- “Four steps to Covid freedom” – Boris is to let fully vaccinated Brits go to amber-list countries without quarantine on return from July 19th, the Mail on Sunday reports
- “Sajid Javid: World leaders have acted like panicked shoppers hoarding lavatory paper” – The new Health Secretary made the remark in a research paper produced in his role as a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in December 2020, according to the Telegraph
- “School bubbles are paralysing society, warns vaccines adviser” – JCVI member Professor Adam Finn has warned ministers that they must either “accept paralysis or relax the rules” on school bubbles, the Telegraph reports
- “Doctors want to keep some measures after July 19th” – The British Medical Association is calling for the continued use of face masks and new ventilation standards, the BBC reports, as they are crucial to protect the NHS, health and education
- “The 3-step, COVID-propaganda detox plan” – A plan to help people “break free from their emotional shackles and return to normality”, courtesy of Dr. Gary Sidley on Coronababble
- “The Government has exploited our humanity to create an inhuman system” – “Until now, the Government has been able to exploit the people’s humanity – their conscientiousness and responsibility – to maintain an inhuman system,” writes Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph. “But that moment has passed”
- “What Covid could look like in the next seven years” – In a feature for the Telegraph, Luke Mintz considers the future trajectory of COVID-19 as it becomes endemic
- “Business as Usual: Batley and Spen, Javid and the High Street” – Bournbrook contributors S.D. Wickett, Luke Perry and guest Peter Tutykhin discuss the impact of the new Health Secretary, the Batley and Spen by-election and the state of the British High Street in the latest episode of the Week In Review
- “Government should leave our kids alone” – Vaccinating children is a “fork in the road” says Neil Oliver in a GB News editorial. ” We will be judged, we should be judged, as human beings, by what we do next”
- “Europe scrambles to vaccinate citizens as Delta variant cases surge” – As restrictions are lifted across Europe, Euronews reports that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is urging caution in respect of the Delta variant and calling on countries to get on with their vaccination rollouts
- “Delta variant threatens to ruin summer, says France’s health minister” – France’s Health Minister Oliver Véran has said that “there is a potential threat of an epidemic resumption as early as this summer”, the Connexion reports
- “Italy breaks up fake EU Covid pass schemes” – Italian police said on Saturday they had broken up a number of online schemes selling fake European Union digital COVID-19 status certificates or purported coronavirus vaccines, Reuters reports
- “Florence Bans evening walks in city centre to prevent overcrowding” – The popular Italian city will allow tourists to eat or drink but they will not be permitted to wander around the city streets after 9pm, MailOnline reports
- “Ukraine investigates cause of man’s death after COVID shot” – Ukraine’s health ministry is investigating why a 47 year-old man died four hours after he received a shot of the Pfizer vaccine, Reuters reports
- “Israel could see 1,000 new daily Covid cases in two weeks” – According to researchers at the Hebrew University, Israel is expected to see as many as 1,000 new cases a day within two weeks, Jerusalem Post reports, but they note that it is unclear what percentage of people will develop serious illness
- “Alberta pastor released from jail after being arrested for defying health orders a second time” – Alberta Pastor Timothy Stephens of Fairview Baptist Church, who was jailed for defying public health orders, has been released from the Calgary Remand Centre, the Post Millennial reports
- “Dr. Fauci teams up with TikTok influencers to encourage vaccination” – Dr. Anthony Fauci has taken to TikTok in a bid to encourage young people to get vaccinated, according to the Daily Mail, amid concerns about low take-up rates
- “Ohio Judge Adds COVID-19 Vaccination Condition of Probation” – The New American reports that a judge in Franklin County, Ohio has included vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of three defendants’ terms of probation
- “LinkedIn Deletes Account of mRNA Vaccine Pioneer Who Questioned Risks of COVID-19 Shots” – Dr. Robert Malone’s LinkedIn account was deleted after he questioned whether the jabs are appropriate to give to children, according to the Epoch Times
- “District of Columbia Attorney General subpoenas Facebook for data on all users that have spread ‘COVID-19 misinformation’” – The District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has filed a subpoena against Facebook demanding that it identify the groups, pages and accounts that have violated the COVID-19 misinformation rules, according to Reclaim the Net
