- “England set to drop facemasks and social distancing on July 19th” – England is on track to lift all remaining lockdown restrictions on July 19th, according to the Times, replacing them with personal responsibility as fears of a big summer wave fade
- “Ministers urged to end lockdown early after ‘encouraging’ Covid data” – Ministers are facing renewed calls to end lockdown curbs two weeks early after yet more “encouraging” Covid data showed that hospitalisation and death rates remain low, the Daily Mail reports
- “Government accused of hypocrisy as football VIPs allowed to visit UK without quarantine” – The Prime Minister was accused of hypocrisy yesterday, the Telegraph says, as it emerged that the Government has caved in to Uefa and will allow thousands of football VIPs to attend the Euro 2020 finals without quarantining
- “Nicola Sturgeon unveils plans for Scottish ‘Freedom Day’ on August 9th” – The First Minister announced yesterday that restrictions would be in place in Scotland until August 9th, the Telegraph reports
- “One in 10 children absent from school as self-isolation wreaks havoc with education” – Official figures show that one in 10 children are absent from school amid a quadrupling of the number of pupils self-isolating, the Telegraph reports
- “Hospitals’ fear ‘perfect storm’ of winter flu outbreak and Covid” – According to the Daily Mail, some 78% of hospital trust leaders in England are extremely or moderately concerned about the operational pressures they will face this winter, from Covid, the flu and the waiting lists
- “‘I found a suicide note in a corridor’ Head says schools can’t shut” – A Wales Online feature on Armando Di Finizio, the head teacher at Cardiff’s Eastern High who does not ask pupils to wear masks and is determined schools should stay open
- “Covid outbreak at care home where every resident is vaccinated” – Kenwyn Care Home in Truro is closed to visitors following an outbreak of COVID-19. According to Cornwall Live, all residents and 94% of the staff are fully vaccinated and every single case has been asymptomatic so far
- “COVID-19: Extra disruption payment to 9,000 Northern Ireland students” – More than 9,000 students at Queen’s and Ulster University are to receive £495 for the disruption caused by the pandemic, the BBC reports, on top of the £500 payment from Stormont to about 40,000 students in Northern Ireland
- “Irrational fear of Covid has crushed Brexit Britain’s buccaneering spirit ” – “Five years after the Brexit vote, the pandemic response has suffocated the boosterism that was one of the driving forces behind the Leave campaign,” says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph
- “Covid restrictions are taking a terrible toll on our schoolchildren” – “It’s a devastating indictment of the priorities of our society that while in London, football fans crowd the streets in their thousands, down the road, parents are asked to watch their children’s sports days on Zoom,” says Molly Kingsley in the Spectator
- “I can no longer support this irrational lockdown” – “If the current restrictions are not lifted on July 5th or 19th, Boris Johnson will live to regret it,” writes lockdown hawk Iain Dale in the Telegraph
- “‘Safe vaccine’ pledges are on ever shakier ground” – Writing in the Conservative Woman, Neville Hodgkinson summarises the concerns about the vaccines that have been put forward by Dr. Robert Malone and Steve Kirsch
- “Dancin’ the fright away” – Vlod Barchuk asks a question of readers of the Conservative Woman: “Do you believe in what you think about masks, vaccines, ivermectin, vitamin D enough to follow through with what that implies?”
- “The anti-Covid pill Big Pharma doesn’t want you to have” – John Hollaway tries to fathom out why medical authorities have been reluctant to consider the potential benefits of ivermectin in treating COVID-19 in the Conservative Woman
- “Who’s pulling Hancock’s strings?” – A more pertinent question, writes Roger Watson in the Unity News Network, would be “why is he still in a job?”
