- “Boris Johnson under growing pressure to lift lockdown on June 21st” – Boris is facing growing pressure from within his party to stick to the reopening schedule, the Telegraph reports
- “Covid U.K.: Every adult will be able to get vaccinated within weeks” – Ministers are preparing to open up vaccination to all adults, MailOnline says, amid growing concerns about the
IndianDelta strain - “Covid pandemic made kids’ eyesight worse, doctors say” – Increased screen time plus less time spent outdoors has led to the increasing cases of myopia in children, the Daily Mail reports
- “Scientists urging caution on Boris are pursuing zero Covid by stealth” – “Every time a SAGE modeller preaches caution because another wave is on the way, they are implicitly proposing elimination because there are always annual surges in endemic respiratory diseases,” says Phillip Johnston in the Telegraph
- “Has Covid accelerated the cashless society?” – Ross Clark provides some evidence in the Spectator to suggest that the reports of the death of cash are exaggerated
- “We patients protected the NHS – now it’s blaming us for its own failings” – “As thousands of patients with advanced cancers come to light, it takes some nerve to suggest they’re the reason hospitals are struggling,” says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph
- “The cancellation of exams has left school leavers on the scrapheap” – “Exams have been cancelled because of politics, not epidemiology,” writes Joanna Williams in the Telegraph. “There is no scientific justification for preventing youngsters from sitting separately in exam halls when they can mingle freely in parks and shops”
- “Miscarriages of justice under coronavirus laws ‘going unchallenged’ as court hearings bypassed” – Hundreds of people may have been wrongly convicted of coronavirus offences under a controversial system that bypasses court hearings, this analysis by the Independent suggests
- “The COVID-19 spike protein may be a potentially unsafe toxic endothelial pathogen” – Paul Elias Alexander, Parvez Dara, and Howard Tenenbaum raise serious concerns about the potential harm that may be caused by vaccinating children in TrialSiteNews
- “Covid Death Rate In Scottish Care Homes Higher In Larger Homes” – The Carer reports figures from the Care Inspectorate which reveal that death rates in Scotland’s care homes were six times higher in larger facilities than smaller ones
- “Delaying freedom day will kill clubs – and help organised crime” – Should the Government delay a full reopening past June 21st it would “risk gifting a huge slice of the country’s night economy to the black market for most, if not all, of the summer” says Henry Hill in UnHerd
- “Risky business” – “Is it safe to travel this summer for a holiday in Europe?” Alasdair Palmer asks in the Critic. He reckons that the most sensible thing to do may be to “ignore the Government’s advice”
- “The dangers of scientific groupthink” – “The sudden acceptability of the so-called ‘lab-leak’ theory is remarkable,” writes Patrick Hess in Spiked, and it “reminds us why we must always remain sceptical”
- “Governments need to stop playing God” – “We have much to fear from governments that believe a public-health crisis gives them the right to play God with our lives,” writes political philosophy lecturer David Thunder in Spiked
- “Ethical Considerations concerning COVID-19 Vaccinations” – The Rev’d Dr. Jamie Franklin, host of the Irreverend podcast, delves into vaccine ethics, arguing for a risk-benefit calculation that would rule out the majority of people from getting jabbed
- “Could Covid have leaked from a Wuhan lab?” – On Spectator TV, Matt Ridley outlines how the lab leak hypothesis made the transition from wacky right-wing conspiracy theory to an increasingly plausible explanation for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 that President Biden now wants investigated. Read his accompanying feature here
- “First details of Irish COVID-19 reinfection reported” – A team of clinicians in Ireland have given details of what they believe to be the first clinically reported detailed case study of COVID-19 reinfection in the country, RTE reports. The person concerned, a 40 year-old female, did not need hospitalisation the first time and the symptoms were milder the second time
- “Coronavirus: Germany downgrades its risk status” – The Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases reduced Germany’s coronavirus risk status from “very high” to “high”, Deutsche Welle reports. But the Health Minister Jens Spahn has warned that the country is “still in the middle of a pandemic”
