At Lockdown Sceptics we want to hear from our readers in the United States of America, and particularly those living in reopened states like Texas, Florida, Mississippi, South Dakota and so on. As the U.K. Government is set to announce yet another month of socially destructive, economically ruinous restrictions – and suggestions of restrictions continuing for another year or even permanently have been voiced by Government ministers and advisers – we want to tell the stories they don’t want people to hear, of Western regions where life is back to normal and people don’t live under Government-induced fear and endless restrictions on basic freedoms.
Tell us about what life is like for you now, when restrictions were lifted, and what people’s attitude around you is to the virus. Do you have a video of a large crowd you were in recently that we could put up – maybe a sports stadium or a concert?
Email us here. If you have footage to share that’s too large for an email maybe tweet it so we can link to it. I imagine many people in these states have stopped keeping up-to-date with the latest Covid nonsense, but if you are still reading Lockdown Sceptics and have a story to tell of living free please get in touch. We’ll publish as many as we can.
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My God, LS doing something lockdown sceptical.
Well done Will.
I think there is a good chance they cancel this day until September (at which point they will lock down)
We did here from Nigel Farage on GBN tonight who has been in Florida for some time.
Florida, especially the Panhandle beaches (which are more like the Southern states), has been wide open for months and months. I live 2 1/2 hours north of these popular beach towns in south-central Alabama. Many businesses in my state are experiencing extreme labor shortages (Lots of restaurants only doing drive-through business for example, but this has to do with inflation and “stimulus” handouts). But, I don’t think this labor shortage is as acute at these tourist beach destinations. College students on summer break always flock to Florida for the summer to work as waiters, Cabana boys, etc. One friend who lives at Grayton Beach tells me that many former waiters and bar tenders from New York and even California are now working and living in the Panhandle of Florida. All the “outbreaks” that were supposed to happen in these beach towns never happened.
Thanks for posting.
It’s really kind of a rite of passage for many college students to work (and also “play”) at Florida beaches over the summer. I’d simply note this rite of passage is still in effect. Presumably the parents of these college kids have no concerns about their children working in these beach communities for three months … even in times of COVID. Would these parents really let their children do this if they had real concerns about their safety?
Sorry to seem like I’m bursting bubbles but it’s not the readers of LS who need to see this stuff – we know what’s happening in the US
This material needs to flood mainstream channels- posters, leaflets, news, commercials on TV, radio, social media – wherever and whenever it can be got away with, incessantly
But it helps us sceptics to be more confident in our evidence. A person told us this is not as convincing as a few dozen people have told us this.
Fair point
Yes, but it is useful to have eye-witness reports.
Yes, true
Robert Malone MD is the ORIGINAL pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology. He is someone we NEED to listen to and someone who we NEED to force people from the health service, police, military and government to listen to. His voice is maybe the most important in the world right now.
Bioethics of Experimental COVID Vaccine Deployment under EUA: It’s time we stop and look at what’s going down.
https://trialsitenews.com/bioethics-of-experimental-covid-vaccine-deployment-under-eua-its-time-we-stop-and-look-at-whats-going-down/
Spike Protein & Immune Escape Dr Robert Malone Inventor mRNA Vaccines, PhD Bret Weinstein &Steve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B9xbSl_zMo
Spike protein is very dangerous, it’s cytotoxic (Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2wm5nhTXY
Full interview:
How to save the world, in three easy steps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY
I and others have already posted a link the concert attended by 22,000 people in Panama City Beach Florida recently. My comment about this was that lots of people had ALREADY been gathering at outdoor events with NO “super spreader” events materializing after thousands of such events. These events were HIGH SCHOOL football games.
In America, most of the big colleges and the NFL either banned attendance at football games completely (many of these games were played in empty stadiums) or they limited capacity to 20 percent. Well, a whole lot of high schools did not do this. Many programs restricted attendance to 50 percent, but some towns/athletic programs seemed to have no hard limits.
What struck me from viewing pictures of these stadiums is that entire sections of these stadiums were jam-packed with fans shoulder to shoulder in the bleachers. This was especially noticeable in the “Student Sections” where kids were standing and cheering right next to each other for 2 1/2 hours. Plus, these fans were NOT “socially distancing” before the game and after the game either. (Also, plenty of fans were NOT wearing masks).
Given these FACTS – and the voluminous number of games where this was common – wouldn’t we have expected to see some “outbreak” traced to one or more of these games? I think we would. However, this NEVER happened. So: We already had evidence back in September through November, that there was no risk of COVID outbreaks from attending outdoor sporting events.