- “If Private Platforms Use Government Guidelines to Police Content, is that State Censorship?” – “YouTube’s decision to demonetise podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions,” says Matt Taibbi. “Both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture”
- “The COVID-19 Ratchet Effects Are Becoming Clearer and More Concerning” – “Creating the best post-Covid world possible involves more than eradicating the virus,” says Raymond J. March at AIER. “It also requires returning to pre-Covid levels of government involvement in our lives”
- “Experts Said Ending Lockdowns Would Be Worse for the Economy than the Lockdowns Themselves. They Were Wrong” – “The complete lack of any correlation between economic success and covid lockdowns illustrates yet again that the confident predictions of the experts… were very wrong,” writes Ryan McMaken at MisesWire
- “Maybe We’re Too Ready for the Next Pandemic” – “Is it possible to be too prepared such that the whole system comes to be deployed when it is not really needed?” asks Jeffrey Tucker in Real Clear Markets. “Absolutely,” he says
- “Indians not allowed. How come? Global travel bans on Indians are illogical, and may be reflective of prejudice” – Writing for the Times of India, Chetan Bhagat hits out at the U.K. and other countries for their bans on travellers from India. “We, as per official numbers, have less than 1/10th the cases of the U.K. on a population-adjusted basis. And yet, it is the UK. that has banned Indian travellers – tested, vaccinated, quarantined or otherwise”
- “Indonesia expects COVID-19 cases to rise despite stricter curbs” – According to Reuters, authorities in Indonesia expect Covid cases to continue to rise before the new restrictions have any impact
- “‘A lot more dead people’: COVID too dangerous to be treated like flu” – Australian epidemiologists have disputed Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s contention that it will be possible to treat Covid “like the Flu”, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, saying that masks may be needed for years in order to avoid excess deaths
- “When Politicians Panicked” – Financial journalist John Tamny is the guest on the latest Human Action Podcast by the Mises Institute, talking to Jeff Deist about his book, When Politicians Panicked, an account of the disastrous political mismanagement of COVID-19
- “‘No correlation’ between lockdowns and preventing COVID-19 deaths” – “There are several studies on the low efficacy of lockdowns in preventing Covid-related deaths,” the Institute of Public Affairs’s Gideon Rozner explains to Sky News Australia. “But even common sense makes it clear there is no correlation between lockdowns and Covid deaths”
- “There are millions of people whose lives have been wrecked by lockdown” – Francis Foster explains why lockdowns are popular, even as they have been an “unmitigated disaster” for so many
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Doctors who “want to keep masks” should have to reapply for their medical licenses. Clearly they have a defective understanding of the principles of science and medicine.
Aussie doctors seem to be the most stupid and backwards of the lot.
A friend of mine lived there and caught tuberculosis when travelling through Asia. The Aussie doctor he saw couldn’t and wouldn’t do anything else but googling tuberculosis.
Doctators…
I met an elderly man in Waitrose yesterday, struggling with a heart condition – and a mask. He was afraid to take it off, even though I intervened on his conversation with a junior member of staff and told him he had absolutely no obligation to wear a mask. I offered him my lanyard – he declined, but promised to order one the next day. The government is abusing vulnerable people.
Of course they do.
All part of the plan.
Every single PI, NPI, non PI had and has only one effect: making people more sick and shortening their life expectancy.
Quite frankly, I’ve lost sympathy for anyone who is gripped by corona fear or who doggedly follows these demented rules.
They are part of the coalition of psychopaths in charge and the mass of brainwashed idiots that is turning the world into an unbearable dystopia.
Screw em.
“LinkedIn Deletes Account of mRNA Vaccine Pioneer Who Questioned Risks of COVID-19 Shots”
Here he is with Bret Weinstein on Odysee.
https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/how-to-save-the-world,-in-three-easy:0
That’s an amazing coincidence, I just deleted my LinkedIn account.
https://news.microsoft.com/announcement/microsoft-buys-linkedin/
Microsoft buys LinkedIn
“The British Medical Association is calling for the continued use of face masks…”
The BMA is either totally corrupt, or run by ignoramuses and clowns.
https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
My bet is on the former. Probably another Gates funded organisation
No: both!
