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News Round Up

by Jonathan Barr
19 May 2021 2:18 AM

  • “Plans to ease social distancing in ‘disarray’ as Indian variant cases rise” – Hospitality bosses fear they may continue to face restrictions beyond June 21st, according to the Telegraph
  • “Why is UK taking a risk with the variant?” – The BBC’s Nick Triggle puts some of the claims made for the Indian variant into context, pointing out that the picture is more complex than the headline-grabbing figure that it is 50% more transmissible
  • “UK’s daily Covid deaths plummet 65% in a week as seven victims are recorded and infections remain flat with another 2,412” – Deaths have continued to fall over the last week, according to MailOnline, and positive tests are down 2.5% on last week
  • “Boris told to stop terrifying Brits with ‘totalitarian’ Covid warnings” – Psychologists are now calling on the Government to coax the public back to normality, the Express reports
  • “Post-menopausal women report periods coming back after having Covid vaccine” – Researchers are investigating whether there might be a link between the jabs and a disruption to the menstrual cycle, according to the Telegraph, after hundreds of women reported experiencing the symptoms
  • “Belfast restaurant expands to three times its size as Republic shutdown forces diners north” – Restrictions on dining out in the Republic of Ireland have improved business in some eateries on the U.K. side of the border, according to the Belfast Telegraph
  • “Enough is enough Boris, we’ve done what we were told to do, so don’t dare deny us our freedom” – “If the Government wants to protect people from their own decisions in order to save lives, society is going to have to tell them it can’t,” says Emily Hill in Mail+
  • “We can’t let them cancel Freedom Day because of another scariant” – “The Government needs to sack SAGE, stop talking up the Indian scariant and act decisively to quell the coronafear,” says Alison Pearson in the Telegraph
  • “The shocking role of fear in managing the pandemic” – Jon Dobinson reviews Laura Dodsworth’s book, A State for Fear, for Think Scotland. “Essential reading,” he says
  • “Direct your anger at the lockdown obsessives, not the unvaccinated few” – “The understandable anger of people like Lord Lloyd-Webber needs to be directed at ministers and the SAGE modellers,” says Peter Johnston in the Telegraph, for they are “urging them to take disproportionate and unjustified decisions to extend the lockdown even in the face of a waning pandemic”
  • “Isolated” – In a post for the John’s Campaign, Melanie tells the story of her mother Jean who was diagnosed with dementia back in March and placed in a care home at short notice where she was then isolated
  • “Why COVID-19 treatment has been ignored and banned” – A transcript of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Dr. Peter McCullough, courtesy of Kathy Gyngell at the Conservative Woman
  • “Can the Covid vaccine change our DNA?” – Neville Hodgkinson explores the evidence related to DNA, RNA, the virus and the vaccine for the Conservative Woman
  • “SAGE cannot be serious” – “It seems odd that no one from SAGE stopped for a moment to check the numbers against the real world,” writes Professor David Paton for Spiked
  • “Britain is suffering from freedom hesitancy” – “There will be life after lockdown,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked, “but only if we insist on living it”
  • “Do not vaccinate children against COVID-19 until Phase 3 trials are complete” – Any rollout of the vaccines to children should not start until trials are complete and all findings are published and peer-reviewed on long-term safety data,” says this new parliamentary petition
  • “Ministers say the Indian variant could delay reopening on June 21st” – “It’s time to get back to normal,” says Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO, “enjoying life and the risks that come with that”
  • “A distressing interview on the BBC Today Programme” – BBC Today’s Mishal Husain talks to the father of the child who was refused an exemption from hotel quarantine despite suffering from severe disabilities. He is being represented by lawyer Adam Wagner
  • “Nina” – James Delingpole talks to the receptionist of a large NHS medical practice for the Delingpod. She tells him about the adverse reactions to the jabs that her patients have had
  • “Government to extend emergency Covid powers until November” – The Government of Ireland is extending COVID-19 emergency powers, due to expire next month, until November, according to the Irish Independent
  • “In Bulgaria, even doctors aren’t sure COVID-19 vaccines are a good idea” – A Euronews report from Bulgaria, where just 13.5% of the population has been vaccinated
  • “Gaza medics struggle to save COVID-19 patients, bombing casualties” – Medics in the Gaza strip are struggling to cope both with a high number of Covid cases and with the wounded, according to the Jerusalem Post
  • “Ontario will open outdoor recreation on or before June 2nd” – Citizens of Ontario will be allowed outside for recreation, the Post Millennial reports, after a report from Sick Kids called Let the children play laid bare the impact of the lockdown on children
  • “This Article Is Partly False” – Writing for City Journal, John Tierney demonstrates that FaceBook and its fact-checkers are “stifling scientific debate” and “enforcing progressive orthodoxy”
  • “How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up vaccine effectiveness” – New policies at the CDC will make the vaccines look better than they are, says Kit Knightly in Off-Guardian
  • “Everything we know about DRDO’s COVID medicine, 2-deoxy-D-glucose” – The Times of India reports on 2-deoxy-D-glucose, a new treatment for COVID-19 which is being hailed as an “innovative Holy Grail”
  • “Tokyo doctors call for cancellation of Olympic Games due to COVID-19” – The Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association, representing about 6,000 primary care doctors, says the Olympic Games should be cancelled, Reuters reports
  • “Who counts as ‘immediate family’? Not your parents, the Government says” – Australians are permitted to travel into or out of the country to see “immediate family”, but this covers spouses and dependents, not parents, according to the Sydney Morning Herald
  • “Declaration for the protection of Children and Young people from the COVID-19 Response” – An open letter to Save the Children from PANDA urging action to protect children from the COVID-19 response. Parents and concerned citizens are invited to sign
  • “The WHO investigation in January and February was so farcical that it has backfired” – Matt Ridley was on talkRADIO yesterday to talk about the scientists’ letter calling for a proper investigation into the ‘lab leak’ theory, a hypothesis that’s gaining traction

