Just Seven More Years Before We’re Back to Normal
When will the world finally get over COVID-19? MailOnline reports on new calculations which suggest that, on the basis of Dr Anthony Fauci’s estimation that herd immunity will require 75% of the world’s population to be vaccinated, it could be another seven years.
The coronavirus pandemic will drag on for another seven years at the current rate of vaccinations worldwide, new calculations predict.
It will take that long to reach Dr Anthony Fauci’s estimate for the herd immunity threshold of 75% of people inoculated globally, according to Bloomberg’s vaccination calculator.
More than 4.5 million vaccines are being administered a day, for a total of 119.8 million shots given worldwide.
The US has vaccinated 8.7% of its population thus far, at a rate of 1.3 million shot given a day. After a slow start, the rollout is picking up steam and saw a record 1.7 million people vaccinated Thursday.
Despite ranking sixth in the world for the pace of its vaccinations, the US is predicted to reach herd immunity just in time for New Year’s 2022.
But all of this depends on whether the vaccines are effective against variants like those that emerged in South Africa and Brazil, which appear to dull the potency of shots.
Meanwhile, Israel is shaming the world with the speed of its rollout.
It has already vaccinated 58.5% of its population and is on track to reach herd immunity within two months at its current pace of 135,778 shots a day, Bloomberg predicts.
The tiny island of Seychelles, off the eastern coast of Africa, currently ranks second in the vaccination race, with 38.6% of its population having gotten one or more doses of vaccines.
The United Arab Emirates, the UK, and Bahrain are also beating the US with vaccinations given to 11.8% or more of their populations – although the U.S. is closing the gap.
The UK in particular has sped ahead, with an earlier start, a better synchronised program and three vaccines already authorised there.
It has given at least one vaccine dose of vaccine to 15.7% of its population.
At its current rate of 438,421 shots given a day, the UK will reach herd immunity well before the end of the year.
Reports come daily of the ever declining numbers of infections and the ever speedier vaccine drive, the latest scheme being vaccinations at work. But amidst it all come various suggestions of mission creep that could see restrictions lasting beyond the vaccine rollout. The Mirror reports the claim of researchers at Warwick University that, due to the mutant strains, restrictions must remain in place until 2022.
The ongoing spread of mutated coronavirus strains mean restrictions can’t be lifted until 2022 despite the vaccine roll out, experts have warned.
Researchers at Warwick University used simulations to model what could happen if Britain is unshackled in the coming months, before presenting their findings to SAGE.
The paper, published on Friday, said despite nearly 11 million people across the UK having so far been inoculated, the unprecedented roll-out is “insufficient” to allow for a return to normal before the end of the year.
The scientists warn such a move could be catastrophic and leading to thousands more hospitalisations and deaths.
This is because there will still be a substantial amount of people who refuse or cannot have the vaccine, meaning transmissions could quickly soar.
While none of the jabs give complete coverage against the virus.
The paper says if the R rate were to remain at 0.8 and three million doses were being given each week and 95 per cent of those invited for a jab accepted, another wave could still hit before winter this year
Meanwhile, The Sunday Times reports that Chris Hopson, the Chair of NHS Providers, has written to Boris to warn against lifting the lockdown too soon, citing the need to protect the NHS.
Chris Hopson, the Chief Executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts, is to write to the Prime Minister to urge him not to lift restrictions until the number of new infections drops below 1,000 a day. It was 18,262 yesterday, with 29,326 people still in hospital, bringing the total number of cases to 3,929,835.
Hopson said this weekend: “We have crested the peak: but we’re only just beginning the descent. We’re still at a dangerously high altitude where the is still under great pressure and the thing that we know is that this descent in going to be much slower because people are taking longer to recover.”
The Scotsman reports that Deputy First Minister John Swinney has become the first politician to explicitly state that the completion of the vaccine rollout is not likely to be the end of restrictions.
At the coronavirus daily briefing on Friday Mr Swinney said it was important to be “clear” with the public about expectations around restrictions and the vaccine, and that there will be a need for restrictions “for some considerable time”.
Mr Swinney said face coverings, social distancing and travel restrictions may remain after the general population is vaccinated.
He said: “I think it is important that we are clear with the public that although the vaccination programme is going well, although it is becoming more extensive in the country, there will be a need for some considerable time – I don’t know how long that will be – for us to live with more restrictions and mitigations that we had before the pandemic…
“Some of the restrictions might have to be in place for longer than the completion of the vaccination programme, to assure us of the security of the population.
“Of course there will also be a emerging information about the efficacy and effectiveness of the vaccine, which we will only know as we see more of the application of the vaccine within society.”
National Clinical Director Jason Leitch added that vaccination is not complete until all countries go through their own programme.
“This is not about Scotland being vaccinated. It’s about the world being vaccinated,” he said.
He added that vaccines “for now, don’t change behaviour”.
Stop Press: Jonathan Sumption has a splendid piece in today’s Mail on Sunday, reminding us all that the virus is here to stay and we all (even SAGE scientists) need to learn to live with it.
Stop Press 2: Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph is worth reading too. She calls for Ministers to make clear what benchmark they’re using to determine when we’ll have achieved “victory” over the virus so that we can at least know when the goalposts are being moved.
Replying to Christopher Snowdon – Again!
Toby has written a reply to Chris Snowdon’s rebuttal of his recent piece in Quillette. Here are the first three paragraphs.
Christopher Snowdon has now done what he failed to do in his original attack on lockdown sceptics in Quillette: he has engaged with the main plank of the sceptics’ case. Our central argument, as I explained in my reply to his article, is that lockdowns cause more harm than they prevent. I cited the wealth of evidence that lockdowns are largely ineffective, as well as the equally voluminous evidence that they cause social and economic damage. And I did my best to show that while some of this harm might be a ‘pandemic effect’ rather than a ‘lockdown effect’, the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) that governments have made across the world have exacerbated this damage.
