home”.
In the Western Cape we are estimated to reach our peak in about a week’s time. I feel for the healthcare workers – no Xmas for them….
Geseende Kersfees
Dankie, julle ook!
Gezundheit!
As a fellow SA resident (UK citizen), I would be interested in your broader views on the whole COVID situation. 99% of my circle pretty much believe every word and a shit scared. I’m the other way, unsurprisingly. I think it’s gone way beyond the incompetence theory, and am onside with the “conspiracy” explanation i.e. a trojan horse for the great reset. I think the 2nd wave and then new strains are just further elements of the strategy, probably to keep testing the waters and see how far they can go without losing traction (and it seems like the answer is “forever”). I’d be completely unsurprised if there are more waves, more strains etc etc until everyone is completely desensitised to all the restrictions and the way is paved for the great reset
What’s your position, and that of your friends / family / colleagues?
Have a look at Pandata from SA (as was my first wife). Includes the excellent Michael Levitt (NP 2013).
https://pandata.org/
Thanks, will do
Good morning all.
Anyone else able to access the link about Germany and Drosten’s paper? It just gets stuck loading for me.
Gave me no trouble.
Thanks Annie. I’ll try a different device later.
Just saw this, re qr passports https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/23/uk-govt-begins-work-on-corona-freedom-passports-denies-system-is-imminent/
imagine the worst…then times it by 10, and see the future.
You have a negative test.
You get a pass.
You step outside.
You pick up the bug.
You go down the pub.
Brilliant.
It’s dumb from any point of view, except as another addition to means of control and social credit scoring etc. This whole thing is so obviously about sociopathic control IMO .
of course we’ve been tracked and traced for ages; gchq/5eyes can barely move for all the data on us. This just Mainstreams it and makes it something we’ve “consented” to.
It’s not about health, but about control. Vaccines are integral to it
As mentioned previously a negative test proves nothing except that the bearer was probably negative at the time they took the test but having an mot certificate for your vehicle will not prove that it is roadworthy the following day.
Or during the MOT test.
…but it entitles you to go on driving it for a year, at whatever risk to yourself and other road users.
Not exactly, you are just not allowed to without it even though having it will not save you from prosecution if a thug traffic cop finds a defect the following day.
yes. But it’s not, as we here know, about “controlling the virus”.
with so much of this apparent “madness” I just see highly effective mani-ulation, gaslighting, triangulation, pull-push, ghosting, crumbtrailing, hoovering. The population is being abused and most don’t know how to break free. Stockholm syndrome spreading.
And a DBS check only shows that you had no criminal convictions the day the check was carried out.
Warmest greetings to all sceptics on Christmas Eve. Remember: every positive thought, every positive action, every act of defiance however tiny, is a blow against THEM.
Breathe air, hug people, sing carols, stay sane.
It’s funny, Annie, but I never liked the millennial style of hugging people. I was strictly firm handshake. I now hug every business colleague of mine whenever we meet. We know we are doing it as a defiant gesture….such tiny pleasures.
Elbow bumping is a great way to spot twats indoors without their masks on.
Hey now I like to elbow bump fellow skeptics ironically… before I give them a massive hug!
Watching a few people on tv elbow bump recently, I concluded that one has to stand closer than if you do a handshake. Faces are closer together.
I stick with handshakes.
Aren’t you “supposed” to cough into your elbow?
Just so long as there’s no more ‘Kiss of Peace’ nonsense at CofE.
I’m with you there. The abolition of the the Horrible Holy Handshake is the only good thing that might come out of the bollox.
We’ve heard less of Greta the Doom Goblin too.
Puke making
To be honest I’d be happy with a little bow, never been much of a a hugger or a shaker but It’s nothing to do with Covid for me, just a bit reserved!
I’m not. hugger either, but it’s, like, symbolic!
Hugs are drugs. (h/t the Simpsons)
Shook hands with three work associates yesterday.
Merry Christmas from HMP London and thank you for all your posts be they funny, thoughtful, barnstorming!
With good behaviour you could be free this time next year.
Yesterday two hugs, one handshake
Today a proper 15s hug with one of the huggers from yesterday; Played him the Boris Johnson song too, which he loved
Several friendly chats with (until a few months ago) strangers on my walk today.
Bought above song, so has other half.
On a roll!
Just walked the dog over Burnham on crouch. What pandemic? No masks, people chatting (especially fellow dog walkers) buying hot chocolate. Okay the pubs were shut and the poor shop owners but it was bloody cold but lovely. Of course we had to drive home past the coop with the queue of mask wearers outside. My wife said do NOT shout out! Can I point and laugh? Okay, result. Thank you Poppy, my Cocker spaniel for keeping me sane. Merry Christmas everyone. Keep strong and don’t let the bastards grind you down.
We used to love Burnham on Crouch.The huge skies, the river, the seafood, the pretty buildings, the yachts. Then we’d go to Bradwell-on-Sea and walk down to the Saxon church. Happy days.
Affirmative! Christmas Greetings Annie.
100% spot on Annie. Thank you! There was singing in the car, singing on zoom , but not singing in the church. They can sing in the Church in France but not in UK. We sing anyway. Have a good few days.
John Lee writes: “Of course we should do everything possible to help vulnerable groups shield themselves and vaccinate at the earliest opportunity.” But if the virus is becoming more benign (as he describes) should we be risking these liability free products using completely new technologies, and brought to the market a breakneck speed?
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/26/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-lets-be-cautious-and-first-see-the-full-data/
Has anyone noticed that Ferguson is funded by the vaccine industry?
https://www.vaccineimpact.org/aboutus/
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/hosted-initiatives-and-groups/vaccine-impact-modelling-consortium/
And the government Johnson, Hancock et al have been disasterously focussed on a vaccine solution
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-speech-to-un-general-assembly-26-september-2020
which is why we are where we are.
Meanwhile, the WHO have changed the definition of herd immunity to make it dependent on vaccines not tens of millions of years of evolution:
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How can anyone trust that organisation?
You can’t. Look at Tedros’ background for starters and how he got the job through CCP string pulling.
My question was rhetorical.
Don’t worry I got your drift
But some people don’t know the whole sordid story of this “doctor’s” career.
Tedros was already part of the Gates entourage in 2007.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/wheres-the-missing-evidence/
Something stinks with that one.
Much as Trump got a lot of things wrong he’s right that the WHO should be defunded.
Trump got the WHO right. But then, typically, he blew the money on GAVI instead.
Absolutely crazy!
They have already changed the definition of a pandemic.Those who see no conspiracy should look closely.If you control the WHO then you control the response to this crisis.look at the funding and make up of the WHO and see who they serve.
There were huge warnings with swine flu episode:
https://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3471
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l1259/rr
But they were never held to account so they just went and did it again on a vastly larger scale.
Computing forever did a good piece on this.He came to the conclusion that they failed because the media were prepared to question a lot more and it was before the ubiquitousness of social media
Meanwhile, the WHO have changed the definition of herd immunity to make it dependent on vaccines not tens of millions of years of evolution:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep1HXZVXIAUaXcP?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
John Lee is endorsing the vaccinations?
I despair
Yes, I don’t get it. Admittedly I have been a critic of the vaccine lobby for a long time but I do not understand how anyone can rationally witness what they’ve done this year and be confident that it is wise. Also, it seems to me to be ethically questionable to give a general endorsement. This is surely outside anyone’s competence – OK most politicians and journalist’s don’t know any better but it is not their business to advocate medical treatments. Should never be.
He must be controlled opposition. Perhaps Karol Sikora is too. I find controlled opposition to be the biggest traitors of this scenario
And notice how quickly HCQ+Zinc was buried by the legacy media.
And look how patients were overdosed in the UK “trial” of this treatment.
https://www.francesoir.fr/politique-monde/oxford-recovery-et-solidarity-overdosage-two-clinical-trials-acts-considered
https://theworldnews.net/fr-news/oxford-recovery-hospital-test-overdose-a-pill-hard-to-swallow
If this had been deliberately set up to fail they could not have done “better”.
Yes, the HCQ scandal seemed to get completely buried in this country, meanwhile the return of usual suspects few questions asked (none about Horby).
And also how a hydroxycholoquine factory in Taiwan exploded. Pharma is a mafia
Seems Johnson was reassuring big pharma that they would still call the shots after the UK-EU free trade deal was announced – “vaccines are the only way out” (or words to that effect), no mention of vitamin D or nutritional medicine. I wonder why?
From Toby’s piece
You don’t have to go abroad to see this. Round my way if they do roadworks in particular streets they place roadblocks and multiple division signs three sides around the block even though the road is one-way and you are being directed to go the way you have to anyway.
This is not an accidental mind slip it is ubiquitous.
As in the article about part time cycling restrictions, we have a number of roads that are clearly signed
‘Buses only 07.30-09.15’
But in an ongoing display of sheepleness 95% of the traffic sticks to the busy main lane all day long giving me the occasional irritated toot as I whizz down beside them.
The 2 or more lane on the Bristol bypass is a great example. It’s only active at certain times but most people avoid driving in it in the morning when the lane isn’t active. So a dual carriageway becomes a single lane.
Many years ago my brother was driving in such a bus lane in Dublin (operational from 0700-1000 and 1200-1900).
He was stopped by a Garda (police officer) and asked to explain why he was driving in a bus lane. He asked the Garda what time it was. 1130. He then asked him to check the operational hours. Needless to say he was not ticketed. Also needless to say, no apology received because these thicks don’t apologise.
Toby, Merry Christmas to you and yours, and all the team at LS
Sincere thanks to you for confronting this evil
Merry Christmas also to those who have contributed articles and comments
From the forthright biker, to annie, to ‘k’s daily battle daily battle to run a cafe in the face of mind numbing ignorance
We fought the good fight
On this device i come up as ceci, not Cecil B,
I had not realised that you were one and the same. Merry Christmas Cecil.
You have been showing as that for a few days Cecil – I knew it was you though!
We will go on.
Cecil, we need more of your brilliant newsflashes from the Gulag, they make my day!
God bless us every one.
kh, you have been an inspiration to us all, I admire you more than I can say.
I second that. Thank you & God bless kh.
Toby asks “is Hancock going to conjure up a new strain every time he wants to tighten the lockdown ratchet ?”
Joe Stalin was good at this but at least there was a purpose. For decades he would conjure up one conspiracy after another long after he had rid himself of real enemies.
These imaginary conspiracies allowed him to arrest millions to feed the Gulag and so achieve the 5 Year Plan to build heavy industry with slave Labour.
Yep. It’s important to understand that to most people here these scare tactics are just risible in the same way that Stalin’s show trials were ridiculous to any independent minded person.
But they are good enough to frighten large numbers of low-information people who get their “facts” from the BBC and the rest of the legacy media.
Until these folk start rejecting the narrative in large numbers, this madness will just keep rolling.
Right but I just wonder are enough people who comment here rejecting the narrative?
I personally disagree with the measures, but I am still following them – leading to guilt. Until people like me step up, it’ll continue.
Refusing to comply is the first step. That leads to setting a sane example. The more you do, the easier it gets.
A record 6 people were without masks in Aldi yesterday. Only me in the garden centre today
Achieved a year early 2+2 = 5.
o/t but you have to feel for the redundant air flight crew who retrained as long distance lorry drivers.
FFS!
Look out, it’s raining squash!
Merry Christmas everyone, it’s true Toby, all of you have kept me sane, a refuge from the mainstream media and hysteria of governments here. Mask madness is everywhere. Today I went to the cemetery to put flowers on my grandmother’s grave. There was a fellow sat on a bench amongst the graves with a mask on reading a book. I was so tempted to go over and say, ‘mate, these people have no chance of recovery’, my husband was so relieved I didn’t. God Bless you all, keep the faith, we will regroup for better days very soon.
Reminds me of a sitcom decades ago with Arthur Lowe as an Irish Catholic priest. He is sitting in a cemetery with his young curate. The curate comments on how peaceful and quiet it is. His response – “You can hardly expect a riot.”
I never saw that, but Arthur Lowe is a legend. Absolutely brilliant in Dad’s Army. Was it him in The Plank as well?
Thanks again to Toby, Wills et al for helping keep me (and all of us I’m sure) sane this past nine months. I have not wavered since day one and just want the madness to end.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Mixed emotions yesterday in Stourbridge: In a mask “recommended” area, a “prole” proudly tucking in to a cholesterol loaded bacon or sausage sandwich which looked about 2,000 calories, but then during the afternoon when my wife went to have her hair “done”, one of the hairdressers, a sociable girl in her twenties proudly announced that she was going to spend Christmas day on her own.
I’ll stick with the memory of the bloke with his “piece”, and his expression of “F××k you lot of sheep “.
Hope the silly little butch has a miserable time.
What in hell are these cretins afraid of?
LIFE.
If I was the mum of that hairdresser I’d take offence at being treated like a leper. By my own daughter.
It is customary at the end of the year to look at summaries and I was considering the amount of legislation that has been thrown at this virus? looking at the Hansard Coronavirus legislation dashboard;
https://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/data/coronavirus-statutory-instruments-dashboard
It states;
How many Coronavirus-related Statutory Instruments has the government laid before the UK Parliament?
The government has laid 327 Coronavirus-related Statutory Instruments (SIs) before the UK Parliament.
The first two Coronavirus-related SIs were laid on 28 January and 10 February 2020, respectively. The rest have been laid since 6 March, at an average rate since then of eight per completed week.
To my mind this level of legislation indicates deranged, megalomaniac, control freak Government of the most ineffective,damaging and tyrannical kind. And to make matters worse this pesky virus does not seem to have read any of this legislation and just carries on regardless. Setting the legislative framework for the country is a prime duty of Parliament and so to my mind how so many MPs can give their agreement to this maelstrom af hellish legislation just beggars belief.
Say what you like about Sweden (everyone has an opinion) but they took a longitudinal approach from the outset. The bedwetters cream their knickers when new guidelines come in there whilst we lurch from lockdown to Tiers to Eat Out to lockdown again. I think they are now addicted to the ‘drama’ of it all.
Hancock said the was “out of control”.
It isn’t. But the government is.
Have we seen this petition before? Mike Yeadon tweeted it
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563806
Do not start mass testing in schools or require asymptomatic students to isolateThe Government should not roll out mass testing in places of education and end mandatory isolation if children do not have symptoms.
Signed and shared- testing asymptomatic children is such an important issue and I’m sure in the New Year were going to see children becoming the next target. What are the effects of suggesting to children that they may be spreading an illness around, when they don’t feel ill? It beggars belief that educators will support this.
They already are – I had the email 2 days ago. Starting when they go back (IF they go back)
Ding!
I owe the UK an apology. I have to assume that I have the virus and am therefore a spreader. I hope you will find it in your hearts to forgive me and all the other 67 million spreaders. I was going to hide in shame in South Africa, but that’s now not on the cards.
Lettuce is the antidote, but the Mutant Ninja virus eat them all last week. Pray God that sprouts work!
Off to Sainsbury’s soon, to spread good cheer. And the virus…..obviously.
<Sigh>
The EU isn’t working, so the solution is more EU.
Lockdowns aren’t working, so the solution is more lockdowns.
If I could posts images, I’d post this one:
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Oh, wow! I never expected that to work!
The only thing working in the UK at the moment
Santa might bring you one, he’s probably got them on backorder lol
It’s the textbook case of insanity isn’t it? Do the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.
I want one for my desk.
Is that the Prime Minister?
Btw, I am a 76 year old biddie with a chronic respiratory illness. I do not want the vaccine.
This is a PS to my earlier post below!
Stand up to them, my heroine!
Neither do my 83 year old parents! They didn’t catch Corona when I had it over last Christmas at their home, so it’s pretty obvious they are immune from some previous infection.
Why would they now want to take something with zero benefits and serious possible health risks? “To save granny” perhaps? Really?
All they want is their freedom back and the country back to normal. The OLD normal – not one with QR health codes, vaccine passports, stupid face nappies and Stasi-type snooping.
This year’s madness will soon have wasted a precious year of their remaining active lives. That’s frankly criminal.
The Stasi Snoopers were always around. Now there’s more of them.
Enjoy your break Tony. BTW, isn’t SAGE supposed to advise the government, not lobby it via the Press? Time for some political sackings, methinks.
SAGE members seem to have been engaged in briefing/leaking to the press/media since the very first days of this epidemic without any sanction whatsoever applied against them.
If one of my employees did that to me then they would be dismissed.
A sign of weakness by the Prime Muppet – a spineless man.
Before I sit down to read today’s update and comments, I would like to wish Toby and the rest of the Lockdown Sceptics team a very Merry Christmas. Your hard work bringing us what many in the mainstream media and the government refuse to engage in has been a huge source of facts that I’ve been using to debate with lockdownistas.
And of course Merry Christmas too to the lovely readers and commenters here, you have been a beacon of common sense, rationality, knowledge and humour all throughout this shit show. There are times I’ve felt down but you have rallied around be it to like my comments, reply, give words of comfort and offer advice. I can’t thank all of you enough.
Mr Bart and I will be sitting down to enjoy our Christmas together but our thoughts will be with people we know who will be alone especially Mr Bart’s dad who we have been unable to visit due to the insanity not only of the rules here but also in the Democratic People’s Republic of Scotland.
Let’s all stay strong and keep our heads held high.
Merry Christmas and God bless us every one!
And to you and Mr Bart! Regards from Tunbridge Wells.
Festive greetings from HMP London!!!
God bless you both! From a free soul in Gulag Wales.
Thanks and best wishes from the inmates in HMP London.
Back atcha Bart. From a soon-to-be tier 4 Andean outpost.
Merry Christmas and a happier new year to everyone.
The article above, on what is happening in Germany, gives me hope. I’ve sent it to my MP-he needs to understand why I’m so angry.
You’re welcome. And same to you as well, all the best and still have the trip to your cafe on my list now moved to next year.
I’ve been to Audley End House in the past but not to Saffron Walden itself. Was planning to make a trip until Lockdown 2 put a kibosh to my plans.
Merry Christmas to the Simpsons, from the Panic household
Merry Christmas!
And to you, your family and your boyfriend!
KH, I’m a bit late to the party, but I’m apalled that someone ‘had a go’. Even more so that it was on here. Don’t know what happened, but if you said something stupid, I would expect folk on here to robustly correct you, however I very much doubt that was the case. Stay strong, stay *you* and try to enjoy the upcoming strange celebration. I can’t bring myself to say the words ‘Merry Christmas’. Oh, damn.
Londons figures yesterday. Hancock continues with the lies.
Does anyone in this country believe a word he says now?
Someone told me yesterday that her partner who I’ve taken to be an equable quiet retired ex miner wanted to punch him in the facewhen he last saw him on TV.
Judging from comments on here,he’d have to join an awfully long queue.
I am rather hoping to find his head on a stick under my tree tomorrow – that would be the best present ever.
They can continue to lie because the Commons and the media are not doing their job in holding the Government to account.
The public is at fault too.
The PTB have gone from crying “Wolf!” to crying “Fire-breathing dragons!!!” and the sheeple still swallow the bollox whole.
I mentioned similarities between today’s medico/political weird out and the McCarthyism of the U.S.A. in the early 1950s
One immediate and telling response on here was that ‘McCarthy was right’
McCarthyism disintegrated in four years but clearly still has a long shadow. It was also one manifestation of a much wider political battle.
‘The political terror of the early 1950s, in which McCarthy was to play the role of a bush league Robespierre, was set off by wider forces and conflicts than a quarrel over whether or not the Roosevelt and Truman administrations had been penetrated by foreign agents.’
‘In the eyes of celebrity liberalism, those up in arms about the government’s acceptance of communist ambition were the unappetizing people of the dull world of the lower middle class. They were the piano-legged babushkas of American politics, stolid Slavs and such, thick of finger and numb of mind. In the ongoing kulturkampf dividing the society, the elites of Hollywood, Cambridge and liberal think-tankery had little sympathy for bow-legged men with their American Legion caps…’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1996/04/14/was-mccarthy-right-about-the-left/a0dc6726-e2fd-4a31-bcdd-5f352acbf5de/
So not much changes.
But the point is, lockdown scepticism is a long game and, frustratingly slow though it may be, the arguments made by this site and elsewhere are gaining traction.
It is also a wide game and many agendas are hitched to the minor common cold coronavirus ‘national emergency’ bandwagon.
In the U.S. Senator Merkley has suggested that the incoming President should declare a national climate emergency which would give him emergency powers to bypass the Senate in the same way that Democrat state governors have done with their COVID lockdowns
‘Declaring the climate crisis a national emergency under the NEA would not only send a powerful signal about the urgency of bold action, it would unlock powers that allow our nation to take significant, concrete actions regardless of congressional gridlock.’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/jeff-merkley-biden-climate-crisis-executive-action/
The importance of this site and others like it is to make sure the wheels come off the illiberal totalitarian and extremist lockdown bandwagon. Everything else follows from that.
All the data is on the sceptical side so when the wheels do finally come off the covid bandwagon, as come off they undoubtedly will, the interventionist ‘Robespierres’ and ‘Savonarolas’ will end up very much as Senator McCarthy did:
‘This loutish, duplicitous bully, who carried, not the names of Reds but bottles of hootch in his briefcase died in disgrace and of alcoholism.’ (Reference above)
Wankok and McCarthy must be related.
Of all the names for Wankok, Wankok makes me laugh the most.
Mutant Matt Wancock
These historical parallels are most interesting and informative.
From my vague recollections of Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions, which I read a very long time ago, and the history of financial bubbles, I imagined back in March that the covid hysteria may last a few months, perhaps even six months.
But here we are, into ten months and no sign of a let-up yet. I wonder if there is indeed anything to be gleaned about the duration of the sort of mass mania we are going through from historical examples. I haven’t got the time at the moment to go back through the text books, but the four year example of McCarthyism doesn’t sound encouraging.
No matter. Carry on.
I don’t call it “McCarthyism”, more the “Red Scare”. McCarthy came to prominence in 1950. But they started going after “Reds” in Hollywood in 1947 – the “Hollywood Ten”. McCarthy was a Senator but the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was connected to the House of Representatives. McCarthy coincided with the Korean War, which lasted three years. Significantly he fell from grace after the war was over.
I need to read up on that. I’ve read The Crucible, which is a take on it, and much of what is going on now has parallels with 17th-century witch hunting.
The Red Scare ran approximately from 1947 to the late 1950s – some of the bureaucratic traces outlived his influence. McCarthy lost influence in 1954 when hearings he conducted into Communist influence in the US Army made him look bad (they were televised and McCarthy was not photogenic). His associate, Roy Cohn, remained in the public eye and was a mentor of the young Donald Trump.