Scientists have accused the World Health Organisation of failing to properly investigate whether Covid was leaked from a Wuhan lab.

Conservative peer Lord Ridley: "The WHO investigation in January and February was so farcical that it has backfired."@JuliaHB1 | @mattwridley pic.twitter.com/KYuRvd2oBh

— TalkTV (@TalkTV) May 18, 2021
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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago

It’s a start maybe, but Professor Nigel Curtis is nearly a year behind the curve.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

As Prof Mesmet the “mass formation” psychology guy said, when you have episodes of group hypnosis like this there are around 20% who don’t fall for it, 40% who go deeply under and are basically unreachable, and then there are 40% in the middle who go along with things for a quiet life but are still open to persuasion.

Prof Curtis seems to be in the middle 40% and it’s encouraging he has spoken out but we need lots more people in that category to wake up to what is happening.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

“Professor Nigel Curtis, from the Murdoch Children’s Association, has warned that those under the age of 11 must not be given a Covid vaccine until more data becomes available. Professor Curtis also remarked that, as the virus poses little to no risk to young children, the safety threshold for the vaccine has to be much higher than it is for older age groups.”

Why do they need to be vaccinated AT ALL if the virus poses little to no risk?
The safety profile of the vaccine is irrelevant. Injecting anyone with anything constitutes a finite risk. Why take the risk when there is no possible reward in return?

It’s almost as if universal vaccination isn’t being done on medical or health grounds alone.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

I wonder how many people are aware that since 2013 every baby born in the UK is vaccinated against Rotavirus. The case fatality rate of rotavirus is 0.001%

Perhaps the silver lining of this corona nightmare is that more people are asking questions about vaccines in general. For example, why has the number of vaccines on the NHS recommended vaccine schedule almost doubled since 2006 (6 additional diseases).

The risk-reward question regarding vaccines in general has been completely ignored.

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kate
kate
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

The regime will need to mandate all vaccines by force after this, as no-one will ever willingly trust or comply with the vaccine schedule again.

This alone makes me realise that we are not going back to “normal”

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sophie123
sophie123
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I was not aware, not having had a baby since 2009. I found out the other day we are now vaccinating against hepatitis B at birth too. Why?!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Quite. Very cleverly the baseline has moved from ‘children are not at risk so don’t need to be injected’ to ‘well Pfizer says it’s safe so we will inject the children.’

It has now become a given that children must be poisoned, the only issue is how many parents will refuse.

As sure as eggs are eggs those parents who say no will be lumped with the rest of the so-called ‘anti-vaxers’ and will be blamed as the ADE cases multiply.

It’s Genocide people.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

The balance in normal healthy people is 6 times 11 years 66 years old though (using their own figures las time i looked)

THERE’S ZERO benefit (and mass harm) to spam-jabbing those aged younger.

Even if the jabs worked to prevent harms from infection you’d want to limit viral evolution by using them only to those at risk of harm!

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Henry2
Henry2
3 years ago

Healthy scientist in his mid 30s, equivalent of 3 PhDs in neuropharmacology, multiple publications in PNAS, Nature, Mol. Pharmacology needs more data before taking one of these products. Enough about me, but if I can’t give ‘informed consent’ I doubt any one else of similar age or younger can (specific co-morbidities aside).

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

What more does he need to see?

  1. They’re not vaccines!
  2. They’re more likely to kill your kid than save it!

Hello?

