- “Matt Hancock hints at delay to June 21st reopening” – The Telegraph reports on the Health Secretary’s comments yesterday on delaying the end of restrictions
- “Wales records no new coronavirus deaths for tenth consecutive day” – Public Health Wales data published on Sunday revealed there have now been 10 consecutive days without a recorded coronavirus death, ITV news reports. Nonetheless, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said social distancing could remain in place until the end of the year
- “Low-paid UK workers ‘most at risk of losing jobs when furlough ends’” – Analysis by the Resolution Foundation says low paid workers are at the highest risk of losing their jobs when the furlough scheme is brought to an end in September, the Guardian reports
- “Covid testing for schoolchildren likely to continue after summer holidays” – Writing in the Telegraph, Lord Bethell has claimed that lateral flow tests allowed the reopening of schools to be “a resounding success”
- “Boris Johnson urged to delay knighthood for Chris Whitty until after Covid inquiry” – The Chief Medical Officer is widely tipped for a gong but, according to the Telegraph, Tory MPs say any decision should be delayed until after the enquiry
- “End of lockdown poses Boris Johnson one of his toughest decisions” – Towards the end of next week the Prime Minister will “make one of the trickier decisions even of this pandemic period”, the Guardian says
- “Waterloo and City line in London reopens for first time since March 2020” – The tube line, closed for over a year, reopens today, the Guardian reports, and will provide extra capacity for commuters at peak times
- “Dan Osborne rants that Covid isn’t dangerous and he won’t get vaccine” – Sharing his views on Instagram, the TOWIE star Dan Osborne says that the coronavirus “is not dangerous enough to be forcing a vaccine on the world”, according to MailOnline
- “NHS closures raise amputation risk for those with skin conditions, experts warn” – Health experts have warned that people with treatable skin conditions are at greater risk of amputation than before the lockdowns, the Telegraph reports
- “Concerns regarding the estimated efficiency of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in two large-scale observational studies in Israel” – A rapid response by Professor Retsef Levi and Professor Avi Wohl in the BMJ, questioning the studies that suggested the Pfizer jab is 94% effective in Israel
- “Cabinet bust-up over Portugal and Malta put paid to holiday hopes” – “Two senior sources” told the Sunday Times that the Joint Biosecurity Centre recommended adding Malta to the green list but the proposal was killed off by Michael Gove and Matt Hancock. Cabinet ministers were furious that they were given key scientific papers 10 minutes before the meeting
- “Scientists fear future leaks as top-level labs proliferate” – “At least 59 maximum biosafety level four labs are planned, under construction or in operation across the world,” the FT says, “spanning 23 countries including the U.K., U.S., China, India, Gabon and Côte d’Ivoire”
- “Boris Johnson has defied the pro-lockdown groupthink” – Dominic Cummings famously approves of “weirdos and misfits” but, says Matthew Parris in the Spectator, he overlooked his Downing Street boss who was “prepared to challenge the gathering consensus about how to tackle the spread of a virus that might (or might not) turn into a deadly pandemic”
- “Who’s selfish now?” – “There is no reason to vaccinate most children and, given the potential side effects, many not to do so,” writes Michael Curzon in Bournbrook
- “Please get your vaccine: British tennis legend Murray hails that ‘first jab feeling’ as critics ask if he was paid for ‘advert’” – Andy Murray rejoiced in that “first jab feeling” last week and urged all his followers and tennis players to get theirs as well. According to RT, critics are wondering if his post was a paid ad
- “Why in God’s name subject our children to the risk of death from vaccination?” – “It’s being driven mostly by two things,” says Elephant City in the Conservative Woman, “the profit motives of Big Pharma and Big Tech, and a cult-like religious movement in which masking and vaccinations are the sacraments by which one demonstrates their virtue”
