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by Jonathan Barr
11 April 2021 1:14 AM

  • “Vaccine passports will be a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ before full herd immunity by this autumn” – According to the Mail on Sunday, vaccine passports are intended to allow sporting events and public gatherings in the short term and will be ditched when the UK reaches herd immunity in October. But the logistics of using them in pubs and restaurants are proving formidable
  • “Lockdowns have cost £22bn in lost sales, say British retailers” – Retailers have concocted all sorts of plans to make real-life shopping trips a pleasure once again, the Guardian reports, in an effort to make up for sales lost to lockdowns
  • “First-dose COVID-19 vaccine supply for GP sites to stop completely for a fortnight” – Supplies of first dose vaccinations for GPs will stop for two weeks from April 12th, according to GP Online
  • “Life will never be normal with Covid passports” – Writing in the Times, Janice Turner calls on the country to take a stand against “a future of form-checking and fear”
  • “Doctors claim A&E departments are ‘swamped’ by people seeking help for mild side-effects of AstraZeneca jab” – A&E departments around the country are seeing patients who’ve had the AstraZeneca jab and are suffering mild side effects, MailOnline reports
  • “How 12 times more people are dying from cancer than Covid” – The death toll from cancer is dwarfing that of Covid, the Mail On Sunday reports
  • “Virus hotspots could lead to third Covid wave in UK, scientists warn” – The Observer has dug up some scientists who are even more alarmist than those on SAGE
  • “Vaccine passports to ramp up cost of travel insurance” – Senior insurance executives have told Telegraph Money that the introduction of vaccine passports could increase the price of insurance for who chose not to use them, and are advising holiday makers to buy cover now to avoid higher costs
  • “Vaccine Fear, Morality and Politics” The fourteenth episode of Week in Review in which the Bournbrook magazine writers look back at the week gone by
  • “Medical Passports – Your Full History Soon Available To The Pub Doorman & All!” – Godfrey Bloom sets out the reality of vaccine passports in his typically forthright fashion
  • “It’s all in the telling: Why Europe’s approach to the AstraZeneca jab differs from ours” – The AstraZeneca jab’s bumpy reception in Europe has more to do with differing approaches to judging risk than with politics, writes Paul Nuki in the Telegraph. But, er, aren’t Brits terrible at assessing risk too, judging from the last year?
  • “No solidarity when it comes to coronavirus policy” – German politicians are now giving up on the idea of solidarity in the face of the Covid, writes Anja Brockmann at Deutsche Welle
  • “The ‘unvaccinated’ question” – Society hasn’t quite decided what it is going to do with those who refuse vaccines or tests says C. J. Hopkins for the UNZ Review
  • “South African variant can ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says” – New research carried out in Israel found a “disproportionately higher rate of the South African variant among people vaccinated with a second dose” compared to a group that had not had the vaccine, Reuters reports. “The researchers cautioned, though, that the study only had a small sample size of people infected with the South African variant because of its rarity in Israel”
  • “Only the vaccinated will be saved” – RT reports on the evacuation of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent following a volcanic eruption. Cruise ships are helping out, but the Prime Minister said only vaccinated people would be able to board rescue ships. What happened to women and children first?
  • “Semper coronavirus: Almost 40% of Marines are declining COVID-19 vaccine” – Some 38.9% of the US Marines, and about a third of the US military overall, are turning down the jab, according to the New York Post
  • “Another Covid myth dies the death” – Jeffrey A. Tucker looks back at the myth of surface transmission of COVID-19 – no need to disinfect that shopping, Karen
  • “Gujurat Government not in favour of lockdowns, says C.M. Vijay Rupani” – The Government of Gujurat is choosing not to impose a state-wide lockdown, despite the increased infection rate, the Times of India reports
  • “Human Rights Commission probes India travel ban” – The New Zealand Government is facing a human rights probe following it decision to stop citizens returning home from India, according to the New Zealand Herald
  • “‘This must not be permanent’: Privacy experts sound alarm over QR codes” – The Sydney Morning Herald reports concerns about the track and trace system in New South Wales which could “enable the sharing of health information with police or for any other number of additional, loosely linked purposes not anticipated by the public”
  • “Migrants left stranded and without assistance by COVID-19 lockdowns” – Covid travel restrictions have been particularly hard on refugees, says Modern Diplomacy
  • “Words of wisdom from the late and great Duke” – Was the Duke a lockdown sceptic? Judging by his comments here, from an interview in 1984, we think its a strong possibility

