- “Ready to rock… and not a mask in sight!” – MailOnline reports on the rock concert which took place over the weekend as part of the live event trials. There were no masks and no social distancing, but guests did have to test negative in a lateral flow test beforehand
- “School sports favourite gets the sack over coronavirus fears” – The sack race is ruled out of school sports days in favour of the Covid-compliant egg and spoon thanks to guidance from the Department for Education, the Telegraph reports
- “The end of lockdown: exactly how much freedom will we have?” – The Observer has interviewed some “experts”, i.e. SAGE members, about the continuing need for caution and restrictions beyond June 21st, including mask wearing which “has the benefit of reducing flu”
- “Holiday islands expected to be kept off UK’s ‘green list’” – European holiday islands are not likely to make it to the ‘green list’, according to the Telegraph, despite having lower Covid rates than some countries that will
- “Our epidemic is over, so why are we slower to unlock than countries with higher infection rates?” – “Our criminal justice system requires a high degree of evidence before incarceration,” writes Dan Hannan in the Telegraph, “but we have switched things around so that we now demand proof before accepting normality”
- “Covid Vaccines: Necessity, Efficacy and Safety” – The latest update from Doctors for Covid Ethics argues that the available evidence indicates the vaccines to be “unnecessary, ineffective and unsafe”
- “A Cesspool of Insanity” – “If we need ‘permission’ to ply our trade, and congregate where we wish,” writes Omar S. Khan, “then let the pathogen come today and take us away, for what anyway is the point?”
- “Normalising the abnormal: From ‘We’re not planning Covid passports’ to ‘They may be needed long term’ in three easy months” – “If vaccine passports are introduced, even for the most limited circumstances, we can be sure of two things,” says Neil Clark in RT: The scheme won’t be limited and it won’t be temporary
- “Vaccine risks and morality” – With Norway having removed the AstraZeneca jab from its immunisation programme, the Conservative Woman‘s Kathy Gyngell makes a call for honesty about the risks associated with this vaccine
- “James and Laura’s Chinwag #18” – The latest of the chinwags, in which both James Delingpole and Laura Perrins “give it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
- “Far more likely coronavirus came from lab, ex-MI6 chief tells LBC” – Watch Sir Richard Dearlove, the former ‘C’, tell LBC that the “onus is on the Chinese to prove that it’s zoonotic because the evidence strongly suggests… it’s the lab escapee”
- “The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?” – A YouTube video examining the phenomenon of mass psychosis from the Academy of Ideas. Transcript available here
- “Demonstrators, many maskless, march in Montreal against public health restrictions” – CBC covered yesterday’s anti-lockdown protests in Montreal. At one point, the parade was estimated to have spanned nearly two kilometres
- “The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness” – The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California reports the findings of its researchers about the effect of the spike protein
- “Ex-FDA chief Scott Gottlieb says travel bans on India, China and the UK ‘don’t make sense’” – “There’s plenty of virus here already,” Gottlieb told the CBS show Face the Nation according to the Daily Mail. “If the goal is to try to prevent introduction of that new variant, B.1.617 that’s circulating in India, I assure you it’s here already”
- “Covid lockdowns cost countless jobs, don’t appear to have saved lives: study” – The New York Post summarises a study which suggests lockdowns did little to save lives during the pandemic but caused millions of job losses
- “Megan Mansell addresses the Leon County School Board regarding mask mandates for kids” – A powerful case against masking children made to the Leon County School board in Florida by PPE expert Megan Mansell
- “Mumbai Covid lockdown spells trouble for businesses” – India is among the countries “hardest hit by in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic”, Deutsche Welle reports, “not only in terms of human life, but also economically”
- “Lockdown lunacy” – “An increasing number of Australians suspect the Wuhan virus is being used to create fear and thus an acceptance of draconian solutions used to win elections and even to maintain opinion polling ratings,” writes David Flint in Spectator Australia
- “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Will Require Extraordinary Effort by All” – “Lockdown measures have significantly slowed economic activity, depriving people of income and preventing children from attending school,” says the IMF in a blog post on the effects of the Covid response on poverty and international development
- “2021 Free Expression Awards Highlight: Susan Wojcicki” – The CEO of YouTube was given a 2021 Free Expression Award, which is sponsored by YouTube
- “The COVID-19 Humanitarian Disaster in India and protocol updates” – Dr. Pierre Kory discusses the situation in India and Ivermectin’s ability to stop COVID-19 in an Indian state in the latest update from the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance
- “A moment friends came together on the dance floor, after being apart for months” – Sacha Lord posted footage from the live event trial which took place in Liverpool yesterday. He liked the lyrics
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Chris Boardman wtf ! Two F- – – ing Billion pounds !!… To do what ? That’s enough money for him to go to every car owner & confiscate their car keys ! Must be another loan off uncle Klaus !!
I mentioned yesterday that it was a shame that following the introduction of “pay to comment” here we had lost some of our most prolific and valuable commenters.
