The Great Lockdown Debate
Toby went head-to-head on talkRADIO this week against Christopher Snowdon, the erstwhile sceptic and now lockdown cheerleader with whom Toby has been sparring in recent weeks.
It’s a cracking debate and general opinion is that Toby won hands down – but then we would say that.
Toby says:
I debated Chris Snowdon on talkRADIO on Wednesday. It was a lively but good-humoured exchange chaired by Mike Graham, the veteran radio presenter and former editor of the Scottish Daily Mirror. I don’t suppose we changed many minds, but I was pleased that Mike and talkRADIO created a forum for a proper, grown up debate about the lockdown policy, something that hasn’t really happened on the BBC or any other mainstream media platform.
You’ll notice quite a contrast between mine and Chris’s appearance. We see Chris lounging on his sofa in what appears to be a dressing gown, a microphone in one hand and a vape in the other. All you see of me, by contrast, is my enormous noggin. I don’t think that was a consequence of my Zoom set up. Rather, I think talkRADIO decided to chop out the Free Speech Union banner behind me and that meant a tight close up of my face.
I’ve had some nice comments about it on Twitter since it appeared on YouTube yesterday, but then most of the people I follow on Twitter are lockdown sceptics so they’re inevitably biased. In my long experience of doing these debates, the people who agree with you think you did well, whereas the people that disagree with you think you got owned by your opponent. I think it was a draw. We both got an opportunity to put our arguments across and neither of us landed a killer blow.
Watch for yourself and see what you think.
Stop Press: Nicholas Lewis has taken Snowdon to task for his groundless criticisms of Mike Yeadon when he wrote about false positives in September.
A GP Protests “No Jab, No Job”
A GP, Dr Clare Jones, has written to her MP Jesse Norman to protest against being compelled to be vaccinated or face disciplinary action from the General Medical Council, as Lockdown Sceptics reported yesterday. She copied us in and we thought we’d share it with you.
Dear Jesse,
Having worked tirelessly for the NHS for 31 years as a hospital doctor, A&E doctor and a GP with probably two sick days in my whole career, is the Government really suggesting that because I exert my choice not to have the Covid vaccine, my wealth of medical experience is going to be lost just because I choose to exercise my free will and conscience ?
Like most other people who decline the vaccine, I’m not an “anti-vaxxer”. My son is fully vaccinated; I have travel vaccines. But I weigh up the pros and cons of vaccines in a more informed way than most other people and have decided for now I don’t want it (likewise the flu vaccine). There is currently a haemorrhaging of experienced GPs due to unprecedented stress levels, including one over the last couple of months from our five partner practice. If I go it will destabilise our already struggling practice.
I have borne the burden of vaccinating (with no extra payment and massive organisational toll) the population who CHOOSE to be vaccinated, the burden of listening to the thousands of patient emotionally damaged by the ill-judged and poorly assessed lockdown (the lack of risk/benefit analysis has been criminal), the burden of carrying work for other colleagues who can’t manage the unprecedented stress in the system, the dumping of more and more work onto primary care – and now this slap in the face.
The Government needs to take a break from criticising the Chinese Communist Party for a moment and stop in its own attempts at re-educative, repressive and punitive strategies directed toward minorities such as those who choose not to be vaccinated. It is disrespectful and demeaning to an educated and thoughtful sector of society to impose a medical procedure against our will.
I would also like to be able to continue to move freely in the UK and the world at large, which is a much more effective and healthy way of managing mental strain than the endless mental health online resources we are bombarded with and that we’re much too busy and exhausted to look at. Travelling and exploring freely in the world at home and abroad has proved an effective way to keep me functioning well in a highly stressful job. Happily, I just need to be able to move freely in my God-given environment and breathe God’s free air to keep me happy and functioning as a productive and functional human being. Vaccine passports would deprive me of this healthy outlet.
Believe me, I will make the most of an imposed early retirement if enforced vaccination becomes a reality, by finishing my thesis on “governmental revolving door policies with particular emphasis on pharmaceutical companies”. After all, what do I have to lose? Not my freedom.
(Dr) Clare Jones
Hereford
Stop Press: Care UK, one of the UK’s largest care home firms, has introduced a ‘no jab, no job’ policy, saying new staff must have received a Covid vaccination before they start work, the Guardian reports. Barchester, meanwhile, which operates more than 220 private care homes, has said it is insisting that current staff are vaccinated, warning that if they “refuse … on non-medical grounds [they] will, by reason of their own decision, make themselves unavailable for work”.
How Effective Are the Vaccines?
The latest results from Imperial’s REACT study, published yesterday, have shown that more than nine out of ten of those vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine develop COVID-19 antibodies. 91% of those vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine had antibodies, rising to 95.5% in the under 60s but dropping to 88% in the over 80s. After a single dose, 94.7% of under 30s had antibodies after three weeks, but only 34.7% of over 80s.
This is encouraging news, given the Government’s apparent determination to use vaccines to exit the lockdowns.