- “COVID-19: Health Ministry finds some myocarditis cases linked to vaccines” – The Israeli Health Ministry is investigating a number of cases of myocarditis which it says are likely linked to the vaccine, according to the Jerusalem Post
- “Israel scraps its redundant vaccine passports” – Writing for the Spectator, Arieh Kovler bids farewell to Israel’s Green Pass which was “widely ignored”
- “Ontario revising vaccine strategy after latest NACI advice” – Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunisation has told health officials in Ontario that people who received an initial dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine can have an mRNA vaccine for their second jab, the Toronto Sun reports
- “Key figure in Wuhan research thanked Fauci for downplaying lab leak hypothesis” – Peter Daszak, the President of EcoHealth Alliance which secured a grant to perform coronavirus research in Wuhan, thanked Dr. Fauci personally after his initial rejection of the lab leak theory, the Washington Examiner says
- “Uncovered emails reveal Dr. Fauci’s friendly messages to CHINESE expert” – Newly uncovered email correspondence between Dr. Fauci and Dr. George Gao, Director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, sheds light on their close cooperation in the early days of COVID-19, the Daily Mail reports
- “West Virginia offering guns as prizes in COVID-19 vaccine lottery” – West Virginians who get vaccinated will be entered into a lottery, according to the New York Post, and the prizes include five custom hunting rifles, five custom hunting shotguns, two tricked-out pickup trucks and five lifetime hunting and fishing permits
- “Lockdown Kitsch” – The popularity of lockdowns, social distancing and mask mandates is “a function not of fear, but of care”, says Lockdown Sceptics contributor David McGrogan in AIER
- “China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu” – A 41 year-old man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Reuters reports. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wet market…
- “Will Victoria’s lockdown be extended? Fears of extension as daily new cases grow” – The latest from the lockdown state of Victoria, courtesy of 9News
- “WHO greenlights China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine” – The World Health Organisation has given its seal of approval to China’s Sinovac jab, according to Euronews. The WHO claims it prevented symptoms of COVID-19 in about half of those who got the shot
- “COVID-19, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century” – Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Kory discuss the ongoing pandemic, the care of COVID-19 patients, and ivermectin
- “Vaccines, Lies and Smears – Odysee Exclusive” – Dr. Sam Bailey rebuts a character assassination attempt against Dr. Simon Thornley, one of the epidemiologists who contributes to Plan B New Zealand
- “SAGE scientists are ‘obsessed’ with the Covid virus” – Iain Duncan Smith tells Julia Hartley Brewer that there appears to be a very co-ordinated and quite deliberate push on the part of scientists to stop the reopening on June 21st
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Lab leak hypothesis a “wacky right-wing conspiracy theory”? Sorry, but that’s just not true. The founder of the Scottish branch of the Christian People’s Alliance (CPA) was a former Labour party member. The CPA (who also take a fairly “Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Position” on nuclear weapons) have said from the start that it was a lab leak.
The People’s Republic of China may be communist, but not everyone who takes a different position from the CCP is right wing. (though whether the government, which has been far too close to China, is right wing or in any way conservative is another matter).
I would also argue that it’s never been a conspiracy theory either! Just because media paints some opinions as wacky conspiracies does not make them so. Plain old common sense wasn’t it? X
If covid really is something that leaked from a lab, it has behaved the same way as ordinary seasonal corona virus. The survival rate is extremely high – almost no one dies of it.
The real crisis is a political one. Ferguson admitted global governments copied the Chinese communist’s authoritarian rule – and they didn’t think they could get away with it until Italy locked down. An immeasurable number of people have died/will die because of lockdown, restrictions, fear, and being injected with gene therapy.
Everything the government and their co-conspirators have done and continue to do has resulted in death. Their chosen corona virus didn’t do that – the powers that be did that.
Giving oxygen to the theory this ordinary corona virus is a dangerous lab-creation only supports the hysteria that the government wants us to experience.
