- “Every adult in Britain could get their first Covid jab by early June after surge in vaccine supply” – Vaccine roll out well-ahead of schedule according to MailOnline
- “Vaccinated people are 30% less likely to pass on Covid after their first dose” – MailOnline reports on a Scottish NHS study which suggests that vaccination cuts transmission
- “Goldman boss wants all staff in the office by the end of summer” – The end is in sight for working at home for staff at Goldman Sachs, the Times reports. It’s still some months off though
- “Rishi Sunak says return to normal office working after pandemic will ‘probably not’ happen” – Rishi reckons that there will probably not be a full return to the office working of old, the Telegraph reports
- “Vaccines for all over-40s by Easter after ‘bumper boost’ to supplies” – The vaccine rollout is ahead of schedule and accelerating, according to the Telegraph
- “Citigroup offers London staff Covid tests as part of back-to-office plan” – Citigroup has started sending Covid tests to employees and contractors who have started coming into the bank’s Canary Wharf headquarters, City AM reports. They’ll surely be delighted
- “Entire year of 230 students is sent home from school after positive Covid tests less than a week into return to school” – The whole of year 10 at Budmouth Academy, Dorset was sent home after an unspecified number of positive tests, reports MailOnline
- “Sarah Everard vigil may still go ahead despite police ruling it out, organisers claim” – Sky News says Everard vigil likely to go ahead after a judge refused to intervene in a police decision not to allow a gathering
- “Boris Johnson’s UK virus strategy needs people to catch the disease” – A flashback to a year ago, when the strategy was reportedly to let people catch the disease and develop immunity
- “How much longer can the law be used to stop us doing things that are low risk, even safe?” – There are serious questions to be asked, says the Telegraph, “about the necessity or morality or quashing our basic civil liberties”
- “From masks to reopening schools, the adults who are supposed to speak up for children have failed spectacularly” – Most of the adults and organisations who are supposed to speak up for children have failed, writes Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph
- “SAGE’s covert coup Part Two – Project Fear” – The second instalment of Sonia Elijah’s investigation into SAGE for the Conservative Woman. Here she looks into the subcommittees
- “I wish I’d shouted louder about early lockdown, says Maths Professor” – A Times interview with Professor Adam Kleczkowski. In 2012, he wrote a paper entitled “Controlling epidemic spread by social distancing: Do it well or not at all”
- “The cruelty of the house party ban” – Writing in Spiked, Robert Jackman highlights an omission in Boris’s roadmap: the £10,000 fine for house parties isn’t scheduled for removal
- “Covid Regulations accused had right of silence” – The Law Society Gazette reports on the case of Keith Neale, who was suspected of breaching the Coronavirus Regulations. The Court ruled that he was under no obligation or duty to give the police his name and address
- “Covid rates crashing as vaccines make an impact” – A video update revealing the latest data from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study from Professor Tim Spector
- “Do vaccines cure Long Covid?” – A significant proportion of Long Covid sufferers have found that their symptoms lessen or disappear upon vaccination, according to this episode of the BBC’s Health Check
- “EU countries halt Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine rollout over blood clots” – A report from Politico on the suspension of the AstraZeneca jab in a number of countries in Europe
- “What inapt pandemic response is doing to our societies” – “What we’ve had in the last year are mostly stupid government regulations”, writes Joakim Book at AIER, “and people sheepishly internalising them as if they were handed down by a prophet on stone tablets”
- “The brutalisation of college students during lockdowns” – AIER report by Jack Nicastro and Phillip W. Magness on how US students were hung out to dry by college administrators “acting responsibly”
- “Lessons of the Long Covid Year” – An editorial in the Wall Street Journal marking a year of Covid. Lesson number one: “Lockdowns made the pandemic suffering far worse than necessary”
- “Companies that rode pandemic boom get a reality check” – Investors were flocking to companies like Zoom, but they are drifting away elsewhere, the New York Times reports
- “Pastor Coates has spent weeks in prison for a crime that is not punishable with jail time” – John Calpay writes in the PostMillennial about Pastor Coates, who is in prison in Canada for “a provincial infraction that is not punishable by jail time”
