A senior research scientist for a pharmaceutical company (who wishes to remain anonymous) writes with his thoughts on where we are now.
1. Assumed solutions
As someone who has spent a career in drug R&D, the thing that led me to lockdown scepticism was the realisation that we had moved from evidence-based medicine to one of “assumed effectiveness”. This is where we are today. Lockdowns (and mask wearing) are assumed to work and all arguments as to the effectiveness start from this point. This means that the “evidence for” is constantly overplayed whilst any “evidence against” is dismissed or explained away. This is why the Swedish or Floridian approach needs to be better than lockdown, it is not simply good enough that it had similar outcomes for a lower price. From a medical intervention perspective this is simply lunacy; why would you give your patient a drug with more side effects than an equally effective one with fewer?
The most striking moment to me as a scientist was when Whitty and Vallance stood in front of a graph they knew to be wrong in order to justify going into the second lockdown. This was the point they lost any shred of credibility.
The real tragedy is that as a result of assumed effectiveness of lockdowns, Government thinking has never moved on and we have learned nothing. What is there to learn when you already have the best solution to the problem?
2. A disease with no symptoms
The dictionary definition of a disease is: a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury. To have a disease is to be ill, yet the most striking feature of COVID-19 is that apparently one in three people can have this disease but be perfectly healthy or, to use the new vernacular, asymptomatic. Perhaps most of us also have an asymptomatic broken leg too?
3. The Fallen
Lockdowns kill, hurt and maim people. This was captured brilliantly in the “For The Fallen” piece at the start of the year, as it brought home the human misery of lockdowns. The trouble is that none of our leaders seem to care; their world is Covid and Covid is their world. The collateral damage caused by lockdowns is huge both to our health and wealth, and the harm caused will almost certainly end up dwarfing any potential benefits the intervention had on Covid-related mortality. We will have killed the patient to save him.
4. Throwing our young people under the bus
What we have done to our young people in the name of saving lives is scandalous. This is a “trivial disease” to those under 25 and yet they have been asked to shoulder the biggest burden of lockdowns. They have also been shamefully scapegoated. How many lives has lockdown destroyed almost before they have even really started? I am surprised that they have been so tolerant of this (so far), but can only put it down to them being genuinely fearful. As a parent I have seen the impact of this first-hand and I will never forget or forgive the people who have done this.
5. Media sophistry
Because the damage caused by lockdowns is plainly evident to everyone, the only way we can live with it is by employing doublethink i.e., blame the misery on “the virus” or “the disease” or “the pandemic”. No, let’s be clear, the damage to society is due to policy, not a short strand of RNA covered in some proteins and lipids. Of course, the most vocal advocates of lockdowns are often those who are also crying into their decaf, soya lattes about the terrible cost of the “pandemic” to society and the vulnerable.
6. Life in the Virocracy
I’ve come to the opinion that life in the UK today must be a bit like life in Iran under the ayatollahs. We have the religious council (SAGE) who set policy and a compliant government who then enact it. The population is then divided into three basic groups: there are the heretics who need to be suppressed at all costs in case they undermine the authority of the religious council. Then there are the true believers who are given voice to continue to spread the “Good Word”. And finally, there is everyone else, who just do their best to muddle through the lunacy by paying lip service to the required strictures of life, but are quietly getting on with it. Lockdowns have turned many people into lawbreakers as the only real way to survive.
Stop Press: A Lockdown Sceptics reader came across the entry for totalitarianism in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is scarily apt for our new “virocracy”:
The totalitarian state pursues some special goal, such as industrialisation or conquest, to the exclusion of all others. All resources are directed toward its attainment, regardless of the cost. Whatever might further the goal is supported; whatever might foil the goal is rejected. This obsession spawns an ideology that explains everything in terms of the goal, rationalising all obstacles that may arise and all forces that may contend with the state. The resulting popular support permits the state the widest latitude of action of any form of government. Any dissent is branded evil, and internal political differences are not permitted. Because pursuit of the goal is the only ideological foundation for the totalitarian state, achievement of the goal can never be acknowledged.
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Just like I submitted my views on the experimental gene therapy vaccines? Now they’re giving them to kids. The consultations are a sham. They’ve already had this in China and they simply can’t wait to roll it out over here.
There’s two reasons for these consultations:
Everything will be conveniently cleaned up and packaged in a nice box with bow on top, ready for the vaccine passports.
Conspiracy theorists must be in a continuous state of confusion at the moment.
”I didn’t become a conspiracy theorist to keep being proved right”
I would describe it as vindication, but there’s still a very long way to go before even those on this site who feel ‘red-pilled’ can grasp the extent of the lies we’ve been fed – long before March 2020.
I have attempted to submit my response 3 times, but each time have received a delivery failure notification. Is this common?
I sent mine as an email and attached PDF, and got the usual automatic acknowledgement, couched in the customary condescending way.
Thanks for heads up FL, mine was, like yours [pdf attached] and usual inane condescending waffle response / receipt from brainless 7 Bde
Would not willingly download any government app — What they are doing is Evil as far as I am concerned -ie I suspect everyone who reads lockdown sceptics is well aware of the disgraceful and deceptive and manipulating things this government has done to Prove that Covid is a diabolical killer — I am ashamed to the party I voted for
Haven’t got a phone. Binned it. Simple solution. Life is hugely improved.
