AstraZeneca vs South African Variant
The AstraZeneca vaccine has faltered against the South African Variant, with a new study carried out by the University of Oxford and the University of the Witwatersrand finding that it offers only limited protection. The Financial Times has the details.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine does not appear to offer protection against mild and moderate disease caused by the viral variant first identified in South Africa, according to a study.
Although none of the more than 2,000 mainly healthy and young patients in the study died or was hospitalised, the findings, which have not yet been peer reviewed, could complicate the race to roll out vaccines as new strains emerge. In both the human trials and tests on the blood of those vaccinated, the jab showed significantly reduced efficacy against the 501Y.V2 viral variant, which is dominant in South Africa, according to the randomised, double-blind study seen by the Financial Times.
“A two-dose regimen of [the vaccine] did not show protection against mild-moderate COVID-19 due to [the South African variant]”, the study says, adding that efficacy against severe COVID-19, hospitalisations and deaths was not yet determined.
Worth reading in full.
The revelation prompted South Africa to suspend its rollout of the Oxford vaccine, as AFP reports
South Africa will suspend the start of its COVID-19 vaccinations with the AstraZeneca jab after a study showed the drug failed to prevent mild and moderate cases of the virus variant that has appeared in the country.
Africa’s hardest-hit nation was due to start its campaign in the coming days with a million doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford.
The suspension marks an important setback for the country, but officials said vaccine deliveries from other producers would soon be available and allow the campaign to move forward.
UK Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi has written an article for the Telegraph explaining that the emergence of new variants is a challenge that the country is more than capable of meeting.
Our world-leading genomics capacity has allowed us to identify these different strains when they have appeared in the UK. Where we have seen evidence of the South African variant or other worrying mutations, we have moved to deploy surge testing to try and stop it spreading any further.
It is a timely reminder that currently, even with the vaccine rollout going well, we all need to live by the national restrictions and act as if we might have the virus to stop us spreading it.
AstraZeneca is working on a booster that will provide robust protection against the South African that is due to be ready by the Autumn.
Writing in the same publication, Professor Hugh Pennington provides some perspective.
A vaccine is not an impenetrable barrier in the body through which no virus can pass. It’s more like a superpower, which enables our immune systems to fight better, faster and stronger against an invader.
So the discovery that the Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine for COVID-19 is less effective against some new variants of coronavirus than others is no cause for alarm. It’s to be expected…
News that the AZ jab has ‘limited efficacy’ against mild and moderate disease caused by the South African strain of the virus was treated yesterday in some quarters as a looming disaster.
It is not – and I say this not only as an academic with a lifetime’s experience in viruses and vaccines, but as an 82 year-old man who has had his first AZ injection…
Worth reading in full
Stop Press: Muge Cevik provides a good summary of the study on twitter.
Is ‘No Jab, No Job’ Legal?
Can employers insist that staff get the vaccine? According to the Telegraph, the question is dividing the Government, with some ministers believing that employers who take a ‘no jab, no job’ approach may be protected by Health and Safety legislation.
Employers can insist that all of their staff get vaccinated against Covid under laws governing health and safety at work, ministers believe…
The idea of ‘vaccine passports’ – which would allow employers to insist upon proof of vaccination – have been dismissed by vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi as “discriminatory” and “not how we do things in the UK “.
However, the Telegraph understands that the issue is at the centre of a row in Cabinet, with some ministers arguing in favour of the scheme.
Whitehall sources believe that companies who adopt a “jab for a job” stance are protected by current health and safety laws which require workers to protect not only themselves, but also colleagues from harm.
One Government source said: “If someone is working in an environment where people haven’t been vaccinated, it becomes a public health risk.
“Health and safety laws say you have to protect other people at work, and when it becomes about protecting other people the argument gets stronger.
“If there is clear evidence that vaccines prevent transmission, the next stage is to make sure more and more people are taking up the vaccine.”
Worth reading in full.
But wouldn’t this be a breach of the right to consent, whereby the law protects people from receiving a medical treatment unless they’ve explicitly consented to it? As set out on NHS website, consent must be:
voluntary – the decision to either consent or not to consent to treatment must be made by the person, and must not be influenced by pressure from medical staff, friends or family
informed – the person must be given all of the information about what the treatment involves, including the benefits and risks, whether there are reasonable alternative treatments, and what will happen if treatment does not go ahead
capacity – the person must be capable of giving consent, which means they understand the information given to them and can use it to make an informed decision.
This strays into employment law, as well as anti-discrimination law, and it would not be a surprise to see a flurry of lawsuits if an employer insists on workers being vaccinated on pain of dismissal. Economia magazine has a viewpoint on the rules as they currently stand.
According to employment law experts, employers cannot insist that employees are vaccinated unless the circumstances are exceptional. For example, employers in the social care sector may be able to give reasonable instruction for employees to be vaccinated as they are working with high-risk, vulnerable people.
Other sectors such as professional services don’t have the same strength of argument for insisting their workers are vaccinated, as lockdown working conditions have demonstrated that work can often be done effectively from home…
“Employers should encourage, and not compel, employees to have vaccinations”, said Rachel Suff, CIPD Employee Relations Adviser…
“Mandatory vaccination may discriminate on the basis of disability, or religious or philosophical belief. If an employer disciplines or dismisses an individual who refuses to be vaccinated, this carries a risk of exposure to an unfair dismissal claim”, added Rachel Suff.
Employers should always take care that their actions do not breach an employee’s human rights and/or lead to claims for discrimination – particularly on grounds of age, religion, belief, disability, or pregnancy – or for breach of employment contracts…
Leanne Francis, Senior Associate at Pinsent Masons, said: “Mandatory vaccinations could also raise privacy implications. They could be interpreted as interfering with Article 8 of ECHR which gives individuals the right to a private life.
“An employer will need to be able to demonstrate that their interference was proportionate in all of the circumstances and this defence is often nuanced and complex. Employers will also be expected to obtain consent for any work-related medical intervention, in the same way that consent is obtained for referrals to occupational health or drugs and alcohol testing.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: See these six Covid vaccination questions for HR in Personnel Today for more info.
