- “No more lockdowns – Britain will treat Covid like flu, says Chris Whitty” – Speaking at a Royal School of Medicine Webinar, Whitty said that lockdowns were unlikely to be needed again, the Telegraph reports. He added that the Government would only be forced to “pull the alarm cord” if a dangerous variant arrived
- “Boris Johnson to unveil vaccine passport trial ‘starting next month’ in theatres and stadiums before being rolled out to restaurants and pubs” – Vaccine passports are starting, and according to the Daily Mail, “Mr Johnson’s ‘roadmap’ for lifting almost all restrictions by June 21st could now be dependent on a functioning vaccine passport programme”
- “Lockdown extended: Could Boris Johnson delay roadmap? Expert’s four crucial conditions” – The Express looks at the roadmap tests that might prompt Boris to slow down further
- “Second vaccine doses outnumber first jabs for first time in single day” – According to Sky News, there were 270,526 second jabs administered on Tuesday, compared with 24,590 first jabs
- “The growing debate over vaccinating children” – Writing in the Spectator, Ross Clark looks at the vaccine trials involving children
- “Interim Head of Asymptomatic Testing Communication” – A job ad for an “exciting role” at the Department of Health, responsible for delivering a communications strategy supporting “the expansion of asymptomatic testing, that normalises testing as part of everyday life”. £750 a day, subject to IR35 status
- “Covid lockdown led to surge in schoolchildren suffering mental health issues” – New reports from the Education and Training Inspectorate indicate that the first lockdown led to a surge in mental health problems among school children, according to the Belfast Telegraph
- “All pupils to return to school after Easter break” – The Northern Ireland Department of Education announced yesterday that all year groups will be able to return to school on April 12th
- “Vlad says the vaccine’s my choice – why won’t Boris?” – The Russian president recently said that the vaccine is a voluntary decision for every person. “One waits in vain,” writes Frederick Edward in the Conservative Woman “for a similar commitment to individual autonomy from our self-described libertine [libertarian] Prime Minister”
- “The many scandals of the PCR test: Part 3” – The third of Sonia Elijah’s feature’s on PCR testing in the Conservative Woman. Here she looks further into the Corman-Drosten paper and covers Dr. Reiner Fullmich’s class-action lawsuit
- “How to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports” – “Let’s stop discussing the use of vaccine passports as a criterion for basic social and economic participation,” say Stephen Reicher and John Drury in the BMJ. “This is an idea with few redeeming features and even talking about introducing them may be enough to do damage”
- “Britain is a nation of vaccine passport bootlickers, claims survey” – James Delingpole, writing in Breitbart, is sceptical about the results of a recent Ipsos MORI poll
- “An Englishman’s Prison” – “A government that seeks to destroy the essential English values of freedom and privacy cannot be said to be acting patriotically,” says Alistair Cavendish, but the current regime has sought to “make the Englishman’s home his prison rather than his castle”
- “COVID-19: What might have been” – Richard Lyon wonders what might have been if the Government had stuck to the Pandemic Preparedness Strategy when responding to COVID-19
- “COVID-19, Humility and Solutions” – Simon Brazier’s True Hope Podcast talks to Dr. Hugh Willbourn about simple strategies for dealing with feelings of isolation or despair
- “Breadcrumbs of freedom” – “We should hang our heads in shame over the way we have treated children in lockdown,” says psychologist Professor Ellen Townsend, a member of HART, in a visit to the Planet Normal podcast
- “Rebuttal letter to European Medicines Agency from Doctors for Covid Ethics, April 1st, 2021“– A letter to the European Medicines Agency from Doctors for Covid Ethics about side-effects of the vaccine – a rebuttal to the EMA’s response to the group’s first letter
- “Israel: Why Is All-Cause Mortality Increasing?” – The Swiss Doctor looks at the “continued increase in all-cause mortality” seen in Israel since mid-February, even as the numbers of Covid deaths have decreased
- “WHO data: Ivermectin reduces Covid mortality by 81%. WHO: We still don’t recommend it” – Writing in the Blaze, Daniel Horowitz is puzzled. The WHO has updated its guide on COVID-19 treatments to include Ivermectin’s positive results, and yet it still won’t recommend it
- “Dozens of Washingtonians test positive for COVID-19 after full vaccination, DOH says” – KIRO7 News reports on a strange episode currently being investigated by the Washington State Department of Health
- “The doom is impending, from lockdowns but not the virus” – The real ‘impending doom is the fact that the “apparatchiks who falsely seized power are not about to give it up – vaccinations, herd immunity and plunging cases notwithstanding”, says David Stockman at AIER
- “Biden and the Lockdown Governors Need Canute thinking” – If we choose to “look to government out of fear to save us from a natural force” writes Jon Sanders at AIER, then “few leaders will have the humility to admit that such a thing is beyond the reach of the state”
- “Japan puts Osaka, two other areas under virus semi-emergency” – New anti-Covid restrictions are being imposed on Osaka, Hyogo and Miyago, according to the Diplomat, focussing largely on restaurants and bars, which will have to comply with new safety standards
- “We are not supporting doing any vaccine passports in the state of Florida” – Governor Ron DeSantis explains why, saying of the vaccine: “We want to provide it for all, but mandate it for none”
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We need to make the vaccine passports trial fail. We must ensure it descends in to such utter chaos that they do not attemot it any further.
