Happy Christmas!
For the three days over Christmas – starting today – we’re publishing a pared down version of Lockdown Sceptics so we can have a bit of time off over Christmas. Cartoonist Bob Moran has very kindly given us three original cartoons which we’re running on consecutive days and, below them, we’re including 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 [email protected] – 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 Toby set up this blog, he imagined he’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.
Is the London surge ending already?
The percentage of London ZOE Covid app users reporting feeling unwell has plummeted in the last two days. A blip or sign of things to come?
And Stockholm, too?
Covid ICU admissions in Stockholm (where there’s still no lockdown) halved last week compared to the week before, according to official figures released yesterday. A Christmas reporting delay or the fizzling out of the autumn surge? Watch this space.
Round-up
- “Covid: Some Good News” – Three nuggets of glad tidings from the Swiss Doctor to cheer your day
- “People who have had Covid could be just as vulnerable to new South African variant” – Telegraph report on the scaremongering comments of the chairman of NERVTAG, Professor Peter Horby, made it seems without any evidence of anyone actually being re-infected
- “Major UK testing lab suffers coronavirus outbreak after claims of safety breaches” – Sky News report on problems at the Milton Keynes Lighthouse Megalab that will surprise no Lockdown Sceptics readers
- “Let’s put the straw man of pandemic denial out of his misery” – Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson in STAT distinguish denialism from scepticism
- “Contrast Between New York And Florida” – Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian points out that low-restriction Florida has fared better on every metric than lockdown New York
- “Pfizer and Moderna’s ‘95% effective’ vaccines – let’s be cautious and first see the full data” – Peter Doshi in the BMJ has some probing questions and calls for full transparency and rigorous scrutiny of the data
- “It’s time to talk about how lockdowns have plunged society into a mass mental health crisis” – Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph says the mental impact of lockdowns has been of extraordinarily little interest to academics and activists
- “Lockdown money-printing sets us up for an even greater Covid collapse” – Liam Halligan in the Telegraph says the Bank of England is inoculating No 10 from hard choices
- “A postcard from Brazil, where party-loving residents are fighting calls for another lockdown” – Telegraph report that the country’s tourism minister Gilson Machado has said that while New Year’s Eve events “need to happen” they should be limited to just 300 people
Love in the Time of Covid
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We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today,
“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.
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.
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 [email protected] or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Quotation Corner
We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
They who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions…
Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
Richard Feynman
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Necessity is the plea for every restriction of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels (attributed)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
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…
Listen to Toby on the latest Quillette podcast talking about his start-up year at the Free Speech Union, his campaign against cancel culture and the fine line between journalism and activism. Well worth a listen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-d6IJzZSjg
China And The Great Reset: What You Need To Know
Love it! Thanks for that.
If they believed what they preached they would follow the rules which shows they see the rules for what they are, mostly nonsense
Social media today suggests tier four has been disregarded totally in my area. Today felt pretty quiet actually, not even a peep of doom from SAGE or the media. I expected some Sage prof to come out early in the morning with some catastrophic prediction of 20000 dead in the next two weeks because of Christmas in some final push to get people to cancel their plans.
I’m sure the fear porn will be ramped up over the next few days to prepare us for a January lockdown. The death registering lag over Christmas will probably mean the death toll in a few days time will be over 1000 which the media and government will blame on Christmas and people not following the rules.
Hope you all had as good of a Christmas as you could have and good luck with whatever awaits us in the future Thanks Toby and this community for keeping me sane this year.
I try to be ultra cautious because of health issues but I’m fiercely anti lockdown and pro making your own choices as a responsible adult. Yesterday, I visited my cousin also cautious because of health problems. We acted normally and had a lovely afternoon.
Today, I was invited to visit church friends, B and S whom I usually spend Christmas with. S is lovely and was very good to me in the spring, B has been freaking out since March and living apart from S but joined her today.
He collected me, at least he didn’t fuss over my lack of mask but had all windows wound down rather than a usual couple of inches for ventilation. (I’m all for letting some fresh air in but this was freezing) He grumbled the entire journey about people who disobeyed the rules and said it was too dangerous for me to stay long.
He decreed where we all sat. He sat at the far side of the room while S and I sat at opposite sides of the table. He made her move a further foot away and wear a mask save when eating. I told him I hardly went out and… Read more »
Good that you managed to meet with friends and well done to survive this ordeal.