In his response, Chris starts by making a pretty big concession: he acknowledges that the reduction in human interaction brought about by draconian stay-at-home orders could be achieved by people just deciding voluntarily to change their behaviour. He seems to think that lockdown sceptics are in denial about this – that we believe infections will rise and fall within a given region, irrespective of how much human interaction there is. Virus gonna virus. But I know few sceptics who believe that. On the contrary, we have been arguing from the start that the approach of the Swedish Government, which advised its citizens to take various precautions but didn’t force them to, should have been the approach of the British Government. Indeed, that was Boris Johnson’s strategy until he performed a U-turn and decided to plunge the country into lockdown.
The idea that the alternative to lockdown is to do nothing – that sceptics’ just want to “let it rip” – is a familiar straw man in this debate, and not just when Piers Morgan gets on a tear. In one of the most influential papers produced by the modelling team at Imperial College – known colloquially as Flaxman et al and published on June 11th – the researchers argued that the lockdowns in 11 European countries, including the UK, saved 3.1 million lives. But that claim was based on the assumption that 95% of the populations of those countries would have been infected with COVID-19 in the absence of any NPIs. Setting aside the fact that pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is almost certainly higher than 5%, it’s absurd to claim that people would have just carried on as normal in the face of a global pandemic if they hadn’t been ordered to change their behaviour by their governments. Indeed, this conception of democratic citizens – as mouth-breathing troglodytes who will march towards their own destruction without a benign state forcing them to act in their own best interests – is one Chris has objected to many times before.
Worth reading in full.
Vaccine Passports on their Way
The Telegraph is reporting that ministers are now considering a “targeted” vaccine passport scheme that would be used mainly but, it seems, not exclusively for travel.
Ministers are working on a “targeted” vaccine passport scheme to allow Britons who have been vaccinated to return to more of a normal day to day life.
The new passports could be similar to the yellow fever certificates which travellers must show at the border where the disease is rife.
Similarly in the UK, a targeted scheme could see people applying for proof that they have been vaccinated to carry out daily tasks, in the same way that motorists need a driving licence to get behind the wheel.
The Government has made clear that it is against a universal vaccine passport scheme on civil liberties and cost grounds.
However, some Cabinet ministers are understood to favour this targeted vaccine passport scheme.
The most common use will be to allow people to go away on foreign holidays, but a vaccine passport could assist people to take part in another activity, once they have been inoculated.
The success of any scheme hangs on whether being vaccinated means that it is not possible to transmit the virus to others. Ministers are eagerly awaiting the results of tests on the transmissibility of COVID-19…
The source added that a vaccine passport would win more backing if it were only required for specific tasks in the UK, or to go on holiday, where inoculations are required.
The source said: “Just as you need a passport to travel, then if it is linked to a particular objective [like travel] that might work.
“It is like a driving licence – you have a driving licence because you want to drive, you have a passport to travel.”
The source added that a targeted approach was preferred by ministers: “A lot of us would be nervous about liberty-curtailing complications. The system would be huge to administer.”
Worth reading in full.
Ministers have previously stated that there were no plans for vaccine passports, but with an increasing number of countries now looking to implement such schemes it seems realpolitik has triumphed. The concern is not so much about the necessity of having vaccine passports for international travel, but what else one might need the document for. ITV News has an example:
The system could permit a return for fans to sporting events, as long as they can prove they have received a vaccine.
At the Super Bowl in Florida, for example, a reduced crowd including 7,500 inoculated medical professionals will be allowed to attend at the weekend.
The idea could also be spread to other activities, such as going to restaurants, bars or the cinema, for example, with visitors being able to prove their vaccination with their vaccine passport.
As the Test and Trace app showed, it is possible to operate a similar system in hospitality establishments.
The Sandwich Generation is Feeling the Pressure
It is well known that the lockdown badly affects the young and the old, but less is heard about those in the middle. A report from the University of Southampton’s Centre for Population Change suggests that they too have struggled, as they try to look after older relatives on the one hand, and younger ones on the other:
The sandwich generation – those supporting both children and parents – are facing heightened emotional and financial pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings from the Centre for Population Change (CPC).
The research by Professor Maria Evandrou, Professor Jane Falkingham, Dr Min Qin and Professor Athina Vlachantoni of the CPC and University of Southampton found that people whose living arrangements have changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic are more likely to experience increased stress and family conflict than those whose living arrangements have not changed.
As our population ages, it is increasingly common for people, particularly in mid-life, to be supporting older children, while also providing informal care for family or friends. These dual-carers often provide informal care for others as well as carrying out paid employment. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the responsibilities of these individuals, and brought new challenges for those ‘in the middle’.
Worth reading in full.
New Lancet Study Suggests Masks are Ineffective
The Lancet has published details of a new study which investigates the transmission of COVID-19 between 282 clusters in Catalonia. Its focus is the role played by viral load.
Scarce data are available on what variables affect the risk of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the development of symptomatic COVID-19, and, particularly, the relationship with viral load. We aimed to analyse data from linked index cases of COVID-19 and their contacts to explore factors associated with transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
The study was based on an RCT done during the initial pandemic in March and April last year.
In this cohort study, patients were recruited as part of a randomised controlled trial done between March 17th and April 28th, 2020, that aimed to assess if hydroxychloroquine reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Patients with COVID-19 and their contacts were identified by use of the electronic registry of the Epidemiological Surveillance Emergency Service of Catalonia (Spain). Patients with COVID-19 included in our analysis were aged 18 years or older, not hospitalised, had quantitative PCR results available at baseline, had mild symptom onset within 5 days before enrolment, and had no reported symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infections in their accommodation or workplace within the 14 days before enrolment. Contacts included were adults with a recent history of exposure and absence of COVID-19-like symptoms within the 7 days preceding enrolment. Viral load of contacts, measured by quantitative PCR from a nasopharyngeal swab, was assessed at enrolment, at day 14, and whenever the participant reported COVID-19-like symptoms. We assessed risk of transmission and developing symptomatic disease and incubation dynamics using regression analysis. We assessed the relationship of viral load and characteristics of cases (age, sex, number of days from reported symptom onset, and presence or absence of fever, cough, dyspnoea, rhinitis, and anosmia) and associations between risk of transmission and characteristics of the index case and contacts.