Stammering Takes a Hammering
Whether taking part in a Zoom meeting or an online lesson, or trying to talk through a mask, communicating during lockdown is not easy for those with a stammer. Inews has more.
Approximately 8% of children will stammer at some point, but many find that as they get older the condition improves.
However, under COVID-19 restrictions, a mild to moderate stammer can easily become severe due to compulsory mask-wearing, a lack of in person interaction, and the current over-reliance on technology to communicate with others in lockdown…
William Laven, 22, from Surrey is a Stambassador for Action for Stammering Children, and has experienced the challenges of communicating with a speech impediment during lockdown first-hand.
Speaking to i, he said: “I work in a busy London office and at the start of the pandemic obviously we started working from home – normally my stammer is at its best when I am socialising with people, so it was badly affected…
“Luckily I only need to wear a mask once or twice a week when I go to the shop or have to go to fill up fuel, however it can be quite an anxious experience. You don’t realise how often you lip read, especially to someone with a speech impediment.
“When I stammer I have a slight facial gesture which no one can see when I am wearing a mask. I have had people roll their eyes, take me to the wrong place in the supermarkets because they think I am not responding to them, or that I am saying something completely different.”
Likewise, others have found communicating via Zoom – now an everyday necessity – increasingly off-putting and uncomfortable, as best etiquette requires us all to see our own reflection, and for those with a stammer, confront the visual manifestation of their speech impediment.
Worth reading in full.
The iNews report references the work of Action for Stammering Children, a charity that has seen demand for its services increase markedly through the various lockdowns:
Action for Stammering Children Charity report the number of calls to their stammering helpline have increased by 57.6% over lockdown… Since the beginning of lockdown, the Helpline has seen a surge in the number of calls from concerned parents. 250 Helpline calls were taken in the final quarter of 2019/20, just before the lockdown began. However, over the first quarter of 2020/21, therapists responded to 394 calls from worried parents and therapists seeking advice about how best to offer therapy during lockdown. An increase of 57.6% occurred in the April to June period. Parents have been expressing particular concerns over managing their child’s stammering and increasing anxiety.
No Pubs, Bars or Restaurants = No Nookie
According to Reuters, lockdown has led to a sharp fall in the birth rate around Europe. The report starts with the situation in Italy where the situation is particularly pronounced.
Maybe it was the stress. Maybe it was being cooped up with the mother-in-law. But the numbers are in, and one effect of the coronavirus lockdown is now clear: people made fewer babies. A lot fewer babies.
Births in Italy in December – exactly nine months after the country went into Europe’s first lockdown – plunged by a whopping 21.6%, according to figures from a sample of 15 Italian cities released this week by statistics agency ISTAT.
And the impact is far from over. Marriages fell by more than half in the first 10 months of last year, which ISTAT chief Gian Carlo Blangiardo called “a further factor in a probable decline in births in the immediate future…”
Last year, Britain recorded a plunge in imports of baby carriages, to the lowest level since records began in 2000. (Yes, the Treasury counts imports of baby carriages. In tonnes.)
While its data is not yet complete, the German statistics office said 2020 was probably the first year since 2011 that the population did not grow, both because of declining births and because COVID-19 meant fewer people immigrated.
There are signs, though, that in Germany, at least, the trend is reversing.
Still, there are signs some people who put off making babies in 2020 may be getting down to business at last. Sales of pregnancy tests and pregnancy vitamins in Germany jumped in the last few months, according to a poll conducted for pharmacy news service Apotheke Adhoc.
The US has also seen a sharp drop in the birth rate, according to Alice Broster in Forbes.
In June 2020, the Brookings Institute estimated that the U.S. would see between 300,000 to 500,000 fewer births than in 2019…
A reduction in births was exactly the opposite of what many people anticipated would come out of 2020. Spending more time at home with a partner sounds like the perfect recipe for speeding up family planning. However, with increased job insecurity, health anxiety and the Government encouraging people to stay away from hospitals, it’d seem COVID-19 made people reconsider…
“The economic fallout, persistent health concerns, uncertainty about the safety and availability of medical care and the closure of schools all combine to make this a very unappealing time for couples to start or expand their family,” said Emily Smith-Greenaway, an Associate Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California on HuffPost. “We certainly anticipate there to be a rebound, but we’re not so sure about an overshoot – a boom that helps to offset the bust.”
The pandemic had a profound impact on fertility treatment plans. Many clinics postponed treatment cycles and closed their doors to new patients throughout 2020 in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Research published in the Human Reproduction journal used data from almost 10,000 people who had already undergone IVF. Researchers were looking at the impact of delays and the backlog of treatment due to being done once clinics opened. They found that patients across the age brackets, from under 30 to 42, had experienced delays of six to 12 months.
Worth reading in full.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior Colluded With Scientists to Frighten the Public
There was an interesting story in yesterday’s Welt am Sonntag based on 200 pages of internal correspondence seen by the paper and obtained by lawyers in the course of an ongoing legal dispute involving the Robert Koch Institute.
In March 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic, the Federal Ministry of the Interior Ministry enlisted scientists from multiple research institutes and universities for political purposes. It commissioned researchers from the Robert Koch Institute and other institutions to create a model, upon which basis the Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) wanted to justify tough Corona measures.
This has emerged from more than 200 pages of internal correspondence between the management of the Ministry and the researchers which is available to the Welt Am Sonntag…
In an email exchange, Markus Kerber, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, asks a researcher to prepare a model upon the basis of which “measures of a preventative and repressive nature” could be planned.
According to the correspondence, the scientists, in close coordination with the Ministry, compiled the contents for a secret paper in just four days. It was then released over various media in the days that followed.
The paper included a “worst case scenario” according to which more than one million people could die from coronavirus in Germany, if social life were to continue as before the pandemic.
Worth reading in full.
Miracle in Singapore
The Republic of Singapore has not suffered in the way that most other countries have from COVID-19, with fewer than 60,000 cases and 30 deaths. How did the city state do it? Was it the modest lockdown, or was it something else? It remains a bit of a mystery, but Stuart Derbyshire, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the National University of Singapore, has put forward a couple of ideas in Spiked. First, however, he dismisses a couple of other explanations.