Thank you, I did have a much better Christmas than expected.
We’ve put all ‘friends’ like that on hold. They will wither on the vine.
S is a lovely person, I pity her having to put up with the way B is acting as he treats her as a plague carrier too!
Better than being alone! You’re a trooper and showed a lot of restraint with respect to B. I’m glad your day went better than expected.
Thank you, yes, I did appreciate S asking me as I’m sure B objected. I tried in vain to gently talk sense into B. I pity anyone who swallows everything the MSM says. He wears 3 disinfectant soaked masks out in the street! Christmas Eve with my cousin was a real treat
He’s not got long for this world then …
“ I guess this is Christmas according to SAGE!”
aka ‘The sociopath’s revenge’.
I couldn’t understand why they were so keen on getting London into tier 4.
The mutant virus story is such an obvious pack of lies
Then the brexit deal was cynically announced on Christmas Eve. I doubt if many have read the full document yet but it is bound to be a surrender and not brexit at all
MP’s and protesters are less likely to be able to travel to London whilst it’s in tier 4
What the serial liar Handy cock has done to 5,000 lorry drivers is inhuman
This is the point, isn’t it: “MPs and protestors are less likely to be able to travel to London while it’s in tier 4.” Avoiding scrutiny and suppressing dissent are major preoccupations of this government. There is also the public order angle: when people eventually become angry about their ruined lives, the restrictions will come in handy to prevent riots. Finally, I suspect the decision to cancel Christmas was taken to prevent people from rediscovering freedom – reality even. A proper five day celebration would have let the genie out of the bottle, possibly necessitating force to get it back in again.
Yes and there is no way they could have us all talking, and discussing all of this and sharing ideas and telling the truth. That would end this shit in five minutes flat.
Brexit was always delusion on stilts – built on myths that parallel those of Covid. The current joint debacle has just brought this to the fore.
“If it was an actual pandemic, there would be no need for the massive military-grade propaganda campaign, the paramilitary occupation of society, and the systematic State violence against and censorship of non-believers.”
Denis Rancourt
https://twitter.com/denisrancourt/status/1341053314948091904
A really good insight.
Merry Christmas and thanks to Toby, his team and all of you btl.
I’m failing badly. I’m in the company of a PhD, 2 Masters and an ex Danish MP and I’m gutted I’m wasting my time with such gullibility when i could be stealing from them. I honestly think they’d drown me if they could physically get away with it.
Keep strong brother you are on the right side of history.
The Denis Rancourt video and paper (from 6 months ago too) is great. Very well described and matches a lot of what has been observed. The synchronous peak though in certain areas of the world is a effectively a smoking gun too. No states that implemented lockdown had that peak.
Academic achievement and bone-headed stupidity have never been incompatible. The academic world was wrong about everything to do with medicine and cosmology for two thousand years.
And there’s nothing to beat academics for spite and intolerance, either. I know, I used to be one.
Christmas in Syria:
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqCsGqjUUAA0iO6?format=jpg&name=360×360
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No pandemic.
Had son, daughter in law and two grandchildren visit for the day. Daughter in law came and gave me a hug, despite the fact that over the past 9 months she has been petrified. Had hugs and kisses from grandchildren (3 and 5 years old), and hug from son. No distancing, no masks and basically normal.
Excellent! Sounds like a hugathon!
When I think they can’t sink lower
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-london-homebirth-cases-ambulance-b1778881.html
Women planning home births in London will no longer be guaranteed an ambulance response in the case of emergency, as a result of “current pressures” from Covid-19, a local health authority has warned.
That’s unacceptable and unforgivable if something happens to mum or baby, it’s a priority 1 life threatening emergency that requires a paramedic response as a minimum.
Let them die.
If it saves one life.
Your life at the expense of all theirs, you selfish pigs.
Stay safe.
Why people think there’s a pandemic:
It’s worse than that. They think that wearing a raincoat will make it sunny.
As always, the cartoon wins!
There was a troubling moment today when a guest at my Xmas table, after one too many glasses, started to show the effects of being subjected to brainwashing and suddenly began openly insulting people (loved ones, I think) in the room who do not wear masks in shops.
This was in spite of our excellent hospitality. He knows we don’t wear masks so I was gobsmacked. Totally. Ouch.