- “Delta or Indian Variant – Real World Impact? We Now have the Data!” – Ivor Cummins looks at the official data on hospitalisations and finds that the Delta variant “doesn’t add up to anything much at all in terms of real world impact”
- “Dr Gary Sidley HART Group Interview” – HART’s Dr Gary Sidley appears on the Real Normal Podcast chatting about the State of Fear and the Government behavioural psychological techniques that have been deployed to frighten the whole country… and about real ale
- “The ‘Indian variant’ summer wave” – The Swiss Doctor considers the impact of seasonal influences on the spread of the Delta variant
- “Moderna Plans to Expand Production to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters, Supply More Countries” – Moderna is adding two new production lines at its its plant in Norwood, Massachusetts, according to the Wall Street Journal, as the company prepares to produce booster shots to target new variants
- “How Covid lockdowns failed to protect the vulnerable and instead fattened up the laptop privileged ‘café latte’ class” – Writing for TrialSiteNews, Paul Elias Alexander delivers a devastating verdict on lockdowns and the governments and advisors who advocated for them
- “We Just Got Even More Proof that Stay-At-Home Orders Lethally Backfired” – In an item for the Foundation of Economic Education, Brad Polumbo highlights new research by economists at the University of Southern California which found that lockdowns failed to reduce overall mortality and may have increased it
- “The New Clerisy” – “‘I believe in science’ has come to mean, ‘I do not question expert authority’,” says Leighton Woodhouse, “which is as antithetical to the scientific spirit as you can get”
- “Why lockdown states may shut down again this fall” – “During Covid Mania, many became convinced that this annual reality can be stopped by the ‘new science’ human interventions,” say Jordan Schachtel. “And these same citizens, politicians, and ‘public health experts’ may demand more of the same in the coming months”
- “The Covid Lockdowns Showed Us How Dangerous Social Engineers Have Become” – Using Hayek and Popper’s views about social engineering, Dr Birsen Filip provides a comprehensive demolition of the pro-lockdown position for Mises Wire
- “Why Has ‘Ivermectin’ Become a Dirty Word?” – “At the worst moment, Internet censorship has driven scientific debate itself underground,” writes Matt Taibbi
- “Philippines’ Duterte threatens vaccine decliners with jail, animal drug” – Reuters reports that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to TV to warn citizens that they must get jabbed or face either jail or an injection of ivermectin, which he said was “meant for pigs”
- “Food security evades labourers following job loss during COVID-19 lockdown” – Lockdown has pushed families living at a labour camp in West Bengal to the brink of starvation, according to the Hindu
- “Wuhan lab used Chinese military as key advisers” – Fabrizio Gatti, an Italian author, has found that the Wuhan Institute of Virology listed members of the Chinese military on its oversight committees, according to the Times, and it also included international scientists without their knowledge
- “China to Keep COVID-19 Border Restrictions for Another Year” – Beijing intends to keep its pandemic border restrictions in place for at least another year, the Wall Street Journal reports, for fear that variants might disrupt two upcoming events: the Winter Olympics and the CCP transfer of power where Xi Jinpings is expected to seek a third term
- “Covid outbreak at Chinese port exacerbates global supply chain delays” – A COVID-19 outbreak at a major port in Shenzhen, China is putting a strain on the global shipping industry and pushing up freight prices, the Financial Times reports
- “‘Yet to find a single case of COVID-19’: North Korea tells WHO” – North Korea has informed the World Health Organisation that the country has tested more than 30,000 people for COVID-19 but has not yet found a single case of infection. A claim which the Hindustan Times reports is widely doubted
- “New South Wales Covid update: New Zealand suspends travel bubble as Victoria shuts border to parts of Sydney” – The Guardian reports that New Zealand has suspended its quarantine free travel with New South Wales after health officials confirmed that a positive case had made the trip over the weekend
- “Why Does the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Shi Zhengli Keep Changing Her COVID-19 Story?” – Professor Colin Butler, epidemiologist at Australian National University picks apart contradictory statements in the science media and asks why science writers ignore China’s disinformation on virus research in an interview with the Disinformation Chronicle
- “The online detectives sowing doubts about the origins of the pandemic” – A feature in El Pais on the work of DRASTIC, the twitter group investigating the lab leak theory
- “Once you have a legal precedent for lockdowns people will see them in the normal frame of the way Governments operate” – The worst effect of the actions of the Government, according to lawyer Francis Hoar, is that “fundamental rights are now seen as almost optional extras”. Watch the full interview with the Express‘s Lucy Johnston for Sketch Notes on a Pandemic here
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Good articles by Paul Alexander, Leighton Woodhouse and Jordan Schachtel.
None of them/the facts will ever matter, of course.
Jordan’s piece is very much an apt description of the UK and its neighbours as well.
“Under Ron DeSantis, Florida is never locking down again. You can take that to the bank.
The same can’t be said about large swaths of the U.S., unfortunately.
Their minds have been programmed to accept a potential reset back to square one.
They are under the impression that it is not the end of respiratory season, but it is the mRNA vaccine (and their magical cloth masks) that are entirely responsible for curbing a virus.
Given that we will almost certainly get a bump in cases during the upcoming respiratory season (the alternative is the first ever non-respiratory season in… human history?), politicians and “public health experts” will undoubtedly answer this predictable situation by demanding that the public accommodate another mask and lockdown regime.