Singapore is a major travel hub and welcomes close to 20 million overseas visitors every year. Between October 2019 and March 2020, close to 7.5 million visitors entered Singapore from overseas, with roughly 20% of them coming from mainland China. Singapore did not close its border to tourists until March 24th, one week after Rome closed its main terminal… Tight border control cannot explain Singapore’s extreme outlier status.
Singapore is also densely populated; people live and socialise in close proximity. Few people cook at home because eating out is so cheap, and the weather is conducive to being outdoors… The national lockdown, known here as a circuit breaker, did not come into effect until April 7th, almost a month after Italy, and about two weeks after New York City and the UK. A widespread tendency to distance or an early lockdown cannot explain Singapore’s extreme outlier status.
It is far more likely, he reckons, that the low death toll is due to an effective track and trace system and the swift and decisive action taken in care homes.
Around 12,000 Singaporean citizens live in care homes, compared with around 418,000 UK citizens. That equates to about 0.3% of Singapore’s population (citizens only) and about 0.6% of the UK’s. Outbreaks of Covid in care homes in the UK and elsewhere have had a devastating impact, but that has clearly been avoided in Singapore.
Indeed, shortly after the first case of Covid was detected in a care home on March 31st, Singapore’s Ministry of Health moved around 3,000 nursing home employees into hotels to isolate them from the wider community, and tested all 9,000 nursing-home staff. Positive tests were followed by contact tracing and quarantine. Those measures were in addition to a month-long ban on visitation, safe-distancing in all homes, and zoning. Singapore has reported only three Covid-related care-home deaths, compared with estimates of 25,000 Covid-related deaths in the UK.
Worth reading in full.
Round-up
- “The lockdown debate – a further reply to Toby Young” – Christopher Snowdon replies to yesterday’s post from Toby in their ongoing debate
- “PSNI miss three deadlines to justify Covid regulations power of entry claim” – The PSNI have missed three proposed dates to respond to a legal challenge over whether officers have the power to enter private homes to enforce Covid rules, reports the Belfast Telegraph. Stormont’s Department of Health has also not explained how the regulations give police this power
- “Vision problems arise in young school kids in COVID-19 quarantine” – The University of Minnesota’s Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy report on yet another unintended side-effect of COVID-19 restrictions
- “The poisonous, empathy-free lockdown debate shames our national discourse” – A gentlemanly piece from Dan Hannan in the Sunday Telegraph decrying the ‘gotcha’ mentality of most participants in the lockdown debate
- “Forget individual vaccine passports, our country needs a collective one” – Ross Clark argues in the Telegraph that every British citizen should automatically be given a vaccine passport once a certain percentage of the population has been vaccinated
- “Will young people ever work again?” – Recent graduates are facing an uncertain future says Maria Albano in Unherd
- “Why greens love lockdown” – Some see lockdowns as the beginning of a bright new era of global environmental consciousness and good international governance writes Ben Pile in Spiked
- “Hold Hands, Show Face, Give Grace” – A new website set up by a Lockdown Sceptics Reader who has autism. It calls for a swift return to the old normal
- “Downfall, the Covid version” – The Conservative Woman features Ivor Cummins’s Downfall parody, a response to the one taking the Mickey out of him written by Christopher Snowdon
- “As COVID-19 vaccines raise hope, cold reality dawns that illness Is likely here to stay” – A dose of realism from the Wall Street Journal; new variants and the limits of vaccination programs mean that COVID-19 will be around for years
- “Masking America’s greatest natural monuments” – The National Park Service (NPS) has mandated wearing face masks on all National Park Service lands. It will spur endless, pointless arguments says James Bovard on the AIER blog
- “Federal Government delays plan to forcibly confine travellers after public backlash” – Good news for Canada, as the federal government delays its plan to charge travellers $2,000 for forced hotel quarantine. Credit for this U-turn goes to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom
- “The results are in: Lockdowns don’t work” – Listen to Sharyl Atkinson talking to Professor Jay Bhattacharya about the data that proves lockdowns don’t work
- “Defeating life threatening COVID-19” – A powerful video showing a patient’s recovery from COVID-19 after receiving ivermectin in the United Memorial Medical Centre in Houston
- “Lockdowns are unlawful and should never be attempted” – A twitter thread from Abir Ballan, a member of Panda, considering whether lockdown would be justified in the event of a pandemic with a far higher fatality rate.
- Police in Greater Manchester assault a coffee shop owner in the most alarming instance of over-zealous enforcement of lockdown rules so far
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Four today: “Seven Year Ache” by Rosanne Cash, “I Want to Break Free” by Queen, “One in Ten” by UB40 and “Tell Ms It’s Not True” by Barbara Dickson.
Stop Press: A public-spirited reader has created a Spotify playlist of all the theme tunes nominated in this slot (at least, for those that are available on Spotify). It is presently 511 songs and clocks in at 33 hours. If you’re on Spotify, just search for “Lockdown Hits”.
Love in the Time of Covid
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, from MailOnline, we bring you broadcaster Andrew Neil’s battle against the woke warriors who are trying to blow up GB News on the launch pad.
Andrew Neil today slammed “woke warriors” for trying to cancel his new GB News channel before it even starts.
The former BBC presenter laid into activists after they launched a sabotage campaign against his soon-to-be-launched TV channel.
Twitter activists are urging firms not to advertise with the new station under the hashtag “Don’tFundGBNews”, because they fear the channel will be “like America’s Fox News” – a comparison bosses have rejected.
And those backing the campaign, including equality campaigner Femi Oluwole, have threatened to cancel their phone contracts if companies such as EE and Vodafone pay for advertising spaces on the channel.
But Mr Neil, who is the chairman of GB News, today hit out at those behind the campaign…
In a tweet he said: “The woke warriors trying to stir up an advertising boycott of GB News, a channel that hasn’t even started broadcasting, are hilarious.
“Even funnier is their threat to cancel mobile phone contracts of operators who dare to advertise on GB News.