Our governments and our Gates paid for mass media are extremely divisive and nasty, and they know it, and the do it on purpose. They will continue. They fcucked Xmas for thousands.
I will have to put this incident down to a lovers tiff and too much Port…as I wish to continue seeing my family. Family is more important than masks.
Port is a nasty drink, like the government and Gates paid for media and so called “health reporters” in particular.
They always have the choice not to imbibe the bullshit.
I admire your restraint — you’re a better person than I am! Having said all that, port is an acquired taste. I have a vintage bottle here but nobody but me can drink the stuff so it continues to age.
Send it to me, I love the stuff.
If I’m ever able to fly again — without a mask or a vaccine — I’ll come and visit and we can drink it together! It’s a Warre’s 1983 vintage port. Would love to toast to the end of the insanity.
My cartoon posted above – shows why your guest ‘thinks’ as he does.
“Family is more important than masks.”
… to which I would add friendship.
Which is what makes this divisiveness so difficult at times. You can’t deprogramme people with a quick recital of the facts.
Beautifully put addition – Thanks.
So, are they ready to be vaccinated?
I think that this is VERY unfair to port!
Merry Xmas!
So no material Covid found among lorry drivers. Poor truckers. I’m ashamed to be British.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9087279/Another-800-military-personnel-sent-help-test-4-000-drivers-stuck-Kent-Christmas-Day.html
10,000 tests and only 24 positive. Yes just 24 out of 10,000.
This is a 0.24% positive rate. Well within the real of false positives.
More evidence PCR is rubbish and should be tested.
Hopefully someone will start to notice.
If anyone’s going to have good cross immunity, it will be truckers!
have they used lower cycles PCRs, or using LFTs?
LFTs
I guess they are going to switch between the two now depending on whether higher or lower positives are politically convenient. And no one in msm or Parliament will call them on it.
Depressingly true.
Ivor Cummings said something similar in the interview with Tom Woods – at some point they’ll need fewer positives to show that the vaccine is working (and there’s a lot of money invested in vaccines, as we know). The interview is very good (it was posted here before, but I’ve only found time to watch it today, of all days):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrrWFjIilEU&feature=youtu.be
Thanks, Alice. I’ll take a look.
It’s Ivor Cummins, not Cummings, of course – I made a mistake, and it won’t let me edit.
Well worth it. Tom Woods and Ivor Cummins are two of my favourites these days.
If a journalist was going to notice that would have happened in March.
When they want lots of results (the truckers / for returning undergraduates for holidays) then LFT is rolled out, the rest of the time it’s the PCR shit with all the false positives. It’s complete hypocrisy
I meant lots of negative results!
… and all because government decided to invent a justification for continued control. It must be one of the greatest incidents of self-inflicted harm in history.
Britannia self-harms, and makes cuts on her arms…
It had all the predictability of a Carry On film – you couldn’t help laughing.
As Christmas Day draws to a close I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Toby and all ABL contributors but equally all BTL. I never thought for one moment when I found this site in April that we would still be here discussing the catastrophe that is lockdown. I am not alone in the damage to businesses but have lost £100s of thousands in this and if it were not for the community here, I would have given up a long time ago. I cannot put into words how much my daily intake of sanity has meant in a mad mad world.
From the bottom of my heart – thank you. I will never give up.
I will sign off the evening with my favourite quote of the year from St Augustine:
“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”
Lovely message. You’re a warrior and we’ll be in this fight right along with you.
Let’s hope they marry those handsome fellows Fortitude and Focus then!
I hope the nightmare is over soon. You and your business don’t deserve this man-made catastrophe No one knows, no one can tell if the catastrophe will be over in 2021 . We do know that WEF will be promoting “the Great Reset” early in the New Year, so we may be swapping lockdown lunacy for economic ectoplasm,
Fight on, we’re with you.
Evening all. I’m back from a visit to my parents. Normalish, apart from all the distancing and being seated at the opposite end of the table (not a huge table, in fairness) for dinner. Great to see them but still resent that they’ve been made to see me as a threat. They are both a little sceptical, mum more so, but still their sense of personal threat has been magnified, just as the bastards intended.
I don’t understand parents who do this. Both my children returned from university recently; I hugged and kissed them immediately and continued to do so, it didn’t occur to me not to.