It’s worth noting the numbers involved.
We identified 314 patients with COVID-19, with 282 (90%) having at least one contact (753 contacts in total), resulting in 282 clusters. 90 (32%) of 282 clusters had at least one transmission event.
Interestingly, they found that increased risk of transmission is associated with higher viral load, household contact and age.
The secondary attack rate was 17% (125 of 753 contacts), with a variation from 12% when the index case had a viral load lower than 1 × 106 copies per mL to 24% when the index case had a viral load of 1 × 1010 copies per ml or higher…
Increased risk of transmission was also associated with household contact (3·0, 1·59–5·65) and age of the contact (per year: 1·02, 1·01–1·04). 449 contacts had a positive PCR result at baseline. 28 (6%) of 449 contacts had symptoms at the first visit. Of 421 contacts who were asymptomatic at the first visit, 181 (43%) developed symptomatic COVID-19, with a variation from approximately 38% in contacts with an initial viral load lower than 1 × 107 copies per mL to greater than 66% for those with an initial viral load of 1 × 1010 copies per mL or higher.
But just as interesting is what they didn’t find.
We observed no association of risk of transmission with reported mask usage by contacts, with the age or sex of the index case, or with the presence of respiratory symptoms in the index case at the initial study visit.
Worth reading in full.
How Deadly is the Kent Variant?
We were warned last week that the Kent Covid variant B.1.1.7 may be more deadly that previous variants. Grim news, but a complicated story. Deaths associated with the new variant are rising, says Nature, but questions remain as to what is causing this.
Scientists have released the data behind a British Government warning last week that the fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 increases the risk of dying from COVID-19 compared with previous variants. But some scientists caution that the latest study – like the Government warning – is preliminary and still does not indicate whether the variant is more deadly or is just spreading faster and so reaching greater numbers of vulnerable people.
The latest findings are concerning, but to draw conclusions, “more work needs to be done”, says Muge Cevik, a public-health researcher at the University of St Andrews, who is based in Edinburgh, UK.
Nature reports on a study into the variant, which is now dominant, carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) which suggests that the additional risk, if it exists, is chiefly borne by vulnerable groups.
To investigate whether the lineage causes an increased risk of dying, Nicholas Davies, an epidemiologist at the LSHTM, and colleagues analysed data from more than 850,000 people who were tested for SARS-CoV-2 between 1 November and 11 January but who were not in hospital.
Despite the fact that the B.1.1.7 variant was new, the researchers were able to identify people infected with it because of a glitch in a standard diagnostic kit used in the United Kingdom. The test normally looks for three SARS-CoV-2 genes to confirm the presence of the virus. But, in the case of B.1.1.7, changes to the spike protein mean that people who are infected still test positive, but for only two of these genes.
The team found that B.1.1.7 is more deadly than previous variants for all age groups, genders and ethnicities. “This provides strong evidence that there indeed exists increased mortality from the new strain,” says Henrik Salje, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, UK.
However, Cevik says that the small number of deaths among young people included in the analysis is not enough to conclude that the new variant hits all ages equally. “It seems to really be affecting older age-groups,” she says.
This is to be expected, given that the chances of dying from COVID-19 increase significantly with age, says Tony Blakely, an epidemiologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia…
However, there is simply not enough data to draw firm conclusions.
Cevik says more data and analysis are needed to conclude whether the variant is more deadly than other lineages. For instance, the latest study doesn’t consider whether people infected with the variant have underlying comorbidities, such as diabetes and obesity, and are therefore more vulnerable and at higher risk of dying, she says.
The study also covers only a small fraction of COVID-19 deaths in the United Kingdom – some 7% – and the effect could disappear if deaths in people tested at hospitals are included, says Cevik. Preliminary work by other groups has not found an increased risk of death in people admitted to hospitals with the new variant, and this complicates the latest results.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Matt Ridley has an interesting piece in the Spectator about the evolution of COVID-19, which, he says, is far from random. He thinks it’s possible that the lockdowns have been responsible for the emergence of the new, more transmissable variants.
Last week the Financial Times carried an article about the huge but surprisingly mild epidemic of Covid that India is suffering. It quoted one doctor as saying that “we are seeing a lot less severe disease than the rest of the world, and a lot more asymptomatic infections” and another that “it’s pretty generally accepted that in India, we have a very mild form of the virus”. There are lots of possible explanations, but because lockdowns have been mostly ineffective in India, could it be that mild variants have done well and an attendant-borne evolution to greater virulence has not happened?
Poetry Corner
In the Lockdown Sceptics Newsletter of January 26th, we published the poem Meh, which was written by 14 year-old boy who was feeling suicidal. Today, we have a positive update, together with a new poem, from his godfather.
First, I wanted to let you know that my godson has been doing so much better this last week or so. Obviously it’s early days to say conclusively that we’re completely out the other side, but things are looking up.
After his mum and dad did some asking around, it turned out that there were a number (majority) of parents at his school who were also worried about their kids right now, and consider dealing with that to be a priority over protecting themselves from a virus (thank God).
So, they’ve set up a little network, and this week he’s managed to sneak over a couple of friends from school to stay; they have a little dormitory scenario going on, and they’re all doing school together in the same room during the day. I think the plan for next week is to do the same again just at one of his friends’ houses! It’s a complete disregard of the rules, it’s genius, it’s made such a big difference, and I love it.
Second, and much less important or fun, I wanted to share a new poem with you (below).
Let Me Be Free
I don’t want to see another masked human being,
I’d much rather smile and see others’ feelings.I don’t want to hide, to cower and shelter.
I’d much rather greet, hug and gather together.
I don’t want to tune in to Zoom for my work,
Buffering, breaking, and all else that irks.I’d much rather see my colleagues in person
than turn on my camera like some Orwellian classroom.