Given that we will almost certainly get a bump in cases during the upcoming respiratory season (the alternative is the first ever non-respiratory season in… human history?), politicians and “public health experts” will undoubtedly answer this predictable situation by demanding that… Read more »
Ron DeSantis or Kristi Noem 2024.
Captain Underpants can go get a better toupee.
“Stopping the tyranny and rolling it back would be the victory.
After all, the only legitimate reason for government to exist is to protect human freedom.
If government is not doing that, then it’s existence is without purpose, no matter how well-intentioned that purpose claims to be.”
I wonder how many politicians and civil servants in the UK would undersign the second sentence.
A handful?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/06/allan-stevo/san-benito-county-california-may-lead-the-nation-in-stopping-health-mandates/
Some good news from California, if
you can still be optimistic.
And the wording of a law that should really be passed everywhere.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/06/no_author/what-are-you-going-to-do-when-america-goes-to-hell/
A bit dystopian, or maybe not.
My favourite quote, and what will happen here as well:
“I walked into Trader’s Joe’s food store four days after the face mask requirement had been dismissed in California. I was the only shopper in the store who was not wearing a mask. I thought to myself, no more mandates will be required. The populace has been trained like dogs.”
I think the Swiss doctor’s has lost it since a while, he is taking the Indian variant far too serious (although his piece on it today is generally OK), he believes in the fairy tale of asymptomatic transmission and now he is advocating challenging over vaccination.
Note, I do not have a problem per se with his reasoning in that regard, it us just a) unnecessary- what’s wrong with just staying uninfected, not gene therapied and as such: healthy!?! and b) it won’t matter or make sense for the challenged if and as the authorities and the pharma industry will just demand their ‘vaccination’ on top of it after 6 months, every 6 months.
Lucy Johnstone and Francis Hoar don’t understand that we don’t live in a free, liberal society anymore.
Us critics saw from the start the problem of precedent wih regard to lockdowns, masks and test mandates etc.. It’s not just that power drunk authorities wouldn’t cease them voluntarily, or that they can and will now be repeated at the slightest whim, it’s mainly that they killed 300 years of enlightenment and making unalienable individual rights the guiding principle of our constitutions and societies. This, they and our acceptance of them and that abolition of our rights and that principle have now already established de facto a new utilitarian principle and society.
The principle in whose name all major crimes and atrocities have been and will be committed.
An excellent podcast overview. Highly recommended :
“Dr Gary Sidley HART Group Interview”
If there’s a high chance that the vaccinated will be banned/discouraged from flying in the future due to the health risks, that’s the message that somehow should be being spread to the younger population. If anything will stop them being vaxxed that will.
But but but…… You can’t leave the country unless you’re vaxxed, but you are not allowed to fly if you are????
Capt Kirk: Spock, your analysis?
Spock: You’re all f@cked.
It gets better. Jabbed pilots may also be banned, and most of them are! Maybe they’ll extend the age limit for we unjabbed retirees! It’s an ill wind, as they say! (More likely is that St Greta and Karl will get their way and commercial flights will be banned.)
it is all about No One ever being able to travel – unless of course it is the elite by private jet
But the chances are they still need 2 pilots in a reasonable state of health to fly them.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/23/barnsley-hospital-declares-rare-black-alert-as-hundreds-flood-ae-14814902/
ADE anyone? Other Vaccine side effects?
Discussion of clot injuries and fatalities amongst recently vaccinated airline pilots, including the 4 BA pilots https://www.bitchute.com/video/vk5dblK83eTC/
There is some utter sh!te being spouted on the professional pilots rumour network, someone fancies they understand medical stuff, but clearly knows nothing about molecular biophysics.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57570377
Covid: Ivermectin to be studied as possible treatment in UK
Finally it seems they’re looking at it. Lots of caveats in the article though, they don’t want it to be seen as effective.
Ferguson
Looking ahead, he warns the country does need to be prepared for “potentially quite a significant flu epidemic probably late this year, early next year”.
he just can’t help himself
That will be ADE now to be known as flu.
Even if face masks were no longer required, you can bet that some people would continue to wear them “just in case”.
My mother has a friend in her late 70’s/ early 80’s who has worn a face mask all through this year and most of last. She has asthma and must carry an inhaler. I have pointed out that she is medically exempt and not required to wear a mask, but she is so afraid that she continues to wear one. She is having breathing difficulties, dizzy spells and wheezes a lot, but will not drop the damn mask!
With that sort of mentality, I very much fear that masks will not disappear quickly.
I think in the main those that will continue are the people who choose to mask up outside. In my experience, 10-15%.
Let’s hope so.
