- “Boris is fighting a lonely battle against his own officials to reopen Britain” – In his Telegraph column, Fraser Nelson says Boris is almost alone in Government in wanting to reopen on June 21st, but the retreat of the Indian variant has emboldened him
- “Just 15 positive Covid tests among thousands who flocked to Wembley and Brit Awards” – A late rate of infection among crowds at trial events is prompting hopes that mass gatherings can reopen this summer, the Telegraph reports
- “Doctors hit back at NHS bosses over orders to see patients face-to-face” – Doctors’ unions have turned on senior NHS officials after they told patients they had the right to face-to-face appointments, the Telegraph reports
- “Kind and caring soulmate’ Simon couldn’t cope with Covid restrictions” – A sad story in the East Anglian Daily Times about a Co-op worker who, unable to cope with the social restrictions, took his own life
- “Bank fails to pay dividend to Treasury for first time” – The Bank of England will fail to pay a dividend to the Treasury this year, according to the Times, after its loss-absorbing capital fell below a minimum threshold
- “NHSX – COVID-19 Vaccination Certification Programme” – A Department of Health and Social Care contract for the printing and mailing of COVID-19 vaccination paper documentation worth £21 million. Are they planning something, perchance?
- “Most Covid patients in East Lancashire hospital had jab, says council leader” – The Guardian hears from Mohammed Khan, the leader of Blackburn with Darwen council, who says that six of the nine coronavirus patients in the region’s hospital had received at least one jab
- “NHS vaccine passports are here – but will they be used beyond international travel?” – The vaccine passport was supposed to be just for travel, but writing in the Conversation Eerke Boiten takes a closer look at the privacy notice and the data the app has access to and reaches a different conclusion
- “The border closure debate is turning us into bigots” – “Once the preserve of fringe Right-wing groups, we are now seeing politicians of all stripes resorting to ugly tropes about people ‘surging’ in through the UK’s ‘leaky’ borders like ‘a sieve'”, writes UnHerd’s pseudonymous doctor Amy Jones
- “Who will make the case for liberty?” – Writing in UnHerd, Douglas Murray bemoans the fact that “while there is plenty of pressure on the Government to be more cautious, there is none at a party-political level urging the Government to be more favourable towards the case for liberty”
- “Lockdown has called last orders for the British Pub” – “The death of the British pub is not just found in the boarded up windows,” writes S.D. Wickett in Bournbrook. “It is found in the stale atmosphere of the ones that stay open”
- “What if we’re wrong” – “Local health authorities and the WHO can be wrong, as can we all,” says Professor Heather Heying in Areo – and shutting down voices that question their conclusions is “antithetical to science”
- “Travesties: The Covid Lexicon of Lies” – The latest blog from Omar Khan, in which he rounds up the lies told in the name of COVID-19
- “Covid: The Big Picture” – An update from the Swiss Doctor, covering the situation in Sweden, the virus’s origin, and more
- “The real cure for Covid is a halt to fearmongering” – Stephen McMurray wonders in the Conservative Woman if there would even be an epidemic were everyone to turn off their TVs and throw away their newspapers
- “Who are you calling fat?” – “Obese people are statistically much more likely to contract COVID-19,” says Kate Dunlop at the Conservative Woman, and “the Government’s response to COVID-19 is likely to have increased obesity rates thanks to lockdowns and disruptions of normal life”
- “Life inside the fear factory: how the Government keeps us on high alert” – Laura Dodsworth is the guest on Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson’s Planet Normal this week, sharing her damning take on the “unethical” use of behavioural psychology during the lockdown
- “The Ultimate Variants Update, in 3 Minutes Flat!” – The latest video from Ivor Cummins aimed at all those who’ve been terrified by “media, using unscientific exaggeration of variant data”
- “No happy ending’ as EU countries and MEPs clash over coronavirus certificates” – EU member states and MEPs are struggling to reach agreement over the fine print of the vaccine passport programme, Politico reports
- “Postcard from the Republic of Ireland” – After four years in the UK, Johnny Murphy was looking forward to going home to Ireland, he says in the Conservative Woman, but he has found that the country “has become a dystopia”
- “Nobel Prize Winner Reveals – Covid Vaccine is Creating Variants” – French Virologist and Nobel prize winner Luc Montagnier said in a recent interview, translated here by the Rair foundation, that “it is the vaccination that is creating the variants”
- “The Israeli People’s Committee Interim Conclusion Report” – The Doctors for Covid Ethics have highlighted a report of the Israeli People’s Committee on the country’s vaccine rollout
- “Child suicide attempts increased by up to 200% during pandemic in Canada, warn charities and hospitals” – RT reports the findings of Children First Canada that a combination of school closures, lack of physical entertainment, and isolation from friends and family has led to sharp increases in substance abuse and suicide attempts among children
- “How Team Biden Ended Covid Mania Overnight” – Jordan Schachtel offers an explanation as to “how the CDC and other Government Health institutions have gone from projecting a ‘sense of impending doom’ to ‘your health is in your hands’ in a matter of days”