I don’t want to spend a single day more
Bat in my hand hitting balls at a wall.I’d much rather be down at one end of a net
With a friend, or a foe, or a guy I just met.I don’t want to ever be socially distanced
At a gig, or a game, in the pub, or in romance.I want to be close, to be loved, be connected,
Not bubbled, not spaced, not apart, nor ‘protected’.I want to be trusted to make my decisions,
A part of society not rife with division.I want to be free, know my life is my own,
I’m done with this nonsense and with being alone.
I just want to be happy, to dance and be merry,
Not locked in my home, anxious and wary.All that I want is a chance to be me,
With my place in the world, just let me be free.
Round-up
- “Did the COVID-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?” – The ‘wet market and pangolins’ Covid origins theory is becoming increasingly questionable, write Matt Ridley and Alina Chan in the Telegraph
- “How did Britain end up with the worst COVID-19 death rate in the world” – The Mail on Sunday investigates what went wrong with Britain’s Covid response, everything from lockdowns to testing
- “When will life return to normal? In seven years at today’s rates” – The original report from Bloomberg, suggesting that it’ll be seven years before the world is back to normal on the basis that this requires 70-85% of the global population to be vaccinated
- “Care home manager is left homeless after she was sacked for hosting Christmas day lunch” – MailOnline reports the case of the socially-distanced feast that cost a care home manager her job and her home
- “Fight against ivermectin begins” – There’s no evidence behind Merck’s recent statement denying ivermectin’s “potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies”, says the Swiss Doctor
- “Dear Deirdre, I can’t cope with stress of home schooling and trying to run a small business” – The Sun‘s agony aunt hears from a reader struggling under the stress of Lockdown 3
- “The cruel reality of online ‘school’ in a 12th floor flat” – A fly-on-the-wall report on the travesty of education experienced by nine year-old Simon, in the Conservative Woman
- “Covid Galore” – As Matt Hancock reportedly drew inspiration from the film Contagion, Alexander McKibbin suggests other films that Cabinet Ministers should be watching
- “On Profiteering” – A word much used in war time made a comeback in 2020, says Angelique Richardson in a blog piece for the London Review of Books
- “CofE in post-pandemic crisis?; Anti-Lockdowners win debate at Cambridge Union” – The latest episode of the Irreverend podcast covers the victory won by Team Lockdown at the Cambridge Union
- “Is it luck? Top health boss Caroline McElnay’s theory on lack of community cases” – New Zealand Herald report on the string of people testing positive for COVID-19 after being released from a quarantine facility
- “The Mainstream Bubble” – An interesting piece by prominent German broadcaster Ralf Arnold’s (not his real name) on the decline in journalistic standards over the past year
- “Lockdowns have depleted capital in all forms” – Lockdowns are an attack on capital, the effect will be devastating, says Jeffrey A. Tucker on the AIER blog
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Five today: “A Pub With No Beer” by The Dubliners, “Oi! Oi! Oi! We’re Going Down the Pub” by the Borderers, “How Soon is Now” by the Smiths, “It’s the End of The World” by R.E.M. and “Freedom Song” by Thin Lizzy.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums as well as post comments below the line, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email Lockdown Sceptics here.
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, from ABC7News, a new insight from San Francisco, the capital of woke: Acronyms may just be a white supremacy.
First the San Francisco School Board decided to rename 44 schools because they are named after people with ties to racism or slavery. Now the Arts Department has taken a bold move by changing its name, “VAPA”, because they say, “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture”.
Schools have yet to reopen in San Francisco, but their Arts Department has continued to work toward ensuring that all students have access to quality arts education.
The Director of that Department said, “We are prioritising antiracist arts instruction in our work.” So they got rid of the acronym “VAPA”, which is short for Visual and Performing Arts.
From now on, they’ll simply be called SFUSD Arts Department.
“It is a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are,” explained Sam Bass, Director of the SFUSD Arts Department.
In a letter, he explains that acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.
“The use of so many acronyms within the educational field often tends to alienate those who may not speak English to understand the acronym,” he added.
That’s based on a 1999 paper written by author Tema Okun titled “White Supremacy Culture”. Okun told me that, “Our culture perpetuates racism when things continue to be written down in a certain way.”
But the San Francisco Unified School District uses so many acronyms on a daily basis that if you go to their website there’s a section on how to find what their acronyms or abbreviations mean.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Breitbart has a piece on the fallout from University of Leicester’s decolonised curriculum, which has seen a Professor hand back her honorary doctorate, a letter of protest from the British Academy, and a call from the University and College Union for a vote of no confidence in the Vice-Chancellor.
Stop Press 2: On a similar note, the WSJ reports that over in the USA big business’s support for the BLM protests and general wokery is costing them Republican support.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop down here for people who want to obtain a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card – because wearing a mask causes them “severe distress”, for instance. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and the Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. And 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.
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.
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 and Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson’s Spectator article about the Danish mask study here.
Stop Press: Masks have gone nuclear. Cambridge News carries the story of a company in the city that makes face masks using filtration technology designed by the Ministry of Defence for chemical, nuclear and biological warfare. They are doing rather well at the moment, providing masks to customers in 110 countries.
Stop Press 2: In guidance that seems designed to demonstrate that public health officials do not have much contact with regular life, some States in the U.S. require that masks be worn for high school basketball. Unsurprisingly, reports the Daily Herald, this is easier said than done.
Are masks on right? What experts, high school basketball coaches and players say
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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. Sign up to the newsletter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many legal cases being brought against the Government and its ministers we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
The Simon Dolan case has now reached the end of the road. The current lead case is the Robin Tilbrook case which challenges whether the Lockdown Regulations are constitutional. 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 and Runnymede Trust’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.
Scottish Church leaders from a range of Christian denominations have launched legal action, supported by the Christian Legal Centre against the Scottish Government’s attempt to close churches in Scotland for the first time since the the Stuart kings in the 17th century. The church leaders emphasised it is a disproportionate step, and one which has serious implications for freedom of religion.” Further information available here.