- “Portuguese PM criticises U.K. for removing it from quarantine-free travel list” – “We can’t have this system of instability and changes every three weeks,” Portugal’s Prime Minister says, according to Reuters
- “COVID-19: Vaccination for juniors starts, hundreds already jabbed” – Hundreds of young Israelis aged 12-15 have received their first shots of the Pfizer jab, according to the Jerusalem Post
- “U.S. is on track to fall short of Biden’s July 4th vaccine goal” – President Biden wants at least 70% of adults in America to have received one vaccine dose by July 4th but, according to the CNN, it’s not likely to happen
- “Trump rips into Fauci during GOP convention speech: Wrong on almost every issue” – Former President Donald Trump took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci, claiming the nation’s top infectious disease expert is a “great promoter” but not a “great doctor”, according to the Washington Examiner
- “Fauci slams ‘fabricated’ attacks against him” – Dr. Anthony Fauci is hitting back at his critics, the Washington Examiner reports, claiming he’s “become the object of extraordinary, I believe, completely inappropriate, distorted, misleading, and misrepresented attacks… and that is unfortunate”
- “California county cuts COVID-19 death toll by 25%” – The Daily Mail reports that after adjusting the parameters for what is considered a Covid death, Alameda County in California has revised its death toll downwards by ~25%, from 1,634 to 1,223
- “Royal Caribbean reverses, won’t require passengers on U.S. cruises to be vaccinated” – The cruise company will not require passengers to be fully vaccinated as it had planned, the Miami Herald reports, but will ask customers to undergo “testing and other protocols”
- “‘No magic number’ of vaccinated Victorians will stop Covid lockdowns” – Residents of Victoria, Australia have been warned by their Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng that there is no “magic number” of people getting jabbed which would guarantee that the Government would stop implementing lockdowns, the Australian Associated Press reports
- WA Health taking cautious approach to ‘moderately positive’ Covid case who spent a day in the community” – A man has returned a “moderately positive” Covid test result one day after finishing quarantine in Perth, Australia, the ABC reports. He has been put back in quarantine
- “FNC’s Carlson: ‘Will Fauci Face Any Consequences?’” – Breitbart highlights a clip from Tucker Carlson Tonight where host Tucker wonders if Dr. Anthony Fauci will be held accountable for what appears to be ties to gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
- “Authoritarian Covid responses show the folly of giving unelected health bureaucrats unprecedented power” – “The most powerful men and women in the country right now are not our elected leaders but the public health bureaucrats,” says Rita Penahi on Sky News Australia
- “Covid Lab Leak, Kid’s Vaccines, Fauci Emails & More” – Zubin Damania and Dr Vinay Prasad consider the implications of the lab-leak hypothesis, the risks and benefits of vaccinating children and more in the latest ZDogg podcast
- “Children should not be vaccinated for COVID-19” – “If this goes ahead, children will die from the vaccine,” says Dr Ros Jones. “I’m not wanting to be melodramatic. There may not be a lot of children die, but there will be children who will die who wouldn’t have done”
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Sir David King (head of alternative shit your pants Sage) wants an extension to lockdown. Could this be the same guy, who when chief scientific officer recommended the change to diesel and then had to admit that he was wrong? https://www.thegwpf.com/ex-chief-scientist-our-advice-to-govt-on-preventing-global-warming-was-wrong/
Jon Rahm, six strokes in front at the end of the penultimate day of the PGA Championship, withdraws because he’s tested positive for covid.
Zealots applaud. The po-faced Guardian of course thinks it’s a shining example of the right thing to do “as variants surge” and sport is unimportant in the context of a virus “connected with the deaths of 4 million people worldwide”.
Sceptics rage. Rahm should play on, it’s absurd, they’re all healthy young men and golf is outdoors in blazing summer sunshine. Also, that’s 4 million WITH covid out of 60 million people dying in the world every year, and almost all of those 4 million would have been part of the 60 million anyway.