Lockdown Sceptics reader Paul Roe, however, wonders why the purported benefit is yet to show up in the deaths data from the ONS. He comments:
The claim for the vaccines is that they have an efficacy of up to over 90% (Pfizer 94% Oxford-AZ 90%). It is claimed that you reach a “significant level of protection after 22 days”.
So you would expect that 22 days after the first jab (so from December 30th 2020) there would begin to be a significant fall in deaths for the 70s, 80s and 90+ age groups.
However, looking at the graph (above) the curves actually shoot up at that point and don’t begin to drop until four weeks later.
It has to be hoped that this is just a delayed reaction, bearing in mind that markedly low 34.7% figure for antibodies in the over 80s three weeks after the first dose. The ONS data relates to the situation around two weeks ago.
On a more cheering note, deaths are plummeting now.
Stop Press: Her Majesty the Queen has made a rare intervention in the vaccination drive, calling on people to “think about others rather than yourselves”, the Mail reports. The jab “didn’t hurt at all” when she had it, she said. The implication that those refusing the vaccine are selfish won’t go down well with those who decide that, for them, on balance the risks don’t outweigh the benefits.
Lockdown States Suffer More Deaths Than No-Lockdown States
No-lockdown states in America continue to outperform lockdown states this winter, with 1,475 Covid deaths per million in states which didn’t lock down this winter (seven of them didn’t lock down in the spring either) compared to 1,558 deaths per million in states which locked down in winter (all of which locked down in spring as well).
The no-lockdown states have gained a little on the lockdown states since February 1st: previously the lockdown states had 5.7% more deaths but now the difference has fallen to 5.3%. But there is no sign yet of any huge surge that might reverse their positions any time soon.
Could there be much clearer evidence that, whatever Neil Ferguson’s models might say, lockdowns do not hold back a flood of hospital admissions and deaths?
Time to follow the example of Florida and the other free states and end the restrictions.
Stop Press: 111 triages for potential Covid in England dropped yesterday to their lowest level since August 9th, indicating there is almost no community transmission of COVID-19 in England at present.
Biostatistician Jon Deeks has also spotted that the Innova lateral flow tests have been returning a positive rate of 0.32% for three weeks in a row now. That is the estimated false positive rate for the tests, further indicating almost zero community transmission of COVID-19.
Yet still we are set to stay in lockdown for many weeks yet.
Postcard from Bulgaria
We’ve received a postcard from Lockdown Sceptics reader Tim Ireland, who is in Sofia. He says there is “lots of hope restrictions will be released in the coming week or two”. Right now, though, it’s not a very happy place.
I’ve been coming and going from Bulgaria for 20 years – which is to say my knowledge of the country doesn’t reach back to the fall of the Iron Curtain, but it started in the heady days of pseudo mafia rule in the years that followed. Most of the people I know here were teenagers of young adults when the wall fell. Some were actively involved… they all remember what life was like before.
The somewhat depressing refrain I’ve heard from many – especially those with international exposure and who know how pervasive and demoralising the lockdown has been in the UK – goes roughly like “I thought we threw this junk out, dealt with the joblessness, disenfranchisement, and community decline of the transition to capitalism so we didn’t have to live like this. The reward for that price was supposed to have been liberty”. A high school best friend – still a very good mate and sardonic at the best of times – shrugs his shoulders and proclaims as if narrating the history of the human species from a pulpit “That’s it. Those that have lived, have lived. Those that have travelled, have travelled. The end.”
He’s actually among the more chipper of his countrymen, has worked hard to build a career, copped life’s knocks on the chin and still has a sense of humour, so he continues, more seriously: “We’ll learn to live with it, we always do”. Part of that adaptation has meant reverting to the kind of ground-up subversion of nonsensical rules. Decades ago, illicit restaurants and bars operated a series of code-name entry protocols, so-called ‘parola’ bars. Sometimes voiced, but more often just an unmarked door with a combination lock. No code, no entry. Another friend, a sickeningly multilingual pocket rocket who has spent the bulk of her career working for Belgian and Dutch outsourcing companies, grins conspiratorially as she explains “Do you know what’s the latest ‘hit’ in Sofia? – posting your restaurant bill on social!” It seems a small, humble thing, to have gone out to dinner, shared a meal with other people, but she makes no effort to hide the sheer triple-multiplied joy of both having socialised, screwed the authorities… and bragged about it publicly.
Worth reading in full.
COVID-1984
Our revisiting of George Orwell’s 1984 this week has inspired Lockdown Sceptics contributor and former Sunday Times medical correspondent Neville Hodgkinson to write a reflection on the Orwellian nightmare that our society has quickly descended into. He begins:
Lockdown Sceptics contributor Guy de la Bédoyère gave powerful testimony this week about the inhumanity inherent in the global hysteria surrounding COVID-19. Following his post here on Tuesday reporting the death in a care home at the weekend of his 100-year-old mother-in-law, BBC Radio 4’s World at One listeners heard him describe coolly but movingly the tragedy of her last days and months.
She did not die of Covid and did not have dementia. She was mentally alert to the end, and acutely aware of what she had been denied through the brutal isolation, as Guy put it, imposed by lockdown laws for the sake of keeping her ‘safe’. In her last year of life she never saw her four great-grandchildren, had only one or two fleeting visits from grandchildren, and was unable to hug or hold her one surviving child.