As late as 1958, US authorities deported William Heikkila, a Finnish-born man, on the grounds that he had been a Communist in the 1930s. Heikkila was picked up from his workplace in California and stuck on a plane to Helsinki, still wearing lightweight clothing unsuited to the Finnish climate. After legal pressure Heikkila was brought back to the USA and died there a few years later, still fighting deportation attempts.
Hold on, McCarthy wasn’t right was he? Or was he? Please excuse my ignorance, the Cold War not a period in history I know a huge amount about! I read this book a while ago but let me know if anyone has any good recommendations
best, very much counter prevailing ‘wisdom, book on McCarthy is ‘Blacklisted by History’ by M. Stanton Evans. Evans enjoyed access to newly available official documents of the era. Found McCarthy was indeed far more right than wrong. But his face, background, and manners did not fit (sound familiar?!). His reputation is still being trashed on a permanent loop; truth will not be allowed out. Under the smoke of this hue and cry, The Left has quietly taken over the commanding heights of all US institutions: academia, judiciary, media, politics, technology. Sorry, meant ‘all Western institutions’.
Actually even anti-Communists thought McCarthy was going too far. Whittaker Chambers for example thought he was going to make some huge mistake eventually and discredit the cause of anti-Communism. His campaign against Communists in the US Army failed to gain traction – tens of thousands of US soldiers had been killed fighting in Korea, while McCarthy’s associate Roy Cohn had evaded military service in both WW2 and the Korean War. McCarthy came across badly on television, and the sight of him and the equally unphotogenic Cohn talking tactics together with a hand muffling the microphone made them both look unappetising. Newspaper reporting tended to favour McCarthy – even hostile reporting drew attention to him, but TV coverage diminished him.
It is notable that J. Edgar Hoover had fed FBI information to him and they were photographed together but after the Army hearings he decided McCarthy was damaged goods and ceased backing him.
He also lost backing in the Republican Party – his claims that the Truman government had been treasonable did not damage his standing but when he started to say the treason continued under the Republican Eisenhower he undercut himself.
The Cohn factor has also to be taken into account – Cohn had tried to pull strings for a staffer and friend of his named G.David Schine who had been called up into the US armed forces. When this failed it was widely believed that he encouraged McCarthy to go after the Army in retaliation. Cohn and Schine were rumoured to be homosexual lovers. McCarthy was urged by other Senators to get rid of Cohn but he didn’t.
A biography of Cohn, “Citizen Cohn” by Nicholas von Hoffman, published 1988, is good on this period and subsequently.
McCarthy history was big when I was at school in 60s, Crucible (Miller), protest songs etc. The boot is on the other foot now of course with the Woke out McCarthying McCarthy.
It’s when we learned about ‘Pleading the 5th’ which many did before HUAC.
I’ve just opened my Christmas Card from the pig dictator and the idiot half child and it reads
Lockdown One didn’t work Your fault
Track and Trace didn’t work Your fault
Second lockdown didn’t work Your fault
Firebreaks didn’t work Your fault
Closing pubs didn’t work Your fault
Masks failed Your fault
Mutant virus Your fault
Mass testing failed Your fault
Hospitals failing Your fault
Social distancing failed Your fault
Tiers failed Your fault
3rd lockdown fail Your fault
Economic crash Your fault
Refusing to believe lies. Your fault.
So he’s not blaming us for the Exponential rise in suicides then ?
Pig dictator narc blame shifting.
‘Idiot half child’
Good list. These are reasons why people can wake up once the failures are pointed out to them. The list sows tge seed of doubt in some. A reflection for a period of time and perhaps one or two more failures added during that reflection period.
Perhaps giving that list in a christmas card isn’t such a bad idea.
Vaccine triumph (because we say so) Our heroic rescue.
Our health minister bandies the word ‘complacency’ around, pointed at we citizens of NSW. He names people when it suits him, but then admonishes people on social media for the same behaviour. Then it is not a ‘blame game’. Folks we have 2 people in hospital in NSW not in ICU. Australia wide 21 in hospital not in ICU. Around 20 odd million in this country. Go figure.
There has never been, nor ever will be any progress in human endeavours without scepticism.
David Hume was good at it.
Figures for the Overberg region of Western Cape approx 80 miles from Cape Town. Total population 267,000. Cases 481, that’s 0.167% of the population. Wankcock muddies the waters yet again.
Figures for the Overberg region of Western Cape approx 80 miles from Cape Town. Total population 267,000. Cases 481, that’s 0.167% of the population. Wankcock muddies the waters yet again.
It looks like from BBC story the entire ‘dangerous new South African variant’ story seems to be based on tweets by one individual who seems to be their equivalent of Whitty or Vallance. Has anyone checked his background to see what connections he has to big pharma or Gates?
Much better to check with Pandata which is SA based and doing great work.
https://pandata.org/
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Toby and crew and all readers of Lockdown Sceptics.
Sinister nod to the new normal here
https://twitter.com/JustinWelby/status/1342017251654963200?s=20
He should concentrate on the flock and not petty politics
Anyone missing Kay Burley? Thought not.
There is not exactly a long line of sceptics ready to take her place. Apologies to be negative but there is nobody in MSM to ‘hang our hat on’. I’m enjoying Piers Morgan’s lad coming out as a strong LS However.
Mummy, what’s hospitality?
Something to do with the NHS, dear.
I sit here listening to Pink Floyd and pondering 9 months since the first lockdown.
When we were told in March to close, my 10 strong staff were so fearful that if my partner and I had suggested one or two stay to help us carry on with the work that would need to be done behind doors closed to the public,in military terms, they would have mutinied or simply deserted.
They were still scared when we met in late May planning to reopen and,in fairness,after a few weeks back at work they have stiffened up a bit.
Yesterday, I spoke with two about the virus and one still shows some fear of it having lost a relative’s wife at aged 69/70, accepting government death stats and assurances hospitals were being overrun.
I tried to counter her arguments but to no avail – she trusts the government.
The other person with whom I spoke said that her husband had decided the whole think was just rubbish and she was starting to agree with him so all is not yet lost.
On another note I’ve sent an eamail to Toby (wrong time of year,I know) asking for help in trrying to set upa template for an email to MPs giving concise real information on why lockdowms etc do not work.
Have as happy a Christmas as you can,Lockdown Scetics all.
We carry on.
Love Pink Floyd, came to appreciation later in life. ‘Wish you were here’ will be my funeral farewell. Sadly so many here with access to only mainstream media are terrified out of their wits.
Shine on you crazy diamond!
Anyone who trusts the government is a lost cause.
Who’s all up for crowdfunding a sceptic-only Scottish island and declaring indy? A wee Christmas present from us to us for us all to enjoy?
We could set up shop with some crofts, boats, and lots of guns. Maybe even open up a wee pub with some pictures of Krankie’s face on the urinals??
Any UK tax officials approach with the Frankenvaccine and we fill them will arrows just like those tribesmen on the Andaman Islands do. Those guys have the right idea about the world, which is pretty prescient all things considered. Even China stays away from them.
Aw – too cold for a Southerner like me – and I hear tell there’s midges up in Scotland. Errrm….Scilly Isles sounds more like it to me – off the English coast and down South.
Could be a winning idea that – if we all learn Cornish and wear those funny Welsh hats then maybe UNESCO will give us heritage protection and we can carry on merrily as if the 19th century never happened?
And we can live in Tier 1 – forever!!
Tier 0! Tier 1 is still a bit shit… support bubbles, max six people, last orders at 10pm and no going to the bar, 15 people at a wedding and 30 at a funeral, limited interactions at church, limited indoor sport, live sport/gigs/conventions all limited, apocalyptic care homes, no NHS, not to mention all the track & trace, testing, masks, gel, anti-social distancing and constant fear porn
What a long way we’ve come that this distopia has become aspirational.
This is an idea that I am actively investigating. Found a lovely one in French Polynesia
Sarigan
Yes – he was looking too wasn’t he!
Wee Krankie only likes independence when it puts her in charge.
She hates the idea when places like Shetlands start thinking about the idea!
I heard that the Shetlands don’t want independence from the UK, which makes things very complicated for Sturgeon.
I hope Scotland gets ‘independence’. Then it can stop blaming the English for everything.
I’m in – do you have one in mind?
Best Wishes To You All
I’m signing off now for the Christmas period, so my thanks to Toby and his team for creating and maintaining this meeting place and to you all for your support, humour, warmth, ideas, reason, information, and even your rants – in short for your humanity.
Happy Christmas one and all!
Wishing everyone at LS a Happy Christmas and let’s hope Santa brings some Common Sense for Bozo and his government.
A valid point just mentioned on an anti-Lockdown Facebook group I’m in – ie that funeral directors aren’t reporting more deaths than in previous years. All sorts of responses came up – but very very few were saying busier than normal (but not providing any proof of that fact). Vast majority of posters are saying that they work in/live nearby/etc to funeral directors and, in the main, they are reporting they are no busier than in previous years and many are quieter than in previous years.
Then there’s the point I’ve just added – to the effect that many people that have just died have obituaries printed in their local newspaper for them – and I expect the proportion of obituaries to deaths is much the same as in previous years. So it’s very easy for us all to count obituaries in the local newspapers and compare the number to previous years (and, in fact, I daresay all local newspapers also have obituaries online of these deaths and it would be extremely easy for people to make out a chart for this year and the last few years and just count how many there had been each month and compare). Now there’s a thought for Boxing Day – instead of Christmas games or yet more tv repeats.
I think there’s something in that.
From both personal and some business experience, winter kills – certainly the elderly.
However,I’m not seeing anything out of the ordinary locally.
Other past posts here have remarked on this pandemic being so bad no one seems to be reporting people dying in the streets or funeral homes/hospitals having to stack cadavers.
Some pandemic!
A dear friend died recently, we were able to have her funeral 13 days later.
The crem had just one other funeral to conduct that day.
As one of the sad people who reads obituaries in our local paper, (just to check that I am not amongst them, you understand,) I pointed this out months ago even at the height of the panicdemic.
Younger son has been doing a lot of websites for funeral directors and none of them have reported anything out of the ordinary this year-the vast majority with a positive test were elderly and suffering from Alzheimer’s. In previous years they have run out of space however but not this year. I remember winters when undertakers had to hire refrigerated lorries to store bodies.
Yes I thought that too. My mother died early December and the funeral was only 10 days later so absolutely no delays due to Covid deaths!!!
When I was speaking to the celebrant for my Dad’s funeral in June, he said he had not noticed any more numbers from usual so far this year. He was also suspicious of what we had been told about increased deaths. This was Essex by the way.
Just checked the ONS stats for the latest week – apart from April/May when we had a pandemic, deaths are up this year by 2% v the 5 year average (and yes, I know that’s not the best measure but it’s the easiest), so you wouldn’t expect funeral directors, obits etc etc to look any different than normal.
PS – a bit late on here today as preparing for the traditional family Xmas Eve dinner – sceptics all
Happy Christmas all, thanks for providing a beacon of sanity, and KBO!
PPS I know several diasgreed with my plea to forgive fanantical family and friends, but I urge it again – the brainwashed are scared and know not what they do.
I read obituaries as I used to volunteer with the elderly and often they disappeared from our schedule and one only found out through the paper they had died, sometimes weeks or months later.
But I notice most are 85+, I think families of “younger” people do not use them (cost saving, their friends get notified anyway, do not read a paper?)
Germany had headlines in May/June that they furloughed funeral staff as they had nothing to do or they even went bankrupt.
By the government’s own standards, none of the previous lockdowns and restrictions has achieved anything apart from damage society and wrecking the economy.
So what do they do? Ramp up the fear with new mutant ninja strains of Coroni and double down with more of the same. And what is the point of a travel ban if this alleged new strain is in both places already?
It all makes perfect sense to me…
Could some grown-ups take over please?
Happy Christmas Toby and family and everyone here. Try to enjoy a few days away from the meeja. I was hoping to be zooming off to SA in Jan but they’ve ruined that too.
Bastards.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Toby et al., and also all of those below the line. No-one deserves a better Christmas than those who have fought against this bollocks since day 1.
I really feel like part of a community here and I can’t thank all of you enough for helping maintain my sanity over this year, both horrific and extraordinary in equal measures.
Bit disappointed today that Toby has given a platform to an HIV/AIDS Denier. Thought this was just Thabo Mbeki etc and didn’t even realise the theory still existed amongst Western “scientists”.
Obviously I believe in free speech and I have drawn parallels myself in the past between the crises and the mistakes made….but this is not helpful. No wonder it’s easy for non-skeptics to write us off as crackpot conspiracy theorists.
cognitive dissonance..
Neville Hodgkinson is absolutely right, and I’m glad Toby has finally included a piece that draws parallels to the HIV panic (which never ended). Surely the fact that you are using ‘denier’ language sets some alarm bells ringing? We are all Covid ‘deniers’ here after all.
In fact, I never knew about the HIV/AIDS situation until the corona panic started. It was from researching PCR (invented by Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel prize for its invention) that I first came across the idea that while AIDS and HIV are both real, HIV does not in fact cause AIDS, and AIDS is not an infectious disease.
I came across this because Kary Mullis was known for being a so-called AIDS denier. He came to this conclusion after working on a PCR test for HIV in the late 80s, and realising that no one could actually provide him with the reference of the paper which actually demonstrated HIV caused AIDS. It was simply a case of science by press conference and media-blitz. He later went on to decry the use of the PCR HIV test on large numbers of asymptomatic people as causing a false positive pseudo-epidemic (where have we heard that one before?)
The medical-scientific establishment had simply decided that this new disease was caused by a virus, and hunted for one until they found a ‘new’ virus that was unusually prevalent in AIDS sufferers. When they found one, they announced it to the media as the cause without publishing anything.
The whole story is told remarkably well in the documentary House of Numbers (available on Youtube), but especially in the book ‘Inventing the AIDS Virus’, written by Peter Duesberg, a virologist and friend of Kary Mullis.
Oh and the best part? Guess who was a key player in the HIV panic? Tony Fauci. There is video on youtube of Kary Mullis calling Tony Fauci a fraud. It’s the same exact crew that’s perpetuating this one.
Thanks, excellent explanation, Fauci still hunting for an HIV vaccination and still coining it at 80.
Whenever one sees somebody described as a ‘Denier’ (capitalised, forsooth ?!), one knows the describer is short on rational discussion.
Happy Christmas all at LS. You’ve all been great support, let’s hope 2021 is a better year.
And to you, DRW! I know it’s been a horrendous year for you but your fortitude has been astounding. Sending seasonal, sceptical hugs.
I think you’ve suffered a lot because you can see more clearly what’s happening. I hope 2021 is better. Wishing you, and everyone a better future
And to you DRW
Thanks to Toby, Will, the contributors and all of you here. As large parts of the country prepare to spend Christmas pretending they have the plague, it’s comforting to know that many of us will be completely ignoring them and enjoying our time with family and friends, as we should.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Go for it!
I wake up – back in the war
‘What is the Government gonna do to us today?’
But there are good people in the world
Perfect!
Merry Mass of Christ to all (even non-believers). Faith, family, friends, your own common sense, the world of the 5 senses….these are the Christmas lights.
Here in Sussex, no one knows of anyone who had died of CV 19 or the ‘mutating’ (ie. losing functionality) water-molecule-riding-for hundreds of feet-virus 0.012 micron sized (your diaper keeps out microns 3+). Ergo, lock us down. Show us who has the ring of power.
1215, 1381, 1642. When will the Sheeple rise up against the unscientific Fascism? Keep in mind Atheist Nazis and Atheist Communists also had their ‘consensus Science’. I bet Hitler et al would have loved to have dreamt up the ‘virus’ as a religion. Probably cursing himself in Hell for not thinking of it.
Same here in this part of Sussex. Officially nine months in (actually more like 14) and no friends or family know anyone who has even been seriously ill.
But then that’s what you would expect when a pseudo-epidemic is “ripping through” (thanks Daily Mail) Southern England.
Total ball cocks.
Yes – I work in a very large firm – no one – I mean NO ONE- across 5 countries in my informal surveys knows of a death from CV 19. Here in mid-Sussex I have asked (dozens-hundreds?) of people – same answer – no one. My barber told me yesterday that the Ambulance drivers (she cuts some of their hair), maintain that car accident deaths now put CV 19 on the MCCD (if a test is positive, at time of the death or within 28 days). The absurdity of this fascism and non-science is pretty obvious. The Great Reset is in full train.
Back in April, the elderly parent of a neighbour did die of covid – or rather, died with covid. He was ill in hospital at the time. And a friend told me that she knew 3 people whose elderly ill relatives had died with it. Same friend knows of a number of people who have had it, one was quite ill, the rest just felt poorly for a while, whilst their children were hardly affected by it.
So it’s definitely around, just not how the media would have us believe.
Hıtler wasn’t an atheist and overt atheism was frowned on in the Third Reich as it was considered “Bolshevik”.
He definitely wasn’t a Christian considering it’s Jewish origins.There were pagan and occult roots at the heart of the Nazi ideology.
The Great Reset. The Great Fascist imposition. WEF:
https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/about
An entire week of global programming will be dedicated to helping leaders choose innovative and bold solutions to stem the pandemic and drive a robust recovery over the next year.
The Davos Agenda will also mark the launch of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset Initiative and begin the preparation of the Special Annual Meeting in the spring. Each day will focus on one of the five domains of the Great Reset Initiative
Unelected untouchable untrustables.
How much do people have to see before it stops being a “conspiracy theory”?
If the BBC tells them it is a ‘conspiracy theory’ the vast majority of the population will believe them even if it is an obvious lie. The British are so brainwashed most think they live in a free country, the establishment in the UK are just much cleverer at controlling the population than the crude dictatorships.
They build up institutions which we are taught to unquestionable worship from a young age, most people still believe the state is the answer to all life’s problems even after this year. The more authority and self responsibility we surrender to the tyrants the worst life will get.
Merry Christmas to all and one. Thanks very much to Toby, Will and colleagues for all their hard work in keeping us all together as a community of sensible, reasoning and realistic people. We will be proved correct in 2021 and hopefully get our just desserts when the culprits are named, shamed, and punished.
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/dads-chair-empty-year-daughters-4813739, this article really makes me angry, it’s as if there aren’t empty chairs every Christmas.
Yes, I find that article quite offensive. What about all the people who’ve died from cancer etc this year, do they not matter? What about those whose business has been destroyed by over the top rules that are now struggling to feed their families? I could continue with lots of other examples
We know six people who have sadly passed away since March all of whom have had longstanding illnesses. Nothing to do with the virus. Life goes on.
I was struck by the “after 16 years of battling cancer”. And it was because of all those people selfishly ignoring the rules.
The man died from cancer at age 73. My own father similarly died from cancer age 74. He was admitted to hospital part-way through his chemo treatment because he caught a bacterial infection – it nearly killed him, some six months before he died. He was an optimist, and as a kid, I cannot even remember him ever being unwell. Neither he, nor my mother, would wish anyone else to suffer even though mistakes were made by the medical team treating him. But then for the MSM, the old maxim of ‘never let the facts get in the way of the story’ has been rolled out on steroids this year.
I agree. My father died on Christmas Eve 2015. Aged 89.
One of his final illnesses was a respiratory infection. But, he had lots of other things wrong with him so to blame anyone for giving him a cold and then saying that killed him would be stupid.
I agreed with the doctor that he died of “old age”. Apparently, many families do not want that written on death certificates any more. It was the truth though. People seem to think that immortality is a realistic goal and that old age can somehow not be a cause of death. It’s one of the root causes of the overreaction to this current issue.
2020 really is the year that our society lost all semblance of sanity.
Why is pneumonia called ‘the old man’s friend’?
My father did it the way I hope for myself – a heart attack, and all over pretty quickly. The worst fate is probably drawn out old age and dementia.
The BBC R 4 News did something similar. Under the guise of a yearly roundup they played the interview of a nurse sobbing about “selfish panic buyers preventing me from buying essential supplies after my desperately busy day at work, sob, trying to look after, sob, you people. Please, sob, just stop doing it . . . ” has a little cry into the mike.
It was effective at the time and the supermarkets reacted by giving NHS staff priority.
Yesterday’s effort was just a cryathon more suited to Jeremy Vine on a bad day.
I started getting food delivered when face nappy regulations came in but one of the things that happened when I was still going to supermarket just summed up whole situation. I was the only person in queue outside Sainsburys and had been waiting about 30 secs. Someone came out with a trolley of shopping and staff member on door said to me I could go in. As I started walking towards door a woman pushed past me, holding up some sort of NHS lanyard and said ‘I get priority here’. There were other shoppers about to come out so she would have had to wait at most a few seconds and would have literally been able to walk in just after me. She seemed like she just had to let everyone know she was special as she worked for NHS. I know people who work hard for NHS and they would definitely feel too guilty to jump queue at all let alone when it only saved them a few seconds.
I have never queue jumped even though I could have.
I rarely have a good word to say about the NHS because I know how badly it’s run. But I want to say a special thank you to front line staff. I’ve been fortunate to meet expert dedicated staff throughut my life and I take my hat off to you. It’s a pity the box ticking side of the NHS let’s us all down.
I used to be a volunteer driver taking elderly and mobility restricted people to hospital. I sat in many waiting rooms for hours. The admin in the NHS is just radicicolous.
Yeah, I saw an example of just that back in March. Never did clap for the NHS.
i did crap for the NHS .. biennial bowel cancer screening kit – but conveniently worked as a nice reflection of my attitude to the organisational debacle that poses as a health service
oh sorry – you said clap?
Back in February/March when we heard the stories of NHS staff volunteering to work on covid wards I did admire those individuals. Back then, as far as they knew, they were running towards danger to help others. You have to admire that.
Trouble is that justifiable (imv) admiration has widely morphed into something dangerous and obscene.
I agree with you, same goes for fireman, people who man lifeboats that go out in all weather to rescue people etc. We have reached the other extreme now where you get GPs who are young and healthy refusing to see any patients face to face in case they have ‘covid’. I get annoyed when dealing with others in my
officeworking from home for forseeable future job who make no effort to learn what they need to know to do their job. As far as I am concerned I couldn’t trust any GP who doesn’t know the real facts about covid that they have suitable knowledge about medicine to properly make diagnosis of a sick patient.Was she an office person?
Do they check their lanyards to prioritise nursing staff?
All the others (except porters and cleaners) can wait like everyone else. Even doctors.
My friend referred to this yesterday and it only dawned on me later that she meant April, as she mentioned she had not seen any news and only heard that her xmas visit to MK and her daughter “had to be cancelled” from her.