Neither side is right. What happened made a mockery of the entire competition, and in terms of preventing illness or death its impact was of course precisely zero. But it’s the fact that it COULD happen that betrays the sad truth. Sport is destroyed. Its combination of ritual and spontaneity is anathema in Whitty’s World. I’m in no doubt that the officials who took Rahm off the golf course, and possibly even Rahm himself, were thrilled and excited at the momentous… Read more »
“Neither side is right.” In what way are the sceptics not right?
But I agree – this is the future. After “lockdowns” are declared over, there will still be mass testing and every organised human activity will be subject to pointless, short-notice disruption, forever.
I was on flimsy rhetorical ground, I know… I only meant that there’s no point in sceptics’ raging about individual cases like Rahm’s. It’s the whole cultural shift that has to be opposed. The whole thing was a performance. In the video, the officials look like they’ve arrived, in their black masks, to deliver a death sentence. Rahm himself collapses into a crouch, facepalms and starts gurning like a humiliated contestant on American Masterchef. It’s all about the performance, and it’s all designed to entrench the view that covid is more important than anything else.
In my opinion, nobody should be agreeing to play tournaments where covid testing regimes are in place and the possibility exists of being excluded from the competition if you get a positive test result. Until people are free to do their jobs without being harassed and victimised, they should withdraw their labour.
Yes, all good points – I agree. I’ve largely stopped watching professional sport, which I used to quite enjoy, for this very reason. I prefer to watch amateurs now.
I think it’s awkward for pro sports people, up to a point. The top ones can afford to retire now, but those at Number 100 in the world probably can’t. I can see why those taking part would be torn. But if they do, I’d rather it be under protest. But sadly now they are not free to speak – even Djokovic, who is rich and powerful in tennis and clearly thinks it’s all bollocks, has to kowtow.
The vaccination of children is going to be to the bio-security totalitarians what Russia was to Napoleon. The beginning of the end.
When the first children die from these vaccines, the public is going to start turning. And that is IF enough people put their children forward to be vaccinated, which has yet to be seen.
And it’s not only that. It’s possible that the general public will not be all that selective, so that the whole concept of ‘vaccination’ might end up collapsing (unfortunately), in which case certain organisations will have caused it by calling the latest product a ‘vaccine’ at all. Should have come up with a new term to match it’s functionality, like many modern products that are in general use, such as the one under my hand, etc.
where is the link to the exclusion of John Rahm after the third round at The Memorial golf tournament in Ohio, basis a ‘positive’ COVID test? He was/is asymptomatic (a mobile brick $hithouse who crushes the ball), ie healthy. No doctor’s diagnosis supporting the quarantine. Will know today if it’s (surely) a false positive. Then watch the legal arrows fly? (He was 6 shots ahead to win $1.7 million)
The Royal Caribbean announcement is another victory for anti-discrimination and common sense and for the sole politician who fights for and embodies it: the one and only true leader of what is left of the formerly free world, Ron DeSantis.
If it’s possible to put Fauci’s part to one side for a moment, there’s 1 glaring question that arises from the lab leak theory, whether it proves true or not.
Who knew what and when? I don’t just mean the inner circle of the drug dealing overlords, but in the wider political, business and news/tech arena. The huge amount of panic and fear in these circles back in Jan and Feb, points suspiciously towards there being a very large global network who were in on what may have happened at the Wuhan lab.
I believe they mostly all panicked, with potentially a few of the usual suspects conspiring to push through their insidious agendas, believing it to be the “big one”. Of course, we all know now it was an over reaction on a biblical scale. There seems to have been a serious acceleration of events, following the Hustlers Convention at Davos in January. That can’t be purely coincidence.
“Boris Johnson has defied the pro-lockdown groupthink”
This delusional and incoherent “rant” (to use the term media writers use for any expression of an opinion they dislike) from Parris goes some way to explain how the supposed “Conservative” Party has failed so utterly to resist the march of the pc left over the past few decades, and how the media’s supposed “balance” has been so consistent in its failure to have any balance while pretending we still have some kind of representation for genuine conservatives and traditionalists.
