- “Winter Covid surge on the way, Chris Whitty warns” – According to the Times, Chris Whitty told the NHS Confederation’s annual conference that while the forecast was “a lot better than it was”, there were “really quite a lot of things that we need to worry about particularly I think this next surge, and then going into the following winter”
- “Hospitals undertook 1.6m fewer operations last year because of Covid” – Researchers have warned that some cancer patients will die as a result of widespread suspension of normal NHS care, the Guardian says, and other patients are less likely to improve after treatment
- “Don’t force us back into office, say civil servants” – The Public and Commercial Services Union has declared that it will not rule out industrial action if the Government attempts to order civil servants back to the office before the Covid rates are cut, the BBC reports
- “NHS backlog twice as big as we had thought, admits Matt Hancock” – Matt Hancock has warned that the NHS is facing “biggest pressure in history” with 12.2 million patients in need of treatment, the Telegraph reports
- “Rees-Mogg leaps to defence of ‘successful genius’ Matt Hancock” – Jacob Rees-Mogg has come to the defence of Matt Hancock, according to the Guardian, hailing him as a “successful genius” and dismissing Dominic Cummings remarks as “flotsam and jetsam”
- “Inflation a ‘serious risk’, says Treasury minister Jesse Norman” – The Times reports on Treasury minister Jesse Norman’s comments that inflation could pose a “serious risk” to the economy, following the news that price rises shot up to 2.1% last month
- “Ferret owners urged to register animals to help prevent new Covid variants spreading” – Owners of ferrets, weasels and minks in Wales are being urged to sign up to a new voluntary register to help contain any possible outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2, according to Nation Cymru
- “Facebook VP Nick Clegg Admits ‘Fact-Checkers’ Could Be Politically Biased” – Breitbart reports Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg’s recent admission that the company’s fact-checkers could be biased and pursuing their own political agenda
- “We must think about the impact testing children is having on their education” – In an interview with the Telegraph, Sir Andrew Pollard, of the Oxford Vaccine Group, casts doubt on the wisdom of mass testing for children
- “‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’: Do we need a WFH wake-up call?” – “If you thought an extra month of lockdown meant a reprieve from returning to the office, your career is in for a nasty shock,” according to Ross Clark in the Telegraph
- “Britain is paying a high price for the Government’s reluctance to ease travel restrictions ” – “The U.K. is becoming an international outlier in its approach to travel,” says this leader in the Telegraph
- “It’s time to junk the Covid models” – “We cannot allow these models to continue to dictate how we live our lives,” writes Fraser Myers in Spiked, responding to the news that projections used at Monday’s press conference relied on “out-of-date and hopelessly pessimistic data”
- “Nerd immunity is the way forward” – Behind Boris’s dithering there lies a “cunning plan”, Andy Lambeth suggests on Lockdown Satire
- “Matt Hancock hints NHS has a decreased duty of care for anti-vaxxers” – Off-Guardian’s Kit Knightly responds to Matt Hancock’s suggestion in Parliament that the NHS could prioritise care for people who’ve been “vaccinated” if there were to be an “overwhelming demand” on its services
- “Lockdowns do work – but not at successfully stopping any virus. Financial collapse is inevitable” – Lockdowns are “successful for destroying economies” says Jennifer Arcuri
- “Charles Walker: We must curb the power of unelected SAGE” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell sings the praises of Charles Walker MP who called in parliament for SAGE to face elections. Mr Steerpike of the Spectator enjoyed it as well
- “Vaccine victim’s funeral on the day she should have wed” – Sally Beck tells the sad story of Lucy Taberer, who died suffering from an adverse reaction to the AstraZeneca jab on her wedding day
- “Manufacturing a crisis” – An item in the latest newsletter from the Health Advisory and Recovery Team debunking Boris’s case for extending lockdown, sentence by sentence
- “Science without debate is dogma” – The HART group rails against YouTube’s censorship of its content and that of others who have challenge the official consensus on the pandemic. “Science without question and discussion is not science,” they write. “It is merely a belief”