There’s the class action lawsuit being brought by Dr Reiner Fuellmich and his team in various countries against “the manufacturers and sellers of the defective product, PCR tests”. Dr Fuellmich explains the lawsuit in this video. Dr Fuellmich has also served cease and desist papers on Professor Christian Drosten, co-author of the Corman-Drosten paper which was the first and WHO-recommended PCR protocol for detection of SARS-CoV-2. That paper, which was pivotal to the roll out of mass PCR testing, was submitted to the journal Eurosurveillance on January 21st and accepted following peer review on January 22nd. The paper has been critically reviewed here by Pieter Borger and colleagues, who also submitted a retraction request, which was rejected in February. UPDATE: The retraction request has been rejected.
And last but not least there was the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. A High Court judge refused permission for the FSU’s judicial review on December 9th 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.
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Having BANNED our right to protest, the government has, since 14th January, SUSPENDED all petitions debates. Chair of Parliamentary Petitions Committee urgently calling for this to be lifted.
Our democracy IS under serious attack. What is being done about it???
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/138498/petitions-committee-chair-urges-government-to-urgently-make-plans-to-restart-petitions-debates
The government has given up the pretence we live in a democracy. Stop obeying the law, stop paying your taxes.
Because of the massive contradiction between official announcements regarding adverse events and the avalanche of hearsay evidence from individuals, I really don’t know where the truth lies. I would find the hearsay evidence more believable if it was supported by examples of death certificates or law suits for damages brought against the care homes where vaccines are compulsorily administered. But it isn’t, so until I see some corroboration of the alleged increase in the death rate of the elderly due to vaccinations, I’m going to keep an open mind.
Good line quoted by the fellow in the video: “If you allow the government to break the law in an emergency, they will create an emergency in order to break the law.” That’s the slippery slope we are sliding down.
Statistics is a branch of mathematics, Statistics no more lie than arithmetic lies. This constant misuse of the language is a fundamental part of the confected coronavirus crisis. Literally, every key term is misused. The basis for this has long been in the making, and the corporate have played a central role in that process.
OK, so the statisticians lie using numbers. I’ve studied graduate level statistics and I know how it’s done. Always follow the money.
Video claiming police officer punched cafe owner in the face at last week’s “great re-opening.”.https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3aPrvuvx8k-3mYvVaD2SRYUyT4YFsZYtB14u-bmUUFUPfo6NgcbjEVpb8&v=hyGCg_2wwLE&feature=youtu.be
The coppers are just showing their true colours.
We the people demand a full inquest of this madness:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bCq1gheoFSzw/
21st Century NUREMBERG Trials
China Joe Xiden has deployed federal mask police in the US:
Mask Police – Stares at the World
I hate this timeline.
https://time.com/magazine/
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
That (poorly written) article sums up just about everything that is wrong about America.
The truth of what happened in the 2020 election has been covered up by the US MSM, social media and of course our own UK MSM.
The “shadow campaign” was in reality only one front in a much wider campaign. I think it’s clear that the shadow campaign was a surface manifestation of a much more malevolent effort to prevent Trump being re-elected. the Deep State was active in this wider campaign, probably with John Brennan, ex CIA chief, at the centre of it all.
The failure of the DoJ and FBI to make any effort to investigate any of the many credible allegations of voter fraud and the failure of the Supreme Court to hear any of the cases brought to it – not least that brought by Texas and several other states of the Union! – was frankly astounding, irrational and inexplicable. Bill Barr, the AG, who refused to take any action was of course closely associated with the CIA in the past. It seems Trump’s vanity was politically lethal – it seems like he was surrounded by snakes and his… Read more »
I disagree our electoral system has been free from fraud, remember the missing ballot boxes in Thanet?
police thug in manchester punch polish cafe owner square in face. Police thug needs to be doing time, i hear prison is no fun for police thugs.
Three Seas Insider (@3SeasInsider) Tweeted:
Is it still the police or already a criminal who attacked a peaceful Polish cafe owner in the UK? #Orwell https://twitter.com/3SeasInsider/status/1358539740258181122?s=20
video of british police at work. youll need to watch a few times to see which one it the cop – hint, its the criminal.
something bad has been going on with police training – they are off the rails across the country.
I do not consent – watch the fracas with the idea there is a plague on. These police are lethal.
Needs reposting Monday morning so lurkers get to see it.
I just posted the youtube video of this incident.
Has anyone heard anything about Mike Yeadon being silenced? (I’ve only just arrived today, so I may have missed something earlier.)
He does seem to have gone quiet or maybe the word has gone out to Talk Radio and other places not to invite him on.
Someone sent me a comment from ‘Save Our Rights UK’ – it said he’d ”lost all his platforms”.
That’s true. Its confirmation of deep state dirty tricks, they attack anyone who doesn’t grovel and bow to their authority.
As far as I’m aware, his twitter account was hacked and anti-semitic bollox posted in his name, so he’s closed his account.
I wish it was.
The last resort of a losing argument is unfortunately a bullet in the back of a head in an icy corner of the gulag.
Some Far Leftists in the USA have already called for establishment of re-education campaigns and mainstream Democrats have called for all ex Trump staffers to be denied future employment unless they recant and apologise for their past activities.
Bullied off every platform by the cowards. His tribe are rapidly turning it around and bullying the bullies off. Soon social media will eat itself, which means no more pandemic. Game over.
I’m very concerned that so many people have fallen for what I call the vaccine fly trap. Once you accept the logic of the vaccination programme, you are on a slippery downward path as you are drawn into the logic of lockdown,masking and all the rest of the oppressive apparatus.
It’s now quite clear the vaccination programme is not going to provide a 100% solution and therefore it is simply prolonging the agony, providing endless excuses for the continued authoritarian response to a novel pathogen that has probably only got a hold on the world population because of a previous vaccination programme (flu vaccination): we need second shots, booster shots, annual vaccination, 100% vaccination, vaccine passports to encourage vaccination etc etc.
The vaccine dogma (vaccines are safe and massively improve health outcomes for all humanity) is a powerful propaganda element in globalist Big Pharma ideology. Big Pharma are shameless in exploiting Covid fear (much of it created by them and their allies) to garner support for the much more ambitious Extreme Vaccination Plan ie vaccinating the whole of humanity for ALL communicable diseases and a variety of physiological and psychiatric conditions.
