- “Matt Hancock kept Boris Johnson in dark over Covid vaccines success” – According to the Sunday Telegraph, Health Secretary Matt Hancock failed to share positive data from a Public Health England study about the effectiveness of the jabs against the Delta variant in the run up to the decision to delay ‘freedom day’
- “Hospitalisations rising at a third of the pace of September’s second Covid wave” – The third wave is definitely underway, the Telegraph says, but hospitalisations are not rising as fast as they did at the beginning of the second wave
- “G7 was ‘super spreading’ event in Cornwall as cases go up 2,450% after Johnson summit” – The latest data suggests that the G7 meeting was a super spreader event that has been followed by a sharp increase in the number of infections in nearby communities according to inews
- “Tory figures claim Freedom Day delay affected by-election result” – Some Tory Ministers are laying the blame for the party’s recent defeat in the Chesham and Amersham by-election on the extension of lockdown, according to the Mail On Sunday
- “Are PCR tests the best way to track Covid?” – Writing in the Spectator, Ross Clark reports on the latest doubts about the value of mass PCR testing
- “Ministers ‘not obeying Covid rules’” – “The images of last weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall have, I believe, turned the tide in the nation’s mood about the pandemic,” says Julia Hartley-Brewer in the Mail On Sunday. “They proved to millions of Britons that the long-perpetrated mantra of ‘we’re all in this together’ under lockdown restrictions is a lie”
- “Britain can’t be a nation of Covid neurotics forever ” – “The British people are not stupid,” says Dr. Liam Fox in the Mail on Sunday. “They know that the world cannot be closed down and that, sooner or later, we will have to learn to live with COVID-19 just as we have learned to live with other viral illnesses over time”
- “Covid-segregated schooling” – “Mass vaccination of children is yet another intervention suggested to protect adults at the expense of children,” writes Molly Kingsley in the Critic, taking up the cudgels against the proposal to vaccinate children as a precondition of opening schools in full in September
- “Vaccine twaddle from a right Charlie” – “I am so glad that Charlie Mullins, celebrity plumber, isn’t in charge of the country,” writes Michael Fahey for the Conservative Woman. “He may be a good businessman but he is not qualified to spout the nonsense we’ve heard over the last few months”
- “The Conservative Women take radio by storm” – The Conservative Women highlights radio appearances of three of its writers from the last week; Sonia Elijah on the Innova lateral flow test, Jane Kelly on the need to kick the Zoom habit and Nicola Lund on the Government-driven vaccine cult
- “Do not require health and social care workers to take COVID-19 vaccination” – A petition on parliament.uk against making the jab compulsory for those working in health and social care
- “No Surprises” – Revs Tom, Jamie and Daniel discuss the entirely unsurprising extension of the lockdown beyond June 21st in the latest Irreverend
- “Where do we go from here?” – Dan Astin Gregory takes stock of recent developments in the latest episode of the Pandemic Podcast
- “The failure of PCR mass testing” – “PCR mass testing achieved essentially nothing but hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs and large-scale psychological trauma, especially in children,” says the Swiss Doctor, reporting on a new German study that re-analysed 160,000 test results
- “45 students test positive, new cases at the highest in a month” – Health authorities are investigating a Covid outbreak in Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports, after 45 children tested positive in Binyamina. Nine of them are reported to be experiencing mild symptoms
- “Alberta hits 70% vaccination threshold, triggering full reopening on July 1st” – The Post Millennial reports that the province of Alberta will remove all mandatory restrictions on June 17th after the benchmark of 70% of eligible Albertans being vaccinated was passed
- “Feeling used after getting AstraZeneca shot to help beat back third wave” – “It’s hard not to feel used right now,” says Brynn Lackie in the Toronto Sun. He happily volunteered to get the AstraZeneca jab as soon as it was offered, but now NACI, Canada’s vaccine board, say the mRNA vaccines are preferred
- “‘Protected them to death’: Elder-care COVID rules under fire” – Families across the U.S. are increasingly frustrated as care home residents continue to be subjected to pandemic restrictions, according to the Associated Press
- “National Football League player Cole Beasley vows not to take COVID-19 jab or follow league’s draconian rules” – Cole Beasley has declared that he won’t take a Covid jab, RT reports, or abide by new NFL restrictions on unvaccinated players, and that he would sooner retire than betray his beliefs
- “Federal judge throws out CDC’s cruise safety regulations, handing win to DeSantis” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has won his case against the CDC over the safety rules they put in place for cruise lines, the Miami Herald reports
- “Californians cry foul on reports of state’s economic boom” – As California came out of lockdown, reports heralded an economic boom, but the Washington Express says residents are sceptical that they will see the benefit
