- “Boris Johnson to push ahead with reopening despite rise in Indian variant cases” – The Prime Minister is set to push ahead with Monday’s easing of restrictions, the Telegraph says, hoping that a local surge in vaccinations can suppress the Indian variant
- “Ten Million over-50s and vulnerable people in Indian variant hotspot towns will get urgent second doses” – Anxiety about the Indian variant has prompted an acceleration of the vaccine rollout, according to the Daily Mail, with Public Health England’s medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle saying: “Hospitalisations continue to fall, which shows the vaccine is working”
- “Every patient to have right to see a GP as NHS abandons ‘total triage’” – The NHS has stepped back from plans to use online and telephone screening and has announced that all patients will have the right to see their GP face-to-face, the Telegraph reports
- “Allow Care Home Residents Home Visits without Need for 14-day Self-isolation” – John’s Campaign is calling on the Government to take the next step in easing the restrictions on care home residents and drop all requirements for 14-day self-isolation
- “Covid passport plans ‘scaled back’ as ministers question health benefits” – According to the Telegraph, plans for Covid passports are being scaled back and are “unlikely to be required for cinemas, small theatres or restaurants”
- “The HART Bulletin” – The latest news from the Health Advisory and Recovery Team
- “Britons are left behind in race to sun loungers as other European nations waive tests and quarantine for vaccinated travellers” – Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands have all dispensed with quarantine and test requirements for vaccinated visitors, according to the Daily Mail, but Portugal will ban British tourists until at least May 30th
- “Nicola Sturgeon advisor Devi Sridhar’s warning after sudden surge in Covid cases” – Scottish doom monger Professor Devi Shridhar has warned Supreme Leader Nic Sturge-On not to open the border because of the Indian variant, Edinburgh Live reports
- “We really need an inquiry into how SAGE forced Britain into lockdown” – “Time is running out to learn the real lessons of the Covid response,” says Fraser Nelson in a sceptical piece about lockdowns for the Telegraph. “The virus (or another lurgy) might be back with us this winter”
- “Covid vaccines have already saved 12,000 lives and prevented 33,000 hospital admissions, Public Health England study claims” – The Daily Mail reports Public Health England research which suggests that the jabs have saved 11,700 deaths in those aged 60 and older from December up to April. Not the lockdown, then, Boris?
- “Every Brit ‘needs to drink 124 pints’ to save the nation’s pubs after lockdown” – Brits have a lot of drinking to do, the Star suggests, if the industry is to get back to pre-pandemic income levels – although, mercifully, that’s 124 pints in the next 12 months
- “Will our vaccines stop the Indian variant?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark points to some evidence which suggests that while the Indian variant “has some ability to sidestep vaccines, the high level of vaccination in Britain should still prevent a new wave of serious disease here”
- “Lockdown was a choice” – “Agree with the policy if you like,” says Tom Moran in the Critic, “but you can’t argue Lockdown harms were caused by Covid”
- “Covid sceptics aren’t as stupid as we thought, say experts” – Gawain Towler looks into the MIT researchers who were taken aback by the data literacy of lockdown and mask sceptics in the U.S. for the Conservative Woman. Noah Carl covered it for Lockdown Sceptics here
- “Vaccination, thalidomide and the lessons unlearned” – Kate Dunlop tells the story of thalidomide, “the disaster was meant to change our relationship with new medicines for ever”, in the Conservative Woman
- “The Return of our Swedish Doctor, explaining it all!” – Sebastian Rushworth MD appears on Ivor Cummins’s Fat Emperor podcast to talk about his new book and the latest developments in Sweden
- “Nonsense on stilts” – Nick Stokes is this week’s guest on the Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast. His wife Joy died a few weeks ago after signs of her cancer were missed as she was repeatedly refused a face-to-face appointment
- “James and Laura’s Chinwag #20” – James Delingpole and Laura Perrins are at it again, giving “it both barrels on the subject of the lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
- “Our moment of liberty is coming to an end” – “Things are not going to get back to normal,” says Dan Hannan, “the political and psychological changes wrought by COVID-19 will last long after the virus has faded”
- “French MPs take a swing at Covid-easing as sex clubs allowed to reopen but nightclubs remain closed” – Euronews reports that the country’s swingers’ clubs will be permitted to reopen on May 19th but its nightclubs are likely to remain shut until July. Go figure!
- “German police warn of fake Covid vaccine passport problem” – Police in Germany have said that criminals have begun selling illicit proof of vaccination, Deutsche Welle reports, after the country lifted some lockdown requirements for those who have been jabbed. Who could have predicted that?
- “Canadian Doctors Are Being Censored” – The AIER’s Ethan Yang highlights Canada’s growing enthusiasm for censoring doctors, including on edict from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario which warns doctors they have a “professional responsibility to not communicate anti-vaccine, anti-masking, anti-distancing and anti-lockdown statements”
- “Ohio Lottery to Give five People $1 Million Each to Encourage Vaccination” – Aiming to bolster slumping demand for the vaccine, the state of Ohio will use federal coronavirus relief funds to make millionaires out of five vaccine lottery winners, the New York Times reports. But will launching a state-wide “vaccine lottery” really reassure people the vaccines are safe?