Far from “defying” the clear pro-lockdown groupthink and the panic, Johnson clearly fell for both, just as Parris did. There’s not the slightest indication that Parris even understands the conservative arguments against lockdown and panic here, and we know he went with Chicom-style, state socialist, NHS worshipping, magic money tree panic instead.
Here’s a clue, Parris; rejecting the wilder fantasies of the zero covid nutters does not represent “defying pro-lockdown groupthink”.
Here’s another: a genuine conservative does not look to communist China for policy ideas, nor follow policy advice from open, unrepentant communists.
The PM seems to be a cult hero to some on the right, despite his obvious failings and the fact that he’s not conservative by any sensible definition of the word. I am a bit baffled as to why he was ever such a hero in the first place, and somewhat baffled that even journalists like Parris and Toby Young, who ought to be quite cynical about politicians, cling to some notion that he can be saved, or deserves saving. I get that they’d like him to be the leader they wanted, but he’s so obviously not.
In fairness, he’s a consummate professional liar succeeding at the highest level in a profession that strongly selects for the ability to lie. Arguably not quite at the peak achieved by his heroes in Blairite “New Labour”, but right up there.
So it’s understandable, if not necessarily forgivable, that many of the weaker minded and more naive will allow themselves to be taken in, especially if it suits their own political goals to protect him.
And some of them are just lying themselves, of course.
Or lying to themselves.
Boris Johnson’s “defiance” of lockdown has had about as much effect as mine. Sweet F. A.
So Johnson is in fact powerless or Parris is full of sh*t.
I am amazed at how many otherwise seemingly intelligent people, even sceptics, invoke the “only following orders” or “he had no choice” defence for the PM. No PM is all-powerful, but he has made no apparent attempt to move things in the right direction – quite the opposite in fact.
Knighthood for Chris Whitty? Being a witch doctator should not be rewarded.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Jean Rosten
How can you return a ‘moderately positive’ Covvitest?
Best of three?
60 cycles?
‘Weakly positive’ is health bureaucrat jargon for ‘false positive’ without having to use the actual term, a term which would confirm that the high rate of false positives when infection prevalence is so vanishingly low renders the PCR test (which even its inventor says should never be used for clinical diagnosis) a steaming great pile of you know what. The WA Health Department say such cases are ‘most likely evidence of an historic infection’, or, in other words, the test is picking up remnants of a long dead viral infection. So the bloke is in no way ‘infected’, is asymptomatic, is not a clinical case, can not transmit the virus and has naturally-acquired immunity. But so keyed up are the authorities over every rogue community ‘case’ in their quest for Zero Covid in Australia, that a bog-ordinary false positive PCR result can set their pulse racing with panic.
Phil
South Australia
You don’t. You just do what you’re told.
Gather round, children, for tales of some Great Knights of the Realm.
Sir Philip Green. Sir James Savile. Benito Mussolini KBE, Robert Mugabe KBE, Nicolae Ceausescu KBE, Sir Christopher Whitty.
Sir Witless (Wormtongue). What a surprise
Where is King Arthur and his knights when you need them?
Yes, about time he came back and sorted things.
Arise, Sir Witless, Sir Killer, Sir Murderer, Sir Heartless, Sir Brainless, Sir Fascist, Sir Mengele. Tin Lizzie thinks you have done such a good job and she apologises for all the selfish people who don’t want to lick your arse as she has just done.
As a knight does that mean he gets the axe rather than being hung, drawn, and quartered like the other traitors?
Surely that would be ‘ Dark Knight’ of the soul, if indeed he has one.
I don’t know who Dan Osbourne is, but I like the cut of his jib.
I don’t know what TOWIE is, but I’d like to know when (sir) Dan is getting his knighthood.