Sadly my friend is a worrier in this regards and just drips with empathy. The other day she was so scared of the virus as an elderly couple a colleague of hers knew had died within days of each other after having had a visit from the husbands brother who felt ill. (The man must have hated his brother). I looked up records of our region and could find two records close together of persons aged 89 and 85.
My friend said: and before xmas, and now the family have these memories every year!
Sometimes I really wonder how my friend manages life and I just want to throttle her!
Happy Christmas to all at LS especially Toby and his team. It would be nice to also wish you a prosperous 2021 but I guess that would be too optimistic.
Excellent article this morning on Conservative Woman from our Rosie (I assume it is you) which sums up many of our feelings.
happy saturnalia from this sad lonely pagan…
Yuletide greetings from a witch of the eastern sea shore. May the returning sun shine blessings upon you.
Pagans and Heathens revere nature as the best place to be at his time and always..Peace to All.
thanks for telling us that…blessed be
Maybe there are some pagan rites from like-minded people going on near you and you don’t know about it.
The Duran thinks Boris will be gone soon…
But such are YouTube’s rules they now are forced to refer to covid as ‘the thing’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dEUGpIRxs
‘The Thing’. That was a sci-fi film from the 50s.
Some Christmas reading and music for anyone who’s interested
‘A modest proposal’
Dr Johnathan Swift
Music
Too much love will kill you every time: Queen
Diamonds and Rust: Joan Baez (about her affair with Bob Dylan)
Desolation Row: Bob Dylan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hAQWiX4F4
This is also nice.
This word ‘nice’ now …
‘A Modest Proposal’, very short as it is, is about the most vicious satire I’ve ever read. With its focus on crude numbers, it may even bee seen as a satire on mathematical modelling, nearly three centuries before time.
On the Dylan canon, I don’t know if anyone on here knows ‘Ain’t goin to grieve no more’, buried away on The Witmark Demos. The lyrics on the page are surpassed by the song as it jaunts along. The theme: I’ve had it with grieving, we’ve come this far and we ain’t going back, knock me down and I’ll get up again, and I’m taking everyone with me.
Farewell Angelina (Dylan for Baez though he forgot he’d written it)
The machine guns are roaring
The puppets heave rocks
The fiends nail time bombs
To the hands of the clocks
Call me any name you like
I will never deny it
Farewell Angelina
The sky is erupting
I must go where it’s quiet
Also Let Me Die in My Footsteps
I will not go down under the ground
’Cause somebody tells me that death’s comin’ ’round
An’ I will not carry myself down to die
When I go to my grave my head will be high
Let me die in my footsteps
Before I go down under the ground
https://www.bobdylan.com/
knock knock
test and trace system
test and trace system WHO?
ho ho ho merry Christmas
it’s the way I tell ’em.
for those that are having a christmas i hope you have a good one ..
as for me – wake me up for the football on boxing day ,,,,, and bah! humbug!.
HASN’T ANYONE FIGURED IT OUT YET!
For the umpteenth time I’m going to help you all out.
Big Tech working with Big Pharma to label any critical thinking and questions as ‘false’ and ‘disinformation’. Why could this be? Where have we seen such tactics used before over the last century?
Start asking these questions, start using sites like BitChute etc. Forget Social(ist) media, it is there to programme and its working.
This is technocracy leading to idiocracy.
I highly recommend The Gulag Archipelago book, its almost like for like as to right now. Although Gulags aren’t required in an age of automation.
The govt is telling you, without reservation and (currently) little enforcement (for now), who you can/can’t see/hug, where you can/can’t eat/drink, what are ‘essential’ items, ban you from leaving your local area, give extortionate fines without due process…the list goes on.
These aren’t to do with a virus, this is to do with the gaining and retention of power. State interference creates more state interference and thus reliance further solidifying their control. BREAK FREE!
The sad part is that people still think it’s about protecting the NHS (the STATE healthcare) and happily clap like seals and clowns while they are denied care by the very organisation they are paying for as they make videos of themselves dancing during a pandemic.
Keep drinking the Kool Aid, I’m sure your new Covid1984 life won’t lead to your untimely demise. Communist control is here and will tighten further. MPs are useless, direct action is the only way now.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking this will go away in a year or two with a dodgy vaccine. That’s only the beginning.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
It definitely won’t stop with a vaccine. See french bill 3714. And the new language from Hancock “act as if everyone is infected”.
It’s too complex to simply say it’s a backdoor Communist Revolution. I think of it more as an alliance similar to the WW2 alliances, so on the allied side you had Communists, social Democrats, monarchists, imperialists, democrats, free market capitalists, anarchists, most religious groups and most atheists. These various elements pretty much hate each other with a passion and yet they worked together to achieve a goal.
They are not working together.The corporates control and the rest are what Lenin called useful idiots.
The ‘left ‘ have been the most shameful is this although it’s a long list,for years they have smeared anyone who deviated from political correctness as a fascist.When real fascism appears they bow down and support it
It is not communism.The state doesn’t own the means of production.It is corporate fascism dressed in green wokery.
As suspected this seasonal wave is even more skewed with less deaths < 65 than the spring wave
https://twitter.com/Pouriaaa/status/1341898027125116939
The UK Coronavirus Dashboard now includes age demographics breakdown for deaths. The data is currently available only for England and all English regions. We are working to source the data from other DAs.
Dear Deirdre, I have sneezed 5 times this morning, should I brick myself up in the cellar or become a hermit on Titterstone clee hill?
Your’s, concerned of Cleobury Mortimer.
Be responsible, assume you have the virus, do the right thing, protect the NHS and Matt Hancock.
New Year’s Honours coming up, better get used to saying ‘Sir Matt’…
Sneezing not a symptom according to WHO(!), CDC(!) and Boots.
Drink some Benedictine.
Rape and murder suspects failing to show up in court
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/rape-and-murder-suspects-failing-to-show-up-in-court-zbhpqjr5z
Well you really can’t expect the police to spare their valuable and limited manpower to deal with such relatively unimportant matters, can you? There are people out there singing carols...!
Please make sure you buy the Boris protest song against his handling of the Covid and cancelling Christmas. Only 99p and already #2 in the iTunes chart. Let’s get this to Xmas #1.
Note: the song is not for those who are easily offended.
https://kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com/track/boris-johnson-is-a-fucking-cunt-single-edit
I bought it 3 times
there is the Boris is a sausage roll version for the kids
Very sadly, opinion polls, yougov, and petitions tell us that statistics that might make a difference are ‘managed’.
(Have also bought it a few times though).
Didn’t see this on British TV:
https://rumble.com/vbmfkh-uk-protesters-sing-where-the-government-can-stick-their-vaccine.html
Not going to look at this or any virus related news over the next few days. For my own sanity and because I will not let them take away what little is left of Christmas.
So a Merry Christmas to you and see you again soon.
It makes a big difference whether this is a conspiracy or cock-up: the latter is just lurching from one reaction to another, the former means there is a plan already unfolding which goes like this:
Lockdowns- economic collapse- higher taxes- capital levies- UBI- cashless society- end of private property- total digital surveillance- health passports- compulsory vaccines (multiple and ongoing)… population reduction? Transhumanism?
The first part is surely. It hard to grasp- as Stalin destroyed the kulaks, destruction of small businesses transfers wealth upwards as is obviously already well advanced with Amazon sucking up all that trade. Big tech has always been about Big Data and surveillance- explaining censorship as just status-seeking seems weak to say the least.
We are moving into a social credit system following China, where all this began of course- the WHO is Chinese controlled and it is they who pulled the trigger in global lockdowns .
Read Patrick Wood Technocracy Rising and you will see this is just the fulfilment of long-standing plans by global elites.
https://skepteco.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/conspiracy-or-cock-up/
If a Plan (see Great Reset), its aim is to install Communism in the West. If a massive cockup than we need to get Tyburn tree kitted out.
Question: Why is Wuhan virus free? No testing, no vaxx, diapers optional, no lockdowns. Why?
“a template for the new China, a place with relative economic freedom but intense controls on speech, socially vibrant but isolated from and suspicious of outsiders. Publicly questioning how the government handled the virus is almost impossible”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-wuhan-after-coronavirus/
The Great Reset seems more like Corporatism than Communism, much like the current CCP.
Only from an economic point of view. If you pay attention to the politics of the people who own these giant companies, they’re unmistakably communist. What we’re witnessing is communism in a form that hasn’t happened before, it evolved when they realised the old way didn’t work.
Also, it can and often is argued that corporatism and communism are one and the same: https://www.eesti.ca/communism-corporatism-deep-state/article56768
There’s a very interesting quotation in that link from Henry Kissinger when he says: “It doesn’t matter what’s true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true”
“the latter is just lurching from one reaction to another, the former means there is a plan already unfolding”
But the issue is not, surely, whether there are plans that are unfolding, but whether all these developments are part of one big plan unfolding.
The former seems obviously true. The latter lacks credibility for me.
But the plan has always been a globalist plan- building strength and putting the pieces in place over the past decades. Read Technocracy Rising for evidence. Agenda 21 is a key part of it-systematically putting in place “sustainable development “ goals which have been signed up to in every local government around the world. This is really about total control of all natural an human resources.
Global warming as a vehicle for this was conceived decades ago with the Brundtland report. The pandemic is really just speeding up the same agenda. Hancock and Johnson have long been signed up to the 4th Industrial Revolution. No accident that Johnson’s father wrote about population reduction and eugenics. These ideas and ambitions have a long pedigree. Gates has long wanted to vaccinate the world and this is directly tied in with ID2020 which has been developed over many years.
All this is closely tied in with the US election and the need to replace Trump with a Chinese agent. China”s global plans are hardly in dispute and there is a lot of evidence recently for how far they have infiltrated every part of western business and government.
https://youtu.be/3iK3EIXIfHU
It doesn’t look like a coordinated plan to me, it looks like lots of powerful or wannabe powerful people and groups pushing their own interests and sometimes finding that pushing in the same direction works for them. And those groups finding that a global hysteria is an excellent tool to opportunistically exploit to further those plans.
Tbh our disagreement is probably a lot about interpretations, emphasis and semantics here.
That’s bc you haven’t looked at the overwhelming evidence. The conspiracy is hiding in plain sight. I refer you once again to Wood “Technocracy Rising” also “Behind the Green Mask” by Rosa Koire”. It’s all about the implementation of Agenda 21, in collaboration with China. The idea of using a pandemic is also not new, see the Rockefeller lockstep document in my blog linked above. If you don’t look, you won’t see.
A better question I think is “does the idea that all the world’s countries abruptly acted in unison to destroy their economies and remove all basic human rights as being just a random event as a result of converging self-interest have any credibility?” For me not.
Watching Bill Gates talk about impending pandemics, and his monomaniacal focus on vaccines as the only solution is also chilling. He has just been waiting for the opportunity, which China has provided. ID2020 will now be enacted, as has obviously been planned for sometime, in conjunction with UBI and dithering removal of cash. Much of this is already in place in China- it is they who invented lockdowns, never before tried or recommended- they have been quite deliberately exported to the west to weaken our economies, a stealth war. China has placed millions of CCP agents in the highest levels of government and business over many years.
Cultural hegemony has been carefully gained through BLM, critical race theory, gender studies, climate change…
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda
Very interesting and heated debate. Also extremely important in understanding who the real enemy is. I think your assertions are accurate,if you replace CCP with the globalists. I think communism, political correctness, transgenderism, unlimited immigration, indoctrination of our education system, infiltration of our politics,banks and media have been happening for much longer than the communist China existed, some traceable for more than 100 years. Communist China has been around for a mere 70 years. I identify the planned response to this exaggerated/fake pandemic as part of the globalists’ agenda. The reason it is happening now is in reaction to the rise in nationalism (Trump,Bolsonaro,Salvini, Modi) which is the most threatening to the globalists.
And another fact which explains why so many “right wing” politicians are going along with the fakedemic. Some are only right wing in name, and some are coerced into acquiescing. Intelligent operators like the guys behind this would infiltrate/blackmail both sides. Johnson, Netanyahu, Kurz, Rutte etc are not fools. You can’t be a fool and get to the top of the greasy pole.
The only way out of this is to make their cooperation with the globalists a deadly endeavour. Only then their instinct of preservation will kick in and the whole house of cards will come crumbling down. Eastern Europe of 1989 comes to mind, when murderous regimes evaporated in 2 weeks when the balance of fear vs nothing to lose tipped,and those in power shivered for their own safety if the masses with pitchforks took over.
Fucking quite !
Damn right.
Probably a skeleton plan with various groups latching on with their own agendas, alcohol concern, the greens and the Nats for starters.
Undoubtedly, but I don’t see any unified all-powerful authority behind any such skeleton plan. More of a kind of consensus for radicalism.
I think the scam is a double whammy.
The plebs are made to believe the virus is the bogeyman.
Our weak leaders are made to buy into The Great Reset. They think the covid lie is worth telling for the great greta shangrila.
The reality is both are lies. Both are trojan horses. There is no pandemic and there is no great reset. Just a wealth transfer and depression.
This is such a tricky area. No one “made” Johnson use the WEF slogan “build back better”. There’s no doubt in my mind that the WEF is a corrupt and sinister organisation that produces policy programmes not in an advisory capacity but in a directive capacity, How has this come about? Who approved the recent WEF video that notoriously tells young people in the future they won’t own anything but they’ll be happy?
Imagine if Panoroma still did proper investigations! What might they find out about the WEF?
The BBC is usually one of the ‘partners’ for these globalist NGOs along with every other multinational corporation. So, not a chance in hell they will ever criticise the WEF, Agenda 2021 or 2030.
I wonder how many people here still pay the licence fee while complaining about the BBC?
yes. Sometimes i lazily refer to the reset, but that’s sloppy and imprecise. Your analysis is sharp and correct. however I’d add that the desire for control (a commodity the elite craves) is a big part of their sociopathy.
It has been argued the purpose of lockdown is to destroy people’s financial independance and make them dependant on the state. By destroying businesseses people loose their jobs and they have to claim benefits from the government which gives government control over people. Small businesses are a particular target because succesful business owners are independant as they don’t have to rely on employers or government for their income. Small businesses will be particularly badly hit in lockdowns as they don’t have the financial reserves of big businesses.
I feel there is an element of social engineering with lockdown measures and a major element of this is to isolate people from each other and prevent social interaction. Lockdown rules prevent people interacting with friends and family. We are told to social distance. The businesses which have been forced to close are businesses where people socialise and interact such as nightclubs, pubs, restaurants, shops, hairdressers, barbers, churches, sporting events, cinemas, theatres and concert halls. It would be a horrific dystopia if these businesses ceased to exist.
I have a rusty poker that the government may use as a replacement!
Be sure to warm it.
400 centigrade should be about right
Handy Yuletide Tip
Don’t forget the essential pre-Crimbo trip to the bottle bank !
Come Boxing Day they’ll be overflowing and won’t be emptied until February !
I’ve got quite a big recycle bin which was just emptied, and stocked up on Aussies finest “value” reds yesterday, so should be good!
Keep them for making cocktails in January.
Favourite one is the Molotov, festive and warming
“Twitter’s New Censorship Rules“…
“ITV has dumped a regular Coronation Street director following a series of online posts rubbishing concerns of racism in the media industry”
This is where Toby’s two big concerns – free speech and lockdowns, intersect. The problems behind the coronapanic and the methods and structures used to push it on the nation did not appear out of nowhere, though it has probably seemed so to those who have not been watching carefully these past few decades.
If you get your ideas about a topic from the ordinary sources – media, literature, school, social acquaintances, and that topic is one in which dissent is regarded as unacceptable and suppressed, then your ideas about that topic are most likely wrong.
We form our opinions based upon the information available to us. And the only basis we have for judging the reliability of any of the things we think we know about the world is how well they stand up to counter-argument. If the discussion is biased, then we can have no confidence that what we think we know would stand up to free debate. Over time, the understanding of what is “true” will be shifted away from reality in the directions pushed by the suppression of dissent. This is true even if the suppression is relatively mild and “only” involves eg loss of employment and/or social status for scientists or others who embrace dissent. Punish one, silence a thousand.
This is certainly the case for the coronapanic where dissent has been actively and systematically suppressed from the beginning, to push an agenda of fearmongering. If you get your ideas about covid from the usual sources – the BBC, the newspapers, tv channels, school, society, as most people do, then what you think you “know” about it is almost certainly false. To have any chance of achieving anything close to a genuine understanding you must seek out alternative and marginalised, demonised or suppressed sources, which very few do, in practice.
It has been true for decades on political correctness issues and climate change, and most especially on race. If you get your ideas about race from the aforementioned usual sources, as most people do, then your ideas about race are almost certainly false. To have any chance of a genuine understanding you would likewise have to seek out alternative, demonised and suppressed sources of information, as with covid. Most people, of course, don’t do that. The same for other issues affected by “political correctness”, and for climate alarmism.
Makes sense now why Blair the architect of political correctness has appeared again.
Apparently BBC Sports Personality Of The Year, that putrid sink of wokeness, had its lowest audience ever this year, people are wsking up to the beeb at least.
I had totally forgotten there were supposed to be Olympics this year. Any news on that?
Identity politics is being used as a tool of control. The ruling class doesn’t care about trans, disabled, gay or black people, but it’s a useful stick to beat us with. It’s being used to stoke resentment for divide and rule
Obviously, those who seek power rarely genuinely care about much besides their own power. So you are correct that identity politics has been and is used more or less cynically, first as a battering ram to delegitimise and destroy the former existing order, and more recently to divide and rule.
Yet many seem automatically to blame those who respond (legitimately) with resentment, the only response open to them, or those who dissent from the identitarian dogmas, whereas the criticism should be directed at those pushing the division – the identity lobbyists and those who pander to them or exploit them, and their ideologies and dogmas.
Blowjob’s Brino announcement today should seal his fate..
Yes, the scaremongering is being ramped up now folks, this article was quietly slipped onto the scummy Daily Record website at 19:23pm last night.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotlands-youngest-coronavirus-victim-tragic-23213696
However, it doesn’t mention any underlying health problems, just the fact that the baby was under 1 year old.
Indeed!! People (and babies) die all the time
Story has been on BBC Scotland news page since yesterday as well, similarly devoid of any real info other than age of victim. Last I heard previously there were 3 deaths of babies in UK, 2 born very premature with survival chances 50/50 in any circumstances and one 18 months old whose whole life had been in ICU.
Yes, six children died of ‘it’ in the first half of the year. Except they didn’t. About August, they admitted that three new borns and three 15-18 yr olds were in hospital with ‘profound health problems’ and would have died anyway. Either caught it in hospital, or simply tested pos.
They surprised that information
‘only 6 children have died of Covid and all of them were seriously ill with underlying conditions’
Until three days before they wanted the schools to go back just before the summer holidays.
They thought they could turn the fear on and off like a tap. That’s Behavioural Science, nudge unit, for you.
Suppressed
A lot of these stories have opposite affect from what they are aiming for, I’m reminded of a lot of the ‘healthy young person’ stories where they were really scraping bottom of barrel as the supposedly healthy person was 20 stone!
Agree with you on that NorthumbrianNomad.
You see this everywhere. Big scary headline “666 People Die of Deadly Virus”. The details are just a read out of the government stats. Article done.
Remember the poor child ‘found on the beach’ when they wanted to open the door to mass migration into Europe, that worked too, they know it works.
It’s a sad fact, that if you add up all those who die between the ages of 1 and 20 (about 1,500 last year), it comes nowhere near the number who die before they reach their first birthday (about 2,200).
I guess cot death is easily put down as covid.
The Aids article is very interesting, the Herd Insanity, is exactly what is happening now, but 35 years on the younger ones, don’t know about that hysteria
Dropped off some cash at my local car mechanic (boss and three staff) yesterday and enjoyed a very bracing discussion of just how much all the facemask wearing bollocks is just that. We were all in agreement. Yet mask compliance is pretty near 100% in our local supermarkets and I’d be pushed to find a single university educated neighbour or local acquaintance (this is the posh part of Sheffield) who seriously questions the narrative from the sceptic perspective.
Working in a university, I can confirm that the university educated are amongst the most hysterical, hypocritical and feeble-minded people around – it is no surprise that they have bought into the whole Covid narrative.
I realised yesterday that my letting agent has not done any of its 2 inspections this year. I am glad they left me alone, but I am wondering to contact my landlord and tell them to pay less to the agents as they have not done their job and what they supposedly get paid for.
At least I had my annual boiler inspection as required by law in May.
Join the Free Speech Union, you never know when you might need it
Merry Brino
Thank you to all the Lockdown Sceptics for making me feel less alone
UK mutant variant has lost one of the genes used in the PCR. If I read these twitters below from experts , that it could be an illusion that more virus is really found in this new strain. The same argument was done from the American virologist’s video yesterday and found it incomprehensible that the UK scientists used the flawed PCR test as an indicator of virus load. This could only be done by viral cultures to confirm or not whether this variant has a higher viral load or not (hence possibly more contagious). But the panic button was used by the politicians.
“But only 72% of tests trigger all 3 genes. When you back off to 2 or 1 gene for a positive, you get more positives. Does this impact our understanding of its more rapid spread?”
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1341627470471176192
“To clarify, if 2 rather than 3 genes are amplify in a PCR reaction, the amount of product at those 2 genes is expected to be higher (lower CT value, which may be interpreted as higher viral load). As an analogy, 2 vessels can be filled faster than 3 with a a single watering can.”
https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1341515988894937088
I thought the PCR test ws already only testing for one gene from its original three. Happy to be proven wrong though.
DavidC
I don’t care about the science anymore. I want my human rights back.
Merry Christmas to you all, enjoy the festivities whatever you plan to do.
Signing off from the computer and life outside the front door soon – no e-mails, no internet, no answering the door, no mobiles, no telephone – for the next few days unless they old is ending.
Just lots of eating, drinking and making merry with the family.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down, fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke and “see” you all for the next round of stupidity and fighting the good fight next week.
Mr. Awkward, sir. Have a good ‘un and thank you for your stirling efforts this year. Your knighthood is a foregone conclusion. You the man.
Thank you.
One last comment, I know this is in the Daily Mail but is this a veiled warning that we should be aware that nothing can be trusted anymore that we see broadcast:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9083401/Channel-4-mock-Queen-using-deepfake-version-Majesty.html
Sir Awkward Git. Has a nice ring to it.
Your title “Is the BBC Making People Ill?” put me in mind of this joke:
Q: Why do the Amish not suffer from covid?
A: Because they don’t have TV.
Not so much a joke as a simple statement of fact.
As Lenin might have asked: whose finger, whose arse.