It was a “hideous punishment”, Guy wrote. “That it has come to this, that we as a society and led by the Government and its scientific advisers with the willing acquiescence of organisations and individuals have done so much to commit the ultimate act of betrayal towards people at the end of their lives will surely go down in history as one of the most ignoble and demeaning aspects of this tragic year.”
Since the start of the pandemic, I have asked myself how and why COVID-19 could have triggered so many policies that seemed aimed at generating as much fear as possible, with repeated exaggerations in numbers forecast, and little regard for the social, economic and health costs involved. Our politicians, and the select group of scientific advisers who seem to be dictating policy, present themselves as caring, smiling individuals, not at all like jack-booted monsters.
And yet… the Orwellian flavour of our current experience is unmistakable. It has given rise here at LS to suggested ‘Ministry of Truth’ slogans such as Breath Is Death, Solitude Is Solidarity, Fear Is Hope, Deaths Save Lives, Lockdown Is Liberty, and so on.
Find it on the right-hand side menu. Worth reading in full.
Plus, here are today’s top Party slogans. Thanks to all who have sent suggestions in.
LUNACY IS SANITY
COMPLIANCE IS LIBERATION
DETECTION IS INFECTION
DETENTION IS PREVENTION
FAILURE IS SUCCESS
DEBATE IS HATE
CANCELLATION IS COMPASSION
SCARING IS CARING
AUTHORITY IS TRUTH
DOUBT IS DEADLY
Round-up
- “WHO says vaccine passports should NOT be used for foreign travel as there are ‘critical unknowns’ around how jabs protect people” – Mail report on the latest advice from the World Health Organisation that takes a sceptical line on vaccine efficacy. Unfortunately, its alternative is to keep borders tightly shut, not reopen them for travel
- “Where did our human rights go?” – David McGrogan in spiked writes that, in the face of “an unprecedented assault on our civil liberties, too many lawyers and academics have remained silent”
- “Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the ‘new normal’” – BBC report that David Solomon has said: “I do think for a business like ours, which is an innovative, collaborative apprenticeship culture, this is not ideal for us. And it’s not a new normal. It’s an aberration that we’re going to correct as soon as possible”
- “‘Socialist’ Jacinda Ardern now only allows travelling for the ‘super-rich’” – Niall McCrae writes in Unity News Network that the supposedly Left wing Government thinks New Zealand is suffering from “over-tourism” so plans to attract the kind of visitor who, to quote the tourism minister, “hires a helicopter around Franz Josef and eats at a top-end restaurant”
- “Reflections on the Year of Living on the Edge with COVID-19” – David Redman and Professor Ramesh Thakur write in the Australian Institute of International Affairs that, one year in, the hold of discredited mathematical models remains strong while existing pandemic preparedness plans lie forgotten
- “The 19 most scandalous things the government has done during this tragic debacle” – Russell David enumerates the charges on his Mad World blog
- “Call for artists: anti-lockdown exhibition” – Call for artists to “examine and respond to the lockdown that we are all experiencing” from Fitzrovia Circle
- “Lockdown scepticism shows the limits of post-truth politics” – Ian Dunt in Politics.co.uk writes that lockdown scepticism is “an ethical abyss, a testament to how certain commentators and politicians will allow their need for attention to overrule even the most rudimentary of moral standards”. Well, I’m convinced
- “In Egypt, those who remember Mubarak have little patience for lockdowns” – Robert Jackman writes a postcard from Cairo in the Telegraph after a welcome “bleisure” trip which went more smoothly than expected
- “The corrosive fear of asymptomatic transmission” – Excellent summary of the evidence against asymptomatic transmission from the Achilles Heel blog on Medium
- “Safety and Ethical Concerns of using COVID-19 Vaccines in Healthy Children” – A new open letter from the UK Medical Freedom Alliance raises the key issues at stake when contemplating vaccinating children against coronavirus
- “The Ferguson Correspondence” – Hugh Willbourn reflects on the recent exchanges in Lockdown Sceptics with Professor Neil Ferguson and what they tell us about why people believe what they do and how they change their minds
- “An Interview With Virologist Drosten in 2014” – Fascinating interview with the pro-lockdown scientist behind the Covid PCR test protocol who, seven years ago, warned (in relation to MERS) that PCR is “so sensitive that it can detect a single genetic molecule of this virus”, meaning “now suddenly mild cases and people who are actually very healthy are included in the reporting statistics”
- “UK lighthouse laboratories testing for SARS-COV-2 may have breached WHO Emergency Use Assessment and potentially violated Manufacturer Instructions for Use” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil on the Probability and Law blog write that “UK laboratories have been routinely recording a large proportion of COVID-19 test results as positive based on the presence of one target gene alone”
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Six today: “I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again” by Stacey Kent, “Killing Yourself To Live” by Black Sabbath, “The Scientist” by Coldplay, “Road To Rack And Ruin” by King Kurt, “Feel like living” by Hothouse Flowers and “The Kids Aren’t Alright” by The Offspring.