Who would ever want to go into a pub that demanded a ‘vaccine passport’? Ridiculous. Any landlord that tries this would be mad. They’ve been closed for most of the past year, I would have thought they’d be begging for customers, not finding more excuses to refuse entry. It really has reached a point where I spend a lot of time laughing at all this insanity, which is great
Spot on! Last year I switched to carrying a crappy old nokia to combat this idiocy at the pubs and restaurants asking for my details. Then they insist on the paper forms, wherein it is simply a case of filling them with gobbledegook.
Same here. The Nokia 105 suits me down to the ground. I never give anyone the number on these things anyway, and if they don’t like it, they know what they can do.
Well done. I still use an old Nokia 515, even installed a replacement battery in it last year. It’s only used for the odd emergency call when out, or for SMS display of some log on codes (such as for tax returns, activating new secure keys for the bank etc). It’s not normally active at all.
Incidentally (slightly off topic), one of the more modern risks is walking around while absorbed in a ‘smartphone’ and unaware of the real world. I’ve come across that while driving near them and intending to cross the road; not nice.
I’ve submitted my response but forgot to ask when the government will be repealing all anti-discrimination laws if this goes ahead.
There is a useful template response on the Big Brother Watch website:
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stopvaccinepassports/
Do personalise your responses though. When template responses go to any kind of call for evidence most if not all get discounted. Templates are great for ideas but not for sending.
Sent my response, but these consulations are only theatre at best. Sent copy to my Labour MP too, although he is fully onboard with the propaganda.
Same here, but not to my MP, who is a government apparatchik, with whom I’ve corresponded before; I know his point of view.
Anyone with any morals and a brain, do not download any Apps and boycott any business and service that requires one. Regardless of whether you have had a vaccine and your views on these. This was once a free demoocracy and now clearly it isn’t. All pushed in under the guise of bad flu rebranded with a new name. If someone wants a vaccine that is their choice and if someone doesn’t then that is their choice and noone should be coerced. Noone has ever had to provide proof of a flu jab or TB jab etc- these kill more Worldwide every year. Given that in reality these vaccines only demonstrated in trials to reduce “mild” symptoms in some people and are already probably useless and ineffective due to new variants, there is no logic or point to have to them and to have to show anything. I can’t believe how dumb people are out there not picking up on this and that includes employers, many in the health service and Politicians etc. Well either dumb or they know and are simply immoral with no integrity.
The template on bigbrotherwatch needs careful reading. It needs to be personal. As it stands it’s general and not what everyone would want to say, so don’t just copy and paste as is.
Old Nokia 3510i not internet connected. Had it 17yrs and was given it second hand. No ‘smart’ stuff for me.
Agree with other comments that gov consults are a sham and also provide ammo, however I did respond to this one, only to lay out in black and white the legal position and issue a clear warning so that government is put on notice for when we are ready to proceed for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. My submission, lays out the legal basis for which their criminal certification scheme is a form of APARTHEID: https://cacuk.world/covid-status-certification-is-uk-apartheid/
Extract below…
Segregation, apartheid and crimes against humanity
If a COVID-status certification scheme is implemented in the UK, there will be a significant section of the population who will assert their legal rights and refuse to be tested and/or vaccinated. They will do this for valid reasons, none of which are selfish or reckless. Some of these reasons have been noted above. Some people may also, or alternatively, assert their legal right to refuse to wear a face covering, on grounds of reasonable excuse. If these people are then refused access or services, or made to wear lanyards or badges, or forced to seek and obtain some official ‘exemption’ (which may or may not be granted), or placed under any other form of inconvenience, whether by the state, or by public or private bodies or entities, or by other individuals in society, this amounts to discrimination and unfair treatment of a particular group of people.
That is how segregation starts. Segregation is the beginning of grave injustices based on a policy-led perception of inequality.
Segregation of a section of society based on its unwillingness to submit to arbitrary testing and vaccination is not just unlawful; it will be recognised as a crime against humanity, just as apartheid is listed as a crime against humanity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.[1] It took 25 years for apartheid to be recognised as a crime against humanity. In the current era of mass communication, it will not take that long for segregation based on COVID-status certification to be recognised as such. This is because there is already overwhelming evidence that “COVID-status” based on testing and/or vaccination data is practically arbitrary, and that an individual’s bodily awareness is a better indication of sickness and/or infectivity.
If government decision-makers wish to proceed with a COVID-status certification scheme, despite the fact that it is unnecessary and would be practically useless, then the government MUST widely advertise through all national media channels that such COVID-status certification is entirely voluntary and optional; that nobody is obliged to be tested or vaccinated to prove their ‘COVID status’ to anybody else; that there can be no adverse consequences for those who choose not to be tested or vaccinated; and that any person who attempts to impose conditions of testing or vaccination, or place adverse consequences on someone for not being tested or vaccinated, will suffer a penalty.
This is the only way for government decision-makers to avoid liability for discrimination, in the short term, and for crimes against humanity in the long term.
[1] https://legal.un.org/icc/statute/english/rome_statute(e).pdf.