From the shitty Edinburgh Live fear mongering website, ramping up the fear over the big scary South African new, made up strain.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/south-africa-covid-variant-second-19514624
I have commented on this shitty article, it will probably more than likely get disabled though, or I will get called a conspiracy theorist, or a clown etc from the proper brainwashed sheep. My comment to this rubbish is below.
“Unbelievable, cases are falling, so what can we do?…I know, let’s make up another even more scary sounding strain & people will fall for that, just to keep up the scaremongering.
I expect wee Nicola to now better that with a even more scary strain found only today, something like an Australian strain, that makes you jump about like a kangaroo whilst your nose runs.
If people can’t see that this is all utter made up nonsense now, I really do despair”
Is it being assumed that Covid Mutant .2 also attacks the cheeldren too ?
It is indeed. It was on the radio news (local stations, not BBC ones) the other day, that the new strain may be more dangerous to children this time.
Just to keep up the brainwashing & scaremongering amongst the sheep.
Don’t you see, it has to. All grannies are now dead.
As I said in one of my comments yesterday we need to start spreading rumours online and get the wee dictator up here or Hancock to talk about dangerous strain from Wakanda or some other made up country and more people might wake up.
How does one greet Covidians at this time of year?. I’m guessing that saying “Merry Christmas” would be offensive, as it is anathema to everything they believe in. Is it “Stay safe” or some spiritless drivel like that?
“I’m guessing that saying “Merry Christmas” would be offensive, as it is anathema to everything they believe in.”
You wrote that as though offending panickers by behaving normally is somehow a bad thing….
Merry Christmask?
Merry Mindlessness.
“Greetings, mindless and spineless devotee of the fear plague!”
“Merry Christmas – do stop watching the BBC, it’s very bad for your health”, perhaps?
Merry Christmas – just seen the “Boris Song” has made it to No.2 on the iTunes chart:
https://mobile.twitter.com/simondolan/status/1341835279527763968
Let’s try to send him a message by getting it to this year’s Christmas No.1!
And before Twitter takes it down, this is very entertaining video:
https://twitter.com/Dr_Drekkle/status/1329850193022496771
If you have a streaming music service, keep playing it. I play it on Spotify but have my laptop on mute.
If Keir Starmer takes over, people will be wishing for Boris to come back
Well it looks as though my request for a framed photo of Matt Hancock’s head on a spike as a Christmas present is going to be denied.
Can I just add my appreciation for everything Toby and the team at LS have done for us this year. Happy Christmas to all Lockdown Sceptics and my thanks go to everyone for the good sense that is spoken here.
Happy Christmas to you too Biggles, chocks away!
Don’t despair, there’s always next year.
Tradesmen simply can’t afford to be hysterical and they’re not dropping like flies. It makes my blood boil when they and you have their businesses scuppered by this criminal overreaction. Ours is hanging on, just, but the exchequer will certainly be seeing much reduced tax receipts from us.
Merry Christmas everyone and thanks to Toby and the team for giving us a place to vent and a repository of useful information.
When you fill in your tax return write a little note to Rishi explaining why takings are down. Cc to Hancock, saying ” Well done”.
At the Christmas dinner, the family are going to have a minutes silence for every person we know of who has died of this horrible killer disease. As we we know nobody who has this won’t take long.
Also I encourage others to match the amount of money you have spent on masks and other PPE into Covid research.
Nice thought – and my bank manager will be pleased that I won’t have to spend anything on covid research!
Figure 3 on this link (sorry it is so long):-
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/excesswintermortalityinenglandandwales/2017to2018provisionaland2016to2017final
is a graph showing the mortality figures over winter.
Prior to the winter of 2017/18 the five year average peak day was the 31st December. The peak day for 2017/18 was January 5th.
What’s the betting the peak for this winter will fall between those two dates?
This year’s winter graph looks like it will show a sag, rather than a steady climb between the 25th, November and whatever the winter peak turns out to be.
That shallow sag could well be a measure of the impact of last month’s Lockdown. Not very effective if it is – but then they’ve got this new supper supper virus to explain all that away.
“Covid: TERRIFYING SURGE anticipated as fears alarming LUNAR MUTANT is AlREADY in atmosphere”
I just watched an 18 stone man dressed as a zombie hitting a man over the head with a chair asking him to “cover your mouth please”. Covid Marshall then hands over a mask to the man on the ground.
Nobody in the packed street (no social distancing whatsoever) bats an eyelid. 2020
Sounds alarming. Mexico?
It’s ATL today. The very last item posted.
Are you sure you weren’t watching WWE? I understand it might be difficult to tell, given the fact reality and fiction converged in 2020.
A Visit from Granny
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through tier four
Not a household was mixing, the PM had implored ;
The presents were posted; wrapped with such care,
Hopes dashed that relatives soon would be there;
The children were dreaming as they lay in their beds;
While visions of better years danced in their heads;
And mum, lockdown sceptic, and I with my views,
Had just settled down for the BBC news,
When out on the drive we heard boxes clatter ,
We sprang from our chairs to see what was the matter.
Away to the windows we flew like a flash,
We realised Granny had done a mad dash.
The lights from the homes on the road where we live,
Shone a beam on the presents Granny wanted to give.
When our small children’s wondering eyes did appear,
It wasn’t a dream, there Granny was here!
With a little commotion, we had to be quick,
We hustled in Granny our movements were slick.
More rapid than eagles we helped hide her shame,
She hugged all the children and called them by name:
“My Rosie! My Jamie! My Daisy and Carrie!
My Thomas! My Benji! My Anna and Harry!
I’ve missed you all so! I couldn’t do Zoom!
Now hug me! And hold me! And show me my room!”
Merry Christmas fellow sceptics and many thanks to Toby and his team for your tireless work in keeping this site afloat. I know I don’t comment as much as some – I just don’t have the time or energy after working long hours and spending as much time as I can outdoors. I visit the site everyday and in these desolate feeling times it’s been good to know there are like minded folk out there. Christmas feels particularly bleak and heartbreaking for me as my husband and I won’t be spending it with my elderly parents. They are too far away to make a return trip in a day and live on a road of curtain twitchers. I’m normally a feisty rule breaker in all of this charade and now feel I’ve caved in as I simply can’t afford a fine.
If you plot both positive test results and hospital admissions as a % of tests conducted you see an interesting thing. There’s no lag in response! What could account for this? We should expect to see a 1 to 2 week lag in hospital admissions, but it’s not there. This could be due to lots of people in hospital being tested positive. Again, looks a lot like inaccurate testing.
I don’t care about the graphs. I want my human rights back
What do you mean you don’t want graphs???
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10208456098916737&id=1734716347
I’m doing that without the ‘ass’
Apparently there is a new mutant “gunshot” strain of Covid where the symptoms include bullet holes. Can’t imagine that masks, social distancing or vaccines will be very effective against this deadly mutation.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/531455-inflated-covid-19-death-counts-could-cause-vaccine-trepidation
Mandatory bullet-proof vests for everyone then
It’s Wankok and Bozo who’ll be needing bullet proof vests.
It can’t be that deadly as it has taken 3 months to admit it exists.
Hopefully we have reached the moment where Boris declares “My work is done”. Quite an achievement Brexit and Project Fear.
It’s BRINO not Brexit but frightening the public into giving up their civil rights and their freedoms will certainly place him in the history books, but not as the great hero and champion!
It looks like the trade deal compromise is in the bag, so all Boris has to do now is keep everyone locked up until we are so desperate for a return to normality that we will thank him for letting us out. Obviously freedom will be conditional on our agreement not to mention the care home deaths, economic devastation, missed cancer treatments, field hospitals that were never used, etc. etc.
I can’t see him stepping back when he is so close to getting away with it. I predict gongs all round for the scaremongers and a second term for Boris!
Oh please no 2nd term for him. I cannot take much more of this crap.
The kicked dog syndrome: A kicked dog ( collaborating sheep) is always more faithful and devoted to it’s master.
Boris is not responsible for Covid-project fear. He’s simply taking orders. Name one potential Prime Minister who will cancel lockdowns and restrictions. (Keir Starmer is ten times worse.)
Dismayed that people think this is happening because of ‘Boris’. It’s happening all over the world
Some others are saying Boris, Gove & Priti are behind everything – people like Hancock just the puppet
None of them are the core drivers of this madness. Politicians are merely puppets, they facilitate and operate the orders taken from very unpleasant and powerful institutions, families and individuals. Given the madness we have endured this year, is it really so hard to believe the conspiracy theories are untrue about the Illuminati?
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, we will still arrive at the same destination.
“ He’s simply taking orders”
Not sure where you get this from – he’s been totally consistent with his known character flaws.
in this case Project Fear is specific to Brexit not Covid. As you mention Keir Starmer is proposing much tougher lockdowns based I guess on a public demand for such a thing.
Chaos, panic and disorder, my work here is done!
I hadn’t heard they wanted to use schools as part of the mass vaccine roll-out. This is insidious. Knowing the vaccine has not been thoroughly tested (and is being produced by people with ulterior motives), this is guaranteed to f*** up the next generation, one way or another – and all to “save granny in her 90’s” – oh and the NHS.
Using granny and the NHS was nothing sort of psychological warfare and therefore should be ignored.
It is and should, but I’d say the whole caboodle is psychological warfare! There’s not a lot of tangible physical reality happening in the realms of Covid-19.
Something I don’t understand – as most grannies over the age of 90 will be in care and nursing homes without the ability to be visited by loved ones, there is little or no danger of killing granny. Have I missed something?
DavidC
I’m starting to seriously consider the conspiracy theories surrounding steralization, especially after hearing bona-fide scientists talk about the unfortunate steralising effects of the new vaccine.
There’s no doubt the Chinese-style social credit system that the West is so keen to adopt can only be implemented using vaccines as a pretext (immunity passports)
I wonder if life in China or North Korea is better
I think we can be sure Madcock and the self-appointed Voice of Britain, Piers Morgan, will be taking a saline solution rather than the actual vaccine when they get the jab on live TV for the Corona Cult to feel assured of its safety.
There are also studies linking the vaccine to fertility issues – more in-depth research required
Vaccinating children is part of a mass sterilisation plan – depopulation by the back door..
Absolutely the last post before I sat eating and drinking. Got sent this just now by a friend, published mid-October:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sars-cov-2-rna-testing-assurance-of-positive-results-during-periods-of-low-prevalence/assurance-of-sars-cov-2-rna-positive-results-during-periods-of-low-prevalence
In it it says:
I’m guessing this is Government’s cop out and they can blame the testing labs for the “results” when the shit hits the fan.
Great post!!
In case anyone else is having trouble finding the latest Peter Hitchens/Mike Graham interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4esrpeKapw
Since Hitchens was the only journalist talking sense from the start of this madness, I have looked out for his latest blogs. Unfortunately, he continues the claim the government is acting on bad advice, politicians are dumb and incompetent. This flags him up as false opposition in my books.
Just because he doesn’t share your views on the reasons, I don’t see how you can justify calling him false opposition. If you are that exclusionist you’ll have a small group and nothing more.
If PH doesn’t despise with all his heart the government and what they have done, he’s the best actor and liar in history
His assessment of the PM and Hancock is much more than that they are dumb and incompetent and badly advised, but that they are covering their arses for political reasons, which is simply wicked, so I think it is inaccurate to characterise his position in this way
Well, doubtless we are false opposition as well.
As long as I am myself entitled to an opinion, I’m going to use it to disagree with you Julian. Hitchens continues to write a blog for a newspaper that stands alongside the worst of sensationalist rags available. I have seen with my own eyes them staging psyops to discredit movements that oppose globalisation. They flip-flop as fast as the wind blows to suit which ever agenda is being operated by the government – whether it looks like they support it or not.
While Hitchens has indeed been scathing of Madcock and Co., he always rounds it off with a conclusion that they’re “misguided” and “dumb”. I’ve read every blog he’s written since April and read many of his Twatter posts and he has, in his own words, been very consistent throughout.
As long as I’m permitted to it, my opinion is that if you run a campaign like he has, ignoring all the evidence available that shows the Corona madness was planned (frequently pointed out to Hitchens), is that you’re deliberately misleading people (using the Daily Mail as a platform, no less).
Unfortunately, the evidence I mention is quickly ebbing away as websites that have for years exposed the criminal activities of those driving this are being shut down.
Yes like our own John P he wants to see written evidence.
He has been provided evidence for months, but he doesn’t acknowledge it or the people who try to alert him to it. Hitchens has got massive experience and knowledge of the political world, I find it implausible that he isn’t aware of the Great Reset – just as a starting point.
You get to choose what you write in your own book, obviously, but imo it’s pretty untenable to class him as “false opposition”. You’d struggle to find any public figure more genuinely opposed to the current political and cultural establishment than Hitchens.
Indeed it is impossible to find ANY public figure that is honest enough to talk openly about the real political structures of this country, Europe and USA, etc. Hitchens does come close, and it could simply be a case that he needs to protect himself that he doesn’t take a step further – in which case I’d certainly withdraw my accusation of fake opposition.
However, he does still work for the Daily Mail…
He’s either in denial or he’s controlled opposition. The former I hope
Agree, the only way I could watch it was on my smartphone.
Unable to pick it up on the television or tablet.
An article from your very own trepid reporter https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-lockdown-opponents-diary-of-despair/
I’d wanted to call it something more positive btw in case you are wondering.
Thanks to the many people here who have encouraged me – both in my adventures and to write about them.
Powerful and strangely beautiful. Well done, Rosie.
Well done Rosie and nice to see a picture of you as well.
DavidC
Great article!
Thank you Rabbit and Charlie Blue, and I’d wanted to improve the prose, but wasn’t possible with editorial constraints, etc, so I’m pleased that a strange beauty still came over, I intended that.
PS I’d be grateful for a few more thumbs up on the original article! I’ve some more pieces I’m hoping they’ll want to publish
I’ve thumbed it up – it’s good work.
very disappointing to see you promoting HIV / AIDS denialism. hugely damaging to your credibility.
I didnt read it like that, more about the herd insanity which did exist at the time
and me .. no one denies that AIDS is still an issue in parts of the world – Africa particularly. However i remember the scares at the time – how tens of thousands were going to die in the UK, how you would die if you were touched by someone else’s bodily fluids , etc etc . the hysteria was similar to that around covid.
And what was worse the sexual liberalism of previous years suddenly disappeared. Not that i was getting any anyway!!!
After the past 10 months, you’re still willing to believe what governments, the medical profession, and big pharma tell us ?
I didn’t think it was meant in that way- just saying how it took years for the hysteria to settle and for the message that “we are all going to die” to be proven to be blatant nonsense. For the sake of clarity, can you post a link to a definitive paper on the connection between HIV and AIDS so we can put this canard to bed?
Is it denialism? That’s a loaded word and evokes thoughts of holocaust deniers etc. The technical argument as to what lies behind the claim is based on fundamental concepts of “proof”. It may be a fringe view, very technical, and much work would have been done to lend weight to the connection between the two. However, can someone still be seeking more conclusive proof at the fundamental level? Can doubt, not denialism, still be acceptedable? If not, we are dealing in dogma I would suggest.
As per ‘holocaust deniers’, yes ?
I have no opinion on this, but my eyes have been opened to Pharma and political corruption and the way health crises are opportunistically exploited. I recall hearing Kary Mullis (inventor of the PCR test) mention something about AIDS/HIV not being what the media describes it as. However, I could be incorrect about this
I would not be surprised either way
How on earth did you come to such a conclusion?
ooh, ‘denialism’ !
77th I reckon.
I think the ghost of HIV was bound to be resurrected sooner or later. The parallels between the HIV scare and covid are breathtaking. Remember the tombstones on the TV ads? They got it wrong then and they are getting it wrong now. Viruses don’t cause disease – they exploit human ill health. People with compromised immune systems did indeed get AIDS, just as people who have poor immunity now get covid. The real denialism is doctors and medical scientists refusing to look closely at poor immunity and at why people are succumbing to covid, instead of blaming it on poor handwashing technique.
https://hive.blog/worldnews/@francesleader/email-exchange-with-uk-mhra-exposing-the-genomic-sequence-of-sarscov2
Email exchange with the MHRA confirming that the Pfzier/BioMTech vaccine was using a computer generated genome sequence for development and not an isolated virus from an infected person.
Given it has been isolated according to many dismissing the ‘not been isolated’ claims, why wouldn’t they just use the real thing?
Thats a genuine question as I don’t know the technical answer. They could be well within their rights to do so.
It sounds more like fiddling with our DNA!
I’ve gone past the science – I demand my human rights back
The isolation argument has never really resonated with me.
I’m no biologist but when people clamour for Koch’s postulate to be fulfilled to the letter, it feels a little like refusing to believe fish exist unless someone can successfully breed them outside of water.
Merry Christmas everyone. I want to say a big Thank you to the site’s owners and commenters. You have been a massive source of comfort. Have a lovely Christmas and, all things being equal with regard to family members and friends, don’t let the bastards’ unlawful, inhuman, evil diktats get in the way of you enjoying the Christmas you had planned. Enjoy it. It’s YOUR Christmas to enjoy, not theirs to ruin.
We fight on in 2021. Because it’s far from over.
God bless
This is saying that week ending 20/12/2020 only 50 cases of Covid 19 in England & Wales.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseases-weekly-reports-for-2020
Hidden on page 14!
What’s a case
A case?
I assume that this is from random sampling and cases are based on accurate diagnostic methods, not PCR. Has anyone plotted the weekly totals since spring 2020? I think I know what the chart would look like but a picture is worth 1,000 words.
You mean the charts in this article?
https://pandata.org/the-phe-data-that-goes-against-the-narrative-hunting-down-symptomatic-covid-19/
The article about the student being stuck at UEA and not going home to Kent made me angry.
Of course you can go home!
But then you read he helped test students, so you win the award of UAE collaborator of the year!
I do NOT feel sorry for you!!!
‘Woe is me.’
larf!
i know we all avoid the news as much as possible .. but it seems as though a Brexit deal has been done this morning
https://order-order.com/
does this mean Johnson goes now he is surplus to Brexit requirements?,
I hope Johnson stays because Starmer is a dictator-in-waiting
How does Starmer become PM without a general election?
Government of National Unity – they’ve been promoting it for a long time, that’s how ….
Let them do it. If there ever is another election, both parties will be punished. Either way, it’s not as if policy would differ.
The diversity of viruses is going to be beyond woke. Soon…
Recommended article by the always excellent Iain Davis, blogger In-This -Together. Here he covers some interesting and, to me, surprising facts about the vaccine trials, focussing on the Pfizer / BionTech mRNA vaccine. His main point, backed up with details, is that none of the trial phases has been completed.
https://in-this-together.com/vaccine-trials/
Interesting podcast/interview with a US vaccine expert
https://peterattiamd.com/pauloffit/
The interviewer is a US doctor whose own work I find extremely interesting, but he’s not a vaccine expert so he may have too much faith in that side of ‘medicine’.
amazed that they are still sending infected people back into care homes
‘but they isolate for 2 weeks’
if we have to shut down society to prevent infection leaking into care homes, I don’t imagine we are going to protect one care home resident from another
Do old people want to continue being treated like lepers? Do we want to isolate them forever? Old people die. Average length of stay in a care home is 2 years then death. If covid 19 really is a novel virus it is now just one virus amongst many that kill the almost dead.
I think of the deaths ‘with’ covid, 30,000 or so happened because of infecting the care homes. 20,000 from missed cancer treatment. ie most ‘deaths’ were from the government response. if we hadn’t had that it would more or less gone unnoticed. best to not infect care homes as that’s where the vulnerable are
ps – I don’t want to isolate anybody. just be careful with the vulnerable because it seems to send society into a panic
With a cold, covid.. not from it. And even then likely not with it.
I agree. we should just get over it. but a peak in deaths in march (all cause) sent society into a meltdown. shouldnt have happened but it did. not seeding the care homes would have helped
I still fume at the sending back of old people to nursing and care homes – government mandated muder, no less than that. Disgusting.
DavidC
There was something posted on here yesterday revealing some very sinister suggestion that in the first lockdown, care home residents were being administered strong sedatives that was literally killing them. This, it is claimed, was the massive spike of deaths which has been used ever since to justify this madness.
If you’ve had a relative in a care home, you’ll know they dope them up with all sorts of ‘medicine’ without your consent. The so-called ‘carers’ are horrible people in my experience.
it wouldn’t surprise me. and it wouldn’t surprise me if the peak in deaths in march/april was due to stress and old people being surrounded by people in hazmat suits sticking things up their noses. vulnerable people are – vulnerable
The elderly were culled deliberately. The ‘protect the elderly’ mantra makes me weep when they were as good as murdered and many have given up the will to live. If the average stay in a care home is 2 years many will never see their loved ones ever again.
More here in a pre-covid Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/29/elderly-being-poisoned-by-medication-say-drug-experts
Covid was a disaster waiting to happen.
Do you realise how care home residents are living? Trapped in their rooms, not allowed to go anywhere else or see anyone other than the staff. It’s diabolical, but it’s designed to ‘protect them from the virus’.
It’s not the residents that you are going to infect one another, it’s the staff that are going to swirl it around.
My mother went into a home last year in April, she was isolated for 2 weeks. Minimal staff visits, all dressed up in full PPE for every visit (she was quite deaf so could not hear a word they said), she was desperate to get out as she hated it so much. Used PPE put in bags in her room etc.
Have a good Christmas folks.
Don’t forget to wear at least 8 layers of full PPE when eating your Christmas dinners (in the garden) otherwise you’ll infect and kill everybody there.
Whatever mutant super strains of bs they bring out in 2021, however many lockdowns we have to still endure and however bleak it looks, everybody on here should take solace that we will outlast the rest of the population and the government during this war of attrition. They are both incredibly weak mentally. However, you can’t bully, intimidate, manipulate, brainwash, abuse or crush people’s spirits, who are able to think for and stand up for themselves.
Fuck em all. Carry on living your life.
mandatory christmas dinner masks now available
like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0BnBQWNikA
This poor devil (Freeway, 1996) can only ingest chicken soup with a drinking straw. However if the food is in liquid form these masks would be ideal. They could be worn during a meal.
Guardiangchq piping it out this morning.
“More deaths in next six months than in whole of 2020 without stricter controls – study”
No link as not worth giving them traffic.
“Analysis from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine also says vaccine programme must be accelerated”
Bonus 2nd comment!
Just found a video of the policing at Downing Street. If ever there was a scene of establishment cowardice that is it. Barriers in front of barriers in front of gates in front of etc. Policed by muppet crap hat police who wide eyed say they have never heard of George Orwell or 1984 – well done cameraman for asking. Grunts like that are incompetent its tge offiers commanding SGTs? On the ground that are the true slime – they are ghouls with awareness to draw comparison to 1984 and themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwff6nSkwWE
New Delingpod…
WHY ARE THEY RUSHING A VACCINE.. Psycho-Neurobiology anyone????