It depends on your definition of ignoramus, but assuming you mean people who don’t know the facts or are stupid (IQ well under 100) then I’m sure they are not ignoramuses. Neither are Whitty, Vallance, Van Tam, the PM, rest of the Cabinet. Intelligence is not what is lacking. It is character.
…and integrity.
The BMA needs to be muzzled.
‘Florence allows tourists to eat or drink.’
A harsh choice, methinks.
Sadly, Israelis still refuse to connect the dots and draw the correct conclusions….
Israel : The coronavirus cabinet will meet this week to discuss the Delta variant outbreak in Israel, as one research team warned that the country could see as many as 1,000 new cases a day in the next two weeks – compared to the current 300.
Wait a minute am I missing something here? Israel was recently hailed as a success story and an example by this government and many others around the world because it had vaccinated most of its population in such a short space of time and was heading for normalty once again …. but now they saying that Israel is still going to see 1000’s more virus cases (not necessarily sick people just cases) despite its world-beating vaccination program?
So what was the point in rushing to get the entire country vaccinated if those vaccines don’t work everytime there is a variant?
Are we going to have another race to vaccinate entire populations once again against all the mutating variants that head our way?
I simply don’t get it ?
This is madness.
The only thing mutating appears to be the endless lies we are being fed.
They didn’t just jab people, they hounded, shamed, stigmatised and marginalised the un-stabbed. Treated them like Jews in Nazi Germany, yeah.
Worked a treat, didn’t it?
What comes around goes around…
The same will happen in the UK and in the EU countries.
None of the vaccine companies have claimed that the vaccines stop infection. Their claim is that it reduces the chance of hospitalisation.
What is misleading people are governments introducing vaccine certifications, making travel conditional on vaccination, trying to enforce vaccination in certain job sectors. None of that makes any sense whatsoever based on the vaccine prospectuses.
Right now, living in this world feels very much like being trapped in a lunatic asylum.
They don’t even claim the latter.
They might hope for that but officially the shots only reduce mild symptoms.
Plus governments claim asymptomatic infectiousness is a thing, and then say get the jab it reduces symptoms to nearly nothing (asymptomatic)…
Odd-dat-init?
The vaccine programs aren’t designed to control a virus; they are designed to control a population. Governments are intensifying rather than reevaluating their efforts, even as the vaccines are proving ineffective, dangerous and deadly. It isn’t easy to comprehend such evil or acknowledge that we are in its sights.
And some people are still sceptical re the depopulation agenda.
I found the Dea gel report really disturbing in its population size forecasts – I hope it’s not true, but in the face of all the irrational behaviour, it does seem increasingly credible.
Well it isn’t. World population grew by 1% last year. See table on the reddit site.
Some pandemic, some depopulation agenda.
I believe its a wealth redistribution agenda, as normal, from the proles to the establishment.
Opportunist power grab
It’s like lockdowns -the only reason they don’t work is that they are not for long enough or hard enough. Australia shows that -they started to let people out and whoosh. They should have banned anyone except police being outside for five years. Well ok delivery drivers and refuse collectors. Ok then utility workers, farmers ,vets , doctors, dock workers, transportation workers (that’s enough, ed).
‘The Good Intentions Paving Company’
‘This study demonstrates that nicotine decreases food intake and body weight by influencing the hypothalamic melanocortin system’
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/332/6035/1330.abstract
But smoking reduces life span by 10 years so governments made cigarettes prohibitively expensive
So people got fatter:
‘At a BMI of more than 23 kg/m2, we found a linear increase in risk of severe COVID-19 leading to admission to hospital and death, and a linear increase in admission to an ICU across the whole BMI range, which is not attributable to excess risks of related diseases. The relative risk due to increasing BMI is particularly notable people younger than 40 years and of Black ethnicity.’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(21)00089-9/fulltext
And so Influenza Like Illnesses now reduce life expectancy for the obese by 40 years.
Well done everyone……not…..as lockdowns return tens of millions to extreme poverty in the developing world.