When Toby Young is PM and Mike Yeadon CMO….
The Mail reporting is textbook.
“The former TOWIE star, 29, took to social media to claim that the COVID-19 crisis is ‘all about money’, despite the pandemic causing a global recession which is the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression of the 1930s.”
Note to the sniggering propagandist who wrote this piece: HE MEANS THEIR MONEY, NOT YOURS, YOU SMUG MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE TOSSER.
The pandemic caused nothing.
World governments panicked and stupid reaction to it caused a global depression, debt explosion and a loss if 240x as many QALYs as were potentially saved by them.
And that is before the tens of millions of impoverished and dead in the 3rd world, about whom noone gives a fig, least of all ‘progressives’, and before the gene therapy deaths.
He is actually asking all the right questions and as such comes up with plausible answers.
He seems to be better at maths and probability and risk/benefit calculation and risk management than everyone in charge and 90% of the population and instead of engaging with his perfectly well reasoned and justified questions, he is just and immediately slain as an anti-vaxxer, despite actually stating that he is no such person at all.
This is the state we’re in, thanks mainly to the vile MSM.
God must have a huge punishment in waiting for all those who participate in and created this.
“Children will die from the vaccine” – Dr. Ros Jones.
Healthy children who have died from “Covid 19”: That number again – O. And a tiny number of unhealthy children who have died. And long term effects of the “vaccines” still unknown. Surely there must be some way of getting the “vaccination” of children designated as a crime against humanity.
Thank you so much Dr. Ros Jones for speaking out.. I really hope so — What is wrong with the doctors that are prepared to give children this experimental jab .. I think these doctors should be charged with crimes against humanity for they should be refusing to do this. I also think every parents should be issued with the full facts and figures of all the reported side effects. Told that it is an experimental drug and that there is no data on long term and little on short term effects and then be made to sign a form to say they understand that they are subjecting their child to an experimental drug which could harm them and if it does they will be subject to investigation for child abuse —-
This should have been the case for everybody being vaccinated. Instead, apart from a vague pamphlet, people have just lined up and been jabbed with little information.
She’s as blunt as is required. Excellent to see
“Portuguese P.M. criticises U.K.”.
Disgrace what’s been done to Portugal. Not in my name.
“Andy Murray rejoices in first jab feeling”.
Presumably he wasn’t one of the one in two hundred (or is it one in twenty) experiencing an adverse event (at least with AZ).
I wonder if he will give it to his children
His equally self-satisfied brother who also plays professional tennis was moaning about restrictions around Wimbledon and asking for a “vaccine bonus” so that players and fans who had been “fully vaccinated” could have a tournament without any restrictions.
Jamie Murray is correct about the moronic restrictions at Wimbledon.
Indeed he is, but his remedy is the opposite of correct. The Brothers Murray are 100% bought into the madness.
Andy Murray, and all these ghouls they trot out as vax cheerleaders, like erm that bloke from Showadywaddy must have one hell of an effect..Not forgetting Dolly ‘vaccine ‘ Parton
“Hancock” hints at delay
Of course he does, we’ve known this for months. It’ must be blindingly obvious by now that we were mislead about vaccines (and drugs) being the way out of this.
It’s obvious from the reports of the Cabinet row with Shapps that Hancock wants to emulate Dan Andrews. After all, this past year has been his glory time – why would he want it to end and face the prospect of being reshuffled to Minister for Paper Clips or put on trial?
Indeed. There are many doubtless sinister motives floating around in this cesspool, but I’ve always thought that simple human weaknesses – pride, ambition, cowardice, vanity, arrogance – were responsible for a lot of our ills.
Ghastly man -and that is being as kind as I can —
It shows how delusional he is that he thinks anyone believed June 21 would happen anyway!
The original vaccine studies themselves would give you cause to be sceptical regarding “vaccines macht frei”. Totally gamed.
And so many have walked straight into the bear trap without a single thought.