I’ve watched Dr Carrie Madej’s warning videos on this, but the video below has sealed it for me. Brain control, straight from the mouth of the US military at West Point.
32 minutes is a good starting point. When you know the virus is a hoax, there has to be another reason for the manic desire to vaccinate people, and its not just money. This psyop has always been about control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtIPBPSv0U&feature=youtu.be
Also in today’s Guardian…
Before the announcement, Christina Pagel, professor of operational research at University College London, said waiting until Boxing Day to put more areas into tier 4 was too slow.
She told Times Radio: “We are in an incredibly dangerous situation … If we just wait and we let it spread to the north, where things are much more under control, then the whole country is on fire and I just feel like we have to stop it now and protect the north from the south, effectively.”
I’m sorry, but that just sounds hysterical. In the good old days some well-meaning passer-by would have given her a slap and told her to pull herself together, and we’ll all be better off!
I’m sorry, but that just sounds hysterical. In the good old days some well-meaning passer-by would have given her a slap and told her to pull herself together, and we’ll all be better off!
Oh man, how true, and how it made me laugh. That’s one hysterical woman who can definitely be described as a bedwetter..
There is rumour of a deadly mutant virus that has lay dormant for decades but has surfaced recently and stealthily killing hundreds of thousands around the world. Unbelievably this virus can take on human form…..
With this knowledge, look closely at Boris, Wancock, weeee Krankeeeee, Biden, Merkel etc – they are all mutant viruses…..
The free world is fucked!
Have a masked and gagged Xmas and don’t freeze granny – stay safe
There is a place where civilized life is normal and people can have fun without risking arrest for something that isn’t even breaking the law and the police can’t just make it up as they go along and threaten and bully you and throw you to the ground for doing nothing more than walking around in a public place.
Christmas time in Stockholm. Virtual walk compilation with Christmas lights and snow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4H1VYnZkQ0
I suspect they will use this to lock them down in January. The narrative in Sweden has changed drastically of late.
The Swedish politicians have done enough to be able to claim credit for the falling figures. Their population is considerably less stupid than ours, however, and I suspect they will be able to spot nature’s handiwork.
Has it actually though? Introducing minimal measures (recommended but not enforced) towards the end of the nonsense.
Philosophy Phursday – Christmas Edition
And you prisoners, this is the end of this Christmas play which was written for you. You are not happy, and maybe there is more than one of you who has that taste of gall in his mouth… But I think that for you, too, on this Christmas Day – and every other day – there’ll still be joy!
– Satre
I assume the ONS are guesstimating their figures and have failed to report the failed to report the findings of their survey yet again…
Unfortunately, I fear the Government is under the control of a global force
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act
– Orwell.
I refuse to entertain notions of whether we need vaccines, travel bans, tiers and on and on and on because the initial premise is completely faulty!!!
The die is cast and people are busying themselves arguing about letting people in and out of the country, what they can and can’t do and forgetting it’s all nonsensical. The WEF and CCP have won.
The song “Boris Johnson is a fucking cunt”, on the iTunes charts is No 2 (just like Johnson is) and 7 & 8 and 14 & 16 (accusative versions, remix versions). It’s number 8 in the official charts. Keep playing it.
The powers that be simply won’t allow it – a la GSTQ
The Great Reset.
Two layers. Two sets of dupes.
Dupe Set 1
The plebs inc. most MP’s. They believe in the pandemic.
Dupe Set 2
The Leaders, PM’s, presidents, Those in charge of Twitter/YouTube, newspapers.. they think they really are using covid to herald in an era of green utopia. That this little white lie will lead us to a liberal wet-dream Shangrila.
I was thinking about the best song to summarise 2020 and one that comes to mind is Marylin Manson’s Seizure of Power.
The Telegraph coronavirus live feed (free):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-tier-4-boxing-day-new-strain-lockdown/
Christmas bubbles: Household mixing plans should be ‘reconsidered’, says Sage member
A member of the Government’s SAGE advisory body has called on people planning to see relatives on Christmas Day to ‘reconsider’ in light of surging infections due to the new variant, reports Mike Wright.
Dame Anne Johnson, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UCL, said people had to ‘think carefully’ about the risks of infecting relatives they visit in person.
Here comments come as around 18 million people have been placed into Tier 4 restrictions, which ban any mixing on Christmas Day, with millions more are set to go into the highest tier from Boxing Day.
However, millions of families in Tiers 1 to 3 are currently allowed to mix with one other household on Christmas Day.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Dame Johson [sic] said: “I would really urge everybody to think very carefully. It is not too late to reconsider your plans and there are people who are going to get ill over the next few days and they absolutely must not mix with other people – they must self isolate.
“Everybody has to think very carefully about those risks, balancing the needs for people of both their health issues and social issues of those who are very extremely isolated.”
Fuck off.
My wife found a couple of pages in the local council magazine about the Swine Flu ‘epidemic’. You can access it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2oi1ts1tgw0j8u/Swine%20flu%202.pdf?dl=0
Note, it says that masks do not help.
Thanks for sharing Basileus
I’ve just signed this. I was number 9859. Only needs a few more. Please sign and pass it on. Thanks.
“Do not start mass testing in schools or require asymptomatic students to isolate”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563806
Unions have betrayed teachers, pupils, humanity
Yes, its because their leaders are all on six figure salaries and want to keep them. They’ve joined the Big Club..
Signed. I was number 9913.
9,994
Over 10000 now
Signed.
And off he zips – our friendly shorts wearing postie – dashes off to santa-ize the neighbourhood. As I look on from frosted window I can help but wonder at the immense protection posties have wading out into that plague. Vectors of doom you might imagine. Not a bit of it, jolly about it too. My thoughts are with those who have a masked fearful postie delivering a faceful of misery as they fight their way through life.
Has Royal Mail issued ppe face masks? The RM have bag weight limits 20kg for first and 16kg thereafter or something like. The correct approved shoes must be worn. I wonder if sums have been done to calculate the mask into the equasion.
Well done our guy normal.
I also have a lovely postman – greets everyone with a cheerful smile (mask on chin).
Just had a call from my friend in Germany her parcel has returned, apparently I refused to accept it.
We think they did not even send it off.
Anybody seeing the below definition what is C-19 hospital admission can see the enormous flaw in the data and the complete destruction of any meaningful data due to our reliance on PCR.
The most important thing would be hospital admittance with CLI illness diagnosed at or the day after admittance or rapid deterioration at home being diagnosed PCR a few days before being admitted. These will all be picked up by the current system. This is the patient category which might end up in ICU and deaths due to illness. This must be the truest burden of the disease.
But we have a substantial number of patients having PCR pos within 14 days which has low viral load not having any respiratory symptoms (at least not from Covid-19) and being admitted for something else be it chest pain, fractures, stroke etc .They might end up in ICU having still the C-19 stamp and using ventilators for non C-19 reasons. They are all stamped C-19 cases
Do we screen respiratory illness hospital admittance for other respiratory viruses routinely? Or do we rely solely on PCR test even 14 days earlier and stop bothering about alternative viruses?
It is easy to see that many hospital admittances are not acute C-19 infection related. We could even have a substantial amount of respiratory hospital admittance stamped as C-19 having other viruses like influenza, parainfluenza etc and some of them could even be in the ICU as C-19 cases.
This misdiagnosis of C-19 did not occur (or much less) in the spring wave. The idiotic mass screening instituted by the politicians has landed us with almost impossible data to determine policy.
It’s a bloody outrage. I wonder what the number of admissions would be if it was based on the (sensible) criteria you specify – what %age reduction might there be?
A central point, swedenborg. It relates to my continuing concern (above) about this site quoting PCR ‘case’ data without adequate qualification.
The problem of good data was highlighted way back in March, when John Lee first wrote in the Spectator about the revision of death certification. One can’t but think that there is deliberate obfuscation behind all this confusion, given the well-known flaws.
It’s deliberate no doubt. Hiwecer, it may well be seen justified by the powers that be. Across the board, if we stay within the incompetence lane, there has been an explicit decision to hype the fear by whatever means. To e force compliance with the NHS and general public both
the use of “case” has been annoying for months and i have flagged it here many times, reminding people that we are talking about “tests that have indicated a positive” (whether asymtomatic, false positive, process error etc etc). unfortunately the government and NHS refer to these positives as cases and the gullible public still believe a case is someone who is actually ill
Another site I have frequented for years has been shut down/blocked from all browsers. Clearly censorship of sites that expose the criminal activities of certain people and certain groups is occurring as rapidly as global government authoritarian rule.
Couldn’t agree more, so many sites I used to visit have gone. One of my favourites The Green Agenda.com had a wealth of information on the whole Green Climate scam dating back to the 90’s and the Rio Earth Summit to this day. Such a crying shame..
‘Should the BBC receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?’
https://twitter.com/zoeharcombe/status/1342065112316850176?s=20
Every time I see the BBC flag up in a forum like this I am compelled, like my knee spasms to the whack of a mallet, to urge everyone to think twice about renewing their licence. You can legally stop paying them: get rid of your aerial and remove the i-player from your devices. Complete the very short and easy online form, here: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/cancellations-and-refunds-top7
Job’s a good’n.
You don’t need to get rid of your aerial, you just need to not watch scheduled TV
Just cancel your DD today. You may be able to get a refund for the balance. Do NOT contact TVL under any other circumstances. If you do not watch live broadcasts (TV or internet livestreams) you are under no obligation to buy a TV licence. Full stop. You then have no contract with the BBC and are not obliged to enter into any communication with them.
Indeed, entering into communication with them is foolish and only invites more threats of prosecution. TV Licensing (i.e. Capita) maintains a database of every address in the country (riddled with errors, but that’s by the bye). Every time you interact with TVL you are confirming your name and address; far better to say nothing and become Mr Theo C. Cupier.
No.. simple as.. its compromising. Not that those barstewards need any help with being compromised..
Happy Christmas, my fellow sceptics. Stay sane!
The saga goes on. On Monday it was said agreement to reopen the Dover crossing would be in a couple of hours and lorries would soon start moving – agreement sometime on Tuesday, lorries would start moving. Last night they apparently stopped testing overnight, police called in. Today we are told testing has started again but it won’t be until tomorrow that they will start moving. No wonder they are getting upset, they must be desperate.
Same with Brexit. When I woke up Boris was going to give a conference on the hour. Then postponed time and time again, no idea when this new deal will be announced, all the while everybody saying how good it will be (apart from Nigel of course).
I can’t see Boris even surviving Christmas never mind New Year.
Utter incompetence by those in office. They should step,down with immediate effect.
They SHOULD, but what happens is a different matter!
Those poor lads have no toilet/washing/cooking facilities down there. Absolute disgrace. No senior officials from either Depts of Health or Transport. Only the police, who are in a no-win situation. If this doesn’t bring down the government I don’t know what will.
Yeah. It’s shocking. Stuck there for Christmas.
I hope he goes soon, him and his stooges.
Well I must say I’ve full confidence in Boris pulling off a superb Brexit deal using the old bumbling Detective Columbo trick. Teach those nasty froggies across La Manche who’s really in the driving seat..
By the way, before offence is taken.. I am one of those froggies.. ha ha..
In actual face, the soon to be ennobled (?) “Lord Farage” has been suspiciously complimentary about the Trade Deal that neither he nor anyone else has had a chance to read.
I note once again, the tendency to quote ‘case’-based data. Why, given its known unreliability?
The tendency just reinforces the government narrative that PCR testing has some diagnostic validity.
Meanwhile the ‘gold standard’ data of all-cause mortality gets mentioned much more infrequently.
To put this disparity in sharp perspective, it’s what allows mickey-mouse computer models and forecasts extensive coverage, whilst the reality, when it emerges, is rarely highlighted.
Look at the ‘Mexican hat’ disaster graphs presented by the Chuckle Brothers from a range of academic sources, with predicted deaths (Covid alone) being at up to 4000 per day in December. How often has the ludicrous nature of these predictions been highlighted with the reality of c. 12000 per week that many of us would have forecast, and has been proved the case.
Yet the charlatans are still given their air-time.
Really enjoyed reading your lockdown sceptic newsletter today. Thank you. Will we ever get our lives back without vaccines, lockdowns, further economic and job destruction, censorship of MSM, total lack of clarity from our politicians and the scientists advising them. To all the sheep who are ready to jump off the cliff as soon as the politicians say so, I think you better hold off. Life will return to normal, once the people driving this drama recognise there are more of us not buying the BS than them and they cannot and will not win.
You’re right.It will be a long hard slog, but we shall win. Stand tall, be of good courage, for your God is with you..If you have no God, take courage anyway.
This is the written preface to Franz Liszt’s Les Préludes:
What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?—Love is the glowing dawn of all existence; but what is the fate where the first delights of happiness are not interrupted by some storm, the mortal blast of which dissipates its fine illusions, the fatal lightning of which consumes its altar; and where is the cruelly wounded soul which, on issuing from one of these tempests, does not endeavour to rest his recollection in the calm serenity of life in the fields? Nevertheless man hardly gives himself up for long to the enjoyment of the beneficent stillness which at first he has shared in Nature’s bosom, and when “the trumpet sounds the alarm”, he hastens, to the dangerous post, whatever the war may be, which calls him to its ranks, in order at last to recover in the combat full consciousness of himself and entire possession of his energy.
This is the music that was inspired by it::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RQjG8orPw4
The round up article about “Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany” is a must read. Just highlights this scam from top to bottom.
My question is will it change anything if Reiner proves it’s a scam. Will it have any meaningful impact given Lisbon have already thrown out PCR yet nothing has changed?
Is there a case challenging PCR in the UK?
I can’t see the great and good allowing it to change anything. Lies will take care of that. But it’s probably our one great hope.
I don’t think there’s anything in the UK yet but I guess the PCR claims folk are working on it.
Yeah, I guess we have to hope it’s just trying to get the media to run with it. The public are hopelessly misinformed regards the PCR charade.
I believe German and English law firms are in contact regarding this matter. Whether proceedings are initiated in England will no doubt depend on what happens in Germany. I think some kind of legal action is also in its early stages in the U.S.
That’s good to hear maybe it will have a snowball effect. I presume the German courts are dragging their heels just like they did in the UK.
Just seems to load for me. Anyone else?
Wouldn’t load on a phone, loads fine on a PC.
Germany is key to this whole thing I think. They set the most terrible example for the world to copy with their apparent success of lockdown, mass testing and masks in the spring. Now they are amongst the worst in the world (in deaths, cases) enacting the same policies. It is clear now the early success was just luck as warm weather naturally suppressed the virus. This was good luck for them at the time and bad luck for all us now stuck following the same policies. How do lockdown advocates still have no doubts given the clear failure of lockdown in Germany?
I had trouble reading it on my android device. It is viewable in windows.
The article discusses numerous flaws in the PCR test used to detect coronavirus. One striking claim in the article is using a more reasonable 35 cycles for PCR would give corona positive cases 3% of the current number given by running to 45 cycles. That is amazing. If this change is made then the coronavirus “problem” would effectively vanish overnight. This is just one of many issues with the PCR test.
Which begs the question, don’t our leaders and their Sages want this to be over?
God knows. Embarrassment? Fear of making a mistake in the opposite direction? Fear of criminal charges? It’s stupid though the longer they carry on the worse it is for them. All hope for them to cover it up hangs on the vaccine. The issue for us is they need now for almost everyone to be vaccinated I think for the cover up to work. This is of course an excellent reason to resist vaccination (if you feel it does not offer you a personal benefit).
…And we really need the cover up to fail to avoid this setting a pattern for dealing with viruses in future.
Trying to be optimistic – even if the initial cover up succeeds it will surely be uncovered when the panic is over. More critics will appear I think once the fear of appearing to under play things is gone.
I’m firmly of the opinion that the vaccination will either kill you when it meets the new viral pandemic, because we are after all in the decade of pandemics according to Bill Gates, or you will be a totally controlled zombie slave responding to its inflicted Psycho-Neurobiology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtIPBPSv0U&feature=youtu.be
Those who claim “lockdowns don’t work” know not of what they speak; for lockdowns are not instruments of plague mitigation but of population repression; and ultimately of societal resetting by population suppression – both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Unbeliveably, Calls from Nats to boycott the Sturgeon mask incident pub. Hopefully proof that social media is no measure of the public mood. Happy Christmas everyone.
It would appear the thing they are most upset about is the fact that the pub owners are NO voters. If the SNP cult had their way all of us (I voted No) would be thrown out the country.
With their beloved no-deal not happening, they’re reduced to talking about -literally – small potatoes. I’m thinking 2021 might not be so bad after all in Sturgeonland
I clicked on the link and some of the comments are hilarious especially this old classic:
https://twitter.com/Nemesis41067680/status/1342009899698548736
I use that to wind up cult members regularly.
Why are they boycotting the pub? She broke the rules what’s it got to do with the pub? Did they take the picture of her?
Merry Christmas to Toby and team and all contributors to this site ( except the trolls of course)
A light shining in the darkness!
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a lorrydriver was stirring, no sprouts or dead cows
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that Amazon soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of masked people danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in shrinkwrap,
Had just settled our brains for a long lockdown nap.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/528482-john-kerry-reveals-bidens-devotion-to-radical-great-reset-movement
John Kerry reveals Biden’s devotion to radical ‘Great Reset’ movement
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/socialist-calls-hannity-radio-show-says-quiet-part-loud-dont-want-unite-want-destroy-every-last-one-audio/
Socialist Calls Into Hannity Radio Show and Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, “We Don’t Want to Unite with You, We Want to Destroy Every Last One of You” (AUDIO)
I don’t understand how Toby doesn’t believe this is real. It’s not being hidden. They’re boasting about it.
CV19 is real, but the PTB have taken advantage of it to terrify and coerce people into compliance, whilst taking away their freedom and rights.
Yes, while we admire and value Toby’s huge contribution to anti-lockdownism the credibility of the Incompetence Theory is becoming frayed. Do we really think the government is so incompetent as to think test and trace, lockdowns and masking would really “defeat” a respiratory virus? Are they so incompetent as to believe all the official stats about “case” numbers and their own propaganda about hospitals overflowing? Are they really so incompetent as to not see the huge damage being done by lockdown restrictions to healthcare, the education system, the economy, sport and culture, and ordinary family life?
The debate is only going to get more intense in the New Year. I believe at the end of January or early February have the Davos conference (albeit online this year) with its theme of the great reset We will see either the Biden inauguration or total chaos in the USA as Trump fights against the election fraud.
I think a lot of the dots are now been joined up. We can certainly see the very close relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the Democrats in America. The corrupt Biden crime family are clearly in hock to the CCP regime in China.
I suspect Johnson and Wancock are both arrogant and ignorant enough to believe that they could defeat a virus, but surely that isn’t their motivation now, if it ever was.
Good post.. I think you pretty much summed it up there..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwff6nSkwWE
New Delingpod…
With Dr Mueller? I listened to it this evening. Very good.
An idea, we need a 3 week “Beast from the East”. Three foot of snow everywhere, country wide lockdown but importantly no blasted testing!
Be careful what you wish for!
There would surely have to be government-mandated snow shoes. Fines if not worn. To protect the NHS, you understand. How about tiered regions based on amount of snowfall. Daily press conferences obviously.
Unfortunately they can supply a beast from the east at virtually any time they want. Using a mix of Geoengineering, Nexrad radars, and Ionospheric heaters its a doddle.
I think around 1946 was when they started the experimentation, but in the mid 90s they really started to ramp it up. Just about the time they started screaming ‘Global Warming’ if I remember correctly. Just a coincidence of course!!!
I can see the government warnings now “due to the weather please don’t travel, unless you feel perfectly healthy, in which case please still drive as far as you can for a completely pointless PCR test”
If they don’t actually DO any testing (and I am not convinced that they’re doing so anyway) then they’ll just make up the figures.
Well, I’ve come back from my morning’s shopping very happy indeed. I was really angry yesterday and cleaned my house to within an inch of it’s life but it was good! Well, I’ve scored a minor one for Team Sceptics. I was in Tesco (buying Sherry of course) and a tall, amazonian type woman came up to me and shouted why wasn’t I wearing a mask (only the 2nd time anyone has said anything) – she was a member of the public – so, I went into sign language mode (I used to be very competent but it’s really down to very little now) indicating I couldn’t hear her and went on signing (not saying anything but gibberish). It’s a lot about facial expression so I signed that I didn’t understand! The last sign I used was the one for Arsehole. She looked really really embarrassed and actually said sorry! Good thing she didn’t know I had called her an arsehole!! What also went on to make me very happy was that a young lad, about 18yrs old boarded the bus, no mask. I wrote a note and dropped it in his lap saying thanks for not wearing a mask (he had it attached to his wrist) and welcomed a fellow sceptic! As I got off the bus he gave me a really positive thumbs up and a lovely smile.
I’ve got some mulled cider on the go! I will check back into this site later but, if the cider is a tad too strong Merry Christmas everyone – I’ll raise a glass to you all tomorrow!
Thanks Toby and Will for keeping us altogether and chatting. Have an especially nice Christmas.
You are brilliant.
I shall take up sign language, starting with the sign for ‘arsehole’.
Well done! I’ve never been challenged, but I have a plan, as you did. I’m going to gibber, then burst into tears (possibly followed by a heavy slump against the nearest fixture). I quite fancy myself as an acTOR, but never had the opportunity to give it a go!
This is the email I sent to my MP
“Dear Jane,
Following the announcement from the prime minister today, effectively destroying Christmas at the last minute when people have spent money on extra food for visitors who will no longer be able to visit.
This is a despicable act by the U.K. government.
My daughter and fiancé were due to come up on Christmas Day and stay until 27 th December. They are now in tier 4. She is due to get married in loughborough on 23 January, this has been changed twice already, if she cannot get married then I don’t want to think of the consequences. She was in tears today.
My son, daughter in law and grandchildren were due to come to us on Wednesday.
My youngest son is a chef in Wales and now that Wales is in tier 4 he will be by himself as his fiancée is in Scotland.
This is not healthy, this will be on you and your colleagues in government in perpetuity.
The alleged new strain is the latest of over 2000 variants. Asymptomatic spread is a fiction. Hospitals are not overwhelmed any different to previous years.
You and your colleagues in the government need to look at yourselves and your role in the disaster of the past 10 months.
Boris Johnson et al has managed something that Adolf Hitler could not manage to do, and that is to destroy the resolve of the whole nation.
There has to be a minimum of a leadership challenge but a vote of no confidence in the government is the better option.