- “The legality of the lockdown” – Francis Hoar, who was counsel in a number of high profile court hearings last year challenging the legality of the lockdown, is the guest on Sketch Notes On A Pandemic with Lucy Johnston
- “CoronaStories: The Rev Dr William Philip” – William Philip, previously a medical doctor and now a minister at Tron Church, is the guest on the latest CoronaStories podcast, sharing his perspective on lockdown and the Christian faith in 2021
- “France lifts rules on face masks and nighttime curfew” – “France is lifting its requirement to wear face masks outdoors in public and will bring its night time curfews to an end earlier than planned, according to Euronews
- “Berlin to ease restrictions on nightclubs this week” – “Berlin’s clubs will open their doors tonight,” DJ Mag reports, but anyone going clubbing will be required to provide a negative COVID-19 test and wear a mask while on the dance floor
- “Lisbon residents confined to region at weekends as Covid spikes” – Residents of the Lisbon region will not be allowed to leave the area at weekends, according to Reuters, as authorities scramble to control a spike in COVID-19 infections
- “COVID-19 might be over, but viral infections in Israel are surging” – All over Israel adults and children are getting sick with viral infections in a phenomenon that is unprecedented for this time of the year, the Jerusalem Post reports
- “The latest on covid vaccine adverse events” – A vaccine safety update from the Swiss Doctor
- “Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine Maker Promises Delta Variant Boosters to Rivals” – The Gamaleya Institute, which produce the Sputnik V jab, has said it will offer rival manufacturers a booster shot that is effective against the Indian variant, the Moscow Times reports
- “Moscow mayor says new Covid variants in city more aggressive” – Moscow’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin has warned that the new mutations of the virus are harder to recover from and more infectious, MailOnline says, with several strains apparently more resistant to the country’s main vaccine
- “‘We are COVID-free’: Toronto hospital ICU has 0 COVID patients for the first time since March 2020” – The Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit in Toronto, as of Wednesday night, has zero COVID-19 patients for the first time since March 26th 2020, the Post Millennial reports
- “Fighting Invisible Enemies” – Societies are “forever stuck fighting invisible enemies” says Joakim Book at AIER. “COVID-19, or its many offshoots, are just the latest enemies to the party
- “Pandemic Emergency Spending Riddled With Fraud” – Writing for the AIER, Daniel J. Mitchell rounds up some of the incidents of fraud and waste in the U.S. Government’s pandemic spending
- “A Conversation On Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery” – In the latest episode of the AIER’s Author’s Corner, Ethan Yang speaks to Australian researcher Dr. Darcy Allen, the author of a new book entitled How to Create a High Growth Economy After the Pandemic
- “The ill-advised push to vaccinate the young” – “The idea that everyone must be vaccinated against COVID-19 is as misguided as the anti-vaxx idea that no one should,” say Professor Martin Kulldorff and Professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Hill
- China must come clean on the origins of COVID-19” – “The long suppression of a free and open discussion on the lab-leak story has cast an unflattering light on institutions in the world’s most powerful democracy that control the dissemination of information that shape public debate,” writes Brahma Chellaney in Nikkei Asia
- “Pfizer Vaccine Authorised, Data Sight Unseen” – Australia’s Therapeutics Goods Administration approved the Pfizer jab without seeing or requesting the raw data from the company’s trials. It simply accepted their report, the Doctors for Covid Ethics group has discovered
- “Are the COVID-19 vaccines “safe and effective”?” – A video presentation by Steve Kirsch, Executive Director of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, on TrialSiteNews
- “Journalist Emily Hill wants a referendum on lockdown” – “It was all done to save and preserve the NHS,” says Emily Hill. “The NHS waiting list is five million long”
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“We need to worry about Winter Covid surge” (Witless)
But we do not need to lock down, any more than we did for any other Winter up to 2008. (you lying villain). Three weeks to flatten the curve…
Oh, come on! It’s only day 452 of “three weeks to flatten the curve.” Nearly there…
“Cancer patients will die as a result of suspended NHS care”.
Yes, big pharma screwed them over too. Been doing it for years, the crooks.