‘“You can project out and think about what a pandemic might be like or look like, but until you live through it, it’s pretty hard to know what the reality will be like. So I think we predicted quite well that, depending on what the disease was, it could spread very, very, very quickly. The spread did not surprise us.’
“What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts.’
Melinda Gates
Give yourselves a big pat on the back, then home for tea and treble peerages all round…….
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-covid-aids
Berenson nailed that one.
Maybe the escaped virus was engineered to target the very old and very fat.
Bloody silly idea then. They are the least ‘useful’ members of society. A weaponised Chinese virus would attack the young and fit…
Wait a second, though. Destroy the minds of the young and fit, and the job is done, whatever hapoens to the old and fat.
Absolutely!
‘MG:’…until you live through it, it’s pretty hard to know what the reality will be like.’
I’ve not got the foggiest what she’s on about because I’ve not yet experienced living through a pandemic.
A genuine pandemic, that is.
“What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts.’
Lying sow.
I had worked out the economic impact within 30 minutes of mandatory lockdown being announced. I was off on GDP by a couple of percentage points for the first quarter and pretty much nailed the industries that would be hammered (and the ones that would benefit). It literally took me 30 minutes.
Reminds me of the script for an old “Yes, Minister” comedy years ago, in which Sir Humphrey (the real boss) advised Hacker (the minister) that smoking was a good set up, because of the high tax revenue, plus the fact that they died earlier, and saved the NHS cash. Not so many elderly patients with all sorts of problems etc.
Jeffrey Tucker is, as always, correct, but unfortunately also not just too optimistic but deluded.
The article he cites just mirrors the totally irrational fanaticism voiced by the Aussie doctors here.
And the many newly created vested interests as well as the brainwashed public’s mood and by now engrained cognitive biases, prejudices and convictions will ensure that we will do the same things all over again when the next pandemic or plandemic arrives, if we can ever leave the current one, which is a big IF.
This approach can and will end only one way, the way all cults have ended: in and with the catastrophe, meaning hundreds of millions of deaths and illnesses due to the gene therapies which can’t be covered up anymore and/or when the money has run out and the MMT experiment been ended in total failure.
Zombies in Australia are now gibbering for flu to be treated ‘like Covid’.
The Continent of Eternal Living Death.
Actually, that is a positive development, as there no lockdowns, social distancing etc with a flu virus.
No, what Aussies want is perpetual lockdowns, social distancing etc. until they attain to Zero Flu.
Fully agree with Neil Oliver, but there were many forks in the road already, where we have taken the wrong turn.
First, it was lockdowns and declaring and accepting that some people and businesses are essential and others aren’t.
Only Kristi Noem got that one right.
Then it was mask and invasive test mandates, who infringe upon our inalienable individual right of bodily autonomy, paving the way for the extension of that infringement to vaccination and the eventual wholesome abolition of all of them.
Censoring, curtailing the right to assemble and all the respective confirmatory court judgements did the rest and were further such forks where we got it wrong.
Discriminating against the unvaxxed was the latest, most despicable and most serious of these forks and wrong turns, which again also paved the way for the new leader in that regard, child ‘vaccination’ against Covid with medically totally unnecessary experimental gene therapies.
If this mankind survives, future historians and people will have nothing good to say about it.
This is the new race, zombiekind, a subspecies of humanity. And they don’t come more sub than this.
You need to separate and encourage cattle-kind from humans.
Kristi Noem 2024
The worst step was the first step. Once a population accepts arbitrary, forced house arrest, it will accept almost anything.
There are only two things that go further than arbitrary forced house arrest. Arbitrary imprisonment in a government facility and execution on the basis of health status.
So of course the public is going to swallow masks, tests, vaccines, vaccine passports, isolation, suspended education, destruction of businesses, all of it, on the grounds of protecting the population. None of it is as bad as being branded a biological weapon and being imprisoned in your own home.
(Several governments, including the UK’s, actually engaged in what amounts to execution on the basis of health status by sending sick elderly back into care homes to make space for younger patients – that never materialised. And we’ve accepted that too.)
don’t forget the do not resucitate business.