We also need a devolved English assembly.
Have a Merry Christmas”
This is the reply I have just received:
”Thank you for your email.
Indeed, I sincerely appreciate that the changes to Christmas have come as incredibly disappointing news. We all invest a lot of emotion in this time of year, and I fully appreciate how upsetting this will be for many families, particularly after this difficult year. But the Prime Minister has been clear, without this further action hospitals would become overwhelmed and many thousands would lose their lives.
Although it is early days, and there is still considerable uncertainty regarding the new variant of the coronavirus, it is my understanding that the science suggests the new variant may be up to 70% more transmissible. Given the early evidence, and the potential risk, it is simply not possible to continue with Christmas as planned.
I recognise that the changes have seriously impacted plans for those living in tier 4 areas in England, however, I am pleased that support bubbles will remain in place for those at particular risk of loneliness or isolation.
I note the further comments you have made regarding the Prime Minister and the Government, however, I do not agree with you. Although I agree that, in due course, it will be appropriate to consider the way in which we have responded to this outbreak, right now the Government is rightly focused on the immediate response and working to stop the further spread of the virus, and to save lives.
If you have any further questions or concerns, or if I can be of further assistance with anything else, please do not hesitate to let me know.”
Empty heartless words. I’ve given up writing to my MP as I get the same responses. I have every sympathy with your situation.
I’ve given up writing to mine. Like yours she just regurgitates the lies.
All I had left to do was tell her she’d lost my support for ever. It’s very frustrating that they never answer specific points such as the PCR issue or the asymptomatic transmission fallacy. I sincerely hope that we get rid of them all soon. I don’t hold out much hope of that happening.
I have always been someone who likes to know the facts. I have no time for anyone especially an MP who just repeats stuff they have been told with no evidence and has made no effort to check if it is accurate. I’ve not seen any further update to suggest that Carl Heneghan has been supplied with the information he requested to back up the 70% yet so it is not yet validated as far as i am concerned.
My MP actually PRAISED Madge Hancock for his ”energy” in ensuring hospitals weren’t overwhelmed. (Yes, honestly.)
I am drafting a letter which includes the words:
”Perhaps your minions have never taken the trouble to inform you – if the economy is ruined then the NHS will be ruined too. Then we shall see how the phrase ”overwhelmed hospitals” takes on a whole different and terrifying meaning.”
I think that’s why Johnson is so blase about losing ”lent” votes from up in the North, by betraying fisheries. He’s not going to be relying on them again if we never have another GE.
My MP is Matthew Hancock, so you can imagine what I get back. I have, however, written to Sir Desmond Swayne, in support of his views, and also direct to Boris Johnson via the number 10 website. I can’t do nothing, but what I can do doesn’t make much difference. I’ll keep writing though – it makes me feel better.
Stop being thoughtful and reasonable about it. What they are doing to us is inexcusable and they should be excoriated for their complicity in The Great Reset.
The usual,disingenuous crap that virtually all MPs use in their responses.Now you stop being a naughty child and go and play quietly whilst the adults deal with things you can’t possibly understand.
Bullshit, everything coming from these people has always been 3 more weeks, one more tier, two more lockdowns, travel ban here and there. All empty promises.
The equivalent of putting her fingers in her ears shouting la la la.
You can understand the MP’s response if the criterion for concern, and therefore the trigger for action, is cases rather than deaths.
To use the MP’s own words “it is my understanding that the science suggests ” – the transmission is greater in the new variant, so more cases / day might be expected. However reports also suggest that it has a weaker response on those who are vulnerable , so the ratio of deaths to cases will fall.
Which is more important: cases (and those involving younger and fit- elderly people have little or only temporary effect) , or deaths which , apart from two well known, albeit dubiously documented, cases, are permanent.
The MP clearly is responding to cases rather than deaths , which does seem rather peculiar really.
Deaths are the only criteria that matter. However as we are in a fake pandemic its numbers (cases) that count. The WHO changed the definition of a pandemic in 2009 to suit the wishes of its corporate funders.
At the moment it seems to be a winning formula. Cases provided by not fit for purpose PCR tests, backed up and distributed as fear porn by a totally complicit media.
Cases are almost meaningless. Even the deaths can be manipulated – I have heard of cases of people who died months ago being included in the statistics for days in November and December. In Greece, two different agencies, both governmental ones, give different daily figures for deaths, one agency’s are consistently higher than the other’s. The agency that gives the higher number is the one that gets picked up in the media. However, deaths are certainly a more meaningful measure than cases.
”I sincerely appreciate that the changes to Christmas have come as incredibly disappointing news….” Add ”However, I’m all right, Jack…..”
And as for ”many thousands losing their lives….” Do they REALLY themselves believe this tripe they keep spouting? Are they REALLY so ignorant and ill-informed? I can only think they are – they can’t ALL be evil.
The usual bland nothing response we have all come to expect from the MPs.
I say again – that ludicrously-named ”SAGE” should drop the redundant ”E”. There’s obviously no ”emergency” as the cowards have deserted their post and gone off home for their comfortable and secure Christmas in their nice houses, paid for with OUR money, and no doubt plenty of opportunity for muzzle-free socialising.
They KNOW well there is no ”emergency”. But what can we do, besides letting them know that WE know what cowardly, arrogant, greedy, self-serving t*ssers they are?
Yes, I agree. From the beginning it sounded like mockery – patronising us and laughing at our gullibility. (Well, not OURS, obviously!)
It’s part of the picture. Johnson is always patronising when he deigns to speak to the nation – he obviously thinks he’s bloody clever and that he’s blinding people with his erudition. Pathetic person. You can see why he was chosen to be a useful idiot,
Baba vanga who apparently predicted 9/11 says a strong dragon will seize humanity in 2021, wonder who that could be?
Her predictions are being published in all the mainstream newspapers so it is obviously part of some scam / predictive programming like everything else they publish.
If she died in 1996 couldn’t they have given us some advance warnings about 2020 in December 2019? Also, why do the predictions seem to be anti-Trump / pro-Great Reset agenda?
PNN
On a side note I hear that sage is trying to recruit her!
Apparently, she married an English guy called Ferguson and they had a son – think he was called Neil or something….
Ping?
So the circumstantial evidence seems to be pointing to a clearer and clearer picture. The spring death spike was a panicked combination of the eviction of old people from hospital and the mass DNRing and midazollamming of the evictees in care homes along with the intensive and erroneous use of mechanical ventilation in those with compromised lungs contra to known medical principles, all accentuated by a dry tinder effect. All else being background winter respiratory deaths in the elderly.
Anything I have wrong here?
That’s how I see it. And as for the rest of it, I think this article from the New York Times in 2007 explains the situation perfectly:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html
(I’m sure they’ll remove the article one day).
I think they realise their readership is so brainwashed and uncritical of all but the most authoritarian government response they would simple dismiss the article. Real journalism ceased years ago at the New York Times.
I think that spike also includes what are the lockdown deaths. These have never been properly quantified and include those whose treatment was withheld, people too fearful to seek treatment as well as suicides, stress and heart attack.
Nothing ‘wrong’ – but one thing to remember is that, even with that April spike, cumulative deaths over the season were high, but not exceptionally so. The ‘dry tinder’ effect was very significant. Not so so much lockdown deaths at that point, which was too early for the effects to show strongly. Mis-attribution was probably much more important in swelling ‘Covid’ numbers.
No that’s how I see it too. The extra deaths were those of the deliberately culled, for which no one has been prosecuted.
(…and leavened with strong deterrence from accessing the NHS with anything else.)
I’ve read the tea leaves,consulted my Seaweed,Pine cones and Rabbit droppings and I now have some early New Year predictions from ‘Old Paul’s Almanac’.These predictions have been checked and approved by Imperial College London and they say they are 119% sure they are probably true.
Jan 1st 2021 – Grand Wizard Arsepig Johnson announces that because his superb plan to control and stop the virus has worked so well he will now stop time and the seasons,from 0001 on Jan 2nd and until further notice it will remain Jan 2nd,this will help flatten the curve,protect the NHS and save lives.
Feb 9th 2021 (actually still Jan 2nd) – An extra,extra,very extra super mutant strain of covid has been found in Redditch.It is believed to have come from a giant Tortoise that was smuggled in from the Galapogos Islands as a Chritsmas present.
Feb 22nd 2021 (still Jan 2nd) – Matt Nocock announces,with a heavy heart and tears,that attempts to stop the spread of the Tortoise mutant of the virus in Redditch by closing petrol stations has not worked and it is ‘running out of control’,therefore Redditch and all areas within three miles will be razed to the ground and sprayed with Domestos.
All residents will be moved to an
internmentholiday camp on the Isle of Man.More to follow,well maybe.
Great stuff!
The Neville Hodgkinson article is full of pseudo scientific hogwash and is a discredit to lockdown sceptics. People died of AIDS before the advent of AZT and indeed, the administration of AZT before it was thoroughly tested and found wanting was largely as a result of campaigns by emergent advocacy organisations that coalesced into ‘Act Up’. Their slogan was “drugs into bodies” and they favoured the compassionate administration of compounds of possible benefit to dying young people.
Whilst it’s true governments including ours initiated campaigns that assumed everyone was equally at risk when in reality it was mostly limited to certain groups – gay and bisexual men, injecting drug users and people receiving blood products – this is in fact very strong evidence of a blood borne causative agent. That agent was found to be HTLV3, later renamed HIV.
For the past twenty years, better and better anti-retroviral drugs which inhibit the replication of HIV in vivo, have brought people back from the brink of an AIDS diagnosis and prevented progression to AIDS in millions of young people worldwide. HIV has been shown to be the cause of AIDS and Hodgkinsons article will put off readers who don’t exhibit Gelles-Mann amnesia.
Ironically, Kary Mullis was not convinced of the link between HIV and AIDS. He invented the PCR test to detect HIV in people who were asymptomatic. http://virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cfmullis.htm
http://www.karymullis.com/pdf/On_AIDS_and_Global_Warming.pdf
I fully endorse this condemnation of the Hodgkinson article. Any association between scepticism about the governmental response to Sars-CoV-2 infection, as promoted by this site, and views about supposed non-viral basis of AIDS is extremely counterproductive.
As Jonathan Smith notes, the difference that anti-retroviral drugs have made to the survival of people unfortunate enough to have contracted HIV is huge. The prognosis for anyone infected with HIV now is extremely good, whereas when it was first identified in the 80s and 90s it was associated with very poor survival outcomes. It did not matter how rich or famous you were, people genuinely did die in large numbers “of HIV” and not “with HIV” (RIP Freddie Mercury, as well as lots of people in poor countries, particularly in Africa).
Current treatment for HIV/AIDS is exclusively based on cocktails of drugs targeted against a variety of the viral proteins (use of multiple drugs helps avoid resistance, which is an issue for most virus treatments). Many many people are only alive today due to direct anti-viral medication that is based on knowledge of the HIV sequence and structure. It is blinkered to argue that these treatments have not had a hugely positive impact on mortality and given that their design and formulation is based entirely on knowledge of the HIV gene sequence and biology it is disingenuous (at best) to claim that the HIV virus is not involved.
Hodgkinson’s views, which date from the 1990s when knowledge of HIV/AIDS was still relatively primitive, are completely discredited now. Kary Mullis, again writing in the 1990s, was similarly wrong. Basically, when you give people infected with HIV modern anti-retroviral drugs they live; if you don’t they die.
Merry Christmas one and all. Remember to love, laugh and live this Christmas.
Oh, and Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt.
I’ll drink to that!
Austria constitutional court decided on Wednesday that the government dictate for pupils and teachers to wear masks in spring was not lawful as the government did not have the “correct” reasoning.
Some might say it is a victory, but is a decision 6 months late, and it is based on bureaucracy, not medical or ethical evidence.
It does not stop the government to impose mask wearing currently, as they know have clocked on how to word their rules.
It was the same in Dusseldorf.
At least it marks an act of defiance.
Or rule their worlds.
Hello everyone ! First time post ! Toby is a Legend , I joined the FSU right at the beginning , it was such a relief to find a place running parallel with my subconscious thoughts , then he added Lockdown Sceptics ! which has become a window to the world (with all its faults) we left behind ! How he does it is beyond me , keep it up “Tobes” ( as JD calls you , even when he’s cross )
Welcome and happy holidays to you! This site has been a lifeline for a lot of us during these insane times. Tobes is, indeed, awesome!
Thanks , seasons greetings to you ! You have escaped Trudeau and landed yourself with Boris
Dr. Reiner Fuellmilch on Bittel TV just now, updating on the class action for compensation.
No news.
Apparently they are in the final phase of presenting a case in Canada, where a judge will then decide if they have a case to bring to the court.
FYI, it seems that Toby has now disabled the ability to post to LS without being logged in.
With any luck, this will eliminate the spoofing problem we were discussing yesterday.
Thanks and a Happy Chrismas!
dhid
Christmas not ‘Chrismas’ – doh!
My first post after this change and having registered has gone into moderation, probably because it contained a link,
Well that’s it -we are all doomed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9085195/Mutated-Kent-coronavirus-cause-deaths-England-wave.html
Sage have never been wrong so handcarts will be needed with the cry of “Bring out your dead”
It seems to be getting weaker already as it’s gone from 70% more infectious to only 56% in a couple of days.
The key is in the word “model”, as in made-up. Our lives are being ruined by a bunch of mathematicians masturbating over their models with no connection to the real world.
Have a cool Yule everyone !
(Oh, and ‘Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt !’.).
Login…
Pre-censorship…
Clearly another site to send to the trash…
You logged in to post this ?!?
No moron… I logged in to post the Uman Spirit.
Calling people names is the Twat Spirit. But keep trying.
Christmas hugs to you, Vozzie. x
Sir Colin Davis LSO John Alldis Choir
The Spirit of Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TpPOhnw2V8
Merry Christmas to all …
crawl back under your rock
0db. That’s below a whisper.
How to find a local friend – don’t forget the Freedom Network can be used anywhere, not just here in GB.
Freedom Network
The Freedom Network is a non-political movement founded with the purpose of reclaiming freedoms taken away by the Coronavirus Act. The Network has established a series of ‘Freedom Hubs’ around the country which provide like-minded lockdown sceptics with an opportunity to make contact with one another.
http://www.thefreedomnetwork.co.uk
Back to Normal
Back to Normal is a leafleting campaign aimed at changing the public’s attitude about lockdowns. Back to Normal leaflets are designed for door-to-door distribution and are currently being distributed all over the country. E-mail backtonormalrh@yahoo.com or visit my-sgf.co.uk for more information
Unlock (Oxford)
Unlock is a student-led campaign begun at Oxford University. The movement brands lockdowns as ‘irrational and inherently unfair’ and aims raise awareness about the damage they’re doing.
Unlock has a website, http://www.unlock-gb.co.uk, and a social media presence: @unlockgb on Twitter and @GBUnlock on Facebook
Unlock Surrey
Unlock Surrey is a group of like-minded individuals from across Surrey and south-west London. Beyond a shared opposition to the lockdown, the group is entirely non-partisan and encompasses a broad variety of interests and opinions. Besides simply putting people in touch with one another, Unlock Surrey organises social events and publishes a regular newsletter. E-mail unlock.surrey@protonmail.com for more information.
Thankyou, Rosie.
Have just found a local group thanks to this post.
Thanks Rosie
A.K.A. richard riewer
Merry Christmas
WHO’s Ministry of Truth rewriting medical facts.
I can’t help but draw a parallel between the WHO taking the liberty to redefine ‘herd immunity’ and the dystopian language of “Newspeak” in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, ‘1984’…
In an appendix to the book, Orwell described the function of Newspeak in detail:
-The purpose of Newspeak was “…to make all other forms of thought impossible.”
-“In Newspeak, the expression of unorthodox opinions…was well-nigh impossible.”
Newspeak intentionally redefined scientific terms more stringently, per “C vocabulary” rules
“These resembled the scientific terms in use today, & were constructed from the same roots, but the usual care was taken to define them rigidly & strip them of undesirable meaning.”
Sounds applicable.
Because the WHO redefinition of ‘herd immunity’ cannot reasonably be considered an attempt to clarify a definition.
It’s an attempt to limit how people are able to think about the concept.
https://twitter.com/AJKayWriter/status/1341854228025757696
Good post describing a technique being played at the max on the unsuspecting public..
Little re-working of the slade classic below. Remember what happens to the darkness when you turn on the light. Lets shine our lights bright in 2021!!
Are you hanging up your pointless mask on the wall?
It’s the time that every Boris has a ball
Does he ride a red nosed damp squib?
Do his lockdowns keep the virus at bay?
Do the fairies keep us in Tier 2 just for one day?
So here it is Merry Pandemic
Everybody’s having bloody tests
Look to the future now
This madness has only just begun
Are you waiting for the vaccine to arrive?
Are you sure it will keep you alive?
Does your Granny always tell ya that the Hong Kong Flu was the best
That she’s up and in the vaccine queue with the rest
So here it is Merry Pandemic
Everybody’s having bloody tests
Look to the future now
This madness has only just begun
What will your Daddy do
When he sees your Mama within 2 metres of Santa Claus?
Ah ah
Are you hanging up a pointless mask on your wall
Are you hoping that the case rates will start to fall
Do you ride on down the hillside in a COVID safe buggy you have made
When you land upon your head and realise that we are all being played?
So here it is Merry Pandemic
Everybody’s having bloody tests
Look to the future now
This madness has only just begun
Just got in from a heart warming carol singing event in Eastbourne organised by Keep Britain Free. There was about 15 of us with two guitars plus ten kids singing Christmas songs and carols.
Mums were stopping with their children in pushchairs to listen and point, and one stranger joined in spontaneously and stuck with us as we moved to different spots. Others were watching and smiling. We sang an anti- lockdown version of 12 days of Christmas in the shopping centre amongst a sea of masked people it felt so good and so transgressive ….anyone feeling isolated try to hook up with other sceptics locally it really helps!
http://www.the freedom network.co.uk
Great work Marialta a true martyr to the cause, keep up the good work. Happy Christams, Love and smiles
Thanks AK I will never give up. It’s going to get worse in the New Year. I’m getting tougher & stronger through meeting up with others who are prepared to get out on the street and sing, protest, deliver leaflets, use stickers or publicly challenge the narrative in any way.
Uplifting! Happy Christmas.
Heartwarming.Well done.
Well done you!! Merry Christmas!
Think I’ve found SAGE headquarters
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBxMPqxJGqI
Beijing?
Are people as scared and impacted (MH-wise) as we like to suggest OR have they already been conditioned to await and digest bad news?
They just live in permanent terror. All that’s needed is a turn of the screw.
Probably fewer on here now until new year but pleased to report a nice clifftop walk, almost felt like normal again.
Always pleased to hear such things.
Keep out of town centres, they’re poison. Nature is the antidote.
Sun shining here in Pembs, lovely day.
Same here in Dorset.
You’re lucky we’ve had heavy showers on and off in Suffolk.
You really can’t beat fresh air and exercise, it’s what keeps me (relatively sane). Enjoy your break.
Sounds just the job. I really miss living at the coast sometimes!
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1342072111578411010
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1342075731057254400
Fantastic news!
Yep… CENSORSHIP LANDED ON THIS useless site!
Have a nice death herd of morons.
You seem… upset.
Sorry to be personal, but you don’t sound as if you’re particularly bright.
Or perhaps it’s just that you haven’t any friends and you need to let off steam.
Either way – it’s sad.
Who or what has been censored?
It can’t be entirely useless otherwise you wouldn’t keep posting here.
Are you the one who was impersonating others perhaps?
I don’t see any sign of censorship just a bit of security against trolls using other peoples login.
…and thereby encouraging other people to hurl insults, being unable to understand the message that there were trolls about. Hey ho.
I have realised there is only one way out. Twas the night before christmas and Boris Scrooge is visited by three ghosts. The first Mrs Thatcher, the ghost of christmas past. Remember being a libertarian, believing the right to free speech, all those women you lied and cheated. But I had a good time! Then he is visited by the ghost of Christmas present, Winston Churchill. You see yourself as me, but look at you, more flip flops that the beach in Antigua. You let advisors tell you what to do and none of your decisions make sense. Bubbles, rule of six, eat out to help out, lockdown 1, mutant strain, lockdown 2, sacking cummings but keep wancock? Super mutant strain, lockdown 3, follow the science, face, space bollocks. Humanity should have been your goal. Ah the ghost of Christmas present, dishi Rischi, I fear you most of all. Where are we ghost, we are in Sageland, that used to be the uk. But where are the pubs? Ah they all had to close down after Christmas lockdown 15. Why is there no cars? Ah that was after your green new idea run by princess nut nut took away all the cars and replaced them with Sinclair c5’s where are the shoppers ah we only shop at home, amazon takes care of that. Take me to parliament, ah that was lost in the hunger riots of November when everyone realised all the pension money had gone and after we reached six million unemployed. Speak comforts to me, er you might not want to look at the tower of London or what’s on those 4 spikes. But is it too late, I can change and keep Christmas in my heart. Er no mate we are too late for that you are fucked. But come and have a butchers as this chain……
https://twitter.com/simondolan/status/1342081804619182080
Michael @HegKong’s comment:
Yes that’s right. The harder they try to bury the truth the more they expose the lie.
Dr. Zelenko is great! I saw him on Del Bigtree’s The Highwire last week and he’s calling out the FDA, the AMA (he called the the American Murder Association) for not allowing doctors to prescribe HCQ and Ivermectin, which he’s been using since the beginning and saving tons of lives, and said it’s a crime against humanity. And while these are the best medicines to prevent Covid deaths, he did recommend that regular folk take either Vitamin C and Quercitin or EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) — all of which are available at the health food store either prophylactically or within 5 days of symptoms of any virus, not just Covid.
huge grateful thanks to Toby and team for keeping us sane. Daily routine is now: 1. See the news headlines and sink into depression. 2. Read Lockdown Sceptics and become very angry. 3. Read a bit of Bible and put things into eternal perspective and remind myself where my hope is.
Happy Christmas one and all!
I don’t even bother with the news headlines – I just glean bits from various sites and see what my sister-in-law (an arch sceptic) has to say and that gives me the overall picture without raising my blood pressure too much.
As you say, we all need to remember where our hope is.
Happy Christmas to you too!
https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1341764891426906117
Indeed. Loads of people getting tested to go home for Christmas thinking it’s the right thing to do.
Overall deaths is the only real statistic we should be looking at regardless of reason as they cannot fudge them. From what I can glean over 5 years there has hardly been any change in the numbers. The only worry is the psychotic hysteria pumped out by Hancock and MSM will continue to be swallowed without question by the masses.