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, it’s the news that Mr Potato Head is going gender neutral and is a Mister no more. Bloomberg has the story.
Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year.
Toy makers have been updating their classic brands to appeal to kids today. Barbie has shed its blonde image and now comes in multiple skin tones and body shapes. Thomas the Tank Engine added more girl characters. And American Girl is now selling a boy doll.
Hasbro said Mr. Potato Head, which has been around for about 70 years, needed a modern makeover.
Read it in full here.
Stop Press: Just 16% of black Brits believe tearing down statues is “a legitimate form of protest“, according to a new report from the Henry Jackson Society, Guido reports.
“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: Wearing masks obviously isn’t possible while playing brass instruments. But that doesn’t mean somewhere can’t be found to place useless pieces of cloth. The Post Millennial reports that Wenatchee High School in Washington state hit upon making the school’s band practice in pop-up tents (picture above), providing each pupil with their own tent while also social distancing them six-feet apart. That’ll stop those pesky virus particles…
Stop Press 2: The Telegraph reports that some primary schools are telling children as young as five to wear face masks in the classroom. Depressing.
Stop Press 3: Mark Dolan on talkRADIO delivered a satisfying rant against forcing children to wear face masks in classrooms.
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. In February, Facebook deleted the GBD’s page because it “goes against our community standards”. 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, although that case, too, has been refused permission to proceed. There’s still one more thing that can be tried. You can read about that and contribute here.
The GoodLawProject and three MPs – Debbie Abrahams, Caroline Lucas and Layla Moran – brought a Judicial Review against Matt Hancock for failing to publish details of lucrative contracts awarded by his department and it was upheld. The Court ruled Hancock had acted unlawfully.
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.
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…
Lockdown Sceptics reader David Kelly has come into possession of a leaked list of pledges inadvertently missed off the Conservative Party’s last election manifesto. Maybe they’ll include them next time?
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Some days ago reader David Kelly posted the missing Boris Corbyn – Johnson Tory manifesto. Strangely I penned something a while ago on similar lines.
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If I knew how to access the Lockdown Sceptics poetry section I would post it there, but perhaps the moderators could do so. Thank you.
VOTE-IVE OFFERINGS
Would you give your vote to a party
That promised to house arrest you,
Would penalise, if you socialise
All in the name of stopping a flu;
If they said you can’t travel abroad
Or visit your granny in care,
Stop operations, and celebrations
Close down places of worship and prayer.
Not allow you to grieve for your dead
Or to give your daughter away,
Close down your pub, your football club
But not stop the illegal sto’way;
Not break free from the Brussels quagmire
Or catch your own fish in the sea,
Ban all haircuts, golf drives and putts
All to wipe out the economic.
Would shutter grown up generation
Make you drive a Scalectric car,
Increase your bills, to pay for windmills
With policy from the boudoir;
They fooled you think they were Tory
Hid the hallmarks of Engels and Marx,
Sold out our souls,… Read more »
To Dr. Clare Jones,
You wonderful woman Clare. I applaud you and support you. May the peoples of the world wake up to the tyranny that is being laid on them.
Blessings and thoughts.
Susannah Acworth
Disappointing to watch Hitchins walk under the yoke. I don’t underestimate the the weight of oppression pressed on his shoulders. I suggest a written letter from all of us asking him to stay in the fight. If you agree I’ll suggest an outline.
Keep an eye on Jamaica in the coming month:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20210227/vax-hope-jamaica-wont-be-sharing-covid-jabs-caricom-says-tufton-first
“Jamaica gears up to receive a gift of 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from India next week”
Let’s see if they have the same coincidental correlation in deaths soon as observed here, the Seyechelles, Gibraltar and so on.
Time for bed so it’s episode 4 of Ultraviolet, a 6 part 1998 ITV drama with an early Idris Elba and other soon to be familiar faces.
Starts off a bit Sci Fi, flash bang, uber superhumans but by the end of episode 3 it’s become the super rich funding laboratories for . . .
Vaccines !
Night night. Ax
Was that when Idris could actually run without looking arthritic? 🙂
Childish, I know, but I haven’t done one for a while, so… JVT.
Look him in the eyes and tell him ‘Tony says no’
Daily Mail article of 20/12/2001 /Blair-gets-needle-MMR.
Mr Blair (2001) believes vaccines are a private matter:
‘The spokesman went on: ‘ Everyone is entitled to their privacy. That is particularly germane when it comes to medical records.’
Interesting, short video piece on France 24 concerning the fate of those who refuse the vaccine in Israel…
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20210226-left-behind-as-israel-reopens-what-now-for-those-who-refuse-vaccines
Clicked on to view but it came up with something about accepting YouTube nosy nonsense so, being completely neurotic/paranoid I rejected it. Hopefully the article/video plays out the downfall of vaccine/passport ites and had a happy ending.
Woah, I’m confused! What’s happened?
Does this work better?
https://f24.my/7Pex
It probably would if I accepted the terms (see screenshot). Cheers
That’s really weird. I’m in France, and I don’t get that screen. What’s it got to do with You Tube? France 24 has nothing to do with You Tube; it’s a French government channel.