I agree it will turn out to be a distraction. It’s important to know the truth, and if there has been deception it may heighten people’s suspicions generally, but the most likely result is simply China-bashing and as you say more hysteria.
But China didn’t want to purposely release a dangerous virus that was akin to a chemical weapon? They were already doing gain of function research on similar coronaviruses for years. And from the papers they were doing so in labs that were biosecurity level 2/3 rather than 4. In the same city as the initial outbreak.
You only have to look at the global history of lab leaks to see how easily they happen.
Whatever has happened since then is by the by, follow the money, follow the power, follow the incompetence, it doesn’t matter, you’ll still never convince me that it was a naturally occurring virus.
“Guns as prizes in vaccine lottery”
If they win, they can play Russian roulette with them as well!
As demonstrated by the people of Israel, widely ignoring Covid Passports is the key to getting them scrapped if they get introduced. Let’s not let the introduction of health passports signal the end of the resistance.
Report in the Telegraph yesterday was that “vaxport” plans were to be scrapped. Health passports aren’t a done deal yet are they?
This just feels like a part of the game… constantly reeling us in and then letting out the line again…. part of the psy-op fear mongering followed by relief. I always doubted that the passports would come into effect or at least if they did, not for long. Folk will be cheering if they don’t just like they will be cheering when lockdowns are lifted…. ‘isn’t it wonderful that we are all free and clean!’ Job done…. 80% vaccinated…. easy to vaccinate with the follow ups! It does seem that the whole focus was only ever on getting folk vaccinated….ummmm wonder why!
They are working on an international standard instead.
Also, as a government IT project it would probably not have been on time anyway, and the contract no doubt had generous provisions for cancellation. Why complete a project when you can be paid for a cancelled one.
Yes they are concentrating on travel through an internationally recognised one. Its easier at this stage to produce national prisons than try to force it within each country. Slowly slowly catchee monkey.
“Ethical considerations concerning Covid-19 vaccinations”.
So there were 1,213 “vaccine” deaths reported by the yellow card system, with a suspicion that actual deaths from vaccines could be many more than that – 10 times, or even 100 times that number. So, PHE was quite happy last year to give the impression that anyone who died who had ever had a positive test result for Covid-19 was a Covid death, and still to this day report any death within 28 days of a positive test result as a “coronavirus death”. I call on the BBC and other media outlets to report all deaths within 28 days of a “vaccination” in the same way.
Of course, some of these deaths may be from causes other than “vaccination”, and likewise with “Covid” deaths. And there may be a case for believing that being “vaccinated” prevents transmission (although this is disputed). It is the duty of the media to set out the scientific arguments impartially, rather than acting as a propaganda arm of the pharmaceutical industry. Shame on them!
Media grossly overreports “covid death” statistics, magnifying their credibility in the public mind.
Media grossly underreports “covid vaccine death” statistics, diminishing their credibility in the public mind.
In that contradiction, the corruption of the media is revealed, as clear as day.
The TrialSite \News link ATL is well worth a look.
Very good summary of the vaccine effects.
Also the latest Hugo Talks https://hugotalks.com/2021/06/01/doctor-says-weve-made-a-big-mistake-with-vaccine-hugo-talks-lockdown/
Delaying club opening risks “gifting a huge slice of the country’s night economy to the black market for most, if not all, of the summer” ATL
That would be pretty good. The more society moves outside the law, the better, at this point. Raves have already been catalysts for anti-lockdown protest in France, and as protest increasingly obviously fails to change anything, they might mutate into catalysts for action instead. We need large-scale, grassroots disruption.
‘Lockdown kitsch’ genius. David McGrogan: legend.
‘Kitsch, says Kundera, causes two tears to flow, one after the other. “The first tear,” he tells us, “Says ‘How nice to see children running on the grass!’” But the second tear says, “How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children playing on the grass!” It is the second tear which elevates the moment to kitsch.’
‘….totalitarianism, Kundera tells us, is founded in kitsch. “When I say totalitarian,” he writes, “What I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself) [and] all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously.”
