- “Pfizer asks U.K. regulator to approve Covid vaccine for use in 12 to 15 year-olds” – Pfizer has formally asked the U.K. regulator to authorise its jab for children over 12, the Telegraph reports
- “Were fears of a third wave overblown?” – Writing in the Spectator, Ross Clark puzzles over the unduly pessimistic assumptions that continue to be used in the models submitted to the SAGE committee
- “Deaths in Britain 7.3% below five-year average as Covid fatalities continue to fall” – The latest ONS figures indicate that there were 766 fewer deaths in the week ending April 30th than would be expected for this time of year, according to the Telegraph
- “At long, long last, the Government is putting children first” – Molly Kingsley celebrates the end of masks in classrooms in a piece for the Telegraph. “The battle is far from won,” she writes, but the “decision should give parents some hope that going forward better, braver and bolder decisions might be made”
- “Three borders, seven documents and an expiring Covid test: my 14-hour dash across Europe to get wed” – The Telegraph‘s Annabel Fenwick Elliott describes her drive across Europe to meet up with her German fiancé
- “What About Weddings?” – An open letter calling on the Prime Minister to remove the restrictions on weddings after June 21st
- “‘Expand green list or cost UK £19bn’: MPs call for more countries to be added to register of ‘safe’ travel destinations to boost economy” – A cross party group of MPs are predicting that revenues from international tourism will plummet to just £1.1 billion this summer against £20.2 billion pre-pandemic for June, July and August unless the ‘green list’ is expanded, the Daily Mail reports
- “It’s time to reopen transatlantic travel” – The Daily Mail says a coalition of airlines, including Delta, Virgin, British Airways and Jet Blue are lobbying Joe Biden and Boris Johnson to establish a travel corridor
- “#BeKind and #StaySafe, or else!” – “The application of behavioural science is getting so concerning that even I have a problem with it,” writes Patrick Fagan, formerly the Lead Psychologist at Cambridge Analytica
- “What if it all happens again?” – In the Conservative Woman, David Seedhouse describes the COVID-24 scenario which the Deliberative Practice community is debating next week and explains how readers can take part
- “The unleashing of Johnson’s inner tyrant” – During the flu epidemics of 1957 and 1968 “there was a concerted effort by both government and the media to avoid spreading panic and fear”. Jeff Williams explains the dramatic change between then and now in the Conservative Woman
- “Wales and a very convenient pandemic” – “Something strange and secretive is happening in the heart of Wales,” says Nicola Lund in the Conservative Woman. “Perhaps First Minister Mark Drakeford had more in mind than controlling a virus when imposing lengthy lockdowns”
- “It’s time to open up international travel” – Writing for Spiked, Rob Lyons sets out the case for relaxing the rules on international travel
- “Don’t let the state tell you who you can hug” – “There is no better snapshot of Britain’s slide into Covid dystopia than the argument over whether Britons should be allowed to hug each other again,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked
- “The UK could only reach Covid ‘alert level one’ by using up limited third world medical resources” – Collingwood writes in Bournbrook that a “global vaccination programme similar to the ones that eradicated smallpox” is the only way for the U.K. to reach Covid “alert level one”
- “‘It was this big’: a corrective on COVID-19 mortality” – “The actual number of people who have died of COVID-19 is impossible to know,” write Roger Watson and Niall McCrae on the Unity News Network, but they “speculate that many of the people who supposedly died of COVID-19 succumbed to the same conditions that take thousands of lives every winter”
- “Why the obsession with masks?” – Rev Phill Sacre offers a Christian perspective on the obsession with masks and why they should be resisted
- “Italian woman mistakenly given six shots of COVID-19 vaccine” – The 23 year-old woman from Tuscany was kept under observation for 24 hours, according to the Independent, but has not suffered any adverse reaction from the overdose of the Pfizer vaccine
- “Here in Washington D.C., Dr Fauci is a messianic figure” – “Everywhere you look in the tonier precincts of our fair capital one sees the posters and placards and pictures: ‘Thank you Dr. Fauci!'” writes James Carden in UnHerd
- “Fauci must answer for his role in Wuhan’s Covid lab” – Stephen L. Miller argues in Spectator USA that Dr. Fauci has some explaining to do to Congress
- “Dr. Fauci, Do you still support… NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?” – Watch Senator Rand Paul give the good doctor a grilling about gain of function research
- “Covid restrictions are killing the national pastime” – Amber Athey recently went to a Major League Baseball game for the first time in two years but, according to her account in Spectator USA, nonsensical COVID-19 restrictions sapped “almost all the joy out of the experience”
- “Focused Protection Would Have Been the Right Pandemic Response” – “It is increasingly apparent,” says Ethan Yang at AIER, ” that a strategy of focused protection which respects the voluntary functions of society while taking reasonable steps to accommodate vulnerable populations would have been the most optimal pandemic response”
- “Would Australians support mandates for the COVID-19 vaccine? Our research suggests most would” – 73% of Australians would favour the Government making vaccination mandatory, say David Smith, Katie Attwell and Uswana Evans in the Conversation
- “The Flawed Assumptions Beneath COVID-19 Modelling (Epidemiological and Economic)” – An interview on the Letters from a Contrarian podcast with Dr. Doug Allen, a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University and author of a noted paper on the costs of lockdown
- “Texas Governor Greg Abbott vs. The Experts” – An entertaining video from Pishpish Cat
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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….