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

A statement of the bleedin’ obvious.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

something which has become a revolutionary act over the last 20 months.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

The leftist’s god has shown his true colours.
Noam Chomsky Goes Off The Deep End – Proving That All Socialism Leads To Tyranny

Chomsky compared people who don’t comply with the vaccines to people who don’t comply with traffic lights, suggesting we pose an imminent danger to others and that we should be removed. When asked how unvaxxed people forced out of the economy could be fed (how would they survive), he asserted “that is their problem.”

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Few once admirable people have suffered more Trump derangement than Chomsky.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Once admirable?

WHEN? IIRR He’s been a computer fraud from the start.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago

Every time I read this stuff, I am truly amazed by the skills of the Pfizer Time Travellers and their Medical and Political Fellow-Travellers, in being able to project themselves weeks, months, years and even decades into the Future, to know the full effects of their Potion on people, both old and young.

If the rotten BBC had any gumption, they’d knock up a quick time-travelling replacement for Dr. Who (What?) using this theme. It likely wouldn’t have a happy ending, though.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
3 years ago

This part is a bit suspicious:

Australian data from the first seven months of 2021 showed 2.5% of children under nine who caught Covid needed hospital treatment, compared with 7.7% of adults in their 20s and 19.2% of adults in their 50s.

The age ranges don’t quite match, but recent UKHSA data suggests it to be about 0.1% (<18), 1% (20’s) and 5% (50’s) in the unvaccinated — and that includes the vulnerable within each age group (immunocompromised, obese, etc).

This is the problem we have — the authorities are very keen to use any data that shows covid to be a terrible disease that warrants their extreme response, and ignore anything that suggests that it is badish in the old and vulnerable, but considerably less so in the young and healthy.

Last edited 3 years ago by amanuensis
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iane
iane
3 years ago

Please, Mr Perry, don’t EVER pretend that anything in the Daily Fail is ‘worth reading in full’!

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

I only ever read the headline, scroll straight down to comment section whilst passing a disapproving glance at the empowered bikini clad celebs whoring themselves for attention. Least page 3 was honest, tits out for cash so men could look.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

If its on a yacht it’s probably for money, not attention.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Liz hurley seems to live on the beach in a bikini, money or attention, not sure?

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago

Shame he hasn’t got teenagers or young adults, perhaps he might have spoken up earlier.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago

See more data? What for? What earthly reason is there to consider a “vaccination” for someone 11 or under who is not in danger from covid, especially when that “vaccine” seems to make you more, not less, likely to catch and pass on an infection? Are there not actual sick people to treat? How could vaxxing 11 year olds for covid ever be a priority worth pursuing?

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago

How many children in Australia have died FROM COVID?

Compare this to the number of children in Australia who die from the flu or pneumonia in a typical flu season.

Also, why can’t these statistics be reported in articles on children vaccination? Have editors told their reporters NOT to include this factual information in any articles they submit? Or do the reporters just know that they should not do this?

Last edited 3 years ago by BillRiceJr
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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago

I don’t understand why more doctors, scientists and journalists are so unwilling to QUANTIFY the health risks to children from COVID.

I tried to do just this in a story that actually got published (at an “alternative media” site). But my extrapolations were based on a UK study described as the “most comprehensive of its kind.”.

The study found that only 25 children (aged 0 to 17) died FROM Covid in the first year of the pandemic. However, I tried to narrow this risk to just “healthy” children, those without severe pre-existing or “life-altering” medical conditions. From this effort, I concluded the odds a “healthy” child would die from COVID were about 1 in 2 million (0.0001 percent).

I’ve also tried to perform the same type of analysis regarding the mortality risk to healthy athletes. Just about all athletes are now being forced (or coerced) into getting vaccinated when reports of athletes who died from COVID are either zero or maybe one or two (out of millions of athletes who participated in organized sports in the last 20 months).

Clearly, the risks of vaccination-caused side effects (such as myocarditis) are many-folds higher than the risks of death from this disease.

Anyway, when I read reports acknowledging that the risks to children or young adults are “very small,” this characterization is no where close to being descriptive or accurate. The risks are actually microscopic or infinitesimal, almost non-existent.

https://uncoverdc.com/2021/07/30/for-majority-of-uk-children-covid-mortality-is-0-000/

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago

Powerful:

What happens when doctors ‘just follow orders’

https://youtu.be/qabuM2FKxtk

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

⁣Hospitals in USA and in first world countries are refusing life-saving Ivermectin treatment even with court orders. Big Pharma doing everything they can to jab us no matter what, while alternative COVID cures EXIST! There happens to be heavy censorship who are looking for these treatments. The Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://health.p0l.org/

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Less government
Less government
3 years ago

I would love to know if employees of the Big Pharma vaccine suppliers are vaccinating their children, or Doctors and nurses, or Members of Parliament, or their offspring’s children. Sooner or later some of these people will realise that they have killed one of their family…..

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