Makes you wonder what’s going on…
No happy ending, I’m afraid. Just a load of crap for people who aren’t prepared to have the poison shoved into their arm…
I’m a bit confused….
Here’s another link to the vid I posted…
https://f24.my/7Pex
What happened before?
First link worked fine thank you.
Great!
In bed now but just caught sight of The latest Mirror coverage of Wancock & Van Dam telling us to “Not to wreck this now”as supposedly various districts have rising case numbers ( can this be backed up ??) What a pair of narcissistic Fucking Bell Ends , Just fuck off you utter Cunts !! ( there I’ve said it , excuse my French but they are no friends of ours ) Bastards 🤬🤬🤬
Well I’m torn. Yes you are right. But (channeling my nana, god bless her soul) I’m afraid it’s a soap mouth wash for swearing 🤬. 🤣🤣🤣
Yes but I feel better 😉
Let’s always remind ourselves as Toby does in the “debate” that the alternative to lockdown lunacy is not “letting the virus rip” but focussed, well funded protection and shielding for the most vulnerable. Add to that many other positive things that could be done but aren’t being done…Use of cheap and effective treatments such as Ivermectin and HCQ. Free distribution of Vitamin D to everyone over 60 or in vulnerable categories. Better treatment of respiratory crises. Weight loss programmes for the seriously obese. Then let’s not underestimate the effects of positive thinking and uplift. A public health publicity drive based on a positive response rather than the B Movie Fear Stuff we get currently would do wonders for the public mood. At the same time we would be reopening up our economy, family life, sports and cultural activities.
India is distributing homoeopathic remedies to its population. Mega cheap – would never catch on in the pharma-controlled west!
Links in with the monarchy discussion below. Both the Queen and her mother (who lived an active life to beyond 100) were devotees of homeopathic medicine. This used to be acknowledged but now a veil of silence has been drawn over the subject.
I’ve only had homeopathic medicine once in my life, from a practitioner, but I found it effective.
The Indian populace is already enmeshed in the digital biometric control grid, which is one of the real goals behind this op.
The virus ripped anyway. The state had a simple choice: boil our heads, or not boil our heads. Boiling our heads would obviously have no effect on the ripping qualities of the rona. The state chose to boil our heads.
So. Storm the studios and tell the truth!! Once this is over (as we must believe it will be) our work here is not done until we ensure that lockdowns are made illegal. They must never and can never be justified. ‘Case’ numbers aren’t the way out and vaccines aren’t the way out because we shouldn’t be ‘in’. The public need to know.
Where do we start?
Just caught some USA news , Biden has stopped work on the Mexican border wall which was nearly complete & is ignoring the scramble of illegals pouring through the now porous border with no health checks etc , SO why can any Western World Covid measures be justified especially the health passports , surely this negates all measures !!!!….
Same in the UK.
Great poll!
https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers#resourcesforreaders
Not sure that links leads to where you want it to…
Bottom right, this week’s poll …..
Ah I see – think you have to accept the cookies. 🙂
Yes, a good result. But why was the question even asked. We have laws to protect against people posing as qualified medical advisors when they are not. Though some like some TV doctors (who aren’t medical doctors) sail close to the wind on that one.
For me it just linked to the question ‘Should spreading anti- vaccine misinformation be criminalised?’
Noticed the presser tonight did not mention the Queen. I’m aware protocol means Handjob (and presumably his two sidekicks) shouldn’t discuss what she says. I never heard all the press questions, but I don’t think they mentioned her either.
I wonder if the negative reaction to her comments by the public has caused the press to back off from the story a bit. Only real follow-up I can see is one story in the DT.
Anyone notice/think different?
Further to a post below, I am proposing we call Vaccine Passports, Digital Passports etc “Social Control Permits” which is what they are.
That’s what they are!
I’m proposing we call them ‘Sheep tracking devices’
Or STDs for short
🤣👍😅
I am home from a very normal evening out. Probably 40 or more of us sticking the collective middle finger up. Car park was packed, hugs all round. Stick that in your fucking pipe and smoke it, Wancock.
I’m so disappointed that the Queen has allowed herself to be drawn into political propaganda.
She has been VERY poorly advised, and has undoubtedly fallen prey to concerted political pressure.
I also fear that there are signs that her advanced age has started to take the edge off her judgement.
For her to imply that people who refuse to take this “vaccine” are selfish, as she does (1:23), goes way beyond her constitutional remit, and, frankly, perhaps she ought to keep her mouth shut, or, otherwise, put herself up for election and become a president, rather than a constitutional monarch.
What the hell is she doing on Zoom chats, anyway? For goodness sake, she’s supposed to be the Queen of England, not some two-bit politician, like Matt Hancock.
What’s going on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-tAzZ2ztCU
Yeah. It was v disappointing. Well, the monarchy was captured by globalists a long time ago. Globalists will use monarchies as required but will surely dispense with their services at the earliest opportunity. Globalists don’t really like the cosiness of the monarch-subject bond. They want people to feel isolated and afraid because then they can be more easily controlled. So ultimately consitutional monarchy will be abolished under globalism.