Useless Hancock – “NHS backlog twice what we thought”. Useless. And that’s being generous.
It’s their own fault…some hospital departments refused to take official referrals from GPs, and then they wonder where the big surge in delayed referrals comes from a few months later?
It’s like they’re ostriches…if you just can’t see the patients then it means they’re not there.
“Inflation a serious risk”.
Are you sure the money won’t “run out”, Lord Lucan? Only so long you can kick the can down the road.
The wealth it represents will though.
MMT idiocy is similar to marxist idiocy, we’ll just continue to rob people to utopia.
Nick Clegg – “fact checkers biased”.
Talk about old news
“Hancock hints – NHS decreased duty of care for ‘antivaxxers’ ”
Is that a declaration of war? On a disproportionately large number of some ethnic and religious groups? You murdering discriminatory toerag.
“If there is an overwhelming demand on the NHS”. From people who have been “vaccinated?
So why not a reduced duty of care for drug addicts, alcoholics, smokers, morbidly obese, those with >5 sex partners so increasing their risk of STI – they’ve (and I include myself) made lifestyle choices which increase their need for medical care?
Or is only those heretics who won’t take a COVID vaccine who are beyond the pale?
I don’t mind not having to be messed around with by the NCS but will expect a reduction of my tax bill. Only seems fair.
You beat me to it. Perhaps us “antivaxxers” should withdraw our funds then, if we’re not going to be entitled to the health care we’ve paid for. Works both ways.
Yep. Also, most of us aren’t “anti-vaxxers” just anti this vax, which by the way, Matty, isn’t a vaccine in the traditional sense, but an experimental gene therapy still in trial…and the effects of which are now starting to show themselves, in the number of admissions to hospitals!
Ah but THOSE hospital admissions are virtuous
“Israel viral infections in unprecedented surge”
Well that went well didn’t it?
From the same people who had a large increase in non-Covid deaths during their “vaccination” programme…
Dr Snir’s take – “It’s not surprising they’re reappearing in the year after the pandemic”. Hmm… I note we are only told that now.
Worth adding that the Swiss doctor notes record levels of post-vaccine mortality in young adults in Israel
And our government talks about denying the young “unvaccinated” access to jobs and cultural events…
You missed one.
A BIG one.
And a potentially catastrophic one, at that:
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-former-test-and-trace-boss-and-tory-peer-baroness-dido-harding-applies-for-nhs-top-job-12335075
I saw that in the Health Service Journal summary this morning.
One of the biggest data leaks at TalkTalk under her tenure.
Complete havoc with the Test and Trace system under her tenure.
No doubt complete annihilation of the NHS if she gets her foot in the door.
The nerd immunity piece is a corker.
Like the Andrew Lawrence videos though, they are not really satire anymore but the most realistic description of our current madnesses.
The Eric Clapton video is worth watching- top guy, common sense man with an intact BS detector, which is sadly very rare for his generation.
It’s telling that his kids are brainwashed and fully on board though and not worrying at all about the long term effects of the ‘vaccine’.
They, and everyone else, should really spend 2 minutes of their time reading the Kulldorff/JB article in The Hill linked ATL.
It’s so basic and logical, that one can only conclude from its raised points ignorance that a sinister operation is going on, which is then enabled by mankind’s average IQ suddenly having halved.
But they will probably prefer to hit those dancefloors in Berlin fully masked up, tested, vaxxed and traced instead.
As I’ve said before, the utilitarian young want it that way and therefore fully deserve their upcoming serfdom and have no right to complain about becoming ill or passing away early due the ‘vaccines’.
Andrew Lawrence – spot on. He’s funny, but so much more than that.
Protect the NHS.
Biggest backlog in history.
Yeah.
From the Pollard interview:
““It’s actually been rather easy in this country to demonstrate that vaccines are the way that we get out of the pandemic, that they’re beneficial,” he notes. “The government has been very transparent about what the risks are.”
Read that again.
Very transparent about what the risks are.
WHAAAAAT?
PS And he also says casually that whereas children aren’t big transmitters of Covvie, they are key transmitters of flu.