The value of any particular vaccine… Read more »
It is worthy of note (although apparently not to the carriers of the official narrative) that none of the so called vaccines were developed by using the virus. Yet the definition of vaccine is a substance using an attenuated form of the causative agent (which in this case would be the virus). It would be of interest to hear Whitty (for example) explain why the so called vaccines do not use the virus. However, I do not expect any of the corporate media journalists to ask the question any time soon.
I’m not sure that’s true is it? Here’s one definition:
“a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.”
You’ll note it says “a disease” not “THE disease”.
They’ve often be prepared from related diseases (the original innoculation for smallpox was from cowpox – so that’s been a theme from the beginning). I think the Pfizer virus uses the RNA code for a chimpanzee coronavirus and as the above definition makes clear can now be prepared from synthetic substitutes.
The mRNA vaccines being used for the first time seem a major departure though in their process. Rather than use an adjuvant (toxic substance) to generate the body’s immune response to the vaccine agent, it directly instructs DNA in your body to manufacture virus spikes that the body will then generate an immune response to. The spikes are claimed to be similar enough to Covid 19 for the body to be able to see off any infection.
This is 100% spot on!
My wife (in the medical business) has said almost this exact phrase to me many times in the past. She usually precedes comments like this with… “If this lot are not careful…”.
it’s not about a virus, and it’s not about a vaccination, any more than the showers in Auschwitz were about maintaining personal hygiene.
A question asked in Parliament by my MP:
”…To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign,
Commonwealth and Development Affairs……. how he plans to allocate
the £8 billion of Overseas Development Assistance in 2021/22 …”
I am writing to her to suggest that she should be asking WHY the country’s money is being given away in eye-wateringly huge amounts, especially as the country needs it due to the ruin her party has brought upon us. And that it doesn’t make sense trying to be a lifeboat to the world when you’re wrecking the lifeboat itself.
Like she cares.
Whatever will they dream up next? Snake oil could soon be available in pill form.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/07/vaccine-could-made-available-pill-form-minister-says/
As it’s behind a paywall, I’ll drop in a couple of quotes from the article:
Chief executive of iosBio, Wayne Channon, said: “With our capsule you wouldn’t need medical professionals to administer the vaccine, you could send this out on Amazon Prime and have everyone vaccinated by Saturday.”
Kate Bingham, the former chair of the UK vaccine taskforce said “We need to get vaccine formats which are much more scalable and distributable, so, whether they are pills or patches or nose sprays, we need to find better ways of developing and delivering vaccines, and we’ll do that in collaboration, just as we’ve been doing that over the last few months.”
Of course they have been collaborating, and anyone who still thinks this whole charade is simply good old government fuckwittery needs their head examined. The madness cannot and will not end until the takeover is complete.
Well, at least if they invent something in the DIY line we can just SAY that we’ve taken it and sign our own ”health passport” – couldn’t we?
Yes
Trouble is, the rejected doses could end up in the water supply …….
So we’re progressing from something that needs to be stored at -80degrees to something that can be driven about in a normal van and taken with a cup of tea?
Normal vans don’t exist anymore, only Amazon vans.
Also, one shouldn’t be surprised with the speed at which they have found a better way to “deliver” vaccines. Governments across the globe agreed in 2020 that 10 years was too long to develop a new vaccine, so they reduced the time 10-fold.
Anyone who thinks the coercive vaccination programme (it’s coercive of course because non participants will be deprived of the opportunity to engage in a range of pleasurable activities).will stop at Covid 19 is deluded.
The plan is to vaccinate for ALL communicable diseases and since mRNA vaccines can affect how our DNA operates, it will inevitably be used to address other physiological and mental health conditions. What lies behind this is that powerful combination: huge profit motives (this will generate trillions of dollars of revenue and profit for Big Pharma) but also I think a wrong-headed ideology, what you might call medicalism.
The Vaccine Centre, a shadowy group hosted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine (no indication of where their funding comes from), is explicit:
“Our vision is a world in which all major infectious diseases and their sequelae are controlled by vaccination and there is equity for access.”
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/vaccine-centre/about-us
They claim “Immunisation is the single most powerful medical tool for improving health.” This is has got to be one of the biggest lies ever. Clean water supply has always been the biggest step forward for human health.
I don’t agree with medicalism. Human… Read more »
I went to a party on Saturday night and the more we drank, the more ludicrous the scenarios we dreamt up. “Well, officer, it’s my fault really,or maybe really his over there”. “You see, officer, X had seen Y on the bridge over the river W and Y said he was so depressed that he was going to end it all. Not being British and having a birthday coming up, he said he had always been with family but now was not allowed. We decided to have a party to save his life so you see this was a valid reason”. Can you imagine next week, there are 10 such parties and the week after, 100, the thing would be over come March. Remember the law: if you have a valid reason and the reason is up to you.Just get creative and this is finished!
You went to a party? Oh, good for you! Always good to hear of people who are not knuckling under.
Genius!
Really interesting data from NZ.They have now during their summer an increasing deaths of elderly quite substantially. During their winter 2020 they had a low mortality. The people, elderly,surviving their winter without C-19 are now dying excessively in their summer.
https://twitter.com/TedPetrou/status/1358441124894015490
This out of season mortality is more than interesting.
“If you don’t use it you lose it” is an adage applied to elderly people. Probably goes for immune system as much as your muscle mass and bone density. If people in NZ have not been getting the regular workout of their immune systems owing to lockdown and national isolation, perhaps this has weakened immune systems – which can be fatal for elderly people, given their immune systems don’t work very efficiently in any case.
If care homes have been operating isolation policies, this may also be affecting morale.
(It can’t be a vaccine effect – they’ve barely got started on vaccination in NZ).
In combination with people being terrified of going outside, their level of fitness has plummeted. Small lifestyle changes over a considerable population will result in these kind of statistics. In the UK, I wouldn’t be surprised if almost all of the elderly excess deaths over winter are actually due to people withering away in their homes. How many of us furloughed or working from home haven’t put on weight and lost our stamina? In old people, that’s enough to push them over the edge.