The only statistic that matters !!.. It is impossible to argue with it !!.. It’s available for the whole world to see but still we are being crushed
I hope everyone can have as happy a Christmas as is possible and perhaps try to take a break a bit from all the sh.te inflicted on us and our country for a while. I wasn’t sure whether to wish everyone a happy Christmas but I do send all my warmest wishes to everyone.
Tomorrow my sister can go inside Dads care home behind a screen, so she cannot be close to him. She has arranged for staff to open the Christmas presents we have bought him on the other side of the screen, they can touch him and be close to him!! His presents were taken into the care home last week as the government required the care home to quarantine them for 72 hours!!!!!!!!!?
Anyway the nice thing is she is going to do a video call with me so I can see him and sing some carols to him. It’s all very sad. But his dementia means he does not remember if he has seen us or not and he is not distressed.
Thank you to Toby and everyone for this website and thank you to everyone here for your kindness and support. We will get through this and we are right not the lockdowners.
Horse bolted with me this morning. Silly mare was scared by a gelding acting even more silly in next field. Luckily she stopped quite quickly and no harm was done, but I took her into our indoor school for some exercises until we had both calmed down.
Coming out of the school, I had to stop to get over my hysterical laughter at the notice on the door. ‘Your safety is our primary concern.’ Antisocial distancing compulsory.
So I just escaped what might have been a nasty fall from a bolting horse. Things like that happen if you ride a lot. I hack out in all weathers, we negotiate tractors, giant lorries, motorbikes and cattle, we jump, we gallop on the beach. From time to time I fall off.
Not all horses are as nervy as mine, but any horse, however placid, is inherently unpredictable and its instinct, when perceiving danger, us to run away as fast as possible. All riders have to accept this.
All this risk I happily assume. So do other riders.
But the stables are (by law) more worried about the infinitesimally small chance of our catching a cold bug on their premises.
Stay sane.
You mean you haven’t heard of the new horse strain? 20 times more transmissible than mink flavour flu
I remember taking my Daughter to the North Wales coast for a hack. The horse came back without my Daughter – dumped on the beach! Still loves horses though!
Careful Annie – LS needs you!
I’m glad you’re OK Annie! But of course you will continue to take risks to ride your horse because that’s what life if all about. Our much-fatter-than-yours pig dictator premier has shut down skiing for a month as part of our lockdown. I tortured myself and read some sheeple comments about the lockdown and some of them think the reason to shut down skiing is because too many people have ski accidents and the hospitals are already overrun (they’re not) and so we should all stay inside and pass the virus that way (my interpretation, not theirs) and make sure we have no fun and get no fresh air or exercise. Another great moment in public health!
I’ve fallen from a horse many times and it usually bloody hurts !,for some reason some people find it funny,being kicked hurts even more !.I was thrown when my mount was spooked by traffic,I hit the kerb stones and broke my arm.
As long as you keep anti-social distancing I’m sure you will be fine !.
A merry Christmas to you and yours Annie,I have really appreciated your posts on here with your strong spirit,kindness and often dark humour !.Stay
safesane !.Oooh – I worked with a guy who was a fairly keen rider, until he was kicked in the family jewels – he gave up riding as he was keen to start a family.
His description of the pain made my eyes water!
Happy Christmas.
Ouch!
I will say for my silly mare that she never kicks, and never tosses me off out of your malice aforethought.
I’m thinking of getting an ejector seat and parachute fitted, though.
Do you know those Thelwell cartoons? We looked just like that this morning.
A leg at each corner!
.
This was sent to me by a friend:
”How the seeds of the revolution were planted…
We met in taverns.
We met in restaurants.
We met in churches…
Understand the closures now?”
I suppose the day may come that sites like this will be closed too. We may be reduced to sending chupatties!
I’ve heard that quote before ( anyone know it’s origin ) It is exactly true + add the masks to subdue small talk at the Supermarkets etc !..
Right the stuffings done, the bread sauce is done and the gluten free yorkshires are done.
Not posh the wife really is intolerant.
I’m now on the fourth can of brewdog so before I get any wobblier I’d just like to say a big thank you to all on here for helping keep me sane.
A few names stick out.
Rosie the activists activist. Stick at it gal you’re an inspiration.
NickR a data junkie like me who can explain in 2 lines what it would take me 2 paragraphs.
Sarigan, Swedenborg, Victoria and Annie for the sense and humanity you portray.
And even JohnP the contrarians contrairian who talks a lot of sense in his own special way.
There are many many more on here who I can’t list but I thank you all.
But of course special thanks to Toby. As they say.
History is written by the winners.
In that case your place is assured.
Have as merry a Christmas as you can and let’s hope sanity returns soon.
And of course there is the Jolly St Jonny the 1st!
I think AkwardGit also deserves a mention.
& Arnie deserves a mention also.
definitely – no one better than the awkwardgit for an FOI request
I’m sure you’ll have a Merry Christmas if that’s the 55% ABV Brewdog!
Sounds lovely, if I bring a bottle of rum can I have dinner at yours?
Thank you to Toby Young – the man! – Will Jones, Jonathan Barr and Conor Chaplin. Also to people who send articles to LS and everybody who comments. Hope you all have as great a Christmas as possible in the circumstances.
Special thanks to Carrie who helped me out when I first came to this site.
Yes, many thanks! This site has been a life raft in a sea of insanity.
I see we all have to login to post now.
Not sure if this will work…
This is what I am going to drop on our church at our New Year soire next week, a Powerpoint based on the sketch James Leary posted a couple of weeks ago. Still need a suitable cartoon graphic for tomorrow, hopefully Bob will do his usual.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xzv5ga9IPf6QCtxgB5cMFhZHGrrdvbKj/view
Hope you like it.
Once logged in my computer automatically logs me in everytime I come to this site, I do not need to do anything, I assume most computers can do this?
Yes, but I had never actually registered an account until now, just replied with a username. Everybody now has to have an account with password and login now. But as you say the cookie keeps you logged in.
Google keeps me logged in, but Duckduck doesn’t and I have forgotten my password, so can’t post via Duckduck, although it was so as to post on this site that I started using Duckduck in the first place!
Duckduck keeps me logged in no problem.
The BBC announces that there is a trade deal between the UK and the EU
Um no, the pig dictator has said there is a trade deal which is not quite the same thing
Oven ready shit in a box, given as a Christmas present.
Bojo is really into significant dates, vide Easter Sunday.
I see the site Standup4brexit.com is still active – where Johnson said he’d pledged to ”abandoning Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement as dead.”
So which words didn’t he understand? ”Abandon”? ”Pledge”? ”Dead”?
Perhaps he’d be more familiar with the words ”forsworn” or ”dishonoured”.
We’ll probably find our fishing rights have been reduced to using a fishing rod at the local reservoir.
He doesn’t care about alienating the Northern voters who ”lent” their votes. He won’t need them in the future – if he doesn’t allow another GE.
It is ironic and sad to me that the main argument of Brexit was people having more control over their lives and how their earnings were spent.
It turns out the people we really need to take back control from are those in Westminster, specifically Downing St.
I hardly care about Brexit anymore. It has become Boris Johnson’s vanity project.
Just come in from a walk, it’s getting cold out there. So remember tommorrow to put granny by the open window, she probably won’t die of the killer virus thats killing virtually nobody, but she may die of the more common peumonia
On the side of the spectrum I took my Dad for a pre op assessment yesterday – small room, no windows, no ventilation and very hot. He nearly passed out! Bonkers!
I suppose if you aren’t too fond of her she might block the draft coming in I guess….
Joking aside, I think it was that daft suggestion from them that made some realise what a bunch of utter pillocks they are!
A dilemma of deaths.
“I have often been credibly told
That when people are awfully old
Though cigars are a curse
And strong waters are worse
There is nothing so fatal as cold.”
-Hilaire Belloc
Even in these dystopian times this beggars belief:
https://youtu.be/xBMOikhaKOA
Anyone got any stamps left over from Christmas ? I’m sure everyone on here has a selection of leaflets … !
Please send as many as possible to
Colchester Community Policing Team
10 Southway
Colchester
CO2 3BU
Haha! I’m in!
Happy Christmas, all.
Big thanks to Toby Young and team.
Happy Christmas to all!
Toby’s determination and creating this site, allowed me to realise many are as baffled, angry and suspicious as I am, about where we are, has been a sanctuary from the (continuing) madness.
As my Gran used to say – Onward and (hopefully!) upwards in 2021. Fingers crossed!
Edit – 2022 to 2021…
I was led to this site by Dr Clare Craig; https://digital.nhs.uk/dashboards/nhs-pathways
It shows triages, which means calls to 111 & 999. I’ve chosen to show London but you can see the data down to local areas.
Compare the spring to now, or when parents went into panic mode when schools went back.
Again, it makes you wonder if the admissions are mainly people already in hospital.
Or people ill with anything but covid
And that ”overwhelmed hospitals” denote just the ”covid wards” where people are put if they test positive, no matter what else is wrong with them, the rest of the hospital being anything but ”overwhelmed”.
Thank you Toby for Lockdown sceptics- this site has kept me sane and the London Calling podcasts have kept me entertained. Merry Christmas to all the regular contributors here. Always gives me hope whenever I log on-and in some cases history homework!
This may have been posted already? but it looks like someone has responded to one of those calls from a Nigerian Prince and ended up with Nigerian covid;
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13568069/third-mutant-covid-discovered-nigeria/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly
I guess it is the panto season, where is the latest mutant covid? ……. it’s behind you.
10,000+ “mutants” and MSM coverage only starts just as the non-vaccines start rolling out…
if you told people the latest mutant covid came from Mars they probably would believe it.
A close relative of mine went to the hairdressers for a ‘perm’ recently. She was wearing a mask and said that she noticed the smell of the stuff they put on was very strong. She removed the mask but realised that the chemical had somehow become absorbed in the mask and she found that her lips were tingling several hours later.
Another good reason for not wearing a mask.
FaceTime Farewells: Grief in COVID Era
Worldwide Rise in Prolonged Grief Disorder ExpectedPsychiatric Pandemic LoomingPandemic Restrictions Affect All Stages of GriefGrief Reactions More Severe During the PandemicLosses in Many Areas of Life Lead to ‘Bereavement Overload’
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/24/prolonged-grief-disorder.aspx
FFS.
A tiny, tiny sliver of Christmas cheer from Wales. The so-called rules are as follows:
“Some shops such as supermarkets sell multiple types of product, including the types of product normally sold by shops which are required to close at Level 4.
For the purposes of the regulations these shops are operating more than one type of business and they are required to close those parts of their premises selling products that a type of business which has been required to close would normally sell.”
However… my daughter discovered today that all aisles were open for business in our local Sainsburies. Chatting to her friend who worked there, she found out that in the first two days of the lockdown, the ‘inessential’ aisles had been cordoned off as per regulations. On the third day, management opened everything up. Why? Because the local Tescos was ignoring the rule. So good old competitive capitalism trumped Drakeford’s diktats. It’s beginning to crumble… Merry Yule!
Merry Christmas fellow sceptics and the writing team, including – of course – Toby.
All the best for the festive period to you all and your families.
Anti-vaxxers proving a nuisance:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/france-covid-antivaxx-coronavirus
‘As it emerges from its second Covid lockdown, France is preparing to roll out one of the biggest vaccination campaigns in its history. The country has been badly battered by the pandemic, tallying 59,000 Covid deaths and 2.39 million cases so far, and the vaccine would finally offer a way out of the ordeal.’
The PCR Ouija boards have spoken.
‘Yet, Paris will now have to grapple with another alarming reality: France has become one of the most vaccine-sceptical countries in the world.’
People displaying independent rational thought are a problem and we must deal with them.
Next up, a role call of sceptics:
‘“I’m not going to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, unless they make it mandatory. It doesn’t seem reasonable, when you look at how quickly these products have been manufactured.” Catherine, a 55-year-old French woman who is crossing Paris’s Luxembourg Gardens on her way to work, is absolutely sure: “I’m healthy, I don’t fall into the age groups at risk…I don’t need the shots.” Patrick, who is exercising just a few meters away, has a similar view: “I’m quite wary, usually it takes several years to create a new vaccine. This seems rushed, we have no long-term perspective on secondary effects,” says the 34-year-old engineer. “I think it’s too soon to vaccinate the population.”’
Note how all these complaints are unbelievably feeble. No-one says, “I’m not getting vaccinated because it’s a total fucking con!”
‘Like the rest of the EU, France is awaiting the go-ahead of the European Medicines Agency to make the new vaccines available, but the country has already pre-ordered up to 200 million doses.’
No, “France” isn’t waiting for the mighty syringe from above. Only the lackeys grovelling before the bog knobs at the top are waiting.
‘The government has decided to leave the shots optional, and is in desperate need to boost the population’s trust.’
I’ll say!
Blah blah reassurance blah blah draft in cute “public face” blah blah ‘climate change’ – oh that’s a good one! blah blah ‘Greater involvement of the civil society’ – excellent! ‘with critics saying this is just a gimmick’. Well they fucking would!
Bit about that constantly recurring lack of faith in the authorities. Leading to
‘Public policy blunders bear some responsibility for this state of affairs.’
Well yes, if you define “policy blunders” as lack of effective propaganda.
Followed by an inordinate amount of diversionary drivel about the masks. Dull but it pads out the article.
Hang on a mo. What’s this?
‘The government’s efforts to win the public over may also be hampered by the increasing polarisation of the current political environment.’
And here it comes:
‘People on the extremes of the French political spectrum are also more responsive to conspiracy theories, which play a major role in the anti-vaxxer discourse.’
And there it is! Took a while but we got there.
Blah blah ‘conspiratorial mindsets’ blah blah ‘social media is making the problem worse.’
Damn straight it is! Why did we give these peasants information channels outside the ever-reliable TV?
But let’s end on a merry note:
‘The hope is that the new anti-Covid shots will pave the way to a return to normalcy and ease the pressure on health facilities overburdened with Covid patients. However, many frontline professionals are under no illusion that this will happen in the short term.’
Ah that infinitely expandable “short term”.
‘Guillemette Frémont works in a hospital just east of Paris – an area where Covid has hit hard. She warns that, even once vaccination starts, the crisis will be far from over, with multiple new waves of the virus to be expected.’
Crystal ball time again.
‘She finds French people’s wariness of vaccines difficult to understand: “As a doctor and infectious disease specialist, I have always been puzzled by it.”’
Then clearly being a doctor and infectious disease specialist makes you incredibly stupid.
Let’s end with a bit of Orwell:
‘To defeat the nation’s rampant scepticism, transparency from the top will be paramount.’
i.e. more fog needed!
French scepticism.May it flourish for ever.
The heartwarming greetings and thanks to fellow contributors today has made a good day even better!
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The Gospel of John, Chapter 1.
Christmas blessings to all.
Amen!
And amen.
Gratias ago tibi o rex.
In principio verbum erat
et verbum erat apud deum
et deus erat verbum
hoc erat in principio apud deum
omnia per ipsum facta sunt
et sine ipso factum est nihil
quod factum est.
Verbum caro factum est.
…et habitavit in nobis.
Happy birthday, Jesus.
Well, the labs certainly deserve their xmas break.
They rushed through 507.834 tests, resulting in 39.036 +results.
At 17.19. the at 17.12 updated dashboard is unable to give me breakdowns.
With that I will join the last minute rush for food and maybe catch myself a little virus?
Merry Christmas!
They rushed through 507.834 tests, resulting in 39.036 +results
The 39k positives are not from the 507k tests. To-days ‘case’ numbers refer to tests conducted on previous days – mainly Dec 22nd & Dec 21st.
just seen the Covid dashboard update. One glimmer of light I noticed the announcer on the BBC added the caveat that much more testing is undertaken-507,000 yesterday.
2.2m “cases” so how many out of 66m have had it by now? Best punt anyone?
If ‘Dominion’ were working it out for us, it’d say about 80 million.
These huge figures could just be conjured up out of thin air, for all we know. Why are test centres nearly empty? Where are all these dimwits coming from, who supposedly queue up voluntarily for a nasty little procedure? Perhaps more than once?
Or, are these figures indeed made up?
Some NHS staff are testing every two weeks. I know of care home staff who are tested every day. These alone would generate huge numbers of tests, and depending how you count them: bingo!
It’s literally criminal that they don’t report the % positive figures to put it all into context.
For example, here is the number of tests vs positivity rate since 1st November for England. Tells quite a different story doesn’t it?
I have learned two big lessons from this virus guff:
First, that the mainstream media is far more monolithic than I previously thought. When they have decided to change tack – in this case an unprecedented change of tack – then they pull themselves together with ruthless efficiency, coalesce into one immense juggernaut and apply themselves relentlessly to their one goal.
Second, that the vast majority of the public have a childlike faith in this media and are incapable of the level of critical thought required to defend themselves from manipulation. Some of them have a deep feeling for when they are being deceived. But these more perceptive ones tend to have a protective tendency to withdraw. They know they are being bullshitted but are also shrewd enough to feel themselves in a minority. And, even if they are capable of articulating their disquiet, they know it is useless to argue with those around them. So, they keep their head down.
The bottom line is that the “horrible pandemic” has become the new received wisdom of the age, a dogma so firmly entrenched that it is not even seen as problematic.
The media works as it did on 9/11 but on a far more ambitious scale. The trick is to make everyone think they actually saw it all. In the case of 9/11, no-one saw the planes bring down the buildings. They saw planes hit the buildings; they then saw the buildings collapse ergo… planes caused the collapse. But the case with the Pentagon is even more of a consciousness coup. No-one saw anything hit the Pentagon – but I think many will feel they did. And the same with the crash of Flight 93. No-one had to see these things. They were reeling from the shock of the twin towers footage, heard about the other stuff and just “joined the dots” in the way the media told them to. And the movies made about Flight 93 leave their mark in the public mind too.
With covid: relentless virus propaganda, endless media drone, experts dragged in, medical terminology trotted out etc. Over and over and over. For 9 months.
And everyone thinks they saw it all happen. And so often I have heard people blandly state they know someone who died of covid. They have been handed the imagery, they have been read the PCR declaration, they know nothing about any limitations or subterfuge in the data collections and they think they saw it all happen. And once they have been, as it were, drafted into the programme. they are even willing to embellish it with their own imagination.
And it is pointless to engage with them on this. They “know” it happened because they “saw” it happen.
Unfortunately oh so true.
Pass the sick bag Alice ( for younger readers this was a catch phrase of John Junor at the Express when referring to stupidlity) . Santa is muzzled https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9085921/Santa-spotted-NORADs-tracker-wearing-mask-delivers-presents.html
Can they explain why he needs to be masked? He’s definitely outdoors and social distancing whilst riding on his sleigh. When he comes down the chimney you’re all supposed to be in bed, so no danger there either. Hand sanitiser would be far more important I should think, if you’re that way inclined.
Why can’t they just tell any kids who ask that because Santa is magical (obviously, given the whole flying a sleigh around the world in one night thing) he’s not afffected by Covid? Why make him a part of this whole ridiculous charade? Can’t kids have one night off a year from seeing masked gimps everywhere?!
Been unexpectedly busy today engaging in lengthy and detailed exchanges with three non-sceptics, with a measure of success. None of them rejected my information out of hand, which is encouraging.
I think I might take a break tomorrow, but then again there are a few mates I’ve not heard from for a while who will be texting me best wishes so it may be more of the same.
A sceptic’s work is never done!
Cheers All. Eat and drink to great excess.
You’re a trooper Richard! I think as the pain trickles down there will be more people open to the message. I wish it didn’t have to get to that point, but I always thought there would need to be more widespread pain before people woke up.
Cheers to you, and based on previous posts I suspect you won’t have any trouble eating, drinking and smoking to excess! It’s too early to start drinking here yet, but I’ll join you in spirit in around 4 hours.
Thanks Lisa, always great to have your international perspective on things. 2021 is going to be interesting for sure.
I will be commencing a very long Xmas binge in a couple of hours. As you suggest, periodic excess in alcohol, tobacco and food is my speciality subject!
Go for it !
Thank you for all those inspiring words.
Thanks Annie, we can only hope that all our efforts (yours being at the vanguard) are not in vain.
As I always say, we cannot be defeated, even by ourselves, because we cannot be turned into zombies. Once you’ve seen through the trick, it no longer works.
So now that Brexit has limped over the line, Boris is in direct line of sight for getting kicked out. Was this the plan all along for some Tories? The next few weeks may see a lot of long knives.
now he has his legacy
Starmers speech in reaction to the news is the most uninspiring waffle I’ve heard in a while.
Could be anymore on the fence about every issue?
Every issue except more draconian mockdowns!
Starmer is a mediocrity. He is there because he is not Corbyn and will not go off message.
St Bartholomew is the patron saint of people facing long knives.I hope he visits Boris soon.
So that is why “Mark” is going for sword training tonight. Getting in last minute practice “Mark” , or should I say Sir Graham ?
Sir Graham (our Mark), please let it be so.
https://acaai.org/news/american-college-allergy-asthma-and-immunology-updates-guidance-risk-allergic-reactions-mrna These are the new UG guidelines as regards the C-19 vaccines. Earlier they said that pervious vaccine reactions were not a contraindication and now they are taking a small step back probably. Most likely not the first since the first 1 million doses seems to have, so far, resulted in 13 anaphylactic rection at least 10 times more than usual for other vaccines.
“Data related to risk in individuals with a history of allergic reactions to previous vaccinations and/or mast cell activation syndrome/idiopathic anaphylaxis is very limited and evolving. A decision to receive either of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines should be undertaken by you with your physician or other provider administering the vaccine using their professional judgment balancing the benefits and risks associated with taking the vaccine.”
“Although the specific vaccine component causing the anaphylaxis has not been identified, polyethylene glycol is one of its ingredients and has been known to cause anaphylaxis”
See many posts on vaccine passports,mandatory vaccines etc.Highly unlikely with so many reactions already. They will be satisfied if elderly and high riskgroups are covered but will have a problem with younger HCW. But after that, the genral public and younger age?
Do you think this might be why they are suddenly suggesting that people only get one jab instead of the follow-up one?
They say it’s to get more people vaccinated but surely it would make the jab even more pointless?
No.FDA has not approved the vaccine in the usual sense but rather have given it green light using EAU.But both vaccines(Moderna Pfizer)need to be given twice and FDA and the companies will not allow only one dose.
It is ridiculous that MSM interview the public health ignorant charlatan Tony Blair proposing one dose.
