- “Britain to be Covid-free by August, says vaccine taskforce chief” – In an interview in the Telegraph, Clive Dix says that “sometime in August, we will have no circulating virus in the UK”
- “Data, not dates: there is no reason to delay a return to normal life” – The Spectator’s leading article asks “is there anything in the data that makes it inappropriate to bring reopening forwards, given the economic and societal harm the restrictions still inflict”?
- “Indian Covid variant is now officially ‘of concern’ and is ‘at least’ as infectious as dominant Kent type” – Cases of the variant, now labelled “of concern”, have more than doubled in a week, MailOnline reports, and the Prime Minister has said that tracking it will be “absolutely ruthless”
- “House of Commons to end Zoom debates and remote voting on June 21st” – MPs will be heading back to the office on June 21st, according to the Times. They’ll be permitted to sit next to each other but may be told to wear masks and not to shout or heckle
- “Covid vaccines for children should not get emergency use authorisation” – “One might hope to achieve population level benefits with broader child vaccination for COVID-19,” write Wesley Pegden, Vinay Prasad, and Stefan Baral in an editorial for the BMJ. “But this is inconsistent with the conditions for emergency use authorisation”
- “Covid Vaccines: The Tip of the Iceberg” – The latest news on vaccine safety and effectiveness from the Swiss Doctor
- “The China model: why is the West imitating Beijing?” – The Second Cold War is gathering momentum, says Niall Ferguson in the Spectator, and China is winning
- “How can we check vaccine safety under this shambolic system?” – Sally Beck argues in the Conservative Woman that the Medicines Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s Yellow Card System for reporting and analysing adverse reactions to the vaccines is not fit for purpose
- “A doctor’s plea to doctors: Remember our Hippocratic Oath” – The Conservative Woman highlight’s Dr Tess Lawrie’s address at last week’s conference on the use of ivermectin as a prophylactic and treatment for COVID-19. It was hosted by BIRD, the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development organisation
- “The Disappearance of Dissent” – Alistair Cavendish analyses the tactics of the media-political complex when it came to April’s anti-lockdown protests
- “Game, set and mask” – “It appears that Boris Johnson may ask for masks in the classroom to be scrapped on Monday 10th May,” writes Roger Watson at the Unity News Network. There was only ever one correct course of action and that was never to have forced children to wear face masks in the first place
- “Why didn’t our media report this American good sense?” – Florida has passed legislation to fine any business or school $5,000 if it requires proof of vaccination from its customers or pupils, writes Kathy Gyngell in the Conservative Woman. But the UK media “completely ignored it”
- “SAGE lockdown advice ignores the human condition” – Sean Walsh argues in Conservatives Global that Susan Michie’s membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain is not as concerning as her professional vocation as a “behavioural psychologist”
- “Our Current Predicament #43” – The first episode of Our Current Predicament in its new home at Bournbrook Magazine sees S.D. Wickett and Bob Lollard discuss lockdown’s impact on people as social beings
- “EU reviews reports of rare nerve disorder after AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot” – Europe’s medicines regulator is reviewing reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome in people who took the AstraZeneca jab, Reuters reports
- “European leaders urge U.S., Britain to match EU generosity on vaccine exports” – Ursula von der Leyen has called on all those debating the merits of a vaccine patent waiver to join with the EU in exporting a large share of what they produce, according to euronews
- “Eurovision’s noisy fans are back despite Dutch pandemic” – Eurovision 2021 is set to go ahead, the BBC reports. Audiences will be capped at 3,500 and all visitors will have to show a negative test result that’s no more than 24 hours old
- “Jens Spahn: Germany’s third COVID wave appears to be ‘broken’” – Germany’s Health Minister is upbeat about the country’s ‘third wave’, according to Deutsche Welle. But he warns that a hasty retraction of recently imposed curbs “would only help the virus”
