- “Big weddings are back on from June 21st, Boris Johnson to announce” – The Prime Minister is set to announce that big weddings will be allowed to take place from June 21st, the Telegraph has learned. Is he finally naming the day?
- “SNP Government agency accused of ‘shameful’ attempt to hide full truth over care home deaths” – The Scottish Information Commissioner has ruled that the National Records of Scotland breached Freedom of Information legislation by refusing to release details of suspected coronavirus deaths in care homes, according to the Telegraph
- “More pandemic profiteers: COVID-19 vaccines have minted at least nine new pharma billionaires” – Nine executives of pharmaceutical companies have become billionaires thanks to the jabs, the Daily Mail reports
- “Chris Whitty: Smoking likely to have killed more than Covid last year” – In a lecture on the future of health trends, Chief Medical Office Chris Whitty says that smoking has probably killed more people than Covid in the same time period and it places a severe strain on hospital services, according to the Telegraph
- “Why Britain must unlock on 21st June” – “There will always be reasons to fear a new mutation – even a new pathogen,” says the Spectator. “But at some point we have to say enough is enough”
- “Indian COVID-19 variant cases more than double in a week as fresh ‘triple mutant’ emerges in Yorkshire” – Officials have raised concerns about a triple mutant strain that has been identified in Yorkshire, says the i. It has similarities to the Kent variant and the South African variant and has has been designated “a variant under investigation”
- “Matt Hancock violates patient confidentiality” – In declaring that majority of the 18 patients hospitalised in the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust with the Indian variant hadn’t taken the vaccine, the Health Secretary ignored key principles of medical confidentiality, says HART
- “In hate crime-obsessed Britain, vilifying Covid vaccine ‘refuseniks’ comes with establishment approval” – We hear so much about ‘hate crime’, writes Neil Clark in RT, but now “we’re in the midst of an extremely nasty campaign against those who don’t wish to take a Covid vaccine and somehow that’s deemed acceptable”
- “Forget the hype, there’s ‘zero evidence’ booster jabs will be needed” – In the Conservative Woman, Kathy Gyngell dismisses talk of a third dose of the Covid vaccines
- “Shame on ‘freedom-loving’ conservatives and their media bullies” – Gary Oliver in the Conservative Woman pours scorn on the commentators who love freedom except when it comes to choosing whether or not to have the vaccine
- “No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, No Unvaxxed” – We are continuing, says Dustin Broadberry in Off-Guardian, “to surrender ancient rights and protections to an unthinkable dystopia that is now within sniffing distance”
- “Future lockdowns, Indian variants and groceries” – A Q&A session with Professor Tim Spector of ZOE app fame. He thinks it “unlikely” the country will end up in another lockdown
- “Bring Back Parliament!” – Dan Hannan urges Parliament to come back to life
- “Are our children being spied on in schools?” – “Yes,” says Das Astin Gregory in the Pandemic Podcast, referring to a Scottish Government briefing note to senior leaders and teachers offering “‘a short summary of the ways in which extremists have responded to Covid-19” and definitions of “misinformation”, “disinformation”, and “conspiracy theories”
- “Cork woman jailed for weekend after refusing to wear a mask” – A judge was confused by the behaviour of the “pleasant woman” who was “undermining the rules of court and country” by her refusal to wear a mask in court and had “no other option” but to jail her for contempt, the Irish Times reports
- “Decision to lockdown caused 282 times the loss of years of life, says Economics professor” – A report from Gript on Canadian Professor Douglas W. Allen’s cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns
- “Freedom in France has been reduced to Government-authorised drinking on outdoor patios” – “Freedom in France is being able to attend museums, movies, and outdoor dining with a mask on and strict social distancing rules,” writes Rachel Marsden in RT. “What the heck has happened to the French?”