While £5 is a very low barrier to commenting, especially given the huge value this website brings, and I don’t blame the DS for introducing a charge – the authors atl have to make a living and hosting websites professionally costs money – I also don’t blame those whose comments might make them “a bloody menace” in the eyes of the authorities and have therefore chosen not to pay up.
Requiring payment removes anonymity – we need to provide real life banking details which allow someone to be traced fairly easily if the authorites are determined enough.
People might call me a conspiracy theorist to think that – but if so, just look at what has happened to the level of authoritarianism in this country over the last two years, and look at the trend towards removing anonymity more widely on the internet, and the desire the authorities have to label pretty much anything said on the internet which upsets someone to become a criminal offence.
..you could be right, but I’m sticking with Edward Dowd…’either we win or it’s the Gulag’…..I’m not trying to sound glib, but I think I decided a while ago that I’d stick my colours to the mast and be damned!
Even Mr Gum, the ‘quiet half’ told a neighbour who was complaining about catching Convid…again, that she could expect to catch it a lot more if she carried on getting stabbed!!
We are ‘out’ and I don’t think we have any intention of going back ‘in’….
Yes I feel the same way now and am now posting under my own name on Twitter. It’s time to put heads above parapets!
Yes…I don’t start anything, but for months now I’ve been making comments if people start with the Covibollocks…masks, lockdown, jabs etc..and thanks to Sceptics both ABL and BTL, I’m pretty full of knowledgable stuff!……and I don’t give a stuff if they think I’m nuts.
funnily enough most of them are coming around to the fact that they’ve been conned…well plenty I know are…
It is not the amount of money, I have donated and presumably have done so enough to still be allowed to comment. It is somehow the concept of pay to comment and the fact that I generally avoid all regular subscription payments unless I cannot avoid them. I will probably donate again at some stage but will not sign up to a monthly account and so on the basis that I might be struck off at any moment I tend to do more of my discussions on the Reddit site.
More dramatic birthrate declines, this time Sweden.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/swedens-birth-rate-dropping-precipitiously
The cat already had a closer look at it. No Bueno. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/swedish-birth-rate-data-what-does
Thanks. The fact that it is consistent with data from several other countries points to it being genuinely worrisome.
Fish with growths and lesions. And how do they know it’s not caused by pollution?
Chris Boardman and 2 billion quid! Is that a misprint? It’s all very well encouraging motorists out of their cars, but if I want to do my weekly shop I have no choice but to drive. It’s a 20 mile round trip to the nearest big supermarket and, in common with large swathes of this country, there is NO public transport at all. Some villages that did have a decent service have found them cut massively (mostly by Stagecoach, it has to be said) or amalgamated routes so they have become useless and time consuming.
The government would do better giving the money to certain supermarkets so they can reinstate their shoppers buses. These were very popular and many people in this village were distraught when Tesco withdrew theirs.
…yes, so much is London centric….they forget what it’s like for the rest of us. I live only three miles from the nearest ‘busy’ town, I can’t get a bus after 5 p.m !!
And I’m surrounded by freaking giant hills….
2 very good reads:
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/coronamania-and-liking-america-less
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/pandemania-part-1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
‘We have to drive a lot less’, says Chris Boardman, the PM’s new travel tsar”
Why?
“We” usually actually means “You” in these situations.
On yer bike Boardman.
…exactly! Because if you don’t you’re selfish..you’re killing Polar Bears…you’re selfish if you don’t wear a mask, get jabbed, you’re selfish if you don’t stop eating meat…same if you forget my pronoun, blah! Fu****g blah!
I am sick to the teeth of being battered with this crap, and I suspect the majority feel the same…..they won’t be happy until we live in caves grubbing for worms….
Thank God for the occasional rebels….they give us all hope….
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/farmer-protest
VIDEO: Dutch farmers spray manure on town hall in protest of climate plans
Cheers e by.
https://brownstone.org/articles/are-the-covid-mrna-vaccines-safe/
Kulldorff on the Fraiman study.
For most, the risk/benefit ratio of them is negative.
Pandemic logic
Covid is a multi system disease affecting your heart, lungs, brain and all major organs.
That’s why most people who get an infection show little to no signs of such damage.
A deep dive into the history of the organisation orchestrating the lies, manipulation & cull.
Challenges everything one has been taught & values one has held.
https://crazzfiles.com/the-khazarian-mafia/
Heavy stuff ! It’s dated two years ago so will anything change , will Snowden’s info come out
The Government appear to have released some early papers from SPI-M-O
this one from 3/2/2020….
“This is SPI-M-O’s statement on the possible impact that potential interventions could have in delaying the spread of a UK epidemic of 2019-nCoV, were there to be widespread outbreaks in other countries. SPI-M-O were asked to consider whether any combination of these interventions would be expected to delay the start of a UK pandemic (or its peak) by a month.
SPI-M-O’s view was the impact of any intervention would be highly dependent on the patterns of transmissibility.”
interesting to note a couple of things….
on school closures they conclude…
…. mass school closures could increase the overall attack rate if done at the wrong time.
Mass school closures have a large cost in terms of parental absenteeism as well as foregone education.
and on masks….
The wearing of facemasks by the general population is unlikely to meaningfully reduce transmission.
hmm….