- “You call this freedom? Boris offers a future full of endless Covid rules” – MailOnline‘s account of Boris’ announcement yesterday, in which he “laid out a grim vision of coronavirus restrictions stretching into the future”
- “Johnson is in trouble over vaccine passports – and it’s showing” – The Prime Minister was unable to answer questions about vaccine passports at the press conference yesterday, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator. “Given the ferocity of the debate ahead – and the depth of concern in his party – this bodes ill”
- “Go with the flow: how helpful is mass testing” – To introduce mass testing at a moment when prevalence is very low seems “deeply confused”, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator. “A case of no one being quite brave enough to ditch an initiative that was conceived before vaccines had made it redundant”
- “Vaccine passports: Covid status checks to become ‘feature of our lives’” – If the Government gets its way, there will be nothing to prevent a businesses from checking a customer’s Covid status, provided they are not breaking equalities laws, the Telegraph reports
- “Covid domestic passports have unleashed a growing revolt” – “After a year of waving through Covid measures with minimal resistance, it looks like vaccine passports might be the thing that finally awakens some political protest,” writes Freddie Sayers in the Telegraph
- “Weekly summary of Yellow Card reporting” – As of March 21st, 40,883 yellow cards have been reported for the Pfizer vaccine (10.8 million first doses administered) and 99,817 for the AstraZeneca vaccine (15.8 million first doses)
- “The price of perpetual panic” – In his latest blog post, Omar S. Khan goes on a tour of misplaced Covid panic, before training his spotlight on Britain’s slide from “autonomy and liberalism” to “crotchety authoritarianism”
- “Why risk aversion is bad for us” – Refusing to accept some level of risk will make us poorer, unhappier and unhealthier, writes Fiona Buller in Spiked
- “We have Covid data, now we want dates – so why are we still waiting?” – The Covid data is all good, writes Trevor Kavanagh in the Sun, yet instead of freedom we are heading for vaccine passports
- “Are vaccines paving the way for the next pandemic” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Andrew Mahon considers whether efforts to prolong life with mass vaccination programmes are “inadvertently enlarging the susceptible population and making a bigger target for the next virus”
- “Johnson’s stormtroopers enforce their own law on Good Friday” – Looking at the way police interrupted a Good Friday church service for the Conservative Woman, Neil McCarthy concludes that, in Boris’s Britain, “the law at any moment is merely what the police say it is”
- “Additional freedoms for the fully vaccinated on the way” – Leo Varadkar has confirmed that the Irish Government is developing a digital vaccine pass, according to the Belfast Telegraph. He confirmed that the Government would introduce “more freedoms for those who have been vaccinated”
- “COVID-19: Department of Health notified of 320 new cases, no deaths” – According to RTE yesterday, the Irish Department of Health reported zero deaths from COVID-19
- “Why are flu-vaccinated people more resistant to COVID-19?” – Deutsche Welle looks at a recent study which suggests that people who have had a flu jab are much less likely to get Covid
- “Young Pakistanis rush to purchase Russian vaccine as private sales open” – Sputnik V is now available for sale in Pakistan at a cost of 12,000 Pakistani rupees (£56), Reuters reports, and people are are queuing up to buy it
- “Mecca to accept only ‘immunised’ pilgrims from Ramadan” – Saudi authorities have said that anyone doing the umrah pilgrimage must be immunised against Covid, Agence France Presse reports. This includes those who have received two doses, those give a single dose 14 days prior, and people who have antibodies because they’ve recovered from the disease
- “Researchers are hatching a low-cost coronavirus vaccine” – A new vaccine is entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam, and, according to the New York Times, it is far easier to make
- “Touch wood! Risk of COVID-19 transmission via surfaces is less than 1 in 10,000, CDC says in new cleaning guidelines” – The CDC’s updated guidance recognises that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection via fomite transmission is very small and that there is no need to disinfect after 24 hours, RT reports
- “Why the silence in the face of Covid tyranny” – Prompted by the job ad for a head of asymptomatic testing communication, AIER’s Donald J. Boudreaux considers why so many liberty minded individuals have been so quiet on Covid tyranny
- “A conversation on Covid and lockdowns: Drs. Prasad and Kulldorff” – The AIER has published a transcript of Dr Vinay Prasad and Dr Martin Kulldorff’s recent conversation about the mismanagement of the Covid pandemic on the Plenary Session podcast
- “Fauci says US will not require COVID-19 ‘vaccine passports’” – Dr. Fauci said yesterday that the Federal Government will not require Americans to use vaccine passports, according to the New York Post. He expects rather that businesses and institutions will create their own policies about vaccinations
- “When a doctor and his family got Covid, they experienced a remarkable recovery” – A video from the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance about a Covid patient who recovered well after taking Ivermectin
- “Living with this virus does not involve turning Britain into a totalitarian state” – “That’s not what living with the virus looks like,” says broadcaster Mark Dolan
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Climate change?
And what were the rest caused by? “Protect the NHS”?
“In previous waves, almost all excess deaths could broadly be explained by Covid.”
Really? Some, probably. But almost all? Shutting down the NHS, throwing the old and frail out of hospital, isolating people…
I think they mean they can be explained by Covid magically curing dementia and cancer deaths. They were doing it last year and the same think seems to be happening, periodically now…some weeks when Covid deaths are up, some of the usual suspects are down.
Ah yes of course, how silly of me. Lots of things that used to kill people seem to have become much less dangerous because of covid.