I am early 40s and they are 80ish, so that might put a slightly different complexion on it.
Nah, no excuse.
Merry Christmas everyone, I know I don’t post a lot even though I have been reading this site and comments near enough from day one.
Most of the time I don’t post as I generally agree with everyone and by the time I think of a good response is someone has already posted what I would have said. It probably speaks to my insecurities of using social networking, some years ago I came off Facebook as it was making me feel anxious and a bit depressed, coming off of that platform was a breath of fresh air. I don’t mean to compare this platform with us on here.
Despite few posts, I battle in my own way with mixed success of promoting this website to family, friends and the odd random person eg taxi drivers, bar staff etc. The one thing that always strikes me most is when people feel they know something is suspect but no real idea of where to go for answers. Giving people the URL of this site has hopefully contributed to questioning things further.
Particular shout out to awkward git, Bart Simpson, Rosie and KH the cafe owner. Merry Xmas one and all!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and keep up the good work! I’m sure you’re making a difference.
Thoughtful article by Frank Furedi arguing how politics has become medicalised and how public health concerns now trump all other policy considerations.
Towards a fearless future – spiked (spiked-online.com)
Excellent piece!
Excellent.
This is the first generation in all human history to pretend that cowardice is a virtue.
It isn’t. It’s a shameful and disgusting vice.
Yes the kind of messages about ‘being brave’ or ‘have courage’ that I remember from childhood seem to be long gone. Its all about ‘vulnerability’ and being ‘at risk’…..and I can only see that getting worse the way children are now being brought up’
Is he by chance any relation to the dreadful Ann Furedi?
I’m not sure…he cut his teeth in the 1980s on the magazine ‘Living Marxism’ ironically opposing the media hysteria around AIDS!
Anyone any idea about the login problem several people have mention? Or do a select few of us simply have to re-register under a new name?
I have just had to re register under a slightly new name.
I’m not having any problems. I registered my username & password just the once months ago and when I access the site I’m automatically signed in.
We now have to login to comment – this because one or two members reported others posting in their name. Maybe that did happen but the login requirement is an effective disruption tool, so if someone did want to cause disruption, making the claim of impostor posting is enough to cause disruption (the complainant specifically requested this remedy). I can’t be the only to have forgotten my password!
We’ll maybe see what effect it has had after 1 Jan when normal traffic resumes but numbers of comments are way down on what they would normally be.
Thanks – I recall a couple of people saying other posts were appearing under their names.
But I can’t re-register my previous name and email because I get a message saying that that email has already been used, and it won’t let me login in under the previous password … I hare messing around like this, such a waste of time.
Quite a few people posted that they were taking a break. And I hope that some others will be enjoying their day too much to think about posting!
Yes that’s why I said we will have to wait to the New Year to see if there has been any long lasting effect.
I had never registered before but the other day when I had to it accepted my existing username with no complaints, just added a password, confirmed and was away. I suspect it may depend on the state of cookies on your computer as to whether it demands a new name.
You might have “remembered” your password on your device. If you didn’t, you would have a problem.
But I never had a password until I registered the other day, nothing to ‘remember’ – and I can’t remember the gibberish one it offered me either, thank heathen for password stores.
its not changed for me, i’m fealing left out
It happened to me yesterday even though I received my daily email link. Had to re-register with a new name.
Denis Rancourt, physics professor at the University of Ottawa, on covid-19, geopolitics and the US election: 28 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5uy6RT3_R0
This guy is the most clued-in commentator I have found.
Denis is one of our Canadian heroes throughout all of this insanity. He consults to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, has debunked the mask nonsense and has demonstrated that there has been no increase in all-cause mortality in Canada for 2020.
I am currently watching a video of the German solicitors association “Klagepaten” about consent to be vaccinated in care homes in Germany. They want to start tomorrow or Sunday.
The interviewed solicitor has power of attorney for several elderly clients. He informed about the forms he has been sent by the care home management and local authority. Of course with a VERY short period to fill in these forms and return, so no proper consultation possible. Although hopefully they will not vaccinate if no consent has been given.
I am wondering if anyone is on here who have power of attorney re medical treatment for anyone in a care home. Have you been consulted?
What is your experience?