- “Lockdowns in Taiwan: Myths Versus Reality” – Writing for AIER, Michael Gartz and Amelia Janaskie explore how Taiwan’s experience of the 2003 Sars outbreak has served the country well against COVID-19
- “Texas Governor Abbott ends COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits” – Greg Abbott has announced that COVID-19 unemployment benefits in Texas will come to an end on June 26th, Conservative Zone reports. The Governor’s reasoning is that the number of new job openings is roughly equivalent to the number claiming unemployment benefits
- “Has India’s second Covid wave peaked?” – New infections in India appear to have peaked at 412,618 on May 5th, Ross Clark says in the Spectator, and the number has been falling for about a fortnight
- “US doctor gives evidence to Senate on vaccine deaths and damage” – US physician Ben Edwards gives evidence to the Senate on deaths and damage caused by the vaccine
- “The Church and the Virus” – A lecture delivered by arch-sceptics the Venerable Dr Edward Dowler
- “The NHS app has been updated to include far more than vaccine jabs” – Big Brother Watch’s Silko Carlo spoke to Julia Hartley-Brewer yesterday about the implications of the NHS app’s data controls
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Obviously they never think that sick and suffering people might be ‘disappointed’ to find that their doctor doesn’t give a s..t about them. Or if they do, it doesn’t worry them, because they don’t give a s..t about sick and suffering people. They belong in the same bin as teachers.
Abso bloody lutely.
So the vaccine itself is creating the variants? I can see an endless supply of variants coming down the pike. Just what ‘they’ always wanted.
And, if it is, to any significant extent, vaccination that is causing variants, then one can be sure that this will mean increasingly vaccine-resistant variants will emerge.
The vaccines were leaky to begin with. They are designed to stop serious symptoms, not stop transmission.
Using a leaky vaccine in the “heat” of a pandemic is quite possibly the most stupid and dangerous thing I have ever heard of.
It reminds me of the Manhattan Project, where they thought that setting off an atomic bomb might ignite the atmosphere and kill all life on Earth.
They did it anyway.
All the ‘vaccines’ are designed on the original Wuhan gene sequencing given the Drosten by the Chinese. The original is no-more, its the various strains that are being recorded.
Of course this makes no difference to the human immune system that recognises virus that change by 10s of percentages. But a vaccine needs a booster and again and again and again to deal with variations in the virus. As the WHO has changed the definition of herd immunity to be only available through vaccination it means that public health authorities have an endless ability to maintain ‘vaccination’ mandates.
In the eyes of Big Pharma it is a virtuous loop – the injections cause the mutations which creates the need for the solution to be modified and sold and a full rejabbing of the population.
The on going pressure to jab younger and younger people is an on going cash cow for big Pharma ad- infinitum.the future side effects will ‘need’ more pharmaceuticals to treat them ….
This has been a long time in the planning.
The aliens will be here in August /September.
Unfortunately, news came yesterday of another 15 year old at the local school, taking his own life. This follows from another 2 months ago. The nurse, who was the person the kids turned to when they were having problems, was made redundant a couple of weeks ago.
The fact that these zero covid nutters are arguing that this isn’t happening and worse, some even suggesting that suicide rates are down, is all the proof I need that these extremists are beyond evil. They must be bought to trial, no matter how long it takes.
Amen to that. The wheels of vengeance may move slowly, but move they do.
Remember all the victims. Remember gentle Simon, who jumped to his death from the Orwell bridge. Remember them all, and when the time comes, speak for them.
This should include the “journalists” and “celebrities” who gave medical advice without a medical license and who coerced people into taking experimental gene therapy.
The penalty as per Nuremberg is death. Although I think hanging is too kind for these “people”.
As someone who has no smartphone and therefore won’t be using an NHS app, I look at the millions who’ve got them and ask myself, do they have any awareness of what their app knows about them? Of course, very few do. Our population seems to be moving blindly on, en masse, into the nightmare long foretold. At present the app is just for vax status but these people don’t seem to understand the mission-creep.
I can only hope and pray that something will happen to turn this horror on its head. I avoid conversations with people re covid as much as possible because it only eventually leads to the vax question, so much deflection is required. But yes people are bloody stupid and seemingly unable to fathom out where this is all going. I cannot feel any sorrow for them at all. They will eventually learn a terrible lesson.
“ A Department of Health and Social Care contract for the printing and mailing of COVID-19 vaccination paper documentation worth £21 million. Are they planning something, perchance?”
Scary one this…good news is that I don’t think that £21m is even a tenth of what you’d actually need if you were going to make this a secure document. There is a reason that your passport costs £75 – all the special paper, threads, ink, watermarks, UV, laser, holograms etc that go into it are really expensive!!