- “Did The Shutdowns Save Lives? A Year Later, Statistical Analysis Suggests Not” – Chuck DeVore examines the data and finds no evidence that lockdowns did anything but “deepen the economic suffering, increase suicides, and prevent lifesaving medical tests and treatments”
- “Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee” – Watch the physician speak about treatments for Covid, and how there was a surprising lack of interest in this from government and media
- Andrew Neil holds forth about Harry and Meghan on Spectator TV
'What they have to say is of no importance, and they talk about many things which they have no qualifications to talk about. It would be best if they faded into obscurity'
— The Spectator (@spectator) March 12, 2021Andrew Neil on Harry and Meghan
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I remember early on in the shitshow when I was still actively trying to persuade those among my friends and colleagues I mistakenly considered intelligent and politically aware of the evils of lockdowns, I quoted something from Sikora to a ex-friend. She’d clearly not heard of him (neither had I to be fair, before all this) and obviously then checked him out on Wikipedia. Her answer to my arguments (and his) was to send me this snippet from his Wikipedia enrty:
“In a 2017 Newsnight opinion piece, he described the NHS as “the last bastion of communism””
That was the extent of her counter arguments – Sikora has dared criticise the NHS, so he is Literally Hitler and all his opinions are immediately invalid without further discussion, as are mine by association. That more or less summed up for me the covidian cult mentality.
I think it was/is one of the many modern faiths that we simply couldn’t recognise as being a faith. People in modern society, through a lack of real human interaction, have become decoupled from reason and logic. Social media and online communication in general has driven this disconnect (yes, I see the irony in my own musings). We need meaning in life, and we seem to have replaced the meaning we get from direct human interaction with the meaning we get from faith – ‘vaccines’, climate, the NHS etc. Much of this faith is clearly a kind of self-flagellating pleasure. Also interesting is the idea of God as a higher power being replaced by the Gods of Big Tech, Big State & Big Pharma – these are now revered. In the biggest paradox in history, technology has driven us backwards into the dark ages.
Beautifully put.
Yes, I suspect I have a lot of ex-friends because I refused to accept the lockdowns. There are simply lots of people who I haven’t bothered to contact, because I know how they’ll think. People are hopelessly brainwashed. We’re living in the world of Atlas Shrugged right now.
She’s an ex friend now I assume?
Yes. We don’t mix much with non-sceptics now – at present it’s just too much of an effort.
It’s not the NHS’s fault.
It’s not their fault that it had grown into an unmanageable behemoth that couldn’t cope in the first place.
It’s not their fault that they overreacted to a pretty mild flu like virus and stopped treating those with other diseases.
It’s not their fault that they dedicated so many resources to rolling out a treatment most people didn’t need and actually has caused quite a lot of harm.
It’s not their fault that they don’t really want to meet patients any more
They’re the NHS, a national treasure, that needs to be loved and saved at all costs.
It’s our fault for not changing our lives enough to adjust to the needs of the NHS. And for doing annoying things like getting sick or developing illnesses.
What we need to do is to shut up, give them more money and do as they tell us. That’s how you build a world leading service.
A blisteringly accurate appraisal.
How many people do you think would be in their front gardens banging their pots and pans this year if it was made a ‘thing’? No need for a poll to get an idea of just what the public opinion is of “Saving the NHS” this time round is there? And don’t forget to keep a look out for all of those highly choreographed Tiktok dances…that were obviously cobbled together over their lunch break. Not!
The way to build a world-beating NHS is for everyone to die at home all at once, then there won’t be anymore waiting lists!
Nail. Head.
It’s the perfect cover. You can imagine the conversation – “but how do we hide all the deaths from this shot?”… “lockdown. What we do is we lock everyone in their homes for a couple of years, let a huge backlog of medical issues mount, further weaken the immune system and, hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
Pretty much. The first lockdown was designed to instill fear and get the population used to being controlled, then the propoganda campaign hit like a Blitzkrieg intended to ramp up the fear. Then, tantalisingly the talk of vaccines was introduced and only, if only, these could be produced quickly would millions be saved from certain gruesome death.
