- “Use ‘common sense’ when hugging loved ones is allowed next week, says Boris Johnson” – The Prime Minister is going to say today that everyone should use their “personal judgement” and their “common sense” when hugging friends and family after May 17th, according to the Telegraph
- “Why a Covid winter spike will not lead to another national lockdown” – There will be future outbreaks but the Telegraph‘s Harry de Quetteville reckons that time, exposure and vaccines will ensure they become less deadly
- “Could clues to the pandemic’s origins have been lurking in the Natural History Museum all along?” – Researchers are hoping that the National History Museum’s collection of bat skulls, skins and pickled specimens could shed light on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how it may have been passed to humans, the Telegraph reports
- “Lockdown’s hidden toll: million schoolchildren a year will need mental health help” – One in six five to 16 year-olds reporting a probable mental health disorder last year, according to the Telegraph
- “Rent arrears put thousands at risk as end of eviction ban in England looms” – With thousands of tenants behind on their rent, a number of charities fear a wave of homelessness when the ban on evictions comes to an end, the Observer reports
- “Even the Zoom founder has Zoom fatigue” –The CEO of ZOOM has channelled Gerald Ratner, the Telegraph reports, saying “I do [have Zoom fatigue]. I can tell you last April, on a particular day, I had a total of 19 Zoom meetings. I’m so tired of that”
- “The overlooked election factor: Stockholm syndrome” – Looking at the election results in UnHerd, Freddie Sayers wonders if British voters have fallen in love with their captors
- “I am one of millions who have chosen not to have a Covid vaccine. Does that mean I’m to be banned from planes, buildings & shops?” – “Today’s mainstream media seems intent on creating a two-tier society,” says Jani Allan in RT. “The virtuous vaccinated and the unclean unvaccinated. Covid apartheid, anyone?”
- “Halt Vaccine Passports!” – A plea from Dr. Mike Yeadon in Off Guardian
- “James and Laura’s Chinwag #19” – The latest of the famous chinwags where James and Laura “both give it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
- “This is a Belgian Joke: Brussels set for a two-hour curfew on Friday” – By a quirk in the Covid rules, residents of Brussels were required to respect a two hour curfew, requiring them to be in their homes by 10pm but allowed out again at midnight, euronews reports
- “Cologne project aims to vaccinate urban hot spots” – Deutsche Welle says that the city of Cologne is targeting vaccines at areas with high infection rates, such as Kölnberg, a high-rise complex in the outskirts of the city
- “Covid Safepass comes into force on Monday” – The latest on the vaccine passport programme in Cyprus, which comes into force tomorrow – from the Cyprus Mail
- “COVID-19 Vaccines in U.S. Beckon Foreigners Seeking Shots and Shops” – Many people are heading to the US from Mexico and other countries to get jabbed, according to the Wall Street Journal, including one travel agency whose advert reads “Enjoy Dallas, Includes Covid Vaccine”
- “Parents across the country rally against school COVID-19 protocols” – The Washington Examiner compiles stories of parents across the USA protesting schools’ excessive Covid precautions
- “California mayor is raffling off $15,000 in scholarships to vaccinated teens aged 16-18 in bid to boost low shot rate among young people” – To enter the raffle, according to the Daily Mail, teens should post a photo of themselves under the hashtags #10KVaxChallenge and #VaccinateLancaster, stating they have got their shots
- “Major cruise ship company may avoid Florida if state doesn’t permit COVID-19 vaccination checks” – The CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. has indicated that the company may circumnavigate Florida if it doesn’t introduce vaccine passports, according to CNN
- “Fully vaccinated travellers test positive in Sydney hotel quarantine” – Six of the 150 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in hotel quarantine in New South Wales between April 10th and May 1st were fully vaccinated, according to the Sydney Morning Herald
- “Scott Morrison says Australia will remain shut off to the world indefinitely” – The Australian Prime Minister thinks there’s no appetite in his country for a return to international travel, according to Adelaide Now
- “Pope Francis backs waivers on intellectual property rights for vaccines” – Reuters reports that the Pope has backed the patent waiver, saying the world is infected with the “virus of individualism”
- “Artur Pawlowski and David Pawlowski arrested after the Church service” – The Polish-Canadian pastor who so memorably booted the health inspectors out of his church has been arrested
- “My Extraordinary Interview with Nick Hudson” – Jean-Pierre De Villiers talks to the chairman of PANDA about the organisation’s mission to “replace bad science with good science”
- “We’re now five months into the rollout of the Covid vaccines” – A twitter thread from former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson weighing up the good, the bad and the ugly about the Covid vaccinations
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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….