You’re absolutely right.. Yes, we’ve just witnessed the end of the monarchy, there. And you’re correct to say that it’s been coming for a while, but I just can’t believe how poor and how blatant that was.
No prestige, no nothing. Just another talking head on a Zoom chat, spouting government propaganda. What a way to end her reign…
I think she will remain much loved in many ways especially as a last link to WW2 (people forget she was actually in the services in the war – the Auxiliary Territorial Service) but, yes, very sad it ends like that. The First Elizabeth’s reign ended somewhat sadly as well.
On a f***ing crappy Zoom chat, with a load of bone idle, self-serving NHS bureaucrats.
What a way to finish your reign! It speaks volumes about everything.
Indeed!
There was a survey link posted on here a few days ago, does anyone remember it and by whom? Anyway I completed it, mostly in the zeros as you can imagine but it included a question about who you trusted – listed the usual suspects of government and celebrities etc all of whom I voted zero and selected only HM as trustworthy. Can’t recall who the survey was by/for but is it more than coincidence that Maj is forced out now extolling the ‘marvellous’ vaccine (that we know as experimental GM therapy)?
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Or she is and has always been an establishment cunt. The simplest explanation is normally the right one, and all that.
Point taken, but there was, at least (and I admit it’s not much), an attempt to give an impression of stepping away from the political fray. No longer even that…
Yes, similar to how she ‘only’ has a couple of hundred million £ while the rest of her trillions in wealth is in trusts and land and funds, so not technically her own personal wealth. They are the oldest of old money in Europe; they care nothing for you and I.
I’ve always liked knowing who is going to be (powerless) Head Of State for the foreseeable future and that it won’t be some greasy pole politician.
Now I’m not so sure
Read Icke Biggest Secret.
Will do!
At least she didn’t have a cat filter on her Zoom channel like this poor bastard:
https://youtu.be/D3pB2zQRA90
I figure he was talking to his grandchildren and forgot to turn it off.
It would be a Corgi filter with the Queen…
‘Some people have never had a vaccine….should think about others’???? ‘I had the jab….it didn’t hurt at all’????
Yeah, because it’s the worry about ‘the jab’ hurting that has us stupids refusing it. Not that you, Dr Queeny, can’t tell us the long term outlook?’
Isn’t it interesting that the MSM didn’t seem particularly interested in (or threatened by) the lockdown sceptics until the vaccine programme started. Now if I was a conspiracy theorist, I might conclude there’s a connection…
Front page tomorrow
Are they asking or telling?
Wow – could this be a turning point after so long?
I thought it very interesting (positive) that they ‘allowed’ Bel Mooney’s article about her dad’s death
1) he was a lockdown sceptic
2) he died (in care home) of preconditions but was listed as COVID which the family dispute.
The whole article ended on calling out death certs ‘with’ and ‘of’ COVID. I must say I’m surprised atl didn’t investigate/make more of it. She’s v mainstream.
Well we might see more about this in tomorrow’s edition. It’s the first time I can really recall a paper campaigning on a favoured point of lockdown scepticism. We know that by this method the “Covid” death toll is hugely exaggerated (likewise NOT testing for other respiratory pathogens).
The Daily Mail was the only paper to call out the NHS regarding the Liverpool Care Pathway which was a precursor to the scandal of the lockdown return of the sick elderly care home residents back into homes without medication. It was basically euthanasia in its removal of food and water coupled with heavy sedation which sometimes led to the patient declining in a horrific way while the family had to watch and wait. Their campaigning led to it being withdrawn.
The Mail really need to see someone about their accute bipolar disorder.
To be clear. I really like this side of their personality.
Not before time.
I bought a paper copy of the Mail once last year to reward them for putting up a positive article that I saw online.
Sadly it was such a jumble of trite articles, adverts and paid for promotions that I barely got past page three before discarding it.
The lack of a definite article offends me.
Nope, sorry, I got to 26 minutes of the Toby : Sneerdon video and I can’t take any more. Lockdowns are immoral, impractical and unhealthy (understatement). NOTHING justifies the rules that have been imposed for this ‘pandemic’. Not rule by fear, not rule by public opinion (contrived) and certainly not rule by ‘the science’ (double contrived). Giving in to the hysterics and hypochondriacs is what has got us into this mess. Time to reign it in.
It’s “rein” it in but I actually love “reign it in”, too!!
🤦🏻♀️ iPhone so couldn’t see/proof read before posting comment and now I see it I can’t edit it. Please forgive me.
If you sign in to your account (above) an edit prompt appears and an icon for adding images.
🤷🏻♀️ I’m signed in and there’s a ‘bin’ sign but no edit. I think once someone has commented you can’t edit?
I have to say I didn’t even watch it.
I don’t need to. It has now been clear for a long time that the anti-lockdown case is correct.
,,,but thanks to Toby for fighting on and trying to convert those who are open to discussion.
Toby is so patient. He keeps calm and quotes the facts and data, unlike Sneerdon just going for the hyperbole. I (like my hero Delingpod) couldn’t stay so focused and factual faced with such an arrogant twot.