‘…there has unquestionably developed a kind of ‘lockdown kitsch’ since March 2020, in which people do not only care about Covid deaths out of their own compassion, but care all the more because of the awareness that others are all caring. They are sharing in collective emotion, and their feelings are made all the stronger because of it.’
‘….anyone who, like me, has sought to express doubt about the wisdom of all of this to friends, family and colleagues will vouch for the applicability of Kundera’s description: the sense that one is “spitting in the eye of the smiling brotherhood” is overwhelming.’
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdown-kitsch/
Nailed it! Priceless!
Should the next ‘lockdown sceptics’ competition now be nominations for the King and Queen of lockdown kitsch?
I hereby nominate Devi Sridhar as the Kitsch Queen of lockdown.
And the Kitsch King surely has to be Professor Pantsdown?
My nomination for Kitsch Queen goes to Dr. Samantha Batt-Rawden, for this tweet after the April demo in London.
I’ll be honest – she’s being directly dishonest.
as an ICU doctor – weaponising her profession, one tiny step from here to “you oppose lockdowns, I refuse to treat you”
this actually makes me want to cry – and I’ll do it in public and you can all join in and we can celebrate our kitsch hurt and kitsch outrage
A gut punch for NHS staff everywhere tonight – ooh, punching an NHS worker in the guts, that only adds to the beauty and horror of the scene I want you all to cry about
I’m gutted – soon this will be the only adjective people are allowed to use
#tootiredforthisshit – but not too tired to weep and wring her hands in public and tweet about it
More like Samantha Butt-Hurtin. Kitsch Queen suits her
Best thing I’ve read about this yet. I think it hits an extremely important nail on the head. (A personal side-note… I wonder if this is why I was immune to it all from the start. If anything, I care all the less if I am aware that others are all caring. I’m allergic to that kind of mass emotion.) Significant that the lesson comes to us from the much-maligned Kundera, who tried for decades to promote the reform of Czech communism, then finally admitted defeat and defected.
Zombies don’t care about sadlideaths out of their own compassion. They care because they think they might be the next covviecorpse.
I think that’s unfair. I think the article is insightful and balanced and reveals something important. I think it’s childish to just dismiss them all as zombies. They aren’t.
Yes I too thought this article gets to the heart of why its been so easy for the psyop to work. Years of conditioning has gone into this. Looking back the first time the UK exhibited such ‘kitsch’ was Diana’s funeral, people wanting to be seen to be so affected by the death of someone they only knew on a TV screen.
Having said that, all we could see was the media show of the thousands of flowers and folk milling around Kensington Palace. Easy to be conditioned into believing it’s the majority. How do the crowds numbers compare to the folk at home getting on with their daily lives? We have to constantly remind ourselves of the fact of media hype and simply portrayal of one single facet of society…. Not the masses.
Communitarianism has always been been the end game. “The Big Society” and “No One Left Behind” have been gradually braintrained into the unsuspecting public, to make them easier to control in the Great Reset. “I care about you, you care about me!” Individualism will be outlawed. You don’t count anymore, it’s all about the Greater or Common Good.
I don’t disagree with you – it was exceptionally weird.
But most royal events – particularly the usual preparations for divorce (marriage) evoke a similar sort of response. It wasn’t that new.
Television soaps do the same, and I’m sure others can extend the trail.
The clapping for the NHS thing was a perfect example of the totalitarian kitsch thing. My friend/neighbour described how fantastic the feeling was as all the people in our Close came out to clap. She used the word ‘wonderful’. She was also disapproving of me that I hadn’t joined in. ‘I didn’t see you out there clapping.’ No, and you never will, I said. Disapproval, almost shocked silence followed. I told her I thought it was mawkish and false. To be honest, I think that’s why we’re now more neighbour than friend.
Thankyou for highlighting the article.
I could not agree more.
‘Totalitarian kitsch’ is such a brilliant way of describing the whole ‘Diana moment/thank you NHS’ thing.