- “Germany declares U.K. a virus variant region” – Germany’s public health institute has said the U.K. is a virus variant region, and anyone returning to Germany after a trip to Britain or Northern Ireland has to quarantine for two weeks, according to Reuters
- “Spain to drop Covid restrictions on British visitors from 24th May” – The Guardian reports that as of May 24th Spain will allow Brits to enter the country for the purposes of a holiday without having to show a test certificate at the border
- “Goodbye masks – Hungary to lift most COVID-19 curbs, PM Orban says” – Victor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, has announced that the country will lift most remaining COVID-19 restrictions as soon as the number of vaccinated people passes five million this weekend, Reuters reports
- “Fauci: ‘It’s a Manifestation of Your Honesty to Say, Hey, I Was Wrong’” – Micha Gatz takes “a look back at Dr. Fauci’s mutating mask guidance” for the AIER
- “Running Out of Patience for the CDC” – “Throughout the entire pandemic,” says Ethan Yang for the AIER, “the CDC has been the arbiter of comically cautious guidance, arbitrary and unethical recommendations, and it contradicted itself so many times that it would be a decent question to ask if anyone really listens at this point”
- “Malaysia suspended its democracy to combat the virus, now it’s even worse” – The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Malaysia’s opposition party leader is attacking the Government for declaring a perpetual state of emergency, which enables it to cling to authority “under the banner of emergency”
- “Argentina announces ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown as pandemic rages” – Argentina’s President has announced a strict “circuit breaker” lockdown, Reuters says, which will come into force today and last a week
- “Two Filmmakers” – Podcaster Thaddeus Russell speaks to two establish Hollywood filmmakers who are hoping to make a film that is critical of Covid lockdowns and mask mandates
- “China’s Sichuan province releases rap song to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations” – A Sichuan health authority has produced rap – titled Get Jabbed Quick – promoting the vaccines. According to the South China Morning Post, the take up rate is low across the country
- “Don’t they just love a variant?” – Time for Recovery urges people to do what they can to stop Johnson and Hancock moving the goalposts again
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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/cork-woman-66-jailed-for-weekend-after-refusing-to-wear-a-mask-1.4571444?mode=amp
What an abhorrent way to treat people. This woman in Cork is my new hero! I hope she has the inner strength to keep wearing a smile rather than a mask even if they keep her in an asylum.
Judge Colm Roberts: “She is undermining the rules of the court and the country…”
He and store manager Gary Emerson are undermining all humanity.
Best wishes to Margaret – she is not alone.
Justice Roberts should be strung up.
We know what happens to totalitarian governments and their economies, some of us.
We saw the iron curtain manifested in barbed wire entanglements, minefields, guard dogs, goon towers with machine guns etc
And with medicine;
“The Soviet way was: If a doctor told you to do something, you did it,”
Then we saw the USSR and Soviet satellite states economic and political collapse.
And we saw the aftermath:
‘…back home in Russia, a deeper-rooted distrust in authority has resulted in the phenomenon of parents choosing to not vaccinate their kids almost as an expression of agency.
“This doubt in any authority has been building up over many generations in Russians,” says Sergei Butry, a pediatrician. “If our government has been controlling people for many decades, here is one sphere of life where a person can stand in opposition.’
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2018/09/28/russia-has-a-vaccine-problem-a63017
That distrust is building here slowly but will snowball with the acceleration now taking place of reports revealing the scale of misrepresentation, totalitarianism, ‘der grosser reich’ ‘papiere bitte’ that the government and its state sector running mates, Mr Pooters all, have perpetrated.
The purge of the Mr Pooters beckons……..
And not just here:
‘In reaction to Covid-19, the CDC really took things to a whole new level of absurdity. The amount of hubris, ignorance, and condescension exhibited by our public health leaders truly soared to new heights. Not only that but it had real consequences not just for the people who had to live under the CDC’s recommendations but for its own credibility. It would be fair to say the CDC needs a wakeup call because they truly have tested our patience for what’s becoming far too long.’
‘Throughout the entire pandemic, the CDC has been the arbiter of comically cautious guidance, arbitrary and unethical recommendations, and it contradicted itself so many times that it would be a decent question to ask if anyone really listens at this point. Perhaps this would be a good thing in a way as states and communities chart their own course towards voluntary solutions based on their own contexts.’
‘…it is certainly great to see people taking matters into their own hands and living their lives based on reason and responsible behavior’
https://www.aier.org/article/running-out-of-patience-for-the-cdc/
Salutations to the land of the free! Never was so much tea wasted in such a good cause!
Meanwhile, back in blighty, ‘Der Grosser Reich’: ‘Papiere, bitte!’, ‘ave u go’ a mask there, luv!’
The shame of it; shameful.
Them: “have you got a mask?”