And I’m one of the people who is actually quite sympathetic to having the vaccine, but I will not spend my life being controeldl by a government ID scheme and to help undermine the delusional plan for vacine passports I am refusing vaccination until such passports are banned. That BMJ article is absolutely right, if this government wants the rollout to STOP DEAD ON THE FUCKING SPOT AND NEVER FIND ANOTHER LIVING SOUL WILLING TO OFFER AN ARM FOR THE NEEDLE then vaccine passes are just how they’ll get vaccine hesitancy to world “leading” levels. We have the CRG on our side, we have the Lib Dems on our side (yes, right wing economic tories atdning shoudler to shoulder with lefty liberals), we have some in labout swaying including their leader, if businesses would put their efforts where their mouths are and pledge to break legislation to avoid passes (rather than merely criticse them) we cn have the nations businesses too. The time has come for defiance, there can be too many of us for them to checkpoint.
Happily LS has a history of right wing economic tories standing shoulder to shoulder with lefty liberals in the cause of lockdown Skepticism but I do wish the CRG would rename themselves Lockdown Recovery Group.
I agree. How can we do this? Some suggestions
Any other suggestions welcome!
I made a point of re-visiting food venues that went OTT with regulations when they first re-opened thus causing me to go elsewhere.
About half of them had relaxed enforcement sufficiently to make me feel welcome on my second visit.
Different branches of Weatherspoons took remarkably different stances on this.
I agree – I believe there are many people out there who have been vaccinated but on principle would not frequent businesses that excluded the unvaccinated, so I think it is really important that those people also write to their favourite places and say that they have been vaccinated but will not support health facism. Some theatres seem to be a little bit in love with the ‘covid-safe’ culture (one of my locals still doing temperature checks in defiance of all guidance), but I am still sure most venues do not want this. Writing a stiff letter will help them to oppose these measures. I get a lot of surveys from theatres and museums and I am making a point of saying this, and may extend it to other places. Get onto mailing lists and you will get these surveys too. It is so important to help them fight this. Young people in particular need to point out that they have no intention of taking a vaccine they don’t need for their health just so they can go to the pub.
Also, although the government review has passed, there is another review happening until the beginning of May – details here:
https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1104/covid-19-vaccine-certification/
For inspiration, Big Brother watch can help with template responses, etc, and I also have come across this from the alliance for natural health:
https://www.anhinternational.org/news/why-we-need-to-stand-together-and-reject-vaccine-passports
The Parliamentary petition is live until the end of July:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/569957
Organisations like 38 degress (yes those people who used to campaign for social justice) and the TUC (yes, the trade’s union congress) are running aggressive campaigns promoting the vaccine particularly to young people – https://home.38degrees.org.uk/2020/12/08/how-to-talk-about-the-vaccine-and-your-questions-answered. We need to make people aware that this is happening – those endless facebook comments about ‘Oh I’ve just had the vaccine’ are part of an orchestrated campaign. Let’s counter with a clear message that mass vaccination is neither necessary, desirable or (dirty word) affordable. The UK has already pledged its spare doses to other countries that need them more so perhaps the new mantra for the healthy under 50s needs to be ‘I will forgo my shot for someone who needs it more’.
For the track and trace, I always said my mobile phone is too old to use the NHS app (which it is) so we were always asked to write down our details before being allowed entrance to cafes/other establishments. It wasn’t long before I started using the name and contact details of anyone I don’t particularly like.