- “To Defend Public Health, We Need More Than Lockdowns” – The “left’s acceptance of lockdowns has been a serious miscalculation” argues Greek journalist Panagiotis Sotiris in an interview in Jacobin. “Far from offering a break with neoliberalism, the policy has done quite the opposite”
- “Psaki deflects questions on why NIH funded Wuhan Virology Lab” – Questioned about the lab leak theory, the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki passed the buck, according to the Post Millennial
- “Why CDC’s Restrictions For Vaccinated People Could Do More Harm Than Good” – Cameron English takes the CDC to task for its confused messaging on vaccines in an article for the American Council on Science and Health
- “India’s ‘COVID outbreak’ and the need for scientific integrity – not sensationalism” – There does seem to be a major problem in some parts of India, writes Colin Todhunter for Off Guardian, but “we need to differentiate between the effects of COVID-19 and the impacts of other factors”
- “WHO approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use” – The World Health Organisation has given its approval to the Sinopharm jab, meaning it can be distributed as part of Covax, the UN programme to send jabs to the developing world, euronews reports
- “Top epidemiologist says virus outbreak is ‘absolutely inevitable’” – According to epidemiologist James McCaw, the risk of a disastrous coronavirus outbreak in Australia is now at its highest level since the pandemic began, the Sydney Morning Herald reports
- According to satirical website Babylon Bee, conspiracy theorists are now more accurate than journalists
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Haha.
It’s looking like this is very much a government-run vaccine propaganda mouthpieced aimed squarely at undecided lockdown skeptics who they think could be persuaded to agree to the euthanasia, sorry I meant the 100% safe and 95% effective miracle of modern medicine.
Russel Brand explains in ten minutes how Bill Gates linked Oxford University to AstroZenica, idle vaccine factories in Pakistan, the profits the main vax companies expect this year alone before they put the price up, how the bonus of one CEO will be 6 times his salary and much more.
Not many people could get away with that on yootoob.
In other news, an 18 year old student in the city of Fano in Italy removed his mask and chained himself to his desk, saying that forcing him to wear the mask was unconstitutional. He was removed by the police and has since been committed to a psychiatric unit for one week. The hunt is on to find the “constitutionalist” who put the student up to it.
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/italia/mascherina_scuola_fano_studente_ospedale_tso_cosa_e_successo_oggi_7_maggio_2021-5945330.html
Psychiatric unit. ROFL. The old communist approach, disagree with the system and you must be mentally ill. Except it’s not really funny. Are the police so uneducated, thick, and corrupt everywhere, or scared, or what?
It’s not just the ‘old communist approach’. It happens in totalitarian regimes across the board, and, of course, in the US during the McCarthy era.
Florida has passed legislation to fine any business or school $5,000 if it requires proof of vaccination from its customers or pupils.
I’ve never even fancied visiting Florida before, at this rate I’ll be wanting to emigrate there.
Great news from Florida, not only loosened up but fighting back against the zealots.
And it’s a crack in the whole pandemic egg!
Sanctuary state for Americans
“Indian Variant officially ‘of concern’, as infectious as ‘dominant’ Kent type”.
So what ?
Sub headline
“PHE says no evidence the variant causes more severe disease or that it evades the jab”.
Experience shows that as a virus mutates to become more infectious it becomes less severe; the government, SAGE, medics, academia and semi educated journalists all know that.
Daily Mail commenters rightly pounce on this ‘scary story’ coming the day after the elections and many predict either no further loosening of lockdown or imposition of further dictates, bless ’em.
‘House of Commons to end zoom debates, back to the office, MPs to sit next to each other’ The Times.
Won’t make much difference to our excremental level of governance but at least Judy from Accounts won’t be able to use images of 80% empty House of Commons as an excuse for not going back to the office.
“Eurovision noisy fans are back . . . ”
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BBC
Shame, I thought Brexit might get us banned from Eurovision but, sadly, it’s got nothing to do with the EU.