Words of wisdom from the late and great Duke on liberty, individuals and the role of the state pic.twitter.com/Hvro1DKFST

— Ian Silvera (@ianjsilvera) April 9, 2021
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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago

Isn’t royalty wonderful. Their propaganda value rests on their silence meaning that anyone can hope to identify with them. So long as they don’t open their mouths they are everyone’s friends and share everyone’s views.

If Phillip was a sceptic they all hid it very well and he certainly left no legacy in that regard, at least not in a way that’s useful in the public sphere.

So Philip was a sceptic back in 1984? That’s useful. Boris Johnson was a sceptic back in 2005.

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Sometimes they’re not so quiet. Charles, for example, is very much a leading voice in the Great Reset that is currently ruining our lives: https://youtu.be/7HZkFwcVAXo

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

BTW, if you don’t think the Great Reset is about depopulation, watch through to the end of that video above. You’ll see how there is a focus on crowded streets and busy daily lives until the end where you’ll see total emptiness, as if it’s a good thing and the outcome of their Great Reset.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Oh I’m under no illusions. But Charles proves my point because they keep very quiet on that score. The way they go on you’d think William was next in line to be king. Charles gets mentioned very little because he betrays too much of what that social group is really about.

The sycophantic allegiance to royalty in this country amongst a certain gentrified set, despite their long established insignificance and decadence, is depressingly similar to the 19th century European addiction to the remnants of Bourbon and Napoleonic ‘aristocracies’.

They are no longer patrons of the arts, moral figureheads or masters of public ceremony. They are no longer at the pinnacle of human endeavour or noble aspirations. They are an undead institution. Give them up sceptics, they are part of the agenda of decay.

Last edited 4 years ago by Noumenon
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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

I know that we could do with more political satire, given that most – like Private Eye is irremediably in tune with basic establishment tropes. But :

A few trite commonplaces of the motherhood and sliced bread variety, and we have LS as the poor man’s BBC with :

” the late and great Duke” – master of political philosophy and tribune for freedom 🙂

FFS. This from a key symbolic representative of state power in receipt of massive state subsidy and indulgence – for whom we’ve just had a demonstration of the use for state propaganda with wall-to-wall coverage and deprivation of normal service. If you want to see taking the knee to state power, you couldn’t have had a better example.

Yer’ve godda larff.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

If the BBC sees merit in something you probably want to give it a miss, and the BBC sees merit in royalty more than anything else.

Hmmm, I seem to remember a certain cigar chewing, marathon running Yorkshireman who was well in with both to a disturbing degree.

You are either with those who peddle the current state philosophy or you aren’t. End of.

Last edited 4 years ago by Noumenon
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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
4 years ago

The “late, great Duke” wanted to be reincarnated as a deadly virus so he could do something about overpopulation. And you people are still curtsy ing after him like you’re in some Regency costume drama! How laughably sickening.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  Matt Mounsey

My dear papa!
What year is this?
2021 or 1821?

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

1821? Far too modern in its politics.

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago

Vaccine passports to be ditched in October; now that I might believe BUT – which year?!

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  Epi

2567 after the fall of the International Confederation of Computerised Stakeholder Nations.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

“vaccine passports are intended to allow sporting events and public gatherings in the short term and will be ditched when the UK reaches herd immunity in October.”

OMFG how can the media print such garbage? Next winter’s ‘flu/covid’ season will be starting to get going by October after which it’ll just be kept running. It’s for our own good after all !

Am I expected to believe they’ll spend billions on this just to use it for six months???

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Anybdy who takes such pronouncements at face value is irredeemably naive.

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iane
iane
4 years ago

So, just 6 months of vax passports to flatten the sombrero???

You CANNOT be serious.

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

Indeed iane,

BIGGEST LIE OF THE WEEK

“Vaccine passports will be a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ before full herd immunity by this autumn..”