If you Google:
covid 19 vaccine care homes comms pack
You should come across the consent forms on the web
Merry Xmas all! I’m having Xmas giggle at Hat Wancock and Zweli Mkhize, his SA counterpart.
After trying to scare their populations re their respective terrifying mutant strains, all they accomplished was to earn their countries international travel bans. Here’s Mkhize backtracking on his earlier claims of a much more transmissible, dangerous and youth gobbling mutant:
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/covid-19-theres-no-evidence-that-sa-variant-is-more-dangerous-than-the-uk-variant-zweli-mkhize-20201225
Zweli? Is it Swahili? It won’t work, it’s too difficult to pronounce.
Zweli would say that wouldn’t ‘e?
Just like to report from the Essex front.
Judging by my neighbours there is mass disobedience regarding the dictators latest edict.
Hopefully this is the moment that they have overreached themselves.
If not Stalingrad at least Barbarossa.
Merry Christmas to one and all.
Nothing to do with Lockdowns, but I saw a bright green star with a dark, smoky trail falling from the clear blue sky this afternoon. Weirdest thing I’ve ever seen!
Too much sauce?
No not at all. And I knew someone would say that. I don’t care. I know what I saw. It could have been a meteor burning off copper or nickel.
Anyway, it’s a significant omen as far as I’m concerned for the year ahead:
“Green carries the vibration of growth, new beginnings, health, renewal, harmony, hope, and peace.”
2021 is the year we win.
Love you all.
Mr Dee
Middle Age astrologers would see anything out of the ordinary such as a comet or meteorite as a harbinger of maleficence, precisely because they were disturbances of cosmic order.
The green burn-off does sound like metal content in a meteor. Rather unusual daytime occurrence, though. Meteors do not usually have enough light to show up in daytime although they can occur at any time of day or night.
In late 1988 I went for a walk on a freezing night in Scotland and saw several meteors. I was on the edge of a city (Dundee) so less ambient light. Beautiful sight. I am not superstitious but I thought it might be a good omen and indeed a job application I had made proved successful.
I saw the same thing about 25 years ago whilst playing tennis on a summer afternoon,a bright green fireball trailing a dark smoky trail passed horizontally across the sky from north to south,it was a truly amazing sight.A couple of days later it was mentioned in The Times.
Sir Colin Davis LSO John Alldis Choir
The Spirit of Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TpPOhnw2V8
Merry Christmas to all …
Rosie
11 hours ago
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 [email protected] 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.… Read more »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPrj00NLzT0
latest Toyah and Fripp. Toyah alludes to something happening mid January. Not sure if she has some sort of inside track.
Yes. Interesting comment.
reminds me of something Matt said here a few months ago
I love fripp and crimson, but the second toyah did the heart nhs thing, I switched off.
I’m sorry your Majesty, I haven’t risen to the challenge of the pandemic. I’ve hated every day of the lockdown and the lies your subjects have been fed. I believe in God, and the truth. I don’t believe in fear and paranoia.
It was written for her. ☹️
Yes it’s cruel. We know she believes in resilience, fortitude, homeopathy, and faith in God – not dependency, fear, vaccines and Imperial College modelling.
She believes in whatever script they put down in front of her.
She believes it’s her duty to read it, just like she will have signed anti fox hunting bills into law, without believing in them.
“I’m sorry, your majesty but I have decided the Chinese have met the challenge of the pandemic. If I am going to live in a police state I would prefer it to be an economically successful one. I renounce all allegiance to the House of Windsor.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/25/ladbaby-reach-christmas-no-1-for-third-year-in-a-row
Ah well. It was worth a try.
A decidedly less family-friendly novelty track also stormed this week’s charts: Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt by Essex band the Kunts, which reached No 5. The 56-second punk track – or 82 seconds in its extended album version – features the title repeated over and over [again] in rising key changes. Charlie Brooker and Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock were among those supporting the song on social media.
The band’s mononymous [sic] frontman Kunt previously attempted to reach Christmas No 1 in 2010 under the name Kunt and the Gang. He performed an even more luridly titled song aimed at the then Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who had formed a coalition government with the Conservatives that year. It reached No 66.
Fix! Fix! they would never let it be number one.. Remember God Save the Queen, Remember Relax.
“Extended album version” of 82 seconds?
Shortish album, is it?
▶︎ Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt | The Kunts | Kunt and the Gang (bandcamp.com)