Still, only the college and professional games received attention from the media. Nobody in the press pointed out what was happening at all these high school ball games …. and there were many, many more high school games than college and pro games. In my state (Alabama), there are about 550 high schools that played football this past fall. Multiply that by the other 20 or so states that kept playing high school football for three months.
Interesting. So 550 high schools playing ball games, and presumably many times more than this in other states. Can you give us an idea of how many people watch these games, because it’s a bit of a different culture to Britain isn’t it?
It would depend on the size of the town and the high schools. Big high school games would have 5 to 7,000 fans (even with COVID). Smaller high schools might have had 1,000 people at a game (in small stadiums). One of our local high schools – playing in a “private school” league – made the state championship game which was played in a bigger city (Montgomery) at a larger stadium. There was no attendance limits at this game. There were probably at least 5,000 fans at this game. None seemed to be socially-distancing. Maybe 50 percent of the fans were wearing masks. The student sections were jam-packed. In Alabama, probably a dozen high school teams ended up playing 15 games this past football season. Scores of teams played at least a dozen games. That’s a lot of opportunities for “outbreaks” that never happened.
And Alabama (not Florida, Alabama) allowed all the other high school sports to be played, including indoor basketball (girls and boys). I don’t attend high school sporting events much any more, but I did attend a state championship baseball game last month. No fan limits whatsoever. I saw NOBODY wearing a mask. I saw no “social distancing.” Probably 1500 people at this game. No outbreaks.
I’d also note that these high school programs did NOT implement all of these draconian “testing protocols” that the colleges and professional teams are still mandating. In high school, student athletes were NOT tested three times a week (they couldn’t afford to do this). There was no mandatory testing. If some student athlete had symptoms, then he got a test. And players who never tested positive were, generally speaking, not isolated and quarantined for 14 days. Question: So were there a lot more “cases,” hospitalizations and deaths of high school athletes than college and pro athletes? What we have here is really a controlled epidemiological study, even if it wasn’t called this. One group (high school athletes) was the “placebo” group. The pro and the college athletes comprised the “study group” that did endure much more rigorous non-pharmaceutical interventions and non-stop testing. As it turns out, high school athletes were just as “safe” and “healthy” as the pro and college athletes. But the results of this massive “experiment” have not been publicized or pointed out by any public health officials or journalists … And, I trust, we all know why.
I hope this link works. Here’s a photo or photos from the Pike Liberal Arts – Bessemer Academy state championship baseball game held at Patterson Field in Montgomery last month. Do you see any “social distancing” in the bleachers? Any masks? Photo credit: Candace Nelson (mother of one of the players).
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4134457826574290&set=pcb.4134459773240762
Great photo. Sadly it will feel like a lost world to many in Britain.
Here’s two more. The second one is of the baseball players celebrating their state title with some of their classmates after the game (The headmaster of the school, maskless, is standing in front of the team).
See any masks? Any of these teenagers socially distancing. There were a lot more people than this during the game proper. And I haven’t found a photo of this school’s state football title in November 2020. There were 10 times as many fans at that game.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4134454936574579&set=pcb.4134456179907788
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4134466469906759&set=pcb.4134468783239861
I’d further note that the photographer’s son is one of the top high school baseball pitchers in America. He’s already committed to play baseball at Auburn after next season. However, about four of his teammates also signed college scholarships this season. A good part of their college education will be paid for because they got to play high school baseball this year. Plus, I am sure they will always treasure the memories they achieved this year. High school athletes in Calfornia and New York did not get these opportunities.
Perhaps you’d care to send a report to GB News? (For anyone who doesn’t know, a new UK news channel just started up, claim they’ll be a bit different, give a voice to the cancelled etc.) Your posts contain information that everyone should be told in the context of continuing draconian restrictions over here. And I assume it is a fairly diverse crowd – not just students watching, for example?
I sent you an email as I am in in the USA.
how do you send an email i’ m in the u s with many complaints [ blue state]
lockdownsceptics@gmail.com
thank you i thought was sending an email to bill now i know!
lockdownsceptics@gmail.com
thank you!
Here’s a photo of 49 happy graduates at Pike Liberal Arts High School in Troy, Alabama on May 23, 2020.
See any masks? Doesn’t seem like they made these grads socially distance.
This is a kindergarten through 12th grade school that was IN school since August 2020. Nobody at this school, students or faculty, died of COVID or even had to be hospitalized from COVID.