It will enable us to point at them and make them uncomfortable for wearing one, just like they have done with mask refuseniks.
“England is on track to lift all remaining lockdown restrictions on July 19th, according to the Times, replacing them with personal responsibility as fears of a big summer wave fade”
I think many of us have the same thoughts – that this is but a prelude to pressing the button again as winter respiratory disease begins its usual growth in the autumn.
And if July – why not now? There’s absolutely no rationale. Actually, Johnson could play a clever, if deceptive, game by pulling the date back again. I could write the propaganda script. I have a nasty feeling that the perpetrators will get an undeserved bounce from the relief of the Masseskin.
There’s been a sudden flurry of newspaper hype about restrictions, including wearing masks, being dropped next month.
While I am extremely pessimistic about this and believe it will be another deliberate false dawn to crush spirit, I worry that the only reason the government would be prepared to lift restrictions is when they make ‘vaccine’ mandatory.
Madcock has openly admitted, without a single sign of protest, that those who’ve been jabbed will receive preferential NHS treatment – a hint at social credit vaxports.
We have to be careful not to be blind-sighted by the promise of freedom while the social credit system is implemented.
During one of my infrequent traws of the MSM to see what the sheep are being fed, found this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57564335
As you would expect, even the headline has the stink of dishonesty about it; reading the article you find that 36% of the public, “trust most of the news, most of the time”, (up from 28% in January).
Even so, 36% (if true), is extremely dispiriting; after all the obvious lies, still that many people switch on the telly and generously gobble up the tripe they’re fed?
Incredible……but yet another reason that propaganda so easily achieves its purpose….most of the public now have the critical thinking skills of a goldfish.
I think it’s quite encouraging. It implies 64% don’t trust most of the news, most of the time. Right now, I’ll take that.
Even the 64% who say they ‘don’t trust the news’ may, in large part, be influenced by the comprehensive propaganda stream. It’s a bit like those who say they want politicians to be honest and incorruptible , and then vote for Johnson – well up the list for the award of ‘the most dishonest politician to cross the threshold of Downing Street’.
And the nature of that propaganda stream is pretty unique. It is all-embracing, and, even given the skills and the will, the average Joe has a massive task on to get behind its facade. A lot of the effect will be subliminal.
I think 64% is accurate for general stuff, but people trust the COVID lies more because they are so big and so global.
Are you a ‘glass half empty’ type of person by any chance?
I’d call it simple observation.
No, why?
Aah Cattee, i see what you are saying. Thank’s for the gentle mockery; reminds me not to take myself too seriously 🙂
I don’t know anyone that trusts the news, so to find that 36% do, “most of the time” is dispiriting. I don’t think the article says, but I suspect the remaining 64% don’t “mistrust” the news, a chunk of them may trust it “some of the time” for example.
Whether 36% disapoints, or encourages, depends on personal expectations i suppose……can I apologise to all readers who have injured themselves rolling about on the floor laughing, due to the fact I thought the figure would have been much closer to zero.
My bet is i) it’ll happen, and ii) everybody except the 5% who already don’t comply will continue wearing masks in shops and on transport so they look like good caring people. That language about personal responsibility is a sure-fire setup for replacing government coercion with social enforcement. Not to mention office, school soft pressure. Fine. But I actually hate the gaslighty soft pressure tactics as much as straightforward compulsion. It’s easier to rebel against state compulsion that polite soft social pressure.
{
Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, says the situation in NHS hospitals is “really challenging”
She says the number of people in ventilator beds in hospital has gone up 41% in the past week “so that’s a really strong indication of how Covid is impacting again”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-57577068
}
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
currently about 1 patient in mechanical ventilation bed per 10 hospitals
where do they get these liars from?
This is up there with ‘hospitals are filling up with covid kids’
We heard all this ‘no reason Freedom Day won’t happen’ in June. Expect a big SAGE pushback and Johnson to crumble once the officials and hangers on from Euro 2020 have departed in mid-July. .
“Kenwyn Care Home in Truro is closed to visitors following an outbreak of COVID-19. According to Cornwall Live, all residents and 94% of the staff are fully vaccinated and every single case has been asymptomatic so far”.
So not really an outbreak, more likely a series of duff tests with a useless test kit that the US recommends binning.
we’ve never done this amount of cold testing before
maybe with normal colds you get it once with a few symptoms and then get it again without
who knows
Yes, I’ve been wondering what we’d find if scientists attempted to track the progress of any seasonal cold the way medical authorities have been attempting to track Kung Flu.