Just at 15 mins of the Toby/Snowdon head to head video (ta Mile TR for organising). Is the Snowdon guy drunk?/drugged? So far, he’s a complete sneer. Mike and Toby looking at him like they’re waiting for something he says to make sense. Sneerdon just following the usual hyperbole so far. But I’ll keep watching. I’m sure by the end he’ll have convinced me of the justification for lockdown damage.
I like the thumbnail
Toby snarling
Mike looking as though Snowdon just farted.
Snowdon rubbing a little tear from his eye.
I’ve heard an anecdotal story tonight (Hell the zealots have nothing but them) The kebab take way place where the owner is a skeptic, told me that his friend wife died two weeks after having the vaccine. I asked what they put the death down as he said not the vaccine. Basically she didn’t want to take it but her partner has loads of health issues and she felt it was best way to protect him. The guy said her health deteriated from the day she was vaccinated.
How many more deaths like this are not being reported.
Maybe your friend should write to one of the more respected experts in the field:
Queeny,
Buckingham Palace,
London.
It would be interesting to see what came back.
That’s worse than simply sad!
DM articles: Dr John Lee very pro vaccine talks about ‘refuseniks’ and ‘why should the whole country be held hostage by the 1 in 5 who refuse the vaccine’ and ‘consequences’
Then we have medical expert Stephen Glover writing that ‘vaccine certificates are the only way to get UK running again and boost jabs’ he suggests they could be for a limited period. Where have I heard that one before!
Funny how these people never in the past talked about flu certificates!
Lockdownista Logic
A burglar steals your telly and gets caught. He says, ‘I will give it you back when my mate has paid me the £100 he owes me’.
*Get mad at the mate and start berating him for not paying the burglar his money*
He’s playing to the masses. Okay along!
The Daily Mail changed what John Lee said about the country being held hostage in their headline. That headline completely changed the context of what he actually said.
I’m going to suggest that, if the Covid vaccines are so effective and safe, and second jabs provide even more protection, then the vaccine zealots should be given the unwanted doses from the ‘refuseniks’ so they can be super duper immunised, even MORE protected, no chance of catching something nasty from the “selfish ones”. Refuseniks then left alone, take their chances (against minuscule risk). Win win scenario?
K, please remember, when someone harasses you, you warn them that a second go is a criminal offence under the 1997 Harassment Act. Video the twats and threaten them with a court appearance.
PandaCast | Definitive Lockdown Presentation with Nick Hudson
Great video. And Nick Hudson 🥰.
GINGER NUT FINALLY CRACKS!
So the first minister of scotland employs her daily briefing about COVID to give a party / personal political broadcast that alex salmond is a conspiracy theorist (join the camp alex!).
The ginger nut has finally cracked….
The proof Sturgeon ‘lied’ that Scottish prosecutors don’t want you to see | Daily Mail Online
I am no supporter of independence!, but the performance of alex today was indeed impressive.
I’ve got high hopes this criminal will be forced to resign.
I have no time for Alex Salmond but if it helps rid Scotland of that awful woman fair play to him.
That is the most worrying thing I have read on this site today. Can’t see this going down well with an expectant populace anticipating swarming into pubs and restaurants asap, as many would still not have been jabbed. Are you able to post a link? Thanks.
The DM are on a definite roll tonight.
Calls for an enquiry into the misattribution of deaths as covid deaths on certificates. Questioning just how many of the 120,000 were nothing to do with covid.
https://mol.im/a/9305405
Again, the comments are very much pro storyline. I thimk the 77th must be havimg the night off, or they have been drafted north of the border to defend twankey.
119,000?
the 77th have been more occupied with this story
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9304243/Coronavirus-UK-Calls-abandon-quarantine-hotels-Ministers-refuse-reveal-data.html#comments
All singing from the same song sheet.
‘they knew the rules’.
That’s the only argument they have.
I’ve heard so many stories about misrepresented Covid deaths from relatives, friends, neighbours and care workers that I think most people must also have heard the same.
Early in lockdown 1 I reported on a hospital admin manager who had been told
‘Any patient who comes into contact with a Covid patient and who subsequently dies is to be listed as a Covid death’.
It was one of the things that drew me to LS.
Thanks Karen. It’s interesting what brought us here. I just felt a strong hunch that this didn’t ‘smell’ right, but in the first lockdown thought I was in the minority (of 1, me). Then Toby’s Spectator column brought me here by Autumn. Subsequently I cancelled The Spectator – again for me too many articles were leading, gaslighting or just not ringing true before I found out
1) editors in bed with number 10 and
2) Fraser supports lockdown. No one with an ounce of integrity from Spectator could/should/would support what has been done to democracy, freedoms and civil liberties.
Vive la liberté.
Haha yes I read that. Let’s hope the story is starting to fall apart.
Burger King night at the Tebay services lads !!!
Israeli lawyer, Tamir Turgal makes a second appearance
@CoronaAusschuss
for 1st International meeting of lawyer’s on 17th Feb to update on the massive population behavioural experiment running in Israel now with the vaccination program. Unprecedented!
https://mobile.twitter.com/HowardSteen4/status/1365387374331584514
From the comments section of that tweet, just as worrying
https://mobile.twitter.com/ya_pirate/status/1365090562999803913
COVID vaccination update from Norway. 25.02.21
102 related vaccine deaths.