Very true. I read somewhere a few weeks back that autopsies conducted had suggested that lockdowns were negatively affecting health so presumably were building up fat deposits. Sorry – can’t remember which country that was.
I know anecdotally from some friends that as the lockdown has gone on and we have moved into winter they are staying in a lot more and comfort eating as well. Having groceries delivered can be a major loss of exercise for lots of non-sporty people and we are really being encouraged to do that.
This is why I am worried that some countries will struggle to ever get back to normal. Lockdown equals more winter deaths due to suppressed immunity equals need to have more lockdowns to flatten the curve
Meanwhile, Finland eased restrictions in good time for summer, and have been adding vitamin D to food, and other places have not locked down at all. It would be interesting to see how they do in comparison.
I think of the native Americans of previous centuries and their great dying when they came into contact with Europeans and their diseases. If places like New Zealand isolate themselves from the world for years, what is going to happen to them?
It’s a good question. Samoans were nearly wiped out by the Spanish flu…I think something like 70% of their population died.
Remarkable! Are they jabbing?
No I don’t think so.They are perhaps waiting for the “best” one
We’ve been discussing mortality rates for a year, and yet whereas covid will have virtually no effect on annual mortality, it is now projected that it will massively impact the birth rate – downwards.
Due to economic uncertainty and the general social unpleasantness of things.
People have been going into economic, social and psychological survival mode – not the time to have a baby.
I’ve been talking about this from the very start. Birth rates are going to collapse.
Fancy that, population replacement is accelerated.
Not for the ROP people it won’t 😥
They will get what they want then re: de population.
I recall a recent article in the Telegraph estimated that UK births will be down by 200 k this year,lowest since 1918
Jesus that’s down by a third. That’s famine levels.
And adjusted for population, presumably rather longer ago than 1918.
Birthrates already documented collapsing in the US:
America’s Lost Decade In Fertility Results In 5.8 Million Fewer Babies | ZeroHedge
I think choosing to bring a baby into the world at this particular time is beyond selfish, not because of adding to the population but because of the bloody awful life it will undoubtedly have!
Sponsored by the benevolent UK Government. All very worrying, all very much to plan. Everyone on the government payroll. ‘You will own nothing. We will own you. Our vaccines will make you happy’. Sick.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9218527/Back-work-youre-looking-new-job-theres-plenty-help-there.html
The first Kickstart vacancy will be for a general distillery hand, who will carry out vital roles such as bottling and labelling the spirits.
This is the sort of job that in a past lifetime would have been taken by a 15 year-old school leaver. Not even an apprenticeship!
Church today. We baptised my daughter. She resisted exorcism, but quite enjoyed the actual baptism. Seemed confused by the chrismation, but she is three so perhaps that is not surprising. She was obviously suspicious when given her first communion.
Life goes on.
We prayed for Nick Rose in the eucharist. Such is the nature of the Internet that I cannot be sure he even existed as presented, nor that the name attached to the comments here was his real name. I myself, like many of us on here, hide behind a pseudonym and few of us would even recognise each other in the street. But on some level, however distorted or obscured, there are real people behind the user names. And in the real world, prayers have been offered for that person.
I’ve been down since I heard the news. His last few months in this life were under government tyranny.
Last year he said something like he wasn’t sure what it would be like after these forums were gone. I said that I’d miss his posts. Sigh.
What is this news??!
Nick passed away after experiencing covid systems. One of the commenters here called his sister (a nurse) and brother but they found him collapsed at home. They called an ambulance but sadly couldn’t revive him.
Oh that is too sad. If only we’d all stayed home, “saved” the NHS and they’d been available to him. It makes me so angry… this utter bullshit is wrecking lives.
Aha the 77th fiction writers are back again
What do you mean by that?
I think they mean we’ve no idea if any of this is true. Do you have a link to something like a Facebook site or similar mourning his death?
Since you seem to know all about him, how old was he and had he had the vaccine recently? Did he have other co-morbidities? Was he obese?
54 and seemingly no co-morbidities. He was a hillwalker. No Facebook or mourning site that we know of. His family are going to get an autopsy done on him.
He mentioned a couple of weeks ago that he was quite sick and had lost his sense of smell and taste. The factory where he worked made him get covid tests because he was visibly sick.
What are ‘covid symptoms’?
He also called 999 and another covid phone service who weren’t helpful. He also tried to book an appointment with his GP. The system failed him.
Yes. Evidently, the National Covid-only Service doesn’t even treat covid.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/07/covid-exposed-folly-turning-nhs-unaccountable-quango/ says David Camerons right hand man who helped set it up. Fucker
CNC round up for the day…
Sweet young friend from Romania who works in a care home was offered vaccine, said no thanks and it was end of. No pressure. Answer accepted. Good girl!
Elderly friend in US in bed at home with “very bad Covid”. Had a dinner party two weeks ago and now most of the guests now have it. My first thought was – well if you’d let the kids have the parties and create herd immunity in the first place, you might be alright. Second thought, you hypocrites for making youngsters feel guilty for mixing. Third thought: one of the old cronies DEFO had a shot before attending party! And little twist… another guest had had the shot the day before. Tested positive after the party but told, “it’s okay we won’t count it because obvs you test positive after you get the shot – it’s a glade reading from you having had the shot. (BUT REMEMBER FOLKS, THE VACCINE CANNOT GIVE YOU COVID. Also… ALL POSITIVE TESTS MEAN YOU HAVE COVID!)
And best news of all is God’s killer sense of humour. Human hubris own goal of the century. Israelis vaccinate everyone.… Read more »
Palestine 7 day ave deaths 6, Israel 47 according to worldometer.
Wow that’s a huge difference.
I think I found this link here – but it’s worth repeating:
The HCQ cover-up
https://rumble.com/vdibv5-the-hydroxychloroquine-coverup.html
A good takedown of the Pro-mask CDC study
Isn’t it interesting that:
“Sites in states that did not have statewide mask mandates during March 1–October 17, 2020, were excluded from the analyses”
In other words they deliberately excluded comparisons against locations without mandates and, of course and most-importantly they cherry-picked the dates.