The exemption for the corrupt elite of footballing is emblematic of the process and objectives here. This has not been about a virus since April last year, it is about exploiting fear, enabling the concentration not just of power, but of CONTROL, it is an international conspiracy by the rich and powerful to impose a permanent state corporatist reshaping onto the world – AKA the Great Reset – and I defy anyone to explain the evidence we have accumulated these past 16 months and explain it in any other way.
The muppets in Downing St may not all be conspirators, but it is the conspirators who are in charge.
“New South Wales Covid update: New Zealand suspends travel bubble as Victoria shuts border to parts of Sydney” – The Guardian reports that New Zealand has suspended its quarantine free travel with New South Wales after health officials confirmed that a positive case had made the trip over the weekend Honestly, it would be so nice to be able to laugh properly at the pathetic fear-filled antics of the Aussies and NZers over this seasonal respiratory virus, without the shame of knowing that our own nation’s elites, and indeed people, are every bit as ridiculous.
Once, I firmly believe, we were the kind of nation that would have resisted this mass panic. We were human beings, susceptible to panic and hysteria like any others, but we had institutions and structures that imposed restraint, checks and balances, and controls, alongside independent-minded, well educated people in key positions, all of which served as conservative brakes on radicalism. Perhaps more important, those people were raised in a culture that despised showing or acting on fear, that did not pretend that fearfulness was somehow admirable and dress it up as “caring” or “responsibility”, that believed in carrying on through weakness and illness to get the job… Read more »
Not sure if this link about airline pilot vaccination programs and pilot deaths has been highlighted here before
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vk5dblK83eTC/
The polarisation of views on vaccine induced injuries is remarkable – complete denial on one side and frightening concerns on the other
That is correct, of course, but in truth the catastrophic costs and evil precedents of lockdown pale into insignificance next to the policy of mass coercive vaccination – and I say that as someone who has no principled objection to vaccination per se.
“as fears of a big summer wave fade“
What “fears of a big summer wave”? Only among the congenitally stupid or credulous, or the wllfully ignorant, perhaps.
true
Removal of mask mandate on 19th July just feels like more gaslighting. That’s all the Telegraph does these days.
Greet Leader Nicola has already let slip that the Scotch New Normal will mean muzzles forever, even at “level 0”. I imagine that’s the Davos line that they’ll all toe, she’s just blabbed about it early.
How charmingly naïve to believe that a few permissions will be granted to us based on actual reality.
That hasn’t been the case for well over a year. What’s different now?
The Dwarf from the North has already let slip that “level 0” will still mean muzzles. That’s the new normal, forever, until we can be “liberated” by our social credit score apps.
Muzzle, or digital papers, serf: it’s your “choice”.
‘Covid outbreak at care home where every resident vaccinated’ Umm ADE possibly? Oh no sorry its the injection evading Delta variant.
Apparently they are all asymptomatic so presumably had they not all been tested we would be none the wiser. Why are care homes where all have been jabbed being tested anyway?
Because THEY know that the jab doesn’t work.
Unless it was the magic jab that kept them all asymptomatic, eh? Lo and behold, a miracle!
Well I have to say I’m cheered by the Times report, even if it does turn out to be a temporary respite. I wonder how many face masks they’ve had in the post at Downing Street, and whether that’s helped them along the way.. Assuming it does happen, it will be interesting to see what proportion of people will continue to wear the damn things.
Did other sceptics see the lastest “know all” expert rolled out on C4 news last night?
This humourless excuse for a human being was literally “wetting herself” with glee when she described how Israel stopped the mandatory wearing of masks because of the success of the vaccination rollout only to bring back mask wearing because of a “rise” of infections.
I can only imagine. I had to stop watching C4 news many years ago.
Literally wetting herself?
Puddle visible under her chair?
Too much information, Annie.
Not literally literally, obviously. Figuratively literally.
Surely it must be Why Tyler.
Dr. Jane Ruby exposes evidence proving that the federal government agencies were aware of serious heart complications caused by the very injections they’re trying to push on your kids.
https://rumble.com/vhnogn-exposed-cdc-and-fda-knew-covid-injections-would-lead-to-heart-complications.html
Matt Hancock telling Parliament stating that vaccine will not be used for children, that it is an “ADULT VACCINE” – November 2020. Compare this statement with the clip in post above where he talks about mandatory vaxxs for children. HANCOCK IS A LIAR AND HANCOCK IS A DANGEROUS MENTALLY ILL CRIMINAL
https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1401999327942385667
Compare this empty Italian vaxx centre to the hordes of zillions queueing up to be jabbed in the UK. Suckers!
https://twitter.com/husserl78/status/1407316491616276481