- “Bill de Blasio pitches free burgers, fries with COVID-19 shot” – The mayor of New York City has teamed up with the fast food chain Shake Shack to offer a greasy treat to get people to take the vaccine, the Washington Times reports
- “Let’s demand a recount… of Covid deaths” – “America has inflated the death rate due to SARS-CoV-2,” writes Dr. Thomas T. Siler M.D. in the American Thinker and “this dishonesty undermines public confidence in how the pandemic was managed”
- “American Kids Can Wait” – Writing in the Atlantic, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Vinay Prasad and Monica Gandhi argue that America should hold off vaccinating its children and allow the doses to be deployed in hard hit regions overseas
- “Made in Vietnam: why Hanoi wants to make its own vaccine” – One of the only nations in the region to effectively rebuff Chinese vaccine diplomacy, Vietnam is, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, developing not just one vaccine but four
- “Gov. DeSantis grants clemency to Florida business owners arrested for not enforcing masks” – Watch the next President of the United States announce on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle that he is going to grant pardons “for any Floridian that may have outstanding infractions for things like masks and social distancing”
- “There was a religious belief that lockdowns and facemasks work” – Professor Sunetra Gupta is pleased that there is to be an inquiry and hopes that “it will finally plant in people’s head the notion that there are very big questions surrounding some of these mitigation strategies
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Ah, neo-imperialism rears its ugly head yet again. Blackburn’s copping it too, like Oldham last year. I fear these divisive and discriminatory policies will do a lot of damage. (Wasn’t there concern about a discrimination of sorts in Palestine too?)
We came out of restrictions in Oldham on July 4th last year and went back into even tougher ones (banning outdoor contact of any kind) on July 24th. We’ve been in restrictions ever since. Not that anyone cares, the ‘experts’ want us locked up longer and harder. We eventually carried on with our lives, managing to get away in holiday in august to Greece, seeing family but my business is in events so I’ve been excluded from support and unable to work for 16 months. But let’s keep us all locked down because it’s worked so well so far.
It’s a lie if so. Where is the evidence that lockdowns saved thousands of lives, even if we ignore everything else. And by SAGE’s own figures from last July, lockdowns were expected to cost 75,000 lives in non-covid deaths in the UK alone (could this be an underestimate now?)
“The ‘vaccine’ is working”? We’re not even as low as last summer yet. Unless they’re over-counting deaths more now. If they don’t end all restrictions imminently, the “vaccines” haven’t done what was promised. Simple as.
In any case, isn’t PHE’s neutrality compromised by its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry?
Yes. It’s more Boris Johnson I’m thinking of. “Vaccines and drugs are the way out of this”. They haven’t been yet. And I still see no proper exit plan. Just dissembling, prevarication, procrastination, deferment. What will it take in their world? zero covid? the money running out? revolution? And I don’t trust them not to do this for other bugs, as long as Rasputin is running things.
more a(n experimental) pseudo-vaccine then…
Why have a passport when the vaccine doesn’t actually stop you getting it?
The reasoning behind a lot of the COVIDIOCY doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. “Luckily” the MSM is not there to scrutinise and the past can always be forgotten or changed.
Make any restrictions on care home residents voluntary. Now. Surely a cruel and unusual punishment to forcibly prevent care home residents seeing their loved ones until they are dying.
Stuff the government scumbags – stuff the government filth.
The cruelty being visited on care home residents is the blackest of the black evils that are being visited upon us. No punishment is too bad for the perpetrators, but ideally they should receive the same treatment. For life. And let that life, or rather barely-living death, be a very long one.
Hmm. Cruel, but probably fair. We can never get back what they’ve taken from us.
Cruel and the victims are exactly the people that all this faux-virtuousness is meant to protect. You may or may not prolong their lives, but you definitely make their final months or years infinitely more miserable, for them and their families. But no-one calls them out on it. Despicable.
So “vaxports” still to be required for sporting events – or will it be like last year’s farce where non-“elite” sport is not included?
What’s going on in Canada? Surely doctors have a duty to tell victims the ingredients of “vaccines”, where they came from, the number of reported and estimated adverse reactions and deaths associated with them, alternatives such as ivermectin, vitamin D etc., the agenda of people pushing them.
You think doctors have integrity?
Canadian doctors? In any case, the hippocratic oath was effectively lost years ago (and will get worse when old people start getting pressured into being euthanised. As opposed to just taking experimental gene therapy drugs. In winter). And I heard that in recent decades UK doctors have been paid more. For doing less. My main problem though is that they are mostly not nutritionally trained. It seems that the drugs companies call the shots…
“It seems that the drug companies call the shots.”
Never was a truer word spoken. Why do I feel we are governed by Pfizer et al?
So the MIT team suggested that data should be made more difficult to find because lockdown sceptics were too good at interpreting it? So that’s what we’re up against – very worrying!