“I mean have they ever tried to cancel a mobile contract?! But GB News will be ready to help. We will campaign for easier cancellation.”
The row erupted last night when campaign group Stop Funding Hate – previously criticised as a “hard-left censorship group” – urged people to join the hashtag Don’tFundGBNews.
The group, founded by a former Amnesty International worker, said on Twitter: “If you want to help stop ‘Fox News style’ TV in Britain: Tweet your mobile phone company using the hashtag #DontFundGBNews.
“Urge them not to advertise with GB News or any ‘Fox News style’ channel, & explain why this matters to you.”
GB News officials have repeatedly hit back at the Fox News comparison, with some media experts expecting the channel to be “right-leaning” rather than right wing.
The hashtag was backed by LBC Presenter Natasha Devon, who threatened to quit Vodafone, as well as Mr Oluwole, a political activist and co-founder of the pro-European Union advocacy group Our Future Our Choice, who threatened to quit EE if its advertises with GB News.
He said: “Hi EE, I was on Orange since I started using mobile phones and switched to you almost as soon as you took them over.
“But I will switch service provider immediately if I hear of one EE advert placed on that channel. #DontFundGBNews.”
But while the Tweet received support from some, many quickly criticised his backing of the campaign, saying it amounted to “mass censorship”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Minneapolis Star Tribune is warning Minnesotan parents that they may be about to see a “woke revolution” at their child’s school, thanks to new standards set by the local Department of Education.
By 2022, as your first-grader is learning that two plus two is four, the Minnesota Department of Education intends to mandate that she also learn to recognise “stereotypes”, “biased speech”, and “injustice at the institutional or systemic level”.
Your middle schooler will be drilled in how his identity is a function of his skin colour.
Your high schooler will be required to explain how Europeans invented “whiteness” and that America’s 19th-century westward expansion was the shameful product of “whiteness, Christianity and capitalism”.
Stop Press 2: John McWhorter has written a blog post examining the N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds. He focuses on the case of Donald McNeil, who recently lost his job at the New York Times when he used the N-word to describe an insult, rather than using it to insult anyone.
“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: There can, apparently, be such a thing as too masked up. In a happy twist of event, airlines have now been kicking passengers off the flight for wearing too much protection, according to Travelpulse.
United Airlines removed a New Jersey man and his brother from a recent flight leaving Newark Liberty International Airport when they boarded a plane wearing a Narwall Mask. Unlike an N95 mask or a cloth face covering, the Narwall Mask is a full face shield that filters air in and out using a design inspired by scuba diving gear.
Problem: United doesn’t accept that kind of personal protection, saying it was not in compliance with their mask policy, and Rob Joseph and his brother were kicked off the flight before it left…
The brothers were asked to replace their Narwall masks with cloth coverings. They declined, and United did not allow them to fly.
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.
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.
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And Finally…
Chase Dreams, a lockdown anthem by the new band Dreamdrive, documents the experience of life in Melbourne, Australia in the year 2020. It’s not pretty.
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“Our world-leading genomics capacity has allowed us to identify these different strains”.
There’s the problem. Astra-Zeneca trials: UK, South Africa, Brazil. New variants discovered: UK, South Africa, Brazil. It’s surprising that Lockdown Man science hasn’t seen the correlation, which as we know in their minds means causation. Yet they haven’t scared us with AstraZeneca vaccine causing new variants. Thank god, because the actual reason for the new variants is that genomic sequencing, which was jacked up in those countries doing the trials, is way ahead of other countries. Seek, and ye shall find.
2000 sample size. Go away.
StandupX have announced another ‘Unite for Freedom’ protest on 20th March in central London. Who’s going?
Why do you want to know?
Anyone would think you were collecting info, Nymeria.
Only someone paranoid would think that.
Huh? You seem to be insinuating that there’s a sinister reason for my question.
Yup. Given you came in strong previously in support of someone dissing Ivor Cummings for having “lost the plot”. It’s called a pattern.
High time you and your paranoia went to bed.
Doesn’t really count as a rebuttal does it?
If it is on Im definitely going.
Me too, Carlo.
MUST READ!!
Article in Off-Guardian today describing the absolute crock of shit that is the so-called science behind the ‘mutant strains’.
It describes the basis as 3/4 non-peer reviewed papers in mid-2020, with an unholy involvement of Ferguson and Zuckerberg. Besides some mice and petri-dishes the total number of humans involved in these mainly computer-generated ‘stories’ is SIX.
As the article says, if this stuff is being used its because they are desperate to find anything to keep the charade going for longer and with more and more restrictions.
As if we didn’t know before, its clear they are just making this up as they go along.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/02/08/the-shaky-science-behind-the-deadly-new-strains-of-sars-cov-2/
Sounds highly plausible. Each infected individual produces thousands of mutations of the virus. It would be easy to construct a narrative out of this mutational promiscuity.
As I noted earlier the Israelis are blaming the “British Mutation” for the failure of their mass vaccination programme – the most advanced in the world. It’s like that pass the parcel game from childhood.
DT: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/02/08/weekend-scary-headlines-soothing-dose-jonathan-van-tam-just/
NOT worth reading in full; it’s all bollocks!
Michael Deacon – Total wanker!
Is Deacon still writing the allegedly-humorous political sketches? He’s not fit to bark Frank Johnson’s ring.
I think he thinks they’re funny.
‘ Michael Deacon – Total wanker!
100%
And Fraser Nelson Covidean Lockdown supporter.
Glad that I’ve now cancelled both sellout Telegraph and sellout Spectator subscriptions.
I can’t give up on the Spectator – the writing’s too good, especially as you get to the back end of the mag. But, yeah, I totally ignore the leader articles at the beginning from the likes of Nelson and his Scottish mate married to Allegra Stratton. Actually isn’t his name FERGUSON? Are they related?
Taki. Toby. Lloyd Evans = yes. Shriver ok (except viz Trump) and very occasional ‘other’ writers.
But Fraser, Rod L and Charles Moore have very much let us down. And in leading the lockdown/vaccine (utopia) narrative they no longer reflect my (or most Spectator?) views?