The problem is the higher frequency than expected 1/60000 -1/100 000 anaphylaxis which couldn’t be detected in the phase 2 study with only 40000.It seems that PEG is the possible factor in the vaccine.The problem will now be for the second dose to be given. There must be a certain risk that some, not experiencing severe but only minor allergic reaction to the first dose, might have been sensitized and have a severe reaction to the second dose of the vaccine. Hope that anyone having minor allergc reaction consider this seriously. The “good” news is that elderly very seldom experience anahyphylaxis but HCW are much younger.
‘‘A decision to receive either of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines should be undertaken by you with your physician…”
Good luck with that, then. I thought most GPs don’t want to get too closely involved with us plebs any more?
The eminent public health specialist Dominic Cummings has produced a short piece in Spectator about the Russian who save the world.
The last phrase was a cracker
“In Britain parts of the nuclear enterprise have rotted from years of neglect, though thankfully the new cabinet secretary knows and cares and is acting to remedy this. In America and Russia security disasters are routine. As Covid has shown, far greater intellectual and material resources ought to be deployed on such apparently low-probability, high-impact events.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-quick-witted-russian-who-saved-millions-of-lives/amp
“As Covid has shown, far greater intellectual and material resources ought to be deployed on such apparently low-probability, high-impact events.”
Ye Gods! If our past leaders (and the Soviet Union’s) had panicked over nuclear weapons issues the way our current elites, and Cummings himself, have over a jumped up cold, we’d have wiped ourselves out decades ago.
He’s trying to be clever (as usual) and aping Taleb by going on about “high impact low probability events”.
New zoonotic viruses come along about every 10 years or so and are rarely a huge deal. They’re not the most desirable things in the world but low impact and high probability.
I haven’t read the Spectator article but might have a look for a laugh.
Happy Xmas everyone!
Fuck Cummings.
He needs to rot in hell.
Slowly. And forever.
A more dismal cretin never walked this earth.
Have a fine Christmas everyone !
Bill
Best wishes to all who gather here. You have all made this shit show more bearable. There’s more to come and we fight on, but for now, as a wise man once said, “Get some bloody ale down yer!”. Other vices are available. Have some fun and let’s keep it normal out there…
We fight on! We fight to win!
No beer yet, coz Thursday’s sword training night, and it doesn’t stop for covid or Christmas! Beer (maybe some port) afterwards….
Hear hear Mark. This sword training of yours sounds great fun. Enjoy that beer and port.
Just found a tactic that works a treat on anyone with Coviditus or is Covidian. Our local press has a comments section for their articles (debatable this), this person was getting all worked up at shopping, queing and social distancing. It was so simple to shut this person down, all you had to do was say, well you are not following Government advice and guidelines to stay home are you.
Merry Christmas all.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
A massive thank you to Toby for running the site and everything that you do. Thanks also to your family for supporting your work.
My love to all of you Sceptics out there it’s been a uniquely horrible year but I believe 100% that we will win this, if you have any doubts think about the future we will leave for our kids and grandkids if we fail.
Big party tomorrow, even bigger party on New Years Eve then back into the fray.
Finally thank you for everybody’s kind comments and thoughts this year, you know who you are & I appreciate it.
Cheers folks, bottoms up, etc,
Arnie.
PS. Boris Johnson is F’ing Cnut for Christmas Number 1!!!
Merry Christmas to you Arnie! Enjoy
Have a brilliant party Arnie!
Just been laughing along to Dominic Frisby’s 12 Drunk Days of Christmas
Mabel could you design a football scarf for the Boris Johnson is a F’ing Cnut song please? I’m thinking along the the lines of Boris Johnson F C with a little ‘is a’.
I just think that a football scarf would be great because we can all buy one and wave it when we want to. Hats, T shirts, badges….
I hope this is the start of something big.
Cheers,
Arnie.
PS. Merry Christmas!
We could also use it pulled up over our chin (a ”face covering”) when we get close to any of the Terminally Terrified in a confined space.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Thank you Toby for creating this space and to you and the team for the hours you spend creating the daily Updates. We have been thoroughly spoiled! Your active compassion is revealed in your desire to keep this space open for those who will be spending Christmas alone this year.
Thank you to all in the wonderful community that has formed itself BTL. I have learned much from your contributions and also been given frequent cause to cry with laughter.
I hope you all manage to salvage some Christmas spirit. Sending everyone illicit laughter, illegal hugs and much love.
Incidentally, I do know that some accents are missing – I am using a different font to that which I normally use and the accents and breathings are not in the same place!
I am having a day off from accents.
Just one day.
I trust that rough breathing is not a symptom of you-know-what.
I believe that it can be cured by generous amounts of proparoxytone.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/swales-3-prisons-truth-boroughs-4722619
“Swale’s 3 prisons and the truth about the borough’s surging coronavirus infection rate”
I assume it takes only a few hundred prisoners “pos” to increase the figures locally to become the hotbed of C-19 in UK and plunge us into a lockdown 3.
It’s all Greek to me mate.
At the risk of being pedantic, the actual quotation (from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar I ii 282) is:
Cassius: And did Cicero say anything?
Casca: Ay, he spoke Greek.
Cassius: To what effect?
Casca: Nay, an I tell you that, I’ll ne’er look you i’ the face again; but those that heard him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part it was Greek to me.
Quite where ‘all Greek’ came from, I have no idea, and the Arden Shakespeare is silent.
Thanks I never knew where that expression came from!
As for John I can actually read the Greek but still have no idea what he’s talking about
You may have seen the poster by Bernard Levin which purports to show all the novel expressions Shakespeare is credited with. My guess is he borrowed and adapted expressions he heard in the streets, taverns and other social settings, just as Chaucer did.
In the Middle Ages in Western Europe, knowledge of Greek almost disappeared, even though it was the original language of the New Testament. Surviving Greek manuscripts sometimes were marked in Latin “Is Greek, cannot be read”. In the Renaissance knowledge of Greek revived among scholars, one theory being that Greek-speaking refugees from the Ottoman capture of Constantinople in 1453 taught Greek to people in the places where they sought refuge.
To all those who responded to my pedantic and pernickety response, if you want to learn New Testament Greek (Greek is the most important language in the world, by the way), please contact me at http://www.eroumen.co.uk. Not sure I should be advertising on Toby’s wonderful site, but heigh ho!
Does anyone know percentage of U.K. hospital deaths mention ‘covid’ on them and how has this percentage varied since the spring?
Sorry – but I think you have a big trawl to get an answer. The data, in statistical terms, is totally f.ed. Try the CEBM site for the day-to-day data.
Graphic based on latest ONS data – all settings – I could not find the all causes hospital data set.
IN the spring the peak we had up to 39% of all deaths mentioning Covid – by the Summer this had reduced to about 1 to 2% in the Autumn the Covid mentions on death certificates had increased to 22 to 24%
Hope this helps
Broken down by age group for 60’s , 70’s 80’s and 90 plus – all look pretty similar – again based on ONS data
I’ve had to register and couldn’t use my name. So Steph is now WasSteph.
Actually great to have a bit more control around it as some people were misusing others’ IDs.
https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1342090326513750016
You might not agree with everything he says but Prof Balloux seems to be the only scientist in the UK being calm and best judge of every hyped up claim by other scientists. This twitter thread about the new mutant strain is very good and from someone who knows much about these things.
To get to the meat of the paper underpinning the Twitter comment :
“At this stage we find no evidence for significantly more transmissible lineages of SARS-CoV-2 due to recurrent mutations.”
Madge Hancock says there is, of course. (And HE’s got a PPE, you know.)
Yes that was an excellent thread. This is also Balloux’s actual direct area of expertise.
My thanks go to Mark who posted a bar chart (yesterday I think) of deaths per 100,000 over the past twenty five years (or so). I decided to print this out and give the print out to a couple of my Latin students, who, by their own admission, are not very numerate. It became clear to them there had been a misuse and selective quotation of statistics and it started to explain why I was so vehemently against all this nonsense. I was a sceptic before the first lockdown.
Thanks again Mark and Merry Christmas to you and to everyone on here.
I have found that I am far from alone, and that is a great comfort.
My troubles have been nowhere near as serious as those experienced by many on here as I found out (or rather, reminded myself) when I went through ten days of the blogs for the Covid 19 assembly. Very distressing, but I do not regret doing it.
I’m just blowing off steam. Nothing new, but reinforced today.
I was watching Scottish Ballet’s brilliant use of visual media (available on YouTube) to keep things going with an on-line production.
In one respect, it was heartening to see the professionalism going into the process of keeping things going (I have personal connections with those doing this).
But … but … the overwhelming emotion was dominated by a choking sadness at what is being lost as theatres go dark, and remembering (the score of the ballet was from Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov) what we were not playing at our traditional Christmas orchestral concert this year. No sense of stoic heroism could overcome that dominant emotion – about the desiccated corpse of a society that has been wished on us by psychopaths and sociopaths pretending to a humanity they don’t possess.
There is no rationale, no excuse.
Yeah, I hate the way our culture has been destroyed. I have a professional connection to theatre and drama, but even if I didn’t I’d still be wanting to kill all the people who have taken the joy from our lives. No arts, no creativity, no sporting events, no community. And now no restaurants and pubs. Nothing that really makes life worth living. When oh when are people going to wake up? Save lives, save, lives, save lives. What for? I have a ninety year old (plus) neighbour who has just had the worst year of their lives. This is deliberate, it’s cruelty, it’s inhumane and it’s murder. Are we really just going to sit back and let it happen? What are we saving lives for? Any ideas? So people can be sold into slavery? Even the slaves of the American deep south celebrated Christmas. What have we become? Why no uprising? I loathe the tyrants that have done this, but more pertinently I loathe the general public who have facilitated it. I had to go to the osteopath, the bank and the supermarket today. I was unmasked in all, but the only one. No-one blinked, let alone asked, so why oh why are they all wearing the damn things as if it’s the most natural thing in the world? BTW neither Stalin nor Hitler abolished the arts.
Saving lives by stopping living. And they believe, they really believe, that we are the killers.
“No arts, no creativity, no sporting events, no community.”
You’re right, of course, HoMojo. I picked out one aspect – but it is much wider.
The implicit disregard of what society embodies – in favour of a tremulous self-regard in case of a highly improbable discomfort or death doesn’t speak well of the human race as seen in Euope.
We had a record attendance at our “educational support group” (also known as prayer group) during the second lockdown.
Easier said than done, I know, but find some loopholes, find some like-minded individuals, get together and keep real life going.
Any “mister Loophole” on here like to elaborate?
The desolation is worsened by the fact that all my colleagues in the theatre seem to be absolute lockdown fanatics. Throwing everything we have collectively and individually worked to perfect and sustain over the years under the bus is Worth It if it Saves One Life.
It is impossible to use the word ‘merry’. I shall quote Peter Hitchens and also thank every one of you (and of course Toby in particular) who has contributed to this brilliant site even in the smallest way and kept the flame alight during this dark time of Govt attacks on the people and of worldwide panic. You have helped me survive and be informed and yes even to laugh.
“I cannot really wish anyone a happy Christmas in this time of unrestrained folly and mass hysteria, but may I wish those who would appreciate it a very blessèd Christmas, full of grace and truth?”
Truth will win in the end, together we can see that it does.
Channel the anger into having the merriest Christmas ever in defiance of those who would “ban” it.
(Would love to know how you do a grave accent for “blessed”!)
I just wanted to take a couple of minutes to wish you all a Merry Christmas or something close to it. This website has kept me going since it opened and without the community here and the hard work and good humour of the content creators, this year would’ve been a hard slog indeed. Hopefully, the nightmare will come to an end very soon.
“Hopefully, the nightmare will come to an end very soon.”
What do you think will bring it to an end?
That would require the government to end it. But they could have ended it in July
They could’ve. I was just trying to be positive, I suppose.
The people, not the govt will surely put an end to this madness when poverty and mass unemployment become a reality. Long way to go yet though I fear.
Yes remember Independence Day.The fact that they have continued the crisis by maintaining fear up to now despite the astronomical cost to the economy shows there is something deeper behind all this.They had every chance to declare victory and move on and yet we sit here on Christmas Eve forbade from socialising with friends and family.
Civil disobedience. Hopefully starting bigtime over Christmas because HMG pushed it too far this last few days.
Resist: Defy: Do not comply!
What do you think will bring it to an end? Hunger, despair, leading to massive civil disobedience. Government certainly won’t end it, they are the takers of our power, and that can never be satisfied.
It has been a nightmare, but eventually economic reality, if nothing else, will force a change of direction from the Government. In the meantime, we have to console ourselves with the knowledge that history will not be kind to those currently in power – like Blair, they have left a legacy of lies and destruction, but in Johnson’s case the innocent victims are the people of the UK.
However, as anyone who remembers ‘Cool Britannia’ will tell you, ‘Things can only get better’!.
Merry Christmas everyone!
As a hospitality professional I do not like seeing waiting staff I face coverings.
But I would like to see chefs cover their hair and shave off beards!
BBC2 tonight the height of do as I say, not as I do. Aaarghh!
Many of them on the recent Masterchef are seen kneading food with their bare hands then licking them to see how it tastes…
That’s the traditional way!
My Mum always said the best way to get gardening hands really clean was to make some pastry ….
Here’s wishing you all the best Christmas that can possibly be had in the circumstances.
Surrounded by evil, you have held firm as a bastion of light and sanity. I am grateful to every one of you.
Stand firm at the gate of the year. It is a hard road that we travel, but we journey towards the light.
God bless you all.
JP casts a jaundiced eye on this Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erAYITZRdJk&feature=youtu.be
I don’t go for the communism idea myself, but everything else is spot on.
“Destiny gave England the torch of liberty to hold” – Christmas Under Fire, 1940.
How on Earth, I wonder, have we ended up where we are, with less liberties, and more disruptions to our Christmas than ever we got from the Nazis in 1940?
Oh well, merry Christmas one and all, and I hope you are all able to see friends and loved ones and do all the things you love to do at this time of year. Don’t let the buggers get you down…
The Germans treated the Channel Islanders far better than we are being treated now.
(Apart from the Jews).
My lockdown sceptical Channel Islands acquaintance complains that the EU don’t respect their fishing waters.
To be honest, it would probably be quicker to say who wasn’t being treated better than us.
I would just like to echo everyone else today who has thanked Toby and all the LDS crew who keep this site going. Like so many others here, I am not quite sure how on earth I would have got through the last few months without this place to come and be with sane people (well vaguely sane anyway). I feel I have come to know so many of the regular posters, and I so look forward to the day when we can put some faces to the handles. You are amazing – thank you so much for commenting, helping, supporting and for the effort and time that is clearly spent collating data, graphs and stats. I hope you can all have as good a time as possible over the next few days. I will also be trying to minimise time here for a few days – a break is definitely required. Cheers everyone.
Best wishes to you CGL, let’s hope we can eventually enjoy a victory party.
Absolutely!
I have only just been informed that in India there has been the worlds biggest general strike of 250 million. They are striking over employment reforms making it easier for employees to be fired (amongst other issues) bought about the effects C19 has had on the country. Unemployment has soared along with price increases. There has been protests where water cannons have been used.
Just maybe the end of this plandemic will come from countries where the people have much more to loose than us in the west.
They’ve used the pandemic as the pretext for all their wildest dreams. As the tide goes out we get to see who is wearing trunks as they say. Beware those who seek to provide answers when they created the destruction that lays before us.
This too:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/23/imperial-intent-destroying-indias-farm-sector/
It’s what the massive Sikh protest in London was about.
Merry Christmas to Toby et Al, and the regular contributors to this page. Thanks for helping me stay sane through the last 9 months. I thank you one and all. Keep up the good work. Hers a little ditty for you all, lyrics are apt. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKL4X0PZz7M
Don’t forget the Santa special train tonight, passing a station near you and not a mask in sight….
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/S73184/2020-12-24/detailed#allox_id=0
Seasons greetings, best wishes and thanks from the bottom of my heart to Toby, the LDS team and all who post here.
The site has to me been an oasis of truth, sanity, kindness, honesty and courage in a world that has in large part forgotten it’s humanity and collectively gone mad. It has helped me immensely in the darkest times to know that I am not alone, and in better days to marvel at the strength of those who post here.
Please all have the best Christmas you possibly can.
After that, the fight goes on!
Save the Earth! Depopulate the world.
Dr Antony Mueller on Delingpod is really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwff6nSkwWE
The Great Reset explained in just 13 minutes. Based on the thoughts of Dr Antony Mueller who was on the Delingpod today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhFBzsEErvQ
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals
Merry Christmas all , just a massive THANK YOU Toby, Will and Team along with all contributors .. oh boy have I needed your company , information and sceptic humour .
Have a good one !!
My best Christmas wishes to all of you kind,caring,intelligent and above all,sane souls on here,without all of you to share with,let off steam,learn from and have my faith in humanity restored by I dread to think where I might be now,I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Give and receive as many hugs and kisses with your family,friends and loved ones as you can,eat,drink,be merry,sing,dance and just have a good,normal Christmas.
We have made it this far and we can make it to the end,we must be getting near the top of the hill of madness by now,it may take a while longer or it might be sooner than we expect but we will not falter and we will be on the right side of history.
So far so normal for me, started and finished my Christmas shopping this afternoon!
Now for midnight mass at our sceptical church (they even warned about the dangers of these “vaccines”!)
All the best for Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all my fellow sceptics. Have a good one.
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1341949624060284930 “1952: Jonas Salk invents first successful polio vaccine, but refuses to profit. “Who owns this patent? Well, the people I would say… Could you patent the sun?” 2020: Moderna execs announce untested mRNA vaccine, dump stock, then walk back all promises.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHXKP386Nk&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=GlobalCitizen
There are many antivaxxer in the blog who will not like this but polio was a terrible disease as can be seen in this short minute video with the famous quote from Salk. This was the nightmare for every family having small children in the early 1950s. Important reminder for the antivaxxer.
Imagine a scientist today saying something similar? The rot started in the 1980s with a new US law allowing federal employee in CDC etc taking out individual patent in their federal funded research. Earlier it belonged to the state. This was probably when Big Pharma saw the enormous opportunity to use that and starting its incestuous relationship with scientists.We see the result now.
When it comes to Big Pharma, these guys to an excellent deep dive. They are comedians by trade so it makes for funny discussions as they unpick the history. I’ve listened to it three times end to end it is so full of info
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-those-conspiracy-guy-28149226/episode/big-pharma-29176345/
swedenborg.. I just need to say the use of the slur antivaxer is just not needed thanks. You also need to do your homework on polio and the start of the vaccine. Any statistical graph will show you that the worst of polio deaths and damage had declined massively before a vaccine was intoduced..
Sweden,which had one of the highest rate of polio in form of serious outcomes.Most polio infections are asymptomatic but when health standard increses incl.general hygiene there is a shift with more elderly infected and higher rate of serious outcomes.In the early 1950s every autumn polioepidemics with many cases incl. respiratory deaths and epidemic hospitals full each autumn with paralytic patients.Salk vaccine introducd,mid fifties.Disappeared.(someone who has seen in primary schools kids with the effect of the disease).Will not argue further.
I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a single contributor here who opposes the polio vaccine. There might be one or two. Most people here are not anti-Vaxxers but there are a lot of people like me who are vaccine sceptics. By that I mean that we oppose the Big Pharma project to replace the natural immune system with one driven by vaccinations, for – not 5 or 10 or 20 diseases – but for 100s of diseases and also for numerous conditions that are not necessarily harmful to the individual.
The term anti-vaxxer (where do those two x’s come from -really?) is a twin or cousin of conspiracy theorist in provenance and utilisation.
There is more intelligence and thought in these comment threads than pharma companies would like. That is all.
Agree that many of the latest developed vaccines have more dubious claim.But the earlier standard vaccines insane to dispute.
Vincent Racaniello has a series on virology on YouTube which is easy to digest there are several lectures each just over an hour long. This is the first one, which is a bit of an eye opener about the number of viruses that are around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3NhPgOoX4
The second one discusses how viruses infect cells.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdYTi6yT1Ew&t=1348s
Finally, I hope you all have the best Christmas possible under the circumstances. Merry Christmas to you and your
baublebubble/kinThanks for being here everyone.
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
Thomas Paine
All the best, keep the faith, WE WILL WIN.
Merry Christmas everybody, and thank you to Toby and team for creating this community.
Escape from London day tomorrow. I’ll be making a break for it via the A40. “Call me Snake”.
Have an uptick for Snake Pliskin!
Thankyou all lockdown sceptics for your priceless life saving thoughts, info, etc. You have helped me stay sane. From the bottom of my heart: thankyou
Same here x
Very nice that a few family skeptics can meet at Xmas after a few glasses. 3 Generations enjoying Christmas Eve.
We all now agree its Gates money at work in the background paying for the global media. Traditional media revenues are falling and he is filling in the gap paying for the so called ‘health reporters’ and trying to revolutionize the Pharmaceuticals industry. His next big project. It is very obvious. It is the only explanation. They spread fear and talk the same language and use the same metrics in country after country.
All this masky social distancing and shutting down pubs and restaurants is designed (not a coincidence) to stop people meeting, discussing, and forming opposition. Tonight we ate and drank together and at least agreed Gates was a main driver.
Thanks for all your support and please have a happy Xmas!
There’s a lot of politics as well as Gates’s ego at work. There’s the whole China/Biden/Dems/election steal thing. The Covid crisis was used cynically to
undermine the Trump campaign
(with the MSM, as
here, ramping up the hysteria). Covid was used as cover for preventing proper election count oversight and as justification for the deliberately wayward use of mail in ballots (which permitted huge fraud).
Low comment count tonight – either because it’s Christmas or everyone’s had the same problem I have had reconnecting after forgetting their password but being required to log in!
Over an hour for a comment to be approved.Not liking the new regime
The latest Delingpod is a must listen. Dr Antony Mueller, now living in Brazil.
Greens, Ex Stasi, Ex Nazis, Ex Communist Youth members (Merkel) and The Great Reset. It’s a Puritan Revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwff6nSkwWE
This is the written preface to Franz Liszt’s Les Préludes:
What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?—Love is the glowing dawn of all existence; but what is the fate where the first delights of happiness are not interrupted by some storm, the mortal blast of which dissipates its fine illusions, the fatal lightning of which consumes its altar; and where is the cruelly wounded soul which, on issuing from one of these tempests, does not endeavour to rest his recollection in the calm serenity of life in the fields? Nevertheless man hardly gives himself up for long to the enjoyment of the beneficent stillness which at first he has shared in Nature’s bosom, and when “the trumpet sounds the alarm”, he hastens, to the dangerous post, whatever the war may be, which calls him to its ranks, in order at last to recover in the combat full consciousness of himself and entire possession of his energy.
This is the music that was inspired by it::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RQjG8orPw4