“Psaki deflects questions on why NIH funded Wuhan virology lab”
Asked why Fouci would fund the Wuhan virology lab White House Press Secretary Psaki responded
‘I’m sorry, I can’t hear you super well. Can you repeat the beginning part of your question ?’
Selective deafness must be infectious, Fouci had the same problem when asked awkward questions in Court the other day.
The report does not mention that President Obama had specifically outlawed funding such virus Gain of Function research yet still Fouci did it.
“Conspiracy theorists now more accurate than Journalists”. Babylon Bee.
Babylon Bee is wickedly amusing, the non religious need not be put off by its site description
‘Your trusted source for Christian news satire’.
Here’s another
Shocking study should also find that fining people for working (income taxes) makes them work less…
8/5/21 A Journalist writes
“Today we saw the fruits of a truly fascinating experiment: what happens when a party fights an election without vision or a coherent message against a government that has both in spades.”
Really ? In what way does bozos Cabal have a ‘vision or coherent message’ ? 15 months of making it up as they go along with ministers and SAGE members contradicting each other repeatedly, usually via leaks to the asinine and complicit press.
The article continues
“Arguably, what unites the 2017 Labour manifesto and the current Conservative agenda is a coherent and bold vision for the country . . .”
‘Coherent’ see above. Bold ? How can a government that has reacted to Covid with a mixture of panic, happenstance, ad hoc regulation, cowardice and malice be described as ‘bold’?
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Yes – you’ve got to laugh (ironically) at that one. But – probably – this might be the impression of the duggie mentality that dominates the population of the UK at present. We are seeing the practical evidence of the finding that the country collectively has a lower IQ than most of Europe.
But the ‘journalist’ (haven’t seen them around lately) does have a point. Starmer is the son of Blair – right wing and fixated on the notion that the objective in politics is to capture the oppositions clothes as a means of capturing votes. Always was bollocks – Labour would have won the ’97 election without Blair – people were just pissed off with the Tories.
So Starmer strives to eliminate all character and philosophy from Labour, removes people he doesn’t like (including the previous leader) in the style of all totalitarians, and barks impotently at the Tories. Result : he makes even a cupid stunt look good.
Did you read the original article or know who the author is ?
I was solely interested in his remarks about the government, not the main thrust of his argument.
Starmer is Trilateral Commission.
https://labourheartlands.com/sir-keir-starmer-the-establishment-candidate-the-labour-leadership-race-and-the-trilateral-commission/
The appearance of incoherence was a central part of the plan / strategy. The past 14 months have been a psychological operation.
Confusing and disorientating us is a powerful technique.
The impression that our government wasn’t doing enough to counter the threat (did you see that Yes Minister clip, about saying “there is nothing we can do”, and, next, “there was something we could have done, but it’s too late, now”, which was promoted on social media?) was carefully cultivated to make us call for our own oppression. The apparent incompetence has maintained the illusion that our government is trying to protect us, rather than ruthlessly oppress us.
If measures had been imposed efficiently, we’d have questioned why the government was implementing them, not whether it was doing so competently; we’d, likely, have seen them for what they were.
I have all of Yes (Prime) Minister on DVD and enjoy going through them to find the one that foretells whatever is the political crisis if the day.
For the record, ‘The Journalist’ was Owen Jones in todays Guardian, a hit piece on Starmer in support of Jeremy Corbyn.
Owen is reliably wrong though.
And an annoying pimple as well…
That’s “journalist” in inverted commas, then!
I knew the runaway train moral dilemma, before LS linked to a recent article mentioning it (https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lockdowns-vaccines-and-the-trolley-problem/).
OJ is one of very few people for whom I’d hesitate to switch the points across to Matt Hancock track.
“The disappearance of Dissent”
If you’ve got five minutes to spare this is Well Worth Reading In Full.
Begs the question that since the government aided by the media, Google, Facebook and the like went to so much effort to prevent publicity for the large London march two weeks ago how come so many found out and turned up anyway ?