- “U.S. Should be ‘focus’ of Coronavirus Origin Probe” – Epidemiologist Zeng Guang says the hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 must now turn to the U.S, and the army laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland, Breitbart reports
- “What fresh hell have we brought upon ourselves?” – “Coronavirus won’t end the moral superiority of the cloistered class,” writes Cockburn in Spectator World, pointing to an especially ghastly item from the Late Late Show with James Cordon
- “The Routes Of Viral Traffic” – Writing for Noema, Andrew Lakoff considers whether the prophecy that future pandemics are inevitable actually brought one into being
- “Mexico City shuts down classes again, enters higher COVID-19 risk tier” – Mexico City schools that had just gone back to in-person classes will be closed again starting Monday as the number of Covid cases continues to grow, Reuters reports
- “Tokyo cancels public viewing sites, some to be vaccination centres” – Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has announced the closure of all public viewing sites for the summer Olympics, Reuters reports. Some venues are to become COVID-19 vaccinations centres instead
- “Fauci, Gain-of-Function Research, and Wuhan Lab Funding” – A clip from the Joe Rogan Show, considering the evidence for and implications of the lab-leak hypothesis, with Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball
- “Don’t Censor Science” – Kolkata Commons talks with Professor Sunetra Gupta about Covid, lockdowns and more
- “Julius Ruechel Flips Covid Upside Down on Apple Podcasts” – Appearing on Trish Wood is Critical, Investigative Writer Julius Ruechel makes a strong case that the most deadly outbreaks were in institutions and that lockdowns were for nothing
- “My fellow Scot and friend Neil Oliver is absolutely bang-on here” – The GB news presenter Neil Oliver hits out at lockdown hypocrisy
My fellow Scot and friend Neil Oliver @thecoastguy is absolutely bang-on here. #EnoughIsEnough #Hypocrisy pic.twitter.com/x9aUDFj0a7
— James Melville(@JamesMelville) June 19, 2021
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“G7 images have turned the tide”.
Didn’t they say that last year about certain protests? And yet here we are a year on.
I’ve lost count of the times we’ve said that the tide is turning.
only we can turn the tide, not Julia H Brewster
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“Mass vaccination of children… to protect adults at the expense of children”.
Children are too young to give informed consent to experimental drugs trials. Surely it would be child abuse.
Having seen the way they treat victims in ‘care’ homes, abusing children merely seems logical.
It’s not abuse in their Aztec world view now. It’s merely child sacrifice, to appease the Gods.
Since when have children had to protect adults? I always thought adults protected children! Not any more, it seems.
Totally logical to those bellends who told us to protect the NHS
See my comment above.
This is interesting reading from WHO.
Did you know that if a child / young person attends school on the day vaccinations are being done, it is seen as implied consent for them to be vax’d?
https://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/policies_strategies/consent_note_en.pdf
In that case, the school should be obliged to give a date that the jabusers will be attending the school, with sufficient notice. Last few times I have seen no warning in the school calendar. Wonder if it is now a secret policy not to provide a date to parents.
Makes a complete mockery of a consent form. I never return the form, as I refuse to treat with such an inept genocidal organisation.
“Ina a few well described circumstances consent may be waived”.
Ah, is this one of those things where they can interpret things in such a way as to make the principle of consent meaningless? And for that matter, do the same rules apply to dangerous experimental “treatments”?
Under Common Law parents own the child and it is they who have to give consent. Correct me please if I am wrong.
“Petition against making the ‘jab’ compulsory” (see above).
Please sign this if you have not already done so.
The NFL player refusing to take the vaccines has a strong legal case. Also, if the NFL has a written policy of requiring medication which is not FDA approved they are breaking the law. They would know that and are probably relying on bluff.
I think he is a hero and wish him well.
Sadly, there rare too few other players with similar intellect and integrity.
The NFL protocols are based upon zero medical evidence and straight out of the discriminatory segregation and apartheid playbook.
They will eventually be a shameful and important document for mankind going forward.
History will heap scorn on the NFL bosses and the union, and praise Cole Beasley.
Ross Clark and the Swiss doctor wrote about the same study.
The MSM in Germany is ignoring it completely, only RT reported on it.
It only confirms what us critics have been saying from the start anyway, but as it is from a mainstream institution and mainstream scientists using actual mainstream data, ignoring it only confirms the corruption and totally unscientific approach of the media, health profession and politicians in Germany.
Liam Fox says that Britons aren’t stupid?
Muzzled, imprisoned, prodded with sticks, jabbed with monkey gunk, forbidden to do anything worth doing, lapping it up, bleating for more, and they aren’t stupid?
Moronic is perhaps le mot juste!?