It is a madness of crowds. It is a virtue signal and it is a bit of a clique/political thing; self indulgent/absorbed, so quite complex and difficult to easily capture as a phenomenon but, for me, ‘totalitarian kitsch’ so exactly does capture it.
And once a subversive idea is explained, understood and ridiculed, it loses a great deal of its power to subvert, particularly, in this case, since it has been framed, with unerring accuracy, as ‘kitsch’.
Yes, I called out the Clapping as ‘virtue signalling’ to a long-standing, dear friend. The barrage of abuse I endured was beyond belief. Friendship destroyed.
Here’s another article that’s worth a read. An opinion piece on open discussion in science..
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/92868
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/01/vaccinate-the-whole-world-by-2022-says-boris-johnson/
This man’s ego knows no bounds.
‘If you look at what happened in the world in 2020, it was a terrible year for humanity and it was a terrible year for the international system.’ said Johnson. Out of 7.7billion, 3.5 million died WITH covid. For these people covid = money
What came first ‘vaccine’ or virus? Plus, those dying are the elderly from other diseases, not the unvaccinated.
Worth reading the article in RoundUp AND watching the video: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/key-figure-in-wuhan-research-thanked-fauci-for-downplaying-lab-leak-hypothesis . Note that a few minutes into the video the letter organised by Peter Daszak ridiculing the Wuhan lab leak theory is featured and includes a shot of the other signatories. Surely it is significant that infamous Christian Drosten is one. He is the guy responsible for the WHO advocating the use of PCR tests and not only that but his paper said to use cycles of 45 (rendering results over 97% – if not 100% false). Both these 2 guys and of course Fauci are intrically connected to the WHO.
I lost the number of times Julia Hartley-Brewer and Ian Duncan Smith celebrated the ‘vaccine’ and declared that it is proven to work (on the basis that a minority of those hospitalised in Bolton had been jabbed).
The covid psyops definitely extends to those who pretend to oppose this political crisis.
I know it seems odd, but I think it’s possible to question lockdowns and the coronapanic but believe in the vaccines. Vaccines are like an article of faith for the vast majority. Most people were jabbed at school or had their kids jabbed. It is deeply ingrained.
These aren’t vaccines in that sense.
They just ‘pop’ it in dont they, when actually, the unvaccinated are not dying either
They clearly haven’t read Paul Alexander’s letter ATL.
Is Asymptomatic Covid similar to an Air Guitar?
When I go into shops I wear an Asymptomatic Mask.
Me too and it works!
With Fascist Israel in mind, probably a jew’s harp.
Highly recommended exposition, including an examination of the actual nature of ‘Covid’ as a didease.
This article from 2008 is interesting, linked in the TrialSite piece above:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2008/08/researchers-find-long-lived-immunity-1918-pandemic-virus
Immunity to the Spanish Flu found in people 90 years later. Quotes one Anthony Fauci, who said: recent studies have projected that immunity lasts several decades; the current study provides proof. “This is the mother of all immunological memory here”
Back to Mrs FP’s hometown this morning (Stourbridge).
First of all, I passed 2 “old Biddies”, all of about 60 ( your’s truly is 72) and heard 1st “Biddie” saying to 2nd “Biddie”: “We’re not out the woods yet and we won’t be for a long time yet”.
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THESE PEOPLE???, then whilst waiting outside Greggs,I saw a bloke pop in, slop a copious amount of gunk on his hands but never bought anything; I assume that he was a hand sanitizer “junkie”.
GOD SAVE US!!!!!
If you go into the wood today, you’re in for a nasty surprise,
If you go into the wood today, you will not believe your eyes,
For all the zombies that ever there was
Are in the wood today, because
They don’t know how to get their arses out of it.
Well said, Annie,(As always).
Disappointed in the Reverend Franklin’s ethical analysis. On the surface, an excellent wrap up, but not a word about the vaccines’ use of fetal tissue in development, testing, and ingredients. These are taken from living human fetuses. If your mind can encompass this horror, it takes little imagination to see where we are headed.