Those responsible for imposing lockdown, nominally Bozo and his band of Co genocidalists, would certainly have known that locking people up, denying social interaction, would undermine mental and physical health and dilute the population’s ability to fight infection and disease AND keep many away from rNHS. This of course would lead to:
“hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
And that’s because Bozo et al knew that mass sickness and death was inevitable following the ‘jab’ campaign.
As somebody rightly pointed out yesterday, why are no politicians and certainly no leading politicians falling to heart attacks or sudden aggressive cancers?
Simple – none of the buggers have been injected, more’s the pity.
The agenda is to maim and kill. Depopulation and enslavement for a few sickly survivors.
Before Bozo ultimately became a man without a country, he was already a man without a soul, having long since sold it to the highest bidder.
The elites all probably got the saline placebo jab instead.
Good interview with (once) eminent Dr Tess Laurie with John Oliver.
How she woke up
https://youtu.be/cgX7IY2rBug
Neil Oliver…
He’s well worth watching.
The sooner the state admits the NHS is dead and all that’s left is a corpse churning with maggots giving the impression of life, the sooner we can sort out a replacement. A couple of weeks ago, my Mum was told that there was a 50-week wait on the NHS to see the specialist who took a carcinoma off her leg, as the wound hasn’t healed properly. So she spent £140 to go and see him at his private clinic for ten minutes last week. Significantly, he told her what to do with the wound and it’s now healing well. The nurse practitioners at the GP surgery had told her completely the wrong thing to do with the wound and had dragged out the healing process by months.
In my home town, an equity firm is now running three of the NHS GP practices and more are likely to fall under its ownership soon. I pay monthly insurance to cut down the NHS fees at my optician’s and there are no NHS dentists available so I’m looking at £22 per month minimum rate to go to a private dental surgery
So we’ve already de facto privatisation, only with all the worst elements of the state gumming up the works. If I didn’t have to contribute thousands of pounds a year in National Insurance to help fund other people’s NHS treatment (and employees’ diversity courses), I could find a comprehensive private insurance package that would include GP care, opticians and dental plans, rather than scrabble around looking for someone who isn’t already oversubscribed…
The once-great NHS has apparently been moribund for a while now, from decades of mismanagement and death by a thousand austerity cuts. The latest machinations are simply finishing it off.
Privatization is basically a foregone conclusion at this point. Of note, of all of the rest of Europe, only Spain has a similar fully-socialized healthcare system. Switzerland, in contrast, is basically the polar opposite. And the rest are either some variant of either single-payer Medicare for all (i.e. public insurance but private healthcare system) or some sort of hybrid system.
What I will say, as an American, is whatever you do, DON’T be like us though with our for-profit sick care system and widespread medical bankruptcies that everyone ends up paying for either way. Frying pan, meet fire. As for our neighbor to the north, Canada, they WOULD have a good single-payer system if they didn’t subject it to their own death by a thousand austerity cuts for three decades straight.
The rot in the whole health sector is rife. The NHS is corrupt and broken, while the private sector is exploiting the shortfalls whilst not having any interest in doing something positive. Two grasping hands on one stinking amoral moneypit.
“We failed a generation of children – many of whom are now overweight, unable to talk…”
I have a sister and two neices who work in the education industry. The term used for children who cannot speak – literally – when they start school aged 4 / 5 is:
NVC – Non Verbal Communicators.
I kid you not, and there are lots of them.
Will that generation, and future generations, ever forgive us?
Then there is the increase in children starting school still in nappies. Children who have regressed in social skills of all kinds.
This may be of interest https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.589884/full
Can I call people who imposed the lockdowns child killers as children were never at serious risk and children have died as a result of the various interventions?
Absolutely!
How many people that you know, who were in remission, have had their cancers come back as stage four and die? I know three people.