Liam Fox is my MP. He is walking the tightrope between pretending to be gung-ho for opening up but at the same time is an anti-vax hater. I would no more trust what he says than I would trust a drugged cobra. He was fully on board with the mask mandate last year, as he wrote to me saying that it was just a “minor imposition for a short while” and that I should get on board with it and “play my part”. Like most of the rest of them, he’s fully paid up to the globalist plans.
As for Britons not being stupid, I agree, I’ve never been so shocked as I have been over the past fifteen/sixteen months. People’s brains have gone. They are high on the covid juice.
I was going to post something similar but this fits the bill perfectly.
From the cruise item above. Proof that the snake oils really make Eeeeeeeeeverybidybsaaaaaafe:
“Already the COVID-19 vaccine has proven essential to cruise ship operations. Last week, two passengers tested positive five days into an eight-day cruise on the Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Millennium ship in the Caribbean, even though all adult passengers and crew showed proof of vaccination. This week, eight crew members tested positive on Royal Caribbean International’s Odyssey of the Seas ship off Florida’s coast, less than two weeks since crew members on board were vaccinated. In response, the company pushed back the ship’s tentative restart date by nearly a month.”
And this gem:
“Ships that have 98% of their crew and 95% of their passengers vaccinated can restart without test cruises; others must conduct a two-day test cruise to ensure other COVID-19 protocols are preventing outbreaks.”
So you can tell after two days whether or not there’s an outbreak?
Hey-ho, a living death on the ocean wave.
Pity about Japan.
About Koike Yuriko – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/yuriko-koike
I hope She gets a real jab.
Holmes: ‘RT-PCR test positivity should not be taken as an accurate measure of infectious SARS-CoV-2 incidence. Our results confirm the findings of others that the routine use of “positive” RT-PCR test results as the gold standard for assessing and controlling infectiousness fails to reflect the fact “that 50-75% of the time an individual is PCR positive, they are likely to be post-infectious”
Dr Watson: What is that bear doing in the wood?
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00265-6/fulltext
(162,457 tested individuals)
Holmes: They are making it up as they go along.
Dr Watson: Can a duck swim?
‘…there is no international standardization across laboratories, rendering problematic the interpretation of RT-PCR tests when used as a tool for mass screening.’
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00265-6/fulltext
(162,457 tested individuals)
‘…covid was not just a “casedemic” or a “fake pandemic” (as the 2009 swine flu), but a PCR-driven “casedemic” on top of a real pandemic’
https://swprs.org/the-failure-of-pcr-mass-testing/
If there is no international PCR test standardisation, how can it possibly be stated that there has been a real pandemic?
Particularly since:
The pandemic definition is changed at whim. ‘The 2009 swine flu was a ‘fake pandemic’ because in reality it was a rather mild flu that caused few deaths globally. It was labeled a “pandemic” in June 2009 only because the WHO had removed the requirement of “enormous numbers of death and illness” one month before.’
(Swiss Doctor reference above ‘Strange pandemic’ link)
And no-one has any idea how many have died worldwide or what they have died from.
‘Robust monitoring of youth mortality remains challenging because the burden is concentrated in countries with deficient civil registration and vital statistics systems. In 2019, only 20·3% of deaths among youth occurred in countries where death registration was at least 80% complete. 25·9% of deaths occurred in China, Bangladesh, and India, where sample registration systems are in place, and for the remaining 53·9% of deaths, surveys and censuses were the primary sources of information.’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00023-1/fulltext
It is as though the world is being run by a group of not particularly gifted 5 year olds
You don’t need to be clever in order p to be evil, wreck lives, and kill people.
The critic A. C. Bradley once wrote a shrewd essay on Iago in Othello. Most critics assume that because Iago causes total havoc and ruins everybody’s lives, he must be clever. Bradley argued convincingly tnat he was merely evil.
Our variously Fascist and Stalinist tyrants are merely evil.
it’s alright, the BBC are 100% sure that 500,000 have died from “it” in Brazil and it’s all Bolsonaro’s fault, and don’t mention Peru.
prophecy that future pandemics are inevitable
At the start of this hysteria in 2020. I’ve been hearing people in media saying “we were warning you about this, you didn’t listen”, “capitalism and globalism would lead to this, w cannot go on like this”, “this is the next big one”, “bla, bla, bla”…
Well, it’s all crazy, this was not the next big one. At worse, it is something like “Hong-Kong” flu of 1968-69, but more probably it is closer to a common cold than ordinary seasonal flu.
And there won’t be a next big one.
How Global Capitalism Boosted Immunities
https://www.aier.org/article/how-global-capitalism-boosted-immunities/
No book on cell and molecular biology that I’ve found mentions lockdowns and hiding as ways to beat a virus. “For most viruses that attack humans,” says Cell and Molecular Biology for Dummies, “your only defenses are prevention and your own immune systems.”