Andrea – we’ve been let down by a lot of people! (Kate Andrews voting for Biden for Gawd’s sake)…but one of the reasons we persevere is because we love the good use of language – a reflection of our blessed God-given or nature-given reason.
Just dropped Spec but still running with Spec USA as a bit more foxtrot oscar but we’ll see.
James Forsyth, in fact. Not, sadly, related to Brucie. Big mate of Rishi’s from Winchester and Oxford, though- James, I mean. He and Allegra are godparents to Rishi’s kids, or is it the other way round? Nice. Cosy.
Oh yeah I knew it was an F lol. It’s too late for such details! But thanks for the correction and the reminder of the Rishi connection and of course Rishi is as much a banker as Macron. And Allegra is chums with Carrie, daughter of one of the founders of the Independent newspaper (before Amol ran it into the ground).
FFS. Abandon all journalism, ye who enter here (i.e. The Telegraph).
If worldometers’ numbers are to be believed, the world has carried out 1,497,833,407 Covid-19 tests.
Kerching!
Richard D Hall has a new film up:
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=287&part=1&gen=99
Thanks for the tipoff- I keep an eye on what he has to say about the very murky business surrounding Thomas Mair.
Yes his investigative work on the Jo Cox murder was unparalleled. I look forward to his latest contribution.
Until about six months ago I used to think it was just me who thought the whole Cox/Mair official narrative just didn’t feel right. It happened about ten miles up the road from me, BTW.
mmmmmmmurky indeed. Murky and fishier than Rick Stein’s fridge.
“Consent to treatment…must not be influenced by pressure from medical staff, friends or family”.
Sorry, but in the case of expectant mothers at least, they’ve driven a coach and horses through this, so far as I can see. Same with being informed (where information on risks and alternatives appears to be routinely withheld), and probably the same with understanding the information.
If it suits them, the government will find ways round this with vaccinations too, and I suspect the only question now is how much of a second class citizen I will become in the coming months if I resist the hard sell from Big Pharma. Unless the “BAME community” kick up a fuss. Possibly. Then even Sir Keir Starmer might consider challenging the narrative (rather than just the management).
I am past caring about anyone who takes one of the non-vaccines, or any consequences for not taking them that I and others will be subjected to. I just cannot be fucked worrying about it any more. To do so is pointless. The worst that can happen is that I am completely excluded from a shit society not even worthy of the name, and certainly not worth living in, and as a result suffer death. No big deal.
I know where you’re coming from. I tried to point out to someone close to me how immoral it is to coerce anyone to be vaccinated, but:
‘omg I’m getting the jab because I want to go away this year, we’ve booked two weeks off this September to go to Spain’. THICK
They’ll not be going to Spain, or anywhere else, of course. Back in the days when we dared write amusing little acronyms on patients’ notes to warn colleagues what to expect, a perennial fave was TAPS- thick as pigshit.
It’s laughable. I hope they enjoy their imaginary holiday, because visualisation is as close as anyone is going to get to a holiday of any kind for a very long time.
When are people going to cotton on to this? The era of three foreign package holidays per year is over.
From 2013 to 2020 inclusive, I went abroad 50 times.
I am confident that not only will I never leave this island again, I will in all probability never leave the confines of the city I live in. Such is the new reality. Thank goodness I made the effort when I could. My memories are all I have left.
Motor vehicles in the New Order will be electric and thus prohibitively-expensive so only communally-available to hire. You’ll not get far. Our masters have fretted about our ease of mobility since the introduction of the railways in the 1830s- we’ll soon enough be put back in our box.
I know. And it’s not fair. They (brother and sister-in-law) both work so incredibly hard and through their innocence believe the narrative. I can’t hate them for believing. In fact I think I envy their innocence
I know exactly what you mean. But having seen, for better or worse you can’t un-see, can you?
Until they get the “vaccine”.
And that’s what it’s like living in a dystopian world.
Desperate times indeed.
The paradox is passing this threshold reduces fear to zero, which in turn inspires me to fight harder. There’s an important lesson here.
Nothing left to lose.
Do you work? Quite conceivable my employment will be threatened without a vaccine. Even more so for my wife in NHS.
Yes, and the way my employer has conducted themselves throughout suggests strongly that they will be mandating the vaccine later this year. At which point I will part company with them, and presumably any future corporate employment.
Thankfully I am single, live alone, have no dependents and have some savings to fall back on, so this will be a much easier choice for me than for others. Which encapsulates the pure evil that we are facing here.
Luc’s Go Fund just went through £10,000
I’ve donated
Lots of small £5 and £10 donations. The little people are fighting back
Made me weep and think of my father who fought on D Day
We are good people and we will throw off this tyranny
If Luc opens again, I’m definitely going for a bloody good fry up.
It would be worth it to drive from Derbyshire up to Manchester and risk the stupid £100 fine to support a good man doing what he needs to do to keep his family.
Much respect!
Agree, I will travel from South Wales. Will go for a fry up but will be prepared for a punch up
Excellent!
Me too.
Looks increasingly like this is the most promising way forward to exit the Shit Show.
It’s going to be mobbed down there at half eight tomorrow morning. Press will be there to film the punch-ups, no doubt.
btw. Boris Johnson is down for 8 quid. 😀
So he’s tight-fisted, as well as being thick, wicked, and fat.
‘Clever people do this all the time and will convince you how right they are and how stupid you are to have a different point of view‘
Impossible in this case. Never, not ever and again never is lockdown right. He has been bribed or blackmailed. Because if he’s ‘clever’ then he knows lockdowns are wrong, deadly, immoral.
Clever people do make mistakes, sometimes they humble enough to realise how wrong they are but sometimes they use they intelligence to defend their mistakes.
I know nothing of this Snowdon person, but let me guess – he’s smugly, comfortably well-off, probably cosily ensconced in a nice house, and untouched by the devastation caused by lockdown.
For sure. And possibly some retirement investments in big Pharma (if not ‘before’ then definitely now).
From Wikipedia (I know!)
Looks well qualified to me. 😉
Twat started a Twatter campaign to discredit himself! What a knob!