299,418 vaccinated.
1011 not assessed adverse reaction.
1204 assessed adverse reaction.
Seen that. They’ve only had 300 Covid deaths. So the vaccine catching up.
Uk 20 million odd vaccinated .
400 vaccine deaths recorded .
That seems very low compared to Norway.
Something not right there.
It’s an NHS cover-up. Doctors know their careers could be seriously harmed if they record deaths as being associated with vaccination.
Death by anything but vaccines. Check. Job secured.
deaths and adverse reactions from all vaccines are always covered up if possible. They are always coincidences Normally never gets further than your doctor, never gets reported, So big pharmacist continues to make big money.
Big pharma
Only a fraction of adverse events are reported
Weathers improving a long dry mild spell forecast , cracks are already appearing in the lockdown , no doubt they will find another variant.
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-politics-56202975
A petition urging the government not to introduce vaccine passports could be debated by MPs after it gained more than 200,000 signatures.
Something at least. But they don’t care much for these things. It’s a distraction. Needs big numbers protesting
It’s completely irrelevant what our government does if every other country demands one for entry.
It’d be typical of us, frankly. Every other country at least attempts to stop the disease at the border… meanwhile we welcome in any old scabrous Johnny, because principles.
We need to be careful here. Once again govt is messing with the language.
A passport is required for overseas travel – fine; and any country can do as it chooses: “Their house, their rules”. As individuals we can decide whether or not we want to go to a given country on their terms.
But the
governmentregime, ably assisted by woolly-minded or downright misleading journalists, is conflating this with vaccine certificates that might be required to pursue everyday activities in our own country.Hmmm good point.
You are right. The narrative should be any passport, certificate or test for any domestic or international travel or access to business, jobs, events etc is wrong.
The logic of what I think we should call “social control permits” could apply to all sorts of things: STD clinic referrals (should people who have had recent appointments really be going to nightclubs?), drunkenness offences (should people who get out of their heads on alcohol be allowed in pubs?), drug addiction (should drug addicts be allowed in parks where it is known some drug activity takes place?) etc etc. The power of mobile phones, GPS mapping and personal data held by the state will be brought together and the argument will always be “it makes us safer”.
This gets us into the territory of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was all about: would a society that could eliminate evil be a good society? By the way I feel nostalgic for those past decades when writers – far from reciting PC pieties to garner awards – wrote perceptive and beautiful prose, issued genuine warnings to society and made us think.
Or in simple terms for the sheeples. Erosion of freedom and civil liberties is like the offside rule extended to the whole pitch.
Yep that’s a good analogy! Or it’s like making your Gran wear 20 layers of clothing so when she falls over she won’t break her hip…of course she will probably die from overheating, but that can’t be helped.
We just watched a thing on youtube about Aldous Huxley, his love their servitude interview, talking about Brave New World.
This was in about 1958 or something. It was a pretty high-brow discussion that would have gone out on national TV in the USA, at 8:00pm, prime time. Ready for the normies to consume in the masses as it was the only thing on.
I remember how we used to have a things on the TV where two very clever chaps would talk about something really clever on Pebble Mill at One with Donny MacLeod every day at lunchtime. It was the only thing on worth watching, it was boring as hell because it was two brainy chaps talking about brainy stuff (and probably smoking fags live on the telly) but still MILLIONS of people must have watched it.
Open University was the only thing worth watching on TV, especially at 12:30 an a Tuesday night on BBC2.
Now this was proper boffin territory. Their output was available to everybody really, there all the time, if you really wanted to know about boffin stuff, there it was.
Fill yer boots with boffinology!
Now nobody apart from specialists will be exposed… Read more »
Pebble Mill at One. What a blast from the past!
Hummm
Communications and signals
“Pebble Mill formed part of the BBC’s communications and transmission backbone. London’s BBC Television centre (TVC) had primary responsibility for most of the BBC’s transmitted output and day to day transmission switching and presentation.
Pebble Mill was the Midlands Central Switching and Monitoring Centre, and would route national channels (2 television, 4 national radio and local radio) to the Midland transmitters at Sutton Coldfield, Ridge Hill and The Wrekin and to other parts of the UK as well as acting as a national back up to TVC in case of emergencies.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Mill_Studios
“War Plan UK” by Duncan Campbell was an interesting read.
I remember when ITV used to let A.J.P. Taylor speak direct to camera for thirty minutes on, to most people, some obscure topic from history. 6.30 PM, straight after the news. Spellbounding.
The only thing left is Melvyn Braggs In Our Time.
These things are like “customer helplines” designed to distract & obfuscate for the benefit of corporate interests.
Excellent expose of these things on Uk Column today.
A year ago our plumber said this is where it was all leading.
Though I knew things didn’t add up ,at the time this seemed a bit unlikely .
How right he was.
This is a bit of a laugh to end the evening on. Perhaps it’s been posted already… Still..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lockdown-diary-of-a-bojo-flunkey/