Strange isn’t it? Nothing about the awesome power of politicians to crush a virus. It should come as no surprise that the most comprehensive and global statistical analysis yet conducted concludes that “rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people” – which to say there is no evidence that any of this ghastly destruction saved lives.
…
One of the brave and intelligent voices here is Sunetra Gupta, the professor of theoretical epidemiology who leads a full team of experts at Oxford University.
Her understanding is so profound that she has, in an interview, offered up a fascinating thesis concerning why the flu pandemic of 1918 was the last truly catastrophic plague we’ve seen in the modern world.
Gupta’s claim is that when we live in isolated tribes that are sheltered from exposure, those people gradually become weaker and more vulnerable. The wrong pathogen arrives at the wrong time and the people have not been biologically prepared for it. It wipes them out in shocking ways. But with modern capitalism came the end of such sterile isolation. It gave us new methods of travelling, mixing, associating, moving, and hence led to more exposure to disease and the resulting antibodies. Hence, it is not just better therapeutics and vaccines that helped us conquer some plagues but immunities themselves. Our biological toolkit for fighting disease became improved simply through travel, trade, and global commerce.
I quote Gupta at length, beginning with her tutorial on virus immunity 101 gained over the course of last century and oddly forgotten in this century:
The other interesting issue that I’ve suddenly realised with this particular threat, is that people are treating it like an external disaster, like a hurricane or a tsunami, as if you can batten down the hatches and it will be gone eventually. That is simply not correct. The epidemic is an ecological relationship that we have to manage between ourselves and the virus.
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Why don’t we get flu pandemics anymore? Because before 1918 there was not sufficient international travel or densities of individuals to keep flu on as the sort of seasonal thing it is now. Pockets of non-immune people would build up, and then they would be ravaged.
That was the pattern until the end of the First World War. Since then, many of these diseases have become endemic. As a result of which we are much more exposed to diseases in general and related pathogens, so if something new comes along we are much better off than we would be if we hadn’t had some sort of exposure to it.
If coronavirus had arrived in a setting where we had no coronavirus exposure before, we might be much worse off. It also seems that in addition to protection against severe disease as a result of exposure to related coronaviruses, some fraction of us seem to be resistant to infection.
That’s just fantastic news, actually. Hopefully that will be consolidated at a scientific, laboratory level. We ourselves are looking at how antibodies to seasonal coronaviruses can impact on protection against infection and disease.
Maybe we will be able to build up a picture that will reassure the public that actually we are much better off having been exposed to related coronaviruses. We are in a better place to fight off this infection than we actually thought.
One might think that this learned professor’s outlook, offered from her position at perhaps the world’s most prestigious university, would hold some sway over media and politics. The implications of what she says are not only that the lockdowns are wrong. Not only that the closures are pointless. She goes further: they are making us less healthy, and taking steps to revert the progress of health we have made over a century of travel, mixing, and close commercial relationships.
The implications of Gupta’s view – and its flipping of the run-and-hide, shelter-in-place narrative – offer a promising new way to understand the relationship between modern capitalism and the dramatic improvements in human health.
I agree with your interpretation of Sunetra’s commentary on the issue. Don’t forget that quite a few ‘isolated tribes’ came across this problem when they were invaded from Europe hundreds of years ago – e.g. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/impact-european-diseases-native-americans
Thanks for the link/information. There is also the present case of North Sentinel Islands. It’s a kind of national reservation in India for tribe of people who would die if they came to contact with anyone.
Btw, I should have probably made it more clear, the text bellow the headline in bold and the link are quoted parts of the text from the link (article is by Jeffrey A. Tucker).
Much as I like the idea of pouring derision on the G7 party, the scare story about ‘infections’ is so ludicrously typical of this shit-show that it’s hard to get pleasure.
Andy Burnam (Andrew Marr show(Nick Robinson)) is against mandatory vaccines for care home staff.
Wonders never cease!
That’s encouraging news. He’s gone up slightly in my estimation.
Edit: ohoh He thinks the government has taken the right steps in the roadmap and is all for surge vaccination.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/andy-burnham-says-coming-through-20859488.amp
Might have known!
Burnham is a really, really EVIL piece of work and anybody involved in politics in Greater Manchester would confirm this.
As despicable as garbage Bliar.
The link between vaccinations and Tory popularity is Broken.
Watched that On the Beach advert the other night with that shrivelled slug from the red hot chilli peppers telling you that your holidays are cancelled while he gets to have the whole beach to himself.
It IS one rule for them and one rule for everyone else.
They ARE openly taking the piss out of us.
This IS about psychologically conditioning you into being a slave and never questioning their authority.