Absolutely and if everything went absolutely belly up his childless Aunt would lend him a few thou to get him back on his feet. Probably trace the family wealth back to the Caribbean slave racket or imperial rapacity. That’s why people like him virtue signal so much – they usually have some very dirty secrets in the family closet.
£9,629 in 5 hours. Get in!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/kate-luc-cafe-and-their-fight-for-freedom?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
Surely the 10 grand by the end of the day 🙂
Donated
Also they’re not far away so I’m going to check them out and see if I can support them locally with my business.
It would appear we now have a ‘Education Catch Up Tsar’
Oh dear, if only we had a ‘Don’t Fuck It Up In The First Place Tsar’ back in March
Sounds like an admission of total failure to me. I was off school for two weeks in the 80s whilst convalescing from appendicitis and it took me a whole term to catch up on everything I missed.
And pre covid, parents were fined for taking kids out of school for a holiday as it harms their education.
2 weeks in Lanzarote will ruin their education, but basically closing schools for the best part of the year can be sorted by another “non job”
Ditto! Well said.
Not even just for a holiday – schools round here used to get their knickers in a twist if your kid missed an hour or so for a doctor’s appointment.
Exactly – weren’t they fining parents for taking kids out of school for a few days holiday without approval before this scamdemic? What happened to that logic? Seemed sensible at the time and geared towards protecting our kids.
If only we could have a Guy Fawkes Tsar 🔥
Vaccine apartheid
https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/02/07/news/latest-stories/unwilling-to-wait-poorer-countries-seek-their-own-vaccines/837923/
Why are the woke not up in arms about this, I’d gladly donate my shots .
Gavi not doing too well on this front
Despite all the foaming at the mouth about saving lives, some people in this country would happily trample over the dead bodies of people from those poorer countries to get their vaccine – especially younger people, because Long Covid you know!
Toronto using the exactly the same playbook as Boris to keep the fear going. They do all seem to copy each other. English variant, SA variant, Brazil variant – they have all arrived in Toronto! Magic. Teleportation perhaps. She reckons its the start of a new pandemic. Kudos to Milhouse Van Houten for sharing the video.
https://twitter.com/Milhouse_Van_Ho/status/1358904608303828994
UK sells Behavioural Insights Team techniques to other countries ……
MINDSPACE sell their brainwashing to who ever pays them for their services.
https://www.bi.team/publications/mindspace/
Yeah well the “state of emergency” here in Ontario is supposed to expire on February 10th so our premier needs another scare tactic to keep us subjugated.
Well we’ve as good as been informed it will be summer here – whenever they decide “summer” is!
Any animal lovers? :
“South Korea to give covid tests to cats and dogs with symptoms
Pet cats and dogs with a fever, cough or breathing difficulties will be offered coronavirus tests if they have been exposed to carriers, the Seoul metropolitan government said Monday.
The programme in the sprawling South Korean capital comes weeks after the country reported its first case of Covid-19 infection in an animal, involving a kitten.
“Starting today, the Seoul metropolitan government will offer coronavirus tests for pet dogs and cats,” Park Yoo-mi, a Seoul city official handling disease control, told reporters.
Tests will be limited to pets that show symptoms – including fever, coughing, breathing difficulties and runny noses – after coming into contact with humans who have tested positive, she added.
The test will be conducted near the animal’s home by a team of health workers including a veterinarian, Park said.
Animals that test positive will be required to be kept isolated at home for 14 days
In fairness, a pet with those symptoms would be obviously ill and, if severe, you’d probably consider taking it to the vet anyway. So why the special facilities?
Gotta get those case numbers back up!
Will they be reported as official case numbers? I bet they will!
Isolating a dog or cat indoors for 14 days presumably qualified as animal cruelty in our former society. I bet the RSPCA are now pushing testing, masks, distancing and vaccines for dogs and cats. Perhaps even paw sanitisation.
Presumably, you dog or cat will occupy one spot in your ‘support bubble’.
And there was me thinking this was a joke when previously posted on the forum
Stay safe dog shows us how its done
For all my hubby is ‘Let’s see, it is what it is, maybe they have gone too far with the restrictions’ (we’re NW England so under the cosh since last July) if they come for our dogs (3) then he’ll tear them apart.
It’s very telling that those in positions of power or importance will not speak out or tell the truth for fear of losing their careers or status.
Thank god for people like Sumption and Yeadon amongst others!
How can people like Witless and Unbalanced have any credence when you look at all the money that they have received from master Bates.
Poor Mike Yeadon. I do hope he finds a way back to us soon. A decent man of honour, unlike self-serving Unbalanced and Wittery. He is sorely needed.
not poor Mike Yeadon – the man can stand high.
He said he was already losing business. Sumption is retired on a fat pension.
erm… don’t think MY is skint
that’s why his contribution is most credible – he has nothing to gain – no money to follow
I’m sure he isn’t skint but it’s very hard to see your own thriving business suffer.
Hopefully he’ll find a way to bounce back on another platform.
Absolutely, Mike stands head and shoulders above the bottom feeders who are driving our country into the ground.
Mike Yeadon is very comfortably off. He has publicly said he’s prepared to be sued by Witless and Unbalanced if they choose to. He’s doubtless a brave and principled man but no worse off than Jonathan Sumption. That’s the admirable thing about these men. Will stand up even though personally they’re not affected.
You need to ask what have they to gain by speaking out?
Nothing.
What have those they speak out against to lose?(Everything)
Why doesn’t he just post here?
Loyalty. Principle. Integrity. Honesty.
Lose these and whatever the £ you’re still a poor man.
You said it, sis. Who steals my purse steals trash.
Nice to see sanity from Obrador :
“Mexico’s president returns after catching coronavirus
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador returned to his daily morning news conferences on Monday, following a two-week absence after catching coronavirus, but vowed not to wear a mask or require Mexicans to use them.
“There is no authoritarianism in Mexico … everything is voluntary, liberty is the most important thing,” López Obrador said, adding: “It is each person’s own decision.”
López Obrador revealed he received experimental treatments, which he described only as an “antiviral” medication and an anti-inflammatory drug, the Associated Press reports.”