Me: ” Fuck off! I refuse to partake in the absurd pantomime of Covid Cult Rituals!”
I went through Checkpoint Charlie quite a few times. The contrast between the bright lights of Unter den Linden and the Ku Damm with the grey, regimented, empty streets of the East was stark. Now in the grey, regimented month of May 2021 I look back at pre Feb 2020 as if I’m looking back at West Berlin.
Having read the ATL piece about hate crime, it occurred to me that we, the unjabbed, must start our own religion in order to be protected by the legislation. Either that or our own sexual orientation, but I think most of those are taken already!
A question.
At some time the real purpose of Covid vaccinations will either come out or be revealed. It won’t matter because those ‘infected’ with this poison will have to keep obeying if they want the regular jabs to keep them alive.
My question is, how small a group do we clean people have to be before direct action against us is authorised?
Todays science question –
Germany – (almost) nobody from the UK can enter Germany, regardless of test, vacinne, infection etc. status
Spain – anyone from the UK can enter Spain, regardless of …..
Explain – as simply as possible The Science
And:
Hungary: dropping all restrictions.
Me thinks, the EU has a(nother) problem.
The man has form. This from some time ago, and about vaccines in general.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/29/government-seriously-considering-compulsory-vaccinations-matt-hancock
The French are one of the biggest disappointments.
So are the Italians.
The German, Spanish and Eastern European compliance, zealousness and fascist behavior was to be expected.
Still, the biggest disappointments and failures are the supposedly freedom loving and oh so liberal Brits and Americans.
Land of the free, my ar*e.
The German economist Prof. Bernd Raffelhueschen made the same calculation this guy did for Canada for Germany over a year ago and arrived at the same result.
And both calculations and results omitted to calculate and include the much higher loss of life in the 3rx world solely due to our Western Lockdowns.
And both calculations were and will continue to be ignored.
In particular by the left/green do-gooders, moralists, ethicists etc.
On the RT Littlejohn, Morgan, Vine, O’Grady spreading hatred story:
All my friends in Germany and the UK are Covid and government propaganda believers.
None of them wants to see their children jabbed though, and none of them is in favour of coercion to take the jab, vaccine related discrimination, vaccine apartheid or vaccine passports.
This is very much a government/chattering class/celebrity look lackeys psy op only, which is neither shared nor appreciated or accepted by the general population- the Brits are more polite here than the Germans, the Germans are more cognizant of where this can lead to.
Which is probably why the propagandists are so desperate and revving it up, and also why SAGE is rowing back today and preparing the grounds for what would always have been and will be the only correct medical approach in the future: the GBD plus vaccination of the vulnerable only.
Therefore, this battle is far from being lost.
“Nine executives of pharmaceutical companies have become billionaires thanks to the jabs, the Daily Mail reports”
Nudge nudge, wink wink. Say no more …. except Monty python was funny.
Of course I am in favour of lifting all restrictions, but I still find it is quite a jump from what is going on now to no restrictions at all. I guess I have been affected by the last few months.
For example weddings, lots of rules right now, maximal 30 attendants. And from 21st June one can have 300? No SD, no masks, no sitting at sd tables and table service for alcohol? To be honest, like all these rules, it does not make sense. It is a huge jump.
And I also feel for the fearful people. Numbers will probably still be quite high, the testing regime in hospitals will of course not stop after 21st June, and probably care facilities neither, so they will still find quite a few -most likely-FP.
As ATL mentions, many people are still shielding, many will continue to wear masks and throw themselves into hedges, disinfect trolleys etc.
Do we really think the disinfectant stations in shops will disappear, the plexiglass at the till etc? This will keep the fear going in certain people, and it will need an advertising campaign to encourage people to ditch what they have been brainwashed to do the last 15months.
We have a long way of recovery ahead of us and we LDS have to be patient with the covidiots. They have been victims of fear propaganda of unprecedented levels.
I am having a bad day today, and as I say, I am desperate to be able to be “normal” again, hopefully be employed again and have more social contacts.
I pray that the 21st June goes ahead, it is time. Sweden proved this was not necessary.
My family in Germany are still living with stupid restrictions, test, test, test is the mantra there, and the logistics of vaccinating children in the summer or with start of school in September is seriously being considered by authorities.
Oh, well, I better force myself to go out and see some people.