So BoJo and his merry bunch of Covidian Cult men shut down our culture and society, on advice from Gates, Blair and the WEF. Then bankrupted millions of Brits running SMEs and prevented many, many more from earning any income at all, which would have translated into some taxes back to pay for this mess…

Then Rishi Sunak hit the Sterling printing-presses, creating free money out of thin air to subsidize this rolling house-arrest abuse. While those sitting in Govt ‘approved’ jobs enjoyed their bloated salaries in full, while laundering this windfall to behavioural psychologists, Ad agencies and PR firms plus finding hundreds of celebs for ‘Covid Awareness’ propaganda campaigns…

Let that sink in…

Cautionary word of the week ‘Hyperledger’

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Yes. We know that come September, deaths (particularly respiratory) will begin to rise to a January peak.

This will be attributed to Covid.

and then ……

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

Apparently many councils are piling pressure on pubs to demand their customers not only sit outside but they must also wear masks (which is not part of government “rules”). If this turns out to be true, it shows yet again that this is about power and control rather than a virus that claims the lives of very few people (and even then, the coroner likely fibbed when labelling the death certificate as a covid death).

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

If it ever was about a virus which i now doubt that ended a long time ago. It was always about power and control.

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

and yet our modellers think its not seasonal and the reductions after both peaks were due to lockdown and masks

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago

I wonder how many Vegan snowflakes have eagerly had their arm filled with foetal cells and monkey parts?

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

Why target Vegans? – there’s inconsistency and hypocrisy everywhere. (I think even that great thinker on Liberty – Phil the Greek – has bowed to state power on this one -:-) )

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The point, apart from the funny side, is that human nature is to make a stand unless it hurts oneself. The same people who would stop me eating meat are happy to have GM human and animal products inserted directly into their cells on the chance that they might reduce the symptoms from a virus which 99.7% happily survive. More significantly they support coercive means to force others to do the same thing.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

Some do. Get it in proportion.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

A lot. But then many haven’t and I respect that very much.

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Exactly. Respect. Equally, those of us who have chosen not to roll the ‘vaccine’ dice should be respected, not vilified and possibly (probably) discriminated against.

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago

There is an article today in the Spectator, by a guy called Dobbs. As far as I can tell he has no history of epidemology. However I think he sums up the prevailing thinking in government and more widely ( probably the founder of this site).
The twin deliberate ‘mistakes’ of infering that positive PCR results are infections that are transmisionable and that asymptomatics are infectious make his anaylsis completely wrong.
His conclusion is that it needs combination of ‘moonshot’ testing and complete vaccination before any confidence of ‘herd immunity’ and allowing lockdown restrictions to be removed.
Its as if he has not taken any notice of any of the studies which destroy a lot of his logic. Its SAGE pysop at work, but its pretty much the party line.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/vaccines-might-never-bring-herd-immunity-but-could-with-mass-testing

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

“Richard Dobbs was a director of the McKinsey Global Institute. He is currently serving as a non-executive director on several boards, including the UK Statistics Authority”

… which tells you a bit. McKinsey : One of the big gravy-train consultancies that earn a lot by sucking value from other concerns :-). ‘Global’ : no comment needed on the nature of the gravy train.

But the link to the UK Statistics Authority is the killer. The piece is a recitation of profound ignorance re. data. We seem to be well and truly f.ed if people like him are in a powerful position.

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago

From the woman who found it totally acceptable to abuse the Civil Servants who worked for her.

Speaking on the launch of a consultation over new legislation to protect shop staff, Ms Patel said last July: “I will not tolerate violence and abuse against any shopworker and it’s right that those who commit these crimes must be caught and punished.”

Surely shop staff are already protected as citizens? Are we now expected to accept them having some quasi authority backed up by more repressive legislation? Respect is a two way street.

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago

Am I the only person to be horrified to read the article about the erupting volcano on St Vincent and the report that only the vaccinated would be saved???

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

No.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

It’s a bollocks report, only 10% of the island population has been vaxxed, including NONE of the children.

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eastender53
eastender53
4 years ago

BBC announces that today a further 7 people have died within 28 days of a positive test. That’s right, 7. Why is this even a news article? 600000 die a year, that’s 1600 a day. Why make a drama out of 7?

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