We all know what happened starting in the middle of October with Covid-19. Yet the masks work study was constricted to the times otherwise known as spring into the summer and early fall, exactly when viral infections tend to wane for other reasons which we have known for decades — specifically, people are outside more often and Vitamin D levels are higher due to outdoor sun exposure. In addition air conditioning systems indoors condense water vapor out of the air which in aerosol (and droplet) form carries viruses and harmlessly sends such condensed vapor and what it carries down the drain.
CDC: Propaganda Exemplified in [Market-Ticker] (market-ticker.org)
Did Ancel Keys conduct the study?
PropagandaLive back on song after several days of little fresh news.
“Frontline doctors are campaigning to have four symptoms added to the official NHS list of coronavirus indicators.
“The 140 GPs have written to England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty to warn that the virus might not be detected in some patients if people are not made aware of these common symptoms
Currently, the NHS say the main things people should look out for are “a lack of taste or smell, a persistent and ongoing cough, and a high temperature or fever.”
“But according to the GP’s many people are also exhibiting four classic cold symptoms which are a runny nose, blocked nose, sore throat and headache.”
[..]
“Dr Alex Sohal, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Primary Care at Queen Mary University of London, writes: “These patients have frequently not even considered that they may have Covid-19 and have not self-isolated in the crucial early days when they were most infectious.””
Sneakily, the propagandalive outlet does not make it clear the doctors are from the NHS, not from Edinburgh area as can reasonably be supposed from a title EdinburghLive.
Evidence the group is concerned with programming the public… Read more »
What’s next as a symptom? Breathing?
If you’re breathing, you’ve got it.
If you’re not breathing, it killed you.
Wouldn’t that mean they have – er – a cold? The insanity grows day by day.
Humour
Excellent.
I thought one of the symptoms was not having any symptoms.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bobby_Network/status/1358411054641012740
India has not accepted today Pfizer’s C-19 vaccine.No EAU for that vaccine.(That’s a 1.3 billion persons market lost for Pfizer).
Almost a third of prosecutions under coronavirus laws dropped, review shows | The Independent
“The pathogen was spread from Wuhan a month after Merkel’s 3-day visit, but did not
register on the radar throughout the winter season until a German virologist who just
happened to meet Merkel, the WHO head, the Gates guy, the Wellcome Trust guy,
then just happened to develop a PCR test for the pathogen, that was then deployed
at the tail of the winter season so that the lockdown could be credited with declining
cases when in reality the spring season leads to declining cases for all respiratory
viruses, which nonetheless gave Merkel and other governments cover to enact the
same lockdown again in the next winter season now that the concept of lockdowns
and testing of healthy people with fraudulent PCR tests was established, and after
Merkel and Soeder had convinced Europe that it was the lockdown that led to fewer
hospitalizations, not the change of seasons.”
Coronavirus-History-Overview-article-Long.pdf (thefatemperor.com)
Posted by Ivor C. Fascinating read. Globalist manoeuvring.
This really looks fascinating! And convincing…
Here’s the conclusion in one sentence:
“the Merkel government collaborated with the CCP and its world-wide assets to fake the pandemic.”
I’m not sure what to think…
The stab rate in London reaches 13 with two dead
However this does does not stop the police from punching a man in the face for cooking breakfast
It appears the police are conflicted and having some sort of identity crises as Owen Jones might not say
That video also shows the copper holding the bloke by the throat.
Not wishing to use the race-card here, but if that had been a black bloke Manchester would be burning by now.
You know, I just said the same to my wife.
The self censorship that surrounds these events is glaring.
Obviously, not all lives matter.
As a people we are just too nice for our own good , our sheer bloody minded individuality , our obsession with being polite and not being easy to rile up . This is at once our greatest strength but as the controllers all so clearly know , it is also our greatest weakness. If we unified as a people and defended our own , the stasi tyrants wouldn’t last five minutes .
I watched just how quickly the coppers backed off in Hyde Park last summer when the crowd finally decided to push back , the fear was on the coppers faces for a change .
Well, note that there is always a huge amount of negative propaganda directed at any effort for people like us to defend our own interests or develop a group identity.
Couldn’t agree anymore with you on that wildgoose , we have been deliberately deracinated as a nation . We all know now what we would be accused of being if we developed some form of in group preference and defended each other .
I was saying something similar this morning. We need to be more determined and in their faces whenever something like that happens. I’m waiting for the local council to come knocking on my door about why I haven’t had the vaccine.
It’s simple.
Punching breakfast-man is easy and safe.
Arresting stab-killers isn’t.
Steyn summed it up:
“ ‘In Britain, everything is policed except crime’”
“It has become very apparent that British policemen are very aggressive when dealing with the passive, and very passive when dealing with the aggressive.”
A grocer’s shop near me – the owner complained that people run in and nick stuff and nothing is done about it.
But when I got stuck at a broke level crossing gate for half an hour on a hot day and stopped my car in the shade on the wrong side of the road, they sent two police vehicles to deal with me, and hounded me with letters for months afterwards. True story. Shocking state this country’s in.
Anarcho-tyranny at work!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8GrtbU9VmT5D/
URGENT MESSAGE BY DR ANDREW KAUFMAN
Calling for benefit–risk evaluations of COVID-19 control measures
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00193-8/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
Only just arrived. Spent the day with a book.
Just heard about the madness spreading through my old stamping ground, Worcester north. Apparently, the SA strain is killing them off in their thousands – or they’re dropping like flies – or there are piles of bodies in the streets and the hospital is bursting….. or….
Or one person has ”tested positive”. I am appalled.
I posted one of the cautionary comments from LS today on the Worcester News website.
First time poster here, but long-time lurker. I’m trying to fight the good fight on the Worcester News as well.
Every little helps MrWilliam. Working together we could be an unstoppable force, if only we could galvanise the rest of them.
Oh, like that place in Australia.
A mad, mad world.