This school actually won three consecutive state championships in the sports of football, basketball and baseball this academic year. This is an amazing and almost unprecedented accomplishment. It’s worth pointing out that if school – and sports – had been cancelled (as they were in many U.S. states) these student athletes and school supporters would not have been able to have these fantastic life-long memories.
Photo credit: Candace Nelson.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4030562850354764&set=pcb.4030563653688017
they already won’t let the photo be shown. the others you can see, makes me want to cry at what we have lost and how it is today in a blue state.
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Is The Brussels Times inadvertently telling the truth here?
Florida never closed. We never had a state-wide mask mandate although many cities and counties passed local laws. Restaurants closed for inside dining while some remained open for outdoor dining and take-out. Most construction projects (commercial and residential) continued with no major outbreaks.
Florida has a population of nearly 22 million and we’ve seen roughly 37,600 deaths WITH covid. I say WITH not FROM as the CDC directives is to count anyone who dies and tests positive is to count as a “death with covid” (this is the verbiage on their web site). So a car accident death, gun shot victim, etc would all be counted as death with covid.
On our deaths – people under 40 accounted for only 523 deaths; under 20 there were only 16 deaths. Young healthy people overwhelming self-resolve with no issues – this includes my 19 year old nephew.
Our positive rates have been going down since vaccinations started but conveniently unmentioned is that around the same time the CDC and WHO issued new guidance no the PCR test CT value – only values 28 & below will be accepted as a positive test. Many labs in the US were using a CT as high as 40 and it is now lowered to 28. Basically we could have significantly lowered the positivity rate any time by making this change irrespective of any vaccines being produced. I’m not saying the vaccines don’t work – only that the testing methodology was changed around the time the vaccines were being given.
A last note – This virus is devastating to the elderly, particularly those with other health issues. In the US we have an obesity problem which also is commonly compounded with high blood pressure and diabetes. Those conditions also seems to result in more severe cases and outcomes even in younger patients. Many of us have wondered why we haven’t seen mass deaths across our many homeless encampments. There is no social distancing, they have little access to wash hands, they have poor nutrition, they don’t wear masks, many use drugs and alcohol yet we hear nothing of the virus decimating the homeless.
Sorry for the long note – hope all gets better for everyone.
Excellent post. Good questions about the homeless. I’ve asked the same type questions about grocery store check-out clerks. They see more people at a close distance than any other group of workers. And they handle every item the customers handled. Their rates of COVID are no different than any other vocation.
CDC only uses 28 CT value for Vaccine breaktrough studies as I understand — just to get it “efficient”, And 28 looks reasonable. For usual tests as I understand still 40 with bunch of false positives. So, because this constant changes in rules it’s almost impossible to believe any PCR based data.
thank you will for asking for these reports thank you bill for the great reports of a normal life. can we have reports from the depressing blue state s too or is it too disheartening?
if there were protests i d go excpet that now cant walk wihtout pain thanks to not going to a dr for 6 months , in a blue state , informers collaborators and all
I am a physician in Florida, in active practice in my small office. My county flip- flopped on mask requirements then ordered a hard-mask mandate Sept 2020 to appease the seasonal arrival of northern snowbirds that were panicked by Governors Murphy, Cuomo, etc that the COVID would land on them and kill them while driving their cars, alone. I wore a flimsy surgical mask in my office for a year, I rationed myself one per week, for an entire year due to none available at all for months, with no acquisition of infection much less spread in my office. I wore sheer fabric buffs when entering stores–way easier to breathe in and yet I’m complying with the mandate, no? There’s no specification as to the type and weave of mask, no? Thought not!! I have lived my life as normally as possible all the while pushing the envelope. I went to the gym, restaurants, department stores, pools, beaches, etc as soon as they reopened in May 2020. I have regularly visited & gone out to restaurants& shopping with my elderly parents– they’ve been vaccinated and have flown domestically without an issue. I haven’t had a symptom of a cold in over 18 months despite having severe seasonal allergies controlled with various antihistamines and decongestants. I was fully vaccinated in February 2021 and was impatiently awaiting the end of the mask mandates. I’m the one who pulled it off as I’m exiting the exam room, the stores, etc. and I never wore it outdoors–that’s sheer madness. I have suffered nose/ eyelid pustules and styes as well as seen the same in dozens in patients