Could he offer asylum to Trump?
Can I claim asylum there as well, I promise to stay in cancoon until I’m proved none infectious. Although I do reckon I have the Outer Mongolian strain that required 25 weeks observation.
Luc and Kate cafe appeal now over £8,000.
I know it’s off-topic but it’s Burnage related. Could I kindly ask people to also look at the Go Fund Me page for “Justice for Yousef Makki”. Yousef was a respectable sixth form pupil who was maliciously stabbed to death nearly two years ago by a ‘friend’, witnessed by another mutual friend. He attended Manchester Grammar School on a bursary and had aspirations to be a heart surgeon.
The way the Makki family was treated during the trial was disgusting (because of the demand for seats they had to sit outside the court room and share headphones to listen to proceedings). When the ‘not guilty’ verdict was passed, the court clerk offered no condolences for their loss but basically coldly showed them the exit. The witness who was present wasn’t called to give evidence because he said he hadn’t seen what happened. The only evidence heard and acted upon was the testimony of the accused, who denied that he had been the aggressor and claimed self-defence. Yet he wasn’t even found guilty of manslaughter. There was no forensic evidence connecting Yousef to any of the knives found at the scene.
The accused lied to the police, having used Yousef’s phone… Read more »
can we expect a jump in ‘covid deaths’ in the elderly frail when they start mission ‘ding ding- round two’ of the Pfizer experimental ‘vaccines’
Did you see the list posted below by PastImperfect?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/958616/COVID-19_mRNA_Pfizer-_BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf
Have a look and make your own analysis.
Someone may have noticed this before, apologies. But its a bit diificult to take a report seriously when it states categorically that 6 deaths were not fatal. Perhaps they really are turning into zombies!
Please can you let me know where it says that?
Those vaccinations really are amazing aren’t they!! Good old Pfizer – they’ve created the elixir of life!
Yeah, spotted that, too. 59 deaths, 53 of which were fatal. 🙂
It’s on page 13 if anyone is interested.
Fantastic – thanks Ceriain!
UK Column picked it up today. They can’t even be arsed to make their fraudulent statistics look believable any more. Why bother when the MSM are just mouthpieces for the dictatorship.
I have just posted the one for AZ/Oxford after the original post below. Here it is again (around one month less of data):
COVID-19_AstraZeneca_Vaccine_Analysis_Print.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Page 9: Total death 26. Fatal death 20.
Oh dear, it will be curfews next to protect against the zombies!
The zombies are already in Government!
Someone died of diahorrea.
Dehydration.
Two (if I remember correctly) died of nausea. So I guess they’ve learnt this trick from the PCR fraud – hmmm… Had a stroke within minutes but a little bit of vomit came out, let’s report vomit as the cause of death.
Not all going well in Israel. Questions about where are all the usual stroke and heart attack patients.
Total covid death toll 5171 of which 34% in the last 5 weeks!
https://m.jpost.com/health-science/covid-19-toll-on-israels-health-much-higher-than-reported-data-experts-658265
Right up until mid-March western politicians downplayed any viral threat. On German TV the possibility of a serious disease was derided as ‘conspiracy theory’
No restrictions.
As late as March 14th the German Health Ministry tweeted (since deleted) that rumours about restictions were fake news and that people should call it out.
Then, all over, it was like a switch was thrown.
It turned on a sixpence.
March 17th Merkel announced lockdown.
So what do you think caused the Domino effect.Was it just Italy locking down?
The key question.
Is one possibility that security services started feeding in the possibility of the escape of an engineered virus – thus creating a panic scenario?
It’s a plausible theory that the govt thought it was a biological weapon
Two months prior at Davos 2020 – WEF:
In her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced “transformations of gigantic, historic proportions”. “The whole way of doing business and life, as we have got used to it, we will leave in the next 30 years”,
https://www.welt.de/politik/article205283507/Merkel-in-Davos-Gesamte-Art-des-Lebens-in-naechsten-30-Jahren-verlassen.html
Via Google translate
I don’t think western politicians thought it was a bio-weapon. . My mid-March China was on the verge of declaring victory.
In China – Outside Wuhan and its province virtually nothing happened, despite two months of no restrictions prior to January 20th.
Shanghai – Covid death toll – 7 people
Beijing – Covid death toll – 8 people
That’s two cities with around 45 million people between them.
If you do the maths, then it turns out that the ‘covid death rate’ in Merthyr Tydfil has been 5000 times the death rate in Shanghai, despite at least hundreds of thousands – probably millions – of people travelling between Wuhan and Shanghai in the 2 month perios up until January 20th, and despite Merthy Tydfil having been under lockdown since March.
Work that one out.
Not plausible. Would have literally shut us all in our homes and had food delivered by Army personnel in Hazmats. No barnard (sp?) castle excursion exemptions
Not necessarily – that’s a Hollywood scenario – even if Handoncock gets his ideas that way.
A lot’s happened since, but I’ve seen nothing to suggest David Starkey’s initial judgement last May was off, and they’ve been doubling down ever since:
David Starkey: Covid-19 — Britain’s Disastrous Response Will Have Devastating Consequences
Perhaps a test was necessary in a small area in a western country.
With the other countries it wasn’t so much a domino effect as ‘all at once’ with the UK a few days late.
I have read the ‘German’ story, based on Merkel coming from the East, Dorsten being suddenly at meetings etc etc. Germany with or without Chinese help is not capable of this.
The switch was thrown in the US. It was very very clear when you were sitting outside Europe.
The most plausible reason I have read is the Fed’s panic over the building problem over interest rates going near 10% in the inter-bank swops. They know they could not ‘do’ another rescue act like 2008, so the only alternatives to complete meltdown was complete lockdown. And here we are.
This is what I think, too. The Fed’s panicked intervention in the repo markets, September 16th/17th 2019, was the start of all this.
Agreed.
I was just giving Germany as an example.