Called at the old Severn Bridge services yesterday.The original building now belongs to an insurance firm and it’s normally heaving with people. Yesterday, about ten cars in huge car park. Silence. All working from home, evidently.
I’ve a feeling that big offices are a thing of the past. Who wants to commute if they don’t have to? (Assuming the kids have been packed off to muzzle central, that is.) And why should a company pay the monstrous costs of city office space when employees can work at home and pay for their own everything?
I can think of some Oxbridge colleges that will be delighted when their city properties are turned into free flats for illegal immigrants.
Why so worried about ‘illegal immigrants’?
Our problems are with the party representing the lazy county set of middle England and the ineffably gullible, not those arrivals coming in with a bit of initiative and drive (the lifeblood of British history).
‘Illegal immigrants … with initiative and drive’ – whose first action is to break the law?
Not sure the country needs more people with no respect for its laws and traditions right now. We have enough home grown for that.
As a marxist you do not understand basic economics, but for others that do…
Low Wage migration is subsidised migration.
Sub average productivity migrants put pressure to lower wages and increase rents, both are bad for the majority of UK workers, but good for the establishment.
Low wage migration is an effective subsidy to the wealthy.
Agreed about the empty buildings. We have a large out of town ‘trading estate’ that is actually all offices of varying sizes, they run along the by-pass for a mile or so. I’d say between a third to half of the city’s office staff and management work there.
The whole district has been utterly deserted for 15 months.
I was going to say apart from the original Testing Station in the park and ride but that’s been deserted too !
How those buildings might be repurposed I have no idea. Certainly would not be a nice area to live in.
From the ‘Hippocratic oath piece’:
“Anyone listening to [the protesting doctor’s] concise explanation of how scientific and medical research has been corrupted, how doctors have been left unable to treat patients they could have helped and saved, and her reminder to fellow doctors of their Hippocratic oath, cannot fail to be moved. […]
“I would like to see Whitty, Vallance and Van-Tam be made to watch this in public. They would have to have hearts of stone or have sold them to the devil not to be moved.”
Come now. That trio sold whatever rags of souls they had to the devil a long time ago. So, of course, did Wankok, but that was an incestuous family arrangement.
“ Clive Dix says that “sometime in August, we will have no circulating virus in the UK”
Unless I’m seeing things, there’s effectively no circulating virus now.
Dixhead means ‘zero covid’.
Certainly none around here. The best Local Live can come up with is ‘no Covid deaths in care homes for x weeks’ as an excuse to tell how many there were in the past which it puts in now and again.
“Covid vaccines for children should not get emergency use authorization”
Although the article is wrong re. the general efficacy of the ‘vaccines’ (it would be good to see some of these statistical ingenues grasp some fundamentals, instead of just jerking the knee), but the proposition is spot on, and if fake ’emergency use’ for children is granted, then it is proof positive of the corruption of the MHRA.
Yes the MHRA is evil and is working on behalf of criminals, becoming a criminal entity itself during this. Hopefully those who have signed this off reap what they have sown. They should be liable for every single vaccine death and injury, forever, and made to pay accordingly
Niall Ferguson is wrong on what needed to be done. Large-scale testing, contact-tracing and isolating of the infected to contain the spread of the virus.’ That didn’t work anywhere and the focus on it caused a lot of problems. In his Spectator TV interview, he also thought that borders have been shut earlier though that is what prompted lockdowns in the first place.
… and it had been ruled out in considered strategy documents, following clear and transparent analysis.
I think we’re coming to realise that significance seekers can become very dangerous when put into positions of influence.
I was similarly disappointed with Niall in another interview he did earlier in the week.
Perhaps he should stick to history which is where I know of him.
Why wasn’t this done in the past for other more dangerous diseases such as TB and AIDS?
Reuter’s News….You have DOUBLE the rate of blood clots after Jab.