Speaking of data, did you notice that big jump in UK deaths three weeks after the first full week of UK “vaccination”? Incompetence, subterfuge or worse to administer these experimental drugs to the most vulnerable at the worst time of year? Now hide that data!
Some of those supporting citizen science, suddenly don’t think it’s such a good idea, when it can be used to prove them wrong.
A good response to this over at Off-G, for those who haven’t seen it…
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/13/anthony-fauci-has-no-clue-and-no-authority-to-lecture-on-what-is-good-for-india/
I looked at the Sridhar scaregarbage. Mention of ‘cases’, but not corpses.
On the same page (scroll down) is a link to a story about an Edinburgh mum who died after receiving the snake oil.
Go figure.
Lockdownsceptics continues to run scared of tackling the main vaccine issue. Hancock knew in late December the jabs were killing the frail-elderly and seriously ill. 5,000 excess care-home deaths occurred in Eng&Wales in the 6 weeks from mid December, and another 20,000 in the wider community. These deaths were directly caused by the jabs. Hancock, in late December, slapped an embargo on all post-jab deaths data. Death certificates were forbidden to contain any mention of Cvd vaccination. FOIs requesting simple numbers for post-jab deaths have been blanked by PHE, NHS and ONS. The blackout was rigorously enforced and the death jabbing went on. This was murder, pure and simple, of the very people, – the only people, in fact – who were at any risk from the virus. This murdering, and the cover up of it, was done for money, for protection of the trillion-dollar scam.
Can you tell us more? Links?
If the evidence is there a private prosecution should be brought against Hancock and the others for murder or manslaughter, crowd funded.
Nah, just kidnap him and force him into a two-week lockdown in a terraced house in Wigan with Dianne Abbott, nothing to do but watch Channel 4, and he’ll soon change his mind about the whole thing.
Just top him
Looking at this Round Up, what’s striking is the increasing level of absurdity being perpetrated by the Covmaniacs. It’s clear that the significance seekers (like Sridhar) and the power corrupted and big money are desperate to keep the tattered Scary Fairy flying at all costs.
It will be a real test of the levels of stupidity in the community to see how much of the crap is gobbled up as nourishment.
And you believe them? Sounds almost absurd as the Korean story of Kim-Il-sung only ever scoring holes in one at golf.
I tend to your view.
I have come to the conclusion that the UK public – despite all the Battle of Britain / Cradle of Democracy rhetoric – is one of the most gullible and dim populations on the planet.
It may not have always been the case, but it is now.
That said – it’s not ‘the NHS’ that’s the problem, it’s the political manipulation and management of it that feeds off the gullibility.
Nope the problem IS the NHS.
Bad ideas have bad outcomes and subsidising poor health is probably the worst idea going.
Possibly but one of the frightening things has been the effectiveness of the government’s propaganda. We’ve been bombarded wherever we go, on TV, the radio, in print, website advertisements and postings on social media, all devised by psychologists and advertisers. It’s a disgrace but I’m not surprised the average Joe has succumbed.
Clapping for your cullers seems akin to thanking the train driver at Auschwitz.
Well quite apart from the veracity of the claim the statement makes no sense anyway as it equivocates between “confidence in the health system” and “how their governments handled the pandemic”, two quite different things.
I really don’t believe anything that “college” says. They are Gates funded and employ Ferguson. It seems like classic propaganda to me, the sort of vacuous statements the Soviets used to put out. They are hardly going to say that the public’s faith it’s shaken are they? And the comparison with foreign countries is classic self-aggrandisement so as to foster that sentiment which feels “things could always be worse, like over in foreignovia”.
word-meaning inversion seems a common theme amongst those calling themselves progressive…
I tend to find the word “social” now inverts the meaning of the next word.
Not sure if any of you watch the Highwire but, if you’ve got a spare hour or two yesterday’s episode is worth a look. The highlight is an interview with Dr Richard Fleming who discusses the gain of function virus research and it s funding, SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines.
He apparently fell foul of the US FDA a few years back but I tend to view that as a positive sign nowadays.
“You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do as we tell you!”
go back to bed america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8dHf16CEs
Bill Hicks _ Revelations (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmbIAhoWrQ
Bill Hicks – Rant In E-Minor (1997)[FULL] Comedy Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awMrjOIzJo
Shock/horror/panic: In the whole of the West Midlands there have been 30 reported cases of the Indian variant.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE,ECT,ETC,ECT,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH, AD INFINITUM.
“Some understandable mistakes were made, and comprehensive lessons have been learned to ensure that we will be better prepared next time. Goodnight.”
Anyone want a news related laugh? Here you go.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2021/april/public-health-leaders-honoured/
Wasn’t he going to Do Something About Obesity? Principally by employing the same idiots who were in charge of the massive increase in obesity and diabetes and their woeful low fat diet? And he looks to have gotten even fatter himself.
I thought this was hilarious, even more so if you think it is Bozo in bed with Princess Nut Nut (but them I’m easily amused)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FOS1GvZOY