“Four steps to Covid freedom” – Boris is to let fully vaccinated Brits go to amber-list countries without quarantine on return from July 19th, the Mail on Sunday reports
If you need government permission to do things you once could do for free then you have not got your freedoms back. I noticed that most of the freedoms Boris is so generously returning are under conditions that you get the jab first ( a vaccine that does not guarantee you won’t still get or pass on the virus) … this is not the road to freedom this is the road to coercion.
Serfdom.
Depressing, looking through the News Roundup.
And as you wish that somehow sense will prevail, it just gets more and more rotten.
Words are high-level, emotion is low-level. How then, to express oneself, how to even manage to cope? The relentless demented injustice is devastating at the fundamental, personal level. Words become utterly inadequate and inappropriate in the need to express/relate the feelings/emotions generated by all this awfulness.
Fucked
It is rather a pessimistic Round Up today.
Thursday’s Solzhenitsyn essay helps in a strange kind of way.
It doesn’t give hope about beating totalitarian tyranny, but it does suggest how to live through it with dignity.
I think that’s the ambition at this point. Sites like this one will be allowed to exist as long as they are fringe and don’t really have an impact. The moment it threatens to have an impact it will get shut down as has happened with dissent in social media that can be impactful.
Interesting how many of those headlines are all about ‘cases’ isn’t it?
Our media really do suck balls.
‘Cases’ my foot. Most of them just wanted to be certain they’d have the time off to watch the football. I understand orange juice does the trick.
Triggernometry were doing so well in that video, then they trotted out the tired old, lefty knee-jerk ‘blame Thatcher’ routine.
Apart from being an utterly ludicrous application to the current situation (and making me switch off and dismiss anything they have to say), you don’t have to have been a massive fan of hers to acknowledge doubt over whether she would have endorsed or entertained the response we have endured since March 2020.
I am a massive fan of hers, and a few handbaggings would have sorted out this evil mob in no time.
Agreed… These juvenile left-wing “political experts” appear to have absolutely no idea of the dire state that the UK was in prior to Mrs Thatcher taking over the reins, and that she was essentially a “breath of fresh air” for anyone involved in trade / business. Depressing also that they have to harken-back over 40 years to find someone to politically insult. IMHO there have been several far more “worthy” candidates since MT.
It’s risible, Blair has caused far, far more widespread damage than her and is still unelectedly meddling now, yet these idiots automatically reach for a far more benign predecessor. Why didn’t he fix everything when he had the chance?
Agree, except regarding switching them off.
If I only listen to and engage with those who I agree with on absolutely everything I will be doomed to a solitary existence.
I’m afraid it’s far too spittle-flecked ‘Ben Elton’ for me and speaks of unhinged lefty tosser playing to the drunks in the audience.
I, too, can listen to and appreciate many rational arguments from many different perspectives so the inference in that jibe misses the mark.
“Doctors want to keep some measures after July 19th” – Doctators, you mean
I think I’ll just buy the telegraph and ignore lds
Yes, as you can’t read it in full without a sub, whether it’s worth reading or not!
“Maybe We’re Too Ready for the Next Pandemic”
Yes, we’ve given our civilisation a form of social ADE
News Roundup – BBC item (Doctors want to keep some restrictions post-19th July).
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chairman:
“The promise was to make decisions based on data and not dates, and while we were pleased to see the government react to data in delaying the easing on 21 June last month, ministers must not now simply disregard the most recent, damning numbers by rushing into meeting their new 19 July deadline.”
“Targeted measures” put forward by the professional body for doctors include requiring people to continue wearing face coverings in enclosed public spaces, such as shops and on public transport.
!!!
Has Dr Nagpaul not looked at the infection graphs for countries and states around the world and seen the total lack of any impact resulting from muzzle mandates? The fact that they don’t work really could not be clearer to anyone who wants to make “decisions based on data”.
The muzzle has nothing to do with health. OK, with deliberately endangering it, but otherwise and mainly it is just a Gessler’s hat.
A Gessler’s hat, yes, but also free, constant, in-your-face advertising for the govt – look, there’s a pandemic – there must be because everyone is masked