This article is a classic example of the lies the media are spreading.
The Headline says
“ Denmark, Norway study finds slightly raised blood clot rates after Astra COVID shot”
However In the article it says
“ Results showed 59 blood clots in the veins, compared with 30 expected, equating to 11 excess events for every 100,000 vaccinations. ”
59 vs 30 is basically double the risk than the normal population, not Slightly
Secondly
59 blood clots per 100k people is higher than the rate of infection of CV in the UK even believing the Gov massively inaccurate PCR test. And that’s infection not death.
So you are vastly more likely to die from the blood clot than the Vid
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/denmark-norway-study-finds-slightly-raised-blood-clot-rates-after-astra-covid-2021-05-05/
USA TV news did a 15 minute clip reporting how many people have died from the jab in the USA.
Tucker Carlson.
In a 3-4 month period nearly 4000 people died.
Compare that to ~130-200 who die annually from 190 million doses of regular flu vaccine every year.
20x- 30x as many deaths.
All data from the USA Vaer database.
They also state that according to the CDC less than 1% of all adverse events get reported.
What are the chances UK media will report a story like this?
The most watched cable news network show in USA.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6252794642001#sp=show-clips
The video interview with Dr Peter McCullough on the Swiss Doctor is ‘must view’. McCullough is just about the premier doctor in his field in the US. He gets invited to give evidence to the Senate etc, too recognised to be ‘disappeared’.
https://swprs.org/vaccines-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
Excellent piece and video, as the interviewer says, why is this information not on every TV channel and newspaper ?
Great interview thanks for posting.
Another modeller stoking fear, a waste of time.
However, the comments are absolutely shocking, e.g.:
This is absolutely appalling.
The infuriating thing is even that won’t help them. Vaccines won’t get you out of a zero-covid situation let alone experimental therapies. They will STILL be chasing it down even AFTER a compulsory vaccination program.
Their problem, like everywhere else, is purely psychological.
Agree 100%. In my view, Covid is endemic. It has a survivability rate of 99.9x. For those that get a serious case, several scientists and doctors are up for Nobel Prizes for their Ivermectin/HCQ protocols – with 93% absolute effectiveness. Studies suggest that 50-81% of the population is immune to Covid anyway.
Sadly, some people will die. But statistically I have more chance of being killed by the flu than Covid. And I literally don’t care if I catch flu.
The “pandemic” is over and we should go back to living our lives again.
Unfortunately, too many people are having their minds poisoned by propaganda. Forget vaccine passports, we already live in a two-tier society: high information people who can critically think, and the sheep.
“How can we check vaccine [sic] safety under this shambolic system?” – That’s why they chose it, obviously!
“European leaders urge U.S., Britain to match EU generosity on vaccine [sic] exports”
Surely this is a staged, good cop / bad cop, squabble, to make people in the third world grateful when first world (problem) genetically-engineered bio agents start being handed out to them. I believe – and hope – that the common sense of those, whose lives are less dominated by mass media, is being significantly underestimated.
“Top epidemiologist …”
Does anyone know how epidemiologists are ranked?
“The [B117] strain is more transmissible and it is more severe, and the severity comes to lower age groups”
How solid is the evidence for any of those allegations, or, being a “top epidemiologist”, does Professor McCaw just know these things? He’s certainly in no doubt, “Especially given that we would expect the B117 variant to come in. We could easily have a situation where our hospital system was overwhelmed with lots and lots of sick young adults.”
I’m astounded LS didn’t flag the piece as “worth reading in full”.
IF this is true, then it would be more likely that this is being CAUSED by vaccinating the younger population. Either due to immune escape or just fudging the numbers – e.g.counting “vaccine” deaths as Covid.
B117 is our “Kent” variant, which we crushed by cancelling Christmas (!). I can’t see it’s going to lay out a load of young, Aussie, adults, even if they’ve been too locked down to receive their normal vitamin D from the sunshine.