and even my office manager husband, necessitating oral antibiotics to quell these staph/strep infections from wearing a moist face diaper in super humid and swampy Florida. I’m in my 50s and NOT immunosuppressed, and have lived life and gone everywhere, especially to places where wearing a mask was optional in the midst of the panic, and I went without a mask dozens of times. Sadly I’ve witnessed the mental and physical decline of the elderly who jailed themselves out of a media fomented panic–these people now have dementia, anxiety, they have forgotten how to walk, how to converse, how to drive, etc. Children are now scared of seeing people maskless and their idiot parents force them to mask in public! The harms from governmental edicts far exceed the harms from COVID. We now have 3 vaccines available on demand at every corner pharmacy chain store, treatments, ivermectin, HCQ, etc and the State of FL has stopped publishing COVID stats on deaths/cases because they fell so low in May 2021–maybe 14 deaths and 300 cases, all originating from nursing homes–that it was madness to continue. This is in the 3rd most populous state with the largest proportion of elderly nationwide. My county has a population of 380K, cases were 39,000, deaths 570. AND 90% of the deaths were over age 70. ENOUGH. COVID is now a regular cold virus and doesn’t produce deaths in the working and ambulatory population, it is treatable AND preventable. Stop falling for the scariants and the new panics. COVID is now used as a smokescreen/false flag to control the societal ills from Marxists’ BLM, illegal immigration, Mexican drug trade and human trafficking. Demand honesty and accountability from your chosen politicians or kick their a** out ASAP!!!
Great post. Thanks for sharing your observations. “Ninety percent” of COVID victims in your county were older than 70 is quite revealing. And I’d bet 25 percent of this 90 percent died “with” COVID not “from” COVID. I’m going to copy and paste this testimonial for my clip file.
CA is not open but still OK.
All the businesses closures was last year but for residents there was no restrictions. So, I personally did not comply from the first day and used to ride my bike every where even when it was curfews and used to sail my boat and nothing was wrong.
Indoor dinning reopened from February or so, bar reopened from mid of April. Muzzles are required in the most of places still, but lot of small businesses does not enforce it. If to go east from Bay Area then less restrictions are in place and enforced. In the mountains out of tourists areas no one cares at all. I even used to visit Burning Man last year, rangers prohibited to burn it due to “COVID19 fire restrictions” , but still was nice.
Wife and kids visited Hawaii, which was finally closed last day they are been there, then Florida — mostly unrestricted, then Alaska — same, then we met new year in Florida again, the muzzles required mostly in the amusement parks and not enforced anywhere else.
In CA this year they are making lists of ones who are not vaccinated, but nothing more so far, muzzles are required in the office (but not strictly enforced), most of other things are almost normal for 3 month already.
Schools not fully reopened but our kids in church school which is opened since last October. Still muzzles required by state. Child care is opened, they are not really enforce anything despite our governer requires all the kids from 2 years old muzzled even outdoors. It was never enforced no outdoors no indoors except school.
There is crazy wait time for any health care service, just to get to your doctor you need to wait like 1.5 month.
Otherwise we are doing not much worse than Moscow Russia at least.
I am a Brit, living in East Texas. Earlier I responded to the request for input. Here is an extract:
“It is hard to convey the difference of life here. Your readers have probably forgotten what it is like to just walk about, meeting and greeting people, going to bars and restaurants, or shopping, without even thinking about social distancing or masks! That is our experience of Texas since we came back (in March). It is wonderful. It really does feel like freedom. Freedom from government diktat and fear.
And from here, the UK looks very strange. In Texas, we have no surge in cases, hospitalisations or death – neither does Florida or the other states that have opened up. Why does no-one talk about that? The mainstream media here (NBC, CBS, CNN ..all of them) are as obsessed with covid, variants, social distancing, vaccinations etc., as is the UK. But, as in the UK, those obsessions are not supported by the data. And, around here, not by behaviour either.
About the only people to wear masks are either employees of major corporations (grocery chains etc) or old, unhealthy, vulnerable people living in fear. Going into our local, Texas, bank the other day was a delight, none of the staff wore a mask. Everyone shakes hands.
Delivery of goods are accompanied by a mask-free “Hi, how y’all doing” and a hand shake. Normality is … natural! When a waiter or grocery clerk talks to you through a mask, it seems really strange – the muffled voice and hidden face – how odd! Why on earth do they do that?”
Pour encourager les autre!
The war is not meant to be won; it is meant to be CONTINUOUS.
— George Orwell
This is must read I believe https://trialsitenews.com/should-you-get-vaccinated/