If circa 60 million people need one of these that’s 30p a pop. Even if it’s just for the 5% of people without a smartphone then its still only a £6 budget per person which might get you something like a GCSE certificate – nice watermarked paper and ink but easily fakeable so entirely pointless
I’m told that most people lie on job applications about their educational achievements and employers almost never check. It isn’t even worth the bother of acquiring a fake certificate.
Tell ’em all to go to hell.
Let’s see if a very large reduction in pay changes their outlook. Put them on a small retainer until they do their job properly.
“Stephen McMurray wonders in the Conservative Woman if there would even be an epidemic were everyone to turn off their TVs and throw away their newspapers”
Here is the news : There never was an epidemic by the accepted standards of GP monitoring (see the CEBM)
UKC had a piece today about some FOI requests made to various local councils on the number of burials and cremations for the last 6 years.
The results for the three councils shown showed no major difference in numbers in 2020 compared to the previous five years.
To be fair – the BMA only nominally represents doctors, and its leadership has always been among the ignorant Covmaniacs.
Same with all the professional bodies. They Royal College of Psychiatry recently declared a “climate emergency” https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/latest-news/detail/2021/05/05/rcpsych-declares-a-climate-and-ecological-emergency with the Monty Python statement: “Alarmingly, many appear unaware that the climate and ecological emergencies were a contributing factor to the global outbreak of COVID-19.”
The Royal College of Psychiatry are clearly nuts.
I’m surprised they didn’t add racism to that statement.
FFS
So, all of this technology has been developed and put into use in China by Western tech companies that now want to roll the same thing out over here. How is that a conspiracy when everything I said in the previous sentence is openly acknowledged?
It’s not the “medical profession” that’s the problem but the BMA. Because as you say, ‘tens of thousands of GPs felt “anger, frustration and disappointment” about the way they had been treated by health officials’
This COVID scam is being directed by forces not congruent with the “medical profession” – which is too broad a label.
Long before this, there was a regime change at the “Health Centre” which left some of the doctors complaining about Big Brother monitoring their performance and preventing them from requesting certain tests and limiting their ability to refer people to hospital. One complained that they were only allowed to “follow rules and tick boxes”. In the end most of them left.
An update from the Swiss Doctor states
Aerosol transmission may also explain – and many skeptics may not like to hear this – why pre-symptomatic transmission has played such an important role in driving the covid pandemic: professor Jimenez estimates that 30% to 60% of all transmission is from people not (yet) coughing or sneezing
A few seconds reveals that the paper cited by the paper cited was based on a model that concluded what it assumed.
Swiss Doctor has been a great source but Nulius in verba and count the ‘mays’!
Just to confirm the assumptions “The baseline assumptions for the model were that peak infectiousness occurred at the median of symptom onset and that 30% of individuals with infection never develop symptoms and are 75% as infectious as those who do develop symptoms.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774707
Not sure how they arrived at those assumptions.
Agree. Maybe that’s why it is his last update. I just had a look at the study from Israel which claimed efficiency and had an unvaxxed control group.
It’s all modelling and models.
Nothing to do with the real world.
Crazy.
You’re the PM. Grow a pair and show some leadership, or GTFO.
This confirms what “Nina” was saying on the Delingpod. You signed up for this. Get on with your jobs or also GTFO.
I know a former top Big Pharma sales rep and I can tell you, most doctors are the laziest, most uninformed people on the planet. They do no research. If Big Pharma tells them to jump, they say “how high?”.
This is an absolute disgrace.
This backs up GVB, who is just stating epidemiology 101 – you don’t vaccinate during an epidemic. He’s just bothered to do the science to show why this is a terrible idea.
We’ve thrown 100 years of scientific knowledge in the bin for this “pandemic”. But, Trust The Science!
The same Montagnier who couldn’t produce a paper to demonstrate to Mullis that HIV caused AIDS?
Yes I’m aware of all the AIDS controversy. However, we need to take our allies where we find them. Strange bedfellows and all that.
The medical profession is clearly divided. And I reckon the main division is that the BMA like the teaching unions is fully on board with Operation COVID. Meanwhile the actual “workers at the coal face” know the whole thing is bullshit.
So here’s the scenario I envisage: Boris phones up the unions and says, “So here’s what we’ll do. I’ll rage against the lockdowns while you smugly quote pseudo scientific shite and complain about murderous herd immunity and uncaring capitalism. Then we can have the Right-on Left idiots cheer on while I kick and scream while you drag me into the revolution!”
What if everyone just ditched their phones. Screw the technology!
Sadly, the Swiss doctor is throwing in the towel though.
I find his statement here about presymptomatic infections dubious anyway…
“Please note that this is our last regular update on the covid pandemic. We thank our readers for their interest in our coverage and analysis of the pandemic.”
Pay them £12 to vaccinate someone and they suddenly crawl out from under their rocks and heroically face up to the deadly virus LOL
tbh: the BMA had been captured by the SJW types a few years ago. I don’t know how far they represent the views of all GPs.