…and the magical disappearance of flu …
No, no no – lockdowns caused the disappearance of the flu which proves that lockdowns work…
That was amazing but it’s because we weren’t circulating apparently? Does this mean covid can travel from an infected person, out of their letterbox and into next door via the same route? It’s a bloody clever virus
Damn right, it also knows the difference between shops and pubs
And it knows it should stay away from supermarket employees.
“All deaths within 28 days of receiving a positive test”
For whatever reason :97 years old, 32 stone, Suicide, etc.
Feel free to add any other type of death.
And Midazolam.
“could broadly be explained”
If Guy Fawkes were alive today, this column might argue, his target should be the government’s health science establishment.
I’d strongly suggest, Fleet Street instead.
When I was growing up, the Fourth Estate openly prided itself as the guardian of society, the monitor of the government. The Fourth Estate had as its duty, factually informing the public and – as needed – sounding the call to arms.
Today (partly because of the rise of the Web, and then social media) the Fourth Estate has largely turned tabloid in a desperate rush to maintain revenues.
It’s pursuing the eternal truth expressed by America’s H. L. Mencken: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Without the Fourth Estate, the health science establishment would be a housewife yelling across her back yard fence.
(And so would Boris and Donald be ….)
More pointless duff data.
Carry on regardless.
I find this a puzzling article, only a few days ago they published an item discussing how age adjusted mortality was at normal levels;
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/29/octobers-age-standardised-mortality-rate-was-equal-to-the-five-year-average/
I would have thought this article today would have taken the previous item into account to give a balanced consideration with regard to UK deaths. Is there cause for concern in any way? Of particular concern is deaths in the under 40s and do they give any indication of possible vaccine effects.
The problem there is ‘age standardised mortality’. It is a concept that tends to be misunderstood and is often used inappropriately.
It certainly does nothing to highlight additional deaths in younger age groups — it, like the raw death rate, will mainly be sensitive to changes in the death rates in the elderly and will be unlikely to show any shift at all with even substantial changes in the death rate in the young.
Specifically wrt covid, it is idiocy to use age-standardised mortality to describe deaths during a pandemic which has a very strong age dependency for deaths.
My father died of a heart attack at home on 21st November, he is one of the non Covid unexpected deaths at home . He had had his booster vaccine the day before, he’d then immediately felt unwell, the following morning he had chest pain, he died that evening. We will never know whether his heart attack was caused by the vaccine, but I strongly suspect it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What I do know is that I had only seen my dad for 4 hours since March 2020, because he was scared of catching Covid. His last 20 months were lived in fear, away from his family. People must wake up and realise that Covid is not worth giving up our lives for. Life is for living, not just avoiding dying. We are not merely cells to keep apart, in order to avert death, we are social creatures who need human touch and love to thrive. I hope that in saying all this, one person might go and see their family, one person might stop being so afraid of Covid that they hide away from life. If my comment helps anyone, then Dad’s death will not have been wasted. Please live your life today, because nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.
Sorry to hear about your Dad. Beautifully put. The state of fear that these lies have created in the old (and the young) will last for years and will not be easily undone, and this is one of the most egregious of the many evils perpetrated in the name of “saving lives”. To use “saving lives” as an excuse for political and financial self-aggrandisement, and to knowingly destroy lives in the process, is simply wicked.
So sorry to read about your Dad. I will wager that there are many people who have been led to a similar and horrible situation. Hiding from a entirely survivable disease and being given experimental vaccines that likely cause significantly more harm than good. Scared witless by government and pseudo medical propaganda.
One day there will be a reckoning, people are awakening to the truth and every day I hear more and more of my friends and family express disgust at the actions of the government. The slow drips of truth are forming in puddles, soon there will be streams and rivers which will begin to wash away this madness, our time is coming.
help! I’m not in a good place at the moment. Fallen out with my mother who I love dearly over my refusal to have the Covid jab. I have put forward all the reasons for me not having it but she cannot see my point of view at all. She basically thinks that by not having it I am dicing with death and not only that want to kill her too. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated – I really do despair.
Depends on how old she is and how much you value the relationship…you could just lie to her and say you’ve had it? It’s not like she will ever suspect the truth because all the jaboids seem to catch awful wu flu anyway. You’re not putting her in any additional “danger” so morally it’s only a white lie.
I get the same from my mother and sister, both work in the national covvie service so are regularly dosed with extreme propaganda. I haven’t yet found a way to break through I’m afraid, I guess it’s going to take something bigger. I just refuse to talk to them about it – divert all conversations to topics that are much more pleasant and entirely unrelated, ideally that emphasise how much better life used to be. There you go, nudge theory being used for good instead of evil.
In the first wave, covid and excess deaths were closely aligned at 51.6K to 50K
Whereas in the second wave covid deaths exceeded excess deaths by 23.4K (151.5K vs 128.1K) so even tho’ the NHS was closed to everyone except covid cases we are asked to believe that there were 23.4K fewer deaths from CVD & cancer etc.
And the ones that are linked to covid are exaggerated because of the bizarre policy of counting a death from any cause that occurs within 28 days of a positive test result as being due to covid.
There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et.al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Yes many linked to the vaccine. You know things like heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms. Little things like that. Any autopsies done on the victims? Any history taking? History of Covid vaxx?
So how come, then, that the FOI requests to local authorities showed that across the country there were few ”excess” burials or cremations?