There will be similar work-arounds for any ‘cutting edge’ passport. The government couldn’t organise a piss-up at a brewery (if there’s any breweries left).
How will they enforce it in somewhere like a rural backwater? have a covid marshall standing outside all day during opening hours?
Roundup item 1.
So Whittys statement about living with Covid like we do with flu was not an April Fool after all.
Pity he wasn’t saying this last summer as many here were.
Rat leaving a sinking ship ?
A promising statement, coupled with Boris’s historic comments on ID cards it gives us all the moral ammunition we need to utterly defy whatever draconian hell they plan on trying next. We have never locked down for flu, we have never been expected to present ID cards at pubs for flu, and there’s no cause to have ever even considered this tyranny for covid either.
I wonderd about that, let’s hope so.
Roundup item 2.
Asked if the trial for Vaccine Passports would be extended to Sex Workers Boris Johnson said
“I didn’t become a Conservative Prime Minister to pry into the most private details of ordinary decent peoples lives so NO, there are currently no government plans to require Sex Workers to take part in this temporary trial”.
Believing himself to be off camera Mr. Johnson was heard to mutter
“Just as well really since it’s all based on the Track’n’Trace app which is a crock o’ shite anyway; where did they spend 37 Billion flippin’ quid?”.
Did he seriously say that??? does he not realise that the buck for the spending of the 37 billion and the project turning out to be rubbish rests with him? It was his government which authorised it??? Spread this as widely as you can.
Roundup item 3.
Lockdown Extended, from the long winded Daily Express report.
‘Dr. Martin Machaelis, (SAGE?) virologist and Professor of molecular medicine at the University of Kent said
“The question should not be ‘what am I allowed to do ?’ But ‘what is a reasonable thing to do ?’
“If we had been able to do this as individuals and as society from the beginning we would not have needed any lockdowns in the first place”.
You mean as they did in Sweden Dr. Machaelis ?
Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer who presided over the virtual house arrest of the entire population, lectures us on his concern about us being over-weight. https://youtu.be/hekEMqUiyIo
He is beyond satire.
Thank you, I did enjoy upticking the excellent if less than respectful comments, not least the one asking whether we should have Obesity Passports.
I might take the vaccine when it has passed phase 111 safety trials and has been granted a full, rather than an emergency licence, but I will not be carrying a vaccine “passport”. If that means I can’t go to the pub so be it.
The UK found a few bloodclots for AZ. Then they found a load more that they had forgot about
The Germans found 1 in 84,000 had bloodclots so bad that they needed hospitalisation and a clinical diagnosis. Half of whom died.
I suppose they are looking to see how many people have clotting that doesn’t need hospitalisation, do the clots grow and then reduce, will they be affected by a second jab, what about 6 monthly booster jabs. Its no wonder vaccine testing takes a decade – so much to look at!
Why would you enter a lottery where the winning ticket is death?
Where are all the ethical hackers when you need them?!
Whitty says there’ll be no more lockdowns.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, thrice, quarce… ad infinitum; shame on me (the docile general public).
(Of course,) YouTube has deleted the Nick Hudson presentation and Q&A on lockdowns.
They are now on BitShute. Search for Nick Hudson.
I’m hoping this is an attempt at coercion to get jabbed before it sells for profit, if not, MP’s should resign en masse, segregation in the UK is too horrific to contemplate.
I am sure that is what it is, and it seemed to be working – lots of people getting the vaccine in anticipation of not being able to travel without it – I see Keir Starmer is now spreading the lie that other countries will require a vaccine, just not true, it is the UK government that is stopping us from travelling. The thing is they are going so over the top now that ultimately it feels like it will backfire. Because younger people will have to wait, they will have time to think about it. Hence all the campaigns to get people to ‘pledge’ that they will have the vaccine when it is ‘their turn’. These people know there is a danger that younger people will quite rightly not see the point of getting the vaccine on health grounds. But don’t forget, the Tony Blair institute is involved in this, and their agenda is digital ID – these lobby groups will never stop their attempts to get the ID card in place by any means necessary. And of course that worked so well for Labour in 2010, didn’t it?
Agree and yes Blair has always been obsessed with this, anything, wars, EU president, anything to get on the world stage
Go to the daily mail article about vaccine passports – scroll down to the comments and add your votes to the comments with the best votes – which are voting against vaxx passports. The more opposition to this we show the better.