So we close schools throughout every flu season, right? Funny, I have no memory of that.
Government is the the principle transmitter of the epidemic of bullshit.
Hmm: never underestimate the MSM!
Government is the infection, MSM is the vector.
Think Yersinia pestis and fleas+rats
Even if they had been transparent, which they haven’t, there is no point in being transparent about the risks if you’re going to make the thing de facto mandatory and not allow people to make a decision based on those risks.
A referendum on lockdown is a terrible idea. Lockdowns should never be imposed, no matter how much support there is for them. People no longer seem to grasp what the phrase “basic freedom” or “inalienable right” means.
They do, but they have consciously ditched them in favour of utilitarianism and a place in the middle of the herd again.
https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/03/preparing-ground-for-mass-hysteria-what.html?m=1
Agreed. As you say, lockdowns should never be an option. A referendum would be totally illegitimate as nobody has the right to vote to lock others up in their homes, prevent them from leaving the country or close their businesses. That’s not how a free society works.
Also, the government has deployed behavioural psychologists and the entire media on the population, it wouldn’t exactly be a fair fight even if a referendum was legitimate.
That Jennifer Arcuri article is an absolute must-read. This is the answer to why this is happening, and what is coming.
https://steemit.com/lockdown/@jenniferarcuri/lockdowns-do-work-but-not-at-successfully-stopping-any-virus
I agree. I was a bit hesitant to read it and prejudiced by her poor taste in men, but she is absolutely spot on with her writing here.
It’s a bit wrong, the currency is “backed” by the ability of governments to coerce wealth from the population * how much wealth the population creates.
Which is why it’s so important for governments to demonstrate they own the population via lockdowns etc and other seemingly pointless activities to demonstrate obedience.
Dr. Simone Gold | The Fight Against Medical Corruption – well worth a watch
https://rumble.com/vgi0c1-americas-frontline-doctor-dr.-simone-gold-health-and-freedom-conference.html
Covax realists have a reduced duty of care on correctly working out their tax…
Good by election result in Chesham and Amersham. Tory stronghold overturned to libdems, presumably a protest vote. Sadly I suspect not against lockdowns per se but more about not being able to go on holiday. A step in the right direction though.
I would encourage everyone to send any used masks they find lying around to Boris Johnson, 10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AA and mark the front of the mask ‘I’m Done’. If enough are received perhaps we can start to do a bit of ‘nudging’ ourselves.
How is voting for the Lib Dems a protest against coronamadness? They are worse than the Tories?
It’s a vote against the tories and if you’d read my post I recognised it wasn’t a vote against lockdown.
I do get quite tired of the constant negative comments from the same people on here, they’re as bad as Witless and Unbalanced.
I don’t see how it’s a “good” result unless you think Lib Dems are better than Tories – which is of course quite legitimate, but in the context of a post on a Lockdown Sceptic forum I can’t see how it could be good. Labour voters look like they all voted Lib Dem. Labour and Lib Dems want more lockdowns, not less. So the vote looks “bad” to me. If you think that’s negative, fair enough. I just think it’s realistic.
As for Whitty and Vallance, they are bare-faced liars. I am not.
I look at it another way, turn out was 52% the tories had an 8 thousand majority, clearly their voters didnt turn out to vote. One more libdem MP is neither here nor there, they are a busted flush with I believe only 12 MPs currently. I don’t see it as an anti lockdown vote but a vote against the tories and considering they’ve been gaining votes and have now lost in what I believe is a fairly middle class area it can only be good news in my opinion.
“Matt Hancock’s suggestion in Parliament that the NHS could prioritise care for people who’ve been “vaccinated” if there were to be an “overwhelming demand” on its services”
I think we clearly see here the forward march of evil here. In past times, a SoS would have been publicly humiliated for making such a remark – particularly one from a generation of politicians that are directly responsible for any pressure placed on the NHS by pursuing the under-supply of beds etc.
“Journalist Emily Hill wants a referendum on lockdown”
What a loopy idea – the shit-heap fallacy : that if you aggregate shit, it turns into something less smelly and obnoxious.