The coincidental March 16 publication of Neil Ferguson’s model of 510k deaths for the UK, 2.2m in the US, and a warning of similar for other Western countries, without mitigation. Now, this used an unspecified dataset from China, plus data from repatriated flights. Data sets and models are not conjured out of thin air. Who commissioned it, and when, and who provided the dataset? Why?
After the first lockdown Health Minister Spahn said they would not close down hairdressers and other shops again.
Well, they did in November!
Man in his 70s collapses and dies just 25 minutes after receiving COVID-19 vaccine in NYC – as officials say he ‘didn’t have allergic reaction’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237735/Man-70s-collapses-dies-just-25-minutes-receiving-COVID-19-vaccine-NYC.html
An interesting article about ‘the variants’. Basically they have been given their nomenclatures by means of non-peer reviewed theoretical modelling with Neil Ferguson making a significant contribution! Anyone remain convinced the variants exist?
https://off-guardian.org/2021/02/08/the-shaky-science-behind-the-deadly-new-strains-of-sars-cov-2/
What do we know about the “new variants”
https://youtu.be/Sr8u6x-WlPc?t=2573
Indeed. An amazing ‘coincidence’. Not sure what to make of it but my brain will no doubt work on it overnight!
They probably throw darts to pick the new variant numbers.
“the pronouncements about the dire danger posed by the new variants aren’t based on solid science.
They appear to be aimed more at scaring the public into submitting to harsher and longer restrictions than helping to create truly evidence-based policies.”
… + Ferguson involvement = ’nuff said?
Gordon Bennet.
Ferguson, NERVTAG, SAGE, Imperial… models, models, models.
Same bunch of charlatans, same modelled bullshit!
Johnson General Election 2019, pledged
20 000 more police
50 000 more nurses
More rozzers – just what we (don’t) need!
Good to see this video interview from the lady who opened her gift shop in Edinburgh.
Police and local authority visit
Follow up interview
Please note volume is very low on the first video.
Covid: Over-70s can contact NHS for vaccine in England – BBC News
So from mid February the at risk 15 million people have been vaccinated. That’s the end of it the zealots have no case. We have endured their miserable existence until they reached their fancical target.
So we have to ask them why can’t we open up? This was the agreed end goal was it not?when will we ever open up?
Over £6,000 already. When I last looked a little while ago it was at around two grand! Marvellous stuff. Let’s hope they get well over the £10,000 target. I think it’s clear they will.
Kate & Luc Cafe and their fight for freedom:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/kate-luc-cafe-and-their-fight-for-freedom?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
I hope they don’t pay any fine.
They state they are raising money to pay for a good lawyer.
And their target is £10K? Well, I suppose that would get you an introductory meeting with a good lawyer.
Piers Corbyn’s lawyer, apparently.
Will know his way around the ‘rona regs by now, I suppose.
Haha… yes, could be a good choice.
Nothing wrong with setting a modest target and hoping it is exceeded. They are relying on the kindness and decency of strangers. It’s a bit tight to sneer at anyone doing what most are not brave enough to consider, isn’t it?
Surely the sneer was directed at lawyers’ level of fees ?
You know I was critical of that campaign as I didn’t see it being effective due to the fear porn at it’s height around around 30th January. However, I have to eat my words I think this could be a catalyst, we can fundraise and support collectively any businesses that open.
I saw today also that the woman in Edinburgh has been able to keep her shop open.
Yes. She’s receiving lots of support from telephone customers and someone’s helping her set up an online ordering system.
https://youtu.be/Sr8u6x-WlPc?t=3428
At the end of the day, policing is the responsibly of Priti Patel. If enough of us email her with a link to the video of police brutality she might be forced into a statement as to the over the top actions of the covistapo. At the same time you might want to remind her that she lobbied for the rights of smokers and drinkers when she worked for the tobacco and alcohol industries. (You can check this out for yourself via Wikipedia)
Her email address as Home Secretary is [email protected]
I doubt it.
When the TSG went in full in Trafalgar Square, she accused the protestors (a lot of who were seated quietly – I know, I was there) of attacking the cops. She’s a bad un, I’m afraid.
Yes, she probably enjoyed watching the video of Luc being attacked!
Oddly enough, there was no media hue and cry at the rumour that police were instructed to “go in hard”, so we never found out if it was Patel or Khan. Imagine the hysterics if it had been BLM thugs getting the stick treatment.
The Guardian et all would still to this day be full of wails of outrage, demands for investigations and inquiries, and for “root and branch reform”.
I’ve total respect for Kate & Luc, and especialy Luc’s humility – a real man.
I do feel sorry for the daft little copper, out of his depth, throwing a pathetic hay maker. Manchester can be a tough place to police and you do need some tough peeps for the job, that lad was just mismanaged – Luc’s the better man, so things will get sorted.
When I was twelve i was a bad judge of a situation.
Sorry, but I don’t feel one bit of sympathy for that copper. He should be struck off clearly a loose cannon who is not suited to being a police officer.
some situations need loose cannons – Luc looks well above the pee wee copper – I blame the management
In a situation when he (or a member of the public) was actually under physical threat and he needed to defend himself/them he would be a danger to himself, his colleagues and the public.
the young prick was wound up, and like a football manger winds up his players, the PC was wound up by his superiors – they are the ones to blame
He’d certainly lost all self-control!
I found it hilarious the way Luc got the better of him when he tried to put Luc on the ground and also a little later when the other cop was trying to get the cuff onto his right hand. Luc was so much stronger. He could easily have dealt with them both by himself.
where’s Burnham….. havent seen any comment from him
Rubber raft people to get UK amnesty in exchange for the jab:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/08/illegal-migrants-granted-amnesty-come-forward-receive-covid-vaccine/
1) The controllers are getting desperate.
2) The controllers are really dumb.
3) I wonder who’s making money on this potential grift/kickback scheme..
Not coercion though
I’m sorry I am having to refrain from using a multitude of expletives. How can that possibly dictate immigration status? In what world does that make any sense whatsoever?
This one, apparently.
more stupid poor people being duped then murdered.
https://www.jdfarag.org/prophecy
10 stages of genocide
“First they come for the statues, then they come for the people.”
No more gas lighting, thanks. We’re all fine over here.